Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 933 - Jordan Morris

Episode Date: February 4, 2026

Comedian and writer Jordan Morris returns to talk Predator: Bloodshed, how to shower, and sewing school. Follow us: Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky. Join our Discord.

Hi, he's Dave Shumka. And he's Graham Clark. And together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself. Woo! Hello, everybody. Welcome to episode number 933 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name's Graham Clark. With me, as always, is a man who I can't reach out and touch him today because he's so far away.

We're all remote and stuff. It's Mr. Dave Shumka. Yeah, but we're going to be shoulder to shoulder tonight. Graham and I have tickets. Well, Graham has tickets to a Vancouver Canucks hockey game. Yeah, I got them from an old army buddy. And we haven't come up with, you know, our plan for getting down there. Are we taking two cars?

I'm guessing we're taking none. We can get a picture. We'll figure it out. We could take a lift. We could take it. Oh, there's all sorts of different ways to get down down. Transit. We can take transit all the way downtown.

Our guest today, returning guest here to the podcast, you may know him as the co-host. of the very funny, long-running Jordan, Jesse, go. He has a brand new comic series coming out, a Predator comic series coming out on February 25th. It's Jordan Morris. Hello, Jordan. Hi, good to be here. How are you?

I am doing really good. I just spent my morning, you know, a peek behind the curtain. I know we got a lot of process nerds out in the audience. We're recording this at noon PST, and I spent my morning at the California Department of Tats. and fee administration. Oh, fun! Getting a seller's permit for Pasadena Comic-Con. So what?

Tell us everything. Well, that's good to know us. Get to know us. What is the bureaucratic situation when it comes to being a vendor? Because I'd like to know. There's a lot of different policies depending on the event. But certain California-based events like you to have a vendor's permit. You can get it for free if it's just for a couple of days.

but you got to go down to this office and talk to some nice government employees and you get this, and I'm holding it up on Zoom now, this handsome, very official looking permit. And now I can sell my little comics inside the Pasadena Convention Center. What's the littlest comic you've ever written? Oh, a one-panel Muppet Baby's comic. Oh, yeah? The characters were little. The length was little.

I was going to make a joke about getting a Vim Vendors permit, but I couldn't think of any Vim Vendors movies. Yeah, I can't either, but that would have been, that would have been great. Is Wings of Desire? Is that a Vim Vendors? Wings of Desire? Wings of Desire is, that is a match. Okay, all right. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

Good answer, good answer. So I'm actually, I'm actually one of the food vendors at Vim VindersCon. You could get my hot wings of desire. Nice. Yes. Is that the one? That's the one.

Okay, let's all go to lunch. I like it. If it was on Family Feud and it was the top seven Vim Vendors movies are on the board. Some lady goes, a penis. And then Steve Harvey is going to be. What? Looking at the audience like, can you believe it? And then there's somebody's like, Fitzcaroldo, and they're all like, yeah, yeah, sure, Fitzcaroldo, that might be, uh, uh, uh, um, some of the best sound effects in all the TV.

Yeah, the, the, the bell one is good. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, the hitting the buzzer one is absolutely iconic. Yeah. Um, they're never nominated for sound design. I noticed. They should be. Although I guess it's probably, they probably handed out the day before the big award,

Big Emmy Award show. But Steve Harvey himself is insistent that he goes up and collects the award. And he always looks at it. He's like, can you believe we won? Am I hearing this right? He's so funny when he looks like he can't believe it. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, he, it's one of those things like he zeroed on a thing. Kind of like Ellen with dancing every episode. Like it was a thing. People liked it. Now he's got to do it. Every episode, five days a week. And the categories have got to. gotten so suggestive.

It is like, you know, it is balls. Yeah. Number one thing to grab in someone's pants. And then an old woman says dingling or something. And he's like, can you believe this pervert? This pervert heard this perfectly clean setup and thought of dingling. That's how you know someone has cable,

as if they still are able to watch. Family feud. They also get on him, because they say, like, behind the scenes, he doesn't want people making eye contact with him or something like that, or doesn't want people making small chat. I feel like that's fine. Five days a week, you're putting on a show. You don't want to make small talk every day? Sure, yeah.

Especially when the show is small talk. Well, also, he might be on the spectrum. He might be. Sure. And, you know, he's Steve Harvey. You know what I mean? He just masks really well. And he knows what a man.

should do? Isn't that one of his? You know, so a man should talk, think how a woman, how a woman should think if she wants to be, to get a man. Yeah, it's, yeah, think, be like a man. Listen, the guys, the guy's got a closet

full of purple suits to iron. He can be ironed. Yeah, you know, we'll iron our suits, right? Yeah, he doesn't want to talk to the support staff because he doesn't get a support step to iron his shit. Yeah, he's got a big, whatever, steam press that he... Mm-hmm. So, Jordan, Morris, you have been a comic book writer for your first thing.

What was your very first thing that you did for... Yes, my very first comic project was the graphic novel adaptation of Bubble, the maximum fun scripted podcast. I did that with Sarah Morgan and a great artist named Tony Cliff. And that kind of like opened up. Opened up from here? Yes, Vancouver's own Tony Cliff, a wonderful man. The Pride of Vancouver. People refer to him as.

You guys run into Tony when you're out there? I think I've met Tony. Yeah, I've met Tony. I'm so proud of him. He's the Pride of Vancouver. You have, legally, you have to be proud of him. Or you get deported. And I've seen him at our.

annual like comic book convention. He's always got a big table signing. Yeah, Van Calf, right. Van Calf, yeah, yeah. I hope to attend Van Calf. Oh, that would be amazing. We could go, oh, we could go to a JJ Bean for coffee. What? We go for a white spot burger. Hanging at the bean? Hanging at the spot? Are you kidding me? And so you've written, that one was sci-fi comedy. Yes. And then your other one that was your project, it was, sorry, I'm forgetting what it's called. Oh, that's okay. So after Bubble with that same publisher, I did Youth Group, which is something I wrote solo with the great artist named Bowen McGurdy. And, yeah, that came out two years ago, still available wherever you get your books and comics, Youth Group, Spooky YAA Adventure, fun for everybody, except children and babies. Yeah, God, they hate that stuff.

Oh, they hate it. Oh, boy. I do not want to hear from another baby in my DMs telling me how I, anyway. Yeah. Too woke. And then when did you start, like, working on things that were, like, your specific creation? Yeah, my first, like, IP comic intellectual property. My first time writing for something that wasn't something I created was, um, uh,

part of the Archie Chilling Adventures line. So for a while, I don't think they're doing them now, but for a, for a hot second, Archie Comics had a horror line where they just get killed in every episode or they just get killed in every issue. So people like seeing the Archie gang get their heads chopped off. And were these the traditional illustration of Archie or were these the more present day drawings of Archie? Yeah, they were not in the Archie house style. They were in kind of like, you know, a little cooler, edgier, indie comics. I was going to say in the sexier style, but, man, they're so sexy for the beginning.

Yeah, can you get sexier than those original Archie designs? I did like in the old Archie comics. When they fall over and it says voop, I mean, does anything get you harder than someone falling down to the tune? Well, Mr. Flutes, dude, you know, he had a lot going on. There was. Waldo Weatherby. Ow! Senator Sven? Was it Sven was the

Janitor? You have the big mustache? I think I know the janitor's name. I remember there was like a you'd pick up a double digest and they would just pull Archies from the last 50 years and put them into a compendium and there would be a big like you could tell the

how old it was by whether Reggie had his hair like slicked down to his head with like parted in the middle. The janitor's name is Mr. Svensson. Mr. Svensson is who we're looking for. Yeah. There would sometimes be in like the double digest as well.

There would be like a Betty or Veronica fashion page or is just them wearing different outfit. It was really filler, but it was its own thing. It was something for daddy. Let me take a look at those Archie comics. Bovo. Bovoom! Go play outside.

Leopard skin is in. Yeah, because very rarely within the middle of a Spider-Man comic book, would there be like a two-page spread of things Peter Parker's wearing? Jay Jonah Jameson and Couture? Bring me pictures of him. Anyway. And then so, like, I'm assuming most of the stuff that you wrote was comedy. comedy-based comic stuff,

and now maybe not so much. Yeah, so the, yeah, the Archie stuff, you know, Archie Comics, a long tradition of gags and goofs. Yeah. So that was, you know, that was pretty easy to, you know, easy to transition into.

But this Predator comic is, I think it's pretty funny. Give us the title of it. Yes, I will. Predator Bloodshed, coming soon from Marvel Comics, art by me, excuse me, script by me.

Oh, here it goes. This is where it starts. Trying to take credit for the art. Roland Boshi and Rory Coleman on the art doing a wonderful job. Now, it's called Predator Bloodshed. Now, I know Bloodshed. It's the structure I have in my backyard where I get plasma donations from my son. All right.

To keep you young. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Into my penis. Right into the penis. You have such a youthful penis. Thank you. Yeah. They say it looks like it belongs to.

to a four-year-old. They? Who's critiquing your penis? A leading expert. Okay. That's fine. Okay. That interests my question.

No further questions. It's also, it's that guy that's trying to keep himself young for the rest of his life. He's been checking out, Dave. Oh, what he's been doing in the penis department. He wants some tips. Yeah.

His name is Brian Johnson. Uh-huh. And he's as smooth as a. Well, a four-year-old's penis. Yeah, nothing smoother than that. So this predator fellow, you've met Predator? You know the predator. This predator, a boy?

I think the predator typically is male. There are female predators in the canon. And if you... Peeo! Pee-oh! That's me shooting them out of the canon. Yeah. Pew. Oh, yeah.

Coupoo! Careful. I think there are female predators, and if you believe the Predator subreddit, which I do. You should. That it makes perfect sense for them to have boobs, and they've laid out a reason why.

