Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 453 - Paul Anthony
Episode Date: November 21, 2016Comedian Paul Anthony returns to talk telethons, The Crown, and Dance Academy....
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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 453 of Stop Podcasting Yourself.
My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who agrees that Kevin can wait, Mr. Dave Shumka.
Um, I disagree.
Oh, you don't think so?
It's time for Kevin.
Kevin's time is now?
Have you watched any of Kevin Can Wait?
I watched maybe five minutes of the first episode oh
you can't judge it by the first episode no no no i mean i'm savoring it five minutes at a time it's
like the first few minutes of the wire like you don't even really speak the language of the show
until like four or five episodes in a lot of people don't know, Kevin Kuwait made an Esperanto.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that's why I don't speak the language.
But anyways, Kevin, we're here for you.
We're waiting.
Yeah, we're waiting.
And our guest today, a return guest to the podcast, a longtime friend of the podcast,
very funny comedian, producer, host, Mr. Paul Anthony is our guest.
Hey, guys.
Happy to be here.
Hey.
All right.
I like this character.
Cool guy.
Energy, energy.
Should we get to know us?
Yeah.
Get to know us.
So, Paul, you host a once a month show called Talent Time.
How many years has it been now?
We're starting our ninth season.
Does that feel insane?
It's insane because they're really large scale variety shows.
So to do that every month for all those years is pretty dumb.
And like, because for people that don't know, it's like a talent show.
Like you'll have, what was on the last show?
We did a telethon because the episode before, like we have this segment where we try to
give away a hundred dollars to an audience member, but the question's always like way
too hard.
Right.
Designed on purpose for them never to win.
Well, this woman guessed it correctly.
Like, what was the question?
Do you remember?
Yeah.
Like, they're always
really, really long.
I'm into questions.
Okay.
Well, you might
be able to get this.
It was a really,
really long one
about Adam Sandler.
I don't know why.
Okay, let's go.
But, uh...
Speaking of Kevin Can Wait,
he made a cameo
in one episode
Oh you're right
I do have to keep watching
Yeah
That's
Kevin can't wait
But Graham can
So what was the question?
Do you remember?
Yeah so
The ramp down was
Blah blah blah
Whose mother
Went to school
With Adam Sandler
From grades
Seven till
Eight
Said that there was
One thing He was really bad at. We will
give you $100 if you can tell us the one thing Adam Sandler is bad at. Oh, geez, Luis. I'm going
to narrow it down to two possibilities. Comedy. No, I know there's so many, so many possibilities.
As when I was in grade eight eight no one was funnier than adam
sandler so i can uh the two possible answers are kissing oh that's it it was too easy
uh i would the other one i was gonna guess was basketball uh i bet he's got a pretty good Pretty good game He's a
Three pointers
And
You know
What are other things
In basketball
Oh sure
Being a waterboy
Yeah
Layups
Layups
Sleeveless shirts
That's
He wears
He's already wearing
Like track pants
Yeah he does
Always wear
Warm ups
He's got tearaways on Yeah, he does always wear them.
He's got tearaways on, so he might be able to ball at any moment.
He's warming up for something.
So you had to give away $100.
Yes. Which put your show in hock.
Yeah, so the idea was the next show was in a telethon to raise $100.
But what type of acts did you have on the show?
We had this guy who's a Michael Jackson tribute artist.
Okay.
What era of Michael Jackson?
He did, I think he did Billie Jean, but he was dressed like not that.
He doesn't look anything like Michael Jackson, but...
May I ask the race of this gentleman?
He's a chubby white gentleman.
Oh, a chubby white gentleman. Oh, a chubby white gentleman.
Interesting.
Not chubby, round face.
Neither are our race.
But is there anybody that does a Michael Jackson tribute that does, you know, from right after he was in the Jackson 5, but before Thriller came out?
What was that album?
Off the Wall?
Off the Wall.
Nobody does that era of Michael Jackson in a tribute act.
Yeah, that would be good.
It's all Thriller and then Bad.
Which is the one where he's got a baby tiger?
Thriller.
That's Thriller?
That's Thriller.
What's Off the Wall?
For that.
Is Billie Jean on Off the Wall?
No.
No, he's got an afro on. Billie Jean's on Thr Wall? He's... Or that. Yeah, he's got... Is Billie Jean on Off the Wall? No. No, he's got an afro on...
Billie Jean's on Thriller?
Yep.
And...
I'm pulling out my device.
That's true.
I'm willing to believe that Billie Jean...
Off the Wall was like Ben...
No.
Yeah.
Off the Wall was...
Gotta be starting something.
Gotta...
Wasn't that on...
That was on Off the Wall.
That's gonna be on Off the Wall.
Ben, I think, was before any album.
Oh, really? Oh, you're right. I'm thinking I'll be was on Off the Wall. That's going to be on Off the Wall. Ben, I think, was before any album. Oh, really?
Oh, you're right.
I'm thinking I'll be, what was the, the I song.
It was a love song.
I don't know.
But he had like an afro on Off the Wall.
Yeah.
And he was wearing a tuxedo in there.
Yeah.
With short pants.
Yeah.
But that's, you never see whenever it's a Michael Jackson tribute.
It's either late era, you know, bad or crazy.
Sergeant Pepper Gold.
Yeah.
Whatever that is.
Crazy knee pads.
Remember?
Yeah.
Oh, boy.
Knee pads.
Yeah.
He had like crazy shin pads or something.
Oh, and like maybe in the injuries in the Jackson five, he had shin pads.
No, no.
Way, way later.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Golden shin pads. Oh, sure. In history. Yeah. History. That's right. chin pads no no way in the way later yeah golden chin pads oh sure in history yeah history that's
right finally a man's point have you looked it up dave's on his no i got off the wall to single
live life off the wall Living off the wall Woo Um He he
Sorry
Oh yeah there he is
Oh and the
The short pants
And the
Shiny
Shiny
Shiny socks
Yellow shiny socks
Yeah
Don't stop
Till you get enough
Yeah
These are your singles
From the album
Rock with you
Yeah
I wanna rock with you
All night Oh no We should have just Stopped right there Um She's I want to rock with you. All right.
Oh, no.
We should have just stopped right there.
She's off the wall.
She's out of my life.
And girlfriend.
Oh, right.
So, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No Billie Jean.
You're right.
You're right.
Sorry.
Where do you find the act?
Where does that come from?
Well,
all over this one,
someone took a video of him at the Richmond night market,
sent it to me.
I didn't look at it for a while.
Cause this person sends me stuff all the time.
And I'm like,
yeah,
but I finally looked at it and,
uh,
I was like,
I don't know.
Then I met with him and he was like, I don't know.
Then I met with him and he's a really sweet dude.
Yeah.
He lives on the autistic spectrum.
Okay. You know how like people on the spectrum can like just like fall in love with a certain thing like they get.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
And like he was just really sweet about it. And so like passionate about Michael Jackson.
Oh, that's nice.
Just kind of talking with him.
I was just like, yeah, this is, this is great.
Let's have him on and talk about how he got into it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He also worked in the haunted house in Surrey.
As Michael Jackson?
Well, he, no, but what a missed opportunity.
They never did thriller.
He said once like a flash mob thriller broke out outside while he was working inside.
Oh, man.
Now, what's the one where he's got like a baby tiger?
Thriller.
Oh, okay.
The zookeeper soundtrack.
I'm really on a Kevin James kick.
Dave, have you ever seen a tribute act
have i seen a tribute no well when i was in las vegas the one time i went uh my hotel i don't
think it's there anymore it was called the empress that was sponsored by a file format um
and they had
uh
what were
they called
dealer-tainers
so they were
wow
uh
all the dealers
were like
oh Whitney Houston
or Shania Twain
or Celine Dion
drug dealers
should do that
that would be great
who would you like
to buy drugs on yeah well who should we go Johnny Depp should we go drug by drug okay yeah yeah yeah oh yeah. Who would you like to buy drugs on?
Yeah, well, should we go drug by drug?
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Who would you like?
Okay.
Marijuana.
Just so you know, these dealer-tainers, they would deal cards, but every few minutes, one of them would go up and perform a song.
Oh. so they were in character as a dealer but then they would also the entertain from this one
communal stage that was just in the middle of the what do you call it sounds amazing no it was bad
it was a bad hotel it's it it was like old vegas yeah and it's also weird like one of those those uh like where there's a bunch of different
uh you know tribute act because it's not going to be the same type of music so it's going to be like
one is a country act yeah and then uh oh and there was time there was definitely it wasn't like they
were going person to person like someone would do a song and then 20 minutes would go by right
someone else would come up and do a song so then 20 minutes would go by and someone else would come up
and do a song.
So it's not like
you were constantly
going like,
I just heard
Willie Nelson
and now I'm hearing
Skrillex.
Why would there be
a Skrillex impersonator?
I mean,
but as far as
people...
Just walks up on stage
wah wah.
But he has at least
a look that you could do a tribute.
