Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 825 - Nancy Robertson

Episode Date: January 9, 2024

Actress Nancy Robertson returns to talk old actor deaths, Wonka, and civil internet discourse.

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 825 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who I love. One of the things I love most about him is that he's figured out the indoor-outdoor shoe conundrum by wearing a nice pair of clogs. Mr. Dave Shumka.

Yeah, this is a Birkenstock Boston. It's the mule.'s the birkenstock mule it's got like it looks like a muppet and this is the one i have it gets very dirty i have to clean it uh but it's lightweight because it's got that felt top yeah yeah and i'm just for the asmr listeners out here i'm just gonna rub that felt top yeah yeah yeah yeah uh they're orange in case you're trying to picture it in your mind. Yeah, yeah, they're orange. And yeah, I'm just, I will not step outside in them. No, that's completely, that makes sense. It's like slippers. Literally, I used to, I don't want to get, I don't want to, I didn't expect to get emotional today.

Aw. I didn't expect to get emotional today. Aw. But I used to wear slippers, but they weren't strong enough. Because what I need this for is I need to sometimes, when you have an empty dozen egg container, you need to crush it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I used to wear slippers. Sounds like an old country song. I used to wear slippers, but now I wear boots. Aw. Yeah. And all my exes live in Texas. country song. I used to wear slippers, but now I wear boots. Yeah. And all my exes live in Texas. That voice you hear is our guest for today, returning guest to the podcast, the oh so funny, so glad to have her here, Nancy Robertson. Hello. Hello.

Thanks for having me. Thanks for being here. This is so much fun. It is, and it feels very Christmassy and festive. It is. It is january 8th i know so i kind of blew it i kind of blew it no people understand yeah we're not robots we get a vacation yeah um and why can't the christmas spirit last until january 8th have you been feeling the christmas spirit this year no no i'm not it'm not either. Not particularly. It's very warm.

Yep. The fact that my kid's school goes until the 22nd, it's like we don't get any time off before Christmas. Yes. Like we're not having, it's not holly, it's not jolly. Yeah. That last week before Christmas, do you remember when you were in school? Oh my God. Just like absolute killing time.

Torture. It was like watching the clock tick second to second. Before Christmas. Do you remember when you were in school? Oh, my God. Just like absolute killing time. Torture. It was like watching the clock tick second to second. And how about trying to sleep on Christmas Eve? No. I thought my parents were insane. And sleeping in on Christmas morning? Like, what are you?

I remember waking up at 5 a.m. once because I knew I was getting an Easy-Bake Oven. Oh, really? Yeah. And my granny and granddad were staying over and my granny got up who i thought loved me yeah she was like get back into bed like she snapped at me for the first and only time wow i know and then i went back to bed and this is turning sad and uh i cried a little bit yeah yeah um i uh was the same way but that last week of school, I loved it. Oh, yeah?

Because it's like, there's like, you know, you're watching a movie. Maybe there's a Christmas concert. Oh, yeah. Yeah. There was always a teacher that went too hard. You know, like a teacher who was like, we're going to learn up to the last second. Like, no videos, no nothing. We book report due on the last day before Christmas.

Yep. Did you guys, were you guys in the choir? Did you sing anything? Let me answer that with a song. No. Well, no, well, no, well. Okay, moving on. Do we want to get to know us?

Yes. Get to know us yes now i remember on this podcast talking about a thing that i thought was universal but it turns out it was only my school that did it is uh in elementary school when i was a kid you could show up a little bit early in the day and everybody and we'd go in the gym and sing christmas carols oh and it was like really like you woke up excited for it like i'm gonna go half an hour early and sing christmas carols and i thought that was universal i thought everybody did that no no i've never met another person in high school i remember there was like a it was that last week was really loose and you could go line dance in the gym we did that we did that really yeah until like achy breaky Christmas or whatever.

No, that was after me, achy breaky. But yeah, no, we did the same thing at Christmas. Where did you grow up, Nancy? I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oh, where'd you go to school? I went to Carousel Elementary and Point Grey. Nice. Secondary. Nice.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And you have two siblings. Did they also go to the same schools? They did. Okay. Yeah.

Were you in the same schools at the same time? Yes. I came in last. Okay. Even though you're the oldest. I'm the youngest. I know. Oh, my God.

Brutal. Yeah. You really stepped in it. I really did. No, i was the youngest and um yeah you know i mean it was it was it grew up in a neighborhood that had more money than we did right but um but yeah you know i loved elementary school better than high school yeah what's not to love about it yeah nothing matters nothing i think i liked elementary school up until the multiplication tables and then i was like this stinks this stinks i don't

like this anymore yeah and i remember the teacher saying it's not like in the future you're going to be able to carry a calculator around your pocket and i was like and i feel like it will i feel like that and now you're calculating stuff all the time did Did they try phonics on you? No. They got me hooked on them. Yeah, they hooked on phonics. They did. They tried phonics on us. What is that?

One of my kids, I think, has a phonics-based teacher. Well, I think it's basically sounding out. I don't quite remember, but I always remember my mom. Up until basically she passed away, every time we'd say something that she didn't agree with, she would always say, They should never push you through phonics. She blamed everything

on phonics, on my brother and I, because my sister just missed it. Right. And Doug and I got into it, but yeah.

So Margo's in grade four and she's learning, as part of math, they're doing estimation. Estimation. Get the phonics right. Yeah, they're estimating. And I was like,

because I help her with her math sometimes and it's like, I'll see stuff and I'm like, oh yeah, you need to learn this so you can learn this and this and then this will lead to this. But estimating stuff, what you learn in grade four, you'll use that for the rest of your life. You never need, they'll never build on that.

Yeah. It's like 75. That's like 80 centimeters. Oh, I know. Yeah. Although that five one, you can either round up or down. But they always told me to round up. My dad was very good at math to the point that if you're not a teacher, then it's hard to explain a thing that comes like second nature to you.

Like he was very good. He could solve the problems. No, no problem. But it was the explaining. And I was like, maybe you could just do me a solid, dad. What did he do for a living? He was a geologist. Now retired.

Right. No, I met him. That's right. Yes, I did. I met your folks and they're lovely. Graham, do you think since your dad was so good at math, is that why your comedy is lowest common denominator? No, it's why my comedy is by the numbers. Nancy, it's so nice to have you here.

It's so nice to meet you. It's so nice to have you here. It's so nice to meet you. It's so nice to meet you both as well. Now, Nancy, you were a guest that we had to cancel a few weeks ago because you showed up. We didn't have to cancel you because of this, but we've had guests show up early before. Was I a week early? No, you were 24 hours early. And you knocked on the door and you said, let me in. Let me in, you son of a bitch.

We're doing this now or never. I slept overnight in the car to make sure I'd be on time. Are you a very punctual person in general? I kind of am. I have a thing about if people are, like, if a couple of minutes late, that's fine. Sure. But if it's people that let you wait like half an hour or, or something, then I get kind of irritated by that. I will never wait that long.

Half an hour? See, I learned not to, but I used to wait. For like forever? And then I felt like an idiot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, my cutoff is about 20. Like then I felt like an idiot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

No, my cutoff is about 20. And that's at the high end. Yeah. That's like, I really need this person to show up. But, yeah, do you ever find, like, if somebody meets you that shows up late, then you have to hear the story of why they're late? Yeah. And it's like, so now that doubles up. Yeah.

Now I get it. Now I get it. There's more time lost. Exactly. Yeah. I had a thing where I was meeting a friend for coffee. And I guess, once again, I was a week early on that one. Okay.

So I was sitting in the coffee shop. And you could tell I was waiting for somebody because I hadn't ordered anything. And I kept looking at my phone at the time and everything. And then I thought, I bet you they think I'm on like some kind of a senior's dating app and I'm waiting for a date. And I thought, oh God, they're looking at me with pity like, oh, the lonely old broad is waiting for someone. Just keeps looking at the door.

And he saw us through the window and kept walking. But you were, so you were a day early. know yeah i was a day early with you with me you um and we were i was i tried to track graham down to see if we could do it uh then and there uh but then you said no no i'll come back tomorrow and then the that day i got strep throat yeah i wondered if it was covid you got strep throat well i had I wondered if it was COVID. You got strep throat. Well, I had had COVID. We've been through, we've had it all here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But, and now you're back. I am back. Yeah. And it's nice, it's a nice week of working out. This is perfect. Mm-hmm.

And I was just thinking, I had an online argument about, I was just thinking about your clogs. You're something of a troll. I'm kind of a Bill Maher of the internet. Oh God. But I got in a debate I think probably with an American person about

socks and shoes in the house. And the Americans are hardline. They are shoes in the house folks. Right. What's your take? Shoes in the house? Socks in the house? What do you do? Well when I? Shoes on the house? Socks on the house? What do you do? Well, when I'm at my own home?

Or when somebody comes to visit? Oh, I don't care either way. Okay. Yeah, but for me, when I'm at home, I'm socks. Yeah. And pajamas.

