Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 450 - Debra DiGiovanni
Episode Date: October 31, 2016Comedian Debra DiGiovanni returns to talk sugar substitutes, pumpkin carving, and Three Men and a Baby....
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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 450 of Stop Podcasting Yourself.
My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who's not, I don't know that he's convinced that 450 is a magical number.
But I guess it's not not a magical number, Mr. Dave Shilka.
Yeah, it's got a zero at the end.
Yeah.
And a five. Fives are big.
Fives are big. Fours are unlucky in the chinese culture sure but i'm i'm
like uh i've been doing a lot of kabbalah lately oh yeah i remember that yeah i do a little bit
of kabbalah here and there i wear a little red red red string string you call madonna on the
weekend yeah i call her madge yeah i say hey madge i soaked in it and she doesn't get the reference she should though
she's been around
yeah yeah
that period of time
but Madge is a nickname
for her right
yeah
I mean
what are the other
Madonna nicknames
the Divine Miss M
yeah
the Material Girl
Material Girl
Breathless
the Blonde Bombshell
yeah
that's it Dick Tracy's girlfriend yeah Breathless. Blonde Bombshell. Yeah.
That's it.
Dick Tracy's girlfriend.
Breathless Mahoney.
Yeah, a league of her own.
Yeah.
Material Girl.
I've already said it.
I think that's it. Yeah, the sex author.
Yeah, sex author.
Speaking of sex author.
What?
Best intro ever.
Our guest today, a very hilarious comedian, a return guest on the show, Miss Debra DiGiovanni.
Hello.
Hello.
Yay.
I can't think of another name for Madonna and it's upsetting me.
Yeah.
Because I feel like Madge is not the only one.
Midge.
Midge.
Yeah, Midge.
Miss, Mrs. Ritchie.
Oh, yeah.
For a time.
Ex-Mrs. Ritchie. Mumsy. No, that yeah Ex Mrs. Richie
Yeah
Mumsy
No that's just me
I call her Mumsy
She will not respond to Mumsy
I just googled it
Here are nine
What is it?
Here are nine of her nicknames
Oh my gosh
Mo
Mo
Okay
Never
That's a reach
Esther
Esther
Oh Esther
Yeah I've heard of Esther
Is that her Kabbalah name?
It might be a Kabbalah name
Mine's David
Madge Madge Yeah The Queen of Pop Is that her Kabbalah name? It might be a Kabbalah name. Mine's David.
Madge.
Madge.
The Queen of Pop.
Was she though?
I don't know.
I guess she was.
Is.
Sorry.
She's still alive.
Well, she's been dethroned.
No, but who?
Oh boy, I want to say Demi Lovato. Oh my God.
Five.
The Material Girl. These aren't in any order, but I'm just counting. Yeah, my God. Five. The Material Girl.
These aren't in any order, but I'm just counting.
Yeah.
Maddie.
Sure.
That one, that sounds made up.
It sounds like a dog.
Yeah, come on.
The Queen of Reinvention.
That's barely even a nickname.
You can't be the Queen of two things.
Well, I mean, and Demi Lovato's the Queen of Reinvention.
Everyone does that.
Also, it's a reinvention.
Can you reinvent something?
Just yourself?
Yeah, I don't know.
Well, she did.
Remember, she used to have short hair, and then she had long hair for a long time.
You can reinvent yourself.
She was naked all the time.
But, like, they...
That's right.
People are always like, hey, let's not reinvent the wheel here.
Oh, yeah.
It's a bad thing.
Yeah.
Well, she...
I feel like she's going to be the first pop star to upload her brain into a computer.
She's going to be the first singularity pop star.
The next is M, just the letter M.
Sure.
And finally, Nani.
These are, come on.
Is that like an Italian grandma name?
No, that's actually Nona.
Nona.
But Nani may be as cute as well.
We'll take that.
Should we get to Nona?
We haven't yet
no
get to know us
now we were just talking
just before the podcast
yeah
you
for 34 days
have quit
37
37
oh yeah 37 days
have quit
all sugar
yes
that's outstanding
how is it going
it's terrifying
you know what I gotta tell you
the first two weeks
it was like I felt I honestly felt like I was
going insane.
What was the thing you wanted the most?
Oh, gosh.
You know, honestly, just like, I think to like spaghetti sauce.
Like, like I want.
That's good sugar in it?
Yeah.
Like, but like jarred, like canned, you know, like ragu.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what I want.
That's what my brain is like.
That's right.
Because it's dirty. You know, if you make your own spaghetti sauce, great. That's what I want. That's what my brain is like. Because it's dirty.
You know, if you make your own spaghetti sauce, great.
But they put a ton.
I make it in a very dirty pot.
They put a ton of sugar in that.
Really?
Oh, my gosh, yeah.
Ketchup.
You know, that kind of stuff.
Oh, my God.
That's why kids like ketchup, because it's half sugar.
I never got, I don't think I ever got into ketchup.
It was just always there.
Oh, no, I'm super into ketchup.
Are you super into it? Oh, my God. Artisanal ketchup. You go to all the ketchup farmer's markets. just always there. Oh, no, I'm super into ketchup. Are you super into it?
Oh, my God.
Artisanal ketchup.
You go to all the ketchup
farmer's markets?
Bring it on.
Yeah, yeah, love ketchup.
But I think it's like really,
it's just the big one for me,
honestly,
super addicted to Coca-Cola.
Yeah.
I'm telling you,
37 days,
I haven't had a Coca-Cola
in 37 days.
I think that's the longest
I've ever gone
in my entire life.
Yeah, they used to put it in your bottle.
Have you had...
I have no teeth.
Is there a sugarless Coke?
Coke Zero?
Yeah, I'll do a
Diet Coke every once in a while, but I'm trying
not to do aspartame as well.
It's very hard.
When I was a kid
and my mom would drink Diet Coke, I would be like, this is garbage.
You knew even then.
Well, of course.
It tastes bad.
It hurts your mouth.
It's the official beverage of mom.
It is.
My mother used to drink like nine a day and wonder what was what.
Is that wrong?
I'm like, yes.
It is wrong.
Nine a day.
Seriously.
What were the sugar substitutes?
Sweet and low? Sweet and low sweet and low equal equal so 80s in my mind like everything is equal to blue pack yes it is yeah yeah yeah yeah and
then there's the new one that uh everybody is is the semi-new but now the real news are like stevia
and stuff like that which i think tastes horrendous. Really? Awful. Oh, yeah.
Isn't it?
But like stevia is, isn't it technically sugar?
It's from, it's more, it's way more natural.
It's way better for you.
So, yeah.
But.
But agave, do you ever do agave?
No.
Agave is also very natural.
Like it's, it's, it's. Is that what tequila is made out of?
It is.
Oh, yeah.
Nice one.
But that's only good like with tea, you know. Yeah. That's very nice with tea. But that's only good like with tea.
Yeah.
But that's like a liquid.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know that I could like I think to myself, I don't want to.
Absolutely.
I do.
And I see a baby cry.
I think of equal.
Yeah.
I slap that thing of hitting the flicking.
Oh, yeah. A little sugar.
Oh, yeah.
What was the one
that came in the yellow
was that sugar twin
oh yeah twin
we forgot twin
that was an 80s one
how did you forget
that was my
my grandfather
always had sugar twin
oh yeah
and I remember like
even when you looked at it
like when you poured it out
it was weird shapes
because sugar was like
a kind of like
granular
yeah
but this was like flakes.
It was really. Are you
a coffee drinker? Yes. And you like
sugar in your coffee? I'm trying to
wean myself off of it. Because that was
and I'm dying. That was
I am. I'm dying. I never
have successfully cut sugar
out just because I
eat ice cream every single day.
But. I thought you not going to say coffee.
No,
no,
no ice cream.
No,
because coffee,
I did manage to get the sugar.
I'm a lot of milk.
Splenda.
I'm like doing,
yeah,
I do.
I'm doing,
that's exactly me too.
That's what I'll put like cream in it and not have sugar,
but I'm trying,
I still do a couple of Splenda's in my coffee and I'm just trying to reduce that.
And you don't drink,
you don't drink a lot.
You're not a booze a hall. Right now. I don't drink alcohol. I don't smoke coffee and I'm just trying to reduce that and reduce that and you don't drink you don't drink a lot you're not a booze-a-hall person right now I don't drink alcohol
I don't smoke pot
and I don't
I don't have sugar
I am officially
the most boring person
on the planet
you're a quaker
I'm not
I am a quaker
I'm a Mennonite
yeah
oh my god
you're a Puritan
Jesus
you were telling me
oh it's awful
when you were in high school
all the Mormon kids would sneak coke.
Oh, yeah.
The high school dances, because there would always be cheap pop.
Oh, yeah.
And oh, man.
And they would go nuts.
They'd bring their quarters.
I had a neighbor growing up.
We had our neighborhood gang.
We had all the girls that hung out.
And Lisa Carroll, I remember, she was never allowed to have candy until she was with us.
You know what I mean?
Right.
She would be away from her family.
She would go psychotic, like would have it and then just be like a crazy child spinning
out of control.
I remember when she tried to see how many pieces of gum she could put in her mouth.
She almost died.
Like it was literally, there was like gum juice running down her face and she almost
choked on it.
We were just like, yeah, you're nine years old, you're more
Crayamoran! And she was
dying. Chubby bunny, chubby bunny.
It was just, and we loved it.
Wow, what a great death.
You know when they talk about a great death?
Oh yeah, sure. My parents would
never, I was the same way, my parents would never let
me have ecstasy.
And then, whenever I went to a rape, I would
do so much. That weirdo prudes your family.
My parents said
they'd rather that I did it at home.
With the family,
as a family.
I understand.
Just doing ecstasy
around the dinner table.
Oh my God.
Can you pass the pacifier?
Let's give each other
back rubs in a circle.
Were you,
were you part of a family that wouldn't let you do a thing that was a childhood everybody else was doing?
Or did you have carte blanche?
No, I definitely didn't have carte blanche, but we weren't.
It wasn't super like, I think we're pretty normal.
You know, my family's very religious.
They always have been.
So that makes it slightly less normal.
But it was, you know.
Episcopalian.
What did you call me?
Yeah, they just, it was pretty regular.
I mean, like, you know, it wasn't, we were never gorged on sugar.
Right, but it was like.
There were definitely treats.
And you had TV.
Yes, and TV and, you know, and whatever.
And, you know, fun clothes.
My mother never bothered me about what I wanted to wear, which I found very interesting.
