Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 843 - Paul Scheer

Episode Date: May 14, 2024

Comedian Paul Scheer joins us to talk Joyful Recollections of Trauma, McDonalds dessert, and Giant Tiger.

Hi, he's Dave Schumke. And he's Graham Clark. And together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself. Woo! Hello everybody and welcome to episode number 843 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name's Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who I think he's got a fancy drink today but maybe I'm overstating it. Mr. Dave Schumke.

No, it's my water bottle. I got my new tar sticker on the water bottle. From the Hollywood picture Tar. Cool. Yeah. Where did you get that? I got it on the water bottle from the Hollywood picture tar yeah I got it on the internet I wanted to see if they had any like tar shirts or hats and the best I could do was a sticker stickers rule Lydia tar she's posing with a I guess you know she's got a glass of I'm guessing it's wine but this is not a wine bottle and uh although okay I miss Scotland but I'm glad to see the sticker I enjoyed that yeah we all like

a good sticker um uh yeah that's all that's all I have to say about that all right to quote Mr. Forrescope our guest today first time guest here on the podcast. He has written an entire book and we'll talk about that in a second. Mr. Paul Scheer, hello. Hello, I thought that you were talking about my fancy drink. Now I don't have any tar merch, but I like that you- What's your fancy drink?

My fancy drink is something that people are disgusted by whenever I talk about it, but I'll tell you. It is espresso tonic. So it's tonic water with a shot of espresso in it and it's delicious. Okay. Yeah, I've tried that. I saw it on a menu and I panicked and I got it.

I didn't like it. Well, if you don't like tonic, it's gonna, I mean, it's heavy on the tonic. So I like it because it kind of cuts the espresso a little bit, but yeah. I've also heard it done with a splash of orange juice in there too, which again, I like it, I'll take it. So is this, pardon my ignorance,

is this a hot shot of espresso? No, no, this is a hot shot of espresso over an iced cup of tonic water. Wow. Oh, I can't wait to try this because tonic water makes me remember my childhood when I drank straight out of the bottle just because it was sweet.

It was better than just drinking water. Same, same. I love that yellow, Canada Dry. Like, yep, oh, I was ready for it. Contains quinine, ready to go. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I was that way too. Like my parents never bought pop, but I was like,

oh well there's something in a can, this gotta be good. Right, oh, you're ready for it. Hey, it was the best thing. I used to mix tonic water and seltzer water as if that was a real bold mix. And what is the difference? What is seltzer water? Oh that was a real bold mix. And what is the difference? What is seltzer water? Oh, you know what?

Let's get to know us. Let's get to know us. Get to know us. What is the difference? I don't know anything about seltzer water except that it's kind of got a bit of popularity now. Well, look, there's a couple of things. We can nail it and move on and just say, you know, seltzer water can be a couple of popularity now. Well, look, there's a couple things. We can nail it and move on and just say,

seltzer water can be a couple things, just be carbonated water, just simply that. And then there's club soda, which is seltzer water, but it has a little bit of a salt, I think, or has a little bit more of a kick to it. Then tonic water is, instead of the salt, it's quinine, which gives it more of a sour flavor. And this is a very loose description

of all three of these carbonated beverages. And this is what your book's about that you've written? Yeah. Yeah, look, this is A43. This is the kind of questions, and these are the kind of problems we're gonna answer. And quinine, if I'm not mistaken, tastes like really bad on its own,

and that's why tonic water is packed with sugar. And so it's very, like it doesn't taste as sweet as like, you know, soda or whatever, a Coke. Right, right, right. But apparently quinine on its own is like, I don't know, bitter. Why it's also what you would take if you had a scurvy. Yeah, or malaria.

It's like- Malaria, okay, malaria, okay. Yeah, it's, I don't, I would take if you had scurvy. Yeah, or malaria. Malaria, okay, malaria, okay. Yeah, I think you'd take it to avoid malaria. I don't know. Yeah, that's true. It's not promo. Well, maybe, maybe it's a wild ride. Like, you know, some sort of, you know.

Treat malaria. I'm looking it up right now. It's used to treat malaria. And yeah, so there you go. Cool. I went to Southeast Asia once and they gave us a bunch of, went to the travel clinic and they had all the shots you needed to get for going somewhere tropical.

And they were like, you could get the malaria shot but it's worse than getting malaria. I will tell you, I went to Africa. I did this charity event for malaria, no more. And it was basically a bunch of, they were trying to, you could eradicate malaria very simply, mosquito nets, certain things that could be put in place. And the amount of shots I had to get to go

was next level. And I had to take a pill. Every day I took a pill to not get malaria. And it just wrecked my stomach so bad. That's when I took a probiotic for the first time because after I stopped taking the pill, I was just nauseous. It just had ripped up my like whatever was going on.

And that's where I learned about probiotics. And it was like, you gotta get on that. You have to like wean your way off of these like anti-malaria pills. Cause I was thinking of my anti-malaria pill, like I think a week before I'd left and then a week or 14 days after I got home, it was crazy. Geez. I don't think I've ever been to a place where I needed shots and maybe I haven't

gone that far abroad. I've never been to a tropical place. This, I think when you go like in, like we were in the jungles in Northern Africa. Really? Yeah, yeah. So we were like, we were, this wasn't near anything, you know, working, you know, it was, we were, we needed to get all this stuff, you know, the Peace Corps is like, this is what you need to do.

And were you doing shows or was this just a? No, it was, we were doing like, we were bringing attention to this organization and we were just helping out doing charity work. So I think we shot some videos as me, Nick Kroll, Ed Helms, and Natasha Legerro and Ricky Lindholm, we all went. Yeah, it was great. And yeah, we didn't do any shows, but we made these videos

so when we could go back to the states, we could help the funding of it. Oh, okay, cool. What was it like being in the jungle? That sounds insane. Yeah, it was really, it was really like, it was truly, you know, there's these moments where you get to do these

very cool things, that being definitely in the top five. I mean, you know, I, I also went to Iraq during, uh, the, the more recent war that we had, um, with the USO hotspots. Yeah. Well, all the hotspots and it was, you know, but it is kind of this interesting thing where you're like, you get a chance to go explore culture that you probably wouldn't get to explore. You would only get to kind of see it from a certain vantage point. So whenever I get a chance like that, it's, it, I'll always take it.

That's amazing. Holy cow. Um, now let's discuss your book. Sure. That you wrote, which is, uh, anytime that we have somebody on that's written a book, I'm blown away. It's joyful recollections of trauma. Yes. It's out on May 21st. You can preorder it now. You can do whatever you want. It's an audio book, an ebook, whatever, however you'd like it. And it meant, by the way, I made sure it was available in Canada. It was winter. So nice. Yeah.

Cause it was like, that was a big deal. Like it, like I was like, I want to, cause you know, we've been doing how this get made for a long time. We love going to Canada. There are, there are audiences in Canada have been always fantastic. So I wanted to make sure it was available in Canada and the UK. And I got both of those wishes granted. So I'm excited. What's your third wish?

Those are two? What's your third wish? I gotta figure out, sell some books. But no, I was trying very hard to figure out how to incorporate Canada onto our press tour and everything like that. So we're going to figure out some cool stuff. Nice. How hard was it to write a book?

I just imagined very hard. You know, look, I was incredibly nervous about writing a book because the truth is it's not easy right and I know like anything that you do is not easy and and you know you're gonna put energy and effort you want to be good I've talked to many friends who sell a book and then they're like oh my gosh now I got to write it I didn't want to be in that position I wanted to understand they like here's the topic yes about a boy who's a wizard and he doesn't know until he goes to this magic castle. I didn't want to write it though.

Well, you know, but like, that's the tricky thing. It's like, I could tell you a pitch for a book, but I don't know what that book, you know, like what I found with writing my book was it's not the book that I intended on writing. And I'm so glad that the way I approached it was by saying, let me just start writing. So I wrote about 50 or 70 pages, a few different stories.

And then- These are from your real life. From my real life, yeah. Real life, real life stories. And it all kind of started off with this idea, I've been doing How Did This Get Made for 14 years, which is a podcast I did with Jason Manzoukas and June Diane Rayfield, who's also my wife.

And we talk about bad movies. And- with Jason Manzoukas and June Diane Rayfield, who's also my wife, and we talk about bad movies. And my wife is your and your wife's biggest fan. Oh my gosh, well, tell her hi, and June will appreciate that as well. Paul says hi. And you know, so we were doing the show for 14 years, we're talking about bad movies, and occasionally when we're talking about these movies,

I would bring up something from my childhood, just some random story, not, you know, just completely off the cuff, not intentional at all. And the looks I would get from Jason and June, I was like, oh, I thought I'd tell a normal story, and then I'd see their faces in shock. Like, that is traumatic, what you went through, that is frightening.

And the audience has started getting excited for these stories. Again, I didn't plan them out. They just came out whenever they did. And I started to see all these like lists, like the most, uh, harrowing stories of Paul Scheer's child, you know, and then whenever I would start talking to be like, Oh man, uh-oh, uh-oh. And the truth is like, I didn't really ever think about it. People are like, you gotta write a book. You gotta write a book. You gotta write a book. And. I was like, yeah, yeah, sure. But I didn't really ever think about it. People are like, you gotta write a book, you gotta write a book, you gotta write a book. And I was like, yeah, yeah, sure,

but I didn't know, I didn't know what that meant. And to your point, yeah, it was frightening. So at one point I sat down and I go, all right, let me see what it would be. Let me just try to write one of the stories that I told on the show, just to see like, because I understand that's a story and then let's go from there.

And as I started writing it, I was like, oh, well that's the anecdote. Let me actually tell the full version of the story. And these stories that I had told, some stories that I've, I mean, a majority of stories I've never told, started to kind of take on its own life and kind of unfold.

