Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 959 - Aunt Sheila

Episode Date: August 4, 2026

Abby's Aunt Sheila Campbell returns to talk meeting a duck, fridge gaskets, and a witch store. 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 And welcome to episode number 959 of Stop Podcasting Yourself My name's Graham Clark And with me as always is a man who Man he is feeling these dog days of summer Mr. Dave Shumka

Woof Is there a threshold for when the dog days begin Or are they Is it a time of year? Is it a temperature? Well, Florence and the machine told me that the dog's days were over.

They were over. They're over and they're done. Yeah. A little repetitive there, flow mash. Wait, what do they? They must have a short name on the internet. No, flowmash is as good as it's going to get. Flom.

Flomah? Flomatch. No, flow mash is the best. Flow machine. Anyway, so, yeah, I'm enjoying the summer. Really like, just. Bare ankles. Yeah.

When I think of the dog days of summer, I picture like Brooklyn or the Bronx, like people on a stoop and kids playing in a fire hydrant. That to me is like, whew, these are the dog days of summer. And, you know, all the characters around. Yeah, the characters. The characters around the pizzeria and Danny Iiello's not so nice. But Spike Lee is still. delivering those pizzas.

Yeah. What's his name? The guy who gets shot. Hakeem? Yeah. He wears the rings. The big rings. Hakeem the machine?

No. He's Rodney Radio. Radio. Radio. We got it there. Rodney Radio. Our guest today. Spoiler alert, by the way, to anyone who hasn't seen.

He gets shot. But that happens pretty early, doesn't it? Our guest today, a returning guest to the podcast, has been on once many, many moons ago, was, I think, probably our very first listener when we were starting out this podcast. Contest winner. Two years ago, contest winner.

May appear on Stop Podcasts of yourself. This was the 26 winner. She's wonderful. We love her. it's Abby's Aunt Sheila. It's Sheila Campbell. Hello. Hi.

Thank you so much. Guilty is charged. Guilty is charged. Thank you so much for coming and being on the show again. I'm delighted to be here. You're a get. It's been hard. Your agent's a prick.

Absolutely. Yeah. Like we were like, what do we, what, how do we get Sheila into the studio today? Yeah. And, uh, got to run around. Doesn't get out of bed for less than $10,000 kind of thing. Yeah. Sometimes magic happens.

Yeah. And you're here, and it's lovely. I appreciate that, Graham. I feel very welcome. You, well, let's get to know us. Get to know us. You make your home in Sweden. This is a fact.

And you have... What's new in Sweden? Yeah, what is new in Sweden? What's new in Sweden? Sweden's had a beautiful summer this year, so that's pretty new. But like, what's new? Yeah, like, guys, big questions. Who's the most famous musician slash...

actor slash comedian slash TV host. Who's the most famous person in Sweden right now? I think that Zara Larson. Zara Larson would probably be internationally the most known. Now who is this? Pop songstress. Okay. Yeah. She has a lot of

songs doing it all night all summer. She has songs with doing it all night all summer. Too hot. A lot of a lot of TikTok dances. She brings kids up from the audience to do to dance with her and they're crushing it. Okay. The kids are crushing it. What? So, like, you work in a school.

Yes, international school. Now, here in Canada, we hear a lot of, like, kid lingo, kid slang. Sure. Yeah. Things are, you know, chopped. Chopped. Yeah. We are on 6, 7. Are there any new Swedish slang?

I know that, like, calling somebody mann. But in Swedish, it's mannan. If you say to somebody, Shana Manan. How's it going, man. Oh, I'm saying that for now. Is that new? Well, it's not super new, but it is sort, it is something that irks the adults. Oh, okay.

Right? To be called, like, buddy. Oh, by the children. Yeah. And gender is not a concern. It's just a shenamana. Shenamana. So this, if a teenager says this to you, that this is what the, like, this is outrageous that they're saying this to you.

No, I think that some people just think that what happened to manners and what happened I'm not your, I'm not your bro. Shannon Manners. You're not your bro. Yeah. I mean, if a little kid called me bro, I'd probably think it was pretty funny. Yeah. Yeah.

If a kid said, you know, I don't know, bro, I'd be like, okay. Yeah. I like that all right. You got me. I would take it over a man. Man. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. People are always like, sir. People always tell me, hey. They call me Guido a lot. Yeah, why do you always say they call Guido? Well, it's because I have this greasy hair. Yeah, and you've got, you wear too many chains, Dave.

To be frank, you know, one's enough. A lady in the grocery store called me, babe, and I love it. That's good. Can I call Babe? Like a worker? No, another customer. She was walking, I was walking down the aisle, and she was on the phone and said, yeah, I know, I'm just going to, I think I'm just going to grab some peanut

butter cups and head home. And I said, that's an excellent decision. And she said, thanks, babe. And then went and continued her phone call. I love her. I liked that a lot. I miss the banter of life in Canada. I like anytime a lady of really any age calls me Hun.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's like a real, that's a real daymaker. Yeah, it is. She might even give you a little wink. Yeah. Thanks, hon. Yeah. Bring back Hun.

Yeah. Yeah. You mentioned peanut butter cups. Yes. What, you know, we've visited. The American country is so fun seeing all the candy. Oh, yeah. I love it.

What's new here that you love, I mean, other than the BTS Oreos? It's new here. I love that. Shockingly, I love that. Because I really don't give a damn about an Oreo. Or about BTS. Well, BTS, it's fine. But I've never been a fan of the Oreo.

You don't like Oreos. You can't have them. But they're gluteny? They've got a gluten-free. I like the good. And I eat those all the live-long day. I really like the golden ones. Yeah, the golden ones were like pretty exemplary.

They've gone nuts. Like they have banana ones. They've gone bananas. They've gone nuts. They've gone absolutely bananas. We've got upstairs. We have the BTS. We've got, I'm sorry to hear that.

Yeah. I'm suffering from BTS. No one believes I have it. But I'm like, have you tried losing weight. That's what they told me. Ma'am. And then they're like, I just basically feel tired all the time. And they're like, that's not a symptom.

But it is. Contact your doctor. About BTSORIOS. I have, we've got BTS. We've got cinnamon bun. Mm-hmm. And we've got... Bubs out.

Boba or like bubble tea. Oh, there's bubble tea. Yeah, we have a bubble tea one. This feels like the same strategy because like Coke's number one. Dr. Pepper is number two. Uh, Dr. Pepper's now number one. No. Over Coke?

Yeah. No. Uh-huh. Really? Look it up. On the billboard charts? Yeah, yeah. The sales.

Dr. Pepper. Hair, Dr. Pfeffer? The song, Dr. Pepper by Post Malone is number one. Okay. No, it's apparently the top selling pop. Let's look it up. The top of the pops. Mm-hmm.

But one of the things that propelled them up the charts is that they had all these remix flavors. Oh, right. Customers would vote on and be like, oh, this mix with that or whatever. So they moved past Pepsi in the ranks. Pepsi's always been met. Pepsi's always been mid. Oh, don't say that in Eastern Canada, though. Oh, I understand.

That's like the default. Yeah. Yeah. I'm seeing so many lists of that say Coke's number one. And I'm trying to find the one that agrees with me. Although this one from yougov.com, the most popular drinks, Number one, dole. Christ.

Number two, Lipton. Number three, Minutemade. Number four, Sprite. What country is this? I'm sorry, mug root beer. You'll never be as popular as Mots. Mots on a hot day. The kids love it.

I was wrong. Dr. Pepper's number 10 between Welch's and Tropicana. Oh, no. It's watching the World Cup. low these past many weeks. You realize that number one beverage is Fanta. It's Walsh's.

But I mean, as discussed previously, I'm sure, the Fanta orange here is a very different drink than the Fanta orange in Europe. Tell us what. Yeah. As discussed here. As discussed here. I don't think that the coloring flies in the EU.

Or possibly the other way around. Because, no, in the EU, a lot of, like, dyes are outlawed. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Because the M&M's in the EU quite beige. Yes.

Yeah. I think Skittles ran through the same. Oh, Bay Skittles is so run through. Oh, Skittles. Yesterday, Abby and I were dabbling with the Clamato and beer. Oh, yeah, sure. That's a Canadian. Well, Clamato, like a pre-canned alcoholic.

Yes. So we were really. Canned clams. Yeah. The can of clam. Are you dropping it in a beer or what, are you just mixing it all together, one-on-one? Yeah, sort of half and halving it into a glass. But as Dave mentioned, it was the one already mixed with some vodka in it.

Oh, soups of vodka and some beer. Oh, yeah. Whiskey and a cider, if you get your hands on it. And I drink a clam drink. I drink tomato drink. Dancing the night away. Chamba Wamba still big over there. Listen, I think.

Anybody's going to get on the dance floor when, you know. I mean, we love our Shrek core. Yeah, it is a pretty Shrek-tuned band. I wonder how they feel about it, because I remember they fancy themselves some anarchists, this Jamba-Womba collective. What do they feel about the Shrekification of their? Oh, I don't know if the, is the song actually in Shrek or is it just Shrek-coded? Oh, that's... It's you're really getting in the weeds, I think, when it's where does Chamba Wamba and and Shrek begin?

Yeah, well, hmm, it's a really good question. And that's going to take too many. That is my master's thesis. Over the next two hours. The Shrek is like just watching a documentary about Eddie Murphy. Realize that Shrek's been around, feels like since I was a kid. It hasn't been around that long, but Shrek has been in the background for, feels like more than one general.

Because there's a new one. Gotta be 25 years. Yeah, I would say. Like all that kind of early animation or computer animation stuff, I just blanket for all of me. It's like 2000. That all came out in the year 2000.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, before the podcast started, we were saying the last time you were on the podcast was 2018. Yeah? We were trying to figure out what was going on. I still want to talk about Shrek. Oh, let's talk about track.

Let's talk about Trek. So there's a new one, there's a new Shrek coming out. Yeah. Trek 5. I saw the ad for it. And Shrek's kids have that sort of like the broccoli haircut. Oh, okay. New Shrek is face-mogging old Shrek.

New Shrek is absolutely the mug of. Well, the animation looks different. And I... In a good way or bad way? Well, people are saying in a bad way. It's too cleaned up. They're too pretty. They're saying they, and apparently, like, they can't replicate the old way because the technology is completely different now.

