Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 863 - Yumi Nagashima

Episode Date: October 1, 2024

Comedian Yumi Nagashima joins us to talk Katy Perry, jitter juice, and monster trucks.

Hi, he's Dave Schumke. And he's Graham Clark. And together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself. Hello everybody and welcome to episode number 863 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name's Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who I just love seeing him in the fall. Dave Schumke. I know it's not technically fall yet but-

Yeah, we have all the time in the recording and it's still a couple more days. Yeah. Couple more days. We gotta wait till the 22nd. I know but I want it now. I know. I looked at the forecast. Oh Gonna be nice. No, it's not fall yet. Oh, it's still gonna be sunny and hot

We're like in the last couple days. Yeah, I've been like kind of chilly in the morning, but then very sunny in the afternoon Yeah, this is like the best podcasting because people are gonna let people personal don't live here Don't The weather is irrelevant to them. Yeah, and also the weather that we're talking about in the future will be in the past at the time of this episode. Anyway, this one's coming out. We're getting, we're at the, coming out at the beginning of spooky season. Yeah, and I can't wait.

Oh, the, the, all the stores changed over to Halloween in August, I feel like. July, August now is the lead up. But we'll talk about Halloween in a bit, as we always do. Yes, sure, sure. Well, and then we'll talk about the weather. Our guest today, a first time guest here on the podcast, very, very funny comedian, will be touring all across Canada

as part of the Hungry for Laughs Tour. It's Yumi Nagashima. Hello, Yumi. Hello, Graham. Nagashima. Hello, Yumi. Hello, Graham. Hi, Dave. Hi, Yumi. Thank you so much for having me. Of course. It's such a pleasure. Should we get to know us? Yeah.

Get to know us. Okay. We got to get to know all about Y, because you haven't been on the show before, so we need to dig into your past, what kind of scandals you've been a part of. No, I was asking you before the show, you're from Japan, you've been in Canada for 18 years, and that's it, that's all I know. Wow.

Yeah, we don't do a lot of research. We just like to. I just take Graham's word. So a few weeks ago, I was in the grocery store and I saw Graham. I never see Graham out in public. I was buying a bag of jujubes. You were in the bulk area buying jujubes. Yeah.

And he said we should have this Yumi on. Yeah. That was your idea? No, no, no. Oh, my idea. Yeah. I never heard of you But you are your standard how many years have you been stand up for almost nine years nine years Okay, my first set was

2015 October 20th October 25th. Wow. At Kino Cafe. And how did it go? How was the first? It went really well. Yeah? Yeah. But like when I was like waiting for my turn, I was so nervous, I thought I would faint.

Oh yeah? Yeah. Have you ever fainted before? No. Me neither. But it seems like it'd be pretty cool. Healthy. Yeah, that's true.

I faint a lot. Yeah, it doesn't take much to get to the page. Well, I do a lot of like, I do it on purpose. For attention? I go upside down. Intentionally. Yeah, I like hang upside down and then quickly go to the stand straight up and then I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

That Kino Cafe, no longer with us, it was briefly another restaurant and now it's a new restaurant that is sushi, or no, what's it called? It's like sushi tacos. Yeah. What? It's called, isn't it called sushi taco?

Miso taco. Yeah. And there was, yeah, this kind of upscale restaurant moved into where the Kino was. Oh. Renovated the whole thing. Like it was brand new looking place. Oh, I have to go. Yeah, and then they went out of business and then now this place has gone in and... Uh-huh.

Yeah, even if you're just walking past it, just take a look in the window and see it's like... Miso tacos. Miso tacos. But the Kino? Not a trace of it. No. It's all gone. Ah. Only in our memories. Only in our memories. Only in our memories, yeah. Yeah, the first time I did stand up in Vancouver

was at what used to be a Yak Yaks, which has closed so many years ago. I'm just looking up what their menu is. Is it? Miso tacos? Miso taco, yeah. Yeah, it's... They're getting some pretty good plug here. Yeah.

Cheri-yaki cheesy taco. Ooh. Tuna to taco. Okay. Oh, I like it. Yeah. Japanese Tacos. Yeah. Japanese and Mexican. Oh. Fusion, they would call it. Yeah, they would. And you, uh, were you like one of the people that when you started comedy you had friends that came out and saw you or were you like one of the people that when you started comedy, you had friends that came out and saw you or were you just like, I'm just doing this completely. Nobody knows I'm doing this.

No, nobody knew. Okay. Yeah. That's how I did it too. Yeah. Yeah. Back then I was dating Byron Bertram. Byron Bertram, yeah.

And then he like our second date, he took me to the Keynote's show. Oh, he waited for the second day and day, yeah. Yeah. Where he was headlining. Yeah. And I was like, that was my first time seeing stand-up comedy ever.

Oh, really? Yeah, in Japan, like, we didn't have, like, really like stand-up, like, English stand-up comedy, right? So that was like my very first time and I was like, whoa This is so cool. Yeah, like one person and then one microphone and then 45 minutes like full entertainment Yeah, yeah, it was like I want to do that. So like right away. You're like, I want to do this. Yes Nice. Yes, and I was already starting like acting Little bit before. Yeah, you're an actor as well. Yes. Yeah, but like it's like always a little bit

Difficult because like my roles were super limited because of my accent, right? Accents like I have like more more accents. Yeah Right. Accents, like I have like more accents. Yeah. More than one. You've got other accents? No. Okay, all right.

Some people can do them all, you know. I would like to hear you do like Italian. Yeah. One day, I'm walking towards, yeah. So like, and then like when I was like finding the like perfect outlet. Yeah. And then like, I, then I saw standup comedy and the owner, the Steve, he was like,

would you like to try like three minutes set? Because I have never seen a Japanese lady does standup comedy. Yeah, neither have I. Yeah, I'm like, yes. Is there, so there's no such thing as stand up in Japan? No. What is, is there live comedy in any way?

Like we do have like comedy scene. It's really big in Osaka area, but it's like more like slapstick style. There's always like straight man and then funny man. Right. And then like we do it in Japanese. So like sense of humor is very different. It's more like physical and then... Right.

Yeah. It's like over the top. And then stand-up comedy, recently it's getting big in Japan to like maybe like the last five years Okay, you go back ever and just dominate as we Yeah, I went back like three years ago, yeah and did they said Three years ago and did like set a very first English stand-up comedy club in Tokyo called Tokyo Comedy Bar. Okay. Yeah.

Tokyo Comedy Bar. That was like three years ago. Yeah. And you travel a lot for stand-up. You've been all over the world. Mm-hmm. I think that, did you go on tour somewhere within Singapore or something like that? Yes. Last year, I did Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Yeah. Also, the Emirates, have you been to Dubai? Yes. It's so funny. I was listening to some of the episodes from your podcast. Oh yes, thanks very much. No, thank you. It's like now I have to listen to every single episode. Oh good.

We do get people saying, hey, I'm starting from the beginning. I've really just discovered you guys. Yeah, and get hooked. Yeah. Well, we've got many hours where I guys. Yeah, and get hooked. Yeah. Well, we've got many hours. Yeah. And I've listened to, like, first I listened

to Charlie Demeer's episode. All time favorite. Yes, and then I've listened to Kevin Lee. Oh yes, yeah. He has so many episodes with you guys too. Yeah. And then like, it automatically went to like Dave Maharch. Yeah.

And then like, he, and then like he and then like Where he was talking about like he just performed at Dubai Oh, yeah, like comedy festival and he was saying like you guys are talking about. Oh, I have one friend She's about to go But Dave was like I don't think're talking about me. And I was like, but Dave was like, I don't think Yumi knew I did Dubai Comedy Festival. Right. And then like, she just thought because I'm Lebanese,

like, you know, like she thought I would have contact. But like, to be clear, I knew Dave did Dubai Comedy Festival. Yes. Was it the same one? Did you do the same festival? To be clear, I knew they did a Dubai comedy festival. Yes. Was it the same one? Did you do the same festival? No, I didn't do like comedy festival. I just like randomly like pitched to like one comedy book or that I wanted to do like an hour show.

You pitch yourself? Yes. Boy, that's man. I wish I could do that. You said I want to do an hour show pitched yourself? Yes. Boy, that's, man, I wish I could do that. Yeah, I'm like. You said I wanna do an hour show in Dubai. Yes, and then I was like. And the guy was just like,

well, yeah, I was just sitting down to do this. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Had an empty hour. Yeah. Yeah, also the guy knew the booker in Indonesia, Jakarta. Okay. And they are really good friends and I did show for his friend before in Indonesia.

So he had some like, okay, she's not bad. Yeah, she's not bad. She did an hour of my festival. Because I feel like I saw a picture of you at some point riding on a camel. Yes. Which is gross or is it fun? It was really fun.

It's really tall and the hardest part is when you get off the camel yeah because they had to kneel the front and then like it becomes like really like just falls over yeah so like you have to use like a really your arm strings yeah to hold yourself hmm yeah she's like cuz I've like have you written any animal when I was a kid They took us to at school to place a call like butterfield acres and got to like ride on a horse for like 10 minutes I was like, this is not for me. This is freaking me out. I don't know if this animal decides to run away I got nothing. I got nothing at all you I don't think I have Maybe I've been on like what about a dog when you were a kid and you kind of go- Oh yeah, yeah, right on a dog.