It doesn't even really matter what time of day it is. Nice. Yeah. I dress for dinner at like, I don't know, 1 p.m. The,

I was watching Home Alone. Yeah. What's that about? It's about, you know what really struck me this time is how good an actor he is considering he's alone in every scene. Yeah. I think he was alone in life, though. I think he was.

He was able to extract. Yes. Yeah. I think he was alone in life, though. I think he was. He was able to extract. Yes. Yeah. I think he was a little baby working bee. Yeah. He was, and he's the best that ever did it. But he, everyone in that, they're all having dinner the night before they leave, and they're all wearing shoes in the house. Yeah.

And his shoes are so big, and sneakers are so big on him. I watched the other night Home Alone 2. Oh. And Home Alone 2 really just rehashes Home Alone 1, but in New York City. I haven't seen it. Have you ever seen it? Yes, I have. Trump makes a cameo.

He does. That's right. Trump tells him which way to go in his hotel. Yeah. And the whole thing, like the whole Marv and, who's the other guy? Marv and. Harry? the whole Marv and who's the other guy? Marv and Harry. Yeah. Marv and Harry.

That whole thing happens at like an abandoned construction site. It's very like dark and weird. Why are they all in New York at the same time? These three Chicagoans. Exactly. Exactly. They don't do a lick of trying to like Kevin gets on a wrong flight. They do it again.

Everything, everything that happens. That's another thing. Wouldn't you learn from the first go around? But yeah, they didn't. And it was, they were really stretching on the,

cause they're running, they're running through the airport. They're late, which I think happens in the first one as well. And, uh, they forgot him again. They do so many things that they unnecessarily

like to show like so you don't have to suspend your disbelief that they've forgotten their kid. I didn't notice until I watched it this time but they were like alright so they make the plan alright just grab whatever seat you can because I guess they want the viewers to be like if the kids

are in random seats they won't notice that Kevin's missing. Yeah because the parents are in random seats they won't notice that kevin's missing yeah because the parents were in business class yeah but meanwhile i'm embarrassing myself because and they were in rose seats but meanwhile you never see the kids in economy so it's not like that's true yeah and then they deserve to lose him for life yeah and he deserves to be out on his own he doesn't need them he doesn't. Yeah. And it's the main foil until Marv and Harry show up is Tim Curry

as a concierge. Yes. Yep. And Rob Schneider is in it as a bellhop. Yes, I remember thinking. And the British actress who played the bird lady,

the pigeon lady. Oh, yeah. I forget her name. She looks just like Piers Morgan. She does? The woman? Oh, she'd love to hear that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Either would be flattered. And there's now Home Alone 4? I mean, what's next? No, there's not. Home Alone 5? They kept making them long after everybody. Without the original people.

Who's the kid? Some kid. Some kid. Yeah. Some kid who just, maybe it was the same kid over and over in the sequels, or it might have been a new kid every time. Oh. But I think they thought the format was what people liked.

But I think it was Macaulay Culkin. Yeah. I think it was Macaulay Culkin. I do. I do. he got a star on the hollywood fuck oh my god flock of fame graham was thinking about pigeons uh yeah but like i was thinking like yeah he he was only in a couple movies he was in tons of movies when i looked at his imdb and all bangers no i think maybe getting even dad was probably the low point.

I remember, what was it? Was it like Spy Hard or some, there was one of those 90s spoof movies and there's a kid

who plays McClucky Cluckin and they're beating him up and they see two guys come and start beating him up and they hit him and they're like,

this is for Home Alone. This is for Home Alone 2. This is for My Girl. This is for My Girl 2. And he goes, I wasn't in My Girl 2. Brutal. Brutal. I only IMD when I'm watching stuff from the Turner Classic movies because I want to see how people died.

Oh, yes. Yeah, because I'm looking at them and going, how old were you when you died? What did you die of? Yeah. And, uh, and that's what I find. It's weird.

Like I'll be watching something and I'll pull up my computer and go, Oh yeah. What are the usual deaths? Oh, a lot of smoking. Like a lot of like, you know, emphysema,

uh, uh, cancers and all that. Like lung cancers and stuff. Um, they're also all pretty big drinkers back in that. Oh yeah. Era.

Yeah. So it was like heavy drink, heavy smoke, you know, pills, pills, pills, pills.

Yeah. Unregulated. You could have ketamine back then and that was fine. Um, yeah. What's the worst of the Holly, the old Hollywood deaths. Natalie Wood is one of the famous. and um uh uh what's oh for god's sake you know um okay this is really happening a lot to me right

now like i'm uh forgetting names yeah you know the oh for god for God's sake. The one I remember, yours will come to you. Okay. But this is what I remember from Frasier. The thin man. The thin man. Carry on. The thin man. Yeah.

Slender man. Yeah. It was the death of DJ Qualls. That was sometimes later. I think he's still alive. The one I'm remembering is an episode of Frasier. They were talking about Lupe Velez. Okay.

Who was going to, wanted to end her life and had an overdose on pills and like staged this beautiful scene where she would be found. But then she had to go to the bathroom and tripped and fell and died with her head in the toilet that might have been there might have been a little poetic license from old frazier is she dead do you see any bubbles? She's just drinking out of the toilet. Like, all three cast members of Rebel Without a Cause. Yeah. All early, early deaths.

Yeah. Natalie Wood, she drowned. Off a boat with her husband and Christopher Walken. That's right. On the boat, yeah. Yeah. So there's still a lot of stuff. The real whodunit. The whodunit on that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. lot of stuff. The real whodunit.

The whodunit on that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. So the thin man, I'm, I'm. Okay. So, um, and, and I can't believe it because he's one of my favorite old timey actors. William Powell. William Powell. William Powell.

His wife. Okay. Now I'm going to forget about her. She was like a blonde bombshell. He had a few wives and, um, she's famous back then too. So if you want to look up his wives, see, mind david you've got your yeah um and um but she died really young of some really weird fever oh okay yeah was it a disco fever it was that's a weird fever to die from especially that era yeah instead of the Foxtrot flu

Patient zero Patient zero Foxtrot Okay Quick facts Uh Spouses Eileen Wilson

No Carol Lombard Yes Lombard That's it That's who it was Familiar name Yeah

She died Of a fever Like a weird fever A weird fever Yeah cause you could You could die of a fever. Like a weird fever. A weird fever. Yeah, because you could die of a fever. Cause of death? Nope, you're wrong.

No, what was it? Carol Lombard, cause of death, plane crash. Oh, no, no, no. That was the other one because I'm sorry. It was because she married,

oh, you know, frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. That's my impersonation. Clark Gable. Clark Gable. So it's the next one. Diana Lewis?

No. How many marriages does this guy have? Are you sure it wasn't Eileen Wilson then? No. I mean, maybe he had some... Jean Harlow. Extra marital. Oh, Jean Harlow was married to Clark Gable?

No, William Powell. Now we're all over the map. If they weren't mentioned in Vogue By Madonna I don't know them Harlow Jean On the cover of a magazine Let's see Jean Harlow Cause of death weird fever you're right

But she was married No her partner was William Powell They didn't use the term back then but they never married love is love yeah whether you're married or not yeah yeah you don't have to bring city hall into it yeah yeah don't soil it city hall it's funny like i feel like if you were married twice and divorced twice, I'd be like, just let's keep going. Let's just keep marrying until we,

maybe we get the right recipe and just five, six, seven, who cares? Five, six, seven kick. Um,

I'm trying to just find, uh, her death. Hmm. It better say weird fever. Oh boy. There's so like the word death appears 22 times in her Wikipedia.

Okay. Jean Harlow. Illness and death. We're going to find this out. Weird fever. Weird fever. Some sort of weird

fever. Harlow had been ill during the previous year with a severe sunburn and influenza. What? Severe sunburn. I guess back then there was no sunblock i don't know sunscreen no um so the flu and a suntan was what yeah did her in uh well when

she did not return to set a concerned gable visited her and later remarked she was severely bloated and he smelled urine on her breath when he kissed her urine on her breath both signs of kidney failure oh wow and he left her what do you mean clark gable was william powell they were together i know but clark gable kissed her i guess was she in a movie with him? No, I don't know. Yeah, she was in the blow to buster. Okay, so if this is Wikipedia. It's too big is the problem.

I just want illness and deathopedia. But it's a kidney thing, apparently. Well, probably started by a weird fever. Yeah, weird fever. Or you develop a weird fever. Because of your kidney. Either way, she died of a weird fever. Yeah, weird fever. Or you develop a weird fever. Yeah, because of it. Because of your kidney. Either way, she died of a weird fever.

Yeah, that's true. I feel like I've been. You got it. I feel like I was transported into my phone, and now that I'm back, I put it down, I'm back in the room with you guys, and what did I miss? Well, we talked about weird fevers.

We talked about, I just said, just keep marrying and marrying until you finally. Did I go along with that? Yeah, you were along with that. You did. And you were in a trance talking about kissing a woman who tasted like urine. Yeah.

