Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 420 - Clare Belford
Episode Date: April 4, 2016Comedian Clare Belford joins us to talk about dates, coyotes, and spooky Russian stuff....
Transcript
Discussion (0)
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 420 of Stop Podcasting Yourself.
My name is Graham Clark and with me is a man whose name is Dave, but Dave's not here man.
420, Dave Shumka.
Hi, happy episode 420 to you my friend.
And happy 420 to you.
Hitler's birthday episode.
Yep.
I always forget that that's that.
Why is it Hitler's birthday birthday well i mean yeah i guess
so like everyone has to have a birthday right well not jesus yeah that's true or uh yeah but
i guess everybody has a birthday that's something that we can all uh even if you're a hatchling. Yeah. Even if you're...
I don't know what a hatchling is.
But you're not birthed the way we conventionally birth people.
Yeah.
If you come out of an egg or if you rise up from ooze.
You have a birthday.
And it's 420, so...
Smoke them if you got them, I guess
Yeah, yeah
You know, go out in the park
Get that hacky sack out
Get out those devil sticks
Guys, just be really rasta while you listen to this episode
You know how people make fun of us for being Canadian
And pronouncing pasta as pasta?
Yeah
Is it rasta?
No, it's Rasta.
And our guest today, first time guest on the podcast, originally hailing from Edmonton,
now making her home in Toronto, very funny comedian, Miss Claire Belford is our guest.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Happy 420.
Happy 420.
I don't like us.
I'm starting to warm up to us.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
420 episodes and you're warming up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I think we're starting to find our groove.
Groove.
Oh, come on, buddy.
Oh, should we get to know us?
Oh, sure. get to know us? I was sure.
Now, you were born and raised in Edmonton?
I was born in Grand Prairie.
Ooh, fun.
Northern Alberta, and then moved to Edmonton in junior high.
Okay.
You said to your parents, I'm going to go to the big city.
I'm going to go to a cool junior high in Edmonton.
We were actually very afraid of moving to the city, so we moved to the suburbs.
We lived in St. Albert.
What were you afraid of?
Crime?
I don't know.
Traffic?
Yeah, I guess there's lots of traffic.
But there's not, isn't there like more crime on like farms and stuff?
Oh, yeah. It's one of those weird statistics. Yeah, like isn't there like more crime on like farms and stuff? Oh yeah, it's one of those weird statistics.
Yeah, like isn't there more crime going on, more murders on farms every year?
Yeah, you're more likely, it's like you're more likely to get murdered by a horse than by whores.
So stay in the city.
Well, good point.
We didn't live on a farm, though, so no murders.
So you moved from small town to suburb, then to city.
I moved to the city as an adult.
And now you can't get enough.
Now you move to Canada's biggest city.
Yeah, I got to find a bigger city.
Yeah, but now that's it.
That's what we have.
There's no more bigger city. Well, you can move to bigger cities. Yeah. But now that's it. That's what we have. There's no more bigger city.
Well, you can move
to bigger cities.
I like.
Just not Canadian.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's true.
You know how it's like
hard to move to the States?
Is it easier to move to
China?
Yeah.
Or like.
I wonder.
I'm going to say no.
Because people are always like,
yeah, I'm going to retire
to, you know.
Oh, yeah.
Like some island somewhere. But but like how can you do
that yeah i wonder if if those islands are keen on having a bunch of people like suddenly their
me like median population age goes up yeah hey we all we all need a bunch of
late in life care now and some pina coladas uh yeah i don't know i imagine there's some countries that
it's like uh they don't even have a process because they're like what you want to move here
so you just uh you could just go but uh yeah i don't know you know you could move to i'm sure
you could if you wanted to move to china if you wanted to move to China, if you wanted to move to China, I bet you could.
Maybe.
It would be hard.
It would be hard as a stand-up comedian.
But I think you'd find that culturally it would be worth it.
I think you could probably, if you committed a crime, they would put you up for free for a long time.
Yeah.
And there's a guy in.
Put me up for free.
What do you mean?
Put you in prison.
Oh, oh.
I might have my leg on stage.
Yeah, just performing at the Folsom County Prison in China.
All of your bluesy country jokes.
There's a guy in North Korea that was there on like a...
You heard about this.
It stole like a flag or something.
It stole a poster from his hotel.
Yeah.
And he's 15 years hardly.
Because his church wanted him to.
Yeah, his church...
His church wanted the poster?
Yeah, they were like, if you bring back the poster, we'll give you a car or something like that.
Is this like why they sent him?
I don't know.
Like as a joke thing
like he went there
as part of
something
what a badass church
but right
right God was here
but yeah
yeah
15 years
hard like
hard labor
but
come on
like
it would be hard
to be in prison.
If I went to prison, I would want to go to prison for something very violent.
I wouldn't want to be the guy who's in prison for stealing a poster.
But no one in his prison would know that.
They probably get the papers in there.
I'm sure he blends right in.
Into a North Korean prison?
Just some white guy this
church just sends him a message so do you still have the poster or yeah that's the worst part
they took it away yeah yeah he didn't even get the the car he won't even have the car when he gets
out well maybe he will yeah but it'll be like a 15 year old car by the way, that's right. The battery will be dead. So what else is going on, Claire?
Well, I'm not in prison in North Korea.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
My church is very disappointed.
Well.
What else is going on?
Well, I've been on the road for a few weeks.
That's been fun.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Where did you, what was your journey um it was very much
back and forth from edmonton to smaller towns in alberta okay um doing doing stand-up yeah okay
and staying with your parents or staying um no my parents actually don't live in edmonton anymore
i was staying with uh are they on the run they're retiring to china
um yeah it's been been good i hadn't gotten to come home for a while i'm like i moved like six
months ago and that's the first time i've come home since so right i mean that's not that long
really but it is the longest i've been away right six months i guess you know for the first
time and did you bring back all sorts
of fun knickknacks a suitcase covered in stickers different cities they really don't do that anymore
just neighborhoods in toronto yeah i uh didn't actually bring very much back i tried to pack
really light okay caused like a big rift with my grandma.
I saw her in Grand Prairie
and she was trying to give me this
mat that my brother...
She has these foamy mats underneath her carpets
and she really wanted me to bring this
mat back to my brother because he liked it.
He liked it?
Yeah!
And I was like,
Grandma, I don't have room in my suitcase for this.
She was mad about that.
And it's from Dollarama.
There's like a Dollarama 250 sticker on it.
The easiest way, I think, is just to take the thing, go out of your grandma's house, find a garbage can, put it in the garbage can.
Oh, she was mad.
She was like, I think that you could fit it in your suitcase, but I can see that you don't want to try.
Oh, yeah.
Maybe if you took out some of your trashy shirts.
Now, traveling light, what is that for you?
Is that one carry-on bag?
Yeah.
Okay.
I did carry-on for the first time.
Yeah, feels good. First time I didn't check a bag it feels great yeah except i ended up checking it last minute because they needed someone to check a bag so you went to all this
trouble they're like please if somebody wants to volunteer that kind of do they give you a
prize no you just don't have to spend the money to check it. Oh, okay. Ah, there we go. Yeah, you figured out a life hack.
Oh, yeah, the loophole system.
But you had to take it through security and everything.
You had to go through all that trouble.
All that trouble.
And put all your dry shampoos into little containers.
I guess dry shampoo doesn't matter.
No, no.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, we were talking about dry shampoo before.
I've never tried it before, but I have a hair that gets like I'll shower in the morning and by late afternoon, my hair is like it's like I just rolled around and bacon is so greasy. So does dry shampoo. Does that take care of that? Because I like it like a midday dry shampoo just to perk. Oh, yeah. You would love would love it. I think I would love it. I think
I struggled with it for a long time. Like I was saying
I felt like for the most part, the ones
I tried just made my hair dirtier. Yeah.
But then I found one that worked and it was like,
oh, such a game changer. So what
do you do? Do you just put it in and then you just
set it and forget it?
More or less. Does it work through the day?
It doesn't foam up?
Can you get your hair wet?
If you get caught in the rain, it just sets up.
Oh, my God.
What's going on with your head?
No, you just put it in.
You work it in a bit.
You brush it out.
You brush it out.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then you're fine.
And it's noticeable?
Like, you're like, oh, my hair looks...
Oh, my God, yeah. Really? Yeah, it looks so much less greasy. And kind of fuller. It kind of gives you're fine. And it's noticeable. Like, you're like, oh, my hair looks. Oh, my God, yeah.
Really?
Yeah, it looks so much less greasy.
And kind of fuller.
It kind of gives you some body.
Mmm.
We need that, yeah.
Body is something my body needs anyway.
What, do you do it, like, over the sink?
Do you do it while you're showering?
No, that's the point, is you don't shower.
Yeah, I guess so.
But, like, does it not Go everywhere When you brush it out
Like do you have to
Stand in the bathtub
You know
Like it's a tornado
Well like I have
I trim my beard
And I
You stand in the bathtub
I stand in the bathtub
That's so awful
I do it over the
Just over the sink
Um
I have
Kitchen sink
While everyone's eating
excuse me everybody
what does that fun do
anyways
yeah the
so wait
does it go everywhere
does it go everywhere
I feel like they don't care
about the answer
to this question
I've gotten it on my clothes
sometimes but you just
wipe it off
because it's so dry
so dry yeah So dry.
Yeah, I like that.
How come they don't have also like, well, I guess you just have wet naps.
It's like dry soap.
It's a powder, isn't it?
Well, there's some that are sprays also.
What about infusium?
It's the leave-in users believe in.
I don't know about this product.
It was a leave-in shampoo.
Or conditioner? Leave-in conditioner. Oh, leave-in shampoo oh or conditioner leave-in condition oh okay i do
remember that i kind of don't know what leave-in conditioner is like i mean i know what it is but
i don't understand the concept i think it's like the opposite of dry shampoo because i would use
it and just feel like it made my hair greasy yeah yeah yeah but like would you use that in a shower
or did you just no i think you spray it on your hair wet.
Weird.
Or you, I think you do put it in a shower and you just walk out.
Wait, wait, does your hair have to be.
You leave it in the shower, leave it in condition.
But then it's your hair.
Do you have to dry your hair before you put in it?
God, this is impossible.
It is impossible.
Also today, while I was having a shower, my shampoo ran out.
So I used some of my roommate's stuff.
It is so, it is so scented.
Fragrant.
Yeah.
Like, oh, but like, like I understand a little fragrance in your shampoo, but this was, this
was crazy.
Like the bathroom, like the whole bathroom smelled like it.
Oh man.
She's just like, who used all my perfume?
Oh, I thought it was dry shampoo.
