Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 457 - Mark Chavez
Episode Date: December 19, 2016Pajama Man Mark Chavez returns to talk jet flying, snow, and not flying. Also, our annual Secret Santa gift exchange....
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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 457 of Stop Podcasting Yourself.
My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who wishes you nothing but cheer and holidays.
Mr. Dave Shumkis.
Yeah.
And please put a penny in the old man's hat.
And we've been over this before.
If you haven't got a penny Hey penny
That's fine
Look
A hey penny will suffice
Yeah a hey penny is plenty
If you haven't got a hey penny
I'm praying for you bitch
What is this from?
A Christmas is coming
The goose is getting fat
Please do put a penny
In the old man's hat
If you haven't got a penny
A hey penny will do If you haven't got a penny, a hey penny will do.
If you haven't got a hey penny, then God bless you.
Gorgeous around.
Yeah, that's a lot of fun.
So does somebody sneeze during that song?
Huh?
Does somebody sneeze during that song?
Oh, God bless you?
Yeah.
If you haven't got a hey penny, hold up a second.
Gesundheit.
And that voice you hear is the sound of our guest,
three-time returning champ to the podcast,
very funny comedian, one half of the comedy duo The Pajama Men, Mr. Mark Chavez.
Hi, everyone.
Hi, Mark.
Good to be back.
Welcome.
Welcome to Canada.
Thank you.
Yeah, welcome to the This Is Our Christmas episode.
So let's all, everybody grab a hot mug of nog.
Can you imagine?
Grab my nog?
We used to do a holiday episode, but now that Trump's in charge, we're not allowed to say holiday anymore.
Nothing to celebrate.
Boy, is egg nog gross.
It is gross.
In theory and in practice.
In theory?
And in practice. But theory and in practice.
But it's okay.
Are there other types of nog?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Spaghetti nog.
Beef nog.
Yeah, it's an Italian drink.
What?
Should we get to know us?
Yeah.
Get to know us. Do you drink egg nog around this time of year?
You do not? I drink it 365.
Oh, really?
Start every day with an eggnog smoothie.
August, you have some hot summer nog?
What do you put in it?
You put brandy in it?
No, what do you put in eggnog?
Rum.
Oh, summer nogs.
From Greece.
I could see Nog, much like a mini egg or whatever,
that, remember, you only used to be able to get those around Easter.
Cadbury eggs and mini eggs.
Now those are year-round.
But they'll still make them seasonal.
They'll have Halloween eggs.
They're finding a way to repackage all of them.
But, like, why doesn't Nog come out at Halloween?
Sure.
You know.
Can it be,
like,
it's just nowhere?
That's really funny.
It really only comes out
kind of in a,
it comes out
of a chicken's butt.
It's the weirdest thing.
But also out of a cow's under?
You have to shake
a chicken up
and give it a squeeze.
Really making me ill.
What is it? It's like bad milk and an egg a squeeze. Really making me ill. What is it?
It's like bad milk and an egg cracker?
It's fine milk.
It's bad milk?
I think it's a rotten egg.
I think it's cream.
Have you ever had it made fresh or have you only ever had it out of a...
Yeah, I think my mom tried to make it one year and I think the consensus was store bought, store bought.
Abby's dad makes it fresh, but he's whipping eggs for, it's tough because you have to,
you cook the eggs a bit, but not so much that they solidify.
Oh, okay.
And you're whipping them.
Like you hard boil them?
No, no, no, no.
Like you boil them or you just, you crack them and cook them?
You crack them.
I think you're whipping as they're heated up in, maybe in the cream, or I don't know.
But then-
So you got to keep it in motion, always in motion.
Oh, and you have to drink it so quickly.
Because it solidifies everything.
Oh, no, it becomes two different things.
It becomes, it separates.
Oh, right.
Oh.
Okay.
So do you, if you buy a store nog, that doesn't ever separate.
There's got to be a problem.
Does it?
If you leave it out, maybe?
Yeah, I'd give it a shake.
I like it.
Abby bought a liter of it in November, and I was like, too soon, not happening.
Yeah.
She's like, I want to introduce the, Margo needs to learn about eggnog.
Start them early.
Yeah.
When does a baby transition from formula to nog?
Two years.
We get Similac eggnog.
Yeah.
Is it,
it's,
it's amongst the weird holiday foods that only come out at this time of year.
It's like a, it foods that only come out at this time of year.
It's like a, it's the reason for veganism.
It's like, I could be vegetarian and then I found out about eggnog.
But like there's mulled wine.
Isn't that, that's like the real thing.
Oh yeah. I had some of that the other night.
That is good stuff.
So what is that
that's hot wine and spices yeah so it sounds like it sounds terrible yeah it does wine sounds bad
but yeah you put like a orange in there and some honey or something like a cinnamon stick sachet
of cloves or something yeah i think you put santa's hand but then doesn't it doesn't boiling
an alcohol doesn't that boil off the best part of the alcohol?
I think the key word is boil.
Yeah.
Oh, you're mulling it.
Yeah.
You just eat it.
And then you just have it hot.
Do people then also add like a shot of rum to it?
Maybe.
Oh, maybe.
Yeah, because I've had it before and I remember thinking it's just like, it's so spicy, not like hot spicy, but just like, ah, so many spices.
I put some Frank's Red Hot in there.
I like, I dip my mulled wine in blue cheese just to cool my mouth down.
But I think any, like, I'm having a coffee at two in the afternoon right now as we're recording this, which is late
for me. Yeah. But late for coffee. Yeah. Um, but, uh, any, when it's this cold out, anything warm
in a mug is the best. Oh, it's so nice. Holding with both your hands. You can mull whatever you
want. Mull me a crystal light. Mull me an eggnog. Mulled nog.
Oh, yeah.
Why not?
Well, that's what basically like an eggnog latte is a hot nog drink.
And people drink that like it's not the most insane thing in the world. They are.
Have you had any of those?
No.
Because Starbucks does.
They'll do a pumpkin.
I've had.
I tried a pumpkin spice latte last year.
What did you think? Yeah. Again, it tried a pumpkin spice latte last year. What'd you think?
Yeah, again, it's like, ah, too spicy.
What do you think about pumpkin pie?
Oh, I love it.
The best.
I think that's a divisive.
Are you anti?
I love it.
Yeah?
Yeah, but I wouldn't, yeah.
Do you think it's, oh, I guess it is kind of a divisive pie.
Some people are kind of freaked out by it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, there's no squash pie. There's no like other type. by it. Yeah. Yeah. Like, but there's no squash pie.
There's no like other type.
No,
no gourd pie.
Gourd pie.
There's no other gourd pie.
Although,
apparently most of what's in a can of pumpkin pie mix
is just assorted gourds.
Right.
It's like stuff that,
I mean,
it's not like,
you know,
hot dog meat where it could just be different parts of animals.
It's all like, oh, this is the pumpkin neck in this.
Yeah.
Like, oh, don't buy the canned stuff.
This is the bottom of the barrel of what pumpkin.
That weird little thing on the bottom.
Yeah, the other stem.
There's no one at the, one at the pumpkin pie filling factory.
They don't use the pumpkin for anything else.
They're not sending the best pumpkins, you know.
Oh, yeah.
I guess to space.
But there's got to be cheaper, shittier gourds than a pumpkin, I assume.
I don't know.
But pumpkins seem to grow pretty rampantly.
Why is pumpkin the only gourd that we eat, right?
What are the other gourds?
Good question.
Oh, there's the rumpkin
and the plumpkin.
Plumpkin you would think
was good.
The munchkin.
They come out of Christmas.
I think we do eat other gourds.
Aren't there like,
isn't like a squash a gourd?
If squash is a gourd,
then that answers that question.
Yeah, I think if squash
is a gourd,
there's that one
that looks like a dick.
Peanut squash.
No, dick squash.
You want some dick squash?
Dick squash pie.
Dick squash pie.
Just out of the oven.
Is there anything like when you go eat with the family that it's like a weird thing that, uh, a family member makes every holiday.
Well, we have like a weird holiday food.
It might be weird to people who aren't from New Mexico where green chili is put into literally anything that could be put in.
So there's like casseroles that have, it's like broccoli cheese and a shitload of green chili.
So you make it hot?
Spicy?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Really spicy.
It has a unique flavor and it's very, yeah, it's very hot.
Would you do something to the turkey to make it hot?
You stuff it with green chili.
Whoa, green chili.
No, no, no.
I haven't really seen that, but it wouldn't be out of the question.
Is it, because you grew up in Albuquerque.
And so Christmas does not there's
no snow right so no there is so new mexico is uh it has all four uh seasons it's really it's called
a high desert because it's very elevated so the summer's very hot we get monsoon season and then
in the winter it does snow uh not you know it's not guaranteed white christmas but it does snow
and then there's something We do out there
Called um
Luminarias
Or luminarias
Which is uh
Taking a paper bag
And filling it with sand
And putting a candle in it
And you do a ton of those
And you decorate
Like the parapet wall
On the top of your roof
And then your sidewalk
And then all the neighbors
Will do it as well
And it's just like
This beautiful
And it's only on Christmas Eve
And so
And so every
The whole city
Just kind of lights up with these like fire hazards.
That's a fun.
Yeah.
Fire hazards as far as the eye can see.
Yeah, like you'll go, and then they've been marketing fake ones.
So you can go to like a Walgreens or, you know, like whatever, like a CVS and buy these like fake paper bags, which are plastic,
and have a light bulb in them.
Perfect.
Yeah.
They took away the one thing that was like biodegradable.
Yeah, yeah.
We'll put it in a plastic bag,
so you can't get rid of that ever.
Yeah, I was looking at,
there's a taco place near here,
and their big Christmas display is like
a skeleton guy.
Please let me dead.
And then I looked online, and there's kind of a Day of the Dead crossover with Christmas
maybe in Mexico.
Oh, right.
Did that carry over into New Mexico or no?
No, I mean-
There was no Skull Christmas?
There's definitely a lot of Day of the Dead stuff in New Mexico, but it doesn't go to skull.
The skull.
Too new.
Yeah.
Too new in that Mexico.
Have you seen Spectre?
What?
The James Bond movie?
No, no.
There's a thing.
The Day of the Dead thing.
Oh, yeah.
That's cool.
That's right.
I watched those James Bond movies
on airplanes
and I get so lost and bored. Oh yeah That's cool That's right I watch those James Bond movies On airplanes And I
I get so
Lost and bored
Yeah the new ones
Are real
They're real
Meander
Or meandering
Kind of like
Think
Think movies
And like
I don't
I can't keep up
With the villains
And everybody
Looks the same
Everybody kind of
Looks like James Bond
Yeah
I saw the
First one With him in it the new
guy well he's not new anymore he's like status quo james bond yeah what's his name george lazenby
yeah and i liked it but then i don't maybe i saw was the next one the one that had uh quantum of
solace was the next one i think yeah first one was The first one was Casino Royale. Casino Royale. Quantum of Solace.
