Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 865 - Niki Mohrdar

Episode Date: October 15, 2024

Comedian Niki Mohrdar joins us to talk ancient Egyptian conspiracy theories, Megalopolis, and Vince McMahon. Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook

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 865 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name's Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who, for this first time in the second half of the year, he's not wearing shorts anymore. Boys, he's wearing pants.

It's Dave Shipka. I've been wearing pants the whole time. I don't know. I'm back in denim, fall into the gap. Everybody in denim. How many pairs of jeans do you own? Ooh, ha ha. I didn't know I was going to put you on the spot. So, Gray, about 10 years ago, maybe 15 years ago,

I started buying raw denim jeans. And they look so dark and fancy. You're like, oh, these are very fancy jeans. But the good thing about them is they get they fade They face they like mold to your body and then you get like a fade of like where your phone is in your pocket Oh, yes, are these a pair of them? Yeah, we're pretty new. Okay, and then you know, you're your circular Chaw container in your back. Yeah Famously in the fall. Oh, so choose Chaw and my you know your knife in your back pocket. Yes, yeah, yeah. Dave famously in the follow, so choose Chaw.

And my, you know, your knife in your other pocket. Who are you? I don't even know this person. The blood stains come into him because you have a knife in your pocket. And then, so as one of those starts getting discolored, getting its fades, then I'll buy a new pair. Okay. But I like the fades and then I will,

and I don't throw jeans away, so if they get a hole in them, I patch them up. So I think I probably have 11 or 12 pairs of jeans. 11 or 12, wow! And some I didn't even take out this year. That's like something I would expect like a rock and roller to have 11 or 12 pairs of jeans. Maybe it's eight or nine.

Okay, All right. Let's get our guests away on us. Uh, first time guests here to the podcast. Very funny comedian. One third of the podcast saw for us. It's Nikki Mordar everybody. Hello. Hello.

Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. Weighing on this jeans controversy. Controversy? How many do you own? I don't know, three probably. Yeah, that's good.

Okay. I have a question for you. Do you wash your jeans? I don't know, three probably. Yeah, that's good. Okay, I have a question for you. Do you wash your jeans? Yeah, that's a good question. These have never been washed. These are, I bought them last, I bought them maybe in January. Okay.

When they start to smell bad, I wash them. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. And how long is that? How long is that? Oh, I don't, because I have so, and I don't just wear jeans. Right. Yeah, I wear chinos, I so and I don't just wear jeans. Right.

Yeah, I wear chinos. I wear corduroys. You wear corduroys. Absolutely. And then so riding pants. You also wear riding pants. I wear my Jodh purse. Yeah.

Parachute pants. And so because I will rotate out how many jeans I'm wearing, they don't get smelly. They don't get funky really fast because, you know, I'm not wearing them seven days a week. Mm, yes. Right. So. Well, let's get to know us. After.

After. After. After. Get to know us. I feel like we got to know me. We got to know you very well. Also, it is, I'm wearing a flannel shirt. I'm sweating.

He's sweating. Dave's sweating. I feel the perfect temperature. Me too. I also feel like this is great. I'm putting on the air conditioning, it's October 3rd. What am I saying? I'm not sure I had nothing on any. Nikki, how many pairs of jeans do you own?

Okay, I was thinking about this the entire time. Thank you so much for asking. I think I own three pairs of jeans, but I think only one of them is real denim. Okay, what else? Everything else like? Jeggings. Yeah, jeggings.

Painted on. Exactly. No, cause those are my Levi's. Yeah. And those have to be real, right? Oh yeah, you got your Levi's 501 blues. Yes, exactly. Whatever that means.

That's a big campaign in the 80s. Oh, okay. You remember the 80s. Yeah, like it was yesterday. Yeah, I think I own three total. What are the other two that aren't Levi's? Random, thrift store find, and then Uniqlo. Oh, Uniqlo.

