Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 858 - Steve Bays

Episode Date: August 27, 2024

Steve Bays from Hot Hot Heat and Mounties returns to talk tattoos, barber reviews, and Trap.

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 858 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name's Graham Clark. With me as always is a man who, he's got some pretty tempting cinnamon rolls on his kitchen counter, Mr. Dave Schumke.

Yeah, Abby took the kids to Costco yesterday. Oh, those are Costco cinnamon buns. Yeah, they're Costco, Kirkland. Well, no, they're Costco, yeah. Kirkland. Well, no, there's Sin, boy, cinnamon something was the brand name, but Costco is the distributor. Sure, sure, yeah. Are they good? I had one.

It was not great. But you know what? I think I should all warm up the next one. Yeah, and I think you should give it at least two more tries. And then if you don't like them, just. Yeah, it's an eight pack. I'll, I may give it seven more tries. He he he loves them Our guest today returning guests to the podcast

He is a world-renowned musician and we're so glad to have him back here on the podcast You can find out about all his musical projects on Steve bays.com. It's Steve Baze! Ah, crack us one. Ah, ah, ah. It's the theater of the mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Um, it's very like early 90s. I got my first tape recorder. Oh man, let's get to know us. Get to know us.

Do you remember your first tape recorder? Oh yeah. Because you're a musician, you must have... There was one priority I had in life growing up. It was making radio shows at sleepovers. That's all I wanted to do. Oh, okay. Just staying up all night, just making ads. So was this a talk radio format?

Was this rock radio? What were you doing as a kid? Yeah it was primarily talk radio, but yeah, it was just like comedy skits and stuff like that. Yeah, that sounds pretty good. They've really gone, they haven't aged well. Have you found any? Oh yeah. I'm glad I haven't been canceled.

That's just a... Do you have those? Have you ever listened to them as an adult? I don't know where they are. I would love, but I, you know, preparing to move, I've found all these old tapes and stuff recently that I hope I can, you know, digitize one day. Like from, from your way back in your youth? Yeah, from Valdez and all bands and like just crappy bands.

Where are we saying about really weird things? What was the crappiest band you were in? Oh. Well, there was one called Thumper, and I wasn't the singer of that band, but I remember one of the lyrics was I am a Canadian and I'm not a lesbian was the chorus. You know, stuff like that.

Yeah. Where it's like, you don't know politics. My mosquito, my libido kind of thing. Yeah. Did you do any little recordings? Yeah. Oh yeah, I had a little tape recorder. I don't know what, I think probably songs make up about different things. But yeah, I have a very vivid memory of it had like a little microphone. It was kind of like a size of a battery kind of thing and oh I'm sure that I destroyed the tapes as I was got a little

I'm certain because I remember I did a Basically was an audio version of the Arsenio Hall show. Yeah That's pretty with me being the announcer and our city hall and yeah leader leader of the band, The Posse. And then I remember it going to commercial and I recorded myself saying, aren't you glad you used dial? Don't you wish everyone did? Oh nice.

But I'm pretty sure my siblings found it and scorched me for it. And I've sold the tape out. I actually have, and my parents did digitize it. I was obsessed with making short comedy skip videos from like 12 to 15 about. And I have hundreds of these skits, even like that nobody knows about,

but they they till now Yeah, don't hack me And your parents digitized them like the the fact that that sentence has ever been uttered Yeah, my parents are always digitizing stuff for me I know it was very out of character for them to do that because they're they're not very digital people I mean my mom is more so now but yeah they took all these old tapes and just had someone put them all to DVD and then but then I took those DVDs and ripped them to Mac and

then I uploaded them to YouTube. What did you use Mac the Ripper? Yeah probably yeah you know you know what's up yeah yeah you guys ever use Sanud, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, kid now would just he or she would have just uploaded it to YouTube and then it lives forever somewhere so even people are like no I deleted it's nowhere it's somewhere I feel like there are people that just scour the internet and and record everything as soon as it's uploaded you know yeah there's there's a stranger out there doing something like that most of my comedy skits though were essentially me ripping off almost live. Remember that show? Yeah. Almost live for the listeners was a Seattle based sketch comedy show that would push Saturday Night Live back half an hour on Saturday nights. So it started

at 1205. Yeah. Yeah. Why did it push it back? Because it was so popular. It was so popular. Oh, wow. Yeah, and they had I guess We had the lead guy on the podcast. Yeah, we had John Keister on the show once. Are you serious? Yeah, yeah, when he was great when we did Bumbershoot. Oh main stage They said we can we hook you up with a guest and we were like John Keister Like I think they meant somebody that was playing But they did they looked this up and he was so that was playing at the festival. Oh, wow. But they did, they looked this up and he was- So that was your request. Yeah.

Like we're kind of hoping you'd ask for Death Cab or something. Well, I mean, if John Keister isn't busy, then yeah, sure, Death Cab would be fine. Fun fact about that show and John Keister is he wore the same belt the entire time. That's true. You know, because I had that belt

when I was in eighth grade. It was black jeans every time. Yes. And the black belt with like a silver tip. Oh yes. Yeah, like the cowboy silver tip. Cause I got that when I was in eighth grade for a school dance and then halfway through grade eight,

I was like, okay, this is not cool actually. I can't actually be going through my life as the John Keister guy. Um, what, uh, yeah, they should put that belt in the- In the Smithsonian. Or whatever the Seattle equivalent is. Oh, sure. Yeah, when you grew up in Victoria.

Yes. What school did you go to? Sir James Douglas. Although before that I went to Goose gander. If you want to know, it was like a preschool kind of, drop your kids off so you can actually have some fun with your normal life kind of did you have, did your preschool have a fun name? No, I think it was just preschool. Mine was called dragons and butterflies. What? Whoa. Shit. You guys, it was upstairs at the church. Oh, nice. So you could still hear the organs and whatnot.

Speaking of childhood, you just, you became a dad not even six months ago. Very true. Congratulations. Thank you. I think it's so weird because when you have a kid and other people have kids, you genuinely are excited. But you have a kid and other people have kids you genuinely are excited But until having a kid when people would talk about kids that would always be like, okay This is where I check out, you know, right? I don't know what it is. But then the switch goes off Well, yeah, it's like Dave you love your kids. We don't love kids or do you? I mean they say the darnedest things. You know, I've heard that the people are like, I love my own kids, but I can't stand people's

kids. And is that the same or you know, now that you're a father, you're like, oh, yeah, now I'm curious about all shades of them. Like, you certainly care about white kids. No, like the difference between like a four month old and a six month old is massive. And I'm like, whoa, your kid can hold his head up at five months, what the heck? And I had friends who had kids after me

and they would ask me stuff like that and I would lose it all. Like as soon as you pass this age, I don't know. This is the information I don't need anymore. Yeah, I get that. Yeah. But yeah, it's crazy fun actually. Yeah?

Yeah, like obviously the sleep's a factor and you kind of have to work out a system with your partner. But I feel like we worked out what the system was early on, which is basically, like, she is the producer of the album, which is our kid, and I'm essentially, like, an assistant. And so I have to just, one person needs to swallow their ego and just be super chill with being instructed to do things. Because if both people are trying to produce an album with different, you know,

and then they're not on the same page, it's just, huh, you know. That's an interesting way to look at it. Do you, when you like make dinner, are you like, OK, this spaghetti is the album and I'm the producer. Is everything an album to you? I do. Well, because the making a record is such a power struggle between everyone's egos. And really it's like the one vision has to unite the whole record. Otherwise you just end up with like one song that sounds like Arrested Development, one song that's like

Smash Mouth, one song that sounds like Eminem randomly. No, that's not going to work. This guy is trying to ruin my vision for the perfect album. But you've been a producer on many albums at this point. Yeah. Do you have to be the captain of the ship or does the band come in and they're like, this is what we want to do. Who's the biggest diva you've worked with? Jennifer. Okay well two great questions. Did you just say my mother Jennifer

Aniston? Jennifer Lopez but yeah Jennifer Aniston. Oh man would it be. Oh man uh there was this one famous youtuber that came in um and she was guesting on a band's single. She's doing a grape stomp solo. With a jet pack in the, um, and, uh, her finger got bit. And next thing you know, it was raining chocolate. So, um, no, but I but not to talk smack on her. Like she was fine, but some people show up and they're like, give me any mic,

give me any volume level, you know, I'll just whip out some stuff and use what you want. And then other people, they kind of, they need it to be perfectly the right context for them to do their best. Right. And I can kind of respect that as well because over time you realize you know like doing a podcast for example like you know oh I had a coffee that day and I was kind of funnier

you know or I didn't get a good sleep and I was that was like our Lowest rated episode or whatever and you just like learn these little things that you're doing HGH mostly for yeah well also because it like my our guest that week was Those demons who come to you when you can't remember the word. Oh no. What are those demons who come to you when you can't sleep? Oh uh. Sleep paralysis demon. That's why it was our lowest episode. I thought you were going to say Incubus.

Oh yeah, sure. Pardon me. Because yeah, that's a demon that visits you in your sleep. I think it has sex with you. Really? Yeah. I can't wait to get punch my incubus card. Different than succubus. Succubus is a female incubus.

And which sucks you in your sleep? And a diva is a female version of a hustler. Huh. Okay. Interesting. But yeah, but I find working with artists like from on multiple like at different stages in their careers, you'll see the the ego change. And like, some people, it will blossom into a beautiful self esteem and they love themselves more. Because they've kind of, you know, found their voice and stuff. And so then they share that love more with you. Other people you're kind of like oh my god this guy's ego has grown so much I've helped in creating a monster.

Right yeah. I was totally listening but here's a question would sucky bus be a good name for a porn website? I mean if it isn't already. Yeah. Or bus that you get on. Or dinkubus would be a good name for a porn website. I mean, if it isn't already. Yeah. Or a bus that you get on. Or Dinkubus. Dinkubus.