Okay, the things my mom
never bothered me about my,
because I've always been
one of those,
still am,
like one of the girls
that would be like,
go crazy over a celebrity,
like Duran Duran.
I love you!
You know what I mean?
It was just like,
I would weep.
I love,
you don't understand,
I love John Taylor.
I love, I mean,
I would, you know,
and that still lingers
in my life
my mother never had a problem with it
she just
whatever
plaster my walls
with Duran Duran
and my mom was just like
okay
never had a problem with it
and then when I went through
my ridiculous clothing stage
never had a problem
and I thought she would
because that was
you know
like the kind of woman she was
I thought she would
she had no problem
she'd just be like
one day you're going to see pictures
and laugh
and I'd be like what
and I do as like what and I do
as a father now
I'm like oh I want
yes
if my daughter's ever like
dad can I get cornrows
yes you can
yes you absolutely can
but I'm gonna take
so many pictures
oh my god yeah
that's it
dad I'm really into
Duran Duran
oh my god now
weird
the old Duran Duran
this one
do you have a
you said you've always sort of been like, you've developed mild obsessions.
Yes.
What's the current one?
Oh, goodness.
You know what, though?
There is, I feel like I might blush right now.
But anyway, I'm a little obsessed with a couple models on Instagram.
Instagram is ruining my life.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm going to tell you this.
Like, I can spend hours just looking at pictures of gorgeous male Instagram. Instagram is ruining my life. I'm going to tell you this. I can spend hours
just looking at pictures of gorgeous male
models. There is one. His name
is... Oh my gosh.
His name is Christopher
Mason and he is...
He's so gorgeous.
It hurts my soul.
There's one little video that I watch
of him over and over again and all he does
is like six seconds long.
And all he does is he loosens his tie and he's chewing gum.
And I literally jerk off to that three times a week.
It is spank bank number one with a bullet.
He's so hot.
I could, I'm ill.
Are you looking up right now?
Yeah, I probably won't find the video.
I just wanted to see a picture of this bloke.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
He looks like Graham.
Yeah.
He does.
He looks like Graham
crossed with
Smith from
Sex and the City.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Oh my God.
Oh yeah.
Oh, that's a good one too.
More fanning.
If you're chewing gum
right now, Graham,
you better move over.
Okay.
All right.
Brace yourself.
Yeah, but that's it.
And I was always, I was always big on unrequited love.
That was me.
There are boys from my high school.
I'm so sorry.
Like, I just, I made some boys, like, their lives hell.
Why?
What did you do?
Just because I would be like, I just love them so much.
And they were like, oh, the girl with the weird clothes is coming over.
Oh, you don't even know.
Like, okay, when I was 14.
Oh, I'm embarrassed thinking about it.
Okay.
This is.
Oh, no.
I have to tell you with my hands over my eyes.
When I was 14, my across the street neighbor, Tim Rowland, he was 18.
I loved him so much.
Oh, my God.
And, you know, we drank young in my small town.
So, I would.
Oh, God.
I remember once getting.
What small town was this?
A little town called Tilsonburg, Ontario. Tilsonburg. Yes, of course. And I. Oh, we drank young in my small town. So I would, oh, God, I remember once getting. What small town was this?
A little town called Tilsonburg, Ontario.
Tilsonburg, yes, of course.
And I, oh, my God.
I remember just getting, like, we would get drunk, and I would call him.
And like, is this a good idea?
I'm 14.
Will you marry me? It's the best idea.
Will you marry me?
Oh, my God.
I think once.
Okay, this is horrifying.
Oh, God.
I put roses in his car because, you know, I don't know.
In his tailpipe.
But dudes love roses.
I, oh, I'm still embarrassed thinking about it.
Like, I could die.
How did you get them in his car?
I don't know.
The window, a crack of a window.
I don't know what it was.
I just, I made it happen is what I'm saying.
Good for you.
No, it wasn't.
I was, I made a fool of myself every day of my life.
Did he know?
Oh, my God, he knew. He knew so hard. Like, every day of my life did he know oh my god
he knew
he knew so hard
like it was just
what did he
but he just ignored
no he was very sweet to me
like he was very sweet
you know he's 18
I'm 14
but then you know
Debra turns 17
and then someone comes calling
so anyway
he would wave at you
or he would
play along
it was all very like
you know
yeah
aww
he was honestly
he was delightful
about it because
oh god
I mean
I made a fool of myself
on a daily basis
are you still
stalking him today
no
what if I did
that'd be great
but no
do you know
whatever happened to him
yeah
you know
I saw him not too long ago.
I was doing a show and he was the company that he whatever and walked up.
Hello.
And I was like, oh, God.
It was immediately mortified again.
You were back there?
Yeah.
I mean, it was probably like maybe five years ago.
And I was just like, oh, hi.
And you still look like the guy?
We had a laugh.
We had a good laugh.
Aw.
Do you remember?
I was like, oh, yeah. Yeah, I good laugh. Aw. Because he was just like, do you remember? I was like, yeah, I do remember.
Anyway, yeah.
That was me.
My wife's family is from a town called Ingersoll.
Oh, my gosh.
We used to call it Ingerhole.
They called it Fingerhole.
Oh, even better.
See, that's even better because that was too dirty for me.
But they.
Oh, my gosh.
That's super close to Tilsonburg.
Yeah, I think I mentioned that to Abby's mother,
and she was like, oh, Tilsonburg was the fancy town,
because they had diagonal parking spots.
Oh, you did.
I remember when those came in, it was big,
in front of the bank.
Awesome.
Dave, ever had an unrequited crush when you were a youth?
Oh, totally.
But did you just keep it quiet, or did you let it be known?
Like, were you like crazy or not?
No, I wasn't crazy, but I, you know.
Who was it?
Oh, I don't want to talk about it.
No, I can't believe it.
No, but like, I think I had a number.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't think they were ever that intense, but they, yeah, I was just like, I wouldn't,
well, I'm never going to do anything about this.
Yeah. I always try. I always, I always just like, well, I'm never going to do anything about this.
Yeah.
I always try.
I always went for it.
Did you?
I always got shot down. I never, I don't think, went for somebody older.
But I always exclusively going for people out of my league.
Impossible.
Oh, very possible.
And, you know, everybody, the message that came back is uh
like you as a friend yeah but i think when you're uh when you're a kid you just assume that
you don't think of uh i'm gonna be friends with this person you're like really i'm obsessed with
them yeah yeah and then if they say friends you're like what i can't but you were friends with them
first weren't you no no these are people that were out of my.
They weren't in my social circle.
But all in the same grade, though?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
And not necessarily the most.
Were they cheerleaders?
What was the story?
One of them was.
We didn't really have cheerleaders.
Another.
Yeah.
I think if we did, I don't remember them being anything to write home about.
Dear mom and dad, I would be home in an hour.
But, no, I don't remember the one that was in, like, junior high.
She wasn't, she didn't do anything.
Like, maybe she was on the soccer team or something.
Sure, why not
Carly oh, yeah, yeah, I you know I had a lot like I remember grade school was Scott de Kluyt. Oh, yeah Oh my god. I loved it. Well, I love you. He was adorable. He was a little greaser. I know
He was a he was adorable he was a little strawberry blonde with freckles.
He was so cute.
Scott DeCluet.
And then, oh yeah, I had a few.
This is like, now I'm thinking about it.
It's all coming back to me in a mortifying wave.
Like it just is.
Scott DeCluet.
And then it was Chris Conroy.
Oh God, I'm so sorry.
It never goes away.
It's amazing how you can immediately be taken back to that.
Oh my God, that body memory.
That feeling in your gut.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because I remember
for this Carly girl,
I joined...
But you asked her out though?
I did, yeah.
And I joined cross country,
the cross country running club.
Oh my gosh.
Just because she was in it.
But I'm having visuals
of you with a beard
in grade seven.
That is exactly it.
It was a little bit skinnier. It was a little bit skinnier.
It was a little bit anglier.
I love that you, in order to get a girlfriend,
joined the loneliest
sport in the world.
And I would always...
But the thing about the cross-country thing is that
it was always
an away game.
There was no... So you always had to go on a bus trip.
Oh, yeah.
So that, in my mind, I was like, that's where I can shine on the bus trip,
doing, telling jokes.
Oh, yeah, this would be my time.
Yeah, this is, man, this guy knows the bus.
It's stuffy in here, and he knew how to open the windows.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Remember those windows, The little press together?
Oh, yeah.
Boy, do I.
Ancient.
You know, doing a pressed ham against the back window.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
What was it with boys?
Why did boys like to pull their pants down so much?
Because it got that exact reaction.
That's exactly what it is.
Yeah, that's what it is, because we scream and run.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's the only.
Yeah. That is it Because we scream and run. Yeah, that's the only... What is it?
What is it?
And mooning was such a...
Like, if you could do it in a way
that somebody didn't see it coming...
It's a really juvenile thing
because it's so much easier with sweatpants.
Like, the more grown-up the trouser.
Like, I gotta take off my suspenders.
Yeah, I gotta put down my briefcase
your braces
braces
that's what
yeah oh my goodness
cummerbund
my waistcoat
I also joined
the volleyball team
to try and get to
another girl
what was that girl's name
Autumn
Autumn and Carly
yeah
oh I like it
yeah
I don't know why
I just feel like
they weren't
they weren't the most popular
but they were just nice
ladies. But too popular to still like you.
Yes, nice ladies.
Sorry. A couple of nice
ladies. Did you have girlfriends in high
school? Yeah, a couple. Did you?
Yeah. How old were you with your first girlfriend?
What do you define first?
Well, like, exactly.
This is spy the evening
edition. I maybe had
a girlfriend
in grade 8
I had girlfriends
in elementary school
did you
wow
the boys were still
beating me up
in elementary school
but it would be like
oh we're going out now
see you when we break up
I was like
oh that's my girlfriend
when was the first one
that you like
actually kissed
and made out with
and like
we're like
going together?
Who is?
How old?
Maybe grade 11.
Oh.
Yeah.
And then another girlfriend grade 12.
Yeah.
And then no girlfriend.
And then my wife.
Really?
Yeah.
Nice.
I like it.
Then what did you meet in college?
You went out?
Yeah.
Sweet.
Did you go to college?
For a while.
Yeah?
Did I graduate college? For a while. Yeah. Did I graduate college?
No, I did not.
But I went to art school and then decided, what the hell am I doing?
Yeah, yeah.
First girlfriend was probably in grade seven.
Grade seven?
Yeah.
Jezebel.
Yeah, it was Jezebel.
Was it one of those things where it was just like, you know, we're going steady and that was it?
