Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 861 - Emmett Hall

Episode Date: September 17, 2024

Comedian and musician Emmett Hall returns to talk leather jackets, biking at night, and the Sopranos.

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 861 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark. With me as always is a man who's hot to go, Mr. Dave Schumka. That's right, Graham. You can have me hot to go. You can make me, you can get me hot to go. Get me hot to go. You can get me hot to go. It'd be get me hot to go.

You can take me hot to go. Somebody's losing their mind right now. Well, I only learned the spelling part. The next part doesn't really matter. Yeah, the spelling part is the big part. Yeah. H-O-T-T-O, potato, hot potato. There you go.

Come on, man. You're so. It's so cringe. You're so absolutely cringe. Well, our guest this week is, wait, don't you do this? Yes, our guest this week, return guest to the podcast,

Oh So Funny, one of our favorites. You can see him and his band play on October 10th at the Cobalt Performance Center for the Arts in Vancouver Vancouver It's Emmett Hall. Hi Emmett. Well, how do you do? Oh good. How are you? Okay. Good. I'm surprised I'm I got the call to come in. I mean, it's been usually it's like a year and a half two years. Yeah What are we it's been on it's under a year and a half guys. Well, we're shortening the roster. Yeah. Really? Okay. We've got a lot of flab that we had to cut.

The last one I did. I was a dud. I was in a weird space. Well, not only was I zooming it in. Yeah. Yeah. And this is way better. I'm when person again, I get to hold your hands as I talk. Yeah. Which makes it. Tra la la. Yeah. Yeah. But I was just whinging about working on a movie. All right, you did Sean Devlin's movie. I did Sean Devlin's movie and instead of promoting it,

I was like, oh, it's hard work. Yeah. So anyway. Well, that's what they, when you get like, you know, A-list actors on all the big talk shows, they're like, oh, it's so hard being Tom Cruise. Ask me something new. That's all I want.

I don't want to talk about the movie. I've been talking about the movie all day. Or they just want to shit on it. Oh, yeah. I like that when somebody just decides to hold. What was the most recent one? Somebody hating the movie. Yeah.

I feel like maybe Madame Webb might have had some people distancing themselves from the movie. Yeah, I feel like maybe Madame Webb might have had it distancing themselves from the project. Yeah, there was before that I was the weird don't worry darling. Oh yeah, like Harry Styles and Chris Pine. I mean, we got the, it takes us come. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It ends with us. It ends with us. Yeah. It takes two. That fiasco, but I don't know.

What was the fiasco? Wait, okay. I don't know. Do you guys talk about this, didn't you? Yeah. We did? Yeah. Okay.

Let's get to know. Mm. Get to know us. Damn it. It's been less than a year and a half. Yeah. A lot can change in that time. Yeah, last time you were here, we had,

well, you weren't here because, so you were on during the pandemic as a Zoomer, like so many people did. Yeah. This new generation of Zoomers, they're named after the chat service on which they were conceived. And then you were supposed to come back,

most recent time you were supposed to come back, I think I got COVID and you had to zoom again. Zoom, zoom, zoom again. So now you're here in person and well, tell me what you think of me. Well, I can tell COVID took its toll. You've aged. You don't need glasses anymore.

It fixed your eyes. I got contact lenses and I like glasses, but I do not like them when my face is sweaty in the summer. I was just going to ask, how do you, because you both are regular glasses wearers. I have glasses that I'm supposed to wear at night if I'm driving. How do you keep them from? Yeah, sleeping glasses, I was supposed to put them on

before bed. How do you keep them from being instantly greasy or instantly fingerprinty? Or is that just, you get used to it? That's part of the course. Yeah, my lenses are constantly smudged. I feel like a slob all the time. But is it better smudge than going without them?

Like is it? Oh, do I see? Yeah, yeah. Like if you're seeing too much smudge, is that just? Like you get these little rags, so they come with a little rag. Oh yeah, it does come with a little rag. And then you don't use it, you just use your shirt. Yeah, and the shirt's horrible.

I also get the, well, these glasses are a little newer, but the ones before had the little nose hooks and I would get greasy gunk accumulated underneath there. Green greasy gunk on my nose hooks. This is for my gross, like... Green jelly audition? No, it was going to be like a book of ABCs for like, nasty boys. Flatulent farts filling my fumes. Yeah, when did you guys, when did you get glasses?

Originally I got glasses in grade four. Oh really? My mom was like, Dave's so bad at school, maybe he can't see the board. And then the doctor's like, well I can give you glasses that basically are a window. You don't really need glasses. And then I wore them for a year and never needed them again. She just thought you needed to look like a poindexter.

Just make him look like a nerd and then he will manifest it, manifest smarts. And then I got them again at 30, and would wear them just to play NHL video games, because that little puck is so hard to follow. And then I would wear them at work sometimes if I needed to read the screen far away from me. And then you and I went to New York together. Oh yes, that's right. And you were like pointing out signs everywhere and I'm like, how are you seeing these signs?

So I put my glasses on and I was like, oh, maybe I do need them. Yeah, that's basically, I can't read. I can't read. It's a hard way for me to say this and to come up with this. We'll go to school first and then see about glasses. Yeah, like white writing on a black background. That's Squint. Squintsville.

My issue is a little more complicated. I have something called keratoconus, which means that my corneas have like dents in them. Like I've had a degenerative cornea issue where when I was about 26, it became bad enough that I needed glasses, but. Neat surgery for that? Yeah, I ended up getting a kind of surgery to stop the degeneration of the cornea. So it's basically like as if your car windshield

was slowly thinning. Yeah. And then they did a treatment where they like poured this collagen solution and baked it into my eyeballs. Jesus Christ. Yeah, yeah. Oh my God, that. What if your windshield was slowly thinning

and it was like made of candy and you just put your hand through. It was made of candy and every time it rained. It would be good though if you were like- You keep on licking it because it tastes so good. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. At such a risk.

It would be good at like, parkings, like the arm and the, where you get your ticket because you just put your hand right through that thin, thin window, you know what I'm saying? Or you just lick the hole. You're doing the side window? Yeah, side window. Oh, you're talking about windshield.

Yeah. Ah, sorry. So what I had to do- talking about the side window? Yeah, side window. Oh, you're talking about windshield. Ah, sorry. So what I had to do- Were you awake during this? Yeah. Wow. Yeah, they like- Am I awake during this story?

I don't think so. Well, what if I told you Mandy Patinkin has the same condition as I do? Oh my, and you both play piano. That's right. And I sing, and I- Does he actually play piano or just in Dick Tracy? Just in Dick Tracy.

What's his name? 88 Keys. Yeah, that's right. We were talking about how the new Beetlejuice movie is out. Yeah. And you guys loved the original Beetlejuice. Loved it. And I didn't see it.

I can't believe you, it just felt like you had to see it, like you had to see Willow, or you had to see... Yeah, no, I never saw Willow. I can't believe you. It just felt like you had to see it like you had to see Willow or you had to Yeah, I never saw Willow. I believe you've got it. I'll done D2. I Do remember the commercial for Willow has I think it's What's his face Willow? Oh So what you just watched Merchant Ivory movies as a kid Well, no, I watched Dick Tracy. Okay, but it feels like well if you watch Dick Tracy You have to see Roger Rabbit and you have to see Beetlejuice.

You've seen Roger Rabbit. I think so, but it didn't really stick with me. I mostly saw that one scene on LaserDisc. I mostly saw that one scene on LaserDisc. Right, the possibly naughty scene. You work in animation, did you ever animate a vagina into anything? You don't.

I can't, I'm not allowed to tell. Oh, fair enough. I, but I, you can give me a list of your work and I could go check it out for myself. I'll give you some time codes. I'll never tell. But you have to figure out which cartoons. Ah, yes. You have to go into my IMDB, look at all the cartoons and figure out which episode.

How many cartoons are you on IMDB? You know, after talking about it. How many cartoons deep are you? Yeah. Um. Like, more than 12? I don't... Maybe, because there's some missing.

Okay. Yeah, but I mean, I animated and storyboarded for like 12 years. Right. So at least 12 shows, but I did multiple seasons to some shows. Right. Does that not, that just counts as the one credit because you've done it. Oh, do you mean? Yeah, but also I guess sometimes they specify which episodes I may have worked on.

Right. And were you awake for this conversation? No, I'm falling asleep. You gotta put on another pair of glasses. Perk up, perk up. Yeah, I got to get my eyes glued. Yeah, collagen'd again. Graham, I never see you in your glasses.

I very rarely wear them just at night driving. You haven't driven your car in the last couple of days. That's true. I've walked past it. You've walked past it, okay. Yeah, well, guilty as charged. Somebody reported us when Sally and I went on vacation. Somebody reported our car and the city came and gave us a ticket because the street is free parking,

but it's only supposed to be for like an afternoon or whatever. Who snitched? What kind of person would go out of their way? A busybody. Yeah, a busybody. Well, I, I guess depends was it collecting leaves and no this this is summertime. Yeah, was it collecting, you know daisies yeah, I was collecting daisies and Yeah, it was I don't know man

I would never that like I tried to report a car once that's that that's covered in mold, right? So it's like, okay, that's like in there forever. And and then the city was like, that's fine. That was fine I used to do report cars that didn't move in a while Because I don't know I was annoyed The park right where I wanted to park so you are the type of busybody who would do that kind of thing Yeah, but they didn't get a ticket. They get a warning. Yeah, I got a ticket.

Maybe you were away too long and you ended up getting a ticket. Anyways, I also had an instance where I was coming home and I dropped a bottle of wine. And so I went inside to get some of the script up the glass. In that time, somebody had called the cops, called the caretaker of the okay and said like somebody broke a bottle of wine and then ran away from it. I was like so that that literally they would have had to see it get on the phone within 30 seconds. Or maybe just heard

it. Yeah well no she said she saw it. Okay. Um and they know it was you. Yeah yeah but my landlord was like why did this person call me? I'm like, I don't know. I don't know, man. Like, I literally had to go inside and get a broom. They expected you to pick it up with your hands. Yeah, with my bare hands, sure. But I didn't.