Maybe- That counts. Man, maybe a pony at some point, I don't know. Was this your first time like riding an animal? Oh, no, I have like ponies and horses before. Oh really? Yeah. Like since you've been over here or back in Japan. In Japan. Really? We have this like kids kind of like farm thingy that you can touch like. That's what I went to as a kid. Yeah. I got to milk a goat.

It was very weird. It's very weird because it's so warm. And you have to like be like firm with it. Yeah, you got to squeeze it a little bit. And you have to be firm with it. Yeah, you've got to squeeze it a little bit. And you don't want to do that. Yeah, but the goat loves it. Yeah, can you come back tomorrow? I think my sisters rode a miniature elephant in Thailand. Oh, wow.

What do you mean miniature? It was like, I don't know what you would call it, but it was like, just I guess the breed of elephant over there aren't gigantic. Like a teacup elephant kind of situation. Yeah, about as big as a, tall as a horse. Tall as a horse, yeah. That sounds cute.

Going on another, like an animal, a horse, or especially a camel, like, you just, like I would freak out. I wouldn't be able to do it. Did you, like, but did you just like hold onto the reins? Cause it was just you on it. It wasn't somebody else on it as well, or was it? No, there was my partner behind me.

Okay. Yeah, yeah. So there were two people ride, yeah. What is the, what animal would you like to ride? That's a good question. I want a dolphin. Yeah, I was gonna say dolphins are pretty good. I don't think it's possible. Well, you know, they pull people around in pools and stuff.

They do pull people around in there, but they're like. But they can flip it around on you pretty quick. Yeah, you'll be wearing the harness. I have a vision that I'm gonna ride on orca whales. Oh, nice. Okay. They're scary though. If you fell off, you'd be in big trouble. Mess up some yachts.

Yeah, it's funny that everybody like, you know, and rightfully so, are afraid of sharks. But like killer whales are like, they kill sharks all the time. Sharks are afraid of that. But because they look so beautiful, we're like. Yeah, and so big. Yeah, but. Magnificent. Yeah, but if they thought you were a seal,

you'd be dead real quick. Do you ever take the ferry? Yeah. And do they ever like shout out? Shout out, like hey. Shout out they ever like shout out, shout out like, Hey, shout out to Wales. Props to Wales. Do they ever like call out like,

Hey, look over the left side of the boat. There's a gray whale or whatever. Yeah. I saw one last time. You did? Just the spout from like a million miles away. But I was like, Oh cool.

I think that's what they're talking about. Yeah. Sometimes you'll see like a video of somebody that's like on a paddleboard somewhere and they see like a gray whale just come up like breach right next to them. I wouldn't like that at all. I mean, Majestic is all hell. Right. I just did like Rifflandia in Victoria and then they flew us with like a heli-jet. Oh! Yeah, it was so cool. That's nice. in Victoria and then they flew us with like a heli-jet. Yeah, it was so cool.

That's nice. And I was like right behind the pilot. Yeah. And then like there was one time like he was like, he knocked the glass and my area. Yeah. And then he's like, and then I pointed at it and I looked at it and there was an ochre.

Nice. Yeah, it was so cute. Yeah. Had you ever been on a helicopter before? No, that was my first time. Because I did the same a couple of years ago for a gig. They were like, well, we'll helicopter you over and send you back on the helicopter.

It's so weird. Is it on a helicopter? So strange. I've never done it. I've never been on a camel. I've never been in a helicopter. These are bucket lists. Yes. I don't know if I ever want to be on a camel Yeah, and the helicopters I mean, there's just no way around it as you're walking up to you like my head's gonna get chopped off

How they yeah, they say Yeah, there's no takeoff. No just like a float. Yeah, and it's like upwards. Yeah. It's like half. There's no takeoff. No. It just like floats. Yeah. And it's like 10 minutes or something from Victoria to here. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it was more like 30 minutes. Well, not the one I took.

I took a faster one. Graham fainted at the middle. That's fast. That's super fast. Super fast. They didn't know that I was a stand-up comedian. They thought I was an ambassador of some sort. Because we live near the hospital.

Like there's, I guess they're flying in organs. Yeah. Like I see them every day. Yeah. Helicopters. Yeah. I was listening to a podcast about somebody who got a transplant.

It sounds heavy duty. Getting a new organ. If anybody out there is looking on Kijiji or something like that. I don't even feel good when I get a new weave. I feel so weird. This is someone else's hair. I just think they're you with the weave. Also it's all kind of... Because they like sew it into the back of your head.

Yeah, I just can see it on the back. But I'm still short on the front. That's a pretty good visual. Man, I don't have enough hair to like hide where it's attached. Have you ever had a weave? Yes. Yeah? What's it like? Does it feel weird?

It felt like I had so much hair. Yeah. And so hard to like wash them. Yeah, how do you wash them? That's, you don't take them off and then run them under the sink. No. They're human hair, right? Yeah. No. They're human hair, right? Yeah.

And then do you, like if you put your hair in the ponytail, can you see where it's attached? Or do you actually have to keep your hair down to hide it? Yeah, basically like you can show it when you just get it done. It kind of looks cool, like it looks like braids. Right. Yeah, but when it started to grow, it's kind of like, like mean. Yeah.

And then like, it doesn't look cool. And yeah, how long do you keep one in before you have to get a re. And if you take a really good care of them, like you can keep them like for half a year. Half a year? Yeah. Oh, wow. I thought they were a thing that lasted like a couple of year. Half a year? Yeah. Oh wow, I thought they were a thing

that lasted like a couple of weeks. No, no, no. We were watching, my daughters and I were watching the Katy Perry video for Swish Swish. This is a new one? No, this one's, this was like at the beginning of her downfall. People have been pointing to her downfall recently,

but she's been. But isn't she back? No, no, no no she's back in the worst way oh I thought they liked Taylor Swift was dancing to her at the VMAs or maybe at the VMAs maybe she's back in the last week before that yeah she was falling down but I feel like she had the Taylor Swift you know check mark well maybe but anyway we're watching swish swish which is swish way which is a video that has, they're playing basketball. Oh yeah.

And there's tons of celebrity. Is LeBron James in it? No, Carl Anthony Towns, the basketball player. That's the only basketball. Oh, Bill Walton is also in it. The Gronk is in it. The backpack kid is in it. Oh yeah, okay. I seem to remember this. Yeah. Molly Shannon's in it. The Gronk is in it. The backpack kit is in it. Oh, yeah. Okay. I seem to remember

this. Yeah. Molly Shannon's in it. Terry Crews is in it. And then you know this video, this song or video at all? No, it's yeah, I'm getting the same information. Well, I'll sing a little bit. A tiger, don't need no sleeper. Anyway. That's good. That's really good. Thanks. Yeah. And then, but at one point, Nikki Minaj comes out

and does a rap. Right. And her hair is down to her like calves. Oh sure. Like past her knees. And one of my daughters goes, that's not a real hair. Oh, sure. Like, past her knees. And one of my daughters goes,

that's not a real hair. Yeah. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Do you get it cut? No, like cut your regular hair. Or do you have to get it cut? No, because it's kind of attached to your real hair. Right. So it grows as your real hair grows. Right, okay. Oh, it moves, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't grow though.

It's not still alive, is it? Well, sometimes. Yeah. Well, did you ever get a weave? Did you end up buying that dreadlock? Wasn't there someone selling dreadlocks? Yeah, where was I? I was at a fair and somebody had, oh no, it was online.

It was somebody that had a bunch of dreadlocks, white people dreadlocks on like a hanger and that you weave it into your own hair. Whoa. Yeah. It's that's a big commitment. Yeah. Did you do it?

No, I just saw it online. See, I like is. Did you do it? No, I would. And I didn't. I would have if I was a teenager. What does it cost? What does it what dreadlock cost?

Money or social wise? Money. What is the person asking for? Oh, I don't know. Probably. 10 bucks a dreadlock or two for 20 well that's not a deal at all like Katy Perry. Yeah? Okay. By whom? And I also been told I look like Andy Kaufman when I do. Andy Kaufman? No way! Did you know who that was? No, I didn't know. But I saw it right in the interview. My kids always want to watch Gaty Perry videos and Andy Kaufman. It's very similar. Can we do Mighty Mouse tonight? You like Andy Kaufman now, right? Yeah, because

I've seen like some people tell me like I have like, oh she must have the got the influence influence from Andy Kaufman. Oh, because he does the whatever voice, but I don't know what the voice is called. Yeah. That same kind of vibe. Yeah. And then I started watching his sets,

so like, and also I see like, oh, what's his name? Danny DeVito. Have you just been watching Taxi? He did Andy Kaufman's. Jim Caron. Yes. Oh, yes. I saw that and then I was like, oh, interesting.

Yeah. There's another, because of the Saturday Night Live movie, there's another guy portraying it. Oh, wow. It's going to be one of those big roles of our generation, like the Joker. Yeah. Everybody's going to get a chance to play Eddie Kaufman or Tony Clifton. Yeah, do you know all about his like non-stand up stuff?