So I had a couple of these stories and I went to an agent and I was like, I think this is what I want to do. And they're like, this is good. Here's some notes. I made some, I wrote some more, made some more notes and then I went out and sold it. So when I went to go sell the book,

I had about 200 pages in Microsoft Word document ready to go. And it was able to like, then people were able to understand like, oh, this is how he writes, this is what he does. And I also felt like I was going in knowing how I wrote what I wanted to do. And then it was kind of craft crafted through that process. So I felt like I protected myself from that total fear of selling a book and now

going now what, you know, which is, I think a lot of people I talk to get in that, especially in my field, not people are writing great works of fiction and things of that nature. The born identity. Yeah. Et cetera. What you described sounded very like Black Mirror,

just being like opening up your computer, and be like, oh, the top 10 stories of traumatic events of Paul Scheer's childhood. It's like. By the way, I did look at those, because I was like, I don't even remember what I'm talking about on the show. Like these stories were not,

they were just like a first thing around having a conversation. So I didn't, you know, I was like, oh yeah, did I talk about that? Oh, what's that? You know, and I started like kind of finding things, you know, reminding myself of it. You know, it's so funny,

and even doing press for the book, I found stories and I'm like, oh, right, just kind of forget, you know, you forget them, they're just part of your life. What's, do you have like a really short example of something that came up during the interview? What was number one on the list of the most?

Oh yeah, what was number one? Oh my gosh, I wonder, I mean, now I'm like, I don't remember that list totally. I mean, if you look on Reddit, you can find it. Just I've been most harrowing Paul Scheer stories. But you know, like for example, like I didn't, I didn't write this in the book, but I talk about this thing that happened when I was a kid,

both my parents worked and I spent a lot of time with my grandma. And my grandma would frighten me about not answering the door. And the way that she would tell me not to open the door was she told me the story about a butcher. There, there was this butcher that lived in town. And what happened to this butcher was he knocked on the door and, and the little boy went to the door, opened it up and the butcher said, you know,

sorry, actually, he knocked on the door and the butcher was like, let me in, let me in. And the boy was like, no one's home. The butcher was like, let me in. And the boy unlocked the door, don't know why, I didn't ask a lot of follow-up questions. And the butcher entered into the house and the boy is running up the stairs and my grandma would do this thing where and the noise of the stairs. Boom, boom, boom, boom.

And the little boy hit under the bed and the butcher came with his butcher, the knife and he slammed it down on the ground and they grabbed the boy from under the bed and he put them in a sack and he carried him away. And I'm like, well, what happened? What happened to the boy? And she's like, well, what happened? What happened to the boy? And she's like, wow. Later that day that boy's mother went to the butcher store and she ordered chopped meat and she brought the chopped meat home. My grandma, real like a 24 style.

And the mom started making chopped meat patties. She's going to make some hamburger meat. And as she was making it, she put a hamburger patty in and she saw that the hamburger patty looked like her boy and the hamburger patty said, mama, mama. And I was like, oh, I've never opened a door for a stranger. Wow. Wow, that's amazing.

That's like a Grimm's fairy tale kind of. Darker. Yeah, much darker, oh my God. And where did it break down for you? When did you realize this story wasn't true? Well, I mean, there's a lot of parts to this story. Probably about maybe six months ago. But the truth is, it's like,

well, clearly they caught the butcher, the mom must have gone back and said my chopped meat talked. I mean, the fact that Chopped Meat is talking is also suspect. There are a couple things about it that I have some questions, but it scared the shit out of me enough that I never did open that door.

I like that you were like, hold on a second, the Chopped Meat talked? Yeah, well, that's it. As a second, the chopped meat talked? Yeah. Well, that's it, like as a kid, you can get away with some of these stories, you can get away with just, I have a friend, she's a child psychologist, and we had a death in the family,

and we were saying, how do you talk about this to a child? Right. And she said something that I remember, and I take into all aspects of parenting, which is be, but concise. So it's like, you say like, Oh, so and so has passed away. And, um, you know, this is, you know, like you, that's it.

Like that's, we don't have to go like, Oh, and he's in a place and this happened. And this, and he goes, this kind of a work friend. And I didn't, you know, I'm still gonna go to the way. Yeah. You take out the, you take out like, you try to, if you make it boring and answer the question and don't offer them too much more to do, you can kind of shut it down, right? Like, you know, so it's like, it's like,

there's no followups if you're just honest. Like when you get like, when you get in the weeds is when you go and you know, and he's in a magical spot and he's gonna be greeted by St. Peter. He's like, well, who's St. Peter? Then all of a sudden, then you get in the weeds is when you go, and you know, and he's in a magical spot and he's gonna be greeted by St. Peter. He's like, well, who's St. Peter? Then all of a sudden, then you're like opening up doors to other stories and it gets a little bit more complex. So I always take about it, be honest and concise.

That sounds great. It's a good lesson in life in general. Dave, are you honest and concise with your daughters? With my kids, I'm a big sort of like chopped meat story kind of parent. I do a lot of like, yeah, I went to the butcher, I ordered chopped meat. They said, what do you want? Precisely, I don't care. Just give me whatever. I mean, do you want beef? Do you want pork? Whatever. They're wearing a little bow tie. I did a bit with my kids this morning that I think they believed, which made me laugh.

I was like, you know, they're just so slow getting ready to go to school. And on Tuesdays, it's a late start Tuesday at the school they go to. So they go, we leave a little bit later. And, you know, so I said to my guys, guys, you got five minutes to get dressed. And if you're not ready in five minutes,

I'm taking you to school as you are in that moment. Right, and which I think is like, no matter how illegal it is, I'm gonna do this. It's like, to me, I was like, and I, and it was, and I wasn't like, not yelling, it's just like, I just like, it's my veiled threat. Like I'll take you as you are. And my youngest, I walk in in five minutes,

completely naked because he's a, these kids wear uniforms. I'm like, how are you completely, you know what you're gonna wear. And I'm like, that's it. And I just picked him up under my arm for a second. He's like, no, no, no, I'm just joking, I'm not gonna take you to school like this.

It was just like, but it was like, it was, they're so ready to believe, like what, my dad will bring me to school completely naked. Yeah, yeah, because what are they, they don't know any different. They don't know, and it's like, then I feel bad, because I'm like, oh, I would never do anything to make you feel that way.

But like, it's also like as a parent, you need to give them some sort of, you know, some sort of impetus to get, you know, to get dressed. Absolutely. I've already given them a bunch. I'm like, come on guys, let's go, let's go, come on, come on. How old are your kids?

I have a seven year old and a 10 year old. Okay. I have a seven and a nine year old and mine just wouldn't believe me if I did that. Like, you're not going to do that. We do so many bits around the house that, you know, that I really, I feel like, they do bits with us too. So it's not like just one sided,

but I feel like they're never quite sure like what's a bit and what's real. Like sometimes my kid will be like, really dad? Really? I'm like, no, not sure like what's a bit and what's real. Sometimes my kid will be like, really dad, really? I'm like, no, not really, what do you mean really? What's one of the bits? Now I need to know what one of the bits is. Well, I'm trying to think of like, you know,

I'm trying to think of like a good, like, they're all like veiled. And now like, you know, now of course I'm like, cause they don't like, they're in and out of my mouth. It's not like, oh, I go back to these bits every single day. But, you know, it's like, but it's like, I'm just trying to think of a good one that we had just, that I just did where my kids like, really, really, that really, really always gets me.

Oh, like, he was like, like he was, I was, you know, he had, he had cut his knee, my son, and, and he was like, like he was, I was, you know, he had, he'd cut his knee, my son. And, and he was like, it really hurts. Will it heal? I'm like, well, you know what? And the cut was so tiny that like, I'm like having trouble finding it for the bandaid. He was like, will this heal?

I'm like, well, if it doesn't, I was like, you know, we can take off the knee cap. I don't know, we'll do that. And he's like, really? Really? I'm like, no, we don't take off your knee cap. But it's like, it's like, it's, I mean, well, if it doesn't, I was like, you know, we can take off the knee cap. I don't know, we'll do that. And he's like, really? Really? I'm like, no, we're not taking off your knee cap. But it's like, it's like, it's, I mean, again, it's like, I don't even know.

Like, it's not even, they're not always like these, I feel like I just give you two threats. They're more like silly and fun. But they're always like, you know, but it's like, it's just like, it's the stupid stuff. You know, it's like, you know, it's like, but he's like walking around with a limp because literally it's like, it's the stupid stuff, you know? It's like, you know, it's like, but he's like walking around with a limp because literally it's like, I can't,

when I tell you it's so, so tiny, it's like, oh, so funny. My kid, my seven year old yesterday, I was, I had a terrible cold on Sunday and I was still sick yesterday. And I was like, okay. And she had a bit of a cough on Sunday and she was doing okay on Monday,

but she wanted to stay home. I could tell she was like, maybe I'm sick enough to stay home. And I was like, since I'm home sick anyway, you can stay home. And then it became evident like five minutes after school started and she was at home. She was faking it.

She was totally fine. Right, oh, it's the worst. And every time I would be like, you don't sound very sick. She would be like, yeah, just sniffling so much. I, it's so funny when this thing is like, when they like, they think they can outlie you. Like, you know, it's like, I, it's so funny when this thing is like, when they, like, like they think they can outlie you, like, you know,

it's like I've been around. I understand. My wife caught my son in a lie the other day. So my son had written is so unlike my son, there was a signup sheet that the girls had, this is my youngest son that the girls had put up about a necklace making party or something like that. And my son, that the girls had put up about a necklace making party or something like that. And my son, and it was like you could RSVP to it, like on the signup sheet, yes or no.

And my son wrote, no, because it sucks. And then signed it his name. Like, so he didn't even make it anonymous. He signed it his name. Like, so he didn't even make it anonymous. He signed it his name. And, you know, and so I was like, so we were talking to him and we're like, you know, cause you know, we were talking about consequences why you shouldn't write that.

We were giving him a full talk. And he goes, well, I didn't mean to do it. A second grader made me do it and he had a big stick. And I'm like, okay, all right, sure. Get a big stick and I go, should we go over, should I come to school tomorrow morning and we'll go to the second grade classroom. We'll look at him, we'll find him.

