Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 501 - Katie-Ellen Humphries

Episode Date: October 23, 2017

Comedian Katie-Ellen Humphries returns to talk fashion accessories, Halloween decorations, and island pies.

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 501 of Stop Podcasting Yourself, the jeans episode. Yeah, the Levi's 501 Blues. I'm wearing mine. I got the 501 Blues.

Do you remember those commercials? Diana Krall. I want my baby back, baby back, baby back. Levi's 501 Blues. That voice you're hearing is Dave Shumka. And do you remember those commercials? They had like, there was one that had Jason Alexander before he was famous. Oh, really?

One that had Wesley Snipes before he was famous. And like, for some reason, It's weird they became famous for the same thing blade uh and the uh like weird the theme was this is the blues because it's the 80s we love the blues and sunglasses and uh but it was mostly like people singing barbershop harmonies about the blues wesley snipes included wesley Snipes did like a shaky dance. Oh, okay, sure. That's what skyrocketed him to start.

That's what put him on the map. Our guest today, returning guest to the podcast, one of our faves, Katie Ellen Humphries is joining us. Hello. Hello. Should we get to know us? Yeah. Get to know us. Do remember these levi commercials i do not when you said they were both famous for the same thing i was like tax evasion what are the things uh what are like the

highs and lows of each of their careers the things that i mean the the low thing that uh wesley snaps is known for tax evasion and jail time oh really yeah the low thing that Wesley Snipes is known for, tax evasion. And jail time. Oh, really? Yeah. The low thing Jason Alexander is known for, toupee. Yeah, on and off toupee. Yeah.

Like a real, just a... Like a hair hat. Yeah, yeah. He basically went there. Oh, you know, I'm going to leave the house. You know what, I'll put on a toupee. Yeah, it's a fall day. Have you heard that sort of like a style tip that when you leave the house, take off one thing? Yeah. Coco Chanel.

Is that a Coco Chanel? Oh, take off. Oh, Coco said that? You're what? You have one thing to hang on? Yeah. So your look isn't too well thought out. Oh, okay.

So like, then you, like, you're not too perfect. and then you leave the house, you're like, you know what, one scarf today. So I show up in a romper and one shoe. Because, you know, that's all I got. You were, before you left the house, you were wearing a romper, one shoe, and an earring. I don't remember those Levi's commercials. I do remember the Gap commercials that would have like a Missy Misdemeanor Elliot, Madonna.

Fall into the Gap. Yeah, hanging out together. Wearing jeans. As natural as the day is. I remember Madonna doing like a light blue corduroy. Get into the groove. Oh, sure.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Who else was involved in that era? Oh, boy. Rufus Wainwright. Oh, yeah. Did he do a New Year's Eve commercial for them? Could it, like a Kravitz? One of the Kravitz?

Yeah, I'm guessing Lenny. Zoe would have been a bit young. Probably, right? Or Duddy. Yeah. It was a little bit after the Jump, Jive, and Whale. Yeah, that was the one that really let you know Gap was here. Yeah, we got white backgrounds.

Yeah, we got that camera effect that goes around and makes everybody freeze in midair. What, did they matrix that? They matrixed it, yeah. And it was like Swingers meets The Matrix. That's how they pitched it in the room. For me, the Gap Hay Day commercial was when they did West Side Story. I was so

old. Yeah, i had a lot of very bold color denim that year slash six years because i didn't grow out of clothes how often do you grow out of clothes now i know i was in junior high at this time you're supposed to grow out of yeah that's true there was kind of a plateau where you were like, uh-oh, I think I've committed to this look. Yeah, when I was like 13, I was like, now I don't see a growth spurt, I see a lot of other kinds of spurts. Yeah, did your guidance counselor take you to the side and say, Dave, it's time to talk about your spurting. What are your top 10 spurts? Gleeking.

Oh, man. I was re-watching the television show The Wire. And there's one of the drug dealer characters in the first season. Real gleeker. I completely forgot about that. Gleeking all over the place. Just like spurting out of his salivary glands?

Yeah, like, and just and I was like, I wonder if that was him on the day, did it? And the director was like, keep it. You're gleeking. It's perfect. Because it's hard to tell somebody to do that. Yeah, I couldn't do it. Yeah, me neither. I wondered

if that was regional, like that term. Gleek? Yeah. Yeah. Because when the show Glee came out, they called themselves Gleeks? Oh, they're fans? Right. And they didn't know about that.

Yeah. Was it called Gleeking where you grew up? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what. I'm sure that it's a combination of words that are gross something and leaking glamour leaking so katie what brings you to the neighborhood

invited to talk about yeah you're right. Gap ads. Gap years. Days of yore. Gap years. Absolutely. Did you take a gap year? Is it a British thing? Yeah. I think so.

Is where you go off to whatever, backpack somewhere and discover yourself. Before uni? I think they do acts of service. Oh, really? I think. What about acts of violence? Sure. What about acts of violence? Sure, yeah. What about atrocities?

So, last we heard from you. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, what? Oh, I've been getting very nostalgic about time when I was coming here, thinking about times I've done the show. And in particular, I was like, okay, so they're going to say, what's been going on since last I was here? Uh-huh, yeah. And I was like, oh, no.'re going to say, what's been going on since last I was here? And I was like, oh, no.

How do you think I feel every week? No, only because last I was here, just about a year ago, November 3rd, we were super excited about how the Cubs had won the World Series and making a lot of smug jokes about how Hillary Clinton was going to be president. And then what happened? And then what happened? Everything worked out for the best, right? Yeah, I blacked out.

Mostly. Since then. Who do you like for this year's World Series? Baseball still happen? Yeah. Oh, yes, it does. Yeah. It happens even when there's not like a historical season.

Yeah. But does anybody know? Has anybody been following it? Yeah. Yeah. Still popular? We're pre-taping this, so I think I wish all the teams the best, and I hope that they're all in it. The Dodgers had a good season, and as far as I hope that they're all in it. The Dodgers

had a good season and as far as I know, they're still a team. You hope that they're all in it? Yeah. Like all the way to the end?

I hope that they let all, they don't like musical chairs it like they do most playoffs. They let all the teams stay until the finals. Aww. Yeah, that's fun.

Musical, it's not musical chairs. Musical chairs implies that one team gets knocked out at a time. Yeah. It's really, they have them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but last we spoke, last I spoke to Graham that you were mentioned, you went to the Guns N' Roses concert. Oh, that's right.

And you were the person who, are you the big fan in the group? I was the instigator. Did I see you had a jacket? Yeah, so I have a dope Guns N' Roses leather jacket. Yeah. What is, tell me about it. Yeah, like, because it's like a spray painted. It was not a spurted? Someone spurted on there?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, definitely someone has done that. For sure. You're not the first owner. No. No, yeah. So I have this fan art Guns N' Roses jacket with Axl Rose on the back. Rose.

Yeah. And it's real beautiful. It's kind of like a sisterhood of the traveling jacket because I'm a co-owner of it with my brother. Yeah, a literal sisterhood. It doesn't fit either of us. It fits you pretty well. I mean, it's pretty large on me, but it's pretty cool. I was really becoming Tori from Saved by the Bell, who I most identify with from the show.

You most identify with the character from a weird non-season? Yeah, she kind of came and went and then they never spoke of her again. There was never like,

oh, it's too bad Tori's dead or something just to stitch up that storyline. Motorcycle accident. But also,

when she was there, like, Kelly and Jesse weren't around and they also never mentioned that. Yeah, right.