Yeah, because they've got, you know, not a costume, like shields and stuff that could cover all sorts of body parts. What I'm looking at here. You know what, yeah, what that would imply that they're mammals. And are they lizard people? Are they...

Yeah, these are things that I don't know about the predator that maybe I should. Maybe I hope the predator fans don't call into question my credentials. I don't know. But I think that's what the boobs discussion on the subreddit was about. Right. If they are not warm-blooded, why would they have boobs? Would it make sense for them to have like a bodonka-dunk? Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, okay. This is something that I am finding. That's left up to the artist judgment, right? You draw it and then you just, you figure out the ass and whatever you want to do with it. Yeah, exactly. I'm not going to, like, micromanage the ass size. I think that's 90% of why people become comic artists. Sure.

Opinions about ass size. Asses and boobs. Yeah, you're allowed to draw them the way that you want them. I am learning that people are very horny for the predator. It's a popular, he's a popular, hear me out. Oh, sure. He's got a body that won't quit. this predator. Yeah, some people like him with the mask. Some people like him without the mask.

The without the mask, I'm going to go with mask. Looking at his picture right now, I'm going to, I'm a mask. How. Keep it on. Yeah. It's like, yeah, exactly. Such a backhanded compliment. Yeah, he's really hot. Just keep the mask on. But I also want him to be able to see me in heat vision and, uh, you know, right. Yeah. Check out where it's the hottest, Mr. Predator. I got a couple of guesses as to where it's getting a little hot. Show me penis. Yeah, I like the idea of who's on the family dais of Predator. You've got Predator.

Surely Alien's going to be there. Alien, yeah. Well, when they're not versing each other. Yeah, they hate each other. Yeah, but you know, it's family. Maybe it's a family of predators versus a family of aliens. Oh, that's good. That's very good.

So in this, in the comic book world of Predator, yes. Can he talk? Because I've never, I don't think I've ever heard Predator talk. So in, so for a long time, Predator did not talk in the, I think it was the Shane Black movie. When did that come out? 2018, I think. I don't, anybody's favorite Predator movie.

But there was a thing where they could translate his growls and grunts. So, he would grunt. into a speaker and then you would hear what it was supposed to be saying. And in the most recent movie, Predator Badlands, there it is, the Predators spoke and we got it via subtitles. So that's right. Okay. So he can speak.

He can. Because he was a strong silent type for a lot of the years when he was killing your Danny Glovers and your Adrian Brodies and whatnot. Yeah, yeah. That's, uh, the Adrian Brody one is the only one I've ever seen. Is that right? Okay. I think that's an all right one. I don't mind that one. It's kind of a hoot. Is Tofer Grace in that as well?

Tofer Grace, yeah. Doesn't he play like a psychopath or something like that? Is that Tofer Grace? Who's the crazy guy in it? Is it Walton Goggins? You think Gagins is in it and Gagins is, you know, kind of his typical kind of wild, unpredictable southern guy. Yeah, yeah. And Tofer Grace, you think is a mild manner doctor. And you learn later as a serial killer. Sorry. Spoilers for. And another spoiler, just refresh my memory. Walton Goggins has a vodka?

Well, Wonggaz has vodka. As we've discussed on Jordan Jesse Go, Walton Goggins has his own vodka brand, Mulholland spirits. And they don't just make vodka, but we talked about the vodka for, you know, comedy reasons for years.

For years. And, you know, it was, it maintained, it was always funny. I remember in, I think it's in that movie. Is it Predators? Is that the name of that one where everybody goes to the Predator planet? Yeah. At one point, I can't remember if it's Goggins or if it's Dover Grace, but he tries to shank.

He tries using a prison shank on the Predator. Yes. Yeah, yeah. I remember that being like, real good self-confidence for that prisoner to think he could have taken down Predator. Right. Yeah. The people with the machine guns weren't able to get him. But I have a sharpened spoon from the mess hall.

Yeah, the conceit of that is all these dangerous, these dangerous characters, predators, if you will. So, I'm going to have a double meaning to the name. That's fun. We're kind of transported to this predator game preserve. And everyone kind of brought with them the weapons that they had. Yeah. So the, like, army people had sniper rifles and machine guns and stuff. And Goggins just had his, like, prison shank because he was like a prison guy.

Now, what is the, tell us about the idea behind your predators or predators. or Predator comics. Dave, I'd love to. Predator bloodshed takes place in the near future, the predator. An alien who loves nothing more than to hunt the most dangerous game he can find, gets loose at an underground fighting tournament,

much like the ones held in Mortal Kombat, but we can't say that, so it's legally dissimilar. So yeah, it's one of those underground fighting tournaments that you see all the time in video games, all the world's greatest martial artists coming together to fight, and who gets loose?

in this thing, but the predator. Is predator registered to fight? No, Dave. He has not filled out the proper paperwork. So that's what makes it so scary. He's not registered. He doesn't have a lanyard. Yeah, he doesn't have a team jacket.

He's just like, who is this guy? Yeah, he just gets in there and starts a killing. He doesn't get a swag bag. Yeah, no swag bag with protein bars. Is this on planet Earth, or is this in another planet or a different dimension? Where is this fighting a tournament? Planet Earth in a secret, like, fighting

in a secret kind of like a fighting arena called the garden, and it's in a undisclosed jungle location. Was this, I assume you're a big like you grew up playing fighting games. I did, yes, yeah. I was never good at them. I had

a Sega Genesis and they only had three buttons and we didn't, I feel like Street Fighter never came out on Sega. or eventually it probably did. But it did, but it was, as you mentioned, Dave, the Sega Genesis, only three buttons, a little bit awkward. You could buy a six button controller,

but, you know, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's dumping 30 bucks onto a $60 game. You're a kid. You know. Yeah. And then I remember we had Streets of Rage 2, which was sort of a side scrolling, beat him up, but it had a fight level.

Yeah. What I like to. A sidescrowing beat him up. But what we, what we, what I liked about. Fighting Games was all the characters, like, their little backstories and, like, and how it would be, like, you know, uh, Sub Zero is from the Frozen Realm. Right. And Johnny Cage is, uh...

Hollywood. Yeah, he's an actor. He's a movie star. Uh-huh. So did you get to come up with, uh, like, fighting game characters? I did, yeah. So we've got a, we've got kind of a, kind of a, kind of a, kind of a, kind of a hymbo-m-a guy. We've got a pro wrestler with cybernetic enhancements.

Okay. What's enhanced? Tell us all about it. We got like a metal spine. We got the penis of a four-year-old. Penes of a four-year-old. A robotic four-year-old. Yeah, we have a kind of, we have kind of a rogue CIA agent who's in there for mysterious reasons.

Okay. Okay. We've got a guy with a sword spine. There's a lot of robotic spines in this, I'm realizing. And these are all human guys that have additions, attachments, improvements. All humans. Yes, exactly. So that's maybe a reason why they can stand a chance against the predator is that they're enhanced.

What I also like about these fighting games, it's like they've got all these characters that have so many, like, details of what makes them different. And then a girl. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah, is there any female representation in this underground? Yeah, so we've got kind of four main fighters that we follow. And two men, two women, the pro wrestler, the enhanced pro wrestler is a woman. And we have a kind of a woman from the corporate world who sneaks out at night to get to fight.

And then she's entered into this so she could feel alive. She liked the woman from disclosure By her desk job I've never seen disclosure Oh because she was Man she was a real alpha In that disclosure Oh yeah

That sounds pretty good Sorry she was from the corporate world And is a fighter at night Yes And then has entered this tournament To break out of the drudgery Of her corporate job In the video game version of that

She would have a briefcase As a weapon She would yeah And she would open it up And shoot papers And like the papers Would be a projectile Splash coffee at people

Yeah, and her finishing move is the glass ceiling. So then this takes place over how many issues, four issues? Five issues. Five issues. Oh, they added a fifth issue. They added a fifth issue. Do they tell you this is, are you writing this completely from scratch? Or is Marvel saying like, here's the general gist and you're writing it?

How does it work? Yeah, so I think it works, it can work many ways when you're dealing with a big publisher, like Marvel. In this case, they came to me. So I had written a short predator story for an anthology, and I think they liked that and said, let's kick this guy up to a mini. Okay, sure. Yeah. See how he handles a mini. See how he handles a mini. And yeah, they didn't have a ton of parameters for it. They kind of said, like, we wanted to take place on Earth and we want it to be like centered around the human characters. I think maybe the idea was that the movie that just came out was like in, you know, a faraway planet. It was more about the predator and they're like, we want one that's, you know,

maybe a little bit closer to what people think of when they think of a predator story. So, yeah, that was their like only parameters. And I pitched them a bunch of stuff and they kind of like the fighting tournament idea. So we are. And like, okay, I hear so much I know about writing a comic book. Yeah. Nothing. How do you, like, are you? I thought you were friends with Tony Cliff. You never asked this guy. Do you have to go buy a book with like empty panels that you fill it? You do, yeah. So you have to find one about as long as the, that's what you're assigned to write. Okay. Do you like, how, like how do you write it so that then the comic book artists know what, how do you communicate to them what they're, what you want them to draw? Yeah. So it,

You'll, the kind of, the comic script or the one that Marvel wants anyway, kind of looks, you'll have like page one, five panels, and then panel one. And then you'll kind of describe what's going on in that first panel. And yeah, there's some, some artists want you to be very descriptive in that. Some like it to be a little more vague. So they can just riff a little bit. It's a, you know, personal style thing. Everybody, yeah, everybody feels a little bit differently as to how, like, you know, how micromanage the writer should be in those panels. I try and be descriptive, but leave them, you know, some room to add their spice there. And then you kind of write the dialogue out. And if there's any smashes or vops or vooms or shirks, you're right there. Do you get to say those? Do you get to be the one who says what the sound effects are? Yeah.

