Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 823 - The Listeners

Episode Date: December 26, 2023

Dave and Graham cap off 2023 with a call-in show featuring the listeners and their questions, talents, and a discussion of where exactly Justin Bieber gets his peaches.

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 823 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name's Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who really wants you to all lang those zines, Mr. Dave Shumka. No, it's zines. I want you to make little tiny independent magazines. Go to Kinko's and... I like zines. Yeah.

Should all acquaintance be forgotten none of my business um did you hey listeners it's our end of the year episode this is the one where we talk to you the listener and we got a great lineup of listeners who are champing at the bit to you know nibble our ears um oh yeah i can't wait i guess chew your ear what does it mean what's the expression chew your ear off yeah talk to yeah or just talk your ear off right would you say yeah um the uh do you have any resolution um i got all the typical ones they think everybody has you know get in shape of some sort and get bent, start a band. Go fuck yourself.

Go fuck yourself. Get into swords or some kind of bartitsu, maybe parkour. There's places in Vancouver where you could study both. You could do parkour or bartitsu. Of course, I can't write bartitsu on Tik TOK cause it contains the word tits. And so I'll get banned. Um,

what would happen if you were, for you personally, if you were banned from, uh, Twitter, would you be like, well, that's fine.

I don't know, man. It is like, I am still out there tweeting absolute bangers and it's getting no traction. Your tweets are as good as they ever were. And I feel like no, just no one's there anymore. It does. It feels like it's, uh, like very much the last hours of a party where it's just real

stragglers. And, uh, yeah, I feel like, I don i don't uh like the way it is now i i hate going on there and like my feed is mostly just like hey dave here's some suggestions for you and it's like an account that's like disturbing images i think it's ever since you suggested I follow chaotic drunk videos. Now it's all like, now it's all like fascinating horror deaths or whatever, like real life unsolved terrible things. My new year's resolution last year was to spend more time with my phone. That's right.

And I knocked it out of the park. I'm just going to redo that um do you uh do you ever check your usage your your daily or weekly yeah yeah yeah and i'm just does it shock you or does it uh i'm trying to get it up to like i'm i'm up to two two figures a day i'm i've broken 10 10 hours and i'd like to i'd like to get it up to three figures a day. No, it doesn't shock me, but it's like, I'm not, that's a joke listener. I'm not on my phone 10 hours a day because the battery won't last long. Yeah, exactly.

Um, but I, uh, yeah, it's, I'm on there a lot and it's not good, but. What are you doing on there? You, are you watching, uh, things? Are you watching tick tocks? You doing reading news stories?

What are you doing? Doing a lingo. I'm opening Instagram and then closing it. And then I'm opening Slack and closing it. And then I open Reddit and close it. And I opened Twitter and close it. And I'm like, Oh,

but let's go back to Instagram. Nice. Yeah. We've completed the cycle yeah um how about you what's your usage like uh it's not too bad i want to get it down a little more but it's mostly on the same thing i run a circuit you know like twitter instagram reddit yeah when when i realized i run the circuit too many times i'm like this is i put this away have you ever done it where you literally have run the circuit and then your brain just automatically absolutely just goes right back to it and you're like why am i not even the circuit it's like i'm on All right. There's nothing else on Instagram. Close Instagram. Open Instagram. What's next? Oh, Instagram.

I love it. I watched that social, what was it called? The documentary about how social media is bad. Oh, is it the social? No, that's the movies, the social network. Yeah. What was it called? The Social Dilemma.

Social Dilemma. Yeah. Yeah. I was it called? The Social Dilemma. Social Dilemma, yeah. Yeah, I watched that and I was very inspired by it. I thought it was really cool what it does to our brains. You automatically bought Margot and Bobby their own phones. This is how they really get into it.

Dad will be proud if you do this. Yeah, I gave them ring lights when they were still in the crib. Okay, let's get to our callers Caller are you there? Hello caller Hello uh St. Louis Missouri We have our caller coming up

Oh I remember what this is like It always takes a little minute for everyone to To join up And hello Are you there caller? K hey how are you uh good um oh we interrupted you unless you have enough for the whole class spit out your gum cough drop i need it oh okay oh sorry Oh, sorry, sorry. Kate, hello. Where are you calling us from? California. Oh.

What part of California? Humboldt County. Oh, yeah, we know where that is. She did a little doobie. A little doobie. Well, I mean... Not for her. She's sick. She can't doob it up. I know.

She's got to do cough drops. She'll be coughing. If you're not choking, you're not toking, bud. Thank you. Is Humboldt County famous for anything other than dubies? Or is it dubies? Is that where they invented 420?

Yeah, we invented that here. Good for you guys. That's what we're known for. We also have redwood trees. Oh, the big ones? The big ones. Like the drive-thru? Do you have the drive-thru one? Is that Humboldt County?

We do have that. And we had a funny local news story where somebody drove a giant SUV through it and got stuck. Yeah. That's, man. Huge. That's leading off the evening's news, if you ask me. You got some footage of this guy being stuck in a tree that's your lead that's your lead story that makes me think of dave's favorite news story which he always says is somebody like driving into a local restaurant

yeah yeah that's the thing that happens when you watch local news all the time every like third day a car drives into a tanning salon um the my grandma she once drove into uh into a restaurant so then she had her license taken away well but drivers were big back then um what is i feel like it actually reminds me of uh like when you when like a rascally kid puts their head through the um railings oh through a railing and then they have to like lube it up with butter and get it out how'd they get the suv out of that tree uh there was a video of it i think they just sort of like and like the mirror is kind of bent i'll send you guys a link oh sure it was probably a rental

it's fine now Kate you're our first caller of the show are you serious? I'm serious you're the car stuck in a tree this is and everybody blinding us behind me

and we didn't do much of a setup at the beginning of the show so we'll just take some of your time now and do it this is the time where we get our listeners to call in and they can ask a question they can uh show off a talent show a talent they can uh or ask us to rate their outfit or whatever, man. Yeah. If you've got a cool thing that you like that you like to show off, a little show and tell, we're into that as well. Whatever.

What would you like to do? Kate, you take it from here. Well, thank you. The last time I was here, I asked for some advice. You were on the show before. I was on the show before. You don't remember? i remember you yeah there you go yeah you were asking for advice yeah do you remember what i asked you about yeah you asked was it about to name your child was it

no it was if i if i should have a third child oh Oh, and I abstained. I said, don't, that's none of my business. Well, you said no, so I didn't. Oh, okay. You said, no, the planet's bad. I said, okay. The planet is bad. Oh, yeah. It's in rough shape. We can all agree. We're in the middle of another

Billy Joel, we didn't start the fire cycle. What is, so, was that Billy Joel, We Didn't Start the Fire cycle. What is... Was that two years ago or last year? No, it was two years ago. No babies ever since? No.

What do you got? What's your kid's setup right now? My setup, the rig I'm working with right now is I have a four-year-old girl and a six-year-old boy. Oh, boy. I bet you they get in all sorts of monkey shines, all sorts of troubles.

Oh, boy, do they. Boy, do they. Do they get along, or are they constantly fighting? They're best friends. It's so cute. Aw. Where are they right now? Yeah, in the showroom. Oh, I don't know. No, they're at school. One's at preschool, one's at school school got it

just give them a fishing rod and say go out go out and catch some catfish have fun see at the end of the day um do your kids like school yeah they love it nerds nerds nerd alert do kids that like school busted honestly my kids totally busted my kids maybe like school as well because they don't like anything else they like the youtube and school like i don't think they like school but they hate everything else yeah but when they're at school you don't know what they're thinking so maybe they are liking it yeah exactly but they don't you know i think they like they can put up so much resistance to going to whatever lessons i sign them up for or sports i sign them up for but yeah they know it's futile to resist school resistance is futile yeah

well so i have another advice question okay here we go okay so i'm starting a new job on monday the week before christmas well yeah okay i don't know i don't know yeah maybe well do you guys want to call my new boss and ask her what she's thinking i I don't know. Yeah, yeah, put her on the line. Let's see what she has to say. I have unlimited time, right? Yeah, dial up your boss. Well, so I wanted to know what new cool personality I should adopt for my first game work

to make a good first impression. Wow. That is cool. Is this an office type job? I know the games I want to say. Or like a first impression. Wow. That is cool. Is this an office type job or like a store or? It's in an office. It's at a nonprofit and it's only part time.

I work part time from home doing something I've been doing for like years and then I'm starting this part time too. So I don't have to keep this up 40 hours a week. Okay. Right out of the gates. I want to say like a rambo-esque loner just yeah you know you've got a lot of emotional baggage because of vietnam yeah yeah and you know wear it like a headband and uh just keep to yourself you know uh-huh that's what i feel that's what out of the gates that's what i feel dave and i think really just keep to yourself you know uh huh don't answer any questions that's what I feel out of the gates that's what I feel Dave

I think like a mysterious ska person oh cool I don't know skanking in the lunchroom yeah someone with like a black shoes black hat Cadillac that's your outfit okay well

a hat and you're wearing a Cadillac as your body. Covering your body. With your arms out the windows. Walk through a tree. Oh my god, I only have a couple days to get that ready. Well, then do cramps. Use them wisely.

Do you think, at this new job, that there's a risk of you accidentally walking into a secret Santa situation? You were not a part of, but all of a sudden you're like, right in the middle of it. Yeah. Oh my god. Oh my god. Or like getting sloppy at the

Christmas party for all these non-profit years. Yeah, they're sick. Have you guys ever been to a good company Christmas party? Yes. Yeah. Yeah? guys ever been to a good company christmas party yes yeah yeah yeah if you work at a fancy company money oh i feel the opposite i feel it's like uh young people like there's no like you don't have to worry about like tiptoeing around uh you know your old cranky boss uh-huh yeah i feel like the old cranky boss is

never that well yeah i guess the holiday party i'm thinking about i was like 24 so i was the young person making it fun maybe yeah and you have an open bar and you can just go insane yeah well kate you make loving fun and i'm trying to get rid of her, Graham. Okay, beat it, Rambo loner. You won't go? She won't go. Well, thanks for calling and good luck at the new job. Have fun, you guys.

Bye. Bye. I also remember I don't know how to get rid of people. Like literally, I don't know what to click. Alright, here's our next caller she is a repeat as well i definitely remember her this is gretchen this is gretchen and hello to gretchen hi gretchen how's everybody doing today you were doing great gretchen good to see you

it's very nice to see the both of you as well. Were you our call? Did you call last year? Sure did. Were you in a different country? I was in India. That's the one. Yeah.

Getting married. Yeah. Congrats. How's that going? We are celebrating the first anniversary of our second wedding today. What do you know? What is that? What's the first anniversary?

Is that paper? What do you get for paper or anniversary oh oh oh i mean plastic plastic does last longer so let's go with plastic yeah get them a nice uh soap dish or something yeah get them a gi joe that is a great idea dave um are you in india. Are you in India now? Are you in North America? Where are you? Just in Seattle. Love it. Love it.

India of the Northwest. Are you, is G.I. Joe a good idea? Is your husband into little figurines? Yeah, I think real early, I set the tone. No little figurines and he he has abided by that but you know christmas is just around the corner maybe i should um you know like like like

yeah what um are you being serious does he like figurines well someone gave him I think it's Naruto the guy that runs with his hands behind his back gave him what are the ones with the really oversized heads pop bottle head?

Funko pop yeah and his idea was let's put this on the mantelpiece. And I was like, no. No, no. Let's put it in your office. And then. Yeah.