Oh, that's... Yeah. I forgot that Kelly wasn't around. I remember Jesse, because they kind of swapped out. They couldn't have two curly-haired actresses on a show at once. Not with Slater there,

using all that curl activator. That's what Slater's short for. Slurl activator. That's what Slater is short for. Slurl activator. Now this wasn't the first time that you've seen Guns N' Roses. It was the second time I'd seen Guns N' Roses, third time I'd tried to see Guns N' Roses. Okay, I only want to hear about the time it didn't happen. I mean, it's not. I wish it was a more epic story on our part, but really we just came over from Victoria in 1993 to try to see Guns N' Roses

and that was when, that was when the band was not back together and it was just Axl. 1993? Yeah. I was surprised too. Yeah?

That early? They were, they were without Slash? Oh, no. You're right. It was 98. Okay. Yeah, there's a, you had a couple gap years in there. I did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh no You're right It was 98 98

Yeah there's a You had a couple gap years Yeah I did Yeah yeah yeah What was At the concert that we went to What was your takeaway?

Like What was it Too short This three hour concert? I mean Where they played every song they ever recorded And a lot of other people's songs too. Plenty of other people. Yeah.

You know, there's like, leave them wanting less. Yeah. Yeah. And did you find that Axl's offstage, like announcing the song voice to be very scary? Like when he wasn't singing? So I've seen them twice live. And the first time I'd seen them, I had not seen Aaron Reed's joke about how Axl Rose is a goblin.

And the second time I had seen that joke. And the first time I saw him tell that joke, I thought, Oh, come on, man, that's not fair. And then the second time I saw,

cause the Rose, I was like, that is spot on. He is a goblin He's a goblin talker And kind of singer with his screechy highs Oh And wobbly lows

Vancouver Show, he talked a lot more Than the time that I saw him the summer previous And I loved that part I was like, no, I want more of this More of your weird asides about distractions Oh yeah, yeah, he got, that this. More of your weird asides about distractions. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's right. He got distracted on the first song?

Does he have an appetite for distraction? Predisposition, for sure. Was it... He got distracted. It was like the first or second song, and he messed up, and then at the end of the song he was like, oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's me. I messed up. I got distracted. He's like was like oh i'm not i'm sorry i'm sorry it's me i messed up i got distracted he's like you can't there's a guy there's a guy up front this t-shirt

this t-shirt says feed me to the lesbians this is the funniest thing axel's ever seen. But Axel, he's like an uncle. Yeah. Get a load of this. You ever seen such a thing? Yeah, I forgot all about that. Yeah, so I was just wondering, I was like, oh, more of this. More weird Uncle Axel stuff.

I wonder if he is an uncle. Is he your father? I don't know. If he is, I imagine he's a present dad. He's a good listener. I imagine he's probably a father. Yeah. But maybe there's some static there because he didn't know about it.

Yeah. it um yeah no uh and do you notice that they like uh axel slash never got to they never stood this is now just like guns and roses podcast yeah yeah yeah i didn't notice that the first time i saw them i was like every the most hilarious tour title and it's so funny and they're so preferential about how they hated each other but they're they're doing it what was the first time what was the tour called the first time the same tour they just said they didn't come to vancouver oh so you've seen them twice on the same tour yeah oh okay wow was he wearing the same hats no oh cool new hat nice but i didn't notice the first time because i was so pie-eyed and a friend had to point it out to me. And then this time when I watched, I was like, oh, yeah, Slash will not even look at him.

Yeah, they're like, okay, Slash is over here and then Axel is going to be over there and then you guys can switch. What is the name of the tour? Not in this lifetime. Okay. Just a paycheck. When you went to see them in 1998, was that the time there was a riot? Yeah. Because they didn't show up? Yeah. Was them in 1998, was that the time there was a riot? Yeah. Because they didn't show up?

Yeah. Was that in 1998? Wow. This city's got a long history of rioting. Yeah. When do you think, what do you think the next riot will be over? I think it'll be the Rugby Sevens. I think it'll be for, you know, eating the rich.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So an Aerosmith themed. Yeah. Oh, so many scarves. Yeah. Oh, boy. Any kind of accessory store should invest in security. Yeah.

Before you go to that riot, put on one more thing. Yeah. Before you go to that riot, put on one more thing. Although maybe he, maybe Steven Tyler's like, no, I'm keeping the scarf. Take off the shirt. Oh, yeah. When he leaves the house. That's true. He's like, okay, 16 rings.

Got to lose the shirt. I don't want to be too put together. Oh, boy. oh boy i uh i don't know like i do envy that rock and roll guys can wear so many scarves and rings i have been and jackets i have racked my brain to come up with a a non-outlaw reason to wear a bandana around my face and like don't say cycling. Nerds. What? You know, rioting. I just think it's so cool. Yeah, rioting or, yeah.

Have you seen, are there ones that have like a, you know, like a skull mouth on them? Oh, I find those very scary. Yeah. They are pretty. They're of the face coverings. One of the scariest. Oh, I just like, I want to dress like I might rob a train, but I don't want to rob a train. I just like the look.

Yeah. Now, what era of train robbing? Are we talking Old West? Yeah, like when you put on a nice suit and rob a train. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't know. Maybe it's everybody has to, you know, there has to be a first person who does it.

And then it becomes then it's a look. What's on trains these days? What kind of commodities? Is there cash on there? Well, no, probably you have to pay for everything with a visa. Like it's like an airplane. So there's probably no cash on the train. You mean a passenger

train? Yeah, he's thinking freight, I think. Well, yeah, I'm thinking like a, like the great train robbery. Wasn't it like a bank train? Yeah. But Wesley Snipes was in a movie called Money Train. Uh-huh, it's been stolen. Yeah, and I feel like that was one of the subway cars was filled with money? Yeah. And that was with Woody Harrelson, but it wasn't White Men Can't Jump. But everybody knew it was a spiritual sequel to White Men Can't Jump. But everybody knew it was a spiritual sequel to White Men Can't Jump.

It's sort of like how that Google movie is the spiritual sequel to Wedding Crashers. Was it called a very Google movie? Mm-hmm. So you haven't figured out a way to get this bandana look going, but I don't doubt that you will. Oh, that's real sweet. How have you, do you have the bandanas? I have arguably too many bandanas. Do you ever, do you try it out before you leave the house?

Do you look in the mirror and think, oh, this could work. Yeah. And you lose your nerve? Pulling it off. No, I don't even get that far. Do you like i've seen someone come on stage i've seen someone in a band come on stage that way i've been like that's not cool and i'm like well he's on stage he can do that kind of thing but i can't walk on stage as a comedian yeah that's true so uh You don't know this debit card technology? That's weird.

You can tap them now? When comics think they're rock stars, it's the worst thing in the world. What do you mean? It's the best for headshots. Rock stars all think they're so funny, and we're like, you're so funny. You're really funny he's like funny between songs who's who's the funniest rock star is it dave girl see the funniest of the rock and rollers i guess i mean and star star yeah yeah yeah like of a like a real rock star guy like but you're

right they all kind of they all fancy themselves pretty funny. They tell that same joke in between songs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to say Dave Grohl, funniest rock guy, followed by, I don't know, probably one of the remaining Beatles. They seem like they're pretty funny. And who's the most rockin' comedian? Ooh. I mean, it's got to be Leary, man.

I would also have said Dane Cook, you know, because he wore those leather cuffs. That's true. Like a rock, like the guy from Creed. Yeah, like you really

could have swapped Dane Cook into the lineup of Creed or Nickelback and you would have not missed a beat. LOL Palooza,

am I right? Has there ever been a look that you wanted to pull off, but were like afraid to take it out of the house? I, yeah, like, I think, I mean, most like suiting and, uh, or like sport coat looks. Yeah. It's just like, i'm afraid someone's gonna call me on being a little boy or like hey you're late to court are you going to court you going to court little man um yeah i think i've definitely there's some been some there's been hats over the years that i like really chickened on. And also a leather jacket that I wore once and then my brothers made fun of me. I never wore it again.

