Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 961 - Allie Entwistle

Episode Date: August 18, 2026

Improviser Allie Entwistle returns to talk clown school, beach socks, and Winners. 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! Hey, welcome to episode number 961 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name's Graham Clark. With me, as always, is a man who will not turn a refreshing can of Canada dry club soda down, Mr. Dave Schumka. It's good.

It's zero calories, which is good because it has no flavor, so it shouldn't have any calories. It's just water with bubbles in it. But the bubbles are calorie-free, which is good because I'm... You're on Atkins. I'm on Atkins. Ooh, yeah. Do we call it, can we call it that anymore? I can't remember what the thrust of Atkins was.

No carb. No carb. Lots of meat? Yeah, I think lots of meat. Yeah. And did the founder of it like Die of Heart Attack or something like that? Sure, but that's because he found Atkins. late in life.

That's true. If he had had it as a younger man. Yeah, in his early days, he was on all carb. Yeah, he's on Colonel Sanders diet. It's hard for me because I do so many marathons. You've got a carbolo. Yeah, you can't just drink a bunch of Canada dry

just before the race. I never understood the science of that, but I was always on board with any athletic thing endeavor that involved, hey, make sure you eat a lot of spaghetti the night before. Our guest today, returning guests to the podcast, I can only assume spaghetti fan.

It's Allie Antwistle. That's right. Hello. It's me. Thanks for coming and doing the show. Thanks for having me. Of course. You want to get to know us?

Yeah. Get to know us. Spaghetti fan. Sure, yeah. Is it true? Are you? I am. I do like spaghetti.

Yeah. Do you like all pasta? Yeah, what's your favorite shape of pasta? Okay. Actually, maybe controversial. I don't really like Pene. Okay. I had some penny today.

Long tubes. And they're like ripped. Not for my pleasure. I'll tell you, I'm not enjoying it. I don't know why. Like, I think it's like, I think a lot of bad pastas, like, not at restaurants, but a lot of bad pastes. And for the American listeners, pasta. Yeah.

Sorry, thank you so much for that, Dave. A lot of bad pasta. Are made with peni. Yeah. Like, a lot of the baked ones. Mm. You think those are bad? Well, like, like, like there are bad versions of them.

and I have eaten them. You know what? I haven't found a gluten-free version of bow-tie. I love bow-tie. What about far-fale? Which one's far-fale? Bo-tie. And for the Italians, farfale.

It means butterfly. Yeah, I've had a lot of places that you go, though, the gluten-free option is panning. Or spaghetti, but. I, I, I, I-i. I have been having, oh, boy, I'm trying to remember. We eat a lot of pasta in this house. And a lot of, like, not even, not a lot of volume, but a lot of variety. I'm always getting, oh, the newest shape.

Yeah. What's the newest shape? Yeah. Well, they actually, I feel like some podcast or website, like, 10 years ago, was like, we're coming up with the newest shape. What? Oh, because to me, when I was a kid, the newest shapes would always come in, like, Zoodles or.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I just had a hippopotamus. I was probably, like a minion's shape, you know. Yeah, yeah. Alphaghetti style. But there was one I had recently. I'm like, this is great, except it.

it doesn't want the fork. It hates the fork and it hates the spoon. You know what it was? Oh, it's this one that's like little thin lasagnas. Like if lasagna, if fettuccini had frills. Oh. It's kind of like. It sounds good.

It just doesn't want to be lifted into my mouth. It's kind of like octopus arms. Oh, okay. When you're gesturing or doing the hula. I am doing sort of like a very nice. Hulik thing. So you're a spaghetti fan. You're also a renowned improviser.

That's true. Believe what you've heard. And you, next week, you're heading out of town. You're going to go to an island. An island. And you're going to be a camp counselor at improv. Yeah. I'm the camp co-director.

Oh, okay. Please. Women in STEM. Yeah. And improv camp. Yes. Thank you. Thank you.

Very important. Yeah. Stemme is what they would say. Yeah. Stemic. Stemic. Well, it's steemic now. They're trying to get.

Yeah. What else are they putting in there? Arts. Oh, okay, sure. Women are the arts. Women just having a nice time. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. How about that? How about that? Why do we have to do science? I'm tired. Yeah. My daughter had a video call with her friend. They've been a video call like nonstop this summer.

And I walked past And this My daughter's friend Who's 9 I guess Maybe 10 now She was just sitting on her bed And behind her bed There's a poster of

Like it looks like The solar system And it just says stem on it And I was like your parents Put that up No kid is like Oh can I have the stem poster I'm such a big fan of STEM

Now you're You're like co-director but also a counselor? No. Just, you're not hands-on? Well, I mean, I talk to the children. I allow them to talk to me and make eye contact and stuff. That's nice.

But they can't come to you for counseling. No, no, I don't allow that. And how much of the camp do you spend on Bible study? Oh, most of it. Actually, it is a United Church camp that we rent. A lot of Bibles just kicking around? Well, they're actually, United Church pretty chill. Yeah.

Cool. So before when I started working there, there was a sign, like a lot of signs that said, like God is love, but they're kind of gone now. I don't know if they do any Bible stuff at that camp anymore. I thought you're going to say Gong is love, but that's, they're gone. They're gone. The, yeah, the, I find that almost all the camps locally are secretly Christian or blatantly Christian or blatantly Jewish. And you know what I think is why is because the economics of summer camp doesn't make sense.

You kind of need someone who's going to fund it. It just, it doesn't make sense. Now, in the... I've seen the budgets And it doesn't make sense And it doesn't make sense Like they try to They try the church way

Of funding it at the camp They'll send a like The collection plate Around Yeah, the collection Yeah, They've got no money Yeah

Yeah, you're just gonna get A lot of rocks in that dish And maybe like a dead Mouse that somebody found A sticker I mean, they're teens So like maybe some poems Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah An app Yeah Sort of app So you outside of, because it's a sleeveway camp, because people are there for a week? Yeah.

Besides improv, other camp activities, or is it all improv the whole day? I would say it's 50% improv and 50% just like bits. Okay. Just the kids doing bits. Okay. Like, sketches? Like, yeah. So you have like, you know, after dinner you have two hours of bit time.

Yeah, like, uh. Free bit time. Yeah, fuck around. Basically. Like the second night, we have a talent show and it's my favorite night a whole year. We have kids who come in from across Canada, and, like, they're 13 to 19. And a kid will just travel from, like, last year a kid from Saskatchewan just traveled in with her baton because she's a baton twirling. Nice.

And then at the talent show, you just see the best baton twirling you've ever seen in your entire life. Wow. Then you'll see, like, close up magic. I don't know what the best baton twirling I've ever seen in my life would be. It would be this if you had seen it. He's like, I'm yelling. Did she have to bring a case for her baton? Like, did she ever get?

I didn't check in with her about the travel policy. She said she traveled a whole way from Saskatchewan with her baton. That's true. Like it's an imposition. But I also feel like if she flew in going through security with this thing, they might have to be like, do some twirling to prove this. And that would be kind of fun for everybody in line. It's not a weapon. It's a baton.

Let me show you. Yeah, exactly. Oh, and then the police officers are like, I carry a baton too. And it is a weapon. Yeah. Well, I do mine with parade song. Hit it. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

And then the police are so inspired. And they give up the weapons forever. Well, no, they keep their batons, but they twirl. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. So talent, like, do you show off a talent? No, no. I'm just there watching them do their lip sinks. So we talk to you every...

You talk to me every year. Well, we've talked about this camp many times. And I feel, now I just feel bad because I'm going to ask the same question. That's fine. You know what? Did you go to improv camp? No, but many people in the improv scene here did. Yeah.

Yeah. It's like one of my friends had his first kiss at improv camp when he was a camper. Is that his talent? Yeah. He was like, when he was a camper. When everyone involved was a camper. Yeah.

Yeah, that was a talent. He's like, look how good I am at kissing. Do you have a talent, secret talent? I don't. I don't either. No, I really don't. Oh, well, actually, I can, this is not fun. And I'm glad this is not a video podcast.

Okay. But I can. Well, I can get my phone out. No, please don't. I can seal off my native. Cazil cavity with my upper lip. Well, you said you didn't have a talent. Can we see?

Yeah, I'll show you guys. Okay. Oh, okay. It goes all the way up to the nose. And I didn't, I do this every, yeah, they can't. Yeah, you try it, Graham. I don't know that I can't. Well, I'm seeing you.

No, I can't. I've, no, he's supposed to do that. Not happening. No, I know, but I'm just trying to get them like. The muscle understands. I'm trying to like understand what the concept is. Yeah, and I'm sorry for jumping on. And you're, you're, you see a.

it up and well when well so actually i've done this naturally since i was a kid while i swim and i didn't know that until i was in grade like eight and my friend and i were in a pool wearing goggles and she was like why are you doing that thing with your face and i was like what thing what if you're the next step that's is what i think right i think this is evolution because i've never had to plug my nose while jumping in the water but didn't we come out of the water so are you the last step planet is water so you know i'm going back in there's all these forest fires i got to go back in the water Yeah. So that's my talent.

How are you guys doing that talent? I don't have. I don't have it. I wish it was like, you know, double jointed. That would be good if like a talent show was just, all right. Everyone's show your weird body thing. Have you evolved? I can do, like, this finger can bend pretty far back.

That is pretty far back. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't have anything like that. I really know. I wish I did. Like, they all can, but.

Yeah. Not frequently. Frequishly. Not frequently. Mine doesn't go back very. Very far at all. It's a, and you know what, if I had one, I would have really exploited it in my youth. I really would have got people to gather around and check out what I've got.

I had a friend that had webbed toes. That's amazing. Not all 10, but like three on each foot webtoe. So you talk about that, that's another step in the evolution. Exactly. Back in the water. Mm-hmm. Unless you want to wear foot flops, in which case, rough.

Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Or toe shoes. Yeah. Well, it probably wasn't going to wear toes shoes. I feel like. Aren't toe shoes mostly a woman's garment? Towshoes?

What? Oh my gosh. I don't really know what toe shoes. Oh. Like the Vibrum 5 fingers? You haven't seen these? Yeah. Oh, those shoes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was just like, if you say toe shoes, I'm like, so many shoes have toes in them. That's true. Oh, I've been seeing ads. I've been getting ads for this running shoe brand, ultra, alta. Okay. And they've been, it says a running shoe. designed with, it was like, with room for your toes so you can crush your runs and not your feet.

What? And I was like, I think all shoes have room for your toes. I think there's just one guy. He's got really big toes. And he's like, God, why are wheel walking around like this? I like, my feet are so wide. I've limited to three types of shoes. Okay.