That's what's nice about having an office. You can put all sorts of crazy stuff in it. They've got an office. And he's got all sorts of memorabilia. Yeah. I mostly have stickers I'm afraid to stick anywhere so I hold them onto my bulletin board with

pins but the pins don't go through the stickers because I may need to stick them one day that's good now Dave did you have a sticker book when you were a child was that a thing no okay I know that it was a thing yeah yeah and I remember the like fuzzy ones yes

how do you feel about scratch and sniff i'm all i'm okay i like those puffy ones puffy plastic ones that were like uh you could get like a care bear or something like that did you like to squeeze those graham yes yes of course and i had a sticker book. I love stickers. You did have a sticker book? You could get me to do anything. Yeah, when I was a kid, you could bribe me into just about any chore or activity if stickers were on the other end. I feel like stickers were a real hot commodity. Were really hard to come by.

And now they're everywhere. Yeah, they are. You can get a sticker anywhere. Yeah, just rolls. Rolls. You've rolls and rolls. Now, you didn't call us to talk about stickers or maybe you did do you have a question a talent yeah or a rate your fit oh well well real quick

you guys know who this guy is on my shirt he's a little folded up yeah he is a little folded up wow this looks real weird at this angle it looks like it could be ricky martin or brian adams or i thought it was maybe like jonah hill in some way it's uh it's uh orange cassidy if you know who that wrestler is oh i don't know i don't do you know i don't i'm sorry i don't know orange cassidy if he comes out with a line of stickers then okay i'll know. Well, that's not why I've gathered us all here together today.

Well, you didn't. We gathered you. It's nice to be here. Thank you. New Year's resolution. Stop taking credit for what you guys do. No, I wanted to know what lessons from Flex Magazine you are going to bring with you into 2024.

Play the theme song now. Here's some lessons learned from Flex Magazine. If you're a flexitron, please don't murder me. The odds are the future. Of course, the lesson I learned from flex magazine is oil it up all of it i wonder every square inch yeah gee i wonder if i would look better shirtless if i just you know put a bunch of self-tanner on and was very shiny it's worked for generations of uh of people that you know hulk hogan if he was pale pale white hulk hogan gross you would want

to see that just blue veins it would look like blue cheese like it'd just be awful veins but when you're coated in a nice golden brown you know fake tanner yeah i've got i'm looking at my blue veins right now. It's giving me some ideas. If I colored myself completely blue, you wouldn't see them either. If you do want to turn into a wrestler, Dave, this is your gimmick. You're the blue guy. I'm the guy. I'm Paul Giamatti from that movie where he's mad at Frankie Muniz yes

is he called Big Bully? Blank Check? Blank Bully? yeah no that's Big Bully's Rick Moranis and Tom Arnold oh lest we forget

they're both still with us that's a big fat liar it was big fat liar big fat liar okay okay my lesson I've learned or well yeah my lesson I've learned from Flex Magazine is

when you're doing those poses you gotta remember to breathe don't hold your breath when you're doing those poses you gotta remember to breathe you don't pass out i know it's tempting to just hold it for as long as you're flexing but no yeah um deep breath in deep breath out um i mean this is probably very good podcasting but how long do we think we could all hold our breath Well, thanks for calling Gretchen And we'll see you next year And I'm just gonna, I guess I just

She's really holding her breath And I really am going to Kick her out of here No! Okay Graham wins I want you to keep holding it into the next call okay Graham wins Graham wins I want you to keep holding it into the next call

Graham I'm gonna send you a sticker for winning what kind of sticker do you want one of orange you got a puff one if anything from a you know a cartoon I like a Spongebob an obscure modern wrestler yeah if you got yeah Orange Cassidy

I'm interested in that. Uh, you got it. Anything from the movie office space, uh, things like that. Things in that genre. All right.

That genre. Okay. Bye. Bye. Thank you. Now, who do we have next? And how do I let them into here?

Oh, we have here a man named Dallas. Dallas. Here comes Dallas T. Here comes Dallas T. Right down Dallas T lane. Oh, yeah. Here we go. Starting out strong with a good holiday look.

Yes. It's Dallas. How are you? I have a feeling this guy wants his outfit rated. I have a feeling you're right. Dallas, hello. Where are you, Dallas? I am in Urbana, Illinois.

Have we talked to you before? No. No, but I did manage to get two overheards on this year one called in about a british kid complaining about a friend who did um robin williams impersonations and a written in about a person who thought they might be allergic to notes in in coffee to the the nutty notes in coffee yeah like an almond note yeah an almond note that you might have a reaction to a note of almond in your coffee

I do like a kid that has opinions on Robbie Williams any of his body of work but also it's England you think they would want Robbie Williams did Robbie Williams ever play a British character? yeah

asked and answered And did Robin Williams ever play a British character? Yeah. Eiffel, Genoa, Doubtfire. Exactly, yeah. Asked and answered. Now, that's great, and I love it. Are you in your office? What is this backdrop? Where are you? This is my office.

I'm a university professor, so this is my office. Oh, I thought you were going to ask me. I was, yeah, I thought we maybe talked to you before because i feel like we've had uh every caller we get is usually from illinois but i'm east central illinois so i'm way i'm always sure yeah i'm from south central illinois it's crazy out here it's dangerous there's so many gangs uh what do you mind if i ask uh what you are a professor of sure i do material science and engineering so oh shit study how material you know what makes materials work the way that they do what's the best material yeah yeah uh top two top two yeah top two i like i like magnesium

a lot i do a lot of work in magnesium and titanium so oh titanium's so good man wouldn't you love to have something made out of titanium yeah you can have implants made out of it if you want tell me more yeah no claws like wolverine pop out of your skin what if that was a surgery guys could get they'd be getting it left right yeah a lot of guys uh came out of the pandemic lockdown with the claws i can't figure out how's the guy who did the leg lengthening and the wolverine same time it wouldn't work because of wolverine so short that's right yeah you want to be authentic break get down a couple of inches you know really yeah yeah do that bub um now uh dallas did you have a question a talent or a fit

a fit oh well i mean outfit now so for the listener, Dallas here is wearing just a regular run of the mill sweater with a button up shirt underneath. But on top, there is a sport coat that has a bunch of kittens. I think it's kittens wearing Santa hats. Is that right? Absolutely. Yes. Santa Claus. Ah, fun. Santa hats. Is that right? Yes. Santa Claus. Ah.

Fun. Where did you get this garment from? What's the order? My wife got it for me, I think, four years ago at TJ Maxx. Really? Yeah. I guess it's winners up in Canada

or something. I don't know. Yeah. We have, we know what you're talking. You don't have to talk to us. We usually have to correct, you know, uh,

inform our American listeners. Right. Exactly. Um, was it something that there was like, this was the only one or was there a rack of them? Do you know? Uh,

that I don't know. It was, it was, you know, as a holiday present for me, which I break out for the holidays. So that's don't know it was it was you know as a holiday present for me which i break out for the holidays so that's how to do it nice yeah well we have a meeting with our dean my i'm the associate head in my department head and i have a meeting with the dean in about an hour

and a half so i'm trying to decide if i should wear this to our meeting with the with the dean is there any more you think he'll be wearing something silly too probably not what about those weird hats that they sometimes do yeah mortarboard no not mortarboard like the weird floppy ones octagonal tam leaping lanny poffo used to wear wear when he was the poet am i remembering that right uh that yeah the popoff was the poet, the smartest man in wrestling. And he would wear some kind of academic clothing and read poems that were on Frisbees? Yeah, and then throw the Frisbees into the audience. It wasn't a powerful gimmick.

Was he Randy Macho Man Savage's brother? That's right, yeah. Just passed away a couple years ago. So, you know, up the top rope from both of you i'm in heaven slamming uh the queen um is there anything else we can do for you dallas well i mean i guess i guess question wise i guess i was thinking about like because i know you guys have done a lot of stuff outside of of stop podcasting yourself like i've been going back through the archives and listen to our debut album and you know i love the you know this sounds serious and let's make a whatever and i started listening to the debaters

after graham so like i don't know i guess i was wondering like what's your favorite non-stop podcasting thing that either of you have done and maybe i could even get actually be able to listen or watch but for me it's my children they're you know they're the light of my life and no achievement I've made has been as great as little Rory and little Jennifer love them both I get it as a dad I get it yeah yeah yeah yeah you'd understand yeah I just wish you were allowed to see them. They're at school right now. Otherwise, they'd be on this call.

For me, my favorite thing outside of this podcast is drinking to forget. Dave goes down to the shipyards every Friday, Saturday night. I tell the bartender, I just did two hours with Graham. Give me your hardest moonshine. Do you have any schnapps behind the bar? Make it stop. Make it make sense. That's a movie, right?

It's not making sense. It's not making sense. Okay. I don't have a real answer for you question yeah it sounds like you've been going through our archives extensively and frankly i didn't know we had archives well just yeah hold up i've been sort of going through it like 20 episodes at a time backwards so it's sort of this weird experience now where like you know i start oh yeah and i find out when the segments came from.

When did you start listening to the show? Um, it kind of started around the, the pandemic basically. And I was listening to, you know, this and, uh,

judge John Hodgman. And I don't know, just been doing a lot of, a lot of spy now. A lot of, a lot of, we got a catalog. We got a long,

you sure do. You can listen to a lot. And was there an order to it? Did you go from the beginning or did you go current and then backwards uh yeah i kind of started with the current ones and then i would take like i started just taking chunks of 20 and so now i'm doing sort of like 80 through 100 it's the part i'm working through right now it's good vintage good vintage so i've gotten i'm just yeah going back did you listen you started during the

pandemic and you're like huh these guys are so great in on zoom when the timing's all off and they don't seem to be having any fun but i'll stick with it was it a revelation when you heard us in the same room uh yeah it was no i mean i sort of remember the promo you guys did about you know about the zoom timing and that was that was pretty funny and then yeah yeah i'm glad you liked it because a lot of people were angry about our promos and we sort of leaned into that by making them bad that's true we've really given them something to talk about we're the the bunny rates of podcasting well Dallas this has been great there's someone else in the waiting room

thank you all you do bye how do I get rid of him what do I hit remove okay do you want me to press leave I could leave yeah just leave

get out of here we've got Maeve Maeve coming up here comes Maeve right down Maeve lane here comes Maeve hello hey Maeve how's it going

it's going well how are you oh top of the top of the heap we are this is our favorite episode of the year we love talking to our listeners our flissners and we um you know this is like also a time to reflect on the past year. It's usually a very solemn episode. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. It's been pretty solemn. Everyone's kind of mad at us.

We're not going to get the presents that we wanted, even though this is after Christmas. We're not going to get a New Year's present that we wanted. Santa is livid. Yeah. He's a lifelong bumper. He didn't get chosen. Oh, we got... If Santa was on the list, boy, for once to have that guy on someone else's list.

Are you kidding me? Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Crinkle. You used to have Santa on the Christmas episodes. Yeah, I guess we had someone like Santa. someone like santa maybe a demers or an emmett hall or something yeah emma would usually do something every year in hollywood is the most like santa huh huh i mean tim allen is out oh my gosh have you all seen el camino christmas no what's that what's that and tim allen is out well i mean he was i mean

he was in he was the santa claus right he was the santa claus yeah el camino christmas i don't know i do recommend it i don't recommend it to you graham it is a uh a netflix movie where gosh i don't want to spoil it but it is a christmas movie that starts off very odd and funny and ends up as like one of the most horrible tragedies i've ever seen and tim allen is in it okay because he's also he's also in uh christmas with the cranks so that was another mark against him in the christmas column gosh is that honestly that movie is one of the worst i put in my top 10 worst movies that i've ever seen this good el camino christmas is not a bad movie it is the weirdest movie um i cannot wait to watch this so i'm so excited to have a wreck i just googled

el camino christmas and it says people also ask i didn't ask anything for one thing, Google. I just put in a movie title. People also ask, is El Camino Christmas a good movie? The answer, excellent character development and fantastic twist plot with tragic hero at the, with tragic hero in the end. Go watch it. This was a great movie.

