The James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan - fat zion
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Oh yes, welcome to this episode of the James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran.
A plan brought to you live from Steubenville.
That's where I've landed.
I don't know where I'm going.
I've just come back from the bar.
I've just, on the way there, I drove on the right-hand side of the road
and only seriously got in trouble one time trying to get used to this American driving.
Let me tell you, I'm so happy I stayed off of
drugs. I'm so happy I've never been a big, other than a short amount of time where I discovered
that codeine and a bottle of wine was a good time. I'm so glad that I have a weird fear of drugs
because it's allowed me to do so many wonderful things. I can tell you if I'd gotten into drugs, kids, if I'd gotten into drugs in a big way, oh, I'd be in trouble. I'd be just doing
drugs at home in sweet Adelaide with all my friends. Gosh, it doesn't sound so bad now that
I say it out loud. No, but seriously, folks, kids, I'm here in Steubenville. I've made it to America.
I'm here in Steubenville.
I've made it to America.
On the last podcast, I was sitting in a car in Greymouth, New Zealand.
And what a thing it is to get to go back to Greymouth, New Zealand.
And then from there, well, it was a big journey.
If you want to hear about it, I describe it in painstaking detail on the Patreon,
which so many people have signed up to supporting my dream of boat ownership, and I thank you for that,
and I thank you for your financial contribution.
And then I was in Austin,
and I got to do comedy at Joe Rogan's Comedy Club
and live at my friend Shane's house,
and I got to do stand-up comedy,
and I got to hang out,
and I got to play a video game.
Gee, it's rare that I get...
Gee, it's good, as well as drugs,
that I've stepped away from video games, because let me tell you, if I was a video game-playing, it's rare that I get... Gee, it's good as well as drugs that I've stepped away from video games
because let me tell you,
if I was a video game playing person in general,
I wouldn't be here in Steubenville either.
Oh, it's been hard.
It's been bloody hard here in Steubenville
because I don't have a car.
I'm about to take possession of a car
next week from a friend,
but I haven't had a car,
haven't had a social security number,
haven't been able to get paid, haven't been able to go anywhere. I've just been in the downtown of
Steubenville, which my friend Mark, he's trying to turn it, it's just one man trying to turn around
the whole hollowed out downtown of a Rust Belt imploding community. And he's doing a damn fine job of it.
I was at the bar that I believe he owns the land of.
It was wonderful just to sit around with men,
to have a beer,
to talk about how fat Zion Williams is.
William Son, Zion Williamson.
I always want to call him a name that ain't his name.
I should be quiet
my whole family's here
my family's finally arrived
I'm back together with my family
I spent
I don't know what it was
nine days away from my family
I don't know how much to tell you
I don't know how much to catch you up
I don't know where I'm going to live
I don't know what I'm going to do
but I'm here in America
I'm in America
I'm in America
in America
this is America
I went to the public library today with my family.
We walked all through the downtown of Steubenville
to the cathedral that they're taking away.
They're taking away the cathedral.
They said there's not enough people living here.
I believe this is the argument,
that there's not enough people living here
to justify having a bishop.
Boy, there's not a cathedral to justify having a bishop.
They have a photo in the library.
It's a beautiful Carnegie Library.
A man named Carnegie.
Here's my understanding of American history is that there was,
for a brief period of time, a man who owned everything.
I've woken people up.
I've been too loud and I've woken people up.
I've been too enthusiastic.
Enthusiastic.
I'm going to stumble upstairs now drunk and try and be a good father
ah what have I done
what have I done to my family
what have I done to myself
maybe I'll stay down here
and let soundbusters go away
that scream baby
ah I've really stuffed that one
there'll be some big apologies
to come from yours truly
excuse me that might be where we end the podcast right now
I'm back and I'm better than ever
the baby's snuggling down with
its sweet tender mother
I love my wife so much
I seriously recommend marrying the same woman I did.
If I am struck down, or even if I die for a long time,
I commend marrying her to any one of you.
