Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 414 - Rhea Butcher

Episode Date: February 22, 2016

Comedian Rhea Butcher joins us to talk Back to the Future, stage nudity, and tango.

Hi, he's Dave Shumka. And he's Graham Clark. And together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself. Woo! Hello everybody and welcome to episode number 414 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who played The Flash's best friend, The Stitch, in the last season of The Flash, Mr. Dave Schumpeter. This is a guy who cramps up when he starts to run?

Yeah, doesn't eat enough potassium and his best friend is the Flash and he can't keep up with it. Yeah, and Flash is always dangling a banana. Come on. You're so fast. And our guest today, first time guest to the podcast, very funny comedian, and the first roving correspondent for Fusion TV's Know You Shut Up, Ms. Rhea Butcher is here. Hello. Hello.

I'm so excited to be here. It's so much fun. Yeah, thanks for coming on the podcast. We just barely started and I'm already losing my mind with fun. What the fun. So much fun. Hello and welcome to here. Yeah, thanks for having me. You were talking about running and yesterday my flight out of Los Angeles, I had a connection in Seattle to get to Vancouver. Okay.

And my flight was delayed by almost an hour, and I had a layover of like 20 minutes. Right. And so, when we landed, we had like 10 minutes, and I was terrified we were going to miss the flight, and we had to run from gate A1 to A12. And I got to A12. And I got to A6 and was like, I can't run anymore. I've exhausted all my resources. I was like, I think I'm going to lose it. I think I'm going to fall apart.

Just turn into a pile of spaghetti. I thought you were going to say we had to run from gate A1 to W46. I will say this. It was around a bunch of corners. Sure, yeah. So it was hard for that reason. There was navigating involved in the running. Enough corners, you end up back where you started. You do.

Yeah, that's true. You do. Should we get to know us? Sure. Get to know us. So this is your first time up here in Vancouver. Yes. Do you come to Canada often? I actually

started to in like the last year. I was in Winnipeg in August. Hello. Lovely Winnipeg. I actually, I really had a great time. I had one of the best vegan hamburgers, burgers I've ever had in my entire life. Do you remember the name of the place? Boone Burger. Oh yeah. People told me about Boone Burger. I remember it. People told me about Boone Burger. I remember it a lot. Because everybody was telling me, I'm a lifetime vegetarian, so I've had a lot of vegetarian burgers in my lifetime. And everybody's like, oh, you got to go try it.

They're so good. And I went, and they were very chill about everything. And I got in there, ordered the backyard burger, I think. It had barbecue sauce. Oh, fun. And then just everything else that would be on a burger. So it very good and i went up to the counter was like i have to tell you this is the best vegetarian burger i've ever had in my entire life and the woman was like cool have a good day i was like no you don't understand this is important and she like just

did not want to give it to me i guess i am. I want credit for the compliment I'm giving her. I've, like Graham, you're a vegetarian. Yeah, but I'm only like, I've only been 10 years.

Only 10? Yeah. But that's serious. It's a lifetime. But the last 10 years are the easiest to be a vegetarian. It is true.

I'm sure it was much harder as a child. Yeah, in 1985, it wasn't super easy People were like What? Well Marty McFly

Did he not eat food? Yeah That was why He went back in time To find a better I think he only Drinks Pepsi free That's the only

He never eats You know I never Understood that joke As a kid Because I didn't know What Pepsi free Didn't exist By the time

It came out on VHS Yeah So he said Give me me a Pepsi Free. And the guy's like, if you want some, you'll have to pay for it. And I was like, I side with the guy. Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. Lou is right. Okay, I'll have a tab.

You can't have a tab unless you order something. I'm sure when they were writing the script, they were like, what soda jokes can we do? And my mom had to explain to me the concept of a tab no less than 10 times because i was just a child and was like wait what what what is a tab and my mom would be like you go someplace and then you don't just pay for every single thing you get and i was like like a restaurant what like yeah four years old it was so confusing also though like a tab now is probably different than it was in the 50s,

right? It's gotta be where, like, you came back and eventually paid your tab. Yeah, like you would have

a standing tab at a bar or a general store. Well, that was on Cheers. There was always a... I was just gonna say that. Like, Norm never

paid his tab. Right. It was just running. Wasn't there one day where they're like, okay, you have to pay this tab and it was like

thousands of dollars. I'm fascinated. What's, because you never do see Marty McFly eat anything. Yeah. Now that that came out of my mouth.

Well, does he eat in part three? It's been a long time since I've watched part three. Well, what? It's no fun. He eats in part three

because he eats the rabbit and he spits out the butt shell or whatever. Yeah, the ball bearings. Doesn't he eat in part one? He doesn't have a hat. Oh, did you guys see this on the internet that I posted about that I met Leah Thompson on a flight? No.

No. It was one of the greatest experiences of my entire life. Okay. I know we're doing so many things. I want to hear everything about. We can totally come back to Leah Thompson. No, let's get to Leah Thompson. She's my density.

Okay, let's do that. That's who we want to talk about. Howard the Duck. Let's do it. Oh, man. She is some kind of wonderful. And somebody else pointed out to me, which I completely forgot, that she was in the Beverly Hillbillies also.

Oh, really? And had like a French accent and was like part of the, whoever was trying to rip them off. Oh, yeah. That was the plot of the Beverly Hillbillies. I think I saw that one time. Yeah. And I saw it because Ernest was in it. Yeah.

Exactly. It's not canon. It's not Ernest's canon. It's not. It's not. So she was on the same flight as you. She was on the same flight as me. Did you-

Can I ask what class? We were on southwest oh classless so classless yeah so i we were flying out of burbank okay it was a very small airport or no wait we were flying from san francisco to burbank i apologize it was sketch fest this story's falling apart yeah i'm lying also you're lying also i'm this is not true um so we were in san francisco, which is a pretty small airport. And I saw this woman in Uggs and was walking. And I was like, wow, that, is that?

No, I couldn't. No, I couldn't. And she was surrounded by like teenagers too. I was like, oh, it's just a woman. Like somebody said something about camping. I was like, oh, it's just like a camping trip or something. I did not think it was. And I was like, oh, it's just like a camping trip or something. I did not think it was. And I was like, man, that really looks like.

And then I just like stopped staring at her because I didn't want to be a creep. And then we got on the same flight. She sat down, you know, boarded first. And I was standing right next to her in the line. Didn't realize it was her. Then we get on the plane and she gets on her seat and like sort of stand, you know, how you you sit on it to talk to the person behind you, like a golden retriever kind of look? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she did that, and I turned around, and it was Leah Thompson's face.

Wow. And I was like, holy shit. And I was like shaking. And then I was like, I'm not going to. She's like with her kids. It was a 10 a.m. flight. Like, I'm not going to just walk up. So that's who was around her, this gang of teens.

Yeah, her kids and then i later she was shooting something in san francisco okay and her daughter is like the star of it and so then i think that was why they were all up there and so anyway so i went to the bathroom and as i was coming back to my seat she was walking towards the bathroom and i was like i'm so sorry to bother you but uh i'm a huge fan of your work and i think you're great and i just want to say thanks and she was like oh that's so nice and uh i was like oh i just i really didn't mean she's like you're not bothering me at all and uh she was like hey what's your name and i said ria and she goes oh so close and i was like because like when i was a kid and i saw her name i was like oh my

god that's so close to my name you know how you like do dumb stuff when you're a kid and I saw her name, I was like, oh my God, that's so close to my name. You know how you do dumb stuff when you're a kid and you see things? That's half of why I like baseball because it goes runs, hits, errors, and it's almost my name. And I used to point at it when I was a young, young, young, young four-year-old. And so when she said that back to me, I was just like. The circle is complete. Yeah, my hands started disappearing. It's also why you know so much about cheers. Yeah, exactly. It is why you know so much about cheers yeah exactly wow it is why i know so much about cheers but i can't say to people now like i went to the mall and uh i had to give somebody my name for whatever reason and they're

like oh is that irish i was like no it's greek but i'm not greek the name is i was like it's just like you know uh rhea perlman from cheers and they were like from what from the tortellas just walked right out like i have to go into a retirement home yeah you just completely vanished but yeah that was a great experience that's amazing awesome i i don't know if i would if i saw somebody like that especially somebody who was in back to the future i i don't know if i'd be able to muster the courage did you you know you're obsessed with back yes i am did you have you seen the one the movie on netflix i haven't watched it yet it's not great okay it's uh it's got like some back to like back behind the scenes stuff like talk about the eric

stoltz experiment and sure and like the making of the movie and then there's an awful lot of stuff about conventions about like sorry like back to the future conventions yeah yeah see I'm not so much

hey that's your thing not bashing it not my thing at all but like you know it's fine it's just not a very compelling part of that movie

conventions don't make for interesting entertainment when you're at the convention. Have you gone to a convention? No. Me neither. Now, I think there are, like, you guys have just got the cops.

I know, sorry. It went the wrong way. Hang on. I think in one of the conventions, a couple gets married, and they have, like, At the Chapel of Love? I don't know. No, it's just, like, the Radisson. But I believe they get married by Mayor Goldie Wilson.