Skyfall?
Skyfall and Spectre.
Spectre.
Which one had Javier Bardem?
I think Skyfall.
Maybe that's the one I saw on the plane.
Was he super erotic in it?
Was he like an erotic villain?
They've all blended together.
I can't even remember.
I think I've seen all of them, and I don't...
Who was the bad guy in
the new one? Christoph Waltz?
Oh, yeah. Maybe. I haven't seen it.
Inspector Gadget, actually. Oh, really?
Weird. Weird choice.
Yeah, very weird choice.
I'd be on board if they brought it
in a crossover.
Oh, yeah. Like
a crossover of another spy
like Johnny English?
Who are the best non-James Bond spies?
Oh, God, that's a good one.
Tinker Tailor soldier spy.
Yeah.
Is Jason Bourne a spy?
Sure.
He was an op.
He's not a spy, though.
What's that Tom Hanks movie that came out where he did all that kind of...
Oh, Bridge of Spies?
Yeah, Bridge of Spies.
Oh, Bridge of Spies. He was an of Spies. Oh, Bridge of Spies.
He was unaccounted or something.
Why would all the spies be on one bridge?
Well, they got to hang out somewhere.
Yeah, right.
And they can't hang out at a bar.
That's too obvious.
So they hang out on a bridge.
Did you see that movie?
Yeah.
It was a real dad movie.
Yeah.
As a dad, I was like, that's how I'm spending my Sunday afternoon.
My kid's napping.
I'm paying iTunes to watch Bridge of Spies.
Well, is it based on a true story?
No, it takes place in space.
Space Bridge.
Yeah, it's based on a true story.
And he loses his coat, and it's very cold.
Yeah. He's an unsung hero until this movie had come it's a movie about uh like how do communists have so much red
tape it really is it's like it's like you could go stand in a long line at the dmv instead of
watch this and you get the same feeling like It's like, oh, God, this takes forever.
I was entertained.
Well made.
I don't know that I watch a ton of spy movies now that I think of it.
The Tuxedo?
I love a good thriller.
Spy movies would fall under the thriller moniker, right?
Yeah.
I love a thriller. But they're also like, I like a thriller where it's just like some person that's just like a regular person gets thrown into some thrill.
Yeah.
But then when it's like a guy who's kind of.
And the video thriller.
Oh, yeah.
But I like, yeah, when a guy like has all these skills, then it's less exciting for me.
Because I'm like, well, he could just use his skills to get out of this situation.
Yeah, and you know he's going to get out.
Yeah.
Like with Jason Bourne, I don't even understand.
I've only seen the first one, but I don't even understand what's the problem with this guy.
Oh, boy.
Let me tell you.
I've seen them all, and I don't know why they keep going after him.
tell you i've seen them all and i don't i don't know why they keep going after him like yeah he seems to be a pretty quiet guy as long as they don't go after him right he's like spider-man
he's like he keeps people keep getting missed like people are misunderstanding him oh yeah
yeah yeah that's a i always forget that that's kind of like a big part of the spider-man
story it is it's like everyone's, we'll get him one day.
And he's always like, hey, well.
It's been long enough that you think that people would realize that he's actually a good guy.
Yeah, especially when other bad guys show up.
Then they must be like, oh, no, we read this Spider-Man situation wrong.
Yeah.
Actually, that rhino that's destroying the bank.
He's the guy.
The rhino that looks like the guy from Sideways.
Oh, man.
I watched that movie.
Sideways?
No.
The Spider-Man.
The Spider-Man with him in it.
Paul Giamatti.
Oh, Paul Giamatti.
Because Thomas Hayden Church was in a different Spider-Man.
It was a different guy.
Whoa, that's funny.
And Sandra Oh was in another villain.
Yeah, that Spider-Man 2, I'm surprised that didn't kill the-
New Spider-Man 2?
Yeah, new Spider-Man 2 with Jamie Foxx.
Oh, God, that movie was terrible.
I watched that on a plane.
If anyone from that movie is listening, I'm sorry.
Here's the crazy-
Have you seen it?
No.
He's an electric man. I haven't seen Here's the crazy... Have you seen it? No. He's Electric Man.
I haven't seen any of the Garfield ones.
Oh, okay.
They're both...
Because I hate Mondays.
The central conflict between Spider-Man and Electric Man.
Which is his name.
Electric Man.
Can I just imagine
what electric man
looks like?
Ben Franklin?
Yeah, yeah.
With a kite.
He's got a kite
and a key on it.
He,
at the beginning
of the movie,
Spider-Man meets
pre,
before he's electric man
and he's like,
you're my,
you're my guy
on the street.
Thanks man.
Thanks for looking out
or whatever.
And then they meet later and Spider-Man remembers his name.
And I'm like, well, then this guy has no reason to be mad at Spider-Man.
And then I think there's a soundtrack by Skrillex that explains in his head.
Miming, playing keyboards like a marionette.
Get your mime right.
Press elbows.
And anyways, and then he's mad at Spider-Man.
But Spider-Man remembered his name.
And he probably meets a lot of people in a day.
So he gets slighted by Spider-Man?
I don't care.
Yeah, it is a really bad movie to get stuck on. There's a new person playing Spider-Man? I'm all, I don't care. Yeah. Yeah. It is a really big movie to get stuck.
There are, there's a new person playing Spider-Man.
I just saw a trailer.
So I don't know, guys, you like used to be able to, at least it was a generation.
Yeah, I know.
I'm trying to care more about spite.
I could, I really, I don't care at all about about the spider yeah well he
did you see the thing the whatever the not winter soldier civil war yeah so he was in that right
spider-man right and he's like a kid spider-man and aunt may is played by sally field no um
my cousin vinnie oh Marissa Tomei alright
yeah
wow
Marissa Aunt May
yeah
but
sexy Aunt May
oh okay
like it's
even Tony Stark
meets her
and is like
says it for the audience
so that the audience
is like
whew
we were all thinking it
but Tony Stark said it
so it's okay
what did he say to the audience
like it's okay
to be around
this isn't your Aunt May's Aunt May is what he said What did he say to the audience? It's okay to be around.
This isn't your Aunt May's Aunt May, is what he said.
He winked at the camera.
Anyways, yeah, you're right.
There's too many Spider-Men.
That's actually the name of the new one.
Too many Spider-Men.
I don't really follow comic books, but you know how on the comic book there's like eight different Spider-Man comics you can get, too.
Oh, like the amazing Spider-Man.
Yeah.
The spectacular Spider-Man.
The okay Spider-Man.
Yeah.
Nobody buys that.
Spider-Man's holiday.
Just him having snowball fights with Electric Man.
Stop it, Spider-Man.
Ow.
I forgot your name.
I'll zap you.
I'm going to zap you.
But that's the thing.
If he did forget the guy's name.
You're really stuck on this, Graham.
I stopped listening for like three seconds in the middle, and now it's like the plot has passed me by.
But it seems to just be about Spider-Man remembered a guy's name, and the guy was like, you didn't remember my name in Spider-Man
I was like
yeah
I swear that's the plot
of the movie
yeah
Lord
so Mark
oh yeah
guys
what's new
what's new
I've been around the world
a couple times
since the last time
I've been here
yeah you went on
like a crazy like crazy long tour two kind, you went on like a crazy long tour.
I went on a really long tour with Shanoa, a fellow pajama man of the UK and Scandinavia.
That was a lot of fun, a lot of driving.
We had kind of a surly driver slash stage manager, which kept things interesting.
Oh, so you guys didn't have to do any of the driving?
No, well, Shanoa did a couple of times.
We had some really bad planning.
At one point, we had to drive all night to get to London by 3 a.m.
So we could catch a flight to Stockholm in like 9 a.m.
So we could do a show that day in Stockholm.
It was awful.
The shows were good, though.
Yeah, and then that day in Stockholm. It was awful. Yeesh. The shows were good though. Yeah.
And then I was in Australia.
I did a long tour of New South Wales, which was really great.
Got to ride in a jet aircraft, which was like a fighter jet.
Oh, okay.
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
That was crazy.
In Australia?
Yeah.
They have a military?
No.
It was a decommissioned.
They do.
It was a decommissioned jet.
It was like anommissioned jet.
It was like an Italian jet.
Ah.
Ooh, Ferrari.
Yeah, Ferrari jet.
So how did you get to ride in a jet?
There's a guy that is now a friend, but a long time ago would... He didn't remember his name.
He would watch our...
Electric man. but a long time ago would, uh, I didn't remember his name.
Electric man.
He,
uh,
we, we'd watch our shows in Melbourne and then like he emailed us with a picture of his jet.
And he was like,
Hey guys,
would like to take you on my jet.
And we were like,
no,
no,
that's not how I want to die.
I mean, it would be like a spectacular death.
Could you both go at the same time?
No, there's just a two-seater.
So only one of you can die at a time.
Yeah, at a time, yeah.
So the second one can be like, I opt out of this.
Unless he flies into you on the ground.
There you go.
So he took some courting, and then he ended up kind of helping us with our pilot.
Kind of.
He gave us some money, which was really great. And his name is steven and he is a pilot and he is yeah
just anything pilot he says yes to the pilot light i'll fix that and he uh so he took yeah
he took us in turn uh you know what the day before i did like he came back he was like it's amazing
so uh yeah then he took me to the next day.
It was kind of life changing. Like,
cause we flew upside down and like,
we did like,
like loops pulled four G's,
which is something I'd never experienced.
So what is that?
I don't even know what that means.
It means four times,
four times the speed of gravity.
Yeah.
He did like,
uh,
different types of rolls and spins.
And I was like so scared.
Like as the, I'm getting in the thing and like.
Did you have to wear special pants?
Yeah, I wore a G suit.
Which like inflates around.
It feels like it's taking your blood pressure.
It inflates around your arms and legs and keeps all the blood in your core so you don't pass out.
When you pull Gs.
So we, like the canopy lowers,
like, you know,
covers our heads.
And I was like,
oh, this is a really bad idea.
What era,
like, is it a 80s,
90s airplane?
I think it's an 80s plane.
Where did he get it?
He bought it,
I don't know where he,
like, I don't know.
Does he have an aircraft carrier
to take it,
to, like, what?
Or is it, yeah,
it's just sitting on the field?