It was a little thin for shampoo.
I pulled off this atomizer.
Yeah, it was this tiny little bottle of shampoo.
So dry shampoo.
We got that covered. please can we move on that's your area of expertise right
but you you started doing uh a stand-up in edmonton and must have toured around the small
towns of alberta uh not easy right doing comedy like that oh it hurts yeah like because what kind of like uh because we
we've had people on that live in alberta who do comedy there you're sean lacombers and whatnot
but they they seem that was a weird reaction we cut that out oh you think you love them
like so deeply but uh uh it sounds like like the crowds there, maybe they have a clash with the stand-up comedian point of view?
Or is that just a generalization?
Honestly, I think just the biggest problem with doing stand-up in those kinds of places is they just don't get a lot of live entertainment.
People don't know how to behave in that atmosphere. So a like a lot of people yelling out yeah they think like heckling
is like a big part of it and and i guess it is if that's what's happening yeah we can make it a big
part of it certainly like it's in our hands um did you have to play any place where they wouldn't, uh, you know, shut off the sports
game or the pool tables?
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah.
Um, though the ones though, like, like I've done a couple with Sean.
Um, you love him.
Yeah.
Sean, your first true love.
Just wanted to mention that.
End of point.
So I made it.
Those ones, there's a few that are, like, well produced.
Like, as well as they could be produced with those crowds, I think.
Are there any, like, it feels like you should, not you,
but someone should incorporate that sort of sports bar stuff into their act
and just be like, I'm the pool table comedian.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm the, like, not only do I do jokes, I'm also the hot wing record holder.
Yeah, like, what if a guy could go over and do trick shots on the pool table?
That would probably get you sent some shots. You would need a secondary act, though,
for if you show up at a place and they don't have a pool table.
You're like, oh, I'm also good at those punching machines.
Darts? You guys got darts?
Yeah.
The big buck hunter comedian.
That'd be so cool, just telling your jokes while also shooting deer on Buck Hunter.
Just nailailing that game
That's
Is that still the only
Like video game
That's in a lot of bars
Yeah there's that
I feel like
There's a golf one
Yeah
Pinball's making a comeback
But I guess it's not really a video game
Sure
Yeah
I'll count it
Are you
Okay good
You any good at pinball
I've never honestly
I've never played
Never
No I've watched it.
Oh, sure.
It's fun to watch.
It's a real good spectator sport.
It really is, though.
I didn't know it was such a good.
Why isn't bowling called pinball?
That's a good call.
What came first?
Well, there's no pins in pinball.
Yeah.
I guess there's, are there little.
Yeah, I guess maybe those are pins.
Or like, are there nails In the thing That count as pins
Nails
Yeah
I
Nail ball
Plinko
I'm just so bad at it
Like I just shoot the ball
And then it comes down
And then I miss it
And it just goes right between
Yeah
I wouldn't want to watch
You play pinball
What
Some people that are
Really good at it
It's quite entertaining
They get in all the
Like the points
And the machine is
Lighting up And stuff Yeah I know some people That are like Like that are really good at it, it's quite entertaining. They're getting all the points and the machine is lighting up.
Whoop, whoop, whoop.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know some people
that are like,
they're obsessed.
Wizards?
Would you say
they're kind of wizards
of pinball?
I mean,
they're part of a clan,
so yeah, I guess they are.
Are you good at any
of those kinds
of parlor games?
I'm not, no,
but I like them.
I'm getting better at darts.
I'm really good
at the one where you put a penny in and it smashes it.
The penny smasher?
Yeah.
What is that one?
It's not so much a game.
It's a souvenir.
Cost a dollar.
I'm, uh, no, I'm not good at any of them.
I think I played my first decent game of pool, like, two nights ago.
Yeah?
Were you calling shots?
Not necessarily calling them, but, but like thinking about shots and singing.
Sorry, I didn't call you,
but I was thinking about you.
Growing up as a teenager,
like we would go to pool halls
and I would imagine that that was what adult life was.
Like you hang out in pool halls.
From a lot of sitcoms,
that seemed like the place you would take a date
was a pool hall.
And I've never been as an adult,
I don't think,
to a strictly a pool hall.
I've been to pool halls,
but yeah,
there's not many people there on dates.
A lot of teenagers hanging out.
Have you ever been taken on a date to a pool hall?
No.
Have you ever been taken on a date?
Yes. Okay. you ever been taken on a date to a pool hall no have you ever been taken on a date um yes okay congratulations thank you i don't even like because the traditional one was always movie right you go to a movie or a dinner or dinner and a movie oh what In this economy? It's the tradition. But now it's gone.
I went on a really nice date, but we had made plans to go for a walk in the park, in High Park.
That's a good, cheap date.
It was nice, but I was hanging out with my friend beforehand, and she was like,
so you're just going into the woods with this guy you've never met?
And I was like, oh you're just going into the woods with this guy you've never met? And I was like, oh, man, is this really dangerous?
And then we were meeting at a coffee shop beforehand.
And he texted me.
And he's like, I'm here early.
Can I get you a drink?
And I was like, yeah, sure, black coffee.
And then I was like, oh, my God.
I'm going into the woods with this guy, and I'm leaving a drink unattended with him.
Oh, man.
Small town Rue over here.
Yes, all women. attended with him. Oh, man. Small town Rue over here.
Guess all women.
Worked out, though.
It was all right?
It was great.
It was great.
Yeah, a walk in the park is a nice
thing to do.
For sure.
And there was lots of
people in the park.
It was very populated.
It was bright out.
Maybe in the park
at one in the morning.
Pretty chill. Abby and I, we have a one and a half year old.
And so we don't get out much.
And when we do, like if.
It's normally the park.
Well, if we do, like when the baby goes to bed at seven.
And we go to bed at eight.
But Abby's mother has been staying with us off and on.
She's currently at her, they have a place
on a tropical island around here.
But she was
staying with us and so she was like, why don't you
guys go to a movie? And we went to see Deadpool
and
it was a seven o'clock showing and I was like
I'm not sure we can
stay awake. So what I did is
I bought
I bought us seats
in those rumble seats
oh yeah
yeah yeah
that like
just shaking you away
yeah they shake you
constantly
and sometimes
it's really cool
like you're in a car
and it does feel like
it's rolling
that's fun
and then sometimes
it's a fight scene
and it just feels like
the guy behind you is kicking the seat.
And you look around, you're like,
you have to fight that reflex to look behind you every time.
Yeah, sorry.
Oh, I was going to say, I went to,
it was billed as a 4D movie in Niagara Falls once,
and it was similar.
Your seats are shaking, but also they spray water.
Yeah, yeah.
There's like a scene
like a princess was crying
and then all of a sudden
it's just like...
I'm sure there's like
people who are artists
who program these things.
Oh, sure.
But like they get the movie
and they're like,
well, what do I use this water for?
Yeah.
It made sense for like
they had like a Jurassic Park one,
but it was a double feature.
Jurassic Park one.
Because of all the dinosaur urine.
Or if it just auto programs,
like there's just a script that says cries
and it just automatically makes a mist
for any kind of,
any liquid.
Did it blow air in your face as well?
Like if somebody's whispering to another character, you get air in your face?
I don't remember.
I just remember the jarring, like, hard stream of water in the face.
Oh, yeah, they have to switch the nozzle to spritz.
Not jet.
Is going on a date to a movie it's not really a great date
because you just sit there
it's fine
it's fine
but then you have to have something after
or before
I think well people always do dinner and a movie
and I think
everyone always does it in the wrong order
I think you should go movie and a dinner
because then you can talk about the movie
yeah
yeah because yeah then don't you have to go get a drink after an order
maybe that's why because it's dinner movie drink then yeah then dinner movie drink and then you're
like let's go have a drink talk about the movie let's have a couple of drinks we'll go to the park
and these are pretty uh expensive dates it sounds like yeah so many different activities
can we just go
drink in the park
yeah well
I don't know
you can sneak in
a drink into the
movie
yeah
why have I never
done that
oh like
I don't mean alcohol
I mean like
oh like a soda
yeah
that's the
Tinseltown theater
there's a 7-Eleven
in the
oh yeah
on the bottom floor
and it's
I'm sure
they don't sell any
food other than popcorn in the theater.
You know what movie theaters should do?
They should sell, like, weird sodas that you can't get anywhere else.
And then people would always buy the sodas at the, you know what I mean?
Like, Cherry 7-Up or something like that.
Like, something you can't get anywhere else.
Have you used one of those machines that is like.
Oh, yeah.
Computer pop?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah. those are wild.
Yeah.
What?
I don't...
Is it supposed to be more fun?
No, it just has like a wider variety of drinks.
Yeah.
And also you can mix.
Yeah.
And it all comes out of the same nozzle, so it's kind of weird.
And also it sprays you while you're watching a movie.
You get sprayed with...
Mr. Pibb?
Yeah, cherry Dr. Pepper.
You get sprayed with... Mr. Pibb?
Yeah, Cherry Dr. Pepper.
That would be good if it was a movie about different kinds of drinks.
I can't name a movie.
Firefly?
Well, I was just thinking, remember there was that movie about the guy who invented the windshield wiper?
Yeah.
Oh, that's where you'd want to go 4D for sure.
So many opportunities to spray you in the face.
That movie was Greg Kinnear called Stroke of Genius, Flash of Genius.
Flash of Genius.
This is a thing?
It was a real movie.
It came out like a decade ago.
Not the guy who invented the windshield wiper,
the guy who invented the intermediate setting,
like the not always setting.
Yeah.
Not on or off. And like a car company. It the not always setting. Yeah. Not on or off.
And like a car company.
It's a good setting.
He tried to sell it to a car company
and they didn't buy it
and then they used it anyway.
Yeah.
It's basically.
This sounds like a thrilling movie.
I'm like just.
It's in the thriller section on Netflix.
Moved by this conversation.
There was that movie last year
about the Jennifer Lawrence
who sold a mop.
Oh, is that what that was about?
I think so.
Oh, boy.
Wasn't it called Joy or something?
Yeah.
And that's a kind of dishwashing liquid, isn't it?
She sold like one mop?
Well, she invented a mop, but not the mop.
She invented the intermediate mop.
Is mop like Kleenex?
It's just a brand name for stick washer.
Say it one more time.
Stick floor washer.
For a wet broom.
Sloppy broom.
Slop broom.
Yeah.
That's where they get mop.
It's like a cross between slop and Muppet.
Oh, boy.
That'd be a good piece of merchandise.
Yeah.
A Muppet.
A Muppet mop?
Mop?
Yeah.
Why not?
I could go for a sloppy Joe.
