Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 824 - D.J. Demers

Episode Date: January 2, 2024

Comedian D.J. Demers of CBC’s One More Time returns to talk used sports equipment, Nerds Rope, and Talk to Me.

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 824 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark. And with me as always is a man who always looks so stunning whenever he gets a new haircut, Mr. Dave Chilcock. I was wondering what you were going to point to. I was like, I look stunning in head to toe in denim. Yeah, he's also, he's wearing a ball gown that's to die for.

Yeah, I like getting my hair cut. It's a fun little uh vacation for myself do you sit in a little car or on a little i do the little car yeah uh i get a lolly afterwards uh and it's constantly uh the the lady is constantly adjusting my head. No, don't look down. I need access to your nape. But yeah, I love, you know. The best. The last time my hairdresser didn't cut it short enough

and I was like, I want to, when I rub my hand on the back of the head, I want to feel spiky. Love that feeling. Yeah. That voice you're hearing now is a return guest to the podcast. Very funny, man. We always love to have him.

He has a brand new show on the CBC called One More Time. It's DJ Demers. Hey, DJ. Hey, Graham. Hey, Dave. Thanks for having me. A TV show. A TV show.

A real deal television show. A real television show. Yeah. That's going to be the credit that you have that your, like, aunts and uncles will be like, oh my god, yes, we watch everything on the CBC. And you'll be in with that credit. It's like the debaters. It's the same thing.

It's just like, oh. Yeah, you'd think so, but my dad keeps going, CBS? I'm like, how do you not know CBC? Like, he's Canadian, born and raised. Yeah, David Letterman used to be on the CBC. Oh, you're going to be after young Sheldon.

Should we get to know us? Yes. Yes. Get to know us. DJ, you haven't been here in years. You moved to, I think when we first had you on the show,

you were a Toronto comedian. I think so, yeah. And then you moved to LA. You got married. You had a baby. Mm-hmm. You got a TV show. What's the biggest achievement?

And we will, you can't do, oh, no, it's this and that. It has to be the one that you've narrowed down. You know what? Can we also add your Conan set? Epic Conan set. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean,

it's hard to compare, you know, making a beautiful baby boy and, you know, having your own TV show, but gotta go TV show. Absolutely. Yeah.

Because that's, it comes in seasons and you get some downtime from it. Exactly. Yeah, and it's more, it's an achievement. How are you enjoying the downtime? So it's more how are you enjoying the downtime so it's uh okay this is a show called one more time named after the daft punk song i assume yep um and it is we wasted the whole budget on using that song for the theme so yeah

and it's on starts january 9th on cbc and what what is it yeah tell us all about And it's on, starts January 9th on CBC. And what is it? Yeah, tell us all about it. It's a workplace comedy. Okay. And I'm the manager of a used sporting goods store called One More Time Sports. So, yeah, just about all the hijinks we get up to while I'm managing this group of ragtag employees. I love a ragtag group.

I've tried to think of another word other than ragtag, but they're ragtags. They're misfits. They're misfits. Is it a show? Did you, is this your idea, this show?

Yeah, yeah, I wrote it and picked it to CBC thinking, ah, we'll see, I don't know,

and then they liked it. What did you talk to over there? They will not return my phone call. No, it was honestly pretty crazy

because I was just like, we'll see, and you don't expect anything to happen and then something happened and you're like oh but then something else will stop the process and then right you move past that and then all of a sudden you're writing and then you're filming and then now we're in post-production i'm like i guess it actually is coming out yeah i'm weird we still something that's true there's there's still time for uh them to turn back and be like you know what what? They wasted their budget on this Daft Punk song.

They're not trustworthy. Do you have, is this something based on your life? Did you work? I worked at a used sporting goods store in high school. What was it called? Play It Again Sports, which is kind of the big one. It's like a chain. And then I went in to Play It Again Sports last summer when the show had been, or two summers.

No, no, last summer when the show had been for two summers no no last summer sorry uh i want to be that guy now where i just spend five minutes trying to figure out one detail that nobody else cares about or was it the summer before that let's see carly ray jepson was on the radio but that could have been any summer since 2013 but yeah i popped by my old stomping ground at play it against sports and i haven't worked there since high school so it's been like 20 years 18 years and my old manager was still managing the place

and the owner was there too and he wasn't there that often so I popped in and I had these rose colored glasses on because when I wrote the show it was like me

harkening back to this nostalgic you know the halcyon days of my youth just for the listener this is a metaphor he wasn't really wearing or maybe he was wearing

rose colored glasses it's possible oh yeah I don't know what a metaphor is i i was wearing rose-colored glasses but i went in and uh i was like wow it's so crazy that they're both still there and and i was like i wrote a show that's kind of like based on this time and they were both so they're nice people but they were not like uh oh my god that's incredible they were like oh yeah cool and i was like oh yeah like nostalgia is nostalgia it's not real yeah and it's not nostalgia for them they still work there but you know i think i also think

that that when it comes out they might be more excited when somebody tells you something yeah what that means well like it's the kind of thing that like if if people watch the show, if, then like, people will never shut up to them about this. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. It's like my friend who, well, we saw ever since the show Friends came out, I'm always asking,

so do you know the show Friends? This is kind of an example for me. This is like us. And then also This Is Us. I'm like, this is us. um and and then also this is us i'm like this is us is uh do these guys remember you yeah yeah they remembered me i'm realizing now i already feel regret like it sounds like i was shitting on them or something it was very nice to see both of them but because i wrote this show like i said with this like nostalgic kind of lens in my mind i don't know

i expected to walk in there and they but like put me up on their shoulders yeah yeah yeah let's get drunk with dj like they're just some employee and a long list of employees that have worked there but like yeah like and put yourself in their shoes they're like okay this thing you made a thing. Sure you did. Sure you wrote a thing. Okay, great. Yeah. No, I definitely, while I was writing it, was kind of, because I wrote it during the pandemic and I was in LA, so there was protests going on.

Oh, yeah. The president at the time. Maybe a president again. Bring him back. Yeah, one more time. That's what the shirt is about, right? What did you say? maybe yeah one more time I was like that's what the show is about what did you say

I said one more time let's bring him back one more time I literally wrote a show that I said I just want something to feel good that CBC would like

and then CBC actually liked it so it's kind of crazy how it worked out that way but yeah it's kind of it's just like a silly kind of

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Parks and Rec type thing where it's like based you know in, but crazy things happen within the four walls. What was the worst cast member? No, working in this industry, the industry of used sporting goods, what is the nastiest stuff people try to resell? Were you ever rejecting stuff that people brought in? You got to think helmets. There's got to be some pretty grody helmets out there.

Helmets. And sometimes people just bring in a full hockey bag and they just want you to sort through it. So you're just pulling out jock straps and people, and I feel this now too. Now I have hockey equipment that is 20 years old because I just, a certain point hit where I'm like, I'm not updating it. And so people will come in and then 20 years turns into 30 turns into 40 so you got people coming in trading in 40 year old hockey equipment that just has generations of sweat built into it wow yeah so and we actually for the show one more time we got all equipment from a real used sporting goods

store several of them in the area so the set smelled like a real used. Where did you shoot this, Toronto? Scarborough, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, what is the, was it smelled like kind of leathery? I'm trying to think what the smell of.

It was sweaty. Leather, sweat. There's a, cleaning products maybe? I started playing hockey again in my late 30s and I didn't want to buy new gear except for like skates and helmet and maybe gloves,

but, uh, everything else was used. And I, um, went like, uh, you know,

it's tough. Like I bought stuff that was the wrong size just because it was the only, well, you say you're going to grow into it. Yeah. Maybe my elbows will get bigger. But, yeah, so I have, I'm wearing other men's sweat right now. Nice.

Well. Right now. I had all my hockey equipment stolen from my place in LA when we lived in East Hollywood. Somebody broke into our garage in the basement, and I came out in the morning, and my property manager at the time was like, is this your stuff?

And on the road, my whole hockey bag was dumped out because they probably opened it and were like, fuck this. What the hell is it? But they took the skates. Yeah. And they left everything else. Well, they can use that on the street.

Yeah, exactly. Those are weapons. Skates are the most expensive thing. Most expensive and most stinky thing too. Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. But it's all machine washable. People don't know this

but you can put every piece of hockey in the washing machine. Including skates. Throw them in there. Yeah, no, not skates. And not helmets but like everything else.

Even gloves. Yeah? With their leather palms so they can go in. You just can't dry them. Huh. My cat growing up used to love peeing

on my hockey equipment. Something about the smell of my sweat. My cat loved it and so that smell never fully came out so that might be another smell that's my hockey equipment. Something about the smell of my sweat, my cat loved it. And so, that smell never fully came out. So,

that might be another smell that's in used equipment. Maybe a lot of cats like peeing in it. I'm not sure. I passed by a store today that was like, like leather goods. And I was like,

oh, maybe I should stick my head in just the smell. Oh, sure. The like leathery smell. Yeah, when you go past these, do you like,

are you a sub or a dom? Hey, you know what? Flip a coin? Yeah. Yeah. When you go past these, do you like, are you a sub or a dom? Um, Hey, you know what? Flip a coin. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a, well,

no, not Polly. What would I call myself? Oh, I guess you're sort of like, yeah, like a utility. Yeah.

Yeah. That's right. Um, but yeah. Uh, and then you went to subway. Of course, that's like,

uh, the smell that's like one in a million kind of smell. Oh, just for the listener, DJ went to Subway before the show. Before I came over here. Yeah, it was a little bit early. So I got a chocolate milk, too. It went crazy. Nice.

Yeah. Because I was at a Subway in Edmonton last week, and I saw a woman drinking a chocolate milk, and it's just been on my mind all week. I've had that before, too, where you're just like, I remember seeing a cinnamon bun and just being like, well, I got to go all the way out to Kitts to get this particular cinnamon bun

that I can't stop thinking about. Or I'll just keep thinking about it over and over again. Oh, for sure. But, is Subway twice in two weeks?

Yeah. What? After not having it for probably been like a year. What is your, boy, I guess there's so many kind of fast food questions i want to ask uh is there like anything you took a break from fast food wise that you came back to like in my 20s i don't think i went to mcdonald's once and then in my 30s and 40s i love

it yeah i haven't been to mcdonald's in like like, I would hazard to guess at least 15 years. Wow. But Subway, I can throw down at Subway anytime. I took a big break from Subway as well, but. Yeah? Yeah. I was vegan for a few years, so I was doing the veggie delight at Subway. And then now I'm not anymore and I just go hard.

I don't even know what meat was on my Subway I just got, but there were all sorts of animals on there. You said like, take a fistful of that one. Can I get a lamb? A lamb and shark combo. And no bread,

just like cover, like I want it to be a meat sandwich too. Yeah. But no, the subway I took a break from, McDonald's had

probably been like five years or something, but when you're on the road, like as much as you're like, I'm going to eat

healthy, like where are you going? The one place that like has a thing that I can eat that's healthy is Starbucks. Cause they have these like egg white. Little egg whites. Little egg whites. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Those are like. They're so delicious. Those are bomb. There's no way they're good. Those are bomb. They're bomb.

It was, uh, it's like, like protein and it's cheap And there's Starbucks everywhere Although sometimes you go to a small town And they don't even have a McDonald's I feel like if you don't have a McDonald's Then it's like you're not having a Starbucks Did DJ tell you where he's going tomorrow? Where are you going? Where are you going tomorrow?

Oh I'm going to Whitehorse, Yukon Oh I love Whitehorse Have you been there? I've never been, you love it? What are you doing up there several times just done shows up there one yeah and uh i've also been to dawson city which is even farther north but yeah white horse uh how long you there for two nights friday and saturday i should give you uh the contact information of this dog sledding place yeah that i That I went to, which was the best. Yeah?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Amazing. Yeah, I would love that because I got nothing to do on the Saturday. But I realized as I was packing last night, I don't have a winter coat. Yeah. I got rid of it like three months ago because I was like, I don't need this. I'm not going anywhere cold. I've held on to it this long.