You know, there's a lot of great musicians that I don't think there's a look to them.
You know?
Like, I'm not sure.
Is there an Aerosmith tribute band out there?
For sure there is.
You gotta be.
Steven Tyler would be an easy guy to do.
But you just don't know if anyone looks like whatever.
Yeah, Creedence Clearwater revival.
Or the drummer from Aerosmith.
Yeah, what's his name?
Joe Buck?
Joe something?
Joey Kramer?
Oh, maybe it's Joey Kramer.
Or is that the kid from Flight of the Navigator?
Okay, so if you were going to buy
marijuana
off of somebody. A dealer-tainer.
A dealer-tainer.
I guess a musician. They have to be impersonating
a musician. Willie Nelson.
That would be cool.
You'd want to do someone that you'd like, oh, marijuana's
cool. You don't want to have
Oh, you don't want to have like
to buy it off of somebody who's.
Nancy Ray.
She goes up and does her hit song.
These boots are made for walking.
Who would you buy?
I mean, Bob Marley is the...
Oh, yeah.
Bob Marley.
Okay, now, Angel does.
Chris Angel.
But yeah, who would you want to buy
something like heroin off of?
Oh,
Hunter S. Thompson impersonator.
But he's not a singer.
It has to be a singer.
These are dealer tainted.
I would say Iggy Pop.
Oh, yeah, that's a good one.
Iggy Pop guy would be a good guy to buy heroin from.
He'd have nowhere to put it, though.
He'd just be wearing his underwear.
Yeah, well, it would be in his tight, tight, tight, tight pants.
Oh, I saw someone the other day.
I was walking in the downtown east side and saw someone injecting someone else.
And, like, what's it, the foot, maybe?
Oh, wow.
Yeah, that was cool.
Yeah.
Cooperation.
Yeah.
Team work.
High five.
And finally, who would you want to buy, like, an ecstasy off of like a real party drug
maybe like a madonna oh good on a person good call really good call
an amy winehouse maybe she has a distinctive look are there there should be probably a
what is the ecstasy is like a rave drug though right yeah you're rave retainers right squarelex uh your chemical brothers do they have a look
that you can yeah the one guy had the the yellow lenses in his glasses right um oh
oh there you go that that solves that paul oakenfolds um tiesto is yeah what does tiesto look like oh boy what doesn't he look like
he doesn't look like just you you everyone listening knows what he looks like just
picturing up there picturing him up there behind the wheels of steel i'm picturing him
that he looks like the penguin from bat. He's got a top hat, cigarette holder, and he's just mixing beats
and in between going,
wah.
Wah, thanks for coming.
He's the Burgess Meredith penguin.
Yeah.
So you put it on the show.
You got a little kid.
What's your life looking like?
It's been a couple years since you've been on the show.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, right now, I'm just trying to book the next show because the telethon was a bit of a disaster.
Why?
It ended up costing us way more.
Yeah.
Well, a lot of people didn't show up or couldn't.
Like acts, like my director, my stage manager, the tech at the Rio was different.
All this like behind the camera plus like four acts and my, including my co-host that we, I mean, he had a legitimate excuse.
He was working and then he was
supposed to like wrap at like noon and then they added all these scenes and he couldn't couldn't
get out but the end of the telethon was supposed to be this duet that we wrote called friendship
and like i'm imagining that you you did it by yourself i did you know me dave and like i rented like
matching tuxedos with maxing top hats matching canes oh god i hope it was you on stage in
the tuxedo and like his tuxedo on a hanger just on a hanger that would have been that would have
been the way to go i was too too depressed at that point to think of.
But I did it anyways.
And it was like, we wrote different lines to an old song that exists.
But it was like, if you ever need a liver, I can give her.
If you ever kill a cop, I'll get the mop.
If you ever get a DUI, I will drive. i'll be your ride that's friendship oh yeah ship just another bland ship what other friendships have run its course ours will
intercourse and some fancy footwork yeah yeah yeah and then yeah ryan couldn't make it. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. So you sang it all by yourself, or did you leave open parts for him?
No.
I know.
There were so many ways to go.
I tried to just sing it all.
Someone in the audience ran up to try to, and I said, no, this is better.
Get out of here.
And then I felt bad, and then I brought them up, and then I screwed up the song, and I
started over.
It was really, really bad.
It was supposed to be the grand finale. Uh-huh. screwed up the song and I started over. It was really, really bad. It was supposed to be
the grand finale.
Uh-huh.
And I started
the whole show over.
Yeah.
I got some messages,
like one message
some guy sent me
said that it was like
the physical embodiment
of that velvet painting
of the clown crying.
Me just doing that one
famous painting.
It's so sad. Is that in the Louvre louvre it's gotta be or maybe it's in the uh smithsonian or something like that a part of uh our collective history what are the most famous velvet paintings elvis elvis
yo yeah playing poker is that velvet i think so no that started velvet and then it just was
reproduced because he couldn't sell it
At San Francisco
In velvet form
No
I think it was
Like an actual
Like it was
Like a realistic
Looking painting
Right
But like
Realistic
I mean you know what I mean
Photo realistic
There's like
Sad
Sad
Mexican boy
Like a Mexican boy
With sad
Giant eyes
Yes yes
Right
Um
And then
I don't know
Just various
Just go to Budgie's Burritos
You just look downstairs
And there's
Oh yeah
Oh there's a prince one
But I don't think that's famous
No
Yeah maybe a parrot
Is there a famous
Yeah maybe a parrot
Velvet parrot painting
Uh
Yeah Wyatt
I got one
Someone made it for the show
It's been on our set
For like years.
But I'm petting a tiger smoking a pipe.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I didn't know that was on Black Velvet.
Yes.
Some audience members just did that.
Cool.
It's cool.
Um, did you make any money at the telethon?
Well, yeah, we made like $800 on like merch.
And then, uh, but, um, someone stole the GoPro that we, uh.
What?
Oh, brother.
Well, we...
This is the...
Boy, is this episode going to become a telethon?
I swear, the last 12 talent times have been some variation on panhandling.
Just having auctions and all sorts of ways to make extra money.
I would like to, if there was a panhandler auctioning off stuff on a street corner,
I think that would be a lot of fun for people if you walk by.
Panhandlers don't have a lot to give.
No, but they could find a thing.
Yeah.
And then like the red paperclip.
And also.
Trade it for a boat.
Get a boat.
Where does the, that guy's a Vancouver guy.
Red paperclip?
The paperclip who's, sorry, who traded it up to get a house or whatever. Oh, guy's a Vancouver guy. Red Paperclip? The paperclip who traded it up to get a house or whatever.
Oh, he's a Vancouver guy?
Yeah, and he just gave away a car a couple months ago.
For...
It's for nothing.
Beach.
Whoever.
For a beach.
Speaking of panhandlers, where does the name come from?
Isn't it Gold Rush?
Because you're panning panning for gold
and then uh that's what i thought it was that sounds a bit legit that you're just you know
sitting out on the street pan right handling i thought it was like well i'm not just gonna
give you some money but here hold these pans for a second and i'll give you a quarter handle my pants yeah i'm a i'm a very busy
baker or uh here handle these pants all right but you're gonna make this uh worth my while right
um uh so you're you're working on the next show what else is uh shaking? That's kind of what's going
on right now. Yeah, my ladies are out
of town, so I'm just trying to
get that.
What do you do when you've got the place
to yourself? How do you spend the time?
Definitely eat in bed
and have my laptop in bed.
Yeah. Dave, eat in bed when the ladies
are out of town? Ice cream,
yeah. All the ice cream in bed.
Not like, you know, a croissant.
I still have to sleep there.
Are you eating full meals in bed?
I made like a huge thing of like nachos last night.
You ate nachos in bed?
Yeah.
Don't tell Natalie.
Too late.
I'm texting her right now.
Do you,
because they end up,
they'll end up in the sheets.
Do you put wax paper
down underneath yourself?
I don't think I spilled.
I'm an adult.
Yeah.
Do you have a little tray?
Like one of those
fancy little trays
that people need?
Oh yeah,
like your valet
would bring you.
Yeah,
no,
no,
just a plate.
I trusted myself
So when you
Your wife
Not wife
Yeah
What do you call her?
Partner?
Let's call her Natalie
Partner
Yeah
Your partner and your daughter
Are out of town
Do you still have your
Your staff
In the
In the apartment?
Do you have your
You know your valet
Your maid
Interns and stuff
Yeah
Your interns
Bring me my nachos in bed Intern your valet, your interns and stuff. Yeah. Your interns.
Bring me my nachos in bed,
interns.
No,
it's no one.
So I keep all the lights on,
roam from room to room.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
That's fun.
I stay up really late and they go to bed early.
Right.
Kind of have a small place.
So when they're gone,
it's just lights on all the time,
roaming around.