And indeed, I will only give my blessing to the marriage
if it's a James Donald Fawcett Canterbury Airplane listener
who does marry my sweet, tender widow.
We walked to the library today. It was a beautiful
library, paid for by Mr. Carnegie, next to a terrible, terrible cathedral. I didn't even look
inside of it, but they had a picture of how the cathedral used to look and how it looks now.
They knocked down the towers. It had two big, beautiful towers out front, they knocked it down, it was made of a beautiful
black stone, and they bricked up the front, didn't get me bricked up, let me tell you that much for
free, I can't believe what they did to this building, it was evil, I mean imagine being the
man whose job it is to tear that down, imagine being the man who think that's a good idea,
disgraceful, but the library is wonderful.
I must say, even I've been to some pretty... The word that they would use, I would think, would be...
What's the word that they use to mean poor in America?
Well, let's just use that word.
I've been to some pretty poor neighborhoods in America,
and both times I've been there,
they've had beautiful, beautiful libraries.
I mean, you can't... maybe I'm just getting lucky,
but the libraries in this country are magical.
I've never seen a library that may be more enthusiastic to be a black child.
So many exciting possibilities for black children.
Also, the signage and books of this library would make me think
making the dreams and wishes of dr martin luther king come true dr martin luther king jr i'm sick
of the way people bring up him cheating on his wife dr martin luther king jr was a great man
and people in this country keep breaking up the fact seemingly that he was cheating on his wife
to keep black people in their place in this country
well i've had enough one man one charismatic man's infidelity should not destroy the movement of a
whole people to self-determination hello and welcome to the james donald falls mccann catamaran
plan it's the podcast where i james donald falls mccann am trying to buy a boat. And while there's a brief catch-up,
I've moved my family to America, to Steubenville, Ohio.
Gee, I was sitting backstage with some comedians.
I performed at Joe Rogan's comedy club, The Mothership.
Can I just quickly say, if you ever get the opportunity to do that,
and I know not a lot of you will,
because not a lot of you are stand-up comedians.
I mean, even if you are a stand-up comedian,
maybe it's difficult for you to drag your whole damn family across the world.
It wasn't easy for me to do it, but let me tell you.
It's so wonderful.
It's so wonderful.
They've built acoustically, technologically.
It's just perfect.
It's one man with a lot of money who said,
what if we just made the perfect
place to do comedy in, and then they did it, oh, it moved me, I was moved, I wasn't, I wasn't just
doing comedy and performing in front of those people, I was having a, very close to a transcendent
experience, I mean, just filled with terror, so afraid to go on and perform in front, I mean,
just filled with terror, so afraid to go on and perform in front, I mean, because imagine if you're bad there, gee, that'd be a real kick in the trouser, excuse me, I shouldn't be talking in
that way, I'm just, I don't know how I'm going to, I don't know how I'm going to provide for my family,
but there are a lot of people in America who are looking me in the eye and telling me they're
going to help me, and I'm so grateful for them, and I'm so grateful for you, dear listener. I've had an idea for merchandise. That's the next
episode. I need a car before we move into the merchandising phase. Oh my goodness. It's just,
I can't open a bank account. People are trying to pay me and I can't open a bank account because
I don't have a social security number yet. So I went to go and get a social security number in
the downtown of Steubenville. And the they were so wonderful there was only about three people in the social security
office people trying to get their disability and the women were they said we don't like the rules
here they were so apologetic they said we don't like the rules here sir it's just our job. And I thought, I wonder if you know about the Nuremberg trials.
But they were so kind to me. They were so kind to me. So in about two weeks, I'm going to have
a social security card with a number on it. I'm going to be able to take that number to a bank
and or credit union. I'm going to get a bank account and then when I provide goods and or services for people
they'll be able to pay money into that account
and until then we just hobble along
oh I went to a Walmart with my father
my father's come along, my father's here
and he is just indefatigably enthusiastic
there was a wall at the Walmart
as you might have guessed
but it was a wall of the Walmart, as you might have guessed,
but it was a wall of soldiers who had died in war from Steubenville and they've got all their pictures up on the wall.