It was old and ratty and I was in LA. I'm like, I'm going to buy a new one soon. I'll lend you one. There you go. You'll held onto it this long. It was old and ratty and I was in LA. I'm like, I'm going to buy a new one soon. I'll lend you one. There you go. You'll lend me one? Yeah. Because I'll be back Sunday

and I can give it to you? Yeah, if you want. I mean, I'd love that. You know, what do you wear? Medium? Large? I mean, I think they're pretty similar. I think medium or large

depending on... What's your... What's your inseam? My inseam? Is that what you were going to say? What do you weigh? I feel like you might be taller than Um, I thought I was six feet ever since high school. I measured myself again.

Four foot seven. Four foot seven. Yeah. You're shorter than Joe Rogan. No, no. Um, no, I'm, I'm now five'11 and a half. I don't know if I shrunk or I just mismeasured myself, but I was walking around with the confidence of a six-foot man for the last 20 years.

That's got to do something to you. Well, this trip is all working out. Does Whitehorse have, does it have, you're the expert, Graham. Does it have Starbucks? I think... You're the expert, Graham. Yeah. Does it have Starbucks? It... I don't... I think the Starbucks is in a grocery store. Okay. Like, it's one of those, you know, kind of booth setups.

They definitely have a Subway, because I've eaten at the Subway in Whitehorse. And I think they... I'm pretty sure they have a McDonald's. Maybe even an A&W. Ooh. But their Shoppers Drug Mart closes at 5. So, if you need to get anything, some lip balm or whatever, head in there. For the listener, of course we are recording this.

We're not recording this the week between Christmas and New Year's. Yeah, come on. Who gets anything done during that week? We are recording this mid-December, and I checked the Vancouver sunrise and sunset compared to White Horse. White Horse has a later sunset than Vancouver. Really? Yeah, the sunset's at 445, but it doesn't come up until 1105

in the morning. And I've been there on both sides of that. I've been there where it's the spring and summer where it gets, like it's still bright out at 11 at night. So you walk out of a bar and you just feel like, what the fuck am I doing with my life? You feel like that assassin in The Bourne Identity,

I think it was, where he gets a call to kill Matt Damon and he's in this club and then he steps out and you realize it was like the middle of the day. I don't know why that scene is so vivid in my mind. I don't remember that. I think about it regularly. Is it the first one? I think it was, yeah.

Oh, sorry. I was going to... Come on, come on up. Come on up. Oh, man. I was watching The Equalizer 3 on my phone, too. And honestly, Equalizer 1 and 2, two of my favorite movies of all time, and 3 was kicking ass.

I fell asleep, but goddamn, I love The Equalizer. These are the movies. You fell asleep. I sleep on planes. I love it. These are the movies. Oh, I got the neck pillow. Are these Denzel Washington movies?

Yeah. He's the equalizer. I mean, honestly, I think if I had to name my top three Denzel movies of all time, it would be equal equalizer one, two, and I'm only halfway through,

but I think three is going to make a case. You're not, you're not throwing in the hurricane. You're not talking about some of the equalizer. No, hurricane, even pre equalizer. I wouldn't put in my top some of his prestige work? Oh, yeah, doesn't compare to the Equalizer. No. Hurricane? Hurricane, even pre-Equalizer, I wouldn't put in my top three of Dendro.

Really? What about, what's the one? Blue, Devil in the Blue Dress? Is that? Yeah, yeah. That one would probably maybe make my top three. Man on Fire is up there for sure. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Training Day. Yes, Training Day. Inside Man. Inside Man might be number one pre-Equalizer. Yeah, nice. And we're not even talking, what's the football one with Ryan Gosling training day Inside Man Inside Man might be number one pre-equalizer yeah nice and we're not even talking what's the football

one with Ryan Gosling as a quarterback to what oh was Ryan Gosling in

that like it's not We Are Marshall not We Are Marshall but something like that yeah not Friday Night Lights

it wasn't We Were Kings it was but it is it's like something like that Yeah Not Friday Night Lights And it wasn't We Were Kings It was But it is It's like something Like what you said Is it high school football? They saved

They solved racism Through football Yeah Well if anybody Was going to do it It was going to be football What the hell Was that movie called?

I can't believe I forget the title Remember the Titans Remember the Titans We forgot the Titans Was Ryan Gosling in there? I'm pretty sure he was. He might not have been the quarterback,

or he was a backup quarterback or something. Are you confusing him with Donald Faison? Oh, my God. I always make that mistake. What's your favorite Donald Faison? Ryan Gosling, not even in the top five or six actors, but he's in it. Yeah, he was post-Breaker high.

But he was funny in it. I mean, that's he's in it. Yeah. He was like post breaker high. He had like, but he was funny in it. He was, I mean, that's why I remember. Yeah. Cause there was the other, there was Denzel's assistant coach. Who's also,

you're talking about Will Patton as Bill Yost. Who, who is it? Who's the actual, Will Patton as Bill Yost. I don't know. Is it Kip Perdue as Ronnie Sunshine Bass? They're just making up things.

Or Craig Kirkwood as Jerry Rev Harris. Ooh, it had a young Kate Bosworth as Emma Hoyt. Kate Bosworth was in that? Of course, Ethan Supley as Louie Lastic. Ethan Supley somehow lodged his way into my algorithm, and I see Ethan Supley all the time. What is he doing? He was just in a movie

as a, well, he lost a lot of weight. Okay. And I think he went through a drug thing. I think he might have come out on the other side

of a dark time in his life. Okay. Based on what I've seen in my algorithm. And he was just in a movie that I saw. Apparently,

I forget every movie I've watched other than The Equalizer, but he was just a villain in a movie I saw a um i didn't i don't know this movie he even he's the guy from my name is earl the buddy right yeah yeah he was it was he a member of the pussy posse um he was literally not not when i was there he was in i think he might have been in everything all at once or everywhere all at once i i fell asleep watching that because I haven't finished it. Were you on a plane

at the time? Well, if you fell asleep, anyone could have been in it. You could have shown up in the second half of that movie. I fell asleep. Great movie, though.

I know it's old news. I don't know if it won the Oscar or not. It did, it did, yeah. It was like a month ago. I was like, it's about time I watched this. And I was like,

damn, this is good. I needed time for the hype to subside for me to get into it. Did you find it a little bit random? But I can't watch it. Like, I watch Parasite right when it won the Oscar,

and then my expectations are too high, and then I don't enjoy it as much. So I need a little bit of distance from the accolades. This is like that, this time of year when this episode comes out is the time when I watch all the things. I'm like. You keep it current. I like, well, like when things are nominated, I i'm like i have a bunch of free time sure and i like to go to the movie theater

and see the nominees and stuff um or at least the golden globe nominees like last year i did a week of like triangle of sadness and uh and tar i loved tar tar is so good. Tar. Tar is bomb. I bought Tar. You did? You can watch it whenever you want? Yeah. You know how- Tar is amazing.

I don't watch many movies. I didn't see Triangle of Sadness, but Tar I just watched a few months ago and I was so good. Well, you know how for years, if I was bored or I was like, I just want to put something on. What would I put on? Money ball. Money ball. It was money ball. Oh, money ball.

Oh, money ball. Yeah. Nice. Billy Bean. Beautiful movie too. The grass looks so lush. Yeah.

Money ball, like everything about it. Great Aaron Sorkin script. Dave likes a movie where there's a lot of like talking, walking and talking, walking and talking. I love eating and talking and they don't win

like they don't even come close to winning the world series at the end of that movie yeah well you know they're not the mighty ducks so they're

no they're not but I was like as soon as I saw Tar I was like well this is my new money ball this is the thing I'm going to be able to watch all the time

move over money ball weird they do the ending credits at the beginning of Tar. Oh yeah, and I didn't fast forward,

did you? I saw it in the theater. So I was, and I showed up a minute late and so I didn't realize there was something before. There was like a

post-credit scene before the opening credit. Yeah, it was really crazy because right when I start, Nick Fury comes in and he starts the movie off. You're like,

well, I'm not used to this. He says to, well, I'm not used to this. He says to the camera, I'm not used to this. I'm not used to this. But anyway, I'm not happy with these snakes on this plane. So do you think, is it too deep of a rabbit hole if I ask you a question about Tara right now? You know what?

It's completely inappropriate. Because I haven't done this in a while. I loved it so much, I started reading internet theories and everything. Okay. I haven't done that in a while i loved it so much i started reading like internet theories and everything i haven't done that since the equalizer 2 and was there some i gotta watch these equalizer movies i've seen the equalizer one and it is cool it's sort of like um the way that like liam neeson later in his career became a revenge action guy? But yes, Equalizer 1 is definitely, they said,

oh, Taken was so popular, let's make Ardenzal Taken, but then they elevated it beyond even that. And then,

what's his face? Kevin Costner had his with A Walk Among the Tombstones. I don't know that one. Oh, me neither. I think you'll like it.

Yeah? It's like one of these one-man army revenge. Yeah, I do like one-man army man army revenge yeah I do like one man army Equalizer 3

has the highest of all the ratings between in the Equalizer trilogy on Rotten Tomatoes I think it's like 92% or something

nice I don't know it's something in the 90s if I'm not mistaken so it takes place in an Italian villa so

yeah yeah I mean it's an art like it's not you know popcorn like it's it mean, it's an art. Like, it's not, you know, popcorn. Like, it's art. Oh, it's one of these avant-garde.

But do you think she was dreaming at the end of Tar? Hmm. Oh, the end is so funny. Yeah. Spoiler alert. Coming in. Spoiler alert. I haven't seen it.

I don't. I think it was. Well, I don't know. I haven't re-ex I don't. I think it was. Well, I don't know. I haven't reexamined it in that way. But for me, it's just like such a great turn at the end. It makes it so funny. Yeah. Yeah.

I got to see this Tar. It's like the very, very end. Yeah. Such a great final scene. Okay. You sold me. I'm going to watch the two equalizers I haven't seen

I will watch Tar I will re-watch Moneyball I will fall asleep during what movie did you fall asleep Equalizer 3

Equalizer 3 yeah yeah probably watch Mighty Ducks 2 just throw it in I also watched The Killer on

later David Fincher ooh I love it I watched the first 40 minutes of that and I fell asleep david fincher oh i love it i watched the first 40 minutes of that and i fell asleep but i love fincher too in that movie because i went into that with the reverse of what i said about oscar-winning movies where i heard because i was so pumped for it because i also love fast bender i heard that it was not good oh and so i went in being like ah damn i love

fincher this is going to be disappointing if it's not good. And I'm like 10 minutes past after he messed up. I hope that's not too much of a spoiler. But it's the same. It's like a one-man army style, but with Fincher in charge. It's really cool just watching somebody who's like, describe how in control they are of a situation, and then watch them screw it up. Until they're not.

I loved Mank, too. I don't know. Because nobody talks about Mank. I didn't love Mank. Which one was Mank? It was pandemic. I had a couple edibles, and I said, let's watch this't know. Because nobody talks about Mank. I didn't love Mank. Which one was Mank? I mean, it was pandemic. I had a couple edibles, and I said, let's watch this three and a half hour black and white movie. Mank was the story of Mank?

During Gary Oldman as Mank? I didn't see it. Mank was the guy who wrote Citizen Kane. And it's like him dealing with, he really knew the guy it's based on. Yeah. Was it Mank or something? Probably Mank. Well, yeah.