Oh, well, that's pretty amazing. That is pretty good. I like the sound of that. And I think they had like Back to the Future themed vows. Sorry, I just got that. Is that the only thing that actor did? Yes. Wow, what a resume. um is that is that the only thing that actor did yes i feel like he did something else but i mean that's a pretty good i don't know and there there are it's pretty good yeah the the people who are only sort of in those movies are featured prominently in this documentary claudia wells

which is the original jennifer yeah oh that's got to be a hard thing to... You were in the original. I don't know why they replaced her. I forget. I honestly can't remember why they replaced her. I mean, they did so much shifting between the first one and the second one. Yeah. I mean, they weren't planning on making a sequel at all.

Yeah, it was a joke. Yeah, exactly. They made the first one being like, this is it. So bye. So then they had to do, but I do know that Claudia Wells was like a championship, like a bodybuilder for quite some time. Yeah. That must've been in the post back to the future. It was post.

Yes, it was post. She, I don't think those pants were necessarily built for like big quads, you know, this flower stretch. Yeah, that's why we're stretching it. The eighties were a big quads, you know, those flower stretchers. Yeah, those flower stretchers. The 80s were a terrible time for bodybuilding. They really were. Wow, I mean, Arnold Schwarzenegger seemed like he did all right. That was just carryover from the 70s.

Oh, that's true. He just coasted. Oh, that was a real hotbed of weightlifting. And then the 80s, we just enjoyed the fruits of their labor. Yeah, the WWf and whatnot yeah it's uh i don't do you think if arnold schwarzenegger was just making the scene now that he would be a star no no i mean either no not at all i mean it depends on uh the premise being that someone like him existed or he didn't exist. And then we have entertainment that would be completely different than what it is now.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it would have changed. Sylvester Stallone. I mean, we would have had Sylvester Stallone. So somebody else would have come on the scene as another muscly guy.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Cause we needed somebody, people had like Rambo burnout, I feel like. And so that's why we turned to Arnold. Yeah.

Oh, a lonely nation turns his eyes to you. Yeah, exactly. There was like the, the bizarre, like post Vietnam action movies. Yeah.

Like commando. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And even predator. And then you shift into terminator, which changes everything.

That's even though terminator was an 84, but you know, whatever. There was also, yeah, there was a lot of, because that's where a guy, a rogue soldier would have got his military experience, would have been in Vietnam. Right, yeah. Now it's just sleeper cell agents that were trained to kill. Yeah, black ops.

Yeah, exactly. Snipers. Terrifying. But yeah. I've met back to back to the future, to circle back to back to the future. Yeah, exactly. Snipers. Terrifying. But yeah. I've met back to back to the future to circle back to back to the future. Yes, please. Let's just keep circling back. I've also met Thomas F. Olsen.

So I've met two. Really? Out of the, and I wrote punch up on that Toyota commercial that came out around. I don't even know when that. Oh, when the back to the future anniversary happened. Right. They, they released like a Toyota commercial. And I think some of my jokes were in it.

I don't even know if they were. But I. You cashed that check and walked away. I couldn't watch it, though, because I was like, oh, I'm too close to this. Yeah. I had a hard time watching the Kimmel thing. Like, I was crying watching that bit that they did. Where they came out on the stage.

Yes. Yeah. It was. Just seeing them together doing that again was like almost too much for me. And the little, was that ad, the Toyota one where they were sitting in the coffee shop? Yeah. That's the one. That's the one, yeah. It's great.

Yeah? So, yeah. Great. Well, I hope one of my punch-ups made it in there. The thing about the fax machine was uh was really good that they said uh i haven't seen this commercial they're just talking about what they what the movie uh got right about the year okay and then uh they both laugh about 2015 yeah that there's still fax machines in the future and uh but yeah you're right seeing them together again was like

yeah it was a real nice homecoming. Yeah. And watching Christopher Lloyd have to like deal with all that. They wrote so much crazy stuff for him to say. And he was just like really trying to keep the character and being like, this is a mouthful of scientific stuff to be talking about off the cuff. Now that I'm actually 80. I am as old as, yeah. I am as old as, yeah.

But that's, do you think that if Michael J. Fox was able to, do you think they would have done another Back to the Future at this point? I don't know. I mean, Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis are so against it. But I, and you're going to think I'm crazy for this, but I actually think you could do it well. If you had the right people writing it, you could do it. I mean, look, we've had a black president. That's enough right there.

You know, like to comment on the Ronald Reagan thing, you know, because it only works in the first one. Right. You know, they make a slight reference to the president thing in the second one, when he looks at the USA today and it says,

president says she's tired. That's like the only thing that ever comes back. But like, I mean, you could, because the Goldie Wilson stuff is in there. Then he becomes mayor. I mean, you basically just have that same commentary. And then the new, you know, whoever is the Marty, which would be a girl, of course,

because you'd have to do that. Oh, yeah. I actually wrote a pitch for this on our podcast that we, on Wim Bam Pow. To Paul Feig. Yeah, I did like a pitch it for Back our podcast that we, on Wim Bam Pow. To Paul Feig. Yeah. I did like a pitch it for Back to the Future 4. That's amazing.

And so the whole thing is like you can't charge your phone because it's the 80s or, you know. So the daughter of Marty McFly, presumably. I think it was like cousin so that there would be no real, you wouldn't have to deal with all the mechanics of the biology of the tree. Okay. Because you already have, God, I can never remember what his daughter's name is. Because there's Marty McFly Jr. Yeah, and then. And then she's like Martha?

I forget. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But she's kind of a ditzy character. Dad, is that you? Yeah. Yeah, but she's Michael J. Fox in a wig as well. Both of his kids look like him.

Hey, Dad, it's needles. I mean, he does a great job, though. People don't give him enough credit for that. He's playing three people in the same scene. Yeah, good clumps. Yeah, Mom, we're like a couple of teenagers. It's great. He was.

He was pretty clumped. Who plays Crispin Glover in the second movie? Just some actor. Okay. A lot of people thought it was Michael J. Fox crispin glover in the second movie just some guy okay a lot of people thought it was michael j fox in the later in the future scenes because it kind of looks like him because he's upside down but he also didn't like crispin glover he won like a lawsuit about that because yeah because they use old footage without asking him and they made the actor look like him yeah and in the 50s because they had to use you know they had shots that they had to pick up and stuff and they made the actor just look like he was crispin glover which and they didn't

get his approval on it before they did it so it kind of changed uh movies after that really this was like a landmark it was because you couldn't just like huh use someone's image infinitely without paying yeah for it right that's why in Polar Express, they had to take Tom Hanks and just make him look creepier. Yeah. Make him look really weird. Yeah. Have dead eyes.

Yeah. Do you remember the first time that you saw Back to the Future? I do, yeah. Was it in a movie theater? Was it at home? It was at home on like a Saturday morning. Because my mom would rent movies on Fridays. Okay.

We would get movies from this place called Roadrunner Video, which was like a miniature chain in my hometown area. But they got huge because everybody started renting movies, obviously. Yeah. You guys remember? I do. I remember. We used to rent movies. Yeah.

But they got huge and we would rent movies and you would get it like for the night. And then it was like a night, for the night and then it would it was like a night a day and then the next morning it was like a weird timing that yeah yeah so my mom would get it on friday watch it make sure that i could see it and then we would watch it saturday morning oh okay i was like a child so i was like sure i'll watch a movie at 6 a.m on a saturday that sounds great yeah oh yeah that kind kind of race it back to the video store That sounds like a perfect Saturday morning mom Yeah it was a stressful thing Oh man

And you had to rewind that shit Come on hurry we gotta get this back by 10 We gotta go My brother I'm trying to watch a movie and I got this Separate videotape rewinder Shaved like a Ferrari My brother had a blockbuster card That he had accrued And I got a separate videotape rewinder shaped like a Ferrari.

My brother had a blockbuster card that he had accrued so much debt on. Oh, really? And it was kind of on the bubble. Like, people were still renting DVDs. And he was like, you know what? I'm out. I'm just going to not. I'm just going to walk away. I'm not going to participate.

They're going to go out of business eventually. And he was right. Yeah, and he was right. He was able to just walk away. But I mean, he had hundreds of dollars in fees. I remember like spending hours in a blockbuster, just being like, like just going up and down every single row by myself on like a boring Tuesday in a summer. I would stand and watch whatever movie They were watching in the store

I would easily stand there For 20 minutes Just watching like A huge chunk of a movie Sometimes I would rent A video game Or I'd go to rent A video game

And it wouldn't be there And I was too shy To like ask When's this coming back So I would just Cruise by Like where all the Like returned ones

That haven't been Put back on the shelf yeah kind of look in the file and they're like come back 10 minutes later like echo the dolphin yeah did anyone return sports talk baseball kid chameleon coming back anytime yeah and i remember the video stores uh would have you could rent older movies you could get like five of them for five days for five dollars

you could get it for like eight months kind of like feel free yeah and it was always like some movie like all the

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington you could just have that if you want you are the only person who rents this movie yeah but you rent it every week is it part of some weird

drug cover upup or something? Like, do you use the box to deliver cash? My drug runner. I remember trying to buy a video from a video store that I rented so much that I was like, can I just buy this? And they were so back, I guess like back in the day, a VHS tape was like $800. So they were like, yeah, we'll sell it to you for like $400. And I was like, I'll just keep renting it. I guess I'll never own.

In this economy? Yeah. I remember when, Jesus, I sound so old, but we had Dairy Mart was our convenience store. Okay. Now it's Circle K. They all got bought out by that. Jesus, that sounds so old. But we had Dairy Mart was our convenience store in my... Okay. Now it's Circle K. They all got bought out by that. But they would just have a wire rack of videos.