But you're such a motorcycle guy. It's true. Dave, that's true. And that's why I bought the leather jacket. Was it a motorcycle style jacket? No, it was just a leather jacket. Like a leather duster? Like long? Yeah, it was long and I was wearing a bandana

over my mouth, and it didn't work for me at all. Have you considered maybe beard painting on the back of that jacket? Very good. Have you? Fan art? Who painted the Axl Rose thing? I don't know.

We bought it that way. You bought it? Second-hand store? Internet? Yeah, we came across it in a... My brother found it and just thought... I was like, oh, I like this leather jacket. It wasn't until he had it on and then turned around. I was like, what?

There's Axl Rose on this jacket. Have you seen... Candice Bergen has an Instagram account. Candy Bergen? Candy Bergen. Murph Brown. Has an Instagram account called Candy Bergen? Candy Bergen. Murph Brown. Has an Instagram account called Bergen Bags. Oh, yes, I have seen that.

Which is a play on Birken Bags. Yeah, they're very impressive. Thousands and thousands of dollars. Except Candice Bergen takes these very expensive bags and draws dogs on them. Or paints little dogs on them. Oh! Or paints little dogs on them for her friends, I guess. Yeah. This one is a Star Wars rebel symbol.

And she does this. It's hard to say why. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess everybody needs a hobby. But it's such an expensive hobby yeah that canvas is oof but she's got all that ventriloquist father money to burn through in her

lifetime so I never spend any of my Murphy Brown money it's all Charlie McCarthy money I really thought that you were gonna say that they were bags there was a collection of bags that people had airbrushed candace bergen i mean it's six of one half dozen of the other she's a working mom

and someday her painter will finish that room wasn't that the yeah Eldon and her son Avery yeah what a show what a show

why did I watch it I don't know I was thinking the same thing as I watched so much and they just make these very regional pretty low levellevel political references.

And I'm like, hmm. Yes. I am getting this. And I was thinking about that scene where she meets Frank Fontana for the first time in a bar. And they're so impressed with each other because they all know the words to subterranean homestick blues. Mom's in the basement mixing up the medicine. And they just like do a, oh, it's the baby boomeriest piece of garbage you've ever seen. I don't remember very much about the show.

Like I remember, I think I remember all the characters. Okay, let's go through them. There was old guy. Do you remember when Frank, old guy? No, Jim. Jim. Jim Dial was the old guy. Oh, yes.

But do you remember when he bought a bar? No. Frank Fontana or Jim? Jim. Jim Dial bought a bar. Bought a bar, and it was the kind of place where a gentleman could come and have a conversation with another gentleman, and then no one wanted to tell him that he'd started a gay bar. He's like, no, professional men can come and make connections with other professional men.

And they're like, yes. That's a good idea for a gay bar. Yeah. Like just a quiet gay bar. Just a quiet, yeah. What is that? Lots of nice books to read on the shelves. Yeah.

Just a quiet, oh, any quiet bar. Real nice. Sure. But there's always going to be one table that comes in and ruins it by being too boisterous. Hey, can you put the game on? Yeah. Oh, boy. Look, we're book people here.

The book bar. Then you got your Corky. Corky. Yeah, Corky. Who was named Corky Sherwood, then married someone with the last name Forrest, became Corky Sherwood Forrest. And then Miles? Oh, yeah. Miles Silverberg.

Well, you remember all the last names. This is good. Sure. Murphy something. And rotating cast of Secretaries. That's right. And a rotating cast of secretaries. That's right. I remember a post-Pee Wee Herman scandal.

Paul Rubens was one of the secretaries, and that was a real must-watch for a young Graham Clark. And I really didn't know what was going on on the show. I remember Dan Quayle jokes. Left and right. He was the real life heel. He's the one who criticized her for being

a single mother and family values and all that. Oh, and then did the show go after him because of that? I think everyone went after him because she was a fictional character that he was mad at. Oh, man. And it was more innocent time. Yeah.

It was after, you know. She was literally fake news. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's like somebody posted an essay about when Michael Dukakis lost the election because of one silly photo. And it's just like, oh, what a quaint time that somebody would like the whole election. They're like, look how silly he is in this photo. We can't possibly elect him president.

Oh, and it was him in a tank. Him in a tank wearing a helmet. He just didn't look very tanky. Yeah, he just looked like Mr. Rogers, you know, touring a tank facility. And Paul Ryan was like, cool shirt. But now you can be president and do horrible things every day. Yeah. Have the worst picture.

Like Google Donald Trump in jeans and he's unelectable, you'd think. And he's unelectable, you'd think. I'm just picturing Donald Trump in jeans is really getting me going. I guess if the shirt's tucked in. Yeah. It's tucked in. And him in tennis attire, et cetera, et cetera. So what else is going on in the life of Katie Ellen Humphreys? Well, I think like a lot of people, I've just been wildly oscillating between the despair over the ceaseless depth of human greed, but then also brought to tears about the beauty of the dewy spider web.

Or the blessing of being alive. Yeah. So, the use. Yeah, absolutely. Oh boy, do you ever take a photo of a spider web? Just so that you're like, put in its own little file of cool spider webs that you see? Yeah, I took three on Saturday and I was like,

what am I even doing with these? There will be a point when your phone runs out of room for photos when you need to take a picture of something important. I'm just digitally walking through these spider webs. Yeah. Well, it's very nice to have you back. I don't know how to jump in and off of. Yeah, life is a a nightmare but also a blessing yeah

yeah it's both of them well thanks for coming so the other new thing since I've been on the show is that I'm now on a dating app oh but I

don't do any dating oh okay is it the big one uh yeah it's one of the big ones I don't know why I'm being coy about it. I downloaded Bumble.

Oh, Bumble. But I don't, I thought, I think for a hot second, I thought like, I should meet new people. And then I was like, oh. No. And so now the only thing I use it for, besides sometimes it's therapeutic to just like reject 100 people. What's the hook of Bumble?

Because I know how Tinder works from Graham. Yeah. Is it exactly Tinder or is it? The only difference between Tinder and Bumble is that on Bumble, once you match with someone, the woman, it doesn't work real good for female-female matches or male-male matches, I guess. But in a heterosexual match, the female has to message first. That's the only difference. So you don't, I guess it's supposed to cut down on like weird dick pics.

For sure. So you never message anyway. They almost never. Like so far, I have just, I just have got a pen pal out of it who doesn't, like a pen pal in another city. Pretty good. We talk about men's fall fashion mostly. Pretty hot stuff. What's in this year?

Borderoi? But so the only thing, yeah, always. Get into the groove. So the only thing I use it for is that when I'm on the road, when I get into a town, I open up to be like, who lives here? Who will be at this show? And I did a show recently in Fort St. John, and I opened it up, and the first person is just Skeeter. And I was like, all right, I get it. Skeeter.

Going to do the Skeeter set. Ah, cool. But you don't mean literally. You're not looking for people who are coming to the show. No, no, I'm not messaging people. I'm not like, come out to the show. I'm just like, oh, okay. So like, nobody here doesn't work in oil.