I think, like, it was David Fincher's dad had some relationship with the real Mank. Oh, I got, yeah. But then also Mank knew the guy who was the real Citizen Kane. Like, what's his name? Oh, Hurst. Yeah, was it Hurst? William Randall Hurst. Yeah, and it was played by

my friend from work Charles Dance yeah I worked for Charles Dance I don't want to talk about it you didn't love it I actually never met him but

I wrote some podcasts that he narrated nice I've got an audio file of him saying my name in the credits that's pretty cool

that's pretty cool you should have it as a put it on your ringtone you know what i got him i've got uh pw herman doing my voice i am maybe i make a little mount rushmore of guys who've said my name that's pretty good guys um if you like one man army movies have you heard of this movie sisu s-i-s-u no it is a finn a Finnish movie And it is about He never finishes movies Oh shit Come on

It was lying there Oh shit It came out in the last couple years And it's about how like The Nazis It was in World War II The Nazis were like They were pulling out of Finland

Okay But on their way out They were being real jerks Real yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah. Best sore losers. Yeah. And they messed with the wrong guy.

Ah, shit. That's always when you mess with the wrong guy. And it's always somebody who's like, had all sorts of training, was just minding their business. They don't want to hurt you.

No. This guy in Sisu, the guy is like, they're out of the game. I don't want to do this anymore. The guy is like a legend. Like, people have never heard,'t want to do this anymore. The guy dragged them back in. The guy is like a legend. Like, people have never heard, never seen this guy,

but everyone's heard about him. Yeah. Oh, wait. It's him. It's Sisu. Damn, it's Sisu. Do you know what's interesting is I love this one-man army genre.

John Wick didn't do it for me. Really? Sorry, I liked one, not enough to keep going. I wasn't sure I got a C2. Oh, let me tell you, let me give you a little piece of information about me. I haven't seen the sequel of anything.

Not even like a Godfather 2 or something like that? Well, no, I have seen. You've seen Wayne's World 2. I've seen, yeah, I've seen comedy sequels. But like, none of these ones that are like, that like came out of nowhere. You're like, you know, like John Wick was a surprise hit. Yeah. And I really liked it.

But I'm like, you didn't earn. This isn't something that keeps going. It does. Too much killing. I like when you see it in their eyes that they're capable of it. They use it sparingly. But when it's just like, you're getting shot, you're getting stabbed, you're getting shot. Oh, it's to me, it's like watching ballet or something.

It's so fluid and choreographed, which I've never seen in a fight scene before. Yeah. Yeah, it's thought out a lot more than I think any fight scenes I've ever seen have kind of thought it out. I think that's... I'm a wickhead, I'll say it. I think that's more true of the last 10 years or so. I'm a wickhead. More true of the last 10 years or so. I haven't seen any sequels of anything in the last 10 years. Hmm.

Moneyball 2? Don't tempt me. And the same is true of like most TV shows. I'm like, I don't need season two. No, that I also have that. Even if I'm loving a show, then season two comes out and I'm like, yeah, I'm fine. Yeah. Yeah. also have that even if i'm loving a show then season two comes out i'm like yeah i'm fine yeah yeah yeah especially if they tied up you know the last episode nicely enough like maybe there

was some tendrils that hadn't been solved but you're like yeah that's the end of the story except comedies i'll keep going i'll keep coming back to comedies yeah like uh you're righteous gemstones you're only murders in the building you're one more time I can't wait to see it I'm very excited See how I saved that one That was good Who else is in the show Who else works in the store

Oh you know who's on it A past guest of ours Who Dan Byrne How do you pronounce it I actually I say Byrne

Byrne I think it is Byrne Yeah but I want to say Byrne It's E-I-R-N-E Yeah He's so funny Yeah I mean the whole cast is funny But Dan Byrne. Yeah, but I want to say Byrne. It's E-I-R-N-E. Yeah. He's so funny. Yeah. I mean, the whole cast is funny, but Dan Byrne, I know from back, he was sketching improv

in Toronto, and he was in Fargo season two, I think, the one with Nick Offerman and- Oh, yeah? Who was he in that? But yeah, he's super funny. Jerry Hall, who's on this hour. Oh, yeah. Jerry Hall is awesome. Yeah.

She's great. Elise Bauman, who's on this hour. Oh, yeah, Jerry Hall is awesome. Yeah, she's great. Elise Bauman, who's amazing, too. Dayton Sinkaya. And we have this kid named Saren. Saren, apologies if I say your last name wrong. Saren. Saren. Sauron, yeah.

He's the evil guy from a Ring movie. I never saw the second one of those, though. But Saren was 14 when we started filming because we wanted a teenager a real teenager because we were when we were casting you find kids who are people who are like 25 27 but they still could pass for a teenager but we were like no because i went home one night and started watching arrested development michael serra was just so funny and he was actually 15 yeah yeah no we gotta get real teenager. And we could not find one.

And this Saren kid came out of nowhere, like at the 11th hour. And like a casting agent in Toronto saw him at some like workshop conference thing. Like he'd never even acted before. Really? He came up to her booth and talked to her. And she was like, I got something for you. Sent it to us. And he's like a revelation.

Holy shit. He's 15. He turned 15 a month into filming, but he's so funny. He's so authentically teenage. What did you do for his birthday a month into filming? His birthday? Yeah, what'd you do? For his 15th, I think we brought in a cake for him.

Yeah. It's funny because it was early on, so we brought in a cake for him, and then it was somebody else's birthday a few weeks later, and I was like, let's get a cake for them too, and the production team was like, no, we just did that because he's a kid. Nobody else gets any celebration. I was wondering, yeah. Yeah, like it would be too much.

But the star, surely the star would get a cake. My birthday's not when we were filming. So I was going to lie just to get a cake at some point. How about that? Something like that. Okay. The day you lost your virginity. These are also dates that we could celebrate with a cake.

Oh, I'm hoping to lose mine tonight. Tonight, babe! You've left yourself little time. These are also dates that we could celebrate with a cake. Oh, I'm hoping to lose mine tonight. Tonight's date. You've left yourself little time. I know. And Abby is mad at me. I do not see it happening. When's your birthday? January 7th.

Holy moly. Soon after we released this. Okay, nice. And two days before the big debut. That's right. And one day after the big big party at the

Capitol yeah yes that is a weird time to be celebrating for sure speaking of

like teenagers playing teenagers have either you guys seen Dear Evan Hansen or watched

two minutes of it Dear Evan Hansen oh no I've never no it is

wild it is wild. It is wild because the guy who originated the role was a teenager when he started the Broadway show, but is not now and was cast as the character that he played on the Broadway show. Yeah. What, like 30 by that time? Easily. Yeah. And didn't look like a kid. Didn't look like a kid at all.

I think he was wearing a wig. I remember his face. I can see him on the cover Easily. Yeah. And didn't look like a kid. Didn't look like a kid at all. I think he was wearing a wig. I remember his face. I can see him on the cover or something. Yeah. Was he in Pitch Perfect too? Or Pitch Perfect 1? I don't know. I don't know.

Was he in Remember the Titans? That's such a trip. My buddy was the lead. He was Elder Price in Book of Mormon. Oh, really? Yeah. Like he did it on Broadway. He was also part of the touring company he was with him for five years but he was i think 27 when he started

and 32 when he ended right but even 27 you know you're already about seven or ten years older than the mormon boy you're playing yeah would be mormon teenagers uh but by the end he's 32 or 33 trying to just it's not just about how you look, right? Like you're like, you got to bring that teenage energy. Yeah, yeah. It messed him up a little bit just like, because you come off of that now, you're done. And you're like, I'm not a teenager. I'm not a teenager. But you've been playing one for the last five years, literally every day, like one day off a week.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's like, it's a weird thing to put yourself in the shoes of being a specific type of person for five years straight. Yeah, yeah. And then come out of it and you're like, I guess I have to age 15 years to my regular age now. Right. How old are you in your shell? I don't think he was a teenager, but you know, he wasn't like that deep into the world.

No, I think I'm a teenager. Dave's seen me doing skateboard tricks at the end of the street. Yeah, they were great. Hey, between you and me, it it's just great i'm jumping off the skateboard and jumping back on like the skateboard doesn't move it's pretty sweet so the skateboard has no wheels no wheels yeah but you know what christmas time not even a board just him jumping up and down on the ground check out this trick but anyway he's a total teenager do you think the guy who played evan hansen had something in his contract or something?

No, they just... He didn't have something in his contract. He had something in his eyes. Yeah, a little twinkle. A little teenage twinkle. No, I think he has a great singing voice. And it's a musical. It totally was not what I thought it was going to be about.

And it was... Were you watching the whole Dear Evan Hansen? Yeah, I was drinking. And then I started watching it. I was like, well, I'm in for a penny and for a pound. You thought that made the story better, that you were drinking? Hey, guys, it wasn't anything weird.

I was drinking. I said I should watch all of Dear Evan Hansen. Within the first minute, I was like, two things I didn't know. The lead was being played by a 30 year old and it was a musical. Didn't know that sitting in. Do you generally like musicals? Yeah I love them but I didn't know it was a musical so it was very odd that they

suddenly did a musical number. I was like. So there's a they've turned mean girls into a musical and they turned mean girls the musical into a movie. And the trailer for it has no music in it. Oh wow. It is a musical. Yeah. People are trailer for it has no music in it. Really? Oh, wow. It is a musical.

Yeah. People are very confused. Oh, that would suck if you hated musicals. Didn't they make like the mean girl the protagonist now instead of like the girl

that Lindsay Lohan played? Buddy, I don't know. I didn't read the Wikipedia on the musical. I didn't think I liked musical movies that much and then I watched Tick Tick Boom

a couple years ago and I really enjoyed that. Yeah. Not enough to make me go I'm going to watch every musical that comes out but enough to make me go maybe I don't dislike them

as much as I thought. But I don't know why I thought I disliked them because I like musicals in real life. Yeah. I just thought I didn't want my movies

to get musical. For me those were too different. Yeah. Bridge too far I didn't want my movies to get musical. For me, those were too different. Yeah. Bridge too far. I understand that. Tick, tick, boom. It was good. I do.

So the Golden Globes is the movie, or is the like award show that separates categories into drama. Yeah. Drama and comedy. No. Drama and comedy or musical. Comedy or musical are together. So it feels weird to be like, you know,

Les Mis is competing with Austin Powers. You say Austin Powers? Yeah. Wow. Women's World, Austin Powers, Mike Myers is coming up. Yeah, Mike Myers on the brain. That's true. The Matilda musical movie came out last year

or the year before? That was really good. Yeah? Yeah. I haven't seen it, but I like a movie musical, like a live stage version. I like a soundtrack

from a movie, like I like the, you know, the original cast recording. So, never been in one, never had the chance to be in a musical.

He's not fishing, but maybe he will. Maybe throw some lines out there, see what comes back. I have a terrible voice and I can't really dance so

you're more of the like guy who comes on and does the patter song yes yes yes yeah well in these parts things are

ramping up because things are getting weird and I'm the guy who lives over here and well here we go and I don't know the plot

but there's a bunch of things going on over here. I just lost the role to Dave. I shouldn't have told him about the auditions. Making him a song about a player that has no plot. Yeah. How old is your character on your TV show? Same age as you? He's a teenager.

Oh, shit. Yeah, no, he's a couple years younger than me. I'm 37. I think he's 35. Okay. So, yeah, it just gave me a couple years of extra life. But they had to, I got, my sides are completely gray in my hair. Dyed my hair once a week, every week on Friday.

Oh, yeah. What's that? I've like, I've never dyed hair at all. So what's the process? I have no idea. They tried like four different dyes. My gray hair really doesn't want to be dyed. Really?

Yeah. So they tried like before we went into production, they were trying all these different types and one finally worked. And then we just did that for a couple hours every week. Like it was a process really then the more i did it every week my hair was like okay i don't mind this and it got easier it liked oh okay yeah you just gotta get into it train that hair do you ever see shows where or movies where you're like wow they they had all this money they had the best people in the business

and they just couldn't get this guy's hair to look good. I was really worried about that. I was watching Blackberry. Yeah. Jay Baruchel's like gray wig. And the other guy, Glenn Harrington, his bald cap with dark hair on the sides. Yeah. Do you think it was a bald cap? I thought it was shaved.