Because I wanna find out who this kid is. I wanna make sure that kid doesn't do that again. And he's like, yeah. I'm like, okay, great. So tomorrow morning when I drop you off I'll go to the classroom. And he's like, no, no, no, I did it, I did it. No, there was a second grader.

I was like, all right, there you go. I do love a good calling there bluff. Oh yeah. It's gonna get harder though, as they get older. It's gonna get harder to like, they'll know you're not gonna follow through on it. But by the way, like I think that if you keep them enough on your toes,

they might think that you will. Like I would have no problem going into a certain grade classroom and going, huh? Who is it? Like, what do I care? I'm an adult. Like, I'm like, yeah, let me go. Like, let's do it.

Yeah. Like, you know, like, I mean, I am, I embarrass my kids. I mean, again, maybe I'm saying like, um, but like my kids are so like, they're like, like I do carpool all the time and when I drive them I drive them the carpool they always like they want to be cool coming into the school like playing like a Cool song and stuff and as soon as I turn into the parking lot I roll down all the windows and I will pop on Peppa Pig or a Paw Patrol theme song

I just be blaring from our car. And they were like, no, no, no, no, no, no. And they had to escape this car playing Paw Patrol, which is like. There's a guy I know, a kid with a stick, he's gonna come over here to the car. Ah. Yeah, when I was a kid, the big threat was military school.

Oh yeah. And I thoroughly believed my parents. So like, yeah, they were like, if you don't, they didn't use it all the time, but more extreme situations, it was military school was the threat. My wife's dad would go as far as going, all right, June, I'm going to have to call the bad girls home and would pick up the phone and be like, uh, yeah. Uh, four foot three, uh, 100 pounds. Like, you know, like, like, like sizing it up.

So, I mean, that's okay. You know, look, if you come from a loving family, it's all good. You're not, you know, you're not, you don't know it's, but you do know it's like, it's, it's hanging above your head just a little bit. It could, it could happen. Yeah. Well, you know, I believe my dad, when he told me he was a hundred, so.

I always tell my kids that like, they're like, how old are you? I'm like, 18. They're like, what? I'm like, I'm 18. I'm like embarrassed about it. I had you guys when I was like, what? I'm like, I'm 18. I'm like embarrassed about it. I had you guys when I was 11. Yeah, you got to enjoy it while you can.

The listeners may not know, or they might, that you have a podcast that's been running for. Yeah, I have one that's been running for 14 years, and the other one I think has been running for five or six years, yeah. So it's one about bad movies called How'd This it's a one about bad movies called how did this get made one about good movies called unspooled. I host the unspooled with New York times film critic Amy Nicholson and yeah.

And then how did this get made? I host with my wife, uh, June Diane Rayfield and Jason Mazur. Cause you might know from shows like Brooklyn nine or the league. Yeah. And you were in the league, right? I was in the league and that there was a guy from Canada. I think that was that every day. Yeah. Yeah. Get that Canada getting our Canadian audience.

Now you John is the best. We had a good it a fun crew there to did that show for about seven years and then they asked us to do more and we said no which what the I you know, look, I love, I've done this a lot, which is saying no, because like sometimes getting out early, it's like leaving a party before it gets too late. Like you don't want to stay too long. We did human giant. We did it for two seasons, a sketch show they did with Aziz.

I'm sorry. And, uh, Rob Hubel directed by Jason Wallner, who directed Borat two. Um, and we loved doing that show. Aziz is going to get parks and rec and they were very amenable. They're like, we can give them to you whenever we're not shooting, but we knew like, Oh, it won't be the same if Aziz is not in the writers room with us every single day, cause it's like the show was so much us. And so the choice was can we continue the show

and be slightly compromised, not incredibly, but slightly, or should we just call it quits? We felt like we got two good seasons away, we wanted to do it and we called it quits. And occasionally there'll be these moments where you regret that decision, like the league was the same way. We did seven years and I come back and do more.

We're like, eh, we did it. Seven years of a sitcom, how much more are you gonna find with these characters? Like, you know, by the time you get to season three, you're already repeating some of the things that they do. It's not, you know, it's not like Breaking Bad, we're not gonna follow a large character arc on these sitcoms, unless you're the bear.

But, you know. It's such a good sitcom. Yeah, and, you know, so, you know, I think there is like a benefit of just calling an edit. And you're always gonna regret it on some level, but it better to leave people wanting more. Even with, I did the show NTSF SDSUV on Adult Swim. It's just like, you do it, and then the benefit of it too

is people are bummed when it ends, and your crew or your cast is like, oh, I would like to have gone and done more of that. And that's the way you really wanna leave people. You never wanna leave people going like, like I always say, like, better to do a short show than a long show. Because when that, not like, not in, like, you know,

time-wise, you know, cause it's like, no one ever is like, ah, I just wish that show was 45 minutes longer. I wish I watched a 40, you know, it's like, yeah, just get them out. Podcasts are a different whole situation. It's like that, I think that audio stuff can live on for a much longer period of time. On your show, is there,

not to ask what the number one of all time bad movie that you've enjoyed, but one of the ones ones in the top. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Like I always say it really depends on what you like, right? Like, what are you, what are your favorites? You know, for me, one of my favorite movies that we have done on the show is are kind of these movies that were made with like the best intentions. There's this movie called Samurai Cop. This guy.

Samurai Cop. Right, great movie. I believe the director was European, didn't speak the language, but had grown up on movies like Lethal Weapon and like these, you know, Chuck Norris films and stuff like that and wanted to create his version of it.

So it is like an alien trying to create, like it's like, okay, it looks like it, but it isn't it. It's like, you know, it's got all the elements. It's got the long haired cop, it's got the, you know, one cop was black, one cop was white. They kind of have this like, hey, get away, all right, you know, this kind of rivalry.

It's got some naked women in it, because in that period of time, it was always like, you're gonna have some of that. You know, you got these bad guys, you know, it's like everything is there, and that movie is so perfect, because it is through Google Translate. And you know, the director, the actors will talk about it.

They're like, he wouldn't let us change dialogue. So it would be like, instead of saying like, ah shit, it'd be like shit on you. You know, it's like, it's like, it's just a little off. And that to me is like the charm of that movie. I mean, in so many ways. And you know, we, we just did that one recently and it's, it's kind of always a, a,

it's brilliant when we can kind of find movies that we didn't even know existed, you know, we just kind of, you know, sift through these ones that are, I guess part of it too is like, what are the movies that are actually fun to watch and not like I don't want to ever watch movies ever again? And that's a fine line. What's just boring?

What's just okay? Yeah. What was the name of the company that made a bunch, in the eighties, They made a bunch of oh Low budget, you know that could be I know you're talking about it's it's it's they made the Apple they made Canon films. Yes. Yeah, cuz they did the Superman for that. Yes. Yes, truly bizarre Yeah, truly bizarre. It like it is like these are these movies that are, they're always, it's just fun to, you know, again,

they're just making movies for this, they know they can sell it. I think that that's kind of the fun of it, is that they understand like, oh, like there's a market here for that, you know, like they could just sell them overseas. And that's why I remember, I was in France one time, and I was in France and I saw like all these posters for a Mel Gibson movie.. You know, like they could just sell them overseas. And that's why I remember I was in France one time

and I was in France and I saw like all these posters for a Mel Gibson movie. I was like, what's this? And I was like, oh yeah, that movie is only gonna come out here, it's like a Mel Gibson action movie. I was like, wow, there you go. Wow, how'd they get them? Was this post-racism or?

Post-racism, yeah. You know, I've learned a new thing. Pete Holmes had given me this new thing that really made me laugh. You know, whenever you come across somebody, and like, look, we're not here to sit around and talk about, well, Mel Gibson's issues on that. So, you know, a lot of the times you just go like this,

you go like, you know, like this Mel Gibson movie, or you're like, this Mel Gibson scandal noted movie, that would be up. So you say scandal noted, when you're like, it's not about, because it's not about, like, we're not talking about that, so you say like scandal noted. when you're like, it's not about, cause it's not about like, we're not talking about that. So you say like Scandal Noted. So, you know, it's like, it's there.

We're acknowledging that it's there. Cause sometimes you're like, how could you talk about that and not address this? Like, well, we're not, we're not doing that. We're just talking about this. You're like, oh, you know, you know, it's great. Uh, Diane Keaton, you know, and Annie Hall, she's unbelievable.

You know, obviously, uh, Woody Allen, Scandal Noted, there are some issues, but you know, it's a way to kind of, kind of just. You know, obviously Woody Allen scandal noted there are some issues, but you know It's a way to kind of kind of just you know Just address and move on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I You said that that that Mel gives the movie that just came out in France I remember when I was in I went to France once and they had just gotten the movie not another teen movie Okay, which was a spoof of a bunch of... Yes, I remember it very well.

Of just like every teen movie that came out in the 80s and 90s. But I guess, like, it's hard to sell that over there, so they just called it Sex Academy. Oh, that's beautiful. I mean, man, oh, man, we've been trying to do this thing, and whenever we find it, we try to find how the movie was translated to foreign audiences.

It's always a beautiful, like, it's yeah, it's just how do you get it? How do you bring in the most basis, you know, the base level of this? It's so fun. There was also, when I was there, they had the movie Kissing Jessica Stein, and they just called it, Kissing Jessica, and I was like, hmm,

that makes me feel gross. Ah, ah, ah, ah. Oh my gosh, that's amazing. So casual, but so pointy. Yeah. Yeah, there's, I know there's a lot of people that chronicle like the like posters that have been made for You know action films from America that Like they have elements of the plot on the poster. Yeah. Oh, it doesn't look right when you see it all together

No, it's such a bizarre. It's such a bizarre thing. You know, we are you know you It's such a bizarre thing. You know, we are, you know, you, I feel like I've seen a lot of those Indian posters, right? Like they are beautiful to look at. And you're like, wow, like they are, you know, just what they've decided the selling points are, are always hilarious to me. And they're also like, if you like the movie,

it's a great poster to buy for your house. Because it's like, there are some great looking ones, like really like fantastic I'm gonna see if they have the tar Indian movie poster. Oh Google that right now tar Indian release What would they highlight what would be the what would be that won't be the big image oh my gosh, I Haven't seen it. So I don't know. I'm looking to see if there was any,

when I typed in tar, in Google, the first thing that comes up is, what is the point of tar? Hmm. Okay, but that's, oh, but it is about the film. I thought it was gonna be about the thing. The material. Yeah, well, they tell you that the point is

how abusive power dynamics are created, maintained, and eventually torn down. Oh, yeah That is the point no reason go see it now, yeah, I got the point Yeah, I watched I went to the movie theater and watched Kong versus Godzilla I had I assumed I was, this may be written by AI. This is nothing. It's literally is not a smidge of it is original. It's just everything being combined together.

