Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 949 - Jess Lupini

Episode Date: May 26, 2026

Comedian Jess Lupini joins us to talk Steely Dan, DQ breakfast treats, and judging a beard contest. Follow us: Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky. Join our Discord. Become a MaxFun member to get all our bonus content.

Hi, he's Dave Shumka. And he's Graham Clark. And together we host, Stop Podcasting Yourself. Woo! Funny and welcome to episode number 949 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name's Graham Clark. And with me, as always, is a man who did a full-on trim. The hair, the beard is gone, everybody.

It is smooth baby cheeks from here on in, Mr. Dave Shumka. Yeah, I cut my own hair and I cut my own beard. Did you, uh, was it all buzzed? No. It was I did the hair first. And then the next day I was like, I got to get rid of this thing. Driving me crazy. Too hot?

No, just driving me crazy. Yeah, just itchy or just you're just like, my face was just unhappy. They just wanted to get out. I was wearing a frown. Yeah, but not anymore. No, now I'm wearing a smile. But I don't know if I will shave again. No.

Like I might have just been like clean slate. Let's start with a new. Yeah. And yeah, it's cool. It's easy, breezy. It's summertime. Was it the first day? Was it like your face was like so cool?

You're getting air where it hadn't been for so long? Yeah, it's very. And you get like your skin touches itself in ways when you like smile. Because I went, I did like full shave, like wet shave. Yeah. And yeah, no, it's bad. Yeah. I don't need to have a face.

Let's cover it up. Yeah. But you got a great face. Look at this face. Look at this. Put-em. Come on now. Oh, you love me from my put-em till I took us.

Our guest today, first-time guest on the podcast, a multi-hyphenate. We're talking comedian. We're talking writer. We're talking musician. We're talking podcaster. We're talking science liker. It's Jess Lupini. Hello, Jess.

Hey. Hey. I'm so excited to be here. Well, it's so excited to have you here. You, I was doing, I was boning up on some research. What is Jess all? about you are you have so many content things that you do like you know some of us only have one thing and you've got like dozens and dozens of interests and projects and yeah yeah it's

historically been kind of a problem like i tend to be pretty unfit i have ADHD so i tend to be pretty unfocused in like the the on the micro level and also on the macro level sure and that carries over to as you probably discovered a lot of weird uh things that are left over on the internet does anyone not have any ADHD this day Well said. Yeah, it does. I mean, it's certainly amongst the comedians I know, seems to be a pretty high.

And people are very like, oh, when I found out I was, what's the neurodivergent? Or it's like, yeah, neurodivergent people like us. And you're like, wait, you're looping me. And I didn't, you can diagnose me. I do think it's like a game recognized game thing, right? Like I was like, okay, of course all of my friends are ADHD. They're the only ones who can tolerate me.

Right. Right. Yeah. And also it's, yeah, I have a trail of unstarted projects. You have started ones at the very least. You have like done actual. I've got a lot of like. Unstarted business.

Yeah, a lot of unstarted business. Like the, I mean, that's the tidier way to do it. Yeah. So I have like, you know, you don't spend a lot of money on supplies. But that's the hidden part of the iceberg, right? Like, you don't see, I have a million unstarted ideas. Oh, sure. You just, like, don't see them.

And you obviously do, like, a lot of things, too, that you have starting. I disagree. I think the iceberg is all above the water. Icebergs famously, entirely above the water. I don't get that whole thing. That's why there's no Titanic submarine. Right? Yeah.

Yeah. That almost works. It works. Somebody did a very funny animation online of what the Titanic's King actually we looked like, and it was just black. Because you wouldn't see,

yeah, you wouldn't see anything. You'd just see the boat kind of maybe a couple lights flickering out. But, uh, you know,

they recreate it so that us, uh, un-octurnals. Yeah, bats loved it. They watched it, sinking sonar. Yeah,

they cheered. And like moles or whatever. Yeah, yeah. The bats and moles that hide away near the icebergs. Yeah, yeah, they live in a little holes.

They were going, they were on a boat across the iceberg. Water. Chearing. Yeah. Graham? Yeah.

Let's just give a shout out to everyone who came and watched your 24-hour show. God bless everybody for coming in. You all were champs, and we had a great time, and we raised enough money to buy another little mountain gallery. So there's going to be two from now on. Now you have to do a 48-hour show. We have to do a one-24-hour show, but, like, go back and forth. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. One of putting on a wig, taking it off a wig. Yeah. Yeah. Should we get to know us? Sure. Get to know us. Jess.

Yeah. You are a musician that I did not realize until this morning. So I was listening to your music. Oh, no. On Spotify. That's great. It's good. Thank you.

Very relaxing. Yeah. What would you call the genre? I mean, at the time I called it like, I don't know. I haven't like produced any music in a few, like, quite a few years now. Sure. But I had a band in Victoria. called Solar Sale.

Okay. And we were like, I think, I don't know, we had some silly, it was like, earnest, earnest Electropopop. Yeah. It was really, it was really sweet and cute. Back, back when everything felt numinous and the world was fresh. But you like, it, like, it was kind of, it's digital. Yeah.

And it's drinking me. Digital. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's kind of great. Yeah. Pocket calculator. Yeah.

Who's that? That's the... That's craftwork. Craftwork. I always mix up craftwork with the fake band from Big Lobowski, Autobon. Autobon. In my head. Those are, yeah.

But they're very different bands. One of them not real. Yeah, one of them not real. Yeah, very different. And they were... I think Kraftwerk had a album or song called Autobahn. Oh, maybe. I just think...

When I was in a band, we had a song called Audubon and someone said, we should change the name of this. Because... It's a craft work. Because we're not going to fight with craftwork. Yeah. It's like when I was in a band band. and I were loving an elevator and they were like, come on, Graham, you know

that's another person's song. No, no. Not the way I wrote it. Mine's about a long-term commitment in an elevator. They're basically lust in an elevator. It's not the same. Yeah, that's right.

I'll just change the one word. So you do you still play? What do you play? What are the instruments? I mean, people ask me that a lot. I usually say I play everything better than people who don't, but nothing well.

So, like, I play a little bit of guitar, a little bit of drums. Like, I, I sing what I think is poorly. Did you have, did you learn drums growing up? Or did someone just have drums and you took over for the drummer when? No, I, so my dad works. He's an electrical engineer. But he's like, he's an electrical engineer who does like music industry stuff.

So he does like digital single processing stuff for, digital, for like pro. Digital. for like pro audio like guitar pedals and stuff like that. Oh, okay. So we always had like the craziest tech gear, music tech gear at home. Like we had, he had like a wind controller, which was one of the first like midi saxophones. Oh.

At home when I was a kid. Yeah, I use a wind controller. Alka Seltzer. I thought I'll do it Bino, the original wind controller. But yeah, so I like, I grew up like with just like the, you know, like an early set of V drums were just like in our basement. So I kind of like learned to play. I've never played a real drum kit, but I...

Oh, really? So loud. So loud. Yeah. Too loud, really. Yeah, some might say. Yeah, you got to wear, you got to do those baby headset kind of things. There's, uh, the crashing, the badger. Yeah. But the V drums are great. Yeah, they just, pads? Yeah, it's just pads. So it just sounds like somebody's like slapping a desk.

Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Still not unannoying. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds okay. Yeah. Yeah. It would be like the preferred if you had a kid who was starting a band in the basement, that would be like the preferred.

100% or on Zoom. Because you can plug it right in your USB. They haven't solved a low latency problem for Zoom jamming now. I always wish that they'd figure that out. They'd still work it on it. Next pandemic, they'll have it all figured out. Really, the start of the pandemic, they should have had like, you know, Kevin Eubanks in one room and Paul Schaer.

and the other who's in the band together When all the late night shows did went to no audience They should have had the band in different Yeah holes Where did Zoom come from so fast When it was

That's what we were all saying at the time It just was nowhere And then it was the Skype Has a fumble of the century Yeah It really is like Skype Skips around for like 10

15 years before Zoom was a thing I think everybody thought Skype Was gonna be our Yeah behavior and all this. I went to, I was working on a project in like December of 2019 and the client did all their meetings on Zoom and we had never heard of it before. And then two months later, it was the only thing.

Yeah. It's crazy. But like, how? Do you know what I mean? How did it all of a sudden? What was there just one group of people who were like, this is the standard now and then everybody just followed suit? I think they were ready with like the business stuff.

It was like the stuff that all the suits could be like, oh yeah, they check all these boxes for like security protocols. Skype was always annoying. Skype was always annoying. I like that little thing when I rang, though. Yeah, it had fun sounds. Yeah. I used Skype exclusively to call in to reply all back of the day to try and when they would do caller call-in episodes. Oh, really?

Yeah, I would sit all day and just call in over and over and over again because you could, and then I would never get in. Did you ever get, no, you never got on? Never got on the show. That's a bummer. You can call in to our show anytime if you want. I might do that. Yeah. It wouldn't be so annoying.

Yeah. Yeah. It's not Skype though. You won't get that satisfying. Oh, yeah. That one's nice. Yeah. And then when you pick up,

yeah. I think that's, yeah, maybe that was the problem was the phone ringing. Yeah. That's right, because Zoom doesn't. Zoom,

you just, you meet, you're in a waiting room. Yeah. And also Skype, I feel at one point became that you had to pay for calls. There are things.

You could pay, you could pay to do Skype to regular phones. Oh, really? Like there was like to give you a phone number that people could call. Right. That was a pay thing. And also it was bought by Microsoft and they're just very hard to log into.

Yeah. Yeah. I just sort of left it out to Fallow. I feel like. It feels like that's like when I see Skype, I'm just like, oh, Skype, you know, it's just so geocities or whatever. So geocities. Oh, my God. That's so stumble upon.

Now when you got here, I offered you a coffee. And you said you had your own coffee, and it was in a heated mug. But I assumed that you meant that. Oh, what? A mug that was insulated and not a mug that is electric. So did I just assume that it was an insulated mug. So I see little control lights on the side of it. Yeah, it's electric.

It's got the bottom 10% of it is battery computer. And it has three lights to show how it charged up it is. It has a charging coaster. I put it on at home. and you can choose warm, hot, or piping. Oh, really? Yeah. But this is a cold coffee you've got in there right now?

No, it's hot coffee. Oh, it's a hot coffee. It's set to warm. Can you put a stupid... You put a cold coffee in there and have a go piping? Yeah, but it'll pretty much drain the whole battery heating the thing. Like, the battery doesn't last long if you're heating something out from scratch. Can you take it to a coffee shop and be like, please plug in my coffee thing?

No, because you need a proprietary charger. I've actually done it real bad, which is that there's a little spring, like the little prongs in the bottom of the charger are like two little wires on springs and one of them broke and so I've just shoved tinfoil in there and I'm using that as a conductor right now. This is the science. Yeah, you're dead. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

He's super proud. He always says to me, why can't you do things the easy way? Yeah. Because you can't. I can't. It just wouldn't be it. I remember when I was a kid not having the right size battery to like, you know, or like if my radio needed four batteries, I only had three and I would just,

use a screw or whatever to like, the metal just has to go the whole way. It doesn't, and it wouldn't last long, but it would work. Yeah. Did you lick nine volts? Yeah, I was just going to say, when was the first time you licked it? Oh, I would today. That's true. I would today.