I don't think he went't i don't think he
went yeah and he just stores it like in a in an airport but he flies it all over the place like
he he uses it instead of a car that can't be he flies it so much fuel efficient yeah yeah and it's
it's crazy and so he so we get it and then i got to fly it like i like because the controls are the
same in both seats and so he's like all right it's
yours and he's like kind of guiding me through it but i got to like turn right and turn left
that's insane and yeah and is he like uh is he an ex-military he is but funnily enough he was in
the air force but he wasn't a pilot in the air force where do you learn how to pilot like i know
you can take but not for a jet can Can you take lessons to pilot a jet?
Yeah, he had a friend who did it and his friend kind of tutored him and then he flies in formation now like for shows and stuff.
Wow.
But the craziest thing is, and I say this with like love for the man because he's become a friend, but he's terribly uncoordinated.
And I didn't know this until after i was teaching the windshield wipers are going off like like it's like i i had
to teach him how to do a high five oh see that's why you learn in the military top gun academy
high five wait a minute you weren't in the military. You can't high five. So you, before you, but he wasn't like, he didn't stumble out of the airplane hangar
and say, pleased to meet you with a bucket on his foot.
No, no.
I mean, he's very, very put together.
He's like searching for his keys.
I just got to find my keys for the airplane.
I just need to look into this turkey.
Uh-oh, it's on my head.
Like the first, like he really went, the first day he was going to take us, the brakes had failed.
There was just like some, so he was doing his checks and the brakes wouldn't work properly.
And he's like, well, they'll work in the backseat, so maybe you can operate.
And we were like, no, no, we'll just do it when the brakes are all fixed.
Wow.
So, yeah, so it's like, it's super tiny?
It's super small.
Yeah.
It's very compact.
And then, like, is your head, like, basically touching the canopy?
Yeah, basically.
I mean, there's room there.
And you have a helmet on?
I have a helmet with a little.
No, I didn't need the oxygen mask, but have a mic because it gets, you know, pretty loud in there.
And then it just feels like it's unlike any experience I've ever had.
You feel like you're floating.
It's so smooth and it takes off so fast that you're like, just suddenly like, it's like a spaceship.
And then he, he took us upside down.
We do this like half roll is like a half loop with a rollout.
So you like, you go all, you go straight up to the, to the sky.
To the moon.
And then to the moon.
And then you, and you turn over and then suddenly gravity takes over because you're
pulling all those four G's, right?
So you just feel it on your back.
Like you're pressing against the seat.
And as soon as you stop, everything kind of shoots up and like things fall and hit the,
and you look up and there's the ocean.
So all of his coins.
Yeah.
All the coins.
Yeah.
If there's a cat, it's like, ah, all confused.
What's happening?
Oh, pardon my kit.
Yeah, because sometimes cats like to sleep on a jet to keep warm,
so you guys do a walk around before you take off.
I was taking care of my friend's cat and car,
and I once drove. Bad news, I can win the two. We were house-sitting cat and car. And I once. Uh-oh. Yeah, I once drove.
Bad news.
I combined the two.
We were house sitting.
My girlfriend and I drove.
Your car went into the bathroom in a box.
And your cat went through a drive-thru.
I drove like, we drove like two or three miles to like across town.
And we get to a gas station.
And they're like, oh, that looks just like Rosie.
Like the cat we were taking care of.
And it crawled into the, you know, whatever the oil pan that cats do underneath the car. and we get to a gas station and they're like, oh, that looks just like Rosie. Like the cat we were taking care of and it
crawled into the, the, you know, whatever the
oil pan that cats do underneath the car.
And it had like gone on the whole ride with us.
How long a ride?
It was like 25 minutes.
Wow.
And we had stopped many times.
And the fact that like the cat hadn't jumped
out before.
Yeah.
It's a, yeah.
So listeners check your car.
Or jet.
Or jet. Check your jet
Now you said
This jet experience
Was life changing
Because it was
A brand new experience
Like I hadn't
I'm gonna ask you
How your life has changed
I'm still the same
Idiot
That I've always been
Yeah
Um
Yeah I've never
Done anything
No with G's
I've stayed away
From G's
Well like a roller coaster Even your phone's Really slow Yeah oh boy Sometimes a roller coaster Um, yeah, I've never done anything. No, with G's. I've stayed away from G's.
Well, like a roller coaster.
Even your phone's really slow.
Yeah.
Oh boy.
Sometimes a roller coaster will pull a G.
Yeah?
Yeah.
You'll feel it.
I don't know.
Yeah.
No thanks.
I don't know.
Not for you.
Ain't nothing but a G thing?
Would you, would you go on a, on one of these aerobatic flights if you were given the opportunity?
I guess if, if I knew guy an australian guy that could
get like get it for free do they crash more often than a regular flight like i feel like at any air
show yeah there's always a yeah oh no i mean it's like it's i don't i mean i don't i didn't look at
the stat i don't know if i'll go again you know like i would rather go on a monster truck than a
jet if i was given the choice between two i know that wasn't your question but i would rather go in a monster truck than a jet. If I was given the choice between the two. I know that wasn't your question, but I would rather go in a monster truck.
Like in an actual like crushing cars.
Yeah, I would want to go crush cars.
That's scary.
Like you'd fall back.
You'd roll backwards most likely.
No.
They always roll backwards.
That's true.
I don't think anyone dies.
No.
Yeah, and I think for the first time where they take you to some pre-crushed cars.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Graham wants to do the Make-A-Wish Foundation version of this.
Yeah, I don't want to go crash civilians' cars.
Yeah, he just wants to meet Shaq.
He wants to have Chris Pratt show up at his hospital bed.
He wants to go on a muscle drive.
Yeah, I want to go on a muscle drive.
He wants to go on a monster truck Yeah I want to go on a monster truck
It's uh
Somebody
They went to school with as a kid
Had an uncle that
There was legend that his uncle
Had a monster truck
There's no
There's no physical evidence
But there were a lot of photos
Of this kid in the monster truck
We don't
Sometimes around here you'll see
And not nearly as much as you would
In other parts of the country or the world, those trucks that are, that have giant wheels.
They're not monster trucks.
They're regular trucks, but they have the giant wheels and they're way off the ground.
Yeah.
And we had our first snowstorm in three years here this week.
And it, I've seen a couple of them just tearing it up.
This is their time.
It's happened.
We have a purpose.
Yeah, it's been a very, yeah, because our city's not equipped for snowfall, but it hasn't been disastrous.
It's really funny how different it is between where where i live in the west end and up on like
up on commercial or up you know this is mount pleasant you're on right now yeah it's so
frozen up yeah yeah back down there it's just like it's never happened like there was just like
nothing but there's also this kind of city-wide assumption that when it snows that like
you're just not gonna get to where you're like people just won't go places. Yeah. Half the cars on my street haven't moved since it snowed on Monday.
Yeah.
And like I was waiting for a bus when it was like really blizzarding.
And then I just realized, oh, that bus is never coming.
Oh yeah.
They quit.
Yeah.
So I just walked like the whole distance.
I was like, well, I guess I'm just walking.
Cause yeah, they, they will.
They'll just like slide into, into something.
And then that's it.
That's the end of that bus route.
I saw six buses go the other way, and not one came back. Oh, downhill.
They must have gone downhill.
We're pulling Gs.
I'm wearing my G suit.
So would you say that was the
highlight of that
kind of world tour?
That was one of the highlights, yeah.
There's things that are kind of
less fun to talk about
like just how nice it is to meet all
these, like to do all these shows.
Oh yeah.
More fun things to talk about.
But yeah, I ate an ant.
There you go.
It tasted like...
Like Aunt May?
Am I right?
Am I right, fellas?
Aunt May.
Yeah, there's these green ants in that part of Australia.
Big?
Yeah, and, like, scary looking.
Like, they're huge, and they're green.
Like Honey, I Shrunk the kids big yeah like you
feel like you just yeah you're riding one right yeah like like what the size of like a house fly
are we talking uh that big or smaller than that yeah like that big like they're not that's pretty
big for an ant and they they make their nests in in trees out of they so uh they take out a needle
and they sew leaves into like a sphere.
So there's like, you can find, if you look up, you'll see these clumps of leaves that are actually there.
What do they sew them with?
Saliva?
Yeah, I think they just use like a...
Or something comes out of their butt.
Yeah, yeah.
That's what everything within...
Nog.
Yeah.
I'm going to stitch it together.
Ant nog.
Sounds a bit weird, ant nog.
So you ate one?
I ate, yeah, I ate one.
It seems like something that they would serve, you know, in a big bowl.
Well, I ate it off the ground.
Like, I ate it, like, it wasn't like at a restaurant.
Is it not a delicacy?
I think what they do there is like you take a ton of them and like mash it up and turn it into kind of a drink.
But it tastes just like eating a lime. lime like it's oh yeah so but like did somebody from there say this is something
we do yeah yeah this my my friend sean who i mean we became friends on this tour because it seems
like something that like oh yeah that uh that's a kobe beef for that that cow is a kobe beef cow
it's a delicacy.
And you walk up and you chomp it.
Okay, I guess I'll eat it.
Oh, no, wait, no.
Delicious.
You weren't kidding.
So you just picked it off the tree?
Yeah, he was like, oh, this food is,
I mean, these answers are food. I can't. I can't do his
accent. He has a very specific, he was like, oh, okay, I'll do it.
Oh, yeah. I'll try that.
It's real good. That's good. Did he do it
first or did he wait in anticipation? No, I heard because Shanoa had told me that he had
done it like four years or five years
ago.
So I knew that it was a thing that could be done.
I just hadn't personally run across his hand.
Did you kill it and then eat it?
Or just throw it in?
Yeah.
Does Shanoa do everything first?
Yeah.
He does everything and then I go, okay, is it okay?
Yeah.
Huh.
You didn't eat it live.
You squished it? I squished it and then ate the butt you just eat the back end oh i see yeah um it sounds really cruel yeah it's like that scene from carl's
what oh yeah i got it there's a bud eating scene
um what uh but it was very it was quick like you would you have another
we were like i gotta have more yeah and i make me the drink i just snacking on them like popcorn
no it kind of numbed my tongue too like it it kind of yeah it hurt also like not hurt but yeah
like those green chilies you put in everything. Exactly. But I don't know what a regular ant tastes like because I've never eaten an ant.
I would imagine acidic and bitter.
I wonder if it would taste limey.
Do you know what the Pink Panther said when he stepped on an ant?
Dead ant.
Dead ant.
He's saying it really.
I've only ever eaten a bug that's flown into my mouth
I haven't ever eaten one on purpose
Did you swallow it?
Like did it go down your throat?