So most shoes do not have proper toe room for this, hombre. Probably you should try out Alta or Ultra or whatever. Or something. Yes. Maybe my algorithm has been listening to your toes. Yeah. And what is in my algorithm these days? Jesus Louise,

I'm trying to think. A lot of Spider-Man got in there. A lot of Spider-Man. Oh, okay. Not sure why exactly. I mean, I've clicked on a couple Spider-Man. Sure. But I think it's like, it must be in my top three or something like that.

I've been getting a lot of IKEA hacks. Oh, yeah, I get IKEA hacks. Nice. That's fun. That's useful. Yeah, and make a coffee. table out of a different kind of coffee table. I've been getting this amazing thing

where I get apology posts. What's that? They're just on Instagram. It's like an apology post from a business. Or it's like some sort of drama has happened. Right. But it's like from like it'll be in the middle like the state

somewhere that I like it's a restaurant being like we'd like to talk about the incident that happened last night. Oh, this is so good. Camels Grill. You know. That doesn't represent us. And then I go through all the comments. And so now I just get all of these. That's great.

Yeah, you're getting, that's, that's gold. It's good stuff. Yeah, your algorithm is working. It's good stuff, yeah. Yeah, I also sometimes get a wash of, uh, subway takes. I feel like, uh, a lot of those. Um, some of those takes, pretty hot. Some of those are pretty spicy.

Have we talked about this? Is that show, is it a one minute show or is there like a 15 minute version? Oh, I think that's it. I think that's it. And they, who was I asking? I was asking Bobby Warner, past guest. Because he did it? Yeah, he did it.

And he just said there's like a lineup of, because the host guy wears the same outfit. Yeah. Yeah. So they've just got like 10 people all lined up. Maddie talked about doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mattie's not.

It's, well, you know what? If you want to check out my phone, you want to see some of them. Yeah, let's switch phones. What I mean to say is, I don't have any. I'm not really tall women in my algorithm. That's what you're saying. So, speaking of tall women, when Allie got here today. This was huge, this is huge for me.

I, the moment she came in, I was like, I don't remember you being so tall. You're so tall. How tall are you? And I was like, 5'6. And I was like, you're not 5.6. You're 5.8. Yeah. And, uh...

Well, first you measure me against Graham. Yeah. I was like, I'm 58. Yeah. And we went back to back. Yeah. And Graham's 58. You say you're 56.

And you were, you were the same height back to back. Yeah. There's, there's no. changing it. It is written. So let it be written. And then I was like, well, because I measure my children on their birthdays and their half birthdays.

Okay. Do you measure yourself every year, just as he? If you're on the shrink side? I did measure myself in the last couple of years, and I'm no longer six feet. I'm 5-11 and something. Wow. Yeah, I guess you do get more squat with time, right? Not everyone.

Just Dave. Just Dave. Just Dave. Just Dave. Dave. Just Dave. I mean, they say you shrink. I don't know that you get more squat.

Well, it's that you can do more squats. Oh, very nice. That's not true. It's true. Look it up. Look it up. But anyway, so we, we, I got you. Yes.

I said, come here. Put your, stand against the wall. Yeah. Now, I didn't do the thing where, like I take a book. Right. And like flowers. And find the top point. Because I've got voluminous hair.

Well, I was, I didn't know. what I, you know what I, we hadn't talked about measuring consent. We hadn't, we hadn't talked to through. It's not my birthday or my half birthday. Yeah. What we did. Mearsing consent is, is that Nome Chomsky? That's yes, that's no.

Yeah. But the, uh, the, the, the, the verdict is you're five foot seven. Seven. You got, you gained a whole inch that you didn't even know about. I've been living a different life. What's just going to change? I think I'm going to be, I'm going to take control. Yeah, okay.

I'm going to get into STEM. Yeah. I think it's time. Which of the stems? Your stems are longer than you thought. What's T? Tech. Tech. Oh, no, thanks.

Science tech engineering mathematics. Ooh, those last were real drag, but the first thing. I liked math. Yeah? Yeah. I used to tutor math. Oh, where is so the learning center? No, I worked at an alternative school for a while.

Kuman. Yeah, and I was the math teacher. I was a math teacher. Um, what's, uh, do you have a favorite number? Ooh. Um, uh, I, I like a two. Oh. Yeah.

Yeah. Two's good. Like 800. Oh, 800's nice. Yeah. Um, that's, uh, your, your, uh, area coach. Yeah, yeah, that's like, it just, it's always sounded good to me whenever he said one. One, 800.

Oh, yeah. Um, the, there was like a. What are you? Yeah, Dave. Well, there was a radio lab or something many years ago, with a mathematician and they brought up the fact that sometimes they're asked

what's your favorite number and they're like why would I have a favorite number yeah like I love them all I'm a mathematician but like also like that's not what numbers are for

yeah and the interview was like well I guess I'll just go fuck myself we need to bring the joy back into mathematics yeah I'll say it um I don't know that I have a favorite number

I would go I mean seven is such a classic yeah seven at least sins yeah Lucky number seven. Seven wives for seven sons. Seven rides for seven brothers.

Yeah, seven's good. Seven's good. It's no 800, but it'll do. Now, you currently, once a month at Little Mountain Gallery, down in Gastown, this is true. One town Water Street. You run a show, very popular show. Every time you're doing it, I feel like full house you're getting.

Things are going well. Yeah. Things are going well. And it's because we stole IP. Yeah, so tell me about, tell everybody about this show. Okay, so I started a show with my good friends, Ronald Dario, and Martin Baylis. Two not past guests of the show. Wow, okay, got to work on that.

You've got to get them on here, two angels. And, yes, based on Taskmaster. Yes. And no Taskmaster. I know of it. I haven't watched it, but I know the conceit and how it works. Yes, Dave, you? I've watched.

one season. I watched the one with Jason Manzukas. Yes. I'm in a similar boat. I haven't seen a whole bunch. But what I immediately saw was I saw this show and I was like, I'm jealous. Yeah. Oh, it's the kind of thing that.

I want this. If you haven't seen it, it's like comedians do tasks. Yeah. And there's like you get a written set of instructions. You need to figure out your way of doing a thing. Which is like, you know, take these things and put them over there. Truly. Yeah.

Find all the rubber ducks. and put them here without doing whatever. Yeah. You'll be, you know, lose points for this or whatever. Those are a couple of really classic tasks. You just did. The Robert Outcast. But they are, you watch the show.

Yeah, I'm jealous as well. I would love to be a contestant. I'd love to be one of the hosts. Truly. I think a lot of comedians don't watch it because it is, I find it. I just get jealous. I'm like, I just want to do it. Yeah.

I don't want to watch it. But you didn't just sit there and say it. No, I was like, I don't. I gotta get on here. So, yeah, me, Martin, and Ronald started, please don't sue us taskmaster. Yep.

And it was fine, and nothing bad happened. And then the show is just maintained its stride ever since. Then we did a little festival called JIS for Laughs, Vancouver, and then I got a call

from Christine Bordland, Angel, who is a producer at JFL, and she was like, hey. So, can you just like, really quick. This is like two days before our show at JFL. She was like,

can you just really quickly write me an email that says all the ways in which your show is really actually very different from DASBster? And I was like, yes, I can. And we do, like, we really do,

like our goal is it to like actually just copy paste Taskmaster. Like we, because ours is all live. We've got some different dynamics. So you don't do a film prior. It's all. No, no,

no, yeah. Mostly, mostly live stuff. We have like a couple of pre-films. stuff, but mostly it's like in the room, in the moment. So switching that up and then, you know, just some different dynamics. Ronald's my cuck officially as part of the show.

We got to get this guy. Oh, you're going to love him. Do you not know him? Yeah. He has my cuck too. I have like a roll-a-x of cucks. Oh, yeah. No, he's great.

He's great. We make all the British people leave at the beginning. You know, we have our own kind of thing. And so because I've never been because my. My show is always happening at the same time. Yeah, we've been. But you pack it out of here. I hear the laughter from the outside where my show's got none.

I can hear so much coming up through the floor. Yeah, it's very fun. And so now you've had to change the name. We made a generous donation to charity after Tasmasters so nicely asked us to. To be in lieu of being. Yeah, to be part of the festival, they were like, can you donate your proceeds to charity? And we said, of course. Of course, local comedian isn't charity.

Yeah. That's actually big business enterprise. So, but we donated a bunch of money to improv camp scholarship. So, you know, you got to do it. And it's all getting funneled to the United Church of Canada. Exactly, baby. And so the show. Yes.

So now we've changed the name. Now it's called task show. Task show, okay. Pretty good, right? Well, was there another one in between? Yes, there was. It was unaffiliated task-based show. That was my favorite one.

And that one, I heard feedback that it was hard to remember. Oh, yeah. And hard to Google, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Who are these people? Now we're task show. Happy? Now, you get, like, would you say it's almost sold out every?

Yes, yeah. Yeah. How did so many people find out about it? Was it because it was called Taskmaster? Yeah, I think so. I think that really helped. And then, yeah. I'm going to do a show called The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

I think you should. I think it's really smart. Because I think, you know, people, after COVID, people are scared to leave their houses. They're like, I remember inside. Inside's so nice and safe. It is safe. YouTube, nice. And then they're like, oh, what, I watch it on YouTube live on a stage?

Yeah, that was the thing I really like about Taskmaster is that it's on YouTube. It is on YouTube. But it is one of these shows that is like, there's like different versions in different countries. Yes. There's too much of that. Yeah. Like, if you find out about a show like this or the traitors. Yeah.

Where it's like, well, there's, there's, there's, there's been 20 seasons of it, but 500 seasons, if you include the Australian. Yeah. This taskmaster also has Australia. All sponge. Yeah. There's a Quebec one. I've heard, there's a rumor. There's going to be a Canadian one.

I heard, I heard scuttle butt. It's only a matter of time. I've heard the scuttle butt. And who do we want to get on there? Howie Mandel. Oh. He should be in every, yeah, Janard. Got to get Jan on there.

Bring Gretzky. He can kind of be This will be his apology tour. And Drake. Drake kind of needs a rebrand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, those are the big four. Yeah, sounds great.

See what Drake is up to the last couple weeks. He's been fine, right? I assume. He was with some goth lady. Oh, no. He was hanging out with Lena the plug, who I learned about from you. I watched an interview with

unrelated those people Gauthie Oh shit Now I forget her name She's like the whistleblower on Harvey Weinstein And she was got What's her name?

Oh fuck fuck fuck fuck Rose McGowan Elvira Rose McGowan and her time dating Marilyn Madison And she said that eventually didn't work out Because they had such different backgrounds Like her background was kind of wild

And his was just like suburban with two normal parents Yeah he was like You know I grew up With Kevin Arnold. Yeah, yeah. Wow. Dwayne, I feel like it's the other guy.

Winnie Cooper was also there. Is this a show you grew up with? The Wonder Years. No. What was kind of the equivalent of like a family drama seen through the eyes of like one of the kids? Hmm. I mean, there's Malcolm in the Middle. Yeah, Malcolm in the Middle.