Like you'd wave at each other and that's all?
Yeah, we went to the zoo together.
Oh my.
Oh my gosh, with parental guidance?
Yeah, I went over, I think I went to a dinner at her parents' house.
So I even met the parents.
Oh wow.
Did they ask you to milk a cat or something?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then they told me not to drown Mr. Jingles.
Is that what happens in the movie?
And your first boyfriend.
Oh, I was not terribly popular, but I also, my school was really small.
Like, my graduating class was like 45 people.
Like, seriously.
And I just, I always had sort of that thing where I didn't want to date my friends,
ex-boyfriends.
Like I immediately,
cause that's what happened.
Like they all kind of went through a rotation.
So truly my first boyfriend was grade 13 when I was in grade 13.
So the last year of high school.
Yeah.
It was a boy who chased me the,
like from the minute I met him in grade eight.
So you were the unrequited love.
Do you want to be my girlfriend? No.
And I hated him.
And he would drive me insane.
But then he got all muscular and sexy.
And the way we went out...
He probably did it to woo you.
Maybe, but he also was kind of short too.
So that's about it.
But no, it was the way he basically...
We went out at a Halloween dance
of grade 13
he basically said to me
if you don't go out with me
I'm never talking to you again
and I was like
alright
and then of course
we dated
this is the episode
coming out on Halloween
was it a
spooky
yeah
was he dressed as him
yeah
no I don't remember
I was dressed as an angel
that's what I remember
cute
very cute
yeah you know it but yeah, I don't remember. I was dressed as an angel. That's what I remember. Cute. Very cute.
Yeah, yeah.
Not to say.
You know it.
But yeah, no, I didn't have a lot of boyfriends.
What was it?
Do you remember what he was dressed as?
I don't think he was dressed as anything.
I think he was, you know, the boys eventually stopped. He was dressed as Rocky Horror.
Oh, my God.
Just the underwear.
The blonde wig.
I just think you said he was really muscular.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What do you mean? The short, muscular guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you mean?
The short, muscular guy.
Yeah, there you go.
Oh, boy.
Mike Tyson.
I find it hard to believe
that you weren't popular.
You know,
I was popular with, like,
pals.
Like, I was everyone's buddy.
Like, I was all the girls.
You know,
I was popular amongst the girls.
But that's popular.
It is, yeah.
But boys didn't like me.
Okay.
Yeah, I never had... They couldn't run at your speed. That's what it was. You know what I mean? I was way amongst the girls. But that's popular. It is, yeah. But boys didn't like me. Okay. Yeah, I never had.
They couldn't run at your speed.
That's what it was.
You know what I mean?
I was way too just edgy.
You were big city, trapped in Tilsonburg.
I think that's what it was, too.
And I think at that point, it was like, get me out of here.
But I also remember I have a twin sister.
And so we're very fraternal.
And Joanne was like, you know, all the boys were like, Joanne.
Because she was gorgeous. You know, all the boys were like, Joanne, because she was gorgeous.
You know, gold hair, long, wavy, gold.
She was gorgeous.
But she had a boyfriend forever.
Like, she dated a dude from 14 to, like, 24.
And by the way, moms, if you're listening, don't let that happen.
Because when they broke up, she was a shell of a human being.
Well, yeah.
Like, it was just, you can't.
Come on.
You can't date that long.
A lot of your identity would be stitched to that. Well, yeah. Like, it was just, you can't, come on, you can't date that long. A lot of your identity
would be stitched to that.
Yeah, seriously, yeah.
So when your daughter's
been dating a guy
for four years,
at age 18,
yeah, your daughter
will appreciate it.
She will.
She'll hate you.
She'll totally obey you.
Absolutely.
For six or seven years,
she'll hate you,
but after that,
she'll be happy.
There you go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, boy.
And then as soon as
you were done high school
out to the big city
yes I moved to Toronto
immediately
and then boys boys boys
and then
yeah yeah
neon signs
with boys written on it
Lady Gaga wrote that song
about me
oh my gosh yes
no
no
I can't no
no I've never
no
boys have never
guys have never liked me
I don't have that thing.
Here's the thing.
I'm too loud, I'm too funny, and I'm too clever.
Boys don't like me.
I'm men's like, ugh, gross.
Because you're never going to be funnier than me.
You're never going to be sharper than me.
And I'm very, very loud.
So they then hate that.
I would say.
I would say guys wouldn't have a good chance to be funnier than me.
That is true.
No, except for present company.
Oh, get out of here.
That's only because I'd spent all that time
working material on the bus. On the bus.
You've honed it. Country. You've honed it.
I just set up the microphone.
Nice work.
Would you
ever go back to living in a small town
or is that just like a horror show? Goodness no.
100% no. Okay.
That's a common question you've been asking lately.
I just want something on your mind.
Yeah.
Are you leaving us?
Yeah.
Whenever I go to a small town, I just, because I never have lived in one aside from one summer
I lived in one.
So I don't know what that, the lifestyle is.
You know, okay.
That's, I think I answered too quickly.
I would, I would move to a small town, like, way later in life.
Right.
Like, if I've been like, okay, you know what?
I've had a satisfying career.
If I had a lot of money, perhaps.
And then, like, maybe retiring in a small town.
I could see that.
Yeah.
That's kind of nice.
Go somewhere lovely and, you know, picturesque and small and sweet.
Do you picture yourself ever retiring?
Probably not, no.
No.
I can't imagine.
Right?
I mean, like maybe 80.
I don't know.
I hope not.
I hope I don't.
I hope I don't.
Honestly.
I hope it gets catapulted into the sun.
Yes.
The ice flow.
Remember, that's what I'm going to do.
But, you know, I will say,
even though as a teenager I hated it,
but growing up in a small town,
I wouldn't change that for anything.
Really?
Oh, my gosh.
As a child growing up in a small town, I wouldn't change that for anything. Really? Oh, my gosh. As a child growing up in a small town?
Yeah.
Awesome.
It was also a time.
Yes.
That's true, too.
That's very true, too.
The 70s, it was a different story.
I grew up here, and it was stuff you would never do now.
We would ride our bikes by ourselves at age seven.
You're probably right.
It's probably not the small town.
I'm probably remembering as a small town, but it was more like the 70s and early 80s.
Yeah.
If you live in it.
It was like people were like, whatever.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, you know, I lived in a big city, but I traveled in a two block radius.
Yeah.
Yeah.
On bicycles.
The furthest I ever went anywhere was trick or treating.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And what a night.
Oh, gosh, yeah.
Do you remember how good it used to be?
So good.
Pillowcases.
Yeah.
Pillowcases full of stuff.
How good it used to be.
Now it sucks.
Every time I go out, people are all suspicious.
But you live in a good neighborhood.
Yeah.
For trick-or-treating.
There's tons of houses.
in a good neighborhood.
Yeah.
For trick-or-treating,
there's tons of houses.
But also, yeah,
tons of sort of like people in their 20s
who are rowdy.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
Ah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Also, a lot of the houses
kind of on this side of town
have a ton of steps.
Yeah.
Going up to the front door
and these,
we're talking little legs here.
It is cardio.
That's true, too.
You're going to be lifting.
Will she go out?
No, not this year. Not here. It's too young That's true, too. You're going to be lifting. Will she go out? No, not this year.
Not here.
It's too young.
She doesn't know what it is.
Yeah.
But we just carved our first pumpkin with her.
Yeah.
And she loved that.
And she was adamant that it had to have a smile.
Yeah.
She was like, do you want an angry one or a sad one?
A scary one?
Happy.
Happy.
Happy.
Yeah.
Let's take this one step at a time.
Did she like cleaning the pumpkin out? Did it like the squishy inside or not? Happy. Happy. Let's take this one step at a time. Did she like cleaning the pumpkin out to the
squishy inside?
No.
She didn't
dislike it
but she wasn't
into it.
Yeah.
And then
now that we
put a candle in it
she just wants
to look at the fire.
She doesn't even
really care about
the pumpkin.
She just wants
to see that
flickering flame.
What can it do?
It commands me.
I will obey.
It speaks to me, daddy. Yeah, yeah. She's found her? Yeah. It commands me. Yeah. I will obey. It speaks to me,
daddy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She's found her higher power.
Okay.
Let's talk best Halloween costumes.
What were your best Halloween costumes?
Uh,
Ooh,
boy.
Um,
I went to one year.
I went as Carly.
Yeah.
And that,
that's how Dave and I met.
That was an awkward dance.
One year,
I went as the TV character,
Elf.
Oh.
Oh my gosh,
Alien Life 4.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, that would be good.
And it was like part,
you know,
the cheap plastic
with the elastic bands?
Yes, yeah, yeah.
The ones that I don't think
you can buy anywhere anymore.
No, no.
I think they've been outlawed.
Yeah, there's only the crazy rubber ones now.
So it was that, but then I think my mom made like hands like out of mittens that looked
so they looked like fuzzy hands and feet for it as well.
So it was a pretty good costume.
But like Alf that was like dressed up in an overcoat or something?
Yeah, wearing a suit. Don't pretend that that wasn't a funny show because it was. pretty good costume. But like Alf that was like dressed up in an overcoat or something? Yeah, wearing a suit.
Don't pretend that that wasn't a funny show because it was.
Alf was amazing.
Oh, I will never pretend that it's not a funny show.
Okay, what was your favorite?
Did you have a good one?
I would always do something kind of weird.
Like I was like, I'm nerd man.
And I would like make a fake superhero.
Then I realized it's not fun to have to explain a thing at every door.
For 20 minutes.
Listen,
this is what,
yeah.
But I think the peak
was one year,
maybe like 1990,
I did a bald wig,
cool sunglasses,
and an overcoat,
and I was Sinead O'Connor.
Oh!
And not everyone
knew who that was.
You have to picture
the Pope at every door?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
People who knew were like super hip.
People that were in were in.
My mom used to make our Halloween costumes when I was a child.
And I mean, wow.
Like, based on request, you would say, I want to be this, and she would make you.
And like, I mean, wow.
What did you do?
What was your favorite?
I remember one year I wanted to be a chef.
Okay.
And my mother made me like a proper, you know proper pants, the top that has the flap pulled over,
and the proper hat and everything, and we drew a mustache.
And it was, I mean, it was, they were fabulous.
And that's, of course, like a costume that only a kid would come up with.
I want to be a chef.
Yeah, whatever.
But now if it was, if my kid was, I want to be a chef.
They have to paint tattoos on their arms,
but you could get all the clothes from Mark's work warehouse.