Yeah
I've eaten
Like in the candy stores they sell
Oh like in a thing?
Yeah what do they make?
Like a cricket?
Yeah
Or like a salty cricket?
Yeah
Like some sort of millipede or something like that
A gummy worm?
And they're like But can you taste it?
No, it's like, it tastes like popcorn.
It's just, they've salted up so much in those.
Yeah.
It just tastes like flavor.
I mean, it's got a crunchy texture.
Maybe Vietnam where they would have tarantulas on a stick.
Oh, wow. Yeah. Vietnam Where they would have Tarantulas on a stick Oh wow
Yeah and apparently
That's similar to eating
Like a really crispy
Chicken
Like it's really salty
And I don't know
One time
I don't know why
Anybody eats anything
One time I was hanging
With my then girlfriend
And this little Asian boy
And someone served us
Monkey brain
Where was this?
This would have been
Near the temple of Doom.
You were hanging out with Short Round.
I forget his name.
In the movie, the monkey's head is there
and they lift the top off?
Yeah.
Chilled monkey brain.
So either they put the whole head in the fridge or they take out the brain prepare it somehow and then put it back in the head yeah for presentation
they don't have a lot of refrigeration near the temple of doom
i mean they just like those people but it But it's chilled. You're right. It is chilled.
Chilled monkey brains.
They had eyeball soup, snake surprise, and chilled monkey brains.
Was it really snake surprise? Snake surprise.
Yeah.
And then what's her name says?
What's the surprise?
And then they'd slit the snake and all the little baby snakes come out.
Oh.
It's so bad.
Snake surprise seems like something you'd get in a cafeteria.
Yeah. It should also.
The snake should be the surprise part.
Well, it is.
It's the other.
Yeah, it is more snakes.
Yeah.
But at a fancy dinner, there would still be sides.
You could just be like, I'm just going to eat all sides.
Yeah, do you have rice?
Yeah, rice or a roll.
I'll just eat bread.
I'm vegan.
Yeah.
Oh, I just filled up a bread.
No chilled monkey brains for this guy.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah, they'd look really good.
That monkey didn't even look very,
that didn't look like a very realistic monkey.
No, it looked like a Halloween mask.
Looked like an angry,
like, you know, the gorilla costumes,
the very, like,
looked like a gorilla costume.
But, yeah, then they take the mask off,
and it's just a guy's brain, and they're like,'m not eating just a guy's the phoenix sun's mascot
his brain is he a gorilla yeah why why from phoenix i don't know it's perfect though you're
from that near that part of the world do you have can you shed any light i don't take any
responsibility for arizona but it's it's like you don't the any responsibility for Arizona.
It's like you don't, the way they make a mascot now is like, it's got to be, it's got to represent, you know, the mountains that we come from.
Right.
You got to wear a, you know, he's got to carry a scepter that represents local industry.
But when they made. Wait, you mean there's a real, like, there's a thing about new, like, are there
new mascots coming out?
I feel like everything's already happened.
Like, although there's no new sports.
I think there still are, like, you know...
Well, there's a new NHL team that just got announced.
I assume that the mascot's going to be some sort of knight.
Yeah.
We have, I mean, the Vancouver Grizzlies had Super Grizz.
Mm-hmm. And he was a Grizzly. That makes sense.
But I feel like
the more, they
overthink it now with newer teams.
They'll be like, they will
try to incorporate
all sorts of symbolism.
White caps, all inclusive.
Yeah. Instead of just
being a gorilla in a Phoenix Suns uniform.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, because isn't there, I feel like there's a team where, or maybe a couple teams where it's just like a guy, like it's a guy.
But it's a mascot head, but it's of a guy.
It's not of an animal.
Like maybe the, like Duke.
Yeah, there's cowboys.
I've seen big mascots.
Or like a Viking.
Maybe the Vikings have a guy.
It's just a big guy with a giant Viking head.
Yeah, yeah.
Or Mr. Met.
Who's Mr. Met?
Is he the baseball head?
Baseball head, yeah.
That must have been one of the early on to be like, we're claiming baseball head.
Yeah, that's great.
I mean, it wasn't even.
They were a pretty new team relative to some of the others.
Is there a football head or a basketball head?
I mean, I imagine that exists out there.
Yeah, it just might be a smaller, more regional team.
Yeah.
Is there a hockey puck head?
No.
Well, I mean, there was Peter Puck.
Yeah, and Don Rickles.
Did I talk about the baseball team from Albuquerque last?
I feel like, but how.
No, last time I think you talked about the end of Breaking Bad.
Yeah.
And the, that, uh, a flight you were on with the guy who was completely out of it and sticking.
Oh God.
Chocolate to the screen.
Oh God.
That still, I still have nightmares.
No, the, uh, we're just talking about mascots.
The,
the,
yeah,
I know.
The,
the,
the Albuquerque used to have a baseball team,
a triple A team called the Albuquerque Dukes.
Cause the Duke of Albuquerque was the,
was the guy who found,
I don't know.
Yeah.
But we sold that.
They ended up selling that to Calgary of all places.
Oh really?
Yeah.
The team,
they changed the name or whatever it became.
Right.
Uh,
so we didn't have a baseball team for a while.
And in that,
in that interim of no baseball team,
the Simpsons did a show where they go to Albuquerque and the team name is called the Albuquerque isotope.
Isotopes,
right.
Because New Mexico is the Manhattan project was made.
And so this is like,
and so then we, we made the And so, then we made,
Albuquerque was like,
that's a good idea.
And so, now the team
is called the Albuquerque Ice.
Ah, so they...
They took from the Simpsons.
Yeah.
It's like the Anaheim Mighty Ducks.
And there was uproar at the time
when they announced
that that was the name of the team.
People were furious.
Yeah, I think that's kind of
what happened in Albuquerque.
People were not
enthusiastic about it.
But now,
I bet they sell a ton
of merch.
Do they call it merch with baseball
teams? Uniforms? Hats?
Uniforms and hats.
Does New Mexico have
any major sports teams?
No.
No.
No.
You know, nothing.
No football team.
No.
No.
Not enough money.
Yeah.
I guess.
I don't really know what it takes to have a.
I think it takes money.
I think it just, it's bottom line is like it.
Enough people to fill a stadium.
Yeah.
Consistently.
Do you think it's weird that Las Vegas got a team or do you think that that's a hockey team yeah yeah it's kind of weird right weird necessarily weird that
they got a hockey team before some other places where the hockey is celebrated yeah where it's
so popular it just seems like would people go when you're in vegas because i assume it's not the the
population of vegas they're depending on yeah it. It's the tourism. I guess, yeah.
But, like, would you go to Las Vegas and then go see a hockey game?
If I...
I could see...
I'd want it to be a triple X.
I would...
All nude?
All nude?
Oh, I would want to go see whatever.
Cirque du Soleil presents...
Hockey.
Slapstick.
But I could conceive of people from here
going to watch our team play there.
Oh, yeah.
Just because it's a cheap flight.
But that's a lot to count on.
Yeah, exactly.
I think, I mean, Vegas is so...
Vegas, baby!
Yeah, here's some money! It's hard to kind of imagine just like how many people go through, Vegas is so. Vegas, baby. Yeah. You're so money.
It's hard to kind of imagine just like how many people go through Las Vegas every day.
Like there's a ton.
Yeah.
Millions and millions of people are just hanging out there.
Have you been there as an adult?
Yeah.
And what, did you like it or were you like.
No, it's not for me.
They didn't make Las Vegas for me.
No.
But it's got something for everyone.
Yeah.
As long as you love gambling and prostitution.
Or getting wasted.
Right.
Yeah, which, no, I'm not a big, though I did grow up, I learned how to play craps at an early age because my parents sold gambling strategies online first it was a it was like money first it was
like money and then they kind of my stepdad wrote all these books and like how to and so i learned
his systems but he wasn't it wasn't a big gambler his big gamble was that business and how did it
go well oh yeah it went fine so uh which one did you learn to play with?
Craps?
Craps.
Yeah, I would be the stick.
Yeah.
Yeah, the dice and blackjack.
So is it important who you get to blow on the dice?
Yeah, that's really, that's all it is.
Who blows on the dice and like, yeah, and like if there's a pretty lady at the end.
That's the whole book.
Okay, first.
Find a pretty lady.
Find a hot table feel the dice
if they're hot
you've got it
so what is
in short
craps is you throw
dice on a table
yeah
and your
sevens and elevens
yeah well
so you can
you can
you can bet either way
but we'll talk about
the pass line
how much time do we have
yeah
so it's basically
yeah you roll a point.
If you roll a number before a seven, that's the point,
and you try to get that number again before the seven.
Or if you roll the seven first, you win.
Oh, I see.
Okay.
Oh, okay.
So it's like you roll an eight, and you're like,
all right, I've got to get an eight now before I roll the seven.
And then there's all these, like, things written on the board.
That's nothing.
That's nothing?
Is it just nothing? That's nothing? Is it just
nothing?
That's to fool
you.
You spilled
paint?
Yeah.
If you look,
all crab stables
are different.
They all just
say like,
no.
Just because
they're reusing
old felt.
It's just about
the...
Just transformers
on the table.
All right.
But you don't have to like aim.
No, you're not rolling.
It does have to hit the end.
Sure.
Or it doesn't count as a roll.
I would suck so bad at it.
Like I'm sure I would miss the end
or they'd go bouncing over.
How often does that happen?
That happens a lot.
In your parents' online business.
So we had like a mini craps table.
It looked like it was just a little bit smaller than they would find.
Because they're huge.
Craps tables are really big.
Yeah.
Right.
It was like the size of a pool table, the one we had.
What's the one, what's the like street game, which is just called dice?
That's craps.
But we just play on the ground?
Yeah, you can play without that table.
People can just bet.
You just say like, all right.
And then you just do these like things called call or field bets or come bets where you say you can play within the, I know.
You can play within the, while there's still a, when there's a point established.
Boy, this is good.
Oh, wow.
So here's the question.
Here's the term loaded dice.
Yeah.
Is that, what is that?
Drunk.
No, it's weighted.
So it's weighted to like fall
on the seven or whatever.
Yeah.
Interesting. Mark,
is this your card?
Oh my god!
It's just a rating card.
Oh!
Dave, what's going on with you? Guys? Snowfall?
Yes. Do you guys love it?
Yeah
Yeah you know I like the sun
It was really like
It was pretty consistently socked in here
For I feel like maybe a month
Many months
Yeah like where there hadn't even been one day of sun
It really was like 28 days or something like that
Between So this is nice Yeah, like where there hadn't even been one day of sun. It really was like 28 days or something like that between.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was a ton of.