Okay. I'm going to go watch it. I'd say that's accurate. Netflix you say? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Um, there's, uh, this was a great movie okay i'm gonna go watch it i'd say that's what you say yeah okay yeah um there's a you know spoiler to anybody who's listening out there christmas with the cranks that it's about a a couple that don't want to participate in christmas they're gonna go to mexico but their flight gets canceled and everybody in the neighborhood wants them to put up lights and such and then at the end they never had any prelude to this at all at the very end santa comes down

and solves their problem but there's it's the rest of the movie's not fantastical just santa all of a sudden arrives oh you know that's called the plot that's called deus elf machina yes mackina damn it um the uh uh is that the one where it's the is the whole plot like a competition about christmas lights or is that it's yeah it's largely the neighborhood wants them to put up lights they don't wanna they're the cranks are they jamie lee curtis i feel slumming areumming do neighbors in this use like a gatling gun to shoot lights up onto the house I have an image of that

from a trailer that sounds great I was thinking there's a movie called Deck the Halls which is Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick are like rival neighbors trying to have the best decorations in their house but I don't

know about no Gatling gun I'm gonna have to yeah also maybe Dan Ackroyd's in it anyways see it if you at your own peril I've said my piece if you want to watch Christmas of the Cranks you go ahead okay

I'm there for the listeners listening to this on the day after christmas you don't have to watch that movie that's true but you do have to watch alchemino christmas i will maybe where are you where are you calling us from i am calling from st louis missouri but i've also called in overheards from all across the world oh really you're a traveler i'm a traveler uh no i've lived in portland and uh arizona and uh and i've had some some overheards actually haven't overheard now if you are open to it oh send it in send it into the show yeah write it down we are. Hold on. I'm going to email

it to you right now. Because every week I am in charge of getting the phone called overheards and Graham is in charge of the written in ones. Well, big kind of downturn in written in ones lately. Not very many coming in. Okay, well then I'll save this

and email it to you. That would be appreciated if you could do that that would really save me some trouble um mave do you have a question a talent or uh us to comment on your outfit what would you like i mean i mean i'm open um but uh i actually was hoping i could speak to the card guys okay Okay. The card guys, are they here with us tonight? Can you... We need silence. We need to get into the zone.

Summoning the card guys. Card us. Tops card Orectus. No Pokemon! No Pokemon! No Pokemon! Okay. What do you got?

What do you got cards? Let's see. 1999. Budweiser. no pokemon no pokemon okay what do you got what do you got cards let's see 1999 blood wiser puts out a stack of 52 playing cards with frank the chameleon from their ad campaign was frank the chameleon i don't know the ad campaign is it related to the frogs they sit and comment on the frogs and frank is the one who's non-judgmental and supportive of the frogs and it's like they're just cool guys to be around you shouldn't talk smack um wow like um where well what's this is this an info card with frank's stat sheet yeah okay now did you know did they put out other decks of cards i mean we know this because we're

card guys but do you happen to know if they put out other decks of cards with individual frogs on them or individual other lizard men i i looked it up for two seconds on wikipedia and wikipedia did not list uh decks of cards issued by budweiser. Okay. Okay. All right. And those frogs always work together. They weren't going out on solo. Yeah. They're, they're, yeah,

they're a throuple. Um, so some highlights here on Frank's bio is that he, uh, his career highlights. He was very popular on the late night talk shows circuit in the early eighties. Um,

whenever they did a zookeeper segment. So maybe, Oh, he was like a star. Yeah. Star reptile. Yeah. circuit in the early 80s whenever they did the Zookeeper segment. So, maybe Oh, he was like a star reptile. Yeah, crawling on a Jack Hanna. Yeah, Jack Hanna. Who do you

admire most? Al Gore. Oh, nice. They were trying to put their thumb on the scale in that election coming up. Also, if you could hear the Budweiser frauds going, Al Gore. Bush. Well, because Bush would be a competitor for Bud. So you don't want Bush and Bud.

They had a classic feud. Bush, Light, and Bud. Oh, yeah. Okay, that's good. That's good. Turn-ons. Here had a classic feud. Bush, Light, and Bud. Oh, yeah. Okay, that's good. That's good. Turn-ons. Here's a fun one. Placing my gelatinous tongue on some dry, flaky skin.

Ew. Yeah, I have the same. Whatever turns your crank. Oh, Dave, do you have the same one? Whatever turns your crank? Yeah, I have the same. That's my turn-on as well. Yeah.

Did you not know about my gelatinous tongue? Yeah, I knew about that, but I didn't know you's my turn on as well. Yeah. Did you not know about my gelatinous tongue? Yeah, I knew about that, but I didn't know you like putting it on dry skin. Gross. What do you mean? Like, all skin is beautiful. Yeah. And can you guess his favorite drink? Budweiser?

I'm going to go way out on a limb. It's got to be Budweiser. Yeah, two correct answers there so i've got all 52 and i've got frank's bio card and i don't have the box for it so it's not but uh but what do we see and i see you scroll in there i'm i'm on ebay uh this is going the highest i see and this is sealed sealed deck of cards 12.95 don't you think the love that a family has put into the cards is worth more than oh yeah sure plastic and cardboard box are these well-used cards yeah we've been playing for these for 20 years what yeah what do you play

uh we play rummy the main family game i don't know i don't think i've had a deck of cards last three games before we lose one of the cards like uh i have a lot of incomplete sets yeah yeah we play 52 pickup a lot yeah 52 pickup is that like the one where you all try to slap the middle card no it, it's when your older brother's like, hey, Dave, want to play 52 pickup with me? Oh, yeah. And you're like, yeah. And he throws the cards on the ground and you pick them up.

Okay, very good. Oh, that's some good kid bullying tips. If anybody out there is wondering, if they're trying to get their kid into being a bully, this is a good start. I run a little sort of a dojo for kids who you know, we do Wet Willies.

Swirlies. Yeah. Typewriter. Wedgies. Gas pedal. Wedgies. Yeah, stop hitting yourself. All the good. Swirlies gotta be black belt. It's the stop podcasting yourself, stop hitting yourself all the good it's the stop podcasting yourself stop hitting yourself academy

well this has been great and you've been a real trooper through this and I want to thank you for calling in it's so nice to have you and thanks for sharing your family cards with us. Yeah.

Yeah. Happy, happy to bring them, happy to show them and happy to get to talk to you too. You, you, not to get too blue, but you two are sexy lads.

Well, that's a little blue. That's a little blue for our show. Real important people for me to listen to over the course of the last 15 years blue for our show real important people uh for me to listen to uh over the course of the last 15 years so we're very important people to listen to people for me to listen to i've learned a lot of things and a whole lot of don'ts i think that's a great description of us important people for you to listen to um well thanks so much thanks very much goodbye and remove and there you're you're out there you go

you're you got this down pat yeah i put them in the waiting room as well so we lost a caller along the way we had a caller uh who was due to come in at 11 35 and they never showed up jesse g jesse g is where i'm sure we'll get an email from Jesse G at one point being like, Oh, dude, I spaced. Yeah, me and my friends stayed up all night watching all of the Friday the 13th. Oh, we got some baked. I forgot that I had stuff to do today. Yeah, I forgot that I had this important meeting with important people to listen to. Okay, well, but the good news is our next person is ready to go and actually i have i know something about this person

oh you do okay i can't wait to find out hello andrew is joining and andrew b andrew b andrew b connecting to audio and guns Andrew B. Andrew B. Andrew B. Connecting to audio. Here it comes. We're almost here. We're almost connected. Oh, connected to audio. Here we go. No video yet. No video yet, but here it comes.

Hi. Hello. Oh. Hi, Andrew B. Hi. Hi. Hi. Exciting. Now, where are you calling us from?

I'm calling from Lewiston, New York, which is just north of Niagara Falls. Wow, north of Niagara Falls. You'd think that would be Canada, but it's America. Yeah. Do you guys ever go to the falls?

I am about a quarter of a mile from the border. Okay. Okay. Are you tempted? I have not been often. No, since COVID.

We've got to come over to our side of the falls. Our side is the nice side. Everybody says so. The American side is the gutter. We're the sidewalk. Isn't the Canada side just good because you get to look at the prettier American side, though? No, it's because it's cheaper to get on the Maid of the Mist, I think, if you're in Canada. It's a little skeezy on the US side. Have you ever been on the Maid of the Mist, I think, if you're in Canada. It's a little skeezy on the U.S. side.

Have you ever been on the Maid of the Mist? I highly recommend Maid of the Mist, of all the attractions in Niagara Falls. Yeah? In Niagara Falls in Canada, there's a Burger King that has a giant Frankenstein that's towering over and eating a hamburger.

So that's worth, I feel like that's worth the quarter mile or whatever you have to go across the border. See the giant Burger King Frankenstein. And Ripley's, believe it or not, they got one of those there. World's Tallest Man.

World's Tallest Man statue, yes, they have that. Now, Andrew, I know something about... Houdini Museum. I was saying to Graham, I know something about Andrew. And that is, Andrew joined the Zoom at 7 a.m. Pacific time today, four hours before our recording began. Were you just testing it out? I was.

It started my work day, and I'm on remote computer systems. I want to make sure it could actually connect. I was the first to attend. What was it like? Was there anyone in the waiting room with you? No, it said, please wait for the host. I sat there for an hour or two and nobody was there. Maybe the host will come on if I just sit here long enough.

Andrew, I can see in the background, you have a degree on the wall are you a doctor are you a professor what are you i am i am a doctor of physical therapy oh shit nice yeah uh so do you have your did you take kinesiology is that how you get into it or what how do you get into that all of those things uh i was a anatomy junkie and it's the only real profession you can do to study anatomy yeah i'm an anatomy junkie too hey hey hey hey hey hey dave what's your favorite part of the anatomy you can only pick one okay and it can't be genitals just one okay one boob um do you you also seem to have um the super bowl behind you is that correct

that is a fantasy football trophy oh that one there yes that's a good trophy that's like that's a handsome looking trophy over there and you you're also wearing kind of a gaming style headphones and microphone that you might see at a drive-in also, you know, or drive-thru. So I work from home as a physical therapist.

So do people come over to your place? No. I don't need headphones for that. I am in charge of people coming and going from nursing homes so I approve their stays or kick them out of the nursing homes here in New York

wow okay wow okay and is it um does it feel good to kick people out of nursing homes laughing laughing laughing and when you kick them out you just throw them over niagara falls yes yeah get in the barrel they say get in the barrel you know where you're going um andrew uh did you have a question a talent or a third thing i have a little bit of everything okay uh would you like

to see my talent yes yeah i can do that thing where you look like you're going down in an elevator yeah do it right now would you like to see that yes please wait a minute this is really good no i know what how he's doing it it's very good it's very good but because the camera the camera the camera's moving up so is he like does he have a standing desk that like goes up yes more impressive than we thought right are you at a standing desk that like goes up yes more impressive than you thought right are you at a standing desk right now no you're in a chair i'm sitting at a standing desk i'm taking the lazy man's way out uh that was good though that was a lot of fun it was a it was a slow moving elevator but it's everything i wanted it to be and when did you realize you could do this i was searching for a talent today that i could do

within this little box right here in my video screen that's all i could come up with that's man you came up with you came up with a winner because that's uh you're not just a fancy foot fancy football player fantasy no no it's fancy football i'm in a fancy football league um do you have you said you have a couple things you have a question as well i do i was gonna ask you grand congratulations on your wedding thank you i was gonna ask bram's wife is she also her own person she is very much so yes she is her own person um She is very much so. Yes, she is her own person. And I've got the forms to prove it. And will we ever meet her on the show?