Oh, yeah. Like the same one that places have now of like, buy this DVD that you don't want for five bucks or whatever. Kingpin on DVD. Yeah, Kingpin. Swordfish on DVD. Oh, man. They printed too many of that movie.

I can't give them away. You could use it as a coaster. Think about it. Consider it. You could just have those and then you would sign up with Dairy Mart and get a but you had to have like a credit card and give them like a $100 deposit to rent videos because the VHS was

so expensive. Yeah. It's weird because... I wonder why Hollywood is so upset about streaming. Because they used to make $600 off of a single VHS tape. Those bastards. With no special anything on it. Nothing. With commercials on it.

Oh boy. Oh man. Oh yeah. I haven't seen anything like... Can you imagine if Netflix had like... Even just one. People would be like, I'm'm done i'm not paying seven dollars a month to watch a commercial unless it was those old like 80s like uh drop dead friend commercial or like oh yeah with with the um uh narrator throughout the entire commercial yeah like sally white was a was a contractor with no time for love in her life.

You know, that kind of. Yeah. Yeah. Until. Until. Was the Diet Coke Indiana Jones commercial that was on the Last Crusade. So, take us through this. Oh, it was on the VHS.

It was on the VHS. So, opens on a couple. Straight, white couple. Cisgender couple. Having a coke. They put in The Last Crusade. There is on a sofa. It's in modern times.

Well, yeah, in 1990. Sure. So, that type of modern times. It's the 90s. The 90s. You know, it's the 90s. Get with it. And so, they put in the tape.

And she, you know, like the husband falls asleep or boyfriend falls asleep or something. And then she is distracted. She hears a sound and it's Indiana Jones in the doorway. I'm doing this from memory. So I hope I'm getting the plot right. But Harrison Ford himself. No.

No. A man in a fedora. The suggestion of Indiana Jones appears. in the it's kind of like the indiana jones ride at disneyland where you're like is that oh no it's not that's not even a person that's an animatronic thing i went to disneyland for the first time rode the ride by myself because cameron wasn't feeling well and i got in and i was like this will be fun and then like he popped comes down and starts talking i was was like, oh my God, it's Harrison Ford. I got so into it.

And then I realized, oh, that's a puppet. Oh yeah, no, he's not wearing an earring. Can't be Harrison Ford. Where's Callista? Oh, she's not here. So yeah, then they go through like some kitchen adventure to like get her a Diet Coke. And then she gets a Diet Coke and then she comes back, sits down, and then it cuts

to the night saying you have chosen wisely which is like wow that was a really long adventure through your kitchen because that's the end of the movie that's very very far into the end of the movie you just put that thing on um but yeah that was my favorite second was oh man bug bunny and daffy duck selling batman merchandise in a cartoon up top of the Batman VHS. And was that tied into Space Jam or something? Oh, Warner Brothers. Okay. That's why.

So they were just shilling for Batman. See, now that you say it, I remember being in the theater and there was, at the beginning of the Addams Family movie, there was Wayne and Garth were doing this thing. Oh, yeah. And then it was tied into the Addams Family. They were in the Addams Family house. And I was like, even as a kid, I was like, good synergy. Good. This works well.

I like both these things. Ooh, yes. Yeah, yeah. This makes sense. The fact that they even made an Addams Family movie at that time. Two. Yeah. I know.

But even just that first one of like, I mean, I guess they were just like, well, we have Raul Julia now and also Angelica Houston. Let's do it. Yeah. Yeah. We've got that. Let's write a script. It's true.

It's like, but that was during that phase where they were just every old TV show was father. Adam's family was before the Brady Bunch? Yes. Oh, yeah. The Brady Bunch was like a Second City Chicago thing, which I think is why they made the movie for that one. Yeah.

What else was there around that time? Because eventually- Coneheads. Yep. Then there was- But that also is- The Beverly Hillbillies. That's a slightly, the SNL movie adaptation to me is slightly different than like a TV show.

Although normally they would do like a current, like a Wayne's World. Right. They wouldn't go back to. Yeah, usually they didn't go back to 1979. They never made a samurai. Although they filmed a few of Ellen DeGeneres. The killer bees. Yeah.

Land shark movie. Actually, that would be great. Two hours of just knocking on doors. Candy Graham. For two hours. Yeah, and there was a

Vincent Gallo should make a land shark movie. He could make a very, yeah, that would work. Yeah. Anything, I mean,

you know, anything Vincent Gallo wants. He's King Midas. Yeah, exactly. work yeah anything i mean you know anything vincent gala wants he's king midas yeah exactly um that i i don't even know where to go from here this is such a we've really gone into this wonderful this vhs what was the system at the the your video store of choice because i feel like every video store had a different way of showing you that it was rented you're making me so happy right now some had clips on them.

Some they would just have a secondary box. That was the Blockbuster way. Oh, right, yeah. And the one near my house that we went to had Velcro on the thing, and it would say rented or available, and it was just on a little Velcro tag. So it was dirty and clean on the dishwasher that no one ever switched?

You're like, this is useless. So lazy, you can't even switch whether it's dirty or clean. Yeah. Is there an I don't care on this somewhere?

It usually just means it's dirty. The first place that we had, other than that dairy mart, which I think you just took the video, like the box up and then they gave you the thing

and then it just didn't go back on the shelf there was another one called channel one that had on the shelves it would have the vhs the actual box with nothing in it and then a nail and then on that nail there was like a tag a circular tag that was like manila manila paper right with a metal casing around it and you grabbed that and you took that up to the counter and they gave you the vhs that place also had on the back porch um it had a stand-up original mario brothers the not side-scrolling one but the like donkey kong stuff okay holy yeah wow it's like that sounds like an old, like, chemist or something. Oh, yeah.

With the vanilla notes. I mean, yeah. Either that or, like, a serial killer's den or something. Oh, yeah. You know, it's just like the whole thing was very. Who's that actress that has the photographic memory of every day of her life? Oh, from Taxi? Yeah.

Why can I not think? I can see her face. Oh, Mary Lou Henner? Yeah. Do you have. Of course I can't remember. I don't have her thing do you have mary lou henner disease it's a syndrome when it comes to movies and renting movies yes i remember it being like you would go you'd have your local place or two or three in where you live sure uh and then uh if you ever went on vacation with your family and the place like you stayed somewhere that had a vcr it would be a thing like all right they have video stores here but we have to now enter their system like is dad going to pony up just to have video store memberships all over the country.

Yeah, just because it's like we're in a small town. It's like a dairy mart or whatever. Yeah. And they rent videos. Oh, man. And there's no like HBO. Hell no. There's no.

Not unless you're staying in a real nice hotel. A super nice Holiday Inn. I'm going to a small town with my family. They don't have HBO, but they might have, you know, Sorry, the board game. What do hotel, because that used to be forever. That was the hotel thing they put on the sign. Free HBO. And then it became free Wi-Fi for a while.

But that's becoming pretty standard. So what's the, what would be the next? I don't know. Almost it's like free HBO again. it comes back around like no on the tv you don't have to watch it on your phone or you can use our hbo go password yeah i mean i really think it's still wi-fi just because i've been to because fancy places don't have free wi-fi. Isn't that great? Why is it? It's like $15 a day, which is a lot. And it's not. That's a lot of money.

You're like, I guess I'm going to have just watch. I'm just going to leave movies streaming just so I'm getting my money's worth. But the Wi-Fi is usually pretty slow, too. Yeah, once you get on it. It's not great. It's kicking you off all the time. Apparently there's sites. I've never been on one, but there's sites that you can type in the hotel that you're at,

and it will tell you what that day's or that week's password is. Oh. And so it's, like, updated by whatever, the, you know, the bellboy or whatever, you know? It's just, like, typing in the... But don whatever you know like is just like typing in the but don't you need to give your room number yeah yeah like but i guess it's the same password for everybody in the in the building they just change it over what am i a hacker what do i need what is this cyber cyber pink cyber pink are you a cyber pimp? Oh, boy. Yeah, when did that go away, cyberpunk?

I don't know. When did hackers just become... It died with Billy Idol. Yeah, I guess that's true. May you rest in peace. Oh, Matrix was the last sort of like, it's cool to hack thing. Yeah. And then it just became... And now Mr. Robot is a thing.

And then people just can casually hack things anyway you know like you can just figure things out yeah i've never hacked anything no i use squarespace you just drag and drop there you go no hacking required that's a free ad for today's episode. Yeah, well, we also, we've advertised all these video stores. Video Time, Channel One, Family Video, Roadrunner Video. Yeah, Jumbo Video, Video Spot was one of the ones. Oh, yeah. We had Crazy Mike's.

We had Wilderness Video. We had Rogers, of course. Oh, yeah, sure. My other question was about vegetarianism. Yes. Is there like a special Yelp for vegetarians traveling? You know what? That's funny.

There used to be, and I forgot about it until recently. I think it's called Happy Cow or something like that. And it originated in a cafe at the University of Oregon in Eugene, which I went to. Oh. So when the internet became like a thing and I was using it, I found that happy cow thing. And I used to, whenever I'd go anywhere, which was not very often, but I would try to find vegetarian restaurants. They were always listed on there. But Yelp is pretty good about if you just put in vegetarian.