And I think that's fine. I think it looked bad. I think the old ones looked bad. It's funny, like, watching, I watched a couple clips of Toy Story 1. And the toys look really good in Toy Story 1, but the humans, it's like a cutscene from a video game. So, like, unfuckable. So, well. What's his name, Rand?

Andy. Andy. Randy. Randy. He always reminded me of, I think Randy, the little kid from Pee Wee's Playhouse. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

No, the bad kid was like Randy from, that was the kid that put together all the toys pieces. Sid? Sid. Sid was Randy. This is going to make me all up. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. Sid was Ronda, baby.

I would like to apologize for my unfuckable joke. I forgot the humans in those movies are kids. I was picturing kind of like a... Like the mom. Just the mom's legs. Or the, yeah, the Muppet lady. The Muppet baby's mom. What was her name?

Nanny? Yeah. Very effable. Those legs went all the way up. Was that June Cleaver? Was that Barbara Billingsley? Was that her voice? Nanny's voice?

Yeah. Oh, maybe. Oh, I don't know. Also, you guys see the Muppets in the halftime show. Yes. This is many weeks ago now. that you're listening, but that was a great surprise. I didn't know that that was coming at all.

Kermit the frog can surprise me anywhere. That's true, right? He's the man I want to bump into in the woods. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Do you want to be in the woods with a man or Kermit? Yeah, a man or a bear. Well, is the bear, Fawzzy?

Is the man a Muppet or a man? Was that the song, the one the Oscar? The one the Oscar. Or the guy from... Brat, the Connors. The guy from the Connors. From the Ronors. So you were last year in 2018.

And we were going through, we were trying to figure out without assistance what happened in 2018. We needed assistance. Not a memory. We forgot who the president was. That's a big thing when you time travel is you ask who the president it is. And then you have to kind of ballpark. Where you are. Yeah.

Nixon, well, 70s, 60s, I guess. Who was the Canadian prime minister then, Trudeau? Because he was prime minister for ever. Early 70s? 2018. Oh, 2018. Yeah, that Trudeau. Okay, sorry.

And that's when people were very still, you know, enchanted with him. Okay. Because he wore fun socks. He wore fun socks. He said a lot of the right things. He was on the cover of Rolling Stone. He was, you know. Did he appear on the video awards, MTV Video Awards, something like that.

I feel like he would be. Oh, I don't know. And then was Katie Perry there? And she went, hmm, this gives me an idea. I'm going to be horny for this in eight years. Randy. Yeah, having sex with this guy. They save two other people.

What's that? They save two other people. Getting together. Oh, sure. You know, sparing others. They spared their exes. What if they get married, you guys? Then we have to stop making fun of them because their love is legit.

Right? Right now they're just fucking around. That's fair. If they get married on the Canada-U.S. border, where do they bring? the survivors. Oh, no. Trick question. Trquestion.

Okay, so here's a couple of hits from 2018. 2018. Megan Markle became a Duchess and announced that she's pregnant with the future royal baby. Wow. I wonder if that turns out. I wish them luck. Yeah. They're a handsome couple.

Did she change her name to Megan Windsor? Megan Windsor of Windsorton. Or did you... Something of sorts of an Saskwatch or something. Yeah, so the Sussis goes Saskwaxx. Did she keep her name? Did you keep Markle so she would keep getting acting jobs? Or podcasting jobs?

In case there's a suits reboot? Yeah. Yeah, a suits reunion is something. She wasn't a famous actress. Like she was on suits. Was she on anything else? No. She could, honestly, suits could still be on and she could still be on it.

And I'd have no idea. He was doing commercials for Ritman's? Oh, yeah. Yeah. And Ritman's. is where I would go to buy Something for your mom Honestly something to look like an extra on suits

A pant suit Yeah something like office wear It's a new series Spinoff of suits Okay So you know we've got We've got the Royal Baby We've got

Cherry Shit I lost the list Oh crap Classic 2018. Let me just go through some of the most popular drinks right now. France won the World Cup. Yeah.

Soccer. In Russia was where it was held. Orange Crush is the number 18 most popular drink. Coca-Cola is 16th after Mots. Oh, the 2018 Winter Olympics were held in South Korea. Oh, yeah. I don't have a single memory. No.

I'm sure the, no, because there was no professional hockey. hockey players in it. I don't either. Okay. Oh, why were there no professional hockey players? They did a few years without, uh, without the NHL involved. Hmm. Was it the Winter Olympics?

Yeah. Yeah. That makes so much more sense. I pardon my. Pardon my French. Um, but what is? Yeah. Tara Lipinski.

Is that someone? Was she there? There's some ice skater Johnny Spinsman or something. Johnny Galecki, I think. Yeah, totally. He was part of the Connor. Yes. Queer Eye was revived by Netflix.

Oh my gosh. For whom? For, no, it was just a general. It was an open call. Okay. This is when we were all French tucking our shirts. Ah, yes. Speaking of France, there was the yellow vest protest.

Speaking of, oh. Okay, we were French tucking our vests. French tucking our vest with tan France. So those are some of the hits. Yeah. Into the Spiderverse came out in 2018. But you could have told me that it came out two years ago, and I still would absolutely believe you.

For sure. Yeah. Well, the song from Into the Spiderverse was performed yesterday at the World Cup by Post Malone and Swaley. Gosh, post Malone. Everybody else has got their tattoos removed. Always time. Well, he thought he was. I thought, like, when he came on the scene, he was so tattooed.

Yeah. And I don't know that he's gotten any new ones. He's just got those mustaches that look like dogs smooching. happy badass. Mustaches. If they're separate, do they count us two? I don't know. That's where they meet in the middle. We don't body shame Post Malone's mustache on this show. Have you seen it? It's delightful. All right. We're looking at up. Most popular mustache is 2018. Oh, who would have been in 2018? I mean, surely. Oh, yeah. Like when you Google it, it says Post Malone mustache Capibara. Yeah, it looked like they look like your smooching. Oh, yeah. You see that Graham?

Yeah, that's cute. Isn't it? Made me like him more. I like him. Yeah, he seems like a nice guy. He hasn't, has he done anything bad? Not that we know of. He's kind of like a benevolent shy of Leboeuf.

Yeah, he does have a Leboff face. Yeah, Le Pouli or something. An Arnold body with a Leboff face. Leboff face. She like that. you're visiting this fair country. You were here for a calendar month. Correct.

What did you do? What was going on in this vacation for you? We divided sort of into three parts. Okay. We go, one part is visiting Abby and Dave. Yeah. In the city of Vancouver. Yeah.

Another part is visiting Abby's father. Yeah. My older brother. Yeah. Dave's father-in-law on one of the Gulf Islands. And then my sister, Kathy. So, Abby's Aunt Kathy. My aunt-in-law. Yeah. Yeah, your aunt-in-law. In Nanaimo.

Nanimo. So it's, rough and tumbled, non-no. So it's big city, big trucks, big island. Yeah. Yeah. Big relaxing. Three different vibes. Which one's the big trucks? Gabriel. Nimes. Nanaimo. Okay. Yes. Nanaimo. What, uh, would tell me what the biggest truck you saw? Oh, well, I think probably the biggest truck I saw was pulling. Is it a fifth wheel?

I'm looking at you because you're from Alberta. Yeah, yeah. The ones where the rooms pop out of the side. Oh. You mean like a trailer, camper trailer? Yeah. I think that would just be, yeah, it would just be called. A fifth wheel.

I think a fifth wheel is when there's two couples having sex and there's another person. Who's trying to get in? You told me that there would be opportunities. Hey, guys. If anybody wants to tag out, I'm cool. That would be awkward. I was amazed. think that I would somehow be able to...

I got locked in the bathroom. But it was just a big old truck. Just a huge old truck. I don't know. It was Yukon, maybe. Sure. It was like a SUV. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it's big truck country. It's the first place that I ever saw somebody getting tasered was in the... Nanaimo? Yeah. First of how many? To be honest, it's been pretty dry since then. It was definitely the first, possibly the last. I don't know if I've seen somebody getting...

Not live. No, no, no, sure. Yeah, I've seen plenty of footage. Yeah. Taser, bear spray. This is what I, my YouTube algorithm is showing me. I feel like it's easier to get a taser in the States than it is in Canada. Oh, I bet it's real easy to get a taser in the States.

I don't know. I'm just going to go to. I feel like Johnny Knoxville is, he's got tasers. This is he's got on Amazon and it's a bunch of like back to school cells. You've got like a like a pink taser. Well, they do. I search for a taser on Amazon and it's trying to sell me a bug assault. The gun that shoots salt at bugs.

Some of those images, I'm not sure, safe for work. Yeah. I have my glasses on. Well, yeah, what are the, what is the pink and the blue thing? These are dog spray. Oh, dog spray? Yeah. It's like Keener Reevespan.

But it's like, yeah, it's like beef flavored. Delicious. Yeah. Just spray it in your dog's mouth. Dog and coyote attack deterrent. And then is that just an electric toothbrush? That's what it looks like. This is a rechargeable livestock prod.

For her. Yeah. This is the one endorsed by Temple Grandin. So you can't just go on Amazon to get a tazzer. It gives them a hug first and then tazes them. But now on Gabriola, since I left, there have been whales. Oh, yeah. Oh, you didn't see them?

Did not. Oh. Not an orca to be seen. Orcs. And a Sasquatch sighting. Really? Yes. What was he doing?

Squatching around the woods. Yeah. Barbecuing. Peaking at people. Yeah. Learing. He had a... He had a...

A pronoun says, kiss the Sasquatch. He had one of those funny chef hats. What? Who saw? It's on the Gabriela group. Facebook page. Okay. And so there's a photograph.

Any new listeners, Gabrielola Island is a small island off of Vancouver Island. Too small, I would say, for a Sasquatch to be hiding. And how would Sasquatch even get there? The tide was very low. Maybe walked between the islands.

I think big folks can swim. There you go. Just like, you know, like pigs can swim that you didn't, you don't think of fly. Yes. Um, yeah. Sasquatch probably knows a guy with a boat.