Yeah. Either way. It's like it just looks off. It's not. Yeah. He you think it was a ball cap? I thought it was shaved. Yeah, well, either way. Yeah. It's like, it just looks off. It's not, yeah, and like. Yeah, he's playing Mike Lazaridis, I think. Oh, no, Lazaridis is Jim Baruchow. He's playing Jim Balsillie.

Yeah, Jim, yeah. I'm from Waterloo, so that whole era, I was living there through it. So, do you fall asleep? You mentioned falling asleep in movies. Yeah. What point do you? Did you do it a lot? I usually stay awake at home.

Oh, okay. The, or not the fighter the killer i was just exhausted but on an airplane i'll fall asleep and that's part of what i like about it because then i come back to and i started where i fell asleep it's a whole thing that i really enjoy it's a ritual um i'm the uh your your um broadcaster cbc on their app, CBC Gem, they have broken Blackberry into three 40-minute chunks

and it's three episodes. What? I don't know why. I released it on TV. I know there was a slight uproar over that. Yeah, and so... That's insane.

Why would they do that? But it's good for me who falls asleep 40 minutes into a movie. They should, like, yeah, with the Irishman it should have been like eight. I'm curious put the psychology behind it because i bet you it is something like they know people like binging tv shows and if you see this long movie it could be

a deterrent where you're like i'm gonna fall asleep soon i don't want to watch a whole movie they break it up into three 40 minute installments psychologically less daunting it's very it seems very old like 90s tv to be like yeah we, we're going to show you this movie over three nights. Is it logical end point at the end of each episode? I'm only after, I'm only finished one episode. It's a. It seemed fine. Have you seen the guy that who's directed, wrote and directed it, is also in it.

He's the guy with the like longer hair glasses goofball yeah and he had a show called Nirvana the band

the show oh yeah that was him yeah wow when I first moved to Toronto like everyone

was talking about Nirvana the band it was so funny yeah I didn't see much of it to be honest with you

his he gave like a panel speech about how you can get the rights to brands and songs. Like, that there's kind of end runs you can do if you have, like, a good lawyer. So, in that movie, there's a bunch of, like, famous songs. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And, like, it won't be, like, you know, pop soda. It'll be Coke.

It'll be everything. Like, he clears it. But he says that if you have a fake thing, it takes you out of it, which I think it does. Yeah, totally. If somebody is eating a cereal that doesn't exist. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Unless it's a sci-fi show where it's like the whole thing's about people are eating the cereal that doesn't exist.

And it takes them to a new planet. It's like firing on all cylinders content wise. Well, now I have a plot. Well, I was chomping on the cereal. Dave's like firing on all cylinders content wise Well it's Oh now I have a plot Well I was chomping on the cereal But it didn't exist And I opened my mouth and I was like what is this Dave's also performing it

In the Hamilton style Oh now it's a wrap Now DJ every time you're here We always gotta ask you And are you ready for your answer? What is going on currently? What is the news with your favorite singer-songwriter, John Mayer? Yes!

I was wondering. I was like, maybe they're done with the John Mayer talk, but I'm happy you brought it up. Yeah. He wasn't in my Spotify rap. He didn't make my top five. Really? Tell us about who was in your top five. I don't even want to talk about it Because I don't believe

In its validity I think Could we listen to a lot of Rafi this year With our little guy Oh sure And Rafi didn't even make top five So I'm like

Rafi Kavoukian I don't know Is that his real last name Yeah yeah yeah Oh really Oh I didn't know that Is he Armenian What was that last name

I think he's Armenian Yeah Wow okay cool I didn't know that He's a man, though. That's his name on socials, anyway. Oh, really? Yeah.

He uses his last name? Yeah. He's on social? Oh, yeah, he's on socials. Honestly, I was 50-50 on whether or not he was still alive. I don't check in on him. I like his music, and I don't need to know what's going on. He lives around here.

I don't need to know what's going on. Yeah, yeah. Does he live on Salt Spring? He does. Yeah. He lives on Salt Spring Island. Really? Yeah.

He's Canadian? Yeah. I didn't even know that. And he's like... I don't even know he's Canadian. Spring? He does. Yeah. He lives on Salt Spring Island. Really? Yeah. He's Canadian? Yeah. I didn't even know that. And he's like, he's an activist. He's been like an activist his whole career, like very separate from the kids music, but. Activist for what? Just a lot of environmental causes. Belugas.

Disney wanted to buy Baby Beluga and turn it into like a short film and he refused he said you turned into 340 minutes but he wouldn't sell he was like why did he refuse because Disney's

giant horrible corporation that does all sorts of what corporation Disney oh I didn't hear who you said

sorry I gotta look into them. DJ Where's Your Hero Games. Wow. Okay, wow. I love them even more. I just love to, because I've never listened to kids' music too much, and I was like a little reluctant where I was like, oh, God, am I going to be hearing kids' music?

You didn't listen to kids' music before you had a kid? Only when I drink. Yeah, yeah. That's how you can enjoy it, yeah. Yeah, I love Rafi but he didn't make my top five neither did John Mayer

but you know what really cool about John Mayer if we can bring it back to the man of the hour please the man of several hours the man of the last

20 years his longevity off the chart but he was in the Grateful Dead you know Dead and Co

for 9 years he joined them 9 years or maybe 8 I think he joined in 2015 and they officially just ended it they ended it He was in the Grateful Dead, you know, Dead and Co. for nine years. He would join them in. Nine years. Yeah, or maybe eight. I think he joined in 2015 and they officially just ended it. They ended it. Oh, okay.

Yeah, but he was like, when he came on, it was like a novelty and people were like, oh, he's like going to try to make it his own thing. Like a lot of the Deadheads were upset. They were like bogarting their joints over it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But. I couldn't think of any. What do you call it?

It's like hippie slang for like being stressed out about it. I think that was pretty good. I don't know. Bull guarding? Bull guarding? Sure. Yeah.

But he was there for the right reason. Spiritually, he just wanted to be part of something bigger than himself. Yeah. Is he like the new Jerry? Was he the new Jerry? Well, I mean, Jerry was one of the original guys. Yeah.

So you can never be the new Jerry. My, you got to be the new Jerry. You know, there were a lot of shirt. People wear shirts that say like queer for wear because of like Bob Weir. And so a lot of people have queer for wear shirts among other shirts. Are they actually queer or are they just saying that? Just for wear. Okay.

But they're straight otherwise. I guess the spectrum is all tie-dyed at this point. But then people started wearing shirts that said gayer for mayor. Oh, okay. Yeah, they really accepted them. I'm canceling every one of these shows. But yeah, he released a new album last year. I think I might have talked about that one already with you guys

because I remember we listened to New Light. But that wasn't last year. That was years ago at this point. Oh, you know when I talked to you, he just had New Light out as a single, but Sob Rock hadn't come out yet, the album, which is like a throwback kind of 80s album. I'm going to see you in a new light.

Yeah. It's not bad. Yeah? Oh, it's great. The whole album's great. He's got a song on it that is called Why You No Love Me. Okay, you're canceling this guy as well. It's one of those songs where you're like, oh, why'd he have to do that?

And then it gets stuck in your head. Yeah. I'm like, why you no love me? I see why you did it. Because I wouldn't remember if it was called Why Don't You Love Me. Right. Right? Why Don't You Love Me? Boring Right? Why Don't You Love Me?

Boring. Why You No Love Me? Vaguely racist almost. Is it? Not even vaguely, I think. Does he use like the letter Y for Y? No. Written out fully correct.

Yeah. He doesn't want to confuse like what the joke is. It's not a grammatical thing. It's pure racism. Yeah. If it's that song in brackets racist version yeah he re-recorded it because somebody else was making all the money off his racist song

I've seen people wearing shirts that actually say racist for mayor no don't I don't know if i told you this before but a few years ago i was at comedy store doing a roast battle oh yeah on on the stage there and i hate roast battles and i just did it to scare myself but i found out after that john mayer was in the audience watching wow i performed for john mayer but i didn't get to see him you got to pay

him back for all those you know all that entertainment over the years. You got to give him a little something. It's true. And, you know, in the show, we were going to have an ongoing thing where DJ in the show, because that's my name in One More Time as well. Right. And did you do that because you couldn't remember your actor name? Well, I don't know how to act, so I thought that would give me a little bit of a cushion

being like, I'm not acting. It's me. A long tradition of comedians using their own names. that would give me a little bit of a cushion being like, I'm not acting. Yeah. But. A long tradition of comedians using their own names. I don't break as much as Jerry did in Seinfeld, but even when you watch

Seinfeld now, I don't even mind when he breaks. No, I don't even notice. It's charming. Yeah. Yeah.

But Jimmy Fallon breaking an SNL could be not charming at times. Right. Because he would like ruin scenes because he wanted to let you know how much fun he was having. You're like, you're not actually having that much fun. He does have a lot of fun. Right. Because he would like ruin scenes because he wanted to let you know

how much fun he was having and you're like, you're not actually having that much. He does have a lot of fun, it seems. Or maybe he's just pretending and it's not fun at all. But I think even being

that good at pretending is a skill. Yeah. Because you know, I did the Tonight Show and Fallon came by and hung out with me and my friends

for like 10 minutes before the show. And were you like, Jimmy, can you give us a little space? Stop faking it, dude. We're in there in a bad mood, comes in smiling come on dude no he was super nice like so nice and i had that thought i was like even if he's faking it still making me feel like a million

bucks here like nice beyond like that all day long and then all those reports came out that he was actually a huge asshole oh yeah i was like impossible he was so nice for those 10 minutes damn there's so many reports about people being assholes that i forget yeah yeah that one's like one of those one not to like nullify what everyone was saying but it's like i don't know there was a day where you just expected celebrities to be asshole like carson notorious prick yeah i forget what the jimmy fallon was was exactly it was an asshole or was he drunk i think constantly drunk yeah i think both and and he like did a real deal apology and

said like i this is unacceptable and which you know a lot of people be like well i'm sorry you got offended but uh karaoke in the whole time yeah did his apology. And he kept breaking in the middle. He sang Justin Bieber's It's Too Late Now to Say Sorry. And I promise I won't get me drunk at work. Okay. But you're doing beer pong in the apology. But it's so fun for rating. My love language.

Yeah. Now, he... How did we get on to the Fallon thing? We were talking about something right before that. Did I have a point? Your name was DJ in the show. Oh, yeah. But how did we get on to the Fallon thing? We were talking about something right before that. Did I have a point? Your name was a DJ in the show. Oh, yeah. How do we get to that?

I don't remember what I was talking about. That's fine. It's fine. Don't worry about it. That's what a podcast is. We'll come back to it. Dave, what's going on with you? I was watching the John Mayer video for Your Body is a Wonderland.

And I was like, oh, the girl in this video is so pretty. And I looked her up. And she's also in the video for Eve Six's... Promise? No, the I Will Swallow the Pride. Oh. Joke on the Run. Yeah. Inside Out.

Yeah. My Faith in Nothing. Yeah. One of them. What a song. I know what I was going to say, but keep going. I'm so sorry. Oh, well, I just double checked

she's pretty in that video as well she's wearing roller skates I can't remember what she looked like but I do remember finding the girl pretty in both of those videos

so that's so we're one of these video vixens oh yeah yeah I feel like the early 2000s was a good time

for video vixens yeah tell me what you were going to say I just lost it again dave what what's going on with you okay well today what oh well we're in the so we are in mid-december i've been getting my holly on my jolly on yeah jolly's off yeah i'm getting my Getting my rocks up. And did my annual thing I like to do, which is make a big gingerbread house. Oh, yes.