I didn't give them the satisfaction. I went in and brushed it up and put it in a box. Oh, okay. Yeah. And gave it away to a loved one. I wrapped it up. There was a, in my neighborhood, there was an elderly lady who would just sit by her window on the ground floor, keeping her eyes out if anyone was to step on the lawn of the building.

Oh, sure. Greatest show on earth. Just gotta watch her stories. And like, yeah, I'd be like, all right, let's put it to the test. Is she on shift right now? Always. Yeah. What would happen? Open the window, you get off. It was get off the lawn. Not off my lawn because she was renting. My rent pays for that lawn. Um, yeah, it's, uh, you don't have a lawn. You've never had a lawn since you moved here.

This is just vegetation. I know we got, we had a lawn. Did you? Yeah, the dogs have a lawn in the back. Oh, in the back. Okay, yeah. What's left of it? Hoo, stinkeroo. Is it, I guess it's nice for dogs to have somewhere

they can just tear around in without having to go to a dog park or whatever. Oh yeah. Yeah. Wow. There's so many people in the city, they don't have that. They don't have lawns for their dogs. They just have to go to a dog park or whatever. Oh yeah. Yeah. There's so many people in the city, they don't have that. They don't have lawns for their dogs. They just have to go to the dog park and get in fights. Get in fights with the owners. They won't put them on their leash, et cetera,

et cetera. Emmett, have you ever had a pet? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What did you do? That's not none of your business. No. Yeah, no, I had a, I had a, I've had a couple of dogs in my life. Oh yeah. It was, when we moved up to the interior from Victoria, we moved up to the Okanagan and we got acreage on the side of a mountain.

Oh nice. And the house came with a dog. What? Yeah. They were like, well, we're moving with this dog was basically born here Yeah, I take it so you got to take the dog with with the house. That's what the song. We're not gonna take it is about yeah Yeah, okay, so what was the what what was this dog that this dog with the house was named Shiba, okay?

So sounds like you don't you don't have to name this animal. Yeah. It's already taken care of. Okay. And yeah, she quickly, she'd always been an outdoor dog. Yeah. And that quickly changed when she realized, oh. New owners. These guys let me in.

Yeah, new management. And didn't want to go outside. Ever. And eventually, also too, I, something happened where she had like an existential crisis where she got the sky and when she was outside, she just hide under the porch all day. And I don't know if that's because she, an animal, like a eagle or something attacked her or she discovered God. Yeah. Yeah.

It's trying to be humble. Yeah, it's it used to be. And maybe it still is. God was in the sky. Yeah. And he is a rockin dude. And he was going to the original rapper. And you think Shakespeare's God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get them completed.

But they're like in rural areas, I suppose they're still dogs. They're just outside dogs. Yeah, she, she had, I mean, we had 20 acres of land, but that didn't, I mean, it wasn't like there was a dowry. Look at that dowry. 20 acres of land. It's not in my purse anymore. Oh, no, no, but, but there wasn't a boundary or anything.

She just had a whole mountain to run off. She would chase off Lynx and bears. Really? Like sausage Lynx? Yeah. Yeah. What's the guys with Johnson? No.

Jimmy. Jimmy Dean? Jimmy Dean, thank you. Jimmy Dean is the big in the sausage Lynx game. Yeah? Jimmy Dean sausages? Yeah, number one one in the states if you ask me Sausages sausage patties. What are we doing? OJ oh the OJ James Dean

Well in the song rock on it says see him there on the movie screen James Dean or Jimmy D Yeah, yeah See him there on the movie screen. James Dean or Jimmy Dean. Jimmy Dean. James Dean. He, yeah. Likes hot dogs. Mm-hmm. Yeah, okay. Now let's start the show. Yeah, but like I when I was growing up there was a couple of people

I know that just had outdoor dogs like they just lived in the backyard. Well, that's been something to come to terms with moving to the city and realizing, these people have, you've got little relegated areas for dogs. Otherwise it's like you walk, they're walking on the pavement to get to a lawn. Whereas I had a dog that was like,

I don't know, you go outside and then run around. The forest, own the forest. And chase coyotes and stuff like that. And then come back when it's dinnertime. Yeah. And always came back. Find God. How did this dog pass? Great question.

Eat my elanx. She aged out. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. We retired her. She noped out. Yeah. There you go. We retired her. She noped out of here. Yeah, it was, it was like, it was putting down an old dog. Yeah, that's it. But uh, yeah, like, um, now you wouldn't find outdoor dogs in the city.

Like where would you have them? You had them outside in Calgary, like in the winter? Yeah, yeah. They were outdoor dogs. Were they huskies? Uh, they were big, like, yeah, had big coats, you know, somebody cordoned off though in a fence. They didn't have just you just let them out onto the city block and no, no, yeah, in a fence. But that's where they that's where they lived instead of being inside. And then you come to this city and you're like, Oh, yeah, you'd have to be there's no, I guess you go to the suburbs and there may be some.

Well, check this out. I'm Doug. What I saw today. What do you say? I saw Doberman Pinger. Yeah. In Yaltown. And it was wearing little booties, but the booties were Crocs. Yeah. Four little blue Crocs. Did it like I like when there's a video of a dog that does not want to wear booties and it was this dog that it walks

like one of those water skeeters that are on you know, those weird bugs that get around on top of a pond. That's what a dog looks like. Is it to kind of make the dog? Because that's a pinchers and I like a attack dog. I forgot that wrong. Skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit skit gonna be toasty on those little titsies. Do you think the dog always wears them or is it just a hot day? Emmett, if you would. Emmett, what do you think? I'm just wondering where the owner comes in.

Maybe it's the owner's decision. Maybe the dog has no agency. Was the owner wearing crocs? No. Shame. I like to see an owner and a dog. I like to see two people dressed up in the same outfit. Sure.

Even if one of those people is a dog. Yeah, exactly. It's like I think some people hate it. I love it. I see a couple dressed the same. I mean this woman had a long slender neck and pointy ears. I don't know if I like that, but I definitely don't like when twins don't dress the same. Exactly. Yes. Like I don't like being like, are they twins or like, come on, help me out here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, come on. This is, not everybody gets to do this. Come on, Kaden and Jaden, are you twins?

Did you, either you guys go to school with a twin? Of course. Yeah. Fraternal or identical? Fraternal, sororityl. Sororityl. Yeah, we had two sets of, well, in my grade, two sets of identicals. Okay.

And then in the school, like, three or four. Wow. And like, all dressed the same or no? Yeah, every day. For 12 years. Twins at your school? Emmett, over to you. Twins.

I don't know. I'm sorry. Emmett, over to you. Twins. I don't know. I'm realizing my memories are, I mean, I'm aging out of memories, but I'm losing interest in my memories. Oh, you're just like, I don't want to. I don't think back to a lot of things in my childhood. And it's not blocking it out. It's just not interesting or relevant.

That'd be cool to go to therapy and be like, have I repressed this memory? No, it turns out you're just not into it. It turns out you're bored of who you were. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I can see that. I like always think about if I was like on a desert island, would I just sit there all day just remembering

things and that would be my entertainment is just think about like an episode of you get that you get your five favorite albums oh yeah you do but no record player deal with the devil well you know those liner notes real good at least this is a reissue that has like a forward. You don't have your glasses. So can you? Yeah, you just can't drive at night. Wouldn't that be great if you're on a deserted island and a car was just there.

Going back to your car, you said you didn't feel like wearing your glasses, so you didn't drive. You said when your honor? Yeah. you didn't feel like wearing your glasses, so you didn't drive. Is that what you said? When? Your honor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought you said you're losing interest in my memories. And I decided to walk because I didn't want to drive because I didn't want to wear glasses.

I never had said that. Why did I derail the entire conversation to come back to something you didn't say? I don't know this conversation was ever built. Answer me that, Graham. Why am I not interested in the memories I have of this podcast already? Why am I fabricating something you didn't say? Answer me this.

I don't know that I can. Over to you, Graham, because you're always going over to me. I've got nothing to say. No, I think that's really interesting. I talked about a dog that I barely have an emotional connection to. And how many memories of the dog? I remember it was scared of the Lord Above. Yeah.

I remember that... She had some kind of weird growth. Okay. You're tired of these memories? These are great. And it made it so she couldn't drive at night. Yes. Graham, why did you choose not to drive at night? Because I have a weird growth and I don't want to night. Yes. Graham, why did you choose not to drive at night? Because I have a weird growth

and I don't wanna wear my glasses. Thank you. That's all I was asking. I'm sorry, am I getting a little hot on the mic here? I don't know, you're fine. You're good. Okay. You, you're banned.

You're banned, you're banned from the show. You're banned, sorry, we've decided. No, no, I get it. I didn't remember the twins. I don't remember. Yeah. I don't have memories to recollect. But you can tell us about the future. You can tell us about this concert.

Well, the band's going to have... The future is limited with my band. Oh, really? Well, the... Necronado is going to be... Necronado, yeah. And it's got... We pronounce it Necronado because there's two Chilean guys in the band.

So we give it a little Latin tinge. Right. As opposed to Nec we pronounce it Necronado because there's two Chilean guys in the band. So we give it a little Latin tinge. Right, as opposed to Necronado. Necronado. Like it's a cross between Necro, Yeah. My favorite kind of philia. Yeah. And tornadoes.