It's really fun. That is amazing. I love a Herc when someone's getting stabbed. Herc? Herc? Oh, good. Yeah. What are some of the,

now I'm like, my mind's reeling trying to think of. Do you ever, like, feel like, oh, the last guy got stabbed with a Herc. This guy's, I don't want to reuse Herc

too much. We'll give him a boop. Shunk. Voop. Jordan, you're really overusing Voop. Only when an

archie character falls down. But then, like, that's the note you get, but then they meet you in person, and you're constantly making voo. noises like, oh, it's naturally happening.

He fell down and it said, voop. Were you, as a youth, were you big comic book fan or like mostly comic book movies or cartoons? Where were you on the spectrum of? Yes. I was a big comic book reader, definitely. I was, you know, I was the 90s kids. So a lot of X-Men, a lot of like Spider-Man, where he's fighting clones of himself. Let a Todd McFarlane action in there.

A lot of Todd McFour. Yes, a lot of that stuff. And then, yeah, your spawns, your primes, your Savage Dragons, when I got a little older. I was looking for comics that weren't just kid stuff. Was Savage Dragon? Was he the one that was a dragon that was a cop? He was a cop dragon, yeah. Yeah, you got cop dragon, yeah.

And Savage Garden, they were the Chick-a-Chericola band? No, they were also cop-dragons. Oh, okay. And Chick-Cicay-Cola is also a sound effect that's good for killing a guy. Yeah, like, because I feel like I was in the same time reading comics, and I remember Todd McFarland being like the thing. And then there was, like you said, there was prime. And then there was also Pitt.

Do you remember Pitt at all? The guy read Pitt. What was happening in Pitt? It was a similar kind of, there was just like a style that was very popular then. And it was kind of like a musley guy that had swords for hands or something like that. Sounds about right. Yeah, 93, 94. Yeah, that flies off the shelf.

Yeah, there was a... Was there a character called Shatterstar? Am I recalling that? Yeah, Shatter Star is an X-Man. I don't know. Forget what Shatter Star's power is. I just remember it being a very 90s character. And like, if it happened now, I don't think it would be...

I don't think people would be thrilled to see Shatter Star show up in the next Avengers Doom today. I think Shatter Star is around in the comics still, at least. Oh, yeah? I think so, yeah, but don't quote me on that. I'm not up on the X-Men. What is these days, what's the, what do you like reading? What's like your genre, what's your faves? Oh, yeah, yes, I still try and keep up with a fair amount of superhero comics.

Yeah, you know, the, the ultimate line of Marvel is very good right now. That's a hoot. Still love to read a spidey comic. But yeah, you know, I also like your kind of your confessional auto bio. comics from, you know, a Julia Wirtz or a tin fam who do the kind of more, you know, confessional slice of life stuff. That stuff is all great. And then... Would you ever do to any of that or strictly, strictly the fictional heroes? You know, I don't think so. I have not led an interesting life. So I think that a comic about it, I don't know that you're getting a lot from it.

I don't have like a perspective that anyone would want to hear. It's just a guess. I don't know. What are you, like, I grew up not reading comic books. Graham, you read them growing up clearly? Do you still read Graham? I am more of a fan of a graphic novel now where it's the whole, it can be a series of comics, but I want the whole story.

I don't want to be strung along for, like a Garfield at large. Yeah, yeah, yeah, one of those rectangular ones. Yeah, that was a really bold decision on the Garfield's publishing. part to be like, let's make a book that doesn't fit on anybody's shelf. Yeah, but it's the same size as the newspaper strips. It's true. Like the same shape. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm reading the new Tank McNamara. He's going to have to, oh, oh, oh, he's got to cover figure skating, and he's not happy about it. What was Tank McNamara? Was it football? He was a sports reporter? Did he, he had his own newspaper strip? He had a newspaper strip, yeah. I was a big newspaper comics guy.

I never read superhero Like comic books Dave when it comes to New newspaper strips Who are your guys? Yeah, who are your guys? Who are your guys? Talking to Hagar the horrible

Blondie in there, Dagwood Sandwich. Dagwood and Blondie were big for me. Fred Bassett was an icon. I wonder if you all had Canadian ones that we didn't have. I don't think we had Tank McNamara. That's not familiar to me.

We had, for better or for worse, was our big like, Canadian one. And it was... What's that? Do you have the one? I think so. Yeah, that's where like

everyone aged in real time. That is good. Yeah. And then they did a reset. Did they? Yeah. They like went back in time. They were like...

They all collected the infinity stones. Yeah. And they had a dog that died. That was a big deal when their dog died. I think I remember the dog dying. I remember the... Barley? Yeah. That was a big...

That was a big, big news. I do like the idea of there being a thing and the for better or worse was like, oh yeah. we found that amulet back to ones everybody um it was so i also feel like vancouver had two newspapers so if your family got one newspaper you've got these comics if you like sometimes we would go eat breakfast at a restaurant and they would have the other newspaper and it would be like they have garfield our newspaper didn't have garfield we had tank maximara how do you feel about mondays

He liked Monday Night Football, I think, probably. There was, do you remember one called Adam? It was just like a sad. Didn't he stay at home? Wasn't it like Adam at home at one point? Eventually it became Adam at symbol home, which was, I think, their appeal to kids. Yeah. Reaching for the email crowd.

You like email? You're going to love this Adam guy. He's always sending an email. When you were growing up, did either of you have like a clipped comic strip from like whatever that your parents thought was funny and put on the fridge or anything like that? Did you ever have like a, I feel like a lot of far sides made it onto the wall? Yeah, yeah. No, my family didn't do that. I would sometimes like clip them and I had a little like child, child shoebox full of treasures and I had some stuff in there that I liked.

A lot of far sides, a lot of like Calvin and Hobbes. Yeah. Our family never like displayed them, which was a mistake. They should have. We had some, uh, I think we had a couple of far side mugs. Love a good far side. They stopped making the calendar for years, and then they re-released them a while ago, and boy, I was so happy to pull off a comic a day. Yeah.

You guys, like, Bizarro, was that one that made it? Was that Canadian? Is that? Oh, is that a one panel one? That was a one panel. And I feel like the artist's name was Pirarro. Yes. It was something like.

Yeah, we had Bizarro. I think that was, I think that was maybe considered a little hipper, a little kind of, you know, maybe something you might see in an alt weekly. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, what was the one that was in the alt weekly? Oh, God, what's it called? We had, let's see, we had Tom the Dancing Bug, and that was a, you know, frequently, very

lefty, uh, hipster type thing. What else did we have? Oh, and we had Life and Hell. Life and Hell was in the old. Oh, life and hell. Yes. Wasn't there one that was like in a hipster weekly like called like raw meat or something like that? Yeah, that rings a bell.

What was that? Did you get when you guys became like teens, like teens who wanted to like check out the local music scene? Did you all have like an alt weekly that was important to you that you grabbed? Oh yeah. Fast forward. Fast forward. Okay. Fast forward.

You could find out what was going on of the coop, which was the big coffee shop, uh, folk place. I saw, what did I see there as a youth? I can't remember. But trust me, it was awesome. I'm sure. Oh, I mean, if it was at the coop, it was going to be good. And all of these local free weekly papers were, they used to be really thick. And now they're either gone or so thin.

Yeah, I know. I saw an LA weekly the other day at a public library. And yeah, it was like three pages of ads for prostitutes, and that's it. It's funny because that used to be like substantial part of it. Yeah. You had so many prostitute options. Now it's just a couple. Talk about shrinkflation.

Well, I think they like, you know, I still like to advertise in the newspaper because you get it. You attract a class of your clientele. Yeah. You guys put an ad for the show in the paper. paper? The, uh, the comic strip was called red meat, red meat. Okay. R E-A-D. R-E-D. Just classic red. Yeah. No, that would have been better, actually. It would have been better. Yeah. Um, and, uh, we didn't put an ad in the paper, although we used to, the Georgia straight, the local free weekly, uh, they have like their annual best of, like, vote, people vote on their, you know, uh, you know, best

sandwich in town, best whatever. And when the podcast category came around, we kept winning it. And then, uh, but default. And then they, they would like post like, oh, we invited all the winners to the, to this free breakfast and we never got invited to. And now that we, uh, the last couple of years, we don't win it. And, but we now get emails from them saying, hey, you should advertise that you came in third. That's really funny.

Do you know who is winning it? Not to, you know, Solish wound. I think last year it was past guests, Amy Goodmurphy and Ryan Steele with their show Poor Little Thing. Yeah. And I think, I think in general,

anybody who like rallies some listeners to. Yeah, anyone who says, Hey, vote for us. Right. I feel, I am kind of mad for you guys that you never got that free breakfast. I'm going to, I'm going to mail you both a waffle.

What was your local free rag that you... Yeah, I grew up in Orange County, California, and we got the OC Weekly. And yeah, you could find out about all your, all your rowdiest punk rock shows. And they had a little... And it was, you know, it was Orange County stuff, but with a little, like, with a little spin, with a little alternative spin. I remember they had an article on where are the best places to get it on at Disney. were. Oh shit.

So if you wanted to go to Disneyland and get it on. One was... Make whoopee at Disneyland. To make whoopee. Steve Harvey would be shocked that you said that. What's the strangest place you've ever made whoopee? Well, in Mickey's butt. Oh!

I was going to say Mickey's butt. What is Mickey's butt, Steve? And he probably would say whoopee. Yeah. Something Mickey might say There is like a Isn't there a hidden basketball court Inside the Matterhorn?

I haven't heard that. Like they can go and shoot some hoops at lunch? Yeah. Huh. I bet you could probably sneak in there and make Whoopi. You could totally make Whoopi there. Yeah, absolutely. With the groans of the abominable snowman in the background.

Did? When you were a teen and you were reading your free OC Weekly. Yeah. You were going to punk shows? You remember you? You were like, I feel like I connect you in real big fish together in my mind. Yes, as well you should. Because I'm always wearing a Hawaiian shirt with suspenders.