Yeah. Gingerbread is my number one Christmas treat. Yeah. I like a gingerbread house. I like a gingerbread man. I like gingerbread to have frosting on it. Do you, I forget, do you freestyle or do you get a kit? Get a kit. You get a kit. Go to, I forget, do you freestyle or do you get a kit? Get a kit.

You get a kit. Go to the Swiss bakery, get their kit, comes in a little pizza box. Nice. They give you everything you need. What I didn't do was refrigerate the icing, frosting stuff.

And so, like I should have refrigerated it so that when I stuck everything together, it wasn't very warm. Right. Yeah. And so I had to like use a bunch of books to, to make sure the house didn't fall apart. How big is the house? The house is, um, well, it fits in a pizza box. So no bigger than a pizza box.

About yay big. Okay. Yeah. Like a, like a foot high. Yeah no bigger than a pizza box. About yay big. Okay. Yeah. Like a foot high. Yeah. Foot and a half maybe with a roof. Nice. Does it come with candies as well?

It comes with candies. It comes with Smarties. Okay. It comes with these watermelon gummies, which I'm not a fan of. It comes with these peach rings, which I'm not a fan of. Watermelon gummies on the candy bag? They're just not a fan of. It comes with these peach rings, which I'm not a fan of. Watermelon gummies on the gingerbread? They're just not festive. Yeah.

And the peach rings, they change the flavor of everything to peachy. So even though, even if I take them off and I still eat the gingerbread, it's still peachy. Yeah. Oh, peachy.

Mm-hmm. So it stayed up? Oh, it stayed up. Okay, good. Good, good, good. But only for 20 minutes before I ate it stayed up. Oh, it stayed up. Okay, good. Good, good, good. But only for 20 minutes before I ate it. Yeah. The thing is I, we take a picture like we, every year we, this is a family tradition.

I'm letting you guys. Okay, here we go. So, uh, every year we have a calendar made, uh, and we keep it in the kitchen and, um, you just, I just do it at London drugs and I, uh, upload a bunch of photos and then, um, all year long, we have photo, our of picture from the year previous, which is my daughter's sitting next to the gingerbread house I made. Okay. And they replicate the same pose every year, and we've managed to get the previous year's calendar in the background.

Oh, this is fun. Yeah. What's that called, that art where you see the thing behind the thing? It's thing something effect that's not escher is it no no it's named after it's like the drost effect which was the is a package that had like it's basically um who's that uh woman on the uh butter uh the lando lakes lando lakes and she's holding a lando lakes package with her on it. Anyway, so... Now, do you have any Christmas-like traditions?

You've started your own Christmas edition or you did with your family, anything like that? No. By the way, I was going to say in the show,

we were going to make DJ in the show a John Mayer fan. Oh, yeah. We ended up going a different direction. Oh, I can't wait to... Very close to being

a John Mayer fan. When you say a different direction, is there... There's somebody else that he's a big fan of. We Very close to being a John Mayer fan. When you say a different direction, is there... There's somebody else that is a big fan of him. We went somewhere else instead of John Mayer, but I'll save that for... You got to tune in to one more time on TBC Gem, broken into 58 four-minute episodes. Who's the poor man's John Mayer that you could afford?

Poor man's John Mayer. Ooh, that's a good question. I mean, I don't want to say it. Ed Sheeran. Is it Ed Sheeran? No way, man. Ed Sheeran is the richest man's. I know.

In terms of Christmas tradition, no, but I would love if John Mayer made a Christmas album. Because that would be my new tradition. That'll happen. That'll happen. It's got to happen. Just from a marketing and money perspective, there's so much money to be made in a Christmas album. Yeah. But growing up, we always read

Twas the Night Before Christmas. Okay, classic. I'd like to continue that with my son. Nice. He loves reading right now, so we didn't do it last... No, we did read it to him last year, so we'll do it this year.

We don't even have a Christmas tree up, and we're going home to Canada soon, so we're not... Our house doesn't feel too festive right now. And we're in California. There's no snow or anything. It's weird seeing like- Well, maybe if you wish

hard enough. Maybe if you put a tree up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe you should start it. But you see people with reindeers on their roof and stuff in LA and it just doesn't feel right.

Yeah. There's no way they could survive in this climb. Fair enough. Yeah. Yeah. I just heard from climate to climb.

Was that okay? You can say climb, right? I hear that. I've heard that used. I don't know okay? You can say climb, right? Yeah, I hear that. I've heard that used. I don't know if it's like a different word, like isle and island. Are they different words? Well, it's not. Isle is its own word, but it's not just like.

But an isle is an island, right? Yeah, I think so. But it's not like, it's not like calling 7-Eleven Sev. But it's, I know in the Gilligan Island Thief song, they say this. Hero and Gilligan's Isle. Yeah, Hero and Gilligan's Isle. Yeah. 11th have but it's i know in the gilligan island thief song they say that's the aisle yeah here in the aisle yeah it's called they lit crash down on the shore of this deserted treasure tragic land yeah you're never gonna be in a musical you don't even know the lyrics to the gilligan the musical um so that's one thing is i uh we did that and today i did something else something i like to do before christmas is i crossed the border go to taco bell i drew i did

go to taco bell you gotta run for the border and you're gonna do it although i did um so i so today i drove to bellingham washington and i went to trader joe's i went to target got some stocking stuffers got some little uh chips and dips and things picked up some packages from our mailbox and i have something now i know it's been a couple weeks since i we did presents on the show but i have something for graham what oh this is exciting. Because I went to Trader Joe's, I got you this. Peppermint bar. Oh my God. Oh my God.

I was just at the like drugstore today and I was like, man, nobody sells fucking. Well, Abby went to Williams- Peppermint bar.

Abby was walking by Williams-Sonoma today and they had a sign saying, try our famous peppermint bark and they had, she went inside,

it was $70. Well, candy cane prices, you know, now with prices, you know, now with the, you know, climate tax and all this kind of stuff. Climate tax?

Yeah, climate tax. Climate tax. Climate tax. You a fan at all of Peppermint Park? Yeah, I do really like Peppermint Park. All right, well,

we'll crack this baby up. It's hard to get. I've never really realized. Well, I like, I know my mom used to make it like and i don't think it needs to be 70 dollars like yeah what do you think about things like um gingerbread and maybe peppermint bark but where they are so seasonal where you associate

them with a season do you feel like the makers of gingerbread kind of resent that they wish you would eat it more i don't know as well i wonder because it's like i and i of gingerbread kind of resent that they wish you would eat it more in july as well i wonder because it's like i and i love gingerbread did i mention that before he loves it um uh but i do not want it i don't want it on december 26th yeah yeah yeah the i feel like the one product that was like we're gonna go into the other seasons was mini eggs. Remember you only see Cadbury eggs and mini eggs around. But like the, I feel like there's a creep of a pumpkin spice earlier and earlier. Yeah.

Yeah. Like maybe even September. That's too early. That's, is there anything that comes out just in the summer? I feel like you're drinking a lot of Kool-Aid in the summer. I don't know that you're having Kool-aid in the fall those like red white and blue popsicles yes yeah can you imagine having one of those in december no way jose um and the other thing i got

for you today because i think we talked about it um recently i don't know if it was on air or off air but nerds rope nerds rope okay we were about this, and I'd never heard of this before. I'd never heard of Nerds Rope. It's a licorice encrusted with nerds. Should we crack it open? Should we all have some nerds rope? Has it been around a long time? Okay.

Well, you know nerds, right? Oh, yeah, I love nerds, but I've never heard of Nerds Rope. Okay. I'll take a bit. This is seasonal nerds rope i also like i haven't had any eggnog yet and i feel like at this point it's maybe too late you can have a sip i know but you don't you can't go to a store and buy a sip this is bad podcasting this is this is good this is good. Oh, boy. Yeah. Oh, my mouth is

alive. I haven't had nerds in so long, and it's just like, oh, yeah. I haven't had nerds in so long either. Get ready to transport back to you being a teenager and adolescent. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Holy cow. Good old days.

Wow. That's cool. Yeah. They, that's cool. Yeah. They're doing great things with... What made you watch your body as a wonderland? Oh, I... There's a channel that shows old videos. And I sometimes put it on... Turner Classic Videos.

TCV. But there's actually a couple, because there's one on our cable package. And then I noticed there's one on just like, if our Samsung TV is plugged into the internet, then you can watch, a few weeks ago, a guest was talking about it. But they'll just have a channel that's all 21 Jump Street, and then they'll have a channel that's all 90s music videos. Yeah. I could watch a lot of 90s music videos.

I could really zone in on that, you know? Oh, I would stay in on a Friday night and watch so much music, Top 30, and then I would watch it again Saturday morning. Yep. Oh, man. It used to be on Friday night. It was the Coca-Cola countdown.

The Coca-Cola countdown. Then Electric Circus. Oh, my God. Fall asleep to Electric Circus. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. then electric circus a bit later oh my god fall asleep to electric circus oh yeah yeah yeah did you like your body as a wonderland

when you watched it um it's a lot of stuff in bed isn't it like yeah she's swimming in a deep sea of blankets

too hot too hot for me the uh I liked her do you know what's funny is like out of all the songs, did you guys see the Barbie movie? Yeah. I was very surprised that Ken sang Ben by, what was it by Matchbox Funny? Push.

It wasn't Ben, was it? Push. Push, yeah. I want to push you. It was great, but I was like, wow, because I would have thought it was going to be maybe Your Body is a Wonderland or Crash Into Me by Dave Matthews. Right. One of those classic bros on guitar type thing

but Push was pretty great. That was pretty great. Crash was kind of hard. It's also it's going to be one of those things that like kids who watch it that's what they're going

to associate that song with for their whole life. That and Closer to Fine the one that she's singing when she's driving. That's going to be like you know

Bohemian Rhapsody was in Wayne's World, and that's the first time I ever heard of that. Same. Yeah. And I can't hear it without thinking of Wayne and Garth. First time I ever heard Faith was by Limp Bizkit, not by George Michael. Whoa.

Okay. Okay. And then I heard George Michael's. I was like, man, he's really butchering this song. When's he going to start screaming? Limp Bizkit, another band who rhymed Tender with Heart in a Blender. They did? Yeah.

Nice. Wow. They put my tender on in a blender and still I surrender. Which song is that? Nookie. Oh, shit.

Okay. Eve Six and Limp Bizkit. Yeah. It was a time in our lives when we were rhyming Tender with Heart in a Blender. Return to Blender.

The Simpsons also did it. Oh, no. They did Hey, Big Spender. Oh, no, they did, hey, big spender. Big blender. We surrender. So, yeah, I spent a day going to stores in America. So I had an eagle on the highway. What the hell? This is like epic.

Yeah, I was like. On the highway? Well, he. Hitching a ride. He or she Or they Them I don't know

What is eagles pronouns Landed on a Like a lamppost Next to the highway And I saw it From far away And I was like Is that an eagle?

Bald eagle? It's landing Yeah bald eagle Are there eagles? Are there? Name another Name another Name another one

But you wouldn't even Well I mean Bald eagles are the preeminent one. Yeah, yeah. But we wouldn't say bald if they were the only one. Legal eagles. Oh, legal eyes. Mohawk eagle. Yeah, exactly.

All the different haircuts. Yeah. Yeah. That's how they distinguish other eagles. Balding eagle. Balding eagle, sure. Poor, poor guys. But, yeah. That's pretty cool. balding eagle balding eagle yeah poor guys um but uh

yeah that's pretty cool seeing an eagle in real life is pretty majestic oh I see them all the time yeah well I see them when you go out that way

I guess there's yeah I see them and then when I visit Abby's parents there's a like there's a pair that are they're

yelling at each other all day long Abby's parents call them the Bickersons I love it yeah that are yelling at each other all day long. Abby's parents call them the Bickersons. I love it. Yeah. But I love a good eagle. Yeah.