I mean, I watched a lot of home improvement. Oh, sure. You know? Who is your favorite of the Suns? JTT. Yeah. Please don't get it twisted. Come on.

Oh, yeah. What was your favorite boy? My favorite boy? Probably Tara Noah Smith. Well, I was a Zachary type, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we like this kind of show where it's seen through the eyes of the child. Yeah.

The child narrates it. Oh, yes. We've watched a few of these. We've watched a young Sheldon. That one's narrated. narrated by old Sheldon. Okay. Wow.

We watched fresh off the boat. Okay. Just narrated. Well, season one's narrated. Season two, they're like, get rid of the narrated. We watched. Oh, we were trying to find everybody hates Chris. Oh, yeah.

But that's not available anywhere. They buried it. They buried it. Because that's narrated. Yeah. And we try, we can't find the Goldbergs, even though. That's for narrated by Patton Oswald. Is that what's the other?

That is narrated by Patton Oswald. Yeah. Although the kid has footage, like real-life footage from his childhood. Oh, cool. Like he had a camera running his whole childhood. Yeah, in the 80s. Somebody, like, point out they said, like, at a certain point, there won't be documentaries that don't have full access to, like, a thousand videos.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, it's old documentaries, sometimes you're staring at the same photo as they kind of zoom in, zoom out. Yeah. You know, Ken Burns' documentaries. They just put in an iMovie editor, just one picture, just does the thing automatically. Do you, are you as an improviser, do you put up clips?

A stand of comedians are always putting up clips. You know, it's interesting because it was always the big thing. It's like it's not the same. You can't put up improv clips. People won't watch it. Same with like sketch. It was like it needs to be like perfect video, perfect sound. But that's changing.

And now people are putting up improv clips. So I haven't put up improv clips. It sounds like so much of work. Well, that's the same with me in stand-up clips. I'm so tired. Not that I don't want to do it. I just don't want to do it. You need an assistant.

Yes. Yeah. And it's somebody I can hit on. We got. Yeah. Finally. A comedian assistant sent us an email asking. I got, someone sent me an email.

Oh. Yeah. About making reals? No, about coming on the show. Yeah. Oh. That's right. And it was a friend of his, I guess, or his agent, maybe?

Well, I don't know. Well, I don't know. It said the email was this comedian's name, then assistant at gmail.com. And we can't, we're not in town when the comedians here. But I was like, comedian's not big enough to have an assistant. Yeah. Do you think it's a fake assistant? I do. Oh, my God.

I do think it is this comedian. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. There was a guy, a guy's name that it. The first time I went to Just for Last, everybody that was on the homegrown show had the same agent and he was somebody who didn't exist. But all of them agreed, like, we will all be represented by such and such Hirschfeld. That's so good. He's good.

But, like, outside of the Toronto guys, nobody else knew. None of us had agents except, like, everybody in Toronto had this high-powered Hershwold. Wow. Did he ever sign you? No, you know what? He hated what he did. Oh, man. You know, it's harsh.

He probably wants you to post clips. So on this not taskmaster show. Yes. Yes. That is totally a taskmaster. That's not. It's not very different. It's distinct.

When you watch the show and you're jealous of the real show. Yes. Do you think you'd be good at the tasks? Oh, good at them? That's the thing. It's like, well, it's kind of funny. Running the show, it's like, that's not my goal. I don't really give a shit how good they are.

So on your show, you are the host. Yes, I'm the host. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, well, maybe I'll talk. So, some of the tasks we've done, one of my favorite ones was, what does Martin do? Martin does tech.

Okay. Pretty badly on purpose in a fun way. Well, let's get some women in stuff. Yeah, finally. But, yeah, we did one where the task was first to cry wins. So everyone on stage had to cry, but then we played the, Ferell's happy music video. Oh, that's funny.

Are the contestants audience? No, no, no. Comedians. No, no, please. Okay, okay. thirsty. And Brent Constantine almost shed a tear. Really?

Actually, he claims he did, but he did. I could cry right now. Could you? Okay, here it comes. He's going to cry. Oh, no. Okay, well, I don't need the narration. Okay.

It's not a big of course. Guys, I'm going to cover my ears. Keep the show going to say, yeah. I'm going to enter the cry palace. It's going to go out the cry zone. When I come out, I'll be crying. this might be, I might be gone for a while. Sounds good.

Okay. Allie's wearing, before the show is complimenting you on your t-shirt. Yes. Which says, I don't skate in the, what is? Thrasher magazine style. Yeah. And do you think that's one of one? Do you think?

I think, well, yeah, it's my friend sister who is a tattoo artist. Do you get there? Wow. Dave, I'm worried about you. Did you see my faces I was making? No, we actually kind of just completely started having our conversation. Oh, God, I was contorting my face. And not a single tear.

No. I'm sad, though. You know, well, no, and mostly just like. You seem affected. Because I was choking. I'm crying because I was choking. Oh, sure. It's more that like, yeah.

Well, you probably wouldn't have gotten any points in the show, but I'm proud of you anyway. I've just read an interesting. interview with an actor. I can't remember her who she was, but she said like, Rose McGowan. It was Rose McGowan. She dated Marilyn Manson and cried all the time. Cried in her childhood. Childhood was crazy. His was normal. She said you can't keep going back to the same well emotionally to make yourself cry on because then your brain gets bored of it. Wow. And it can't elicit the same reaction. Yeah. Do you do acting outside of improv?

Oh, I do a self-taper too. Sure. A little commercial. here and there? Do I act? Hard to say. What's, yeah, I know when I was going on a vision. Yeah. And now they're all self-tape. You don't go to a place.

Yeah, it's very often self-tape. So, like, how many takes do you do? Oh, well, it depends on, it depends on how much I'm, like, if I think I'm likely to get it or not. Right. And if, oh, this character needs to be five, seven. Oh, there's no way. Well, I get a lot. It's like, if I'm supposed to be a normal mom, I'm like, that's not.

I can't. I know. I love seeing commercial. where there was one like 10 years ago with James Hartnett and he was like a dad. Yeah. You don't have a 10 year old. You're 30. And you're, you don't even.

I got a teenager pregnant. That's the subtext of the character. My favorite is a mother who smells something gross. Yeah, like I can't do that. Yeah. Yeah. Have you booked any of these? I did Heinz a couple years ago.

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Ket chop or baked beans? Oh. I was on. the ketchup. I've done high, I've done ketchup. Uh, fruit loops. What'd you do in a fruit loops

commercial? Uh, I was supposed to be like faux high. Actually, Ronald and I were both in, oh no, he wasn't. No, he almost was in it. Anyway. I had to be high. Yeah, we were like supposed to be high. Oh, but, yeah. But I did get to act with two cans'am. Really? What's he like? Well, he was a, a box on the end

of a stick, but. What kind of box? Fruit loops box? Uh, no, like, um, just for CGI, you know? Like, it was just like a green box. Is there anything in particular that he followed? Yeah, that's interesting. I'll have to look into that further. Yeah, see what he was following.

Did he do his catchphrase? They're great. Yeah, he did. Shreddies are delicious. I remember he's. That's so him. Snack, grab a bock. He had a British accent, and my mind of my lines was, why does he have a British accent?

So this was an ad for kids? Yeah, for kids. But I think it was, I don't know. They were like, you're high, but you're not high. Yeah. Yeah. Your character's high, but we're not. We're denying.

You guys aren't high. You guys got high elsewhere. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. There's no drug paraphernalia on your table as you. It's just the loops. It would be great if you were like, oh yeah, sure. I'm high.

Great. And you missed the idea that you're supposed to be high on pot and you do a big heroin performance. That was two trains spotting. Yeah. I'm falling through the carpet. I don't got. I got to... Did you have to

improvise a lot during the ad? I feel like that's all ads. Like, okay, dude. Yeah. Now you write the script for us. Yeah. What if you wrote it?

Yeah, so those are the things I usually book if it's like improv. So if I have to do a, like, an audition for something that's not like that, I'm like, oh, waste of everyone's time. Yeah. I audition for Colonel Sanders.

To be Colonel Sanders? Yeah. They were like, we're going in a new direction. I love that. Well, they go in a new direction every few months. Yeah. It's usually a famous person.

Yeah, exactly. Such a waste. And then I saw the guy they chose, he was just like a regular Colonel Sanders. I'm like, what are we doing? Yeah. Why are we wasting my time? More women in STEM chicken at the end there. It does feel like the people casting his commercials have no idea what they want.

They don't. And so it's a really big waste of time. It's actually really frustrated because I do non-union commercials. So it's like, it's so weird that like the lowest common denominator is not in the union. You need to get this agent, this fake agent. I need Hirshfield. Yeah, get me Hershield. Get me Hershield on stat. And you need to get Allieant Whistle assistant at gbell.com.

Oh, she'd be so good at what she does. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, everybody wants to be rep by her. Everybody wants it. Yeah, I got an acting agent for a while. Didn't book a single thing. Because I can't, I never learned, I guess, is how to memorize dialogue.

Oh, sure. Yeah. So the whole time, it's all. I'm thinking it's like, what's the next line, what's the next line? Yeah. Are you all right with that? I'm okay with it. And then also, if I really don't care, I just use post-it notes around, like, the ringlight.

Oh. Or I use, like, yeah. Which really helps with the acting. It's sure what. Wasn't that? Wasn't that? Isn't there, like, a famous acting story of, like, the Marlon Brand? I think I want to say Marlon.

Oh, yeah, getting fed the lines. Or, like, having them written around the room on different notes. Why not, you know? The other thing I heard was that Christopher Walken has all the punctuation removed from his lines. That's how you get to sign his own emphasis. And then Al Pacino says, your wife's got a great ass. For every, yeah, every scene, every line, yeah. It's amazing, though.

Yeah, it's a, I don't know. I don't want to say acting stuff because it seems like a pretty cushy gig, but. Yeah, it's weird. It's weird. Yeah. I'm method. Yeah. What was the role that you do?

played where you were really method? Two can say. Oh, yeah. And what did you do? I lived in a tree for a while. And I followed my nose. A lot of fruit loops because not a real two can. Yeah, that's right.

Does he eat them? Yeah, I don't think I've seen him eat them. Yeah, I don't know if he does. Do any of them eat them? Sugar bear, he seems to be really like those sugar. Well, they like them. But do we see them eating? Yeah, interesting.

I think Snap, crackle and Pops. Pop? Are they serving them? They dive into them. Tricks Bunny famously never gets them. He's crazy for them. But he never gets them.

The kids are always... Lucky. Lucky times you steal. Someone's after. Yeah. They're great. Tony, I think, eats a spoonful. Does he not?

But maybe you're right. Maybe the... I think Tony might. You know. Tony's like, he's the most handsome of all the... Oh, sure. Yeah.