But then a lot of places figured out the hack, their hack, which is they just put vegetarian as a tag and everything. Cause they have a vegetarian thing. Cause it'll be like, Oh, this is a steakhouse vegetarian. Like, come on.

I like baked potatoes, but I'm looking for other things. You do end up eating a lot of baked potatoes. A lot of, I'll just have the soup with the salad. Nachos. Yeah. Oh, nachos everywhere. Can I just have the soup with the salad. Nachos. Yeah. Oh, nachos everywhere.

Can I get no meat on that salad, please? Yeah. You want chicken, right? It is a rib salad. And yeah, and then you have veggie burgers pretty much everywhere. Wendy's has a veggie burger now. Do you know there's a place in Canada that's a chain on Granville Street. Which one?

It's called Harvey's. Oh, Harvey's. And it is my favorite veggie burger. Okay. I'll check it out. And it's just a regular old fast food place, but their veggie burger is... Super good. Super good.

I have been known in my past, not recently, to get a Burger King veggie Whopper, which is just a Whopper with no meat on it. Oh, really? Oh, really? It's like a salad sandwich. It's like a grilled cheese? But it's good. Yeah.

It's good. It's weird and good. I don't know. A salad sandwich sounds delicious to me. It's pretty, I mean, mayonnaise and onions. Do you get it? Yeah. It's disgusting and great.

Do you get a discount on it? No. Oh. No, I think it's cheaper, but it's not like vastly cheaper. Now, let me ask you this, because this is a thing that's come up kind of in the- That's disconcerting that the meat is not even like that big a price drop. We prefer to sell it this way.

You know, there's scientists that are working on this, like synthetic meat. Yes. That has no connection to killing an animal or anything if that became approved by the government and all that kind of stuff, would you? I don't know. It's like a hard

question. Is that right? Yeah, there's a place called In Vitro Bistro. Well, I don't want to eat there. Yeah. Oh man. And. Oh, man. And they do fake meat. But it's like.

But it's actually fake meat. Because like everybody refers to like veggie protein meat as fake meat. No, no, no. It's so funny to me. But they play up like in their like marketing, in their photographs. It's like chunks of steak. Oh, wow. Draped over. Whatever. Draped over.

Whatever. Draped over what? A piano? It's draped over like a test tube. They put it on a boxer's eye. They have a dog chasing a guy. That would be actually a great commercial for a

steakhouse absolutely oh man hey look your dog's eating it you can eat this you could call it a fake house

yeah it's better than in vitro bistro oh boy yeah that is unfortunate that makes me feel very weird in utero brutero

oh yeasty but uh yeah I'm not i'm i'm not sure if i would get into it or not i feel like it would take me a lot of because you've never like you've never eaten meat so that's not a part of your it's just never been even though i eat uh you know like veggie protein things and stuff it's just not like sometimes i will smell meat and be hungry because it smells like food. Yeah. Not because I'm like, ooh, steak.

That smells. Yeah. But like most of the time if I smell it, I'm like, ooh, I don't know about that. I don't think you would like it. Yeah. I feel like. Just because there is like, if they do it like completely accurately, like a steak, there's blood.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like, you're creating fake meat that bleeds? Yeah. And if it bleeds, it leads. Well, that's true. That's why I've never seen it on the news. They haven't predicted it.

And here's your blood packet. Yeah. Oh, God. And it's just a squib. And here's your gun filled with blanks, too. But, yeah, I grew up in, like, beef country. Yeah. So I grew up, like, very, like, eating steak all the time.

So I wonder, I don't know, if it was, if they were like, hey, this is 100% safe. It's not going to mutate in your body once you eat it because it sounds like they haven't got there yet. Yeah. They can't know. I mean, that is the thing about when you start really thinking about food because I don't think we think about food. I know I'm not in the United States, but Canada, the United States,

we don't really think about what food actually is, which is things you put in your body and then it is in your body not just in your tummy yeah yeah they were like oh this feels good in my tummy and now it's gone but like it's it's in your body yeah like it makes up your body like i am 33 years old and i didn't even think about the fact that like when a woman is pregnant that baby is growing and leeching out of her bones to make its bones. You know, like you just don't, you don't think about it. I was listening to, uh, like, uh, this woman who, who was on fresh air and she wrote a book on how babies get their like eating habits. And like the, uh, what's the fluid called?

Uh, it, uh, like if you eat a lot of garlic, the fluid gets? Amniotic fluid. If you eat a lot of garlic, the fluid gets garlicky and your baby has a taste for garlic. Oh yeah, that's how to make sure your baby's not a vampire. It's the number one. It's the number one thing you can do. Women,

listen. Eat a bunch of garlic. Eat a bunch of garlic. Blow yourself out. It's for your baby. Also, keep a lot of garlic eat a bunch of garlic blow yourself out it's for your baby also keep a lot of crucifixes around yeah get the baby used to them show your baby a mirror as often as possible holy water based lotion um but that's what i mean like even that if it's not really an animal it's still like what is this that i'm actually putting into my body? You said it's not going to mutate in there. Yeah, like some guys in a lab who are saying, yeah, we made this thing that can bleed.

And it's like, well, it's a Frankenstein. Have you guys ever seen Splice? Come on now. Are you sure it doesn't have feelings? You're sure? Nature finds a way. Nature finds a way. It doesn't have vocal cords, but it's screaming.

I can feel its pain. Yeah. Why did we give this steak a mouth? Why? It just keeps mouthing us out. Me, me, me, me, me. You don't have to do this. Ow.

It's like that blobfish that everybody keeps comparing Ted Cruz to. Going like, please. Graham, you and Ted Cruz come from the same hometown. What's that? You and Ted Cruz come from the same hometown. We do. Yeah, that's right. Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

It's weird that he's gotten this far. Running for president from Canada. Yeah, but wait till we see the long form. From Kenya. But that was such a big deal in that camp, in the Republican camp. The whole notion that, oh, wouldn't it be the worst thing in the world if somebody who didn't have an iron clad citizenship was our president? And then they were like, well, I mean, this guy has no case whatsoever. He was born in Canada.

I don't know. I don't get it. I still think he's really neat. If that guy was on running in a Democratic Party, they would be tearing him apart because he was born in Canada and his last name is Cruz. You know, like that nobody would the Republicans would be tearing it apart because he was born in Canada and his last name is Cruz, you know, like that nobody would, the Republicans would be tearing it apart. Yeah. Because the other thing with Barack Obama is he has what,

you know, white people in the GOP think is air quotes, a crazy name. And that it's like the whole thing of being like, well, I mean, look at his name, you know,

like it's, it's very bizarre. A lot of presidents have had, uh, unusual names. I know, but none have had Hussein as a middle name. Yeah, that's true. So great.

I love it so much. And a last name that's one letter off from Osama. Yes. When he first came on the scene, I was like, this is going nowhere. Just the name. Yeah, I know. But you know what I mean? He is a great speaker.

He is. And he will Command The great speaking Feed For decades to come But I maintain Not my president He would be a good

Talk show host After he's done Presidenting Like what Format Like a Rachel Ray Or Gotcha

Journalism You know like Bringing in a guestachel ray or gotcha journalism you know like uh bringing in a guest and then uh well you say that you never yeah and then you bring it and then he just dances yeah something like a real wacky a morning joe kind of a morning show okay uh right rise with barack obama i like i would like in the morning i'd like him to be like a Sally Jesse, where you go into the audience and you get answers. You get people. He could be a new Phil Donahue. Yes.

We need one. A real Donahue vibe. Oh, yeah. Let's reboot Donahue. I get a real Donahue vibe. He does kind of radiate a vibe. You're right. Real serious Donahue vibe.

Dave, what's going on with you, man? Oh, boy. Not a heck of a lot. Sure. One thing that is going on with me is, let's see, I have notes. I apologize. They're not immediately with me. Oh, yeah.

They're not immediately with me. Oh yeah, you and I, last Friday night, last week's guest, Cynthia Hopkins, invited us to go see her one-woman show. Yep. And we went to it, and it was, I'm not theater people. You've never trod the boards? Well, I've trod a few boards. Yeah. But I've not, like as an adult, I don't enjoy the experience of, you know, playing make-believe.

But this was great. Yeah. And super funny. But like, and it was, the audience was filled with theater people. Yeah. But none of them knew how to behave. Like I thought as an outsider. Yeah, it was terrible. So there was

one guy coughing the whole time. The whole time. Was it Bernie Sanders? This guy's, this guy was, it was like to the point where even

Cynthia looked over it. Oh my God. It was like a constant like, like a, not like a, but like, like every 10 seconds oh my god yeah like to the point that it's like how did you get out of the house understand we were walking to our show at UCB and there was a like there's it's like in a row have you guys been to UCB in

Los Angeles uh no uh it's just like on a sort of strip a little bit. There's like a restaurant, a bookshop, and then like a sushi place. Right, a Scientology center. Yeah, exactly. There's a lot of stuff like right there. So there's always

a lot of people just sort of around. And we were walking from where we left our car to the door, which was like 200, 300 feet. And then there was a group of people

and this woman just starts going like, ha, ha, ha, like so loud. And I just went, go home. You shouldn't. Why are you here? Yeah, don't get all disgusting.