Did I? Like, that's literally how I checked to make sure it's working. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, man, it's a thrill. There's nothing like it, you know? Do you remember the first time you did it? Oh, yeah.

I'm sure it was my dad being like, you know, you could look at nine-vold, and then he saw me do it, And he was like, oh, no, I've made a huge mistake. So don't do that. We don't have to hide away in the 9 volts. Guitar pedals, that's, you, I went through so many 9 volts. Oh, sure. Yeah, what would I have that would take a 9 volt these days? You don't have much call for the, like, I think that's the reason I haven't licked one recently.

Yeah, even our race car, some sort of miniature race car. Our smoke detectors are now double A's. It used to be 9 volts, though. I'm not sure that my smoke detector does anything. Might just be painted on the ceiling. Mine needs to deter buyers. Mine goes off at 3 in the morning or beeped the 3 in the morning. Oh, yeah.

Change my batteries? Yeah, please. Now. It says change. Oh, yeah. It does it in English and French. Oh, that's inclusive. Change my battery?

Yeah. Oh, really? Mine doesn't do anything. Or like battery low. Replace the feel. I already feel every time I laugh, I have to like pull back from the mat. I've got way too percussive of a laugh for the gain on my voice. Don't worry about it.

We got a guy to mix the show. Sweet. That guy's Dave. Shout out to the mixer. Shout out to Dave. Dave puts on different glasses when he's fixing. It sounds like a different guy. He puts on a visor.

Yeah, I wear a visor. I wear a backwards kangall. That is a cool. Do they even make a front-words cangle? I'm wondering if backwards cangle, is that due for a comeback now that John Travolta is wearing that crazy look at the... What's a gangl? Oh, a kangol.

Please, yes. Okay, well, uh, boy. Do you know Samuel L. Jackson? Yeah, I'm familiar. He used to wear them exclusive. I'm thinking of Joey Pan. Okay. 18 important moments in backwards

Kangol history. This is from GQ. So this, this hat? Oh! It's a, yeah. It's a hat with a kangaroo guy on it. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, I understand. And like, people do wear them forward, but this was like the during the 2010 Olympics that was the hat for the Canadian team's outfits. Well it was roots though It was like it was roots

Yeah it wasn't a It was just stealing their thunder Kangles thunder But yeah It was a luck Look at that Katrina LeMay Donne Waba hubba

Ata What a time to be alive It really was Were you living in Vancouver In that? No I live in Victoria Born and raised Well born technically

born in Vancouver and then and then shipped across the water. Yeah, I was shipped across the water. I lived in Bowen Island for a little bit when I was little and then Vancouver Island until I was like in my mid-20s. Okay. What, uh, we went to university there? Yeah. Yeah. What was Bowen Island like? Or do you're not remember? I was pretty young so I don't remember it super well. It's just, I just, I just remember like, I think most of my memories are like fake false memories just sort of implanted by things my parents have told me about the island. Yeah. Yeah. But like, I, I remember them being like, and I, I never got the context on why this was a thing that they would tell me all the time, they'd be like, there was only one cop.

So if the cop was on one side of the island doing a speed trap, you could do anything. Yeah, it's just a sign that flips law, lawless. They say that about. Wabit season. Yeah. They say that about Texada Island. There's a, there's no cops, except once a day they come over on a boat. And then they say, don't do you guys.

Are they Italian? Yeah, they're in Italian. Hey, don't do you guys mess around? It's a cop o'clock. Well, one day. I've got married on Gabriel La. Oh, cool.

There was a murderer on the loose. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. No relation? Yeah, no, related. I married her. No, someone murdered their mom.

Yeah. Oh, no. Two days before. Like, it was, I think, a Friday night. No, a Thursday night. He was like hiding on the island. Yeah. They couldn't find him.

They found him. Oh. What was I so scared for? They found him the next morning. Oh, okay. But, like, I... Bro, we know he showed up here when he had a little punch, you know? Well, the murder, I think, was on a Thursday night.

Our wedding was on the Saturday. So they found him Friday morning. Okay. He did a Thursday night murder. That's one of the best nights to murder. Yeah, it was during ER. Yeah, must be, must kill. Yeah, must kill Thursday.

Yeah, but it was there... Does Gabriel have their own cops? I don't know. They got a fire hall. Yeah, yeah, fire hall. They must have. Yeah, they do. They've got a, I drive by it.

It's on South Road. South Road, police station. RCMT. Or do you think they have their own cops? City cops. Yeah. For people not from Canada. Some places have the RCMP.

Some places have their own cops. I don't really know the difference. Yeah. They all seem to get along. Yeah, because there's a guy in Surrey that his whole thing, he became mayor. He was going to make Surrey's own police force. Yeah. And so he's been fought every step of the way.

People don't want it. Yeah. But then they do want it because they elect him. I know. But you know how it is with. And he's back. He's back. He's running again, isn't he?

Yeah, he's like 84. Oh my God. People don't understand how expensive things are. Like, it's very, everyone complaining is free and everyone goes, this thing should be better. Yeah. But then, like, if they were actually the one in charge of having to divvy up the, the, like, coffers for the city, they'd be like, oh, maybe RCP is a pretty good deal, actually. Yeah. And then that way we can open it up.

pool. Yeah. Completely. Oh, God. If I was mayor, I'd be the mayor that opened so many pools. Yeah. I'd be mayor ribbon cutting. Do you have like a messed up personal project thing that you would do if you were mayor where you'd be like, I'm going to ram this one thing?

Oh, that's a great. You just had a city planner on the show. That's right. In a. Rentonstein. Right. He's a city planner? No.

He studied it. He studied it. He studied it. But in Vancouver, this is a. a very boring one, but they've got all this train track that's unused. Yeah. And I would be like, let's start it up. We're going to use those train tracks to go east west and down to Granville Island.

And because remember they had like a little trolley? Yeah, it was a tram, right? Yeah, the tram that goes from science world to, I don't know. Yeah. It used to going to go from science world down to Granville Island, like around 12th. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it's, I think the Arbutus Greenway was train truck. It was train tracks.

Yeah. And they, uh, I'd be tear up that greenway. Their original plan was to make it light rail. Yeah. All the way up to like, I don't know, 49th. I'd be Johnny Train is what I'd be. How were you, Dave?

Um, there was a plan for the Vancouver white caps to build this beautiful gas town, uh, stadium. But there, uh, it was over train tracks. And so they had to get the city, the province and the federal government on board and it was too hard. But I would, I would force it through. would be your number one. How about you, Jess? This is going to make me unpopular, but I think I'd completely ban cars from a lot of areas of town. Yeah, that is unpopular, but a good idea. Yeah. I just, I read, I was radicalized by reading the high cost of free parking, like about 10 years ago. What's that?

It's a book, I forget the author's name. It's, it's a great book about just like, actually, like, we all take parking, like, how cheap parking is for granted. And everyone complains about how expensive parking is in a city. Yeah. But when you actually look at the real estate that parking takes up, It is so ridiculously discounted as land compared to every other use of land in the entire country. It's actually wild that it's not way, way, way, way, way more expensive. And then when you start thinking about it from that perspective, as soon as you start thinking of everything from like an opportunity cost. We're not thinking about things. Yeah.

Sorry. I brought too much. Okay. We want ribbon. Okay. Everyone has to have a bodega cat. There you go. See.

Now I'm there. We need to be. a city, we need to install more bodegas in this city. Yeah. More bodegas more corner stores. I don't know if that's true. There seems to be a big rise of like 24 hour vape shops that

are like brightly lit have like weird foreign candy. Yeah. It's but like the other day I wanted I was on mainstream. I wanted a pack of gum and I was like the closest place is like 10 blocks away from where I am. So that's wild.

Yeah, because there's only You know, there's only the ones that exist. There's a clump of them at a couple of streets. And then the rest of Main Street. No. Yeah. Convenience store until you go up to wherever, blocks and blocks away. It's a dead zone.

Okay, I have a real one. I have a real one. Okay. No dentist's office. No dentist offices in ground floor, like ground floor walking on main streets. Like units that have like street presence. Yeah.

No dentist office. Agreed. any reason. No dentist's office. And also one that opened up next to a dentist office in this neighborhood. Insurance company doesn't need... Here's what I'm... Okay. If we're getting rid of I only want fun restaurants.

Yes. Bring back the rainforest cafe. Yeah. Fun restaurants are on the main floor. No dentist's office? No, um, like, presentation suite. No presentation suite. Yeah. Uh, no, uh, you know, fancy luxury car

showrooms. Everything. has to be a fun restaurant. I think old spaghetti factor and more fun. Yeah. Not like necessarily fun sit down, but like they have fun food that I can take out. Yeah, no, mine also has fun sit down. I feel like we can marry the two concepts. Do you know the Mexican restaurant across the street?

Yeah. Is they now have breakfast. They also are selling sushi. Yeah. Oh. Always like not a great sign when some store starts doing another thing that's not that store. Well, there's a Mexican, Japanese place up the street from it as well.

Yeah, oh, that's true, but that's there. That's their whole jam. I think the biggest recession indicator I saw recently was when heirloom, that vegan restaurant was like, we're selling meat now. It's like, oh, you can't make a go of selling veggies in Vancouver. You're so host. Yeah, and it was. People were like so furious about it.

And it went out of just a little bit of veal. Yeah, just come on. Yeah. Taste it. they bring it to every table on a little tiny little plate with our compliment yeah just the place you knew tasted on it um but yeah the uh when i was a kid there was a video store in my neighborhood that was really struggling because there was a better video store not far away from it yeah and so they started selling ice cream and then they started selling comic books and

like they kept adding and adding and i went out of business pizza slices it had pizza slices like the place was so crowded with all the shit that was not videos or video games. What was it called? Wasn't Sazes. Sazes did really well. I miss renting video games. Yeah.

You know what? I miss being 11. Yeah. That's it. It was fun though. There was something really exciting about and maybe this is part of the being 11 thing but like the knowing that you don't have the video game

forever now like makes it so exciting to play it. Yeah. You're like, I'm going to sit down and absolutely raw dog Mario card or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Finished Mario. Yeah. I completed Mario card. Well, you couldn't get like a game that was like a long story or whatever because you would never get through it.

I would never get through it even if I owned that game. Yeah. Yeah. It's not that kind of a gamer. Yeah. You are maybe because you're on a D&D podcast. Yet another venture. Yeah, yeah.

Yet another thing. I mean, yeah, I guess that's, I don't tend to finish video games because I get distracted by something. else. Yeah. D&D. I mean, I guess you never finish a D&D

campaign either. You just, you stop doing it. The Dungeon Master dies. Yeah. Yeah. And a past guest

Kelly Ogmanson was on with you. Yeah, yeah. Kelly's been on a bunch. On a mission? No. Story? An arc?