Dinkubus. No, succubus. You guys are in workshop at Goliath. Dinkubus is pretty good. How's Dave's ego with this succubus routine? Is it good? Are you finding it hard to manage? Give me any mic, give me any volume, I'll make the succubus routine. Is it good? Are you finding it hard to manage? Give me any mic and give me any volume. I'm like the succubus joke. I feel like the podcast has been really healthy for Dave.

Don't think it's created a monster? No, no, no, no, no. Like I, yeah. And then Graham, like you've stayed exactly the same, which is like, I think it's an awesome. Yeah, I think Graham, like you've stayed exactly the same, which is like, I think is an awesome. Yeah, I think that's great. I'm just gonna look at when were you last on? Do you know? I thought you were gonna look at episode401.com. Or whatever.

I mean, I'm just. You were last on episode 401? Yeah, yeah. A whole 400 episodes ago, like a lifetime ago. Yeah, yeah. And it has been, it's like when you were last on, I think you were still playing in bands predominantly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Before being like full-time producer guy. I was living on a boat, I had just gone. That's right, you were living on a boat. I had gone through a divorce. Yeah. And then. You lived on a boat like a private eye, or like somebody from an 80s movie

that's like the cop who's been real signed. Yeah. Yeah, and then many episodes in I have to show up somewhere And it's like whoa. He randomly has a white Ferrari, but like But yeah, it's do you miss like going on the road playing a man going on the bus oh No Going on the road, playing in a van, going on the bus. Oh, no, not at all. Which bus were you on? Not at all. The second bus? Oh, wow. The mic might have caught me putting my water down

super fast. I'm like that, Jeff. Blink? That, it's funny, because I've been playing some old episodes for Drew, my partner slash fiancee slash wife. Oh, fiancee, congratulations. Thank you.

We're just kind of like, we basically were like, we're basically married, right? You know, we're kind of, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, but we haven't actually tied the knot, but we're going to. I mean, once you have a baby with someone and you can, like we consciously decided to have a baby. And so once you're there, you're basically married, I would assume. Well, maybe not. Yeah, I don't know.

Like, well, it depends. I guess it depends on where you are in life and the type of person. Yeah, I guess. I guess maybe that's not true. But I ask her to marry me like how'd you do it all the time? Yeah, give me for a minute yeah Usually usually as a way to get out of the dog house like no No, she's super child. I'm you know what's so crazy is I

I'm almost never Like we don't have a relationship where like I've done something bad or I'm like in the dog house or whatever, you know what I mean? Like for some reason I've only been in relationships where I feel like I'm always a let down. Yeah, yeah, I've fulfilled that position in my own life, sure, yeah. Yeah, and when you're not, when that isn't a thing

and you can go, you know what, I'm fine just how I am. Then you're like, okay, yeah, now I'm ready to advocate. Yeah. Yeah. And you did, you went, you did it. Do you hope, what type of music do you hope your kid gets into? Oh, black metal for sure.

Nice, like Norwegian style. Well, just because. Or Chicago style deep dish. Deep dish. No, well, it's because I sing around her constantly. Like I'm all day long, I'm just singing. What'd you like? What kind of, what's her favorite?

Oh, I mean, usually, well, her favorite thing right now is anything where I can work into it. So like a lot of Skrillex. Yeah. Do people ever come into the studio and say, I don't know, I don't care what we do, but it's got to have this. Yeah, actually, that's kind of unfortunately my niche now. It's all I do. It kind of unfortunately my niche now. It's all I do kind of sucks

But she loves going to space where I just I pretend she's an astronaut and so I just hold her above me And I like make her fly around, you know I'm lying on my back and she's zooming in and out but she loves when I get into kind of the minutia of it Like okay, we got to put gonna put you know different strap We got to put a different jetpack on and we got to go fix the satellite And oh and you know just random details We got to put you back in go airlock, you know change your helmet cuz you got to go We're gonna land on the moon and you got to get different boos. You remember this from basic training Why have to go over this again?

Like I'll talk to her in adult voice, like not baby voice. And she just loves adult voice going over details for some reason. Nice. So she'll be just bawling her eyes out. Nothing works. I'm like, I gotta take her to space. And then it always, yeah, fair enough. Work for David Bowie. Yeah. I was crying. It was more than consolable. To Dave. David. Do you want to do Ziggy Sarda? Can we do Ziggy? Can we do Ziggy Daddy?

But yeah, David Bowie. Music wise, she really responds to like super upbeat kind of dance music, which I'm not, I don't necessarily want that to be her thing of choice. I'm hoping it's maybe, I don't know,

something that's a bit more underground maybe. What if she grows up and to rebel against you becomes like- Basic. Yeah, listens to soft rock only. You know what, I, for years I was like, if I have her ever kid and they end up a jock, I'm going to be so pissed.

But I so in preparing for having a baby for years, I warmed up to the idea of what if it's a guy and what if he's a total jock? And I've he's stuffing me in my locker. Yeah. And so I'm open to anything. She could be, she could be friggin... Well, if she was a Republican, we might have to have a talk, but... Why? What's wrong with them? They're doing great. Yeah, they're good. They're great. Yeah. Is a... David, was there anything that you were like, I hope like it was like daughters don't get into this

No, I would be I'd love it if they would do something Just any yeah, I'm gonna long summer break of Not doing much. So oh Yeah, I'm also I'm I'm open to screen time. I don't care what oh, yeah I'm like I'm rules like I love being on a screen like they can I mean we do non screen stuff too, but all the things that people kind of say what you shouldn't do like don't shake them or What age can you start shaking them because my dad has been going nuts on me

because my dad has been going nuts on me. But yeah, like I just want kit. I if I was like, if I'm going to have a baby, we both said it. She or he's got to fit into our lifestyle. And if we don't want it to be, you know a massive Like disruption disruption having said that we are we are moving for her already You're going like you're going into like a suburb yeah, well we're gonna we're gonna go her so Drew's parents live in cultists like right on the lake, so there's there's like water right in front of their place. And, um, and we, I've just always loved cultists like, and I've

convinced friends to move there and stuff. Cause it's like an hour away. Anyway, and it's, I don't know, like we live in New West right now. I mainly moved there so I could build a studio there and because I kind of got priced out of Vancouver a little bit when I went through that divorce. But so I was like, oh, New West will be cool. But I really don't have any ties to New West. Other than I wouldn't, you know,

I'm proud of my neighborhood, I guess, but. But do you have like, oh, I'm gonna miss that restaurant when I move away or? No, nothing like that. No, I've, I mean, there's a Donair place, I'm sure I'll find another one. The best. The fact that there are so many of them

and they're all kind of awesome. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of thrift stores, which I love about New West. Like there's maybe five or six within walking distance from where I live. Right. And there's this one in a church basement that is so awesome. Anyway, why am I talking about this? Because it's. Steve, I, uh, I haven't, we haven't really seen you since November of 2015, and I don't really

remember you as a tattooed man. Have you always been tatted up? No, no, I never had any tats, but Drew and I had this kind of whirlwind romance where, and she was a tattoo artist. That's why I met her through Danny from the band Dear Rouge, who I've worked with a bunch. And I've also, I actually convinced them cause I stayed at their grandparents cabin once in cultists.

And I was like- He's really trying to get us to move to cultists. Well, and I was like- If they have a water park, I'll move. I just kept saying, wait, they do. And I was like, you guys should just move into your nana's cabin full time, because it's so fun. And then they ended up, there was an old lady beside their nana's cabin who was, he talked

her into selling it or something for super cheap and so they did move to cultists and I swear it was because I just kept being like just friggin moved to cultists yeah they were touring all the time and it's like they're not home just everybody moved to cultists okay yeah stop playing this game with us we know that you want to yeah and then and then so Danny wanted to get a tattoo of Drew, not my Drew but her partner Drew's. Drew Barrymore. Yeah Drew Barrymore on her finger and so she met Drew anyway and then she heard that I was single and

she's like Danny was like I know this awesome girl, she's super funny, like, blah, blah, blah. And then there was a karaoke party that kind of has become a tradition in cultus at this log cabin pub. And it's just, it's the best, like this karaoke place. And we've even done a Deer Rouge song called karaoke about this place, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, so that's where I met Drew. she was in costume because it was on Halloween so I didn't really

know what she looked like I know I fell in love with a Frankenstein I've always been into tall women turns out they were platforms what would you remember what she was dressed as I can't remember. I don't know the Marvel series very well. It was once some Marvel thing. But to this day, I always just say, I don't know, I thought you were like dressed up as a monster. And it was, I can't.

What you dressed up as? I was, I was just trying to get footage for a music video at the time. So she thought I was in costume as like a camera operator. But I was actually just dressed up as a cowboy cause I already have a hat and I found a sheriff. Anything you do on Halloween, you're like, I'm in a costume as a Uber driver today. As a podcaster. driver today as a podcaster.

Um, uh, we, so anyway, so all that to say, um, so then I, I encouraged Danny to move Danny and Drew to move to cultist. Then they met Drew, then they set the her and I up. Um, and then this was all going towards something. Oh yeah. Anyway, so there was this tattoo connection. So I ended up just, because the drive is so far, I was just crashed at Drew's instead of driving back and forth all the time.

And she was really active. And so I would just go with her to work. And so I was editing that music video I shot when we met, but like in her tattoo studio. And, and then I got asked to shoot a music video for someone else. I'm like, if you want to come out to this tattoo studio, like all there's a white wall, I can like film you in front of this white wall here. And then that girl, that's an offer I can't refuse. The only thing is in the background, it's all, yeah.

Yeah, fortunately with music videos, you can. You need the audio. Yeah. Anyway, and so she didn't have any tattoo. She's like, oh, I don't have any tattoo. Let's both get a tattoo. So that's what we did. And then I got mom on my wrist.