Who would even sugar bear. Very sexy. But, yeah. What do you think? Hottest. Hotest, serial mascot. I like Count Chocchio quite a bit. I was thinking about Cotechle too.

Very sexy. He's got that nice accent. Yeah. And I did like the guy on the box of Stranger Things Demogorgon crunch. Oh, interesting. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's so funny when people have, like, mass-collected cereal boxes from something.

They're not worth anything, you know? They're worth it to them. Yeah. No, I mean, if you're going to try and sell your Phantom Menace cereal. And they're good, like, you know, decor. Yeah, it's true. Dave's going to open his closet. We see all of his cereal boxes.

Fuck! I saw a guy on my Instagram reels that was, like, doing interior decorating and he was explaining something called the cantalope rule. So if something is bigger than a cantaloupe if you have it like on your shelf then it seems intentional.

If you have things that are smaller than a cantaloupe, it seems like clutter. Oh. And I was just now thinking, yeah, but if you had a bunch of cereal boxes, it wouldn't be like, oh, classy. Cantaloupes. Yeah.

Favorite melon. Go for it. Water. Good pick. I mean, it's just so freaking good. Yeah. Yeah. You?

I like water or cantalope. I'm cantalope. I've always been cantaloupe. I'm coming around to water. Oh, water's so good. Although I was in Turkey once and I had honeydew melon. And I feel like honeydew melon in Canada, I think is like, we're getting sad, sad melons here. It was like, I was like, this is the best melon ever had in my life.

It's all beige here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's beige. It is funny when you go somewhere else and you're like, oh. Or like you go to a grocery store and like, wow, look at the size of the avocados. Yeah.

Yeah. And like anytime I've gone like by a roadside stand that sells like strawberries or something, you're like, this is unfucking believable. I've been getting screwed by Driscolls. Yeah, Driscoll's, man. It doesn't taste like anything. So true. Um, yeah, I, uh, during the summer, do you go anywhere? Do you have a, you go on a road trip? I, I, I, I've gone to, I've been to the Okinawanaughan to visit, visit my family.

Nice. Uh, and then also to Nelson. I have a friend from Nelson who runs the camp with me, actually. Okay. She's getting married this summer, went to her a bachelorette in Nelson. What did you do up there? Yeah, oh, we, we had a great time. We all, we all dressed as Guy Fieri, um, and went out on the town of Nelson. Love it. And it was really, it was a mystical experience.

Yeah. We all really like, well, we start, like the genesis was like, let's dress up as Guy Fierry. But then what it kind of became was like a group of 10 women, most of whom aren't performers, just me and Michelle are. Sure. And just be like in method acting as these men for four hours straight in downtown Nelson. As these men who are all guy Fierry. But they're like, we all had name. We were all different names.

It was like Ricky, Jayhaw. Jimithy and just tearing it up. That's probably the made it to the local news. Honestly, Nelson, I don't want to brag guys, but Nelson really embraced us. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. Yeah. It's beautiful.

The, so she's, that was her bachelor at party. When is the wedding? Is it going to be a camp? It's going to be a camp. All the campers are going to be there. End of August. And so after camp. After camp.

Is she going to camp? Yeah, she's going to camp. She's running a camp. But this is in the last few weeks of preparing for her wedding. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Look, you know, we can do it all. Are you going back to Nelson for it?

We're driving back to Nelson together. Are we getting married? I don't know. I don't know. Well, you'll find out on the day. We'll find out. And you know what? Just yes, end.

I do end. Do and. Yeah. I have made a crazy life decision recently, though, that I realized I should have done. Are you getting married? I'm not getting married, but I am. I'm going to clown school in France. Da-da-da-da.

There we go. Big reveal. Huge. Is it the same? Who's the one Sean Devlin went to? Did he die? Yes. Philip Golié?

I don't know. He died. Did he John Devlin go there? Who was like... Mean. Boreat? Yes. He did the borat.

And he's mean and he hit people of the cane. Yeah, I think Sean Devlin did that. Okay, what were Sean's reviews, do you know? He was mean. He got mean to. The guy was mean to him. And also, they were all in French and we didn't really understand what he was saying. So you're going to, is it...

Why? Who is this guy? Where is you going to if this guy's dead? Oh, it's like his disciples. Okay. Yes. The person who runs to school now is his ex-student and ex-lover. Whoa.

So I think it's going to be pretty good. So how long? I'm going for a month with three of my friends. Wow. Michelle's one of them and two other women. Are you going to all show up as Guy Fierry? We're all going to show up as Guy Ferry. That's our clown.

It's an hour outside of Paris. We're just going to live in this Airbnb. What do you want to get out of this? That's such a good question. I, Kay, it's third. It sounds so good. Like, not the. Not that part, but like living outside of Paris for a month.

Think of all the bread. That is part of it. Yeah. So why am I going such a good question? Why am I telling people about it? Even better question. Okay, sure. Because you're afraid you're going to, like, why is that what's wrong with telling people about it?

Well, okay, Dave, I'm already an improviser. Okay. I get enough flack as it is. Okay. You're worried you're going to. You think all the stand-ups going on Laugh Gallery are like thinking I'm really cool, Dave. I'm getting it left. They do.

They say, Alice doing a show downstairs. They're like, lover. Lover. But, so clown's cool. That's pretty laughable, of course. Well, this is the interesting thing because there's a guy that I watched his special. His real name is Zach Zucker. I love this special.

And he, the character is called Jack Tucker. Yes. And he is a clown character. Yes. And it was hilarious. He's, that special. is so crazy good. It's wild.

It's on YouTube. Yeah. So we're taking one course. I love YouTube. I need to watch more special. A course called Lejeure. Lejeure, the game. The game.

And it's about like physical performance, audience interaction and like tension and that kind of thing. So it's like professional training in a way that's like improv adjacent but not. What is improv? What are your expectations? Are you? I don't really know. I'm kind of excited. Because the dead guy.

The dead guy was mean. Yes. Do you want, if the person teaching you isn't mean, will you be like, huh? Why? I don't like what people are mean to me. But I do feel like I'm not getting the whole mean experience. Yeah. Yeah, I think that I want them to be a little bit mean.

Yeah. Yeah, I think I'm ready. I'm ready to go in with no ego and give you. Like, I've seen clips of him, like people are performing for him. And he's like, no one is laughing. Why are you still going? Why are you still doing the same thing? No one's laughing.

And I'm like, that's good. I kind of want that. Now, are you wanting to create your clown character? No, like, I'm not looking to become a clown, I'd say. Which is, my family's all like, so what? Okay. What the hell is going on? Here's what I would do.

Yes. Day one, if I was the teacher. Yes. Oh, yeah. Pye. Dave. Forget everything you know about clowning. I'm going to forget it.

He takes a pie up and then just throws it in the trash. Boom. I'm actually going to eat it. My big clown shoes. He makes the class watch of eat a bike. And drink seltzer. These are all tricks to the trade. Do a big clown burp, like substance clown burp.

Get into one. Yes. Of one person gets it out of a car. We're turning the clown world on its head. Pulls one tissue out of his sleep. I've heard there's like, and I've heard from more than one people, there's a huge clown scene in L.A. Yes, and Stacey McLaughlin, French, was telling me there's a really good article on it in The Cut or something about the clowning community in L.A.

There's big drama. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I need to all read it. We got Stacey on to tell us about this article. We get Stacey on. She'll tell you all about it.

Do you like clowns? No. No. No, and I've done. So, because. Are you scared of clowns? I don't, yeah, I'm not really a huge fan of, like. like the white face, like, birthday clown vibe.

Sure. But that's not really, as far as I know. That's not what they're doing. They're doing borat. They're doing borat. I think I'm expecting to leave there being like, my wife. Yeah. Money will spit.

Yeah, exactly. I've done like a little bit through, the baby is spit through improv, and I'm kind of intrigued to see more. But I kind of like. Is there like a, do you need to audition to this thing or is it just anyone? So who do you expect your classmates to be? I think it's going to be insane. I think it's going to be really weird. Is it very expensive or is it just...

It's expensive, but it's not like... You're worth it. Yeah, I'm worth it. Thanks. Thanks so much. So, uh, um, because like, uh, if people, I feel like people, the clowns that I've interacted with are mostly not classic clowns. Yes.

But they stay in character all the time and that freaks me out. Oh, I don't like that. I don't want to do that. No. Yeah. Like, so you're, you're not going to be... No, I'm kind of a cool clown. No, okay.

The cool clown. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like what I hear. Because I never went to theater school or anything like that. And I do improv and sketcher, my main comedy things I do. What? Imbrosecitcher. Yeah, you've heard of that.

But there's like a really big physical performance aspect to that that I'm like, I feel like I can really up my game. I talk a lot with my mouth. And I'd kind of like to. Oh, talk with your body. Talk with my body. Last summer I went to a puppet camp. You went to a puppet camp? Yeah.

Okay. So also had to learn how to move, move the bod. Yeah. Yeah. So I see what, you know. I could see you with this clown thing. Yeah. But I'm also like, I'm third there for clown school.

Third there for friendship and just like whatever. Yeah, why not? And then also living in France? Yeah. You guys ever ate butter before? Lord, I can't wait. Yeah, it's going to be good. They have so much butter there.

I'm so cool. You've done any more puppet stuff since puppet game? Yeah, I went to, also in Calgary, I went to a cabaret called the Dolly Wiggler Cabaret. Whoa. You have three shows and you're like, you know, you're on a showcase show. And some of the things were, were you on it? I was on it. Oh, yeah.

When was this? This was in, when was this? In March? Why aren't you posting your puppet clips? Why aren't you telling you meet? Yeah, I feel like you guys talk quite a bit. Yeah, that's true. I don't know why it hasn't come up.

It's going up now. I'm opening a safe space with my clown school time. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I also didn't get any video of it. They filmed it. God, you need your assistant. Yes.

They were filming everything, but then when I saw the footage, it was like you were like a pin in the distance. Oh, yeah. So not well shot. So what prompted you to go to puppet camp? Love puppets. Okay. Yeah. Yes.

Yes. And it's in, uh... And they called it puppet love. To a while. Um, uh, yeah, I, there was this, this camp that usually takes place in New York. England, but for one reason or another, it was in Calgary. And my parents live in Calgary. So I was like, have somewhere to stay.

I'm going to go do this camp every day, 12 hours a day. Oh, my God. For like a week, we're 10 days straight. Wow. Yeah. So how, like, what are the hours? Planschool's only in the afternoon. Oh, you get your morning.

Six to five. Love it. One to five. One to five. I know. Nothing's going on anyways. Exactly. One to five.

You can't. How many people are in the class with you? Like, there's like 30. How do you get 30 people doing their thing in four hours? That's such a good question. You're going to have a blast. It's going to be really dumb and fun. Yeah.