Right. Like mostly as hot oil wrestlers. Yeah. I mean, they work in oil. Yeah. And what about a dating app where. Go on you just never met you just it just lets you know who's around and there is no you no messages just lets you know this person's a good looking neighborhood yeah yeah yeah i mean that's essentially and like i feel like that's what

i'm using it for she's like well i don't want to I don't want to, I don't want to go out, but I want to feel like I know what's going around. I'm like, turns out everyone in Vancouver was super active. Oh boy. I had no idea. I mean, I, I gathered from zeitgeist,

I guess, but it was like, really? Yeah. People are like excited about it. Out there, on the mountains, out there,

on the lake. On their bikes. On their bikes. Wearing bandana. I was going to say, do you think that I should message these people because it'd be a way to finally wear that bandana around my face because all of them are looking for a partner in crime. Oh yeah, sure.

Oh God. Do cyclists even wear the bandana on their face? Some do. I don't know. But they all do use that expression just looking for my partner in crime and it's like do you know how crime works there's no partners really i mean it never works out with them no yeah at the end of the day you're gonna have to one's gonna flip on the other no honor among thieves yeah yeah or you're going down in a

hail of bullets what if there really is somebody on there honestly looking for a partner in crime? How are they ever going to find someone? So many coffee dates been like, do you drive? Yeah. No? Get out of here! Why did you even answer my ad? It's got me in all

sorts of scarves and bandoliers. What about bandoliers? I'm not familiar with that. Oh, the bullets across your chest there? Are those in for men's fall fashion? Please tell me they are. But like without actually ammo. Yeah, like chapstick.

Yeah, just a bunch of chapsticks. I'm the John Popper of chapstick. That's perfect for fall. It is pretty good. One of the shows that I did in Skeeter's hometown there was at the Sightsee Dam. Okay. Oh, yeah. This is a controversial dam project?

Yeah. I am, like, I lost interest in all of the things that we lefties are supposed to protest. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Even I was like, I was like, I was making all these jokes. I'm like, well, they obviously didn't check my voting record. And I was like, I mean, I barely jayed. Like, I don't know. I think the people I voted for don't like this damn.

Yeah. And is it done? Yeah. I think it's like, it's in question mark, will they even continue making it? Oh, but like they started it. I mean, it was a very big camp. And I've never been to a work camp before. Was the show at a work camp?

But I have, it was. Yeah, the show was inside, it was for people who live on site at this work camp. Wow. So was it, what was the stage? Was it like indoor, outdoor? It was a cafeteria. Okay. But you weren't standing on dirt.

No stage. It was indoors. Okay. Yeah. No stage. Just like. Because you say work camp, I'm picturing no country for old men. You're picturing a chain gang.

Chain gang. But I wasn't like, I've never been to a work camp. What's the oil one? There will be blood. Okay, go on. Oh, I was saying I've never been to a work camp, but I have been to a prison. Oh, yeah? They are eerily similar.

It's a lot of checks, so much security to get through. And like, everyone knows you aren't from there. Oh, yeah. Like, oh, a woman's here. Oh, no. You didn't perform in the prison. No. Why did you go to a prison, if I may ask?

I wasn't going to ask because the answer is going to pop myself. It's not. Okay. I've been to prison Victoria. There's a prison. I almost said there's a beautiful prison. It is. It is a beautiful prison.

And they have North America's longest running. I know every time I try to say this word, I think. Penile. Yeah. Penal? Penal? Yeah. Penal? Penal, yeah. Yeah, having to do with peanuts. Yeah, yeah.

Long-term penal theater program? Okay. Puppetry? Yeah. Naturally. So, yeah, they put on these beautiful productions, but you have to... And it's Shakespeare style, man only, I'm assuming. It's, yeah, no, they bring in, they bring in theater students to coach them.

And then they play. So the one that stands out is they, I saw Macbeth. Okay. Oh, don't say that in here. Not before a big show so they had the women played the witches and they coach the inmates

and they put on this also probably Lady Macbeth hello maybe one of literature's greatest women roles I don't know yeah and then you watch this show Maybe one of literature's greatest. McBeth's? Women roles. I don't know. Yeah, and then you watch this show about murder and people dealing with the repercussions of their actions.

It's one of the bloodier ones. Performed by people who are dealing with the repercussions of their actions. It's very powerful. And you also are like, oh, I miss my shoelaces or whatever. and you also are like oh I miss my shoelaces or whatever like yeah there is that

one scene where Macbeth teaches the soldier over under in and out that's what tying's all about

um were you one of the witches or oh no no I just I I'm familiar with the program I have friends that would do the coaching and stuff

but wow if you know anything like it's no different than any other theater production where all of the leads like get crushes on one another do the coaching and stuff. But if you know anything, it's no different than any other theater production where all of the leads get crushes on one another. So then all these theater students always just ended up dating.

They're dating? Yeah. Prisoners? Yeah. Visiting them in prison? Yeah. Wow. A prison, that really is the best of all worlds,

a prison relationship, right? You get the visits. You get a prison relationship right you get the visits you get the closeness you get the communication but then weekend's free you get your weekends they're sprawled

out ahead of you you can do whatever you like do you would they ever do a play about a cake where you could bake

I can't think of like a cake play I don't know why me with all my theater experience can't think of the obvious cake play. I don't know why me with all my theater experience can't think of the obvious cake play. You know, like a Ratatouille live, something like that. Where you can bake a saw into it, a file.

Saw live. Saw live. The cake scene from Saw. The first 10 rows will get wet at saw live yeah pretty gross um but it would be great to see all these uh theater students recreating the different uh death machines from saw this is uh this is what theater is all about. Yeah. Bring the experience to the masses. To the people in jail. So this is

but you went in to watch one of these shows? Yeah. Cool. Yeah, it's really great. It's an incredibly interesting experience although as soon as

the show's over they're like, you gotta leave! Get on the buses! You get rounded up. You're like, oh, this is intense. I'm just googling plays about cake yeah absolutely you gotta or at least about baking um that's amazing i've never uh i've never

been in a prison i wanted to do a show in a prison but there's insurance issues if you're a civilian. Nothing. Nothing? Nothing. You'd think it would be great. You set up. It's so visual. Yeah.

And then at the intermission, everybody has a pie or whatever they were making. Oh, what about Sweetie Todd? They make meat pies in that. You could fit a saw in there. Done. Oh, like a savory saw. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was getting so stuck

on like a berry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A savory saw. Does he make pies in it out of dead people? Yeah, yeah. But he's a barber. Well, he doesn't sell the pies.

I mean, he has a... The butcher, the barber, the candlestick margar. Why would I replace baker with barber? I don't know. We need both of them for this. The Baker, the Barber.

The Candlesticks Garters. Dave, what's going on with you? On the spider tip. Yeah. It's Halloween timing. Oh, boy. So earlier this week, Abby and I went. Well, we went.

We met up this morning. We're, we're going traveling. I think we might be traveling at the time this episode's out. Have fun. Uh, we went to get, I got a yellow fever vaccination. Spooky. Cause, um, et cetera. And, uh, uh, what else?

Uh, I think I got my, my measles mumps rubella, the new one, measles mumps rubella 98. And, uh, maybe one other one. I forget. Yeah. And then, uh, we, it was nine 30 in the morning and we're like, well, let's go get breakfast. So we took the kids for breakfast and it was all, it went pretty quickly, but it's always like the kids are not restaurant ready.

So let's, I will take them out and, uh, I'll take them outside. We'll go do something. You pay the bill. Um, and so I took the kids across the street to the Halloween store,

the spirit of the Halloween store. Was it spooktacular? Um, yeah, it was. Yeah. There's lots of things now that jump out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I was just expecting to go in and like, okay, we'll see some spooky stuff. Like Margo is three and she's, she, she, we've done a pretty good job of letting her know that like spooky stuff is silly and fun and not scary and not going to haunt you.