I don't. Non-stand up private life? No, just, I mean. I haven't seen Man on the Moon. He is one of the things that he did was, he was a intergender wrestling champion. So he'd wrestle women in a pro wrestling style. I know, I also know that from the song Man on the Moon. Andy Kaufman and the wrestling match.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he wrestled women and like real... At any point is Egypt troubled by the horrible asp? I mean, I don't know if it was his time, but yes, of course it was. Sure. He would wrestle women and really physically fit strong women. Yeah. Then he also had this character, Tony Clifton, that he would get booked on gigs and he would say that Tony Clifton had to open for him,

or if he was on a movie, he'd be like, you have to give a role to Tony Clifton had to open for him or if he was on a movie, be like you have to give a role to Tony Clifton, which was him in an outfit. So he was. But isn't there also another dude? Yeah, Bob Zamuda. And that's how they did it. Like, no, it's, it is a different guy.

And they would show up at the same thing together. And then, oh, he's, he had a, this is your influence? Yeah, this is who you like? Yeah. Yeah. I'm a wrestler. Yeah, you're a wrestler, I could see it. Yeah, strong.

Strong, fast. Fast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're like Katy Perry looking. Yeah. Yeah, somewhere in the middle.

Yeah, somewhere, yeah, exactly. Before the show, we asked you about your family and you said you had a sister and you said, no, wait, I wanna talk about this on the podcast. Yes. Yeah. Because like, it was funny when I did the show, like Gram's show, like Laugh Gallery.

Yeah. And there were a bunch of like comics in 30th. And then Gram introduced me on stage Like I think she's also in her 30s and give it up And then Yumi Rokashima and I was like, yeah, like I totally went with it But my my age is 46 years old. You're not 46. Yes, I am. No, you're not. 46? Yeah.

Wow! Yeah. Well, you can't see her audience, but look great for 46. Thank you. I mean, she looks like Katy Perry. We can't overstate how much she looks like Katy Perry. And Katy Perry's probably 38. Yeah, that's probably true.

Do we want to guess how old Katy Perry is? Oh yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna say an even 40. Maybe that's too old. What do you think? What do you think? Katy Perry, 39. 39, okay, going under 40.

I think we might all be too old. Oh, no internet. Oh, I understand. Oh well. No, let me attach to the internet. Attach? Let me harness myself to the internet. And here we go.

Katy Perry age right now. She is 39. Oh, I got it. Hell yeah. Yes. And she's gonna be turning 40 in October. Oh, so it's almost 40. Yeah. Yes. And she's gonna be turning 40 in October. Oh, so it's almost 40. Yeah, and you know it's gonna be a big bash.

She's not just sitting at home with some friends having some wine. This is gonna be- She's gonna bring, invite all her exes, Russell Brand. We'll be there, yeah. Oh, Russell Brand's really taken the full, he's gone the full way around. He's Christian and Fox News favorite now.

He's a guy I don't understand the appeal of. No. I mean, when he was with Katy Perry, he's like, that's got some cache. I like get him to the Greek. I just love him and Diddy and Jonah Hill altogether, fooling around. Three guys whose reputation stayed stellar all these years. Yeah.

Yeah, is your sister's back in Japan? Yeah, and she is younger and four years younger. Four years younger, okay. She's like 42. Mm-hmm, exactly. So like, yeah, like, you know, two or three years older than Katy Perry. Yeah.

Yeah, and when you first came here, did you come here for school or did you just like, I'm moving to Canada? Oh, so basically I came here with working holiday visa. Okay. So I will, it's like one year temporary work permit. But you can work wherever you want. Yes. Yeah, okay.

And I worked at a Japanese restaurant called Samurai on Davey. That's still there? I think it is. Okay. Yeah. The server, I've never been a server at any point, but I've worked retail. Is being a server awful? Or is it okay?

Or does I guess it depends maybe on where you work. Is the customer always right? Is the customer always right? Oh, good one. You know, like I feel like because I'm like extra part. Yeah. So like it's like really it wasn't that difficult. Right.

Yeah, being a server and be like, you know, TFO and stuff. But it's like hard, it was hard to remember the menus or like specials and that kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah, when they do have to like come to your table at the start and be like, all right, and here's what's special. Yeah. Like, yeah, when they do have to like, come to your table at the start and be like, all right, and here's what's special. Yeah. And then also when a server will remember if you order a drink and then

you say another and she'll know five drinks and every, all the people have to have drinks. I don't know how somebody does that. I know some people don't have to write them down. Do you have to write them down? I had to. Yeah. I'm a writer. Yeah have to write them down. Did you have to write them down? I had to. Yeah. I'm a writer. Yeah, I just am compelled.

Just try to stop me. And like also people carrying the tray with glasses of liquid on it. Balance. Yeah. How about you got okay balance? Well, you've been on a camel. You didn't fall off.

Yeah. I like it when they do, have you seen in Paris, they do like the waiter, competition. Oh, the waiter challenge? Yeah. And they're like,

Whoa, there's a competition. Yeah. And they do like a race where they can't spill a drink. I think it's in Paris. Yeah. And they have to walk around the city block. Yeah. On cobblestones.

You've been to Paris? I have. Did you like it? I loved it. Yeah, what you doing to? First day, no, that was just for fun. And then first day I went to the Louvre. Yeah.

Louvre. The Louvre. And then I fell asleep in front of Mona Lisa. Jet lagged. It's like. Well, you know what? It's a, you're not going to get pickpocketed. There's a lot of people around and a lot of security.

It's probably one of the safest places. Are you sure you fell asleep? You sure you didn't faint? I'm trying to, I'm trying to make sure. I kind of want you guys to come around to fainting as a lifestyle. That's so funny. Yeah, there was like a perfect bench in front of it.

I just saw- Was it just a huge crowd? Yeah, there were so many people. Yeah. Is it like wall to wall from opening to close? People just wanna catch a glimpse of that wonderful smile. Yeah, I've seen videos and it is always like, it's like Mona Lisa's like just won the Superbowl.

Everybody's gathered around taking photos and. Totally. Yeah, I like to throw paint on her to protest the climate. Yeah, people hate that. It's behind like a big thing of glass, right? Yeah, that's why there's like glass. You think it's the real one or you think it's a fake? That they keep the real one hidden somewhere.

What are you, Thomas Crown? I'm Thomas Crown. That's, wow, maybe it's not even the authentic one. Yeah, cause it's like so, you know, it's priceless. Yeah. If it ever gets sold. So precious, way too precious. Yeah, like maybe it's in a vault somewhere

We're just seeing a fake one. You're just seeing a poster in which case does it matter? Do you think the other paintings in the Louvre are like jealous for like at night when they're like talking to each other No one looked at me today Yeah, then there's some weird sculpture over the corner nobody No one cares about me. Oh, I just went to Paris this summer. Oh! He was in the Olympics.

I was in the Olympics. Oh yeah, of course. Break dancing. I was in the break dancing squad. Oh nice. I knew there was something about you. Yeah, yeah. Of course. I keep it. I keep it to myself, you. Yeah, yeah. I keep it to myself.

Yeah, keep it tight. But it shows on stage. Yeah, exactly. Once I'm up there, oh boy, oh boy, try and stop me. But yeah, I loved everything about Paris. I thought it was so cool. Was it your first time? It was.

Oh my God. Wait, wait, last year? This summer. This summer? Yeah You got to see the Olympics? No, we were there like the week before the Olympics. Oh you are? Yeah, so the whole city was like done up and you know, like as clean and wonderful as it's never been Yeah, I remember. People were excited. People were excited. Absolutely. I remember when I was a kid we went there and there were so many people,

like there were a couple of like street performers. There were, but they were artists and they would draw in chalk on the ground. Oh yeah. And my parents said, and every day that gets washed away. It's like they would do like a perfect Mona Lisa on the ground and then the street sweeper comes by and washes it away. That's like the Buddhist monks that'll do like designs in the sand just to do it and

then it gets washed away. Oh wow, that's so true. Every morning. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the thing about being in Paris. During that it was like everything was nice, everything was clean, and then once in a while, you just see a guy with a machine gun.

Really? It's just a guy standing in the corner somewhere with a giant machine. I just find Paris, like, even when it was clean, there's still quite a urine smell. Oh, sure. Any big city's gotta smell like urine a little bit. Right.

Our city smells like urine a lot. Uh-huh. Yeah. Oh yeah. Especially if you go downtown. Any of the back alleys? Like downtown, Vancouver. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. What's it like in Tokyo? Is it just people peeing all over the place? I feel like no. I feel like that would be like, not a thing that happens. No, it doesn't smell like pee at all. Nice. Wow. And then when you got to here, you be like, not a thing that happened. No, it doesn't smell like pee at all. Nice. Wow.

Yeah. And then when you got to here, you're like, finally. Yeah, big city now. See you later, little town Tokyo. Yeah. I did see that we now have in Vancouver, we have at Robson and Granville, there's a scramble crosswalk.

Oh yes. Oh, where like, what's the big one in Tokyo where everyone just crosses all the- Oh yeah, Shibuya. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of like that, but it's right outside of winners. Yeah. It's also like, I feel people are probably better at it

in Japan because people here can't figure out what side of the sidewalk to walk on here and wander around like they're just got legs for the first time. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah, it became like that when I go back to Japan. I don't know how to do it anymore. But like everybody is, it feels like so fast.

So fast, so efficient. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. People are staring at their phones and stuff. Yeah, here is just all over the map, man. I don't know. I just don't understand it. People walk here slow, four wide on the sidewalk. Umbrella under an awning.

Yeah, umbrella under the awning. It's a pee smell here, there, and everywhere. It's great on a rainy day when there's a big awning and you can still smell pee. It's like, oh, the rain hasn't gotten here yet. Yeah. When you first moved here, did you live in Vancouver property? Did you live around in a Burnaby, Surrey, something like that? Oh, first I lived near Joyce Station. I used to live there.