Yeah, like that was a big band for us. It was like it was the 90s. So obviously that, you know, third wave scoboom, we were at ground zero. What an exciting time to be alive. So yeah, like real big fish in those kind of goofier third wave ska band. How many waves of sky? have there been since? You know, I think, I think they just called it at three.

Like, they're good, right? It's a really big wave. It'll probably go for 30 years. Yeah. We'll just say we're in three A, three B. I think there is a, there is a small but vibrant current sky scene. And maybe they would say they're in the fourth wave. But, you know, I'm not, I'm not the guy to ask.

Yeah. Was there a place to go see? Like, when I was, the punk show, you would go to the Carpenter's Union Hall. That was like the Union Hall in town that didn't give a shit. What you did to it. Yeah. So we had those. We had like YMCA's and like rec centers that would have little punk shows for sure.

Yeah. But my main place, my all ages venue that I loved was called Chain Reaction. And it just closed. It closed this year. Oh shit. And yeah, they had like a final show that I didn't go to. But yeah, it was our little all ages place. It was in a strip mall next to like a St. Vincent's Thrift store.

So we would go to the little thrift store and buy, you know, kitchy bobbles. And then we'd go to our punk show and feel like real, real cool, real cool dudes. Yeah. Yeah. I got to put my kitchy bobbles down. Here, watch my kitchy bobbles while I go skanking. Yeah, I got to go skank over here. I have to skank.

So, yeah, that was a very fun place for me. That was a, you know, a place where I did a lot of growing up guys. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, but yeah, we also did have like VFW Halls things and there were like the, you could go see the Christian equivalent of a lot of these bands in like church basements. So you would have the like Christian punk show. Skaz of Clay. Scott's of.

Oh, man. If somebody's not doing that, they are leaving money on the table. Who's the biggest Christian band? Like, did anyone ever cross over? I guess, CREED. People say, oh, yeah, POD. Creed uses Christian imagery, but I don't think they're actually practicing. I wonder.

I wonder what the lead singer of Creed believes. Yeah. What about Slipknot? Were they Christian? I feel like Slipknot. You know, I don't think they were monsters. Shakers. Shakers.

Oh, that would just be so funny if there was a church was trying to like attract youth so they start their own like Christian slip knot wire. Listen, kids of Guar. So we got to get him in. We have to dress the youth pastor up as a monster with a giant penis. Have you seen Guar? No, I would love to see Guar. Gwar came to town and I missed it.

I was like, Graham, you went for your first time or second time recently? I went for my first time. The last on this tour they were on and it was. amazing. I think you're, you'd be hard pressed to find that much. You popped your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, production value for the amount of money you pay to go see a guar show is like, it's unparalleled. There's no, uh, and the guy's got four utters that shoot blood out into the audience and, and everyone, every band member gets attached to the blood hose at a

different point. Gets to spray everybody in the audience. I want, point a monster eats a guy. There's a... Cool. And it's everybody, the greatest thing, everybody there's dressed in all white because they want to get, they want to get bloodified. So it's just like,

it looks like it's like an evangelical crowd. That's really funny. They're going for a river baptism. Graham, do you know about, do you like keep up with the guar lore, like the backstory of the monster? Or Gaur. Gour. Gour.

Gwar. Gwar. I watched a documentary about them and that their lead singer passed away and they kind of were going to disband because he was kind of the main guy who kind of brought them all together. And then this other guy created a totally different character. And so they talk about his lore in the documentary. And he's, I can't remember. He's like a different being than the rest of them. he's like a kind of a cow character.

It's kind of like a bull or a cow kind of guy. It's sort of like these fighting games. Yeah. There's a yoga guy. There's a cow. Yeah, Tumo wrestler. A lot of people sent me a clip of war covering a pink pony club. Yeah.

That was. A lot of people sent me that as well. Because, you know, it's a different style of music than they usually play. So pretty cool. And Dave, you like, well, you don't like Guar, actually. Never mind. Why did we send this to you? Yeah, I know.

There's the, listen. We love our listeners, don't we? We love them. Keep sending us stuff. The like, here's something you would like is always such a toss up. Sometimes, you know, I'm like, oh, I would like this. And sometimes like, you think I like this? I think I like this.

I think I like this. People, they get it. But I get it from multiple people on the day that the Guar song drops. But how would I have found out about it otherwise? You know, fast forward's not covering that kind of stuff anymore. So where am I going to find out about it? That's true.

Did you? Guar is giving a speech of the UN. Graves got to see this. Guar addresses Congress. Quar is spraying buttress, butrus, bollis, golly with blood. Gali is right. You're getting sprayed with blood. Because they, Gwar, like, Gwar was able to like kind of get in the news cycle again because at some point they were like disemboweling a fake Trump on stage, right?

And there was some right wing outrage at that. But, you know, they'd disembowl a Biden if he made it in. I'm sure that yes. Sure. They were just going backwards through them. They did, you know, Woodrow Wilson. FDR. Look out Calvin Coolidge.

And on the next door, they're re-emboweling them. They're just making, you know. Stuff the bowels back in. Yeah. Yeah, they, and like, there was an episode of maybe Jenny Jones or something of that era where Guar were the guests. Yes. And when you see them in a human setting, it is very silly. Right, just them sitting like on a talk show couch.

Yes. Like that time the Ninja Turtles were on Oprah. Oh, and they kept talking about having sex with April and Neil? You've seen this clip, right? Yes. Yeah, yeah. There was so much turtle shit when we were kids. The Turtles just did all this stuff.

It seemed to be totally unregulated. And yeah, they could go on Oprah and talk about having sex with April. They had like Christmas albums and it all seemed to just be done by totally different people. They ate pizza. They had a friend who was a rat. Yeah, they did it all. They really did it all. The father figure who was a rat.

Sort of a sensei type. A sensei type. Yeah, exactly. There was also just like, you're right, there was kind of like any product could have the turtle's name just. I remember they're being like a microwaveable apple pie turtle thing that had like, it was like purple or green on the inside. I mean, everything is that way now. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, you would know because they, you end up. probably with a lot of this. Well, it was a big deal when the Disney store closed, but every store sells Disney. Like H&M will sell you a Disney T-shirt. Target will sell you a Disney T-shirt. We were at Target once,

and they had Jojo-Ciwa underwear. Like kids underwear. And now we frequently will sing, Jo-Jo-C-W underwear, do-da. Whenever we see her. Are you guys a Siwa house, Dave? We go through Sea Wah phases.

Okay. You know, we're always like a step behind Sewa. And what's her lore? Her lore. Well, she went, she was, uh, she went gay for a while. Okay. Decided she was gay and then her, her music became, uh, she started a new music genre called gay pop.

Okay. And then, uh, certainly no pop music has ever been gay. No. What? Okay. And then like overnight she switched to like, um, uh, sort of what are the, what's the like stay at home mom kind of movement? A trad wife?

Yeah, she's trad wife. And now she's straight, she's straight trad wife. What? She's trad wife? Yeah. Oh, wow. And just like conservative? Well, I don't know her politics, but that's just her image.

Huh. Does she still produce underwear? Is this still on the table or is this, uh, I don't know what she's doing. The underwear is far more. modest. Yeah. It's a new line of very modest underwear. And like the old timey panty hose that go all the way up, all the way up.

All the way up. Oh, here to yaya. Woo. I don't know. Whatever. Oh, yeah. It was the other thing. It was a Ninja Phil thing.

It was Alan Thick singing with them. Have you ever seen that clip? I have. Yeah. They were at the Rose parade or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

parade. The journals, they could just do whatever. Do you live near, uh, did you still, did, did you live near the rose parade? Do you live near the rose parade? I, so, uh, you know, by the way, the road parade? You know how, like, you find out that like, oh, uh, Anne of Green Gables is huge in Japan. The rose parade is big in Canada. Do you guys like the rose parade?

No. Okay. So, I mean, I live closer than you, uh, but I, ha ha. Yeah, I for a while lived in Altadena, which was close to Pasadena, home of the Rose Parade, moved not too long ago for wildfire related reasons. Now, I live in Frogtown, which is still pretty close to Pasadena. I could still get up there for the Rose Parade if I wanted to, but I'd prefer to just watch it on TV. Honestly, from the sounds of it, you'd be more likely to see the Ninja Turtles in Frogtown. Yeah, exactly.

maybe the Biker Mites from Mars. Or the Battle Toads. These are all... The street sharks, the Cowboys of Moom Mesa. We had so many mutant animal teams, didn't we? By you, Billy. By you, Bill. Sure. Not an animal, but he punched them.

Dave, what's going on with you, man? Oh, not much. So I... Here's a thing. Okay. Now, when I was a young man, when I was in when I was a teenager in gym class you just got changed in the dressing room there was no showering happening no and then as I got there was a lot of throwing people stuff into the showers and then turning the showers on that's true and there were as I got older you know you go to the gym you play sports you as an adult you go and you're nude with other men right um and And so I do that.

I go be nude with other men these days. Yeah. Who doesn't love to go be nude? A few times a week. I love to go be nude. And my strategy is always be nude, you know, the least amount of time possible. You know, get in the shower, do whatever you need to do in the shower. But when you're done with the shower, the first thing you put on, underwear.

Oh, sure. Yeah. Not me, bath the shoes. And then I wander around just letting it. everything air dry. Sometimes you see someone do shirt first, but you're not supposed to be watching, but you're just kind of, you're like, why'd you do that? But the other day, I was in a dressing room, in a change room, and a guy got out of the shower,

went socks first. Wow. Sox first. Wow. That's going to be a very damp sock. Yeah, it's also the hardest thing to put on. Yeah. It's, now, here's a question for both you.