No, I love if I see an eagle, if I see like a hawk, I'm always like super interested in seeing a hawk. Any kind of, an owl. I'll go nuts to see an owl. I've seen quite a few herons. I'm not into them. Storks. If I see a stork.

I don't know if I've seen a stork. Or a pelican. Man, oh man. These are top birds. I was in Costa Rica a couple months ago and saw huge pelicans and sloths. I know that's not a bird, but I've never seen a sloth in my life. Animals, man. When you see one you haven't seen in real life, you're like, oh, you're real.

I've seen them on TV and stuff. You're like, damn damn that's a sloth yeah i don't know i've had that when i went to calgary we always go to the zoo and like seeing a hippo up close you're like oh this is a real thing it's not uh you know it's not just a hungry hungry it's a real thing it's not part of the zoodles uh we uh we have peacocks in our neighborhood in altadena and really really i don't know why they're not in people's backyards or anything they they're walking around the street i don't know wow yeah and when they were let loose but yeah my wife just sent me a picture today of my son walking up to a peacock wow yeah they're just in our neighborhood his eyes poked and pecked out.

That's my son just looking at a peacock in our neighborhood. Yeah. Adorable. They're both about the same size. Yeah.

Are there any new animals? Oh, I mean, they're finding new ones all the time. Some kind of like little newt or something like that.

Some kind of fish. I feel like capybaras have become... Oh, they're the hot rodents. They're like, I hadn't heard about them 15 years ago. And now they're the number one big rodent. Yeah.

It's the baby Yoda of rodents. Absolutely. So yeah, that's what's going on with me, my friend. Yeah. That's fantastic. Having a happy new year. Thank you for peppermint bark. And this nerd rope.

If you haven't tried it, folks. It's a revelation. Yeah. Get ready to go back and die i got so many stocking stuffers at this target nice and i was like gotta get two of everything for the kids but i just need one nerd's rope for my buddy thanks buddy um uh what was i gonna say uh what's going on with you anything okay nothing absolutely nothing uh one thing that i've i watch horror movies all the time i could become like a huge horror movie fan oh yeah wasn't before the pandemic and just started watching them and now like i watch probably like three or four a week whoa okay nice but a lot of them blend if it's like a haunted house they're kind of all the

same possession movies are all the same uh so then when you see one that really sticks out you're like oh shit i watched one last night called talk to me oh that's scary yeah oh boy oh boy yeah talk to me is it new it's like i think it's from last year but it's on netflix now talk to me yeah i haven't seen a good horror movie in a while. Well, buckle up. Talk to me. Yeah. I've heard a lot about this.

Well, I mean, I've heard a lot of people say it's good, but I don't. It takes a lot for me to watch a horror movie. Yeah. It's not entry level. It's. Can you tell me the premise? It's a thing. It's kind of based around social media a bit.

There's like a little statue of a hand and you connect your hand to it like a cereal you're eating a cereal that doesn't exist and the guy comes out and does a little patter song he you hold on the hand you say uh talk to me and a ghost appears and then everybody films this person like flipping out and it's like a social media trend so like the person gets possessed is there only one of this hand in the world uh yeah i guess i didn't question it but maybe there are multiple hands okay yeah but it's it becomes like a social media craze but then somebody doesn't follow the rules and that's that's when shit goes crazy okay I'm gonna

check that out yeah it's uh I'll fall asleep you'll fall asleep to it but you know what breaking up a horror

movie to chunks would be the craziest thing because the first half hour you're like oh this is a nice family movie everybody

seems to be having a good time didn't talk to me no just in general oh I love when a horror movie takes its time before shit gets crazy because you actually get connected to the people. This is like that.

They do that? Yeah. Yeah, because if it starts out right away batshit crazy, like, cool, jump scares are awesome, but I want to, like, feel connected to people before they meet their gruesome end, you know? But also, similar to Dear Evan Hansen, I didn't know until I started watching it, Australian. Oh, yeah? Oh, I know. Was it made by those guys who were really big on, I read about the guys. The guys. That's the one? Yeah. those guys who are really big on i read about yes

the guys the one yeah those guys who are really big and dundee oh that's cool it's a good movie it's great i've heard good things about barbarian too yeah that's good that's good yeah you've seen it that's one of the ones i see like one a year that was the one i saw and you know who's scary movie in so long i talk to me as the one you'd recommend well if you haven't seen barbarian movie in so long. Talk to me is the one you'd recommend? Well, if you haven't seen Barbarian, that would be my ultimate recommend. Yeah? Yeah. Okay.

What about the one with Ethan Hawke about the black phone or something? It's called The Black Phone. Is that what it's called? Yeah. And that was okay. That one was all right. Okay, I'll do it. Usually, I feel like, oh, maybe Barbarian's an exception.

But I was like, if I know the actors in this movie, it's not as good. Yeah, that's true. Having unknown actors is key, because then you're like, if I know the actors in this movie, it's not as good. Yeah, that's true. Having unknown actors is like, key, because then you're like, this is actually happening to somebody.

Yeah. But if it's like, yeah, if it's happening to, uh, Bill Skarsgård. Um, but yeah,

super spooky movie. That's a recommend for anybody out there. If you like a little spooky movie at christmas you know well it's the today's the january 2nd so um start your new year off right yeah yeah you made a resolution to yourself to scare yourself do things that scare you yeah which is uh easier to do when you just watch horror movies um i was talking to someone about how like we were having a really nice wet and a lot of nice weather

in november and if this person and like the rain started coming in december and this person was like yeah but pretty soon it'll be december 21st and then the days get longer and i was like no you still have to live through winter it's like it's not like like on the 21st it just completely turns yeah yeah no that's the start of winter yeah the sad time oh boy yeah and it's like it gets it gets plenty gloomy around here you live in la so you're just you cruise through winter but it's a weird feeling too you're right and we do cruise through winter but something about the seasons i don't mean to be cliche but it is nice to go through that emotional arc yeah i think depression in the winter yeah emotional arc of depression i'm saying that as a guy who doesn't have to deal

with it so maybe i'm wrong but i feel the same way i felt about play it against sports now that i'm not living through the seasonal yeah yeah i'm like i think it was actually really nice to feel that yeah because you watch a hallmark movie and you're like, well, it is charming to go to a small town. And oh, man, can you imagine going to a small town? But it's not too bad here, is it, right? It's like rain. It's rainy. It gets gloomy.

Yeah. It's not, we don't have to deal with like freezing cold. Yeah. We get a little bit of snow here and there. Shuts down the city. Maybe get like one week of deep freeze a year where it's like minus five for a week yeah and people lose their mind but oh the tobogganing that gets done in that way oh the boggling um oh my god i was totally gonna change the subject

i was gonna go back it's i'm still going to do it. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. I was just remembering this. In Vancouver, we don't have Play It Again Sports. Oh, what's it called? Well, we have Sports Junkies and we have Cheapskates. Cheapskates. And Cheapskates became like a mini empire. This secondhand sporting goods store was, there's still like maybe two locations but like it took up the entire it they started cheapskates too and then there was like an

all golf cheapskates like a block away and it was like you didn't go to cheapskate too though did you i would you don't like sequels yeah you don't that's true you don't like sequels but it's cheapskates t-o-o oh okay um why are you no cheapskate and when i when i was a kid because it was um what do they call it when you consignment yeah and there was like so you the people who uh brought in their old stuff you would like uh you'd get however much money if they sold it right away but you get less money if it sat on the shelf for a while. And when you went to the store, you would see like,

oh, this, you know, pair of skates is 50 bucks, but on January 2nd, it's 40 bucks. And then on January 15th, it's 30.

And I had friends who would go in and like see something they wanted and hide it. I was just going to say, I've done that at vintage shops where it's like, I don't have the money right now, but if I just wait two weeks and I get paid, I can come back. Is this going to be a plot point in season two? I mean, maybe it's a plot point in season one. Oh, shit.

Maybe it's already happened. Nice. When not John Mayer shows up. My dream is for the show to get so big that John Mayer does want to show up. Well, he's already seen you. And so, you know, you have a history. Oh, here's that guy who did that roast. You know what's crazy is Tony Hinchcliffe is like one of the, he's the creator of Kill Tony and this big thing that's in Austin now, but it started at the comedy store.

Yeah, yeah. He was a judge on the roast battle that I was on. And I just ran into him in Austin last week. And I don't know him, but a friend of mine introduced us. And I was like, you were actually a judge when I was on roast battle five or six years ago. And he remembered the insult he said to me when I was on stage. What was it? Oh, he said something about... Oh, he remembers.

This robot really knows how to insult people or something. Like I said, I had a robotic voice. Right. Which is crazy because one of my clips online with Don't Tell Comedy, the top comment with 3,000 likes is somebody saying, Robot man out here spitting facts.

So multiple people have been insulting me. So rude. Yeah, now my wife will just say that to me sometimes if I'm droning on. She's like, robot man out here spitting facts. But yeah, so apparently I sound like a robot. But Tony Hinchcliffe remembered he said that to me like five or six years ago. Did he remember that John Mayer was there? Yeah, that was the same one.

But did he remember that? I didn't ask him. It doesn't come up in every conversation. I didn't ask him about John Mayer. Oh oh man i was too too heated about the robot and so and so yeah it's like a a burn that just kept going it turned into a whole blaze this uh now your wife is burning you but it's weird because i kind of am a robot with the hearing aid do you know what i mean like i'm like kind of. Yeah, you're a cyborg. So it's like, they're not even wrong. Yeah.

I am kind of a robot. But you're not a robot. You're a cyborg. That's, a robot's a robot. Yeah, thank you. And droids are droids. I needed to hear that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Hi, this is Lori Kilmartin. And I'm Jackie Kachin. And we have a podcast called The Jackie and Lori Show on MaxFun. And it's very exciting because what do we talk about? Comedy. Stand-up comedy. We both do stand-up comedy and have since the dawn of Christ.

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The Jackie and Laurie show. New episodes Monday. Only on MaximumFun.org The Jackie and Laurie show. The Jackie and Laurie show. Overheard. Overheard's a segment where we all share something that we've seen or heard or experienced either to us or around us. And we always like to start with the guest. DJ, do you have something?

And he always says, you know, I don't hear a lot of things yeah guys yeah i got it and where do you hear anything ever i under here very often but uh i saw something at the airport i didn't hear beautiful but i caught the vibe this guy was in front of me in the line and he was so rude to the like the initial line of like security before you go through the scanners the x-ray and everything like he didn't give the woman his passport and she was like calling after him and he like turned around and like flashed his passport at her from like 10 feet away where there's no way she could see it clearly and she was like whatever and she let him go and like rolled her eyes at me and i'm like wow you can be that rude to these people and then when we actually went through the like when we put our stuff in the trays and went through, the person was trying to talk to him about, do you have your belt off?

And he like brushed him off. I couldn't hear what he said, but it was like basically like, fuck off. Really? And he was so rude to both of them. And that guy in the x-ray line rolled his eyes at me too, but neither of them did anything to him. And my whole life, I'm like, I'm always nice to those people because I'm not taking any chance. I'm like, and he didn't look like

particularly rich or anything because I was like, oh, maybe if I saw that, I would think it's probably somebody who has an air of like authority about them where somehow they, you know, bully people into some feeling

of inferiority or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like me with Graham. Regular guy. Just being a dick and paid no consequences for it at all. Oh, that's a bummer. And I hated him, but I was also very, like, jealous of him. I'm like, damn, this dude doesn't care about...

Yeah. This is the area of the airport where you're like, I just got to make it through. Yeah. I don't want anything stopping me. And I also assume that they have the power to not let you through security. Yeah, that's it.

Yeah. Well, like, I'm not generally anything stopping me. And I also assume that they have the power to not let you through security. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Well, like, I'm, like, I'm not generally rude to people. It's not like I get through security and then I'm mean to everyone. Yeah, go to the Tim Hortons. Yeah, exactly. But, yeah, like, I'm extra obedient. Yeah. Yeah.