Sure. We're doing like, it's like a long form campaign. So we're on episode like, I mean, this is going to sound silly compared to what episode

you guys are on this show. But I think we're on episode 150 or something like that. That's not in a sneak. What it called? Blackwater. D&D. Blackwater.

D&D. Yeah. Named after. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't name it. It's not related to the military organization. Made off D&D.

Oh my God. Yeah. No. It's a, but yeah, it's like a long-form campaign. So we've been playing like the same characters now for like three years. Who's your character? My character, her name's Mary. She's like like a fire Janassi.

So she's like kind of, it's basically like a child of a child of a genie kind of thing. Oh, Janassi. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like an Italian genie. I'm wishing here. I wish for gelada. Like Grant's Italian, which is... Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, I never thought about genie's reproductive capacity. I guess if you rub them enough. You're supposed to rub the lamp. I rub just to get out so I can rub him. And for my third wish, I want to get up in them gut. I'll get up, baby. Yeah, what that Geno C do? Wait, what's the child of a genie called?

Genassi. Oh, that's the part of me. To be clear, I said genocene, which is a different word. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Which I won't explain or define. Does this come up a lot on the podcast?

Not even once. But we have like kind of a more serious, like, we're very silly. but the show overall has like a like a relatively grounded tone to it. Right. So we have to like restrain bits back. So it's nice always to do a show where the bits can go a little more extreme. Do listeners like send in, hey, you should do this. Send in like tips, tricks, questions.

I mean, people love to tell you when you've gotten the rules of a spell wrong. Yeah. It's all pretty like fiddly and fussy. Like D&D is like really specific about like, oh, you need this, these materials or this thing or that thing or whatever. Right. But like doing, like playing by, the truth is playing by the rules as they're written often makes for very bad entertainment. So, yeah, we take a lot of liberties with like, okay, yeah, sure, we're going to do that without the like, you know, half of a bat's anus that you need to cast the spell. It's so hard to find bad anus.

We need more bodegas in this. Especially out by the half. By the half. They're always selling one full anus. Well, like they're selling like a six-pack of anus is I need a half. Yeah. And then a 12-pack of. Anus Bunds.

It's so much cheaper at Costco. What's the deal with that? What's the deal with anus buns? What movie had that premise of like Hot Dogs are coming a six-pack, but the buns come in an eight-pack? It was the premise of a whole movie. No, but it was a thing.

Sounds like a Seinfeld joke. Coming up in like Parenthood or something. Something of that era might just be Parenthood. Let's talk about it. I was watching. Do you ever see Parenthood? I thought that was a TV. show.

It was. Okay. Based on the movie. Based on the novel Push by Sapphire. Yes. No, I've never seen it. It was a Steve Martin vehicle.

Oh, okay. Yeah. And a young Keanu Reeves. Is he it? No. Yeah, he's in it. Joaquin Phoenix is in as well. And even younger, Joaquin Phoenix.

Is it good? It's, I think it's probably of its era. Okay. But yeah. I remember being good. He's sure. Steve Martin. I love Steve Martin.

I met Steve Martin once. What? Yeah. I went to, when I lived to, Victoria, he came with his banjo show. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was what were they called? The steep, steep canyon

Rangers, I think. Yeah, that rings a bell. Yeah, and they were so good. It was a incredible concert, and he would yap a little bit in between songs. He's so freaking funny. Yeah. And then afterwards, it was really funny because I, like, hung out outside. I was like, maybe he'll come out, maybe he'll come out. I was probably like 22 or 23 at the time, I guess.

And he came out after to go to the bus. And I was like, can you sign this? And I handed him, I had the, on vinyl, let's get small. Nice. And he was like, I have not seen one of these in a long time. Really? Made my day.

So, yeah. On the bus, it's very funny to think of Steve Martin eating at the ferry, like, burger stand. Yeah, what happens if you're on, did you have to leave the bus, even though you're, I'm sure they send off. They make everybody leave their cars on the ferry. Oh yeah,

because it would have to be on the lower vehicle deck. Yeah. Oh, this is real inside baseball for... Yeah. I'm sure they would let him stay on.

He's famous. Well, also like... Yeah, we're all off the bus. Just tell the security guard we all got off the bus. Yeah. We'll leave Stephen there to do.

You work on the banjo. Transport Canada could never. Yeah. Yeah. I tried to get that arrow out of his head. Um, wait, that thing's real? That's crazy

Yeah, if they pull it out, he'll die So you'll leave it in there I'm sorry, he's still He's bleaching his hair white He's actually got dark black hair I do like If you were to go on a big tour Flying or bus

What would you like in the North America's Say? What would you rather? I feel like bus Yeah, like bus feels at good times Going to the airport More than once is bad Yeah, that's true

Bus, I feel like all the, like, road movies, there's, like, bonding moments and tears and laughter on the bus. Yeah. Planes are just, like, scary or sad or upsetting. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And the airports. I don't like going to go to the airport so much. And then also, like, people are going to recognize you and they're going to ask you for autographs or try to settle an old score or something like that.

You stole my idea for Freebird. How's you? Hey, man, I already died in a plane car. Like, have you ever been on an airplane with somebody who is famous? You can recognize them, but you're like, yeah, I guess you would be traveling wherever to Los Angeles on a regular old plane. Yeah, I mean, I don't know what a private jet costs. No, but it's got to be a lot. Yeah, and it's also like, if you're a Canadian musician, I'm thinking of the Canadian musicians I saw going down to L.A., there's,

you're probably not even making money. You can probably barely afford this regular flight. That's true. I remember what's her name, Carla Gugino? Oh, Baba Haba. She was on a flight. I think that was the most famous. T.J. Miller was on a flight that I saw.

I mean, there's a big step down there. Did the flight take off or was there a bomb? Yeah, he called it. Steve Ranazizi was on a flight with me. It was the... Oh, nice. Okay. Yeah, we flew into the Twin Towers.

Oh, shit. Yeah. Wouldn't it happen if Mark Wahlberg was on that plane? Well, he was, so it didn't happen. He would have stopped it. Was the most famous person you saw on a plane? Or I guess you saw Steve Martin getting into a bus. That's equivalent.

Yeah, so Steve Martin getting into a bus. I think that's the most famous person I seen in a plane. I rode on a train car with a bunch of the Eagles. Really? When I was in Hawaii on a family trip one time. Yeah. I didn't know who they were. But my mom, like, freaked out.

She was like, that's the Eagles. And then she like, they're probably running a fall-up hotel California. Hotel Hawaii. This one you can leave. Train car, Hawaii. On a dark Hawaiian train track. They're writing it on the train. You got to write it on the train.

It's not real. Also, I don't think of Hawaii as like train town. It was, I think it was like a little shuttle, like it was like a little shuttle train at the like resort place we were staying at. Right. It wasn't a real. I mean, I was a child,

so everything was big to me. Mm-hmm. Because I was very small. Look at the size of Don Henley. Yeah. No, I'm sure. But that,

I did get really into Don Henley's solo material after that. What's a Don Henley song? End of the Innocence was the one actually. Yes. It just got that, those, that,

just that great sort of big piano sound that was in those ballads at the time. Yeah. Bum, bump, bump, bump, big major chords? Yes.

Yes. Did we think he co-wrote that with Bruce Hornsby? Let's look it up. I feel like it could be that, right? Because did Hornsby also play that song? No, Hornsby had, that's just the way it is. That's just the way it is. Yes.

Same energy. It was written by Don Henley and Bruce Hornsby. Yes, yes. Well done. You know what, the Don Henley solo song I hate? is not Sunset Grill all she wants to do is dance

Oh yeah Yeah Who the fuck are you talking about She doesn't want to dance And Annie Murphy's girl Wants to party all the time Those are the two ladies I know Musicians are all lying about everything

Yeah Yeah It's funny when you listen to a song That's about a made up Person or something They've written this whole You know Earl has to die Kind of

We invented all the characters in this movie this song and they don't, like, is that no weird? As a musician, it's a story about Jack and let's say, who would be sucking on a chili dog with Jack? I guess, like, what do you try to say? I feel like it's the same with comedy, right? It's like if the song feels like it's trying to say something honest, like the musician

has something honest to say about what they're writing, then, like, it's fine, and they can make up characters to do that as long as it's, like, ostensibly obvious that they're puppeting them. Right. Just like if you're doing a stand-up joke and you like make up a bunch of stuff, it's like as long as you're... Not me, man. Mine's all real. I don't make up any of it.

What is the deal with airplane food? What, um, the, uh, when the Eagles reunited, they had a song called Get Over It. And it is the most, uh... It sounds really cool. It's the most like boomers hating Gen X song. That's so funny. And it's got a line that goes, I'd like to take your inner child and kick its little ass.

Get over it. That's like the worst lyric. Hey, shut up. I wrote that. It proves orange to me. Yeah. I don't know the Eagles. I know the song, Hotel California.

And even then I know the first part of that song. I don't know the rest of. But you're Steely Dan person according to your... Oh, yeah. I love Sealy Dan. Yeah. Yeah. But, like, I never knew who they were until they, like, beat out somebody at the Grammys that I was like,

Steely Dan, what the hell? Yeah, it was probably the two against nature win. Back when they, that was their, like, first album back after that. That was, like, 2002 or something. Yeah, that was the one. Yeah. They beat out somebody that was like, I thought it was a shoe in. Yeah, I forget who they beat that year.

The Grammys are a fickle bitch. Yeah. I think that was a crazy Grammy's year. I think it was one where, like, everyone else was pissed. They were like, of course, Steely Dan. Was it in the hard rock? Or did it, like, beat? Metallica or some crazy thing like that.

Metallica lost the first ever medal Grammy to Jethro Tull. Jethro Tull, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then let's just look up them Grammys. Jethro Tull. Can you imagine?

Yeah. We've been out meddled by Jethro Tull. People were also mad about two against Nish R winning because they were like, it's not a good Steely Dan album, which they're wrong about. It is a good thing.

I think it's a great Silly Dan album. One album of the year, beat out the Marshall Mathers LP, Kid A, Midnight Bulgers. That's the one I've seen people get it. And you're the one. by Paul Simon, which was probably, they love to give the Grammys to an old bitch.

I love Paul Simon. So Paul Simon is maybe my favorite artist, but you're the one is not his best album. Yeah. But is it one of those things where, like, they should have given him a Grammy for, like, a really good album and didn't. He got a lot of Grammys for other stuff.

I feel like you're the one shouldn't have got the Grammy. Kid A is the one that I would say, like, maybe should have beat out Trigger's Nature. But Duke's Nature also gave us, like, I wondered this a little while ago because the term gaslighting has gotten super like everyone knows the word gaslighting. Yeah, right?

And there's a song on that album called Gaslighting Abbey. And I was like, that was like kind of before I'd heard the term around. And but it's explicitly about it. Like it uses the word gaslighting in that context. Yeah. And like that song came out and then the word started to really pop into the zeitgeist after.