Oh, the classic, that's like the's like the yeah getting the mom tattoo. Yeah it's basically because my parents just hate tattoos. Yeah. I was like oh if I get mom then maybe like she's... I thought that said wow but I have vertigo. Well yeah it can be and then and then and then once you get a taste of it it's just like... That's what I've always heard is like, once you get one, then the blood gates are open. I can't see you naked, but I'd like to. You're all up and down your sleeves. I can see it in the hole in your jeans.

Yeah. Are you completely covered now? No, not completely covered, but on my legs, I practice. I've been teaching myself. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. You've been doing myself. So I'll just- Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. You've been doing your own tasks.

Yeah, yeah. So I've got a bunch of like stupid ones on my leg cause nobody really sees it, you know, unless it's, yeah. Yeah, you go to the water park. Things are getting nasty. You say there's this karaoke party, this legendary karaoke party. Yeah, yeah.

What's your, what are your karaoke tracks? Oh, good question. Well, that night I sang Copacabana by Barry Manilow. Just in a nice croony range. There's an awkward three minutes of like just instrumental. Why do they do that? I know. Yeah. I know.

They should cut off the karaoke songs when the person doesn't know the words anymore. Or like, oh, there's a bridge in Power of Love. Oh, okay. Yeah. I'll just stand here until. There should be someone making an exact decision on the fly. Or someone at the karaoke company.

Yeah. But I guess that's mostly YouTubes these days. I got asked to do like kind of like a punk take on a cover of a song recently for somebody. And so I just was like, oh, I'll just download the karaoke version because it's all MIDI and then I can change all the instruments. So I found a file on this Russian website and it's literally a million songs that are all MIDI. So it's like 15 gigs of all these files

that are like, you know, not even a megabyte. And so I technically can host a karaoke night. Yeah. Forever. Yeah. And I can change all the instruments. Like I could make, you know, guns and like, sweet child of mine be like a fart sample or something.

That sounds pretty good. Yeah, which I know would probably be up your guys. Yeah, anything fart sound, I love it. What's your karaoke? I don't do karaoke. What's your karaoke sign? I don't really do karaoke. I can't remember the last time I did karaoke.

I don't do it very often either. I think because I suck at singing and very self-conscious about it. It's hard to not be self-conscious. Like even, like I don't. But you're a singer. You've got a nice. You're working late.

Cause I'm a singer. Yep, this guy gets it. That line is that kind of just internationally known as a horrible line. No, it's loved, it's beloved. She's, I love it, but she's got like, she's got the goods. Yeah.

But like the two or three songs I've heard, they all kind of have like a line that stands out as memorable. Cause I really like that song too, but I'm also a fan of Olivia rodrigo. Mm-hmm. He just went to their uh concert. Oh, yeah. Oh my gosh Yeah, I think her lyrics are just insane. But what I didn't know was That she was singing about how what's her name stole her boyfriend. Yeah, that's the idea of uh

Driver's license, I think because because Sabrina Carpenter is the other woman. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. But. And Sabrina Carpenter's aunt, Nancy Cartwright of The Simpsons. Yeah. What?

Yeah. So it's all coming together. Cowabunga. I thought you were going to say the Carpenters are like, but she's not connected to them. No, no. Okay. Well, I mean, she's connected to the most important carpenter of all, Jesus Christ. Yeah.

JC. What up? Up there in heaven making a table. Making it happen. Do you remember the scene in The Passion of the Christ where he makes a table? Yeah. Then the person's like, but this table's way too high. And he's like, I also made a chair.

And then he meets Richard Nixon and plays football. He drinks 15 Dr. Peppers. How come people don't talk about what's his name anymore being... Jim Caviezel? No, the... Mel Gibson? Yeah. Remember like he was, it was such a scandal and then the world just was like, we got other

people to cancel. Exactly. And we also have other people to step into the Mel Gibson role. Like it's kind of era. Because like, can you imagine going and watching a movie like Lethal Weapon at this point in time? It feels like a movie for kids at this point. Yeah. What's the equivalent of Lethal Weapon now?

Like a... Deadpool. Yeah. Something like that. It's weird. I just I've lost interest in most movies. Yeah, I just I like I just like documentaries or although I do really want to see a 24 Civil War that looks that's a oh that's not I was like Captain America Civil War.

No, it's a Civil War American style. Yeah. So what if that would have Jesse Plevins had red sunglasses? The only thing I know about the movie. I watched a documentary last night about Jim Henson, and it was amazing. Really? Yeah. He's he's on Disney Plus.

Okay. Was it like a smear job? Yeah. He's, uh, he's on Disney plus. Okay. Was it, uh, like a smear job? Yeah. There's a way you don't know about Kermit. He stuck his hands in all of these. It was a puppet file. What is the tattoo over there of the house? Is that based on a real house?

I don't know. So I just, all tattoos have basically been decided on like minutes before. Oh okay. Because if I try and think of like what should I get tattooed then I just I'm too neurotic um whereas sometimes I'm just in kind of drew is will be if I have like I don't know she just be like, maybe I can try a new idea out on you so like she'll, you know, try something out. But this house I just I just like architecture and I was like, I'm just gonna get a random house. I mean, I've got some dumb ones like this is like, good, not the best. I got a juice box number two. Oh, you got lose you the juice box

Just cool I got a koon tash Wow Lamborghini good tush. I was like, do you ever think it's funny that her name's Drew and that's what she did all over you. Oh We're I didn't think of that so mad But you have a poster of Lamborghini gountasch on your wall as a child? Many, many. It was all the same poster, but I got a bunch of times. Well, my old studio was in this building with a bunch of other studios, and it was right near a Valley Village.

So whenever I was procrastinating, I would just wander into the Valley Village and I would always look at the art section. Yeah. Anytime there was a Lamborghini in a frame, I'd buy it. Absolutely. And sometimes the odd Corvette or Ferrari. Sure. And so anyway, that whole building was just covered in Lamborghinis and hot cars for a

period of time. Nice. Yeah. and hot cars for a period of time. Yeah, I feel like I can picture the exact poster in my mind and it's yellow, it's a yellow Lamborghini Coupé. Kind of the similar way you have there, the doors open and maybe, maybe a woman in it somewhere, but I feel like it was the car. What do you call those kind of doors?

Not gullwing. Not gullwing. Not suicide. Oh. I think they might be slicey doors. There's a guy that on YouTube, Doug, reviews cars or something. Something with the name Doug and he's like one of the most respected

car reviewer guys. And he does these really, like deep dives on cars from all eras. And he has a great one on the Kuntash. And he basically says it's the worst car. Like there's so many things that are brutal about it. Like you can't see when you're going in reverse. So you have to like lift the door up and look behind you.

It's super tiny and uncomfortable. There's all these, there's all these like little compartments for no reasons. Like they're, like it seemed like a bad idea that just caught on. And it's also a car that only 12 year old like. Yeah. I don't know how much it caught on.

I don't think I wasn't seeing them everywhere. It's not like the Toyota Yaris. But do you remember as a kid when you would see one drive by, it was was like I don't think I ever did. Oh, now I see. I never did until I moved to the city. Well, I was out there.

I don't see 80s ones, but I see like plenty of modern. Yeah, whatever supercars. I don't get it. Like why wouldn't if you're going to get a Lamborghini just get the Kuntas. Why? Yeah, yeah, yeah, why just beat around the bush? Or just get a DeLorean. Yeah. I was driving to the Olivia Roderigo,

or walking to the Olivia Roderigo concert through Yaletown and there were matching Lamborghinis driving down the road. And then I pointed them out and we kept walking and then like two minutes later they came going the opposite direction on the same road so they had someone had done a u-turn in these in these yeah I always I always want to know the psychology behind the person like more than anything if I see a bank half a million dollars for a car yeah like, like did they rent it? Oh, I did it because of my little penis.

Oh, if you must know. Well, like a snow pea it is. My dad worked with one of his coworkers. He got married. He'd been married a number of times. He's kind of like a low key kind of party guy. And when he got married, he went to Hawaii and rented a Lamborghini Kuntash.

Nice. And I was like, maybe that's most of the situations where you see Kuntashes is just- They've rented it. Yeah, that's true. They've rented it on their way to get their next divorce. Yeah. It's got a little compartment for divorce papers. Oh, it's sad.

Yeah, the, I don't understand. I don't know how they function. Like cars that have- Oh, you just put gas in them, you press the pedal. And then it vrooms, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes.

The like ones that basically have no clearance between the bumper and the ground. I don't understand how they- Oh, sure. How they off-road in those. Or how they get, if they go in like speed bump, like you can't go over a speed bump. What's the because somebody asked me though, what's the advantage of that? I was like, I literally don't know. I have no idea.

Yeah. Hey, Graham, I've been wondering, suck it to me. You know, those cars are super low. What's the advantage from your point of view? I said, I didn't know. Do you guys get a lot of guests talking about Donald Trump? Like what? No, no. Oh, really? Interesting. Yeah.

Are you, are you, are you? No. Yeah. Oh wow. This is a, this is kind of a politics free zone for the kind of like we used to, like, I feel like even like Elon Musk and Joe Rogan used to come up a lot more and then we just decided, it bums me out to hear about them.

Yeah, it's true. We're more of a Burt Kreischer cast now. Yeah, there's a- But you have something you wanna say. No, no, no, no, not at all. There is a, that reminded me of, there's a YouTube channel called Podcast Cringe. Have you heard of that one?

No. They've just been repping into Burt Kreischer. Really? Yeah, deep dives. He's the Mark Twain of our era, if you've asked me, you know. Yeah, shirtless Mark Twain. Yeah.

Oh, can you imagine? He's so ripped, I assume. Mark Twain wrote the Adventures of Van Wilder instead of Tom Sawyer. Yeah I just hope someday that I'm not called cringe. Oh Graham I'm sorry I hate to tell you. Oh no Dave! We are. That's the beauty of your consistency and your personality. It's like you've been Graham Clark from day one and I find... But is that bad that I haven't gone... That I haven't changed over time? You've evolved and stuff but I just find...