Yeah, like you've been a real. A guy that rolls his own cigarettes. You know, yeah. We haven't taken into account that Sasquatch may be working with some humans. Yeah. To stay hidden and, you know.

Well, that's why I'm buying some squash spray. Yeah? Yeah. It's a coyote or Sasquatch spray. I think that's a pretty safe measure. I wonder about this coyote spray because coyotes are big around here. Yeah, they're huge. Everybody wants them.

I haven't seen any coyotes either. No, you don't get up early enough. That's good. There's been whale sightings like in by the sea wall here. So many. Yeah. Yeah. And then somebody took a video yesterday of a seal that had captured an octopus.

Oh, yeah. I was like, this is amazing. And there are little sharks in gravel. I know. The hell. Why? It's probably a good sign that there's all this confused wildlife. Nature is healing.

Maybe that's why Sasquatch is on Gabriel. He doesn't know. It's supposed to migrate a different way. Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that. You didn't get to see all the wildlife. Hey, that's fine. Yeah. What's the wildlife in Sweden?

What's the scene there? Oh, where I live, there's really not much to be seen. I live quite close to the coastline. So if you want to see some, maybe some spinnaker dolphins. Okay. There is tuna, tuna. Off. People go on safari.

There's like a straight of water. Apparently there's tuna in and they come up and do their little flippy dips. Oh, cool. There's some seals. Oh, yeah. Wasn't there some like big tuna this year, bigger than ever? Big tuna. And that's probably a bad sign too.

Big tuna is invading. Yeah. That's Jim's nickname. It's not a lot of hand. The, oh, God, it's such a good question. Oh. Because like, Sweden is not. I don't really know where it is.

Is it close to like Norway, Finland, that area? Yes, super close. We are about four kilometers across the water from Denmark. Okay. So do you? We're very south. You're very south. Almost like close to Germany.

Okay. So above there. Are you further north than we are here? Yes. 49th parallel here. We're 56, which I think is Edmonton. Damn. Okay.

Yeah. I think. Lucky you. That's a, that's a hot. Maridian. Climate's pretty similar to Vancouver. Oh, really? Yeah, not real winter.

So, like, pretty... Climate-like Vancouver with an Edmonton face. Yeah, get me that. That's the Edmonton face. Love a dang, electric avenue all up and down. Have you ever been to Edmonton? I have. Did you go to West Edmonton Mall?

I have been to West Edmonton Mall twice. Twice. And have stayed in the hotel. Nice. Pick-up truck room. Really? Pick-up truck room. with my parents when I was 15.

Was the bed? Was the flat bed pickup truck a bed? Yes. Did you sleep in a truck? Yes. That's amazing. Yeah. That's amazing.

To this day, I would love to go on one. Was it on purpose or did someone just drive their truck into it? In Alberta, it's a very fair question. I'm going to. Did you pick that room or did you? There was a limited choice of rooms and it was absolutely the pickup truck room would have been my first choice and was my choice. If you had unlimited choice, would you have picked? Yes.

The pickup truck room. You would have picked it. Certainly. Why not like ancient Greek? Or Super Mario Brother. I don't think. I don't know. I think that what are the other options?

Like jungle room? I think there's jungle room. There's Egyptian room, I think. Is there old west room? Probably old western space. Ancient Greek room. Future room. Did I mention the ancient Greek room?

Odyssey room. Yeah. Odyssey room. Yeah. The collegial room. Yeah. Everyone's a senator. We all get buried it up to our heads.

Gladiator room. They're all just shades of different ancient Greeks. Yeah, different sandal flicks. A feta maker room. Ben-Hur room. The, yeah, it's back then the Westampton Mall still had a submarine that went around underneath a pirate ship. And the lore was maybe, you know, way in if you know anything, said to have more. submarines than the Canadian Navy.

That was the big rumor. Yeah. That was the big joke. Yeah. And we still have that one. It just trawls off the West Coast. Yeah. It's not true anymore, but only because there are fewer in West Evanton Mall.

Now, what's disappointing about going to a giant mall like that for the first time is that there comes a point when you realize there are more than one location of the same store. Yes. It's not just infinite stores. It's haven't I passed this? Yeah, two gaps, three gaps. Yeah. Mine the gaps. There's like the area where it's like Bourbon Street and where it's like Venice Street.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't been in so long. We've got to go back. I'm going to Edmonton in the fall and I am going to make a day of going to the mall. Does the amusement park still exist? It does. Okay. Yep.

People died on it. Too soon. At some point, right? Yes, there was a... That's a decapitation for those of you. If you're wondering what that sound effect was. The water park's still there. They still got an ice rink there.

Oh, yes. Wave pool. Oh, yeah. Don't they have an ice rink that has like... Because I feel like there's a hockey tournament or multiple hockey tournaments that happen there. There's some hockey tournament in Edmonton. I think it's like the brick.

The brick sponsors? The brick sponsors this, like, youth hockey tournament. And it's got a scottetronement. highlight above it and it seems like it's bad for the ice to have the sun magnified onto it. There was no way to know. There's a comedy club inside of the mall that I've played at a couple of times. Are you going back for business? For business, not stand-up comedy business.

It's my oil business. It's a contracting business. He has a contracting company that does. designs the rooms inside the Fantasyland Hotel. You pimp out stagecoaches. And they just got a fresh set of togas. These are 2018's togas. We're thrown them away

for 2026. Oh, yeah. The 2018 ones had, uh, we're all me-toed. That was also 28. Oh, yeah. Um, I wanted to ask you something about animals. Um, oh yeah, have you, uh, have we all

seen that Jimothy, the short spined raccoon. Yes. Yeah. Bless the child. Is he a species

or is he a genetic? I think he's precisely as you the second choice. Yeah. He's a peculiar specimen. Can you remind me where is he?

Seattle. Okay. Oh, man. Maybe he's grunge. Yeah, he's a grunge raccoon. That would be, if there's a sports team. Jimothy spoke in class today.

He's already been adopted by the Mariners. Oh, really? Yeah. Does he, is he grunge, though? That would be great if he had, like, a plaid t-shirt tied-rushy. Yeah, he's got that tiny little waist, but I think it'd be cute. Yeah. In Seattle, we went to a, not a Mariners game, a Cracken game.

Oh, yeah. And everything is so, like. Cracken? It's Crackin. But, like, everything is so, like, they thought of everything. First, yeah, like, so, you know, well thought through. Yeah, too well thought through. It's like these things kind of need to develop organically over decades of your team,

and they're already being like, you're in the grunge zone. And when we score a goal, it's Nirvana. When the FIFA was in Seattle, you've got to know that Eddie Vedder was there watching. They cut to him, and I was like, it's Eddie Vedder. Oh, my God, Seattle royalty. Mm-hmm. But, so we've all seen this guy. Yeah.

People were saying that, like, the first time I saw this raccoon, people were saying, like, oh, before cameras existed or, like, before there was hidden camera everywhere in the world, this guy would just just been a legend. Like, have you seen this? A legend of Jimothy. Have you seen this? Yeah. He's like a mini-sasquatch character. Yeah. Is there any?

Do, in Sweden, are there like, like, is there like lore? Yeah, are there saskwaches? Well, there are a lot of like, Do you have Ogo Pogo? There's not like that, but of course, like going back to Nordic myth,

they're like Nordischka Wesson, they're called, and it's like the goblins who live in the woods. And in fact, in the wintertime. What is a goblin? What is a goblin? Definitely damp. In the wintertime, there will be like goblin walks, if you will.

Where there will be somebody who is in the woods and like crackling around and you can see a sign that's lit up that says, you're coming up to the lair of the frog man. And it'll be like some dry ice. And it's like a spooky Halloween walk, but without the jump scare. Honey, I'm going on a goblin walk. See you later. It saved our marriage, you know? After dinner, sometimes I'll go on a goblin walk.

That goblin's kind of a fifth wheel with me and my wife. Why are you taking the neighbor goblin walking with you? I heard some goblin happening last man. I was told there'd be opportunity. You greedy goblin. That's killing me. So that's pretty cool. I know in Norway people, it's a little bit more like people.

Yeah, there's fairies. Yeah, there's, yeah, there's, uh, trolls. Yeah. That's a little bit sort of, yeah, sure. His... There's manic pixie dream girls. His, I mean, crampus, I know, is from that general airs. Yeah, he's like an alpine.

Right. Like a German Austrian. And what's the... Do you guys burn a big goat at Christmas? No, we aim not to burn the big goat, but the poor big goat keeps getting burned. Oh, okay. And there are documentaries about this city. Neville, who has this giant straw goat, again, going back to pagan times.

Sure, yeah. Which was kept as an icon of the winter solstice. Even goat. He's been good, ed. But there is, like, watch on it. There's engineers that spend all year building it, but there's always some Weisaker who wants to set it alight. Oh, but it's not supposed to be set a light?

No. But this town happens to be. the cigarette smoking capital of Sweden. Well, you know, what are you going to do? Funnily, matches are from Sweden. Matches are? Yeah, like the impregnated

matches. Really? No, they're not. I pulled out. Yeah. Using the rhythm method. But I saw a documentary once upon a time. I always thought it was kind of fun

that it was set on fire. But then I saw this very sad man who had engineered the perfect goat and he wanted to bring joy and it kind of broke his little heart. But it doesn't. Setting it on fire bring more joy. It does.

Also, what is the ultimate ending of this goat that's been built? Is it just deconstructed? Like if it's not lit on fire? Yes. It's like the Christmas tree at 30 Rock. Wow, they like that on fire every year and everybody loves that. Everybody loves it. Why can't they?

Yeah, I don't know. That would be great. In Steve Bishamese is a firefighter. You put it out. Special guest celebrity firefighter. And in the at the summer solstice, when there's the Maple, type thing, which is put up. It's very often asked by

North Americans or non-Nordic people, when do we set it on fire? Yeah. As well. I think we just like to burn things. In Northern Ireland, they have huge bonfires, and it's mostly people bringing their old furniture, and they build these huge towers of

people. Yeah, old desks and chairs. Yeah. I mean, you know what? I've long said on the podcast, if you're ever in a neighborhood where they're building a house and they do that big dig up where it's they've just leveled the house. That's everybody in the neighbor gets to throw their garbage into the yard. So if there was a bonfire thing in Vancouver, I'd go. It's our garbage now.