I'm not here to make fun of that. Thanks. Oh, no. Yeah, I do need to see this article about the clowns season. Yeah, we all need to. Let's all pause. Let's go read the article. We'll come back.

Okay, we'll pause. Yeah. Wow. That was. That article. That was fucking nasty. Wow. The way that they formatted it.

Mm-hmm. The indents the paragraph. With all them in the car? Well, I mean, after two paragraphs, when it said, you need to subscribe to read the rest of this article, I was hooked. Yeah. I was like, well, guess it won't read. There's also apparently a big clown scene in Toronto. Okay.

Okay. But there's a tiny one here. So would you ever, would you go on a clown show? I mean, maybe. I don't know. It depends on if I, yeah, maybe I'll love it.

Where are they having clown shows? Like gutter clown? Yeah, gutter clown. Which is run by a fellow employee of mine in like the early 2000s when I worked at a coffee shop. Oh. And Priscilla's their name. Yes.

And I went to one of the shows and it was great. There was a couple acts that I was like, I don't know. But when you went to a clown show, you got to expect it. Yeah, yeah. But it was good. Yeah.

Maybe this could be a whole new. I do feel... Next time I'll be like, yes, so actually. That's very funny. I feel like... It will be like, your feet look a lot bigger. I feel like if you're in Vancouver and you're like, God, when do I make the move?

When do I make the move to the big clown scene? But like, you can get a visa to go to the States to be like a comedian or an actor. I don't know if there's a clown category. Can you get a visa to go to Toronto to be a clown? You have to. You want to go there? And then you want to go all the way. All the way.

The tippy top. Dave, what's going on with you? You're going to any kind of camp? We're talking camp. Yeah. We were talking camps. My daughter went to camp this year. Did she like it?

She loved it. It was sold to her as, there's like five minutes of Jesus a day. All right. And she came back and she was like, there was a lot more. There's a lot more than I was told. That's very funny.

But she still loved it. And yeah, that's about it. Well, we are, we're just doing activities. The summer draws to a close. Every year the kids make a big list of, like, things they want to do in the summer. It's always the same things. Sure. Do you, if you ever gone since the first time that you went with the kite, or was that just a one time out?

Because I feel like that's kind of a fun summer. No, that was a COVID thing. That was a, like flying a kite? Flying a kite, yeah. So I have a kite in my trunk if we ever need to pull over and fly a kite. If it's, like, perfectly windy. Is it one of the ones that, like, can go different directions and stuff? They can go up and down.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Goes down a lot. Yeah, okay. But, yeah, we got it in the air a few times and then, but the kids at that age were maybe three and six, four in six. Sure. And so it was mostly me flying. Yeah. Where's the, what do you think city has the best kite scene?

It's got to be, you know. Oh, like it down at Kitt's point. There's always people on the big kites. Yeah, yeah. What are they up to? I don't understand it. Oh, well, there's people kite boarding on the water. But then there's people on land.

Yeah. They're doing fancy swoops. But I think maybe they're practicing for kite boarding. I actually don't know what they're doing. I wonder if in Philadelphia where Ben Franklin flew his mighty kite, yeah, his historical kites and stem. I wonder if there's like a big kite scene. That's what I'm wondering.

Like, where's, you know, where's the mecca for? Probably a place that doesn't have a lot of power lines. Oh, sure. Somewhere a little windy. Chicago. Yeah. People flying kites on the bean. So, yeah, that's what we've been doing.

Okay. The summertime camp fun. No, we went to, we've just been crossing things off the list. We went to the aquarium. Yep. This week. You see this place? What do they got?

They got a beluga there? Right now. Now they got their big, no, they have no. No beluga. No, no, what do they call it? Cetations. Yes, yeah. None of that.

No more beluga, no more porpoises, no more, certainly no more whales. No. They got seals, though, right? They got seals, sea lions, and otters. Oh, those otters. Oh, they're so cute. In the outdoor area. Penguins?

No penguins. No penguins anymore. Not that I saw them, unless they're hiding penguins. I don't like going to the aquarium. No? What don't you like? Too busy? It's just I've seen it.

I don't need to visit all the time. Sure. Right. My kids like going as often as they can. Right. Yeah. I'm always confused when I see adults with no children. Well, I feel like there's a certain.

Like when you have kids, you've been to the aquarium so much. But like when the last time I went to the aquarium. Yeah. You know. When my nephew and niece wanted to go. Yeah. That's when we went. Yeah.

Saw the octopus, which is great. They have an octopus. Yeah. The, uh, uh, they, they're, their big, like, exhibit at the moment is dragons. Okay. But those aren't real. Well, then actually, it is a room full of lizards. Lizards and here's where dragons come from.

What? Lizards and snakes. Do they have a Komoto dragon? They might have had a Komoto dragon. I didn't read all of the, um, blackards. Yeah. This animal bit Jared Stone's husband. We got the one.

He's on loan from Caird Stone Memorial Museum. Sharon's Memorial Museum. It's a very famous guy. My problem is when there's a, like a terrarium with a frog or a snake or a a lizard. I can't see it. No. You can't find it?

Eventually I do, but sometimes I don't. I feel like because they're sleeping. Yeah. Or whatever. Terrarian blindness. I do have terrarian blindness. I do very stupid. I spend my eyes like do a grid search.

Yeah. And I feel like everyone else sees it. Yeah. I was going somewhere we, Sally and I passed this pet store. So we went at same thing. Looking at the little thing. And there was a couple we were looking at, there was nothing in there. Well, that's where they get to.

I feel like a couple of them are to make you dumb, make you look stupid. In front of your kids. Yeah. No, father. That one's empty. There was a lady who, uh, there was like a big fake kind of Komoto dragon thing. Okay. And there was a lady who put her butt in its mouth into a picture.

Now, that's fun. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah. Did you touch any of the lizards? Had a lizard? No, it was not a touch place. Okay.

Like there is a, like, there's the tropical room where you can go through, and that's, the animals are kind of, you know, behind fences. But most of every place there. Certainly the fish are in tanks. They're in all little plastic bags all scattered. And there is one room of, like, touch a, you know, touch a, um, start. Starfish or whatever. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Feel their suckers. These ones are dying already. Just get your grubbing little hands on them. Yeah. We're going to get them before we put them on the barbecue. We're out of fried starfish tonight. I had, and the last night what we did, we went to the beach. Oh, nice.

Two things on our list for it. Go to the beach. Amazing. And get concession food. Oh, yeah. That's a big draw of the beach. What beach? What concession?

We went to La Carno or Jericho, that whole strip. Sure. And we had, like, I don't like the beach because I'm always imagining going at one in the afternoon and being so hot. Yeah. We went at 4.30. Hell yeah. Great time to go. The tide was coming in.

It wasn't the high, high news. It wasn't hot, hot, hot. Yeah. And it was close to dinner time. So I was like, well, let's see what's on this concession food menu. Yeah. And? There were hot dogs.

Hot dogs, hamburgers. Nice. Fries. Chicken strips. Okay. Yeah. Fish and chips. Oh, sure.

Yeah. So we got fish and chips. Okay. And loved it. But last night I was like, I might barf. Oh, yeah. I spend much time next to the toilet on my knees thinking, is this it? Is it happening?

Is it happening? It feels like it might be now? Never happened. Wow. But the vulnerability of it might happen, just hanging over your head. So would you do it again? The thing is, I was like, oh, boy, if I barf, I'm never having this again. Yeah.

But I didn't. Yeah. And truly, three days in a row, I had had the greasiest fried foods. What else? What else? Well, the day before was a pirate pack day. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Pirate pack for the kids. And then the day before that, we had Putin at the aquarium. him. Nice. Starfish Foutine. Oh, delicious. Delicacy.

But also on the beach, we went in the water a lot. Uh-huh. Nice. And there were, there's a man with two, like a 10 and 12-year-old boy who were playing in the water in their bathing suits and socks. Oh, no. They were going in and out of the water, getting their socks all sandy, getting their socks all wet. Maybe they're really sensitive.

about their webbed feet. Maybe they're like, I hope none of my friends find out about this and tell everyone about it on a podcast in a decade. Wow. Yeah. And I was like, later I was like, oh, I wonder if thinking about that is what's making me throw up.

Soggy and like, you got to think some sand still getting in there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's unpleasant. Your feet are getting at so much. much more like pruny. Yeah, you're going to get trench foot walking around like that.

You're going to get trench foot walking around like that. Yeah. I don't understand. I kept having to like everyone, everyone I saw, I mean, my family members, I kept saying,

check out those kids that freaking socks. Every three people I saw. And where are you, I was like, Dad, that's actually cool. That's cool,

that to wear the socks in the water. Okay, boomer. She said to me. You unc. She said all you. Do you know any, being on a camp with youth, you have any access to different slang? Yeah, I have been, but I'm just about to go get my rehab. Yeah.

Anything from last year that you carried with you? Yeah, I mean, it's kind of funny. Like when we say like low-key, you know, we like make a big deal about it. Right. But for them, they're just like, oh, it's. low-key-b-b-la-la, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Our problem is that we're really just emphasizing it too much. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah.

We're like, unc. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Well, we're not passing for teenagers. What? Speak for yourself. I'm going undercover at the school to find out who's selling drugs. Exactly. I'm so proud of you for getting that gig.

Thank you very much. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to blow the lid right off this thing. Any suspensions, who it might be? The captain of the football team. Oh, my God. He's so hot. He's so hot.

That's true. I hope it's not him because I want him to stick around. He's asked why. So you can look at them more? Yeah. Part of my undercover, Dave. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, I, uh, loki, I feel like they use it the way that you, you would just use like.

Yeah. Like you're saying, you're not saying, oh, this is great. Yeah. Yeah. It's Loki great. It's Loki great. Yeah. Probably always makes me think of Loki from.

Yeah. Low key, low key is. But yeah, I need to, I'll re-up. I'll rip and get back to you. It also makes me think of like where you keep your spare key under the dormant. Well, loki. It's down low. Low key.

Yeah. And then I like, I like mid. Mid is good. Yeah, mid, mid's good. You can drop that in the middle of a sentence. Yeah. No worries is one. That's a big one.

No worries. No worries. No worries. Yeah. Yeah. Good for us. Honky dory. Honky dory is good.

I would love if hunky dory. You don't know I want to come back? Hachimama. Where'd that go? Where'd that go? How do you spell that? I would like spiffy to come back. Yeah, you look spiffy.

Yeah, guys, all the old names are coming back. Let's get some of those phrases going. Yeah, the old names, Genghis Khan. Ganga's Khan. That's right. Beethoven. Anyone featured in Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. Socrates.

Yeah. Yoanne Sebastian Bach, you know, you can't stop. Anyway, so we've just been crossing things off our summer list. That's nice. Still haven't been to the water slides. Oh, God, I love them. Sure. What's your go-to water slides?