What's a phase you've gone through Graham? Laser tag, tattoo removal. Laser tag was your whole personality. It was my whole personality. I used to wear wireless vests around everywhere I went. Friday, Saturday nights, you know where you'd be fun. I've never done laser tag ever. What?

Oh, you got it. This save it up for you and your daughter. There'll be a fun thing to do on her fifth birthday. I don't know if it exists anymore, does I mean I don't know yeah I don't know I don't go I've also always wanted to do a trampoline park oh yeah we do those you do yeah we go to one in Richmond and they give you special socks that you use very cool and then you jump and they I, you don't because your body's old and it hurts too much. So much so you can feel your organs move when you jump.

But the kids jump and you pay to get in as well. And then the kids, they also have these giant like inflatable balls that a person can go inside. Yeah. And like you, you know, you can like bump into the other inflatable ball. Like the flaming lips. Yes, exactly. Okay. And then my kids go in them and I just roll them around and they love it.

Yeah. That sounds like- And I get so sweaty. Well, considering you were drenched when we showed up here. Yeah, I was. Well, did you work out? I did work out before this. Oh, wow.

You're looking good, man. You're looking tight. You're looking like Mark Twain with his shirt off. You know, yeah. I don't I don't like that topic because I just I feel like I'm the most like easily out of breath that I've ever been in my life. Yeah. What just you know, like I used to love running and I do miss it, but I just feel like when I wake up,

I get this burst of energy and I just wanna put it towards something creative. And why I do not have that, man. I am dragging my ass out of bed. Oh, well. Around 5 p.m., then things really start clicking. I don't exercise. Well, I guess I sometimes, like I would go for a run because I had energy in my brain

that I'm like, I need to get this out. I need to, to not have myself out. That's the best part of exercise that I miss is that it really does help you just chill in life more. I find like things are easier to process if you're active. Whereas now I can feel like the smallest thing that might've kind of been water off a duck's back in the past is like maybe gets under my skin a bit more now.

So I'm like, or maybe I'll just get into Xanax. Sure, I mean, or ask about Ozempic. Yeah. I gotta ask about it. Just ask it. What's the deal with it? Yeah. Right?

He's gonna do his five on Ozempic. I love it. Since I last saw you, I did briefly, I did a standup set a few times. What? Yeah. How did you know about this? I didn't know this.

I thought it was great. Yeah, it was like I really enjoyed it. Where did you go up? It was that comedy place in New West. House of Comedy. House of Comedy, yeah. Nice. Yeah.

What did you do? You do a five, you do a seven? I don't know, but they gave me a video of it. And your parents digitized it. Oh. Yeah. Yeah, it was fun. It was fun.

Basically, it came to be because I knew somebody that took a comedy class there. Oh yeah, yeah. And then they, but at the end of like so many classes, you have to perform on this one night at the comedy place there. And he was too nervous. And so with like no notice, he was like, you should do it.

And so I just remember I was like walking around the- That doesn't dissolve anything. Yeah, I know. I don't know why. And so I was like walking around the bay and I was just like writing down random jokes. Oh. And so I had some cue cards with me, but I can't look at a cue card on stage and now and then translate

I remember seeing you back in the day and you would have notes and I was still still yeah Yeah, do you ever look I have to look at your lyrics and you're like what the hell? Oh, yeah well actually, oh wait, I Remember I had to do a Paul Simon cover and I couldn't remember the lyrics and so uh, who down in the schoolyard? Hmm, me and who? This could be us but. This was at the Biltmore and I remember being like, okay I didn't have time to memorize

the lyrics, I'll just put them down on the monitor and then when you're up there and you're singing you cannot, like you're oh, where am I looking, what line? Like, it does not work. But I did actually come to think of it, reference the bullet point card. Like, you just can't have like, elaborate jokes on your card. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But the bullet points do help, because I remember at one point I looked at it, and I was like, oh, if you see me looking down, it's just a drawing of my dad that I carry with me. Because I did tell a lot of dad jokes. The first one I told was recently my dad died. And then everyone's like, oh, you know, gives it. And then I'm like, his hair.

That's good. Okay, okay. And then it went on from there. There used to be, there's like so many comedy courses you can take now, but there used to be just one. And what would happen every like three months or so is the scene would just be flooded with the first timers that wanted to do stage time.

But the good thing about them, they'd always bring friends. Right. If you had a newbie on your show, they would have. I did want to ask, did your dad really dye his hair? He did not. No, good. Good?

Yeah, I mean, there was, I did have some good jokes. Yeah, well, we heard one. Yeah, that one got a laugh from you guys, so I'll just leave it there. Yeah, yeah. Just leave it at that. We don't make any of our guests laugh. We don't make any of our guests laugh. We don't make any of our guests laugh. I did have some good jokes. Well, we heard one. Yeah, that one got a lot from you guys, so I'll just leave it there.

Yeah, yeah. Just leave it. We don't make any of our guests do their material. Well, the other two times I did stand up was cause a friend of mine does a comedy thing in his backyard cause he's just got a big yard and they've got like a deck that's kind of a stage and they'll just, they'll charge people like 10 bucks

and supply all the drinks and food. And it's kind of a fun little thing. And he's in this band, The Matinee, and I had worked with. And so he invites me out. And then both, two of the times I went out there, they were like, you should get up and do like, do like your set or whatever.

Cause he knew that I had done that once. Well now everyone's gonna be asking. Oh, don't. Yeah. But, and so then I both those times I went up without my cards and that was kind of a good exercise, I thought. Yeah.

To just not be prepared, like not know I was gonna do it that night or in advance at all. I find when I do that, there's a lot of this. Yeah. And then you can do crowd work. People, and then you can put your crowd work on your TikTok. Yeah, and it doesn't matter if the person in this crowd

is the one that gets the laugh. Just put it up on TikTok. It doesn't matter. You just gotta feed the algorithm. Yeah, absolutely. Are you referencing somebody? No, comedy in general. Comedy in general, okay, okay.

It's like if you are starting comedy today, the landscape of it is like that's what you're thinking. That's how you're thinking in the little bits. Right, yeah. Because like an hour, that could take years and years, but little bits, you can do it all the time. Yeah, you can do in the little bits. Right. Yeah. Because like an hour that could take years and years, but little bits. Yeah, you can do so many little bits right now. If you don't have any little bits, just talk to the crowd.

It's kind of like that with music though too, like little. Oh, sure. You just need little hooks. That's why people just do jingles now. All the pigs just do jingles. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, it's a really weird time to be a musician

I think maybe it's a weird time for everyone though on all levels. Oh my god Have you guys seen what Trump's up to? Well, I'm I don't know about you guys but AI is probably not coming after your guys's jobs Well, it's like AI is like this is a job. don't think so. Yeah, you call this a job. How do you make money? You can have the the there's like the on Spotify, you can have the AI DJ. Yeah. And if you just have it on the background, it just sounds like rate like it's you're not like, oh, that's not a human. You're like, that's fine. Yeah. When the voice comes on, it's like, oh, I know you guys love the Shrek soundtrack.

So here it comes, All-Star. And then coming up, another one from the Shrek soundtrack. It's I'm a Believer, also by Splash Mouth. Splash Mouth. Splash Mouth. Somebody's got Splash Mouth on the ground. Malfunction, malfunction. I will, the voice, recreating human voice, I love that like I got into that day one like yeah

Even actually my grandpa passed away recently My grandpa recently passed a car passed a car. His driver's license. I'm sorry, all actuals. Yeah, we're both sorry. Oh, I mean he was 105. Oh shit, really? But the year before that,

I thought he was for sure going to pass away, so I had flown out and went to his old age home and filmed him talking for like an hour and a half. Which is kind of neat to just have that footage now, but, uh, on the, for his funeral, they asked me to put together a slideshow cause I'm the one in the family that kind of keeps digital records. Oh, I hear your parents are pretty good at digitizing.

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It didn't go over super good. I love it though. I love the idea behind it. I thought it was pretty cool. It went over better once kind of the initial wave of people had left and it was more just like the people that had been that were drunk. Yeah, basically. And then I played a bunch of messages and it was more just like the people that were drunk. Yeah, basically. Then I played a bunch of messages and it was fun. But it's-

It was Steve's grandfather. Hey now, you're an all star. There's a woman that was a DJ and she basically licensed her voice to an AI. But I was like, yeah, but you can only do that once. Now you're out of a job. Yeah. Like you're never going to be able to get another radio job. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. You're just that voice now. You know? The DJ profession is very transient, I feel like. There's not a lot of DJs that have stuck with that job for their whole life, it seems like. And if they do, they've traveled. Every DJ I know has like been ping ponged all over the country.

Yeah, there's certain DJs that have really done well with their brand or whatever. But I've noticed that a lot of DJs at radio stations, you go back to the radio station if I'm on the you know, if I'm like on the road or whatever, and it's always new DJs. Like it's always people that have quit and moved on. Yeah. So. A lot of them got canceled.

Yeah. Yeah. It was the last time a radio DJ got canceled. Well, DJ Tanner. DJ Tanner, right? Cause of her math. No, that was Stephanie. Oh, shoot.

Yeah. DJ Tanner was Stephanie. Oh, shoot, yeah. DJ Tanner was Candice Cameron who, I mean, most recently, I think got in a fight with the Jojo Siwa. Oh, that's right, in real life kind of? I forget. I've been loving the Jojo Siwa tea. Yeah, oh, what's the tea? I just been loving her tea transformation.

Oh. Yeah. Her tea transformation. Her tea transformation. Yeah, just the tea surrounding her transformation has been fascinating. I love the little bits of content we get from her doing a weird dance. And with, you can't hear the music, you just hear her feet flopping on the ground.