Yeah, that's right. So it's like a tornado of death. Shit. Yeah. But our guitar player's moving to the UK. For for keeps. Yeah. To be closer to his daughter or something like that. I don't know. Whatever your priorities are, however you. But

I love that you when someone does that, you assume they're moving to the same place. But like, no, my daughter lives in Russia, but I just want to be close. Yeah, I want to be like a shorter plane right away. So the guitarist leaving. That's it. No more. Well, we'll see. You leave his guitar. We'll see what the incarnation is after that. But it's one of those things where it's hard enough maintaining a band of middle-aged guys who are essentially strangers to each other.

I think I mentioned on the last time, I answered a Craigslist ad that said, trash band looking for singer. And then I stepped into a room of- Thrasher's. Yeah, guys, I had no idea who they were. They had no idea who I was. Guitar and bass drums? Yep.

And then I sing. And- Sing. In a very heavy metal style. Yeah, it's very much... It's not... No, it's sort of like... Splat and doodop.

Swoop and ba-da-da. Spin it around in a tornado of death. Ba-da-da-da. Did you have a song called Think Grenado as well? No, not yet. Oh, okay. Not yet. The clock is ticking on his band. We have a show on October 10th,

which I will promote again later. It's at the Cobalt. It's gonna be one of our last shows. Listeners, wait, he's gonna promote it later. Yeah, yeah. So stick around. Hold tight. Can we have silence for the next 45 minutes

until we get to the promo? Mm-hmm. Just skip ahead 45 minutes. How long We get to the promo. Just skip ahead. How long has it been? So, yeah, we're trying to get like another we've got one EP out. OK, we're trying to get another one done. You're going to have two shows and then we'll see what happens in the new year. Have you got you haven't gone on tour. No, no, no, this is. This is just this is for kicks.

This is totally for kicks. Yeah. But at the same time, as soon as you realize it's fun with potential, you start having to invest. Yeah. So I've got a box of t-shirts. Oh really?

Under my desk. Oh, I want one of these t-shirts. Oh yeah, I gotta get rid of them. It. Oh really? Under my desk. Oh, I want one of these t-shirts. Oh yeah, I gotta get rid of them. It's because now when I was becoming the singer, I was like, great, I don't have to play piano. I don't have to show up with an instrument. Right.

Just your voice. That's my voice. Yeah. That's great. Do you do warmups? Do my warmups. But now I'm the guy who had gigs, who has to like walk in with a box, a cardboard box of t-shirts I'm not gonna sell.

Right, you're a merch guy. Yeah, and I have to leave with that box. I have to stand beside that box and not sell any t-shirts. I am, yeah, Sisyphus of 50 t-shirts. Yeah. My Sisyphus Rock of 50 t-shirts. How many, an order of 50, minimum order I'm guessing. I think so.

Have you sold any? Yeah, and I've given away a few. Oh yeah you gotta give them away. Yeah. Yeah I feel bad for merch. In fact listeners, the 10th color, I guess we'll get one. Size extra small. Yeah I feel for the merch person who has to either find the double XL or the extra small because they're somehow, they're in there somewhere. Well, got a system now of rolling up each t-shirt and with masking tape to mark. Smart. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, wasn't my smartness. It was my girlfriend's smartness that came up with that. Yeah. So, but yeah, because it was becoming like, I'll just rifle through this box for 15 minutes and then say, I don't know, there isn't one. Yeah. You know what? You look good in a large. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let it go. Baggy will look good on you. Yeah, people like baggy these days. Yeah, they do, eh? I, uh...

Am I wrong? No, you're right. It's, uh, I feel like, boy, oh boy, it feels just like teenage-dom again. Yeah. Baggy pants, baggy shirt. But, like, the thing is, I can't wear baggy because I'm so muscular. Yeah, you're so tone. Yeah, it would be a crime. Well, I try to wear baggy but it's still he just exploded. Yeah. Yeah, I've I've never had merch. He had more merch than this. Or is this your first merch? Yeah, I think this is the first merchant will also has selling CDs like that's that's that's ridiculous. Yeah, I have hundreds under my bed.

Do you have all your oh from your bed? Yeah, yeah, they're keeping up one your beds lopsided. So you just use them as to even out the level it out. I think I have CDs from two bands. And like in the hundreds or the 10s? I think I threw some away and so now I have like that shoe box over there is full of them. Yeah, there's a scene in Inside Luland Davis where like he's got a giant thing of records under his bed. A big thing of CDs. Yeah, there's a lot of anachronisms in that movie. Yeah.

Yeah. But yeah, people would buy it, see, where would you play it? So you wouldn't buy a CD anymore, I guess, unless you just wanted it for your shelf? I don't know, I mean, we've sold a few and we've actually- Wait, so you have your EP, is that a physical release? Yep. Oh my.

Yeah, you can get it on Bandcamp. Right. And- If you want the vinyl. Spotify, but if you, it. Yeah, you can get it on Bandcamp. Right. And- If you want the vinyl. Spotify, but if you, it's not vinyl. No, it's a CD. It is a CD. CD.

But we got it in one of those like cardboard sleeves. Yeah. So I'm not walking around with plastic jewel cases. Sure. Which is- Right. And we've actually mailed a few to like Germany and- Yeah.

Those people. Somewhere in Maine. They're very obsessive about, they gotta have every. Right. Gotta have every CD. The only CDs I'm interested, CDs nuts. Oh, there they are. Mm. See, in person.

Yeah. It's in person, that's what it is about. That's what it's about. You gotta get the CDs nuts. Being in a room. The C. Dave's nuts. Mm-hmm. Suck. Is this, if this band dissolves, is that the end of your band career or will you love again?

Do you wear the glasses as a singer? That's a good question. Can you be a thrasher in glasses? I'll wear the glasses and I'll put on a strap on the back. I ordered a strap to like hook on. And I'll bring attention to it. I'll say, this is how committed I am. I'm playing racquetball later. Yeah.

Oh, the rabbit holes I've gone down in my own psyche of like. What does this mean? Yeah, why am I, I'm in my forties in a thrash band? Yeah. With strangers and why am I? I'm in my 40s in a thrash band. Yeah. With strangers. Why am I spending money on this? And then you can then join and then be like, yeah, I think it's time.

It's time I'm like, it's time for me to be in a band now in an obsolete medium. And then you realize how saturated, how many bands there are. Yeah. Like, what? This is. How are? Why is how many bands there are. Yeah. Like, what, this is... Why is everyone else in a band? Yeah. Like, I've got, we've got nothing to say. But I want an excuse, but then I'm like,

but I want an excuse to buy a leather jacket. Yeah. So I did that, I went down the rabbit hole, like, well, what is the leather jacket that all those cool guys used to wear? Okay, so it's a Shot Perfecto. Uh-huh, right. So Ramones, oh, so it's not a 618, is it a 118?

Okay, all right, and so if I wanted a vintage, okay, so order on eBay, I'm like, I'm gonna spend $600 on a... Leather jacket. But... So you can look like your favorite thrash band, the Ramones? Yeah, look like my favorite thrash band from the 80s who found that their leather jacket at a thrift store. And then I'm also too self-conscious to wear this leather jacket because I'm a 44 year old man.

I know. Who's not actually cool. Have you like that that's? No, no, Emma, you are. No, no, no, no. That wasn't, that wasn't fishing. But like, I've also. I'm informing you all listeners, bumpers, I'm not cool.

I've tried to wear a leather jacket. I bought it at thrift store and I wore it out for dinner with my family and my brothers right away said, nice jacket Wolverine. And I was like, ah, fuck. So I immediately I gave it away again. But like, yeah, gave it away again. But like, yeah, I think, you know, spending money on your band and it's just fun.

It's fun. That's what it... I'm just happier off the hard stuff. The thing is, like I say, the dilemma is, yeah, I will justify it. I'm like, I've got time, I've got disposal income. This is fun. And why not? Yeah, it's like me painting my miniatures. Yeah, it really is essentially where can you see those miniatures again? Yeah. I was trying to think of a website name for you. Yeah, I was trying to think of something else that was miniature desnuts.

Well, there they are. I can't see them. I need my glasses. But I get it. Having an excuse to buy a thing that's not a regular everyday wear kind of thing. Yeah. kind of thing. Yeah, and now, and then. Is it a practical jacket that you can wear in this city? There's certain seasons, yeah. Yeah? Yep.

I think it would do okay in the winter, wouldn't it? Yeah, and you can layer it. Is it warm? Is it waterproof? Yeah, it's like a heavy duty leather motorcycle jacket, like the thing that are meant to be beat up. Yeah. Did you buy be beat up. Yeah. Did you buy a beat up one or do you?

I got it used. Okay. But also the thing is the 618 or 118? I think it's a 118, Dave. And the problem is that the back, because motorcycle jackets are meant for like sitting on a motorcycle. So the back doesn't go down very far. So it looks like I'm like, I'm like,

I just look like I'm wearing a waiter's jacket. Or like a French restaurant, but it's black and leather. But then I go, no, no, that's the way they are. And then if I was truly confident in myself, then I would feel fine. I would show off my tramp stamp. Yeah. That's the other thing I'm like,

well, I gotta get a tramp stamp. And it says Necronado. And now. Now, shit. Now the band's done. You can alter it so it says, it's Necronado, which is like a snake tornado. Or just Wyno, like Johnny Depp did. Wyno forever. Yeah, Necronado forever.

Yeah. Yeah, have you ever bought something where you're like, oh, I hope I can pull this off and then. Yeah, everything. Everything? No Dave, you can pull off a lot of different looks. Yeah, it's been a while. I think I know myself a little better.

Yeah. But I have things in my closet that I'm like, well. Maybe one day. Yeah, I can't wear this sweater vest. I'm not enough of a poindexter. My mom hasn't gotten me glasses. Yeah, you're not smart enough. Yeah. Yeah, it's, but like, then you have it. And it's fun. You can hang it up. And I've taken it out beyond heavy metal shows and stuff. And, and it's one of those things, you know, you wear it, the more you wear something, an affectation. Yeah.