And so, dating a lot
yeah you've been going on lots of dates
traveling the country
big time
driest shampoo
yeah anything else going on
we should know about
oh man I don't know
you know
you're living your life
I feel like you've painted
such a perfect picture of my life.
Played a pretty good game of pool the other day.
Yeah.
Oh, it was really good.
Did you win?
No.
Oh, okay.
We got close and then we couldn't sink the eight ball.
Have you ever shot?
Who's we?
It was a doubles game.
How do you play doubles?
Pool?
Yeah, you just switch.
Is this crazy?
You switch off. But like, are you, so there were four people playing? Oh, yeah you just switch is this crazy? you switch off
but like are you
so are there four people playing?
oh I haven't done that
really?
it's a good double date activity
unless one couple's much better
oh boy
and then you're fighting
with your date
that's true
oh man
I was just talking about this
at brunch
I went to Bonds
and
someone was talking about recesscess, the TV show.
Okay.
This is going nowhere, but I...
Well, keep going then.
I remembered that in grade six, my friend and I dared two boys to go on a double date with us to recess the movie.
So that's a good date technique.
Wow.
Yeah.
Daring. Wow. Daring somebody to do something is really good. In that's a good date technique. Yeah. Daring.
Wow.
Daring somebody to do something is really good.
And grade six is perfect.
They're like, okay, yeah.
That's genius.
I would have been too afraid to go on a date at grade six,
but it's like, sorry, I have to.
I was dared.
What if you were on like a Tinder or something like that
and you messaged somebody and they were like, I dare you to go on a date?
What if they double dared you?
Double dog?
Double date, dog, dare.
I think there's like a cap on when that's going to work until.
Disagree.
I think until right about grade seven.
And did they accept? Did you yeah yeah what is recess it is a cartoon i've i've watched it i think it was before my time after my time probably it was after my time i still watched
it i feel like it's after my time but like that and like people who are like a year or two younger than me.
Yeah.
Like were obsessed with Rugrats and I missed it completely.
Yeah.
Rugrats and everyone.
Recess I watched because I thought it was fairly clever conceit.
Yeah.
It was pretty funny.
Yeah.
Explain it.
It was.
Is that the one that you explained?
You went to the movie.
It's like six kids.
Is that the one that you explained?
You went to the movie.
It's like six kids.
There's like this kind of like political system set up at recess time.
Maybe you should have taken the reins on this.
Yeah, there's this whole like there's a king and there's kids that are like reporter kids.
It's like it's a society that just exists at recess.
One of my favorite jokes was the Ashleys.
All the popular girls are all named Ashley.
Yeah.
And they have like a nice fort.
Yeah, it was good.
It was like for a kid show. It was like, but Rugrats was just like,
that was for, that was just kids.
Yeah, that was for like, like for little kids. Yeah, that was for like, for little kids.
Yeah, but it seemed like there were people who were 12 watching it.
Yeah.
Yeah, but then you remember there was a period of time when you would just watch anything
after the cartoons you liked that you'd just be like, anything that's not golf.
Yeah.
Oh boy, you're not wrong about that.
But it's funny because I don't like anything now.
And I used to like everything.
My standards were so low.
Like I watched every cartoon.
Yeah.
Every boy cartoon.
What time of your life are you talking about?
I'm talking about like I was born in 1980.
So this would have been from like 1986 through 1991.
Oh, okay.
Well, it's a reasonable time to be open-minded about cartoons.
But like things that nobody, there was this thing called cops, but it was like, it had periods in between them and they were cartoon cops.
There was this thing called the, uh, uh, uh, centurions.
And there were these guys who had like,
uh,
there was a water guy and an air guy and a land guy.
Yeah,
that makes sense.
Stuff stuck to their bodies.
There was mask that.
I remember mask.
There was Bionic Six.
Mask.
Was that like the cartoon version of mask?
Yeah.
The Rocky Dennis story.
No, this was before the Jim Car carrey okay before that yeah you you watch saturday morning cartoons yeah yeah what were your what were your greatest hits on saturday
morning i don't know or just in cartoons in general your recess obviously yeah i liked recess
uh when i was really little i guess guess I was super into Care Bears.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, sure, yeah.
Yeah, I'm Claire, so that really lends itself to a good nickname.
Were you Claire Bear through till almost that?
Present day.
Present day?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Who gets to call you that family only um you know
what is your email address clairebear420 it is now i have to go i have to go to gmail headquarters
if you try to put 420 into a g address, it automatically corrects it to a Hotmail.
No, your whole screen turns green.
Take me to your dealer.
I forget what I was trying to answer.
Being Claire Bear.
Yeah, Claire Bear.
Your whole life of Claire Bear.
Who's allowed to?
Anybody, I guess.
Nobody does it that much anymore
um they will when the new movie comes what about claire huxtable that's another one
oh that was that really my grandma was like super mad at my mom for naming me claire
because she only she didn't know any female claire she only knew a man named claire
oh what right oh from that johnny cash song a man named Claire. What? Right? Oh, from that Johnny Cash song. A man named Claire.
Weird Graham Prairie fact.
No women named Claire, just men.
Huh.
And.
One of those weird old ones.
Claire.
Like Leslie for a man or Marion for a man.
But I've never heard of a man named Claire.
But Claire Huxtable was who my brothers pointed to as proof that there was women named Claire.
Fictional women. Yeah.
Claire from The Breakfast Club.
Was that a thing? Molly Ringwald
character, yeah. Was Claire? Uh-huh, yeah.
E. Claire's. Yep, sure.
Your one-stop shop on the
internet for Claire-related merchandise.
No, no, it's like a
sweet thing. What? Yeah, it's like a dessert.
Um... Who did, like, what's like a sweet thing. What? Yeah, it's like a dessert. What name did your grandmother have in mind?
She wanted me to be named Barb after my aunt.
Barb or Barbara?
Barb.
Barbara.
Barb B.
Barb.
She had lots of versions of Barb.
That's one of those ones that like,
if you're named Barbara, you can't be Barb until you're of Barb. Versions of Barb. Barb. That is a, that's one of those ones that like, no, if you're named Barbara, you can't be
Barb until you're like 60.
Really?
I think, I feel like.
You stick to Barbara?
There's no 11 year old Barb.
I feel like that's younger than Barbara.
Barbara.
Well.
But I think Barbie would be what I would be.
Yeah, sure.
When I was growing up.
Or Babar.
Bar.
There was a news anchor, Barb H higgins and that's the only adult
barb that i think like barb is real to me that's frozen in time as like like that's like a name
from people that lived in the 70s yeah me too and then like there's nobody before the 70s named barb
and nobody after that's why the the pamela Pamela Anderson movie Barb Wire didn't do well because like they just couldn't imagine her being named Barb.
Honestly, the name Barb makes me think of like sepia tones from like Polaroids from the 70s.
Yeah.
Like who, like because there's Barbara Mandrell and she was big in the 60s.
There's Barbara Bush, Barbara Walters.
Also, big in the 70s.
But Barbara, like, Barbara Bush has been an old lady my entire life.
That's true.
And she was by Barbara.
Yeah, yeah.
See? Old lady version.
Yeah, but they're all old lady versions.
There's no kid
version i don't think i guess yeah like it would be crazy if there was like like a vine star named
barb something he'd be like what barb cooter toot good vine handle oh man did you did you have a
name you were supposed to be if i was uh oh shoot i can't
remember someone in my family maybe i was gonna be sydney if i was a girl or maybe joanna
or sydney joanna sydney joanna wow so sj sj shumka not bad yeah pretty good yeah
did you have a hypothetical girl's name yeah Yeah, it was going to be Madeline.
Ooh.
Yeah.
Those are good names.
Yeah.
I feel like that's one of those names.
It's old-timey, but you could see somebody naming somebody.
And if you were a boy, you would have been Claire.
Yeah.
They were safe with that one.
Did you have an alternative name for Margo if she was a boy?
No, we knew pretty early on if she was a boy? No,
we knew pretty early on.
Like,
we had a list.
Oh,
okay.
So,
it was gonna,
like,
if she was a boy,
it was probably
gonna be like
Voltron.
Mask.
Yeah.
Cops with beard.
Brave star.
Is that the guy's name?
I don't know.
Two R's?
It's a Care Bear,
I think.
I think it was a guy
who rode on like
a metal horse
in space
i watched every show every show the thing with the care bears is for a long time it was just
the care bears and then it seemed like that petered out and then they had to add uh non-bears
into the other bears yeah like they were called the care Bear Cousins maybe? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was like a lion and maybe a penguin.
Was there a penguin?
Or am I making up?
I don't remember if there was a penguin.
Are you thinking of Wuzzles?
I don't remember what Wuzzles were.
Were they a mix of animals?
Yeah.
Okay.
It was Bumble Lion.
And Care Bear Penguin.
I was going to ask, so you have like a list of leftover names that you didn't use.
I guess that's probably somewhere.
Do you feel like you could name a future child one of those names?
Or are those names off the table?
Oh, no.
We could probably.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, like you could go back into the list?
Yeah, yeah.
That list wasn't a special one-time list.
No.
I'm not sure where it is.
Right.
I hope it's backed up electronically.
Do you think that's kind of weird, though?
Like, if your parents had, like, a daughter after you and named her Madeline, even though you were supposed to be Madeline?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, although I think they, if I have this correctly, they had an alternative name for both of my brothers because they really wanted a daughter.
Yeah.
And they failed.
They failed hard.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's three boys and then out.
They gave up.
Yeah.
My parents took one more gamble at it and they got a girl.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, see, that was the.
So they but both of my brothers
Also had different
Names ready to go
Yeah girl name
But mine
They didn't pick out
A boy name for me
They only had
The girl name
And then when I was born
They were like
Great
Did they do tests
Or like ultrasounds
Or anything
I don't think so
Is that new technology
How long have we been
Able to know
What a baby's going to be?
I have no idea.
They definitely had it a year and a half ago.
Yeah, that's a good question.
Because the only, maybe there was a movie where somebody was getting an ultrasound in the 90s.
Junior.
Yeah, that's the one.
But yeah, oh boy, I do not know how old that technology is at all.
I'm really stuffing you guys with these questions.
Yeah, well, we're not experts.
I don't even know if there was a penguin Care Bear.
I'm pretty sure there was, though.
Maybe it was called Frosty.
Sure.
Maybe it was called Frosty.
Sure.
I know eventually after I stopped watching Transformers that they had dinosaur Transformers.
Oh, yeah.
They transformed into dinosaurs.
I mean, or out of.
Wow.
Yeah, that's true.
That was a great thing about Transformers. To cars?
I don't know.
I was out by then.
No, they were robots that instead of changing into cars, they changed into robots.