I'm not contagious anymore. How do you know? I don't want to hear that. And you're getting phlegm on me and I'm not even next to you. Yeah, it was very. So, I mean, but that was a minor infraction. And then, yeah, there were like, she did did a character that was, like, giving a speech at a conference. And that got, like, too much interaction from the audience.

Like, people were. People answering rhetorical questions. Right? Oh, my God. I rolled my eyes. Yes. I think if we play back the audio, you'll be able to hear that you rolled your eyes. Sounds like that meat being like, roll your eyes.

Why do you give me eyes? So I think the lesson is like, even though I consider myself an outsider from the theater scene, I'm not. I'm the best behaved guy. I mean, that sounds like a stand-up show. misbehaved guy yeah i mean that sounds like a stand-up show like what people were doing yeah audience of like just answering what you're saying as you're like getting out of it and then you're like stop stop talking to me i am a human person yeah it was very it was like you guys seen this commercial yeah i saw it last night but i feel I don't know, I'm just so used to assuming that people that are going to a theater show. Yeah.

As part of a theater festival. Yeah. And most of the people there are people who are involved in some degree with the festival would just be the best behaved crowd you've ever seen. And not even close. The worst is when they're not being like aggressive they're just like so it's not like i if i shut you down i'm an asshole yeah right yeah but it's it's like you're doing a show for a bunch of country rubes like it's like people that don't know not to be like well i also agree with that character but i find sometimes like especially my example would be like

going to like a art house cinema kind of thing or like going to where there's like movie geeks because you think like oh everybody that's here wants to be here this isn't just you know the 3 p.m showing of uh force awakens or whatever like everybody that's here right now, this is the only day it's playing. This is the one night. It's a 35mm. Everyone's on board. But then, I feel like because it's so specific, then people are like, everybody's on board with me. I'm going to talk right now.

Because it creates this weird sense of security that like, oh yeah, we can just talk because we're all on the same page, right? Like, we're all here. We all know the thing. Yeah. Let's all laugh at it together. That's like my biggest pet peeve is.

The over laughing. Yes. Yes. Like an acknowledging laugh. Like I get it. I'm trying to watch Thief for the 30th time and I've never seen it in 35 millimeter. Shut up. But you're right.

The knowing, you know, and it's always somebody who's wearing many scarves. And it's always not that great a joke. It's not. It's not even a joke. And it's somebody who's brought grapes with them to eat while they're watching the movie. Just, I mean, just stay at home. Just stay

home. Yeah. Go home. Stay at home and play Clue or Cluedo as it's known. And the other thing that happened in the one-woman show is I was not expecting this, and I was proud of how we handled it. Total nudity. Yeah. Oh.

And we were very grown up about it. Like 100%? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But it was not, it did very kind of, of it just it came out of nowhere oh yeah and

but I've seen other plays where there's been naked people I've seen other naked people I'm sure but I haven't like I was telling you

I was like I don't think I've been in a room with a naked woman other than my wife in like since the last time

I went to a strip club yeah which would have been over 10 years ago. Yeah. Yeah. It's, uh, it was like, it totally made sense in the context of the show. Yeah.

But it was still, it was like, huh. So here we are. Let's be adults about this. All right. All right. Here we are. Yeah. The coughing guy.

Why are you coughing more? I don't? I don't I don't It agitated something But yeah It was really It was a fun show It's just

Oh yeah Totally Oh man That crowd Oh Oh my blood was boiling And the other thing That's been going on with me

Is I've started watching this OJ Simpson Yeah Made for TV movie I've been watching it versus oj simpson yeah i have been watching it there's only two episodes right yeah so far although when this comes out i think there will be three okay but and have you seen any of it no but i can't wait it's great yeah well we won't spoil you on it then it is i uh don't usually go out For this kind of thing Like watching something

A made for TV movie Yeah At all Yeah I guess it's a mini series Technically But like even in the Emmys When they do mini series

I don't I've never seen it It's just It's confusing How that's even Separated out anymore I know It's like

There used to be the I can't even Think of the show To make fun of it now Hallmark Hall of Fame. Richard Chamberlain? The Something Doves? Oh, Lonesome Dove?

No, not that one. Oh. It doesn't matter. I'm probably driving one person crazy right now that's listening to it. Like, ah! Richard Chamberlain. Yeah. Big listener.

Yes, exactly. And this is, it's directed by the guy who made Glee. Oh, yeah. And American Horror Story. Is it a musical? It's a musical. Oh, wow. Now I really can't wait to watch it.

He did it. He didn't do it. He did it. He didn't do it. If the glove don't fit, you must quit. I mean, that writes itself. I'm going to kill you. Power. I'm not going to kill you. Power!

I'm not going to kill you. Soul. That's Batdance. But that's in my... When I make the Batdance musical, my one-man show is one-man Batdance. Batdance. It's nine minutes long.

Tons of nudity. Let me stick the seven-inch in the computer. Anyway. So, Kuba Gooding Jr. Uh-huh. I think it's Kuba. Yeah. He plays O.J. Simpson.

Yeah. David Schwimmer is Robert Kardashian. Yeah, with a big hairdo. He's got a big skunk stripe. Yeah. Oh, it's wonderful. And it kind of, I love that they put the real photo and swimmer next to because it's not accurate no like it's like i get it you can't actually make it

accurate because he doesn't have the same hair but it's so funny because you're like that isn't right like it just doesn't swirl the same way and like it's very funny we're gonna swirl and john travolta is robert shapiro and people are like that he's terrible but like the david schwimmer robert kardashian is very distracting and they make it a big point of knowing of making you know that these are the same kardashians from today i don't want to actually spoil anything for you, but I have to mention something that is in the last episode. Because at first I was like, what the hell is this? And then at the same time I was like, this is hilarious.

And like, I'm not sure how self-aware it was, but I mean, they clearly did it on purpose. Yeah. But it's the scene when Robert Kardashian is reading excerpts from OJ's suicide note. He's giving a press conference about it. And so he's like, it's a very solemn thing. And then they cut to the Kardashian

kids watching it. And they're like, Dad, he's on TV! He's on the TV! Look! He's on television! Our dad! That's our dad! He's on television! They're talking about TV. Like they say it like 10 times.

And at the press conference, someone says, how do you spell your last name? Or what's your last name again? They go like Kazazian? How do you spell your last name? And then it cuts back to the kids and they go, Kardashian, Kardashian, K-A-R-D. And they spell the whole thing. And it's just like, wow. Wow.

It's fascinating. It's interesting because it's one of these things are usually about things that have happened before I was. Born. Yeah. Around. Right. So this is like the first miniseries about an event where I'm like, I remember the thing. Yeah.

Like I was alive and cognizant of what was going on. Unless it's something that's like a mini series that was, you know, from six months ago. Something that like was super recent. Thorn Birds. That's the name of the mini series. The Thorn Birds. The Thorn Doves.

Sorry, guys. Close. Ballpark. But I got it. I got it. Here's a question though because the OJ Simpson trial happened

Friends was on TV right yeah you're right yeah so is there were they tempted in the room to be like

should we include a scene where Friends is on in the background or where Robert Shapiro's watching Pulp Fiction this new movie what if they watch an episode of Friends and Ross has been edited out

and they put Robert Shapiro in as Ross? Or Robert Kardashian. Or Robert Kardashian in as Ross. They use old footage of him, green screen him into that. They would put Robert Shapiro in to get shorty. Right. Oh, man. I mean, this.

That sounds like they should just use Michael J. Fox for all that. Yeah. You can do that. Absolutely. Also, remember his daughter's name. I believe it's Marlene. Marlene. That just popped into my head, too.

Oh, man. Because I just have to do other things, and then I remember what. Sure. Thornbirds. But, yeah, it's crazy to watch something that is like a dramatized version of something that you actually experienced i mean not firsthand but i remember but there's been like yeah there's been like 9-11 movies and yeah i just feel like this was like you know like the the hbo or whatever did like uh the guy the music producer. Oh, Phil Spector? Yeah.

And I feel like that happened while I was alive, but I wasn't consumed with it. Yeah. This was such a huge thing. Like a huge cultural news media thing. I mean, it like really did. It launched Court TV. Yeah. We didn't have Court TV before this happened and we and you don't anymore yeah we don't not into it anymore but like i mean i wonder if even things like making

a murderer would be i mean we love true crime as people human beings we always have like exactly what do you think that handprint was? That's a surprise. There you go. Yes. The mammoth did it. I mean, it just had such an effect. And I think it's also really, hopefully, good timing because of, you know, like all the social media, how much social media is expanding our scope and actually giving us a better look at race relations in the United States. And it's all related. You know, it's the same, essentially same conversation. Like it doesn't, and even in Making a Murderer, it becomes not about innocence or guilt,

but the process and what's going on. I think it's really mostly about the wig. Sure. Like I'm, this is just one man's opinion. But yeah, it's, yeah, it is like it's still, and also it was like you say, it's this launching point for this whole new way of consuming news, right? Like, there was no, I mean, maybe there was when I was a kid, I don't know. But there doesn't seem to be a thing where it was on the cover of every paper every day.