I don't know really how related they are. Because it's based, the word originated from like a movie in the like 40s. Yeah. Yeah. It was called Gaslight. Anyway, you're crazy if you think that's true. Yeah. Is that how it works?

Gas lighting's not real. You made it up. Yeah, that's how it works. You say, you know, gaslight me. Make me feel crazy. We're even having this conversation. Boy, I'm more of a love bombing kind of guy. I love you guys.

I love you guys. That's how it works Yeah Dave what's going on with you man Oh it's been a wild couple of weeks We didn't record last week We had pre-taped But we meant to record last week

But I got sick A little tickle Yeah And that tickle Was COVID no No Just a cold Just a cold

Not just I didn't mean to diminish It was You're gaslighting Mike cold Yeah Maybe you didn't have a cold Maybe you're just crazy. Yeah. I guess that's how it works.

I wouldn't know gaslighting if it bit me in the ass, baby. Or did it bite you in the ass? I don't think it did. If you got sick from something biting you in the ass, that's rabies. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. One of those bat butt holes.

Bats are the only things that carry rabies in BC. Oh, yeah, because we don't have raccoons? Not here. Oh, really? What about a fox? I'm surely there must be a fox with rabies somewhere. Apparently not. Don't the bats bite the other mammals, thereby transmitting the rabies to the foxes?

I don't know. I don't know if they're going around trying to give everyone rabies. And you can get it just from touching a bat. You don't need to get a bit bat. Man, I almost touch a bat when I was at Sally's parents' place. At night we were like looking at the stars and one flew right by my head. And it was, you know what? I wasn't scared.

I was exhilarate. You should have, if that had happened, you would have, um, I mean, you should have immediately called someone. Bad Patrol. I guess so. Put up the bad signal. There's got to be a man for this. Yeah. Uh, anyway, anyone out there in BC touching bats, call 811 at least, maybe 9-1-1.

Um, what's going on with me was, um, well, Dairy Queen's got there. Taste of breakfast menu Yes are you a Dairy Queen person I used to get Dairy Queen a lot after So one of my other weird past lives was I used to be a salsa dancer What? Yeah I couldn't find that information anymore I used to be a guacamole dance

I transitioned away from it Um salsa dancer Yeah But we would get we would always get Dairy Queen after After our dance practices Sure Yeah yeah to destroy any effect What was your order

I would just get like a plain cone. Just like a plain white cone. Yeah. Just a classic. Classic. I want to know. Plain white cone.

Just a second. Hey there, dairy queener. Are you back in? Well, anyway, play the plain white cones. We'll be making a blizzard. Yeah.

Yeah. You back here in Milwaukee. Exactly. Terry plays. Yeah. I love a plain white cone. I love a chocolate dip cone. Oh, yeah.

There's three. Three flavor breakfast for dinner for dessert flavors happening at Derry Queen right now. We've already talked about one of them, which is the donut blizzard. Right. Which is excellent. It's funny donut being presented as a breakfast. I was just thinking that. Yeah.

Is that breakfast food? I think in the 50s it was a thing that you would have like coffee and a donut would be like breakfast. Well, it's not a cop. Well, the truth is it's not any kind of food. It's not food. It's not like a dessert. I don't want to. It's a treat.

It is a treat. Yeah. But, like, I think there's a lot of people that eat a donut every day. I feel like that's, that's a regular. It's that they have them in the office break room. Sure. You're like, I don't know, if you work at Winford Louder. Yeah, that's the number one reason to work in an office is that and office Christmas party and a person's birthday where they maybe have an ice cream cake.

Yeah. Yeah, those are the big three. That's the only reason to work at an office. Yeah, I can't think of another. Go gossip That was the other one Oh yeah Water cooler

You can talk about What happened You guys see the last episode of Lost I don't think they're getting Off that island man I watched my first and last episode Of a lost last that I started with the finale

The most annoying person in the office They didn't seem lost at all They seemed like it really found themselves Yeah The title's ironic Because they do find themselves The Oh my God

Did you guys watch the Grammy last night. I can't believe Paul's I haven't lost out of the Steelers Dad. Don't get me started on Jethro Talibita and go Metallica and possibly make it. Whoever else would have been around

at the time. Jared Fogel? Jared Fogel's metal album. Can you believe Von Meter's one album of the year? Was that the first one? What? Who won the first album of the year,

Grammy? Was it Von Meeter? We're going back. It's a soundtrack for train approaching the station. Now, when you look up Grammy Award for Almond of the Year, you get a picture of Bad Bunny. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He won it.

Oh, no. The first was Henry Mancini. Oh, okay. Then Frank Sinatra, then Bob Newhart, then Judy Garland, then Von Meader. Did Bob Newhart win it more than what? No. Oh, yeah, that was the crazy thing. It was a comedy album that won an album of the year.

That's just like regular album of the year, and you want it with a comedy album. Yeah. So crazy. No one knew what an album was yet. That's true. But then, did they, was record of the year a later thing then? Record just means like a song that's recorded.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Judy Garland had one. They hadn't packaged songs into albums until, like, Judy Garland won for Judy Ed Carnegie Hall, which is, I'm guessing, a live album. Yeah. There was like, until.

The button down mind of Bob Newhart is a pretty kick-ass album, I say. Yeah. Until, like, Sergeant Pepper, it was all just like, a man. and his music by Frank Sinatra. Was there ever another comedy album? Well, Von Meader, the first family is, it's all his impression of JFK.

And he vanished immediately after the assassination. His whole act, everything that he built was around JFK. Oh. And then as soon as he was killed, that was the end. You never heard of Von Meeter ever again. Until now. Yeah. And here he is.

No pivot, hey? Nothing in the bag? Yeah. Yeah, God I have like a butt. That's why when you, you know, you try over S&L, you have to have a few characters. There's other Kennedys. Yeah, exactly. He didn't even have to move that far away.

They were dropping like flies back then. I still think my favorite, one of my favorite gags of all time from any TV shows in Clone High when JFK is like bombing down the road in the car and he goes, nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys. And his car just flips over. Remember clone high I loved clone high Love clone high There was a there was a weird It was clone high

And then there was one called Like undergrads or something like that Yeah was that was that was really fun And then there was a third in that life What was that one called? Oh It was on teletune Yeah

Yeah yeah And it was like There was like a guy A handsome guy Who called everyone guy Yeah yeah And he just like Managed to sleep with everybody

People just threw themselves at him And he was like Hey, guy. Yeah. And then there was a freaky guy called Nitz, was it? Yeah. What was that one? It's, we're not, I want to say it's called undergrads, but it's.

Was it called undergrad? I think Clown High was the only one of these I watched. This was kind of in a, like in a block. Okay. You would watch. Yep, undergrads. It was, uh, well. Was it Melvana?

It's just a hard one to Google because of the word. Yeah. The guy, this feels like, yeah. Yeah, there was, yeah, undergrads. And then there was another one that was... Oh, a big dumb guy. Right. Yeah, big dumb guy.

And a weirdo. Yeah, Nits. Was he Nits? He must have been Nets. But there was a third one I can't remember. Anyways, that was the Telethune trio on a Friday night. Sure. Yeah.

I had pretty limited access to TV when I was a kid. Is that way you have so many hobbies? Honestly, yeah. Yeah. When I, my, my parents weren't like strict, really, but they, were very specific about what we could watch or not watch. So what you're allowed to watch? So, like, I wasn't allowed to watch Arthur.

Okay. Because, um... And how did that make you feel? Fist. Yeah, maybe. Angry Fist. No, because my parents didn't like how the characters talked to each other. They thought they, like, encouraged me to be, like, mean and how I spoke.

Oh. But I was allowed to watch anything where people were British. Oh, really? Pretty much regardless of content. Even if they were mean to each other? Yeah. So I'd watch, like, Monty Python, which had, like, full frontal nudity and swearing. Yeah.

I wasn't allowed to watch Arthur. That's, but that's fine. You're coming out ahead in this... It's worked out great for now. Yeah. But, yeah, that is why I have somebody. I'm the wrong. Nitz was the main character.

And... Gimpy. Mm. Yeah. Seems to be the other nerd. Oh, it was a different time. Yeah. You couldn't make undergrad today.

I could do that right now. You really couldn't make that. The other parts of the breakfast menu. Okay. There's a... Bacon and eggs. No, but it'll be good. There is a

Fruity Pebble Shake. Oh, okay. I haven't had that because I've never had a shake from Dairy Queen. I don't feel like you go there for a shake. Yeah. Go there for a blizzard. But they have a cinnamon toast crunch dip cone.

Sounds good. Yeah, it sounds good. Oh, no, no. Did you have it? Guys, I had it, and it would dip it. They dip it in. I love the chocolate dip cone. Yeah.

This, they dip in, so they dip it in like a beige dip. Yeah. And then they take a powder and they sprinkle cinnamon toast crunch powder on it. Okay. And. Mostly cinnamon, I assume. Sugar. Yeah, sugar.

It represents the toast and the crunch. It's a little like, it's a real toast in it. It's like a little cylinder like Mrs. Dash sized. Oh, okay. But it has cinnamon toast crunch. I think you can buy it at the store and make, you. Your own cinnamon toast. What do I need dairy queen for?

Oh, for the ice cream. Yeah, that's true. And they got me there. You can't get that anywhere. But they, it's kind of, they did it kind of inconsistently. And the parts that were cinemone, ooh, they were intense. Yeah. And the other parts, not so intense.

And so just an uneven flavor over? Uneven. It's a, you know, a C plus. Hmm. Was it like a user error thing? Like, do you think a more attentive server would have? Oh, this kind of just. Very attentive.

Riving your shoulders. No. I think it was user error because I think he just sprinkled it on the top. If he'd put it on the side and did a little roll, I think he could have got more coverage. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, it's in shittification. They're telling them not to do with that.

That's insuffication. Yeah, the cinnamon toast crunch ice cream used to be so much better. Yeah, I would have sin that it had a crunchy, crunchy bits. bits of the cereal on it. It's a dip cone, man. You can't put crunch in. Can't you dip it in something crunchy? You could have a crunch.

Yeah, and then roll it. It's not like that. It's not what they do. I don't know. I haven't been to Jerry Queen in a while. Well, you take up some salsa dancing. You'll get those pangs. Yeah.

When you did salsa dancing, how many years did you do this for? I did it really, really intensely for about two years. And I tapered off after that because I burned out. Does you go to competitions? Yeah, I did a couple of competitions. I didn't like those as much. I would do like performances with like, a team that would tour.

Yeah. But that was mainly an excuse to it. Did the team have a name? Salsa Caliente. Nice. Yeah. Great. They're from Victoria.

Yeah. They're like, like really like unexpectedly good salsa scene in Victoria. At least there was. That's so funny when there's a, just a scene somewhere and a town where it's just like, yeah, we're known for our, you know. Yeah. Lute scene. It's just like, Calgary's puppet scene. Yeah.