You know what? In this world, anything's possible. Anything's possible. We'll just have to see. Keep looking at the stars. Yeah, and will I ever meet her in real life i've still never met this lady um she's shy and but i assure you she exists i assure you those photos that i said are real and not photoshopped yeah they were like a she seemed to have six fingers on one hand

like in a lot of those ai photos or she's missing her fingers because it's a hard edge. Yeah, she was missing her fingers because yeah, and it was not her head photoshopped onto you know Jane Fonda's body. Couldn't think of a famous lady.

Name one woman. Hey Graham, name one woman. Raquel Welch. Now here's the thing in that situation i would be in current day photo and jane fonda would be in a photo from the 70s so it wouldn't match film stock no she would be monster in law era oh yeah yeah yeah yeah um and now what was your other thing you had a, you have a talent. What's the third? What do we got?

I have one more question. I have some Hulk Hogan news. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Yeah. What should we do first? It's dealer's choice. Yeah, whatever you want to do.

I'll give you the Hulk Hogan news today. I looked up for you. First news is that Nick Hogan was arraigned for a DUI today. Ah, god damn that kid. What does arraigning mean? It's like a rain

on your wedding day. It's very ironic. Nick Hogan is in our thoughts, and yeah and we hope that he uh doesn't get his car taken away uh or we hope he does yeah yeah i could go either way on it um also uh all cogan is really great at uh at lying about things and so there's always a little news story where he says, you know, oh,

you know, George Bush wanted me to part of his cabinet, but I was too busy. I was supposed to be in Metallica, but I slept in that day. I was supposed to be the lead singer of Nirvana. Oh, that sound,

that Seattle sound with Hulk Hogan in the lead. Was there one piece of Hulk Hogan news or two? I have another one here. Okay. A headline from today that says Hulk Hogan's former rival reveals Hulk Hogan's biggest weakness in the ring. Oh, I'm guessing it was he loves too much. I think it was that his back always hurt Jake the Snake said His biggest weakness in the ring was mobility

Yeah, he was very He wasn't like top rope guy As a Physical therapist, what would you Give him for that? Some kind of salve? A bomb? Kick him out of an old folks home? Vitamin from milk.

It's a good winning strategy. And you have one more question? I do. If no one else has asked today, it's a Justin Bieber question. Oh, we've had six so far. Then I need Canadian expertise and the justin beaver

peaches i get my peaches in uh georgia i get my peaches down in georgia i get my weed from california my bitches from the north yeah my bitches no i took my sweetie to the north yeah oh yeah that's right my sweetie and then my sweetie it was like from like from the source yes yes that's right and i once asked is that the canadian electronic store the source yes he gets into the source cc which was used to be radio shack and it became the source uh and it was now he's still around or i think you can maybe find the source in kingsgate mall nice nice probably get is it like radio shack where you could get like some wire and uh something radio shack had all these little tiny drawers yeah of course no it's basically just a tiny best buy tiny best buy thank you for

translating thank you oh yeah no problem but you know you had a suspicion it was the source and we're glad to be able to confirm it well thank you Andrew and uh off you go then bye

rid of him and um your sweetie to the north yeah i think it's gonna be that every time i hear that song i'm gonna sing that as the lyric well what are the lyrics maybe as i brought my girl up i thought it was bitch up but uh you wouldn't say that i took my chick up to the north yeah so okay I got my peaches out in Georgia. Oh yeah. Shit. These are the lyrics. That's the background lyrics.

I get my weed from California. That's the shit. I took my chick up to the North. Yeah. Badass bitch. I knew bitch was in there somewhere. So I guess so. Yeah.

Call her a bitch. Yeah, absolutely. You gotta, um, my sweetie in the north well we also lost another caller what?

we had two no shows that's crazy there's people who would have given their two front teeth to be honest yeah they're left nut and here is our next caller and away we go and hello to you hello how's it going good how are you pretty good i'm excited i'm nervous

you look nervous should be all those things absolutely this is it this is your big break what is your name sir my name is osman Osman. And where are you calling us from? I'm calling you from Austin, Texas. Now, is Joe Rogan in Austin, Texas? Is that kind of a thing that you're aware of that's in the culture there in Austin, Texas? Yes. It totally wants me to move from Austin, Texas. Is it really like, is he in the news?

Like, Joe Rogan did this crazy thing down the street well it's hard to tell because like um i feel like he's in all of my feeds anyways because i'm like so i'm very aware of him and i don't think you know maybe everyone else is but he did turn uh beloved theater into uh his own personal comedy club i was just about to ask about the comedy club where you have to sign a waiver or something that says you're not woke or something like that you're not allowed to go in there if you're woke yep so this is a tesla joe rogan town now and um we have to leave. Yeah, you gotta leave. You know where? Amarillo. Go to Amarillo. That's the new Austin as far as I'm concerned. You know what?

I actually really love Amarillo. Yeah? Yeah, absolutely. I have a really good friend there. Can you hear the name Amarillo without picturing an armadillo? I can't. I can't. I can't stop singing that

Is This the Way way to amarillo song you know that song no is that justin bieber which is i get my weed from amarillo i only know it from a peter k red nose thing okay okay graham it's a peter k red nose thing yeah i get it i'll jot that down in my diary and get back to it. Now, can I ask you a question? Yeah. The t-shirt you're wearing... Oh, okay. Usman. This t-shirt you're wearing,

is this the Regal Beagle from Three's Company, or does this just happen to be a... It is from Instagram, so I'm sure they imply that it has nothing to do with Three's Company. I'm sure that they have to legally, but that's the logo, right? That's the logo

from the Regal Eagle. I think it is. It's close enough. I have a Beagle, and I like the company well enough. Nice. Beagles rule. They're so cute. They are so cute. You know, I heard Snoopy's a Beagle.

I was just going to say Snoopy's a beagle you know and i was just gonna say snoopy's a beagle i just heard that like gen z is fascinated with with snoopy for some reason well i don't know for some reason because they rule yeah no no no i know i love snoopy and uh and what's your favorite peanut character uh this a bit tossed up between Snoopy and Woodstock, probably. Okay. Snoopy's a bit of a troublemaker, right? I think he's just like a weird, aloof dog that would help you sometimes. He was stuck with this sad boy owner. Yeah, I feel like Snoopy would be sarcastic.

Charlie Brown would be like, oh, my life. And then Snoopy would think something. He never could speak. Or he would go imagine he's the Red Baron. Yes, or Joe Cool if he wears sunglasses. Yeah, and then what is... What was his hayseed cousin? Didn't he have a a oh yeah or no cat

cactus jack what is um what is woodstock's personality he's just kind of like a sidekick isn't he yeah but sidekicks generally have more of a personality like he's i think he's just a cheerful counterpart okay like like how graham is oh sure i'm the sad wait i'm snoop either graham is woodstock okay woodstock i'll take it um well that's great uh that's great thanks for calling sorry sorry sorry sorry do you have a question or a comment or a thing i do have a question i think it's only relevant to me and maybe the members of this band but like so like several years ago i want to say within the last four years either and i think it was graham but possibly dave had a tweet about the cardigans and how about um that the last three cardigans this is also i'm that would be me that would that's dave as

soon as you're saying cardigans i'm like this is this is shumka territory yeah i don't remember the tweet but it was something like i think like the last three Cardigans albums are better than most things I run into. No wonder Twitter's going under. Yeah, do you want me to defend that? No, no, no. I just wanted to know, like, does that imply, because I'm a huge first three albums fan, does it imply that you like the first three albums less or better? Yeah, does it imply anything about the first three?

I don't like the early Cardigans, like, loungy stuff. Yeah. I can't really listen to that. But I like, what were the last last three I think I really just like The last two um The long gone before Daylight and super extra gravity And then I also really like the

Nina Person solo album And the two A camp albums Although What is the cardigan's big hit Love fool Oh love fool okay I was like I didn't want to say Love Fool. Cause I was like, maybe that's some other sweater. You know,

Do you like their whole catalog or are you just early? Well, you know, I, I haven't, the thing about the the second half of the catalog was that i think i got i owned gran turismo 2 maybe and um uh my favorite game was on it and that was a very repetitive game that you have to like you know play oh oh and the album is also called gran turismo the yeah it was in a video game called gran turismo that's like yeah i don't know if that's a synergy or whatever but like uh so i i always i i never liked that song specifically and then you got to hear the

song from gran torino that yes jamie cullum and claudeeswood that I didn't love Gran Turismo either but I like that song and I like my favorite game wait was that the one we were talking about I like what was the one that was in the closing credits Erase and Rewind yeah

I like Erase and Rewind a lot I like I like the I guess whatever my algorithm will show me from the last three albums whenever I hear it I like them

I think I'm going to check in on this because I didn't know I thought they were in the one hit wonder category honestly the fact that Taylor Swift calls her tour the heiress tour she doesn't really have air she was like a country person and then a pop person and it's all pretty much the same i think

the cardigans have eras okay okay two different eras yeah i watched the taylor swift country music video and i completely it feels like it's a whole different time doesn't seem like her at all that she was a country country queen but uh you know what it happened history history matters yeah if you don't learn your history you're doomed to repeat it etc that's right well usman i um i appreciate your calling uh i'm sure our listeners are deeply worried that I whether I liked certain errors of the card and quite frankly we're tired of answering this question it's come up three times so far

thank you so much I really really really love you guys and I don't know I spent more time listening to you guys than anyone else well you know thanks for listening thank you so much. You know who could use some listens? The Cardigans. Absolutely.

Bye. Okay. So, Graham, I don't know what's going on with these people. Oh wait, no, we have another dropout? No, we don't have a dropout yet. We have someone who's late, but only because we're late too too so don't worry about it okay all right here we go next caller are you there this always takes 10 seconds anyway benjamin oh hello hello

hello look at you hi good to see you guys good to see you see you you're you're where are you calling us from i'm calling you from my basement in my apartment in uh my row home in baltimore baltimore yes um i was watching a video of people uh a guy like holding up flashcards of a word and then getting his family to say them with their Baltimore accent. Okay. Great, great YouTube content. And of course we all know the Aaron earned an iron earned clip.

Uh, that was the fun. Water is a thing. Are you originally from Baltimore? No, originally from New York. Uh, sure.

Yes. Born in the city, raised in the suburbs. Okay. What is the suburb of New York? Where did you grow up? So I grew up in a place called Westchester, specifically Larchmore. Okay. I try to distance myself. I'm actually amazed I'm saying this on such an illustrious podcast as yours because I try to distance myself. You've called into the wrong podcast. Oh, is that right?

I thought this was Joe Rogan. NPR is also doing a call-in show today. This is Joe Rogan. Yeah, we want you to eat a weird mushroom and shoot a gun. Great. I'm prepared. I'm prepared. What were you going to say? No, I just tried to distance myself from this sort of hoity-toity you know vanilla uh suburb and focus on the new york city west chester west

chester sounds hoity-toity from the name oh yeah um now you uh the listeners won't know, but you've got several, or at least two musical instruments. I see a banana as well. That's my... Oh, it's a shaker. Yes, my two-year-old just picked that out the other day. Nice.

So you've got... What kind of tracks are you laying down? I'm not laying any tracks right now. I just got my old instruments here to play with when I can. That's fun. Dave's learning. Dave just learned. What was the song you just learned?

Thank you for being a friend. Thank you for being a friend. Yes. Who is that by? That's by Andrew Gold. It's the Golden Girls. Okay. Oh, okay.

Great. Who is that by? It's by Andrew Gold. It's the Golden Girls. Oh, okay. Great. It's a very weird, because it was a song before it was a theme song.