That is something if I'm ever home by myself i will wake up the next morning and be like oh i guess i left these lights on left the tv on in the other room yeah it's an all-night party it's an
all-night party as soon as the as soon as you're by yourself but do you find yourself turning into
going back to your bachelor ways or do you just, uh,
Jeff,
I mean,
outside of eating nachos in your bed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't,
I don't,
I have a pretty good,
pretty good.
I'm,
I live a pretty kind of bachelor life even with really.
So leaving back in the day,
you were like before,
before the kid and all this stuff,
when you were just a straight up bachelor,
you lived a clean.
Oh no.
I just mean like I would lay in bed and watch like bad, like afternoon TV.
And now if they go out, I'm like, ooh, what's on the internet?
Yeah, yeah.
Bad afternoon TV.com.
Yeah.
What was your favorite bad afternoon TV show?
I like the Steve Wilco program.
Wilcos.
Wilcos.
Yeah.
Who that? Who that is? uh jerry springer's bald uh and then he got his own show but he was the guy who wouldn't let people sit down if he
didn't believe agree with him like if someone comes out he had some really awful people on his
show on the show yeah he wouldn't let people sit down yeah he'd have like a guy who was like uh you know i i'm i'm a pedophile this is horrible
okay so this guy comes out he hopes what is his end game i'm gonna win you guys over
i'm a pedophile let me finish
oh it was really bad but he'd be like you don't deserve to sit
and then everyone would cheer and he'd have to stand on the stage it was really awful what does that guy think he's getting when
he comes out on stage well i mean the thing that i kind of felt bad about was the guy was going like
i don't want to be this way like i have i have these feelings i know it's wrong i know it's bad
somebody helped me
right kind of thing which is really sad it is really sad that he thinks that steve wilcox
former bouncer can help him with anything but just the fact like that is to go out there and
be like like i have in that way i have respect for someone going like i got because i think it
is a mental i think it's a mental disease or something and someone going like uh help help me i don't
want to be like this i'm sorry to bring the book no no but it's uh because you know i could see
you going on a dr phil right because he's a doctor they probably don't want them yeah probably yeah
dr phil is oh what was he a podiatrist it's just it just, it's the same trash. It's just quieter. Yeah, and everybody sits.
He doesn't make anybody stand.
There's a lot of pauses.
Yeah, but he doesn't go out into the audience and like, you have something to say.
No, he doesn't want anyone's opinion.
Well, I think.
Oh, who's the first person to do that?
Just go into the audience and like, hey, what does this idiot think?
Oh, like, it's as little tale as all this time like yeah don don you sally jesse but probably even before that
whatever existed before that like giraldo what did exist before that oh heraldo morton downey
senior what was his name morton downey jr okay but did that there was a podium that you had to like
with a big mouth on it? Yeah.
But in the, in this, like the host would go to you.
What was there in the.
Oh, right.
Because I, I grew up in the eighties as you guys did as well.
I don't remember any talk shows.
Like, I don't know if, did they have that kind of format of TV show in the seventies?
I don't know about the 70s.
No, like,
the one thing that I remember being very weird
is that Oprah used to be
that type of show.
Yeah, right.
And then it just switched
and then it was like,
here's how to live a good life.
And it was like,
but you used to have...
People can grow, Graham.
But I prefer they don't.
Yeah, Graham wants
to drag everyone down.
But she, her show evolved, but then the other shows never did.
They all just kind of stayed like Jenny Jones.
Right.
Hers was more silly.
Ricky Lake.
Well, some people kind of like, there were definitely people who were in Oprah's stable. Like Dr like dr oz dr phil oh yeah yeah that guy
was a nate burkus oh yeah rachel ray all got their own they all got their own shows just by being
like kind of classy uh oprah friends right and then they most of them have squandered it yeah
dr phil is not you know helping no he started off that way like i remember the get
real challenge i like love what was that thing it was people dr phil took people into a house
and it made him get real what does that mean you know let people cry about like things that
happened in their life and how they want to be better or whatever but he really like held
held their feet to the fire and he really like uh get real got got them real and they would
spend 24 hours a day in this house i think so and he would spend 20 minutes yeah definitely come in
and just be like it smells in here hey get real hey you over there get real yeah you put some wax
paper down on your bed before you eat that sloppy joe
well you put wax paper under the nachos when you cook them don't you or do you cook them i
put raw vegan and i made nachos just out of play-doh no but you're not making the notch
you're buying nachos pre-made and then you're cooking on top of them right like you're melting cheese or whatever are you a vegan i am yeah but uh they have pretty good cheese alternatives now
yeah are you a raw vegan no okay we were for a bit and how was that it was i like i loved my life
like i really like i saw things earlier had more energy like Like I loved it, but then like I couldn't. Get raw. Yeah.
The get raw challenge.
I couldn't like, traveling was hard doing it.
Like the idea of cooked food just seemed so disgusting that it like really hampered my life.
And then it kind of had to be all or nothing.
It's training, it just different happens.
Like your body, I don't know,
it normalizes in a certain way where cooked food just is not appealing and it was too hard for me for us yeah well it's like
you really have to don't you have to spend all your time like preparing a thing and
yeah i mean i want it in the microwave and in my stomach if i'm if i become a raw vegan
yeah which is always in the cards
absolutely it's on the table i'm currently neither yeah but i'm imagining cucumber sandwiches yeah
morning noon and night cucumber sandwiches i loved your cookie joke you had a raw
raw vegan joke about cookies oh so i don't remember cookie dough i became a raw vegan
or something that i something about it was about raw cookie oh yeah but i don't remember cookie dough i became a raw vegan or something but i something
about it was about raw cookie oh yeah but i can't remember that yeah i ruined it i'm sure i was
i was happy i was like you're gonna jump in are you i don't remember most of my jokes um do you
yeah are you raising your daughter vegan yeah and what what are her thoughts? Yeah. So far, so good. Because now she...
From the get-go, no...
Well, we don't eat that stuff.
Right.
And we live a healthy lifestyle, and we believe that it's a healthy lifestyle.
Right.
And we've done all the work years ago.
I've been vegan for 21 years.
Oh.
So she just eats what we eat.
So it's not really so you when when she eventually has
you know pals and then they're like uh you know then are you gonna yeah try to snort a line of
hamburger meat like you could have been powdered milk or no no, hammered up a straw. Just that.
No, rolled up a $100 bill.
Raw, because we're raw.
Pop a $100 straw.
I'm just picturing that.
Like, it's, you know, because it's the long lines of beef.
Like, that's what I was picturing.
Ugh.
But, you know, if her friends are like, we're all eating whatever do you do you prepared for
that it's gonna happen i don't know you know like yeah i don't know like we're not super
i don't know i have my niece one year there i i don't know if she had had mcdonald's before
right but or she just heard her friends talking about mcdonald's right and one year for her birthday she was like can we please take the bus to mcdonald's she had
also never been on the bus before she's like uh this year i want a slub yeah and so the parents
were like um yes we can do that it seems like a bad day this is what my kid wants to do
ride the bus and eat McDonald's
can we drive a car there
and meet you
so we don't have to take the bus back
and did she like it?
did you like the McDonald's?
I think so, I think it's easy to like a McDonald's
especially if you're a kid.
Also, if you're an adult.
Yeah.
They pack it with like sugar and delicious things.
Like there's a reason it's successful.
Yeah.
I acknowledge that it's gross, but I can't deny that it's good.
It's got what you crave.
Yeah.
I remember a kid that I went to school with,
and their parents were trying to do
the no sugar thing and then uh get it giving that kid sugar was the best thing ever because he would
go insane uh a big giant coke bottle glasses but if you gave him really like even the smallest
amount of sugar he he would uh just go insane and start throwing stuff around It was the best
I mean it was very bad of us to give him sugar
Because he'd specifically been told not to have it
But
Entertaining
Yeah exactly
That's all I was looking for
Yeah
Just a little entertainment
Ever since Halloween
Margot our two year old
Has been demanding candy
Uh oh
And we hold it back
We give her one thing a day
And we have to let her know her one thing a day but yeah and we we have
to let her know that one day this will run out yeah yeah yeah she's no interested in candy yet
she has no interest in it yet i don't know like i'm sure it'll happen at some point she's almost
three yeah but she hasn't but we went to a halloween thing this year and we just talked
to her beforehand there's gonna be all this candy, like take it if you want.
But I think what we'd like,
cause she loves like ice cream,
coconut,
you know,
ice cream or whatever.
And I was like,
you can collect it.
And then if you give it to us,
we'll,
you will go for ice cream.
And she was really excited about that.
Ah,
that's a pretty,
what do you do with the candy?
I don't think she even wanted it.
We thought she was going to go around and pick up stuff
because we wanted her to do stuff.
Basically, I want this.
Yeah, I want it.
Yeah.
She's not going to have it and you're not going to have it.
Exactly.
But she just had no interest.
I don't know.
Huh.
I want to give it to my friend who's not allowed to have candy.
Oh, yeah.
His Coke bottle glasses.
Yeah, yeah.