I think that's what watermelon sugar is about. Gross. You know, you're a, are you a big movie buff all around or just classic movies? I think I'm a pretty good sized movie person Yeah Your roommate Brent

Yeah He is into like 70s TV shows Yeah and 80s And 80s Like the detective shows Oh yeah he loves the detective shows but i do too so i don't know whether that was us coming together on that or whether he was like that before right but um but i think his favorite uh era of film which kind of isn't mine

was the 80s okay he has a soft spot for 80s. I can totally see it. Yeah. And yours is like? 70s. Okay, but not the 30s. No, not like the 30s. It's comfort to me. When we go out, I always leave Turner Classic Music,

or TCM on the TV for our dog when we go out. Yeah. Because I think it's calming. Yeah. And it's comforting. It's fun to watch those old movies because of the acting. Everybody's yelling. Yeah. Because I think it's calming. Yeah. And it's comforting. It's fun to watch those old movies because of the acting. Everybody's yelling.

How did I know? Because they had such old microphones. So it's like, everybody has to yell. I can't watch anything before, like, 1960. Even mid-60s. Really?

Yeah. It's because of the black and white? I think it might be the black and white, but also like that sort of, that kind of acting aesthetic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like anything set in New York that has exteriors like 60s, 70s, 80s, when it was like grimy. Yeah, that's why the 70s and the, like anything shot in New York was really good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's your favorite movie, Nancy? Oh, for crying out loud. For crying in the beer, Dave. Where does a girl start? Oh. Go by category. Yeah. What's your favorite detective slash thriller?

Detective slash thriller. Oh. Oh. Movie. See, it'll all come to me when I get home yeah of course

we put you on the spot that's unfair truly unfair Dave what's your favorite thriller my favorite detective slash thriller yeah it can be either or

or both maybe seven yeah that's a good one I knew you knew it she was gonna lose her head you knew

you knew that from the get I'm sorry if you haven't seen this. Oh, if you haven't seen it, she says lose your head in terms of your temper. Yeah, yeah. You just get really cranky. I knew that was happening. I knew it.

I don't know why. I went, at the end of this, she's going to have her head lost. Wow. Yeah. Do you think you maybe have the sixth sense like that movie? Yeah, kind of. My favorite thriller? Oh, I liked Serp the sixth sense like that movie? Yeah. Kind of. My favorite thriller. Oh, I liked Serpico.

Mm-hmm. In the 70s. I thought that was really good. And that's Al Pacino with the beard. Yeah. Really good beard. That was Al Pacino before he started yelling. Yes.

Yeah. And who am I to critique any- No, it's fine. Says a girl who's yelling into the microphone no no um

like yeah kind of like the like you said like kind of the gritty oh and um uh the French Connection

ah the French Connection's good yeah except they get away with it at the end oh spoiler I knew but when the whole time I was like those French people

are gonna get away with it you know there was a movie Oh, spoiler. I knew, but the whole time I was like, those French people are going to get away with it. You know, there was a movie that we watched all the time growing up that we really liked, and I don't know anybody that's heard of it, and you guys probably both would have. It's called The Flim Flam Man. I've heard the name of it. Have you? Yeah. We loved that film growing up, and George C. Scott, Henry Morgan, Peter Saracen, who

I always thought was great because he was Canadian. Nice. And when I bring it up, nobody I always thought was great because he was Canadian. Nice. And when I bring it up, nobody remembers it. The Flim Flam Man. The Flim Flam Man. Great name. Yeah. Huh.

Yeah. But I definitely have heard of it. I don't think I've seen it. Wait, was William Powell? No, William Powell was the Thin Than Man. Nice. Thanks. Very nicely done.

I just had to remember his dang name. I've never heard of this guy. Did you hear that his girlfriend died of a weird flu? Yeah, she had to remember his dang name. I've never heard of this guy. Did you hear that his girlfriend died of a weird flu? Yeah, she had a weird flu. Yes. You know what the Grinch died of? His heart enlargement. The Cindy Lou flu.

Oh. Both perfectly valid explanations. The Cindy Lou flu. That's the saddest flu of all yeah yeah cute though yeah um so you're walking around the house in your pajamas with brent yeah um and how many times does brent walk up to you and say hey nance what do you think would win? Oh, the game? In a fight between Spider-Man and Bigfoot. And you're like, I don't know, Bigfoot. And he's like, you're out of your mind. That's dinner talk every night. Every single night.

Yeah, it's either that those kind of questions or hockey stats. Hockey stats, yeah. Yeah, and he always prefaces it with, I know you're not going to listen. And I know you don't want to hear it, but I just need to talk about it. Yeah. Yeah. Just to have to get it off your chest.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm the same when it comes to any sports stats stuff. I'm like, you can talk to me about it. Don't expect me to absorb it or be able to say anything in return. I think they make it up. I think they make up the stats. At this time of year in 1949, the humidity was a lot lower than it is today, which helped the puck go left.

It made it into the net. I will, with my wife, I will do like, I guess, less important statistics, but like the kind of fun ones that are like, they're number 22 and number 33, and they scored their 22nd and 33rd goal on February 23rd. If it's numerology, I feel like I can get her into it. Yeah. That's not going to work. Does Abby respond or does she walk away? Uh-huh. Yeah.

She doesn't even take her headphone out. Yeah, but does it just feel nice to just say it? We're like, yeah, oh, no, I just have to get it out. Yeah. I just got to get it in the world. What, am I going to bore the podcast listeners with it? No, you married me. You have to do this. It was in your mouth.

Do you watch HockeyGram? I watch, like, I'm mostly a highlights guy. I will watch a game. Or highlights for kids. Yeah, I like highlights for kids. I like highlights in my hair. But I will watch a game. I just find myself, if I have two hours to watch something But I will watch a game. I just find myself, if I have two hours to watch something, I'll watch a movie.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Sitting down to watch a game. Like, if everybody else is watching it, I'll watch the game. I enjoy following the flames because they're from my hometown. Yeah. And, you know, every year is a different type of letdown.

But, you know, it's still root, root, root for the home team. But the rest of it, try and even tell me what the stats in baseball are. You can tell me, like, I don't know what a home, like, I know what a home run is, but like. You don't know what they're keeping track of, what else they're. You don't know slugging? I don't know slugging. I don't know when somebody says batting a thousand. I don't know what that means.

No one is. No one bats 1,000. I think stats are fillers. Yeah? I do. I mean. Filling, what are they filling? Dead spots in the program.

Yeah. I agree. I agree. But, like, Dave, you've got a memory for these type of things because we've done a game on the show where I had a random deck of hockey cards and you were able to identify, I can't remember what,

what like, was it the team or something? The number maybe? Yeah, there would, you would give me like, or there would be like a little, there's like a little paragraph about the player that they would put back in

the day. It was like, in his off time, he enjoys fishing. And I'd be like, Hmm, Sylvan Lafave. But like,

is that a, uh, because like, do you go out of your way to memorize stuff or is it just the way that you absorb stats? I guess I just absorbed it cause I was just obsessed and I would read everything. Yeah.

I never read books, but I read the backs of hockey cards. It's fine. Yeah. It's probably easier to do a book club that way. Honestly, they should teach that in school. Instead of phonics. Yeah, exactly.

For my book report, I'm doing the 1989 set of OPG in English and French. Are you a sports person at all? No. Not really. I mean, unless when it counts. It's like if we, it's like say if the Canucks got into the,

the what? The finals. The finals. Yeah. No, I was just going to let you suffer. You're going to hang me out to dry. Then I'll show a little more enthusiasm.

Sure. You know, when I think there's something you know to gain from it like and

but no I'm not like there's no a few weeks ago Prince Harry

dropped the puck at the Canucks game on purpose no he was Mr. Bean dropped the puck and his wife Meghan Mark, was there too. Yeah.

Was it at the Canucks? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice. And what was your reason for that? They are doing a thing called the Invictus Games. Oh, okay. Yes, yes. He's like the guy for that.

And it's going to be happening in Whistler, I think. What is this? It's like a sort of like Olympics for soldiers. I think it is. Former military. Oh. Huh. I've never heard of that before.

I didn't know I was having a Whistler. I don't know if I'm right about that. When I talk like this, it means I don't know. You're not sure? I think I heard a detail, but it wasn't on the back of a hockey card. Yeah. I think I heard a detail, but it wasn't on the back of a hockey card. Yeah, there's like the Commonwealth Games, which I didn't know this existed until I was maybe 14. And they happened in Victoria. Yeah.

That was just the British Commonwealth. Yep. But like, I think every person in it was white, if I recall correctly. I saw my first boxing match ever at the Commonwealth Games. Oh. And the thing is, like, you watch boxing on TV and it's like two really big guys fighting. But when it's two little guys fighting, they really go all out. They really punch each other a lot.