Oh yeah? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's a Joyce station is pretty spicy at night. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They had a pizza place there that I would get pizza from every night because it was on my way to work.

And now looking back, it's probably the worst pizza I ever had in my life. But I don't know. They're still making bad pizza. Yeah. They're making a lot more better pizza. Yeah. But like. But there's're making a lot more better pizza. Yeah. But like... But there's definitely bad pizzas out there floating around.

Pizza pizza! We never had until a few years ago. That's true. And that's garbage. That's garbage, yeah. We don't need more garbage pizza places, but... Have you ever been to pizza pizza? No, where is it?

There's one on Broadway. Yeah, Broadway, like near Kingsgate Mall? Yeah. It's bad. If you want a bad slice of pizza You're interested in just trying an authentically bad piece of pizza Are you a pizza fan at all? I like um Uncle wait, what's that? Uncle Fatty's in front of the Rio theater. Yeah. Yeah That place is good

Yeah, like when I get like hungry before a show or after a show. Will you eat before a show? I feel like I can't eat before a show. Oh, I'm like opposite. I have to be like really full. Really? Yeah.

How come? Then like I don't have energy. You wanna be up there a little sleepy. Yeah. Yeah, I passed guest on the podcast, Phil Hanley, would always eat a banana before he would go on stage just as like a little sugar spike and fill your, your stomach a little bit. Yeah. And, uh, he even had a banana, one of those banana cases. Oh, sure.

Yeah. Oh, wow. What if he was doing like three shows a night? Three bananas? Wow. Wow. Banana is also good before like marathon. Yeah. Yeah, right?

So it makes sense. Do you have like a pre-show ritual? Pre-show ritual? Yes. So basically like first I become very anxious. Okay, yeah, that's my ritual. Step one, I first I become very anxious. Okay, yeah, that's my ritual. Step one, I like to become very. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then like step two, I write down like all the jokes. All the jokes. Like I make the set list. Yeah. And step three, just like go over it way too many times. Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty much. That's a good.

As a server in a restaurant, like I feel like if you're the kind of server who remembers without writing it down, you would be like, you wouldn't need to write a set list. Yeah. Right. And there's comedians, I've always marveled at them that have like one line jokes. Mm-hmm.

And so in a set they have 50 jokes. Mm-hmm. And they have to remember. Ah. You know, like did I already tell that one? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Scary moments.

Yeah. You can't remember. Especially if you're doing five shows a weekend. Yeah. On the same stage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Yeah.

And I remember like when I was very young in comedy, I opened for Imo Phillips, and he's all one-liner, and he said that pretty regularly he would repeat a joke and only realize after the punchline that he's like, I'm not laughing, I remember doing this and getting a better laugh. Mm. Yeah, I. What was like the pre-show ritual I noticed among most comedians was listening to Lose

Yourself by Eminem and drinking. That gets rid of a lot of the anxiety. That's true. That really takes the edge off. I should try that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have some shots before you go on stage. At Eminem.

Yeah. Put Eminem on, do some shots before you go on stage. And M&M. Yeah, put like M&M on, do some shots. You come out super aggressive. Angry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's up, idiots? That's the essence of stand-up comedy. Oh yeah, to be as confrontational as possible.

Yeah. Yeah, a lot of the young comedians, they don't drink. Do you drink? Do you ever drink? No. Yeah, a lot of the comedians that I know now, it was very alcohol forward and cocaine adjacent when I started.

I never witnessed cocaine. I still haven't like in person. I've seen people do it. I wasn't offered any, so I was like, well, I guess I'll just watch like in person. I've seen people do it, I wasn't offered any so I was like, well I guess I'll just watch. I guess I'm not cool. But I like, a big part of doing a show at a bar was you don't get paid but you get.

Drink tickets. You get drink tickets. So might as well make the most of it. Yeah, that's, I don't know. I do find that like. But now do they give you vape tickets? They give you vape tickets. A lot of people just get a big glass of grape juice.

It is like, well, yeah, we're living in the golden era of people not drinking. It'll swing back around. Oh, yeah, it's got to. But yeah, people used to get, that doesn't happen anymore, but after a show, the comics would all get wasted. They would just drink till all hours of the night. I think it's too expensive now. Too expensive.

And it's also awful. Wake up the next morning, you feel like a self-destructive. Sustainable. Not sustainable. But yeah, like a lot of comics in the 80s, like drinking and drugs. I have that image. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, like a lot of comics in the 80s, drinking and drugs. Yeah, I have that image, yeah. Yeah.

And then, yeah, but now it's like everybody, some people do, they smoke a little weed and then they drink Coke Zero. That's what I do. I saw, I was looking at, it came across my feed, Wayne Gretzky, great hockey player, one of the greatest hockey players

of all time, the great one. His pregame ritual was he drank two Diet Cokes. Really? Yeah. Wow. Huh, well, I mean, if it works, it works, right? Yeah. Isn't he like, he's in some ad for something now.

Oh yeah, I don't know. Like pre-mortgage, something like that. Yeah, something crypto or, don't know like pre mortgage. Yeah something crypto or But we wish him the best he's doing great as we do all great ones Dave what's going on with you my friend? Not much. We're said, you know, it's late September and we're Are you a fall person? Are you summer, spring?

What are you? Summer person. You're summer. Are you sad now? Is summer's over? So sad and I'm so in denial. Oh, yeah. It's summer.

The weather is still great. The weather is still great. Yeah. Though we're getting less daylight. I walked the dogs this morning and the sun wasn't up yet. Yeah. I love summer so much that I want to buy a house in Hawaii. Yeah.

Yes, and I also do like Hawaiian hula dance. That sounds like a real, that's a dream. That's an attainable dream. I feel like- You can make that happen. I don't really love summer that much, but I would still buy a house in Hawaii. Yeah.

Yeah, just climb up a coconut tree? Is there a coconut tree there? Yeah. I just climb up a coconut tree? Is there a coconut tree there? Yeah. I mean, what do you mean? I don't know, just sometimes you see videos, somebody like scuttling up. I'm just talking about real estate.

Oh, and I'm talking about what I would do day to day. Yeah. Anyway, the school year has started. Yeah, school's in for the ball. And so my life has changed so much. Things are so great now. I have two daughters in school. And the one thing, like I pick them up,

drop them off every day, I pick them up a few days a week. And it's always great seeing like what they're carrying at the end of school. Are you hungry there bud? No, I don't know what that was. But I should have had banana before I came here. And they're always like, you know, they made a craft in class and they got their hands full or they got some test back that they're carrying. And I always have to grab what it is. And then one, one day I saw one of my daughters,

it was the end of the day and it was taking a long time for my daughter to come out of school. And I kept seeing her classmates coming out with like brightly colored liquid. Okay. Like a cup full of brightly colored liquid. And then finally she came out with this pink liquid and I was like, what's that?

And she said, oh, it's jitter juice. Jitter juice. What? And I was like, what's jitter juice? Oh yeah, our teacher gave us this jitter juice. And I said, well, tell me about it. Well it's a watermelon juice and sprinkles and Sprite. I mean, that sounds delicious. It does. and sprinkles and Sprite.

I mean, that sounds delicious. It does. And I was like, why? Yeah. Was it just? Jitter juice. It's jitter juice. I've never, but I guess it was like,

to get rid of the jitters, it's like, have some juice. But it seems like it would give you jitters. But it was like, welcome back to school. Yeah, I know a lot of you are nervous. Drink some of this juice. Aw, that's so cute. That is cute. Yeah.

But I also didn't know the school was just giving out like a sugar spike to the end of the day. Yeah, that's true. Send them on now, go back to your parents. Mm-hmm. It's okay because it's pink. Yeah, it's fine. Well, you could pick your sprinkles, apparently.

The sprinkles were either pink. Are these like cake sprinkles? I guess. Okay. And they were largely coloring the drink. Well, someone had a blue one. Mm-hmm. Aw.

And so I... That's fun. Oh, it's definitely fun. I want one. Yeah, me too, I want one. I don't remember that. Give us some juice. They also do a freezy sale, like to raise funds

all the time. Do you ever have anything like that when you're going to school, any kind of like, you get to sell things to whatever, buy something for the sports team. What is it that they're raising money for when they're selling freezies or cookies or donuts? Class trip.

Yeah, maybe a class trip or something like that. Do you do any of that? In Japan? No. No? I'm so jealous about like lemonade stand experience. Yes. Yes. And also like Girl scouts like cookies selling experience like Japan doesn't have any of those. What did you do as a kid then? Study? doesn't have any of those. What did you do as a kid then? Study. Ah, fair enough. I also feel like sometimes you'll go to the train station

and there'll be kids selling like Krispy Kreme donuts. Yeah. And it's like, what am I just supposed to eat a donut out on the street or? No, not for a forbid on the train? They're only selling dozens. They're not selling single. Oh, I thought they were selling singles.

Well, as I've experienced. Still, that's even worse, walking around with a dozen donuts. My experience is that my brother will say, oh, my daughter's soccer team is raising money. Who wants a dozen donuts? Yeah, what do you do with a dozen donuts? You eat them. Yeah, you eat them do with a dozen donuts? You eat them.