Monster movie and action movie. And it's have you seen it? I wanted to go see it, but but this is making perfect sense to me. I feel like what we're trying to do is create movie stew. We're not confident in one thing anymore, so we're like, everyone will like it. You like shrimp? Yeah, there's some shrimp in there.

You like sausage? There's some sausage. It's just gumbo. We're having movie gumbo. And the hope is that, all right, well, it's not gumbo. We're having movie gumbo. And the hope is that like, all right, well, it's not that bad, I guess. Movie gumbo is like the perfect, that's a phrase I'm gonna continue to use my whole life.

Yeah, because it's like, especially as these movies get, I always think about movie gumbo when I think about, they call them four quadrant movies. Like four quadrant movies, or at least the way that I understand it, I'm not in marketing, are movies that appeal to, you know, adults, children, old people, young people, right? It's hitting all four quadrants of the movie going audience, also men and women. And so I guess there's more than four quadrants.

But it's like, it's the movie like Green Lantern, the original Ryan Reynolds one where it's like, oh, we'll have him surfing in one scene, but we'll also have a race car. And then we're also gonna have a musical number, but we're also gonna have like a child. And then we're also gonna have this person who you don't know, but is giant in China. You know, it's like, it's like, it's just every,

it's just get, it's like that scene from the Marx brothers where they're all kind of cramming into the stateroom. It's like, just get everything in there. Like, we'll check all the boxes. And what happens is, is like, we're like, nothing sticks out and it just becomes this like mess of just like, we're cool, we're hip. It's like Poochie P on Simpsons.

It's like, it's just trying to hit all these different things. Yeah, it was like, it was like a buddy movie, like his Kong and Godzilla team up to fight whatever it was, some snow creature. And, but the elements of like, there was one woman in it,

I can't remember the actress's name, but all, she was just exposition. That was the only thing she would see like a stone. Why didn't she be like, this means from this, and this means back in the old times that this had happened. And that was her whole role. I love those movies because I saw the trailer for it, and it was like, there was this moment where it's like,

they're like, remember the last time they met? These guys are gonna not like each other. They're like, we're talking about a giant ass gorilla and a sea monster. Like, I guess we gotta pair them up. Like, you know, it's like this, this is like rational conversation about two giant monsters who cannot,

who have been established in this world, cannot communicate. And then you have to give, and again, I have not seen the movie and I will watch it the minute it comes to DVD. That like, they, then these animals that don't communicate we have to then communicate to them that we need them to team up to then fight a third like you know it's like yeah like it's there's so much that is gone out the window and that's why I

kind of like movies with less expositions like don't even try to ground it don't even try I just googled and and in Google it says, what is the point of Godzilla and Kong? And it says it's about two monsters who can't communicate. Now we were talking about movie gumbo. Have either of you actually ever eaten gumbo? I haven't because it's got shrimp in it, I think is one of the common ingredients. I haven't, although I love soup,

and I mean the name gumbo seems like this should be the most popular soup in the world. What a name, but I don't think I've ever had it. I've had gumbo, you know, I've had gumbo, but here's the thing, you gotta have gumbo in the right situation. Like I had gumbo in New Orleans, like that's when you should be having gumbo, but here's the thing. You gotta have gumbo in the right situation. I had gumbo in New Orleans. That's when you should be having gumbo.

I feel like gumbo doesn't travel. It's like you need somebody who's been like, oh, I made this every weekend when I was a kid, or my mom made this every weekend when I was a kid, but you don't wanna go into a local diner or some sort of restaurant and be like, oh yeah, try our gumbo. No, I need to, it's like a crawfish party

or something like that. Put me in this situation I'm gonna enjoy. Because it's not gonna, I don't think a gumbo travels. But then when you have something good, like New Orleans, I spent some time there, worked on movies there. The food is amazing. And there's so many versions of like,

oh, here's our take on the po' boy. It tastes nothing like a po' boy. right? You know, it's like, there's, you know, it's like, I've had plenty of crepes. You have a crepe in France. You're like, Oh my gosh, this is, this has got something going on that no one else is ever going to come close to. And that's like a, a bad crepe. I had a bad crepe in France. It's like pizza in New York. Yeah. It's like, yeah, you're going to have pizza. It's going to be fine. It may even be delicious.

It's not going to be like New York pizza, which is, you know, I would argue is the base level. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I feel this thing happens a lot if you travel to small towns. There will be a family that has settled in a small town, and then they open like an Ethiopian food restaurant, and everything else is like Denny's, McDonald's, and then the best then, you know,

like the best of that meal that you could ever have, uh, because this family works in it and turns it out. Yeah. Well that's the kind of crazy thing. So I watched this movie in, um, Shreveport, Louisiana, and this was back in the day in Shreveport now, or at least for a little bit, it was a tax break place to shoot. So you could shoot a big movie there and you know, for like, you know, like 30 cents on the dollar, like so you would get some, you really make,

you know, it could be good. So I went like we, there wasn't that many places to eat in Shreveport. That were great. And wouldn't you know it, there is one Indian place, Indian family ran it. It was, uh, amazing and you would never think like I'm going to eat Indian food in Triebport, Louisiana. Like, I don't know, you know, and, and it like,

yeah, so I, I guess I'm more open to that now is like looking for that, like lone family establishment that really sets the level. But it's also kind of a crazy thing too, because it's like, hey, sometimes I don't wanna take that chance. I need somebody else to tell me that. When I was in Lake Havasu,

they were like, this is a great Italian place. I needed three people to tell me it was a great Italian place before I decided I was gonna go. I'd rather stay safe and eat at the TGI Fridays that we went to every night. Yeah. Graham, Shreveport, Louisiana,

can you tell me the Canadian fact about it? I don't know, did Cartier go there first before he- Oh yeah, probably. That's probably what I was getting at. No, when the Canadian Football League expanded into the States, there were the Shreveport Pirates. Love it. Oh, wow.

Which would have made our league 90? I know, because then there was also the Las Vegas Posse and the Baltimore Colts, Baltimore something. Wow. It's a very weird time in Canadian football history. Was that in the 80s or something? Late 90s. What happened? Late 90s.

It was the late 90s. And there's a great clip of a Las Vegas lounge singer doing the national anthem and he doesn't know the Canadian national anthem. And he sings basically, Oh Canada to the tune of Oh Christmas Tree. Oh no. Yeah, I remember that.

I didn't realize they had a team down there. Paul, where are you from? I grew up in New York. And I- You have a pizza there. That explains your pizza bias. Oh, no, I mean, I look, you know, I have a lot of quirks, but that is a known fact.

New York has the best pizza. I mean, where else is a pizza capital? Where, what would you think? But, you know. I mean. Baltimore. Oh boy. Baltimore, what? Come on. If you said Detroit, if you said Detroit,

Detroit has a Detroit style pizza, but like that New York slice, that is a specific grab and grow, a grab and go slice. There's nothing like it any place I've ever been. There are occasionally be like a New Yorker who moves out here, they'll start it. There's nothing like it. Anyplace else I've ever been. There are occasionally be like a New Yorker who moves out here. Uh, they'll start it.

There's like one place Mulberry street pizza out here in Los Angeles, but that grab and go slice was truly not the, yeah. And there's all different types of pizza. I get that. But that, that grab and go, it's like even the worst place in, in LA, I mean, the worst place in the country, like you go to Sbarro's, pizza's never gonna be bad, but it will never be as good as that New York slice. There's a pizza chain in Canada called Boston Pizza. Oh yeah.

Boston famously not famous for its pizza. Not really, yeah. But I believe it's named after a guy. It's after, yeah, it's named after a guy. It's after, yeah. Samuel Boston or something. But that, by the way, what, like you have to go, Hey Sam, um, because people are going to think this, it's like, it's a little confusing. Uh, you know, it's called Sam's pizza or whatever. You know, I'm called Boston pizza. Um, you know, I went to this place, uh, the other day. So, uh, we're,

I'm working near this studio and the studio is in a bunch of, there's a bunch of good restaurants nearby. All of them are packed, couldn't get into any of them. So I went to this place that I always drive by but I never look in it's called like sushi palace. Look, all right, sushi palace, try sushi palace. All you can eat lunch $33 or whatever. I was like, okay, I already am suspect about a couple of things. Let's go to the sushi palace and they start

with giving me German dumplings. There we go. Immediately I'm like, weird for sushi palace, the German dumplings. Then course two, burrata with fried egg. Okay, here we go. Now that now I'm going like German dumplings or something. I get that. Burrata I get, fried egg on top of burr dumplings or something, I get that.

Burrata, I get. Fried egg on top of burrata, I don't get that. So now we're going, now we're like breaking it apart. The meal is all over the map, getting all these weird courses, and then they charged six extra dollars because we didn't eat all the food on our plates. And they're like, we were from, we're from Germany and that's to prevent food waste.

I'm like, well, you gave me, I didn't ask, I like, I like what, what, what are we doing here? Why am I getting charged? You can't make me eat it. My mom, make me eat. Yeah. I went to a restaurant and there's, I think it's, it might be one of the owners, but she will not take your dish away until you've finished and she'll come she'll come back and kind of like coax you like, hey, more peppers over there and, and you do you just eat it. We didn't get charged $6. Oh, that's insane.