Yeah. And it was like, did it constantly in the press? Was it on every like network as well? Did it preempt like the court, did the, did the trial preempt like, uh,

the verdict preempted everything. But I, like, I feel like there were months when like soap operas had to shut down. Yeah. There was like, there was like there was i mean all the like stuff like the car chase and that was on every network like that you couldn't get away from that car chase thing when that happened and then the verdicts even like the

principal of our school like announced the verdict over the pa like was, what was the reaction? Uh, I remember one, I remember one kid and it was this kid who was always just doing like really funny, stupid stuff. Uh huh. So he was walking

down the hall and when he heard the verdict, he threw his binder up and it hit the roof and papers went everywhere. Was he happy? No, he just took it

as an occasion to do something great. Wow. So that's my week. What's going on with you? I went to the symphony. What? Yeah. Friday night. You guys are so cultured.

I know. This is once in a life. Yeah. Friday night. One woman show. Saturday night. This is once in a life. Yeah. Friday night, one woman show. Saturday night, symphony. Did they play just music from Back to the Future? Yeah. Yeah. It was just music from Back to the Future. They played that ZZ Top song that they play in the third one where it's all a drum and

a violin or something. Yep. It's such a great song um did they do a double back i believe okay sorry okay hon um and i what what was the it was uh it was all uh tango uh tango music like wango tango music. Like Wango Tango? Yeah, Wango Tango. What's that? Is that a thing? Is that Ted Nugent?

Yeah, it was the symphony salute to Ted Nugent. Cat scratch fever. Done the way you always hoped it would be. It was all tango music famous they did that one did anyone dance yeah they had tango dancers come out and so it was it was like it was a lot of fun and but the thing about going to the symphony that i didn't know i was like uh what do you wear like i don't want to be over dressed but i also don't want to be underdressed so i just wore kind of like a nice button-up shirt nice pair of slacks nice pair of

shoes that so that's fine i figure i've got my bases covered either way but while i'm watching uh a guy gets up to go use the bathroom and he looks like he has just stepped off of the set of a jimmy buffett video he's wearing like sunglasses around his neck and a shirt with a crab on it do you think this guy won tickets he was the 12th caller on the tango station yeah vancouver's only tango station well from december 1st to december 25th it's all tango songs yeah tango christmas yeah uh anyways yeah it was a lot of fun but i just i was like whoa i do feel overdressed compared to crap shirt i remember when i was like 12 or 13 uh i asked my dad if Dad, if we could go to the Paul McCartney Oratorio. Oh, boy.

This was a snooze. And I think everyone in the audience was pretty, like, kind of had, like, a 10% hope Paul McCartney would show up. And, like, just start. Just 10%. Yeah, just start jamming out. Well, like, we're adults. We know this is going to be a boring adult thing, but maybe like they'll include. That sounds like when I went to see Follow That Bird, which was like one of the first movies I saw in the theater. I kind of hoped that they were all going to come out from the curtain beneath the screen and be like, here we are.

the screen and be like here we are but but at that oratorio i've never been to an oratorio since um uh it was a lot of like dudes in jeans yeah yeah like us like stuff you would wear to a concert or maybe a step above i was just like nice jeans yeah the thing about going to a movie when you're a kid, I remember the one thing that I wanted to happen to me more than anything when I went to a movie was, remember they used to have ads where they would interview people as they were coming out of the movie? Oh, yeah. Oh, I wanted to be one of those people so bad that they were like, what did you think? Loved it. Yeah.

Say my favorite line from the movie. We're going back. That's not from the movie. We're going back. That's not from the movie. We're actually going to see this movie again. I just mean we're going back in right now. I got to go to the bathroom. We forgot our coats. Yeah, so that's what I did.

I went and had some real culture. Now, how long was this tango symphony? It was like an hour and a half with an intermish. Too long? A good 90-minute tango symphony? It was like an hour and a half with an intermish. Too long? Good 90-minute tango. Yeah, good 90. The tango dancers were exhausted. At the end, they dumped Gatorade over each other's heads.

At least I didn't know that started with the tango. Is tango, is it all the same rhythm? No. I guess there's one tango that was kind of like, it was like a waltz. And then there's like famous, like ones that you hear and you're like, oh, that's what I think of when I think of tango. And they're like, this is the most famous. No, that's what I call tango. Volume 19.

Yeah. So it was. Did they include tango number five? was, uh, did they include tango number five? Oh wait, that's a model. No, yes.

Uh, but they adapted it for the symphony. A little bit of Beethoven in my life. And then they pick somebody from the front row.

Julie in my life. Crab shirt. Oh man. Oh, crab crab shirt Oh well Do you want to move on To a bit of business No let's move on To overheard

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Yeah, it's not our problem anymore. Yeah. No refunds. Yeah, exactly. No refunds. Now, we always like to start the Overheard segment with the guest. Would you lead the way? Oh, do I need to have an overheard?

Well, you know, if you can think of one, we can start with Dave and come back to you. There was one that I did, and now I can't think of what it was. When I was home, somebody said the most ridiculous thing to me. I have a feeling it'll come back to you. Yeah, maybe in the next segment. Use your thorn bird powers. I'll use my thorn bird powers. Dave, we'll start with you.

I, um, that, uh, a couple of weeks ago, this isn't my overheard, uh, but I was just reminded of, uh, this great idea I have. We had a guest, Sonny Dollywall on, and he, uh, his, um, he gave his tour a name. Oh yeah. We were talking about how when comedians go on tour, they can just give them tours arbitrary names. No one's buying the whatever shirt. Yeah, the shot glasses. Yeah. But I thought a good name for a tour would be the no refunds tour.

No refunds. Yeah. No refunds is good. That's a good one. It gets the idea across. My overheard barely counts. It's an overseen. The other day, Abby and I, we went out to lunch.

We like to give the paparazzi something to take pictures of. And so we, yeah, we went out for a lunch of eggs. Ooh, egg lunch. Yeah, a lunch of eggs. Technically, it was a brunch, I guess, but it was, you know, it was a Thursday. A Game of Thrones, a lunch of eggs. Technically, it was a brunch, I guess, but it was, you know, it was a Thursday. A Game of Thrones. A lunch of eggs. Yeah.

And after lunch, we were leaving and we saw this guy across the street and it's a very wide street and we couldn't quite make out what this guy was wearing. because he had like a hoodie on unzipped like halfway and then either a skin colored t-shirt with an emblem in the middle or and this is vancouver in february uh no shirt under his hoodie and just a chest tattoo and then the more we looked like like, it was like, you know, 15, 20 seconds of trying to figure out what this guy across the street is wearing. And it turns out it was a hoodie, unzipped, half unzipped, with a, like a low cut tank top that was skin colored. Oh, wow. Under, like, but also with a chest tattoo visible above the low cut top. Huh. So it was all of it.

It was all of, it was everything. Every option you thought it was. Yeah. Everything you could hope for. Were there nipples on the, oh man. And I said to Abby, maybe that could be my overseen. And she said, well, he sure sucks. overseen and she said well he sure sucks the uh the chest tattoo uh that was like that's like an old-timey like i think old like the sailors oh yeah get a big yeah whatever a boat or something

a fish the water thing but the guy still is getting a chest tattoo. I know I've seen a lot of women with chest tattoos, but not. Oh, that's interesting. I haven't been in a room with a woman's chest in a long time. Just a woman's chest in the corner. A chest of clothes. Come on, everybody. That is funny, though. Like, women have totally taken that tattoo back.

Yeah, because I like reclaimed it cause you don't see a guy with like a you know with a big it's sleeves you really don't guys get the rib

tattoo a lot yeah more I think than the chest tattoo that's what I have I have a poem yeah it's from

Jules the Knight without armor over the teeth over the gums look out stomach here it comes. Yeah. It's a poem by Rhea Butcher.

It's like, this doesn't just go in your tummy. It goes in your whole body. Nummy, nummy, naughty, naughty. Real good. Moms make their babies bones. Anonymous. Anonymous, probably. anonymous probably um yeah keep it keep up with the chest tattoos women yeah i'll keep looking at them

sorry i'm just trying to make out your tattoo that is my favorite though when somebody has like a crazy tattoo and you're like and then they're like hey and you're like you were the one with the tattoo i there was a guy on the bus this is like a month ago and he caught me looking at him and i was like well come on like he had billboards his whole head was tattooed with like you know a skull yeah forget what's in there. This is accurate. I've had an x-ray. This is what it looks like.

It's like people that have like lizards on their shoulder. They get upset when you look at their lizard. Yeah. And the lizard's like, what are you looking at? And your lizard gets jealous because you're looking at other lizards. Then a parrot comes by and takes them both. Swoops in. My lizards!

Then a bald eagle comes by and takes them all. Oh, nature. They have huge claws. Mm-hmm. Talons? Yeah, that's what I meant, sir.

Absolutely. They're taking their talons. I used to drive an eagle talon. Is that true? Oh. I forgot about that car. Do you have an over?

I do. It comes from the symphony. At one point, uh, they play, they played a tango and the, the conductor said, you may recognize this tango.

It's a, from one of the pivotal, pivotal scenes in the movie scent of a, where he dances to a tango. And as soon as I heard it, I was like, oh yeah, that's from that movie. But the lady behind me was so excited

by the phrase, Scent of a Woman. I think she was trying to do ooo-ah. Ooo-ah? Yeah, but she wouldn't. It literally sounded like this.

The guy said, you may recognize this song from the Al Pacino movie, Scent of a Woman. And she went, it literally sounded like this. The guy said, you may recognize this song from the Al Pacino movie, Scent of a Woman. And she went, meh. That's this catchphrase. Meh. So excited. Like one of those things you turn upside down that makes you. Yeah.