I never heard of her before, but as like a joke gag on Christmas my mom buy a bunch of like teen beat type of magazines. And they're everywhere. Whoa, your mom sounds pretty cool. She's pretty cool. She'll lay down some beats and she'll do some spins on linoleum

if you give her a chance. One time we were at Target and they had Jojo Siwa, like seven days of Jojo Siwa's face on underwear. Jesus. Whoa. In the kids' section. And so now we've just been singing Jojo Siwa underwear, do da. Oh, that's nice.

Did you hear about that time that Michael Jackson was in Walmart though? I did hear about that. He saw a sign. Yeah, it's something about kids pants are half off. Yeah. I love it. That was another one that you did on stage. Yeah. Michael Jackson. Yeah, that was my closer. All right. Good night, everybody. What The one joke that I ended on that actually, you're supposed to go out on a high note and it wasn't a high note. But I said, yeah, I used to close my set on a joke about, or on some Kobe Bryant jokes,

but Kobe Bryant jokes just don't fly. And then I got like an, like an ooh and then I said like, um, Have you heard about this Michael Jackson? Steve, that's not even a good joke. I know. It's not just edgy. Yeah, I know. I did do one I did do some that were kind of edgy like about like a monstie or there was a let me keep in mind like I wrote the set like the

day up but anyway I did one about how I was like I just finally the gas prices have been going through the roof. Oh no, no. Wait, I can't go into telling this joke. But anyway, so I finally broke down and bought myself an electric toothbrush. For all the blow jobs I'm having to give at gas stations. Okay, you're saved. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were worried about the electric toothbrush when it came back around. Okay, okay, there you go.

I do like the rhythm of, I bought an electric toothbrush. Yeah. My dad died, his hair. He's the ellipses comedian. Yeah, is that what that's called, an ellipse? The dot, dot, dot. Oh, okay, yeah. It is a, it's a good gimmick, I guess. Yeah, everybody that what that's called an ellipse? The dot dot dot? Oh, okay. Yeah, it is a it's a good

Gimmick, I guess. Yeah, everybody's got one. I'm the guy that always has my shirt on I'm sort of an MMA guy Dave what's going on with you man? Oh me? Yeah, tell me all about it. Um, what's going on with me is okay, so I Me? Yeah, tell me all about it. What's going on with me is OK, so. I a few weeks ago, I got my head shaved. I went to the barber and I shaved my head. I had done this again earlier in January, and I have never done it before.

I used to I have this woman who cuts my hair. Usually she's great. Yeah. Is the guy that gets it, you get cut now is like a real rough kind of sailor type? Well, you remember I got it shaved down to a two. A two, yeah. And then after, he didn't speak any English and at the end he just goes, are you a coach? Oh, and I was like, what?

I'm like, you're wearing a whistle. Oh yeah. Baseball, hockey, I said no. Okay, I thought you were a coach. I was gonna give you the coach rate, but. So I got that shaved in January. And then when you get it shaved, you're supposed to like go back later

and like have your, so it doesn't grow out just like all poofy. You can get the, you've had a shaved head. I remember your early promo photos. not since I was a little guy, but you sorry you just something you just said reminded me of I showed drew your When you got shot. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's anyway, that's probably comes up all the time. Not really. Oh Well, I we don't have to make it up When Trump got shot, I was like, I wonder if it stirred a bit of PTS. Yeah, well, I mean, if anything, I hope it makes him less funny and kind of scared to walk his dog at night.

But if he's anything like me. But if he's anything like me. But so I got shaved a few months ago and then I went back and the guy who did it, who trimmed me up afterwards to like clean up my ears and stuff, he was great. And it was at the same local like barbershop place. You got you down to a two? You got me down to a too at the ears and neck, and then it grew out. And then a few weeks ago, I was like,

I wanna go back to my regular haircut person. Yeah. And I checked online and she didn't have any appointments for like three weeks. I was like, okay, I'm dying. And I went back and I got my head shaved again. Okay. And I made an appointment at this place and I showed up

and the guy wasn't there to cut my hair. And so like another person working there was like cutting two people's hair at the same time. She was like, I'll do you as well. Yeah, you're fine. Wait, I forget who wanted their head shaved. Was it you? And so I-

This is a girl on prom night. He's just like, what? Just one strip down. And then, so this place, it's just down the street. And I went there because it was convenient. And I was like, okay, I'll go back there to get the ears trimmed up and the neck. And I went back, made an appointment. This time, the guy wasn't there again.

Shit. So another person, like after finishing, like in between two other appointments was like, okay, I'll quickly do you. Oh, okay. And so I was like, I wanted to see if this is like a big common thing on at this barbershop. So I went and I Googled them and I went to their Google reviews. He was cutting four people's hair at the time. Even then they've got it down.

We were only doing two at a time now. They had this guy, he was, he, he was, it was Mr. Bean. Yeah, yeah. Trying to get to the fact that it was Mr. Bean. But yeah, so I went online and I Googled this place and I just searched for the one-star reviews.

And there are the common one-star review is it's too busy and kind of disorganized. But there was one guy who was like, they gave me a terrible haircut. Here's a picture of it. So that then became my obsession. I went, I looked up every barber shop in town and went and just looked at their one-star reviews and so many people are like, look at my shitty haircut.

Oh. That's the, that's one of my favorite things is looking at one-star reviews, all like on Tmoo, Shein. Mm. Um. Who's going to Tmoo and gets disappointed is looking at one star reviews all like on Timu, Sheen. Who's going to Timu and gets disappointed by the thing that arrives? Well, like, cause like there's photos of the models wearing the clothes, but then for a while of just for fun,

I was doing a screenshot of the model wearing the clothes and then like a review of someone that posted themselves wearing it. And it was just, yeah. The gap in the lighting, the gap in the body. The gap in the mall. That's where I do my shopping. The gap in the material.

One star review. Oh, that could be one of your jokes. Yeah, so I. Thanks. Just like, oh, I just wrote a bad joke. Yeah, no, no, I love you. Steal my music. I gotta work it out for you.

So I was at the mall and there was a gap in the floor. In my teeth. I fell through. And so that is now my new favorite thing is going to looking at barbershops, looking at their one-star reviews and people posting their bad haircut. Past guest, Jackie Pirico, got a phenomenally bad haircut. And I think you can still see it on her Instagram story.

She did like a multi-part story about getting this haircut, what went wrong, trying to get it fixed. But it was just, the story's insane. I don't wanna spoil any of it, but basically, the person that was there wasn't a hairdresser. Oh no. Oh no. Oh.

Better than dentistry. Yeah, but you know pretty quick with the dentists where they're like breaking themselves. But they, ouch. Oh. Oh. Ouch. I knew a guy that would do his own like teeth cleaning.

He's like, I got the tools on Amazon. Oh, really? Yeah. And he would just clean his own teeth. And but lately, because he's still with us. I don't know. He was a handyman that I had hired sometimes to help me with stuff. And he just the problem was

he talked so much and I'm just, I'm an introvert at the end of the day and I just had to stop calling him. But part of me has been thinking lately because going to the dentist, nobody, like as an adult, it's so hard to wake up and go today's the day I book that appointment. Especially as someone who doesn't work for a company that gives you dental insurance. Exactly. My dentist is quite the bully. Sends me a lot of messages until I cave and book an appointment. Like personally, he like DMs you. Last time we know you're looking at your phone. It shows you're active. Itows you read my last two messages. The, yeah, I've started going to the dentist

since Abby got a job that has dental insurance. And the last time I went, I couldn't figure out the dental insurance. And they were like, so it's $270. And I was like, okay, does this work? Is this number working for you? And they're like, no, no. All right, we'll contact you later.

And they let me leave and they never contacted me again. So, whoa, I'm gonna try that. They might've sold your dental teeth pictures on the net. That's true. Wiki teeth. Anyway, so I recommend that. Yeah, man. Your hair looks good. It's grown in the right. It's not poof.

Oh, it's fine, yeah. Do you ever think, like, when you want to shave your head that you could just use your own buzzers? I did one time during the pandemic. I tried to get Abby to, like, clean me up around the edges with my beard trimmer. Yeah. And it was not strong enough. It did not do the job. You need the like a like a real brr. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You should get dog dog hair trimmers. We'll do it. All right. That's what I remember. That's what Michael Stipe used to use. Really? When he first shaved his head, he they are asking him about it. and he said it was the like pet

groomer. Hmm. Oh, yeah. Well, I've been banned from, because Drew and I have a golden doodle and I once spent six hours trying to give him like a good solid even cut and I just kept going lower and lower and lower and then he just looked awful and it's like people, neighbors were like, Oh, you got a new dog. We're looking, but yeah, new dog.

It's really hard to groom a dog. I've realized. Well, that's why I won't do it. Don't ask me to. Well, you have short hair. I have short hair dogs. That's right. Yeah. They do have groom them. Well, you have short hair. I have short hair dogs. That's right. Yeah, they don't groom them.

Short hair for life. Maybe on their birthday. Oh, yeah. But like, um, like you, you could, you know, you see people with like a lightning bolt shaved into the side of their head. I could do that on their, their massive thighs. We're, we're back in that era with the getting the design shaved in the side of the head. Yeah, the kids, the head. Really? Yeah.

The kids, the youth. Why don't you do it? You're right. Do you remember the tennis player hunk from gummo? Did you ever see gummo? I saw gummo a long time ago. Oh, okay. Yeah.

He just, it's like a lung in the back, but then like the racing stripes on the side. Yeah. I had those when I was a kid. Yeah. Yeah. I had a mullet and you do the racing stripes and- I feel like you could pull it off still. I don't know.

I got too much real estate on top of my head. Yeah. Yeah. Right. I mean, but you know what? I'm willing to try. If everybody wants to send in a donation, I'll give it a whirl against the racing stripes.

Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think that'll look okay. What's going on with you? I went to go see a film in the theater. And it's- Okay, ooh, boy, this one, hmm. You've already seen Long Legs. We already talked about that.

I went and saw Deadpool and Wolverine already, but that's not this time out. This is a movie called Trap. Oh, right. An M. Night joint. Oh. Shyamalan. Shyamalan.