I have some leaves that need picking up. He'll just run around and pick them up. and he's not allowed to have candy i want to say oh yeah it's coke bottle glasses yeah yeah i had
some the leaves that need picking up and he'll just run around pick them up uh just programming
a task i'll give you these what's the what's the most sugary of all of the candy i mean it's got
to be rockets yeah that's what i was thinking just like compressed yeah just discs of sugar
yeah whatever the you know and i think they're called Smarties in America.
Yeah, yeah.
But it was just like eating a tube of sugar.
It wasn't that a candy too?
A tube of sugar?
Yeah, a pixie stick.
Yeah, that's right.
That probably was the most.
How does that, how does that get past the Food and Drug Administration?
It's neither.
Although, you know, sugar is a drug.
Oh, yeah.
I'm that guy.
When you drink that coffee, caffeine's a drug.
Oh, yeah.
Gateway drug.
We're always doing a little bit of drugs.
Yeah.
Might as well do them all.
Yeah.
Might as well go for a soda.
Favorite Kim Mitchell song. Might as well go for a soda favorite kim mitchell song might as well go for a soda when they're dancing in like miniature in that uh in that refrigerator to might as well go for a soda
the best um here's the if anyone hasn't seen the video for might as well go for a soda put it in
your yeah uh let's get what's what's the uh
what's the plot of the video oh yeah don't drink alcohol no no no no no no
with the case okay if we can remember what it is it opens on oh do, I think. I think it's a guy. Okay.
A guy, a curly-haired guy,
sitting on his couch. Bored. Bored.
Watching TV. Right. Switching to the stations. Bored. And then
a tiny little Kim Mitchell,
which is a woman's name, but he's a man. Yeah.
He's wearing a hat to cover
up that he's going bald. I don't think he's wearing a hat in that one.
Oh, he's still got a hat.
It's a pretty bicycle hat. Yeah. It wasn't just any hat. It he's wearing a hat in that one. Oh, he still has that hat. It's a pre-bicycle hat. Yeah.
Because it wasn't just any hat.
It was that small bicycle hat
with that little,
little like,
flipped up,
flipped up visor or whatever.
Yeah.
And,
I think the little band
is playing inside,
like over a news broadcaster's
shoulder or something.
Okay.
Oh, so he sees them on TV?
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Oh, but they're in the fridge.
But then, he he like does a
yada yada yada yada i don't believe my eyes he gets up to get a drink opens up the fridge and
they're like in an egg carton and they're just jamming yeah yeah they're not yeah they're they're
free they're not an egg carton oh they're free. But are they using stuff that's in a refrigerator?
Is there a guy playing a turkey leg?
Yeah, exactly.
Turkey leg.
Are they using stuff in the... Oh, they might be.
I don't think it was that smart.
I think it was just miniaturized drum kit
and stuff. Yeah, yeah. I think
you're right. I think it was just their regular
gear. Strat. I don't think
there was anything else in the fridge, which
is sad, too. Oh, he would have had
a carton of milk or something. A carton of milk or something.
A soda. Isn't there a soda in there?
Might as well. He's going for a soda. No, there
wouldn't be soda. He would be going, he'd have to
go for a soda. No, he can go to the fridge for a
soda. Oh, I'm going for a soda.
My clock goes for soda.
Nobody hurts and nobody
cries. Because it is about drinking and driving, I think. Is it? Yeah. Might as well go for a soda. Nobody hurts and nobody cries because it is about
drinking and driving
I think.
Is it?
Yeah.
Might as well go for a soda
and nobody hurts
and nobody cries
and nobody dies.
Nobody drowns
and nobody dies.
Yeah.
Oh, maybe it's
about drunk boating.
It would be the
perfect song
for a boating PSA.
It's better than slander.
It's better than lies.
Right.
People getting drunk and making up. Oh, yeah.
Making up stories.
Making up lies about how fast their boat can go.
How good at water skiing they are.
Soda.
There are other music videos where the band is very tiny.
There's one where a band plays on
Pamela Anderson's book. Oh, that band is lit?
Wow. And then there's another one
where... Was it the Killjoys?
Is that where they're running around and maybe a cat
is chasing them? They're running around an apartment
and they're a tiny band.
That's Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, I'm pretty sure.
Yeah, this might have been from the soundtrack.
But I do remember specifically
it was a band,
and they were running around with their instruments,
and I felt bad for the drummer because he had to, like, carry all his drums. Oh, it's the drummer.
He's like, yeah.
But they were tiny.
What's worse, when a drummer in a video has to just play a drum?
Or a snare.
Like, just a single drum.
Just the sticks.
Yeah.
In rock and roll high school, the drummer from Ramones just had his sticks.
It was just like doing, when they were walking from the car. Right from Ramones just had his sticks it was just like doing
when they were walking
from the car
right
it's just hitting the sticks
and we're
but music's playing
and you hear
a full drum kit
and you're supposed to
we're supposed to believe
that
I think
that every drummer
should have to wear
like the one man band thing
with the cymbals
between the knees
of the drums
hanging off of them
how about it
Congress
truth in music videos The cymbals between the knees. Yeah. The drums hanging off of them. How about it, Congress?
Truth in music videos.
Yeah, I do not remember this Kim Mitchell video at all.
Oh, really?
No, I remember him.
I remember the hat.
He's incredible. This is pre-hat, I'm telling you.
And I also remember Patio Lanterns was his.
Patio Lanterns.
Sure.
Insane, which is a very creepy song
it's like uh who's gonna be who will be the first to dance right who's gonna be who would be the
first to kiss but he doesn't say he doesn't sing it like it's reminiscing to when he
like the summer parties they had as a kid.
I guess.
It seems like he's in the bushes just going like with binoculars.
The biggest patio.
Our house had all the summer shade.
We had patio lanterns.
Those patio lanterns They were the stars
Oh, wow
Big turn
Wow, good Kim Mitchell
I am a wild party
Like he had to pitch that one
I am a wild party
He never had to pitch
But wouldn't the band like
We're a wild party
What do you think they want to get out of
That's the reason he got out of this band
So he could be a solo artist
He used to be in Max Webster
Really oh I didn't know this
Wow Dave's got the deep Kim Mitchell thing
I'm Kim Mitchell wiki
Does anyone out of Canada know
No
Sorry everybody
That's fine this is an educational podcast
A lot of people will
be moving here soon apparently yeah so uh yeah so by is there a Kim Mitchell best of that they can
buy or they gotta go album by album what's the album where Kim Mitchell has the baby tiger oh
yeah uh chiller it's him with a baby tiger inside of a fridge. Inside of a... Yeah.
Dave, what's been going on with you, man?
Well, this is our first episode recording after the big election.
Yeah, yeah.
And I'm sorry.
That's so sad.
Yeah.
I mean, you knew...
Like, you knew if he won, it was going to be sad and weird and scary.
Yeah.
But to actually, like, see people so sad and scared
is it's hard to have imagined um yeah yeah i had a had a feeling that it was going to be very close
but i didn't know i was very surprised by the outcome but as i i think i watched the coverage on PBS. And it's very...
Yeah, exactly.
It was literally the first streaming site that came up.
And they're very, like, four panelists.
And they didn't have all the kind of, like, throwing to and charts.
Like, it's just four of them talking.
They had a whiteboard.
Color this one in blue.
But this was the whole time on election night.
There was two very old guys on the panel, probably in their mid to late 70s.
And I think they left their microphones on.
So there was one guy who was breathing through his nose and his nose was whistling the whole time.
And I was like, is that me?
And I was like, no no that's this thing and then there were certain points where somebody was talking and somebody else on the panel was audibly opening a
crinkly candy oh boy this is the first thing they tell you not to do um so yeah it's pretty funny
uh yeah so uh yeah so i'm uh you know uh we're here for you yeah we're the yeah i don't
know like i'm at a loss for words it's so bad yeah you're all you're all in a lot of trouble
like but you know uh there's there's a good there's a good half of you there. No, there isn't.
Like,
half the voters for him, you're
fucked too.
You just hope that this brings
out all of the
everything out in the open and
stuff can get dealt with in a
way. Like, it's going to be really bad for
a lot of people, but you just hope that
kind of, like, it's been there but
just kind of hidden and now i don't know maybe there needs to be a crazy clash where everyone
like acknowledges really what's going on underneath everything and i don't know maybe that's the only
way out so paul advocating for a race war no no no uh yeah so that was Insane and of course
Our thoughts are with
All of our listeners down there
In the states
And if anyone needs any help let us know
Look a lot of people have said
Hey can we move to Canada
Sure if you want
Yeah I mean we don't have room for all of you
Personally
And you know we're also not in charge of that.
Yeah.
That's not right.
But, you know, if any of you are in serious, real trouble, let us know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We'll figure something out.
Yeah.
We're scared for you, but we're hiding it behind our laugh about Kim Mitchell.
So that's happened.
Yeah.
And what else is shaking?
Well, on the last episode with Katie Ellen Humphries,
I talked about how I had never seen that movie,
The Devil Wears Prada.