Yeah, you eat them several at a time. You eat them pretty fast. Over the course of days. That's a lot. That's a lot, a dozen donuts. A dozen, yeah. And what are they, what are they, 15 bucks, 20 bucks? Boy, I don't know.

Also, that's like, who has, you'd have to have Tap. Oh, it's all, everyone's interactive transferring here. Yeah, I got a character done and they had tap. I was like, this is it, this is the future. Here? Yeah. During Cambie days? No, it was just, it was somebody that had a little setup

and she was really good, she was a lot of fun. What did she choose for your noticeable feature? She kind of, I think my eyes and my lips seemed to be like the... Really? Yeah. My juicy, juicy lips. And then were you doing an activity, surfing? No, there was no activity.

Break dancing, right? Yeah, break dancing. You popping and logging? Anyway, we're back to school. I'm loving it. When you went back to school as a kid, did everybody buy new outfits? Or were there uniforms? She's channeling.

She's going back to childhood. She's going to remind Talis. Elementary school is free. You can wear anything. But junior high and high school, we had uniforms. And so basically, the beginning of the season, we would wear the newly dry cleaned uniform. Yeah, like fresh.

Yes. Now, I've never known anybody that's gone to a school that had uniforms. You get more than one or is it just one that you have to keep clean? So like two, like one for spring and summer, and then one for fall and winter. But what if you spill something on yourself on Wednesday? Oh, I see. And then you gotta go back to class on Thursday.

You get a few. Yeah, you have to suck it up, buttercup. That's the phrase. Suck it up, buttercup. You're gonna have to wear that giant jelly stain for the rest of the week. I've never, yeah, I've never had a uniform, but now when I buy kids clothes,

I notice if you go to like the GAP website, there's like a kid's uniform section. And you can just get like standard gray pants or skirts. Does it have like a psychological effect? Cause isn't that the kind of part of it is like, almost like military kind of you're giving up. You're part of a group now you're not and like no kid is showing up in like, super expensive clothes.

Did it have like any effect like that when you were or yeah, I just don't understand the point of uniforms. Like there's got to be something to it. Right? Right. Yeah. I think like, so that like our attention and the focus goes to like studying. Right.

Rather than like trying to look cool with like outfit and like in the morning and stuff. Yeah. But like we still do like, you know, like trying to make the skirts like shorter. Right. Or like, you know or like wear like- Well, you're rebels.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Was it like, how many hours of studying per night are we talking about? Oh, so basically like after we finished school, we go to like another like tutoring school

for like two hours. That's like- Sothirds school for two hours. That's like- So after school, more school. Yeah, like three times in a week. Okay. Okay. And then you go home and you have more studying to do at home? Sometimes I do homework after that, yeah.

And then how do you decide to come over to Vancouver? What was it about Vancouver that you're like? Oh, so basically, for me, I was dating a guy. Oh, yeah. That sounds right. In Japan. A Japanese, okay, in Japan. Yeah. He was teaching English at an English conversation school. And I was also an English teacher, but I was teaching English.

This podcast is kind of an English conversation school. Yeah. Yeah, kinda, yeah. Yeah, to little kids. And so basically he's the reason. After one year of contract, he had to go back to Vancouver and he was like, do you want to come to Vancouver? I'm like, yes. Yeah.

As soon as you got over here, we're breaking up. Yeah, yeah. I've got to meet Byron Bertram. Yeah, I've got some comedy to do. Anyway, see you around. It was nice to see you. You invited me over here. Scram. Anyways, he around, it was nice to see you over here. I feel like I know a lot of people who have moved to Vancouver because their partner moved

or was from here and moved back from somewhere. So that's... Yeah, it's not like really the destination. Like I want to get out of Japan and where do I want to go? It's like yeah I know a lot of people came here because I guess they got kicked out of Australia Man they're everywhere But then like once you start living in Vancouver,

like I can't go anywhere else. No? No. You love it. I love it. Okay. Yeah. Well, I'm glad we can claim you for the rest of your life.

Yes. Graham, have you ever visited somewhere and you were like, I could live here? Yeah. I think like, I mean, sometimes you go to a place and all you see is the nice, cool stuff. And you're like, well, I can move here. But then if you think like, I mean, sometimes you go to a place and all you see is the nice, yeah, that's true, and you're like, well, I can move here. But then if you went like, two miles away, you'd be like, oh, that's horrible. Or like, if you waited for winter. Yeah,

yeah, I remember going, I was in London. And you know, you stay around all the like, hotspots in London. And then a guy like a friend of a friend was having a barbecue at his house so then I went to that and it was like everything was brick there was no greenery inside even the barbecue was a pile of bricks and it was it was just like oh this is insane like there's no greenery it's just brick where was it this was in what the neighborhood what? What city? London. Oh, okay. Yeah, so it was just like where people would live. And it was just like, I just showed you used to like a backyard patio that's got a barbecue.

They don't have a backyard patio, they have a backyard Paddington. They do, they have a backyard. In London, come on. Um. Come on. Is that what the audience is like, boo? You're like, come on.

Talking about London, cause I just remembered what, I asked Graham what city it was. And then, I feel that like, anytime I'm in Montreal in the fall, I'm like, this is great. Anytime I'm there in the summer or winter, no thank you.

Yeah, I have that experience with Toronto. Like the winters there are pretty frigid. The summers are really like muggy. Yeah. The fall and spring, spring in Toronto, very nice. But yeah, I think also you go to New York and like, I wanna live in New York, but really you just wanna live in Times Square.

That's what you think is cool. Yeah. I wanna be a Pokemon. Anyway so yeah, school's in for fall. Yeah, school's not out for summer. No, what's up with you? I went back to the home of my, town of my birth, Calgary, Alberta, was going was Gonna record what high school did you go there? I went to Lord Beaver Brook. Oh, what high school did you go to in Japan? Fudoka

Was there like a mascot like like Did the did it were their sports teams? Yeah, we had like really famous cheerleaders. Oh, really? Yeah, we had really famous cheerleaders. Oh really? Yeah, but all men. Really? Yeah. Interesting. When is there a name of the team?

Name of team. Like at some high schools, it would be like the Tigers. The Wildcats, yeah. No. Okay. Nothing like that. Just the cheerleaders.

Cheerleaders, yeah. Okay. And they would go to competitions, I assume. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Nothing like that. Just the cheerleaders. Cheerleaders. Yeah, yeah. Okay. And they would go to competitions, I assume. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know that was, I thought that was only an American thing. Like cheerleading competitions.

Are they doing like physical stunts or is there actual cheering? Cheer, basically yelling like. Yeah. Like, basically yelling like, like, don't come! Fred! Fred!

Ganba! Like, yeah. Give me a, well, I don't know. You could have put your hair up short and you could have been on the team. Oh yeah, totally. You could have put your mustache on. Anyway, you went back to Calgary. I went back to Calgary. I went back to Calgary to visit my family. And my, so two things.

This is a thing that with a lot of nephews that I have or friends that have kids, I like to be like the uncle that introduces them to like a whoopee cushion, hand buzzer, you know, chattering teeth, like all the like joke things from when I was a kid. They're always a hit, they only are popular for about the hour mark of the party or whatever. I've tried that with my kids as well. They're very suspicious when I wanna shake their hand. Hehehehehehe.

And didn't they have classic like fly in the ice cube? They did do fly in the ice cube to me. So I went to the two things that I got, not that are necessarily tricks, but Pez dispenser, kids first Pez dispenser, Tweety Bird one. How old is this kid? This kid is four. Oh, sure. Probably ready for some jitter juice.

Yeah, I agree. Put some pez and juice and soda. I think he's four. But he, I also got him fake teeth, funny fake teeth. Oh, not like, sort of like, I've seen them that are like hillbilly teeth. Yeah, hillbilly teeth. And yeah, and he was like so into it immediately,

but you know, you have to prank somebody, right? You can't just put them in and everybody knows. So he had to prank his mom. And there was a lot of care going into this prank. And I think for her part, my sister a lot, really. Now, how do you set up, my teeth are messed up. Yeah. I think it was like, go brush your teeth

and then coming out after brushing teeth with like crazy teeth. Yeah, that's good. It is really good. Those are really cute, natural. Yeah. Love it. Because you can't be like, hey, something's wrong with,

because you can't really talk with them in your mouth. Yeah, yeah. And that's, we saw a picture of them, it was so adorable thing but they only had one kind of kid size. They had a bunch of different crazy ones for adults but anyways he loved it and it was a great prank. I'm gonna try to put Dracula teeth in my dog's mouth. That's pretty cool. Try that again. There's a I every Halloween I get advertised some vampire teeth that have a lever so that you press it with your tongue and the teeth grow. Oh! Yeah, they look really awesome. Wow. Yeah, that's like next level if you want to get it.

And then if you let go with your tongue. Then they zip back up, I think. Wow. Yeah. What are you going to go as for Halloween? Do you do Halloween? Oh, I haven't thought of it at all. Well, it's coming up. Maybe. She's just in denial about summer ending. Yeah. So why would she embrace this ghoulish Oliver?

I think the easiest thing for you to go as is Katy Perry. Yeah. I mean, you really don't need to do anything. Yeah, yeah. Ha ha ha ha. Everybody says. You go up to knock on some doors and they're like, yeah, are you? You're like Katy Perry.

You're Andy Kaufman. Andy Kaufman looking. Yeah. Yeah. I gotta think too. I gotta think about costumes. One of the biggest places in the city get Halloween stuff is closing down.