Or dinosaurs.
Robots that changed into other robots.
Slightly different robots.
Dave, what's going on with you, man?
Oh, boy.
Very little.
Did I mention I went into that rumbling seat movie?
Yep.
Okay.
Here are some topics.
Today on The View, a list of hot topics
um one uh speaking of tv shows uh abby a couple weeks ago was watching this thing called the
great british british bake-off oh yeah oh i love it have you watched it yeah Yeah, I watched the big finale of this past season when I was in London.
It was on.
Oh, okay.
And I kid you not, I looked out the window at one point, and it was like London was abandoned.
Everyone was watching this make-up?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
It sounds up my alley.
Oh, if you've never seen it, it's outstanding.
It's on Netflix, and it's a reality show, but not in the sense of like the way they do reality shows here where, because I didn't watch the whole thing.
I would just sort of wander in and out of the room.
Yeah.
Well, I'm, I'm a Roomba.
That's what you transform into.
But it's not in like some flashy studio.
It's all out in a tent in a field.
Yeah, it's out in a field in a nice.
The elements.
Yeah, yeah.
It's not in like a tiny, in a tiny tent.
Like a two man tent.
But it's also like there's so little, like on North American reality shows, they will learn the person's life story.
They will visit with their sick aunt.
They will learn about all, you know, where they got their name from, what other names their parents had lined up for them.
On this one, like, oh, I know this guy is a construction worker, but that's all you know.
And like, you only know that because he's got
a pencil behind his ear the whole time.
So he's...
And they call him a builder.
But it's also...
It's like the antithesis of the American
style kind of
cooking show where everybody has to tell
their crazy story
or who they're doing this for or whatever.
And it's just like three people who like to bake.
Yeah.
That's the whole story.
Yeah.
And they're all just like wearing Crocs, walking in this weird tent.
Yeah.
And it's like a season long thing.
Yeah.
Sort of like, like a arc.
Like, are there different, are there different people every time?
No, it's the same people, but that's not, you don't, like, build up challenges.
Like, there are challenges.
But they're not challenges where it's like, here's how you fuck up your money.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like you don't win a, like, there's no, like, interim, you can win a car today.
No, yeah, it's just like today you're going to make a custard.
Like, that's what the challenge is.
They're like, fuck yeah.
Yeah.
Today it's all about sponge cake. But don't say cake we just call it sponge
so what's the the but this is great this is it's oh it's yeah i i like it a lot yeah it's good
because i love this kind of thing but i i like i don't know it's you're not you're making it
sound pretty mundane well but that's that's what I think that's great about it.
Yeah.
Is because, like, I'll watch, you know, like, Cutthroat Kitchen or even Chopped.
It's like, when you watch it, if you watch two episodes back to back, you're like, boy, they really pump a lot of dramatic tension into a thing that there is no need for it.
Like, will they get done on time?
Yes.
They always do.
Maybe somebody doesn't play it properly, but that's fine.
They can still come back from that.
Yeah.
So this is just like you get to see stuff that's made nicely.
And then the judges just go like, yeah, it was nice.
Here's what you could have improved.
Oh, I like that thing you did.
Yeah.
It tastes really good.
There's one guy who always zigs and zags where he'll go, and he'll look really serious.
He'll taste it, and he'll look really serious, and he'll go, you know, Barb.
You've done it.
And then everybody, yeah!
Yeah, I don't know, man.
I don't get how, because those people are like,
the people judging them are really good bakers?
Or they're just good at tasting food.
Yeah, good food tasters.
I'm pretty good at that, too.
Yeah, I could do that.
I could do it, but I don't think I could offer any, like, I'd be like, that was good.
Or I didn't like that.
Oh, yeah, I could taste it was orangy-er.
Did you put orange in it?
It's pretty orangy.
Is there booze in this?
It tastes boozy.
This cake was really soft.
Yeah.
It tastes soft. Yeah. It tastes soft.
Yeah, it tastes soft.
It was easy on my fork.
What temperature did you cook it at?
Ooh, that's hot.
I wouldn't want to be in that temperature.
And you made this whole thing without wearing a chef's hat.
Wow.
I love, I love like British decorum in that kind of situation too
just like
they're very
I can imagine
very like
calm
collected
and it's all
a lot about class
like oh are you
from the aristocracy
oh no
okay well we'll see
about that
have you
okay you're a
member of the proletariat
okay let's see
how your food tastes
but it also I would say the difference between that show Okay, you're a member of the proletariat. Okay, let's see how your food tastes.
But it also, I would say the difference between that show and then the kind of its American counterparts is the food always looks so delicious.
Yeah.
But in the American ones, it's like, yeah, it looks delicious given that you had to make it, you know, while wearing a pot on your head because of the challenge or whatever. Or you had to you know only use spam yeah yeah yeah like cranberries yeah pretzels spam berries
there is a bit like that is a big thing in like restaurants and and stuff of i don't know if it's
just where it comes from if it comes from these reality shows of like you have to use a weird ingredient to like dare people to eat it yeah like there's a place i go that has uh
vinegar ice cream right like balsamic vinegar is a part of the ice have you tried it no because
it's uh vinegar yeah like uh yeah there's uh there's a like a fairly well-known gelato place in town, and they have, like, crazy flavors that they do.
And, like, I've tried them, and they taste like the thing they're supposed to taste like.
But I don't, like, I'm like, is it just so that you could do it?
Yeah.
You're like, here's a jalapeno-flavored ice cream.
You're like, it is.
Mm-hmm.
Sure is.
Nailed it.
I'll have chocolate.
Thank you. Yeah, do you guys carry, it is. Sure is. Nailed it. I'll have chocolate. Thank you.
Yeah, do you guys carry vanilla?
Yeah.
I'll have a tiny spoonful of the weird one and a cone of a regular.
You can always tell, too, when you go to a gelato place,
because they have those, like, trays of the stuff,
which one's, like, the hot flavor and which one is, like,
just getting sampled and nobody's actually buying.
It's the tiniest
spoon tangerine pickle not selling like you thought it would guacamole there
um and the other thing that's going on with me is that my neighborhood is under attack
oh by coyotes oh no get out your beautiful neighborhood I know right Yesterday It might have been Because it was garbage day yesterday
Oh they love it
They love it like
I love Sean McComber
Oh boy
Yesterday morning
I went out
I had to take my
Car
My car
Someone hit and run it
Hit it and ran
Oh really
In a parking lot And so i had to take
it in and uh get a uh rental um while it's in the shop but a uh yeah so they i went out to the car
in the morning and there was a coyote just like halfway up the street and i was like hmm what do
i know about nature what do do I do with it?
Like, this isn't just a skinny dog, right?
Yeah, you checked its belly to see if it was a Care Bear affiliate.
Care Coyote.
It was.
It was a rabid bear.
Garbage bear.
Yeah.
And then I, so what I did is, like, it didn't see me.
So what I did is I stamped my feet
Oh, yeah, and it's just I would see you well just sort of scare it off
Acknowledge my presence animal so I stamped my foot and it flinched and but it didn't do anything
And I was so I started stamping the louder and like walked a little bit towards it and it just calmly started walking towards me
And so I got back
in my yard and closed the fence.
Peeking over the fence.
And then I
noticed it had a friend.
That's why it was so confident. Also a coyote?
No, just a guy.
Yeah, just a drifter.
A guy wearing a lot of chains around
his body.
It's like a cool
cartoon character, comic book gentleman.
And so, yeah, so this coyote, yeah, they just started, they went somewhere else.
They crossed the street, but like, and so eventually I got back in my car.
You walked.
Yeah.
Got picked in my car.
And then like three hours later, no one had walked the dog yet.
So I walked the dog and went around the neighborhood, like down four blocks, across two blocks, back up four blocks, came back to our place here.
And the same two coyotes standing in the same spot.
Oh, shit.
That's their hangout now.
By our garbage.
This sounds like a vicious attack on the neighborhood.
Yeah.
Right.
And,
uh,
Oh,
they're just so,
I don't know if it's genetic that they're like scraggly or if it's just hard,
hard living.
I think it's hard living. If you're a coyote,
that's like this far into the city.
Cause it's like their tails are all cragged up
and like they've got dreadlocks.
Yeah, they've probably got like some mange.
Yeah, mad mange.
But like, you know, they walk
and the fur bounces funny off of them.
Yeah.
Like flaps of skin.
I, well, because in Calgary,
you'd see they would be everywhere, coyotes.
But my, like, my house was, like, across.
You're from Calgary?
Yeah, yeah.
I didn't know that.
Coyote town.
Do your research.
Yeah, no kidding.
But, like, our house, like, was across a road from, like, a big park.
From a dump?
No, but, like, the coyotes from the park,
they looked quite good in comparison to the ones
that I've seen here in the city.
Sure.
So I think like if you're like in a park,
then coyote life's okay.
But if you're like,
I don't know how to get back to the park.
When you went on the first date with a guy in the park,
was it a coyote?
Yeah.
Yeah, but he was like really,
he was a good looking park coyote. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Real glossy fur. Real wily? Yeah. Yeah, but he was like really, he was a good looking park coyote.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Real glossy fur.
Real wily.
Yeah.
He had found a garbage can with dry shampoo in it.
And so, yeah, I got back with my dog and he's like a 25 pound dog.
Yeah.
He basically, to them, he's just like a roast with like four legs.
Like they're picturing like you walking a turkey on a leash.
So I had to pick him up and shield him and walk around a bunch of cars and wait for them to leave.
I could picture Grandpa cartoonishly jumping into your jacket and then his head popping out.
You likes.
He's a big Scooby.
He's a tiny Scooby Doo.
Yeah. Oh, man. man also these coyotes were
but are they are they are they knocking over the trash can and just having snacks no the trash cans
are real they're like uh coyote proof yeah they're pretty pretty uh rumbunctious. Rugged. Yeah.
But I don't.
Yeah.
So there's like maybe people are leaving other stuff out.
Or if you're like some of my roommates, you pile garbage high on the trash can so that raccoons can just jump on top of it and throw garbage everywhere.
And the trucks won't accept them anyway.
Yeah.
So if the lid's not closed. I've heard from past episodes. It won't be disp anyway. Yeah. If the lid's not closed.
I've heard from past episodes.
It won't be disposed.
Thank you, Johnny.
You've got new roommates, right?
No, this was a while ago.
It's a constant.
People coming and going.
Leaving their shampoo.
Yeah, it's a real...
I was going to say Janis Joplin situation, but, you know,
probably.
What did you mean?
Yeah, I was trying
to think of a place
in San Francisco
where a lot of hippies
like...
Hate Ashbury?