If they did that in Sweden, people would be bringing their billy bookcases. Their meatballs. What's a billy book case? It's an IKEA furniture. Let's go down and roast some meatballs on the local sinkhole fire kids. What are the top five IKEA products of all time go? You know what? I think we discussed this last time I was here.

There's the Malmo. There's the Schwips and the tea lights. There's the doll. There's the Arizona's tea. Sheila. What makes you tick? What makes you tick? Is the Casio calculator watch.

Nice. That's my favorite. That's my go-to watch. I have several. A cassio? I have several casios. Only one is the calculator watch. Do you wear it?

I wear it, and I joked for many years at work that people who were obsessed with it often ended up with a diagnosis. Oh, okay. And then I realized, hey, I'm the one wearing it. Yeah. You diagnosed with BTS. Yes. Oh, God. It's a tough time for me and my family.

But I have one of those two. Yes. And I haven't. People love to diagnose, Steve. I haven't had a battery in it in 15 years. And I bet my eyes would not be able. The buttons were so small. Oh, I don't use it to calculate Warringy.

I don't. Did you call me Warren G? Yeah, she's got to calculate. But I do wear it because I like it. It's white and orange. Nice. And I like it. It makes me happy.

Yeah, I don't want to. You're not wearing a watch, right? No, time is. Time doesn't mean anything to you're on vacation. The only thing I'm counting is how many dogs? Yeah. So many good dogs. How many of you met would you say?

I think we can. counted 10 as a 10 dogs plus a duck that you met personally on this trip sure that like if you meet a dog for five seconds is that added to the list okay no this is spending time your quality time dog quality time my two dogs your two dogs my two dogs my two dogs paul riser and gregg evigan bejian the bear paul riser would be a good name for a dog yeah this is my dog paul riser i'm trying to think of a dog themed named

Paul Woffer. Yeah. Paul Risen Schnauser. Okay. Because that is a kind of giant schnauzer.

And Greg. It's a reason schnauzer. And Greg. Evigan would be Great Day and Evigan. Great. Evgan.

Afghan. That's a real. It just blows off the tongue. Yeah. It's a workshop. Ev Afghan. And then you saw eight dogs on the island?

My sister has three. My brother has two. Nobody wants to hear me do the inventory. Let's say there were 10 dogs. Okay. A lot of good dogs. We're at seven by my count, but I'm not wearing a calculator one.

My friend Melissa came by. Sure. And she brought two dogs with her. Okay. And they told two dogs? And they told, and so on. And so on. The neighbors at Abby's parents had a dog who popped by many times.

Who's this? Tell us about this duck. Yes. Where'd you meet a duck? Well, I met a duck in Nanaimo. Okay. As one does. Gotcha.

On an electric scooter. Yes. Friend of my nephews, dude named Riley, shout out Riley. Riley. Riley just rocks up on his electric scooter. Riley is a gentleman around the age of 30. Okay. And he comes.

Can't tie this guy down. No, absolutely not. And he said, I thought you'd want to beat my duck. And, yeah, we left the car so quickly that we left all of the doors open. Yeah. The car roll. Yeah. Where is it?

Give me the duck. Riley has a duck. He told me he got it from his, a co-worker. And he's had it since the duck hatched. The duck's, the duck's name is Gerald. It's a Swedish blue meat duck. Oh, like it's made for Swedish meat?

This, precisely meatballs. Oh, that duck's going to become meatballs. Yeah, they put a stick in it. And this duck is his pet. It's his pride and joy. Okay. It's going to be tough to eat it one day. I bet it's going to be tough.

What's a meat duck, though. The duck can live to be about 12 years old. Really? His name is Gerald. Does Gerald have a pool or a tub to swim around? Yes, but Derek had just come back from a trip to the lake. Oh, fun. And Derek swim, Derek.

Gerald. Who the hell is Derek? Gerald and Riley. Gerald was there too. Had just come back from a trip to the lake, swims freely, always comes back to Riley. Of course. Because he's imprinted. Because he's imprinted.

Oh, I want to imprint on an animal. But I got to hold the duck. It was so soft. It was so fluffy. Yeah. Yeah. It bit my, I bit Abby's uncle Magnus. It was delightful.

He loved it. That'd be bit by a duck. Yeah. A little nip on the cheek. But in the photos that finished, she could really see. Magnus loved the whole sequence. I love it. He was delighted.

I love it. Yeah. Never held a bird before. You haven't? I haven't. I've held like a budgie. Yeah, there was like a whiskey jack maybe before or after that. Be afraid of, that's the thing.

Like a duck, I feel like I could really. Yes. So frail. Like a little bird, I'm afraid of crushing. Yeah. I wonder if I've held a bird before. I've held my horses. Yeah.

You've held yourself up to a certain standard. You've held breath. Yeah. You've held a bird. Yeah, I've held many birds. Yeah, I guess. I had a crush on a girl in high school, and she had a lot of birds. I still maintain that crush for many months past five years.

When you say she had many birds, was she a chicken farmer? No, she's the girl from Home Alone, too. Okay. To be hedron. She was Tanya Harding's mother. No, she had a bird that would land on her head and stuff and, like, picket her hair. Uh-huh. And so you said you maintained a crush for many months after what?

After meeting these birds. And then eventually it was like, I got to get. I got to get this loose. Because of the allergies or because of bird people? Bird people. Yeah. And she wasn't very interested in me. So it was a one-sided crush.

Crush. Yeah. She only had ruined our heart for birds. Why was she inviting you over to meet the birds? You know. If it wasn't a reciprocated crush. You know, we were, we were pals and study mates. You know, we'd do some.

Do you have bird-like friends? features, do you think? Yeah, yeah. When I stand with one leg, I look a lot like a flamingo. That's true. You've been eating a lot of shrimp. And you were like, oh, let's take, I want to take our relationship to the next step. I mean, wing.

I don't want to cause a flap. But I'd like to take you to Hooters. Yeah. Oh, man. I saw an old clip of undercover boss at Hooters. Have you ever seen this? No. I haven't seen, I've seen the show.

Do you know the show? I'm very well. well aware of the show, but not the Hooters a dish. It is the guy that runs it is like an absolute, like, you couldn't write a villain. So he's from Hooters' head office. He's the president of Hooters. He comes down to. A pee-hoo.

And a customer. A client, yeah. He comes down to a random place. The guy who's running the particular restaurant is like a cartoon villain. Okay. Okay. So the manager is a villain. The CEO or whatever.

President. Yeah. He comes down and it's like he's, this is his first day. Well, as far as I know, this is, the place is, the place is being run to Hooters level of expectation. Yeah. And the president is undercover as like a trainee. Yeah, as a trainee. And the president's a man.

He's a man. It seems like you don't give a hoot. And then even when it's revealed that the man he was training as the president, the guy doesn't back down at all. He's like, Yeah. He's like, look, I get results.

And as far as I don't, nobody told me not to act like this in the president's like, no, Hooters is a family establishment. First of all, it is not. Yeah. You can't claim any kind of moral high ground when you're the president of Hooters. Yeah.

When there's a sector of the dining industry called restaurants and you're the, Oh my God. I don't think I'm aware of this term. But I do like it. Restaurants. There's like two or three in the state. honkers gizongas

jugs mammos P.J. Tittacutis. This suggests the existence of like like other body parts restaurants.

Oh yeah. There's schlonstrance. Yeah? But stop. I don't know. Let's see. What are the restaurants?

Restaurant is a restaurant that requires female waiting staff to be dressed skimply. And cell mott's glimato. Oh. Not in the States.

Clamato doesn't... No, that's a Canadian situation. The term dates from the early 90s after Hooters opened. The format has since been adopted by other restaurants, including Tilted Kilt. Okay. Twilts have nothing to do with boobs. Twin Peaks. No, Twin Peaks. That's pretty good.

Yeah, that'll allow it. We hear it's Twin Peaks is a family restaurant. Ohos Locos. Isn't that ice? I think it's eggs. Of course it is. It's one of them. Is a wubis in there?

Bikinis sports bar and grill. Wing house bar and grill. Redneck Heaven, rowdy cowboy, boomer jacks, and bombshells bar and grill. What about clangers? Is clangers not on there? Welcome to clangers. I'm surprised how tame those names are. Yeah.

Like there's not like Lake Tuddy Cuckus. I mean, Twin Peaks is about as. Yeah, that's cute though. Yeah. It's no hooters, but it all. Do they sell cherry pot? And coffee. Is it cherry?

Yeah. Yeah. Damn good cherry pie. And like a meatloaf that looks like a log or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or some, yeah, it's sunny side up eggs. When I was a kid, I was at a garage sale, and I bought a t-shirt. Despite my dad's warnings and eye-rollings that was from a chain called Humpties,

that was a breakfast restaurant chain. And I had two sunny-side-up eggs on the nipples and that I got laid at Humphys. I thought it was the best shirt I'd ever seen in my entire life. My dad hated it so much. What age were you when you bought this shirt, please? I gotta say this is like, I'm thinking myself like a 12. My dad's like, you buy it with your own money. You're gonna get me-toed in 2018 for wearing that shirt.

But it was, I got laid in Humptease. I was staying in the egg room at West Evanton Mall with my pet duck, Derek. Dave, what's going on with you, man? Well, I've just opened up a new restaurant. What's it called? Well, the theme of it is you could see all the waitresses, butcracks. It's called plumbers. Yeah, it's called Plummer's.

McCrackens. Crackens. It's called Vertical Horizon. Phil McCrackens. I don't really have anything going on with me. Oh, fair enough. I've had Swedes in my house for the last few days, and, oh, they're going bonkers for these beach. Oh, my God, Dave's been a psychling.

Oh, yeah, when are the BTS oriors? What's the flavor profile? They've got their purple for one thing, which suggests an Ube. But I don't think it's... Doesn't it? I don't know what an Ube is. Doesn't it? Do you know, tarot?

Yes. Taro to Ube is sort of a yam to sweet potato. Okay. Oh, yes. Okay. So this is a dark purple? No, it's a light purple. This is a grimace purple.