I'm mooing. She was so, and you could tell, like she was so stoked. So stoked. Oh God. That's such a great sound. Yeah.

I just love when people make the wrong sound. They think they're going to do something else. They think they're going like, yay! But they're really like, oh! That's the best. Oh, man. That was my favorite. I read books to my daughter.

And she's a year and five months old. And all of these books are either about what are the letters or what are the noises animals make. Oh, yeah. And she is not getting them. Like, she's, her consonants are way off. She says, be-ow, instead of me-ow. Be-ow. Oh, come on, kids.

Oh, that's adorable. Get it together. Be-ow. She can't do, be-ow instead of me-ow. B-ow. Oh, come on, kid. Oh, that's adorable. Get it together. B-ow. She can't do B-ow. Worth a damn. To save her life. Yeah. B-ow.

Oh, man. Maybe she's really into Beyonce. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That could be what it is. She's into B-speak. Maybe she's got to learn about bae sometime. This actually just came up between Cameron and I this morning,

because we got a newspaper, we were looking through it, and it was something about like... Because you wouldn't pay that $15 Wi-Fi. I guess I'll read. And it said something about syrup. And she was like, reading it over and over again, she was like, oh, these syrup futures, blah, blah, blah. And then she turns to me what blah, blah, blah.

And then she turns to me and goes, God, do you know anybody that says it's syrup? And I said, me. And I was like, it's syrup. Like my whole family says it that way. And she was so disgusted.

How do you guys say syrup? That's one of the ones where I don't know. I don't know. I would say either. Cause I would say maple syrup. I would also, somebody said like i'd say syrup i think i usually say syrup yeah but if i'm trying to rhyme it in a freestyle rap with stirrups yeah then which is usually that's that i come back to the same themes over and over again um but yeah there are words like, as Canadians, our listeners will often get mad at us for saying pasta or drama. My favorite like that is Mazda.

Oh. You guys say it Mazda and it's Mazda in the United States because it seems like it should be opposite. Yeah. Because the U.S. is usually like Mazda. Yeah. Like it seems like you guys should be saying Mazda. But what. We should trade.

What do they say in, oh, I don't know, Japan. Mazda. Yeah. Like, it seems like you guys should be saying Mazda. But what... We should trade. What do they say in, oh, I don't know, Japan? Mazda. Yeah. They just say it faster. Yeah, that's true. Way faster. They got those bullet trains.

They just say Zoom Zoom. Right. I also have this problem where I'm from that I leave out to be in things where I'll say like,

oh, this dish needs washed. Oh. Oh, okay. Which is this bad English, oh, this dish needs washed. Oh. Oh, okay. Which is just bad English, but I didn't realize it until I got married. And then my wife was like, you sound crazy. Why are you leaving that out? If you said this dish needs washing, sounds real classy. But it sounds even less classy if you say this dish needs washed.

Yeah. I stay away from that. I'm going to wash it in the creek. I'm going to wash it. Wash it. Or I'm going to throw it out the window. Do you have a, did this jog your memory? I didn't think of the LA one because it was just such a like LA specific one.

And I'll probably tweeted it, you guys, when I get home. Because if I stand on the street corner where I heard it I'll remember it but I used to work in an office when I still lived in Chicago before I moved to Los Angeles I worked in the Sears Tower which has since been renamed the Willis Tower but I'm not going to call it that what you're talking about exactly because nobody calls it that so I used to work there, and I worked at this, like, alcohol beverage marketing firm, and they used to hire, like, mostly people right out of college for not the best reasons. But so it was a bunch of, you know, because, like, they didn't have to have much health care and all that kind of stuff. But so they would hire really young people.

And so I was surrounded by, like year olds at this job which was fine but they also said really dumb shit oh yeah all the time and uh so one time this girl who would just say the wrong things all the time but this was like the kicker i think we were in the in the women's bathroom which in an office just becomes like the bathrooms become a place where you're like i need to be alone but then other people would hang out in there and not leave you alone at all. But she was talking to another person, and that person told her some crazy news. I don't remember what it was exactly. And this girl said to her, shut the fucking front door.

Oh, did I do that right? No. You're wasting it That's the whole point The whole point of that Is to not You're ruining this You're ruining it

You're ruining the whole thing I love it That was great Yeah that's the only one I can remember That reminds me of Abby's Aunt Sheila She's like a school teacher for kindergarten kids. And one time, I hope I'm remembering this right, but she was trying, like when she had to say a swear word,

she would spell it out so they wouldn't get it. But she spelled out the wrong word. Oh, man, he was going A-P-E shit. Whoops. That's the best. Now, we also have overheards. What? That have been sent in from people around the world.

Shut the fucking front door. If you want to send one in to us, you can send it in to spy at maximumfun.org. And this first one comes from Kara from Salem, Massachusetts. Did you say Kara or Kara? I was wondering about that when I read this one. I was like, is it Kara? It needs Kara. I was at a sushi restaurant and there was a man with a friend sitting next to me.

The man said to his friend, ew, tofu is so gross. Do you know how it was invented? By accident in a microwave. There's no way that's true. That's not true. no way that's true. That's not true. It can't be true. It predates microwaves, I would think.

It's been around for a really long time. It's fermented. How could that have anything to do with a microwave? What would you have put in the microwave? What would it have done? Like I put a marshmallow in. Soy. Yeah. You put a single soybean in the microwave for three days and then it turns into a white cube.

A white wet cube. Oh, yeah. It's got to be wet. It's got to be soaking in water. Yeah, that is the one thing about tofu. So flavorless on its own. Yeah. I used to eat plain tofu for lunch in kindergarten.

Really? Oh, yeah. Like as a sub in for like a yogurt or something? No. Or just here's a tofu? Just like slices of tofu. Wow. No dip?

Nothing? Nothing. Wow. I remember like my friend, he was like, can I try that? I mean, we're six, so I don't know. And he was like, can I try that? And I gave him a piece and he was like, I don't know. It might be better if it had butter on it or something.

Yeah. And now that I'm an adult, I'm like, butter on tofu? That sounds disgusting. Not the tofu by itself part is disgusting. The butter on the tofu is gross. Butter tofu. It would just, as you were buttering it, it would just eventually just turn into mush. Growing up as a...

Like a cartoon? Never mind. Tofu was always, like, the go-to, you know, new-agey, vegetarian, like, healthy, whatever. Yeah.

Also... Alfalfa, I feel like. Alfalfa. And also, just like, on sitcoms, someone getting healthy would always make some weird brown milkshake.

Yeah, or something, some kind of grass. What was the grass? Wheat grass. Wheat grass. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was also like a hilarious thing in the early 90s. Like, oh, a shot of wheat grass. I'd rather be dead.

And then he drinks a milkshake. And then he dies. Guess the sitcom. He's dead. It was Empty Nest. Do you know, after we had a conversation about Empty Nest the other night, I went home and watched four episodes of Empty Nest. Where is it available?

YouTube. Oh, right. I did watch the opening credit sequence to that. Life goes on. Is that it? Yeah, and so do we. Yes, so good. Because I watched one of the crossover episodes On Golden Girls

Where they're watching Yes Is his name Rufus, the dog? What's the dog's name? Oh, shoot, it's not Rufus Anyway Oh, man, it's another one of these things It'll come back to me later on

Woodruff Shumdriff Shiffro Yeah, Shiffro, that was it Lalo Shiffrin But, I mean, that show had Parker Overall That's not Yeah Overall? Parker Overall, yeah Yeah, is that it? Yeah Park? lalo schifrin um but i i mean that show had parker overalls that's yeah overall parker overall yeah is that it yeah park um anyway and it had i had no idea it had dreyfus dreyfus yeah it had uh

julia louis yeah the guy what was the guy that he started a set list uh oh paul provenza yeah he was i didn't know he was on that show i didn't realize he was either he was the nurses also and so the nurses spun off of empty nest from there empty nest was a sort of a pseudo spin-off from golden was from golden so it was golden girls which is technically like a spin-off from oh and then nurses was been off from so it all goes back to all in the family pretty much really yeah And then there was Golden Girls, then Empty Nest,

then Nurses spun off of Empty Nest. Okay. Because Paul, maybe he wasn't on that. But he was definitely on Empty Nest as like a boyfriend.

Yeah. Yeah. There we go. It was a crazy time, man. Yeah. Saturday nights on NBC. That was the best time of my life.

This next one comes from Chris and Michelle on Commercial Drive in Vancouver. A two-person email. I think maybe she saw it. He took care of the reporting. It's not like... Do your parents have the shared email address? Mine do. Yeah, they have one where they...

Yeah, I think that's a generational thing. That might be what this is. This is... My girlfriend was looking around at the fancy new choices market and overheard this from a customer and a cashier. Customer, do you have regular white sugar? Cashier. I don't know.

I don't know. It's like syrup and syrup. You know what? If it's not in front of my face, I don't know I don't know It's like syrup and syrup You know what? If it's not in front of my face I don't know Yeah And also Are we a market that carries regular sugar?

Or do we only have fancy Brown Yeah Brown and black sugars Yeah, your browns Your molasses Your earth tones We have khaki sugar

Will that do? For your child's birthday We have accrue sugar Yeah tones. We have khaki sugar. Will that do for your child's birthday? We have accrue sugar. Yeah, sure. We have eggshell. And this last one comes from somebody named Hamilton from Michigan. Sitting in the pediatrician's waiting room overheard a six-year-old. He let every new kid who came in know his age. Tell another child, do you know who is in this suit holding up a Spider-Man action figure?