Oh, yes.
Well, I have an announcement.
Oh, wow.
Past mistake corrected. Yeah. Now, The Devil We devil wears prada have you seen it i haven't
i won't why it's fun really there's fun it's fun is it not fun i i only i saw it like years ago
because i when it first came out i was like yeah this isn't for me and then the last year or so i i was like why
isn't this for me i love anna hathaway yeah i love meryl streep i love adrian grenier yeah and
simon baker who's the other guy bald guy uh oh stanley to jay i do love stanley too well what's
not to love yeah it's it's he can do big budget no no i love him yeah but i just mean in
like in terms of a movie i should love yeah and i think at the time it you know she got nominated
for a golden globe or something yeah yeah yeah that sounds about right um but it, uh, it's, it's not quite the thing I love.
What, what is the, the thing you love is?
Moneyball.
Moneyball.
Yeah.
So it's not Moneyball.
Here are the movies, like if it, cause it's been on TV a lot lately, so I just decided
to record it one day.
And the movies that come on TV that I love that are on all the time are Moneyball.
Moneyball is not on that often.
Right.
Uh, Back to the Future.
Yeah. Um, those not on that often. Right. Back to the Future. Yeah.
Those are the big two.
Yeah. No, but I like, you know, like a That Thing You Do. Sure. I like
light comedies. You love
Trading Day.
You love... Training Day?
No, the one with Kevin Costner
Trade Day. Oh,
Draft Day. Draft Day, thank you.
Come on.
Whatever, I've never seen it.
It's my Devil Wears Prada.
It's okay.
Maybe I'll watch it and see.
It's pretty good.
He wins in the end.
Is Anne Hathaway in it?
No, Jennifer Garner is.
But yeah, no, it doesn't quite scratch the itch. It's not going to be something that if I see it on TV, I'm, no, it's, it's, it was just, it doesn't quite scratch the itch.
It's not going to be something that if I see it on TV, I'm going to watch it.
No.
Yeah.
Although I think that is how I saw it.
I think it was on TV one time.
It was just starting and I was like, I'm locking in.
I'm going to watch Devil Wears Prada.
It was fine.
It was like, uh, you know, girl gets a job. And it's, you know.
Girl, but she gets a job that's apparently a very hard job to get that she didn't want in the first place.
Yeah, and she's very, very frumpy.
And she's above it.
Yeah.
She's a real journalist.
And then, you know, she goes to work at a fashion magazine.
And then she, you know, then she changes to suit the thing.
And did she leave behind her old self?
And, oh, boy, the question.
Yeah.
But ultimately, who cares?
And then, yeah, in the end.
Sounds like it.
Yeah, I mean, it was very, like, you know, stakes were low for her because, you know, she was fine.
Yeah.
And she was fine.
She's fine.
Yeah And she was fine
She's fine
The other thing
I started watching
Is on Netflix
The show The Crown
Oh yeah
About young
Queen Elizabeth II
Yeah
The lady on her money
Yeah
The lady from
Are you just learning that now?
Oh yeah
Have you heard of this show?
No I've heard about it.
I don't know anything about it.
I know as much as you told me.
Is it a fictionalized account?
No, I think it's real.
And that's what makes it like good TV to watch when you're sort of half awake.
Right.
I can fall asleep.
I already know all this.
Yeah, you have like kind of no stakes.
Yeah, I know some of these people are going to die.
But I know she's not not when does it take place like is it when the queen was young and sexy kind of thing when she's young there's a lot of sex in it yeah there's a lot of sex there's
dragons in it uh there's the red wedding yeah the white walkers the walking dead are in it
oh yeah what cubert uh cubert's in it yeah it's pixels yeah it's the queen it's pixels
it's everything really it's click it's kevin james is in it as an assassin apparently
it's all just adam sandler's friends in it um no yeah it's it's like the late 40s early 50s
when she becomes the queen and the first three episodes.
Starts the first mall chop.
Yeah, sure. Pop Tate and the queen.
The 50s?
Yeah.
She invents rock and roll.
Hey, Your Highness, do you know that new sound you're looking for?
She invents skiffle
Oh boy
The first three episodes
It's
Like her dad dies
And so that's how she becomes the queen
Right
And you know all that happens
And then there's
In the fourth episode
She's the queen during this
Like smog
Outbreak in London Okay And I was like oh i haven't heard
about this and it's like the super dangerous chemicals that are in the air and uh you know
a few people die or it's so it seems like the the emergency rooms are just overflowing with
people and you're like wow a couple hundred people must have died from this.
12,000 people died.
My headphones nearly fell off.
12,000 people.
Holy cow.
But even during the episode, you can't tell that it's that serious.
Right.
It's only like text comes up at the end.
And is it like, that must be something that over there must be a thing that everybody knows.
I guess so.
The day that the smog came to town.
Yeah.
Well, I assume it was made there.
It didn't just drift in from somewhere else.
Scottish fog.
That's what smog is short for?
Yeah.
Scog.
Scog.
But is it worth watching this, uh the queen yeah you know yeah whatever
it's apparently like one of the most expensive things netflix has done yeah wait till altered
carbon what's that that's the big they're sending they're spending like 13 million dollars per
episode or it was 11 million something like that per episode it's a new netflix show what's all
true what is it it's uh it's about um What's all true. What is it? It's, uh,
it's about,
um,
it's just starting to shoot in the next couple of weeks.
And it's about like,
I don't know.
It's kind of time travel.
People can replace their bot.
They can upload their consciousness into other bodies.
Ah,
cool.
Who would you upload?
What body would you upload your consciousness into?
Bob Marley.
Bob Marley.
Skrillex. See, the problem with that is Bob Marley. Bob Marley. Skrillex.
See, the problem with that is Bob Marley's dead.
Kim Mitchell, for sure.
What?
For sure.
What's the name of the show?
Altered Carbon.
But whoever runs Netflix or whatever.
They're not spending enough money on the title.
Yeah.
He said that he was sick of, what what's the big show with uh like like with
dragons and stuff game of thrones he was tired of like that being like the biggest show in the world
and that they want they want to have the biggest netflix but there there is already that it's
called kevin can wait yeah biggest show um why do people want to have the biggest thing it seems like you're just setting
yourself up for disaster i mean from where they came from like mailing and dvds to where they are
yeah that's true what's the next thing yeah you want to have lily hammer do you think that
there's still executives around from the dv DVD mailing days that are still
because they wouldn't have any
background in like running a studio
like their whole thing would be
like well DVDs
weigh this much
so if you
this is how much postage
we're going to have to prepay
so they have like a
big board meeting about Altered Carbon
and they just have the one guy
who's still on their DVD service.
Like, I mean, if we put this series on DVD,
I'm sure we can chip it out.
No problem.
Yeah.
I got to where I am in the company
because people used to draw dicks on the envelopes
and I was like, no way.
Replace the envelopeses We'll cover the cost
That used to be a thing I think
In Netflix it was like in some online
Communities let's see if we all get the same
Copy of
You know whatever
Days of Thunder so we'll all
Write a secret message on the envelope
Oh okay
Huh but then they Went with disposable envelopes we'll write a secret message on the envelope. Oh, okay.
Huh.
But then they went with disposable envelopes?
Was that their big... That was the last time that guy had an innovation?
No, there was no innovation.
They just kept the...
You would get an envelope,
and it would have something written on it.
Oh.
And you'd be like, what does this mean?
But if you knew, you knew.
Oh, yeah.
It's fun to be in on some kind of underground something or other.
Do you remember disposable DVDs?
No
It didn't really last
But it was
I don't know if it was the Netflix people
It was rental people
You would mail it into the ocean
They were trying to make it easy
So you didn't have to bring back the DVD
So once you open it from a seal
Like the air starts corroding it
And you only have, I don't know
Seven days or whatever
before it's unplayable right and then so you just throw it out it didn't really catch on
thing for a while it's like one of those things that you're like well that never could have caught
on but you know what those nespresso things caught on and i was like well then anything can catch on
i think it would have if the internet like didn't evolve to the thing where you could just do it all.
But just in terms of waste.
I know, it's horrible.
But it's kind of genius.
If you can download a coffee, then Nespresso's out of business.
Oh, yeah.
And believe me, they're working on it.
Yeah, you're right.
That would have been just like the curve like the internet but
does netflix still send out dvds is that i don't know if that's still something they can do i wonder
huh it's funny like uh in the states they have amazon prime we have it here but it's not the
same and you can get you pay like 75 a year and you get free shipping On everything from Amazon Plus you get a bunch of
Free streaming movies
And original TV shows
Right
Didn't know you had a new sponsor
We don't
We don't
Because we live in Canada
Where you don't get any of that
Yeah you don't get any of the good stuff
If you want to watch
Oh you don't
You don't get that
If you want to watch
Any of Amazon's programming here
You have to
Get it illegally
Or from some weird
Yeah like some other Either show me Or crave Or whatever You have to get it illegally or from some weird. Yeah, like some other.