Calgary's got a big puppet scene. There you go. Toronto's got a big clown scene. Boy, if you want to smile, clown. Hey? Number one. If you want to smile. If you want to smell. Try clowns.

And Salta Caliente, they have like matching shirts. Yeah, we had matching shirts. Yeah, we have, I designed their logo. I think they're still using it. I think they still have the same website that I built for them back in like 2005. Why would mess with perfection? Dave's going to find it right now. SalsaCaliente.com.

I want to say? I think it was dot com. Dot com. Okay. You know what? I'll just go on. Oh, there's another Saliswaxia. Caliente in Leamington, Ontario.

Oh, our copycats, obviously. There it is. There it is. Yeah. That's the logo I designed. That's a good logo. I was, I guess I was like, yeah, I would have been like 18. You know what?

You got to love the Spanish upside down exclamation mark at the start. So you know you're starting the sentence with a scream. Yeah. Alza calante. We used to have more of those in English. We used to have a ton of like extra punctuation marks. We did? Yeah.

There was like a rhetorical question. one there was like a rhetorical question one I think was I think it was an I think it was an upside down question mark at the end of a sentence indicated that it you weren't actually hey don't answer me this and there was a soft period which was like a like a period but like chill yeah yeah yeah had a little icicle yeah well because I am a big period user and apparently that's like considered in if you text someone like sure period they're like they consider that, you know, aggressive or passive aggressive. Huh. That's why I say lull at the end of every sentence I text that people know that I don't hate them. Or I just follow up the whole thing. A little emoji.

I'm a big punctuation guy and I've heard that there's certain punctuations that people, that AI has taken over. M-Dash. M-Dash and there's another one. What's M-Dash? M-Dash is when you do like a big fat dash. Oh, big old. It's not punctuation.

It's a light. lifestyle. Shit. It kind of does the, like, I would use it when I was writing at CBC. I would use it a lot. I'd be like, I can't give you any examples. It's supposed to separate. It's supposed to separate, and it's basically for an aside, right?

You'd be like, you'd be like, I'm going to the store, M-Dash, a place where you procure groceries and M-Dash in order to find soup. Right. Okay. Which is a really bad sentence. Yeah. But I'm going to stretch it well. beautiful. I thought it was really good.

I'm going to watch Graham's 24-hour comedy show, M-Dash, as if he needs any more attention. Yeah, it just feels conversational. It feels good to use. Yeah, but there was another one. And, oh, the Oxford comma, it was apparently AI. Well, what is AI doing to it? There's just, like, people are, you know, asking AI to write them stuff. Yeah. And then it'll use M-Dash as in Oxford comma as more than the average person. person will. So that's like a tell that this is AI. I'm going to use AI to write my obituary.

I want to know. I want to know what they come up with. Actually, also the eulogy. I wanted to see chat GPD to say why, you know, life is, it's part of life and it's part of the cycle, you know. I could give it prompts. I have no idea how AI works except for chat GPT. Do you use it? No. Okay. But I don't like, I don't understand what the thing is where you put it and then it comes out with looks like the Lion King and a business suitor. I don't know what you,

what you, like, prompt you could say like making this. Yeah. Tell me what the Lion King would look like if he was like, you know, working in an office.

Yeah. Show me the business king. Yeah. But he's still a lion. The Lion of Wall Street. Yeah. Give me that. So anyway,

I saw those things and I ate them. Yeah. And I also saw another thing. I went to, so they re-released a movie that, this is a movie that came out three or four years ago. It's the movie that, like, brought everyone back to the theaters after COVID, but I never saw it at the time. And now it's back.

I saw. What do you think? After COVID. Top gun or inception? Top gun. Not inception. Tenet. Tenet.

Yes. I saw Top Gun, uh, Maverick for the first time. Yeah. It's great. It's great. It is great. I saw it in, they did,

the theater was only showing it in the kind, like the surround. Yeah. Oh, the screen X. Yeah. Shit. And that was cool. It's,

I remember, didn't he like was before trailers. He would come on and be like, hey, welcome back to the movie. Thanks for coming back to the movies. Yeah. God,

I love, he's my most problematic person I love. Yeah. There was a, trailer for his new movie Digger. Hmm. But the trailer was about five minutes and it was clips from every movie he's ever been in. Huh.

It, like, it was like, you know, you, you love this guy. Yeah. Here he is in every movie ever. You've seen him in? No, literally like every catchphrase he ever had, every iconic scene, movies you forgot about, but like that hidden just like smiling. Yeah, smile of that million bucks. The end, you see him with like a beer belly and digger.

See Digger this year. That's, I do feel like he's one of the last movie stars that like just his presence is the only thing that the audience needs to go see the movie. Yeah. Like even like big stars now, it's like, okay, but what movie is Timothy Shalame in? Whereas people, people would be like, Tom Cruise. Yeah. Yeah, I'll see. I'll do it.

Tom and see. I think for the longest time I didn't like Tom Cruise because all I could see was Tom Cruise in every role that he was in. But then I was like, what more do I want than just Tom Cruise to be in a movie, free-souling it up a mound? Yeah. You know, throwing a motorbike off of a cliff. Lots of cliff work he does. Yeah.

Yeah. He's probably done more cliffwork than John Ratsonberger himself. Nice. And John Ratton. Love a John Rastonberger joke. Remember when he welcomed people back to the movies. Hey. Hey, thanks everybody.

Good big to the movies. It's pretty good. Thanks. What was your favorite part? Okay, I got a big thing of popcorn. Nice. The promotional buckets they had were the Billy Eilish movie promotional bucket, which was just shaped like a bucket.

Yeah. Or the... It's one of the best shapes for buckets. I think it was a bucket, but it was a Mortal Kombat 2. like arcade machine. Oh yeah. Cool. I think you bring it to the friends.

They fill this with popcorn. I don't get. I get when it happened once and I get when they copied the idea of the like novelty bucket thing. Yeah. I don't understand who's buying. I think people are buying them because they're fun. Yeah. Well, they are fun.

And everything in the movies is so cheap. It's true. They make it seem like a deal. The novelty one always, it's like an extra two bucks and I get to take home this, like turkey head. Yeah. And then, I guess if I was a kid, I would want it. I would want Castle Grey Skull bucket. I would only eat, that's all I would eat cereal out of it.

Oh, my God. Castle Grey Skull was the ultimate. Yeah. Play set? Yeah, and they're back, baby. What's Castle Grace Skull? It's from He-Man. I think that's before my time.

It's well, it's coming out in theaters so you can catch up on all things. Holy crap. Okay. Jared Leto is going to be a Skeletor. Why? Why not? Why? He was available. Of course, he is the opposite.

of Tom Cruise. He is like, he's got name recognition. He's very famous, but you know it's going to be, you're not going to have a good time. Yeah. I was so upset.

He was in the Neutron movie. I was like, oh, Newtron movie. He plays Jimmy Neutron? Yeah. Please, Jimmy Oldtron is my father. That Neutron movie,

it's, the Camby Bridge is all over it. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Nice. Yeah, do you feel, do you feel more stoked when you see, Vancouver in a movie or are you more like

that now it's ruined it for me So speaking of like going to the movie theaters every trailer or every commercial that they show before the trailers is a commercial shot in Vancouver Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like you get a lot of car

ads and I feel like do they think you can afford a movie, ergo. You can afford a car? Because I feel like Yes. Yeah. But have you ever thought about that like parking a car The space it takes to park a car, it's fucking ridiculous. I do think that sometimes. Yeah, you guys really should read the high cost of free park.

It'll change your life. It'll radicalize you. Finally. Yeah. You're not radical enough. Oh, really? Check out these surf moves. Surf moves.

You got to do less. Yeah, so I go, I sit down, eat so much popcorn, and drink so much cherry coke. And there's a little bit of Eminem on top of them at popcorn. Yep. Yeah. Delicious. And then I watched the movie. I have a stomach cake the whole time.

But I managed to have a dairy queen cone on the way home. So it all worked out in the end. Yeah. I recently saw Hocom. I went and saw Hocom. Oh, I hardly know him. It wasn't very scary. Who's in it?

Adam Scott. and then a spooky lady, Irish lady, and it's, the guy that made it has like an obsession with rabbits. So there's rabbits in all his movies.

And the one movie that he made that was so good. It was called caveat. And it was about a guy who gets a gig, house sitting and taking care of a kid. But he has to be on a chain that allows him only certain areas of the house. And he needs a job really bad because he's like a criminal and can't get a job.

It's fucked up. It's so fucked up. Hocom was very conventional by that. But Sally and I were sharing a popcorn. She tapped out early. And so I had to finish the popcorn. I felt so sick after. But I did it, guys.

I got right down to the kernels. Isn't that the worst when you're out with your wife and she doesn't want more popcorn and you're like, I cut the hole in the bottom, honey? What are we doing here? The butter burns, okay? I'm finishing this myself. What are we?

Come on. I'm buying a car. That's it. I saw a car ad. I'm buying a car now. I'm buying a Hyundai. The official partner of the NHL. It's good.

He goes back. He meets Val Kilmer. Yeah. Oh, yeah. In Val Kilmer's last ever role. Apparently. Yeah. Dyes mid-movie.

Yeah. And... Spoiler alert. He flies around. He flies near some... some cliffs and Yeah, they gotta do a maneuver. Yeah.

It's a couple of maneuvers. Just a couple of maneuvers. He has to teach all these new pilots. That's right. And he's the only one who can actually do it. But he's got the goods still. Yeah. Yeah, he can still do it.

It's a working practicum. You know, you're flying and also taking care of business up there. Jennifer Connelly's there. Yeah. Looking divine. There's more beach volleyball. There's beach football.

Oh, okay. But I get, yeah. Yeah. I don't, I get down around my balls. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I said it. You said it?

I mean it. I don't think I ever saw a top gun. Maybe I only saw it after I saw the second top gun. And I was like, oh, let's go back and see this. I saw it on a small TV in my early 20s and didn't get why. I knew it had been a phenomenon. Yeah. Pretty different tonally.

right? The two of them? Yeah. I mean, they both needed speed, if I recall. There was no, like, uh, real rivalry amongst the pilots in the second movie. Who was the, who is the young, who is the Tom Cruise equivalent of the young. Uh, who played that.

Oh, what's his name? Well, Miles Teller? Yeah, but he's young goose. He's Goose's son. Rooster. Gooster. Rooster gooster. Rooster gooster.

And then Glenn Powell. Oh, yeah, yeah. That guy gets in everything. And then what's her name who was Joan Baez in the Timothy Shalamehob Dylan movie? Melissa Barbaro, is that her name? Could be. What, did no one watch the movie with me this week? Anyway, the movies are back.

They're back in a big way. Yeah. Thanks for coming back to movies. Boy, do we have some real humdinger lined up for you. What's going on with you? This past weekend on a Saturday afternoon, I decided that I would be one of a panel of judges at a beard and mustache competition. You decided this?

I decided. I was like, you know what? Now's the time. And there was just one that happened to be happening. Yeah, it just happened. Yeah, exactly. All landed on the same day. I was ready for it.