You're into boxing, aren't you? I enjoy it. I mean, it's a. Because we have a poster in the. Oh, that's my pro wrestling oh you're wrestling yeah same thing

same thing exactly there's a ring different tights different tights same thing different tights yeah

I wish they wore tights in boxing I wish they could come in boxing and just have like a a persona like

the way the wrestlers do the I like I will sit down and watch if I have spare 20 minutes have like a a persona like the way the wrestlers do the I like I will sit down and watch if I have spare 20 minutes I'll watch one of the events

from like 80s wrestling right and every person had a character so they would bring out somebody and it was Rick the model Martel

and he had like a perfume pump that he would spray on everybody and just like because models love to stink. And the perfume's name? Arrogance. Do they still do that?

You still watch wrestling, right? Not as much. Although I will watch the one that Cole Cabana is a part of, that AEW. It's a force. Do they have costumes and things? Yeah, but it's not like they're not pretending to be. Like, there's no sergeant slaughter or, you know. But wasn't that the fun?

Well, that's what I thought was fun about it when I was a kid. Yeah. You had, like, any weird backstories that you had to keep up with. It's like, hmm, it's like soap operas for men. But why not just, isn't suits soap operas for men? Yeah, I guess it's like suits for men. Did you, when you were growing up, did your sister or your brother, like, were they obsessed with something where you couldn't see the appeal at all? Because I feel like maybe my youngest brother was like,

why does he like wrestling so much? No. Doesn't he know it's fake? I just wanted whatever they thought was cool. Yeah. I wanted to make sure that I was on board with it, whether I understood it or not. Yeah.

Yeah. I remember once my sister, when I found out she was on the pill. Big day in any. Big day. I got on the pill that same day and um and i was obviously in elementary school and she had to pick up a prescription i said i'll go because then that time you anybody could pick it up so um i got on her 10 speed which i could barely reach the the pedals and i kind of went riding up to West Woo's pharmacy,

and I picked up her pills, and the pharmacist said, have a good summer, and I waved it at him and went, yes, I will. And got back up on the 10th speed. How old were you? I was in grade five.

And I just thought I just laid it down Oh man I was also the youngest And I was like We talk on the show about how I have no Memories of Disney movies Or anything because I just wanted to watch what my older siblings Same here.

Yeah. Um, and then my brother really liked wrestling. Yeah. And then he, uh, he, he's eight years older than me. So he left for college when I was 10 and then, uh, I never watched wrestling again. And I was shocked when. It just stopped. Well, I, yeah, I was shocked when other people my age were watching wrestling into their twenties and thirties.

Yeah. But we, I thought we agreed to stop when my brother went away. I got some catching up to do. And I gave up on it. Yeah. I probably in like my late teens or twenties, but then a couple,

like maybe a decade after that, I watched a match and I was like, why did I stop watching this? This is so enjoyable watching these guys flip and fly all over the ring they scared me though

when I would see them on TV they frightened me because they looked with their costumes and everything like that I didn't I didn't it was creepy to me

yeah it's an acquired taste same with my sister and brother used to laugh and watch Benny Hill Benny Hill he runs a Benny Hill

and he even as a kid I I went, you're a creep. You're a creepy guy. I remember watching Benny Hill as a kid and being like, don't get this. Yeah. I thought he was, there's something about him that was really creepy. And I was right. Yeah. Yeah.

Has he been outed as a bad guy? Well, I don't know. I mean, I think they, i think he died of a weird fever no they found him in his uh home or apartment where he had been this is this is lovely talk yeah but he had decayed oh no that doesn't mean he was a weird guy maybe i would say an unfortunate guy yeah but i think there was kind of weird stuff i don't know it was a weird guy. Maybe I would say an unfortunate guy. Yeah. But I think there was kind of weird stuff. I don't know. It was mostly the show was like there were a lot of scantily clad women.

Yeah. And chasing. And he's like riding a tricycle with a horn chasing a girl in a brassiere. Yeah. That's the thing about like those 70s movies that are like have look gritty because of the film stock. When they were in Britain, it looks terrible. Like British video from the 70s just looks Yeah. There's like a brown to it. They all seem like Canadian. It was the same kind of I think

Oh, absolutely. Still to this day, if I'm watching a movie and I don't necessarily know, I can always, that's in Canada. Yeah, me too. No matter what. Yeah. I was watching one that took place, Insomnia, with Robin Williams and Al Pacino. Yeah. Right away. That's where it was.

You know why they had Insomnia? Because Al Pacino wouldn't stop yelling. Go to sleep, Al! It was the first movie where Robin Williams played a bad guy. Lauren Cardinal, who's in Corner Gas. That's right. He's in that.

He's one of the cops. Is it? Typecasting. Is that, what's his face? Christopher Nolan? Christopher Nolan. And I didn't realize that until the opening credits. Yeah.

Oh. Yeah, yeah. Cool. Like, I had seen it when it came out, which was, I think, in 2021? No, no. 2001. Oh, sorry. Yeah.

Not 2021. I hadn't seen it for two years. 2001. 2001, yes. Same year that space oddity thing happened. Oddity? Mm-hmm. Odyssey. Dave, what's going year that space oddity thing, oddity, honestly. Um,

uh, Dave, what's going on with you, my friend? Oh my gosh, me. We're on to me already. Well,

we, when are we, I already talked about how I'm learning estimation. Um, but, uh, oh, uh,

so here's the thing. Uh, we just did our episode where listeners call in and they ask us questions a couple weeks ago. One of the questions was, what's the last movie we cried in? Oh, yeah. And I have a new answer. Oh, okay. Like more recently?

Yeah. Okay. Wonka. Oh, really? You got a Misty during Wonka? Got a Misty in Wonka. Wow. You're kidding? You got a Misty during Wonka? Got a Misty in Wonka. Wow. Are you kidding?

I'm not. No, not that I think that's sweet, but I just kind of think like, so with the new Wonka. New Wonka is unfortunately good. See, I, I, that's okay. I'm happy to hear that because I'm kind of freaked out that they even remade it the second time with Johnny Depp. Yeah. And now this, cause I just think Gene Wild gene walder is he's the top he's the tops um well i'm sorry to tell you that the new tops is timothy chalamet i would not say he's the tops um and it's a prequel okay so it's about origin about. Origin story. It's an origin story.

Okay. And it's little Timmy C singing. It's a musical. Yeah. How is he singing? Singing is fine. Okay. He's not the greatest singer.

He doesn't have to belt anything out. No, that's true. Yeah. And it's. And isn't. Was it Hugh Grant? Yeah. Is it Oompa Loompa? Yeah. Hugh Grant's in Oompa Loompa. He sings the Oompa Loompa't, um, is it Hugh Grant? Yeah. Oompa Loompa? Yeah, Hugh Grant's in the Oompa Loompa.

He sings the Oompa Loompa song. Oh, that's in there? Yeah. Oh, shit. He farts a cloud. The original, uh, one, Charlie and the Chalk of Fire Creek, that was a musical too. Yeah. Oompa, Oompa, Oompa Dee Doo.

And then there was Don't Cry Charlie was one of the songs. No, it was Don't Cry for Me Argentina. That's right. Yep. Jeez, I get those confused all the time. And pure there was Don't Cry Charlie was one of the songs. No, it was Don't Cry for Me Argentina. That's right. Yep. Jeez, I get those confused all the time. And Pure Imagination is in that and it's also in the new one. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, there's a lot of songs that you recognize in this movie and I remember

watching it with my dad and he's like, you don't recognize this one because it stinks. Cheer Up Charlie, it was called. Oh, okay. So it's a prequel origin story that tells the story of how he you know became a chocolatier it does not tell the story of how he comes to want to kill children so what part of it okay without okay without spoiling yeah it is in the beginning middle or end where you get Misty?

Oh, the end. Okay. Oh yeah. The end. Because of his mother. Oh yeah. That'll do it. He lost his mother and then he reconnects with her through chocolate.

Nice. Okay. Aw. That's nice. And then there's another child and mother reunion. Sort of like certain Paul Simon songs. Yeah. Yeah.

I haven't seen it. I might not. You haven't seen this movie that just came out? No. I may wait until it's on a streamer. I think then I'll check it. I may wait until it's on Turner Classic Movies in 80 years. 80 years from now.

So you went to the theater to see it. Yeah. And you took the girls? Took the girls. No, I made them stay at home. This one's for daddy. Here's, here's.

They stayed home and watched Glock work orange. Yeah. They cried during that as well. Well, it's really sentimental at the end yeah sure well they put tears they literally put tears in his eyes um but uh yeah so check out wonka yeah okay misty at the end the other thing that's going on with me is this past weekend graham uh came over yeah uh with his wife with al Alicia Tobin as well, and

our friends Jay and Jessica, and it's a new tradition that we've had two years in a row, cocktails. Christmas cocktails with the Shumkas. Nice! Yeah! Nice! Delicious. And cheeses. And many cheeses.

Yeah, and just like... The Buttersons, can we come next year? Yes, please. Sure, we'll add you to the list. You weren't allowed to come this year. No. Because you weren't invited.

Because we weren't invited. But next year, put you on the spot. Yeah, next year, you're on the list. I think we can handle two more. Absolutely.

And I could maybe come a day early. That's true. Helps that up, yeah. Okay. The... Normally, like our dogs are insane. You met our dogs. They're great.