Absolutely.
But my mom,
I mean,
when we were little,
she was,
they were brought in like they were,
you know,
fairy costumes and princess,
princess costumes.
And that she just made amazing.
And then as,
as you know,
you got older and I started to do them,
I would start making them.
I remember in grade nine, I was the Chiquita Banana Woman.
Oh.
And I was with a fruit headdress.
Wow.
You don't even know.
It was brilliant.
Of course, I got to the dance and I couldn't dance because it was too heavy.
But anyway, I was like, oh, I was hurting my neck.
But it was awesome.
And then later on in high school, I think maybe grade 12?
Yeah.
When we would start dressing at school and I made some of my friends' costumes.
I was the bride Frankenstein.
Oh, with the giant hair.
With the hair.
Oh, yeah.
With the bandage dress and stuff.
And you made that yourself?
Oh, yeah.
It was great.
Do you still do Halloween?
I don't.
I haven't in a while, but we used to.
Yeah.
I think it's probably only been, maybe it's been like eight years that I haven't done Halloween.
But yeah.
But do you miss it?
I do.
I always liked Halloween.
I think Halloween was very, very fun.
And I always live in gay neighborhoods too.
So I've always lived adjacent to a gay neighborhood, which is like, it's gay Christmas.
It's Halloween.
Yeah.
That's their favorite
you uh
them
them
that group of people
but you know
they do
the homosexual boys
love it
because they get to be
shirtless all the time
it's been years
since I
I'm an ambulance driver
without a shirt on
I'm a shirtless doctor
I'm a shirtless chef
exactly
it gets dangerous
it gets dangerous
nothing that splatters
exactly just mainly sandwiches I just make sandwiches yeah I'm a shirtless chef. Exactly. It gets dangerous. Yeah, nothing that splatters.
Just mainly sandwiches.
I just make sandwiches.
Yeah.
But yeah, but that is, that's a beautiful, did you ever, I mean, you know, in Toronto,
there, gosh, the church street, they would shut it down, right, for Halloween. And it was just the best viewing you've ever seen in your life.
And would you just walk down the street just to check it out?
Oh, yeah, that's what we did for years, where it was just like you would just cruise down
and just, oh, gosh, and guys would do drag. And it was just phenomenal? Oh, yeah. That's what we did for years, where it was just like you would just cruise down and just, oh, gosh.
And guys would do drag.
And it was just phenomenal.
There's nothing.
There's no equivalent.
And I live in West Hollywood in Los Angeles.
And they do the same thing.
They shut the street down.
And it's just fabulous viewing.
See, I feel like I should go to Hollywood for Halloween one year.
Because everybody there would know
a costume designer
or somebody
from a,
That's what I mean,
it's a brilliant costume.
Like crazy,
like the climate
is good for sure.
Yeah,
exactly.
Absolutely.
I'm shirtless predator,
I'm shirtless alien.
In Toronto,
you'd be shirtless
but you have to have
a jacket over top.
You know what I mean?
And just open your shirt
every time you get to a door.
Yeah,
I always hated that.
Just show,
right?
Open it when you get to the door.
Or like the costume, you're like're like you know tarzan or someone who's barefoot yeah well i'm tarzan but you know he's sensible yeah moon boot oh my gosh but yeah there's no
equivalent kind of street where you can just go and see people's costumes. Which I think,
like,
I always,
when Comic-Con happens,
I always go through
all the photos of costumes
just to see
people's ingenuity.
that's what I'm saying.
Were there any Harley Quinns
this year?
Did anyone think of that?
You should tell people.
Try that one out.
I've gone to the Halloween store
a few times
just to see what's,
you know,
what's this year.
Is that a store or is it multiple stores?
Multiple stores.
We went to one in Edmonton.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And there's a string of stores out here called the spirit of Halloween.
Right.
And they're just did these pop-up shops.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
And then they're like,
they are gone,
like completely packed up.
And it's like, it never happened on November 1st.
Yeah, exactly.
Goodbye.
But yeah, that Harley Quinn is all over.
That's the costume, I assume.
I'm just very impressed when someone is like, I'm going to take all this time and all this money and build a costume.
Like a really beautiful costume.
I'm like, wow, better person than me.
Yeah.
But then you have to have somewhere to go.
Yes.
Yeah.
Or somewhere to parade.
Yeah.
Somewhere to promenade.
And if you're indoors the whole time,
a lot of times these Halloween costumes,
hot.
Yeah.
Hot.
And if you're out of the house for a long time
at like a Comic-Con,
you're wearing your Japanese robot costume,
but you have a backpack.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
A purse.
I remember one year when I was in college,
my,
me and my roommates went to a,
um,
like a James Bond theme,
uh,
Halloween.
Okay.
Yeah.
And we went,
my roommate,
Sarah went as the James Bond girl.
So she basically was wearing,
you know,
a bra and undies and she just draped herself in a sheet.
And we were all like,
is this a good idea
is this a good idea and then she somehow got separated from we couldn't find her four o'clock
in the morning she came home i was like this is we we escaped some real trouble there i mean like i
don't know how we did it but that was it was the 90s saturdays better days. A James Bond themed, I mean, noted woman abuser James Bond.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
If you have a James Bond themed party, it's just like you're thinking, oh, let's invite
women and they won't wear much.
That's exactly it.
Yeah.
You might wear a bikini with a belt.
And every guy will wear a tuxedo, basically.
Gold paint.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A lot of people want his villains.
Really?
Yeah.
That surprises me.
Right?
Yeah. When you think that just everyone was going to be James Bond. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people want his villains. Really? Yeah. That surprises me. Right? Yeah.
Wouldn't you think that just everyone was going to be James Bond?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It seems like a real missed opportunity if you show up as Jaws.
Yeah.
I'm skiing James Bond.
Oh, yeah.
I would have gone as Pierce Brosnan.
Just Pierce Brosnan?
Just Pierce.
Him at home?
Yeah.
I'm, yeah.
In his jammies.
I'm Remington Steele
oh my gosh
I'm Thomas Crown
we're having a
Brosnan themed
costume
we're all basically
the same
I'm Brosnan from
Mrs. Doubtfire
oh my
and it's just like
a lime
hitting my head
oh
please be that
for Halloween
will you
in a Hawaiian shirt
with a lime
stuck to your head
drive by fruiting
oh man that's uh uh I've never seen anybody go as Mrs. Doubtfire Who are you? In a Hawaiian shirt with a lime stuck to your head? Drive-by fruiting.
Oh, man.
I've never seen anybody go as Miss Doubtfire.
That's surprising because that's like one that you would recognize.
Yeah, right away.
I mean, there's a lot of just like old lady.
Old lady.
Yeah, I guess, but she had a very specific.
I remember one year for the Halloween dance at school.
I didn't want to go.
And then the last minute, I was like, okay, I'll go. And I was like,
I didn't have a costume,
so I'll just be an old man
and I'll, you know,
I'll make my hair white
and I'll wear old man clothes.
Yeah.
And it was,
what I chose to use to whiten my hair
was flour.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
Which is not a good term.
It turns into gum
if it gets wet.
It turns into just a into just like an extra scalp
and i just had dandruff for months but it was edible yeah just turns into like bread basically
yeah wow wow i uh yeah i've done unleavened unleavened i when i was living downtown once
i just at the last kind of the 11th hour uh friend
of mine said oh you know there's this party happening so i took a beer box and used the
where you put your hand as the see where you'd see through it just wrapped in tinfoil and put
two of those burner covers on the side and then wore a black turtleneck and a jacket i was like
i do not know what i am and then i showed up at the party and then wore a black turtleneck and a jacket and i was like i do not know what i am
and then i showed up at the party and immediately somebody was like 70s robot and i was like
there we go thank you for answering my question you really saved the day man
so yeah have you ever done that where you didn't no no i did well i think angel was always my go-to
because that was so easy do Do you know what I mean?
Like it was just, you know, make some wings and get some tinsel, make a little situation.
That was easy.
Halo wings, white shirt, boom.
Yeah.
I don't think I ever saw any boy angels.
Always girls.
Yeah.
Just as the angels.
And never like a boy angel.
I think of like a cherub.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A little diaper.
Yeah.
Diaper.
That's where I went to. I mean, they went
shirtless. Yeah. What? That's
because you're living in the West. That's because I live
in West Hollywood. Sexy cherub. Yeah.
Although I also too, I don't think I ever did the
sexy costumes. I always did more like
interesting, creative kind of costumes. Yeah.
It was never like sexy cat. You know, it was
always. Yeah, I never did sexy either.
Sexy old man.
I would do a frumpy fireman yeah yeah i'm the
fire the fireman that answers the phone yeah i'm the one who cooks for everybody i'm just walking
around a big chili pot yeah hot chili i feel like the the uh you know people don't like that women
will do this and just be like i'm a sexy whatever sexy you know Harambe Harambe yeah sure
and it's just like
the smallest costume
but with you know
cat ears
yes
but it's easy
like
there are more
women who can do that
than I think men
because like
there aren't that many
like to do that
as a man
you have to
basically just have
like a six pack
and yeah
yeah you have to be
in incredible shape.
Yeah.
Even a Tarzan,
you need that huge, around
the midsection kind of
loincloth thing if you're not
in the greatest shape of your life.
One-sleeve Tarzan.
But everyone, I think,
they get mad at girls for doing that.
I'm just like, let them have their one night
I mean seriously
unless you live in California
it's girl Christmas
it is
it's girl Christmas
they love it
they
those
you know those girls
but I think it's like
why not
who cares
like honestly
especially if you don't live in California
you always have to have clothes on
so go for it ladies
you know what
yeah
wear a bikini
with a monster mask I don't give a shit well you don't see, ladies. You know what? Yeah. Wear a bikini with a monster mask.
I don't give a shit.
Well, you don't see a lot of that.
You don't see a lot of bikini and then a monster mask.
Although that would be pretty awesome.
I would do that.
Why not do that?
That's funny.
Like do a creepy clown face and a bikini.
Yeah.
That just weirds everybody out.
They're like, do I like this?
Have you been seeing those retaliation videos against the clowns that have just been cruising around?
I mean, someone's going to get killed've just been cruising around. I mean,
someone's going to get killed
like that.
Seriously.
I thought somebody did get killed
in Sweden or something.
Oh my gosh.
Wow.
Well, you know what?
You come at me.
I was like, fine.
I'm not joking.
Me too.
I'm a little like sort of good
because here's the thing.
You come at me
in a creepy clown costume.
Yeah, I can't promise you
what my reaction is going to be.