You know, you open yourself up to the universe. Things will come your way, you know? Did they contact you? Yes. I heard about it. I show up. I feel like I should be one of the judges, please. Are you here to compete?

No, no, no, no, I'm here to judge. Oh, we already have a panel. Well, you know what? I could do it up there. I could do it in the crowd. I could do it in a crowd. I could do it at a gala. Do you?

Who would tell me? Tell me everything. Okay. So it's a thing that happens in different cities all over the place. And they happen yearly. and not sheerly. I think that would be a fun fun guy, you know,

shear in your bridge. Yeah, I guess so. We should keep following that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, so it was at a place called Heroes Welcome here in Maker. It used to be a Legion. And it was people, yeah, from all over the map

that had different types of years. Were they from all over the map? Yeah, there was a guy from the guy that was my fellow, one of my fellow judges, he was from Essex. Oh. And there was somebody there from, like, Tulsa and there was somebody there from Seattle. Was it the Tulsa King? Possibly?

I mean, I didn't ask. I was busy judging. Is it, so you say they do it all over. Yeah. Are these people traveling to events? Whoa. As judges or competitors? Both.

So, like, the judges on either side of me travel with. And the one guy, the guy from Essex, he makes his. own beard products. Do they all have big beards? He had a big beard. There was a lady on the panel. She didn't have much of a bearded lady. But there, no, but there was a category for people who couldn't grow facial hair. So like you could put, you can make your own beard out of, go with whatever theme. There was one lady that had big sideburns like Wolverine. Uh-huh. There was somebody that's dressed like the log driver's waltz. Oh, that's fun. Yeah. And then, who's the other one? There was another one. Oh, is it?

Any kids in the No kids, which would have been fun. It would have been fun with a kid with a big beard. Were they like shapes? Were they like a crazy shapes beard or just like big guest beard? A lot of... Was there William Shapes beard? No, that's what they should have called it.

I'm leaning into it. But yeah, there's like a bunch of different categories. And they range from Best Moustache, no beard. Okay. Best mustache styled with regular beard. beard under a certain amount of inches. Do they have Bess A. Blinken beard? Beard no mustache.

They had just goatee. It's just the crazy thing for it like the guy from Slayer has where it's just a tube of hair coming out of your kid. Okay. And then they had like a creative make-your-own beard thing. One of them was like designed a beard that looked like Van Gogh's painting. And somebody designed a plastic beard that had like an equate your own beard. a minute.

Whoa. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, this is like people are putting their back into these,

these competition. And are these people who've traveled all over? Are these locals? There's some people who are locals, but yeah, lots of people there. I assumed it was all going to be locals.

That's like, that it was the Vancouver chapter, but these things happen. Where did you hear about this? I guess they contacted. Yeah, my beard phone. I'm on the beard hotline.

Ring ring, ring. Yeah, I just got to answer the beer phone. It's so hairy. Oh my God. And, but like,

yeah, so in every category, the people would come up, and then they, it was great. It was like a dog show. They walked past us and we got to look at their beard and ask them. Did you make little notes?

Yep. Yeah. And I was like, I was like, okay, that's the Santa guy, okay? Did you ever, like,

consult with the other ones? And like, oh, guys, these guys know so much more about beards that I didn't know anything. These guys were giving, like, I gave.

this guy 9.5, they're all giving them two. Yeah, that was the thing, is I definitely voted some people on that I think were controversial choices. You were sort of the Paula Abdul of the American Idol. It just was steely down. But there were questions, and one of them

was the woman next to me who travels all over with this and helps organize this one, I think, the phrase was, is this your terminal length? which is the link by which it stops growing. Yeah. And, you know, people will be like, yep, yep.

Or they're like, well, I don't know. I haven't hit there yet. And they ask how long have you been growing this beard? What kind of product you use in the beard? Was there any product that was very popular that you'd never heard of? Fire engine wax or something like that. Firehouse wax or some such project. A lot of people use that.

And are they waxy looking? Some of them are waxy looking. Somebody had like Salvador Dally up like that. There's a gentleman, big fan of the podcast named Andrew.

He had like the curly. Oh yeah, I know him. But he has like, what do you call it? Is it Raleigh fingers? Yeah, sure.

And so the great thing about it is it was at this hall and there was a baseball game that it just let out the Vancouver Canadian baseball. Oh, right, right, right. So there's people filtering in.

into this place. And then there were people there for the Montreal game to watch on the TV, all converging. And the beard competition was just wrapping up. So it was just like this insane. Like people are like, what's going? So much culture in the city. And how long was the whole event? I was there for two and a half hours, I think.

Two and a half hours. Got my picture taken. Whoa. Did you get any free like fire engine oil or anything? No, I didn't get any, I didn't get any free product. No swag. No swag. But I'm a natural beardsman.

I don't put any stuff in the beard. Do you, was there like a grand champion? Yes. And I can't remember who won best in show. Yeah. He was a guy with a long beard and a big, big mustache. He was best in show.

Was he a local? I think he was a local. Yeah. And then there was some guy who was like, I just stopped shaving a couple weeks ago and had like a full bushy beard. And, you know, there's people that there's like, they got to shave many times a day. And is there anything like disqualify?

Were they like, if anybody shows up with this thing, kick them out? Yeah, there was some sort of marking thing, and we had to re-vote on something. I can't remember what the, I can remember what the, was, is there a governing body? You must be. Like, oh, you have to uphold their. And it was, yeah, like, they all took an oath. Yeah. The beard and most asses of, Bama.

Yeah. Or whatever, like. Cruff. There was a guy who had a fantastic, he looked like, not like the Wizard of Oz, but somebody that would be in Oz kind of like swirly,

or maybe like the munchkin, like a swirly, somebody who would be a bird mustache. Date, Ariana Grande. Did you? I was like, Pete Davidson?

Did he have a crazy mustache? No, but there was that little guy who she dated from Wicked. Oh, yeah. Did you get Do they feed you? I got some drink tickets And so I made use

I made quick use of those And that's when I needed I wanted to buy a pack of gum Because I had no gum And that's where I hit the You couldn't find a store There was no convenience store in the area Okay

I eventually went to a dollar store That had three dollar gum So Where would you get gum around there Yeah snacks lands 10 blocks of one. So far from snacks. What is it called Trendy Bucks?

Trendy Bucks, but they have gum? They're mostly plants. Yeah, they had gum and they had weird, like, chocolate bars, but with weird variants that you kind of don't, like I got a caramel, caramel, salted caramel caramel milk, that kind of thing, like some weird, like, not a knockoff,

but. wonky floored the bodega around the corner from the old little mountain. Yeah, do you ever, you were around for, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Did you, were you there for the very last weeks when the whole floored, completely caved in? No. Yeah. They had, it was by the fridge, so everything of the fridge was like all,

oh my God, had fallen to the one side. If you opened it, those things were coming out, man. That's wild. Yeah, it's, that would be very funny if a condo got built, but that was still,

They left that along. We did run that place into the ground. I do love that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, there's no doubt it needed to be condemned. There were, in college, there was, in Victoria, I remember going to a party. And there was students living off campus. And they were like, our landlord told us, he's daring this place down.

So we do it every we want. Yeah, we don't need to worry about a damage deposit. There was a guy when I was in school, when I was in university in Calgary, who lived in a house that the city owned because if they were going to expand the road, they owned all these houses on the side of the road that they could just tear down. So he, like, I think he paid just kind of like, you know, $10 or something like that because they could kick him out at any point and he'd have no recourse. So, yeah, he and a hundred people lived in their house.

Because, yeah, they didn't have to take care of it at all. It is fun when you're younger and somebody's got a house. You can, like, throw darts at the wall. Yeah. Maybe just throw an axe into the wall. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Do you, were there any competitors that you were like, I could beat this guy? Yeah. There was a couple. I was like, go on. Like, where are you here, man? Yeah. Do they get prizes? Just for sure.

Do they get drink tickets as well? They got, I don't know, but they handed up medals. I got a special judge's medals. Uh, so I've got that to go on the old trophy case. Do you, um, were there like booths selling things? No, but the guy next to me from Essex, I, I was like, did you, were you in Nashville? Because like years ago, I went to one in Nashville.

Because just for men brought me down there to, uh, I painted using my beard. Oh. Yeah. Was your beard longer then? It was way longer. That was your terminal length? Yeah. Yeah, it was.

It was my terminal length. Did you ever see terminal velocity with Charlie Sheena and Natasha Atkinsky? Is that flying? Believe they drive a car out of a plane, I think. Oh, cool. You've seen the terminal with Tom Terminal. Yeah, with Tom Terminal. Tommy Turninol, they call him.

Yeah, there was, so I asked him if he was there, and he's like, yeah. And I was like, I was in the booth next to you in Nashville. And he's, like, been doing, that's he travels around, sells his wares. What are his wares? Wax? He's got wax. Is he firemen wax? No, but he was pissed anytime somebody said other wax that wasn't his wax.

He's like, Firehouse, he did the same joke about 10 times. Like, what a wax do you use? Firehouse scribbles out the name. What did I use when I had a beard up until a week ago? I used Captain Fossettes. Oh, yeah. Okay, I've seen that stuff around. You're going to love the way you smell.

Is that their slogan? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah, there was Yeah, and then there were some people that, like, they wore the outfit that went with the facial hair. Suspenders. But yeah, it was a ton of fun.

And then, yeah, it was just that moment when everybody was converging all at the same time. We were wrapping up. There was tables of teenagers that were like, what is this that know nothing of beards? And they're just like, this is the most hilarious. And it is pretty hilarious. Are teenagers allowed in the bar? Seemingly? I mean, they were with their parents, so maybe they're allowed to, I don't know.

Maybe it's not a bar bar. There's one teenage that you're allowed to drink at. That is true. So technically. Yeah. Were there any teenagers with bad mustaches? Oh, that would have been the best if somebody snuck in with like a little teenage mustache. Vote for Pedro.

I mean, Pedro from the movie could have been in a half. Oh, absolutely. Someone could have had the shirt. And that's the thing. Some people, like, people who were, like, taking it seriously were the most fun. The, like, high concept stashes. Yeah. Do you think they try to get a famous beard guy and then Richard Karn?

Yeah. And then they go down the list and then they're like, well, what about Graham Clark? Yeah. Are you on their list because you did the beard painting thing? I don't know. But they were asked, they asked me a couple years ago and I didn't do it. And then this year I was like, hey, why not? You know, I got a free Saturday afternoon.

I can go judge some, judge some beards. I think the guy who won best overall was not my choice for best overall. Best overall guy with, to me, was a local guy, a Sikh gentleman that had a fantastic mustache and a beautiful beard. And he was wearing like a very beautiful, what would you call a really popular in the 60s? Nehru. A Nehru Jack. Yeah, yeah. And then, like, beautiful necklaces.