It's kind of, yeah. Or like what Daphne would have worn on Scooby-Doo. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. I think of the, think of what they wear at Old Schlongers. The male. Is it O'Solongers?

Yeah. Think of what the guys were at the rowdy egg plant. Oh, my God. I just wait like these super tight short shorts. And they come and serve. I don't know. Well, not chicken wings, but I guess like oysters. Yeah.

To barf. To women, to horny women on their, what do you call it? The bachelor parties. Birthdays. So these BTS. The flavor is. The whole thing's purple. There's no different color in the cream filling.

Let me finish. Oh, so. There's two cream fillings. There's a white and a beige, and the beige. And the beige seems to have something crystally, some kind of like pop rock in it. Oh, wow. Okay.

Or like creme brulee, some kind of like something. Like a cinnamon toast crunchy. I don't know. This is insane. And it's, uh, the flavor is a brown sugar pancake. Ooh, that's nice. It doesn't suck. I'm not a cookie gal.

Because brown sugar pancakes, same initials as BTS. Oh. Naturally. Perfect. And moving on. Well, let's see. There was also Selena Gomez one. I don't know that that was.

There were Lady Gaga. one's a few years back? The Post Malone had one. So tired. So tired. God, he's tired. You know what? You should just take some,

take a little break. Yeah, Deulipa does it all the time. Protect your peace. Yeah. Jewelipa takes a lot of breaks. She goes on a lot of vacays. There's a lot of her,

a lot of her insta count as her on that. Some beautiful aisle somewhere. That lady, try and stop her. You know what I mean? She's not mid. She's not mid. She's a force.

Mm-hmm. What's Swedish for mid? What are the kids calling mid? What are the kids calling mid? I don't know. They're probably calling it chopped. Yeah, but do Lillipa, no cap. You know what I mean?

Yeah, no cap, absolutely. She's goaded. She's coated with the sauce, and the sauce is the cream from inside those Oreos. Delicious. Well, obviously, they're on the packaging, these young. I don't know that they are. I think maybe just their logo is. Oh, is there Rolling Stones?

Well, you can collect 14, there's 14. there's 14 cookies to collect because apparently they all have a different design on them. I was just stopping them in my gob. Yeah, same. Those are going to be worth so much money someday, you guys. Here's the thing that's going on with me. Oh, God. Why?

You don't know about this. I, so like, our fridge. In the middle of our street. our fridge. That is where we keep our meat. I keep my meat inside of the Swedish duck. I'm just waiting, biting my time. Until he pisses me off.

Until he bites money. They're using the pillow method. With the duck? Is a duck a boy? The duck is a boy named Gerald or Derek. And he doesn't have. So he doesn't lay eggs. Does he have corks your penis?

I would imagine, and he wears two diapers a day. Because otherwise he shoots everywhere. Yeah. Oh, is that true? According to Riley. So it's not a house trained. I don't think they can get. I don't think Riley as a young 30-year-old man who lives by himself necessarily.

Not by himself. He lives with Cheryl. Yeah. The guy is an odd duck, is what you say. Oh, absolutely. Odd duck. But delightful. Yeah.

That's nice. So here's what's going on. My fridge, every couple of weeks, the bottom of it just fills with water. It's constantly filling with water. Okay. And there's just like the, but then every couple of weeks it kind of starts overflowing and I need to. Is this like in the crisper? It's below.

So we have this tray at the bottom for cheeses and meats. Okay. But underneath it, it's flat and it'll just, you'll just hear it gurgling. And, uh-oh. What do you do? Well, what you do is every couple of weeks, it also freezes. So you take out these panels of ice and you throw them in the sink. And then you, with the remaining water, you sop up with a towel.

Okay. And then you go on with your day and you tidy it up and wipe it down with a little cleaning product so it doesn't get all moldy. And then two weeks later, it fills up again. Yay. And then you mention it on your podcast and someone says, oh, I think that's probably the gasket. It's probably a gasket issue on your door. What kind of bridge have you got?

We've got an LG. Okay. Life's good. Life's good when you have an LG. And so we, and then I, when someone said that. LG, please reach out. When I said that, somebody was like, oh, I think it's a gasket problem. And I was like, huh, I believe that a couple of years ago, our gasket, which is the, like,

Blue your gas. With a rubber seal. Seal around the edge of it, like a bit of it kind of tore off. Oh, no. And I was like, eh, no big deal. Yeah, it's fine. The door closes, no problem. Yeah.

So what I did, after I saw this comment, I was like, huh, maybe. Just get a task. Maybe I'll. Can you like tape a twizzler to it and just. I went on YouTube and I said, what are you doing? They said, tape a twizzler. Or a nib. No, I went to LGB.

Parts Canada.com, I guess. Now we're getting good. And I ordered a gasket. Oh, wow. I looked up my fridge model. And it is a model. It's beautiful. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was in the Naomi Campbell collection. It was in the swimsuit edition. And I ordered it. And when you get it, when you order a gasket, what comes in the mail is, it was like $80 or something. And it was a flat cardboard box, like very, very thin, the size of a fridge. door. Oh, God. Because they keep it square.

Like, they keep it in its shape. Right. But it's not folded. Very flat. And then you, uh, open the box and you look inside and there's nothing in there. And you say, hmm. And then you email them and say, did, is there a chance that, uh, that you didn't send me a gasket?

You just sent me a box or someone stole it or opened it and took it. Because I'm sure on the gasket market, this is. It's probably like the Primo Gasket. Yeah, you see like... Gasket that size? You go in the rough part of town and people have like gaskets laid out on blankets. Yeah, you're like, uh, look, I, uh, I don't know. I know this is probably stolen, but, uh...

This deal's too good. Yeah, this deal is good. Uh, and so they said, email us pictures of the inside and outside of the box. Okay. And I did. No problem. And then... I'm going to photograph nothing, please.

And they said... We'll let you know in a couple of weeks. Thank you for coming in. We'll let you know. Well, fortunately, I hadn't, like, torn off the old gasket. Yeah, there was still the remnants of the old gasket. Okay. And then.

Well, thank goodness for small favors. That's the expression. And then two weeks later, I wrote them and I said, hey, what's up with my gasket? What I said in the meantime was like, what's the outcome of this? Do I get, do you send me a new gasket? or do you refund my money so I can then use it to buy my own gasket, in which case, this is going to take a few more weeks anyway. So let me know now and I'll just order a new one.

And they said, we'll let you know. And so a couple weeks went by and I wrote them back and they said, oh, yeah, you're going to get a refund. Nice. And so I had to order a new gasket. It comes again a few weeks later. Same giant box. This time I open it up.

Perfect rectangle gas space. That was on the edge of my seat. Yeah. then I take that out. Different box. One had kept the gasket in place with, like, corrugated cardboard, the other with styrofoam. One's more environmentally friendly than that. But one of them is more likely to get stolen.

That's true. Yeah. So I get this gasket. Take out my old gasket. Oh, very satisfying to tear out the gasket. Sure. And what does the other gasket come with a glue? No, it just.

White or black? Gray. Oh. Oh, I love a wild card. Great gasket. Biggieie and lowie. Yeah. And then you put it in.

Oh, you take out of the old, so satisfying. All the sound. Oh, it's great. Then you take your new gasket and you just shove it. It's got, it's, you know. You just shove it. You just press it into all the corners. Not as satisfying.

You want it to be more satisfying because then you close the bridge door. And it's like a quarter of an inch, not closed. Oh, no. Because I think you really need to work in this gasket. Sure. So you were doing a lot of opening and closing. Closing,

leaning on the fridge. Yeah. Pushing up, you know, nerds from my school against it. Does your fridge ding, ding, ding, ding when the door is open for too long? It says ding ding ding, right answer, motherfucker. Yeah, my, uh, does that as well. But it does it kind of intermittently, it'll go like,

and then I'll pause for a while, like, we'll give him a chance to come and close it, and then it goes on again. I don't know if it gets, if it goes up in... It escalates in intensity. Ours doesn't escalate, but also you can turn it off

if your children push enough buttons. And then leave the fridge open, and you're like, what the hell? And then so it wasn't quite closing all the way. Like it was closing all the way, but it wasn't flush with the other door. And so it just time went by, A couple weeks went by.

And then now it's fine. It's sitting right in the perfect place. Fridge still filling with water. Oh, what the hell is? Oh, God, I forgot about that. Yeah, so it's not a gasket problem. You've eliminated one possibility. So a guy or person who wrote in and said,

hey, it's probably a gasket issue. What now? There's another door. Do I need to gasket that? Does LG just sell like a fridge sponge, like a diva cup for fridges or something? You can put it in there. Basically, to explain it, it's like a diva cup for fringes.

Our fridges are in sync. We spend so much time together. I don't know that a diva cup would be the way to go for it, because it's got a pretty wide set. Okay. Vagina. Frigina. Oh my God, quick, quick.

Get the time stamp. Yeah, this is a new restaurant chain. Get at phrygina. Vigina. Vigina. Vigina. It's the, like, ice cold. We do frozen desserts.

And in our... You'll want to be called frigid. Ditchin's Taco Tuesday is here. The vagina. Anyway, questions. So, is... Are the two sides of your fridge the same size or is one side dominant and the other one is more... One's the top?

One's the top. One's a power bottom. That's the freezer. The freezer is a power bottom. The freezer's the power bottom. I would say they're about the same size. Okay. Yeah.

Well, when I, no, actually, I think they must be. Because when I went on the website to buy my gasket, there was only one option. So they. So, but like the gasket only fit over, it didn't fit over the whole fridge, just over the one door. One door, yeah. Ah, I see, I see. One door is, by the way, my favorite Star Wars TV show. One door makes you larger.

Yeah. And one door makes it small. Oh, yeah. And the mother kills you. I wonder if I need to do the other door or if someone's like, your fridge is cooked. Yeah. Your fridge is cooked. Yeah.

Your fridge is chopped. How would you get rid of a fridge? Oh, I think when you... Put it in a hole. Yeah, you wait for your neighbor to knock down their house. Yeah. I mean, truly, I, like, unless you, it's just like you would be like getting rid of a piano. Like getting rid of a fridge.