If I stab you in the throat
over and over again,
that's what happens.
But these creepy clowns, this is the one time of year they can do it.
They love it.
They love it.
Why would you want to do it? I don't understand people.
Yeah, I did.
I saw a big video of a bunch of fraternity guys all screaming that they were going to hunt down these.
And I was like, what's the frat guys get on board with?
Oh, that's it.
Now we're in trouble.
I missed the first day that this was news. And so it just took off without me. And I'm like, I haven't caught up. I don't, what's the frat guys get on board with? Oh, that's it. Now we're in trouble. I missed the first day that this was news.
And so it just took off without me.
And I'm like, I haven't caught up.
I don't know what the big deal is.
Some people are clowns.
I don't know where it started, though.
Like, I feel like it was like, I feel like I've seen a lot from Australia and from all over the world rather than in like North America.
It started as a viral campaign for this.
It. Oh, really? That's what I think. And then I think it spun out of control. It started as a viral campaign for this it reboot.
Oh, really?
That's what I think.
And then I think it spun out of control.
Way out of control.
Because it's mostly teenagers, I imagine, that are like, let's go.
I imagine a lot of teenagers, too.
But are they just like, because if they're just standing there and they scare you, but
if they are really, if they chase a woman alone in a parking lot, you can't do that.
I don't think they're chasing anything.
I think they're standing and trying to creep people out.
Yeah, yeah.
And think back to when you were a teenager and how bored you were.
If you heard that you could go scare people by just standing.
By doing nothing?
Yeah.
I would have been one of the clown people.
Would you?
Until I heard about this retaliation.
They'd be like, I disavow the clown.
Seriously,
breaking bottles over clowns' heads and stuff,
it's not good. It's a great time to be alive.
Could you
have imagined that this would be the year that
this is all happening in real life?
No. Clowns overtaking
the countryside.
People fighting back.
It's ridiculous. Our world is mean, were you afraid of clowns
even as a kid?
I don't ever remember
actively being afraid of clowns.
It's become quite trendy
to be afraid of them.
I don't remember being,
but I don't also remember
having any clowns in my life.
I don't remember ever
seeing clowns.
I never went to a circus.
I had a few clown uncles.
I never had a birthday party
with clowns.
I don't ever remember
that being a part of it.
They were never around. No. So then I think I only got the scary, with clowns. Like I don't, I don't ever remember that being a part of it. They were never around.
No.
So then I think
I only got like
the scary,
creepy clowns,
but that was like later,
much,
much later,
like teenagers
watching horror movies
kind of thing.
Yeah.
I don't,
like I definitely
was afraid of clowns.
I got over it
last summer.
I went,
I went to deep clown
immersion and got,
I'm not afraid of clowns anymore.
He went on a date with two clowns. He went on a date with two clowns.
Went on a date with two clowns.
Deep clown immersion.
Not as deep as he would have liked.
Honk, honk.
But yeah, I don't know where most people are getting their fear of.
Oh, I think it's just like.
Just because there's more scary clowns now than ever before.
Yeah, I mean.
Well, at those Halloween stores, it is a.
It's scary.
It's the popular mask is scary clown.
But I think any mask is scary.
I don't want anyone.
And like, you know, covering up your face, I think is, that's what's scary.
It's like, you're not, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
I want to be able to see someone's eyes.
And I think that.
I remember that they would always, there would be a news story.
It hasn't happened yet.
news story it hasn't happened yet but uh of presidential candidates and whoever's mask sells better would win the uh election statistically but there's no way anyone like
trump's got to be destroying clinton in terms of mass in mass popularity yeah there's not even 100
yeah oh god i i don't know that i've Hillary mask. I think they even count some of those scary clown ones as Trump.
He's the basis.
He's the mold.
But the weird thing, because I think the scary clown thing only happened because clowns were
so the picture of innocence that making them scary was so twisted.
Yeah, that was like, look what we've done here.
And now it's like, okay. Yeah, yeah. You know so twisted. Yeah, that was like, look what we've done here. and now it's like,
okay,
you know,
scary.
Yeah.
You know what I find?
Like,
now they do those
like in horror movies
in the,
like the purge
and stuff
like where they're,
the masks are like
nothing now.
They're like expressionless.
Yeah.
Like they're just,
just white.
Yeah.
Just with eye holes
and that seems kind of creepy too.
Yeah,
because white circle
is supposed to be
the nicest thing around. I would make an angel seems kind of creepy, too. Yeah, because white circle is supposed to be the nicest thing around.
I would make an angel costume out of a white circle.
Oh, a scary angel?
That would be scary.
Like Chris Angel.
That would be quite the mind freak.
Dave, you just mind freak me.
He's terrifying.
He's terrifying.
Like, seriously.
Awful.
Do you ever, because you're living so close, do you ever go to Vegas?
Do you ever go see any of these?
I've only been to Vegas once in my life.
Yeah.
I do, I will not say that I don't like magic because good magic is excellent.
If you've ever seen like someone that's really good at sleight of hand, it's super impressive.
You do feel like a kid again.
Oh, yeah.
I'm telling you.
Okay.
Do you know the club in Edmonton, the comic strip?
Mm-hmm.
Years ago, they used to, on Saturday nights, they would bring in sleight-of-hand comics.
Excuse me, sleight-of-hand magicians.
Yeah.
To entertain the crowd between shows.
I like the idea of a sleight-of-hand comic.
I know, right?
Where's the punchline?
Nice work.
But, yeah, and they did that just to warm you know, warm up the crowd kind of thing.
But they like brought in really terrific magicians.
And I remember one of the guys did a trick on me and I was just, okay.
And I'm telling you, the card was in my back pocket.
And let me say this to you.
No one touched me.
Trust me.
I would have known if someone slid a card into my back pocket.
It did not happen.
I was, I was upset and tormented for days.
Like, seriously.
It was amazing.
I was, I was freaked out.
There's, no.
I had one once.
No, it did not.
It was great.
It was really good.
Wow.
We had a work party once and there was a magician that like, it was in this restaurant and a magician
just came to the table and, uh, he did some
card tricks and stuff.
And then he came up to me and put his, uh, he
gave me a ball and he's like, squeeze this ball.
And I'm squeezing it.
And he's like, no, he held my wrist.
Just, Oh, I want to hold you steady here.
So just make sure you squeeze the ball as hard
as you can.
And it was obvious what he was doing later, I realized.
And he took off my watch.
Yeah, yeah.
And then showed it to everyone.
And ha-ha.
Ha-ha.
And then later, like a year later, I was in the same restaurant.
And he was back.
And I saw him do the same thing to someone.
Oh, wow.
Like seeing it.
I was like, how did I not see this coming?
But everyone at the table
didn't see it
no yeah
because it was all
everybody was looking
at your
this
at my ball
distraction
yes
but yeah
so good sleight of hand
I'm good with
but any other
kind of magic
scary magic
yeah
no just you know
what if there was
a magician out in the woods
to stare at you
that would be scary
there is
like they do
that kind of like
I'm flossing my throat.
Oh, yeah.
It's like,
look how gross everything is.
Gross, gross.
But I don't,
I don't,
I don't love Vegas.
Vegas is not really
up my alley.
No, no, no,
it's really not.
You're a West Hollywood girl
for life.
You know what I mean?
But I just,
I don't know.
I've always considered you
the material girl.
Yeah.
I will play slots
like a champion,
though, I'm not going to lie. Yeah. I will play slots like a champion, though.
I'm not going to lie.
Oh, yeah.
So that's the only thing I would want to do.
Do you have a favorite game?
Ghostbusters game?
Well, there was.
I remember.
I remember.
Oh, my gosh.
It was called.
What was it called?
Oh, please.
I was at the Halifax Comedy Festival with Darcy Michael and Ryan Belville.
Uh-huh.
Oh, Jackpot Party.
Listen to me.
We played Jackpot Party for hours.
It was so fun. Because do like the little like bonuses.
And it was also the company.
I was with Ryan Bevel, one of the funnest people in the world.
So fun.
And so that was like, I don't think I've ever.
That was just a super fun time.
What's it called?
Jackpot party?
Jackpot party.
And it was super great.
But, you know, I have friends that live in Las Vegas now, which is like.
Yeah. So that's strange. But they are gamblers. but you know I have I mean I have friends that live in Las Vegas now which is like yeah
so that's strange
but they are gamblers
but they're gamblers
and drinkers
and
that's
your friends
yeah
your friends
yeah
your friend
the late
Rene Angeli
Celine Dion
Celine Dion
yeah
and
but yeah
and I
yeah
but that doesn't
like slots
but I don't
I don't want to gamble
I don't want to give away my money
I just don't
that's not
I'm not interested
you worked hard for that buddy
I worked hard
for the money
that's a Madonna song
so hard for it honey
um
yeah
so I don't
and you know and again
I don't drink
so it's like it's not
yeah
I don't need you know
going in
free drinks
I'm like ugh
nothing
doesn't mean that much to me
yeah
pour it in a plant
yeah
yeah
pour a plant but yeah poor plant but
yeah so um dave what's going on with you man oh boy oh uh nothing no nothing carved a pumpkin
yeah that's yeah that's fun listen to the monster mash on repeat while we did it oh my gosh
it's a it holds up it does because we listened to the three i listened to that like six or seven
times and then i was like i'm gonna add some songs to the mix. Add Ghostbusters.
Yeah.
And Thriller.
Yeah.
And that's really all.
Yeah, that's it.
There's Werewolves of London.
Oh, sure.
Sure.
But yeah, nothing holds up to.
No, Monster Mash is the shit.
It's the song.
Yeah.
And it's such a weird, like that he sings in that crazy voice.
Uh-huh.
And that there was a band, but it wasn't really a band and they were called the
Krip Kickers. Krip Kicker 5. Yeah.
And then there's a
you know, apparently in this world there used
to be a song called the Transylvania
Twist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right.
And he's mourning the passing of it. Whatever happened to it.
So who sang it though?
Boris Bobby Pickett. Yeah. Oh.
Bobby Boris Pickett. Yeah. And this
song kept coming out as a single every Halloween.
Yeah.
So it's been on the Billboard charts more than any other song.
Oh, so I hope he's super rich.
I think he's fine.
He's probably super dead.
I hope his family's rich then.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think he does.
I think the Picketts are doing fine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I hope.
Yeah, I don't know.
And the other thing that's going on with me is I suddenly got a cold overnight.
Don't know.
Because we have this stuffed animal.
His name's Flat Eric.
He was featured in some Levi's commercials.
Oh, no.