I love them. But they don't settle down. It takes them a while to settle down. But last year when we did the evening of cocktails, they settled down pretty quickly. This year they kept barking the whole time. They've got the Christmas spirit. Yeah. Yeah. They've got Christmas fever. Or some kind of cocktails. They settled down pretty quickly. This, this year, they kept barking the whole time. They've got the Christmas spirit. Yeah. Yeah.

They've got Christmas fever. Or some kind of fever. Yeah. A weird fever. You should have given them a cocktail or two. Yeah, maybe. Well,

you, you're good at making cocktails. You made some, I can't remember. Yeah. What did you make? What did you make? You made a Manhattan,

I think at some point. No, I didn't make a Manhattan. I don't have any, uh, sweet vermouth. Oh yes. Was it? What did you make? You made a Manhattan, I think, at some point? No, I didn't make a Manhattan. I don't have any sweet vermouth. Oh, yes. Was it? What did you make, then?

What was your cocktail? I made a few sidecars. You're right. Yeah. Which is like a cognac and lemon juice and triple sec. It's kind of a sweet. Yeah. Yeah.

Sort of like a margarita, but instead of tequila, it's cognac. Nice. That yak. And then I made another sweet one that had like coconut cream in it. Oh yeah. And that was, I didn't know,

I never saw this before. Dave had a can of coconut cream. Have you ever seen a can of coconut cream anywhere? Yeah, I think so. In the grocery store. I just never purchased one. Yeah. And I didn't know what was going to happen when you opened it. I think so, in the grocery store. I just never. I never purchased one.

Yeah, and I didn't know what was going to happen when you opened it. I didn't know if it was going to be a solid or. Shotgun. Springy snakes came out. Yeah, he sprayed it on everybody like champagne. What did you make with that? What's it called? It's like maybe called a painkiller.

And it's very, it's just rum and coconut cream and orange juice and pineapple juice. So sweet. Oh, it's very juicy. Sweet. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have a favorite cocktail?

You say sweet, but everyone's comments were, these are very strong. But everything I made was, this is very strong. But they have to be if they're going to be sweet. I, I,

I, I know it's boring, but I love tequila and mezcal. Perfect. Yeah. No fuss, no muss. Yeah. I'm not somebody who can drink anything.

Right. I can drink bourbon, tequila, rum. Now it's a party. Now it's a party. But I can't. That's about all I can do. Mezcal is smoky tequila. Yeah, smoky.

Yeah. Do you mix that with things? Or do just have that up? Straight? Shots. No, you mix it. Okay. Like, you know, I love a cocktail. And I only discovered I like cocktails like around seven years ago. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Well, you had a party at a bar. Yeah. We were down in New York and there was a wait to

get a seat and I went, it's snowing out. I'm in New York. I'm going to have a cocktail. Yeah. And I mean, not that I hadn't had cocktails before, but that's what really brought it into like, I'm going to continue this. And yeah, no, I like cocktails.

Yeah. Yeah. They're fun to watch being made. I love that. I like like cocktails. Yeah. Yeah. They're fun to watch being made. I love that. I like the show. Yeah. Well, when I make them, I put on a little arm garter, sleeve garters. I thought it was just because somebody had died.

That's a memorial one for. Not Carol. Jean Harlow. Jean Harlow. Yeah. And how is your bartender uh chat it's good uh hey did you hear of gene harlow died yeah this uh this armband is for uh weird fever awareness there's a show that uh i was obsessed with for quite a while mostly during the pandemic called

bar rescue you ever seen bar rescue? No. It's a guy who's like been in the bar business for three decades and he goes to like bars that are having a lot of trouble and helps them like, you know, they rebuild the place and he hires new staff. Oh, I've seen them do that for restaurants,

but not bar. Yeah. And he has the same bag of tricks that he, every bar that he goes to what are they he always makes a signature cocktail he always tries to

figure out a way to make mingling happen by narrowing a passage or moving this part of the bar over to there and so people have to be shoulder to shoulder

and they yuck yeah but that's his whole thing is he like people want to come here and it's a prelude to intercourse. That's all the bars. He says,

when you're doing a cocktail, when you're shaking it, you're supposed to scan the bar and see whoever's waiting and give them like an acknowledgement. I see you and you're supposed to smile

when you're shaking the cocktail. And, uh, man, it's funny. Like the woman that teaches it. Perfect. Every time they do it absolute disaster there was a woman teaching this shaking uh yeah okay she's the mixologist

uh she's a mixologist no one told me there would be mixology what happens in the the first night he just comes in to inspect what's going on so he observes what's going on he comes in yells at everybody that he's they've set up the new thing we're going to do a stress test see how this works everybody screws up they close down the restaurant he comes out says we're closing this down everybody go home and then they have a launch after they've all learned the all the things and then when they go away it it probably goes back to shite. Or they all go out of business. If you Google any one of them, yeah, most of them are out of business.

I'll just Google if they're dead. I go to IBDB. Internet Bar Database. To find out their cause of death. But yeah, all the cocktails you made were delish. Well, they should be because they're just made out of lemon juice and alcohol. But that's, no, there's something celebratory.

And I like it if you take a nice sip of something and then your shoulders go down. Yeah. That's a great feeling. I don't wish stuff like that was good for you. Yeah. You know, all the stuff that makes you feel good. I know, sunshine, happiness. But, you know.

Nancy, have you ever tried to exercise? Take a hike. It might change your life. I've been trying to turn that frown upside down for a long time. Yeah, we've got your diagnosis. Your frown and your smile upside down for a long time. Yeah, we've got your diagnosis. Your frown and your smile upside down. Yeah. And the cheeses were also delectable.

Oh, yeah. We had soft. We had hard. Yeah. We put one in the oven. We baked a brie. Yeah. And the brie came out smelling kind of funny.

It did smell like a certain bodily fluid. Bodily fluid. Urine? Oh, no. Oh, no. kind of funny it didn't smell like a certain bodily fluid urine oh no no oh no yeah okay yes yeah the other the other okay yeah yeah it was very funny because it's one of those things where you could see the person across the room also realizing it okay so i'm not crazy. And also, I'm not sick. So mine, so it was like Jean Harlow's breath

when she was healthy. When she was healthy. So it was like Nancy Reagan's breath. Anyway, I encourage everyone to get together with good friends. you know many happy returns

that's a birthday how like did it go to oh oh also there was because there were cheeses are like out a once the people stopped stopped picking at the cheeses i was like well these need to go back in the fridge right and then as i'm doing that i'm like well i'm also going to put these plates away and then i was like oh no i as I'm doing that, I'm like, well, I'm also going to put these plates away. And then I was like, oh, no, I'm doing the thing where I'm cleaning up and people are going to start leaving. And they did. Yeah.

It's about 7.30. Bill came here at 4 and we stayed around for a while. About 10, 11-ish. See, that's reasonable. Of course. That's reasonable. Yeah. And that's when I stayed up and watched Home Alone 2.

I needed to whine. You can watch TV after drinks? Yeah. I can't. No? Like spinny? Yeah. Yeah.

Just, you know, I'll do laundry. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Because I think I have to wear it out before I go to bed. And then do you see the laundry the next morning? You're like, I didn't put any detergent in. I threw all these. My shoes are in there.

The dog. Yeah. No, I can watch TV after drinking. I can watch too much. I can watch for hours and hours. Yeah. Yeah. I, uh, uh, no, I, I switched to water by, I had like three full glasses of water before I went to bed.

It was great. I was just such, I felt so grown up. It was, it felt very grown up. And it was one of those things too, where your daughter were upstairs and probably thinking like, why is my dad talking so crazy? Were they peeking down the stairs? Did they come down at all? Not that I saw. No, I don't know.

They have their screens. Yeah, they texted us. We used to watch all the time. My parents didn't have people over for dinner, but they'd have people over for cocktails. Yeah. And it would always be, I don't know why, they'd have a Cerely cheesecake. Okay. And then they got the fancy Kraft cheese,

which was, it came in a tube. Like, would you like a toothpaste tube? It was kind of like that. It looked like a little submarine and the tube, you'd squish it, it would come out the top. Okay. And pretzels. And then they dance, which was.

Like ballroom dancing? No, they'd turn on, they'd take some of my sister's albums and put them on the record player and start dancing. Wow. And I'd be just peering out and there was our neighbor. She used to go off and on the rug. That was her move. She would step up, step up,

step down, step up, step down. And didn't hear a lot of, woo! Going on there. But it was so exciting. And then,

because the next day you'd get leftover cheesecake. Oh, yeah. You'd get all the big stuff that you wouldn't get normally. Yeah. I think when my parents would do something, it would be either, surrounding a holiday

usually yeah or like kick off to the summer or something like that but i remember one night the famous clark summer kickoff it's not summer until uh exactly uh one time i was listening i couldn't hear what anybody was saying but i recognized the shape of the fact that my uncle was telling jokes. And so it was just like, and then my family, how come? And that sounds like the grownups in Charlie Brown, but like,

you never hear them like laughing. No. Yeah. Not like that. I want to hear him. Womp, wah, wah, wah, ha, ha. Everybody's mean in Charlie Brown. Well, can you blame them? That kid is a freaking sad sack loser.