And this guy was like, and rings. And he was like, Mr. Beard. You know who I think could have won? Two against nature by Steely Dan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That's what I think, too. It's not their best album, but we feel. But it's really still good. That's great. I think the greatest moment in the Grammys. When I've started following music and like pop culture and things and awards,

I remember like one of the first years I was paying attention, Eric Clapton won like six for his unplugged album. Oh yeah. And then I remember thinking maybe the Grammys aren't the same level as the Oscars. The thing that does happen at the Grammys that doesn't happen at the Oscars, right, is that you get armfuls of Grammys. Yeah. You don't get armful.

Maybe you get, has anybody ever won two Oscars? Oscars in the same? Oscars? Yeah, I mean, because directors are often the producers of the movie. Oh, sure. Yeah, so they get two. But yeah, they don't have like a cradle of Oscars. Yeah, I mean, you know what?

If we all put our brains to it, I think we could win a Grammy. We could win a Grammy? Yeah. Oh, yeah. We could make a Grammy winning album? Yeah. We'll just go on one of the unpopular categories, you know, like Mombo Italiano or something like that, you know?

That's Mombo, I think. I love Mombo. that you slag Momba. Oh, yeah. Of course. Well, of course. Mombo is salsa's ugly step-cousin. Oh, my gosh.

You can get canceled by my salsa people. I think I mention this a lot, that Tia Carrere from Wayne's World has two or three Grammys for Hawaiian music. That's awesome. When I was, when I went to... More than Bob Newhart. When I went to the Junos, the table I was sitting at was, uh, was, all nominated for best jazz vocal

and they were just happy to be there. Were they all like, shootipop? Yeah. So you guys could just clap. No, it's not what we do. And I think one of the seats was also Best Children's album, so it was a real waiters.

We were way in the back. The comedian's not very respected at the music awards. Not at all. It's funny because everyone talks about judo's in comedy. Yeah. Every once in a while, I forget that it's, that's, like, the smallest thing, and it's actually about music.

Yeah. And then I, like, we'll see something more public-facing, like on the CBC, and I'll be like, oh, right, no one cares about the comedy. Yeah. Yeah. Especially when you walk on that red carpet, they're like, oh, hey, yeah, yeah, what are you for comedy? Back to the person that's fine.

I need to get a picture of lights. Yeah, lights is there. The beaches was walking. Cone from a Sum 41. he was walking the red carpet. That's who was behind me and they got some good pictures of Coal. Oh, yeah.

You know Cone? You know Cone's work, Sum 41? No. He played bass. Too busy to do it. I know CIM 41 on, I guess, like a high level. Yeah, yeah, sure. I'm not like a, I'm not like Steely Day level fan.

That's right enough, yeah. It's hard to be. Well, yeah, Sum 41 is, you know, two main guys and a bunch of session musicians. briefly, I believe his up 41 head, Jeff Skunk Baxter. Squeaks boots shorterly and cone. The cone was him.

Steve Gat on drums, though, right? For sure. Okay, good. Do you guys want to move on to some business? Steve-O-Gad. Yeah. That sound means that it's time for a little bit of business. business and the business we're taking care of, the whole thing called Jumbotron.

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Even though your drawing skills are scary. Hmm. Yikes. Yeah, these are, that's not for us to know. Yeah. Yeah.

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or overseen or on occasion. Boring dreams. We always like to start with the guests. Jess, do you have an overheard. Yeah, I do. So I was on a walk last night. Okay. And I walk like I walk on the seawall a lot in Vancouver.

Sure. which is a great place to hear couples having fights. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because it seems like it's just like a natural thing that everyone who lives kind of near the seawall when they're having a fight and they have to get out of their apartment, they're like, let's go for a walk and talk this out.

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. So I was going for a long walk with Abdulaziz. We sometimes, every month, we'll just go for like a four hour walk until we can't walk anymore. Ask guest to the show.

Yeah. Super fun. And as we were like rounding one of the corners, we walked by this couple that were like clearly up. upset with each other. And the, the guy said something I didn't hear. And then as we started to pass them, and the woman stopped and said, is that a joke?

And he goes, uh, she goes, are you trying to be funny? And he mumbles something else. And she, then she goes, do you think, I'm serious right now? Do you think you're capable of being funny? Oh, shit. And then we kept walking. Yikes. I've been thinking about that ever since.

That's a pretty savage burn. Do you think you're capable of being funny? But also, like, we're in a fight right now. Yeah. Why you make a jokes? So, like, maybe I wasn't trying to make a joke. Do you think you're capable of me from? Well, I know now is not the time, but do I?

I got some new material. He's like, I really had to try something. I kind of thought that would lighten the mood. Aye, yeah, yeah. I was sort of, I wasn't, I wouldn't call it a joke. is more of an impression of you. Yeah. Here's you.

Here's you if you weren't so mean. You hear about couples like going on a big vacation in hopes of saving their marriage. Sure. But I think the smaller scale one is let's just go for a walk. Yeah. Well, I have to think like, you know people that live in laneway houses? Yeah. They are quite small.

If you have a fight, what goes on? Like you're only feet away from whoever you're in a fight with. I guess you'd have to go. I'm going outside. There's plenty of small apartments as well. Yeah. Yeah. And your fights are then broadcast to the people above and below and beside you.

Yeah, well, you know what? They have it coming. I have to listen to all their weird sounds. You know? This is my chance. Dave, do you ever overheard? For some reason, it just made me think of those old, like, New York apartments that would have clothes lines across the

Oh yeah yeah yeah Yeah Like Brooklyn Yeah Yeah You shout at your You shake a A rolling pin at your

husband I also remember Seeing a photo of something I guess it was in the 50s or 60s It was like a cage That hung off of the window That you put your baby in What?

That was just like That was outdoor time Because you were on the whatever I got cool down the baby Maybe sometimes the baby gets too hot Too hot And you can't just put them out on the line. And you got them down.

You've accidentally set the baby to piping hot. Baby doesn't know any different. That's true. Maybe thinks it's a real room. Yeah. He thinks it's included in the square footage. He's sitting on a thing of tinfoil. Here's my overheard.

It's from the area where you get your cherry Coke and at the movies. And you go, you fill up your own drink and you get some napkins. Sure. By the way, here's something I've never done. So you buy popcorn. They're charging you for butter. Yeah. Everyone says that butter is not real butter.

Yeah. But then there's also that free pump butter? Yeah, yeah. I've never done that. I would never do that. I don't know what it. It's oil. It's oil.

It's just oil with flavoring. And is it heated? Is it just coming up? No, I wouldn't do it. It's ambient. Because it's not pump. It's like a button, like. It's oil.

an arcade game button. It's a glooper. It does like one gloop. Yeah, it's a glooper. Yeah, I, I love that movie, glooper. It's like, it's got flooper.

Yeah, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is young Bruce Willis. Yeah, young gloop. Yeah, young gloop and old gloop. Yeah, but no, I've never done it. I don't think I ever will. Well, I was next to that area where I'm getting a straw and

napkins. And there's two people who are going to the same movie I am, but they're just chatting, and I just overheard this little snippet. One of them says, it's a classic murder mystery, but the sheep are helping him solve it.

Oh, nice. It's on the trailer for that movie. It looks delightful. It does look delightful. It looks great. Is Hugh Jackman the guy who gets killed? No, I think he's the detective. He's like, the head detective.

The sheep are the detectives are the detective. Well, no, according to this, the sheep are helping him solve it. The trailer made it look like he bit it And then the sheep were avenging him Oh, does he bite it? That's what I think Solving

But you know, they're doing like a scream style thing Like starring Hugh Jackman Dies in the first five minutes And that it's up to the sheep Yeah Who are they helping solve it? Who's the him? Probably a British guy

Probably some of it Oh, so you'd be allowed to watch it I'd be totally allowed to watch it As long as nobody American was mean That was loosely the rules. Yeah. Yeah.

No mean Americans. Oh, man. What show would be the meanest of Americans? Well, Seinfeld. They were pretty mean to each other. Yeah, wasn't allowed to watch Seinfeld. Wasn't allowed to watch Simpsons. No?

No. I mean, that does all fall under the same kind of. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Have you watched them since? Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. And reviews? Love both. Absolutely. All right. All right. Yeah. Those are kind of my alpha and omega.

Comedically? those are kind of my elbow Oh my God Yeah Graham, you haven't overheard I do This is

That's the hat you're wearing It's from a general store On Salt Spring Island called Moets Nice Oh I love Moets Yeah, of course Love South Spring

Yeah they got They got everything You need a A bug zapper They got Do they have gum Oh Probably

They probably have gum They got a great Selection of pens They got like The best pens around And you could try them all They got a little pad where you can see.

They're like the moji of the island. It's like a big welks. It's like a big cool welks. It is. Yeah. Yeah. And you go there. It's high class stuff all the way.

They've got great old timey. Like you can get a wooden yo-yo, things like that. Old-timey things. It's like a hat. It's like walking through a time machine. Yeah. Daniel Day Lewis would sleep in moats to pretend he was Lincoln. Yeah.

The only thing is missing are the barrels with pickles that you could like play chess on or something like. that. Did you see a place in Dawson City burnt down? Oh, one of the like hotels? Really? Yeah. Oh, no, I hadn't. Um, I hope everybody was all right. I hope so, too. They'll rebuild. Um, uh, I guess. Oh, sorry. Um, yeah, okay. So my overheard is, uh, somebody who was, I think talking about, uh, the Charlie Sheen documentary that came out on Netflix a couple months ago. Did they touch on terminal velocity?

Was that Charisina? Yeah, Charlie Sheen and Atazia Kinski. And they drive a car out of a plane? I think they drive a car out of a plane. That's cool. That's the whole movie? Yeah. That's the big, yeah.

Can't be a long film. Well, it's one of those where he's like, you probably are wondering how I ended up here. Yeah. You go back and hear the whole story. It's like Rushaman style. Still, he's Charlie Sheen's magnum about this. Yeah.

Permanal velocity. Check it out, folks. And they were talking about him, Charlie Sheen. And there was three people, two people were talking about the documentary. And the third person said, Charlie Sheen, nobody's talking about him anymore. Not true. Not true. Those two people and you.

Yeah. We're all talking about Charlie Sheen. And us now. Yeah. God. They created a riddle for themselves. Yes. A paradox.

And you know what? They're still there. this day. Not able to get out. Now, we also have overheard sent into us by people all over the world. You want to send one in. You can send it into SBIY at maximum fun.org. Yeah, all of us neurodivergent people should just right into the show.

People are way too comfortable lumping me in. Still mad about it. That's so neurotypical of you. Who lumped you in? It seems like a very specific. thing that happened. The waiter. Wait, how?

Did he bring over some kind of activity book? It's like you look like you need to squeeze one of these needos. Like, I do, but it has nothing to do with the... I'm actually masking pretty well, so... Maybe scoot. Now, this first one is a... This is an overseen by Julie in Ottawa.