Oh, Big Splash and Tuosso. Yeah, of course. Yeah, when I worked with kids, we'd go there all the time. The, you know, the two-person one where you're on the thing? Yeah. Where you're on the inflatable? The black hole, I think. No.

Oh, different. You go, the one where you go up the big ramp and then back down. That's my fave. Because that's when you feel a little bit weightless. Nice. Amazing. I need because. Wait me now.

Wait me now. I'm trying to get into this ballet program. We have to be a certain way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What am I trying to do? Well, this Canada dry club is calorie-free. Yeah. saying, do they add sodium into that and why?

To make it, I guess, well, here's what's in it. Carbonated water, potassium bicarbonate, and potassium citrate. So I don't know if there's sodium, but there's potassium. But there's, you know, something salty. But it takes up, you know, it's 2% of your daily sodium. That's 45 grams. That's manageable. And 3% of your daily potassium, which is 100 milligrams.

Sorry, sodium is 45 milligrams, not 45 grams. Thank you. Oh, boy. Oh, my gosh. Graham, what's up with you? So this past weekend, I went to go see Spider-Man. Welcome home or whatever. It was because Spider-Man, here we are.

And before I was there, Alicia Tobin and I went to go see this film. Oh, yeah, you invited me. Yeah, and then you were like, no, I don't. For one second, I was like, that'll be fun. I haven't seen any of these movies. Yeah, it's one. That's the thing, is very long. Like, it's, like, 20 minutes shy of the Odyssey's running time.

Wow. Like, for a Spider-Man story. Yeah. Also, Masters of the Universe was the same length. You know, like, there's nothing on that bone. How did you get two and a half hours out of Master's Universe? Anyway, Spider-Man movie, liked it. Okay.

Yeah, it was fun. But before the movie, we got there really early, so we were going to kill some time. And right across from the cinema is a winners. Yeah. So we went out of a little winners. adventure. I love that store. I don't know why it's been so long since I went there.

They've got everything that you didn't know existed. Do you go for clothes or is it also a home sense? It's, uh, I think this is just a straight up winners. They had maybe like little knickknacks and stuff for decor, but. Do they have suitcases? Uh, didn't see. Do they have suitcases? Do they have weird shampoos you've never heard of?

Yeah, shampoos and perfumes. Oh. Yeah. Weird things here. I took some photos. Strange gummy candies. Yes. Oh, God.

That little aisle that they get you in to get up to the till. Oh, my gosh. It's, you know, kettle corn and all sorts of weird. Amazing stuff. Signs for every mood. Lip-lop-flub. It is where you go to get your signage for your Airbnb. It's so true.

That you bought. Meet me at the beach. So here's a couple things that I saw. This is a flip-flop. This is a flaming hot. Doritos branded flip-flop. Okay, the teens would love that. Did it come with a pair, a partner?

It's just one flip-flop. It might have been one flip-flop. There's a very low organization in the shoe aisle. Also, some crocs that look like Shrek. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's not bad, eh? Wow.

I love shoes that are just arranged by size. Yeah. Yeah. Then you know. Yeah. Snickers brand coffee. Oh, no. Yeah.

No. Whoa, let me see. I gotta get some of that. Oh, my God. Is it Snickers flavored? Caramel, peanut, nougat, chocolate, ground coffee. And is it, it, it's just ground coffee. But I guess it has notes of Snickers.

Yeah, they've got little chunks of Snickers. So there was Snickers coffee. It's a chocolate full of nuts. And then, like, a completely out of left feel, egg coffee. What? No. What's in an egg of coffee? What?

Is it maple flavored? Ago coffee, chocolate chip. Chocolate chip, no less. Ango coffee chocolate chip. Wait, is it, is it an eggo or is it coffee? There's a picture of both a waffle and a cup of coffee on it. Ego coffee. Ego coffee chocolate chip.

Yeah, it goes well with your ego. Is that ground? Is it like an espresso cups? No, it's not. It's coffee pods. Oh. What would you do if George Clooney started going for the Ego coffee chocolate chip? I'd be like, get out of the way.

Diyalupa, Doolipa. This is my guy. Dialupa Dia lupa Oh, Dia Lupa Opa Lupa Dia Lupa But I

There was my favorite thing I took it from a very specific angle Because I thought it was funny But this is Martha Stewart Brand skeleton That is amazing Yeah that was my favorite thing there

Especially because the cardboard It looks like a wig At the top there Did you buy anything? I found a shirt That I like Just a plain old black t-shirt Amazing. Is that the one you're wearing today?

Nobody wore yesterday. It's, yeah, it's hard to, you know, you don't want to get something big like the Martha Stewart skeleton and then have to go see the movie. Yeah. Buy an extra seat for your skeleton. Sir, sir, it's reserved a seat only way. Sorry. But like, some of the other treasures that I've gotten there over years, I got a pair of Kiss underwear. Yeah.

Wow. The band, I'm assuming. Man, yeah. Yes. No, Kiss FM. Yeah. What else have I got there? I definitely got like a skipping rope or something like that.

Oh, yeah, sure. Have you ever found a treasure at Winters? Yeah, I've bought stuff at Winters. My garbage can is from Winners. Hell yeah. And so was my rug. Oh, cool. Yeah, surprising good rug game at Winners.

Okay. Because when you're like, you know, you need a rug, you got hardware floors. You're like, what am I going to do? Yeah. And then you're at IKEA. You're like, but everyone has. This is a rug. Right.

You know, you need a cheap run. You want a one-off somewhere. Yeah. I just want a cheap one. At it at winters. Yeah. So there you go. Abby goes all the time.

Yeah. And always comes back random candy that. Yeah. That we throw half of it away. Sure. Yeah. And then it's a great place if you need a laundry hamper. Yeah.

And when I went to Spider-Man, they had a collectible popcorn. Gordon Bucket. There's like a large size. And I was like, that would be a good little bathroom garbage can. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Thinking outside the box. That's fun. That's fun. Speaking of theaters, I forgot that when we went to the aquarium, we went to the, there was like a documentary on a sea lion. Oh. A 20-minute movie narrated by the late Sam Neal. Wow. Okay. Possibly his last role. Okay. And I didn't realize it was like if the five I was going to say it's the 5D theater.

So it's, I expected the seat to rumble a bit, but it wasn't expecting there's like a little thing that spins under your feet and makes you feel like something's touching you. Then you get sprayed in the face with water. You get blown in the back of your head with air. Yeah. Do you get poked in the back? You get poked in the back. Bubbles come down when you're underwater. Oh, that's fun.

But as we were waiting, there was a guy in, like, you know, little facts come up and. One was like, SOS, save our, it was like silverfish. Sons. It saved our C's. It was like, you know, preventing garbage. And one of my kids asked Abby, like, is SOS stand for save our C's? And Abby goes, I think it might be, it could be a few different things. It's, you know, usually save our souls.

And I was like, yeah, or save our ship. And a guy in front of us turned around is. save our souls 100%. Oh my gosh. All right, buddy. Let's put a lid on this. Let's bring down the temperature. And we were like, oh, okay.

And he was like, I know because I used to work on chips. And I'm here and I can't not say it. Yeah, exactly. And then I looked up on my phone. Yeah. Do you think it came from just the dots and dashes were like a recognizable thing. And they were like just because of the way it sounded. is how we got SOS.

Right. And then we backwardsly applied meaning to it. Wow. Do you think this guy that works on chips has to go to the aquarium once in a while just to get his fix? Yeah. He's like, God, what's under there? Get his landlates. They won't let me off.

I like how the 5D experience is always the same five, though. No matter what it is, it's like they only have so many things. No, but it's like they're going to poke you. Do you want someone to kiss you? God. I would love it. that. Where can we go to the kissing machine?

I do like the idea of like a whale coming out. You get a right on the snow. Anyway, I interrupted. You were in the movies? I can't remember. You were talking about a bucket that could be used. It could be a trash can. And then you saw a movie.

Good? Yeah, it was good. But like, I didn't. And I'm usually very good about not like having to leave at any point during a movie. Didn't make it through this one. Oh, no. You didn't get your bucket. Yeah.

It was... It was... Yeah, that's how I was... I'm lying. But, yeah, it's worth watching. But whenever it comes out on your screens. Have you guys jumped into the Odyssey yet? Yeah.

I haven't. No. No, I don't know why I brought it up. You know what? It's playing in the theater around the corner from here, if you want to. All right. I'm going to go. It's 70 millimeter.

Wait, guys, let's pause. And then I'll go watch the movie and then we're pausing. Wow! Yeah? Yeah, you liked it? Oh my God! What was your favorite part? She's like, Dad, Dad!

He does call him dead. Dad! It's like I gotta have sex with people. What was your favorite monster? Zendaya. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, she's so pretty. Yeah, she's so pretty.

God, she's so hot. It's good. Yeah, I got a lot of light. Yeah, I liked it. It's 70 millimeter. Did I say this? I was at a friend's birthday and Charlie was there with his daughter. And at some point, we were talking about the Odyssey being in 70mm.

And she was like, that's so small. I was like, you're right. I honestly don't get it either. It's none of our business. But when I saw it in 70 millimeter, it did seem, there were moments where I was like, oh, it's all wobbly and shaky. Yeah. I'm seeing an old timey print. I think they just do that for fun.

They're like, wee. Yeah. You know, mess it up a bit. Yeah. Yeah, they had the little cigarette burn. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

But, yeah. I liked, I, I, I, uh, one thing I liked about it is, uh, how much retreating there was. Yeah. Like, there's, so many movies have like, like, knock down, drag out fights that go on and on. That's true. A lot of these battles are just like, get the fuck back to the ship. We are, we're not going to make it. I love that.

Um. Yeah, but I got to say, I've done with the two 45 minute. Yeah. I can't do it. I'm like, can we just learn how to edit a movie? Yeah. Like, why is like, I'm always hearing that like the first thing about these movies, it's like, it's really long, but it's really good. I'm like, but why?

Yeah. I remember. Read the room. Like when they put out one of the other Marvel movies, it might have been the Marvels. Oh, the Marvels. And I remember there were comments about it. Like, it was only going to be like an hour 45 and all the comments. Well, not all the comments.

But there were comments that were like, well, what's even the point? If I'm not going to a little super long movie, why would I even go? What? They feel like they're getting a dollar per minute. That's bonkers. It is bonkers. And who's watching Master of the Universe with Sally? And at one point, I paused it.

She's like, there's an hour left in this week. That is one. One of the great things about going to a movie theater is, it's just like, you can't get engrossed in your phone. Yeah, that's true. Even if you do, like, the people around me. Yeah, then you're a Tommy texter. You're Tommy texter.

But the movie goes on without you. Yeah. It's true. It does focus you on a theater. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, I love that about a theater. Yeah.