I think this will be their last year dress-so. Oh yeah. Oh no. Yeah. Really? Yeah. I love dress-so. Yeah, so you gotta go down there and get your hands on whatever you can get your hands on. Oh yeah, okay. Yeah. That's a good info.

Yeah. Yes. It's very upsetting. I think they're closing under some sort of duress. I don't think it's like, well, we're retiring. Well, they own the building. I know that. They do own the building. So they're, I'm not, you know, it's not as bad as it could be.

They do get to sell the building. Yeah, exactly. They've got millions upon millions coming their way. Nice. But either, has their Spirit Halloween opened yet? Yeah, I mean, yes, I don't know where it's opened in town, but when I was in Calgary and in Edmonton, I came across them, so.

Because the one here used to be on Broadway, was the Mountain Equipment Co-op place, and now that place, I thought they were gonna tear it down, but now this year it's like film studio liquidation. Oh yeah, I went to that. Man, that was disappointing. What did you think you'd get? Like a camera?

Well, old timey, you know, like Western wear or something like that. It's just t-shirts. There's like a million of the same t-shirts. I went there too. Did you? Yes. Did you find anything good? Yeah, I got like pretty good stuff.

And then like my partner, Hamza, he got like really cool like blue leather jacket. Oh really? And then like after we got home, we noticed there was like slush like knife cut in the back like, okay, this character must have been... Must have died. Yeah. So was it just clothes or were there like furniture?

No, there was, yeah, there was like, it's kind of telephones and nothing, like nothing interesting, just stuff that you would find at a thrift store. Yeah. But the other thing- And you couldn't tell it was like, oh, this is from whatever supernatural.

Well, that was like, some of it was there were so many of them that you're like, well, this must be a legion of some sort of one character because there's a million of this one shirt. Like when the Eminem had all the people that looked like themselves. Exactly. But what I also did while I was in Calgary and it was, see, my nephew, he had like a whole week of party things. Was it his birthday?

It was his birthday. And you're not sure he's four. Yeah, what age are you when you go to kindergarten? What age are you when you've got four candles on your cake? I didn't go to the birthday, so I can't recall. But what age are you when you go to kindergarten? Here? Yeah. Five. Five?

The year you turn five. Year you turn five. Yeah, so he's five. I guess so. He's five. And he, a friend of my brother's. Unless he's some kind of Doogie Howser. Yeah, I think he might be a Doogie Howser. He got tickets for a monster truck jam. Oh wow. That was the best.

Have you ever seen monster trucks? No. A monster truck? Yeah. Yes. Yeah. No. No, wait, that, yeah. And he said exactly same thing.

Have you? No, actually, no, no. So they're like, the top of them is like a regular truck. Pretty big truck. It's a pretty big truck. It's a pretty big truck. Then the wheels are like 18 feet off the ground or something like that. Gigantic. Gigantic. Oh my God.

So the whole thing is them driving around trying to do stunts and jumping off ramps. So one of the- They crushed cars? No, they weren't crushing any cars. They just had a bunch of launch pads And so some of the tricks were like landing on two wheels. Where was it a an arena? Outdoors at the stampede. Okay, is here Whenever it comes I'm like, oh, it's gonna be at the stadium. No, it's like the giant stadium

It's with the the roof that opens up. It's not there. It's at the tiny arena. Yeah No, this was at like where they would do rodeo stuff. And it's so much fun, because they just, you know, there was one competition where it's like, okay, now we're gonna do the donuts competition. Everybody's gonna come out and see how many donuts they can eat.

Oh, yeah, they sell you dozens of crispy. What about, did you wear earplugs? I did, yes. Nose plugs? Yeah, it's dang. Well, there's so much exhaust. Yeah, but it's outdoors. So it just goes into the atmosphere. Cool.

But the thing in between where everybody in the truck got to get a little break, was at halftime they did motorcycle tricks. Jumping off of ramps and doing like, people would let go of the motorcycle and grab back on and it was a competition. I was like, you think these guys have a healthy competition? Go like, hey, Dwayne really nailed it today. Or does the same person win all the time?

Oh, is it like Harlem Globetrotter? Yeah, yeah. Is it like, is it real or? But regardless. Because there's not like, you can't follow along at home. Oh, Dwayne won last night. He's leading the league this year. He's part of my fantasy motocross team.

Yeah. But the weirdest thing, I mean, to me it's not weird because it's very adjacent to kind of a Canadian show business, is after they were done, they had to dismantle everything. Like they had to take apart the ramp and it was like inflatable, but they had to let it down in there, still in their biker gear. So it was like, huh. So they're like carnies. Yeah, like one second, flying high.

Next second, rolling up tarp. Sounds familiar. Yeah, right? Yeah, exactly. Like you've been to gigs where it's like, well, I might as well help clean up after I'm here. Totally, yeah. Yeah, that's very like,

have you noticed that when you go to another country that the show biz is different, better? Yes, yes, totally. Oh my gosh, when I did the shows in Malaysia, it was crazy, so basically, I had to do like rehearsal for like opening dance. You had to do an opening dance? Yeah, like there are four, like female comics.

Yeah. We have to be like. Like do a shimmy? Yeah, like hip hop dancing with like male dancers and just like, like things like blowing from the stage. It's like totally like, like showmanship. Yeah, showmanship, yeah. Different.

And I'll say, that's the beginning of a comedy show, wow. Yeah, yeah, it was crazy, yeah. Yeah, that's, cause like now you just have maybe an opener or somebody just gets on the microphone and says, Jerry Seinfeld. Can you imagine he comes out and does a big dance? Yeah. Or like if you were like, okay,

we're not sure you're ready to do the big clubs. If you brought a song, you're gonna be like, we just have to audition and there's a pianist right there. Shivvy. Yeah. Like a million years ago, I opened for Joan Rivers. She is the first person ever that was like, I had to show up for dress rehearsal. I had to be wearing a suit and I had to be,

they got me, this is a song you're going to be played onto and they had a four-piece band on stage, that she really only used for one gag and then they were sent away. But it was, aside from Malaysia, have you ever been to like a dress rehearsal to do standup? No. Yeah.

Wow, that sounds so cool. Yeah. It makes sense, John Rivers. Yeah, she's from old school, you know. I've been to like TV tapings where you have to show up. And who was the Dat fan? Dat fan. He was there and he like was doing like blocking and lighting at the beginning.

He's like, just so you know, for my, when I'm actually doing the show, my hair will be about six inches tall. And I was like, maybe they care. I doubt it. Oh, actually. Yeah. But like when we do like Winnipeg and stuff, we do dress rehearsal. Yeah. Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like, I've just never heard of having to be in an opening music. It sounds like fun, to be honest.

It's like, okay, we're going to do the big number, big opening number. Everybody come out and do your stand set, and then the big close. Yeah, we're going to do our tribute to laughter. Get everyone in the mood, what they're doing. Yeah, maybe clubs should start doing that. When I was like the very, very beginning of doing stand-up, like it was just kind of the end of the 90s.

And in the 90s, you had to have a big closer, like either with like sound effects or it was like the whole bit was set around a song or something like that. They don't do that anymore. Mostly people just go, good night. Thanks. Yeah. My name is in the dark.

I think what people generally do now is like a closer that if they have a big closer, it involves a piece of merch that they can sell. You have merch? I am making merch now. What are you getting? I am getting like earrings. Oh, that's I've never heard of that. Right? It says you, me. Love it. Love it. And that's that's easy to carry. Yeah. Yeah. Smart. Yeah. Yeah. there was a woman named Sid Bozel and she sells tea towels, which is like, I want a tea towel. Yeah, I don't necessarily want a shirt.

Yeah, I don't wanna have to walk around with someone's face on my chest. Yeah. Tea towel? Yeah. What is tea towel? Like a kitchen towel. Yeah, like for drying dishes.

Drying dishes, drying your hands. Oh. They have like patterns on them. That's so cute. Yeah. So she like, I've never seen one, but I hear that she sells them and it's like, smart. Yeah. And she has her names or something.

Something like that or something connecting to her. Her name is Ikea, so it's pretty easy. She just sells Ikea, so it's pretty easy. It's pretty easy. She just sounds like you. Her name is 100% caught. Yeah, yeah. Well, what do you guys think? Should we move on to some over-herds?

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Or just listen in as we cry over our baker's soggy bombs. On MaximumFun.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Overheard. Overheard is a segment of the show where if you're lucky enough to overhear something funny, we want to hear it too. It's only fair that we get to hear it. And we always like to start with the guest. Yumi, you haven't overheard. Yes, so basically I just did like a debaters in Edmonton and then on the flight from Edmonton to Vancouver, I was really hungry. So I bought like before I was like getting on the plane, I bought like a butter squash soup.

Okay. And a to go cup. Yeah. Soup, that's some dangerous stuff, Yumi. I'm kinda gonna play with soup, because there's a point where you gotta get into your seat unless you have a friend to hold the soup for you. There's a lid, I'm sure. I know, but just, oh boy.

Yeah, and then like, so like, but like as soon as I opened the soup, the first person said, it smelled like food. And the second person said, it smells like pumpkin. And I'm like, oh, that's quite accurate. And then like the third person, like the lady went, there was one time I smelled McDonald's on airplane. They were really having a moment around you. Yeah, yeah.