I've never had to move a fridge or get rid of a fridge. Well, I'm not going to. It's still cold. It's still colds everything. Yeah. Move one in Vancouver as always, just put it in the alley behind your house. Yeah, but I'm not strong enough. But how to get it out of your house.

What you could do, I think with. With most places. Work at 9 to 5. When you buy a thing, a big thing, they take away your old big thing. Oh, okay. Be it fridge, be it mattress. Be it man or beast. Mm-hmm.

be it. I'm thinking about Oreos. Oh, yeah. Do you miss them? Well, they got a gluten-free one. Are they dees? They're dees. They're not 100% there, but, you know, they're close, close enough. They're vegan.

What's your go-to snack? What's a nice little treat for Graham Clark? I mean, I do like, I do like Oreos. Cookie, just in general. Any description of gluten-free cookie is. See, I think if I live in a gluten-full world, so I don't realize all the places in which gluten lurks. Everywhere.

Yes. Yeah. It's a gluten for life. Are they Swedish? They are absolutely. One guy is Danish, but they are absolutely. And three of them are siblings. Oh.

Oh, really? Mm-hmm. Wow. This is Ace of Bass. This is Ace of Base. set a place, another space. I don't think

they would be the top go-to. You probably want Zara Larson. Robin still has a chokehold. Oh, Robin! Robin is a beloved child of Sweden. We love Robin. Of course.

How many Abbas are alive? All four. All four, but only one rock set. Only rip. Yes, just the gentleman. Just Per Gessler. Thank you very much. Have you seen the hologram Abba?

Is that... I haven't, but I have heard great things. Yeah. In both the show in London and there's an Abbey Museum in Stockholm. I've seen neither, but people can enjoy it. Yeah, in Stockholm. They recommend making an appointment. They don't let too many people in there at a time.

Yeah, I would either. Yeah. It'd be like the room with the Mona Lisa. It's disgusting. I know. It's appellate. Don't get me started. I won't.

I promise I won't get you started. Thank you. So, yeah, we're going through gasket stuff. You know what? That's life. Man. This two shall pass. Life in the big city.

So most of my updates these days are about appliances. Maintenance. But also cookies. Yeah, absolutely. And little raccoons. What's going on with you? So in Vancouver, there's a famed gelato place that has, I think, like 130 flavors. Where's that?

It's down on Venable Street just off of commercial. Oh, right. Down in the, there's a brewer, there's a brewery right nearby, and this is a giant. It's too many flavors, to be honest. Is it the one that's been there for a long time? Okay. Yeah, since the, I think this is, it's like 60th years. It's a gelataria.

Yeah. Like a pizzeria. Like, got it. The system. Like a tacharia. Like a tacharia. They've got it down. They've got this system down because there's so many flavors.

And there isn't a line. It's just everybody's free roaming, checking out the flavors that they want to put together. When in Rome. Yeah. You know? Yeah, exactly. When in Rome? Rome.

Yeah. If you want to. Go around the world if you want. But they give you. Hey, French Knighter. Yeah. They give you, you say how many scoops you want. They give you a poker chip, colored poker chip.

So I want two scoops. You get a poker chip. And then you go, there's scoopers all over there, working stations, they're running back for it. They know where all the ice cream is. So who are you getting the poker chip from the person you pay? Yeah. You pay.

You pay. You pay. You get poker chip. You take the poker chip to a scooper. Yeah. And you say this flavor and that flavor. They've got it down. Yeah. Gary Cooper. They've all got that big Nadel arm, that one arm like the tennis players,

extra jacked. That's what Henry Rollins did before you joined Black Flag. He was an ice cream scoop. He was like, huh, holding this scoop. Oops, a lot like holding a microphone. Yeah. I bet you this is a transferable skill. Pretty much.

This aren't good to support a microphone no problem. And later I might do spoken word. Do you remember that song, Liar? Do you remember? I think you got a low self-opinion man. Say again? I think you got a low self-opinion man. I don't know that.

That was one of his spoken word. Oh, okay. I went. Saw him do a spoken word thing, and he was on stage for three hours. He's like the Odyssey. And there were bottles of water on stage. Never touched them. Now.

If I can go maybe a seven-minute set without having to take a drink of water. He's raw dogging everything. He is raw-dog and everything. Yeah. Yeah. Was he painted red? Nobody had muscles. Muscles to spare.

He's a big bodybuilder, this guy. So anyways, enjoyed myself at the ice cream place. I got double chocolate chip. Maybe all get jacked this summer. Yeah. There's no time. Rollins by the end of the year. At least one arm.

Rollins, Rollins. Yeah, Rollins. I think Rollins. Yeah. Yeah, the other guy is the country singer Donald's. Rollins. What's his name? Rawlings makes a great baseball glove.

That's the one. A great limp biscuit truck. Rollins. Rollins. Rollins. Rawls. Rollins. So delicious.

I got double chocolate chip. Uh-huh. And root beer float. Let me tell you, the root beer float ice cream. Out of this world. Wow. Jolato. Ice cream?

Jolato. Jolato. I'm guessing this is in a cup. This is in a cup. Yes. Because there's... You could get a little tiny cone, but, like, they were the colors of the Italian flag. Allora.

Yeah. And... Tiny cones is the name of my small penis restaurant. It's a little bit of my small t-a-old. eats and my crepeas restaurant. Well, but just tiny cones. Let me tell you about our specials today. Tiny sausages.

Just like little nibbles. Cocktail wieners. You probably would be more satisfied at another restaurant. Oh, you can eat people on the table. We're trying so hard. I'm just trying to. We're compensated in other ways. And the great thing about this place has been around for so long.

All the waiters show up in like Ferraris. Oh, no. This place has been around so long. So there's the ice cream or gelato place. And then across the street, there's like a little, like a little garden that people go and eat. That's all it is. It's a fenced off garden that's open for, just for the gelato people to sit around. Someone, some condor developer is licking his lips right now.

A bunch of wasps. Just lurking around there. But I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen a business with then a place to. consume said product that's a part of the business. A little oasis. A little oasis is the little people always. It's the midget Persian bands.

Wonder Half Wall. We don't say that. Oh, sorry. Wonder Half Wall. Yeah. Mini Sonic. Anyways, it's delicious. Check out your local gelato repository.

What? Suppository? Repository. Oh, I could go for a gelato suppository. Cold. Yeah, right. On a summer's day. So, yeah, I was down there.

And then in that same block, or like a couple blocks away, was a, like, witch store. And this place was fucking fantastic. I want to hear everything. Yeah. So this witch store, you know how, like, sometimes a business will have flyers or business cards on, like, a little ledge or whatever? Ten, at least ten tarot card businesses. Do you recall the name of this place? Yeah, I took a photo of it.

Did they have a one-wish willow? No, you know, those are dangerous, Dave. You don't want to... Step back. That's, in that movie, that is one of the funniest gags where the guy's like... Obsession. Where he's like, what are you talking about? We never sold anything like that.

And he's like, I'm just getting there earlier. Oh, maybe I didn't take a photo of it. Sally, I'll remember what it's called. The listeners just Google Sally. Yeah. Google Maps it. Don't Google Graham's wife. If I do Vancouver Witch Store.

Or if you Google Maps the gelato place. It is called... Or duck, duck, go. Ravens Vale. Are you sure that's the name of the witch store? Does it sound very witchy. It's also the name of my goth. Laundraiser restaurant.

Big titty goth. But there's a whole shelf, tarot card. BTG. It's got BTG energy, which I believe stands for. Brown sugar pancake. Delicious. This store has it all. It has every witchy thing.

What does it smell like? You walk in the door, you hear a ding, and you're originally immediately transported. Some sort of like a sage maybe or some sort of like a burning, you know, not like, not incense. Like a big burning goat. Well, it's not that big. It's a tiny store, but they have a tiny burning goat. It's, you know, it's herbal, is the smell. It's nice.

Is there music in there? There wasn't music. What if it's just the monster's theme song over and over again? Monster Mash. So there was, okay, there were things to do spells. So they had little, the big, what do you call, like an apothecary? drawers with like tiny little tiny drawers. A lot of stones, a lot of gems in different drawers.

And then they had a whole section. I've never seen anything like in my entire life of different bones. Yay. Different bones that used. They had feathers and all kinds of weird shit. Rabbit vertebrae. They had porcupine quills. Anything taxidermied?

Uh, not that I saw. Even a raven? Maybe somewhere. With a veil? Yeah. getting married and the big day. The,

yeah, I'd never seen anything like that. And it's all things that in you see in a movie, you'd be like, where do you get all these things for a spell? Ravens Vale.

But I question the legality of, like, how do you sell a bone? Like an animal bone. But, you know, like if you had chicken, you could take those bones

and, you know, bleach them and. Yeah, usually, the restaurant I go to, they have a lot. the name of that restaurant? It's called Hooters, and they do wings, and I get a lot of bones. I'm appalled that they do that at my restaurant.

I bring pockets full of bones home. No, I think you can, you know, anything where you could like, use an animal, you could have its bones. And if you had a rabbit, you could have rabbit. Yeah, you could have rabbit vertebrae, sure. Yeah, I don't know. But like, but then I would probably want to just bring the bones home and make rabbit broth. They're going through the dumpster at night at KFC. Sure.

Put some buddy ears on this one. And they like, there, I was, I almost wanted to buy one just out of sheer like, just having it on a shelf somewhere and being like, and this is a porcupine. Did you see. I wish them well in their business. Was it Erling Holland, the big Norwegian soccer man, a star of the tournament of soccer. Yeah, the rowing man. Fan favorite. When he returned back to his home, he brought a big tech.

It wasn't Jimenez. It wasn't Jimithy. It was, did you see it? I did. And it was taxidermy? Yeah. That's like, just like, well, this is the North American thing to get. Apparently, he has a collection of taxidermied.

And a collection of Birkenbags. Yes. Really? Yes. Huh. Interesting guy. Very interesting guy. So anyways, if you need to do a spell, if you're in Vancouver and you need to do a spell or get a tarot card reading.