Especially if you have to pee because you're like, okay, I need to pay such good attention. I need to know, like, this is going to be a lull in the movie. Yeah. Yeah, like an action thing just happened. So there's not going to be another action thing. Well, guys, you want to move on to some overheard? Yeah, let's retreat. Oh, my gosh.

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Overheard The segment of the show Where we love to hear Whatever you heard Or seen Or we make a Also these days Something boring that you've dreamt

Amazing And we always like to start with the guest Allie Yes Okay If you will Yes please Okay

So mine's a An overseen and over-experienced. And I bike often. I teach improv on Granville Island a lot, so I bike on the Falls Creek Seawall to get there. Very nice. A gorgeous bike ride. So I was biking and going the other way on the seawall was a man I would place in his 60s, maybe early 70s, who was on inline skates. Oh, yeah.

Rollerblades. Wow. And he was on a speaker phone. Okay. Doing what sounded to me like a business call. And he's just like, yeah, we got to get the things on the. This is why it's not overheard because I'm like, I can't remember specifically I was saying. But I was just obsessed with this.

Yeah. Wow. Who is this guy? What is his life? Yeah. Grown man, inline skates. I mean, that would have, for me, that would have been enough to see an older person on. I don't know.

But then on the phone. So then. You know, I tell people about this when I get to the class. I'm like, you guys will never. I'm in love with this man. And then a couple of weeks later, I see him again. Oh, wow. Inline skates on the speakerphone.

Love this. But this time he's like organizing some sort of a family event. He's like, okay, so when's Jenny going to get there? Okay, blah, blah. And now I'm like, wait, this is this man's like life. Yeah. He's doing his calls on speakerphone, on roller skates, in movement. This is the way he does business.

Yeah. Okay. So I really just want to know if that's your uncle. I'm assuming he's someone's uncle. He's somebody's uncle. He might. He could be chopped. I don't know.

He's always, yeah. But yeah, I think you're right. That's big. That's uncle energy. Big uncle energy. It's just like, I'm going to have to call Uncle Leonard. But, you know, he's going to be on speakerphone of the seawall. Yeah.

I'm not going to be able to hear him at all. There was a funny scene in Spider-Man where one of the characters only takes meetings in a spa pool and Spider-Man has to take off all the stuff except his basket and sit in this ball pool. That's fun. That's fun. But yeah, maybe that's just the way this dude does business. He clearly does.

Yeah. I mean, if you're going to invest in rollerblades. Yeah. In this day and age. Yeah. Remember when there was that roller blades shop? Yes. Like, not that long ago.

No. And in the window, they had all the wheels. Yeah. All the spent wheels now, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's,

yeah. And it wasn't like in the time that rollerblades were new or anything like that. No, it was like the 2015 May when they opened it. Yeah. I think they closed like during the pandemic. That's what it took. Which is weird because we were all out rollerblading.

I know. Flying kites. Yeah and day out. Using a kite to propel you. What was the, like did any business thrive in? I mean, I know a lot of grocery stores like raise their prices.

Yeah. But like, what was the? QR codes, the business. Zoom. Am I just for like Zoom yes. Oh yeah. But am I just forgetting like, oh yeah, no, I know sourdough.

Sourdough stores. Uber Eats. Was there a thing that we all got into? That yoga lady. Yeah, that was. Oh, sure. Yeah. I don't know.

I've really blotted out a lot of time in there. Yeah. Like was there an outdoors? Oh, it's safe to be outdoors. So you can all, everyone go get your. Yeah. I feel like paddle boards. I feel like a lot of people got paddle boards.

Yeah. That's kind of, yeah, that's a solitary activity. Yeah. But not rollerblades. And famously, I don't know if we ever talked about it on the podcast, but the doctor, Bonnie. Henry. Bonnie Henry. Uh-huh.

At one point, was talking about having sex and that she said the safest way was a glory hole. Yeah. Which was a very funny thing for a professional doctor to say. You heard her, honey. Find a glory hole. You heard her. So yeah, the glory hole business was booming. Still, to this day, safe as sex.

Yeah. Well, because we were also paranoid about getting COVID. We were scared of our neighbors, but this kind of made us drill a hold into our neighbors home. She said it was safe. Yeah, she said it's the safest way to have sex. Dave, do you have it overheard? Yeah, yeah. Well, this is the guy.

So these two kids that were. at the beach yesterday in socks running in the water in their socked feet. Their dad was on his phone, like looking at his phone, and he was like a gruff older guy, like a blue collar guy. And I just heard him at one point looking at his phone and he goes, I love AI. That's amazing. So I feel like he must have seen a funny video.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn it. I've been fooled by clips. Yeah. Where it's like, you know, a cat and a dog doing something. I'm like, and when you get fooled, you feel like you feel gross. Feel like you maybe need to be put on an ice flow. Yeah.

Yeah, it's, man, I am. I'm one deep fake away for just giving it all away. Oh, there was a video of a guy over a video call that the people on one side were suspecting was AI. So they just said, could you just put your hand in front of your face? Like, just right, you know, near your face. The guy just going to go like, come on, guys, do we have to do this? And he's like, I'm just asking you, that's all they want you to do. And then he just held up his hand.

He was like, is that okay? Is that enough? Like next to it. Yeah, yeah. And then they were like, no, if you really, we got to see this. And he was like, come on. He just kept repeating, come on, guys. We don't need to do this.

That's cool. But it looked like a real guy. It just, yeah. I don't like it. I don't like it either. I don't like it so much. There was a billboard that was advertising a horror movie and there were people like living in the billboard.

A lot of people said that was AI. They said it was just a screen. Oh. Well, it's happening. We're all getting fooled. I don't worry. We're all getting fooled. Well, it sucks.

But it's good if you need to see a video of a dog break dancing. Yeah. And if you're that guy at the beach, your day is made. I really do. If someone enjoys AI, I really think less of them. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, you know, be on guard, you know.

If you talk to somebody, just put it. Don't put the hand in front of the face. Put your hands in front of your face. And like, um, Ali, would you could you put your hand in front of your face for me please come on guys we have to do this

just if you could do it really oh yeah no but um guys like I'll do it too yeah there it is yeah just in front of the face guys come on come on I don't want to why not

guys do we really have to do this come on guys we're so we're talking about all sorts of stuff come on guys we're talking about all sorts of stuff yeah just put your hand for your face

come on guys well and it's down they say that if you can fit your hand over your face. You have cancer. My fingers are whipped. I don't want to show you. I'm so embarrassed.

No. Come on. Come on. Guys. Come on. My overheard is courtesy of go down to Little Mountain Gallery all the time. I see you there. Yeah.

It's true. And if you pass from Waterfront Station to Little Mountain Gallery, you're seeing that steam clock. Of course you are. Every time. And it's high season. For people not from Vancouver, The Gastown Steam Clock is a clock in historic Gastown, which is a covalstone area, touristy area.

Lots of ghost tours and pictures. And there's a clock, like a big public clock powered by Steam. Allegedly. Allegedly. Sure. And every hour steam shoots out of it. And they tourists crowd around. It's my favorite thing.

They're all taking pictures. And then when it's done, they clap. Yeah. Which is very fun. But I passed by a guy talking to his wife, and he was saying, it's really simple. They put steam in. Steam goes out. He is smart.

That's amazing. Look, I know you're having trouble grasping with this concept, but steam goes in, comes on up. Go out. Just think of it like a tea kettle. You know, we put steam in the steam kettle, and steam comes out. I love AI. And, Alie, if you could just maybe put your hand in your face? So Dave, steam goes in.

It goes out. Sounds hot. How would you get the steam in? Guys, do we have to do this? Come on. Come on. We're all friends here. Yeah, we don't have to do this.

Oh, we don't have to do this. I don't want to find out my best friend is AI. No. Or, yeah, you know, that you're being catfished by AI. Come on. slap in the face. Wait, I just realized that Ali's initials are AI. Ellie in-twistle.

Allie in-twistle. Yeah, have you guys been tricked by an AI thing? I've seen some videos where I at first have been like, and then I'm like, no. Yeah, like you, you know, you're tricked for a few minutes. But then I've also seen the opposite where it was something where someone was like, oh, this AI, but I think I knew the person. I was like, it's not AI. But the comments are all saying it's AI. Yeah.

But sometimes, yeah, people, I guess they just think, like, this is too good. Yeah, it's too good. Yeah. It is interesting. Like, if I was a comedian who, like, did make, make, made my own music. Yeah. This would be rough right now. I feel like comedic songs or, I don't know.

Oh, you think they're just pretty close to being extinct, maybe. Well, because it's like, it gets less and less impressive. Like, if you do fully produced. Oh, yeah. Like, a comedian who can also. Comedy. rap or comedy like techno or something. What if I told you it all sucked shit and people are better at it?

Yeah. No, I agree. And even bad people are better. But I think then people are going to see the real stuff and say that's a. Oh, sure. You know? Yeah. Anyway.

It's not inevitable. Resist, resist. Resist. Yeah. Past guest Amber Young has a good joke about it where she said, she was in a video. and the comments said AI. And she's like, well, they did say intelligent. Not bad.

Now we also have overheard's sent into us by people all over the world. If you want to send one in, send it into SBY at maximum fun.org. And this first one is from Colin in Portland, Oregon. I was visiting the chimpanzee enclosure at the zoo today. And due to the heat, one chimpanzee was dozing on their back in the shade. I overheard a young woman go, he needs a phone so bad He's bored over there

God Now that's a video Due to the heat that chimpanzee was dozing I have a feeling Chimpanzee don't care about the weather Yeah He'd be watching so many A.I. Cat and Dog videos

But that's the thing If you saw a video of a chimpanzee with a phone Yeah You'd want it to be true Yeah Yeah, that's the thing The heart yearns for that Have you guys seen the chimpanzee magic videos?

Yeah. What is that? God, I love it. They're just, people just show chimpanzees. Like sleight of hand. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So good. Have you seen the videos where it's an orangutan and like somebody's got a backpack?

Well, he'll go, got a backpack and it's like showing me what's in your bag. Yeah. Yeah. So good. That better not be AI. No, we need so mad. We need that orangutanank working door, you know? The dog.

At the fox? What's in there? Yeah. You know? Oh, Black Betty. A rang a tank. A rang a peg. Yes.

Yes. AI. This next one comes from Dean from Ottawa with a transit overheard. I normally have earbuds on for my bus ride. Today I forgot them and I had to hear my surroundings. On my Ottawa bus ride, it's August, by the way. The automated message I heard in both official languages, please do not wear your skates on the bus unless you put a skate guard.

Help us all stay safe. Thank you. Wow. Yeah. And like I guess my hypothesis is because they have the Rito Canal. Yeah. People skate on it. In the winter.