Shyamalan, that is. Shot in Toronto. This is, and it stars Josh Hartnett. Josh Hartnett. And- From Oppenheimer. The thing about M. Night is- Shyamalan.

Shyamalan is that he sometimes knocks it out of the park and makes like a super fun, super kind of well-conceived movie. Yeah. Sometimes he makes the sixth sense and then sometimes he makes the 20 movies after that. But I like some of his movies. I don't know why he got shotat on so hard, like over the years. I don't know. I feel like he's the only person putting out an original thing that he like wrote and produced.

Yeah, sure. Because what did he did? What were his like, flam ducks or like home runs? Unbreakable was really good. I liked Unbreakable a lot. Signs was good. Yeah, I never saw it, but people do like it. It's good. The Village was good.

The Village was maybe not great, but... Well, we beg to differ. But... The Lady in the Water. Lady in the Water I never saw. I didn't see how there was sci-fi ones. Did like... Did he do...

The one with Will Smith, Last on Earth? Did he do the one with Will Smith last last on earth or do you do the last airbender yes yeah yeah yeah he that's when he got teased I remember yeah and he said stop teasing me I'm M. Night Shyamalan damn it. Oh very sensitive he did a couple others that I don't I had never heard of but then I watched old and I was like oh this is hilarious you're back so much fun and I liked split with James McAvoy That was a good one and that was really owning glass glass and I actually like glass It wasn't the best but it was with split was glass and split related Yeah, it was it was glass and split and unbreakable were all in the same universe. Okay

Hmm, but he made this movie called traprap. And if you've never heard of it, the premise is there's a serial killer who's in a stadium and the whole concert that's in the stadium is a trap to catch him. So. Ooh, that sounds fun. It was, it started out fun and it. And he is Josh Hartnett.

He's Josh Hartnett, yeah. And you'll find out that he's a serial killer within the first five minutes of the movie. Because when I first heard that I was like, oh, that's a twist, it's ruined. But apparently, yeah. Yeah. That's the whole.

And it famously features M. Night's daughter as the pop star that everybody's there to see. And she's pretty good. Like, their music, I'm like, this is no worse or better than any pop song that's around now. Does she have a three-name name? No, I think she only has a one-name name.

Shamalot. Yeah. So I know, it's killing me, because I have to mention, we call our daughter, Maisie, we call, I call her M. Night shits a lot all the time. That's really good. That's one of her main names. That's good.

Anyway, he's got three daughters according to this. One's a director that just put out a movie this year called, what was the movie called? I don't know, it got panned. Is it Salika, the one named? Salika's the, she's the, she's the singer. She's the pop star, yeah. Named after the one name. Salika is the. Salika. She's the. She's the singer. Pop star yeah. Named after the great Toyota.

From yesteryear. But is like the the concert part of it was super believable and I imagine was exactly kind of the experience of being at Olivia Rodrigo like girls screaming the whole time. Yeah. Everybody knows the lyrics and so that part was like really well conceived, but man, oh man, the twists and turns in this movie out of their, they're insane. They're all insane. And I was in a theater with, uh, my wife, Sally, and then a bunch of teenagers.

And man, they started doing a running commentary and it was the fucking best. They were making jokes the whole time. Everybody's laughing at all the twists and turns. It's like, honestly, the most fun I've had in a movie. Since Dason confused where he got super stoned. That's right. But yeah, it was very much, that's what I used to do when I was a teenager.

We'd go to a sci-fi film or you know some kind of action movie and just sit there and just rip on the movie and these kids were doing it and they The new generation they're doing alright. They're doing good at ripping on films ripping on movies is the is the best I Ripping on anything to be honest like real skateboard ripping on anything to be honest, like real skateboard. But it is fun. It's fun to watch something and like have jokes and why do they do that? Why do they allow this to happen? And the plot holes are just so gigantic. And was everyone on board? Or was anyone annoyed?

No, I think there was probably only about 12 of us and of that, you know, nine were probably. I don't know why I associate M.H. Hamill with horror. It's this isn't a horror. No, this is like a thriller, I guess. Yeah, but I associate Michael Jackson with thrillers. Do you hear about him at a store? He went to a store right here and he saw a sign. And you know who else saw a sign?

Who? Aza Baez. Oh, shit, it all comes back around to my favorite music. Anyways, if you're looking for a fun movie to just really have a good time ripping on it, Trap is the film for you. And you know what, Josh Hartnett, he's a great leading man. I don't know why he's not in more films. He went away for a while. Yeah, to jail. I don't know why.

Whenever a famous person disappears for a while, I always assume that something bad has happened. Someone is abusing them. Yeah, or it's just like, you know, like Michael Keaton disappeared for years and he was just like on his ranch. Just like hanging out with horses on his ranch. Making his own homemade ranch dressing. Yeah. Keaton's own. So this trap movie is loosely based on a real thing that happened. Yeah, it was like a thing. I heard they now show a thing

before the movie about it. I don't know, I just, I know the thing you're talking about. Oh, okay, because there was a thing where they happened in the 80s in Washington, DC. They sent out- Almost live. Washington, DC. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.

And they sent out a, so I took a trip to sorry, sorry. And they sent out a... So I took a trip to Washington, DC. This is getting good. But they had a sting operation where they sent out, hey, you've won tickets to a football game. And the organization that did it was called FIST, which was like the federal something something team. And they made like a this fake letter that had a bunch of like, Jack, like jokes and

backwards written like codes in it that were like the, uh, the, the person like who signed the letter was like, I am Ted, no, which is wanted backwards. And it was like, come get football tickets and go to the stadium. There's a brunch beforehand for the game where we give you the tickets. And like, they apparently they sent out thousands of letters and 30 guys showed up yeah whoa and I got arrested yeah and how did they know that this guy would show up back then well they didn't it was like they sent thousands of letters to like a bunch of criminals right right and they had like people like you know that's brilliant officers like in that were cheerleaders

officers in like mascot costumes and they oh man I'd want to be arrested by a mascot. Yeah, like you could just yeah you could just do that with like catch a bunch of pedophiles like put out letters that's like we're giving away like free ps4s or something you know what I mean? Yeah sure. Why do pedophiles still want PS5s? Well, that's not believable. Well, they famously did a TV show about catching pedophiles. And they weren't...

They weren't there to get a free... Yeah, they were in many cases were bringing a video game and a bottle of vodka. And a 12 pack of condoms. Yeah. What are you going to do here, sir? Nothing. I just wanted to make sure you didn't have a cold or something. Yeah.

Speaking of genitals, I've been holding this pee for so, do you mind if I just go pee? Oh, I'll wrap this up and then. Oh, no, no, no, I don't want to. No, no, I'll wrap this up and then oh no no I don't want you know I'll wrap this up I want you to elaborate if anything no the last thing it was great about trap is the psychologist who's put this whole tribe together Hailey Mills who famously from the parent trap oh nice little like kind of thing you could confuse me because I was like, hmm, that's not the first Haley that M. Night Shyamalan's worked with. Mmm. Joel Osment.

Oh, do you guys want to move on to some over-herds? Yeah. Now you can go to the bathroom. Oh, cool. Well, we were wrong when we said it was time to move on and Steve's still here, but he's gonna be quiet. Yeah, and you never know what, but he's gonna be quiet. Yeah, and you never know what crazy voice he might come up with.

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There's that baby talk. I had a great overheard. But I woke up today, I'm like, I can't for the life of me remember, but I've also have, so maybe when you guys are talking, it'll come back to me, but I'm like, what? It was locked and loaded. But I do have a backup overseen. Is that- That does, yeah. Works, right? And I actually- Well, Graham said yes. I also say yes. Yeah!

Dragons, I'm here. You're one to do the ellipses as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I want to do the ellipses as well. And I actually, I got a photo of it and a video footage which I've since created a little 15 second video snippet for your website.

Okay. We'll get our, we'll have to call our webmaster. Do you still do the website that shows topics discussed or no? We don't do it anymore because. Oh, OK, OK. But we, I'll gladly put this up. We've got a lovely Facebook group.

Would it be better if I showed you guys the video that reveals the overseen, and then you guys can describe it? No, I think you can just do it. Yeah, cuz there is music that goes along with it that maybe helps We've never had so much audiovisual By the way, this is his backup You should see the headliner Okay, I'm just gonna play it for you, but you can cut this out of the podcast along with a lot of the other things. Okay, so you're at McDonald's. Okay, so

okay, so I'll describe it after, but so here we go. It's at McDonald's. Okay, you're in the back. This is edited. Yeah. Is this a drive-through. Yeah. Okay, you're at the drive-through What does it say fuck Trudeau, oh, yeah, well so So it so here's the context We were going you were fucking Trudeau at the time. So I'm allergic to dairy. But it but I can have a small amount. So and I love McDonald's milkshakes. And they've got it. There's almost no dairy in that. So you're right. And so they have a $2 snack shake. We were meeting up halfway between cultists and New West to because her Maisie's grandparents were watching her for

a couple days while we were doing stuff. Anyway, so there's McDonald's there. I'm like, oh, snack shake. I'm going to get one. So we go through the drive-through. And there's just this tiny little label maker on one of those little things that so that you don't like ruin your car when you turn the corner. What do you call that? Like a bumper? Like a safety bumper. There's a sticker on it and it's just, it says F asterix CK Trudeau made with a label maker. And it's just the tiniest,

the tiniest little label maker in like Abbotsford somewhere. And then they made it family friendly. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny that it was happening in Abbotsford somewhere. And then they made it family friendly. Yeah. It's funny that it was happening in Abbotsford where people probably have giant trucks with like, fuck you know, plastered all over them. But I just think it's, it's just so, I don't know, I just remember like as a kid seeing like

a middle finger bumper sticker and it said like, tax this Brian. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, uh, Brian loves those specific. Yeah. And then there was like being like going to punk shows and wearing like anti Stephen Harper stuff. You know what I mean?