Oh, my. Who's the meanest? Lucy? Yeah, Lucy was apparently based on his wife. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. And, um, but yeah, you know, you're a loser, Charlie Brown. Wait a minute.

Charles Schultz. Charlie Brown. Huh. Never, never. The dots are connected. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I thought everybody was mean. I love them though.

I love the, the peanuts. Yeah. yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I thought everybody was meaning it. I love them, though. I love the Peanuts. Yeah. They're my favorite. They, I only realized years and years ago there was somebody posted a photo

of the fact that the Charlie Brown characters were voiced by kids. Yeah. Which is, I think probably it was like a unique

thing at the time. I think so, because now adults go in and get paid. Yeah. Yeah. Most of the time. Or Mel Blanc.

Mel Blanc would do all the... Is he still with us, Mel Blanc? No. No. Do you think at his funeral they did some funny sounds? Yeah. Ahooga.

Yeah. Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. Yeah. Yeah. Digga, digga, digga, digga, digga. That's all, folks. Yeah. Graham, what's going on with you?

I was thinking about the other night. This is a big time where the charitable organizations that's all folks yeah uh Graham what's going on with you uh I was thinking about the other night this is a big time like where the charitable organizations come out of the the woodwork

yeah the thing a couple months ago I had a thing where I told one of them I don't have any money on me and they were like

we accept tap and I was like uh I just don't want to like they really backed me into a corner and uh well cause they have to because no one has any cash anymore. No.

Yeah, so they had a tap, and I was like, okay, crap. And then the other night, you know the Salvation Army has, like, the jingle person jingling? Yeah. This guy, this must have been his community service for a crime because he was he couldn't have been jingling any last just a very loose kind of just watching people go by not really even making enough noise to make people stop do they have to like talk to the store and be like we're gonna be outside your store i wonder yeah probably they're like free country yeah you can go anywhere you want yeah i can I can, I can jingle wherever I want,

man. This guy's just got an ankle. And did you, uh, did I tap? Yeah. I didn't tap. No,

but I did one of those things in, in the grocery store where they're like, do you want to give $2 to something? Then they put your name on a star and put it on the wall. I do that. Yeah. Yeah. Because what are you going to say?

No. No, I say no. I always say no. Oh, the weirdest one is for American listeners. There's a chain called Shopper's Drug Mart. And at their self-serve terminal. It's a pharmacy. It's a pharmacy.

Yeah, that's where I get the pill. Yeah, that's where you have to take it have a great summer um yeah it uh you go through the checkout and then it just has this very vague do you want to donate to women's health and i'm like i guess but what does that mean and so i don't do it anymore don't do it the first time i did you're just giving those those fat cats a tax write-off. Yeah, that's right. That is what I'm doing. Anyway, Salvation Army. And we hate those fat cats.

Absolutely. Also, the self-checkout at Shoppers Drug Mart is like you hit the button to pay. It doesn't work. Well, it's pages and pages of, do you want to do this? Do you have points? Do you want? Yeah. Are you going to do a credit or debit?

Okay, well, why don't you think about this? Yeah. And like, they haven't met Whole Foods now. It's, that's it. That's the future. It's all self-checkout. I don't like that. I always get confused and then I get cranky.

So I just go to the counter where there's somebody working behind there. And they're crankier than you are. Well, sure. Yeah. Well, maybe. Anyways. Anyways, yes. What happened to me this week

is I had, this is very rare. This is very rare. Happened on Twitter. There's a guy in town, CBC reporter called Justin McElroy

and he's McElroy. Is it McElroy? McElroy, yeah. Yeah, McElroy. And he McElroy. Is it McElroy? Sorry, yeah. Not McElroy. And he's very fun. He's like the local kind of reporter. He goes to the city council meetings and

he's got a very fun way of doing all these kind of things. It's Mr. Vancouver. Yeah, he is sort of, and he'll do like these fun polls that are like, he was trying to figure out the city's worst parking lot yeah like he's done like what's the best park and what's the best yeah and then he did like a one summer he cataloged every ice cream parlor in town and rated them and that's more stats yeah

but this one was similar to the ice cream one is It was like, he's ranking and he's talking about a donut place. And I just tweeted, I retweeted it and said like, why are you doing a mom and pop shop donut thing and say it, telling people it sucks. Yeah. He did do a mean one. Yeah.

And so I was like, I wrote to him and here's the thing. This almost never happened. He wrote back and we had a completely civil back and forth where he was like, I've amended my criteria. Oh, good. And I've, because I've had people in the past say that. And we had, and I was like, oh, thank you for getting back to me. Yeah, it was very sweet.

It was very sweet. Like a donut. Yeah. So it's this time of year. I'm telling you, man. It's infectious. Yeah, January 8th. The best.

So it's this time of year. I'm telling you, man. It's infectious. Yeah, January 8th. The best. That's where January 8th is where a love goes into everybody's heart. When do they, there's always that thing like the, they call it Blue Monday. Yeah. That's like the second or third Monday in January where.

It's like the saddest. The saddest day of the year. Which is a complete fabrication. Now that being said about the donuts, what's your favorite donut in town? Oh, well, it was, you know, I can't remember

anything. Down at Granville Island, they also had one up in North Bend. Oh yeah, Lucky. Lucky. No. No. Honey is the one. Honey was the one in Deep. Oh, so no, I was wrong with that one. It's. No. No, Cartem's? No. No. Honey is the one. Honey was the one in Deep. Oh, so no, I was wrong with that one. It's the one that Seth Rogen.

Lee's? Lee's. Lee's. Oh, yeah. Lee's Donuts. Lee's. Yeah, yeah. They were great, but now they're, you know, and good for them because Seth Rogen.

Your old classmate from Point Gregg. Yeah, well, yeah. Yeah, we were in the same grade um and uh and now

there's a huge lineup and they've got a like a you know they section you off

and you right and which I'm happy for them but yeah I love your spot

yeah yeah what's your go-to donut if it's not too personal

ask what you're no I'm I'm I'm quite open about my donuts. I like, it's just the one that's got the pink on top, the pink icing on it. And I like anything with coconut on it.

Okay. Yeah. And like, we're talking classic donut, not like a filled, something filled in. No, no, no, I don't like that. Okay. That's too much business going on. What about you, Graham? Favorite in the city, those Lee's Donuts are really good.

They're the ones with the yellow container, right? Yeah. Yeah. And the little guy. Yeah, yeah, we had those at our wedding reception. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I had donuts there. Can I make a confession?

Yeah. Just before we were leaving your reception yeah i filled my pockets with that candy absolutely no like i'm not kidding like brent we got in the car and he went jesus i said yeah i just like we didn't get any of these can't like that and i said i know they're for the kids but i can't stop oh yeah so i filled my I filled my pockets. We had so much leftover candy. And then I was just eating it mindlessly. Like I just had. See, that's why I took it.

Yeah. You had, was it an open bar? Open, yes, open bar, open candy bar as well. You're right. But it was like, you couldn't do that with beer. You couldn't go out and be like, I'm just going to fill my coat with beer. I went for drinks with past guests, Tim and Dana, married couple. We were at a bar and the bar was shutting down, but the waiter just brought us a drink for last call.

But immediately they were starting to put up chairs and stuff. So Dana was like, is there a way I can get this to go? And they brought out like a soup container and they poured it. So she had like gin and soda to go. Your favorite donut? I don't like donuts. No,

not at all. You were waiting just to just slam us down. How can you not like a donut? Um, the, I would just to slam us down. How can you not like a donut? I would just rather have anything else. Like what? Like ice cream or pie or candy. If I'm going to have something that's not good for me, I want to really enjoy it. Your mom makes good cookies.

My mom makes good cookies? Mm-hmm. Oh. She gave us Christmas cookies one year. But not this year? No.

Yeah, she says you had a falling out. Yeah, there's just a little bit of neighborhood tiff thing going.

I don't really want to talk about it. Well, you know what? You still have a few days. You might still get them.

Yeah. I mean, we still have like 350 days until Christmas. Oh, that's right. But no, I just never my go-to is donuts. So I don't have a favorite, but I've eaten donuts. Yeah. I will eat. I'm from planet Earth, and I'm absolutely not an alien who's stolen a guy's body.

I've, I've eaten donuts. They're the circle food. But also pie. Circle and a triangle. Yeah. You can do it all. Oh, like a pizza pie. Yeah.

And if you call a strudel a pie, square. So. Sure. Yeah. Um. My granddad used to call pizzas Italian hotcakes. Were they new at the time? I guess to him I guess he never had a pizza

What is this? Some kind of Italian hotcake? I think Abby's Italian hotcake Someone in Abby's family In like the 60s or 70s When their town got a McDonald's

For the first time They were like do you want to check out that new Scottish restaurant? It's a big day when a small town gets a franchise. That's like, I think most small towns, probably the first franchise they get is Tim Hortons, would be my guess.