So this is nice.
Every night before bed, I take Margo outside and we go and she wants to see if she can see the moon or stars or an airplane.
Right.
But like for a month, you could not see the sky at all.
And now it's just too cold to go outside.
Yeah.
So you're damned if you do.
One of my favorite things that I say about the snowfall
is that so many people who are born and raised here in Vancouver,
this is their one chance to make a snowman,
and they do not know what they're doing.
I've been taking a lot of pictures of very poorly constructed snowmen.
The big ball goes on the bottom, right?
Oh, wait, the top.
But like, you know, like one of the ones that was near my house
just kind of looks like an upright snow snake.
Like it's all skinny.
Skinny and long.
Snow snake surprise.
Oh, no.
They, yeah, no, it was the first time with Margo that she had seen snow.
I get, well, once we took her to the mountains, but she had, she was, uh, I, that was a year ago.
And so she had no idea what anything was.
Uh, now she can say snow.
She was excited about the snow.
She wants to keep looking outside and watch it fall.
And I love it too.
Like I, I, when it's falling and when it first falls it's so pretty
and everything feels really quiet and she loves the crunch under her feet and then we went to
the park and it had only been snowing for like a few hours and so we built a snowman
but it was all just covered in leaves yeah nothing worse than dirty snow
Yeah.
Nothing worse than dirty snow.
And we didn't have like, you know, the leaves really do leave like a dark stain on the snow.
So I was using leaves to like paint a face on.
And yeah, that was the best.
Like it was a Monday morning and I just was like, I'm not going anywhere.
Let's go, let's go to the park and then go get hot chocolate.
Uh, and.
That's like, that's magical.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's the winter wonderland they sing about.
And I, I have a car with all wheel drive and.
Nice.
And, uh, snow tires. And so I can go places.
Right.
But we live on a hill and just, I'm surprised it
hasn't happened during the recording, but for 10
minutes at a time, a car will try to get up the
hill and just spin its tires.
Oh, right.
I drove here.
Well, I just won't go that way.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're probably fine.
The sun's been on it all day.
I did hit the curb when I parked because the snow.
Yeah.
Kind of pushed me of pushed me around.
I don't think our garbage is going to get picked up for a long while.
That's my...
But it's called out, so I feel like it'll keep.
Yeah.
I have a city app, and they said it's not going to get picked up.
But just leave it out.
They'll be working on the weekend.
Oh, but they were working for the weekend.
We got a real lover boy crew.
And the other thing is I've been shoveling a lot.
Well, not a lot.
Shoveled a lot the first day.
Right.
And then salting as I go.
And I ran out of salt.
And so I went to Home Depot yesterday and they're all out of salt.
Oh, wow.
And so, and I didn't want to, and I drove to
another hardware store that was closed, closed
at eight o'clock and I went to, and I was just
like, oh, well, I guess no salt.
They were like, no problem.
Does regular salt work?
I think it'll just, it won't go far enough.
Yeah.
Uh, and so I went to, cause we just have this one like, uh, eaves trough that, that all the snow melts off the roof and comes down onto the ground and just in the day it's a puddle and at night it's an ice rink.
Right.
And, uh, so I, they said, we won't have, um, we won't have more salt until Friday night or until Friday.
And then that's basically when this the it'll be
warmer by then right uh and so i just i i gave up on getting salt and i went
to shopper's drug mart to get some some bathroom needs yeah sure
scented candles and the like that's not even true I was getting band-aids, waterproof band-aids.
Yeah.
And breathe right strips.
How's the wound healing?
The stitches are doing fine.
Oh, I guess you probably talked about this.
Yeah, cut myself.
Pretty bad.
But, yeah, so yesterday I was at Shoppers Drug Mart,
and I was waiting in line to pay for my stuff,
and this woman budges in front of me in line to talk to the woman, the cashier, and said, do you have any salt?
And the woman's like, yeah, of course.
We always have salt.
No, not for eating.
The kind you put on the ground.
There was a language barrier.
Right.
The kind you put on the ground for not slip.
And the woman behind the counter asks another person
and says, oh yeah, no, we do it in aisle nine.
And then I got right out of line.
Went over to aisle nine.
There were two containers of salt left.
I got one.
And this woman, this, she was like 60.
She, she comes to where I am and she's looking around
for where the salt would be.
And I pointed to it and I said, hey, there's one more left.
It's the salt.
And she looks at it and it's this big container of salt that you can see inside
and it's like salt that looks like gravel.
Right.
And she looks at it and she says, no, no, not the salt you eat.
Not salt for my bathtub.
What is she salting?
What is she eating?
So I was like, what?
So I just stood there pointing at it for a while and backed away.
You're on your own.
Yeah.
This is what you're looking for.
But if you think I'm, you know.
Then did she?
I didn't keep track of her
comings and goings after that but yeah salt i i our place just this is just slippery like we don't
have if we had a shovel i would shovel but i'm not gonna go buy it i'm i rent i don't do i'm not
gonna buy a shovel go rent a shovel oh yeah where do you do that i have one of those furniture rental places yeah just like uh i used to i don't know if i'm gonna buy this but i want to take it
for a testament bring it back got dealer plates i remember one year it snowed and uh we didn't
have a shovel like sidewalk shovel but we we had like digging your own grave shovel.
Oh, okay.
So I used that to break up the ice and that took, it was like that was the whole day.
Well, ironically, it's too cold to dig your own grave.
I know.
Yeah.
So it'll have to wait until the new year.
So yeah, that's been me.
Been frolicking in the snow apple cheeked yeah winter walking in a
winter wonderland great sweater yeah i do have a great sweater on yeah yeah you do you look really
you're really this time of year's mascot yeah what's going on with you? So the last podcast we taped with a guest, Beth Stelling, right after I had to go out of town, I had to go.
I was going to catch a flight to go to Victoria to open for John Doerr.
So I split a cab with our guest downtown, and it was crazy that day like sideways rain oh yeah it was
like really just i remember that day yeah it was just like kind of uh sideways rain dick yeah like
if you were outside for more than like three minutes you were just soaked there was no way
to not be and so i got to the there's like these little harbor. I remember it now too. Yeah. These little harbor planes that fly from Vancouver to Victoria.
And they like drop you right downtown.
And it's super convenient.
15 minute flight.
Yeah.
And it's super like, it's expensive, but it's more expensive than taking the ferry.
Did you pull any G's on it?
I think I lost a few G's.
uh i think i lost a few g's but i got there and the waiting area was like filled and i was like this is not good this is
not good news uh and i went up to the lady and i checked in and she said well it's weird she
checked me in and then she said it like it was an afterthought like oh all of the flights so far
have been canceled i was like well it seems like you should have led with that instead of what's my name and weigh my bag and all this stuff.
So she's like, I don't know if any flights are going to happen today.
Like if the weather clears, then they'll happen.
But then I was like.
And the gig's that night, right?
Yeah, yeah.
And so now it's like.
Too late to get a ferry.
Very on the bubble. yeah so uh like i asked her but even if they start flying there's like all these dudes from all the flights that have missed
and she said yeah i don't know like and so then i was like well do you well, do you know anything?
Basically, it was my follow-up question.
Like, do you know what I can do to get over there?
And she's like, I don't.
I think you can get on a city bus to go to the ferry.
Oh, gosh.
So I was like, you're the most useless.
And so I just left.
And then I looked at the time, and I was like, if I get on the train and find that bus, I can get on the last possible ferry to still make the show.
Oh, my God.
So then that was the rest of the day.
It was just like, ah, there's this one city bus and everybody's got crazy luggage like they're going on a plane, but on a bus so there's no under the seat
compartment certainly no overhead oh man and i don't know like if you're moving to the island
are you gonna take a bus yeah wouldn't you take a moving truck like it seemed to be a lot of
luggage for people that were going on a ferry and uh and it's
just like uh i don't know what it is is it because it's an island that there's a lot of the very
bizarre fashion that i see especially on the bus heading to the ferry just stuff that i'm like
where did you even buy something like that like it looked like two pairs of pants stitched together like
really weird strange pants and vests anyways together with aunt goo
um and then yeah i got on the ferry and you made it i did i got on the ferry the end uh the end
uh the gig on the ferry yeah it. I was doing five minutes in the arcade.
Oh, I could see them trying that too on the ferry.
It's like, oh, stand-up comedy on deck four.
So then, yeah, I got to Victoria, but then I was like, oh, yeah,
like this isn't the downtown.
It's still your way the hell out in some port.
Like, it's not close to Victoria.
And it was getting, like, close to the
show, so I took a cab.
The guy didn't really tell
me how much it was going to be, but it was like,
I think he probably could have taken the rest of the
night off.
Like, I guess maybe one,
and I should have known that, because there
was one cab sitting there.
I was like, oh, this isn't a thing people do.
This guy was, like, hoping for somebody desperate.
So I just hopped in, and I was like, to this place.
And he just.
$400 later.
I was like, I guess.
Like, as I saw the number change, it was like, yep, paying with a card.
Oh, man. Anyways, I made it. I don't know what it is. I saw the number change, it was like, yep, paying with a card. Oh, man.
Anyways, I made it.
I made it for the show.
And how did the gig go?
Was it more expensive than the flight?
Yeah.
I mean, it would have been.
And you got refunded for the flight, right?
Yeah.
Well, I wasn't paying for it.
The gig was paying for it.
So I don't know what happened with the flight.
But yeah.
You don't care.
Yeah, I don't care. Out of't care that is like uh but anyways that guy is uh and this was a weird
thing about uh because i don't think he had driven anybody for that long so he kept asking me the
same question but every on like a cycle he kept asking like every 12 minutes, so you come here, come to Victoria after? I was like, we just had this conversation.
He was a robot.
You knew.
Yeah, yeah.
This is how you find out if it's a robot.
Oh, interesting.
Got quite a rind on you.
Something, something Westworld.
Can you imagine if you did like doing a gig on a ferry like that, if you actually had to do something like that?
I can easily imagine.
It would totally happen.
And if the gig went bad, which it would, you would be stuck on this ferry for the rest of the night.
It's like a cruise ship comedian.
Oh, man.
If you're on a cruise ship for a week and your show's on the first night and it goes badly, you're just there for the...
Have you ever...
You haven't done anything like that.
I haven't done anything on a cruise ship. I went on a cruise with my family for my mom's birthday and we went and
saw the comedian and it was man like that guy he couldn't even get a word out because the crowd is
so drunk i i've never seen a crowd so drunk but these people are out on the sea and they have no
no way they have have nothing to do.
Yeah.
And they have these cards that you just go and like, whoop.