Right. And so we went in there and the first thing that happens is a giant spider like jumps at you. And if it jumps at your knees, if you're an adult, but if you're three if it jumps at your knees, if you're an adult, but if you're three, it jumps at your face and it's as big as your three-year-old head. And she's like one second into the store, she goes,

ah, and runs away it further into the store. And then, and then like, she was really good about it she like

immediately started laughing at herself yeah and I was like oh okay well that's good you're scarred forever like

it's it's it's I've just done the most awful thing I could imagine to you by accident yeah

by bringing you in here but then we went and looked at Minions costumes man she's gonna get so goth oh i hope so yeah if she if her first instinct was like that was a real wild ride yeah exactly like i'm thankful about that um and then i saw like there are some pretty costumes are so good now yeah like you used to have to come up with every little piece of your costume yeah and then if you were lucky you would have the final like the plastic with the rubber band would be the finishing touch yeah on the costume but uh and

then the i guess like full head rubber ones kind of came in and were, but they were expensive. Only the rich kids in the class had that. And, like, store-bought costumes when I was growing up used to be, like, a plastic bag. Yeah. With just some kind of image on it. And you're like, that's nothing. Yeah, it would just say Green Lantern on it, and you'd be like, yeah, I guess. Green Lantern, class of 92.

I guess. Property of Green Lantern Athletic Department. I guess I'm Green Lantern. This is a weird one I saw of a weird. It's John Cena. It's John Cena, yeah. But it's just his weird face. Like, he doesn't have a.

Yeah. It's not like he has that unique a face. He doesn't have a... Yeah. It's not like he has that unique a face. It's not like a Richard Nixon mask. Yeah. And I think this hat is maybe part of the mask? It's flopping around on there. The problem with one of those full rubber masks is you wear it for let's say a minute of any given party and then it just sits up on top of your head or just gets put on the floor and then you just say i was jones

yeah but then it got too too dewy in there like a spider web yeah uh did you see any knockoff no it's it's well yeah i guess the. The one I saw what's his face? Lieutenant Dangle. Oh, yeah. From Reno 911 is Sergeant Short Pants. Oh, yeah, there you go. So, yeah, there were some weird knockoff

ones. There's some things I didn't really get that were like why is this gendered? Why is the female gun holster? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Sounds like a job title. Sounds like a weird, you know. Yeah. You know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Euphemism. Um, the, I, I don't recall when I was younger, there being so many, uh, automatic jumpy outy things. And now they're everywhere. Also because Halloween was not really a thing. Yeah, that's true. When we were growing up. It was just like some neighbors would hand out candy.

Some would pretend they were. Halloween was a thing. Yeah, but I mean, it was like a thing for kids. It wasn't like a, you have to decorate, everyone has to decorate their own house. It's the biggest party day of the year. Yeah, it wasn't a party. But I do remember being frustrated as a kid seeing such great adult costumes. Yeah. But they were probably, you know, flimsy polyester pieces of garbage.

Like why? I remember thinking like, why would a grown up want to dress as Aladdin? Yeah. But they were probably, you know, flimsy polyester pieces of garbage. Like why? I remember thinking like, why would a grown up want to dress as Aladdin? Yeah. Yeah. To get laid. I always liked watching sitcoms where they would have the Halloween episode just to see what the characters would dress up as. Yeah, definitely. And those costumes were always way too good.

Like I was like, that's like a Hollywood quality. Oh, yeah, they have a costume person on there. Well, remember when you were writing on that cartoon show and we went to the Halloween party? Yes. And people had raided, like, the stock room and the costume area and stuff. From the cartoon? Well, it was a kid's show. Sorry.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yes, there was some, like... Like, professionally built set pieces and... Yeah, was there, like, somebody dressed like an octopus or something like that? And it was like all the tentacles and it was all like sculpted and amazing. And it was from some. Yeah, I forgot all about that. And they're like, yeah, we shot this.

This appeared on TV for three seconds. Sure. It took us two weeks to build it. And are we supposed to believe Roseanne carved all those pumpkins? Right Yeah, she was like the She was the queen of Halloween Yeah, TV's original Halloween queen

And then I think also maybe Some show like Home Improvement Maybe had a lot of great costumes on it Anyways, I remember that being a highlight of my year Murphy Brown, I remember the Murphy Brown Halloweens I'm John Sununu You're dressed as paul simon the senator i'm dressed as paul simon the singer songwriter oh i remember uh past guest uh mark chavez telling me a story that him and his now wife went to a party dressed as a couple's costume

but not really they went as like it was the year those minors were trapped underground and then got okay caught up so she was a minor and then he went as like a girl who was a minor but when he was separated from her he just looked like a little girl well just like an ugly uh guy wearing a wig and a dress. Sure. It was. Also, Netflix has gone in very hard on the Halloween costumes. There is Stranger Things, everything. Oh, I see. Every Stranger Thing.

There's barbed glasses, barbed wig. Oh, yeah. All barbed. Yeah. And then there's another kind of glasses. I think probably because didn't this, I remember last year, like that was a big, that was a big costume last year. Yeah. And I feel like they're like, oh, we could have been.

Yeah. I didn't know. We could have been making money off that. But there was a big costume last year. Oh, yeah, you're right. I forgot. I forgot when it came out. Yeah.

What's, what do you think this year's big costume is going to be? Boy, I don't know. Boy, I hope it's Trump. Yeah, I mean, there'll be a lot of that. Yeah, but I feel like that also was, like, more fun last year. Yeah, what's, like, a fun news thing that's been going on? Nothing. Maybe a minor and then another minor. Yeah, what's like a fun news thing that's been going on? Nothing. Nothing, yeah.

Maybe a minor and then another minor. Yeah, that was at least had a happy ending. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, Fiona the hippo. Everybody loves Fiona the hippo. I don't know that. Me either. Do you not? Oh, she's like a hippo that was born in a zoo and everybody's following her

exploits on oh we bought a zoo oh did you yeah congratulations what have you done with it it's it's bankrupting us and it's really bad it's tearing our family apart i bought it to bring the family together don't buy a zoo guys yeah there's a's team giraffe, there's team other creatures. You can't name a second animal, can you? Did I say giraffes? No. That's classic. Kids are always like, can we get a zoo? And you're like, you know what?

We're just going to buy this zoo. You say you're going to take care of it, but who's going to walk it? Who's going to feed it? But then Christmas rolls around and you want to see their face when they open that present with all those baby animals in it. Cute baby animals. But I literally can't think of what this year's hot costume would be. I mean, for sure.

Young Sheldon. Ah, nice. Like, I mean, like what's a pop culture phenomenon that's happening i'm despacito that's who i am yeah despacito i think that's gonna be this year's hot halloween costume and your interpretation of what despacito means to you yeah it's just you go to the halloween store and it's just in a bag with a bunch of question marks on it or it's like a rebus and you're like danny devito minus desperado wait it gives you Maria Perlman Here's Graham Yeah yeah Hello

Hi What's up with you? Well this This past weekend I went to a A wedding A wetting? A wetting

It was a wet t-shirt Real gleek Moistening A wedding That was held In the same place Where you were wed Where I was held in the same place where you were wed Where I was held for my wedding

Yeah, on Gabriel Island At the very same lodge? At the very same lodge And it was a very nice affair And traveling from the wedding part to the reception Was it in the exact same spot? wedding part to the reception. Was it in the exact same spot?