Once you start carrying a cane or something like that. Once you forget you're wearing it, you're like, oh, I'm wearing it. Oh, darn it, I remembered I was wearing it. I'm really pulling this off. And yeah, and that clip on Dread. Yep. That's just the one.

Yep. Oh, Dave knows this and the listeners know this, but I have an algorithm that's Yeah, is it still an issue? Well, this, I got one yesterday. I was like, well, now we've crossed the Rubicon here. So if you're new, I get suggestions of accounts to follow that are a lot of women with dreads, white women with dreads. And I saw one yesterday that was somebody who makes them,

like makes them and then you dread it into your own hair. And she had like a hanger full of dreads and I thought I was gonna die. What are they made out of, hair? They're made out of hair. Like real hair? I think so. And then like-

Imagine she's like going to a farmer's market to sell them and then it's raining and then they can't she drops them in a puddle It just looks like a clogged sink she's selling Like I don't know he combs them out What does his hair extensions I comb them out it out, it took me weeks. And they also like, she put like, you know how they have like rings in it, and stuff like that, little bits of jewelry in the dreads. Yeah, it's, hey man, white women with dreads. And I don't get any white men with dreads, I know they're out there.

Who would be the most famous wipers with dreads? Gary Altman and... Oh yeah. True romance? Did the guy from Soul Asylum have white dreadlocks? No, they weren't dreads, were they? Maybe his hair was just really messy. Maybe he was messy and... Yeah, I know the guy from the Bravery who was previously in the band called Scabba the

Hut. That's a great man. I had white, blonde, like bleach blonde dreads, I believe. Yeah. Aren't there a couple twins with dreads in- Yeah, the Matrix. Yeah. Are they braids?

No, no, no, they're dreads. They're dreads? Like we could abbreviate it, they're dreads. They're dreads, they're cool. Did you ever have a temptation to, I wanted them when I was in my teen years. Glad I didn't do it, they're dreads. They're dreads, they're cool. Did you ever have a temptation to, I wanted them when I was in my teen years. Glad I didn't do it, but. No, but I did help.

You just spoke with the accent. Yeah. It speaks to me. In, we're the same age, the four of us, so the four of us. I'm a little younger. Yeah, where's the fourth? Those nuts. The audience, you're the fourth. I've heard the...

But we were in high school. You guys are 44, I'm only 43. No, I'm so young. In high school was the mid-90s for us, and that was the renaissance of hippie-dom. Right. And my friends and I fell right back into it, which included buying just thrift store,

like nurse pants from the thrift store or- What are nurse pants? Like scrubs? Yeah, scrubs that were oversized scrubs or just corroy pants that were way too huge that you had to like cinch up. I do love that when you think of a hippie, you think of him dressed as a nurse from the waist down.

That's, I'm getting, we got things mixed up. So we went hippie to hippie dirt bag like and my my two of my buddies who were growing their hair long. We're like, yeah, well, we want dreadlocks. We want them naturally. So they just let their hair mat into these these clumps. The hair on his face is all dreadlock and full of mange. So you guys remember that? Everlast? No, is that really a lyric?

You can't forbid you ever had to wipe away their dreads. Yeah. So, yeah, it was just... You do remember that one? Yeah, I haven't heard that name, but just to bring you right back. Everlast? Oh, no, I've heard the name Everlast, but I've heard that song. I mean,

Then you really might know what it's like You do not know that one? To be Emmett's friend He's got a guitar, watch out! Gosh, where's my pick? It's not plugged in, let's see what I can do Ugh Nice!

Hey! Here we go! He was in, uh, Georgia, and he was in the United States, and he was in the United States Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Here we go. Here we go. Uh, he was in Jump Around. Yeah, he was in Jump Around the Band.

Yeah, and he did a couple of songs and then we never heard from him again. He had a song called Black Jesus. Wait, so who's Everclear? Everclear is. Oh. Yeah, here we go. See?

Oh yeah, that is two different songs. Yeah. That's two different bands. Um, I'm Still Living With Your Ghost? And then Everlast made a line of clothing. Yeah, Everlast was like, uh, boxing boxing punching bags and boxing shorts. Yeah, the have a renaissance of the hippie time.

I did it as well. And I was like ponchos and and high tech boots. I take the brand, the the hiking boot. You think those are from the 60s? No. You know what? I'm here. This was muddy. This was in brand, the hiking boot. You think those are from the 60s? No, you know what? I'm, here's- This was muddy, this was- He lived in like a very hiking boot area.

Yeah, yeah, that's a dog that ran all over the place. But it'd be like, okay, well, I'll get a Guatemalan poncho. Yeah. And I'll get some used pajama bottoms. Okay. And then I will have high-tech hiking boots. Yeah. And one nappy dread.

And. My band will cover set the controls for the Heart of the Sun by Pink Floyd. OK, there you go. Nice. Was there a hat anywhere in the mix? Yeah, was there? I wore a straw hat. You did? Yeah. Sure. Yeah. OK. like cowboy style or No win like Mexico Where you got the poncho probably?

There's a yeah I kind of forgot about that movement because you think of the 90s as grunge and then like Oh the my she's getting the eyefuls from my parents being like really like you want me to dig out my old Hi, okay, and you're like you guys are listening to this like we did this. Yeah, you don't have to do this Yeah, don't do it for our benefit. I'm embarrassed for what I did Now you're doing they embarrassed to have listened to Well, oh there was some Real Well, oh, there was some real hippie hippie commie.

Like old Red Fox records that don't translate to now. No, I mean like the hippie folk music they would listen to. Right. Where, you know, it was kind of like anti-war anthems, but written by 21 year olds. So, it's. Yeah. written by 21 year olds. So yeah, it's, yeah. Sounds it sounds if you put that in front of any band say it's just a bunch of 21 year olds, you're like, I don't know if I want to see that. It's like something's happening here. But what it is, I ain't exactly clear.

I don't know. So it's like, like ambivalent, like fast. Something's happening. I don't know. I don't know. Whatever. Yeah, they're singing songs and carrying signs, mostly saying, hooray for our side. What? Is that what you think is happening in these protests? I almost cut my hair the other day.

I didn't commit to the idea. I almost. I'm still thinking about it. Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. Are you still thinking about maybe one last chance to do the last dread? I'm getting kind of long. I'm just cutting my hair. Yeah, yeah, yeah, are you still thinking about maybe one last chance to do one last What Yeah I'm curious you want to get that one one more dread. Yeah, just like this is your chance This is your one chance to grow a dread. Will you or you just to just ride the wave?

How far do you think Yeah. To feel it. How far do you think you could get? Just to feel it again to get like. Like lengthwise? Yeah. I don't know. My hair's short. I know, but like how long could you grow it?

I could get a nub. A little nub. Like I feel like my hair takes so long to grow anyway. Yeah. And then you have to have enough of it to tangle it. Uh-huh. You know. I'm trying to grow anyway, but like. And then you have to have enough of it to tangle it. Uh-huh. You know, keep. Oh, I'm trying to think, like,

we have to just spend time twisting it with your finger. No, you get a woman with a bunch of dreads to do it for you. Oh, okay. Yeah. She'll come over for a couple bucks. She'll put wax in it, I guess. Oh.

You can't, and that's it. That hair, if you want out of the dread lifestyle, you gotta cut it off. There's no undreading a dread, and that's it. That hair, if you want out of the dread lifestyle, you gotta cut it off. There's no undreading a dread, I think. Yeah. What about dry cleaner can comb it out? That I made up. Or that race car driver, Mario undready.

Nice, nice. It's really good. It's really good. Yeah. Well, I. Well, Vanilla Ice had dreads at one point when he was trying to make a comeback. Don't call it a comeback. No, but it kind of was. Yeah. Yeah, he that's where he was like doing rap rap metal.

Yeah, rap metal. That's right. Yeah. You followed Vanilla Ice's career up to now. I think you renovate the emphasis on the rap metal. That's right. Yeah. You followed Vanilla Ice's career up to now? I think you renovated the house. I kind of put the emphasis on the metal. Rap metal. Not rap metal, it's rap metal. Yeah, that's like how a news anchor would pronounce it. They call it rap metal.

There's a new sensation called rap metal. Who is, who kicked that off? Who was the first? The Judgment Night soundtrack. Nice, yeah. That was my introduction to badass rap. Who was, who kicked that off? Who was the first? The Judgment Night soundtrack. Nice, yeah. That was my introduction to badass rap. Yeah.

Was the Judgment Night soundtrack? Yeah, cause didn't like Onyx do a song there? Oh yeah, yeah. With like, I don't know, Mudhoney. Not metal. Cypress Hill did something, it was like a combo. Yeah, it was all rap and metal, but not all of them were metal.

Some of them were just straight ahead rock bands, teenage fan club. Rap metal. Yeah, it was all rap and metal, but not not all of them were metal. Some of them were just straight ahead rock bands, teenage fan club. Rap metal. Yeah. Well, Onyx, I remember they were like, scary. They were guys you didn't want to fuck with for real. Like they weren't just... I remember there was a song, it was... you can bleep all this out. It was me and Jack, the black vagina finders. Why would you... Why would you? Why would you want to stand in a note? That's right? I'm you thought I was scary Was that from the onyx that's an onyx. So yeah, they call it. They're called the onyx They make rap metal they're searching for something a little specific

Our own. On a quest of their own device. We sent our field reporter to follow them on their quest, on their journey. Got up with them in Milwaukee where they're doing a show. The, you know, the guy. Now if I was to look for, now if I was to try and find reporters. All right, Onyx, so I'm here with you. Now, if I was to, if I was to find a black vagina,

where would I start? So starting an interview, so I'm here with you. So I'm here with you, Onyx, and. Does anybody, where do I start? Is anyone of you the leader of the band or do you want to sound in all at the same time? Yeah, anyways, that's they were scared of them when I was a kid. Yeah, well, it's because I heard the Judgment Night soundtrack and I was like, okay, onyx

seemed cool, then bought a tape of theirs. And that's where I came across that. Yeah, it was like when I was a kid and I only kind of knew radio songs. Yeah. And then when you buy an album or your friend shows you a tape that's got like, oh, there's like, oh, nasty songs that. Guys, did we all encounter the blood sugar sex magic album? Oh, sure. That's there's a lot that I can quote. So super was super psycho sexy. What's his name? Yeah, Anthony Kiedis. Yeah, but super, super psycho sexy. What's his name?