Or have some root beer float. Have a gelato. This is all the spell. hot block to go to. But yeah, this store was so fucking cool and I sent as much business their way. The lady that was

working the desk was telling a guy, we're actually closed, but you know, when business is walking in the door. Yeah, the vibes are good. Exactly. What do you mean? We're actually closed. You were there. Yeah, but I think she was like, she's like, well, we'll just stay open until people

vacate, you know? She wasn't in a hurry. She wasn't doing a spell that evening. I mean, maybe she took like a take-it-easy spell, you know? And she's like, yeah, you know. She took one. Take a spell. The, you'd think they would operate in odd hours.

Yeah, that's true. You would think it opened at midnight, the stroke of midnight. Yeah. At the howl of the wolf. Yeah, closed at sunrise. Elvirus. I love that stores like that can stay in business. I think it's great.

Imagine the people they deal with. Yeah. Well, everybody. for a bat. Everybody in the store, there was no gothy people, but I bet you gothic people are in there all the time. I feel like if you were... Gothy by nature.

If you were a young witch, you would probably go there. When I was in high school, there was a witchy girl in my class. Oh, tell us everything, Dave. Witchie. Witchie, a witchie classmate. And she sometimes had fangs.

Yeah. And I could never figure it out. Like that she had. What would you call that? A girl. Yeah. What's the thing from the craft? Is it stiff as a board, light as a feather?

Is it stiff as a board? Yeah. Not at the moment. Flood as a board needs a script. Never mind. That's the famous line. Watch out. There's a lot of weirdos out there.

Mr. We are the weirdos. Oh, yeah. I've seen it. I feel like that's, Vancouver's own, is she? Ferruzabal. She. She was in and out.

That one might be fun at some point for one of your daughters. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the craft is like... I'd say so. Yeah, it's a coming of age tale. And, you know, it passes the Bechdel test by Miles. It's all just whimming together. Thank you, Graham.

Yeah. Graham's an ally. Tim's an alloy. Man of Steelers an alloy. The Ben Stiller's an alloy. Ben Stiller's wife, her name is Christine Taylor. She's in it and she's a bitch. And then they do a spell and she loses all her hair.

Oh, yes. Oh, she also doesn't have hair and friends. Oh, yeah. You think maybe she didn't really have hair and then she just wore away? Well, I was thinking about friends. When you said there was an apothecary thing, I was remembering that someone had an an apothecary table on friends. That's right.

Not so. Did you know that the word apothecary is also? also where we get the word boutique and bodega. What? No, I did not know David. Yeah. Okay. And it's not even the first time

Apothecary tables have been mentioned today, your beautiful wife and own person. Abby and I were discussing apothecary tables. Okay. All right. It's the day for it. It's in the air. If an apothecary table comes your way,

buy it. It's a sign from the universe. Same with the drawers. If you get your hands on a lot of tiny drawers. Yeah. Should we move on to some overheards? Yeah. Let's do it.

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Overheard. Overheard. Where we hear something out there in the world, why not share it? Don't keep it to yourself. And we always like to start with the guest. Sheila, do you have an overheard? I do. I went to go see the motion picture obsession a couple of nights ago.

So much fun. Dun, dun, dun, dun, da, da, da. Dhan. Fashion television is a Oh, absolutely. A winning start. Abby, myself, and my almost 16-year-old son, Louis, went to go see Obsession. And as discussed, I think one of you mentioned, Graham, did you see it at the cinema across the street?

No, I went and saw it at Marine Gateway. Marine Gateway. Okay. That's where we see it. saw it. And before... Both times, we both saw it separately and there was an usher. Who did the introduction in the beginning.

Yeah. Was he there? We did have a cinema employee come in. But of course, it's also the opening weekend of Odyssey. Odyssey. So the staff is in there with their gladiator helmets and their short swords, right? Welcoming everybody in... Short is the name of my tiny penis restaurant.

Yeah, it's a fondue restaurant, a little tiny. Shortswoods. This dude comes in to warn everybody, you know, you're going to be scared. Yeah. So take heed. Prepare yourselves. I love this. It's going to be scary.

Good luck. And if you scream, everyone in the theater is going to know that you shit your pants. Yes. Yes. And he seemed to be. Halfway through the shit your pants when I think he realized I'm at work. Maybe I've gone too far. But oh my God, I really love that.

It's, there's no kids in the theater, Shirley. You know, it's been out for, well, there's a 15 year old. Yeah, almost 16. He's European. It's an almost vote. It's been out for six weeks now, maybe. Yeah. And they're still doing intros to it.

How full was it? Oh, barely. Your bowels, I mean. Yeah, my bowels. say, well, I did shit in my pants, but everyone knew. Did you scream? No, but Abby dug all of her fingernails into my son's arm at one point. It was great.

It's still making money. That woman that's the star of it, she's going to be a mega star. She knocked it out of the park. She's here to stay. Yeah. Yeah. I saw a picture of her smoking. She smokes.

Good for her. It's so cool now. It is. It's back. I know. Yeah. Do you know in Canada, we have warnings printed on the actual cigarette? What?

Yeah. Pick up a pack of. on your way out. It says, what the fuck are you doing? Yeah, it's 2026. Yeah. And then you look so cool. But yeah, I think I want more of that kind of stuff at a movie theater.

Bring the movie theater experience. Yeah. Something I can't get on a streamer. You know, have somebody warned me before, you know, throw a blanket on me and beat me up. Well, like at the World Cup final yesterday when Tom Cruise came out and warned everyone. So, you know, there's a lot of kicking. Dave, do you have an overheard? Just so you know, you're not going to be interested in this sport for the next four years.

Yeah, my overheard is an overseen. I went to the ice cream store up the street. They got a great, well, it'll be gone by August, but they have a great apricot, goat cheese ice cream. Oh, okay. And a chocolate brownie cherry. So what you're describing is the cherry blossom from Lowry's, is it? Yes, but in actual good form. So this, while we were there, there was a woman in line.

She wasn't out of line. No. Miss, well, what she was carrying with or might be a bit out of line. She had a purse, the purse she was carrying. Yeah, she has purse. had a picture of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on it. Oh, okay. And it said,

Brangelina above it, 2005 to 2016. That was a mere two years before you appeared on the podcast. It is like a hand. Wow. Oh, wow. Yeah, well, not painted, maybe like transferred. Yeah. Like printed.

But it's not, it's not a drawing of them. This is a sort of rendering. Yeah, it looks like some kind of... It's a silky satiny. No, I think it's cotton. It's filthy. It's a white bag that is like just gotten. Maybe that was like the swag bag for all of the bridesmaids at the wedding.

But they also said that it was going to be over in 2016. Yeah, everybody had put a bet in in the pool. I also saw Brad Pitt on the cover, the cover of one of the cover of one of the the tabloids saying that he's going to he's going to lose his children. Oh no. Where? Just stay close to them.

To adulthood? Yeah. Use a buddy system. Well, they, to adulthood was exactly my thought because I was like, they can't be like, and I looked it up and his youngest kids turned 18 in July. So maybe it was just like. Relax, Brad Pitt. Maybe the court mandated visitation you have is ending.

They all want to change their name to. He's the bad. He's the bad parent. There's always got to be one good parent, one bad parent. It's the law. Well, to one of my kids on the good and one of the kids on the bad, it's fair that way. Yeah, it is fair that way. My overheard comes from...

Oh, Graham, did you have an overheard? We didn't even ask. Which are your parents? The good parent. Neither, they farmed it out. Yeah, they, you know, they were one of the first outsourcers. Yeah, so it was a guy. A guy?

Yeah, it was a guy. They task rabbited it in. Yeah, his name was, well, I forget. It was maybe one of the Hart brothers came in. It was, yeah, it was Tony Hart. Yeah. And, you know, he taught me everything I need to know. He taught me how to shave.

Didn't take. How to ride a bike. Don't ride a bike. I don't know how to write a bike. So at Ravenvale, there was somebody getting a consult about getting a tarot card reading. And the woman that was saying, to her she's like, there's a point at which during the reading, you're going to say to yourself,

this is a lot of bullshit. And that's okay. And yeah, so I guess if you're getting a reading, like, just let it go all the way. You know, don't give up halfway and go. This is nuts. You will reach a point. Yeah, well, you're going to need a consult

before you get the reading. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't want to quote, but you're also, like, we're going to have to size you up, tell you, you need to fast the day before. Yeah, that's right. And, you know, here's two spells that we suggest you do. I really applaud people in retail who can keep that easy, breezy sort of energy all the time because they must deal with a lot of massive tools.

Yeah. When I was in a cold beer and wine store. At a massive tools is the. Is that the restaurant? Yeah. The restaurant for, you know, the restaurant. For good structure. I was at a cold beer and wine store on the island.

And there was a young gentleman who kind of had like a Jared Leto, Jordan Catalano energy, like sort of a doll-eyed, blonde-haired young man. The original Jacob, a lordy. And he is walking. The original. He nailed it. He's walking around asking me how, you know, is there anything I can help you with? And I said, no, but I will ask you if I see anything. He said, amazing.

then he's helping some other ladies. Do you want to get this kind of shibbley or Sheneenvong? Whatever, I don't know. Sure. They make their choice. He says, it's amazing. Get into the line to pay. And in front of me, there's a man and a woman.

And I didn't realize at first that the guy was quite a scratchy. Okay? He's a bit of a ruby. Oh, Robbie. I think your people call it a rubby. Yeah. I'm from the land of rubby. Yes.

And Shania Twain's got a song remixed right now. Oh, shit. Somebody's done like a banging dance remix. Man, I feel like a rubby. Yeah. It is the song. Yeah. Let's go, girls.

And so I started talking to this guy and I realized he's pissed drunk. Piss drunk. He's under the influence. This is the employee? This is the ruby in front of me. Oh, the employee. The employee, uh, amazing has gone behind the till. And he says to the ruby guy, you know, this is the second time.

time you've been in here today having somebody else buy you stuff. So after this, I'm going to need you to take a hike, okay? Yeah. And the guy's like, sure, no problem. Amazing. Take a hike is a good. That's an old-timey one, but I need you to take a hike. Amazing.

But it says it all. It does say it all. Take a hike. What's past guest Kevin Banner's classic ones, go fuck your wife? I thought you were going to say, tumble my plums. Tumble my plums. Now,

we also have overheard sent into us by people all over. If you want to send one in, send in to SBY at maximum fun. Is Kevin Banner the drizzling shits? Does he say that? Is he the king of the drizzling sheds?