And, like, but it's also funny if you go through security where, when there's nobody there, like first thing in the morning or whatever, you get that there's, that all of it's theater. Like they're like, no, you don't have to take your laptop out. You don't just put it through the X-ray machine. You don't have to take your belt off. That's just something we say. Yeah. Yeah. I was at the airport in Edmonton last week and there was a very elderly woman 90 95 like super elderly and her daughter

was pushing her in a wheelchair and the security there made the old woman get up out of her chair take her coda they patted her down her daughter was furious oh yeah she was so it took like she was very frail and and really or was she faking yeah exactly well i mean that was my thought too where i was like this is terrible that they're doing this but i'm like that is a perfect drug mule yeah they're like that's true yeah like but she uh i couldn't believe they made it and there was no one the reason i thought of this because there was no one around it was just us so they were just like that let's just do this yeah we got time it was devastating i felt so bad for her and her daughter but you know it's weird psychologically i felt so bad for her and her daughter. But you know what's weird?

Psychologically, I felt really bad for them. And then the daughter started getting really worked up. And then the more worked up the daughter got, the less empathy I had for her. Yeah, you switch sides. Even though she had every right in the world to be worked up. The more worked up she got, I was like, okay, calm down. They're just doing their job. Yeah, exactly.

These people don't make the policy. Yeah. Yeah. She was right, but it's weird. You want them to just hit that sweet spot of like,

just enough like, anger where you're still empathizing with them, but not so much that. My favorite thing in that circumstance is where somebody will turn around

and like, try to rope you in by going like, right? Right? And you're like, you're with me, beardo.

I'm Switzerland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I don't I was with you for a second there like a chocolate then you started using all these slurs

talking about how you're queer for weir now I'm not on your side anymore but I'm gayer for meir you're bogarting all my empathy she said

why you no help me it was white Dave do you have an overheard yeah mine is from She said, why you no help me? It was white. Dave, do you have one overheard? Yeah, mine is from my daughter. Which one? Which one? Poppy.

Okay. Poppy is seven at the time of this. Oh, six at the time of this recording. Seven at the time of this release. Yeah. She's going through the change. When every six-year-old becomes a seven-year-old um and she so we were watching it was like i was up before them and i was like i'm gonna start watching um christmas vacation and then they came down one minute later and i was like oh darn it i'm i'm not gonna watch christmas vacation

at seven in the morning with my two kids yeah but i did watch the first scene where they're driving out to to cut down a tree and they're on the highway and uh the griswolds that is and they're getting um uh they're like you know there's another truck on the road and they're like racing them and then uh the chevy chase pulls the car changes lanes and ends up underneath like uh an 18 wheeler oh yeah yeah yeah like hauling logs like a logging truck and the car is getting filthy and they pull out and they uh they're like about to hit a snow cat and they drive off the road and go flying through the snow and knock down the sign for christmas trees and uh the car is filthy and and um uh poppy goes christ almighty

and i was like, what? I started freaking out. I was like, that's not something we say in this house. Where did you hear that? Like, like I get that. That was a crazy thing that happened,

but like Christ almighty is what you said. And then I'm hanging out with a lot of older ladies. I'm freaking out. I look at, I'm like, where did you, who taught you that? And then she said,

I said, the car's all muddy. We're not a car's all muddy house. We don't learn that here. Oh, yeah. No, you're right. The car is all muddy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The car is all muddy. Christ, you're right.

I feel like an idiot. Yeah. Oh, boy. I got to watch that movie. I feel like I'm going to watch that movie this week. It slaps. It's bomb. Yeah. Oh boy. I gotta watch that movie. I feel like I'm gonna watch that movie this week. It slaps. It's bomb.

Yeah. It's, it's, it holds up. Do you have a Christmas movie you watch every year? Or you're just like whatever.

Oh my god. My family's like weird where our cultural references were all thrown off. We would watch this movie called One Magic Christmas.

I think it was like a Hallmark movie or something. Like we never watched Christmas Vacation. We weren't watching the ones that you think of. One Magic Christmas. I think it was like a Hallmark movie or something. Like we never watched Christmas Vacation. We weren't watching the ones that you think of. One Magic Christmas is like a husband dies at the beginning

and his ghost comes back and is with the wife and I think the daughter for the rest of it. But it's like a dark, low budget, bad movie, I think. But that was our Christmas movie, One Magic Christmas. Wow. Wow. Do you have it like on a vhs i think we did yeah or we watched it on tv i don't remember how oh yeah well yeah one

magic christmas is on tv every year it's always on you can't escape one magic christmas um apparently i don't know if this is like everybody knows this but the reason it's a wonderful life is so popular is because they never, uh, they gave away the, like, uh, the rights that the TV stations would have to pay to run a program. So every TV station played it because they were like, oh, this is free, free content. So that's how it became like everybody's seen that movie. Oh, wow. It's kind of like a big flop. Yeah. It was Frank Capra. Yeah. Yeah. Um, wow. It's kind of like... Apparently it was a big flop. Yeah.

Was Frank Capra? Yeah. Yeah. You know Frank Capra? Yeah. From... It's a wonderful life of Jimmy Stewart, right? Jimmy Stewart, yeah.

Frank Capra is the director? Yeah. Okay. And... What else did he do? The Equalizer? Yeah, he did The Equalizer 3, which is your favorite of the... 92%

Rotten Tomatoes You can't argue with it 92% Frank Capra wishes He did The Equalizer 3 Frank Capra Director of It's a Wonderful Life

It Happened One Night Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Oh yeah Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Mr. Deeds Goes to Town So basically Mr. Deeds Mr. Deeds Goes Down

On Mr. Smith Jimmy Stewart was his muse He was his Leo DiCaprio. Yes. Yeah. That's so funny that you think Leo DiCaprio is Scorsese's muse. Oh, yeah. He's been in six movies with him now.

Holy shit. Name them. I think he's equal to De Niro. Oh, I'll name them. Don't get me started. DiCaprio is my John Mayer, if we're talking about that. Oh, for movies, okay. Although I think more people probably like DiCaprio than people like Mare.

I think it's a less conventional thing. Yes, they do. I can tell you that right now. Well, let's not diminish John Mayer's popularity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's not keep the shine off.

That's true. I mean, hundreds of millions of people enjoy John Mayer. Let's get that out of the way. The Aviator. Yeah. Catch Me If You Can. No, that's Spielberg.

That was Spielberg. Oh, okay. Really? Wow, fuck. I love that movie so much. I didn't No that's Spielberg Oh okay Really wow fuck I love that movie so much I didn't realize it was Spielberg Okay so Catch Me If You Can It's the last one where he was boyish Yeah Oh maybe he's a little boyish in

Gangs of New York Yeah he was Gangs of New York, Shutter Island The Aviator The new one Killers of the Flower I can't wait to see that I want it to be broken up into 18

You can't wait You have waited I don't go see movies I just don't have time Who needs to sleep in a theater Wolf of Wall Street And The one that just came Wall Street, and the one that just came out.

Killers of the Flower Moon. Before Killers of the Flower Moon, they just did one. Oh. What did he do before that? I don't know. There's another one. They're at six together now.

He wasn't in The Irishman. Oh, he did the, oh no, he wasn't in The Irishman. It was Catch Me If You Can. I think, yeah, we'll give you that one. Did you guys like wasn't in the Irishman. It was Catch Me If You Can. I think... Yeah, yeah. We'll give you that one.

Did you guys like Don't Look Up? I know that's not Scorsese. I didn't see it. No, that was Adam McKay. Yeah. I don't love Adam McKay, to be honest with you. I mean, I loved when he was just doing straight up comedy, but I don't even love the big short.

Oh, really? I really like the big short. Yeah? I didn't get the big short. Too confusing for me. I was like, what are they doing here? Margot Robbie explained it In the bathtub Yeah yeah

In the bathtub Hello I was a little confused I was a little Distracted by Her beauty Boy Oh yeah

What one did we miss? The Departed The Departed Right Of course One of the best Love The Departed My overheard

Comes courtesy of I was doing some holiday shopping today. What'd you get me? It's something lacy. I was thinking about, um, uh, the like, uh, national lampoons Christmas vacation. And I was like, what in that movie would be inappropriate for kids? Cause I started watching dumb and dumber with one of my daughters and I was like, what in that movie would be inappropriate for kids? Because I started watching Dumb and Dumber with one of my daughters.

And I was like, it's pretty okay. Except when Cam Neely, when Seabass encounters him in the middle of the night in the bathroom stall. But is it just the fantasies about the lady from the store? Yeah. That would be inappropriate? Because he says it's nipply outside. Yeah, but that's store. Yeah. That would be inappropriate. Because he says it's nipply outside. That's funny. Yeah.

Oh, no. I mean, it's all funny. I have an interesting perspective on that because we're going through CBC on this TV show and getting notes from them and they're pushing back on stuff and they've been really great. So it's an ongoing conversation.

You got to bend over every time they push back. No, honestly, I haven't had, I was prepared to like have to make some concessions that were going to keep me up at night. Like, no, you gotta bend over every time they push back. No, honestly, I haven't had, I was prepared to like have to make some concessions that were going to keep me up at night. Like, no, that was so funny, but they've been really great. But then every once in a while

a moment comes along where they're like, this one's really sexual or like really out there from the normal tone of the show. This might alienate some people. But then you go, but yeah, this is the moment.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you don't have this then you just never have those moments. Yeah. So like, you're like, moment like if you don't have this then you just never have those moments so like you're like okay if we get rid of this

then kids can watch it but do I want kids to watch this I think this one moment might be worth it and a lot of kids

need to fucking grow up yeah they gotta grow up I don't want to make seven year olds laugh anyway like I want parents

to feel uncomfortable if their kid's in the room yeah it's kind of eyes wide shut but it's in a secondhand sports good store like you can probably watch most of there's something about mary i don't remember well but then once you see the cum hanging but a kid wouldn't know what the hell that was they would just think that she put weird gel in her yeah something like

that well no but the scene before all about yes the weird part of that is his pants are on so fast afterwards his pants are on like he's got a short refractory period but that has nothing to do with it anyway you had an overheard i did and it was a guy uh talking this you know like talking with this phone not by his head just yelling into a speaker. And I didn't hear what the guy on the speaker said. But he said, and then I said, fuck that. I made more than that at Earl's. Which I was like, Earl's, it probably pays quite well.

Probably good tips at the Earl's. How old was this guy? He was probably in his 30s. Yeah. Oh, boy. I remember my years at Earl's. I feel like Earl's The people who work there

Probably It's probably a party Oh yeah Oh they're all fucking Yeah Oh yeah Fucking and sucking Nipply weather

And that's what I I mean every party I have Ends with fucking Because when you say It's a party Yeah It's not a party

Until people start fucking I guess If it was going to be That kind of party i would have put my dick in the mashed potato what is that from is that from a beastie boys song it's a beastie boys um like a sample from like a red fox record or something that's pretty good uh now we also have overheard sent into us from people all over the world. If you want to send it to us, you can send it in to sby at maximumfund.org. This is

from Markham, from Davis High, a high school, home of the darks. Markham is the person? Markham is the person. Is it Markham? No, Markham. I hardly know. Markham with an H. Yes. Oh, sorry. Yes, Markham. Yes.

Like Markham. Yes, exactly. That's what the. Yes. Like Mark Hamill. Yes, exactly. That's what the city of Markham is named after. Really? After Markham? Markham Ontario. This overseen is from my high school history class. I was just correcting an online test I gave my students. I asked them to name some of the differences between the Catholic Church and the

Eastern Orthodox Church. One of my students wrote, Catholic Mass was in Latin and Orthodox is in Greek. Also, Catholics believe in the plop and Orthodox don't. Which they were trying to say Pope, but they believe in the plop.