Okay. It was? Yeah. It's very weird when you hear like the full song of a thing that was a theme song and it's like got a weird part that you don't know. Yes. Well, even like Fresh Prince has that, right? Like you could get the,

there's the edited for tv but then there's one he'd get an orange juice yeah he's on the airplane yeah there's one from cheers that's also a full-length song that goes on about other woes you can have in your life so in the you can solve them by drinking in the fresh prince song he is is from West Philadelphia. He gets in a fight. His mom says he's moving to Bel Air. And then the detail that he includes is the time of day that he pulled up to the house. Yes. But he can't quite pin it down.

It was seven or eight. Maybe that was working backwards from the smell you later. Yeah. Yeah. I guess cab drivers, no matter what city you're in they reek yeah that seems making fun i yeah i don't know that i appreciate that will smith wasn't as enlightened as he is now where he goes around slapping people Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. Now, Ben. Yes.

What is your whole deal? We have a, we've opened the floor to questions, to talents, and to whatever else. Whatever your vibe you're feeling. Yeah, what are you feeling today? I think I'm feeling, you know know now that that mushroom is kicking in um i think i'm feeling a question for you okay now okay this would be uh individual i it's would be i would be hard pressed to believe you have the same answer although i guess oh should we should we go into our isolation booths while you ask i would i would appreciate it yes if that's okay you want one of us do you really want one of us no no i'll do it in the isolation chamber no no give me give me a signal when you've

already when you've already answered here we go here we go okay well dave now okay i'm also gonna go in the isolation chamber so it's just ben now oh lordy lord what could i possibly say okay i'm back all right it's just dave now so dave my question for you is can you please name uh something in your life that you were told that you believed to be true but now realize was a lie um well like in science i heard that glass was a liquid i don't know because like in older buildings it's uh it's thicker at the bottom okay like windows are thicker than that and then someone else was like that's not true okay okay okay graham graham come back graham come back please i'm back i'm back from the booth hi everybody now ben has a question for you now i'm gonna go in the room no he's in the booth here we go okay

so graham i'll ask you the same question and you'll see that it matters not that you went into the booth but um if you could can you think of something throughout your life where you were told to be that you you took to be true and now looking back you realize was a lie oh i have a i have a good one maybe i've talked about this on the podcast before but my mom who is a nurse yes is a nurse you know practicing nurse she told my brothers and i that pinching causes cancer okay so to get us to not pinch each other she would say pinching causes okay i i, I was listening in from the booth. I have one. This wasn't told to me, but it's very similar.

My sister, like, you know when you go to get Chinese food and you get beef chop suey and there's a bunch of vegetables in it, including baby corns? My sister loved baby corns and she would eat them all. And my mother said the baby corns my sister loved baby corns at my mom she would eat them all and my mother said the baby corns cause cancer just that you want to stop her in cake right yeah yeah yeah i guess oh i didn't know we were allowed to go our mom's a blank cause of cancer direction but yeah i still i think of that uh i think of that all the time actually whenever i i just i don't know the fact that that was her idea of how to get us to stop something was you know it's like flicking the lights off and on did you ever say that because of fire yeah Yeah. Oh, cause fire. Yeah. That you're doing the circuit too much and it causes fires.

Oh yeah. Or the, the classic one is the having the light on in the car at night. Like, uh, police. No, it'll like,

you'll get pulled over or something. It's illegal. Oh yeah. In fact, it's just dangerous. It is dangerous. Yeah. That would work.

That would have worked. do you have one that you're currently uh running by your kids dave oh uh no do you ben yeah ben you got a fake fake thing that you're trying to sell yeah that this that uh this is a banana this is a banana no no i don't it too you know he's uh well i'm not at the point where i need to lie i guess maybe there will be very soon oh sure i've not i don't find myself lying at two years old no we don't you got to learn how to lie to your kid right yeah talent it's i'm sure we do but um oh the other day uh so margo is uh nine she no longer believes in the tooth fairy i i'm too scared to ask about santa you gotta think if she doesn't believe in the one she doesn't believe in the other

the one that she believed in was the easter bunny like of the three bigs the one we know the least about um and she the other day because she like i i don't know why it works this way but like you when you're a kid you lose my kids anyway you lose a bunch of teeth all at once like within a few months of each other and then nothing for months and then like two years later you lose more um but uh so like this round of losing teeth uh she doesn't believe anymore but the other day i was about to leave to play hockey and i was like okay give me a hug i'm going to play hockey and she stopped put her hand in her mouth and yanked out a tooth oh my gosh i guess no hug then yeah what a horror show my god it was the benefits of the tooth fairy well here's the thing it's like i'll give you a toonie

oh that's a canadian for a two dollar coin i'll give you one of these if you uh act like you like the tooth fairy came around your younger sister. He also has to send her an email transfer because her book's now online. Yeah, yeah. But I hope you get to lie to

your kid one day. I can't wait. Oh my gosh, I can't wait. Really pick your spots. Really, you know, find something that they're doing too much. And that's the way. I can't wait. Um, well, you know, really pick your spots really, you know, right. Find something that they're doing too much. And that's the way. Yeah.

Right. Blank causes cancer. Chicken, that banana. I'm not there yet, but I bet I will be. Well, thank you so much,

Ben. Thank you guys so much. Have a wonderful one. All right. Hey, um, so that person i thought wasn't gonna show up they didn't show up they didn't show up okay but we have our next so we've we're three out of the ten who said they show up this is such an uh a public embarrassment yeah that's true and also disrespectful to people who didn't get a chance. Yeah. Right.

Yeah. On the one hand, I'm like, eh, but on the other hand, I'm like, all right, here's our next person.

Here we go. All right. This person's name is Bart. Hey, Bart. Hey, Dave., hey Graham, how's it going? good, how are you? doing great your online avatar is a Simpsons character is this correct?

am I putting the right image? that's right okay, good and your have we talked to you before? Not in a Q&A, but I'm one of those annoying people that participates in the Facebook group

occasionally. Oh, I love those people. Yeah, they're the best type of people. Because here's the thing, is we, we're on Twitter. We post, we never know what to post on Twitter

because we'll do like, we'll post the episode every week and maybe a thing from the episode. And we get like three responses. Yeah. You're on, uh, Reddit, but,

uh, whatever's going on over there. I don't understand, but Facebook. So, you know, we've got, um,

got an old, what was the like original blog that you put up all the episodes on is that we have a blog spot yeah nice but we um uh facebook the the that seems to be the most active place and uh i appreciate the community over there and you know what thanks to mark zuckerberg i'm glad he changed it from the facebook because it's cleaner yeah and then he changed it to meta which is less clean facebook was the cleanest meta is it just sounds like something you'd say about a person or he had to drum up interest in all that virtual real estate somehow yeah and i'm seriously thinking about buying some virtual real estate i think

real real estate is out of the question for me but maybe maybe I can get like a nice two bedroom bungalow in the. It never occurred to me that real estate has the word real in it. And is it? It can't be virtual. Oh, yeah. Virtual estate. Yeah, it's it's the contrast from real property and personal property. Bad news. I teach real estate at a community college.

So I can get into that. Yeah. Now, here's a question, because before Donald Trump, I think nobody knew of air rights to buildings. And he basically invented this concept. And now, like, you actually have to secure those if you're building a building over a certain size is that do i have that right i've dealt with a few air rights situations normally it was over railroad tracks when like some like the uh i think it's either the baseball or football stadium in seattle when the roof opens part of it goes over a railroad tracks they had to secure the air rights for that right trump trump was very innovative in how

he used air rights for expanding the building once he went up so that's yeah you've got nothing but nice buying virtual property at some point you'll be like why didn't i get it on the ground floor of this sure i'm not sure an apologist dave just so you know um uh bart um you teach real estate do you so are your students become students become real estate agents? Most of them do, yes. And do you teach them like how to pose for a picture? Where to put the sign outside?

Also, do they love selling Sunset? That's one thing I will ask them periodically is how much, you know, what real estate based reality shows, if any, do you watch just so I can try and stay up on that?

Cause that's, that's so uninteresting to me. Um, selling sunset has a lot more to offer than just houses. There's all sorts of drama. Sure. Rochelle. Now she's the bad guy.

All of a sudden, you know, they were looking for a bad guy. She was the good guy for the longest time. Now she's turned into a villain. And a man's just mad at her because she didn't show up at that dinner and it's like who wanted to go to the dinner it's jason's idea and you know they're not a couple anymore so it doesn't matter that she wasn't there uh excuse me introduce them to a bajillion dollar properties i think that would be more entertaining for everyone uh graham excuse

me will will that be on the the final yes uh pay attention i'm gonna put some slides up of chrishell and company and uh remember it's you're gonna ask uh an essay question about christine where did christine go and was she ever a real estate agent in the first place uh bart you gotta do it you gotta add it to the what is what's the name of the group that are in there Graham the Oppenheim group yes is it like is it

you're a real estate guy are they real are they an actual real estate company or is it all fictionalized they're in California so I I don't know honestly where are you Bart? I'm in Texas that's where all my exes live yeah yeah yeah fictionalized they're in california so i i don't know honestly out of your jurisdiction yeah where are you bart i'm in texas uh sorry that's where all my exes live yeah yeah yeah i'll say hi to them please do because i live in tennessee um bart did you have a question uh yeah i did have

a question okay um i have no talents sadly but i'm curious because every now and then i'll hear one or both of you talk about uh some other podcasts you listen to so i'm curious what your what your podcast listening uh habits are when you're not making podcasts well there was a time when i used to listen to, uh, I would listen to, um, like radio lab and, um, this American life and, uh, uh, true crime shows. And I was like, this stuff isn't fun. I don't like, I, I get that this is like the cutting edge of audio. Uh, but I, uh, I, I only want to listen to silly people, uh, make jokes. And so that's, that's what I do.

I right now I'm in the list in the middle of a sloppy boys episode. I'll also, uh, um, I always listen to never not funny. I listened to the Hollywood handbook and the flagrant ones. And I listened to, uh,

the dough boys and, uh, I love attitudes and I love Attitudes and I like shows. Freedom When It's Back, I'll listen to that. Graham? I'm a... I listen to a couple

funny ones. I listen to while it was around Mark Little and Jackie Pirico's Short-Lived Podcast How Can We Help? Very funny. Every episode was great. They're not doing it anymore. uh, while it was around, uh, Mark little and, uh, Jackie Pyrrhicos, uh, short lived podcast. How can we help? Very funny. Every episode was great. They're not doing it anymore.

Much to my disappointment, but, listen to that. I like evil men starring, uh, friends of the podcast, Chris Locke and James Hartnett and Michael Balazzo. But I also like,

I like a serious one. There's one called the you're wrong about that. I listened to that kind of dissects a story that you kind of have heard about, like baby Jessica falling down the well, or, and they kind of go back and say, kind of parse what,

what was real and what wasn't. And, you know, if your vague memory kind of recalls part of it so it's it's great one called scam fluencers it's about all sorts of different multi-level marketing scams um and then i listen to yeah i don't wish i wish i listened to npr i guess i could i guess i could start downloading this american life and stuff like that. But no one's done that. But yeah. And then sometimes I'll listen to just a news recap,

uh, you know, Bloomberg news recap or CBC news recap. Uh, I also listened to past guests, Stefan heck and his show. Uh, I hate this team about the Vancouver Canucks and it's,

uh, uh, it's, I really, um, empathize and sympathize as a hockey fan with his point of view. Awesome. Good list. What do you listen to?