A place that Canada has really attached our entire nationality to. You're from out here. We didn't have Tim Hortons would be my guess. A place that Canada has really attached our entire nationality to. You're from out here. We didn't have Tim Hortons. No. Which is very weird as a Canadian and everyone being like, that's the

Canadian thing. And I never got that. I never understood. And when we were shooting in Regina, people were like, well, you know, what's your favorite thing at Timmy's? I'm like, what? Yeah. Like, I've never been to his house. I don't know.

We had a falling out. Yeah. And it was never a big thing. Yeah, I think I looked it up. The first Vancouver Tim Hortons was 1994 or something. Oh, really? Where was it? Like, it wasn't probably somewhere.

I don't know. It's like A&W. When A&W first came out or whatever years ago, I remember being a kid, they didn't have it in the city. Like, you'd go to Burnaby. Oh, you'd have to go. And they didn't bring them into the city. And I, you know, because I wanted to see where the bear was and I wanted like the root beer and everything. But yeah, we couldn't go.

Now, do you know what A&W stands for? Automatic Will. Yeah. Dave knows what you know what A&W stands for? Automatic Will. Yeah. Dave knows what it stands for. What does it stand for? If I could remember. Oh, it's so, it's one of, it's itching in the back of my head. I think it stands for Ambogas and Whoop Beer.

But for me, it was also like. Ambogas and Whoop Beer. Uh, but for me, it was also like, we also had like in Vancouver itself, we didn't have the superstore or, uh, save on foods. No. Oh, okay. We now do. But now as an adult, I can't tell those two stores apart because I'll always call one the wrong name. Right. There's too much stuff in these places.

I can't. I get overwhelmed. I went to Indigo Chapters bookstore the other day. It's a department store. It is a department store. Yeah. Books are very much an afterthought. The books are wallpaper.

Yeah. And you're mostly getting a hot water bottle. Yeah. Yeah. We had in Calgary, we mostly had Robbins donuts, which was a place that you could smoke in. So. Oh yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Had the old light disposable tin, uh, ashtrays. And, uh, it was really popular with truckers.

We had a Robbins on main, on Fraser street. I remember years ago. Which was just, it was basically the same as Tim Hortons. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember when, well, you probably know you could smoke in a movie theaters. No, Which was just, it was basically the same as Tim Hortons. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you remember when, well you probably don't, you could smoke in movie theaters? No, I was just, you could smoke still in restaurants when I was a youth. Yeah. But I don't think, I think maybe movie theaters and airplanes had nixed it. Yeah. But you could sit in a smoking section in a restaurant and also go to a restaurant and see a cigarette machine. Hey, I was, my first job I ever had, I was a receptionist at Swan Wooster Engineering, 1525 Robson Street.

And I smoked back then, and I could smoke as the receptionist. Really? Yeah. On the job? You bet. Wow. An engineering company on Robson Street. Yeah.

Can you imagine? Where on Robson? Closer to Denman. And it was in one, the building's still there. It's, but I don't know what it is now. I don't even know whether

Swamwooster Engineering still exists. I imagine they're out there. Probably got swallowed up by a conglomerate of some sort. Oh, probably.

You don't go to the annual reunions? Yeah. They don't invite me anymore. Yeah. Well, you'll be, sorry,

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And I heard one woman say, I am nothing without my eyebrows. It's true, though. It is true. And now I kind of regret that I didn't look up. Right. And I could have said, you're right. Yeah, you've got to draw something on there. Yeah, yeah. Eyebrows are so up. Right. And I could have said, you're right. Yeah, you gotta draw something on there.

Yeah, yeah. Eyebrows are so funny. Yeah, you don't know you need them. Yeah. To look, you know, human. But it's like, have you seen the show Barry?

Sorry for our listeners who don't have eyebrows that are gonna think I'm going at them, going in on them. There's a guy on it that has no eyebrows. He doesn't know anything. Yeah, he doesn't.

He has no hair. But he really doesn't in real life. Yeah, he really does. Yeah, yeah. And I think he pulls it off. I think he looks pretty good with it. He looks terrific. Yeah.

He has alopecia. Right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And yeah, I was trying to think. I think that's what killed Jean Harlow. No, it was a weird fever. I don't know how many times what killed gene harlow no it was a weird fever i don't know how many times i have to tell you it was a weird fever um in the movie drive

albert brooks is the bad guy i love him he shaved his eyebrows because he wanted you to think there's something not right like just looking at him like there's something not quite right about did you see the documentary on him? Just last night. Yeah. I love him. Yeah. It's on. Yeah. And it's so funny.

He was so. I mean, not that he isn't anymore, but his stuff that he did on late night talk shows. Was unbelievable. Yeah. Yeah. Is. Is ventriloquist that like he's like, I'm going to smoke while I do ventriloquist. And then he just throws the puppet on the floor.

Dave, do you have an overheard? I have an overseen. This is something that was posted in the neighborhood Facebook group. Is it next door or is it just a Facebook group? It's a Facebook group. Okay. I'm in the next door as well. Not under my real name. It's a Facebook group. Okay. I'm in the next door as well.

Not under my real name. What is a neighborhood Facebook? Just our, there's like on Facebook, you can join groups. Our podcast has a group. Yeah. But then there's also one for this neighborhood. Oh, okay. And so it's just like, did anybody notice the hubcap or whatever? Yeah, there's a coyote with a kid in its jaws this morning.

Yeah. Do you know your neighbors where you live? Some of them. I think. It's a rough neighborhood. It's a tough neighborhood. My parents live about four doors down. Yeah.

But yeah, I don't know anybody in my building. I try. Yeah. I don't know anybody in my building i try yeah i don't know anyone i like wave at people on the blog or not wave at nod yeah yeah yeah that's that's the right thing but mostly my dogs want to kill them but i kind of think that's good yeah because sometimes when i'm walking oliver people are coming up and petting him and things like that and then they'll say well maybe i'll join you on the walk and i'm like i don't absolutely not you wow in your neighborhood people are are idle they have nothing to do honestly yeah i'll just go for a walk as a stranger yeah i had nothing going on today so i'll just go for a walk with a stranger. Well, I had nothing going on today, so I'll just walk with you.

I had a woman yell back in the alley, you need to trim your magnolias. I'm like, oh my God. Whose business is it? What length do you keep your magnolias? Yeah, thank you. Yeah. Anyway, so someone posted in this group, and this will be like, people will sometimes, you know,

I have a thing. I have an old, whatever I want to give away. Does anyone want it? Uh, but someone was, uh, posted in search of an old or broken rice cooker.

My 18 month olds, my 18 month old is obsessed with our rice cooker. So looking for one that he can play with while we actually cook with ours. This is throwing our world into chaos. I think that's like a meth lab sort

of thing. I don't think it's a method. We need to play one. Like a fake one for the kid to play with. Maybe you wake up at 5 in the morning because Santa brought you an Easy-Bake rice cooker. This kid is obsessed. I never had, as a youth, I never had anything prepared in an Easy-Bake oven. That's why she wanted to get up at five in the morning because it would take all day to cook.

Yeah. Because it was just a light bulb. No, I know, but I lit my comforter on my quilt on fire with the light bulb. Oh, yeah. And you were cooking it? Yeah. Because it was just a light bulb, right? No, I know, but I lit my comforter on my quilt on fire with the light bulb. Oh, yeah. And you were cooking it? Yeah. I was cooking it because you get these little tiny metal cake plates and you get a cake mix. And you put it in.

Uh-huh. And then you put it in the oven. Mine was baby blue, white trim. Anyways. And so you put it in and then you bake it. And the light bulb is what gives it the heat to bake. Yeah. But I put it on my bed and I guess I was preoccupied doing something fantastic.

Right. And the, uh, it fell to its side. And so, uh, the cake mix fell on my, uh, uh, quilt and, uh, and the light bulb, uh, started burning my quilt. Oh, wow. The amount of trouble you must have got in for that. No, they didn't. You know, Mom and Dad, we weren't helicoptered. Ah, yes.

We were not helicoptered. Yeah, the point of being a helicopter parent is to punish the children. Not about safety. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, Graham, do you have an overheard? I do. And this was a woman that I feel very jealous of. This was in the coffee shop the other day.

She was talking to her friend and she said, I've never had the flu, so I don't know what it's like at all. I was like, Jesus, that's impossible. You haven't had the flu. I can't relate to people. I should talk to Jean Harlow about that. Can you imagine never had the flu. I can't relate to people. She should talk to Gene Harlow about that. Can you imagine never having the flu? How old was she, do you think? She was probably in her early 30s, I would say.

Oh, yeah. I didn't get the flu until I was 40. You got the 40 flu. Yeah, I got when my body was going through the change. I got my first flu after menopause. Oh, yeah? Okay. Just imagine a flu-less person who doesn't.