Yeah, that's what I think.
But then I was like,
Janis Joplin.
Anyways, it got really
confused in my head.
But I don't know
how that would apply
to your roommates.
Oh, there used to be
these, like,
apartments where, like uh there's
all these famous people but they just keep coming and going he described it he said it hide ashbury
yeah yeah yeah i don't know but i but i don't know i didn't know how that applied to it
no they're like in that era there were like these apartment buildings where like the grateful dead
lived on one floor and the next floor it was like Lynyrd Skynyrd lived upstairs and they would just
all move in and out.
Do you mean Jefferson
Airplane?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what I meant.
Lynyrd Starship.
The Hell's Angels
lived on the third floor.
Yeah.
Anyways,
I'm sure I've read
about this somewhere.
Sure.
So yeah,
that's me
fighting coyotes
and watching
the Great British Bake Off
sometimes.
Some of the time, but not all of the time.
What's going on with you?
Oh, boy.
I had something and now I've lost it to the...
Yeah.
Oh, well.
I'm sure I'll be able to pick something up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, there's these coyotes in my neighborhood.
Do you have coyotes?
No, I think we, like, my house is.
A very, very, very fine house.
It very much is.
It's under pretty constant attack from raccoons.
Like, the raccoons, one night I, like, I heard this crazy sound.
I don't know. I still don't know what it was that
that was making the sound but i opened the door on the like back staircase and there were three
raccoons and they did not even move a muscle like they just sat there like and what are you gonna do
yeah the one guy was flipping a coin in the corner i was like playing dice yeah but uh i just
let them be i just said you know what but i don't know my garbage a sue garbage is there are the
coyote would the coyotes be like this is this is raccoon turf not worth it for us uh yeah
coyotes mine i don't know i think coyotes are just because in vancouver
there's some people that keep chickens in their backyard that's coyote paradise right
is that legal here yeah for some reason i know people i know a guy in uh in grand prairie that's
doing it illegally keeping chickens in the backyard i'm sure the Grand Prairie police have bigger fish to fry
yeah well
with all those
farm murders
exactly
but this is
speaking of murders
I
you know
you know like
oh yeah
I killed a guy
yeah yeah yeah
speaking of murders
you know me
like late at night
I like to
I like to spook myself
on the internet I like to spook myself on the internet.
I like to find something real scary when it's just me all alone in the dark.
And I found a thing last night.
It was so scary.
Okay.
It was a story.
It's a true story about a group of Russian students in 1959.
Soviets.
Yeah.
They were going through this pass on like this crazy hiking.
Are you getting scared already?
Yeah.
It's pretty scary, right?
It was a group of 10, I think it was 10 guys, two women, all students were going on this
like, it was something like a 12 day kind of trip all in.
And they didn't show up on day 12 or 13 or 14.
What about 15?
15?
Nope.
Oh, man.
So there was a big search.
Graham?
Day 16?
Nope.
Jumping ahead here.
Day 28. By day 16, they had assembled search party, went on the trail that they went on, found the tent, found that the tent had been ripped apart from the inside.
Oh.
How did they figure that out?
Because of just the way that it was cut.
It was like cut open from the inside.
And all the footprints in the snow were bare.
Everybody escaped in bare feet.
Oh.
And they started finding-
Was it snowy?
Was it-
Yeah, this is way up in the Russian mountains,
so covered in snow.
So they found bare footprints.
But not bear prints.
No, not bear prints.
Not paw prints.
And then they found two bodies at the base of a tree bare footprints. But not bear prints. No, not bear prints. Not paw prints. But,
and then there was,
they found two bodies
at the base of a tree
and both of the bodies.
Dead bodies?
Dead,
everybody they found was dead.
Everybody from here on in
that they find,
all dead.
Okay,
what about day 17?
But,
like,
they,
the two
at the base of this tree
had tried to climb the tree
to get away from something and didn't make it.
And then they found, but they figured they had died of hypothermia.
Sure.
And then they found two other bodies also had died of hypothermia.
And then they found three bodies that had died of blunt force trauma, but no bruising.
So on the inside, blunt force force trauma but not on the outside
and they were all uh had orange skin and their hair was gray and they had their uh clothing had
uh radiation on it like all of their clothing had been irradiated and they still to this day
have no idea what the fuck happened when did this happen 1959
oh
okay
why
well if it was recent
like what
orange skin
yeah right
tanning
yeah
Dorito dust
Cheeto dust
uh
anyways
whoa
so spooky
that's why you don't
take food into the tent
you don't eat Doritos in the tent as much as you want to.
But I'm, like, I'm not an outdoorsman.
But you handled those coyotes so well.
With shoes on.
That's true.
Well, I don't get how, if it's a place where you could get hypothermia, why are you sleeping barefoot?
So that's a good, that's a good question.
Maybe something took their shoes off.
Oh, some kind of
shoe monster.
Did they find any shoes?
Yeah, everything was in the tent.
All their stuff had been left.
Are all 12 of the bodies accounted for?
Yeah, everybody was accounted for.
And the last bodies that they found
had clothing that they had
salvaged from other people who had
died.
Whoa.
Yeah.
So like they had died later, but of the same thing.
Ooh.
Yeah.
Right.
So this is what's going on with you lately.
Yeah.
Well, I like to, I like finding a spooky thing late at night.
Do you ever do that?
Just try and spook yourself out?
No, I'm very easily scared.
Are you scared now?
Well, no.
Well, try and remember it the next time you're camping.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
Or the next time you're in Russia.
Is this an X-File?
It would be a good X-File.
You should write them.
Write to the X-Files or to Russia?
Both, I guess.
Okay.
To your Russia.
I have a great idea for an X-File.
Yeah.
Anyways, it was a real good spook story. Where did you watch this, on Netflix?
This was on YouTube.
You know what my brother has gotten really into is YouTubing Sasquatch.
Oh, yeah.
Don't go down that hole.
Past guest Brent Butt is a big expert.
Oh, really?
He has a Google Alert set for Sasquatch.
expert. Oh, really?
He has a Google Alert set for Sasquatch.
There was talk that this was
in the realm of the
Sasquatch story. That's where I
went with it. Yeah.
But it seems to me...
It sounds like it was some sort of government
they were testing some sort of weird
something and these guys
weren't supposed to be there.
Yeah, like radioactive
something.
Parasite or
something that
got into them
and killed them
from the inside.
But they
obviously knew
something was
coming in,
that's why they
cut their way
out of it.
See,
this is so spooky!
Was it like a
spooky documentary
with reenactments?
No,
but it had a lot
of photos and a lot of spooky music.
So you think when they...
Does this incident have a name?
The incident?
Yeah.
Can we look it up?
It's a Russian name.
I don't know how to pronounce it.
But it's the something, something...
Twelve.
Yeah.
Something, something murders. You Twelve. Yeah. Something, something.
Murders.
You had a question.
You there.
We have time for one more question.
So you think something was coming into the tent and they got out of the tent?
Because I assumed that, like.
Yeah.
I guess that makes sense.
They cut their way out of the back of the tent.
How big a tent?
Like a great British baking off style?
No, but like big enough for 12 oh that's a big tent big big tent but the the one side had been all chopped through
with you know some sort of like their knives or their axes or whatever on the opposite side of
the opening of the tent so it's obviously, something was coming towards them and they had to get out.
Isn't that crazy?
It's so crazy.
And like stuff,
certain little like bits and bobs have been declassified over the years.
And like,
they're in Russian,
so no one can read them.
Yeah.
So no one can read.
Now the Gorbachev is dead.
Thanks for tearing down the wall.
But they developed some of the, like a lot of the photos in the thing were taken by them, by that group on their trip.
Groupon?
They were taken by Groupon.
But there was a photo that was.
Does Groupon still exist?
I haven't heard about them in a long time.
That's another spooky story. Whoa. Another spooky tale of Groupon sell these? I haven't heard about them in a long time. That's another spooky story.
Another spooky tale of Groupon.
I never got my cream puffs.
But yeah, they said there was a photo taken that could be anything, though.
But it looks like some sort of orb that they took a photo of before.
I'm more afraid of a Sasquatch than an orb.
Well, it depends what's in the orb.
And it depends on, are we talking about a friendly Sasquatch or a scary Sasquatch?
I feel like I get a Sasquatch.
It's like me.
That's what's so scary about the orb.
But like, what is it?
What is it?
I don't even know an orb that I like.
You know, like at least. But no, a Sasquatch is really scary. You don't even know an orb that I like. You know, like at least.
But no, a Sasquatch does.
You don't think it was Orbachov, do you?
X-Files.
So that's what, you know, I'm just.
If anybody out there has a real good spook story that I can spook myself with.
Yeah, send Graham a YouTube.
Yeah.
Send us links
yeah yeah but none of those things where it's uh where i have to turn up the volume really loud
and then something just screams at me stare at this for 17 seconds yeah turn your volume all the
way yeah but uh i do i like these uh you know like and then it was never nobody ever knew what
happened hook hand Yeah Well everybody knew
What happened there
And someone left a hook on there
Yeah there was only
One guy in town
Who had hook hands
Yeah
And it was him
Yeah he did it
Did you ever find
One of those
Like
This is like
Old internet
It was like a
They would guess
What card you were
Thinking of or something
And it was always
I did it once with my cousin
And it was always right
So what You would have a deck of cards There was like a fake Deck of cards They would guess what card you were thinking of or something. And it was all I did it once with my cousin and it was always right.
So what you would have a deck of cards.
There was like a fake deck of cards on the computer.
And I don't know, maybe maybe cards weren't even involved.
But basically, you just had to like pick a number or and I guessed your name. It would be very easy to guess your card if cards weren't involved.
I think you just like say,
you'd say something out loud.
You're supposed to say it out loud
and then it would guess it
and it was just like,
what the fuck?
Can they hear me?
I keep swearing.
I'm sorry.
It's fine.
I'm,
yeah,
I want to try it.
We'll do it in the break.
Also,
there was,
yeah,
I've learned some,
I've read the words.
I just haven't heard them out loud.
Yeah.
Did you read the thing?
During the Super Bowl this year, a bunch of sites did the worst Super Bowl halftime shows of all time.
And there was one about a guy that did the world's biggest card trick.
Oh.
And he was this guy.
He was called something.
He was like Elvis Presley magician.
Something, he was like Elvis Presley magician.
And it was a thing where you picked a card like at home. And then like all these people on the field like spelled out which card it was.
And it failed?
No, it worked.
But people were like, what?
Why are we doing this?
Anyways, it's really weird.