Really a wild thing. It's like I get like, you want to like, you know, it's to prevent food waste, but at the same time, that seems like maybe something you put at a buffet. I don't know, I don't even know how you, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know how you institute that, but you can't like force someone to eat everything on their plate or charge them money. We used to go to this all you can eat sushi place,

and we would get like a group of 10 people, and it had a Korean barbecue that you cook the meat in the middle of yourself. And we were in college at the time and we had a huge appetites, but sometimes we would just overorder and they would bring, like, we'd be like, okay, is that all we ordered?

We're good, right? No more food is coming. We're like, we're full. And then they would come with like eight more plates of sushi and we would Throw some sushi into the barbecue Oh, we would god because they charge you if you don't finish your food Right, and so we would like next time we got like we got to bring Tupperware next time. That's hilarious Oh my god, we never yeah

It would be like sneaking stuff out in your pocket just so you don't get charged next time That is so wild. It should be like you have out in your pocket just so you don't get charged extra. That is so wild. It should be like you have to pay the $6 if you don't finish, but if you finish, you get $6. That works both ways. Right, yeah, like take $6 off if, but that's the way to do it. You get $6 refunded to you.

Yeah, see, I think we've figured out a way to do it that's just and... Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got it. We got it figured out. Let's get it back to Sushi Palace. We'll go this week. I'll tell him I discussed it and we have a plan. Dave, what's going on with you, my friend?

Oh, not much. I mentioned I'm sick. But Paul was talking about his tonic and espresso. I saw a video on Instagram and I was like, oh, I wanna do this. And it was a video of someone going to McDonald's and you can get, they do espresso shots at McDonald's. Okay, wow, I didn't know that.

They got a double shot of espresso and vanilla milkshake and they mixed them together and ooh, I tried it. I got it, it gets the Dave's seal of approval. Oh, I like that. Okay. So you have, how can you put it in the cup if the cups, like do you have to drink a bit of the, or eat a bunch of the vanilla?

Yeah, you gotta drink a bit of milkshake, yeah. Okay. And espresso shot is very vanilla? Yeah, you got drink a bit of milkshake Yeah, okay This press we shot is very small. Yeah, tiny Well, I'll take your guys's word for it Have you ever had an afogato Graham I love an affogato I only Learned it because our mutual friend Emmett kept talking about it at some point in Afegado. Right. But it's like, what is it?

What is vanilla in there or something? It's vanilla ice cream and you pour over, you pour the espresso over like a scoop of vanilla ice cream. So you basically make it like a, it's like a coffee float, but reversed. It's like you're not drinking it. Like you're eating ice cream that has espresso poured on it. Yeah, you use a full spoon. Ooh, that sounds pretty good.

Is that something that you get from kind of an exclusively, is it Italian or where would you get it? That's a very Italian dessert. It's on a lot of menus because it's a simple dessert. Like it looks classy. Like you pour this thing over it. I would say that the issue that you have with it is, depending on where you are in your night,

it's a tough thing to have a shot of espresso at night if you don't wanna stay up. If this is like the meal you're having and then you're gonna go out and do something, good to have. But if you're like, oh, we're gonna go back and it's tired now, it's like you don't wanna just jack yourself up

with espresso. Yeah. What do you guys think is the fanciest dessert? Speaking of the fancy dessert or an elegant dessert. Well, for me, I'm gonna tell you though, the one thing that I think is an overrated dessert is every place has this like chocolate lava pie or this chocolate lava cake and it's too much chocolate.

Like there's one version of it that's good, I guess where you crack into it and it's too much chocolate. Like there's one version of it that's good, I guess, where you crack into it and it's like, and like, it almost like hot fudge kind of oozes out, you know, it's like, that's a, that like, you know, fun. But, but oftentimes these chocolate cakes are just like, it's like the double Dutch, the death by chocolate cake. It's, I like chocolate.

I just, it feels like it's, I don't like just chocolate on chocolate on chocolate. Right. Yeah, fair enough. That's, Dave, I think you were telling me that the chocolate lava cakes wasn't from Domino's? Oh, that's probably delicious. Like that's, they figured it out.

Yeah, absolutely. Now, I don't want everyone thinking, hey, Dave, do you just eat the Domino's or McDonald's? No, I don't. There's a Popeyes that just opened as well. Oh, yeah. And a Wendy's, you can... Sure.

I'm not doing well. I'm not in good health. You're sick, I know. But as far as a classy dessert, I remember my dad used to always get, I don't think they have it at Dairy Queen anymore, but they had a chocolate covered cherry blizzard. Ooh. And it was like, this felt like a very adult blizzard. Yeah.

Yeah. I feel like when you mix chocolate and cherry together, that seems like sensual in some way. It seems adult. It does seem like, hey, we're mixing these two things. I don't know why, but it's like, I think chocolate covered cherries when I was a kid was very like, it just seemed like, oh, that's what adults have.

You have to have a special palette for that. Yeah, I need to show ID. Yeah, it's interesting. I live in LA now and there's too many fancy desserts. For me, all I want is, I want like Duncan Hines, yellow cake, out of the box, the frosting from the soup. Like that's what I like.

Papa John's, which my kids eat a lot of, and I don't know why, and you know, they'll say often, oh, you know he's a bad guy, Papa John, but we like his pizza. They separate the art from the art. What was the Pete Humps thing? Scandal noted. Scandal noted. Papa John, but, but we like his pizza. Scandal noted. But, um, you know, I feel like Papa John's to me, like they have a, um, uh, uh, uh, a giant cookie.

That's really like a hot cookie. Like, uh, I like, I like a fun dessert should be fun and delicious. So I don't need a fancy thing. I don't need to be cracking things. I don't need to be, you know, I had a brookie the other day and the brookie to me blew my mind. It's a brownie, a brownie cookie.

Oh, I don't think I've ever, what's the, is it big like a brownie or round and thin like a cookie? What's the? It's like a cookie top on a brownie bottom. So I don't know how they do it, but it's really like it was it was delicious, you know And I'm you know, I'm looking at this, you know It's like the I want to see what I'm gonna find out exactly because I've said it like there's millions of these Brookies Is that a thing? Yeah Brookies are a thing. It's a thing. Okay. Yeah, they are a thing

I think I've maybe heard about, maybe I felt like I dreamed it, but yeah, the brookie, okay. Half chocolate chip cookie, half brownie. Get into it. That's amazing. That's amazing, holy shit. The one that I thought was for adults only when I was a kid was black forest cake.

Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. Yes, yes. My stepfather loved a black forest cake. And look, I just talked about how much I don't like a chocolate cake. Oh yeah. Yes, yes. My stepfather loved a black forest cake and look, I just talked about how much I don't like a chocolate cake. That's a good example of a chocolate cake that is cut with the right amount of other things. You got the cherries in there, makes it adult. You got the vanilla frosting in there, kind of breaks it up, the chocolate. And I believe that there's also a chocolate pudding element in there as well. Wow, yeah. And those are all things on their own that a kid would be like, yes, delicious. Oh yeah, exactly. Black Forest cake, that was like, you know, when adults got their own cakes, that was it.

Yeah. Have you ever had a Vianetta? No, what's a Vianetta? It was like a, it's an ice cream log that you would get from the store. Oh, I know what that is. But it was like fancy. It had like layers of different stuff inside.

And then the ice cream itself was like, you know, like it came out of a piping bag or something. It was fancy and it had like, ooh, it had like chocolate on top. Oh, you see, I know what this is. And we had something that was kind of similar to this. I don't know if you, do you have Friendly's up there? No. No.

Okay, so Friendly's is like a family fast casual chain. Okay, okay. You sit down in it and it was really known for their ice cream. So Swenson's and Friendly's in the eighties were like kind of these like ice cream. So like, like you went there for dinner, but you really were staying for the dessert. Like Friendly's had this Reese's Pieces Sunday as a kid. It was like the most intense Sunday. It was amazing. It was like exploding on the day. Like when you could get a Reese's Pieces Sunday, it was like, Oh my God, life is good. But they had like a viennetta thing

called a watermelon roll, not watermelon, but a watermelon roll. And it was in the shape of a watermelon, like that was sliced in half. So it had a rind, it had a, you know, green bottom, a white center. Then you had the, so basically it was like, uh, like a strawberry ice cream with chocolate chips. That was the, the watermelon. Then you have a vanilla ice cream and then you had this kind of crust or this kind of, um, green, uh, you know, something that made it. I don't know what it was, but it was a, that was like that kind of like a three tiered ice cream roll and you'd cut it like a, like a watermelon slice. That's amazing. That's amazing. Oh man, and it's fun

That's a fun. Yeah, very fun So I just googled it and the first thing that comes up is a change org petition to bring it back See they knew what they were doing. I Mean, I you know, it's so funny like those things that are burnt into your head, like the Reese's peanut butter sundae, it really was like, you'd look at it on the menu and just be like, oh my God, if I could get this, if I could just, if I'm good enough

and my report card's good enough, I could do this. You know, and it really, it was a moment in, like as a kid where it's like, that's all I want and if I get it, it would be everything that I ever needed, you know? It's like, you know, it's like I love the simplicity of that time. Yeah.

And it's two families coming together, the Friendly family and the Reese family. And that's what we need more of, right? In this divided time that we're in, we need to bring together these candy conglomerates and say, come on now people. Yeah, wow. Sounds nice.

Sounds like a utopia. That's really nice. My Dairy Queen from my youth had a, they had a hard ice cream. Okay. And there was this thing on the menu that was chocolate ice cream with peanut butter sauce, little cookie crunchers and whipped cream.

And they'll never bring it back because they don't have hard ice cream anymore. Right. That's like my fondest memory. There's just these moments. I just Googled the Friendlies menu because I wanted to remember what made it look so appealing to me. And I'm looking at it right now, I'm like, oh, what I wouldn't give to get one of these, one of these sundaes.

It's like, it's in a big glass cup, and you see it's vanilla, it's chocolate, it's fudge, it's caramel, it's got sprinkles on it, it's got a cherry on top, and it's also littered with Reese's Pieces. Maybe it's peanut butter sauce in there. But that and a Fribble, or they had one that was banana. I'm looking at it, ugh.