And then you just get a drink and drink half of it and throw it down some stairs and get another drink.
But there's money on the card.
It's prepaid, I guess.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they buy like a package or whatever.
They're not going to get a bill later for the card.
No.
Oh, man.
So they're just drunk.
Like, they're insane.
Like, this guy goes out, and you're on a boat, and he comes out on stage, and he's like,
hey, how's everybody doing?
People are just screaming at him.
Like, he's a stripper.
Like, people are just like, ah.
Oh, man.
I'd like to be drunk.
I mean mean being drunk
Is one of the best
It is kind of fun
I can't get drunk
No?
What?
Until the baby's born
Because I might have to
Drive it any second
Oh that's
Yeah yeah yeah
I just
I just thought like
Oh you've got some
New tolerance
Yeah yeah
No it occurred to me
A couple weeks ago
I was like
Maybe I'll have a second drink
Oh maybe I can't
Oh yeah
Yeah So you and Abby No drinks I know So unfair A couple weeks ago, I was like, maybe I'll have a second drink. Oh, maybe I can't. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
So you and Abby, no drinks.
I know.
So unfair.
Margo's drinking for three.
Yeah.
Did I tell you?
I told you about that, like, on the cruise ship.
They gave your gifts to you in the gift shop in this, like, beautiful bag.
And there's just one sitting in the hallway out in front like beautiful bag and uh there's just one sitting
in the hallway out in front of where we were staying that was just filled with vomit
just like some lady like took the gift out put it out in front of her room good night
that's where this goes right not going to my room bag of bars. It was really. Oh, man. Now, this time every year.
Yeah.
We like to spread cheer.
Yeah.
And it rhymes.
And so that's convenient.
Now, every year, Graham and I, in our Christmas episode, we do a secret Santa.
Yeah.
And this year, I pulled Graham.
And I pulled Dave and Mark.
Oh, no.
Oh, yeah.
No, we both pulled Mark.
This thing he's going to give Mark is from.
Yeah, yeah.
This is from both.
Do you want to exchange them?
Mine's wrapped.
Yeah, mine's more of a display.
I wish I had known.
Yours is like a display.
There's yours.
And Drew.
Graham has drawn a candle.
What would you call that?
Two pieces of holly?
Yeah And then Mark's is a
It's a Christmas tree
Or a butt plug
Yeah, it looks like a butt plug
Ah, what?
Or like a spade
Can I take a picture of both of these?
Yeah
Yeah
I wish you had told me
I would have
No, no
I would have participated
You are participating
Just by being here
Your presence is the only presence
That the presents
There you go Mark
Alright so do we do this
I guess so
Did you wrap this with
An old
Wine bag That was my bagel oh there's some good holy did you wrap this with a like an old like wine bag like that was uh my
bagel came in that this morning yeah oh and this uh is a uh like a shipping package for a sponsor
that sent us some some stuff that ended up not sponsoring the show oh my gosh a nutcracker wait
not just a nutcracker A nut It's a lobster
A nutcracker
With lobster things
Oh this is fantastic
And a deck of cards
So I can do my magic tricks
Silly buddy
Which is the best
And then
And then the guy
From Return of the Jedi
With a
With a laser gun
Yeah
It's Lando's
Co-pilot
Whatever this guy's name is
Yeah
I don't remember His name But he's got jowls.
Yeah.
Very jowly.
Now, Graham has given me two different pairs of gloves.
Yeah.
These are so that when you're washing your dishes, you don't cut your hand anymore.
Well, they're not knife-proof.
Well, no, but I figured if you wore these rubber ones and those on top of it, that that would do the trick.
And a gift card to dairy queen orange julius yeah for the next time if you cut yourself on the way all right
you go get yourself a treat so pizza that's pretty good thanks graham oh you're welcome
this is great my present for you graham this is a display under it's underneath a tarp so this is
an unveiling now this is something you have expressed interest
in before, a different version of.
There we go.
Oh!
Something fell.
Oh my gosh! It's all the
beautiful things that Chris
von Zombathy does. Yeah,
it's some painted bottles from
our friend, past guest, Chris von
Zombathy. Dave.
Wow.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
Those are really beautiful.
You mentioned it like a year and a half ago, and I was like, I should have given it to you last Christmas.
Now, one thing you gave me last Christmas.
Do you remember what you gave me last Christmas?
I gave you my heart, and the very next day you threw it away.
Gave it away.
Oh, sorry.
Was a subscription to goat magazine
yeah and was that real it was i paid for it i never got it never got an issue an issue of goat
magazine yeah so maybe it was a scam now maybe i got scammed you might have got scammed um
the one other thing i got you as is tradition is some, some sexy boyfriend coupons.
The secret Santa Christmas coupons.
These are redeemable anytime within the year.
From your, you know, from me.
Yep.
Your significant other.
That's right, my life partner.
Present this coupon and we'll spend the afternoon making a cute lip dub of your favorite love song.
Some of these are based on real ones I found on the internet.
Let's go shop for scarves for each other.
That's a good one. That's a real one.
Good for one afternoon away from my
nagging to have some beers with your bros.
I know I can be difficult.
This coupon is valid for
one romantic night of stargazing.
We'll go up to the planetarium, stare
right up God's b-hole.
Break out
the handcuffs, big boy.
You're being indicted on fraud
charges.
I wouldn't redeem that one.
Good for a 1,000-minute back-scratching session.
I saw one for a 10-minute back-scratching session, and I was like, I can do better.
10 minutes is already too long.
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Present this coupon and I'll romantically shout at your window during a rainstorm.
Fuck you, window.
Your curtains suck shit.
That's a fun one.
Good for some kinky sex.
Oops, I mean kinky shreks.
Get your donkey involved.
Good for some sexy role playing.
You play Casey Affleck from Manchester by the Sea.
And I'll be the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
I think it's going to be a big year for you.
I think you're right.
Present this coupon and I'll pretend to be hurt the next time you hadouken me.
I stonewall him a lot.
Good for some porch swing sex at old man Crandall's ranch house.
Porch swing sex.
That was another thing I found.
That was based on a real.
Porch swing sex?
It was a list of like fun places to do, and one of them was a porch swing.
That just sounds...
I never got into the fun places to do it.
Well, also people are drinking lemonade on it.
Yeah, that's true.
And shouting racist things at the neighborhood kids.
Present this coupon, and I'll help you with your fantasy baseball team, because last season you drafted Lyle and Eric Menendez.
Murderers.
This one has a hole cut in it and it says put dick here.
That's not a coupon.
Sure it is.
Coupon, crayon, crouton, neutron.
This is a slam poem
and a list of
things you can
fit in your
butt
you can fit a
crouton
not a coupon
what can you
say about a
coupon like this
that hasn't
already been said
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it's cute
it's romantic
it is important
coupon
we salute you
and that is
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Graham, to you, Mark, and to
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Overheard Overheard Overheard Overheard Overheard Overheard Overheard Overheard Overheard this discussion had been going on like for a while like there seemed to there's four people and like standing in the hall of this apartment complex and as i walked by there's one guy i
noticed one guy was holding three pizzas so there's like a delivery guy there but he wasn't
wearing like a very like regular looking delivery outfit or something like usually and so one of the
guys who's not holding the pizza says uh well can we there was a lot of accents. He's like, well, can we pay with two cards?
And, uh, and then the pizza delivery guy is like, he's like, no, we, one, and the guy
is like, well, we can, why don't I pay for everything?
And the pizza guy is like, guys, we can't, I can't keep doing this.
Like what was going on?
I'm going gonna pay with a
I can't live like this anymore
I've got a
jar of change
so
and then also
put seven dollars
on my debit card
why don't I just
pay for everything
with my magic
card
he had
he had been there
like enough times
where he was like
guys
this
we can't do this
figure out one method
and then
why don't you pay this time
and he pays next time
and everybody looked so tired
like everybody
and like they're all
like young guys
but they all just look like
they're like
oof this is a
like everyone knew
they weren't allowed to leave
until the problem was solved
yeah
yeah
well a guy can leave
with his pizzas
yeah
there's also this thing
and I think it's mostly young men, is that you become overly familiar with your pizza delivery man.
Right.
Because he's showing up, you know, a couple times a week.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And.
Hi, Bill.
And he knows the order and the address.
I know his name because it's on the Domino's pizza tracker that
Boris has left with your pizza.
There was one time
Barry was doing everything in my pizzas.
Oh really? Taking the order, making it,
putting it in the oven. And delivering it?
Not delivering it, but doing the quality
check. Wow.
But
then one day, no more Barry.
We were crestfallen.
There should be an app where you can track all the, like a reunion app.
Really, we should feel good for him that he's no longer doing this.
And Domino's is the only chain that has a tracker.
It's dope, dude.
It is.
I don't know why I'd rather.
You can get on a computer.
On the computer.
Or your phone.
And you can, you know, there's no like, it's not a closed circuit camera of your pizza.
Right.
But that can't be that far away though.
Like you follow the, like you follow the car.
It's not a map or anything.
Right.
It's, it's, you just says like at, at 529, they put it in the oven.
What?
Yeah.
And it's this arrow that goes along and it gets highlighted.
It's really fun.
And then it'll be like, it's en route.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So put your pants on.
I'm ordering a pizza right now.
Also, can I make one recommendation?
They make these lava cakes that you never in a million years would think would be good.
They're the greatest.
Yeah.
Get a little bit of vanilla ice cream with them.
That's what my delivery guy suggested.
These are good with vanilla ice cream. They don't bring the ice cream, right? No.
They bring the noise. Dave, do you have an overheard? Mine's an
overseen, fellas. The other day I was driving along and I saw someone
parked in a parking lot. Looked like they were maybe cleaning the mats
of their car. The floor mats.
Sure. And getting in and out of their car.
And I just saw they were wearing a hoodie and on the back was something was written.
And this is maybe this is a very popular hoodie.
Sure.
Because I looked it up online and you can buy them.
But I don't know if they're widespread or what the meaning is behind them.
Varney?
Did it say Varney?
Those are French sunglasses.
Roots?
It said, shoot informants, not drugs.
Hmm.
What?
So, yeah, there is a little bit of logic to unpack here.
Yeah, yeah, because shoot an informant, you would shoot with a gun.
Yeah.
Or out of a cannon.
Drugs, you would shoot with a gun. Yeah. Or out of a cannon. Drugs, you would shoot with a needle.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But if you were not shooting drugs, then what do you care?
Why are you advocating for murder?
Huh.
And what informants of what?
I guess drug.
Yeah.
Drug informants?
But then if you're, yeah, if you're shooting informants, why do you care about drugs?
And if you're not shooting drugs, why do you care who's informing who?