And my daddy, he was taking pictures of all the dead young sweet boys
who died in the defense of liberty in various wars.
Excuse me, I do have to be quiet.
I'm waking everybody up again i thought i was being quiet
this time but i guess not excuse me okay now being very quiet indeed turning this into an asmr
podcast that seems to be what the young people today need is someone just whispering into their
ears maybe that's a breakthrough in microphone technology maybe that's a sign that people lack
the warmth of a mother when they're growing up. But who am I to say what's right and
wrong in this crazy mixed up world? I'll tell you who I am. I'm a man with judgment. I'm a man with
relatively sound judgment. And I'm here to tell you that I find the ASMR phenomenon fundamentally
disgusting, but also enrapturing at the same time. Because it's nice when someone's words tickle me inside my ear,
not even in a particularly sexual way.
Although that too.
But I mean, the best video I found trying to describe American football,
gee, I'm trying to understand the American football.
The best video that I could find was an ASMR woman doing it.
I think these guys line up their special teams. So this
is where special teams come out.
And they're going to be back here.
And I don't know if they have to be at a certain
spot back here, actually.
But you have your catcher kind of guy
running back. No, not running back.
I don't know what he's called.
I should look that up. This guy. He's going to catch
that ball. And then these guys
are all lined up in here
i guess they have to be lined up up here to begin with i mean she wasn't across every single last
one of the rules but she was doing a pretty good job on balance i thought if i may make one small
complaint about america i love this country i love so many things about this country but if i'm to
make a complaint about this country it's the food is wrong so just so many things about this country but if I'm to make a complaint about this country it's the food is
wrong so just so many things about the food are wrong I tried to buy flour I tried to buy just
the most normal flour possible for my wife so she could cook at home and it was there was bleach in
it there's bleached flour and she said there's bleach in this flour and I said honey I'm sorry I got the most normal one I could she said well it's all in this flour. And I said, honey, I'm sorry.
I got the most normal one I could.
She said, well, it's all right.
I guess we're eating bleach and everything else too.
When you just buy bread at the supermarket,
there are all these extra weird flavors in it that shouldn't be there.
Milk tastes wrong in this country.
Everything is wrong.
No wonder poor sweet Zion Williamson.
I don't really care about Zion Williamson.
I'm just, I feel...
I was having a big chat before
and I was having a, I would say,
one of several consecutive dark nights of the soul.
I was talking with my wife about
where we're going to live, what we're going to do,
how we're going to provide, what I'm going to do.
Then I said, well, we're going to live, what we're going to do, how we're going to provide, what I'm going to do. But I said, well, we're going to do twice.
I did.
And then Mark, Mark, who's next door, Mark, whose house I'm in, he said, do you want to
come to the bar?
I said, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
And there were all these lovely men there and just drinking with these men in this bar,
smoking a couple of cigarettos.
I don't mind saying you can hear that in my
I believe you call it a lung. Lungs. I'm the sadomasochistic organ of all. Excuse me.
That was just nice. It was just human to be hanging out with the boys.
To be there with the boys talking about whether or not Zion Williamson was fat.
It was a meaningful moment for me. Can I just take a moment to shout out immigrants?
I'm sorry to make this a big gay woke podcast.
Something that I never thought this podcast would become
would be a big woke gay podcast,
but gosh, immigrants have a hard time of it.
To hear different voices around you is,
well, it's taxing.