That's such a weird question. Tell me some differences between the Catholic Church and a donut. Well, Catholics believe in the church. Yeah, in the church. All hail the plot. Did they not say

all hail the plot? Did the Orthodox start like Christian and deviate? Was it like a Martin Luther type situation? I don't know where the Orthodox deal is. Me neither.

I just know that they're Christmas because my friend's Ukrainian and he was Orthodox. Nice to meet you. Christmas is my birthday, January 7th. Good to meet you. I'm born on the same day as Jesus. Just so you know was, uh, Orthodox. Nice to meet you. Christmas is my birthday, January 7th. Good to meet you.

I'm born on the same day as Jesus. Just so you know, your friend is Ukrainian right in front of you. Is Shumka Ukrainian? Hell yeah, man. Are you Eastern Orthodox too? No way. Wow. He doesn't even want his kids saying Christ almighty.

Yeah. Um, uh, yeah. Oh boy. I wish I could tell you anything about the Orthodox church. Who is it? I mean, there's the Latvian Orthodox episode of Seinfeld. Sure.

There's the Greek Orthodox church where I was a Weezer concert once. Oh yeah. Yeah. Um, and then that's about it. That's it. That's the roundup. There was maybe a Russian Orthodox church across the street from my old house.

Okay. A tiny, tiny little church. I remember that. Tiny little church. This next one comes from Jenny from Vancouver. I overheard this walking by BC Place on the night of Christine Sinclair's last game, where a big portion of the crowd was young girls. Two teenage girls in front of me were just walking and chatting.

Then suddenly, girl one says, ew, did you just call me? Girl two, no, no, no, it was a butt dial. I didn't mean to. Yeah. Ew, gross. me were just walking and chatting then suddenly girl one says ew did you just call me girl two no no no it was a butt dial i didn't mean to yeah ew gross i'm glad yeah that's that's it now no but i i do see young people talking on the phone yeah like in public on on airpods because i feel like the older generation love phone calls. My generation not like phone calls. But when I see people out there, or they're just talking to themselves. Maybe they're having a mental break. I was talking to a journalist in Whitehorse two days ago.

And the day before we were talking, we were texting. And she said, okay, so I'll call you at 2 p.m. tomorrow. I said, great, talk to you then and then at 2 p.m that day she texted me and said can i call you now yeah i'm like yeah we established this yesterday oh yeah but you know did you were you just finishing up powdering your nose or something like that yeah were you but it was just a phone call yeah i know but i feel like like they're saying in this, my generation, just like phone call is, I used to love it when I was a teenager. I'd talk on the phone for hours and hours.

Oh, yeah. But now if I have to do a call, it's hanging over me the whole day. If it's someone, I don't know. I feel like there's a lot of confirming and reconfirming. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But you know what? Maybe I'll come back around. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah, but you know what?

Maybe I'll come back around. We'll see. Um, this, uh, last one comes from Andy from Brooklyn. I was walking downtown on fifth Avenue in Manhattan and just strolled next to the family. Whose intergenerational spite was exquisite.

Older parents walking behind a middle-aged son, all dressed in formal black tie, going to some event. The dad was fiddling with his shirt buttons, and the son says to him without turning around, just spend the $800 and get a new tuxedo. The dad said, a tuxedo cost $2,000 40

years ago. Son, well, this one's not going to be a long-term investment. So, yeah, I don't know how much a tuxedo costs. I mean, I think there's a wide span, but I don't think. I mean, you got to be going to a lot of black tie event to buy a tuxedo. That's true. Yeah.

I've never considered buying a tuxedo. But the renting, the rental ones are bad. But like, so I have a dinner jacket that I bought secondhand, and it was like, oh, I can use this if I go to... Like a nice restaurant. I've worn it to like two New Year's Eves and not touched it in 10 years. Yeah, yeah. There was when I went to go to LA for a little trip

and walked into a tuxedo rental place, and I was talking to the owner she's very sweet lady was just chatting with her i was like oh yeah this time of year must be like a really busy time she's like yeah and i was like because like graduations and things like that and she's like yeah graduations the emmys the oscars the golden globes but the ones they're? Like just a small town Rube like. Oh yeah. That's a. Prom. Yeah. Wait. But.

Graduations wouldn't be the same time of year as the Oscars. But what the. What was another thing I got wrong I guess. The stuff they're renting like in a Hollywood tuxedo place isn't the

like stuff that they're renting here. No. They gotta be renting like nicer yeah yeah um what would you wear to the oscars would you go full tux or would you try to like look weird who's dressing me yeah whoever you want i want the same people that do lizzo give me a lizzo that's what i would yeah yeah why would you she's another person like fallon where a bunch of bad stuff came out about her too.

Oh, she's mean to her dancers or something? Something about a banana, something. Yeah, there's some food-related thing at a strip club or something. Oh, God. Not you too, Desi. I feel like you have to be so plugged in to hate celebrities.

To be mad at the celebrities. In addition to overhears that are written in, we also accept your phone calls. If you would like to call us, our phone number is 1-844-779-7631. That's one. Ugh.

Spy pod one, like these people have. Hi. A 13-year-old just got out of the shower and I heard him say, oh, that's a good time to be down in the shower.

636. That was it. That's all he's done. Well, off I go. Like 636 is a preferred time to come out in the shower 6 36 that was it that's all he's done well like 6 36 is a preferred time to come out i wonder like you know like when you see it's one two three four on the clock and you're like yeah cool 6 36 we're talking are we talking evening or morning you know 6 36 that's an early shower you're going somewhere you got up to take care you maybe you got a dog. Also, you're a 13-year-old taking a shower at 636 in the evening. Yeah, what the hell's going on there?

Hi, Mom and Dad. I'll be in the shower. And just, you know what? No one thinks you're doing anything. Yeah, illegal or anything like that. So just say something totally casual when you come out of the shower. Oh, six 36. That was a good time.

Oh boy. Um, do you guys have, uh, do we, do you notice numbers around? Like I noticed one, like when it's one,

one, one, one, like, uh, I noticed that I also will try to think of other ones that like, like if it's seven, six, no, I have it set to like army time or whatever.

Cause then you can see like 22, 22. Yeah. That's a good one. Cause it's not as common as 11, 11. You gotta have it set to that. Half as common. But yeah, um,

uh, you, uh, time that you're looking out for? Not time, but like there's, so the way that the parking meters work in Vancouver is every parking spot in the city has a five digit code. And you can,

uh, if you have an app on your phone, you can pay through the app. And like, i'm always like reminding myself like you know but between looking at the code and typing it into my phone i'm always like 53026 53026 53026 and i'm like oh this is a perfect number this number is unforgettable like 83332 like well what i really lucked out with this number i can the one thing i can do is if i go to like hotels i can always remember my room number i don't ever need that little

thing that you put the key in i always even if it's like multiple days in a row put it in the key in that thing because then if they lose it, then someone will know. Yeah. I hate even when I'm checking in and they say out loud what room I'm in. Like, oh,

we got you in room 424. I'm like, would you shut up? Yeah, man. My stalker's right over there. Hi. My phone's filled with pictures

of hotel room numbers. I take a picture of everyone so I, because I'm afraid I'm going to come back and not know what room I'm in. That's the only time I can remember numbers, though.

That's like my one gift. Yeah, my one gift. All right, here's your next phone call. Hi, Dave and Graham. So my Star Market is 935 at night, and this car full of bros, maybe five bros, get out of their car, and they start walking in,

and the one bro who is wearing a Santa hat says, Okay, so I need tortilla chips and female condoms, and I just thought that was really funny. The female condom. Wow. Do they still sell it? I don't know, but I remember a woman on the Just for Laughs,

you know, reruns they would play on CBC or Comedy Network, and she did a whole bit about it where she opened one up and then showed how it, like, what it looked like. It was hilarious. I remember when we were learning about safe sex and i they showed us the female condom and they were like you're not gonna need to they singled me out they were like dave you'll need to never

need to know any of this but they were like yes there's like because kids have questions i'm like what about the female condom? Okay. Well, that's something that's new. Yeah. And we're not sure that you can buy it, but it's very expensive. It's probably, you're probably better just get a male condom. Yeah. And it's, uh, that it's that or the foam.

That was the other one where it was like the foam. Yeah. There's like spermicidal foam. Oh yeah. Yeah. Which I only ever heard about in sex ed class. I've never seen it. I remember the,

like, cause if you buy condoms with spermicide in them. Yeah. I remember like, I remember the chemical. Uh, what is it? Cause when we did sex ed,

this was maybe college sex ed, which was like, you know, if you lived on campus, they did a week of like, uh, here's how everything works. Here's how everything works. There's a,

grab a condom, leave a condom. Is a female condom a dental dam? No. I remember Patrice O'Neill talking about that in one of his bits, and I still don't know what that is. It's, I think,

have you ever had dental work? Yeah. Have you ever had where they put like a rubber thing over your mouth? I don't think so. Because like a dental dam is something they actually use in dentistry. Yeah. But you can make your own out of a condom. Or an old balloon, you know, you could do whatever.

But no one does. But the guy who was giving the sex talk was like, oh yeah. So sperm is idle. The spermicide that they put on condoms is called Ninoxanil nine. It'll kill sperm. It's the same stuff they use to clean subway cars in New York city. Shit.

Uh, wow. Okay. Gross. In my body. All right. Here's your final phone call. Hello, Dave Graham.

Lovely guest, I'm sure. This is Scott calling from St. Louis. I got overheard of the kids say the darnedest variety. My daughters have got a friend over, and they're playing downstairs as I'm making dinner. Variety. My daughters have got a friend over and they're playing downstairs as I'm making dinner. And I hear one of them pipe up and say, oh, my God, you guys, I just got it. You'll never believe it. Merry Rizmas.

Anyway, off I go. I've got a new thing. I've got a cool thing. Everybody, everybody. Yeah. You're really putting yourself out there when you're telling people how cool it is. Yeah. Are you Riz'd up? Yeah. I don't putting yourself out there when you're telling people how cool it is. Yeah. Are you rizzed up?

Yeah. I don't think so, no. Do you have rizz? Yeah. I think, no. I mean, I think once you hit a certain age a second, you use the word rizz, you don't have rizz. Yeah. That's a cat 22 you find yourself in. I've been using it my whole life.

And you've been raising both of your daughters in a Riz household. Yeah. We're a very Riz, we're Orthodox Riz. Orthodox Riz. Yeah. Well, that brings us to the end of the episode. Yes. Oh, fine.

DJ, so excited to watch your show when it comes out. Does it come out on television and online at the same date yep okay january 9th 9 p.m so if you're at home i mean cbc cbc or cbc jam yeah and uh oh i'm so excited that's so great thank you i was excited to come hang out with you guys thanks for having me yeah thanks for coming i think this might be the fourth time but i told you guys before we started, but when I announced that the show's coming out, several people were like, are you going on Stop Podcasting

yourself to talk about it? They were more excited about that idea than the show itself. But maybe now they'll check out the show, now that they've gotten to know you a little bit. Yeah. I hope so, but yeah, thank you very much for having me. It's been a pleasure. Do you want to know how many times it's been? Yeah. At least five.

I mean, two online, two on Zoom. Then this one, that's three. And then, and my just five times. Nice. Welcome to the five times club. Thank you. And then once in 2017 and then

once in 2016 and once in 2015. So this is the sixth. Sixth time. in 2017 and then once in 2016 and once in 2015. Really? So this is the sixth. Sixth time! Wow! Nice! That's great. Well, thanks for coming back.

Thank you. I appreciate it, guys. Always a pleasure. You're the Demers who's been here the most. That's true. Who is it? No, not even close.

Charlie's been here forever and ever. Well, thank you and thank you everybody out there. This is a, you know, brand new year, brand new you. Get out there. Get that a brand new year, brand new you.

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