Classic. What's a Fribble? Give me a little low down on a Fribble. A Fribble to me, if I'm remembering it correctly, was kind of a lighter milkshake. It had like all the elements of a milkshake. But it was like a, I'm looking at it right now, not your average milkshake. Uh, they're creamier. They're there. You know, that's, that's, I think the big thing is like you could drink a fribble.

You didn't need a straw for a fribble. I feel like that was a big, a big part of it. It says, uh, tastiest milkshake of all time. Tastiest milkshake of all time. Okay. Well, I believe it. I've had some tasty ones, but I don't know that I've ever had one that's claimed. I just looked on, because Bon Appetit did write an article about the Fribble,

and they said that the Fribble is historically made with ice milk. Oh, okay. And a softer ice cream-like frozen dessert that contains less butterfat, which makes it ultra creamy. That's where I've been going wrong. I've been using too much butter fat.

Of course, I mean, that's is it. But you have frosties though. Oh yeah, man. Yeah. Frosties. I mean, that's not a milk steak either. I mean, that's a different one. That's like a milkshake meets a soft serve or something like that.

Now, do you remember when the Blizzard came out? Or you're not from a Blizzard part of the country? The Blizzard is Dairy Queen, right? Yeah, Dairy Queen. Hell yeah. Okay. Dairy Queen was harder to get to, but when you could get there, it was Blizzard a bust.

Yeah. And when they first introduced it, I do believe the commercials said thick like a frosty because my family still repeats that phrase every time anyone mentions a blizzard or a frosty. It's so funny how that gets in there. Yeah. And that's why they would turn it upside down when they made it. Well, now the McDonald's stole that, right? McDonald's stole the blizzard? McDonald's stole the Blizzard, because they have the, like, I think the part of the Blizzard

that was kind of interesting was the mix-ins. So like you could put, like you would get Oreos in it, but they would blend it up. It wasn't like the Oreos were on the top. It was like the Oreos would be inside. You could really blend, like it was, it was like snow melting on your lawn. You get so many different things in there.

That's exactly, it's like a blizzard. Yeah. You finally, I remember the way I got caught for having a party when I was a kid was, when the snow melted, my parents found all these cigarette butts on their front lawn. They're like, what happened here? I'm like, well, now that was it.

I was shown up. It was some bad kids in the neighborhood. They came over and did it. I said, I didn't want you guys to do that. They had a big stick and they were threatening me. Anyway, so yes, I mixed some some coffee and milkshake and I got I recommend Graham, what's going on with you? Um, I was in a city in Canada called Winnipeg. I go there fairly frequently and there's a thing, do you know a thing that you only know through other people doing comedy bits about it?

Yes. Yeah, so what would be an example for you? I'm trying to think of like, it's like sometimes it's like, I understand, now you're putting me on the spot. No, no, no, no. But I understand what you're like. It's like, oh, I only know the way that it's talked about in culture. It's like the way that some people

know so much about Star Wars, but they have no, they've never seen Star Wars. A bunch of people I've met are like, oh, yeah, I know everything about it, but I've never seen it. To me, it's gonna be like, house hunters. I don't watch house hunters, but I understand it through the cultural conversation

of House Hunters. This is exactly what I mean. For me, it's with a comedian. When, like if I see anyone sleepwalking, I'm like, oh, like Mike Burbiglia. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. But there's this store that every comedian in Toronto has a joke about this store.

And it's a chain, but it's only East. We don't have any here as far as I know. And it's a joint tiger. It's giant tiger. Yeah, there's a giant. Not and it's not even a giant. It's just a store. But people talk about, you know, it's just like a tag that people use like, oh, you know, and then we went to Giant Tiger.

Everybody goes, yeah, you know, that's that's for poor people, I guess. But we don't have in Canada, we don't have like Target. Oh, wow. Well, you're missing out. Yeah. So it's kind of a bridge between Target and a dollar store. It's kind of like the those kind of two dollar store. It's kind of like those kind of two elements together. You have Walmarts, right?

We do, we have Walmarts, yeah. Yeah, all right, because I remember I was in, well, I don't want to take you off track. No, no, no, go ahead. We were in Montreal for a bit, and we had new children. They were very young, and my whole life kind of revolved around going to a Target, calming my own nerves,

because it just felt friendly and safe, and then getting stuff for these kids. And I had not really been used to, I hadn't been used to the Walmart experience, which is decidedly different than the Target experience. Walmart feels like you're shopping, you got these kids, you gotta fucking get this food, get out of here.

Like, you know, like, there's an aggro nature to Walmart, just in the presentation, the lights are bright, a lot of XXL, it's like, you gotta get in there, you gotta do your thing, it's like, it just feels like, yeah, I know. I wanna be here. Target's like more inviting. This is almost exactly the thing that you're talking about,

especially with the XXL. I'm telling, for X-Al, for XXX. Yes. And that. This is a giant tiger. This is a giant tiger. And they have a whole section that, t-shirts that have been

made and officially approved by like bands right there's like a lot of kiss a lot of Rolly Stones there's scorpion there's a scorpion one I wanted but it was too big do they do anything less than for example yeah they do yeah but it was kind of like that or small I I tried on one of the- You could wear it as like a nightie. I tried it on in the store just for laughs. And it was really, it was like wearing a nightie. It was great. It was a giant, giant Rolling Stone one.

I mean, I'll buy big things to sleep in. I mean, that's kind of the fun of it. Like you get that, you get that, get comfortable in it. Yeah, let's do it. Yeah. If Ebenezer Scrooge was into the scorpion. Yeah, let's do it. Yeah. If Ebenezer Scrooge was into the scorpion.

But yeah, and they had like cheap candy for sale. I don't know why people use it as a negative reference. It's such a cool store to be able to like, you know, have it's more fun. It's more fun than Walmart. It's better experience than a dollar store. So you want to talk about seals of approval. Giant Tiger gets my seal of approval. Yeah.

Well, there's, in Vancouver, we have a, what we call a dirt mall, Kingsgate Mall, which used to be a topic on the show quite a bit when we lived closer to it. But it's sort of like, doesn't have any of the big chain stores. It's got, it always has like a store that has knockoff t-shirts and a liquor store

and a store where you rent to own furniture. And it's our favorite mall and it just turned 50 years old and they had a big party this weekend. Oh yeah, I was out of town for it. I mean, it's like, to me, there's something also about like, I think that we've gotten to the, we don't shop anymore, right? Or there's such a, oh, we're gonna get something on Amazon,

we're gonna go get this delivered. And like to me, especially with kids, yeah, I don't have time to do that walk around, but there's something about those stores, which truly kind of activate, like it's like, everyone wants to be here. There's something for everybody here. We can go around, we can look around,

and then all of a sudden you're putting things in your cart that, to make a joke that you can't like leave Target without spending $100. And there is an element of truth to that because you're like, oh right, oh well, I do need those pens. And of course, well, we haven't gotten a new spatula in five years.

So, you know, all of a sudden it's, like you've put together this cart of sundries, which individually don't seem expensive or, uh, like, uh, like you're breaking the bank, but then you start loading it up. You're like, how did I just spend a hundred fucking dollars? I go, well, I did get my kids pajamas. I did get, uh, something from my office and then, you know, and the truth is, it's like, well, they do have a good chair selling these undershirts and I, you know,

and I will get these strawberries because we all are gonna eat these strawberries. It's like, they all make sense, but it just goes out the window. I feel like that kind of store didn't exist when I was a kid because people call Target and Walmart department stores now. And when I was a kid, a department store was like,

you are going to be on, you know, the shoes are on the second floor, the mattresses are on the fourth floor, you are going to be so bored and your mom is going to make you wait. Yeah, it was always like that was not a that was not for me. Yeah, like, like going to Macy's or JC Penney's or one of these places, like that was like, ugh. And Target kind of figured it out because, you know, Macy's and JC Penney's, like the toys would be on the, like, you'd have to go up or down, you know, and, but Target makes it fun on every level. There's something on every level to get you.

I can't wait. I can't wait. Next time I'm in the States, it's going to be a Target. Next time out east, going back to the Giant Tiger, hopefully to find another band t time I'm in the States is going to be a target next time out east Going back to the giant tiger hopefully to find another band t-shirt. Yeah, you're gonna love it Do you guys think we should move on to some overheards? Let's do it Hello teachers and faculty This is Janet Varney. I'm here to remind you that listening to my podcast,

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on Maximum Fun or wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you. And remember, no running in the halls. Overheard. Overheard is a segment on the show where if you hear it, we want it. If you want to send one in, you can send it in to SPY at MaximumFun.org. We like to start with the guest. Paul, do you have one or we can start and go back to you however you want. Well, I'll start with one because, you know, I was thinking about this today.

I love Overheard. And I overheard one about me, uh, and I didn't want to make this too egocentric, but it was worthy of it. So, um, this past weekend, I was in Chicago. I was doing some shows with my improv group dinosaur, and, um, we went to a Cubs game, I had been to a Cubs game. We got bleacher seats. All these details are going to come in handy in a second. And we went to a Cubs game. I went to a Cubs game. We got bleacher seats. All these details are gonna come in handy in a second.

So bleacher seats, if you're not familiar with how they work, they're cheap, like about 40 bucks, and there's no seat assignment. You can sit anywhere you want, right? They're just, they're bleacher seats. You're just in the bleachers, in the blazing hot sun, if it's sunny, you have no protection from the elements. No cover.

No cover. No cover. Most of the people you find in the bleachers die hard fans and drunk people. It just, it's, that's what you do. Nice. So I'm there with my friends. It's an afternoon game. And I notice people in front of me

and a little bit to my left are talking about me. And now as somebody who's been on TV and stuff like that, sometimes I will in a moment catch somebody Googling me and being like, yes, that's him. That's, you know, like I'll see an open IMDB page. I'll see a picture from the league. I'll see something from Black Money.