To have to change the way you say the word water
when you're in a water just so that you'll be understood i'm sure there are other problems
about the immigrant experience but those are the two that i've noticed it's really actually only
one if you think about it it's the same thing sort of number one is a flavor of the food and
the other is a flavor in the ear mouth i'll tell you one thing i was doing
man the first couple sets i did in america the first couple stand-up comedy sets i was a bit
robotic i was changing some words around to try and be understood by the american audience
and my friend shane he told me he said i noticed you're changing a couple words around for the
americans i said that's correct he said, don't do that,
so I stopped, and I just treated the audience like they were an Australian audience,
maybe it was so much better, it was fine if I, when I just treat them like people,
people are all the same, people are all the same out there, and they don't mind you being different,
it was a real beautiful moment where I thought, oh can just do my act because I had thought I'll have to go through all my material to see what if it works in America and slowly introduce
it and change it bit by bit because I got one bit that involves the word
kilogram and I thought well I can't be saying that.
I have gained 10 kilos recently. Thank you.
I'm not happy about it.
I realised I was getting fat because men in pubs have stopped calling me mate and started to call me big fella.
And I thought, I can't say that.
It's got the word kilos in it.
Who's going to understand me talking about kilos in America
other than people who sling cocaine?
That's my understanding.
That's the unit they use.
It was like a germ in my head that I had to change everything else that I do.
I couldn't say the word mate.
Turns out you can say the word mate in America.
They know the word mate
and they know that Australians say it
and they're perfectly capable of tolerating
an Australian saying the word mate
instead of buddy.
So I just play on and use the word.
I just treat them like human beings
who are capable of listening to another human being. Isn't beautiful gee this podcast's getting pretty effaced it's a podcast about how
we all need to listen to each other and how immigrants have a hard time of it that's not
the podcast i said i had to make i said i had to make a podcast for me and i'm proud to say that
we've never been closer i'm so happy to have so many beautiful new listeners from all across the world largely
from america we've got hundreds of new listeners in america tens of new people on the patreon i
want to say thank you you are making the dream of me buying a boat stronger than ever maybe not
close than ever but stronger i gotta tell you i i you, I had ultimately a very beautiful experience
and a very bad experience while I was putting gas in the car.
As I was on the way to the...
I was driving.
I was on the way to this bar.
Not pub.
Bar.
Gee, there's something about a pub that's very family friendly
and you can have a child at a pub and at a bar.
It's just an area where men go to get drunk.
That's my understanding of the difference.
Anyway, so this guy at the petrol station,
I will not lose my identity,
this guy at the petrol station goes,
hey, I have extra $10 left on my meter.
I put in a certain amount of money to fill up the car
and there's an extra $10.
Do you want the extra $10 of fuel?
I said, yes.
And Mark, very gracious, he said, well well does someone else here need it more than us I said Mark let's take the fuel man so I
drive the car around I put the fuel in the car and when I go in because it obviously I mean it
didn't work here's the other thing I we went to try and put the fuel in the car accidentally put
twenty dollars in so I had to pay the difference of the ten dollars and it was me in the car, accidentally put $20 in, so I had to pay the difference of the $10.
And it was me in the line and these people waiting behind me,
and they were buying just every... It was this young family.
Well, it wasn't a young family.
It was a father and his enormously fat teenage children.
And they were buying every snack imaginable at the petrol station.
I mean, they were buying something called a Yoo-Hoo,
which is, I think, an American chocolate milk drink
they were buying.
It was like 17 different Skittles,
fried things, chips.
I mean, it puts my wife's complaint
of the bleached flour to shame.
I mean, these people were just getting ready
to buy a mountain of poison.
And later on, Mark said, he goes,
when I was complaining about what these people were ordering,
I was saying, you can't eat that and live.
And he said, James, I hope you know
that those people were buying their dinner.
I said, don't say that.
He said, that's dinner for those people.
And just, oh, I thought that was, that really was, that's America.
That's the two sides of America that I've seen.
On the one hand, it's a man doing something generous, giving an extra $10 of petrol to somebody.
I've never in my life encountered somebody ever giving excess petrol to someone.
And on the other hand, it's a big fat family living the life I wish I could lead. Thank you. We'll be right back. New father, new routines, new locations. What matters is that you have something there to adapt with you,
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