And a Mr. Wazo music video.
Yeah.
And he's a yellow fuzzy guy with long limbs.
Yeah.
And so I thought it would be funny to wrap his legs around the back of my head
and pretend I was human centipeding him.
Oh, no.
And then Abby didn't notice.
She was on the other side of the room.
So I'm just standing like holding him there for like 30 seconds
by the time she looks up I have
like a tickle in my throat
oh no
flat Eric gave you a virus
I inhaled some
some sort of
like a pathogen
it's a weird one of those colds where you can
you just feel it
there may not have even been a virus
it's just like
we mechanically
made a virus in you
yeah yeah yeah
we found an opening
and we took it
yeah you know
you can just feel
like sinking into you
where you're just like
oh I'm gonna
and it just
it's like
it's like filling
your body with sand
or something
it's like
because my throat
got scratchy
my nose was like
I guess I'm gonna run now
oh my god
I might just be
an allergy or something yeah I mean breathing in a a dusty yeah that could be it was that just yesterday or today
that's maybe two days ago okay well maybe it isn't i don't know but yeah like you sometimes
your body's right on the edge too of uh like getting sick and then it just takes that one
little you know walking home in the rain
and then you're like oh great here we go yeah and yeah so uh yeah that's it and also like listening
i have headphones on right now and it's this i sound you sound underwater both of you oh no
um oh boy i've been sick all week that's been week. That's been my whole adventure.
Oh, why don't you suck on a...
Suck on a flatter.
Suck on a scruffy.
Oh.
But, yeah, it was one of these things.
It was creeping up, and then I just gave into it.
I was like, eh.
You're like, fine, I'll be sick.
Let's do this.
Yeah, I'll just stay in bed, and I'll watch Friends again.
What?
Oh, my God.
They didn't want to watch anything that took any brain power at all so like it has to be something i've seen before yeah oh yeah i know i totally get that where it's just
like i don't really want to focus totally i just need some kind of noise in the room and yeah
although i noticed uh watching that show that uh joey really they he has an arc where he becomes
that show that Joey really he has an arc
where he becomes very stupid.
Oh yeah. Like he starts out a little
bit stupid. Yeah but he becomes like
incapacitated. Yeah. And Phoebe
becomes mean. Yes. Did you
notice that? Yeah. She was all lovey dovey and
hippy dippy and then she becomes like
quaint. Yeah she becomes. And I hated
what they did to Ross too. I'm apparently passionate
about this. Yeah yeah yeah. What did they do to Ross?
But no they made Ross a buffoon.
Yeah, he became like completely a wackadoo.
Oh, yeah, like the person you'd never want to date.
When it was the beginning, Ross and Rachel, you're like, oh, they're together.
And then after, it's like, no, awful.
Yeah.
He became like repugnant, like really yucky.
But yeah, it was weird that there's like some shows do that where it's like a character's a little bit
of something
and then just over the course
of it the writers are like
we'll just make them
everything that they do
is dumb
I mean I loved Friends
but I have to
I did
I have not still
to this date
watched the last
last season
oh I
you couldn't take it
you'd be a wreck
by the end
would I be a wreck
I did watch the last episode
and cried like a child.
But,
the,
I stopped,
they should have stopped it
after Monica and Chandler
got married.
Yeah.
It's actually been
the last episode,
their wedding,
goodbye,
thank you very much.
Right?
Yeah.
And I think they did
two seasons after that?
Yeah,
boo.
But yeah,
it was,
so I watched that
and then I watched
the last night,
I didn't watch all of it,
but I watched a good chunk of Three Men and a Baby.
Okay.
Oh, my.
Why?
Where?
This was at Alicia's place.
It was on TV.
Okay.
And okay.
So I have not seen that movie since it was the one movie we got to see a week.
And I remember being so mad. And you had to see it every week.
Yeah.
That was.
Yeah, exactly.
It was the pick of that year
but
it's okay
it is a wafer
thin premise
that
oh boy
so it's Ted Danson
yeah
Steve Guttenberg
yeah
and
Tom Selleck
Tom Selleck
I forgot
yeah
they could have
oh magnum
they could have
done it with any three
like you could have
you could have been
you know
John Ritter
Tom Skerritt
and Harrison Ford
yeah
like
absolutely
it could have been
any three dudes
let's reboot it
let's reboot it
oh John Ritter
and they
and a baby is
shows up on their
doorstep
it belongs
I think
oh they don't know
well it belongs
to Ted
Danston's character who's out
of town for a good chunk of the movie so uh steve gutenberg and uh uh tom selleck have to take care
of the baby so really it's two men and a baby for a good portion of the movie and also the whole
thing is him holding up a baby and the diapers falling off. That's the whole movie. That is the entire plot is that diapering a baby is impossible for two dudes.
Like it's two dudes,
one of whom is an architect.
So a guy who understands spatial reasoning very well.
Can't do it.
He can't do it.
And it's totally,
it's like the most eighties occupation.
He's a,
an architect.
Oh,
can I guess what the other 80s occupations are?
Someone makes like pastel colored neon signs.
Oh my, yes.
And the other one runs a 50s style diner.
Yeah, exactly.
You ran an animator, wasn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah, I got it.
Ted Dance is an actor.
Oh, okay.
And yeah, Steve Gutberg's like an animator.
He's an artist. Like a graphic artist of some sort yeah and they all live together in this crazy giant law we did in the 80s we were crazy then it was crazy it's
crazy there were three guys and they're there he's got a painting of the three of them like on the
in the atrium of their uh their apartment but it's just like can two guys handle a baby? No,
they can't.
Can three?
Yes.
Yeah.
Three is the magic number of guys.
I,
I mean,
I told a story on the last episode about forgetting to put a diaper on my
baby,
but I've never botched it.
Like it's never fallen off.
Well,
I forgotten though.
That's a terrible moment.
Or like,
you know,
tried to wrap them in a,
you know,
a sandwich wrap or something like that.
Like,
I used to babysit a lot.
That was always the go-to gig.
Um,
and first of all,
you know,
how much babysitters make now?
No,
I have tons of money.
Really?
I'm not kidding.
I can think it's 20 bucks an hour.
Now I had,
I had a solid gig.
Yeah. Yeah. And when I was in grade nine and I did Friday kidding. I think it's 20 bucks an hour now. What? I had a solid gig. Yeah.
Yeah.
And when I was in grade nine and I did Friday nights and I would go after school and then
they would.
Every Friday.
Every Friday night.
I would go after school.
Well, me and my sister would switch off.
We'd go back.
You were twins.
So they couldn't tell the difference.
They had no idea.
Yeah.
And, but we would go right after school and then they, the husband would drive us off
at maybe like 11 o'clock or 12 o'clock. And he was always drunk.
I remember that now.
I remember now.
I was like, oh, yeah, he was loaded and shouldn't have been driving.
But whatever.
So we went home.
And I'm not kidding.
Seatbelts didn't exist.
Four o'clock until about 12 o'clock.
And I am not lying.
I got $7.
What?
For the whole night?
And I was thrilled to get it.
And we were just like, yeah!
That was great.
And now I think four until midnight is,
I think one 75.
Jeez.
Like,
I'm not kidding.
Like you can't,
you can't,
yeah,
you can't even afford to go.
It's,
it's so expensive,
but I remember this once I did,
I babysat for a family during the summer.
And it was like,
it was a nine to five gig.
Like I would go in every day and babysit.
Oh wow.
And I remember once after the summer was done,
I was just doing a night,
a Saturday night or whatever. And they'd had a new baby and I showed up to the
house and they were just, they were, they couldn't get out fast enough.
And I was like, what's going on?
Cause usually we would hang out.
I was friends with them and I'm like, okay.
I was maybe 15 at this point.
I'm like, okay.
I'm like, we gotta go.
Yeah.
Everything's fine.
Bye.
I was like, okay.
And then I went into the baby's room and the baby was sitting and it's, what is it? A crib. What's that? Yeah. Is that what it is? I love it. That's it. Immediately. That's fine. Bye. I was like, okay. And then I went into the baby's room and the baby was sitting in its,
what is it?
A crib?
What's that?
Immediately.
And it was covered in green shit.
And I ran to the door and was like,
come back.
And like,
I could see them in the car.
And I was,
I couldn't,
and the baby had its hands down its diaper and was throwing the
poo and was cramming it.
It was in nostrils.
It was in ear holes.
It was just a green baby.
And I phoned my mother and I said, I can't do this.
Get over here right now.
You have to do it.
I was like, I wouldn't do it.
I made my mother come over and help me.
Oh, wow.
I couldn't even touch the child.
It was painted in green poo. Oh, man. Well couldn't even touch the child. It was painted in green poop.
Oh, man.
Does that ever happen?
Tom Selleck in there.
There have been gag moments.
He would have known what to do.
No, she would know.
But there have been diaper explosions, but she's never participated in the spread.
This was like a joyous.
It was like finding Slimer.
It was literally finding Slimer. It was literally finding Slimer.
Good luck with baby Slimer.
And then I was like, I see what you've done here.
You left it to the 15-year-old girl who's going to get $10.
$10.
We give Margos to this sort of child care thing, these classes.
And one of the rules is they must be delivered in a clean diaper.
Ah,
yeah.
Yeah.
I remember babysitting this one family that didn't have TV,
but they did have movies.
They had all these VHS movies.
Okay.
So we would watch the, stare at the VCR.
Yeah,
yeah,
exactly.
They,
they didn't have a cable.
They had a TV,
but I remember watching the kids movies with the movies with the kids and putting them to bed.
And the only movie that wasn't a kids' movie was Bridge Over the River Kwai.
Well, the parents will be away for the next four hours.
I guess I'll tuck into this.
Oh, my gosh.
Awful.
Yeah, it was so bad.
Yeah, that's like.
Well, I mean, for a kid.
Yeah.
Sure, it's fine. Now, fine. Exactly. My goodness. that's like... Well, I mean, for a kid. Yeah. Like, sure, it's fine.
Now, fine, exactly.
Yeah, yeah.
My goodness, man.
Same writer as Planet of the Apes.
Really?
Yeah.
Pierre Boulle.
Mmm.
The inventor of the ball.
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Overheard. Overheard. It's a segment in which we overhear things out there.
Now, Graham, before we get going, I meant to bring this up in the first segment,
but when I carved a turkey, I mean pumpkin,
carved a pumpkin into a turkey,
I haven't done it in years.
Oh.
Carving a pumpkin.
Yeah, yeah.
And we took all the seeds out, and we we had pumpkin seeds and we roasted them and stuff.