Yeah. Anthony Kiedis. Yeah, but the white vagina finder. Well, there's that song, um, what's it called? Psycho sexy zone. The last ones. And it was all it was, was just rhyming pornography, rhyming pornography, those chilling peppers and their pornography that raps.

I remember I got, uh, hooray for our side, they say. I remember just the name porno for Pyros. Oh yeah. When I discovered that band, I was like, well, this I can't, no one can know about this. Yeah. The new pornographers as well. Well, I was, I was a little older when that came along. Yeah, the new pornographers as well. Well, I was a little older when I was a little older. There's a new sex act sweeping the nation, lighting your genitals on fire

while looking at pornography. You remember that show, Canadian Show W5? I feel like that's the type of story they would do. Oh, and pornography for pyromaniacs. You needn't use your imagination anymore. There's a guy from like local television that does those kind of local interests. You know, this limited stand. Like the last five minutes of the news every day. He's retired. Mike McArdle.

Yeah, Michael McArdle. He's retired like three times already. Oh, and then he mounts a comeback. Well, he's quite aged at this point. Yeah, this is probably the last retirement. I wonder what his last story was. Maybe it was about himself. No way to know.

Myrtle's bird feeder has been in the neighborhood a long time. Yeah. Yeah. This Myrtle's bird feeder has been in the neighborhood a long time. Yeah. Yeah. This year, it's not so prevalent because she took it down. That's a sad news story. Well, she says she's got other fish to fry. Myrtle's gotten into goldfish. And I didn't want to go outside, so I got a goldfish. Well, it looks like some things change and some things don't.

This is my card. And sometimes you can tell he's just like, got nothing. Yeah. Like, well, I saw a kid in the park flying a kite. Kids are still flying kites. What do you think of flying a kite? I'm not good at it. It's hoed. Yeah, it's kind of, it feels-

Selling dreadlocks at the farmer's market has proven to be a bit of a challenge. There's a few things you'll, you expect to find at a farmer's market. Strawberries. Potato. Oh wait, this one woman. Yeah. They bug-infested clip-on dreadlocks?

Not so much. I'm here with the new pornographers asking where did the old pornographers go? Yeah, the pornographers of yore. But yeah, I guess that's a whole thing that just doesn't exist anymore. Yeah, the pornographers of yore. But yeah, I guess that's a whole thing that just doesn't exist anymore. The last five minutes of a newscast, now for the smile of the day or whatever. Yeah, nothing.

Do you still watch the news? You don't have cable. Yeah, I don't really watch the news. Whenever I'm in a hotel, I usually put on the news. I hate local news in other cities. Oh yeah? Oh, I wanna hear the boring- What I hate about it is how similar it is to Vancouver

and you're like, oh no, they have the same graphics packages back home. I have wiener dog races, dude. Yeah, I like to know what's going on in the local. It's a Norm MacDonald always said like, no matter what newscast in Canada you tune into, they're talking about a bridge. It's um, it's gives me anxiety of how afraid of being people they are. Explain.

They want to come across. As like a human person. As a human, like yeah, with ingratiating you to their personalities. Right. But they're so afraid of saying anything. Oh yeah. That would suggest an identity or an opinion or anything. So it's like, well, kind of, I guess it's time to say goodbye to popsicles.

Oh, no. Well, jeez, what am I going to do all fall? I guess you're going to have to try something else. Maybe pumpkin spice. You know what? I guess you're right. This is but like this is this is exactly right. But this is not like this is this guy does have an opinion. He's sad about popsicles being gone. Someone said like, actually, you know, I've never been a big fan of popsicles.

Phones ringing up the hood. Do tell. I do like when all the like the anchor and the weather person and the traffic person and their sports person all go onto the couch at the end and watch Super Bowl commercials. Oh my god, that was the biggest event of the year. The day after Super Bowl, when we could see the American commercials, is in Canada, you don't get them unless it's maybe Budweiser, you would get one of them.

They're all like local carpet ads or whatever. Yeah, and the next day it was like, oh, here's, you know, Chip, chimp something or other.com. Something is not around anymore. Oh yeah. Sure. Chimp something or other.com.

Um, Dave, what's going on with you? Well, we're winding down summer and I, for one, I'm going to be sad to see popsicles go. Well, that's interesting because I always been an ice cream guy, but to each their own. This is the last episode of the summer and we're very summer focused. Yeah. To a show where we talk about what season it is at all times. We do. And I thought this was going to be an endless summer. No. It wouldn't.

I went... That's a season I could get behind Neverending. season I could get behind Neverending. So, you know, here are my big summer activities that I did. Yeah. Number one was... Pee. I love to pee. I did it every day.

Number one. Number two. I know what's going on. Water slides were the top of my list this year. Yeah. But I just did a couple weeks ago, I invited you to a this year. Yeah. But I just did a couple of weeks ago, I invited you to a baseball game. Yes.

So I had tickets to go see the Vancouver Canadians and it looked like it might get a little cloudy that day. So my family decided they didn't wanna come with me. Yeah. I was like, Graham, you gotta come with me. And you said, no can do. No can do. Graham, act like my child.

Okay, can I see the iPad? That's what kids want, right? And so I... I meant to ask you, did you end up going? I called my friend, well, I texted my friend Ben and he, I said yes. And so I biked down. Normally when I take my kids to the baseball game, we will take the bus or an Uber.

But since it was just me, I took my bike. And from here to the baseball stadium, this is a route I usually walk when I walk my dogs. It's up. It's more up than I was expecting. Yeah, it is up. Like pedaling a bike, I was like, it's quite up. And, but it was like the greatest bike ride of my life.

Oh really? Oh wow. I encountered three cars on the whole trip. Oh nice, nice. And then I got there. My friend Ben is a vegetarian and I was like, I'm not going to make you watch me eat a hot dog. So I had my first ever vegetarian hot dog.

Oh, wow. Wait, wait, wait, wait. At the at the baseball. The baseball game. OK, not in your whole life. Yeah. Your whole life, you've never had a vegetarian hot dog. No. I'm not a vegetarian. Yeah, but Surely there's the options Yeah, whether you're giving me option. What am I choosing?

No, but whether it's just curiosity or that's all that was left. That's never been it's never been all that was left and If anything the meat hot dogs are over in oversupply. Yeah, and I've never been that curious I have had you you know, your impossible burger, your- Out of curiosity? Yeah, just cause the- So what is it about the dog that doesn't make you curious? You know what it is, is when Beyond Meat burgers came around, people were like, you'll never taste the difference.

You'll never notice. And no one ever said that about the hot dogs. No, yes. The hot dogs never had the heme you were looking for. They never had the heme. Yeah, the it's 100%. I would never try to do a blind taste test veggie dog to hot dog because they're different. They're different animals. Well, once an animal. Yeah. So I had my first veggie dog and not it's not as good as the veggie burgers I've had. Yeah.

Again, I'm still, you've had a veg- oh, the- The Beyonds. There's the Beyonds, but have you had like a veggie patty? No. I've offended Dave. Why have you? Are you a vegetarian? I go back and forth.

Sometimes it's, uh, sometimes it's just out of curiosity. Yeah, normally if I'm like avoiding meat, I will just like have, you know. A carrot. Well, I, it's very rare. Can I have a carrot in a bun, please? No, I'll have like a grilled cheese sandwich. Yeah, yeah, I'll have like a grilled cheese sandwich. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, I've, I've, I've gone veggie and vegan a few occasions, but even still, sometimes just like, oh, just, you'll just have a veggie. Yeah. But I, but you know what? It always is. But I'm also like, I rarely have a burger that's not in a restaurant. So and then the hot dog is like well yeah that's a street corner kind of yeah food okay so was it a tofu I don't know it

was just okay it was mushy yeah they didn't give you like a little placard with they didn't yeah they didn't tell me what farm it came from what its name was. This is Jacob. It was an ear of corn. It was an ear of corn. And saw three home runs that night. Nice. You think it's because you ate the veggies? Yeah, I really contributed to them. You know, superstition, right? Next time you go. But what I will say, so when the game ended, I got right back on my bike.

And this was like, I haven't biked at night in my life. Oh, really? Okay. And got on my bike. I biked home. It was, I literally said to myself as I'm biking, this is bliss. Biking in the dark with no cars around. You've lived a really isolated life.

Yeah. Yeah, it is your. I didn't own a bike from like you haven't watched Beetlejuice. Yeah. I mean, I've seen bits of it. The did your bike have a light or is this just you're just going in the dark. It was in the dark. Didn't encounter any cars though.

Yeah. It was the wind in your hair was the wind in the dark. It was in the dark. Didn't encounter any cars though. Yeah. Was the wind in your hair or was it the wind through the helmet? Well, the wind was in the helmet of my hair. Yeah, okay. But actually, Ontario Street, all the lights were out. Oh, wow. Oh, so it was really dark.

It was a bike, it was just a bike street, but it was like- Oh man, so going up the hill, you felt it was awesome. So going down the hill, no wonder it was bliss because like, I mean, you know, just whipping along. I thought it was all uphill. I thought riding a bike was all up. Well, you know, so Queen Elizabeth Park where the,

where Nat Bailey Stadium is, is the highest point in the city. It is? Yeah. Oh, wow. But it's not. Well, not, not Bailey, but the hill beside it. Yeah. Yeah. But the, but like, yeah, it doesn't feel like it's that uphill.