And I catch it and I'm like, great, they're just trying to get confirmation. They're trying to prove it to their friends. Right. But I was being recognized by these people, but not because I was me, because they thought I was Andrew Tate. Andrew Tate.

Uh, notorious, uh notorious scummy person, who I believe is currently in jail for some form of sexual assault or I don't want to mislabel it, but human trafficking. All right. And as I noticed that they've pulled up a picture of Andrew Tate and I'm like, what's going on here?

And they're like, it's Andrew Tate, it's totally Andrew Tate. And then I start to think like, okay, you think I'm Andrew Tate, that's fine. I get it, we're both bald men. We have, he has more of a thinner beard than I do. But there are elements, people will say, hey, Paul, you should do Andrew Tate. I get all of that.

You might think I'm Andrew Tate. People have recognized me as Rob Cordray. People have called me David Cross. All fine. But the fact that Andrew Tate would be at a Cubs game in the bleachers, in the middle of probably the most controversial time that he has ever had. Like that, like to me, that would rule out

that I am not Andrew Tate. Like it's not like, oh, I think Andrew Tate's here. Like Andrew Tate, I believe, is currently in jail. Yeah, and yeah, so it's, to me, like the idea that they were wrestling with this for such a long time and then debating, should we get a picture with him? So they were not at all fazed by whatever is going on

is sexual harassment or misogyny or anything like that, human trafficker, rape charges, all these things. He's currently in a Romanian court for all these things. So I still like that they were debating whether or not to get a picture with me. And then they did get a picture with me and they said, big fan. And I'm like, are they Andrew Tate?

And I think they're gonna walk around with that picture and being like, guys, we met Andrew Tate at the Cubs game and they are stoked. So that's what I overheard and I did not question them. I wanted them to go and enjoy meeting Andrew Tate. Oh, that's great. That is awesome. Like, I mean, did you have a giant cigar, is that why?

I did say women shouldn't be able to play this sport of baseball. I always kept on saying that very loudly. I do hope that someone points it out to them at some point. When they show that picture to somebody, it will be apparent. I mean, also I'm not British, so I mean, there you go.

Yeah, but that won't translate to the picture. They'll be able to live on this bridge. Yes, right, of course, yes. Dave, do you have an overheard? Yeah, man. This is one, so I was watching the hockey game and we have hockey fever here in Vancouver. Of course, this is it.

This is the time of year. This is the time when you get the fever and I was watching it. I had played hockey earlier that night and so a bunch of guys I play hockey with went to the dressing room and there was a dressing room that had a TV in it. And so we were sitting with some guys, I didn't know some younger guys. And there were three younger guys and one of them had his thumb in a brace. And I overheard him talking to his friend about it.

And he said, oh, uh, Hey, why is your thumb in a brace? And he was like, well, you know, Jeff. Well, Jeff and I were messing around and I ended up on top of his car and I expected him to slow down but he sped up. Wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah. You know, just shenanigans. Just some simple shenanigans. Wow. That like, what I mean, like, now look, I am assuming as a, as a, what I know of hockey,

a fan of hockey, but also the culture of hockey people. I know a lot from Letter Kenny, but like, sure, like, They're fast, it's a fast talking sport. Yeah, like, to me, it's like, I would imagine like, okay, this is the guy who like, is this that hockey mentality that is out? Like, that you might jump in a car as a bit, a moving car.

These were like 20 year old dudes who you can tell are just like. Now it checks out. 20 year old dudes check out. 20 year old dudes who don't have girlfriends. So it's like, well, we just got to wrestle with my friends every night. Oh my God, I love it.

And I also love that it was only a thumb brace. Not that bad. It's not, yeah. Jumped on a car like that. Like that's not bad and not bad at all. Yeah. And he just, he described as we were messing around and I ended up on top of his car.

Oh my God, beautiful. Graham? Mine is courtesy of walking down a street in Winnipeg. And there's a, the hotel where I stayed, not too far from it is kind of a rougher part of town. I was walking with my friends and a woman just kind of started following us and then just ended up like walking at the same pace as us.

So it was like she was with us and she was yelling something and I kind of was trying to tune it out. But then I tuned in and she was just talking. She was like, when I tuned in and she was just talking. She was like, hey, when I tuned in, she was like, God forbid that we would ever have a nightclub around here. And she's just talking about there's not enough nightclubs in the city and trying to get to rally some support.

I love that they were like, as if as if what would you do? Invest in a nightclub. Yeah, exactly. She saw some good money coming through. Yeah. But just, it's so funny. I don't think I've ever heard of somebody specifically be angry about lack of nightclubs, but especially.

How old a woman was this? She was probably in her 30s, and she was talking very loud. I don't know how he was tuning it up, but when I tuned in, I was really in her 30s and she was talking very loud. I don't know how he was tuning it up, but when I tuned in, I was like, boy, am I glad I tuned in because this is great stuff. Yeah. I think your 30s are prime nightclubbing.

Yes, yeah. That's true. The older I get, the more I wanna go to a nightclub. When's the last time that you've been in a nightclub, Dave? I mean, not a comedy club. No, not a comedy club, like, you know. Dancing? Yeah, dancing, nightclub style place.

I would say probably I was 24 or five maybe. And then you were like, enough of this. Well, and even that, I feel like, I went to a few in like my early twenties and then my mid twenties. I remember this one night where one friend wanted to go and the rest of us followed and then immediately left. Oh my.

There's something humiliating about a nightclub. Yes. Because it's like you are automatically putting yourself in a position of, to be rejected, right? You're like, look, we all live in a world where we're like, we're trying to protect ourselves from a certain amount of rejection, whatever. But, but that is gonna, you're gonna, yeah, it's gonna,

you're there, you're gonna get put in, yeah, you're gonna get rejected. You're gonna get rejected. I mean, I have a, the last time I was in a nightclub, I don't know if this counts, was one that started around me. So I, I have a, I have, you know, children and, um, when I'm on vacation, we go to restaurants early. And so we were asking the hotel,

we're like, Hey, is there a good restaurant there? And they're like, Oh, there's actually a great restaurant. Uh, go there and, um, you'll have a great time. So we went to the restaurant at like five, five 30, you know, we're probably five 36 and, um, and it was nice, quiet. No one else was in there. And then music got a little bit louder. Things are starting to happen. Now I ordered a, uh, I was like, Oh, can I just have a tequila on the rocks? Um, you know, uh, with a, with a lime. And then my wife was like, Oh, I have a margarita and two other people like, Oh, I have a margarita and two other people

to have our of margarita. So now we had like, uh, two margaritas, my, uh, uh, my tequila. And then somebody was like, Oh, I have a tequila drink. And the guy goes, uh, just get a bottle. And I was like, Oh yeah, we're four tequila drinks. Yeah. Let's get a bottle at this point. It's it, that's point, that's great,

because we'll probably have another one or something like that. Now, I didn't understand that I was ordering bottle service. Right? Because this is a normal restaurant, right? And there was no way to know, because he said it so casually. Well, if you're ordering four, just get a bottle.

Like, yeah, it's like glasses of wine. Just don't have four glasses of red, like just don't get a, you know, just don't have four glasses of red wine, just get a bottle, you know, I thought it was the same thing. So I go, yeah, we'll get a bottle. All of a sudden, from the back, come these people with like sparklers, shooting out like little fireworks.

And then all of a sudden, the music and the club coaster turns up and everyone's like, whoop, there it is, whoop, there it is. And they start marching out to the table and they're like presenting this to kids like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. And the kid was like flying at the table. And that's when I realized, oh my God, what did I just do?

I just bought, I'm like, this is gonna be like $500. This is gonna be, why did I, I'm not even enjoying the moment. Cause I, I know that whatever this is is hundreds of dollars. And, and my kids are like getting up on chairs, you know, cause I'm living with my kids. Right. And then I'm like, Holy shit. So now I'm freaking out. I'm not even enjoying my drinks. And you know, and you know, it, you know, and, you

know, it was nowhere near, uh, we didn't know near anything near a bottle of tequila. Like, you know, we were not gonna, should have ordered just four separate drinks. Um, and the club now is like really forming around us. Now we are, we are the lone people eating. The club is moving on. I've now watched that happen at other tables. People are running out of, hey, fireworks loop. There it is. We were just in this island. We're in this island. And then the bill comes. And I've never seen this happen

except for like at a strip club. There's a big giant man that comes over to the table that then is going to make you like, you can't ask any questions. Like you're paying for that. It was a slight intimidation factor. There was no bill, it was just here's the charge. And I was like, I'd like to see the bill.

I'd like a copy of the bill. Like, as if that was the most insane thing to ever ask. I mean, again, we were with my family having a meal. It wasn't like, you know, and I paid for it. $1,000 was that bottle of tequila. $1,000. I never, it destroyed me. It destroyed me in a way that I don't know what to do.

I lost the thousand dollars. I like that was like, and I don't take that lightly. I, that was a, I was, it really rattled me. And I was like, but that is like, and I don't take that lightly. I that was a I was it really rattled me And I was like but that is like the going rate for this shit at the clubs I think on like wow some level to have both shot a bottle the bottle is $100, but it's $900 to play whoop there Now we also have overheard sent in to us from people all over the world if you want to send one in Send it in to sby at maximum fun org and where the heck There we go

This one comes from Bob in parts unknown He said I just logged logged on to an online game the first thing I heard was a kid say my sister's mad because I taught the dog to mew Yeah, like a mew, right Yeah, I why would you be mad? Yeah, because you've got a special thing you could sell that going door-to-door Remember I feel like it was a big thing in maybe like comic strips or movies when I was a kid of like, if your dog could talk, like suddenly one day your dog can talk and you're like, I'm going to be a millionaire. But you would be, weren't you? No. Do you think if you could go talk to a dog, No Don't you think if you could go talk to a dog?