Can you eat pumpkin seeds?
Yes.
Okay, you're fine.
Yeah, yeah.
Because you, Graham has every nut allergy.
Yeah, I'm allergic to all the nuts.
And I think that that's maybe the closest thing you can get to a nut that you can probably eat.
Yeah, and that was always like a big treat at Halloween.
Oh,
I love that.
Resting the pumpkins
with a little salt.
Salting them?
Oh,
dude,
yeah,
that was good.
Yeah.
Good times.
We did that.
We ate them in bed
last night.
Yeah.
Oh,
sweet.
So fun.
They're like,
because you,
there's nothing to,
like,
yeah,
throw away.
You do end up with
a bunch of crap
in your mouth.
Detritus.
Oh,
yeah,
yeah,
in your teeth,
big time.
That's why the pumpkins have such big gaps
between the teeth okay so let's go back to your nut allergy like cashews yeah cashews are
cashews can't have a cashew can't have a you know brazil nut oh uh what about a macadamia
what about an almond milk uh no i should stay away from the almond milk. That's a shame.
Of the world.
Pistachios.
Pistachios can't happen.
Dude, dude.
Green pistachios, white pistachios, red pistachios.
I will eat more of them for you.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah, have a bag of pistachios. I'm gonna.
You know what's weird?
That pistachio company that advertises with all the celebrities.
Yes.
How much money do they have?
Apparently millions of dollars.
Yeah.
Because it's not like,
oh, that person used to be famous.
Like they have like famous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I can't think of the name of the company though.
Can you?
Wonderful.
It's wonderful.
It's the same company that makes Palm Wonderful.
Oh, seriously?
Oh, they have tons of money.
Then they have tons of money.
I think.
God bless them.
Yeah.
Okay. Can we talk about the fact that people are now, like there's overheard LA and how
mad I am that they've stolen your idea?
Oh.
I've already wrote, I wrote you about that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm enraged.
But, you know, we don't own this.
Yeah.
But I don't care.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It makes me mad.
Oh, overheard New York existed before we did.
Oh, did it?
I think so, yeah.
Did it?
Right.
But we didn't take it from there.
But, you know, the concept of overhearing
a thing. But, you know, I'm very loyal.
This is something you need to know
about me. I will punch you out.
Like, don't you? I'm like, don't mess with my friends!
I was always, I was that
kid, and I'm still that woman.
Good for you! That's a good person
to be!
Now, we always like to start the overheard segment with the guest.
Did you come prepared?
Did you come packing?
Yeah, I did.
This happened a while ago, but I've kept it in my pocket.
The best thing, oh, God, beside a first date.
It's a goldmine.
Like, beside a first date?
Like, come on.
Yeah.
And the question, he was, yeah,
it is a goldmine. Right.
And he was trying,
he was trying.
I was very impressed with him.
And he asked her what Hogwarts house she'd be in.
Oh,
that's a good fun date question.
Right.
And I was like,
and I was,
you know,
I was thinking,
ask me,
ask me.
Cause I,
that's my problem with eavesdropping.
I always want to join in the conversation.
And,
and then she sent it through the waiter. Could you tell them that I said, send them a, ask me, because that's my problem with eavesdropping, I always want to join in the conversation. And then she says,
You send it through the waiter?
Yes,
I'm just saying.
Could you tell them
that I said,
send them,
you know,
this big Romulan ale.
But then she just
said to him this,
he was like,
so what Hogwarts
house would you be?
And she goes,
yeah,
I don't want to
talk about that.
And that was it.
Like it was like
Harry Potter
had like killed
her mother or something.
He was trying
to make it a fun.
Yes,
and she was like, I don't want to talk about it trying to make it a fun. Yes. And she was like,
I don't want to,
I don't want to.
I'm not a Buzzfeed.
Yeah.
She's really,
but she really like,
and then he was like,
oh,
and then they sat in silence.
Good.
Right.
And that you deserve that young girl.
Maybe you'll never have another date forever.
I remember going years ago on a double date with,
uh,
the girlfriend's friend, her boyfriend. So I didn't know these people. I was trying years ago on a double date with the girlfriend's friend and her boyfriend.
So I didn't know these people.
And I was trying to make, like, we went bowling, right?
And so I thought, oh, we'll do a fun, well, you know, the names, when we pick our names,
we'll all be a favorite character from Gilligan's Island.
And this girl was like, what's Gilligan's Island?
And I was like, oh, God almighty.
And you're like, how long is this evening going to be?
Yeah, yeah.
Get me out of here.
And it was.
She was like, we then have TV growing up.
I'm like, but you have it now, right?
They didn't have a single luxury.
Oh, my gosh.
Who would you have been?
Who did you want to be?
Gilligan.
Oh, Gilligan.
Gilligan.
I would maybe have been Lovey.
Yeah.
Or Ginger.
I liked her, too.
Yeah, she was.
Anyway.
She was great.
Who would I be? Who would you be, Dave? You'd be the professor, totally. There aren her too. Yeah, she was... Anyway. She was great. Who would I be?
Who would you be, Dave?
You'd be the professor, totally.
There aren't too many choices.
No, there's not.
There's only six.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I would rather be the millionaire.
Would you?
Well, yeah.
Millionaire and his wife.
That was the...
I mean, of course,
there are a lot of logic flaws in that show.
Yeah.
But why a millionaire and a movie star
would both go on a... Tiny boat. A tiny boat. Yeah. But I guess that's... You don't become a millionaire and a movie star would both go on a tiny boat
a tiny boat
yeah
but I guess that's
you don't become a millionaire
by taking out your own boat
right
all the time
and I wouldn't want to be
the professor
because he is technically
the rest
yes
I know
and Marianne
sometimes Marianne got it
but not always
and then
yeah
she can get it
oh she can get it
Marianne yes she can
always wearing a
midriff bearing top.
Yeah.
But I guess it was hot.
It was an island.
Yeah.
And Ginger brought her entire wardrobe.
Okay, we can go on.
Yeah, this is a new comedy premise.
What were the other 80s jobs?
Okay, so overheards.
Yeah, Dave.
Do you have an overheard?
Lawyer with a car phone.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
Lots of lawyers.
Wall Street guy.
Just like a broker.
My overheard is also a date but a um it's sort of a cheaper date i think these were two people who met
uh they met on tinder i'm guessing okay and just but just to like hang out in a park
and see where it goes they were they were they were hanging out on the swings
adult people
which is like
a fun
manic pixie dream girl
thing
so we all meet cute
exactly
but
if you do this at
10 in the morning
on a Saturday
you're in the way
of children
yeah children
want to actually
be on those swings
so I
I was pushing my child
literally next to them
because they were in the big kids swings.
Barg is still in the little kids swings.
Where it's like the little sumo.
Yes, with that little
rattle thing that comes down, the little bar
that you're rattled on. Oh, no, not that one.
Just the rubber diaper.
Yeah, but you remember that.
I don't remember that at all.
It kept you in that bar. It was a bar that went across the chains and then lowered down onto your lap.
Oh, geez.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I'm standing next to these people.
And, like, I was sort of, this is on me, I guess, for assuming that she was going to be the cutesy one who was like, let's sit on the swings.
Right. But it was him. for assuming that she was going to be the cutesy one who was like, let's sit on the swings.
Right.
But it was him.
He had this backpack on that had a little teddy bear on it.
Oh.
And he said, oh, my friends make fun of me because I name everything.
I call my stuffed bear Barry.
I called my finger cast Reggie.
Oh, my God.
His finger cast?
Yeah.
Reggie. I assumed that he was going to be a guy who was just like,
he was barely naming them.
Like,
Barry.
Fingery.
Fingery.
Yeah.
Fingy.
Casto.
And then later they were talking about how,
you know,
he's going later in the day to see his friend at a coffee shop and she's
doing something.
And then the next day he's going to Portland.
And she was like, Oh oh they have an Instagram for Portland
oh
oh no
they sure do
wait a minute am I dating my aunt
oh
amazing
oh I've heard they have an Instagram
Portland has an Instagram now
mine was uh
so this this whole week or i guess this past weekend uh was supposed to be the storm of the
century oh yeah yes so it was supposed to be uh and it was i mean it was very blustery uh a couple
a couple of days ago and i was on a bus that got hit by a falling branch. Ah! Not a big branch.
A big branch?
Big branch, yeah.
Stop the bus?
I want to get off?
Stop the bus
and knock the
crazy things off.
Oh, the trolley wires?
Yeah, the trolley wires
and, uh,
uh,
but the bus driver
had a,
he just came on
the little intercom
and all he said was
Mother Nature
and then he went out
and did a fix
the thing yeah
so he wasn't like this will be a minute no it was other nature that's it that's nice i like that
yeah and uh like the branch hit and then bounced off so he didn't have to get the branch off but
it was yeah and i hope you're all spooked yeah and he had to like go out into the into the bluster
into the bluster into where there's falling branches there's a lot of times
I wish I could get out
and help the
bus driver
do that thing
but I think there's
probably protocols
that don't allow
passengers to go out
and help
yeah
because they have to
put the things
back on the wire
oh yeah yeah
yeah there's things like
if you die
they're in big trouble
yeah yeah
there's certain things
you can do that you're like
I'm trying to be more
helpful and more polite
that are like getting in the way yeah or like if you if you get pulled over can do that you're like, I'm trying to be more helpful and more polite that are, are like getting in the way.
Yeah.
Or like if you,
if you get pulled over by the police,
you're like,
you know what?
I'll just get out of the car and greet them.
No,
don't.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
And so before you put a,
before you do CPR on this guy,
I'll put chapstick on him.
Oh yeah.
That's nice.
Yeah.
That's nice.
I'm just trying to be nice.
Yeah.
What is that? Blackberry? Yeah, it's a blackberry. Um, that's nice. I'm just trying to be nice. Yeah. What is that?
Blackberry?
Yeah, this is blackberry.
Sorry, I have to look up.
Because we also have overheards that have been written into us.
Oh, good for that.
If you want to send one in to us, you can send it in to spy at maximumfun.org.
And this first one comes from Amit.
A-M-I-T. Amit. Yeah, Amit. Amit first one comes from Amit. A-M-I-T?
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asked the other does baja mean chicken oh that's sad oh it's like chicken pollo okay all right but
still but it's meatless yeah it is meatless, it is meatless. It's the meatless day.
It's the meatless cute.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Duh-ba-da-duh-ba-da.
This next one comes from Christy, also from Vancouver.
This is people on a date.
Yep.
An awkward two guys.