You know, a lot of Max Fun shows. Oh yeah, we listen to those too. We've got to mention all those. I think that goes without saying. No, I remember way back when Max Fun announced that stop podcasting yourself was joining the network. Uh, that was a lot of, we got a lot of people protesting. There was a big,

long people picketing outside our studio. Sure. Say no to Dave and Graham. This doesn't even rhyme. Uh, that's why we moved our podcast to Austin. Yeah. So they can do whatever the fuck we want.

More freedom or whatever. Um, yeah, there's more freedom or whatever um yeah there's more freedom down there absolutely i was going back in the doughboys archives so i know they had done some live shows from vancouver and i was i was shocked to see they did a and w and and you were not the guest dave that seemed like a dereliction uh i don't they don't know me that's the biggest issue um uh we had Mike Mitchell on the show once But I don't know if he remembers Uh but we did I was at that show

Okay And uh you know what they knocked it out of the park They got everything right about A&W Except they went on and on About how great uh They're like A&W in Canada their big thing is like You know our meat is raised

without hormones or steroids or anything um but they're actually that's actually the law in canada is that you're like every it's the same meat as mcdonald's it's the same policy um i a correction on my podcast i listened to the dream is the one I was thinking about, about multi-level marketing. Oh, yeah. And I also would like to point out that A&W stands for hamburgers and whoop beer. Dave, I'm just finding this out.

And thanks for calling, and we will talk to you another time. Thanks, guys. Bye-bye. All right. Here we have our next caller, and here they come, and here we have our next caller and here they come and here we go i think this is the next caller yep yep yeah yeah it's happening it's all happening hello hello ming how are you? I'm good. Can I take a screenshot just so I have this?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Okay. One, two, three. Nice. Love it. Do you want to do any shout outs to people as well? I do.

I want to shout out my husband who got me listening to Spy, who's probably listening to this on his commute, not knowing that I'm going to be on because I didn't tell him. Oh, that'll be a fun one. This is great. Now, this episode comes out the day... Where are you calling us from? I'm calling from Vancouver, BC.

This comes out on, basically, on Boxing Day. Is your husband's commute to get some door crasher deals? No, he... Maybe. He might surprise me. But no no he actually has it off so yes at all but we're kind of like we we listen like a day after it's oh yeah i see i see that in our download numbers we have we have one couple who's listening a day late exactly um

really quick tell us how you and your husband met and uh take us from beginning of the courtship all the way up to the uh proposal yeah tell us how you proposed me proposed he proposed me i thought maybe we met at the student newspaper the ubc at the ubc yeah okay were you uh were you a cub reporter what were you in the uh yeah he was the sports editor and i was the senior news writer oh wow pretty illustrious what were the hot scoops back in the day oh it was actually the year we met was the year of the nhl lockout so um the canucks did like a whole game at ubc so he like interviewed like bx and a couple of those folks um okay so that was the big story of that year nice nice and there's some other like news stuff but i've never read it

but is it is it like a campus stories like who's having a big party and who's pledging what frat yeah who's the alpha dog etc etc no they they cover serious news um yeah yeah like what i'm saying yeah you know that and the parties i believe i was interviewed by the ubc and uh because there was a friend of mine that had did a regular show in the same building that had the movie theater in it and uh i remember we were interviewed because of that show which was well attended but everybody was a very drunk performers and audience alike. We were, uh, really doing it to ourselves.

So, uh, did you ever come to one of those shows? I guess is my round of a question. I did go to the norm theater once. I like, I, I joined a bunch of clubs in my undergrad and one was the film society where

you learn to like fix, what are they called? The projectors projector. i didn't stay long because it was too difficult but you also have trouble saying what a yeah i was like the thingy that make the film you did you have a question a talent or a third thing? I have two questions one is a serious question and one is a silly

question can we determine which is serious don't tell us before which one we're going to answer so I'm curious like what is your relationship with fame? Do you guys get recognized when you go to the grocery store?

Silly. This is the silly one. Here's the thing. I get recognized at the grocery store because my picture's up on the wall and they say, be careful with this guy. He's been stealing soup. He's been stealing cans of soup. Yeah, this guy's been molesting the meats over there.

The melons. Molesting the meats. Keep away. Keep away from that freezer. You know, you ask a silly question, you get a silly answer. The great thing about being in Canada in any facet of the entertainment industry is you never have to worry about fame you it's something you've you know we inoculate ourselves against here in the great white north so uh never never gonna happen never has never will here's my relationship with

fame is i uh sometimes uh i'll be out like walking my dog or I'll be you know buying stuff buying groceries and then a guy who looks a lot like me will look at me and be like look at me for like one second too long and I'll be like he listens to the show I can tell because the listeners all kind of are my age yeah yeah they kind of look like you yeah I mean I hate to break it to you you kind of look like me ming i know yeah now i'm seeing it i get that a lot you get that a lot people are like oh do you host that show with graham no that's dave i'm ming um and then my serious question is what was the last movie that made you cry? Ooh, that's a good question.

Are you still a journalist? Because these are hard hitting. I am. Oh, good. The last movie that made me cry. Jeez Louise. I think I got a little choked up at the end of jojo rabbit was that one was pretty that had like a very kind of why what happened to the end what happens at the end graham why

um aliens come down and uh they pick up uh jojo who isn't one of them and then he says be good he touches the person in the chest and their chest glows am i remembering this correct yeah yeah that's jojo uh boy i wish i could remember because i do i cry in movies um like uh dave's in a lot of scenes of movies where he's crying yeah if they need a guy if they need a ringer um i wish i could remember but um because i yeah i'm not like i'm not like being like no i'm not i'm never crying uh but i yeah and i cry when i watch movies on planes a lot so i'm trying to remember a movie i watched on a plane but i think the last one I watched on the plane was like, um, something's got to give up. I didn't cry in that.

Um, yeah, I don't, I legitimately don't cry at a lot of movies, but I remember getting misty about that. Also the end of Belfast, I think was quite, was quite sad.

So that was, uh, and then when I was a kid, let me tell you, Harry and the Hendersons oh yeah i was wailing uncontrollably it was uh my dad never thought i'd come back from that uh for me it's like field of dreams or anything that has like dad stuff in it and like which is weird because my dad is great i have i see my dad all the time.

Never had any daddy issues. Oh, I got mommy issues. Let me tell you. I'm going to cry into my big mommy doll later. But also, now that I have kids of my own, I get even more dad spice. spice because you're a father so you yeah i feel it i'm gonna go have a catch what about you what was the last movie you cried at we re-watched billy elliott and i teared up when the dad had to cross the picket line because

he has to make money to send billy to a fancy ballet school yeah that's a good one that's a good one yeah um have you ever watched a movie where they're definitely trying to make you cry and you don't like they're playing the swelling music it's it's you know that it's the part you're supposed to be crying at but you don't you just feel like you idiots you thought you were were going to get me, but you didn't. I am a sucker for crying. So I, that always works on me.

And I'm, I'm, I'm yeah. And I think the same with planes. I think something about being in like a confined space, you just cry way more easily. And like sitting in a cloud of other people's farts does it for me? Dave, come on. This is that you know do you know uh well ming sorry to end it on that note thank you so much

for doing this this has been lovely of course yeah thank you for doing it and uh we'll say hello to your husband hi husband thank you bye we, husband. Thanks, y'all. We now have our next three callers all in the waiting room. Let's bring them all out at once. Why would people show up early to this thing? Okay, who's our next one? It is Kyla. Kyla.

Here we go. Coming at ya. Cleopatra and here we go oh cool background yeah holy cow is it a genome oh we got no audio we can't hear you

we cannot hear you oh no oh no oh no no no yes did it i thought being that girl we uh witnessed you with no audio just say shit it's not that kind of show um well you should have heard what i was just saying on our last call he went blue man did he go blue oh my gosh that's so unlike you no he really sounded off

he had a lot of stuff on his chest I went brown now hello Kyla hi you are calling us from New Westminster New Westminster oh did you hear about the massage school and the iRobot You are calling us from new Westminster, new Westminster. Oh,

did you hear about the massage school and the I robot benches and the guy who, uh, didn't price is right. The price is right. Guy. That's right. Was that a big day for you guys? Oh my, I can't believe we did that.

It's so embarrassing. I know. It's like when our mayor put up, uh, like a projection of the Rolling Stones logo on our city hall. Did he do that? Yeah, because they're coming to Vancouver, but it's not like so fucking what, man? He's so thirsty. For listeners, I think this was something we only talked about on a bonus episode that maybe is coming out as we speak. But there was a guy who

lost on the price is right uh the the prize was a trip to new westminster british columbia yeah outside vancouver he way overbid but because exactly but because we live in this weird media market it made front page news that guy loses trip to new westminster and because everyone's making fun of it yeah that would even be a prize to be and then people like the mayor stepped up and was like we're flying him here anyway we're showing him a good time he's not allowed to come to vancouver proper yeah he went to go see some like olympic stuff apparently did you get to meet him did you get to no i didn't i didn't i didn't make the trek but a lot of people i know were like oh he's coming to my restaurant he's coming here yeah over tips that's who you

want you want a guy who over tips yeah i think he was staying at the key at the hotel that's been there since the 70s oh yeah went to some restaurants i saw him doing a pottery class there's not a lot to do here this guy had a fucking hell of a day that's great was he even there long enough for the pottery to cure I doubt it they probably had to send it to him yeah

don't forget to take it out of the kiln Kylie you're the third Kyla I've met in my life you complete the trilogy two high i've met in my life you're oh really complete the trilogy yeah two high school kylas and now you okay were they dicks or were they nice no one of them was very popular another one was like semi-popular and i think the picture popular girl in high school that's what she looked yeah whatever you're picturing okay that's what kyle yeah like okay nice i met one at the not the astoria is the astoria

oh my god i'm getting too old no the old uh oh my god i'm totally spaghetti factory no the yeah it was the spaghetti factory no the old the old punk place on maine that's all gentrified now but um the cobalt yeah the cobalt i went there recently and the the bartender was named kyla but she was like gen z and i was very oh oh so there's a good future in in kyla's there's yeah kyla's coming up all the time there's new kyla's there's kaya's now which i'm not a fan of sorry kaya's on the line but um our next three callers are named kaya so yeah it's tough they're gonna suck there's a lot of like uh yeah there's kylie's kailas kaya's kayak yeah and there's a there's kayla which i don't understand why people mix that up but

because it's there it doesn't sound anything the same but anyway that sounds pretty the same don't you think Kyla I guess so Graham you know just let her go off just let me go off she's fighting she's fighting a battle

now Kyla was it do you have a question do you have a talent or a third thing um i have a question but i have one for each of you if that's okay because okay do we need to go into our uh isolation chambers i don't think no i just don't think either of you could answer the other's question oh that sounds like a'd like to be the father of Margo and Poppy. Well, let me tell you,

they won't get into any sports. They love school. They love their screens and they're just, ah, the cutest little poppets around. Oh, you're such a good dad, Graham.