So like I was like really impressed by like how people react to the smell of butter squash soup. Yeah. And it's also like- I think that would be a good game show of like- What kind of soup am I smelling? What are you smelling? Yeah.

Oh, there's gotta be a show like that somewhere where you like, maybe in Japan. That seems like maybe a Japanese game show possibility because Japanese game shows are the best yeah is there one where people would smell one smell something you know I know yet no I should started right my youtube channel I definitely have smelled oh I hate when people bring like Burger King on the plane. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and that's lady apparently. She's not gonna remember. I mean, yeah, I saw the Burger King I didn't just smell it. I once smelled McDonald's on the plane, but I could never pinpoint it Never prove it. I never prove it

yeah, I think probably if I if I Thought about it. The worst food to bring on a plate would be a bucket of KFC. Very strong. Very strong, very greasy. Erika said it's boiled egg. Oh yeah, boiled egg is, yeah. That's unforgivable. You have to bring that from home.

They don't sell that in the airport. Oh yeah. Yeah, food with good reason. maybe they do the sous vide egg bites at the Starbucks. That's true. But those are, those are to die for. Yeah, and I don't know, I don't know how much egg is actually in them.

I think one. One egg. Dave, do you have an over-ed? Yeah, mine is from, so do you, does it, okay. So my, one of the things that children like is slime. Oh yeah, slime's big. Are you familiar with slime? Yeah, yeah.

And you can buy slime. There's different, like, when I was a kid, slime was like, uh-oh, it's gross. And now it's like a thing kids do for, it's like a fidget toy. You play with it, you roll it around in your hands, it smells nice, sometimes it has a little texture to it. Yeah, oh, it smells nice,

because that was not, when I was a kid it was slime. Yeah. It smelled like a petrochemical. And they were watching YouTube and there was this, boy, what is the company? Peachy Bebe's. Peachy Bebe's, okay. They make, they're a company that makes slime, but they also make YouTube videos of how they make slime.

And they'll do different theme slimes, or like people will call in and write it in and be like, hey, can you make a Shrek slime? Sure, I mean, that's easy. And someone had written in and asked for a Darth Maul slime. Whoa. Do you know who that is? No. Now Darth Maul, no, no.

He's from Star Wars. He's from one of the Star Wars. I'll pull up his picture. I can picture in my head what the color scheme would be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Darth Maul age. Darth Maul age? Apparently I deleted the Katy Perry part.

Darth Maul would have been 52 years old when he died. Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Hey! Hey! Hey! Anyway, so Darth Maul is a fearsome baddie. He looks like that. Oh, I know, I know, yes. He's got a two-sided, what's it called? Lightsaber. Lightsaber.

And so this person on the YouTube video was making the slime that was black and red. Okay. I think it was black with some, or red with some black bits in it. Yeah. And then she goes, and what do we think Darth Maul smells like?

Hmm. I think he probably smells like strawberry Yeah, I mean looking at I feel like I Don't know what yeah, I would say he probably smells like sulfur. Yeah, exactly smells like something Something devilish. Yeah, plus do lightsabers smell? Like any good question like a toaster smells when you heats up. Yeah, and it's burning some sort of fuel, huh? I never thought about that

It's smell like death. Yeah. Yeah or like butternut squash soup Darth Maul gets on a plane Squash soup. D'Arth Maul gets on a plane and you're like, oh man. This guy's sitting next to me. That is so funny. So anyway, I took Umbridge with that. I don't think he smells like strawberry. No, but I get it.

I get where somebody, cause it does look like a strawberry ice cream with chocolate in it. If you mixed it up, his face. Yeah. And then with the horns, that's a little crispy. Well then think of how Anakin feels after he eats a next time he eats strawberry ice cream. He's

like, Oh, this reminds me of when my friend quite got gin died. On his 52nd birthday. Darth Maul died on his 52nd birthday. All the candles that are lightsabers. Do you do little lightsabers? I got confirmation my nephew is five. He's five years old. I thought four, cause he was only,

he's only just this past week turned five. So yeah. Just. What were you going for there? Happy birthday. Happy birthday. What's the birthday? It is September 10th.

I know it was like, it was the day when we did that live podcast at the library in Calgary. It was the day after that. Oh, because he was born. He was born the next day. I just happened to be there, so I got to hold him

when he was a little baby. I felt like that was like four years ago, but I guess it was five. It was five years ago. Because four years ago would have been pandemic. Yeah, yeah, it was 2019. We weren't doing any shows in 2020. No. Right, yeah.

Would have probably been one of the last shows that I did in general. Or last, we didn't do any podcasts for growing up after that,, but I don't know. But I, I like the first two years of the pandemic, I would like fantasize about the like six months before, the last six months of 2019 when I was like, I went to New York once.

September 9th is when he was born, September 9th, 2019. Oh my gosh. I went to London, I went to New York once. September 9th is when he was born. September 9th, 2019. Oh my gosh. I went to London, I went to New York and I would be like, oh those, I wish I could go back now and we're just trapped here. Oh, I know, yeah. Oh, to smell the smells of that, all that. Me too, I was in New York.

Like just before? Yeah, and then I, when the airport was started to close, I was in Malaysia. Oh, Jesus. Yeah. Everybody was like, you have to come back. You have to come back to Canada.

Otherwise, you'll be stuck in Malaysia. That would have been heavy duty because did you know anybody in Malaysia? No. Not even the people that you worked on the little dance? Yes. Actually, yes. That's them. But yeah, if you had been stranded in Malaysia with, yeah, like, luckily you were able to get back over here.

And then, you know, we all just hung out at our places for a while. Abby's parents, before the pandemic, they used to live in Wuhan in China, which is where they say we're at all. in China, which is where it all began. Where they say it all, yeah. And they weren't living there anymore, but I have a giant, like, you know, when you go to Starbucks in any city, you can buy the, like a Starbucks mug that says Vancouver.

Yes, yeah. I still have a giant Wuhan Starbucks mug, and I- Never get rid of that. Never get rid of it, but also like, I don't wanna like, you know, I don't wanna be too political. Yeah, that's right, I don't wanna like, you know, I don't wanna be too political. Yeah, that's right. I don't wanna drink out of it and be like,

this guy supports COVID. Anyway, do you have an overheard? I have an overdreamt. Okay. This is something I dreamt. This was a couple nights ago and it falls very much under the Dave Schumke heading of- Boring. Super boring. But it also the Dave Schumke heading of boring super boring but it also

Involves Dave Schumke. Oh, this is a dream. They had a kid that sounds boring I'm not sure exactly where I was but I was downstairs in a house and You were upstairs in the house and we were waiting for you to finish reading a book. You're gonna be waiting a while, Sarah. It was like, Dave can't come down yet, he's still finishing a book. I'm a very slow reader and it's gonna be a while. Yeah.

And plus, every couple pages, I'm gonna look at my phone. But yeah, I remember, we can't bother Dave because he's reading a book. Any idea what it was? No, I just remember like you were just not gonna come down before you were finished with the book. And then I think-

So I'm not really in the dream. But then eventually you did come down and you were wearing a blue cardigan sweater. Oh, that's very unfriend. Yeah, it was very much something that could have happened at any point, but it was nice. I woke up, I was like, was it a dream or was it a reality? Yeah. Do you actually have blue cardigan?

Come on. I've got probably two blue cardigans. I've got some gray, some, I have a big fluffy, kind of like a burgundy. Oh yeah, yeah, the burgundy. But I was like, it was one of those cardigans that has like the big shawl collar. Shawl collar.

Yeah, I don't have that. But it might look good, like a navy blue one. It's no question it would look good. But I guess I gotta start on my Christmas list. If you got one, it would be literally a dream come true. Your dream? Oh yeah, it's true. That's so funny.

Can you please make your Graham's dream come true of me having this one sweater? Now we also have Overheard sent in to us from people all over the world. If you want to send one in, it's sby at maximumfun. Yeah. Now we also have overheard sent in to us from people all over the world if you want to send one in it's sby at maximumfun.org. This first one comes from Kevin in Portland Oregon walking on the sidewalk I overhear a middle-aged man talking to someone old enough to be his grandma and he's saying they were handing out LSD so I had a little bit of LSD. The younger person was saying that? Yes. The middle-aged man said they were handing out LSD,

which I don't know where they would just be handing out. Yeah, they had it out in Biden's America now. Yeah, that's true. In schools. Um, ever done LSD? Is it? Yes. Yeah?

Yeah. What was your experience with it? Yes! Yeah? What was your experience with it? Did you, was it good, bad? I did like, quarter tablet, like tiny bit. Just a tiny little bit. Like a music festival. Yeah. Yeah.

And was it like, yeah, it was fun. It was a good vibe. Yeah. Yeah. I knew a guy in high school, a friend of mine, they would do it every day. Oh, do acid at school every day. I'm still scared of it. Yeah, I've done it before and it was good,

but also it was on the border where I was like, I could see how this would be terrifying. Yeah. So you can like, they now sell like mushroom and microdosey things. Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. like mushroom and microdosey things? Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You can totally microdose. Would that fix my brain? Try it. Dave can't come down because he's trying to read a book while high on mushrooms. Well, just a microdose. Just a little bit. I don't know what that does to you.

Do you still tiny bit hallucinate? It's, to me, like, if you take a tiny bit of it, it's just like a mood elevator. Like you just feel kind of nice and things are funny. Like super chill. Yeah. And then like relax. Relax and then like.