Where did you learn most of your shower routine from? Because I feel like when I was a kid, I went to the YMCA and I were in the shower being like, that's a good maneuver. That guy, like what that guy's doing. How did I learn to, I've never thought about that before. I learned it all privately. I took private lessons. I sat down with my youth pastor. And he let me know how the Lord wanted me to shower.

Well, there was a big thing in the last couple years of like, do you wash your legs? Yeah, that was a meme, right? And, you know, do you wash your legs and are you thinking about the Roman Empire? Yeah. And also, hey, I saw a bird today. Tell me about it. Is that one? That's the new one.

You're supposed to text your partner. Hey, I saw a bird today. And if they, gauging their reaction is how much they love you. Okay. What are you supposed to say? You're supposed to say, oh, tell me about the bird. you're not supposed to be like, holy fucking shit, where are you? Stay where you are.

Shelter in place. I saw a movie recently about birds. They did not end well for the characters. I think the bad reaction is random or whatever. That happened. TMI. So what is your, Graham, what's your shower strategy? I go top to bottom.

and I, you know, like I think a lot of people, multitasking, right? Right. Like, I'm not doing one thing and then just waiting for it to finish. I'm hitting different areas all at the same time. You got to. You got a. And then, you know what? If I got some time, I'll just stand in there for a couple extra minutes,

just enjoy the water flow, you know, put my head under, get like a head massage, that kind of thing. But yeah, I work top to bottom. So I'm a leg cleaner. Always have been. Always will be. Love those clean, clean legs. How about you guys?

Another flashpoint recently was, do you use a washcloth? I feel like I've heard that. Are you all washcloth guys? I'm not a washcloth guy. I feel like that is a cultural thing that white people don't do. Yeah, I'm a washcloth guy. Oh, are you? Yeah, I love a washcloth.

But yeah, I also learned recently that maybe the stereotype is that, you know, whites don't do that. But this white. This year white. I do face cloth. Face cloth. I exfoliate, you know, my schnaws. Now, do you guys... Beautiful schnaz, too.

It looks like a four-year-old's penis. Dripping like one, too. Yeah. Do you guys do use the same washcloth? Is it different one every time? Or do you let it dry in the shower and then use it again the next day? What's the wash-closh? Wash-closh bagash.

I do whatever is the right answer. The one that grosses the listener out, the least. Yeah. Hey, listener, the one you want us to do? And that's the one we do. My thing in the showers, I'm a big forgetter of what did I, what have I already done? So I'll do my armpits and then do everything else. And then I'll come back and be like, oh, did I finish my armpits?

Let me do my armpits again. Yeah, they're fun. And then I certainly sometimes, you know, rinse myself off and don't do, don't rinse my armpits and get out and my armpits are all crispy and soapy when I get out. So I got to go back in. Yep. Yep. That happens to me.

What about you, Jordan? You're a multitasker, as you said. Yeah, I think, Graham, I think the thing you described is definitely, I was listening to that and going, it me. In me. I'm not. I'm that. I am multitasking the shower guy.

But yeah, you're going around, hitting various zones. Just doing what feels good, you know, listen to your body. Where does it want to be watching? next. Do you guys, are you like listening to things in the shower? You have a speaker? You listen to podcast or music? Are you just going in raw dogging it? What are you guys doing? Yeah, I raw dog in the shower. I have not gotten the shower speaker, but it might be a fun way to catch up on podcast and play a little news. I don't know. But no, I do like to be in the shower with my thoughts. I have a shower radio. Yeah, I have a speaker that I'll, but I can't

find the charger for it. So I've been, I've been without. And man, I don't like being alone with my thoughts. And my shower radio, I'm like, oh, if, if, uh, you know, the internet goes down, if there's like, uh, you know, a huge earthquake or a nuclear war, this, this, uh, battery powered radio is my link to the world. Right. Oh, dad's in the shower again, listening to what's going on in the news. Um, so, uh, you're, you're, you see a guy put on socks off. A man naked with socks the other day? Yes.

Okay, here's another thing that's going on with me. Okay. The other day, Abby, was like, something smells in the bridge. What was it? Well, come on, let me tell the tale. Yeah, yeah. So when this happens, is your process to empty a bunch of things out and to go on a smell? Well, she went on a little smell investigation.

and I couldn't smell it. But she was like, I'm getting a, it was a bouquet of it's like a sweetness, but it's not right. It's not food. Sure. And I was like, okay, what is? Is it some kind of like chemical?

Also, our fridge is, I don't know if it's on its way out, but it, like, the fridge is on top and the freezer is on the bottom. bottom and the fridge just has like a leak. And so like water just accumulates in the bottom of the fridge. No, it's not touching any food. So we just, you know, get a towel every couple of days and get rid of it. Sure.

So I was like, okay, first thing I'm doing, getting rid of this still water. Smart. So I got rid of that. I, and I, you know, cleaned it out, used whatever, cleaning products. Did you take all the drawers out? I took the drawer. I took the main drawer out. the, you know, the meat and cheese drawer.

Right. That's the drawer that may be most likely to smell. Yeah. Yeah. And then I, you know, did a little smell test. I found a little container of pomegranate seeds that had begun to grow a little bit of a brand new pomegranate. Growing a beard. Looks more distinguished, you know.

Yeah. A little more grown up with the beard. And those smelled, those smelled pretty strong. So I was like, I brought them. over to Abby. Was this what you were smelling? And she said, hmm, it's close. Put it back in the fridge. We'll smell. We might still eat those. And then

she went later in the day and she was like, no, it's still there. And then we pinpointed it. There's a container full of watermelon juice. Okay. That we lost the lid for. So, and it's right at nose level when you open the fridge door. Now, that's what Harry Stiles says, vagina tastes like, right? Is this is a watermelon water? Watermelon water?

Is that what that Harry Style song is about pussy juice? It is about pussy juice. What? Oh my gosh. Harry Styles. Jordan, every song's about pussy juice. What?

Even Camp Town Races? Yep. What? My favorite song? Piano man? I do. What do you think the tonic and gin represents? What? That's pussy juice? He's not making, he can't make love to a cup of.

What? Yeah, Davy who's still in the Navy, he was swimming in the stuff. Oh, yeah. Oh, you know Davy. Oh, you don't go in the Navy without getting a little pussy juice. I think he is a secret gay character. Oh, is he? Yeah. Gay icon.

It's, uh, Tom had a real estate, was a real estate novelist who never had time for a wife. So certified bachelor. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's right. And he's talking with Davey, who's still in the Navy. We're in YMCA era. We're in village people era. Yeah. And probably will be for life.

Yeah. And Eddie, the biker and Fred the policeman. The construction worker. Yeah, Jerry, the Indian chief. Jerry. Anyway, it was a watermelon juice. Hi. Shit. Well, I'm glad you guys found it.

When you smell a bad thing in your fridge, is it crisis mode? For me, it's crisis mode. Yeah, I mean, I want to get, my fridge is very small. So if something is off, it doesn't take very long to find it. It's a small apartment fridge. What is it usually? Is it tofu? No, if it's anything, it's like, it is. It's like that same kind of thing. Like, it's some weird thing that was left in a Tupperware that's just been. forgotten for, you know, but like some weird thing like watermelon juice. It's always something that you're like, oh, yeah, where do we put those sprouts, you know? Mm-hmm. How about you, Jordan?

What's your fridge set up? Yeah. Also, I also kind of have that feeling of like when the fridge smells bad, I always go to is the fucking fridge broken. Yeah. And I have a, in the place I moved into, I like bought my fridge, so it's a, it's a newer fridge. So the idea. It's not an L.A. thing. Isn't it like when you move, you move with your fridge?

In all of my LA apartments, the fridge has always been there. I think that's part of why I've always been panicked because I've lived in some shitty apartments. And the fridge is usually bad. And so the minute something is smelling in the fridge, I always go to, oh my God, I have to deal with the fucking landlord. And how long is this weirdo going to take to fix this thing? So I think now that I have a newer fridge that I'm, this is the first time the apartment didn't have a fridge. It's kind of fun fridge shopping. I'm a little cranky.

Yeah, what did you get? What bells and whistles does it have? You know, it's not like a smart fridge. So it's not like, uh, yeah. What's it here? Oh, do I be cold or hot? Which one do you want me to be? Is this ice cream for me?

No. fridge. Classic dumb guy. Stupid fridge. It didn't get a lot of bells and whistles, but a nice water filter and a nice ice maker. Nice. And a pull-out freezer, which is lovely. So nobody gets pregnant.

So you can sleep. Yeah. And so I can sleep at it. How are you guys with leftovers? Like, if you have a meal that has like, you know, three or four components. Right. Do you, you know, if there's just like a few crumbs of cheese left, do you save everything? Do you save things if you, even if you know, like, I'm going to throw this out in three days, just to appease your ancestors?

Yeah. I try. I may, yes, I always save it and I maybe eat it 40% of the time. I wish my leftover ratio is better. I feel bad about it. I don't like to be wasteful, but you know what? It happens. my leftover

situation is quite good I there's not usually like if it's if it's another day of it like I'll have the leftovers from the night before and then if there's more the next day then I get a little bit more pokey about it so but if there's just a little bit of something of love to son that's going right in the organics bag

I don't that's that's back to the earth you know I don't feel bad about it for a second yeah well I didn't have much to talk about but I feel like we got something out of it Graham, what's going on with you? It's been gold. Are you kidding? So, Jordan, you wouldn't know. But in the summer, I went to a two-week, 12-hour-day intensive puppet camp.

Wow. Cool. In Calgary, Alberta. Neat. Yeah, it was really fun. Yeah, puppet country. Absolutely. And you know what's weird?