Thank you. So my question for Dave was the so my son is super into hockey and now you're back into hockey yeah and so what stick are you using oh my god about the gear i don't know okay i have two sticks um i so i had to do some research because I'm a very weak man and there, uh, there is a, there, so sticks now have these stats on the side of like the flex and the kick point and, um, whatever. I know I like a low kick point, uh, but I don't know. low kick point uh but i don't know and i like a very low flex because um uh your the flex should be apparently half your weight but i go even lower than that because i'm not strong enough to make it

the stick whip um but i believe i have a warrior and a bower oh okay i'll let him know yeah i used i used to let him listen to you guys and he used to call you funny guys when he was little yeah but i'm funny guys that's what my kids are not funny anymore now that i'm over here my kids before they uh watch the the minion movies they referred to the minions as funny guys as the funny guys so you guys are basically minions i that's a high compliment yeah yeah like it would aspire to i'll let him know i don't know what a kick point is he does talk about flex i don't know he's 10 so um my question for graham i remember there was a very lovely episode where you had a

nice talk with a taxi driver about your beard maintenance routine yes yeah and i was wondering what your current beard maintenance routine is i'd love to answer this question first of all uh his his big tip was he he liked using a light beard oil nothing that had too much of a scent and he said once a week you should wash your beard with head and shoulders because there's you get beard dandruff if you don't so if you want to wear a black t-shirt you got to be maintaining in that way and for a long time i was just letting the beard grow as long as it wanted but for getting uh married purposes of photos i've trimmed it up and so now it's like it's honestly it's like trimming a bonsai tree you just you just

can't stand there in front of the mirror with scissors and you're like, oh, took one out over here. Take one out of here. It looks symmetrical. Thank you. Yeah, I aim for symmetrical. And also to everybody out there that's listening that has any kind of beard trimming technique. Here's something I do to get the sink. You know, you don't want little hairs all over the sink.

Put the towel down. Cut over the towel. Flap the towel out over the wastebasket. No hairs. No hairs anywhere. That's my routine. In the summer, you do it in the park, though, right? I do it in the park.

I do an hour of Tai Chi. I do an hour. In your folding chair. You're just sitting in your folding chair, trimming your beard. Oh, man. I can't wait for folding chair season to be back again i know i'm i'm it can't be that season now you just have to bundle no it's too cold you know you need to have i want to wear shorts you know i don't want to introduce pants

to this chair won't they won't know who i am you don't want you don't want to be a shorts guy and winter guy oh my god i think i was when i was in calgary i look back on that with mixed feelings well kyla thank you so much for calling thanks for having me i appreciate it we appreciate you okay bye okay okay that was nice what a person. They're all nice. That's the thing. And here is a person. Our buddy, Paul C. Paul is

joining the chat. He is connecting. Got a nice avatar photo of him wearing a nice purple cap. Oh, he's got a different color cap. Oh my god, look at all the caps behind this guy. Now, if I miss my guest. Hi, Paul, by the way.

Hello, Paul. Hello, Graham. Hello, Dave. It's a thrill to be here. Thrilled to have you. This is great. Now, Paul, you're wearing a cap and it's a Vancouver Canadiens cap.

You're also wearing a Vancouver Canadiens t-shirt. But where are you calling us from? I am calling from Fort Collins, Colorado. Holy shit. How'd you get this gear? Where'd you get all this swag? I got this gear at Nat Bailey Stadium in Vancouver as part of a road trip. Yeah.

Huge minor league baseball fan. And you can see the Helmet Sunday hall of fame behind me here. This is my collection of about. Is that, so is that something, so for the listeners, there are, I mean,

I just interrupted him. He was saying what it was for a hundred. About 450, a little Sunday helmet, ice cream cups. Now I, I've been to a baseball game and eaten a Sunday out of a plastic helmet. Is I,

is that something that literally every baseball team does? Unfortunately, not literally every baseball team where we're fighting to, uh, to make that happen, but it has not happened yet. There are times you go to baseball games and they serve it in like a paper cup or something.

When we get Trump back in office, he's going to make a big dent in this problem now uh this is a huge collection do you uh did you eat ice cream out of every one of these or did you you know did did you take any um shortcuts i've taken a lot of shortcuts uh sometimes they just show up in the mail because people know that I collect them. There are, believe it or not, other people out there who collect these things like I do. And so we have trades. I did indeed eat ice cream out of a Vancouver Canadiens helmet, but many of these have been acquired through nefarious ways.

Now, how do people know you like these things? I have a little bit of a social media presence for the collection. And I'm not trying to buzz market, but I also do a podcast about minor league baseball logos. Oh, the logos. About the logos. Yes. I'm a huge fan of the stories that the logos tell about the places where these teams play. Oh, I love that.

What a great angle. Now, here's a question. Just because you didn't get these things by eating ice cream, when you get them home, you should do a little ritual where you eat some ice cream out of it. You know, that's a great point. Before they get entered into the Hall of Fame shelf here, I should eat ice cream out of each and every one of them

before they actually go on display. Yeah, it gives them their time to shine and, you know, you're using it for its assigned purpose. Yeah, exactly. And I'm going to, here's another suggestion. You have 400 little helmets, get 400 babies,

put them on them, and whip baseballs in their heads. Also works with small dogs and cats. Oh, sure. Oh, yeah yeah i'd love to see a cat in one of those hats well i think that's been done some other maybe or something um uh paul uh what boy have you seen the so i got a new uh hat a couple weeks ago uh of the victoria muscles have you heard of this team i've not heard heard of the Victoria Muscles, no. They were a member of, oh boy, I think the Vancouver Canadiens are in the Northwest Baseball League.

They are, yeah. But it only has six teams. And I was looking at a list of all the previous teams, and one of them was the Victoria Muscles. And I looked them up, and they had an orange hat with a muscle like the shellfish with muscles yeah well so there's a team in florida called the fort myers mighty muscles and they've got a purple brand and they have a similar thing with like it's the actual shellfish with with muscles i wouldn't think uh the florida would be muscle territory but i guess i always think of it as like a northern cool water kind of situation i don't

know where any of my shellfish comes from great i do cape cod i got mine in cape cod i get my peaches down in georgia and then you put your sweetie up in the north if i recall that really tickles you you do have you all have the west coast baseball league. It's a collegiate summer level team that has a lot of fun nicknames for, for baseball teams. What's the best. What's in the, what's the best in the league. I,

that's where I learned about what a Nanaimo bar is. There's a team up there called the Nanaimo bars and their logo is actually like the, the confection. I love it. I love it. Um, now you like, is this a world record that you're close to or does somebody

have more hats ice cream hats than you or what's your standing i know for sure that there are people out there who have more of these ice cream helmets than i do really yeah and are you going to track them down and kill them no no no but they're great trade partners i've never had to murder anybody to uh to acquire their helmets what about a big uh oceans 13 style heist not oceans 12 not oceans 11 you know oh go ahead sorry i was gonna say most of these people are nerds like i am so it wouldn't be that hard to rip them off you could probably just walk into their homes and take them yeah give them a wedgie on your way out take that nerd from one to another in the background you have like kind of uh like pyramids almost of these are they glued together how do they sit together like that they they nest pretty well together and i have them grouped by classification so you know starting with triple a all the way down to,

you know, the various classifications, but they, they tend to sit pretty well. You'll also probably notice I have a ping pong table behind me. Oh yeah. And the, they,

they have withstood direct hits by ping pong balls. Everyone's. Oh, sure. And they don't come tumbling down. No, every once in a while. And then,

you know, I'm constantly rearranging them and, you know, showing them off and people will poke at them and point at them and then they fall um uh have you ever seen kids do that thing where they're like cup stacking yes you ever think about doing that with those because you're already in a pyramid they are yeah no i've never i've never tried that i've never tried that maybe i have to say i wore i wore my vancouver canadian stuff here because i've always enjoyed on on your show the discussion about eating a certain length of hot dog over the course of a season at what at the at the canadians games that three foot long

hot dog is wild yeah i see it in person it's insane it's a real eye catcher i was when i was going to hockey games i tried to get a a foot long a game and tried to get 10 feet in a season but uh then i um anyone who cared about me told me don't do that i at the canadians game i got poutine yeah that's one way to do it is there a uh uh what's your favorite ballpark you've visited? God, there's so many of them, but one of the ones that I think is the most fun is the, the Albuquerque isotopes who are named for a Simpsons episode.

Like they actually got that name right after the Simpsons episode. Um, and their stadium is great just because there's so many, like they've got like the Simpsons statues around and, you know, you can take pictures of that. And, um, you know, some of these these the question i often get is like what's your favorite logo or nickname um like these

stories that these teams tell are pretty amazing like the the binghamton rumble ponies are named for the fact that binghamton new york is the carousel capital of the world and so like all of these teams have these like wackadoodle stories that you can tell because of the names of their their minor league teams rumble ponies that is a hell of a name that it's a great name yeah now uh paul am i correct in assuming that this is your talent you don't have a question for us well i mean if i no no i'm not i i we asked people if they have a question or a talent, but we just jumped onto these hats. So I assume that's the talent. Well, I indicated, yeah, in the email that I sent, I indicated that my talent was that I can probably tell you something about most places in North America based on the name of their minor league baseball team. Oh, okay. I want to do one. I want to do one. Oh, God.

Is there a team in Coeur d'Alene or Idaho? Idaho. Not in Coeur d'Alene, I don't believe, but Coeur d'Alene is right across the border from Spokane, where they have the

Spokane Indians, which is actually one of the only teams out there that does like native american branding in a baseball team well like they work well with the the local community and they actually use artwork from the community and their brand and so so so not curdle lane but right across the border from curdle lane and then also in idaho you've got like the idaho falls chuckers which are named for like this fat little game bird but then they've got the double entendre of like chucking a baseball and the name of the bird,

the Chucker. So there is some baseball in Idaho. And let me, uh, let's say, uh, Winnipeg. You know,

my, my mind went straight to the Winnipeg Gold Eyes, which is actually a hockey team. All right. Well, I thought the Gold Eyes were also their baseball team. I think Gold and I is a N64 game. That's what I'm thinking of. That's, yeah.

Well, yeah, their team is some sort of fish. I don't know if it's the Gold Eyes, but it's a fish. And for a while, they had the same ownership group as the lansing lug nuts and if you look at the lansing lug nuts their logo is not actually a lug nut but a bolt and so oh controversial it is controversial exactly there's a ton of controversy in the minor league baseball logo landscape i bet well paul this is this is fascinating what's the name of the podcast the podcast is called baseball by design

thank you so much for letting me name it I have a ton of fun telling these stories about minor league baseball logos and nicknames radical what a great idea

for a podcast well thank you for calling thank you guys I'm a huge fan I appreciate it off I go no friggin way bye

alright here we go here we go. Here we go. Now this is someone we've spoken to before. Come out. This person like the back of our hand. Hello, hello, hello. Yeah. Hello, Kit. Here we go.

How's it going? Good, how are you? I'm doing alright. You guys really have this how are you doing in sync down pat? How are you? I'm doing all right. You guys really have this. How are you doing in sync? Down pat. How are you doing? How are you doing? Kit, you've been on the show before.

You've been a bonus episode guest before. Yeah. Because you were our guest who went on Jeopardy. Yes. And I emailed you and asked you if I could be on the show and you let me. It was great. Yeah, because we there's what other chance are we going to get to have a Jeopardy. Yes. And I emailed you and asked you if I could be on the show and you let me. It was great. Yeah, because we, there's, what other chance are we going to get to have a Jeopardy champ on our show? Here's your second chance

right now, man. Yeah, okay. Here we go. We're not going to blow it this time, I swear. Yeah, we really blew it the first time. Most of that episode, I believe, was spent badmouthing Wheel of Fortune. That sounds about right, yeah. Yeah. The van has signed on for like four more of that episode I believe was spent badmouthing Wheel of Fortune. That sounds about right, yeah.

You know that Vanna is signed on for like four more years? Is Seacrest going to take over? Seacrest is taking over, but Vanna, she ain't going nowhere. She's going to do that gig until she dies on stage. That and producing her exclusive yarn line. Shit, for real?