No, the wedding was at the bride's parents' house, which was down the road. And so we went there, watched them exchange goods and services. What do you tip a wife um and then uh on the way to the reception uh passed by a sign that said pies right oh boy so made a turn went off uh off road and looking for pies and it was every kind of 100 yards or so another sign like like very like roadrunner and coyote yeah did you start following a vapor trail with your nose it was it was so cartoony and uh but i just kept going i stayed the course and then just out in the forest there's a, beautifully made pie stand, and the pies are just there. And there was nobody tending to it.

Oh, and you're a hobo from way back. Oh, boy. And I had a checkered napkin tucked into my shirt. I had a fork and knife. What was their business plan? Their business plan was you go up to the thing. There's like a little note that says. Take a pie, leave a pie.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And here's, there's a, not only pies, a jar with change in it. So that you could, you know, cash a 20 or whatever. But just no supervision. Right. What the? I couldn't wrap my head around it i i'm too big city for this yeah i was gonna say i was like this is a very this is very common practice is this a very common

practice i've never seen this i haven't seen it before but i've i've been to this island quite a bit and i even vancouver island like it's very common in victoria people that sell is it really farm fresh eggs and things like that so you just go and then there's just a thing, some sort of container of eggs, and you just go and leave money? Usually a cooler. Cooler, good. As good a container as any. And usually they'll say the price that they're expecting, and then you're like, yeah. And then you negotiate with it?

Yeah. Here's the number I'm thinking. Zero. Someone that I'm related to, my uncle does that he showed up once with flowers that he bought on the way to my parents house and then was like oh and i think my mother also had these same daffodils and he's like would you pay for those and he's like four dollars like it says and he was like no he's like i don't pay four dollars that's too much wow what see now you're uh that's insane but you did pay but like what he decides is the right yeah he's like uh i talked them down to two i'm a tough negotiator he's like

left two dollars and took some flour. Yeah. But that's what I was most surprised was that there was money in the jar. The jar hadn't been stolen. This was a reused jar. It was an old jar, you could tell. And all the pies were there. Like somebody hadn't just come along and taken 10 pies. It's like those houses on Halloween that put out the candy.

Oh, yeah. And then the first kid gets a thousand candies. Yeah. I don't want you to think I'm bragging about my glorious upbringing,

but I used to sell things by the side of the road. And by things, I mean manure. Turds. Yeah. I used to spend the weekend bagging manure and then we would sell it. Just loose manure you found around?ds. Yeah. I used to spend the weekend bagging manure, and then we would sell it.

Just loose manure you found around? Yeah. It's amazing how easy it could be. And we'd sell it that way. It would just be bags and then a jar? Yeah, and topsoil and some gardening things. And sometimes if we were home and you saw someone pull up, you'd go out, but mostly be like can i help you get that into your car uh but yeah or otherwise you just wow and sometimes people would take it if they didn't have the right amount of money they'd just like they would take

it and then they'd like sometimes people come back and you go down to help them like oh no i'm just bringing some money because i didn't have the right amount before wow so did you take a pie i took a pie, yeah. Did you pay full price? I sure did, but I just couldn't believe. What was the price? $18. $15.

Okay. $15 for a pie, and it was delicious. They have a farmer's market every Saturday. I think it might be the same pie person. Yeah. Apple, wild berry. Ooh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was an amazing pie. I believe that. When did you eat it? Not at the wedding. I was tempted. But luckily they had food there. No, I ate it upon arriving home. I ate the whole thing in, let's say, one sitting.

Let's say a bathtub. Yeah. But I just, I've never seen anything, I can honestly say I've never seen anything so quaint. Is pie... I just feel so pastoral now. Is a pie nutritional

enough that you could just eat pie? I mean, no. That's my guess. Because there's probably a lot of sugar. Yeah, there's definitely sugar. And fat. Yeah, there's fat in it, but you got to have fat. That's true.

But probably bad fats. Yeah. When I make a pie crust, it's half Crisco. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm going to say yes. I'm going to say that you should eat no more than a pie a day. But like compared to a cake or muffins. I think you're getting a lot of fiber.

Yeah. Somehow muffins has cemented itself in terms of're, first of all, we're for breakfast. And second of all, we're good for you. Somehow they managed to get out of the cupcake world and go out on their own and say like, we're healthy. When I was a kid, I don't do this anymore, but like my mother would make muffins, which are, you know, half butter.

Yeah. And then cut one in half and put some butter on it. I remember that. Yeah. That's not, I don't think you can do that anymore. Yeah. If you did that at a coffee shop, people would be like, take away your kids. Well, first of all, most coffee shops don't have pats of butter around.

Pads, pats. I don't know. I guess you could ask. Could I get some butter with this yeah are you just supposed to eat a muffin just without butter but i guess it was a way to eat muffins i'll butter this muffin sure yeah huh weird uh good wedding otherwise oh Oh, yeah. Pies not included? Yeah, pies not included, good wedding. Nice and, you know, short. Yeah. Love that.

Yeah, yeah. Quick old exchange of the vows and a nice little speech and away we went. Was it raining? Maybe it rained just before the wedding. Oh, okay. And then beautiful. Ah. Beautiful, you know, seaside, pie selling, eggs.

There was also eggs selling. There was also turkeys just walking around. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Woo. What a time. I mean, I don't think I could live there because it's too, I don't know, too pastoral, maybe. Maybe too small town-y.

But I want a nice vacation. See how the other half lives, you know? But you're not far from civilization. No, no, no. Yeah, they have the best of both worlds. They have internet and well water. Yeah. And now they have a best of both worlds. They have internet and well water. Yeah. And now they have a pizza place and a coffee place.

Oh yeah. And, uh, and maybe, maybe a burger place. Maybe a place you can get burgers. Oh, probably.

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I will. Thank you. So this overheard comes from a subway platform. And you called me on this last time because you were like, all your overheards are always from New York. Well, it's. And I realized because here in Vancouver, I mean, because here in Vancouver, I don't engage with anything. Headphones, sunglasses, please don't talk about anything. When were you last in New York?

So for the summer, I spent July there. Oh. And why? Why not? Just for fun? Yeah, because it's the greatest place on earth. Yeah, yeah. It's a month.

Yeah, but so I just realized when I first moved to Vancouver, I had overheards for days. I was just so dazzled by the city. And now that I live here, I was like, I don't want any stimulus ever at any time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's your Bumble profile. Yeah. Yeah. 100%.

So you're on a subway platform. Yep. And then there's two gentlemen gentlemen walking by and one says the other okay but what if it could breathe fire and had wings like a griffin would you like ferrets then i mean do i still have to pay Can I control when it breathes fire? Yeah, exactly. Like, that's, I mean, it sounds cool, but once it's in your apartment. That's my problem with rodents.

It's like, oh, not enough fire. Yeah. There's definitely been a mouse in here, all the singeing. I just lit the mousetrap on fire. Oh, I didn't see that coming All this cheese is melted Dave do you have one? The other day I was

I parked my car At Harvard Yard No I parked it on the street That was a joke On the street I was feeding the meter and behind me i heard a guy uh say uh you think i'm gonna find a girlfriend tonight and i turned around and he was talking into his uh phone yeah in his earbuds and he was walking into Chipotle at 1045 in the morning. And I had to look up, when did Chipotle open?

It opens at 1045 in the morning. Oh, wow. So he's a guy who's memorized when Chipotle opens. Do you think that he's just being real thoughtful and he's like, should I get two burritos? Yeah. Am I going to have a girlfriend by later? It was a Friday, so he's like, well, get two burritos? Yeah. Am I going to have a girlfriend by later? It was a Friday,

so he's like, well, I guess we're going out tonight, but I've been up since five and my lunch time is at 1045. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think I'm going

to meet a lady? Like, how much Chipotle should I eat? I'm having my first lunch at Chipotle at 1045 in the morning. Yeah. I'll have second lunch wherever she wants to at 1045 in the morning. Yeah. I'll have second lunch wherever she wants to go if I have a girlfriend by then.