Calgary seems to be puppet country because there's, yeah, there's a several groups, like troops that do stuff and they've got a festival there every year. And it was just one of the things that just happened to be in Calgary where my parents live. So I was able to go and do this thing. And it was top to bottom. It was designing puppets, finding out how to use them, creating a show with them. And I really liked the element of sewing using the sewing machine because I was like, it's something I remember being in Hometk class as a teenager.

running through a piece of fabric one, breaking the needle, and then being asked to like, maybe you'll just participate in the crumble making. Maybe we won't have you on the... Maybe concentrate on your crumbles. There's sewing guys, and then there's crumble guys. So, uh, as a, as a gift for Christmas, my wife Sally gave me, um, uh, she organized for me to do like a sewing machine lesson. like go and actually like do a do something where you start at absolute zero and then you you walk away with a finished product does it uh is your teacher sitting behind you like patrick suezie and ghost yep and the whole time i'm like hey teach

how about a little space uh i know you're a hunk and everything but uh um but yeah it was in this nice uh like fabric store, fabric sewing kind of shop that was owned by the very nice ladies and it was a night class which have you guys ever taken a night class before like in any way shape or form? No, no. It's kind of like it feels to me like what going to Cub Scouts was when I was a kid where it's like

I got a whole thing that I got to like I've finished my day and now there's more day and then when I get home like night will already be done I'll have to be getting ready for bed kind of. Sure. And there's like an AA meeting happening underneath you. So it kind of felt like that. Like it was like, okay, it's a three hour.

They're going to show us how to make pillows. We made pillows. And so. That's a great first project, you know? Yeah. And it's... They're just, you know, squares are rectangles, but also functional so you can take it home. And they can be circles.

No, shut the fuck up, Dave. I'll die before I lay on a circular pillow. That's not. Well, why not? Your head's a circle. Your pillow should be a circle. We've been doing it all wrong. Shit, you're right.

Fuck. That's why I've never been to sleep. So, yeah, it was like, it was, there was five of us from, you know, you try and, like, when you're with a group of strangers, you're like, okay, who am I in this group? It's very important you beat someone up on the first. You find the toughest guy in that sewing class. The toughest Nazi you can find. Yeah.

Like, I want to assess. Yeah, are you the jug head? Are you the Betty? Exactly. And right out the bat, I'm like, am I the worst? Am I the worst? Do I know the least of anybody here? Debatable, but I was in the lower ranks, that's for sure.

Because I never, like, have you ever tried to use a sewing machine? Once it starts going, you start to freak out and like, it goes faster than you think you're going to do it. Yeah, my wife is a big sower and I can't even with her. No, I can't like, yeah, the pedal, the whole, the logic of the needle going up and down doesn't. Yeah. I don't get that either.

Because when you're also a button, you know, by hand all day long. sure but I think that the doodah doda oh button all by day long the uh the hole of the needle on the sewing machine is at the bottom not the at the pointy end isn't it

it's it's just above the pointy end and it's you have to kind of like Rube Goldberg like it goes around a spinning thing and then under a hook and then under a little It's very counterintuitive. Do you think that a camel could pass through the eye of a needle? I think if you pured it and did little drops.

Oh, sure. And it depends on if a rich man got into heaven. So, you know, let's check on all that stuff. I mean, if you purerate it. If you puree a rich man, yes. You could kind of slide him through the pearly gates. Without St. Peter knowing. Get into heaven with like a camelback

Full of a puree rich man That's my Yeah that's my sign at the next protest Purae the rich So they can get into heaven Because we love them We love them And they would really like heaven

I think They would love heaven Oh it's just like one of their super yachts Yeah they love they love pearls You know those gates Yeah there's gonna be a lot of gold up there very ostentatious, what's it going to be like the day

that Trump arrives in heaven? Do you know what I mean? What's her? Just, I don't know. Feel free to use that in one of your comedy routines. I think it sounds a little something like this. These gates have to be bigger. Can we, bitch? And then he falls over, whoop.

So yeah, I was in the, I was definitely in the bottom percentile of this class. But also, I seemed to be the only one that was like, this doesn't matter. Like, if I screw up this pillow, I could just leave it in the alley behind the sewing place. Oh, I would feel so guilty, I'd put it in the fridge and try to eat it later. Right. I'm never going to get to this pillow. But, yeah, I feel like the woman that was next to me was very stressed about the whole thing. And I literally at one point said it does like I not in a judgmental way, but I was like, it's fine.

Like it's, you know, this is your first time making a thing that's not, you know, you're not getting paid or. Yeah. This isn't summer school. You don't need one credit to get out of. Was there any worry about your gigantic beard getting stuck in the machine? Well, you know, we not at first, but then she was like, stop putting your face so close to the stitching. Yeah. Just trust the machine's doing its work.

also when you take a paper shredding class they'll give you the same warning and like I thought when I brought them home last night I was like hey this actually look pretty good like it does it's you know it's a pillow but then this morning when I looked at the stitching on the like flap it is hilarious it's like a cartoon like it's like a heart monitor it like zigs over this way in Saxon I don't know how the fuck I did it you say that's an artistic choice yeah that's true It's unpredictable. Right.

Exactly. Much like life itself. Yes. On this crazy blue marble. But yeah, I made two no fooling pillows and I'm probably going to go back and do some more. They've got an apron workshop coming up. They got a tote bag workshop. Are those two pillows under your shirt right now?

Yeah. What do you think of these guys? Boob boom. What else is like what other things? Did you say? going to make? You can do, there's a tote bag one. I like the idea of making a tote bag.

An apron. You can make an apron. You know, kiss the cook or, you know, one of those ones that looks like a sexy lady body. Ooh. But because you have a hard time with straight stitching, the lady's body is going to zigzag all over the place. It's going to be unrecondizable. Yeah.

One triangular boob. Hey, there's no wrong way to have a body. Yeah. Thank you. All zigzag bodies are beautiful. But there's the one thing, and Dave, this is something, because you have a sewing machine in your house, winding up the bobbin, that's the most fun part. You put on a little spindle and then you took a thread, you put it through the thing,

and then you press that gas pedal, and woo! It's fun at first, but Abby looks really bored when she's doing it. Oh, you know what? Next time over, let me, I'll do a bunch for her. So you just have a little noise. You made a little noise when you did it. Yeah. You got to make it fun.

Yes. You have to make it. You have to make it fun. What, Jordan, if you're doing, if Predator is spinning a bobbin, what noise is going to be in? Good question, Dave. That's going to be a Herc. We're using Herc there again. He'd be good with the sewing, though, because he's got those, the two big spikes.

His big, like, spikes would be good. He'd have a natural kind of propensity for it, I guess, from gutting people. Yeah. And I think in general, the predator has a lot. lot of like survival skills and I bet some of that includes being able to kind of repair, you know, clothing items in the wild and, you know, and he'd be like, oh, did I leave the iron on? No, according to my heat vision, I did not. That helps. That helps because. Yeah, I bet the predator's crafty. I bet the predator's one of the craftier monsters. Yeah, because he has so much

downtime. Yeah, exactly. You're waiting in the tree. You're stalking someone. Yeah. In the Predator world because like, you know, if you're in an army or whatever, there's like, there's got to be people who cook and there's got to be people who like, is there like a chef predator? Is the who's making the predator's food? It's a, you know, I think, and I think this is something often discussed in the predator fan community is that they seem to only be hunters and how is this a society? Like, there has to be just like guys who work at the convenience store, right?

Yeah, the only ones we see are people who hunt dangerous game. Yes. He kills people. Does he eat them? No, I think he gets the, he uses them for trophies. Yeah. It's kind of an honor. He likes peanut butter and jelly.

He loves it, yeah. He's got a little, the palate of an eight-year-old. He likes dino chicken nuggets. Mac and cheese, of course. Cheese cassidia. Yeah, I do like, I, like, I. I've honestly never thought about it, but there must be, yeah, some sort of supports up there on a predator planet. Yeah, sure. Predator, predator tax guy.

Some kind of social safety net. They have great health care on the predator planet. You have to. You have to. You go on all these deadly hunts. Yeah, who's going to take care of your mandibles? Right. Brush them twice a day.

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And if you at home have one, you can send it into SBIY at maximum fund. and we usually like to start with the guest, but we're gonna go, I'm shaking it all up, we're gonna go with Dave first for the overheards. Yep. Dave here,

and I'm gonna do one, and this is what it's like. I was at a fast food restaurant. Name it. Name it. I won't. But what I'll describe is that they had a drink fountain that you fill up yourself.

But it was. It wasn't the kind that, like, where you program in your own drink. It just had a bunch of buttons of different drinks. And there was a man at the counter, like a 70-something-year-old man, talking to the person behind the counter. And he was saying, yeah, and I'll get a drink. I'll get the green one. And the person behind the counter was like, Mountain Dew? And he said, no, the armor all?

and the guy behind the counter was like, what? And the old man walks over with the machine and said, this. And he says, oh, Gatorade. Armourle! You mean turtle wax? But also it was the kind of thing where you don't need to tell the guy what you're going to get because you're going to do it yourself. It doesn't matter if you can't remember Gatorade.

Yeah, and oh man, I'd hate to see that guy's fridge at home, all sorts of mistakes. And I was trying to think of, does the Gatorade logo look like the Armourall logo? The Armourall logo is a Viking? It's a Viking with a shield, and Gatorade is a lightning pole. I mean, you know, Vikings famously full of electrolytes. That's true. Well, if you puree them. If you puree them, yes, if you puree the Viking.

Yeah, is Armourall, that's a North American brand. That's not just a Canadian. We've got that. We've got Armourle. You got it? Okay. Yeah. But it's a sandwich shop up here. It's like a sub sandwich.

Yeah, as a car owner, I don't think I've ever bought any Armourall. Is it wax? Is it, oh, you know what? Maybe I bought some inside car wipes from them. And I think you put it on tires? Feels like it's something. Oh, Armore makes a tire shine. Absolutely.