The other kid says, Peter Pan. His mom corrected him saying, not Peter Pan, but Peter. And he cut in with, Peter Spider-Man. The best secret identity. Yeah. Nobody would think that Peter Spider-Man is Spider-Man. Peter Spider-Man. Yeah.

For one thing. Just make the checkout to Peter Spider-Man. J. Jonah J. Mathan. Yeah, that's true. He would have caught on. Everybody would have caught on eventually that there's only one guy who gets all the photos of Spider-Man. And his last name is Spider-Man. Yeah. Now, finally, in addition to overheards that are written in,

we also accept your phone calls. If you would like to call us, our phone number is 206-339-8328. Like these people have. Hello, Dave graham and lovely guest i haven't overheard for you i was uh teaching my son how to ski uh up at uh alpine meadows in california and uh we were sitting down to a hot chocolate after a great day of learning how to ski and overheard a dad and his three-year-old next to us who was telling the three-year-old that you can't eat your Snickers until you've finished your Skittles. Have a good one.

Family rules. Yeah. You know, you've got gotta make sure you get your nutrition if anything snickers is more nutritious it's got peanuts yeah absolutely it really satisfies but skittles based on fruit that's true the suggestion of fruit yeah and your body your body's dumb yeah your body it just is in your tummy and then it goes away. Yeah, exactly. I remember a poem I read about this very thing.

You read it on my ribs. That one unforgettable night. Of tango and chest edges. Yeah. Here is your next phone call. Hello, David Graham. This is Brianna in Calgary. We're in Overseas.

Just driving on the Cloud Trail. And there's a new kind of like sandwich, small sandwich shop that came up a year or two ago. And usually on a billboard you would see like new fancy steak, egg, sandwich or like new something exciting. But this sandwich shop just has a sign that says cup of soup now available.

Well, you know, if you got it, flaunt it. Yeah, we got those cups. I just imagine thousands of people going, I got those soups!

Just like running and knocking it over. Yeah. Yeah, move over bowl. Yeah, we've had these cups sitting around for years. We didn't know what to do with them. Yeah, we tried putting bowl. Yeah. We've had these cups sitting around for years. We didn't know what to do with them.

Yeah. We tried putting a sandwich in the cup and that. Cup of salad didn't work. Cup of salad wouldn't work. Cup of salad is a great idea. I feel like McDonald's did that for a while. I think you can buy a. And then you shake it.

Yeah. You shake it up. They sell them at like grocery stores. Yeah. For a quick snack. Cup of salad. Wow. They should really be marketing that.

Mm-hmm. They really made a bunch of monkeys out of us. I have an overseen that I just remembered from last night. All right. You want me to tell you that one? Yeah, absolutely. It's a Canadian commercial for, I don't know what it is, like Tiger Balm or something. But it's like Rub A353?

A535. A535, yeah. But to me, when you see it and you are unaware of what it is it looks like it says rub ass I was like oh my god that says rub ass it's it was the best

so it was like an old man being like I love rub 8535 and I was like he loves rub ass yeah I never thought of that I know

I mean I know it's more characters but just like when you see it and you don't know what it is sure yeah rub ass we grew up with

it every day having getting rubbed down after our after yeah our canadian sauna sessions um i would have never guessed that that's a canadian only product no because it's such a boring thing anyway we don't have it it wouldn't be yeah it wouldn't stick out in any country. It's like Fisherman's Friends. I didn't know that was Canada. What's the other one? No. Oh, like the terrible tasting cough medicine? Oh, Buckley's. Buckley's.

That's very Canadian. Yeah. Oh, have you ever tried Buckley's? No. It is. I've never even heard of it. Phenomenally terrible. What does it taste like?

That's their ad campaign is it tastes awful and it works. And it does work quite well but it's just like I don't know like it might it might be just a fun thing just to do

just to yeah just to find out what it tastes like. Is it one of those tastes that like makes your lungs want to throw up? No it's

Well it first goes in your tummy. Well yes. And then we have no way of knowing it might make a baby someday. Who knows? Okay. Oh,

any more to add about, but at least now final phone call of 2016. No. Hi, David Graham. This is Katie in Ohio calling in with an overseen that I held off on for a while because I was really hoping I would see it again to take a picture. But this was a bumper sticker of a parent of a local high schooler.

The local high school is Theodore Roosevelt High School, and therefore the mascot is the Rough Riders. This bumper sticker had the school logo, so it was clearly in support of the school and then just said, Rider Strong like Boy Meets World actor Rider Strong and I could not stop laughing and I've never seen it again sadly. It would be great

if at the beginning of every season Rider Strong came to the school to preside over the... Hey, I'm Rider Strong. I was Corey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To her side over the... Hey, I'm Ryder Strong. I was Cory. No, not Cory. No, he wasn't Cory. He was Sean.

He was Sean, yeah. But yeah, just at the beginning. From the bad part of town. Didn't he move in with the teacher at one point? Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's funny how like sitcoms... Motorcycle teacher.

Pretend that that's a thing that could ever happen ever in the history of. Moving in. Moving in with your teacher who's like an unabashed. Confirmed bachelor. Yeah. Teacher of children. Yeah, a guy who rides a motorcycle and like plays in rock band.

Yeah. Whatever the state is like, yeah, I guess this kid can live with this guy. We do a lot of crazy mashups here at the adoption agency. Like, it wasn't even like months and months of litigation. Yeah, cool. We're this

we're the same adoption agency that let those three guys adopt that baby. And their house was haunted by a ghost boy. They didn't know. One of them changed her diaper using newspaper. I mean, you know. Well, anything goes here.

I had to look it up, but I was pretty sure that Ryder Strong one time retweeted a joke of mine. And he did. Nice. And here it is. What did Ben Savage want to do to Danielle Fishel? Rider Strong. Pretty good. He retweeted one of my jokes, too.

Oh. It was one of the best days of my life. What was the joke? My joke was when all the Arizona stuff was going on about gay rights stuff. It was just like, yeah, but it's a dry hate. Oh, nice. It's my pinned tweet. It's been up there for a while i feel like i gotta change it yeah what's the what is the decorum around a pinned tweet change it every six months or just do what you like good i feel like do what you feel yeah i just leave it up there because i like the joke and you like writer's job it like have you

noticed that they fluctuate when they're up there like my pinned tweet is it like it has like 2,494 favorites. Not bragging, just saying. Only one that's like that. Pretty good brag. I don't have any other tweets that are very big. But it will sometimes say 2,487. And then the next day it'll be it never gets to 25, but it just like goes up and down. Do you think it's somebody taking back their life?

Are people unfavoriting things? Maybe the people who liked it, some of them have died. That's true. Yeah, that's true. Twitter's always the first to know. Twitter is. They take away that favorite immediately when you die. They remove all your favorites from your life.

If you look at your phone and Twitter's no longer there, you're dead. Do you ever go a day without uh seeing how many people like it yes because some days i go without being on twitter at all it's very hard but it's like once a month i try to take a twitter break it's really helping during this election though to take a break yeah because people are so awful on Twitter about it. It's gotten, like, pretty insane. So sometimes I'm like, I'm just not going to be on the internet. Wow.

Which is weird. Like a pioneer would. Yeah. Like a knee-slapping pioneer. Yeah, like you put a stick in the ground so you can tell the time and stuff like that. Now, that brings us to the end of this this year episode. Is there anything you would like to plug

that you have upcoming? Well I have an album coming out I don't have the date the release date but I have my first album coming out

on Kilt Rockstars this year. And what's the do you have a title? Not yet. Okay. I have one in my mind. Can I suggest

no refunds? I'll put that in the doc. What, are you going to say what it is or are you keeping it, playing it close to the chest? I'm just not sure what it's going to be yet. Okay. Like one might come to me. I don't know if you guys have noticed this, but things just tend to pop into my head. Yes.

So you don't want to interrupt that flow. So I don't want to be like, this is what it's going to be and then think of something else. Rhea Butcher presents Thorn Birds. Thorn Birds. Oh, that would be pretty good. Rhea Butcher presents Thorn Birds. Thorn Birds. Oh, that would be pretty good. Rhea Butcher presents, it was Marlene. That's what it was. So that, you'll be able to download that soon?

Oh, yeah, for sure. It's going to be on vinyl and CD and download. Really? On vinyl? Yeah, and I'm making some cool stuff. Because they do, like, Kill Rockstars Rockstars does like really cool merchandise stuff. If you want to do like Kurt Braunohler put his album out on there and he had a towel with his face on it. And I believe a glass dildo.

That I'm not doing. By Kurt's dildo. But yeah, so I'm doing some cool like merch stuff. Nice. Yeah, it was super fun. And people can see you on. No, you shut up. They can see me on that.

If they want to go to your Twitter feed and like your famous pinned tweet. Please pop it up there. I just want it to be 2,500. We can do that. I think we can push you over there. I'm doing it right now. Oh, thanks, you guys. It's at Rhea Butcher.

Yeah. R-H-E-A-B-U-T-C-H-E-R. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for being on the show. Thanks for having me. It was the best time. Oh. It was so much fun.

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