Like it was, I wasn't like pumping and pumping to get up there. I'm pumping and pumping a little later. What does that? I don't know. The bike racks at the baseball game are insanely full. Like how do you remember where your bike was? Cause I feel like there's

Yeah, they do have a weird like fenced in area. Just like general. Yeah, I guess I kind of have a knack for that kind of thing. Okay. Because I think I would have to wait until everybody left before I would find my bike and remember where the bike was. Especially if somebody locks something. Sometimes bikes get locked together. Yeah, I've had that where I can't move my bike and remember where the bike was especially if somebody locks something sometimes bikes get locked together yeah i've had that where i can't move my bike because someone else has

locked it too close to or i guess like handlebars are inter yeah interlocked interlocked so anyway i've you know veggie dog veggie dog flying around at night yeah i recommend you're a hippie. You're a full hippie now. Get you a poncho and away. Yeah, give me some high techs Hiking boots I think it's just T. E. K. Isn't it? Hmm. I don't I don't remember my childhood member. Yeah, that's right. You've given remember I don't know my childhood remember but you may be right you maybe you just haven't Memory for spellings. Anyway, I recommend people bike at night on a cool summer's eve.

Yeah, this does sound deluxe. If this is all first experience, well, the veggie dog, you liked it, or it was fine. I mean, I like the ketchup and mustard and bun. Yeah, that's mostly what, you know. Sauerkraut, onions, I did the whole thing. You'd relish? No relish. I don't know if they had it.

Yeah, it's not as squeezable as the other. It's not pumpable as the other one. Yeah, that's right. But you weren't deterred from the vegeta- You weren't like, ugh, this is- No, deterred came after. Yeah! Come on now!

Pfft! Yeah, I mean, yeah. I would do it again if I was sitting next to a vegetarian. Yeah. Why not? Yeah. Anyway. That's awesome.

Check it out. It's called Biking at Night. I haven't biked at night easily for 20 years. Like it's, I can't remember. You're not a bike owner. I'm not currently a bike owner. I have had bikes. You rent.

I rent. Yeah, I get those Mobi whatever. I have had bikes. You rent. I rent, yeah. I get those, maybe whatever. You have a car. Yeah. Just do that, just drive around at night. Yeah, that's true. Oh yeah, do you have to wear the glasses if you bike at night?

That's a very good question. I guess I would. Yeah, yeah, I would. Yeah, I made up my mind, you guys. I'm gonna find myself a bike. I had, yeah, I had bikes, and then I knew too many people that got doored. Then I was like, I'm not riding a bike anymore.

The street I took was the widest street in the neighborhood. Not a door. Not a door, no traffic, never any traffic. Yeah. I feel like when I was a kid, there was neighborhood developments that didn't had half-built houses, but had the streets paved. R riding around those at night was really cool Yeah, then you could go get up on the like a little hill or whatever trying to a jump It was that was like that was bliss. Yeah

Yeah, it's bliss. Absolutely Sun dance. Oh Sundance. That was the neighborhood How does any of your bike. Ah, Sun Dance, my bike. Where did it go? But I had to let her go. Yeah. We had to put her down.

She aged out. She got sick. Had to put her down. Popped a tire and so we had to shoot it. She had a weird growth. What's going on with you, Graham? Well, you were saying you've never seen Beetlejuice. And so that's a cultural, would you say a cultural blind spot?

No. But like, do you hear it referenced and you're like, I don't really know what that is. I know everything about it. Fair enough. Sorry. I did watch the cartoon and I did, I just, the movie just seemed so weird.

Yeah, it is weird, but that's what I liked. Was Dayo in your musical lexicon? Oh yeah, Dayo, Dayo. By associate, like, just very, Honestly, from my experience, having a tally man tally me bananas. Oh yeah, okay. You just remember that's, And's me wanting to go home.

Yeah. Your parents put you to work at the banana plantation? I worked at Banana Republic. Okay. Well, something that's been a cultural blind spot for me for years is the Sopranos. Oh, wow. What? I only ever saw a handful ofanos. Oh, what I only ever saw. Oh, you got to get into them.

I'm getting into the gap. A cool gap. A good big ziti. And big ziti is early on. Yeah. Big pussy is just been introduced. I love it. I love the show. How far in are you now? I'm probably six episodes.

Oh, OK. Yeah. Wow. Oh six episodes. Oh, okay. Wow. Oh, Graham. Oh, Graham. Oh, I wish I was you right now, Paul. Oh, I am envious to, oh, if I could live it all again. Yeah, it's great. What are you watching on Crave?

Watching on Crave. Yeah, and it's- I live the life I want. Yeah, exactly. Bada bing. When men were men, dog. Yeah, exactly. Badda bing! When men were men, dog. Yeah, 1998. Yeah.

Oh, how about this? Gandalfini's younger than we are now. Yeah, and he's like 39 in that first season. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow, wow. He's very, like, you can't take your eyes off of what he's in the scene. He's like very magnetic and very singular.

There's only kind of one James Gandolfini. And he's like, he talks to you. He can't like any kind of breeze like that. I like the one with Shum pulp. Shum pulp. Have you gotten to Shum pulp yet? No, no, but I hope it's something to do with orange juice. It is. Yeah. Have you gotten to Shum pulp yet? No, but I hope it's something to do with orange juice.

It is. Yeah. I think it's quite late. But it's like a lot of this series, it seems timeless, like it doesn't seem like, and then once in a while they'll make a payphone call and you're like, okay. Yeah.

Or my favorite thing was that Meadow shows, what's the son's name? AJ. AJ, a website that explains what gangsters are. Oh man, that website is awesome. I wish I had a website like that. Just with the like little graphics that move over and over again.

Yeah, okay. And she goes, I'll print it out. And she prints out the whole website. I just thought, oh man, that's so charming. It's just like from a very specific time. Have you seen the episode yet where he woke up this morning and got himself a gun? No. Is that coming though?

Is it on the one where he gets orange juice? Is it in the morning? He wants shum-pul. He wants shum-pul. He's actually be, I woke up this morning, I got my newspaper at the end of the driveway. Yeah. Waved at the end of the driveway. Yeah And I've got the FBI Yeah, oh, yeah, he's always been followed by it. I call that song woke up this morning saw myself some ducks Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah

the and everybody in it like everybody from the Martin Scorsese a Gangster universe is somewhere in the in the show. Yeah, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg. They come later, though, right? They're not in the first couple of episodes. I remember being, I guess it was 19 or 18 when that show first came out and seeing, is it Steve Van Zandt? That's the little Steven. Yeah, the Steven would be like, why does he wear that bandana over his head? He's got such an'll see me like. What is he weird that that bandana over?

So he's got such an incredible head of hair. My recognition of wigs was very poor. Oh, yeah. Your wig, Dar. Yeah, my wig. Yeah. The. What's he going to say? Shit. Graham, I want every week, I want you to tell me how far you are. Oh, okay. What's going on right now?

Is his mother crazy? His mother's crazy. He's just, he has just decided that Uncle June is going to be... Uncle June. June? June? June, June, sorry. It's June.

Uncle June, he's going to be the leader. He's letting him be the leader because he read in a book about like, pretending your kids have control that he does that to the actor who plays Uncle June went on to do those six flag. Yeah. Is that an old hacky thing to say? Yeah. What about this? Do you go around the house talking like a gangster? No, but I can see picking up that James Gandalfi to the way that he breathes at the very least. Yeah, you have that. I have that. But yeah, it's a, yeah, that's the episode that I last saw. How do you know, what do you know about it?

Like are you, is the ending spoiled for you? Yeah, I know how the whole series ends. And I guess the end of it is actually not at all a spoiler because it's nothing happened. But I guess, but do you know all the people who will die? I know a couple of them, but I don't think I know. Pretty much all of them. Yeah, I assume at one point or another. But by whom's hand?

That's right, yes. Well, yeah, somebody already been killed? Yeah, Christopher's friend, who they were boosting trucks. They were stealing a semi trucks and they had to be sent a message. So he's the first, I think he's the first like character. Okay, well then that's not, that's the only one. I's the first like character. Okay. Well, then that's not that's the only one I wonder what shit. Okay, I wonder what the overall body count is for the series. That's good question

Yeah, that's on the internet. I'll print it out for you Animated gifts animate in the printing. I don't know. I don't know. It's a Magic the paper is so it was so heavily gray. Like it was using so much ink. First seasons like not even HD yet. Oh yeah. Are they like in four three? No, they're normal. Okay. Are they in three four?

One, two, three, one, three, one. But yeah, I love it. It's great. Woke up this morning, got myself a gun. Did you guys watch it when it came out or somewhere? I poked away at it, but I did a re, I think maybe over the pandemic, maybe I re went from, re went. Yeah, I watched it. Abby's parents lived in Asia for many years in the 2000s. And one year they just gave us this entire box set of pirated, the Sopranos.

It was all overdubbed. It was the first. No, and it was like the first five seasons and I had never watched it before. And I watched all of them. Some episodes were just missing. Yes. Or like the DVD wouldn't play, but, and then after that

I would like watch the last few seasons live. And does it stay good or is there a dip at any point or is it just- There's some weird stuff. There's like a weird coma season oh yeah that's right yeah i've heard about that i uh yeah it's a um it's hard because it was on for like what it tends to get oh it tends to get a little violent and some of the language is but i didn't know I didn't expect it to be as funny as it is. Oh, it's very funny. Stream with. Yeah. Yeah.

Like the writing is so sharp and so like these characters, they're funny. Like I did. I expect you to be kind of a dower godfather ask. And that Polly Walnuts guy. Polly Walnuts, I looked him up on YouTube. First thing is him playing Bert from Bert and Ernie. It was great. I'll print it out for you, don't worry. But yeah, Sopranos, I'm in.