And like when I was a kid, it was Turtle Wax was like the big finishing coat. Well, you would get that. You would win that on game shows. Yes. Right. Lifetime supply of turtle wax. I wonder what that shakes out to, like how much turtle wax. Two containers. Yeah. I think for me it would be zero containers.

Right. Because don't you have to put it on and buff it out? You got to buff it out. Yeah. I'm not doing any buffing around the house. I just go through the car wash and press the button that says they're applying a wax treatment to my car and I take their word for it. You go to the one on terminal? I do sometimes. Yeah. That one rules. That's a quality car.

Jordan, you're, I imagine in L.A. You're a driving individual. Oh, you know it. Beep, beep. And do you do, like, a self car wash? You do a drive-thru? What do you do? I like to, yeah, I like to do a drive-thru car wash.

That's a lot of fun. Sometimes you, the place will have massage chairs in the lobby. So while it's going through, you can treat yourself to a little shake and bake. Yeah, that's what it's called when you go on a massage chair and then you get high. Yeah. the old shake and bake. And it's also the car washer, a fun place to look at some funny cards, some funny greeting cards. Oh, okay.

There's always a rack of funny greeting cards. So that's always a good time. Yeah, I know that kind, but we don't have that kind here. Oh, yeah? We've got the kind that you either, well, it's attached to a gas station and you just, your car sits there for five minutes. Right. And barely washes it at all.

Uh-huh. And then there's the kind where you go and you pay an extra $10 and they'll vacuum out the inside of your car for you and they'll hand do it. And then there's this other kind where you put your car in neutral and it drags you through. Yeah. It becomes like a ride. It rules. But yeah, our car washes have a little like hangout zone.

And yeah, massage chair, rack of funny greeting cards. Ice cream sandwiches too. You get a little ice cream sandwich usually. It's such a like vibrant culture. It is such a, it's, you know, it's just a great place. to go in and meet your neighbors, mix it up, share ideas. Gordon, do you have an overheard?

Oh, no, I'll go. Yeah, I'll go. My overheard is courtesy of this sewing workshop last night. You know when you go like, you nail a compliment to somebody and then you go one step too far and you're like, ah, fucked it up. There was a young, lady who was

not part of the workshop, but was kind of like cleaning up and obviously worked there. And she was wearing a very cool I assume handmade kind of like Halloween jacket that had like Jacker Lanterns and ghosts on it. And I just thought, oh, it was so cool. On my way out, I said like, oh, awesome jacket. And she was like, thanks. And I was like, because every day is Halloween. And you could tell she was just like, I like, I like the first part.

Yeah, I like the comment. I like the common. And then you ruin. Now you're trying to, yeah, sure. That's my overheard, her overhearing me ruining a compliment. Because every day's Halloween. Well, it can be if you keep the spirit alive. Yeah. If we learn nothing from the lessons of Halloween. Yeah, keep it with you all year long.

Yeah, like Jack Skellington does. Right, yes. So I, as I mentioned at the top of the show, I had to do some permitting work for an upcoming Comic-Con. This is something that they have, and some of them have different rules. And, you know, depending on what you're selling, you need a different kind of permit.

And I was loading into a Comic-Con behind a guy that had replica Star Trek weapons. Like, that's what he was selling. So he, you know, if you needed a replica, you know, phaser or whatever, this is your guy. That's your name another one. I can only think of phaser. Well, I'm about to.

So he had a, bunch of like cling on weapons which look like medieval weapons. And he had not, he had not gotten the right permit for these to sell like, you know, bladed weapons. You need a certain kind of permit. And, you know, the people who were checking him in were like just telling him that he, he didn't have the right shit. He was like, oh, well, you don't. He's like, I'm sorry, but you're not, you're not, you know, authorized to sell swords. And he's like, it's not a sword. And he's like, it's not a sword, it's a McLeff. You idiot.

You idiot, you dumb. Yeah. Look here, there's the McLeth clause here. Oh, okay. So you have a Class C. Yeah. Yeah.

And again, like the people at these convention centers are not, like this convention center doesn't just have nerd shit. It has, it's like the, you know. The boat show. The boat show.

Yeah. The washer, dryer, repair man association meets there. Yeah. And yeah. So these people don't, you know, are not supposed to know the difference between various Klingon bladed weapons, but this guy absolutely expected them to.

Do you ever go to another convention center thing that's not a Comic-Con? I've never been to, I've been to the car show, and I've been to the interior design show. But yeah, I'd really love to go to that hot tub and spa expo. Right. Yes, that's a fun-sounding expo. When I was working on like a local television show here, one of the one of the things we did was go to the like sex expo. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Now, do they shorten that at all or Sex Expo?

You said that every time. Yeah, I think. Portmanteau you could use. Yeah, well, it was me like, let's come on, guys. Let's make this happen. They're like, no, it's Sex Expo. Sexpo is trademark. I went to the Shrexpo.

Oh, yeah. What did they have? That was hot. A lot of harnesses? Yeah. Yeah. Mostly just green sex toys. Sure.

Now, we also have overheard sent into us by people all over the map. If you want to send one in, send it into SBY at maximum fun.org. This first one comes from Tom from Utica, New York. I was at Disney World when I heard a seven or eight-year-old kid say, when I was a young boy, I liked Mickey, but now I like goofy. Yeah. Yeah. Right.

This is the more adult choice. is goofy. It's time to put away childish things. Yeah, and get with the guy who goes, Gour, or whatever. I don't know what noise he makes. Gorsh. Ah,

hoo-hoo-hoo-y when he falls off something. And vup. And vup, of course. And shirt-hirk. Well, and speaking of going to this convention, is this week that you're doing it, or is it a couple weeks for now? Or when are you going to be?

As of this taping, it is on Sunday. So people probably can't go. But I'll be at others. But yeah, this is a kind of a smaller one day thing. So it's it's less, you know, less celebrities. You're not, you know, Glenn Powell's not showing up. But it's a lot of like guys with Ziploc bags filled with GI Joe's. Nice.

And, you know, maybe bladed weapons, but we'll see if that guy gets a permit. Only if you have the right permit. Yeah. Wait, Graham, what was at the Sex Expo? Floggers. bloggers, groggers, and joggers.

Oh, wow, okay. A lot of, a lot of varying degrees and size and designs of vibrators. Right, okay. Then there was like stuff like, you know, somebody getting like fully body painted with airbrush, that kind of stuff.

And then just like, there would be like some like holistic, you know, tantric society or something like that. Okay, yes. Just follow your nose towards the... Right. Using herbs to fuck.

Sure. Sure. And porno? Was there plenty of porno? There was plenty of porno, but not... Because, like, it feels like the Sexpo stuff is like, a trademark sexbo. Classier? Yeah.

Well, it's more like in, like, things that you would do together. Like, it... Porn was like you could get... born anywhere, but this was, yeah, this was like, for your in-person sex. Yeah. In-line skating sex, yeah. This next one comes from Ryan in New Milford, Connecticut. I was at our local Batman themed diner.

Let that marinate for a second there. In Maryland? Connecticut. New Milford, Connecticut. New Milford, Connecticut. Okay, I'm just set a place that was close by, but not the one. Yeah, Batman-themed diner. I mean, I'm going to Google it later and see what it looks like.

Yeah, me too. When I heard a man from the table behind us, his voice cut through the noise and say, it's what they call the Steve Urkel effect, which I throw it open to the floor. What's the Steve Urkel effect? I think it's when your neighbor outshines you in every way. Yeah. And maybe that was maybe going to be kind of my because like family matters started out. as a show about a relatable family in Chicago, I think.

And then Erkel became so popular. It became a weird sci-fi show about Erkel building robots. Yeah. Would you ever author a comic book about the sci-fi world of Steve Erkel? Boy, Graham, that's like a good pitch. A, like, sci-fi comic about Urkel's adventures, like, in the multiverse and shit. Yeah. That's good.

I don't know. Well, you know what? If you want to do a copro, I'm around. Sure, yeah. Jordan, would you do that? Would I make millions of dollars and become internationally famous for writing the best idea ever? Yes, I would do that. So I've looked up this place.

It's called Three Brothers Cafe. Okay. Sorry, Three Brothers Family Restaurant in New Milford, Connecticut. We never had any brothers. It does have a ton of Batman stuff in it. You want Funko Pops. they got them. Sure.

I don't know. I haven't seen the menu yet. The menu might be Batman themed, but the, the kitchen is labeled Arkham Asylum. Whoa. You got to be crazy to work here. And it helps. It also helps, but you have to be too.

This last one. What's that? What do they got? They got Commissioner Gordon, Benny's, got Two-Face. open sandwich. That's pretty good. Two-face open sandwich.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Let me find menu. Come on, TripAdvisor. Help me out. Ridler. You know, like a pasta, like a riddler spaghetti or what sounds like a riddler? Dead parents club sandwich. The only thing on the menu that has a Batman logo is the meat lovers skillet.

Scramble eggs with ham, bacon, and sausage. I mean. topped with Monterey Jack and cheddar cheese. Batman's two favorite cheeses. Theeming sounds a little half-assed. I haven't seen the place, but calling this the

Batman diners seems generous. This last one comes from John S. This is from a kid. My six-year-old was making a birthday card, and I gave him a pack of crayons to use. He looked at the box and said, oh, Crayola, I love that company. They kind of

rock. They do kind of rock. I'm just going to answer my door. Okay. Vamp. Vamp. Graham's leaving. Graham's left. Graham's leaving and we're vamping. I thought we would maybe just pause, but. Yeah. No, no. I think, I like that. I think we can do this. I believe in us. We're dork. Okay. Um, uh, oh, I can keep reading the, uh, menu at three brothers. Do you have it open? I do have it open. Muffins and bagels. Uh, you can get a Thomas's English muffin for 325. It's a pretty good deal. The canoli waffle. Yeah, I was looking at that canoli waffle.