Shout out Kevin Banner. Really like any time that the weather is really kind of sopping, wet. It's the drizzles. Vancouver's wet a sandwich. Graham,

you've ruined my life with the mention of that sandwich. I think about it all the time. Was it Las Tortoise or was it? Sally Le Mans. Sally Lehmann, yeah. Whoa. My phone maybe with the microphone.

Sally cell phone. This first of what comes from Tracy from Springfield M.O. is Missouri? I think so. We got to consult the Gary Goldman bit. My nine-year-old, like most, runs around quoting lines from videos or lines he hears other kids saying. So he was stuck on one for a while that was a wrestling announcer shouting, and this name was John Sina, but my son, not knowing who John Sina is,

would shout, and his name was John Semen. Usually I chuckling myself and let it go, but eventually I had to correct him and said, you know his name is John Sina, to which he considered for a second and said, oh, I thought he was a sailor. Oh, beautiful. So very, very, very, didn't even know the Seaman Seaman thing. Yeah. Yeah.

Plus. Kids, there's, there's innocence there. At one point. My son asked me 10 years ago, Mama, is John Sina real? Yeah. Yeah, for the most part. He doesn't wear jorts as much as he used to.

He wears George, Jords. He wears long jorts. He works at the competition. Yeah, he is real. But like. But you can't see him. Yeah, and like a lot of kids will like try to stay up all night and see if they can catch on John Sina. I saw John Sina kissing Sunflats.

Santa Claus? Santa Claus in my house. Well, my parents were there, too, and then there was a fifth wheel. Yeah. I was told there'd be opportunities. My dad was just sitting in a chair watching. Yeah, that's right. The mom is kissing Santa Claus in the dad's there in the cuck chair.

The mom's dressed up as John Cena in this equation? I don't know. This next one comes from Casey in Minnesota. Casey and Jojo. Yep. Oh, what? They were singers, right? Yeah, they were from Jodice.

What was their song? Don't do this to me. Oh, my. That's what I was going to say. Was there. Oh, my God. Then I finally found you. What if that's wrong?

Well, then we're going to boost to whomever sings that. My kid, 11. Yeah, it's them. Yes. Invited a new friend over for the first time. They're hanging out, going. swimming when the friend said, I was born to swim. I was born swimming.

I was born in a pool in my living room. Oh, who's going to clean that app? Yeah, exactly. Oh, we had to get one of those steam cleaners to get the carpet. Who was the send her in her? Pardon me, I had to miss that. This was Casey in Minnesota. Of course, Casey and Jojo.

How did I forget? Sorry, Casey and Jojo. Hmm, why do you forget who sent it in? Because you immediately went to. I interrupted. The, yeah, I, when we had our children, we went to prenatal classes who were taught by a doula.

Mm-hmm. Elblangana. And they, and are you going to remember the rest of this story? Um, and they, by the way, I'm calling the kettle black here.

Um, and they had a video of like, here's, we're just going to show you a video of someone giving birth. Sure. And these people, it was a couple, male and female, and she was giving birth, and they had a doula. And there was nothing for the doula to do. And so in the video, the doula is just taking pictures of this woman giving birth in a pool in her living room. And the doula wearing a snor.

And the pictures, like, the dola does not how to work the camera. Yeah. And the flash is going off. I'm like, this is just going to reflect off the water. These are terrible. Made me so mad. Did you do any selfies or this was just the proper camera camera? No, this was like, you know.

It was sort of like when everyone had digital cameras before iPhones. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you guys ever rinsed out a jar of salsa? Yeah. That's what I imagine. Oh, sure. If you're at home. It's worth that easy.

I imagine it's more scrubbing involved. I know someone who the pool broke. No way. Oh, no. Now, this pool was... Rhyme's with Raven Debbie. They would never. Hospital only.

This next one comes from G.W. in Texas. We are in the... G.W. Bush? Yeah. Yeah. We're in the dead center of Kansas. I don't know why.

Somebody from Texas is in Kansas. It's the day before July 4th, 2026. This is written like a lot of... little, um, a little bit of a tail. Grandma Vicky is serenely stirring a mixing bowl full of three bean salad as her oxygen machine hisses and whirs in the background. Oh, boy. She stops stirring for a moment while continuing to look in the mixing bowl and takes a deep breath

quietly, yet emphatically, says to herself, this looks like shit. Later when she asks me to, I taste it. As I am formulating a review, she looks at me and asks, tastes like shit, donut. So anyway, she knew it looks like she had it, but did it, but did it? I don't know. But did it, but did it? Right back to us, GW in Texas. How was that three B-B salad?

G-W sounds for guess what? I want to know if it tastes like shit. Yeah, GW. Boy, I love a bean salad. And this is the time of year for it. Yeah, it really is. Maybe she didn't have enough kinds of beans. How many beans?

You should only have three. Max it? Well, no. Oh, I'll want it on the beans. What? I'll go all max out on the beans, but then you need to add a crunch element. chopped up pickles Maybe some celery

Or maybe some red onion Oh sure Now there's just a little added bonus This is a boring dream from Peter In Victoria BC I thought you were running low on over herds Well this is a boring dream This is a boring dream

Count is full over herds Oh okay Should I say it for next time? No no it's fine it's fine it's fine Last night I dreamed that I was trying to remember The name of a special kind of towel or cloth You use specifically to wipe up spilled water in the bathroom. Spoiler, there isn't such a thing.

That's what Dave needs for the bottom of his bridge. Let us know, listeners. I do have a special facecloth that I keep in my drawer in the bathroom. Don't want to hear about it. Just because I, like, you know, if I ever... David's natural, it's okay. If it ever gets on the mirror. There's an overhares that are written.

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And here we go. Send them in if you want. Hi, Dave Graham and possible guest. This is Julie from Colonna calling in a boring dream. Yes. So the other night I dreamt that I was on a work call with some British people. And we were working on how often our regular meeting should be. And they said, how about fortnightly?

And I said, that's such a good word because biweekly can mean twice a week or every other week. And it's very confusing and that in North America, we should use the word Fortnite more. And that is my boring dream. Oh, my God, I forgot it wasn't really happening. Yes. Proper, proper, boring. Yeah, she really pulled me in there. Thank you.

I appreciate that. Proper boring. In it? If you want to, yeah, send in your boring dreams to SBY at maximum fund.org. Run and low on them. Yeah, there's also overheard. Do you want to send them in? Yeah, there's also a place on our Discord.

There's a whole boring dream thread. A boring dream hole area called my travel agent retired. I love it. Here's your next phone call. Hey, guys, this is Andrew from Skagit Valley, Washington. I work at a very large factory, and I got over bird for you. It's pretty common to see birds flying around the factory, but the other day, I look up, and there's a goddamn seagull. blanche is a building. And that was pretty great. But this guy tries to go in for a landing as soon as he sees the polished concrete floor, he slipped and he slid like five feet on his stupid eagle button. All right.

This majestic eagle has flown in. Seagull. Seagull. I thought it was an eagle. I thought it was a beagle. I flew in and wiped out. Wipped out. Was it? And just like ass over tea kettle. You know? I saw a seal the other day. They're huge. They're like, they're like the size of a chicken.

Some of them can be like huge than the size of a chicken. Like it's just like a bird walking around. It's like a big, yeah, it looks like a big meat duck. Yeah. I saw a,

uh, where at the Royal Ontario Museum, they had an albatross. Oh yeah. That was big. And you're, call back if Jimothy comes through. Yeah,

callback if Jimithe comes through this, the giant, uh, factory in Skagit Washington. And if you're an albatross, stop following me around. Yeah. Stop hanging. No, that's what hangs around your neck?

A noose. A necktide. Isn't that an albatross? Yeah, that's an albatross. I got around my neck. Yeah. And then on the Sopranos, famously he called it an albacore, which is a fish. Beautiful.

Here's your final phone call. Or not. Hi, this is Christina from Vancouver, calling in with an overheard. I passed by two young boys strolling down Robson Street, no parents anywhere in sight. And the older one was like a gangly, maybe 11 or 12-year-old preteen. And the younger was, I'm guessing, six-year-old kid brother. And the older boy just goes, yeah, well, you know, it's just really not worth the calories. The younger one hesitates a second and then goes, yeah.

No freaking way. Got to watch your numbers, kids. And that, a very good friend of mine, Christina G. Oh, yeah. Christina G? Hey, thanks for sending that in, Graham's friends. Yeah. And, you know, to send them in, I'm sure running it low on the written-in overheard.

Don't make it, don't make that feel that you send in just any overheard. Send in if you've got a good one that you've been sitting on, this is the time to send it. If you're ever thinking, oh, mine would never make it. It might. Yeah, exactly. This is your best chance. But, well, that brings us to the end of the podcast. Sheila, this was amazing.

Thank you, Graham. Thank you for being on the podcast. Oh, this was worth the calories. Absolutely what. I appreciate the return invitation. Yeah, we'll do it again in another eight years maybe. Yeah, you can discuss that with Dave when I'm not here. We'll do it in eight years.

No, we'll do it sooner. Yeah. We're traveling over there. Come on over. You are so great and so funny. I know you do have listeners in Sweden as well. And in Denmark, so shout out. Shout out.

Shout out. Scandinavian bumpers. And do you have an album coming out or a special? Promote Maraboo. Yes. I would like to promote that I will be handing out textbooks in the middle of August. So if you need one, come in and check with me. What's the first day of school?

First day of school is August 19th. Okay. Dave had a dream where he really got raked over the coals for a textbook that he designed. Yeah, that's true. Oh, the physics one. Yeah. I really like that. Yeah.

I wasn't so bad. Yeah. I've seen some real stinkers. And honestly, my girlfriend's dad had no right. Well, thank you very much for being our guest. Thank you, everybody out there for listening. Keep having those boring dreams. You know, even if they're your dream of what you want to do with your life.

What's the wettest sandwich in your town? Yeah, send in what's the, you? Yeah, the wettest sandwich in your town, both name and filling. And what's the most drizzling shit? Absolutely. And come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcast with yourself. Maximum Fun. A worker-owned network of artist-owned shows.

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