Yeah. That sounds like a boaster. Yeah, I think that's a liar. Yeah, a liar and a boaster. Oh, no, I have diarrhea all the time, so I don't really know what you're talking about. Does anybody find it hot in here? Yeah.

so I don't really know what you're talking about. Does anybody find it hot in here? No, I just get routine daily sicknesses. I've never had the flu. It's funny saying I can't taste anything.

My tongue's off. Now we also have overheard sent in to us from all over the map. Oh, cool. Yeah, if you want to send one in send it in to spy at maximumfun.org This first you want to send one in, send it in to spyatmaximumfun.org.

This first one comes from Mike right in our backyard, North Vancouver. My overheard came after there was a mass stabbing in our neighborhood in North Vancouver. I remember that.

Was that when you heard? Yeah, yeah. It was at the library, I think. And shortly after the local Lions Club put together a drive-through candlelight vigil through Lynn Canyon.

And as we're driving through the very solemn vigil, one of the volunteers casually says to another, Well, just goes to show you, people love a good parade. Whoa. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. It's a fact of life. People love a good parade.

I mean. Funeral procession, whatever you got. Yeah, that's rough. Yeah. That is rough. I don't know what to is rough i don't know it's a a misunderstanding of the occasion yeah i hope so yeah well i mean you're volunteers you're not sifting through them as much as also yeah people will just like a drive-through vigil that is catnip to people with cars. That's true. Well, now we got somewhere to go. It's Friday night.

We didn't have anywhere to go. This next one comes from Gina S., parts unknown, in a coffee shop. It said, she's become the puppet master of the Jane Austen subreddit. She's the puppet master of the jane austin subreddit she's the puppet master i mean i guess there's a jane austin subreddit where people are finding hey did anyone notice this hey did you notice hey i made a new meme jane austin meme but it's uh who's the puppet master what are they doing how are you getting the people in the jane austin subreddit to do stuff for you? To do your bidding. That's highfalutin.

It is highfalutin. It is. But it's like, yeah, it's a Facebook group, but even more just out there. You don't have to join it. You can just read it. Okay. So with Reddit. Yeah.

You got to get on Reddit. Otherwise you'll miss out. I miss out. So is it just people? Is it like a chat room? I mean, I've seen it, but I miss out so is it just people is it like a chat room I mean I've seen it but I don't know what it's basically it depends on what

group you're in like I scroll through and it'll just give me you might be interested in this group kind of thing and what kind of things does it think you're interested in you perv

it thinks what is this for so it's a picture in a house and it's like a box or a pipe and they're like what is this for? So it's a picture in a house and it's like a, a box or a pipe. And they're like, what is this for? Can I safely remove it? Yeah. And so somebody will guess.

And then if somebody said it correctly, they lock down the thread. Yeah. This problem has been solved. So it's, uh, it's just a bunch of little like niche groups. Uh,

but there's thousands of them. Oh yeah. So anything that you possibly, I'm sure there's a Reddit for corner gas, like that but there's thousands of them. Oh yeah. So anything that you possibly, I'm sure there's a Reddit for corner gas, like that. It's just people putting in their two cents or, you know, finding a new angle on something.

Someone, I'm going to use them. We'll be like, yeah, I saw Lauren Cardinal in insomnia. Yeah. The typecast much. Um,

this last one comes from Emma. I heard this in the grocery store uh the other evening mother to her son mom don't ask again nine or ten year old son but i want friends mom i'm your friend oh yeah so keeping them out of uh a very psycho relationship. That sounds a little Carrie-like. Yeah. Yeah. Something. Yeah. I want friends.

I've never wanted friends. Just want to hang out with your mom? Yeah. Please, mummy. Keep the boys away from me. Mummy. Mummy. Mummy! Mummy! Mummy, can I get in your backpack?

I promise I'll shrink down very small, Mummy. Anyway, it's very healthy. The creepy portion of the show. Well, in addition to overheards that are written in, we also accept your phone calls. If you want to call us, our phone number is 1-844-779-7631. That's one. Ugh.

SpyPod 1, like these people have. Hey, Dave, Graham, and wonderful guests. This is Rebecca calling from Chicago. I'm actually in L.A., and I just visited the La Brea Carpet Museum which is awesome and everyone should go I walked into the bathroom just in time to hear a slightly exasperated mom say to her kid you know, there's other Christmas songs and then there was a silence and suddenly I hear last Christmas I gave you my heart

thanks, no friggin' way oh, wow now I feel I went down to LA and never went to that museum Oh, thanks. No friggin' way. Oh, wow. Now I feel I went down to L.A. and never went to that museum. I feel like I missed out. Yeah, well, I think if that's the sound you're going to hear in a bathroom, that's a good one. Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

There was... Yeah, that... Normalize singing songs in bathrooms. Yes. There was a challenge this year. It was called the Last Christmas Challenge, I think. And it was, see who canmas challenge i think and it was you see who can go the longest without hearing last christmas by wham yes but uh i don't think anyone wins because that song rules yeah nobody loses that's for sure yeah um what was the one there's

one last year that my family had never heard of i'd never heard of too and it was apparently like everybody else knew it i'm trying to remember what it was there was one when we went to um switzerland a few years ago we flew through heathrow and apparently the big like this is a huge pop christmas hit in england uh by chris ria chris? Oh, driving home for Christmas. And it's no, it has made no impact in North America. I hear it every year here.

Do you? Yeah, and I crack up every time I start, I mean, sorry Chris Rhea, if you're here listening,

if you're a big listener like that, but it is, driving home for Christmas. Something, something. Yeah,

he's sort of the British Springsteen. Yeah, yeah. He's sort of the British Springsteen. And I sing some songs. Yeah. And British Mariah Carey, Shane,

what's his name, McGowan? Yes, sure. He just missed his big season by like just a couple of weeks. I wouldn't call him British,

but. Was he Irish? I don't, I think he might have been Irish. Are you British? Anyway, before. Was he Irish? I think he might have been Irish. Are you British? Anyway. Dave's filing report. Yes.

Here's your next phone call. Hi, Dave Graham and possible guest. This is Tomas from Dallas calling in with a overheard. Tomas from Dallas calling in with a overheard. I was in Walmart recently just shopping around doing this stuff

and as I was walking around, there was someone just talking out loud to themselves and I overheard them say, well, I never expected to be the Walmart shopper that I am now. I don't know what that means, but no freaking way.

Yeah, it creeps up on you. All of a sudden, you're what you hate. It makes kind of sense if you're talking in a conversation, but he said this person was talking to themselves. Yeah, if you told me two years ago, I'd be this type of Walmart shopper. But maybe this person is thrilled about being the Walmart shopper that they are now. Maybe it wasn't of like, oh, my life's over. No, this is God's plan. You know what's funny is like Walmart almost like they replaced all the mom and pop shops and like became it.

And now it's almost they're cute they're a little bit cute yeah you're like oh Walmart they're the small business now yeah but they're absolutely not a small business

no I know they make way more money than Amazon don't they sell a pile of guns yeah you can get a pile of guns like just loose

in a box like DVDs diapers and guns like an advent calendar diapers and guns that's the. Yeah. Diapers and guns. Like an advent calendar. Diapers and guns. That's the name of a band. Diapers and guns.

What are we waiting for? And it's two. One guy's name is Gunn and the other one is Joseph. Diaper, axle, diapers. All right. And your final phone call. Hi, this is Ben from Mount Vernon, New York with an overseen. I was down in the Bronx, little Italy this past weekend and was in an Italian, indoor Italian market. And they had a T-shirt mostly about being, you know, Italian from the Bronx.

Italian from the Bronx. But one shirt I noticed said, I live on the corner of Kiss My Ass Avenue and no friggin' way. I live on the corner of what? Kiss Ass Avenue and

no friggin' way. Oh, was it really no friggin' way? I thought he was just signing off. No. No friggin' way. Yeah, that's what I thought. That's what he heard? No. no well it's a t-shirt he saw i live on the corner of kiss my ass avenue and no friggin way oh i love it um yeah listen i got it i loved it that's why i played it graham and nancy hate it no no no We don't! Oh my gosh. No. Dave, don't leave! Don't leave, Dave! I just actually

thought he was... That was what he called... It was kind of like a crank thing. Oh, no one would ever crank us. Would they? Have you ever got crank calls on these? Yeah. We used to get fake ones. We used to get people calling in and saying something from a movie

or whatever right some funny baloney some funny baloney like I'll have what she's having yeah they'll say I'll have what she's having or you know

I'll never go hungry again that kind of thing that's the Chicago way yeah yeah yeah friends Roman's countryman let me your ears and whatnot well hello Dolly.

Yeah. Well, that brings us to the end of the podcast. Nancy, thank you so much for being our guest. Thank you so much for having me. It was lovely. Yeah, this is so much fun. Yeah. And a happy new year to you.

Happy new year to both of you. Driving home for new year. Gonna make a coconut drink. Yeah, yeah. And thanks everybody out there for listening. If you haven't had

a coconut drink in a while, you know what? Do yourself a favor. Go ahead and have one. Come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting

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