Yeah. But I didn't know. Yeah. I didn't know it was like that kind of thing where you could take a bus in your skates. Amazing that people are doing that. Yeah. Yeah. Because then they're taking off the skates at work, presumably,

instead of skates and then find them put on shoes. Graham? Or are they taking them off at work? Some of these skates look like a pump. I feel like a sneaker. Yeah. Finally. Escape made for me.

I do love the, when I used to work downtown, seeing the ladies who went to the office and wore their, like, walked in their sneakers and had their pumps. Their heels. Yeah. Ready for the glass ceiling that they're about to take on. And it's, uh, It's going to be hard to wear heels all day. Oh, my God. I'm wearing skates all day.

Please. My ankles. Where's that report? One minute, sir. Swish, swish. What's happening to our floors? I don't know. It could be anything.

But you forgot your skate guards. Yeah. Yeah, I like that they're saying wear your skate guards on the bus. Yeah, don't. But like, that's the only option. You can't just wear shoes and change when you get to the rink. That's one of my favorite parts of figure skating in the Olympics when they put their skate guards back on when they get off. Oh, so cool.

Yeah. I love that. Yeah, they're not immediately taking off the skates. No, they're just like putting those guards on. Also, like during the summer Olympics when there's a hot tub for the divers. That's fun. Yeah. Yeah.

And a glory hole. Save his way for Olympians to have sense. So safe. This last one is a boring dream from Sasha, from Vegas. from Vancouver. Last night I dreamt that I was worried I'd run out of bread. When I went to the kitchen, I discovered, to my amazement, there were actually four slices left.

And I said, oh, sweet, I could get two more breakfast out of this. When I woke up, I went to the kitchen and I was actually out of bread. Oh, that's amazing. So dreams don't come true. Yeah, I know that sensation where you're like, Oh, no, I'm not out. And then you have it. And you're like, yes.

Yeah. Wow. Yeah. That is a great, like, what a rush. Yeah. Especially if it's, like, really rainy outside and you don't have to go out and, like, break the elements. Yeah. And you're just like, I have it.

I have that perfect thing for dinner. I have my ego coffee pods. So I don't have to go back to winters. You go chocolate chip coffee pot. That's right. Thank you. Ego coffee chocolate chip. Yeah.

And it's, uh, uh, uh, I don't know where you could buy it. I've never seen it in any store. Yeah. So if you get hooked, that's the thing you can't get hooked on their products. You don't know if they're coming back. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. That Snickers coffee could have just been for limited time only. No, it's here to stay. It's probably still at the winter. Yeah, that's true. I'm very curious. Yeah. No, I mean, I thought about the Ego one as well.

What does that taste like? Well, in addition to overhards that are written, and we also accept your phone calls. I'm suddenly so hungry. bread talk. Yeah, we accept your phone calls and stuff. And your voice memos. If you want to send us a voice memo,

email it to s.2i at maximum fun.org. And if you want to leave us a voicemail, then call 1.844-779-7631. That's one. Ugh. SpyPod. One. Like these people have. Hey, Dave, Graham, and I'm going to guess me.

It's Jesse from... I'm at the park. And there was a foursome playing tennis. And they were listening to gospel music on one of those portable Bluetooth speakers. And one of the guys scored a point. And he pointed at the other side of the net at his opponents. And he said, and that's why we praise him. I don't know what you thought, but that's why we praise him.

All right, off I go. Who do you think they're talking about? Yeah. That's amazing. Who would be the patron saint of tennis? Yeah. I think. Who's the guy that was like really swore a lot?

John McEnnor? He's alive. Does the patron saint have to be dead? I don't know. I think by the time. I think saints have to be dead, don't they? Yeah, probably. You can't be a living saint.

He's a living saint. John McEnroe narrates. Never have I ever. Never have I ever. Oh, yeah. Speaking of shows with... Going back to... Smart.

Patriot Saint of tennis. What are we thinking? It's St. Sebastian is often regarded as the Patriot Saint of Athletes, including tennis. Okay. Okay. So how about it? Wow. I always think it's interesting.

I was thinking about this in the World Cup a lot. You know, there's a lot of praying in the World Cup. And to me, when it's like, you know, two Catholic, mostly Tehran. teams playing against each other. I'm like, but you guys are all praying to the same guy. Yeah, yeah, whose prayers does he refuse? Yeah, and I'm thinking the same thing about the, and that's why we praise him with the gospel music, assuming everyone is enjoying the gospel music.

Yeah. So God's chosen me, he praised me over you? Yes. Shit. That is maybe one of the big problems in the world. But God's, yeah, he's got nothing better to do. Yeah. But, like, honestly, you open.

You think you're out of bread, you open the cabinet, you have four pieces left. That's why we praise them. Yeah. That's why we praise them. Turning nothing into loaves. Was it loaves into fish? No, fish into loaves. No.

Wine. Fish wine. The fish, he wasn't turning the fish into loaves. I think there was like very few fish fishes and loaves. Yeah. And then infinite. Infinite. Loaves abound.

Right. The first magician, really. Yeah. So true. Yeah. So that's the champion. Manzies. Jesus lives again.

Earth can breathe again. Pass the word around. Loves abound. Oh, yeah. Also, there seems to be a patron saint of tennis balls and it's a golden retriever. That's good. Okay, next call. Hello, Damon Graham, Impossible Guest.

This is Annie from Texas, calling in with an overheard from the movie theater. So my boyfriend and I went to see the new Spider-Man movie on Friday night. Oh, you can relate to this. We overheard this conversation happening in front of us in line for concessions. So it was two men. Man one said to Man two, what movie are you here to see? Man two said, uh, Spider-Man. Man one said, oh, the new one?

Man two said, uh, yeah. Man one said, cool, how was it? Man two said, I don't know. I haven't seen it yet. So they were just kind of quiet, nodding, like, oh, yeah, yeah. And finally, Mantu said, what movie were you here to see? Man one said, The Odyssey. Man two said, cool, cool, how was it?

Man one said, I don't know, I haven't seen it yet. We couldn't believe it. It just kept getting better. Okay, that's all. Bye. It's weird how few people line up for concessions after the movie. I never go back for the free refill. But it is just like we're struggling with conversation here.

We can't get on track here. Yeah. Oh, damn it. Yeah, you wouldn't know how it is. Speaking of concessions, I recently talked about how I always get ice cream. No, popcorn. Okay. Popcorn with butter and then I dump Eminem peanuts all over it.

And I get a pop and then I eat it all and I get a stomach cake. Yeah. Unrelated to the fish and chips stomach cake, which was very barfie. Yeah. It was almost took me over the edge. But when I saw The Odyssey, I did the same thing, but with no butter, fine. Oh, yeah. The movie theater butter might be the...

But it's so liquid. Yeah, it's ghee. Yeah. Maybe it is. But I, so yeah, that seems to be the winner. Yeah. You know what? It works for me. As long as I can fill it with candy, I don't need to fill it with butter. And here's your final phone call. Or voice memo.

Hello, Dave, Graham, and potential guest. This is Andrew from Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. Are you a rover? I just found this note in my phone, and I think I meant to send it to you about two years ago, so better late than never. I was at a party where I didn't know all that many people, and I was just finishing. up a conversation, started casting about for a new group of folks to talk to, located one, started to walk over to them. And right before I started to talk, I heard one of them say, it's so cool that vintage fidget spinners are coming back. Needless to say, I did not strike up a conversation there. Anyway, off I go. Bye-bye.

Oh, my God. Fidget spinner. He fidget spun right out of that conversation. Am I right? The idea of vintage. Yeah. Yeah. Coming back.

And it was just like it was like a medical thing at one point where it's like a psychiatrist would give you a fidget spinner. Yeah. And then they just became a thing everybody was doing. And then they were just like, let's fidget spin our life around. All right. You could give us a third thing. Yeah.

Well, because I, you know, I laugh. of them, but I'm, here I sit with a guitar slide, just spinning it in my plane. Yeah. Yeah. I like to have my hands occupied. Yeah. It's, uh, it's, but I feel like a fidget spinner was so deluxe that it would be, uh, distracting for everybody around you. Yeah, they're so cool. Yeah. Yeah. Especially when you're giving it a spin, like, when you're really instead of just with it. Yeah. Yeah. And your teacher's like, you should spin your way out of here. Yeah. The teacher was like, you got a fidget spin. Spinner your life around.

Wait, that's the same as the other one. Nailed it. Well, as we fidget spin our way towards the end of the show, Allie, you are doing your show. Yes. That is not Taskmaster. Task show. Task show.

You're doing it in the Vancouver Fringe Festival. I am. It's true. All the rumors are true. The hubbub is real. Yes, it starts September something. Like the 12th. Let's say the 12th.

September 12th. It goes from. for two weeks. All of my shows, all of our shows at Little Mountain Gallery. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

Yeah. I'm trying to get Graham on one. I'm going to try to get Dave on one. Yeah. Do some tasks. Absolutely. And it's the only reason, as far as I know that I haven't been on your shows,

because I have a show at the exact same thing. It's true. I always see you in the hallway. I'm like, we got to get you in there. Yeah. And now he's contractually obligated. I can probably do that.

Yeah. There's also a show that I'm doing one night of that past guest Atlanta. Brittany's putting on where you have to wear an apparatus that mimics period cramps. So I'm going to do it. She invited me to do that, but so far out that I couldn't commit, but I might circle back. Yeah, yeah. It's, I think it's going to be a lot.

Alana and Corey are going to do our first show. Oh, nice. They said they're going to bring the period cramp machine. I'm really excited. Everywhere with me. I'm really excited. It's my fidget spitter. Sorry, I can't concentration.

concentrate unless I have period gram. So you will be doing it in the Fringe Festival and then every other month. Oh yeah. And then usually we do like the third Thursday at the month at Little Mountain Gallery. And it's a show I can't wait to see in real life. It's very fun. It's very fun. But we do the amount of audience participation that is fun.

So like if you're in the audience and you're like, I got to be part of this, you probably can be. And if you're in the audience, you're like, please never talk to me, then I won't. And that's fine. Okay. Yeah. That's fine and fair. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, we've had a person here with us the whole time. And before the show, they said, please don't talk to me. Yeah, and I have not acknowledged them at all. Yeah. No eye contact. Anyways, Hirschfeld. Yeah.

That's my agent. Yeah. That's my comedy assistant, actually. And would you mind putting your hand in front of your face? See how hard? That was so easy. So easy. Come on, guys.

We have to do that. Yeah. Come on, we don't have to do that. We're all friends here. Yeah. It's cool if I don't do that. He didn't even even say what the thing was. He just kept saying,

nah, come on, we don't have to do that. Well, thank you so much for being our guest. Thank you for having me. Thank you, everybody out there. Remember, if you have a period mimicking machine, use it wisely. Yes. Come on back next week for another episode.

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