Either show me or crave or whatever.
You have to go to this thing.
They send you a disposable thing.
You got to have a special player.
You got to use gloves.
Because that starts corroding all over your hands.
It starts just spraying battery acid everywhere.
So that's me. I've been watching uh television yeah yeah yeah
i've also been watching television i uh because i needed a show uh that needed like that i could
put on in the background while i'm working on other things so nothing that was so visual that
i would have to keep going like what was that what was that what was that something where it's and something where i'm not very invested yeah that's why the crown's good
because you know who dies yeah that's true but i didn't know all those smog people died i know
that was a big curveball well not anymore but uh uh yeah so i started watching i just literally
looked through the tv show section and found a show from
Australia called Dance Academy
can't stop watching
it's only three seasons
long though so I have a feeling
that some of these storylines are not
going to get resolved properly because it might have
just got cancelled mid run well maybe
we only have three seasons of it
do you know how many seasons
they made total well it's old enough that they're using flip phones in the show so i don't think there's more
seasons and on dance academy do they pirouette the opposite direction yes okay good very good
question i'm glad you asked now do you find it hard to get work done watching an australian
show when you always have to look at the subtitles. They have very, in this show,
they have very posh Australian accents,
which are pretty close to an English accent.
So it's not quite as...
Are there any, like, Hemsworths in it?
Yeah, they're all in it.
There's the Hemsworth, Yahoo! Serious is in it.
Paul Hogan plays the young girl
who goes uh to the dance academy do you think yahoo serious and kim mitchell would be buddies
what don't they seem like it we were young einstein i don't mean to bring back kim mitchell
no you do mean to it and you know what that's fine we were talking about yahoo serious a few
weeks ago in reference to peeee Wee Herman. Ah.
Because he was a guy from sort of the same era.
Right.
Just like.
Right.
Started in a couple movies as himself, kind of.
Yeah.
And then went away.
And Pauly Shore was kind of like that.
He was like.
Right.
A real guy.
His name was actually Pauly Shore.
But he played.
Well, we don't know.
I don't know.
He could be Paul Shore.
Oh, yeah.
You're right. could be Paul Shore. Oh, yeah, you're right.
Paul S. Shore.
But he played Pauly Shore in all those movies.
It was Pauly Shore as Pauly Shore.
Stop.
Yeah.
He would have a different name in the movie, but he'd be wheezing the juice.
All these things.
He would always find some juice, and then he would wheeze it.
Judge Ito eating a burrito.
I mean,
this guy was great.
This guy had
a unique voice and
his mom owned the most
powerful comedy club in America.
And that had nothing
to do with his success. No, no, no.
He went out there on the road and
he very much was given a career. Well, no, no. He went out there on the road and he didn't. He very much
was given a career.
Well, I don't know
if that's true.
I think so.
MTV was what made him.
Was he the MTV guy?
Yeah.
He was perfect for that.
Yeah, if my mother
was the king
of the comedy store,
I wouldn't necessarily
have the same career.
Queen of the comedy store.
That's what that what the American version of The Crown will be about her.
Her time running the comedy store.
I think there is actually a TV show.
Maybe Jim Carrey is producing it?
Oh, yeah.
Or wasn't that a while ago?
No, no.
I don't think it's come out yet.
It's like about that era at the comedy store.
Oh, yeah.
And they're like, are there real names of real comedians in it?
Yeah.
Or are people kind of playing like, I'm a hybrid of Sam Kinison.
And Jay Leno.
Well, what would that sound like?
A little something.
But yeah, the. So what goes on on dance it's a young girl from the country uh-huh she wants to
dance so she goes to sydney biggest city in all of australia uh the opera house a bridge is
featured pretty prominently uh those cable cars the rights of roni yeah yeah yeah um uh
a miniature eiffel tower uh these are things that could exist in sydney possibly yeah uh she goes to
the dance academy guys it's not what she thought it was gonna be what but that's not a bad thing
no she narrates the show so at the end of every episode, there's kind of like, you know, like Doogie Howser style.
There's just kind of like a moral, like, you know.
But I learned that if you try, you're fine and that's okay.
Or the other Sex and the City is the other one.
Sure.
Yeah.
And speaking of flip phones.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it was weird.
I didn't know what era this show took place in until I saw Flip Phone.
And then I was like, huh.
It's weird, because otherwise it was just like it could have been.
But I guess I don't expect a show to have a lot of people looking at their phones all the time.
That's left out of a lot of dramatic production.
Anyways, you know, she loves, she learns.
Is she a good dancer? Yeah, yeah she's fine the teacher says she's
got like a lot of promise right she's got no polish she's too raw yeah she's going to dance
from all those weird spiders now i'll tell you what there was an episode i was like surely before
this episode came on i was like there's going to be an episode that deals with this.
What do you think is an inevitable episode of a show that takes place in a posh dance academy?
Does she meet somebody?
Posh.
No.
Spice.
No.
She meets somebody from the streets.
Oh.
He shows her.
Very smart.
Someone from the streets. Very smart. smart someone from the streets very yeah and he
shows her his style of street dance right and she incorporates it into her oh right yeah is this uh
do they have street people in australia i thought it was just the people from the billabong
um i don't yeah you know they have toughss They have syphus Yeah they got syphus
They've got
Didgeridoo
Yeah they got
Oh
That's a thing
A lot of people
In the show
Wearing Uggs
Cause I guess
That's where it
Came from
But just incidentally
Not
You know
Product placement
Yeah yeah
But anyway
So yeah
She meets a guy
Young youth
From the streets
Who teaches her
A young youth
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah.
These aren't senior citizens in the show.
These are young youths in Australia.
And you know what?
I can't.
I'm dreading running out of Sydney.
We open on young youth walking down the street.
Yeah.
Wearing Uggs.
Didgeridoo rolled up under his armpit. Rolled up?
He goes to the beach.
Unrolls his didgeridoo. Unrolls his yoga mat.
There's gotta be
something that turns into a didgeridoo.
We just don't see it because we don't
need a didgeridoo for our
purposes. But in Australia, you gotta have
a didgeridoo. Yeah, yeah. But I think any
paper towel tube
that you put up to your mouth and go,
that's a didgeridoo, right?
A straw looking like a didgeridoo,
to actually use as a straw, but it looks like a didgeridoo,
that would be a tourist item.
Oh, that would be a good souvenir.
Oh, like a little skinny little didgeridoo.
Yeah, that would be nice.
I'd buy that.
Sure, well well You know what
There's still time
That's the great thing
That's the great thing
About now
You guys
And that would be like
The last sentence
Of an episode
Of Dance Cat
That's the great thing
About
Meow
Meow
Meow
Meow
Meow
Chik chik chik
Caw caw
A ooga
Oog I'm failing on rules Serve sup Knife
Knife
Jump jump
Oh is that an alligator
An alligator please
Alligator dundee
Alligator dundee
Oh boy I'm a young Einstein I hate her, Dundee. Yeah. I hate her, Dundee. Oh, boy.
I'm a young Einstein.
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Overheard.
Overheard.
Now, Graham.
Yes, sir.
In the break, we just watched the video for Might As Well Go First.
Sure.
We sure did.
Here's what we got wrong.
They don't play Giant Turkey Leg as guitar.
They were in the TV a lot longer than we expected.
Yeah.
And then they were in the fridge.
And there was a crowd of people in the egg, like, butter area.
And then there's also Kim Mitchell.
He's tiny size, full size, ghost ball.
Ghost ball, and then turns into a can of soda.
Yeah.
And then the kid drinks the can of soda that was previously Kim Mitchell.
And friends.
And the message is, don't drunk boat.
Yep.
We got that right.
Yeah.
In memory of some water scare.
Yeah.
Now, overheards, segment where we hear things out there in the world,
and we share them here on the podcast.
We always like to start with the guest.
My overheard is a boat. So how is that? is that yes what well it's it's a yacht uh let me back up yes please
uh on the seawall cole harbor that marina cole harbor marina there's a uh yacht with the name
uh fish and chicks uh-huh yeah and there was a american uh young tourist family that were
walking on the seawall and the the man saw it laughed and said that's what i'd named my yacht
and then it's too late it's already named yeah and then the mom says to the like old 10, 11 year old, I know what you'd call your, I know what you'd call your boat.
He's like, what?
He's like, cheese pizza.
That's pretty good.
That's what an 11 year old loves.
Love a yacht named cheese pizza.
That's a good yacht for an 11 year old.
I know what you'd name yours.
Let's say it together.
On three.
I couldn't wait.
Cheese Pizza.
What would you name your yacht?
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
Guys?
Naughty Yachty.
That's for you?
Yeah.
Mine would be Fish and Tits. Yeah would be, uh, fish and tits.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I take mine back.
Mine is also fish and tits too.
Sure.
Uh, the minnow.
Yeah.
Uh, Titanic 3.
Titanic 2?
Where's the Titanic 2 at?