I'm all in, I'm gonna watch every single episode except maybe the weird coma years. No, you'll watch it. Okay, I'll watch it. It's important. It's like sort of artsy. Nice. Yeah.

Yeah, so I'll keep you up to date on it. Does it make you wanna go to therapy? Makes me wanna go to therapy. It makes me wanna definitely like hang out at a deli or a strip club where there's just three women on stage dancing with their shirts off. Yeah, middle of the day strip club. I just, maybe that's the way strip clubs are in the States, where it's just a bunch of girls just

dancing doing their dance routine. What are they like here? One at a time. Oh, sure. Okay. Or just sit in a dark room during the day and have a big door open to the daylight and then open and close and open. That's the sensibility you're looking for.

Yeah, I want to know that it's nice outside, but I don't want it to be there. Drinking out of a plastic tumbler. Yeah, they don't really let you have glass in a strip club. You kidding me? Just that tactile feeling of like a light plastic. Glass in a strip club? Yeah, I think, you know, to avoid any kind of throwing

or something like that, I would say. I don't. The last strip club I went to had plastic tumblers. So. What a rough and tumble tumbler. Like, I don't... A ruffler tumbler. Yeah.

I haven't been in a strip club in quite a while. But I do remember... I don't remember the plan. I don't think I've ever been to a bar where they give you... Really? Oh yeah. There's definitely like a lot of performance bars they won't't are you sure you're you weren't it like, you know, Chuck E Cheese Spaghetti Factory, yeah

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Check it out, but honestly, skip it. These are the chronicles of the Rancho Cluster District in Burbank California. These are the events taking place in my house, around my house. Overheard! Overheard! The segment where, boy oh boy, do we love hearing the funny things you overheard. You're the red, white and blue. The funny things you hear. And we always like to start with the guest. Emmett, do you have something funny you've overheard? Yeah, I got something that's okay. And then we can come back at the end.

I've got one that happened directly to me, but it's really worth... Beautiful. Let's do that. But I'll start with the one that, uh was, I think it was over a year ago, it was last summer and I was on Bowen Island. Oh yeah. And the ferry, getting onto the ferry, you're in a car and you have to like wait on the kind of main drag.

Right. As you're waiting in line to get onto the ferry and it's on a slope. Yeah. And there was dozens of cars all in a line waiting for the ferry to arrive. Right. And looking at my window, there was, I guess,

a man in his early 60s. Okay. In shorts and sandals, backpack, but he was walking up the hill backwards. Okay. And he was doing this in front, it's just car after car after car, he has to walk past backwards.

Right. And so he just looked over and said, don't worry, I'm rehabilitating my knees. You can look it up. And then continued. So. I'm tired of your sour looks. He was self-conscious enough that he felt

he had to like announce it. Yeah. Were you looking at him through your mirror? No, no. I was sitting in the driver's side and looked to my left. Okay. I thought maybe you're looking through the side mirror and you can see me.

You only thought he was going backwards. He was, yeah, he was right there even though he looked farther away. Have you ever had this thing happen at, like if you're walking down a street at night and there's a person a ways down from you you can't tell if they're walking towards you or walking away from you?

Yeah, I like to play a little game in my head. Like, it's definitely walking away. Oh, don't walk into me. Yeah, I feel like there should be a name for that. It should be like a word phenomena. I think you just unlocked something. Yeah, anybody out there? I think we can call it the Graham Clark effect.

Oh, yeah, you love it. Graham Clark effect, there we go. The green. Yeah, it's like people that do yoga and stuff Graham Clark effect. Oh, yeah. That's great. Graham Clark effect. There we go. The Graham effect. Yeah. It's like people that do yoga and stuff at an airport where you get on a plane and they're doing all these moves and stuff.

As I assume it's good for you to do that. I think as I, yeah, I'm too self-conscious to do proper good stretching, but it's smart. It's smart, but come on. You know what I mean? We all gotta share the space here. Yeah, I don't wanna see you walking backwards. And there.

Sick, man. Somebody loads onto the plane, walking backwards. Don't worry about it. I'm trying to rehabilitate my knees. What I mean is someone's carry-on is just their yoga mat. Yeah, that's all I need. Dave, do you have an overhurt? Yeah, this one is from the waterslides the last couple weeks, two weeks ago.

Sure. And... Which you loved. I loved. Number one day of the summer. I've been enjoying the recaps of the waterslide. Yeah. Well, good. Because we're doing we're doing weekly.

So there there was a concession stand and it was the kind where you you know, you get your food and drink, but they just give you a cup and you fill your own cup. Nice. And there are a group of like 11 year old boys and they all had cups. And one of them was like, check it out. And I guess he had said he was gonna get a brisk. Okay.

And so, and the person watching him was like, oh, brisk lemonade, yeah. And then so he starts doing the brisk iced tea and the guy goes, that's iced tea. And the first kid goes, I know, double brisk. And then another kid is like, oh, good idea. And then he sees the guy take a sip of it. How good is it?

And the first kid goes, really good. It's powerful. Yeah. Yeah. Leader of the pack. Wow. Wow. This guy unlocked Arnold Palmer. Yeah, kids hacking the system. And then this old lady came by like she was next to me as this was happening and she had a cup and she was like, show me what you did. That sounds good. Yeah. Word on the street is there's a new way to drink these. Yeah. Did you try it? Turns out if you go to the water street is there's a new way to drink these. Yeah, did you try it? Well, it turns out if you go to the water slides, there's a way to engage with the fountain

drinks you might find a little interesting. We found a group of boys who have invented something. Did you try it? No. Oh. But I can imagine it tastes like lemonade mixed with ice tea. It's called brisk squared. Mm-hmm This Yeah, I wouldn't call him a scientist but he's discovered an effect known as the Graham Clarke effect where

You know, we see them in a block away and you don't know if they're coming towards you or not Yeah, that's why they named after me my first time at the water slides was my first time having an ice cream float. Oh, yeah. And I was like, oh, I've heard about these. I'm going to order it. And there are the flavors of ice creams and the flavors of... Pop? Pop?

Yeah. I was like, oh my God, well, I'm going to get some amazing. Oh, no. And I was like, all right, I'll have Orange Crush and Tiger Tail ice cream. Oh no! Oh dear God. Big blob of licorice orange.

Yeah, for Americans, Tiger Tail ice cream is a orange flavored ice cream with a strip of licorice running through it. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't finish it. I bet. Because I thought you were going to say orange and vanilla, and that you've made yourself a creamsicle. No, no.

No. Then did you ever go back to floats ever again or was that it for you? Took a while. I went root beer. Spent some time in Europe. Root beer and vanilla, I stuck with that. Yeah. I just played it safe. That's a classic. Europe. Root beer and vanilla, I stuck with that. Yeah. Ice plate and safe. That's a classic.

Yeah, I'm a big cherry coke and vanilla. Hey man, that's great. And isn't one of the coffee drinks now, Offa Gato, isn't that coffee and ice cream? Yeah. One of the coffee drinks now. I wouldn't let it go at the. The 24 hour show, he kept writing jokes about Offa Gato.

Oh really? Offa Gato, I didn't want their lame yeah I wanted a dollop of ice cream in an espresso I only knew it from you that's not I make them yeah mm-hmm sounds delicious oh it's good what you gotta do is you gotta rim your cup with the ice cream and so you make a little cave for the espresso to go in. So it's not topping the espresso with the ice cream. You're building a little home for the espresso. And you take your mandolin slicer

and you grab some Twizzlers. And you just shave some licorice slices to there. Do they still make a black Twizzler? Yeah. I wonder. Is that an everlast song? Black Twizzler? I wonder. Yeah, I think they do. Is that an Everlast song? Black Twizzler. That was Black Jesus. Me and Jack, the black linguist, you find us.

That was the kids' version of the song. The kids bop. My over heard comes courtesy of a couple of, let's say 30 year olds chatting at the bar. And the one guy said, you know that movie, why him? That was basically me in my 20s. That was James Franco and Brian Cranston. I was a regrettable person to have around. James Franco and Bryan Cranston. Yeah. I was a regrettable person to have around.

Yeah. Yeah. I dated a lot of girls and their dads were like, why him? Why him? I'm sure I was a why him to some girl that I dated. I used to read why him magazine. I was a why him magazine. I do.

Do you think you guys were ever a why him? I still am. I think maybe not to a parent, but I think other girls, friends, friends were like, those guys not very interesting. I don't even care about his own memories. This guy seems cool. He's got a leather jacket, but he's not pulling it off. It's kind of short. It looks like a waiter. He's got a leather jacket, but he's not pulling it off. It's kind of short.

It looks like a waiter. He looks like a French punk waiter. And he's always telling me right this way, madam. Now we also have overheard sent in to us by people all over the world. I want to tell you my hilarious story. Oh yeah, sorry, sorry. Go ahead, go ahead.

This is fresh. This just happened over the weekend. Beautiful. At my apartment, we have a little nightlight that we plug in beside the bathroom and a little light bulb burnt out. Oh shit.

So I got the, I was like, all right, I'm gonna get the light bulb replaced. And I went and bought a little light bulb, little seven watt, kind of Christmas guy. Okay. And I pulled the nightlight out of the socket.

Yeah. Tuck out the old bulb. Yeah. Tossed it, put in the new bulb. Mm-hmm. It fits, it's great. Perfect, this is great. And then I flipped the switch,

and I'm like, no, no, it doesn't work. Oh shit. I'm like, oh shit, wait, but I got the right bulb. Yeah. And my lovely girlfriend. Yeah. My lovely partner, shit, wait, but I got the right bulb. Yeah. And my lovely girlfriend. Yeah. My lovely partner, Renee says, well, you gotta plug it in.

I'm like flicking it back, and I'm like, fuck, but I, this is the right side. Like, I'm looking at the two prongs exposed to the air. Why him? Yeah, there we go. But also you have to- Renee's not why him. Yeah, she doesn't need a parent. Don't you have to plug it in and also wait for it to be dark enough to work as well?