This was before they just decided to have put put like five music superstars
on the same yeah i think this was the last of the like weird like oh up with people yeah yeah yeah
this was the last of that and then now it's all but it was like 3d tech like everybody had to put
on their 3d glasses at home and then pick a card and uh this guy got it but people were like i don't know fine yeah fine
fine i guess i could have watched in living color
oh boy do we want to uh move on to overheard yeah a ring ring ring hello hello ross oh yes who is
this hey ross it's planet earth oh hi planet earth I was calling because I was thinking about going to the Church of
the Seven Sisters, but Ross, they're
kind of kooky. You gonna go?
No, I'm kind of nervous
and I thought maybe you'd be the guy to call.
I could do that. Yeah? Will you
show up? I might even bring a friend.
Oh! You hang on, Planet Earth.
Okay. And we'll get back to you. Ring, ring.
Hello? Hey, Carrie, it's Ross.
Hey, Ross. How's it going? You know what?
I just got a call from the planet Earth, and they really want someone to look into the
Church of the Seven Sisters.
Oh, they seem kooky.
We'll do it.
Yeah, you will.
I think we should do it on our podcast.
Oh, no, Ross and Carrie on the Maximum Fun Network.
That's a great podcast.
You know, the one where we look into different sorts of fringe science or-
Spirituality.
Spirituality, exactly.
Claims of the paranormal.
That one, Ross.
And we show up so you don't have to.
You can find us on iTunes or at MaximumFun.org.
Let's help planet Earth.
The three of you enter a cave of a big red dragon and it's standing over a horde of precious golden rubies.
And he says, what do you do, adventurers? I'm a dragon man.
I cast fire on him. It's very good.
I address the red dragon and say, us, we're the hosts of The Adventure Zone, a podcast about family playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Very good synergy.
Commit to the bit.
I roll to charm new listeners.
It is very effective.
Against all odds.
Everybody, we're the Macroids.
We host The Adventure Zone.
It's a podcast where we play Dungeons & Dragons together.
It's a comedy podcast.
We don't take the rules too seriously because there's a lot of them,
and we did not take the time to learn them.
Maybe listen to us.
We come out every other Thursday on the Maximum Fun Network.
You can find us on iTunes or on MaximumFun.org.
I think this promo's a critical hit.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Overheard.
Overheard's a segment where we overhear the things and then, you know, we talk about them here on the old podcast.
And we always like to start with the guest.
Hi.
Hello.
Welcome.
Thank you.
Welcome back.
Welcome to this segment.
Okay. Well, I have two. I don't know which one I want to do. You know what? It's up to you. thank you welcome back welcome to this segment um okay uh
well I have two
I don't know
which one I want to do
um
you know what
it's up to you
yeah
one was my grandma
and one was a stranger
you can do both
that's
we'll
we're fine with that
is this the same grandma
who was mad
you didn't want to bring
the carpet mat with you
she's a
she's like
she's a piece of work
she's my favorite character
so far today in my life she's a recurring of work she's my favorite character so far today
in my life
she's a recurring theme
you know my favorite characters
coyotes
oh yeah
for me it's
well I already said
okay so I was staying
with my grandma
Gorbachev
I was staying with my grandma
when I was visiting
Grand Prairie
and she lives in like
a scenic place
is it named after
is Grand Prairie
named after grandma
yes that makes sense was visiting Grand Prairie and she lives in like a senior's. Is it named after, is Grand Prairie named after grandma?
Yes.
That makes sense.
She lives in like a senior's community,
apartment building.
So that's like,
it's not a, like a nursing home.
They just,
it's just all seniors.
And she really wanted to make pierogies one day.
And so she,
but she didn't have any onions.
So she borrowed,
she like called her friend and
went and borrowed some onions and i was in the bathroom and she was just for one very unimpressed
with the quality of these onions oh boy and i was in the bathroom and i overheard her calling her
friend and i just heard her side of the conversation but she was she's like uh hi pearl yeah no thank
you yeah i got thank, I got the onions.
Thank you.
I was just wondering if you just got the onions
or if you've had them now for a while.
Oh, you just got them.
Or sorry, you got them a while ago.
Well, good, good.
Because if you just got them,
I was going to tell you to take them back
and get your money back.
But no, no, no.
Yeah, no, no.
Thank you.
I mean, I'm taking it out of the garbage right now.
I don't want them in the house.
I also like that story because Pearl is a type of onion.
Oh, yeah.
And a type of old woman.
Everything happens in an onion universe.
Oh, yeah.
You didn't disclaim that at the beginning.
This all takes place in the onion universe.
Yeah, yeah.
Everyone is crying.
What are other types of onions?
Red. Spanish.
Sweet.
Yellow. White.
Red delicious.
Granny Smith.
Granny Smith.
Grand Prairie.
Green.
Shallots.
I'm out of onions.
Was she making pierogis from scratch
No
Oh okay
Frying them up
Chimos
Frying them up
Some chimos
Yeah yeah
With some onion
Fun
There's
Funions
That's another one
That's another type of
In Edmonton
There's a
Pierogi plays in a
Food court
That bears my name
Yeah
The Shumka Pierogi
Really
So Look for that next time yeah next time
you're in town there's a lot of ukrainians oh yeah don't i know the times i've been
like kielbasa sausage for everyone i guess i don't know i'm not really in touch with my heritage
um and was it you it was you last night that was telling the joke about eating a whole head
of cabbage oh yeah yeah that that was such a like ambitious project it is though oh man like after
i've had two spoonfuls of cabbage i'm like that's enough for 2016 like no more cabbage well and you
cut it up and you like you only need need a cup or something for a recipe.
And you've only used like a 16th of the cabbage.
It just explodes.
And then you have it in your fridge for a long time.
For so long.
And how do you know if it's bad?
Well, I think you can tell.
But I have this.
They're not like onions that your grandmother has.
No.
These ain't your grandma's onions.
Oh, man.
She was upset about that.
I always have stuff that's like, you know, fruits and vegetables that I keep in my fridge.
And I don't remember when I used the thing.
And so I see it in the fridge and I'm not sure whether it's good or not.
So what I do is I just wait a few more days and then I'm sure it's bad.
Like, it's getting thrown out regardless, but I'm just putting it off.
Yeah, yeah.
I also don't know when, like, I pick up something at the grocery store, except avocados.
I'm pretty good at sensing that.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
But everything else, I have no idea if it's, like, a good.
And peaches, they don't want you to squeeze.
Like, I've seen signs of.
Like the Charmin?
Yeah, but it's, that's and peaches they don't want you to squeeze like i've seen signs like the charming yeah but it's that's that's how i can tell i could see though because like a lot of people
probably like they don't have your gentle touch yeah they're really getting in there
squeezing the peach is that a good name for a song squeezing the peach oh it's i feel like
it's something that your boss does my boss is really squeezing my peeps. She's really squeezing my peaches?
Yeah.
Something in a Steve Miller band song.
Sure.
Now you had another overheard?
No, I want to talk more about cabbage.
Oh, sure.
Because the Mexican place a couple blocks up.
Yeah, they'll throw cabbage into something.
In everything.
It's the worst.
But you have to.
Why? Because there's so much of it. Yeah, they're like, what else. In everything. It's the worst. But you have to. Why?
Because there's so much of it.
Yeah, they're like, what else are they going to do with that cabbage?
It ruled, and honestly, like every meal for like three weeks was like Googling cabbage recipes.
What did you end up making?
Coleslaw?
I didn't want to go that basic.
Well, pardon me.
Yeah.
I used it. What did I do with it? Cabbage rolls? Cab, pardon me. Yeah. I used it.
What did I do with it?
Cabbage rolls?
Cabbage rolls seems like a no-brainer.
I guess it was a kind of cool stuff.
But those just take a leaf per roll.
Yeah.
You're not going to get very deep.
No, you can't be making those many.
Is there anything like a potato gun, like a cabbage gun, that you could go fire at your
neighbor's cats?
Or dogs.
Or coyotes.
Your neighbor's coyotes?
Don't discriminate there.
Your neighbor's that weird guy wearing a chain that I imagined?
I'm imagining Junkyard Dog, the wrestler.
Oh, I was imagining the comic book character Spawn.
Oh.
He has a lot of chains.
But also Jacob Marley was the other guy I was thinking of.
Yeah.
And Mr. T also wears chains.
Different kinds. Oh, man Mr. T also wears chains. Different kind.
Oh, man.
Chain wears throughout history.
Now, you had another overheard?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
I was on the streetcar, and there was a really beautiful girl.
She was just gorgeous, and she was just dressed very nice.
Tell me more about it.
She was wearing, like...
Where was this? It was in Toronto. me more about it. She was wearing like. Where was this?
It was in Toronto.
Oh, darn it.
She was wearing like aviator style glasses.
Like that was, they were just regular glasses, but that was like, like, did your dad wear like big giant glasses in the 80s?
Like aviator style, but they're for vision.
They're not sunglasses.
Yeah, they were for vision.
And she was talking to her friend
and we're going by a park also this is this story is in the park universe back to the park city
and utah and she was like um is this the park all the hipsters always hang out in
i think this is the park all the hipsters always hang out in. Anyway, I hope somebody buys my art.
Did you have a stand-up?
Like an easel?
On the bus?
Or on the streetcar?
Do you always find it jarring when you see somebody very good looking on public transit?
They must have a horrible personality.
Why isn't someone giving them a ride? why isn't someone giving them a ride yeah i always find it why hasn't somebody given them a car yeah yeah i always find
it so i don't know why it just always catches me off guard when i see somebody that i'm like
oh this this doesn't track at all yeah like it's um it doesn't happen often, but when it does happen, I find it so jarring.
Well, yeah, she was just like, I mean, she was pretty, but mostly what like stood out about her was just like how well put together she was.
But with like.
Even seeing that on trends, it's pretty unsettling.
And you're like.
Are you choosing to do this?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like just to live in that person's mind for a day.
Like they're put together for now until they're there.
You know, when they, by the time they get off, they're covered in nacho cheese and toenail clippings.
Anywhere I go, when I get off the bus, if I, if wherever I arrive, I arrive my first thing is always to wash my hands
I always go like
oh yeah
yeah
like
but as if I'm like
like I just delivered
a baby calf
like out of my way
wash my hands
yeah when I
took the bus to work
it would be like
I would
I would have to go
to the bathroom so badly
but it was like
gotta wash my hands first
yeah yeah yeah
cause
god knows what I
cause you know I'm not washing my hands afterwards.
Although washing your hands first does make a lot of sense in general.
Yeah.
Because your stuff's covered up all day.
Yeah.
Bundled.
Swathed in swaddling clothes.
Well, yeah.
Layed in a manger.
Mine is bundled.