You don't have to worry about too much. Yeah. And let's do very functional. Yeah and also I think for me, a lot of things are a lot funnier. Mm. Yeah, when I have a little bit of mushrooms. True.

Really, Graham? I didn't know this about you. I don't do it very often, but there's people in my sphere that do, and they're like, hey, you wanna try a little? And look, I'm bound to peer pressure. You're still functional, so I can still drive the bus. 100%.

This next one comes from Julie in Kennewick, Washington. I'm at the mall play place with my daughter. Well, that sounds awful. What? Have you been to like the sunken area of the mall? Oh, of course. Like it's all carpeted and you can climb up on it? That's gotta be the grossest carpet in all of the land.

Just where kids go hang out. Kids, so they're so messy. climb up on it, that's gotta be the grossest carpet in all of the land. Just where kids go hang out. Kids, so they're so messy. Smells like buttersquash. Yeah, smells like buttersquash. That's the general odor. Swish, swish. The mall cop and one of the other moms were chatting, apparently old friends.

While they were chatting, her toddler knocked over another kid, so she lovingly went over and had her apologize. When she went back to chatting, she said to the guy, sorry, just teaching my child not to be a dick. Then later, when the toddler wasn't letting the other kids play on the toys, the mom used her loving cutesy voice to say you have to share don't be a dick son yeah exactly this is come on you're making mommy look bad in front of the mall yeah when Josh Stubbs was on a few months ago by the way he

left his sunglasses and shirt Josh if, if you're listening. Josh, if you're listening, your stuff's here. But he was talking about how he watched Paul Blart, Mall Cop with his family, with his kids, and they loved it. And so I was like, oh, that's a good suggestion. And we watched it. We hated it. We made it like 20 minutes and it was just like

fat joke after fat joke and they weren't landing. Now he's like, he's got a shaved head now. He's like a buff guy now. Josh Stubbs? Kevin James. Malt part, malt part, carp. This last one comes from Pat from Boston. This came with a drawing of what his daughter drew, but it's the the wording underneath was the the joke My daughter bought brought this project home from school She was told to draw a self-portrait and write three things about herself. She intended to write. I am nice. I am calm

I am a good friend. I often I were hoping she forgot some level letters and she did and it said letters and she did and it said it's all unclear I am nice I am calm I am a god I'm nice I do feel like I am calm is like something that your teachers have told you to calm down a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're like, no, I actually am good and calm. Yeah, self affirmation. Yeah. I'm calm. I just took a microdose of mushrooms

and I'm totally calm. Chill vibes. Yeah. In addition to over-hers that are written in, we also accept your phone calls. If you want to call us, our phone number is 1-844-779-7631. That's one. Ugh.

Spypod one like these people have. Hey, Dave and Graham and possible guests. This is Mark calling from Ontario with Kids Say the Darkest. I'm a teacher and I was out on the schoolyard yesterday and I walked past a couple of grade fours who were playing tetherball and all I heard was one kid say to the other your mom's a lesbian well my mom has diabetes it's not a competition yeah yeah yeah exactly you have to one up your friend well I know one thing about my mother too.

Is your mama type one lesbian or type two? Yeah. Oh my god, so funny. Yeah, I feel like, wow. In school, did you wanna have one thing that made you like, I've got the one, and this is, I'm like, I have this in my life. Yeah. I feel like there was have this in my life. Yeah.

Feel like there was a kids that were shoes, they had cool shoes. Yeah, I feel like the, like if you want, if you got something, you know, went shopping on the weekend, you would like, really want to show it off on a Monday. And now I'm the opposite. I want no attention. Yeah, just want to vanish into the ether. That's why I come up with like really boring things to talk about on the show. Like, just move on from me.

Yes, my kid drank some kind of jitter juice. Jitter juice? But what's going on with you? But we also, last time I was here, you had like a Beetlejuice drink, a Beetlejuice soda, and it was, oh, it was awful. Yeah, Fanta made of rotten apple or whatever, like it was a green apple Fanta,

and the bottle had stripes like Beetlejuice. It was a green drink. What was it? Because- It was so bad. Oh! It tastes like medicine. It's haunted apple.

It tasted like chartreuse or something. Yeah, it was like, we're not, not good. And then, you want to try it? I'm sure you can find a lot of it. Cause I bet they do not sell it. With fake teeth on it. Well, I thought I saw, cause Abby and the kids got it at like a gas station convenience store, which by the way, there's now a convenience, like a town pantry going in on Main Street that's not attached to a gas station.

Huh. It's just the convenience store part of the gas station. I guess with all these electric vehicles, they got to read, they got to branch out. Um, but so she just bought a bottle of it. Yeah. And then I was at the grocery store and they're selling 12 packs of it. No one wants 12 cans of this garbage. But yeah, there's always somebody

that's collecting those sodas, like, you know, from Darth Maul soda. Oh, like I definitely, they were selling Coke Oreos. What? And so like, I saw one person kind of see it, like see it on the shelves. The chocolate would taste like Coke.'t know it's got it's got popping candy in it as well And then yeah, they're okay they are a red The cookie is red or the

Filling is red. What is going on? I don't believe this. Yeah, the filling is red? What is going on? I don't believe this. Yeah, the filling is red and white? This is now this looks like a Darth Maul trait. Oh yes, wow. And it, someone at the grocery store scoffed at it, like they're selling this, this is ridiculous. And then another guy, I saw buying it

and I was checking out behind him and I was tempted to be like, you're not gonna eat all those You just want to try I know I just want to try Yeah, they should at least have somebody with giving out samples to the little bite But I do yeah, I don't feel like I need to Have every eat like enjoy. I do feel like I knew need to try every new food. Yeah No, I'm getting hungry. Yeah, me too.

I really wanna try it. And this one start looking like the cookie. Oh, the circle one. I thought you were pointing at me. It's looking like a roast cookie. It does look like a cookie. Yeah, right? All right, here is your next phone call.

Hi guys, it's Heather from Vancouver calling you with an overheard. I was at a festival the other day and walked past a kid saying to his mom, ugh, all I wanna do is rock climb. And they haven't even rock climbed in like an hour and a half. Thanks, off I go. Yeah, once you get, you know,

we get into your system, you need it. Yeah. Have you ever done it like a climbing wall or anything like that? No. Feels like a very Vancouver thing. I tried bouldering. Yeah. Yes, once.

It's so hard. So hard. Yeah. Bouldering is the one where you don't need a harness or anything, right? No. Yeah. And like your, the grips aren't like, they're not,

they're not grippy. So you have to like, Find the, Find the little spot that your hands could go to. Was it hard on your fingers or your core or? Yeah. Both, like fingers so painful.

Yeah. You use a lot of chalk. I feel like on the Olympics, it was everybody was chalking up after every. Maybe that was the problem, not enough chalk. They also, okay, so I'm, as I Google this, it's not a one product crossover. So there are Coca-Cola Oreos and there's Oreo Coke.

Oh, I wonder what would you rather have, a cookie that tastes like Coke or a Coke that tastes like a cookie? Oh my God. And, but this is a zero sugar one. You would want the cookie. Yeah. This is a Coke Zero.

Coke Zero? Yeah. Huh. Yeah, I guess I would probably want the, I think I would want the cookie as well. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah. By default.

But if I was at a party and there was some of that soda, I'd have a glass. Totally, totally. Yeah, let's, I think we need to have a party. Yeah. Cookie party. Yay. Cookie to have a party. Yeah, cookie party. Yeah, cookie coke and party Yeah, all right. Here's your final phone call Hi, Dave and Graham and guests. This is Taylor from Massachusetts calling in with an overheard

I was in the Strand bookstore in New York City when I heard someone talking with a friend and she said no I'm not saying you should stop taking all your medications, but I am saying you should get a cat. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think like, yeah, sometimes the cat, maybe a dog is the answer, but that'll change things around for you. But, um, I mean, I know a guy who takes LSD every day and yeah, I know girl who rode on a camel one time so. So that's the end of the episode. Yumi, tell us where can people find you? Where is this tour you're doing? Fill us in. So like I am very active on Instagram. Yeah. My Instagram handle is YumiComedy. And I also have a YouTube channel

where I upload my video every week. It's called YumiTube. YumiTube. And you have millions of views from your YouTube account. I have quite a bit of views. Yeah. I am grateful. Yeah, that's nice. Cause a lot of people would be very conceited with

their millions of people. I'm grateful I'm great yeah exactly well that's very nice you're grateful love that I don't have YouTube presence at all so I feel I have a YouTube presence primarily as a viewer yeah that's true yeah what's your handle for viewer? Well I don't want people to find out Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's just my name. Yeah I feel like with a lot of things somebody's already got my name because it's a common enough name And so I have to do something stupid to Remember what my YouTube name is. Oh, there's nothing to see there. So well, I yeah sometimes break dancing

Yeah, now that I've made Canada's break dancing team, yeah, I should put out more videos. Oh, you did it for Canada? You didn't defect to another country to break dance? Just to become the sole entry into that, yeah. From the Vatican? From the Vatican's break dancing team? The only Olympiad this week, or this year, from the Vatican's breakdancing.

The only Olympiad this week, or this year from the Vatican. Well thank you Yumi so much for being our guest. Thank you so much for having me. This is so fun. So fun. And thank you everybody out there for listening. You know what? If you're looking for an entry level sport to try out, why not bouldering?

Try it out. 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.