Oh yeah, you need the little sensor, right? No, it's just a switch. The daylight nightlight? Yeah, that nightlight in the bathroom? Life saver, absolutely. Otherwise you're just fumbling around in the dark. I'm going to pee on the floor in months. Mm-hmm. See, it's working.

Now we also have over-heard sent in to us. If you want to send one in, you can send it to sbrymaximumfun.org. And the first one is from Dan and Mary. Oh, cool. In Illinois, USA. Did they go word for word? I think so.

It's two emails. We were in the Schnucks grocery store. That's why I picked this because there's a place called Schnucks Grocery. Yep. And I overheard an older man and I all over say, if you take a bite out of me, you're gonna get a mouthful of cabbage.

Pfft. Pfft. Pfft. Sounds like a threat, right? Yeah, or is he just saying he eats so much cabbage. He eats a lot of cabbage. Yeah. Yeah, I mean. Like me and my beets.

Oh yeah, how's the beet train? Oh, I'm so hungry. I had beets for lunch and it does not get me to dinner. Have you experimented with different recipes of beets? No, it's all beets fed feta, and walnuts, crushed walnuts, pomegranate seeds, and mint. Nice. Sometimes basil.

Sounds pretty good. You're just a Canadian living magazine cover. Yeah, that's right. Summer salad ideas. This next one comes from Evan W from Victoria was walking past a grocery store around 2 or 3 p.m. the other day. That's the dude laying on his back in the shade. Sorry at a park. What'd I say? Grocery walking to the grocery store. Sorry. Road all that was walking to the grocery store around 2 or 3 p.m. the other day past a dude laying on his back in the shade

Under a tree in the dog part talking to talk on the phone. All I could hear was his side of the conversation Oh, not much just got done work. What are you up to? You're on ecstasy. Why are you on ecstasy? Oh nice Because we have the night off. I'm madder rave. My court hearing. Oh, nice.

Yeah. Nice. All right. I'm going to schnucks. I'm guilty. This last one comes from Melissa from Kentucky. I was at a Target shopping in the grocery section. I heard someone in the next aisle humming the bad boys bad boys

What you gonna do song then she added her own lyrics fruit snacks fruit snacks. What you gonna do? That's good that is good. Yeah, that reminded me of a one love Bob Marley on the floor. Yeah, sure. Yeah my tennis song fruit snacks fruit snacks, What you gonna do? Well, that's great. And if anyone, it's a theme from Cops, right? Yes. Yeah, Cops and Robertsons, it was called.

And in addition to overheards written in, we also accept your phone calls if you wanna call us. Our phone number is 1-844-779-7631. That's one, ugh, it's my pod one like these people have. Hello boys and guests potentially. It's me Elizabeth in Portland, Oregon and I'm calling with an overseen. I'm in the car. I'm not driving.

Pat's driving. And we went by an overpass and there was graffiti on the overpass and the graffiti said, my nuts swang. My nuts swang. Hell yeah, that's where you want them to be, swanging, swanging all over the place. Swinging nuts. That's some of your hardcore metal. Yeah, it's a new one.

We're hopefully gonna get ready for the show. Thrashmow. You don't just make it up on the spot. You work it up before hand. Zibbidi bop. Ba doodly do. Yeah. Yeah, I write the scat.

Yeah. Yeah, I, everybody out there. Swang. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I everybody out there. Yeah. Be swangin. We salute you. No, no. For those about to swing, we salute you. Next phone call.

Hi, I'm David Graham. This is Derek from Kansas City. I haven't overheard that I'd like to report. I just heard right now. I'm trying out the new Call of Duty game because I have an Xbox and I joined a lobby of players and the first thing I heard was Dude, can you imagine if Nancy Pelosi played Call of Duty with us right now? And then there's a long pause and then the other guy said

Dude, that would be hilarious To toe be hilarious. Is that a thing now that politicians have to court the vote they have to do? Hey Nancy Pelosi here, just going to do one round here with you guys and we're going to be killing, I don't know, bad guys. Bang! And I'm dead as well. How do you crouch? Oh, too late.

Okay, well I'm dead. So I will be out too late. Well, I'm counting on your vote. I can picture it because it's going to happen eventually where somebody has to go on a virtual reality. Oh, just a picture with her with the headphones on and the little speaker. It's a gamer chair. Yeah, the gamer chair. Presidential gamer chair.

Just going like, so I'm apparently I'm running the Twitch stream today. I normally play word. Oh, is this anything like that? Oh, yeah. Well, so you don't have to move the joystick around the controller. Keep the controllers. Yeah. You don't just tilt your body.

That's right. Oh man, that's good because you know, they always have to do a stop at like some bakery and eat the local, you know, they always have to do a stop at like some bakery and eat the local, you know, famous, whatever it is. Take Xanus. Oh boy, you guys, this, you really taste the anus. Good job, you guys. I'm gonna spit it out as soon as the camera's off of me.

But yeah, fucking that would be hilarious. And Nancy Pelosi was, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it would be. All right, Final phone call. Hello, Dave, Graham, and gorgeous guests. This is Caitlin calling from Los Angeles with an overseen. My husband and I were driving in LA traffic and we saw a BMW just really cut off a van that had a ton of bumper stickers on it and we specifically saw one of those co-exist stickers. Do you know this bumper sticker? Yeah with

all the different religious symbols. Spells the word coexist. With all the religious symbols and the man driving the van didn't react at all he just made more space for the BMW and my husband said something like well that's nice the guy with the coexist sticker not giving in to LA Road Rage. As soon as he said that, we finally got close enough to actually read the bunker stickers, and the coexist sticker actually said, eat a dick. But it was obviously intentionally supposed to look like on the coexist stickers.

We loved it. All right, that's all I got. Love you. Oh, that rules. Yeah, it gives the guy, he's like, look, I'm gonna stay calm because I already got that out of my system to tell that guy to go eat a dick.

Yeah. You know what I find, and I could be totally wrong on this, but I feel like in this city is not a city where people wear naughty t-shirts that have like swears on them or something like it. Yeah, because like you see your mayor, your mayor, things are going to be different.

That's right. Bikini inspectors are going to be back in town. But yeah, I feel like I would see them around Calgary a lot more than I would. Yeah. And the when I was in the interior, yeah, there was a kid who had a t-shirt that said, blow me on it. Yeah. And his dad had a shirt that said, teenagers are the price for having sex.

This is what I'm talking about. Yeah, I'm more of a one tequila, two tequila, three tequila floor. Yeah. Oh boy. That's a good one. That's not so naughty though. Just a buddy of mine worked in France, and he said that there was a shirt that was in the Coca-Cola font.

Yeah. And it said, blowjob. I mean, that's awesome. But it's so, it's such a big leap. I know. Like I've seen the one that says cocaine. Yeah. Or cannabis. Yeah.

Or even Costa Rica. No, no, it's a blowjob. You did. Well, that brings us to the end of the podcast. Emmet, tell us about this show. Where can people buy tickets? All right. We got we got two shows coming up. So there's the show on October 10th. That's a Thursday and that's at the Cobalt. Yeah. And we're playing with a band called Morsh.

Nice. And a band called Seconds Flat. Okay. And it's $10 in advance. You can go to the cobalt.ca. Yeah. And then it's $15 at the door. Sure. And you can find us Necronado Bandcamp or Spotify. We got an EP called Seeds of Disease. I love it. Yeah.

What's the name of the other band you're playing with again? Morse. Thank you. Yep. Yeah. And Seconds Flat. And then- That's actually how Tony Soprano says What's the name of the other band you're playing with again? Morsh. Thank you. Yep. And Seconds Flat. And that's actually how Tony Soprano says the planet Mars. Morsh.

Yeah, we're gonna fly. We're gonna fly to Morsh or something. Yeah. What are you going to do? Pick me up at Morsh Bar. Morsh Bar. Yeah. Morsh Bar.

Our second show is on the 18th of October and that's out in Maple Ridge at the Wolf Bar. Okay, the Wolf Bar, holy shit. And we're playing a show with a band called Nobody. Okay. And a band called Decadence. Nice. And then a band called Bloated Pig. I like Nobody.

I think that gives you a real kind of like Aberdeen Costello style. Who are you playing with tonight? Nobody. Oh, so you're closing? No, we're opening for Nobody. Yeah. What? Ba da da da da da da da da.

Nice. And also I've written a bunch of music for a video game called Rotwood for Clay Entertainment and that's an early access. Okay. So that get that on steam. Yes, you can get it on steam. This is the lingo.

Yeah. That's the stuff Nancy Pelosi would need if she got out. Your game is steamy. Yeah. We said steam, not steamy. You can play it in the morning. You can play it in the morning on steamy. It's early access on steam, Nancy.

And it's called Rottwood. Rottwood. Beautiful. It's called Woody on Steam, Nancy. And it's called Rotwood. Rotwood. Beautiful. It's called Woody, morning wood. I wrote some music for a game called Morsh. Morsh. What's the goal in Morsh? Yeah, you're Tony Soprano and he's an astronaut.

That sounds great. I also have something to plug. I am at the Little Mountain Gallery starting September 26. I'm gonna be doing the Laugh Gallery there on Thursdays, starting at 7.30 PM. Weekly? I'm gonna try weekly. We're gonna see.

We'll see if it sticks. September 26th, that's a Thursday. It's a Thursday. Yeah, Thursday night, 7.30 PM. If you play your cards right, you can come see the show. Be in bed by 10. So there you go. That's the pitch.

This is in Gastown in Vancouver. This is in Gastown. This is a mere steps away from the steam clock. You get your picture taken in front of that and still be in time for the show. I mean, sure. Yeah, I'd love to see you out there. And thank you again, Emmett, for being our guest. My pleasure.

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