She has a yarn line? Wow, Vanna White yarn line. Did for real she has a yarn line yeah wow fan away yarn line do i did she ever like twist an ankle has she ever had to be replaced one time she she flipped the the things over too fast and it's it said fuck you asshole i'm i'm the jeopardy expert i i don't know real stuff it's the same show um what uh and you have since been back on jeopardy i was yeah they let me uh they let me back on for a champions wild card uh competition thing this year uh so basically people that won games but didn't uh qualify for the tournament of champions uh during the covet era uh got to got to go back some of us at least and it was nice it was nice it was a whole different experience actually getting to like be in the green room and

not have to uh be six feet apart from everyone at all times oh yeah of course what a kooky time podium stay they stayed apart right yeah they kept that yeah they don't think it works better for widescreen TVs I think now when you first were on was it Mayim Bialik or Ken? it was I had Mayim Bialik during her guest host run along with another guest host this time it was Ken okay now is

Ken the is he the guy now I haven't kept up on this it's Ken and Mayim Bialik oh they're both still sharing yeah they've kind of been switching off Is he the guy now? I haven't kept up on this. It's Ken and Mayim Bialik. Oh, they're both still sharing. Yeah, they've kind of been switching off, but it's been Ken all this season so far, I believe. Okay. Okay.

He's just Ken, as they say in the popular film. He started calling the studio his mojo dojo, whatever. I went to America yesterday yesterday i went to target um and they had a bunch of kids shirts of the kent's mojo dojo but i don't think they're selling well i don't think the little boys got the got the message of the movie um now kit yes do you have a question do you have a talent do you have anything else if you are willing will you rate my dog's outfit yeah god of course you will hold on let me duck under the table and pick up this dog okay this is the best oh yeah hell yeah all right okay dog here he's wearing a uh tell me what's the dog's name yeah what's the dog's name this is cliff he's named after cliff claben from cheers love it now what type of uh pup is cliff what's uh what's the he is um miscellaneous uh so we

got him in January. We did the whole doggy DNA thing because I'm not willing to send my own DNA to a corporation, but I don't give a shit about my dog's DNA. Sure. We're never going to find out your dog is the... Gold state killer? Gold state killer. Whatever. He's Bichon Westy.

The Visalia Ransacker. He's Bichon Westy and basically every other small breed. Oh, he's a basic bitch. Yeah, he's a good boy. He's so cute. He's got a little smile to his face. He's got a smile. He's got one white side of the face, black other side of the face.

Adorable. All adorable. And he's wearing He's wearing a jean jacket with a built-in gray hoodie here. As well as a bandana that

explains that he is a birthday boy. Oh, nice. Based on our estimated birthday for him when we adopted him when he was already three years old. Oh, nice. Based on our estimated birthday for him when we adopted him when he was already three years old. Oh, man. You know what I'm going to rate this outfit out of 10? You got to be looking at a 10.

That's a 10 out of 10. That's all he was hoping for for his birthday. So he's three today. No, you're four today? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to be a little tougher than Graham. yeah okay I'm gonna be a little tougher

than Graham I am going to say it's a 11 not a 10 you got us I got your asses he tricked you oh man he is nonplussed

he just wants to get this bandana off and go for a walk is what he actually wants right now but does he get a special meal for birthday to get he's gonna get some special treats i got him uh i got him a bigger version of his current favorite toy because he's a big fan of toys that are slightly too big for him oh yeah he's a tiny guy a lot of of the toys probably are sizable to him. He's a honking 18 pounds. When you got him, did he have a name? He did. It was Quincy originally.

And you were like, no sir. He didn't really know it. And actually the rescue had renamed him Quincy because wherever the rescue, like the people they got them, the rescue got him from had given him a name, uh,

that I looked up and it turns out it was a Ricky, Rick and Morty reference. And I am pretty glad that that got changed because I have nothing against Rick and Morty, but I don't want to be introducing my dog to people and have them think that I'm so into it that, uh, I named my dog after, uh, I don't,

I don't have anything against Rick, but that Morty, he's't have anything against Rick. That Marty, he's better stay away from me. That's all I want to say. Um, and, uh, what's your,

like, what do you have the same route walking? Do you take different routes every time? What's your, what's your walking style? Uh, we have, we have a few that we choose from.

Uh, and sometimes we base exactly when we leave and what direction we go on based on what we know to be the schedule of his mortal enemy that lives a block over from us there is a collie that they've never actually

had a bad interaction but he like has a panic attack when he sees this dog and I don't understand why well maybe he's just nervous to ask the dog out on a date oh yeah find out ask him out for a you know plate of spaghetti right yeah dogs love it yeah well kit uh thank you so much for calling so nice to see you again. Thanks for talking to me again, too. Happy birthday, Cliff. Yay. Bye.

Bye. Bye. Now, we are 20 minutes late for our final caller. Well, are they still there? We'll find out. Connecting? Connected. Connected.

Wow. Justin D., what up? up Hello Dave and Graham Justin I'm sorry we kept you waiting so long No worries at all The good news is you're our final caller Of the show Caller of the year Yeah that's it

You're capping off the whole year so bring the heat Where are you Calling from Ge geographically and also specifically this room you're in this is a little ivy league theater in new haven connecticut oh yeah we don't we we don't know exactly which one yeah wow are you what are you doing there uh so i work here i help manage a lot of the the theater spaces here on campus cool helping students with all kinds of shows we have we the students here do like a few hundred shows a year so it's wild really yeah wow that's a lot holy Uh, what's the fall season? Oh, that doesn't count.

Have there been any talk of, of converting it to a podcast studio? You're more than welcome. Oh, cool. Hello. Going to Connecticut. Hello,

young geniuses. You hate us. Oh, I get it. Uh, well, this is surreal for me me i've been listening to you guys forever and it's real for us too because we didn't know we didn't know there was a big theater down in connecticut we always made fun of connecticut for that very reason yeah oh boy no one will ever amount to anything in new haven um now uh uh justin um you said you actually wrote a long email most a lot of people will just say enter me into the draw yeah and just please justin's was uh

it was like here are my talents i can catch marshmallows in my mouth. Love it. He also had a lot of stuff about like, I'm your biggest fan. I'm watching you sleep. Yeah. Is there any direction you can give us that we should go in speaking to you? Well, I have to say I did try to get marshmallowsallows but they didn't have any at the store i stopped at so i got popcorn but the kernels are very tiny and i did some practice those and they're they're pretty tricky so they're a lot lighter than a marshmallow they are and the aerodynamics are different so that's true. Yeah, absolutely. I can try. Are these marshmallows, were they full size or like mini marshmallows?

Well, they're... Oh, the marshmallows? Marshmallows are full size. Yeah. Full size. I did marshmallows for Blue Man Group auditions. Oh. So, did you audition for Blue Man Group?

I did. The problem is I'm too tall by like a half an inch. I guess all Blue Men are six one so if you're between five ten and six one you can audition i'm six one and like a half i tried to shake it i said i'm six one they measure you yeah you had to be able to see the height requirement you had to good sense of rhythm you'd have eye sparkle and also if you're gonna be blue if you showed up in a green makeup they'd be like well what the fuck do you think you're auditioning for i like it was the first thing i noticed the eye

sparkle is just coming through the webcam yeah look at that i wonder if you're blue man group man do you shave your head or is that you're putting on a bald wig every night i me i shave my head that's what i would do were i a blue man okay yeah i i think maybe the makeup removal would be easier if you could just heal it off but i think they probably are shaved i think so huh yeah are they shaved the blue man story but would you are you a musician are you a juggler what what do you need to be even for a blue man group audition i mean i think they they do all of oh i mean i think a lot of people are drummers but as long as you have a good sense of rhythm and you can like follow beats and patterns, like they will give you a pattern or a beat,

replicate it right after they do it on some crazy contraption that they have, you know, I think this is like a PVC device sounding device. Yeah. You know, a couple of wild men. Yeah. Kings of Vegas,

the blue band group. Indeed. Um, now you, you're going to attempt to do the marshmallow. Oh, popcorn. Yeah. Popcorn. I'm going to try to do the marshmallow trick but with popcorn I'm going to tell you five in a row for you five in a row here we go alright here we go

listeners he's about to do it that's one in the air oh no bounced off his chin there don't quit we'll do best of five don't cut me off. Two for three so far.

Three for four. And three for five. Three for five. I blame these little kernels. What do you got there? Is that just a butter and salt? Or you got some dill pickle on there? What type of popcorn are we doing? We're going to advertise for you.

It's Pop Daddy. Pop Daddy popcorn from michigan i'm really i want to hear more products calling themselves daddy i have a i have a scrubbing brush called scrub daddy yeah yeah yeah love scrubbing those yeah i drive a car daddy 2022. Yeah. As seen on TV. Nice. Nice. Is there a ghost in there with you,

Dave? That chair just spun around. Oh, no, my, uh, my foot, uh,

you know, I like, I, uh, you know, I can reach that chair from here. Um, is there a ghost in there? Is there any hauntings on campus?

Oh yeah. Oh, I'm sure there are. I don is there any hauntings on campus oh yeah oh i'm sure there are i don't know any of these ghost stories but we have had students borrow we've got like a lot of camera equipment um you can have like a thermal imaging camera and oh shit really took that last uh halloween to go to do like a ghost hunt uh nearby cemetery rules oh my god like predator vision you were able to see see shit oh that's awesome yeah oh man i don't know if they found any ghosts or not so it doesn't matter the thrill is the hunt you ever say uh you ever say the name of the scottish play in there yeah i i have i don't i don't think that there's any real anything to that but i'm not gonna do it right now

all right something will happen to us we're not in the theater yeah and dave's uh studio is obviously. We've already established that. Moving chairs. I know. Well, I don't know what else to tell you. Do you have any New Year's resolutions? You know, I'm going to try to stop listening to stop podcasting yourself. Yeah, good luck with that. It's not going to work.

Yeah. It's addictive. to stop podcasting yourself yeah good luck with that it's not gonna work yeah not gonna work now dave put in the notes here that you are possibly our biggest fan you're catching marshmallows in your mouth and then you also have a billing issue what's that let me just read that can i just read your email because it was like um i forgot i put that in p.s i have been a happy donor for years but currently a billing issue is costing me hundreds of dollars in overdraft fees jesus and we can talk about that as well what what the hell's going on over there this isn't this isn't your fault this is probably my fault but yeah i've been a donor for a long time and then i've switched banks recently and and one of the accounts i had canceled and the bank didn't actually cancel the account and so it ran out of money because i wasn't putting money into it and it was it was basically

at zero um when i closed it and so then they were supposed to send me a check, close the account. Instead, MaxFun is the only thing that I had forgot to cancel. So I got billed. I got overdrafted. I went to the MaxFun website. I said, cancel subscription. Just hesitantly.

I was just cancel this for now. Try to fix this. That doesn't stop the bill that you're already trying to get. So Jesse just keeps asking my bank for money. And that happened like four or five times oh god it's not jesse anymore it's a co-op of some very nice people they're all they're all trying to get your money it's true hopefully it all most of it should go to you but it's all set up now with my new bank account i put that in there i think because i was worried that maybe you did it wasn't completely random and maybe you favored donors and you'd check my account oh no who is this guy i think

you'll listen back to this episode and you'll realize it was pretty random yeah are you uh you with chase bank what kind of bank yeah also like what's like the first four and last four numbers of your account? Yeah, you're about my mom. Yeah, yeah. I made a name. Before she was married, what was her last name? Yeah. Yeah, it's very funny. Okay.

All right, all right. Let's end this show and year on that note. Well, thank you, Justin. I hope you're banking snafu. This show is so much better without me on it. Disagree. Nobody tried to catch anything in their mouth during this whole production.

So thank you for that. Okay, Justin. Well, since this is the end of the show, we're just going to sign off with you with us. Oh, you know what? I think it's time to count down to the new year. Here we go. Ten. Nine we go. 10, 9, 8,

7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, where he's a jolly good fool. Bye, everybody. Bye.

Bye.