It came with my cell phone and my cable.
That's what I call putting on underwear.
But my baby in the manger.
Dave, do you have an overheard?
Sure.
Okay.
I think I mentioned this restaurant last week where it's a Jamaican restaurant right up the street.
And the owner is very talkative.
And he'll always, you walk in and he'll have, you have to answer his quips.
Working hard?
Hardly working.
A lot of emotional work.
Answer me these quips three.
And, oh, what was, yeah, I think the exact thing every time.
It's like he doesn't remember me.
But I've got the rhythm down.
The rhythm.
Let's see what's up.
Oh, my goodness.
I hope you do this in an accent.
And so, like, I go in.
This isn't the, but, like, I'll go in and say, can I get some Jamaican patties?
And he'll say, how many dozen do you want?
And I'll say, ha ha ha, just two please.
And what kind?
He'll say, and I'll say chicken.
And he'll say, what did you call me?
That's fun.
Yeah.
Anyway, so I was in there the other day.
And also every time you go in, he has you're if it's your first time in this restaurant
he has to tell you about the mascot of the restaurant he has to give you like a two minute
speech when you're done eating and this weird handshake this is absolutely true have you done
it no no no i've never because i don't think there's anything in there for me is everything's
meat it's got a vegetarian stuff but i think your
stories about having to answer all the quips uh i was just like i can't i don't want it but uh
anyway so the the people that were in there already like the guy had to send someone else
to deal with me because he was in the middle of this speech with these people uh who were
by the way this overheard is a zero.
And it was a man and a woman from Germany were in the restaurant and they were talking to the guy.
A cultural fusion.
I know, right?
Germany, Jamaica, Canada.
And they were talking to him and they were musicians and he was telling his son.
His son was there as well.
My son's a rapper.
You guys should talk.
Oh, boy.
And these guys are in a band.
And he took out their card.
They're in a band from Germany.
They're called Stereo Face.
It just seemed like it was just the name of the band made me laugh. Because it was like a TV writer has to write a band into a show.
I don't know.
They're called Stereo Face.
Whatever.
It's not important.
We just mention them once.
Oh, Mom, I want to go to the Stereo Face concert.
I would love.
Obviously, there's got to be a website that has this, but all of the bands and musical artists that have ever been mentioned mentioned on law and order all the fake oh yeah
because man oh man did they come up with some great they come up with a lot of like fake websites
and apps yeah yeah yeah they have to come up with uh that's probably speed weed does all of those
things it's probably his department who is talking about speed weed is it a real person that was us
we were talking maybe it's a new Alan Smithy.
Yeah.
Like, you don't like the script.
Have you ever watched, have you ever seen like the first 10 minutes of NCIS or CSI or Law and Order?
Like often it's written by someone named Speedweed.
Really?
Which is on this episode 420, a man to be celebrated.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah, his like. I celebrate him once a day. Between 4. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, his like...
I celebrate him once a day.
Between 4.10 and 4.30.
Anyway, so yeah, that was my overhook.
Stereo face?
Stereo face.
Yeah.
I don't know.
But it's not, it's like Radiohead.
It's basically just a patterned, it's like,
what's an instrument and what's a part of your body?
It's like half, it's like they couldn't use Radiohead.
Oh, I don't know, Stereo Face.
Oh, there's already a band called Radiohead?
Yeah, for like 25 years.
Fine.
My overheard is another, it was same as same as yours. An interaction with, uh, somebody, uh, customer service staff.
I went to this, uh, it's like this really super nice bakery.
Like it's crazy how beautiful all the food is, uh, is down on like Hastings
street or, and, uh, anyways, I walked in, I was like, so blown away by how
delicious everything looked. And then the guy behind the counter was like, I was like so blown away by how delicious everything looked and then
the guy behind the counter was
like I was like oh I'll get this
sandwich and he's like also you should try
our bagels they're as good as
the ones in Montreal and I was like
okay and he's like I swear
you won't be able to tell the difference and I
was like why the fuck is this guy hitting the bagel
thing so hard it's cause I was wearing
this shirt that has a bagel on it and says Montreal.
Like this guy's like, oh, bagel aficionado.
Okay.
Man the stations.
We're really going to wow him with our bagel facts.
Did you get that shirt in Montreal or was it a gift?
No, this, yeah, I got it in Montreal.
I bought it as a gift for Alicia Tobin, but it's too big.
Not too big, not too small, just the size of Montreal.
That's right.
I have that shirt, and a guy I had a crush on gave it to me.
And then he gave me that shirt, and I was just like, well, this is it.
Like, this is it.
It's now or never.
Welcome to my life.
Yeah.
How did it work out?
Why?
What happened?
Bagel fire.
Died in a bagel fire.
I don't think he liked me as much as I liked him. I didn't give him a bagel shirt.
Sounds like he liked you. He bought you that bagel shirt.
No, it was like a shirt he had.
Like an extra shirt.
And you were topless at the time.
Put something on. Gross.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, well.
Graham, is that it for overheards?
No, no, no.
We also have overheards that are sent in to us from around the world.
If you want to send one in, you can send it in to spy at maximumfun.org.
You bought Alicia Tobin a shirt that fits you?
Here's what happened.
How did you make that mistake?
I went into the place because it's a bagel place.
It's not a shirt place.
And I just said, can I have a shirt?
And they just gave it to me and it was all shrink wrap.
Oh.
And then I just hopped in the cab.
Did you have to pay for it?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, give me a shirt.
Here you go.
You were wearing a balaclava at the time.
Give me all your shirts.
And so I didn't check the size.
Well, I said I needed a, I said what size I wanted, but it wasn't the size.
They spoke French only.
Yeah, well, and they were like, you know, you're just going to go back to Vancouver to that bagel place that claims it's so good.
Now, this first one.
Did you get the bagel?
No.
Oh, okay.
But I literally, I walked out of there like why
is this guy fucking hammer and then i looked down i was like oh my shirt um that's why i only wear
hard rock cafe shirt oh i only wear uh usually planet hollywood it's as good as the planet
hollywood in montreal I doubt that, sir.
I recently went on their website to see how many were left.
There's only like six of them left in the world.
Oh, Planet Hollywood?
Yeah.
Don't they have, do they still have a casino in Las Vegas?
Yeah, that's still going.
They have a couple like small, like there's two in England and one of them is like really small.
It's more like a Planet Hollywood cafe.
Weren't there a few, like, was there a sports-themed?
Like, after Planet Hollywood started, there was, like, an all-star, you know.
Oh, yeah. Plus, there's the athlete cafe, and then there was, like, a fashion cafe that was all models that invested.
Yeah, and they freeze-dried some models.
And they're all the same menu. Yeah. You know, potato skins. Yeah, and they freeze-dried some models. And they're all the same menu.
Yeah.
You know, potato skins.
Yeah.
Chili fries.
A burger.
So this first overheard comes from Chris in Thunder Bay.
I was sitting at the Curling Clubs bar.
This is a Canadian.
Oh, absolutely.
And overheard from the other table,
I look up Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction daily.
Wow.
Yeah, you'd think you'd be able to just, you know, bookmark it for the very least.
Or set, like, some kind of...
Google alert?
Yeah, is there an app that'll just email it to you every day?
So that you don't have to search it?
Yeah.
Or, like, set it as you every day? So that you don't have to search it? Yeah. Or set it as your alarm clock?
I'm gonna have you
naked by the end of this song.
Oh no!
Yeah.
It was a scandalized song.
It was such a malfunction
too. No one was expecting that.
Oh yeah, that's also what happened at the end
of that Super Bowl
card trick thing
the guy's penis fell out
of his pants
but he was wearing a weird
it had your card on it
oh yeah
yeah that's not bad
that seems like a fun thing
that you could go see
in Vegas
the jack off clubs
and you're like
no it's the two of diamonds
I actually am wearing one of those Clubs. And you're like, no, it's the two diamonds.
I actually am wearing one of those sparkly pasties right now.
I wear one every day on my nipple just in case.
Just in case somebody rips your shirt off.
Smart.
It's better to be with one when you need it. I need one and not want one.
Then I have one and like one.
Exactly. I took the words and like one. Exactly.
It took the words right out of my mouth.
This next one comes from Ed M.
Parts unknown.
My wife and I were sitting on the edge of the fountain in our town square.
Doing it.
On the other side of the fountain
were two preteen boys bent over a piece of paper
jotting down a note they were giggling and constantly checking over their shoulder
boy one what should i put boy two single and ready to mingle boy one no no no we should put
single and ready for someone's pringle pringle singular singular? Yeah. Pringular?
What do you think?
They were writing a note.
They were going to slide under somebody.
They knew their door or something.
They were going to put it maybe on somebody's back.
Yeah.
Or they were going to frame someone into being single.
Yeah.
And ready for a Pringle.
Single.
Never called my genitals a pringle,
but you know what?
They are made from
potato flakes.
Compressed potato flakes.
Yeah, they're...
Man, what a world.
If there were pringles,
if our genitals were pringles,
they would all be the same
shape and size.
If our genitals were pringles,
we'd all be single.
We'd all have one hell of a Christmas.
This last one comes from Marion A.
That's a fun name.
Marion?
Mm-hmm.
Pearl?
Barb?
Marion?
These are all great names.
I am a teacher in an international middle school in Copenhagen, Denmark.
And during art class, second grader.
What makes a middle school international?
Maybe they're kids from all over the world.
Oh, that's what it is.
I think it's, yeah, it's like a curriculum that is recognized worldwide.
Oh.
Whatever city you're in, you can send your kids to the international school.
That's amazing.
Okay.
Yeah, it kind of makes sense, right?
Very sorry, Marion.
Oh, no, don't.
Yeah, don't worry.
Don't apologize to Marion.
Yeah, please.
Is it the baccalaureate, international baccalaureate?
Is that a thing?
I don't know.
I don't know what the word is you're saying.
Sounds like a thing, yeah.
Pretty good, though, right?
Sounds like somebody who doesn't know how to pronounce bachelor.
Yeah.
Is it baccalaureate?
Ready for my Pringle uh so this is
during art class second graders one of the kids came to tell me uh that one of the boys had said
a bad word i asked what the bad word was and the kid spelled it for me s-e-x behind me i overheard
the foul-mouthed kid telling his friend, do you know emeralds?
They're some kind of diamonds.
I just love them so much, I want to
sex them.
Whoa! Yeah, right?
Well, first of
all, how does the kid know
about emeralds? I know about
emerald. Oh, and I want to sex him.
Bam!