It sunk too.
Oh, yeah.
It sunk trying to go down and rescue the first one
Was that James Cameron?
Yeah
He was the boat pilot
Who's the most famous living boat person?
Oh
Richard Branson
He seems to be on a boat a lot of times
Little Yachty
Rapper Little Yachty.
Rapper Little Yachty.
He's Mr. Worldwide.
Sometimes he travels by boat.
James Cameron or is he Mr. Submarine?
Well, Mr. Submarine is Mr. Submarine.
The sandwich store.
That's what I would name my boat.
Mr. Sub.
Yeah, I don't know.
The Quiznos Express.
Well, probably one of the guys on one of those, like, the deadliest cat shows.
Probably.
Or one of those ice road truckers.
Yeah, that got lost, forgot what their job is.
Do we catch crabs?
Dave, do you have an overheard?
Let me tell you, a lot of truckers catch crabs.
Mine is, it's been a very rainy few weeks here in Vancouver.
I think in October we had rained 28 days and uh so far in november
rain almost every day yeah yeah i think like 100 of days um and then there was one day when it was
actually sunny in the morning and uh abby and i were our um our midwife is in a rough neighborhood
but she's tough she's a tough man oh yeah yeah yeah take care of herself midwife is in a rough neighborhood, but she's tough.
She's a tough midwife.
Oh yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
She can take care of herself.
It's not really a rough neighborhood,
just sort of a sad neighborhood.
Right.
And,
uh,
just this very Canadian interaction,
just,
uh,
this,
you know,
guy down on his luck,
riding a bike,
past a woman he knows who's down on her luck,
just sitting against the building.
Without a bike,
so that was down a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah and he stops his bike and just says fuck it's nice out eh that's somebody you know appreciates the little things exactly you gotta
take a second yeah yeah blue gray skies blue skies are gonna up. Put on a creepy face.
Put on a creepy mask.
It's the purge.
That's the end credit song.
Blue skies are going to cloud up.
Put on a creepy mask.
The purge comes just once a year.
So get out there and do that task not bad sure um sure look i didn't have a lot of time to write it and it's to the tune of huey lewis and the news
i i need a new drug oh really you you didn't get it right at all What was the song?
Ghostbusters?
Was it the new drug?
Yeah Oh but I didn't get the tune right
Yeah yours was to put on a happy bit
I know I fucked up
I want a new purge
With a wound that won't make me kill
With a wake that makes me
Be a master
And while I do that task
yeah
yeah
what a new person
my overheard is actually
it's an overseas
okay
I was in a
Vancouver
kind of
like
long standing restaurant
called Nick's Spaghetti House.
Oh, you know, Spaghetti Mouse is named after Nick's Spaghetti House.
What?
What is Spaghetti Mouse?
It's a racehorse.
Charlie Demers taught us that like three years ago.
I do not remember this fact.
I've never been to Nick's Spaghetti House.
Is it good?
Yeah.
And it's very like with the the gingham uh
i hardly know them and like kind of the leather uh booths and it's it's very of a very particular
era back when the queen invented rock and roll yeah there's pictures of her doing that crazy
walk the duck walk yeah it's just spaghetti like dry spaghetti yeah um and uh there was a bit of
graffiti in the bathroom right above the urinal that just said uh steve pearson dyes his hair oh
no i know yeah oh man it was supposed to be just between you and you and me die salesman would
either of you dye your hair?
Oh, I mean, you've been a punk your whole life.
Yeah.
So you've had dyed all sorts of crazy colors.
Yeah.
But would you dye to trick people?
Like to cover gray or something?
I don't know.
And you're a working actor.
Yeah.
So you have to trick casting directors every day.
Yeah.
I've been dyed before where they were like, you are going to dye your hair.
Right.
But yeah, I don't know.
Do you do it yourself?
Or if you just go to a hairdresser?
They do it.
Does it look realistic?
Or is it realistic for the camera?
It's like when you walk into a store store later everyone looks at you like you're
not fooling anyone that looks like shoe polish this works on camera trust me and this isn't
real blood it's camera blood yeah i'm just here to buy some raisinets um uh yeah no i've never
i've never dyed my hair Because it's very fair
So it wouldn't
The transition from dyed
If I let it grow would be very gross
Oh, right, right, right
I bleached it when I was a late teen
When you went through your slim shady face
Well, I never had it that short
And then I would spike it out
And then i threw out
very frosted tipping which was uh it didn't hurt me at all yeah yeah yeah that was uh that was
like b44 was around exactly yeah otown was just on the horizon i last week on the show we mentioned
otown yeah and they had that song, Liquid Dreams. Yeah.
I looked up their album.
Do you remember O-Town?
They're a boy band formed by Lou Pearlman.
On a TV. Rhea Pearlman's son?
Rhea Pearlman's son.
Yep.
Yep.
The very same.
On the TV show something.
It was a reality show.
Yeah.
Making the band or something.
Yeah.
Okay.
Crazy.
And it was, their big hit was called Liquid Dreams, which was about a reality show. Making the band or something. Crazy. And it was their big hit was called Liquid
Dreams, which was about wet dreams.
Wow. Or nocturnal
emissions. That's, you know, that's
what I learned from Degrassi. We can't call it
wet dreams. How about liquid
dreams? Yeah, well,
the current working title is Moist
Dreams.
Moist memories. And. Moist Memories.
And I looked up their album, and that's the number, like the first song on the album.
The second song on the album is called Every Six Seconds, which is about how often he thinks about sex.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
Third track, splooge, splooge fest.
The O is definitely Orgasm Town.
Well, they were from Orlando.
Okay.
Home of the big O. Home of the big O.
Home of the big O.
Yeah, and yeah, on
tour, they would all come.
They sure would.
I mean, I don't even have to finish it.
They already have.
Now, we also have overheard sent into
us from people all over the place. If you want
to send one into us, you can send it in to spy at maximumfund.org.
This first one comes from Darren from right here in Vancouver.
Hi, Darren.
I was on a plane recently, and the guy sitting behind me had just returned to his seat and said to his wife,
going pee was the best idea I ever had.
You should patent it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It feels so good.
That's my liquid dreams.
Just peeing.
Oh, I used to get those dreams,
and they came true every time.
Yeah, don't let anybody tell you
the dreams don't come true.
A lot of times if you dream, you're peeing.
Because if you ever have a dream, you're peeing.
You're probably peeing. Probably peeing.
This next one comes from Ted in Australia.
Oh, Dance Academy.
You bet.
This is overseen in an elevator.
Overseen at a dance academy.
Yeah, a girl twirling.
But kind of street style.
Like maybe she learned something from the streets.
Overseen in the elevator in a friend's apartment.
Like notice with the phone numbers that you can tear off.
Wanting to rent a car space.
Also available for babysitting.
So sure.
Yeah.
Don't put up two posters.
Get that message across all in one.
And maybe tradesies.
Yeah.
Oh, there you go.
Let me use your car space.
Yeah.
I wish there was a word.
Let me sit in my car.
Is there a word that, oh, I wish there was a term for where you put your car.
Where you park your car.
Yeah.
It seems like that's maybe what the British people call it.
Car space?
A car space.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or Australians.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What do British people call a car?
They call a parking lot a car park.
Right.
A car park.
And then you car park on a driveway.
This last one comes from Patrick K. in Chicago, Illinois.
We'll be in Chicago, Illinois in February as part of the very, very fun thing.
Yeah.
Good plug, Dave.
How do you get tickets, Dave?
Internet.
Okay.
Google very, very fun.
Then our names.
And then your social security number.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then upload a picture of my embryonic.
Upload one.
From an old teen meat magazine.
From your memory card.
I was at a Renaissance festival.
Uh-huh.
Where there was jousting and old-timey clothing and Shakespearean English. All the other hallmarks of a Renaissance festival where there was jousting and old timey clothing and Shakespeare in English.
All the other hallmarks of a Renaissance festival to my dying day.
I will not forget the experience of overhearing a teenage boy ask his friend.
The Renaissance was in the 1920s, right?
Yeah.
The Great Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby, flappers, you know.
Jousting.
Michelangelo.
Both painter and turtle.
Oh, man, I'd love to see 20s Ninja Turtles.
If anybody out there on the internet is bored, 1920s Ninja Turtles.
Yeah, do it up.
Do it up.
Now, in addition to overheards that are written in, we also accept your phone calls.
If you would like to call us, please dial this number.
1-844-SPY-POD1.
That's one.
Ugh.
SpyPod 1.
Like these people have. 14,000 times a day.
Woo.
14,000 times a day.
14,000 times a day.
Oh, getting harder all the time.
Yeah, why would you want to?
Let it out. It's been five.
Every six seconds my body starts playing.
Your sweet thing is wrecking me.
Now just the ladies.
10 times a minute.
600 times an hour.
Alright, phone call song.
Wow.
It really just comes down to the math of the song.
14,000 times a day.
10 times a minute.