And it's not shoot informer.
That's snow.
Speaking of snow.
A licky boom boom down.
Well, we'll never get to the bottom of it.
What was the neighbor that I used to live next to had...
Wilson?
Yeah, he would come over and he would tell me something and I would get it wrong later.
He'd be like, raise your sons, don't let them raise you.
And then I'd be like, shoot informers, let them raise you and then i'd be like shoot informers
to my wife later that night and she'd be giving your son to raisin
um no he had one of those like uh you know don't bother coming in unless you want to blow your face
but it was like you know yeah he had a
sticker that had like a gun on it it said like property in fourth by yeah it was something like
that and he had several of them and uh i don't know you know like i'm more like if you see one
of those stickers less than being afraid you would not rob the place because you'd be like this guy probably
doesn't have any good stuff because he thinks these stickers are funny yeah yeah so he's probably
also good you know like he's probably got like i don't know a bunch of stuff that you like suction
cup onto a window or whatever you know forget the dog beware of owner yeah yeah yeah it just
occurred to me uh you know how last week I cut myself while cleaning a knife?
Don't people always shoot themselves cleaning a gun?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
You're lucky you weren't cleaning your gun in the sink.
Yeah.
So just scouring it.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
It's weird because I don't know that i know anybody who owns a
gun but i probably do and that's very but i wouldn't be able to tell you who was who in terms
of gun ownership right you know what i mean the further you get out of the city you can oh no i
mean in the city like i'm just thinking of like people i
know in town that you think people like own pistols in the city i guess i guess probably
i mean i hear a lot of people going pew pew pew a friend of mine who used to do comedy
doesn't do it anymore but his dad had a full-fledged shooting range in his basement in the city in the city yeah
so loud yeah yeah but it was this soundproof proof and then like uh and it was down and it was just
like this long hall that you would shoot did he did he have one of those things you press the
button it's like the kind of man target sheet goes like yeah i guess maybe man was target sheet um i'm just like i'm just trying to
think of how big his property must be and where in the city it is it was this city this city up
in the what do you call where all the mansions are up shaughnessy yeah yeah yeah in shaughnessy
okay and it was like a soundproof basement Where you can shoot guns Yeah yeah yeah
I mean obviously
You could do other
Scarier things there
Shoot guns at people
Have people shoot guns
At you
Haunted house
Yeah haunted house
That is scary
Oh they're the scariest
A spook alley
Some sort of spook alley
Do you have an overheard?
Mine is kind of
An overseen overheard
And it correlates
To this snow
That we've had.
You know, Vancouver's got a lot of older houses made of wood.
I live in one.
Yeah.
There's holes in it.
Yeah.
So the house across the street from mine is very old.
It must have been built maybe maybe you know going on 100 years
ago i would imagine and uh it's an old couple live there and i was waiting for a cab the other night
and like you say when it first snows it has this insulating effect so everything's very quiet
so i couldn't hear anything and then just this loud crack. And their whole eavesdrop just, like, off the side of the house.
But I was the only one.
And I could just hear this.
And I was like, what could that possibly be?
Eavesdrop.
Yeah.
And I figure that house is just, like, old and stuff.
Eh, we should probably just leave it like that.
And that's just how it'll just rain off the side of the house.
Yeah.
And that'll be that.
Ta-da!
Yeah,
we've,
um,
yeah,
the,
like,
every year,
the,
uh,
there's new,
like,
little bits where
mice and,
and,
you know,
squirrels can get
into our house.
Oh,
yeah.
So,
like,
they just have to
come by and fill in holes and
yeah yikes do you have a lot of little friends that live in this house yeah well fewer and fewer
i hope i've made a few trips to the old uh i put them in the the uh like yard trimmings bin instead
of the garbage not because they're yard trimmings but because of the garbage. Not because they're yard trimmings,
but because those get picked up twice as often.
Yeah.
Right.
And they're going to be biodegradable.
Although I don't know if the mouse traps are biodegradable.
I mean, the metal on them is.
Oh, you just throw the baby with the bath water.
Well, what am I going to do?
Reset the trap.
No.
Why not?
Because I picked it up with a shovel because I'm not touching it.
You know there's mouse traps that you can just
pick up and there's like a little clip.
Like they're really easy to use.
Oh, and then you're like...
But those mouse traps that you get,
they're like what, like five of them for two dollars?
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you get them from
the dollar store. I was going to buy you some
for Christmas. He's trying to tell me
something.
You're a rat.
But here, I understand more how a mouse gets into
like a house, as opposed
to when people I know that have lived
in apartments and they live on the third floor.
I'm like, how the hell did a mouse
get in, let alone up three?
How did that happen?
They're wily.
I had a run-in with the rat the other
day in edinburgh where it like it like i caught it in the bathroom and uh what do you mean you
caught it i turned the light on it looked like it was like shaving yeah you didn't like grab it
no no no i didn't it was just it was so good why is it shaving in the dark get out of here
blind um it uh and it just like started break dancing because it couldn't find a way out Why was he shaving in the dark? He was like, get out of here. Blind.
And it just started breakdancing because it couldn't find a way out because I was blocking the one door.
So it just starts popping and locking?
It just kept spinning.
And then he ran between my legs and into the darkness of the flat, never to be seen again.
Leaving a trail of shaving cream behind him. And a towel around his waist.
That's my towel.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
Yeah, I've heard that.
I've heard stories about a rat coming up a toilet pipe.
Really?
You better not.
You better not.
Not while I'm in there doing my situation.
It's going to get the business into my pooter.
It's the worst thing. Like Into my Pooter Just Can you imagine
It's the worst thing
Like you're already in a toilet
You're like
Oh man
Oh no
Thought I was going to get out
Couldn't get any worse
Oh it's gotten worse
Oh you're taking
You're thinking of it
From the rat's point of view
Yeah yeah
It's already pretty
It's pretty bad for the human
No no The rat This Now Speaking of it from the rat's point of view. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's already pretty bad for the human.
No, the rat.
Now, this leads us to the part of the show where people send in their overheards.
If you want to send one in, you can send it in to spy at maximumfun.org.
This first one comes from Evan B. from North Vancouver.
Oh, it's going to be slippery up there.
Oh, boy.
Oh, the mountains.
Oh, boy.
Huppadah, duppadah.
Careful.
I was walking on Main Street and recently overheard a woman behind me say to her friend, if I won the lottery, I would save for retirement.
You know, put it in an RSVP.
Very good.
That's good.
That's fun
We get it
Everybody gets it
No one gets hurt
This next one comes from
Tim S.
From Nashville, Tennessee
I was at the airport
Waiting for my bag
And baggage claim
And a girl traveling
With her college volleyball team
Passed me
Colley volley?
Colley volley
Telling one of her teammates, basically, the moral of the story is to never let me do that
again.
Just kidding.
Let me do that every single time.
What a fun kid.
What a weird moral.
Yeah.
I feel like I've never been on the ferry without some sort of amateur sports team.
Sure, yeah.
Traveling.
This time, I believe, I want to say it was a field hockey team.
The time you and I went over a month or two ago, it was, I didn't see a sports team.
Oh, no, we did see a sports team.
But there was also a Japanese school.
Yeah, it was a Japanese school.
Also a Japanese school.
Yeah, it was a Japanese school.
And was there something that one of the guys had bought at the souvenir shop that we were like, why the hell would you buy that?
It was just some dumb Canadian.
Yeah.
Everyone was getting Canadians.
All these Japanese teenagers had all dress chips.
Yeah, that's true.
They were all, they had heard, the word had gotten out.
And it was just a bunch of Japanese girls in schoolgirl uniforms and one fat white guy sweating.
This last one comes from Matt R. in Troy, New York.
I was playing bar trivia last night.
The announcer asked, what was the name of Adolf Hitler's self-penned memoir?
While most of us were writing down our answer, a player on another team said, loud enough to be heard across the bar, how about I'm a jackass?
That's a burn.
Yeah.
I'm a jackass by Adel Hill.
What was his
self-titled memoir?
Or no,
self-titled.
Will there ever be
a rainbow?
Yeah.
Leading with my chin
so far.
Dirty jokes and beer.
Styles never go out of fashion.
There was a, I was telling my friend the other day that, because there was that time period when all these comedians had these books that were basically like their act.
Yeah.
Seinfeld kind of let it off and then bill cosby let it oh that's right
yeah it was bill cosby and then there was paul reiser and tim allen and drew carrie and uh and
then but in that time kelsey grammar put out his and i remember getting it and it's just his memoir
and his life story it's like crazy yeah And I remember reading the first two chapters and being like, and this is where we part ways.
Is it So Far?
Yeah, So Far.
Yeah, I've read.
Much of that.
Well, you got it because you were getting every NBC person.
Every NBC.
I didn't know that Kelsey Grammer wasn't a comedian.
Right.
You know, he was on Frasier.
Yeah.
Cheers.
Cheers.
The last sentence of that book ends with the title.
It's like, so much, so good, so something, something.
So far.
And I think it ends with ellipses.
It's like you're waiting for the sequel.
I think that might have been.
No, wait.
I think that's a good.
Like, have there been greatest hits albums that are like,
maybe Bryan Adams was so far so good and then never put up another hit?
Still going not good.
Still going not as well, yeah.
So far so good.
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In addition to overhears that are written in, we also accept your phone calls.
If you would like to call us, our phone number is 1-844-779-7631.
That is 1-UGH-SPYPOD-1.
Like these people here.
Hi, Dave Graham and charming guest.
This isrielle calling
from toronto i have an overheard uh from my work where we host kids birthday parties on the weekend
and so they had just finished the party part and they were having the cake and they had saying
happy birthday and everything and i believe this is for like an eight-year-old's birthday
and so i think the cake said like happy birthday and the kid's name that I think had a D in it
because the kids are trying to claim a piece of cake while it's getting cut.
And so one kid goes, I want the D.
And then another kid says, I want the D.
And then finally about 10 kids are just yelling, I want the D.
Everything in me to not burst out laughing from the other room.
At the idea of just 10 little children yelling, I want the D.
It is weird, too, when you're divvying up a cake, like when you're a kid, anything that makes it like a unique slice.
Or it seems like more.
Yeah.
Because there's those flowers on it.
Mm-hmm.
Even though they taste like shit.
Oh, they taste.
Well, it tastes like nothing.
It depends on what it's made of.
What were the ones that weren't the flowers,
but they were cake decorations,
but they're made of like pressed sugar?
Yeah, yeah, those are great.
No, those are awesome.
I love those.
They're like hard and flavorless,
and you can suck on them all day long,
and it's like you're just, it's like a plastic flower.