But emeralds, they're not a kind of diamond
no they're a gem they're they're green this kid's all mixed up although i wonder if it's like
because uh goldfinger from the james bond movie he's like in love with gold is this kid gonna be
a super villain who's in love with emeralds? Yeah. And just like, well. Did Goldfinger want to have sex with Gold?
I think so.
Did he?
I mean, he wouldn't turn it down.
He wouldn't turn his nose up at Gold.
To sex it.
He'd turn his pringle up at it.
No, I don't think.
I think that's Gold member from Austin Powers loved Gold so much.
Oh, is that what it was?
Because I believed you.
But I haven't seen Goldfinger, so.
So, what do you think of that?
Yeah.
I've only seen Gold Member.
Yeah, and he loved gold.
Oh, and like, Gold Member would imply that.
Oh, and he did.
And he did.
It was gold.
Yeah.
So, he sexes with gold.
I guess so.
Maybe that's the kid.
Ah.
The kid has an emerald penis.
We cracked it.
Debunked.
Debunked.
A kid with an emerald penis.
Debunked.
Now, in addition to words 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 we all know the myth of the kid with
the emerald penis this is one of the things you spook yourself okay here's your phone calls hi
this is elizabeth from tor Toronto calling up in Overheard.
So I'm at the park with my son, and this mom was clearly ready to go home,
and her children were not, so she said,
okay, so I'm going to go home, and I'll have some hot tea
and some steamed green beans ready for you when you come home.
And both of her children just looked at her like she was insane.
when you come home.
And both of her children just looked at her
like she was insane.
All right, well,
I'm just going to go
and the green beans
will be ready.
Yes, I live in the park now, Mom.
Yeah, I'm going to use
the steam from the tea
to steam those green beans.
It's going to be a real...
Nothing's going to go to waste.
The windows are just going to be
steamed up when you get home.
Everything's going to be gross and steamy.
Make sure you run over tea and green beans.
Yeah, the ceiling's going to be dripping with green vapor.
My mascara will be running.
Welcome home.
Anyway, come along, kids.
Come along, your favorite snack.
More for me.
Hot tea and beans.
Another Toronto call from the park.
That's all Toronto is.
Everybody's been evicted.
Here we go.
Next phone call.
Hey, Dave Graham and possible guest.
This is Marcus T. calling from Austin, Texas.
I was just at an apartment leasing center and I overheard one of the agents giving their spiel to some new
residents. And they were sitting in some kind of funny looking chairs, I guess. And the woman says
to the two people, she's like, oh, funny story
about these chairs.
They were actually
in the movie Bridesmaids.
And the people said
that was pretty cool.
And then she says,
well, not these chairs,
just one's life.
Oh, wow.
Anyway, you already
signed a lease.
Yeah.
Somebody told me
this is a topic
of conversation.
This is a real conversation starter. So somebody told me this is a topic of conversation this is a real
conversation starter so uh anyways this is uh you know that movie where everyone gets diarrhea
these are the chairs they sat in i mean not these chairs no but oh no so sadly these actual chairs
uh these aren't these these chairs contain diarrhea like in the movie Bridesmaids.
Yeah, I don't remember any notable chairs.
That would be a thing where you'd take the screen grab and then frame it above the chairs and be like, see?
I remember in Knocked Up, they went to Vegas and they had a bunch of different chairs in the same room, and that was a topic.
Yeah.
No, that was 40-Year-Old Virgin, wasn't it?
Or not 40-Year-Old Virgin. Was it Knocked Up? Knocked Up virgin was it knocked up oh yeah you sorry you said knocked up i thought you said the hangover
i heard vegas i heard vegas and i thought hangover what are some of the most famous movie chairs
oh boy um the recliner from that horrible uh that scary movie the recliner
i can't think why can't I think of a famous movie chair?
Surely there's a villain's chair that's notable.
I know, Goldfinger wore it.
He had a gold chair of some sort that he liked having sex with when nobody was watching.
James Bond's chair.
Do you think people, like...
People are screaming
at their iPhones
right now
yeah they're like
the chair
from that movie
the throne
famous throne
the king's throne speech
I don't know
what a famous
famous chair
your thoughts Claire
oh well
your name rhymes
with chair
I do
that is actually
going back to the Claire Bear thing,
more people in my life call me Claire Chair than Claire Bear.
Good.
Yeah.
I was also thinking during the dare segment how that rhymes.
Claire Dare.
I can remember so many chairs from TV shows, but not from movies.
Yeah, that's what I keep thinking of.
No, I'm limiting it to famous movie chairs.
I'm Googling famous movie chairs.
I mean, Fraser's dad had a recliner.
Yep, he liked that chair.
Roseanne, they had a couch, maybe a chair.
I think Roseanne Moore had a famous Afghan more than anything.
Famous movie chairs.
Batman had a chair?
Huh?
Did Batman have a chair?
Yeah, I mean's there's the 10
greatest chairs in tv and film history game thrones is one uh yeah that throne but that's tv
though yep i wonder if bridesmaids made the list that's it's number one uh come on screen rant
imagine like taking oh the egg chair from Men in Black?
Yeah, okay.
Oh, those are good.
Those are pretty good.
Oh, that was a good scene.
Hover chairs and WALL-E.
I didn't watch that far.
Have you seen WALL-E?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, the chairs that all...
You didn't watch that far?
It was on a plane.
Okay.
And I was like, nope.
But, yeah, the ones that, you know, all the humans on the ship.
Those are good chairs.
Oh, Xerxes' throne in the movie 300.
That was a pretty good chair.
I don't know it.
Oh, Thorn of Gondor from Lord of the Rings.
Boo.
Well, I don't know.
These aren't that famous.
Odin's throne in Thor. Oh, but there was something in Beauty and the Beast. Like a I don't know. These aren't that famous. Odin's throne in Thor.
Oh, but there was something in Beauty and the Beast.
Like a singing chair?
Yeah.
Probably was.
Skip ahead.
Oh, the red leather wingback chair from The Matrix that he sits in in the all-white room.
That's a pretty...
There's no famous chairs before like 1998?
The Emperor's Throne in Star Wars.
Did this list start.
Did you start the list with number one?
Because I feel like that egg chair was the most memorable to me.
No, number one was the Emperor's Chair in Star Wars.
I guess that's fair.
It's a pretty good chair.
The Emperor's New Chair.
But I think we all really got psyched about the egg chair from Men in Black.
That was one that we all recalled.
Oh, that was such a funny scene when he can't figure out how to write.
Oh, man. You guys know what I'm talking'm talking about yeah and then he moves the table yeah yeah it shows aptitude i wonder if that table made the list of top tables oh yeah
table table forum oh guys we're gonna start uh like a movie furniture podcast
today we break down the top ten lamps in film
Ooh, probably the one from The Christmas Story
Oh yeah, I was thinking the one from Anchorman
He loved lamps
Oh yeah, oh this is fun
We can do lamps so much
Yeah, the Pixar lamp that jumps out of the air
And there must have been a singing
Well, there was a candelabra, Lumiere
Alright, here's your final overheard of
2016. Hi, this is
Claire in San Luis Obispo with an overheard.
I was just in
a public
restroom in a restaurant and
waiting in line for one of the stalls to be
available when a little girl
like maybe seven years old
slammed the door open
and bounced out of the stall
and went, revenge!
That's what I do every time I go.
Take that, public area.
Do you wash your hands before?
Before?
During and after.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, before, then I have some wet naps.
You have a little bidet next to you.
Yeah, a portable
bidet. It's very
hard to connect to
people's plumbing, but it's worth it.
Girl, I want to pee with
you. Fun. Bidet.
And all of the night.
Thank you. Hey, you're welcome.
That's why they call us the Spoofsters.
Well, that brings us to the end of this here podcast.
I know.
Did it ever have to end?
No.
Eventually.
Claire, what's coming up?
What would you like to plug?
Coming hot down the pipe. Yeah like to plug Coming hot down the pipe
Yeah
What's coming hot down the pipe
As they say
This will be out
I think the first week of April
Okay
Well
I just started
Co-producing a show
In Toronto
A weekly show
On Tuesday nights
At Poor Boy
On College
Okay
There's two Poor Boys
So don't go to the wrong one
On College
There's two Poor Boys On so don't go to the wrong one on college. There's two poor boys on college?
No.
Oh, okay.
Oh, boy.
Don't go to the one on college.
Go to the one on college.
Yeah, no, it's a really fun show.
There's, it starts at eight.
It's free.
There's always really good comics on it, and there's always a good crowd.
Fun.
Yeah.
What kind of a place is Poor Boys?
It's like a bar. They have really good cheap food and cheap beers. a good crowd. Fun. Yeah. What kind of a place is Poor Boys? It's like a bar.
They have really good cheap food and cheap beers.
It's good times.
Oh, so it's literally for Poor Boys.
Yeah.
No girls allowed.
But cleverly spelt P-O-U-R.
Power.
Power Boys.
I can't spell.
And are you on the internet?
I'm on the internet.
On Twitter or anything? Yeah. I'm on the internet? I'm on the internet. On Twitter or anything?
Yeah.
I'm on the internet.
I'm on Twitter at Claire Belford.
There's no I in Claire.
Or team.
Much like teams.
A real team Claire.
If you want to dare Claire to do something, make sure to hashtag it dare Claire.
Yeah.
And Claire chair.
It's trending.
Or Claire bear. Yeah. and Claire Chair it's trending yeah or Claire Bear
yeah if you can think of
better famous movie chairs
hashtag them
Claire Chair
Claire Chair
yeah
better movie chairs
than the ones we listed
yeah
Claire Chair
but yeah
just hashtag
just hashtag the shit out of it
Sunny and Chair
oh that's fun
Sunny and Claire
Chair oh why why is that a thing no Hashtag the shit out of it. Sonny and chair. Oh, that's fun. Sonny and Claire.
Chair.
Oh, why?
Why is that a thing?
No, I'm just happy to be here.
Yeah, well, I'm happy that you're here as well.
Now, if you like the podcast, head over to MaximumFun.org.
Check out the blog recap, all sorts of pictures and videos relating to the content of this podcast.
Surely that egg chair will make an appearance.
Oh, yeah, that orb chair.
Also that scary orb video.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Probably link that card game, too.
That was mediocre.
Yeah, I don't know if that's getting included in the show.
I mentioned it.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, fun.
What else do we talk about?
That scary Soviet Russia story.
Yeah, and the Great British Bake Off.
Dry shampoo, where to find your best dry shampoo.
Come on, not where to find it.
People can Google it.
I'll post a picture.
We're not going to do all the work for you.
And yeah, if you like the show you can leave a review on
iTunes, tell your friends
and come on back next week
for another episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself. MaximumFun.org
Comedy and culture. Artist owned.
Listener supported.