Yeah. And the John Fretchen got off pretty easy. Yeah. Cause he would strangle you. Yeah. You got out of line. But I just love like, it's someone that used to have guitars covered in punk stickers though you know we're like was like and racism and like all like like legalized hemp and all this stuff and

Like all these political stickers and then just to see a label maker tiniest tiniest little label maker on this Weird bumper. Maybe they're trying to start like a whisper campaign. Just a little. Suck it out, suck it out. Anyway, I just love the idea of like a polite, like the fact that it was censored.

Just a polite rebellion against the government. I love it, I love it. Dave, do you have an overheard? Yeah, so on our walk to the Olivia Rodrigo concert I love it. I love it. Dave, do you have an overheard? Yeah. So on our walk to the Olivia Rodrigo concert, there were some, I mean, it was a stampede of Olivia Rodrigo fans, reg heads. Yeah, reg heads.

That's what they're now, regoids. And then there was some teenage, maybe early 20s women behind us talking about pop music. And one of them was saying, like, they were kind of going through, one of them was like much more of an expert than the other one was. And she was like, oh yeah, but well, I think my favorite is still Billie Eilish because she started with this album and

then, and then she kind of changed a bit with this album. But then she did this. And then the person who clearly wasn't that interested was like, Oh, yeah, no, I love her whole journey. That is a good way to like either start a whole conversation or to really end it like, yeah, all of it. Yeah, like, like it's how I would do if I had to do a book report about Billie Eilish. Yeah. Well, what's so compelling about her is the journey.

The journey. Yeah, because it's so human. It's just one foot in front of the other, you know what I mean? I love that journey for you. But anyway, like we do love Billie Eilish and her journey. Yeah. She, you know, she Billie Eilish and her journey. Yeah. You know, she's an ambassador for the Olympics now.

She's not a good guy. No, she's never been. Well, I appreciate her journey from being a good guy to a bad guy. Wait, is that a reference to a song? Yeah. Oh, okay, sorry. She's the bad.

She's her freaking biggest hit, man. I'm the bad guy. Oh, yes Not as big of an ice head as you know Yeah, well, you know you we get we all have our own journey that we're all you'll get there The production journey of her brother Phinney. Yeah. Yeah, they're Quite a team those two kids if you want to see not unlike the two of you. Yeah. Okay. Your journey. Yeah, we grew up together. Time and space. Dave's got all the right beats. If you want to see some interviews with Finneas and Billy Eilish,

there's a good James Bond music documentary on Amazon. Really? Watch watched it? Yeah. Nice. Got a lot of it goes through every James Bond song. Shirley Bassey? Yeah, man. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, Shirley Bassey. What are you, Mr. B? Yeah.

Oh, my other overseen that you just reminded me of is that my dad came, took the ferry yesterday to come help me stay in, and he showed up in, cause you know every piece of clothing that your dad owns, right? Cause he's been wearing it for years. I have no idea where he got this. Showed up in a super badass Mr. Bean t-shirt. Nice. Like what was the context that you got this t-shirt?

He figures that now you're out of the house, he can wear whatever the fuck he wants. He's not gonna be making fun of me on a podcast anymore. Oh! Yeah. Well, but he also showed up with his work jeans, which I said, those are the best jeans. Like, Drew, aren't those the insane jeans?

And he was like, I was like, can I have them? And I'm wearing them right now. Nice! Oh wow! Like work jeans. So you sent your dad back home with no pants and a Mr. Bean shirt. A barrel with straps. Just in his undies.

Sounds like something Mr. Bean would get. You're over, Graeme. I overheard, courtesy of, it's funny, because during the summertime, during the winter time, this wouldn't be of a worry, but in the summertime, if you're having a conversation anywhere around an apartment building or a house, you're going to be heard because everybody's windows are open. There's a girl in the alley chatting with a friend about relationships, and her friend wasn't listening very well because she said,

can I talk for a second? And then it just silence on my end. I don't know what's being said. And then probably like 30 seconds later, oh, so I can't. So yeah. Wow. Nice.

Can I talk? Oh, so I can't. Woof. But like she was talking loud enough that it was over what I was watching. So I turned off what I was watching, just sat there. Give me something good, please. She did she delivered. Do you ever plant yourself in a situation, knowing you will get an overheard? If somebody's talking really loudly, I tune in. And that especially if somebody's on a phone, like I'm like, well, they're forcing me to listen to this. So yeah, well, I guess on the SkyTrain. There's a lot of good stuff, too

Depends. Yeah a lot of us a lot of transit salt be with earbuds in so yeah, that's true It's not a lot of chat and then when the chat is happening Sometimes it's just loud. It's not funny at all. You know at night. It's like the people are Chattier and drunker. And drunker, yeah. If you get on a train on Friday night, woo, you're gonna hear some stuff. Because then it's party time and party time, excellent. Would you say excellent?

Yeah. Okay. You know what I have noticed actually on Friday nights and Saturday nights, late at night around like one or two a.m. if you go onto to TikTok live almost everyone is messed up and oh really yeah it's there's some really weird people on there and like with four viewers you know yeah thing just doing weird stuff I got to do this yeah all the because I do like being in a in a carnival

atmosphere where everybody's drunk yeah I will I'll walk down Granville Street just to soak it up. I love it. But if I don't have to leave the house. Yeah. Yeah. I find it really interesting. Drew doesn't like it because our tradition is we'll go to bed and she'll show me the TikToks that she's saved from the day.

I think most couples do this. Okay. Yeah. And she really covets her favorites. Like she has hundreds and probably thousands. And then when we even go to her parents' house, her mom's like, show me, what do you got for me? You know, she's really a great curator. But then I'm always like, can we just sneak over to live really quick?

And she's like, no, but I'm like, and then we'll go over. I'm like, this guy is so clearly on math. It's so obvious. And she's like, so, but I also, that's the impression of your wife. Yeah. So, no, no. Steve.

And I like people that are kind of mid. Well, then you're in the right place. Yeah, we're mid. Would you let me finish my ellipses? Oh, so I can't? Yeah, like people that are sort of down in their career downfall. I'm listening. fall. And like there is this, there's this YouTuber, Gabby Hannah, and she's out to Gabby Hannah. What up, Gabby? And I

just, I just sort of discovered her and Drew's like, and like she's just she's really kind of out there. And then there was like a series of TikToks came out about her reviewing her concert that she did recently. Yeah. I was like, what? Gabbie Hanna does music. Like, go ahead. And she's just like, won't let me click on any of these. She's like, no, it's, no. And then so now I secretly go into onto her phone and I'll put a Gabby Hannah video up so that when she opens TikTok, it's just locked and loaded. That is a pretty good gag. Yeah.

Do not mess with my algorithm. It is the sacred. It is kind of mean actually. Yeah. But you know what? It's fun. It's sacred. It is kind of mean actually. Yeah, but know what? It's fun. It's fun. It's fun to put Make your gals YouTube algorithm go from primarily kids videos to a lot of intervention A good account has both, you know, a good account is thank you. Yeah, it's balanced that way Now we also have overheard sent in to us by people all over the world if you want to send one in Send it into SPY at maximum fun org and this first one. This was just cute. This is just okay

This is from Nathan B This five-year-old brother to two-year-old sister brother. Guess what sister what brother chicken butt sister chicken, but who? Nice that's fun fun little you know Because it made me think of of poppies. Oh when the kids were trying to come up with knock-knock jokes. Yeah Yes, I would like to hear it. Well, there's a lot of like We were in the car and Margot would just like see like she just kind of had figured out knock-kn So she but we were driving and she was just like looking out the window knock knock. Who's there a tree? Uh, and then try to come up with a joke and poppy didn't quite get how they're supposed to work. And so it was knock knock Who's there tomato tomato? Who tomato shumka?

That's pretty good nice so she's kind of taken after you a little bit. Yeah, she's kind of got a tight five. Those are great names. Poppy's such a great name. And Margot, also the name of my accountant. Oh, nice! Yeah. She'll be so stoked to hear.

Hey, Margot, that guy who was here today? His accountant's also named Margot. This next one comes from Finn S. in New Zealand. My wife's at a play in a small theater and the play had a couple of deaf characters. In one scene, the two deaf characters are left on stage together and are communicating in sign language. A woman in the audience then says a little too loudly,

oh, something's happened to the sound. Oh. Oh. Oh. The display's broken. Something's wrong. That was a great delivery. Hit on the, sit on the remote control. Yeah, or get up there and jiggle a little bit

and see if it, I have a, there's a function on, I think it's crave, where if I pause and then start again too fast It just goes into subtitles. I don't know how to get it off. Oh really? Yeah, and I've watched everything with some title. It's yeah, it's not a bad way. I do. I'm a big s t guy, too I know Apple TV does the thing that were when you pause it it What is it? No, if you skip back it assumes it's because you couldn't hear it So they'll put subtitles on for like the next 30 seconds. Oh, maybe yeah. Yeah Anyways, we all stand subtitles here. We love them. I thought you said you didn't no

I don't like them But I do it is a smart way to watch it if you're like trying to keep it nice and quiet Mm-hmm cuz somebody's sleeping. But I do, it is a smart way to watch it if you're like trying to keep it nice and quiet because somebody's sleeping. I just, I love to customize any preference I can in any app or whatever. And so I like to go into the subtitle preferences and make the fonts kind of squarely.

Yeah, cause you can change the color, you can give it a background. I don't do, I don't change anything anything my TV still has that Mexican soap opera movement function It's called live motion or something take it off see all the different things in different brands. Yeah No, it's awesome. I'm just messing with ya This last one comes from Dallas T. I'm doing yep, Dallas, Texas I am doing set construction for Yep, Dallas, Texas. I am doing set construction for a local play

and the lead construction guy in his 30s has light rock playing on the radio. Carly Simon's Your So Vain comes on and he said, do you know this song is about Dave Cooley? Oh, that's good stuff. Yeah. I mean- Those that don't know, maybe you need to explain the box.