That being said, I got Chipotle at 11. I didn't eat it until I got home. Okay. So what time is that? 11.01. Okay. No, I got it. Like noon-ish.

Okay. All right. What do you get? What's the big thing? A burrito. They noon-ish. Okay. All right. What do you get? What's the big thing? A burrito? They do burritos. A burrito. And are they good?

Yeah. I think I've had it. I think I've had it. You've had it up to here. Yeah. Yeah, I think they have a couple of vegetarian options. Yeah. No meat?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then like some kind of I don't know Mashed something Like mashed zucchini or something I don't know what it is Sure Mashed Yeah mashed something

Why not Yeah Chipotle They don't have a breakfast menu though Not at Because they open at 1045 Yeah okay But there's not like

A breakfast burrito. No, that would be great. Yeah. But they don't do that. Okay. Not the Chipotle here anyway. Maybe your Chipotle is where you're listening, listener. Maybe you have a local breakfast Chipotle.

We only have the one. Yeah, fair enough. I'm never in the neighborhood when I'm going to get Chipotle. Not even my favorite burrito. No, but why not? It's a burrito. And it's really big. Really big and filled with good things

or are they just padded out with a lot of lettuce? Yeah, there's Lego blocks in there. Mostly the Lego man heads because they can fill up a lot of space no yeah good things no lettuce okay but you go it's like subway style you go down the line you tell them what you want ah man i don't think i've ever been to chipotle um this episode is brought to you by chipotle and subway remember there was like a five-year span when people didn't know how to pronounce Chipotle? No.

Chipotle? Like it was a new- Remember before that when you just never did because it didn't- Yeah, it wasn't a thing. Or like, oh, this thing has Chipotle mayo. I'm like, okay, Uncle Axel. And then I think we went through a ciabatta bread time as well. Oh, yeah, absolutely. And hopefully we will again. Yeah, just a ciabatta bread time as well. Oh yeah, absolutely.

And hopefully we will again. Yeah, just a new unpronounceable food. That's what the new hot Halloween costume is going to be. A ciabatta. Yeah. My overheard comes courtesy of one of BC's fairies. The boats. Yes.

uh the boat yes uh and uh a guy at one of the cash registers in the cafeteria was uh doing a high-pitched voice that i think was uh supposed to be an impression of one of their co-workers he was like i'm going on vacation my kids are so smart and then one of his co-workers walked by and went, ha ha, exactly. You're nailing it. You're nailing it, Doug. Yeah. I've never seen like a lot of personality from the cash register operators on the ferry, so this was fun.

This was a fun... I wish that it was a co-worker that walked by and was like, hey, I'm going on vacation! My kids are smart! It's always fun when somebody is able to crack an impression of somebody that everybody knows. Just a localized impression.

Oh, that's fun. I don't think I can do it, but back in high school, I think I had a couple teachers. Oh, that you could do? Yeah, yeah. But just certain phrases. You gave a new meaning to doing the teacher. Well, I also gave it the old, old meaning, too.

You know that kid? Remember that kid from back then that slept with his teacher? Billy Folau? Yeah, that was me. Why do we know his name? That should have protected him. He was the one who kept publicizing his name. Billy Folau! Teacher banger!

We're keeping your name private to protect your identity. No need. I thought of a, what might be a popular costume is a handmaid. Oh, yeah. From the tail.

Very good. Thank you. Thank you. I was trying to think of what won Emmys. Yeah. Donald Glover. Also, maybe Katy Perry's new haircut.

That's also, that could be. Swish, swish, bish. What else? Yeah, that's good. I think that's the winning one. Thus far. Yeah. I don't even know what else is even on.

I'm losing track of what's on tv but where was hulu in this halloween store with their handmade things hulu costumes yeah all their hulu costumes i want to be billy eichner from difficult people what about amazon with its originals yeah i want to be red oaks um yeah well the tech isn't that that's coming out oh sure

but it's not a hit yet so doesn't the thing have to be yeah yeah I don't know are you gonna

Halloween oh yeah are you gonna Halloween seems very unlikely but I say it every year and then usually on the last

on the last minutes I would like put some zombie makeup on and then go to something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why don't you? Halloween, you can wear the bandana. You can be, you know, some kind of. But then I'll get zombie makeup on it.

I'm a zombie bandita. Yeah. Are you going to take Margo out? Oh, yeah, I think so. Fun. What would Margo out? Oh yeah. I think so. Fun. What would she go as? Uh, she's been, she has this Nemo costume, so probably Nemo. Pretty good.

And, and Poppy has a little unicorn costume. I love this. Uh, that's a pretty cute, pretty cute situation. Um, and who knows, maybe I'll go to a house and she'll be reunited with the jumping spider. Oh, no. Leave that. Don't put out your scary things until like after 730. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's a pretty, that's a fair play. When is the cutoff for trick-or-treating? November 1st. cutoff for trick-or-treating uh november 1st uh like because as someone who hands out candy i don't want like usually it starts at like 5 5 30 and then you're going till 7 30 and then if the door knocks at nine o'clock it's you're getting a sawed off in the face Yeah I think If I recall correctly the system was Hand out candy for two hours Then dump remaining amount of candy

In bowl with note You have to get here before double jeopardy That was always weird when you would go To somebody's house and just peek around the corner See what they were watching Smell some stew. Maybe that they were having some stew. Everybody's house smelled like stew back then.

You need a hearty stick-to-your-ribs meal to trick-or-treat. Now, we also have overheard sent in to us from spooky people everywhere. If you want to send one in you can send it into spy at maximumfun.org this first one comes from ben from kansas city uh writing to you as a gen xer stuck working with millennials i just overheard my co-worker say oh my god i can't imagine life

without memes have you seen the moon moon meme it's a great meme i don't know that meme no me either uh but me you know the moon moon meme you're a millennial i saw a post that said uh the headline was there's finally a word for people born between generation x and millennials and which is 19 between 90 whenever the star wars movies came There's finally a word for people born between Generation X and Millennials, which is between 90, whenever the Star Wars movies came out, 1977 to 1983. Right. Which I am in that window. The Star Wars generation?

Yeah. But the name of this generation is Xennials. I clicked on this to find you combined two things eczemia eczema eczema we're surprised as you that you clicked on this article all we came up with was

Xennials do I have like am I mutant mutant meme powers? I am a member of the XFL. This next one comes from Kala. Kala? Is that how you pronounce C-A-L-L-A-H? Kala?

Oh. Kala M. I work in forestry on Vancouver Island, and we have to carry handheld radios all day to communicate with each other. So I spend most days listening to loggers chatter. Today, I got a couple of ear treats. Logger one. Nothing gets past you, buddy. Logger two.

Yep. You got to get up pretty early in the morning to fake an orgasm with this kid. Oh, man. The morning is my favorite time to fake an orgasm. Yeah, the early bird fakes the orgasm with the worm. Yeah, I don't know. I just really like the way. Well, well yeah and also that a logger's referring to himself as a kid yeah this kid and also like i wasn't able to satisfy her but i'm on

tour um should have given her the lager's breakfast. Sure. Now, is that a stack of pancakes? Lager's breakfast? Pussy. Yeah, oh yeah. Excuse me? Stack of pussy?