Yeah.
I remember they were very popular in the eighties, these things that you would get like, you know, and it would be like of a whatever Batman, but it'd be like this, like pressed sugar and you'd eat and it was not good.
Like it wasop different manufacturers making
the ones i had because they were good what about uh dragees the little like the round
the they look like ball bags oh yeah oh the they're like they look like bb's yeah yeah yeah
yeah those were always weird when they yeah those are sweet those are really sweet you can
yeah but they taste like a like licorice or something.
I don't remember.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But the silver comes off right away, and then you just got these white little balls.
Remember those candy dots you could get that were like on a big sheet of paper?
Yes.
No.
Crazy.
And then you just eat the dot off of the paper?
Yeah, because I had this big old-
Are you talking about Dippin' Dots?
Yeah, no. Ice cream of the future? I remember you talking about Dippin' Dots? Yeah, no.
Ice cream of the future?
I remember that, yeah.
You talking about LSD?
Yeah.
Yeah, it sounds like it.
Those dots that come
on a sheet.
Yeah, then you just
have a crazy day.
I've heard of this
kind of fruit
that comes by the foot.
Ooh!
Here's your next phone call.
Seriously.
Subway sandwiches.
Hey, boys
and probable guests.
This is Bruce from Atlanta.
And this weekend I was at a roller skating rink with my wife and my son.
And I was going to grab a beer, as one does when roller skating.
And the people in line in front of me were there with their little baby.
And we'd been waiting quite a while
for somebody to
come over and serve us
and the guy in front of me
got so fed up
that he looked over
at his table and said,
you know what,
I'm just going to go back there.
Looks like they're
ball deep in some pizza
right now.
It's a very hard way
to eat pizza.
Yeah,
if you're going to burn yourself.
Yeah, I guess that expression doesn't commute past.
Ball deep in pizza?
Yeah, well, balls deep in anything.
Yeah.
Unless you're in a ball pit.
Or, well, I mean, that's just balls deep in balls.
Balls deep in balls, yeah.
Sure.
Indiana Jones, balls deep in snakes.
Balls deep in balls Yeah Sure Indiana Jones Balls deep in snakes Balls deep in snakes Yeah
Yeah
Where was this at
A roller rink
Yeah
Wow
What else are you gonna do
But drink beer and eat pizza
I haven't
Boy oh boy
I haven't been inside
A roller rink in a while
Yeah
A long time
When did you last rank
The one we had
Was called roller king And I think I went once in my youth.
It was a terrible roller skate.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
We used to go pretty frequently.
Really?
So you can actually roller skate.
Roller skate, yeah.
Yeah, you almost went pro.
Yeah.
It was good on the car.
Until I busted his knee.
I would stay on the periphery of the rink, I remember, because it was too slippery.
It was the only place in Calgary, if you were a kid that had a birthday in the winter, it was one of the very few places that you could go for the birthday thing.
So I went to a lot of those at Lloyd's Rollercade.
Did you have like a Chuck E. Cheese equivalent or Chuck E. Cheese?
We had a Chuck E. Cheese, but it was like way up in the north end of the city.
And then we had Bullwinkle's.
Do you remember Bullwinkle's?
No.
It was like Chuck E. Cheese, but darker.
And maybe there were three of them.
Like Rocky and Bullwinkle?
Yeah.
Right.
Like that somebody got the licensing rights and was like, I'll open up a restaurant.
What was Rocky doing?
I don't know.
Rocky's down the road.
The one here was called Stardust.
Stardust.
Which is very.
The rollerkate.
Yeah, very rollerkate-y.
Yeah.
Was that in the city limits or was that out?
That was out in Surrey, I think.
I only went there once.
So any of like, and Chuck E. Cheese was maybe in Langley.
Any of these, your birthday things are out in the burbs.
But where, like with the kids now, I guess they do.
I guess they do go to roller kites.
Yeah.
And like I said a couple of weeks ago, every kid's birthday I've been to has been at a community center.
Right.
But I guess that's just for two-year-olds.
At a certain point.
You'll get, well, because a roller rink has all the things.
It's got a hot dog.
It's got a pizza.
It's got a video games.
It's got a beer apparently.
It's got beer and it's got, uh, you know, today's hits the greatest hits of today and
yesterday.
Yeah.
You go up to the DJ booth and request play.
Shut up kid.
When I was a kid, it like Let's talk about sex Was
Oh boy
They would ask for that
So many times
Oh sure
Yeah
I want to sex you up
It was a
Great time for sex music
Color me bad
Yeah
Yeah
Um
Your final overheard
Here we go
They'd probably play
At a roller rink now
Rude
Hi Dave
Graham
And uh Extraordinarily Beautiful guest Hmm Um right now hi dave graham and uh extraordinarily beautiful guest um so i was just standing in line
like at the supermarket oh by the way i'm here in cambridge massachusetts
do you like apples and uh i hear a woman on the phone behind me in line and she says, you know, it's sort of like being jealous of
of, you know,
Einstein? Was it Einstein?
It was Einstein, right? Was it
Einstein? It's like being jealous
of Einstein. Yeah, right. Right. It's Einstein.
Yeah, it's like being jealous of
Einstein for inventing the light bulb.
So many checks.
It's Einstein, right?
You need more information It was a person
The other person going like
Yeah Einstein
I don't know what you're gonna say
But yes Einstein
Yeah it is Einstein
Doc Brown's dog
Back to the future
Yeah Einstein
What you call somebody
When they do something stupid
Yeah Einstein
Yeah
Yeah no shit Sherlock
It was Edison Einstein
Well
Well that brings us to the end of this year
No one more
One more for 2016
It's been a really good year
2016 everybody's saying it's been a really great year
We lost
Gene Wilder
Yep
Van Wilder
Did we lose Van Wilder?
Yeah the character died
Oh no
Taj killed him
Spoiler
I was gonna watch
The Rise of Taj today
No we have one more week of 2016
So
Oh boy If Ryannolds dies in the next
week we will have heck on our face oh boy oh boy uh do you mark do you have anything coming up
in the new year that you want to plug in the new year uh i mean uh pajama men Check your local listings We'll be
We'll be in
Sydney, Australia
And Perth, Australia
We'll be here in Vancouver
For a couple days
Oh really?
When's that?
I'll be in Victoria
February
For comedy festival
I think
Just a little
Little three show
Three show night
In Grenville Island
At the Waterfront
Oh really?
Yeah
Oh that's very exciting
Yeah If you out there Have not seen The Pajama Men perform show night at the Granville Island at the Waterfront. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, that's very exciting. Yeah, yeah.
If you out there have not
seen the Pajama Men perform,
do yourself a favor and
see them live, because
that's exciting. Yeah, yeah. And I don't
know if, and we'll be in Albuquerque at my
hometown for a couple weeks also, leading
up to that. Now, this episode comes out on the
19th. How long is the Panto running?
Panto runs all the way to the 31st here in Vancouver. And you wrote this year's Panto. Yeah, this episode comes out on the 19th. How long is the Panto running? Panto runs all the way to the 31st
here in Vancouver.
And you wrote
this year's Panto.
Yeah, and I have
a little help
from a guy named Graham.
And you got good reviews
for this.
Yeah, it's going over well.
It's been a lot of fun.
I mean, it's so much fun.
It's a huge collaboration
kind of show.
Right.
I wrote,
but a woman named
Veda Hilly
does the music.
She's really great.
She's great, and the cast is good.
And there's little kids at a certain point.
There's little, little kids.
That are so hilarious.
Who aren't performers.
But they just come out like, we're hipsters.
We're food.
Oh, cute.
Yeah, they're good.
The York Theater?
Yeah, the York Theater. And that's next to Nick Spaghetti House. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, cute. Yeah. What, the York Theater? Yeah, the York Theater.
And that's next to Nick Spaghetti House.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's even a Nick Spaghetti House reference in the show.
Did, have you gone to Nick Spaghetti House?
Not yet, but I will.
Oh, so good.
I have never been either.
Let's go.
Yeah.
I'm starving.
Oh, man, so good.
So you get so full.
Yeah, so come check out the Panto, yeah, for sure, if you're in town.
It's wild. Bring your kids. Yeah. It's check out the Panto. Yeah, for sure. If you're in town, it's wild.
Bring your kids.
Yeah.
Great family thing. Go to Nick's Spaghetti House.
Go to the Panto.
It's a good family thing, but it's also like a good date thing.
Yeah.
It's kind of for everyone.
And yeah, thanks so much for being a guest.
Thank you both for having me again.
Oh, Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
And Kwanzaa.
Merry Christmas.
When's Hanukkah this year?
I don't know when Hanukkah starts this year.
When is Hanukkah?
Hanukkah.
I don't know.
I don't.
It happens before Christmas.
I know Hanukkah dies in last year's Star Wars.
Oh.
Now, this year's Star Wars. Yeah. Now this year's Star Wars.
Yeah.
It's a betweenquel?
I don't know.
It's just,
it's a prequel
to the very first Star Wars.
I mean,
it's like,
yeah,
because it takes place before.
But after the prequel?
But after the prequel.
But it doesn't offset
the numbering.
No,
because it's during
these standalone movies.
So there's just going to be like a Chewbacca where he goes to college?
Yes.
The Rise of Chewbacca?
Ben Wilder, The Rise of Chewbacca?
That's him throwing up.
Chewbacca, The Naked Mile?
Then there'll be a Jabba the Hutt.
That was off the air.
That was off air, yeah. Graham said Jabba the Hutt instead of Jabba the Hutt. Yeah, yeah the air. That was off air, yeah.
Graham said Jabba the Hutt instead of Jabba the Hutt.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like there was many Hutts.
There must be though, right?
Yeah, a planet of Hutts.
There's crazy Hutts.
There's other Wookiees, aren't there?
Yeah, yeah.
Low Baca.
Scott Bacula.
Brad Baca.
Scott Bacula.
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Yeah, maybe one of those green ants.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I have a video of me doing it.
Nah.
That's the guy who puts it together.
Not in the video.
What else did we talk about?
Boy, oh boy.
I'll put up a picture of the present I got you.
Yeah.
Lobaka.
Oh, yeah.
I've got to get a picture of this nut and lobster cracker I got for Christmas.
It's not just throw up.
It may as well just say like nut, lobster, and finger.
Like whatever else you want to break with this.
Yeah, pervert.
Yeah.
Yeah, pervert Yeah Yeah pervert
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You want to see us live
We're performing
We're performing at
The Just for Laughs
Northwest Comedy Festival
That's February 23rd
Here in Vancouver
Yep
Before that
We'll be in Chicago
As part of the
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Podcast day
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