That might be good. I know, but I think I would like something a little savory today. Okay, well, then you want to go to the melts section, Dave. Old-fashioned patty melt. This is the Batman Diner menu still? Yeah. Graham, don't interrupt us.

This is gold. We were... And their logo is three brothers, and they're sitting on a tree branch and carrying a knife, a spoon, and a fork, and they're all different outlines. Two of them have chef hats on and one of them has Batman ears. Okay, yeah.

So there we go. A little bit of Batman theme. And of course you can get chicken masala. Marsala, sorry. What a menu at this place. The brothers, the brothers logo seems like a, like a pictograph you would see in like a folk horror thing. It's kind of terrifying. It looks like, you know, something scrawled by, you know, an insane person who was

Somebody from Arkham Asylum. Someone from Arkham Asylum, yeah. Anyway, check it out. It's Three Brothers Family Restaurant, and it's on Danbury Road in New Milford. Ooh, great road. And it looks like they're on Facebook and Google Plus. So check them out there. Yeah.

Social media networks. Their most recent post on Facebook is just telling everyone that they're open on December 27th. But please drive safely. Yeah, you got to drive safe. And their previous post was, happy Labor Day. Sure. I do like when a motel's like, follow us on socials. So what end?

Why? What am I getting from this? Sorry, anyways, go ahead, go ahead. I like a Hampton Inn as much as the next guy, but what am I getting from their social media feed? Well, in addition to overhears that are written and we also accept your phone calls. If you want to call us, our phone number is 1.844-779-7631. That's one. Ugh, SpyPod 1 like these people have.

But also send us a voice memo like these people have. Go record it on your phone and email it to SPY at maximum fun.org like these people have. Hey, Dave. Hi, hi, Graham. This is Matt. I overheard something wonderful about 25 years ago. I'm walking around my college, and I crossed by a couple of guys talking. One is saying, so this guy is crowd surfing, right?

But he's naked, and he's got a frisbee sticking out of the bat, so he looks like a shark. Anyway, I thought you'd like that. I do like that. We do. That's good. Dave has crowd surfed. I know that's a matter of public record. Jordan?

I've crowd surfed, yeah, back in my, back in my young. You wouldn't want to do it face down, though. I'm certainly not naked with a frisbee in the bus on. And I would definitely not have the frisbee in my ass. But maybe naked with socks on. Yeah, naked with socks. Yeah, wow. Yeah, I, right.

I don't think I would do. But, you know, I wouldn't do any of this. But then again, nobody's calling into podcasts about me. What is, yeah, when. How old is too old to crowdserve? I feel like as a teenager was great because I was also light. Right. Yeah.

And also, like, you have more of a trusting nature of the universe when you're younger. Like, people will catch me and this will be fine. Yes, I'm invincible. It is kind of an extension of a teenager's natural sense of invincibility. If I went crowd serving now, people will be passing me over their head thinking, who's this asshole? Graham was there that at the, Guar concert where people

I don't. Oh no, there was. There was some crowd surfing, but it was more like everybody, that was going to get in the way of being sprayed by blood. So there wasn't as much of it. It was like, we all want to get. Yeah. If you're on stage, you're not getting sprayed by blood. Yeah, exactly. And I would maybe imagine that the

Guar audience, the Guardians is kind of like older metal heads. It's maybe, bars maybe even like a little generation above us metalwise, right? So maybe Are they even metal? They're, I mean, they are under the umbrella of metal, for sure. I think when we tried to listen to some of their songs on a bonus episode, we didn't know what they were. I mean, they're not R&B.

We know that. Yeah, they're in the rock. You can rule on R&B. But yeah, it's like interdimensional rock and roll, we could call it. Yeah. A lot of lyrics about beings from, you know, predators. Sure. Oh, do they have predator songs?

I'm sure they do. They have to. All right, next phone call. Hi, Dave and Graham Impossible guest. This is A's Calling with an overheard from Guelph, Ontario. I was enjoying some All You Can Eat

sushi many years ago, and there was a table at the restaurant with a father and his university-aged son who clearly were very new to sushi. They were kind of overwhelmed by everything, tasting the wasabi and exclaiming, it's horseradish. But the best came when they were presented

with chopsticks and clearly needed to get four. but were worried that they were going to offend somehow. And so called over the server and holding the chopsticks up said, it's a beautiful culture. Anyway, off I go. Wow. But I'm not worthy of it.

It's funny to hear an example of like people still thinking in this day and age that sushi is exotic and weird. Because we had so much sushi. paranoia growing up like it's raw what and like it was the joke about out of touch like rich LA assholes was like they liked sushi you know it was Molly Ringwald brought sushi for lunch for the breakfast club right yeah yeah and that was weird yeah she was like exactly what you're saying it was like yuppies and isn't this like you say weird Hollywood thing people eating now my kids get it for hot lunch on Thursdays But it's cold.

To be fair, it is cold. Do they get a little sushi at school lunch? Yeah, one day, one of the rotations is sushi. They get sushi, they get Subway, they get Boston Pizza, and they get a variety of macaroni's and cheeses. Okay. That's pretty good. Which one's your kid's favorite? I think they would go Subway, or there's like an Alfredo, chicken Alfredo pasta dish they like.

That sounds good. Um, is there an equivalent to sushi in terms of a food that people are like, oh, that's great. That's, that's only the richest of the rich. Eat. Okay, whatever. I don't know. Yes. Everything been so, like, chained and globalized now that everything.

Yeah. I don't know. We're not even richest of the rich, but like too exotic for. Yeah. And the fact that you do use chopsticks, there's nothing else that, that, that, or is there? Is there something that where you use a new utensil that people wouldn't know how to do? Sure. Yeah.

I feel like, hmm, the spork. I think that confuses people still at KFC. You get one at KFC with your famous polls? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Sure. I think that's, they're keeping sporks alive, right? KFC?

Although I haven't been in a minute, so I can't say. Maybe they've done away with the sport. And they, the spork, I feel is like a camping, uh, utensile. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Get your metal spork at REI. Yeah. Okay, well, if anybody out there has a strange food that everybody can't wrap their hands around.

What's next? What culture is really grossing you out? What culture do you think is totally weird? What are we going to scale up a bibbibbop? Yes. Oh, yeah. There was a Chipotle had a Bibbimbop. Oh, yeah?

Concept for a minute. And it was like a, you know, a bowl you could get. I kind of liked it. Oh, my God. Try to get a boomer to pronounce Chipotle at Bibbomba. Oh, boy, you can't do it. All right. Okay, here's your final phone call.

Hey, Dave Graham and glorious guest. This is Dalton from Hayward, California. I just got home, walked through the door, and I overheard my roommate talking to his girlfriend on the phone. And he just said, no, that's not what Gregorian chance sound like. Like, anyway, off I go. First I thought he said Grinch chant, and I was like, what does a Grinch chant look like? We hate Christmas, we hate Christmas.

Kill the Who's. Kill the Who's. He kills them, right? I haven't read The Grinch in a minute. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God, if he had an army of Grinches. Yeah. Is the Grinch the last of his species? He doesn't look unlike the Who's. Somebody during Christmas, I can't remember somewhere on social media referred to the Grinch as a gorilla.

And I was like, oh yeah, he kind of is a gorilla. He does kind of look like a green gorilla. Slim one, but yeah, but if I had to like make an analogy of what he looks like, gorilla probably is the closest. Who's on your Mount Rushmore of green characters? Ooh, wonderful question. Okay, who are the big ones? Kermit.

Kermit, the Hulk, a physically big one, but also... Yoda. That's a good green guy. Grogu. Sure. Listen, I think we're all still gripped by Grogu mania. It has not... It has not settled down at all.

For me, my four on my Mount Rushmore would be... Leonardo, Michelangelo, John Attello, and Grogu. And Grogu. You know, again, we've mentioned him, but I think worth, worth considering Shrek, although maybe he's a little more important to like the generation below us. Sure. Right. So important to the... But we have to at least mention Shrek.

Yeah. Oh, he would be remit. He at the very least would be represented on the, on the ground in front of, you know, the Mount Rushmore as a guide or... Kneeling and praying to the Ninja turtles. Well, that brings us to the end of this episode. Jordan, where can people pre-order their copy of this predator? And it comes out all at once, the series? It does not.

It comes out as issues. It'll come out monthly starting in February. So you can pre-order it at your local comic bookshop. Or if you want all five issues signed by me and shipped to you, You go to bit.ly slash cool fight. Bit.L.Y. Slash cool fight. And you can do that through a great comic book store here in L.A.

called Collectors Paradise. And they ship internationally, too. So for Canadian, et cetera, listeners, that will work there. But yeah, if you have a local comic shop you go to, just tell them you want Predator Bloodshed on your poll list. I cannot wait to read it because I haven't enjoyed Predator in comic book form before. Oh, you simply must. It's the only way to enjoy The Predator if you ask me.

I've, you know, I've enjoyed Robocop in comic book form. Okay. You know, that was a movie I loved. Love Predator. Can't wait to read. Like I say, you know, see what sound effects you manage to pack in there. All kinds. Well, thank you so much for being our guest.

And also, you have, of course, the podcast, Jordan Jesse Go. And you have another podcast about being a cheap skate. That's right. Yes. Jordan Jesse Go, the chat podcast, not unlike this one that's on Maximum Fun. I do that with Jesse Thorne. Y'all have both been on it.

We have, yeah. Check out the Dave and Graham apps. And I also do a podcast on Max Fun called Free With Ads, where me and Emily Fleming and Matt Leeb watch a Free With Ads movie, and we talk about it. It's a ton of fun. And yeah, all that on your favorite pod thing. Well, thank you so much for being our guest.

Thank you. Thank you everybody out there for listening. you know what the only limit to what kind of sound effects comic book characters can make is your own imagination but think about it

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