And if I say a pedal bar, do you know what I'm referring to? Pedal bar. Oh, with those like, everyone's on a weird bike and everybody's pedaling? Oh, yeah, yeah, sure. It's like a 10-person bike with people drinking. Everybody's getting wasted. Yes. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. So, uh, Julie was driving to pick up my kid and there was a slowdown when traffic got stuck behind one of those pedal bars. So they're on a main road, I guess. Uh, it was two cards ahead of me. Then waiting behind the pedal bar was a hearse. Well, they're not in a hurry. Yeah, and that's the lighter side of death, you know.

We're all going to the same place. Yeah, yeah. I've never been on one of those. They look like fun. It looks like it would be a fun activity. I mean, the real estate it takes up at the way that we have, I'm in charge, no cars, no pedal bars. Oh, no parking. No parking.

No nonsense. Yeah. No nonsense. What was the name of the book again? Uh, I, Infinite Jess. I've said it. I can't say it the third time that beetle juices it too hard.

Yeah, that's true. Have you considered writing a book called Infinite Jess? That'd be a good, good album name. Good album name. Yeah, it would be, actually would be a good album name. You haven't, you don't have an album. No. I've got a notes app of like possible names, though.

Okay. I'll add that to the thing. the pile. That's good. This next will come from Jay in the UK. Just overheard a mother at a local craft fair in York, say to her child, well, if you find a mummified cat here, I'll buy it for you. You know what?

Remember when we saw that mummified cat in the store? Do you think there'll be a mummified cat at this store? That kid's been studying Egypt. That's got to do what it is, right? They're doing Egypt at school. Yeah, and also just be cool to have a mummified anything in your house. Did you learn Egypt to? in school?

Yeah. I don't think I did. Seven. We did. I want to say, yeah. Well, I remember ISIS. I remember Osiris. I remember the Big Nile.

I remember papyrus was the paper they used. And also a font. Also the font. A really cool font. There's the font they used in Alta. It's Alcaliante. I don't think it's papyrus, but it is. something adjacent.

It was some popular font of the day. Every once in a while, I do think about reaching out and saying, hey, do you want me to make a newer version of the website, but I also don't want to do that. But now it's like, this is their trademark. Yeah. It is. And they've got the upcoming dates set there.

They've got, like, they've figured out, you've given them a website that they can update on their own. What more could they ask? I'm kind of, I'm honestly, genuinely impressed that it's still up and running. Yeah. I think that's cool. Yeah. And the little, oh, see, it looked like

like Lulu Lemon over there, but it's an S and a C. I see it. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Nice. I have improved as a designer since then, I would say.

Not me. Yeah. Graham's as good as designer as he was when you made this website. This last one comes from Mac, from New York City. We decided to take our kids to Washington, D.C. for spring break. We. We decided.

Children were not consulted. Let's go see the Smithsonian. The kids said. We want to see Archie Bunker's chair. We were going by Amtrak. As we neared our station, my 10-year-old son looked outside the window and said, oh, KFC. I turned to look, but did not see any KFC restaurants. And then I realized he was looking at a mural of Abraham.

Lincoln. Can we go to KFC? Sergeant Pepper's my favorite mascot. Oh, boy. What do you do in Washington? You've got to do. You've got to do Lincoln Memorial. You got to do the thing where it's two of you and one stands on the,

on the shore of the whatever it's called that goes up to the point. Uh-huh. And then you do the forest gum where he gets in the water. Yeah. You say Jena. Yeah. You say Jena. You have a secret, you know, share some secret documents at the link of the room.

Oh, you can do a Da Vinci Code. There's one of the, one of the, one of the Robert Langdon books is set there. Oh, and you could do a National Treasure. Yeah, you could do a National Treasure. You could do a Divinci Code. Washington, D.C. has it all, really. You go to Arlington National Samara. It's a day trip.

You can probably find a mummified cat. Go fold some flags into triangles. It's crazy because they don't start that shape at all. No. Yeah. They call it the tragedy fold. Do you know there's a place I found out in Toronto that sells weird stuff like mummified cats? Oh.

If you're looking for one that's... Okay. It's a... I can't remember what it's called. Google Toronto Mumphified Cat. It'll be the first thing that pops up, I'm sure. Let's see if it is. There is a taxidermy place down Ontario Street that I walk by all the time and I think about going into.

Where you can buy taxidivism? Yeah. It's like you have to go downstairs, which so far has been the barrier that's stopped to me. But the sign for it makes it sound like it's cool. I have no idea about this place. Apparently, there's a big news story from 2009 about a mummified cat found in the Toronto Humane Society. I guess they don't call it the Humane Society anymore. Here's some of the headlines.

Mummified Cat found and rated Toronto Humane Society building. Oh, no. Oh, God. Toronto Humane Society remains closed. Yeah. Humane Society. It seems like a house of horrors. Oh, Jesus.

Dead cat reportedly found. Closed, but like, was it closed for a long time, and then the cat was found. This is upsetting. Yeah. Well, only if you're into live cats. That's my favorite state for them to be in. But the mummified is like, it implies two different things. We're thinking of like, you know, they took the time to, you know, wrap it up.

Get it all, man. And this just seems like it's a cat that got loose in the ceiling. Yeah, yeah. Oh, RIP. In addition to overheards that are written, and we also accept your phone calls. If you want to... For Skype.

Send us a voicemail. I just realized I don't know where my laptop is. Different part of the house. If you want to call us, our phone number is 1. 844779-7631, or send us a voice memo. SPY at maximum fun.org like these people have. Hi, guys.

This is Lauren in Maine, calling in with an overheard. We were at the diner having breakfast this morning, and there was a middle-aged guy in another booth that said, I told the guy, listen, I'm not interested in drama. I'm interested in golf. Yeah, me too. Save the drama. Bring me some golf. Can you name more than three famous golfers?

Yeah. Yep. Can you? No. Name them. Tegovitz. Jack Nicholas? The guy who drinks a lot, can't remember.

name and Rory McElroy? Yeah, those are the ones. I was going to say Tiger was and Michael Jordan in Space Jam. Yep. That's all I got. You got us on a technical body in some footage.

Donald Trump, he does a lot of golfic. Yeah, I think. Bill Murray. Kenny Loggins. Anyone who goes to a pro-am I count as well. Yeah. And of course, lefty. Hi, Dave, Graham, and guest, this is

Jesselin calling in from Santa Cruz, California with an overseen. I'm a choir teacher. And in the rehearsal, the last rehearsal for our big concert, we were doing a piece that was sort of a samba, sort of a jazz samba. And there was a solo break. So one of the students goes up to the, you know, the mic and does kind of like an extended solo. And during the rehearsal for this, during the jazz and samba number one of my students who's been wearing a zipped-up jacket

the whole time unzips his jacket and then proudly starts displaying and pointing to his shirt which just says the word punk in some sort of protest against jazz and samba anyways off I go we're tired of the tyranny of

yeah never mind the bullocks here's the samba What's the difference? Samba and salsa. Samba? Salsa. Samba? That's the difference. Jazz? Children's music?

I mean, they're all united by being in the last table. Yeah. So also Samba and Mamba, that would like to. Can Samba be Caliante? Is anything to be Caliente? Serve it hot and piping. Yeah, true. True.

You can't salsa to... Samba. You can't samba to salsa, but you can salsa to mamba. Because they'd like to say salsa. Yeah. Salsa to mamba. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah.

I got it. I'll write it on my hands. You should don't do that. It's not useful information. It is for right now. Are you taking any dance lessons? Did I take any dance lessons? Yeah.

I took many girlfriends ago, I did some ballroom dancing. Oh. About like a pass to go do that. And then that's what I was like, pass. That was so bad at it. It was crazy. Did you see the drama?

Yes. Zendaya? Yeah, yeah, they're planning their wedding dance. And their teachers mean. Yeah, it was, that movie was fun.

Yeah. No, no, I didn't. Her and Robert Patterson. I do love, I'd watch him in anything. Yeah.

It's great. I know, but this new season of Euphoria. Don't get me started. Is it rough? It's weird. Here's your final phone call. I'll have to. Hey, David Graham.

It's Alex in New Jersey. I'm on the highway. Just past a Toyota Prius with a bumper sticker that said, saving on fuel to buy more guns. Thanks a lot. Off I go. Oh, really a rare pairing, probably. Prius and the gun nut.

Yeah, I like it. Yeah, it's, you know what? These days, don't judge a gun nut by its cover, you know? It could be a gun nut by its cover. Yeah, you're right, that doesn't work. No, it's fine. We've got, we'll make it work. We've all got covers, Graham.

We're all masking, that's true. Not me. I'm actually... I'm the normal kind. The neurotypical. That's fine. Neuro-normal. You've got your testbacks.

And you're neuronal. You're totally fine. Thanks, Doc. You're so neuronal. We're sending you to Abu Dhabi. No, Doc, that's normal. Man, I love going to the doctor. And then he's like, I think you're actually maybe a little on the spec.

Wasn't Nermal, the cat from Gert? From Gilbert? No, Garfield. Garfield. Yeah. Dogbert was the one from. Dogbert was the cat from Dillbert. Dogbert.

I think I was talking about it on the podcast before that Scott Adams had like a kind of a mini castle built That was in the shape of And Adam Scott had Hocom Yeah his mansion Yeah his mansion was in the shape of Doberts The pool was in the shape of Dover's head But he also had like a building that had turrets

Oh my God Yeah That's wild He's a well was Yeah Preston Peace Yeah He's an Arly

Mani Scott Adams Mansion To DC Hi, I'm Scott Adams and welcome to my mansion. Welcome, AD. What? Yeah. That's a weird.

But yeah, see the thing that has the turret? Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. Looks like Dilbert's head. This is a really good behind the bastards episode on him. And he actually has a mummified dogbert. That's where dogger had it up. He was buried with dogbert as he wanted. I love Dilbert.

when I was a kid, like before I should have even gotten the jokes. I don't think I ever. I remember my dad had the books and I remember reading and being like, I don't, I don't get it. I mean, not that I didn't get it.

Maybe when you work in an office, you'll get it. It's one of the great things. Yeah. That's the best part is you finally understand. You get donuts. Yeah. You get an ice cream cake on somebody's birthday.

You get to talk about the big game. You know, you see the big game last night. Big game. While you eat a donut. Yeah. Yeah. In Dillbert, they're called dog nuts.

It's eating a dog nut. Not Daubert? I knew it should be Daubert. I know that's the correct joke to make, but it didn't feel as funny to me. No, you nailed it. Well, that brings us to the end of this year podcast. Jess, do you have anything that's upcoming or where,

can people find you online or, you know, whatever. Or your podcast. Yeah, your podcast. I mean, you can follow me on, uh, Instagram or TikTok, uh, at J. Lupini, J-L-U-P-I-N-I. And, um, yeah, I play D&D on Blackwater D&D. So you can go find them all over the place as well. And that's basically, that's basically it.

Okay. Yeah. Um, well, thank you for being our guest. And, uh, thank you everybody out there for listening. Uh, if you have a favorite Scott Adams, uh, comic book, uh, particular strip that you love let us know and come on back next week for another episode of stop podcast for yourself.