No, everyone knows. No, everyone knows. Okay, okay. They are, they ought to. They ought to. Yeah. Nice work, you guys. There you go.

In addition to over-hears that are written in, we also accept your phone calls. If you want to call us, our phone number is what? 844-779-7631, that's one. Ugh, Spypod1 one like these people have. Hello, Graham, Dave, and vivacious guests. This is Brian in Morgantown, West Virginia. I was recently running past a construction site and I overheard three guys talking about

a fourth guy who wasn't there. And the first guy said, oh yeah, he vapes, he smokes. And the second guy chimed in and said, he lies. So anyway, he vapes, he smokes, he lies. Nice. Good recap. Sounds like a cool guy. Honestly, like I only chose this because three guys talking about a fourth guy who isn't there describes the podcast

Fourth guy is M. Night Shyamalan. Oh shit. Whoa the When you're writing like a play or a book or whatever there's like there's like what the person says about themselves a play or a book or whatever, there's like, there's like what the person says about themselves, what the narrator says about the person, what do the other people say about the character when they're not around? That could be a great first sentence in the book. Do you guys?

Babes, he smokes, he lies. Do you guys ever, do you make t-shirts and stuff like that? Oh yeah, I got a big printing press in the back. No, not physically, like dude so hard. I work as cotton. I loom, I got a big printing press in the back. No, not physically, like do so harvest cotton. I loom, I got a big loom. We have, I think a t-shirt available at maxfunstore.com, is that right? .org.com

maxfunstore.com. Cause I was just thinking like it used to be that if you saw someone that dressed a certain way, you could be like, oh they're like in from my world or whatever. Whereas now Anyone can just you know Dress up like anything and you have no idea like they've just been on the internet or whatever But but I feel like if someone had to stop podcasting yourself t-shirt on I'd immediately be like, oh, oh, hey my buddy You're yeah, you're cool. Yeah, like I like you. Yeah We've got one available right now. Oh really be yours is it?

Double XL and oh no, we go we're team move for seven bucks. We've got one design available right now We used to have more but then they switch where? Who was making them and then we were like, yeah who was making them and then we were like, eh, who cares? No, I feel like you guys could fully go into a merch business if you want, just have weird quotes and stuff. I'm, it's on my brain because this is custom, like Gail made it for me because we just got a cricket

so she can make t-shirts and stuff like that. It says rad dad on it. It says rad dad. Cool font, I like the font a lot. We used to have more inside joke shirt. We just have the one inside joke shirt. The one that was based on those like algorithm t-shirts. That was I'm a dad that has a gun and my daughter is a Christian and we get up to fun and a Virgo and if you don't like it. Yeah. So we had one. I'm her dad yeah See that yeah that would that would tell you also I'm a dad

All right next phone call Hey guys, this is John from red deer. I just wanted to call in and keeping with the electric Olympic excitement and with last week there being some Shrek content. I thought this was a good time to call this in. I was watching the beloved Ethan Katzberg, Canadian when at the hammer throw, they were talking about his coach and they described him as the Shrek of shot. That was really funny. Like, what does that mean? What does that describe?

He lives under the swamp. He's trained to the donkey. Anyways, love you. Off I go. Yeah, he did. His coach was a donkey. Did you think a donkey has Shrek energy? Wasn't a comment on his looks? Was it calling him a Shrek? Yeah. Yeah. But is it is that a derogatory? I think we're just basically all Shrek pills right now. Everything's the Shrek of whatever. Yes. Yeah. And it's that guy.

If anybody didn't see the hammer throwers first, golden hammer throwing for Canada, for a man and for a woman, we took it. We took both of them. He looks very much like Burton Cummings, a young Burton Cummings. And Burton Cummings wrote a, sent him a tweet. Really? Yeah. He said a lot of people are congratulating me, but I don't recall doing anything. And then tagged him in the... I once played the Burton Cummings Theater in Winnipeg with Block Party and then almost got beat up at a bar later that night.

You go down the wrong street? Block Party the band? Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Yeah, I was at a bar and this girl, what did she do? Like, I was in line to get a drink and I was with a buddy of mine who was on tour with us selling merch for us.

We were selling, stop podcasting yourself. You were selling our merch, cool. We were like once, that I still can't get rid of. So. Which. But, and then she said something to me and I was just making small talk with her. And then she kind of implied that I was hitting on her which I absolutely was not so then I

was like what and then so I grabbed my buddy and we just pretended that that we were a couple or whatever just to kind of it was like my gut reaction to shame her for me feel like I was hitting on her, which I was not. Anyway, uh, she didn't like that. And then it turns out her boyfriend was a bouncer. Um, and then this bouncer comes up to me a few minutes later, he's like, Hey, can I talk to you outside for a minute? Like just all confident and cocky.

It's like, uh, no, no. I just, I turn around and walk the opposite way. And then next thing I know, he's choking me and dragging me out. No. And then, and then my bandmates all piled, piled out there. And there was like a bit of a brawl, like with hair being pulled and like heads being punched.

Was this hot ha ha ha ha? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I would love to see you guys in a fight with a bouncer. It's not much to look at. That's a boy. I feel like he must be like, oh God. When his girlfriend shows up at the bar, he's like, I'm going to have to fight someone tonight. You know she just loves when she has that power.

I mean, why date a bouncer if not to get him to beat guys up? That's true. power. I mean, why date a bouncer if not to get him to beat guys up. No offense to our bouncer and bouncer listeners and partners of bouncer listeners or the listener. Anyway, final phone call. Hi, I'm calling in with an overheard. This is Holden in Boulder, Colorado. standing outside the liquor store, uh, day after, uh, 4th of July and, uh, car pulls up and two people get out. The passengers guy, guy in the passenger, uh, side says to the driver who's just getting out, I thought you were sober. And she, she gets out of the car, she's like,

yeah, I'm sober now. And they walked into the liquor store. I don't know if that'd quite qualify as funny enough. Oh, it does. And you laughing at it, puts it over the top. The idea of like, yeah, I'm sober. Oh, I mean like I can drive I'm not I'm still I drink all the time But right now I'm over between every burger. I'm vegetarian

Well that brings us to the end of the episode Steve where you you do all this production you play music where can what are you promoting? What's happening right now? well, I'm I've been making a bunch of just I You do all this production, you play music, where can, what are you promoting? What's happening right now? Well, I'm, I've been making a bunch of just, I guess I'll put it out as just my name, just Steve Baez. But yeah, I've been making a bunch of music and I'm going to start releasing it soon. And I think I want to just as an experiment, put it out fully DIY. Just no obligations to anyone. No labels going, why aren't you touring this?

And not taking a loan. Labels are so catty. Well, I mean, well, I don't know. Yeah, so like, I don't know to what extent, like if I'll just trickle it out or if I'll actually like really give it a huge push. But sounds like me in the bathroom. Sounds like me in the bathroom.

This ellipses comedy is catching on. Well thank you so much and thank you everybody out there. StevePayz.com. Yeah, check it out. And then if you also want to check out other stuff I've done, I put out a record last year with a band called Fur Trade. And it's an awesome album. It's called Dark Celebration. And I mean, I shouldn't say it's an awesome album. I think it's awesome.

Yeah. You know Steve from Hot Hot Heat. Fertrade. Yes. Mounties. Mounties. And then I put out a record a couple years ago with another project of mine called Left Field Messiah.

Who is in that with you? That is one of the guys from, do you know the band Fits and the Tantrums? Yeah. One of those guys and then another wickedly talented dude named Eric Jansen who was in a band that I was kind of co-writing with in LA called Wildling. But that band was really fun and we're gonna do another record soon probably.

And if anyone out there wants Steve to produce their record, he's available. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I basically, my approach, oh, like last year, I think I did 30 music videos as well. Wow. Yeah, I do a lot of music videos. I did all the, I do album art for people. Like I did Hawksley's, one of Hawksley's records. I did all the Left Field Messiah artwork, like just cutting up, doing collage fun stuff. And then, but yeah, I've been producing for all sorts of people. Trying to think, like, so I just co-wrote,

produced, mixed, mastered a record for Huxley Workman. What if we just fade out at the end of the show? Yeah. Huxley Workman, if you've never heard of him before, is fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. But like Hotel Mira have done- They're ripping it up, Hotel Mira, they're Hotel Mira have done. I did.

Rippling it up. Hotel Mira. They're all over the place. Dear Rouge. Dear Rouge is kicking up a storm. Uh, friggin the Banks brothers, um, days are May. Uh. You are a hard working showbiz man.

Yeah. Yeah. What about if somebody wants a tattoo? Where should they go? Well, I just gave somebody a tattoo the other night. Oh, so you also booking appointments? Practicing on yourself and then practicing on someone else. Yeah. Well, I get this girl, she wanted...

You thought I was hitting on her. I pretended I was gay. Next thing you know... No. Well, so Drew works out of our house now. She used to have a studio and that's kind of why I have so many tattoos all of a sudden is just because it's just right there, you know? But so this girl was over and Drew was tattooing her and she's like, will you give me a tattoo?

So I started one on her arm, but I was a couple drinks deep. So I was like, looking at it going, this is really high pressure, like right on her forearm in the middle. So I just said, Drew, can you tag in and make sure it looks pro? So she tagged in, which is really cool. But I'll put an asterisk where the U is. It's not like I'm kind of into like more we gotta go guys we got in this show just punk just punk if

you want a punk tat and it's not like a fancy thing I yeah SteveBase.com yeah I'll do it for free because I reserve the right to do a not great job yeah that's or my policy all around. If you want a pro tattoo, Drew Taylor, Inc. I won't, NK. Okay. Is, and then I'll probably be right there hanging out with you. Cool.

Yeah. Well, thank you again, and thank you everybody out there for listening. If you get a tattoo, try getting it from a pro. I think that's the way to go. 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.