And he could answer back but the owner becomes a millionaire Dogs gonna want something out of it to the dog. Hey, why are you keeping all that money? That's true Yeah, I could start asking questions and that's yeah dog can then rationalize the dog can understand money at that point I guess yeah, I mean, yeah, I get well there right yeah Yeah, it's like a dog can talk but then that point, I guess. Yeah. I mean, yeah, well, yeah, right. It's like a dog can talk, but then we'd have to have the dog, we'd have like, this is a question,

like how smart is the dog? Yeah, that's true. You know, is it just like the up thing where they're ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball? Or is it like, hey, get me out of this cage. I have things I need. Yeah, or like, you know, you know how I plonk around on the piano sometimes,

that's because I was a musician in a past life and you guys can't understand that I can't play music with my dog. Even then, now that dog would have like a TikTok channel and they'd go on Kelly Clarkson and that's about it. Yeah, it would go through the cycle that we all have, which is essentially two weeks of being very popular.

And then we'd be, uh, we're done with the dog. Yeah. Yeah. Unless Taylor Swift somehow adopted the dog. Yeah. Adopts or dates the dog. Um, I Taylor Swift is going to show up at the puppy ball and endorse Biden. I mean the best.

I said that Bob was from Parts Unknown. He's actually from Deerfield Beach in Florida. So, shout out. This next one comes from Sam in Victoria. This is one of the kids say the darnedest things category. My seven year old was explaining wolves to my four year old and said wolves are nocturnal. They come at a night. How let them you moon and you don't hear them because you're asleep. Are you listening?

What did I say about wolves? And the four year old says, yeah, I heard you. Wolves are not turtles. Yeah, yeah, I get it. That is the cutest of all things. Most animals are not turtles. Yeah. Oh, my gosh.

Not turtles is a really that is wonderful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anytime we're going to say, yeah, I'm going to say that from now on. They're not turtle. They're not turtles. They're not turtles. Um, uh, well, one more from Terra, They're nocturnal. They're not turtles. They're not Well one more from Tara from Point Clark, Ontario

I was at the grocery store in the cereal and two teens were looking at the boxes pointing out all the sugary cereals They loved his kids one said oh fruit loops I love to you I used to love fruit loops and the older I get, I find that multi-grain Cheerios really slap. Pfft. Oh yeah. Yeah, I guess when you think about it, it's been a while since I've had it. I mean, you know, lucky, you know, it's always gonna be good like that.

You know, it's like, I love when you hear kids talk about stuff that they, like, it gets us funny to see, like, I was in the car with my son the other day, and he goes like this, the radio is on, and he goes, Selena, she's dead. And I go, I was so confused, it was Selena Gomez, and I was like, Selena Gomez isn't dead,

he's like, yeah, she was killed. And I was like, hey man, she was not killed. He's like, I heard about it in music class. Selena Gomez is dead. And I'm like, no, no, Selena is dead. Selena Gomez is alive. This is a song. And it was so funny.

Also, they're just, their knowledge of the world around them. And it was so funny. Like it, like, um, like also like they're just, their knowledge of like the world around them. And it's like, I've been having these moments out with my kids where they're like, they think they got something new on me. Like they were like my other kid, like really yelled at me. We were driving in the car and he saw, um, he saw a poster for Kung Fu Panda. He's like, dad, why don't you tell me Jack Black was Kung Fu Panda? And I'm like, I wasn't keeping it from you.

I didn't know that this is information that you needed to know. You know, he's like, so mad. I was like, I always have, I'm like, they're, they're trying to find ways to like communicate on something that makes me laugh every time. I think when I was that age, I would do a thing where I'd ask my parents questions that I knew the answer to but I knew they didn't know the answer to like something like what's you know?

What's Jake the snake Roberts? What's the name of his? I do remember like my dad was like a businessman and I was like, oh, yeah, if you know so much about finance, you know Ted DBS Million dollar man That's amazing. Oh my god. Well, my son took me the day like this a couple months ago. He um He said dad. Can I talk to you for a second? I said, yeah, and he goes, okay and He'll sit down. Like, okay. It goes, have you heard about the Holocaust?

Yeah, I've heard. He's like, pretty bad. And I was like, yes, it was. But I love that he like came home from school going like, I gotta break this to my dad. My dad is gonna be pretty upset about this. Yeah, yeah, well, why do you ask, son? He definitely was trying to like show me like, yeah, I learned something that you don't know. You don't know.

And. Because when you were going to school, it was before all this happened, so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You probably thought Selena Gomez was alive. Yeah, it's so funny, so silly. Well, in addition to overheards that are written in, we also accept your phone calls.

If you wanna call us, our phone number is 1-844-779-7631. That's one, ugh. If you want to call us, our phone number is 1-844-779-7631. That's 1. Ugh. Spypod 1, like these people have. Hey, Dave, Graham, and lovely guests. This is Carly in Arkansas with Overheard. I was at, I worked for college and was at the baseball game this afternoon,

and behind me in the stands was a gentleman loudly explaining to another or to a girl who had never been to a baseball game before about stealing and he was telling her about how the steel the runner can run any time the baseball or the pitcher pitches the ball and that the pitcher can throw it to the first baseman try to catch him and this is what he said is it it's really kind of like psychological warfare between the pitcher and the runner. It is. No freaking way.

I mean if not that what you know that is psychological warfare. You would keep me up at night. Yeah no shit. You're a baseball fan I can tell from your hat. You're wearing a baseball hat in LA. Oh yeah, I have my hat on today. I'm wearing this hat more because I am a Los Angeles Clippers fan,

and I haven't yet, I'm very much a Clippers fan, but I'm just sort of getting over our loss from the playoffs, and I couldn't, I didn't want to support today. I'm still in mourning, and I normally am a big supporter, but I just couldn't do it today. Well, you look great in that hat, you know. Thank you so much.

Well, and I know you're a baseball fan because, uh, you're Andrew Tate and you, uh, all right. Next phone call. Hi, this is Kay calling in with an overheard from Montreal. It's actually an overheard of my wife's from several years ago that she just told me about and it killed me and I told her she has to call it in. So you can go ahead and tell it. So I was walking down the street a couple of years ago and I saw like a bunch of people clustered around a tree and it was a little family of baby squirrels that had been abandoned by the mother and people were

trying to figure out what to do and then there was this family and like these kids were running around with the squirrels and then I just heard the dad who's like kind of just like gruff man just yelling Sabrina stop holding it like a freaking popsicle That's what I heard and I stayed with me ever So like up up facing I guess so yeah like by the tail and I guess so, yeah. Like by the tail, I'm picturing it. Yeah, by the tail.

Like the tail is the thing. I mean, pretty cute. She was licking it and that was gross. Stop doing that. And one thing about squirrels, they're not turtles. That's true, they're not turtles. That's true. That's an absolute fact.

All right, here's your final phone call. Hi, Dave Graham and possible guests. This is Nate in St. Louis. I have an overheard of the kids say the darnedest variety. I was just walking down the street and we walked past the bar and there's a family with a four-year-old and the four-year-old goes, what's that? And dad goes, oh that's the rock and roll show honey. And the four-year-old goes, is the single gonna rock out yeah yeah the singer's gonna rock out sweetheart and it was very sweet all right off I go

yeah I learned about rocking out in school today is that I would say that that's just simply sweet like there I don't even think that that's a, uh, uh, controversial over her. That is just simply, you know, it's just like, yes. Yeah. Yes. These are things. Oh man. Yeah. Uh, like, uh, yeah. Like, uh, like I would have, uh, if I'm not to, not to punch up an overheard, no, no punch, uh, you know, I would have, I would have liked it to be like, how big are the rocks? Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. I would have liked that kind of a miscommunication.

Yeah. And I would recast, I recast. I mean, I like what they did, but I think I've got the right guy for it. Yeah, so yeah, maybe we could get, I don't know, someone who's big in China to be in this part of the movie. Get it all together.

Just make overheard gumbo. We need a real four quadrant overheard. Yeah. Well, Paul, that brings us to the end of this here podcast. Give your bestest pitch for your book, Joyful Recollections of Trauma. Oh my gosh, well, look, I think that if you're a fan of How Did This Get Made or Unspooled,

or even me from shows like The League or Best Week Ever or Black Monday, whatever it is, this is a book that I feel like I wrote in the tone of a good hangout. Unfortunately, you're not gonna be talking, but I'll be talking at you for a bit of time. And it's not, you know, this isn't for me, a book that I wanted to do where I just tell you like,

hilarious showbiz stories. There's elements of that in there, but truly this is a book that I think is about being a parent. I think it's also a book about being a kid. If you are ever a kid, and I know there's a lot of you out there that have been kids.

I think that you might dig this book. Yeah, I'm very proud of it. And I tried to approach it in a way where I cared for the process. I wanted this to be a good book. I'm a fan of memoirs and I got some great people that have sung its praises, which is nice.

And if you pre-order, and that's the most important thing, if you pre-order it, you can go to my website and you can sign up for exclusive access. I got like the DVD special features for my book. I got videos, I got pictures, I got things that all tie together. Some stuff won't make sense until you actually get the book.

And for all of you in Canada, yes, you can get it in Canada, but on May 22nd, I'm gonna do a worldwide virtual event. So you can sign up, you get an autographed book for me. So it's like a real book signing, but you also get to ask questions and Jason Manzoukis and Rob Hubel will be there. And that's just because I'm not coming to Canada. So I want to make sure that if you ever want

an autographed book, you can get it there. And it's actually super reasonably priced. It's like just $5 more than the actual book costs to do that full live stream and everything like that. That's great. I don't think I've ever had a book pitch that had so many great possible angles to a lot of, a lot of elements. And if you need to know how to find it, you can find it wherever you get your

books or you just go to my website, Paul Shear.com. Okay. Get making the book there, but that's just where I keep a bunch of links. Fair enough. Yes. Um, and, uh, yeah, thank you so much for being our guest. And thank you, everybody out there for listening in the podcast. If you're at a movie that you think is movie gumbo, we want to hear about it. Send your movie gumbo idea our way. And as always, if you want a Hermann

comic, if you send a self-addressed stamped envelope, I will send it to your house. And thank you for listening and come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself. Maximum Fun. A worker-owned network of artist-owned shows, supported directly by you.