Bwaha? It was some flapper jack. This last one comes from Mike in Victoria. A real island heavy. Yeah. Two five oh what what? I was in a coffee shop in Victoria and I overheard a guy talking to the woman he was with. He was telling her my philosophy is that we're here for a short time, not a long time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well said. Very succinct. Yeah, very Confucius. Is 250 the only area code in Victoria these days? I cannot verify that. I think they may have had to take on some 678 as well. Okay, we have some of those.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. When I saw the band Trooper live, again, I'm sorry to be bragging so much about my glamorous past. This is the right place to do it. They both open and close with Here for a Good Time. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, fair enough. Right? They know what they're doing? With Here for a Good Time. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, fair enough. Right?

They know what they're doing? Trooper is a Western Canadian rock band, classic rock band. Yeah. Yeah. And Here for a Good Time is one of their hits. Raise a Little Hell? Raise a Little Hell. Boys in the Bright White Sports Car. Whoa.

Whoa. Hits. Hits for days. We were just talking about Harlequin a couple weeks ago. Yeah, yeah. What was their song? I don't remember. Something, but I know it begins with something about putting a nickel in a payphone.

I put a nickel in the record machine. No, that's a different song. Well, anyway, we had some fun here. We sure did. But the show's over. No, no, Dave, it's not. Oh, in addition to overheards

that are written in, you can also call us. And the way you do that is you get a phone. You got it. Okay, shop around for a different phone plan. It's very important

because you don't want to be paying the high price of one company when you could pay the exact same price with another company that's how it works look I'm on the show I'm what is

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On like news shows, they have one guy who like sticks up for you. Consumer affairs. Consumer affairs. I am the consumer affairs guy on the show. Good stalling tactic. Call us at 1-844-779-7631 or 1-UGH-SPYPOD1 like these people here.

Hi, Dave Graham and probable guests. My name is Alistair calling from St. Petersburg, Florida with an overseen. I was at 7-Eleven and on the side of the building that's all a brick wall, there was some graffiti, and written inside three bricks, one word for each brick was a Pussy Boy Taylor.

And I kind of read it like it was the name of an old-timey bank robber, Pussy Boy Taylor. Yeah, you just got robbed by Pussy Boy Taylor. Yeah, also known as the Logger's Breakfast. I think we just found my Halloween costume. Yeah. Pussyboy Taylor Tinker Soldier Spy. Yeah, what does this costume look like?

Are we talking about like a pinstripe suit and then the bandana? Or what does Pussyboy Taylor look like? Yeah, I think it's a good start. I mean, I think a hat, except when he's eating pussy, obviously. You can leave your hat on, I think. Yeah. Not the way I do it. I have one of those helmets with two beer cans on either side.

Stay hydrated. Here's your next phone call. Hi, Dave and Graham, my guests. This is Jen from Denver, Colorado. And the other day I was walking my dog. We were right by the edge of a playground. And I could see this little girl walking backwards. And walking towards her was two little boys.

And so I kind of stopped to watch because it looked kind of weird, but I couldn't hear what they were saying. They weren't yelling, but they were sort of like spitting words at each other, but I just couldn't hear what they were saying. So as I milled around with my dog, I heard the little girl say, you don't know me. You don't know how hard my life is. And the little guy goes, what do you mean? Why? She's like, it's private. And there's a little more talking I can't hear. And then the little girl goes,

I'm allergic to grass. And then the little boy goes, I'm allergic to tea tree oil. I could die if I eat it. I could have my throat close up. And then I would be dead. Sorry, it's gross. Bye. That wasn't that gross. That wasn't gross, yeah. Did the girl say I'm allergic to grass or brass?

Either way, it's tough. Yeah, because brass, oh, that would be a tough one. That's one funky monkey. Yeah, and like, you know, there's a lot of nice accents that you can put on things. Oh, sure. That that kid would never get to enjoy. And is it like. Parades would be a nightmare.

Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. Why would I need to brass music? Yeah, I can't go to like... Can't talk to the top level of a corporation. Yeah, I can't listen to the halftime show at a college football game. A lot of words meaning brass. Wasn't there someone on Law & Order named Brass?

Oh, no. Was it The Wire had a brass? Who had a Brass? Who had a Brass? Donnie Brasco. Yeah, Donnie Brasco. Oh, CSI. The original CSI had Brass.

Brass. Anyway. Yeah. All right. Final overheard, boys and girls. Hey, Dave and Graham and guests. This is Tess calling from Chicago, and I have an overseen for you. I was just walking around a college campus here in the city and I saw a guy talking on, walking down the street,

talking on his cell phone. He had one of those, had earbuds in and the microphone was kind of halfway down the cord on his earbuds. So he was holding, it was a busy street, so he was holding the earbuds microphone closer to his mouth so that the person on the other end could hear him. But Absinthe

finally, he didn't realize he also had a banana in his hand, so it definitely looked like he was talking into a banana like it was a phone, and it was the best. Oh, why isn't that an option of a thing that I can have? From your phone company? Yeah, yeah. A banana phone? Yeah, some sort of banana phone.

From the Raffy phone company? Raffytel? That dude is 100% in an intro improv class. Make it what it's not. Yeah. Yeah, but isn't it... But make it what it's not

is always make it a phone. Yeah. Yeah, that wouldn't be hard to make. What would you... Or, like, could it just be that he was talking to the phone? Like, not talking into it? Like, you're...

Or not talking to the banana, I mean? Like, you're full of potassium. Yeah. I don't know. You come wrapped in your own wrapper. Does that holding the little microphone closer to your mouth work? Or does it just make you sound like super loud to the person you're talking to? I still, to this day, I'm not like when I just have it hanging down and I'm talking, I'm very uncomfortable with that.

I feel like I need to be doing something with my hands or, yeah, just kind of sitting there and just talking out into the, it's a weird look. And it's not getting any less weird with time. I thought I would eventually just get into it. But, no, maybe I should hold a banana in my hands. Maybe that would alleviate things a bit. Give me something to do. Cradle it. Katie, how's it going?

Time to end the show. Yeah. You have something coming up in November. Yeah, for those who are in town, I'm at the next lady show, which is a wonderful variety show that I'm part of. We do sketch and stand-up, and

it's fantastic. Former podcast guests Morgan Brayton and Diana Bang and Fatima Dore are on it. And that's taking place. One of the most obvious shows? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ooh, uncomfortable. I'm sorry. It's on November 8th at the Red Gate Review stage, and I'll be at the.

Where's that? On Granville Island. Oh, cool. Yeah. And if you're not familiar with the lady show the best way that I can describe it is that we put

the joy in feminist killjoy. That's a pretty good slogan. I it has the most popular merch of any comedy in town

I would say. Oh yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I agree. Hands down. Get yourself a cool lady show lid

and also be at the comedy mix October 17th and 18th as part of a That might be after, before this comes up.

Oh yeah, should last. Yeah, that's before this comes up. Never mind. Oh yeah, you got the lady show plug in there.

Yeah, come to the lady show. And if, whoops, if people want to find you online, where, where do they go? Bumble. No, you can't find show. And if, whoops, if people want to find you online, where do they go? Bumble. No, you can't find me.

I'm a ghost. Look for the girl with the dandy dub. On Twitter, I'm at Miss Katie Ellen, M-S-K-A-T-I-E-E-L-L-E-N. And yeah, I mean, I'll definitely post a photo of me dressed in my Halloween costume, which is going to be dope. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't wait. What am I going to go as this year? Bumble.

I'll just go as an app. Yeah. Like a popular app. I'm going to go as the, what was even like a popular summer movie? I'm going to go as Dunkirk. The emoji movie. I'm going to be Logan Lucky. And if you people out there enjoy the show, you should follow us at Stop Podcasting.

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