That's actual math rock yeah exactly here uh this is a question that was not o-town related but ninja no i won't accept it why uh this is good
do you think the ninja turtles would be into flatbread that you get it like a tapas well
because they like pizza yeah they like pizza but they've never specifically said that they like that form.
Anyways, phone calls?
They said exactly they like that form.
Oh, yeah, I guess.
A lot.
They love pizza, but, you know, flatbread?
Mm-hmm.
Not pizza.
It's a bit smaller.
A bit more irregular shape.
Did they have a weapon that shot pizzas out?
In the cartoon show, yes.
Oh, but not in real life?
Well, not in the movies.
I don't think they had a pizza cannon.
That'd be silly.
It's such a waste of resources.
Yeah.
And you have to...
Are they fresh pizzas?
No, they're these pizzas that as soon as you open them,
they start degrading.
Yeah, don't worry, Gloves.
Overheard phone calls.
Hey, Dave and Graham and possible guests.
This is Fox Holiday calling in with an overheard.
I was having a Sorkin-esque walk and talk with my boss when his cell phone rang.
He stopped, he answered it and said, yep, yep, yep.
Now you lost me there when you started talking about the prostate thing.
I saw on TV and read an article that you don't need to have your prostate checked.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Well, you seem pretty confident for somebody who doesn't have one, ma'am.
Oh, I have heard that you just get a blood test now.
Yeah, there is now.
Oh, I thought they could just put a,
like a rubber glove up
and inflate it in there.
Or is it like
when you go to the airport
and they're doing the pat down,
they're like,
do you want to go on the machine
or would you like the old school?
Yeah.
I would go.
I always,
at the airport,
go old school.
Never had the prostate exam,
but,
you know what?
I want,
I want the full,
whatever's the full deal. Whatever I'm allowed. Yeah want i want the full whatever is the full deal whatever i'm allowed
yeah i want the top treatment so give me both give me the blood test and supersize it
i'm ordering off menu so i yeah i haven't had the prostate exam. I've had them just look for stuff up there. Yeah, yeah.
Treasure this here.
Anything in particular?
Well, sometimes I'll call the doctor and say, hey, have you seen my keys?
Yeah.
Do you know where in the world Carmen Sandiego is?
Well, there's one place we haven't seen.
Yeah, well, I found the loot and the warrant.
Paul, your thoughts. You ever had the exam uh yeah I had it once for I thought for a roll yeah for a roll I need my hair dyed and I still have to check my prostate
pretty good pretty good pretty good um no yeah I've heard that now it's really just like a vanity project.
Yeah, like you're going in and just, yeah, you don't have to get it done, but there's still people that will do it.
Yeah, I'm paying for the detailing here.
Here's your next phone call.
Every six seconds, my wiener.
Hello, this is Dominic from Denver.
Every six seconds, my wiener.
Hello, this is Dominic from Denver. I work at a high school, and I was traversing the hallway when I overheard a male staff member saying to a male high school student,
you need to stop going to the restroom to touch yourself.
And then the high school student replied, well then what the hell
else am I supposed to do all day?
Thank you.
That's a real O-Town conundrum.
And also, you know what? If you're gonna do that,
probably go do it in the bathroom.
Don't encourage a kid not
to use the bathroom for that activity.
Like, wait, why are you
using the bathroom? We have a perfectly good gymnasium for you to touch yourself in.
You know what I mean?
Plus, it gets you to focus on your studies.
Otherwise, like from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., you're just chasing that dragon.
You're just thinking about when you're going to get your next score.
Chasing that dragon.
Oh, boy.
That was not something I ever did at school.
No.
But I did plenty in my own time.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't think I would have felt.
Extracurricular.
Yeah, I wouldn't have felt safe to be doing that.
Yeah.
I have many friends in high school that would not maybe not brag but they talk about how they do it at
work all the time uh-huh because how they felt like they were getting paid for it like somehow
it was a fuck you to the boss yeah which it kind of is i guess yeah but in those type of
establishments guess what the boss is doing yeah same thing yeah he's like this is a real fuck you to my employees what kind of places were these people
working one was an electrician oh jesus in a porta potty i don't think i could ever
oh i thought it was like he's up in the he's up in the the crawl space or whatever
wiring something that's oh Yeah, porta potty.
That's like something out of Jackass.
Can Steve-O go and
rub one out of his nose
and try to...
Alright, here's your final overheard.
Hi guys. I'm calling in
overheard. I'm at a little kid's
birthday party with my son.
And a little three-year-old boy just
walked up to me and said,
I'm not allowed to have Coke
because I ran in a circle
and then threw up.
That's like my friend.
Yeah, like your friend, old Coke bottle Jones.
Oh, man.
Yeah, I remember
when I was a kid, we would always
run around in a circle around the coffee table and one Christmas, I was a kid We would always Like run around In a circle
Around the coffee table
And one Christmas
I was chasing my cousin
Around the coffee table
And she fell face first
Into the fireplace
And broke her tooth
No I definitely
Yeah
Yeah
I
The armrest of a couch
I once
Hit my face on
And my teeth
Went through my lip
Oh Like yeah I still have a little scar there Eesh armrest of a couch I once hit my face on and my teeth went through my lip.
Oh!
I still have a little scar there.
Childhood injury.
Yes, that's exactly what it was.
I'm sure that's when I last told the story.
Wow. Yeah, did that stop you from goofing around or
did you not? I didn't learn
my lesson at all. I would still chase
my brothers around the coffee table. Oh, and I did it by myself.
Somebody gave you coke and you ran around in a circle.
I had McDonald's in my hand.
I was running to go eat it.
I was cold by the time I stopped bleeding.
Oh, man.
That's the hardest pill to swallow as a kid.
Delayed gratification.
Well, that's the whole
entirety of the show
what?
yeah
what would you like
to plug there Paul?
well I guess
talent time
yeah
Paul Anthony's
talent time
if you're in town
it's the first Thursday
of every month
at the Rio Theater
that's in Vancouver
if that's the town
you're in
if that's the town
that you're in
if you're in O-Town,
then it's every six seconds.
Oh, boy.
But we got a YouTube channel
because we shoot the live show
and we edit it into like
30-minute television programs
that airs on public access here.
So that's, you know,
YouTube.com.
No, no.
Go to talenttime.biz.
There you go. There's biz business like show business.
That's true.
And you did a little thing with your hand.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's where all the episodes are nicely arranged and clips and stuff like that. Cool.
I just started an Instagram a couple of months ago and it's,
uh,
at talent time TV and Twitter's at talent time.
That's everything.
That's it.
Yeah.
Um, go out there on the internet and really have
a day.
Lots of stuff.
Dave,
we're doing that thing in Chicago.
I want to just give a shout out to The Purge.
Oh, sure.
Our new single theme from The Purge.
Here's my top three
tips for The Purge this year.
You know what? Make your own mask.
Don't buy a store-bought mask.
Make your own mask. It's fun.
It brings the family
together. It's folksy. It's not wasteful.
You're not, you know. Yeah, you know.
Turn an old pizza box
into a mask. Glue with
macaroni glued on. Whatever you want.
You know, that's what's great about making your own math.
Number two, go with group.
Don't go out there by yourself.
You might get your lip through your tooth.
Absolutely.
Your cousin might fall over and her teeth get knocked out.
That's why I didn't learn a lesson because my teeth are fine.
And that's why to this day you race around coffee
table when i see one i can't stop in every coffee shop thinking about it every six seconds running
around a coffee table that's your every six oh yeah all day long i dream of whatever um coffee
table and uh number three don't drink. Go for a soda. Nice.
We will be in Banff in March.
March 4th.
We will be in Chicago in February.
February 11th.
Tickets, we'll post a link in the episode recap if tickets are still available to both of those events
and speaking of
the episode recap
it's available
at stoppodcastingyourself.com
pictures and videos
of the things
we talked about
on this episode
I can't imagine
we'll have any
Kim Mitchell
oh man
that video's gotta be in there
everyone needs to check it out
sure
that video
maybe O-Town
uh huh
Purge
Dance Academy
Dance Academy absolutely oh yeah that's what, Purge. Dance Academy. Dance Academy, absolutely.
The Crown.
Oh, yeah, that's what I want to plug.
Dance Academy.
Okay.
Three seasons available on Netflix Canada.
Ooh.
I would like to plug The Crown.
Yep.
It stars John Lithgow as Winston Churchill.
Perfect casting.
And he might, I don't know if he'll die this season, but he'll die eventually.
Yeah, that's true. And that'll probably uh, I don't know if he'll die this season, but he'll die eventually. Yeah,
that's true.
And that'll probably,
that'll be a sowed.
Uh,
is there,
is there a time when they live together,
like on friends and then they switch apartments?
Yup.
They,
uh,
they lose a bat.
The queen.
Because,
uh,
because the queen didn't know,
uh,
the,
the name to Winston Churchill's TV guide.
Yeah.
Uh,
Winston Churchill's TV guide. Yeah. Winston Churchill.
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