Two guys on a date.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Yeah, yeah. Don't do is it halloween
already is it them uh the first guy is obviously carrying the bulk of the conversation and is
desperately trying to come up with something to say man one so uh what's your favorite movie
man two complete silence and look of bafflement and then man one says hmm blade three for sure oh my god
the one with ryan reynolds yeah keep moving i don't know that go on yeah yeah no but that is
the way to write it is it is and uh wow really wow your favorite movie but also the guy looked
nothing next to the question yeah what's my movie? I don't want to talk about this.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't want to.
Keep going.
What's my favorite House of Hogwarts?
Yeah, it's...
I wouldn't...
I don't know Harry Potter,
so I wouldn't know how to answer that one.
Graham?
Muggle House.
Yeah.
Scribulex.
Yeah.
Yeah, Scribulex.
Scribulex, that's good.
Mucine Lex. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Scribble. Scribble. That's good.
Musin X.
Yeah.
You should be in the house of Musin X.
Yeah. I want to be with those little green guys.
Yeah.
Oh,
um,
this last one comes from Keith S,
uh,
from Philadelphia.
I was at a cookout with my wife's family.
You ever been to a cookout?
Is it like a barbecue?
I don't know.
I don't know what a cookout is, specifically.
Feels different than a barbecue, though.
Feels different.
When I overheard the following conversation between a 10-year-old boy and his friend,
Boy 1, you know, we're all brothers because we all come from the first two humans that
were ever born.
Boy 2, really?
Do you remember their names?
Boy 1, I don't know boy two was it jfk
boy one yeah it was jfk i'm so impressed that kids today know that oh yeah that we all descend
from jfk and marilyn monroe yeah jfk was a big deal in my youth because of the movie JFK.
That's right.
Yeah.
But yeah, is there a movie?
Why would kids know about JFK now? I don't know.
Wow.
I mean, it's probably the most famous conspiracy.
Although I'd be more impressed if they would have known who Adam and Eve were.
Yeah.
Rather than JFK, right?
I mean.
And they clearly don't know who JFK is.
Or Adam and Eve.
Yeah.
Maybe they were thinking of KFC.
These are all things.
Sure.
These kids.
Is that Spanish for chicken?
Spanish for Baja?
Oh, guys, in addition to overheards that are written in,
we also accept your phone calls.
If you would like to call us, our phone number is,
I had the number memorized.
No, I never had it memorized.
If you would like to call us, our phone number is
come on, hurry up.
Come on, why don't ya?
It is 1-844-
779-7631
or
ugh, spypod
one. Like these people
have. Hey, Dave and Graham.
This is Joe from
Midwest City, Oklahoma, calling in with an overheard.
I was walking around and I came upon this guy just yelling into his phone, saying what sounded like,
You're right, Rick.
If you can prove that I stole a regular shovel, then I owe you restitution.
But otherwise, you can suck my dick.
That's a good one.
Yeah.
You gotta prove it.
Oh, yeah.
A regular shovel, not a fancy shovel.
But if you can't prove it, you can suck my dick.
That's the arrangement.
Have you ever stolen anything?
What's the last? What's the biggest what's the last what's the biggest thing
you stole
what's the biggest thing
I stole
um
I don't
I haven't done a lot
of like just
like typical thievery
but when I worked
at a drugstore
I mean we
stole drugs
we used to clean that place out
no when I like
I worked at a shopper's drug mart
as a teenager
and oof
we took stuff
we did
yeah we did
shampoo
lipstick yeah lipstick shampoo stuff like that.
I was at home Depot the other day.
No, it was a few months ago and I got a, I needed a push broom and a
push broom comes in two parts.
You buy the handle and you buy the, the, the stick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The broom head of the broom.
I don't know.
The head, I guess the bristles.
Yeah.
And just for convenience, I screwed them together and put them in the cart and walked through the store.
And when I checked out, I didn't say anything.
And they checked it out as one thing.
Long con.
And I feel like Home Depot is still coming out way ahead because of all the times I bought the wrong kind of screw and didn't return it.
And didn't return it.
Absolutely.
Ah, not bad.
You?
The Hope Diamond.
Oh, is that you?
Oh my gosh.
That was me.
Okay, let me tell you this.
A friend of mine, I went to go have a facial with a friend of mine not very long ago, like two weeks ago.
Okay.
We went to have a facial and there's always a part in the facial where they leave stuff on your face.
They go, I'm just going to leave you here.
Just relax.
Yeah.
And then they leave the room.
And they start rummaging through your purse.
Don't move.
I wish.
I wish.
And my friend in the other facial room got up, opened the doors and stole the products.
And I was like, what the fuck?
I stole.
I'm like, what?
What?
How did she know what she was stealing with those cucumbers on her eyes?
Lots of just groping.
Wow.
But I was just like.
Where were the employees?
Because they leave you alone in the room.
And I was just like.
I guess I can't imagine the room.
It's like, you know, it's about this size.
And it's all, you know.
She got up and she stole the creams.
She got up and like opened and took the creams.
And I was like it is
I was just like
that's crazy
that is crazy
I think maybe
in the dressing room
I took like a couple pads
do you know what I mean
yeah yeah yeah
I was like maxi pads
I'm taking a couple of these
but they were like
for us
yeah
she did the
I'm gonna steal some
some of this
paper underwear
from the bathing suit store
yeah
alright here's your next phone call.
Hey, guys, it's Corey calling in with an overheard.
Hi, Corey.
I overheard a pair of ladies that are about middle age
when I was last in Vancouver getting off the SkyTrain.
And one lady says, and they found a video.
And she's older than he.
She's like 66.
And the other lady, wow.
And he's 48?
Something like that.
Wow.
What kind of a lawn bowling club is that?
Lawn bowling?
So this is a couple that met each other?
A video of a lawn bowling?
Yeah.
I don't know what the video was of.
Oh, okay.
I can't imagine a lot of 66-year-old women making sex tapes.
Madonna.
Yeah, maybe they are.
Madonna.
Oh, the divine.
I like to think if I, you know, make it 66, I'd be making sex tapes just to see what's going on back there.
on back there.
I just feel bad for the son who's like, Mother, I'm not
going to show you how to make a video.
On your phone. On my phone.
How do I edit this?
Can you Google me?
I accidentally uploaded my sex tape to
Portland's Instagram.
Alright, here's your final
overheard.
Hey Dave, Graham, and guests. This is David from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania calling your final overheard. Hey, Dave Graham and guests.
This is David from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, calling with an overheard.
I was in the Wawa.
It's sort of a convenience store deli combination.
And over the loudspeakers, the music starts with the unmistakable song and the spoken word intro.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's Mambo No. 5. And the guy making the sandwiches just goes, ladies and gentlemen, it's mambo number five.
And the guy making the sandwiches just goes,
ah, fuck.
He probably hears it every day.
Probably.
Because I worked at...
A little bit of mayonnaise in my sub.
I know it seemed like I had that joke,
but it just came to me that I needed to.
That's great.
But if you work in one of those type of stores,
a lot of times there's just like one giant loop of music that they play.
That makes you want to.
Yeah.
So then you hear this,
you hear this one song.
It was like when I worked at Toys R Us,
one of the songs was the theme song to Malcolm in the Middle,
but like the extendo to Malcolm in the Middle.
But like the Extendo song. Oh, sure, yeah.
So I know all the words to that song for no...
I guess they might be giants?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyways.
Well, Graham, life isn't fair.
Yeah.
Is it Mother Nature?
Life is unfair.
Oh, yeah.
Or life is not unfair.
Oh, geez.
Maybe I don't remember.
Maybe life's not so fair. Life is... No, I think it's unfair. Yeah, unfair. Life is not unfair. Oh, geez. Maybe I don't remember. Maybe life's not so fair.
Life is unfair.
No, I think it's unfair.
Anyway.
Anyways, it was a dark, dark period of my time.
Mambo No. 5, not one of the songs.
Oh, sure.
Well, that brings us to the end of this here podcast.
Deb, do you have anything coming up in November that you want to plug?
What am I doing in November?
November, I'm going to be in Wisconsin,
believe it or not.
The cheese place.
Yeah, why not?
The Badger's Day.
I'm doing a funny business.
I think it's a bit of a festival.
It's the first week in November.
Okay.
And then I'm going to Cancun.
What?
What?
With Just for Laughs.
I'm doing a resort.
But then I'm going to be,
then I'll be going to Ontario.
I'm going to do Hamilton
at the Zoetic Theatre on November 19th.
And then on the 23rd, I'm going to be in Kitchener-Waterloo.
And then on the 25th, I'm going to be in Sydney, Nova Scotia with our dear friend, Nikki Payne.
So that's on my website.
So go and get tickets to that.
And you can't say they fly you down to Cancun for a show?
Yeah.
You want to hear something, though? This will be the second time fly you down to Cancun for a show? Yeah. You want to hear something, though?
Yeah.
This will be the second time
I've gone to Cancun this year
for comedy.
What?
What is my life?
What is your life?
I'm very lucky.
I'm a lucky girl.
Do you like the heat
lounging by the pool?
Well, no, that's the thing.
That's a thing that I've also,
you have to change in my life
because I just,
I'm not enjoying it enough.
You know what I mean?
You're not enjoying it?
No, you've got to get out there. And sit on my deck and read. Do you know what I'm saying? I should, yeah, I'm have to change in my life because I'm not enjoying it enough. You know what I mean? You're not enjoying it? No, you've got to get out there.
I go to Cancun and sit on my deck and read.
Do you know what I'm saying?
I should, yeah.
You should take what?
I quit sugar.
Dancing lessons.
What else should you do in Cancun?
You seem more, you're maybe more excited about going to Wisconsin.
A little bit, to be honest.
A little bit.
Cheeseheads.
Woo!
Well, good thing you're not cutting out dairy.
Right?
Thank goodness. But white, no white cheese. No white food. um good thing you're not cutting out dairy right thank goodness
but white
no white cheese
no white food
so you know
it's gotta be your
cheddars and your
uh
cheddars basically
that's it right
yeah
black cheese
blue cheese
oh yeah
a blue cheese
a black cheese
yeah
a cider drink
don't eat the black cheese
yeah
those baby bells
come in the red wrapper
oh yeah that counts
yeah
it's just the inside
like can you eat a banana?
Will you eat a banana?
Oh, these are questions for the ages.
Did we talk about white food on air or off air?
I don't remember.
I don't remember.
Anyway, she's not eating white food.
Oh, goodness.
Anyway.
Well, thank you so much for being our guest,
and thank you out there for listening.
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