Uniqlo. Do they have a little stretch in them, those Uniqlo? Yeah, yeah. I like a jean with a little stretch built in. I think they can be denim and stretchy, and you can still call them denim. Okay. That's what I'm wearing right now, denim and stretchy. You know what? I feel great, you can still call them denim. Okay. That's what I'm wearing right now,

denim and stretchy and you know what? I feel great you guys, I feel great. Not too tight, not too loose. It is jarring putting on jeans after the first, like the first time you're putting them back on after summer. Or after you wash them, like when they, cause they shrink a little bit when you wash them

and you're like, if they don't have stretch in them, then they're really tight but then, ooh, they mold to your them, and you're like, if they don't have stretch in them, then they're really tight, but then, ooh, they mold to your body, soon you're getting these fades. Yeah, during the summer I wear cutoff jean shorts, and then down below my knee, I wear the rest of the jeans, just so I've got a nice middle area that gets cool. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta.

Okay, I'm just, pardon me if I tune out for the next minute, I'm gonna do an unofficial gene count. Okay. Wilder, Hackman. Oh. The dancing machine. You are host of a podcast this year

on the Georgia straight polls of Favorite Vancouver Things things number three. Yes, we narrowly beat you out and we were trounced by a past guest. Amy Good Murphy's poor little things. I think. Yeah. And Ryan Steele, past guest. It's Brian Steele as well.

And Ryan, Ryan, and Ryan, Brian, Ryan. Congratulations. Thank you. How'd you, how'd you pull this off? I don't know. I feel like we rigged it or something because. I think I'm at nine. I think I'm at nine.

Nine, okay. Oh, you were counting the amount of genes. I thought you were going back and counting how many times we said the word genes. No. What kind of rain man do you think I am? You're a bit of a rain man. You got a little touch of rain man in you.

Yeah, did you get your listeners to vote or did this happen organically? Oh, we did post about our listeners voting, but I think we have like 100 and something followers on Instagram. So I do think it was our friends and family that really pushed it. That's great.

Graham, should we get an Instagram? Sure, well, we take pictures of? This? Your jeans? I guess you can line up all your jeans. Yeah, you can find all my jeans. Okay, follow us on Instagram. Well, we'll put the link in the thing. It's probably ad-stop podcasting yourself. Maybe.

If you've been able to survive without an Instagram, I suggest you don't get an Instagram. I know, but we have a Twitter and I hate it. Yeah, the Twitter's starting to get annoying. It's a miserable place on their ex or whatever. Yeah, we have a Facebook and that's jumping. Oh, okay. Jumping, jiving, wailing, falling into the gap.

It was a Discord before there was Discord. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But do you have a Discord? No, we don't have a Discord. But then when I go to Facebook, I'll go to our Facebook group and it's great. And then I'll stay on Facebook and it's garbage. It's just weird AI pictures.

Yeah, I just keep track of like old friends and stuff. They're not connected to any other way. Yeah. So that's what I'm using Facebook for. And you know what? The class of 98, they're doing great. Yeah. Everybody from the class doing great. Yeah.

Everybody from the class, fantastic. Yeah, hey guys, you remember that Green Day song about our graduation? About our- No murders? No murderers. So there you go. Oh, I don't know. Oh wow, that's, well, there must be at least one.

Or how many people did you graduate with? Oh, of course, there's death, lots. Oh yeah, there's deaths, but I'm talking straight up murder or murderer. I don't know, maybe there was a murderer that went to my school. Or there's time, one could be brewing. Yeah, that's true.

One could be, you know, apparently there's something like 10,000 active serial killers. Oh no, wait, the valedictorian did kill a guy. Oh my god. That's right, now I'm reminding, yeah, yeah, yeah. The valedictorian, he killed the chemistry teacher. At the graduation. at the graduation.

At the graduation. At the graduation. But I blocked that out. But it was ruled manslaughter. Yeah, that's exactly what he got away with. No one on my Facebook is updating their Facebook anymore to a fault. Like my ex-boyfriend got married.

There is no posts about it anywhere. No. On his Facebook, on his parents' Facebook, on his friends' Facebook. And it bothers you because you wanted- Because I need to know who she is. Oh, sure. You don't even know who she is? No. You just know he got married to someone.

Yeah. How'd you find that out? Well, once a year we catch up. Okay. And he told me in our once a year catch up. Oh, it's not over. That's right. He was thinking about that one year catch up. As he was saying, I do.

Know how often I catch up with my exes? Never. All my exes turn out to be murderers, so that's why I keep my distance. I do a one year catch up when I clean out my condiments every year. You marry the catch ups. You marry the ketchups. You marry the mustards as well or you keep them separate? Yeah, I keep them separate because there are different religions. Swedish and North American.

You went to school, did you grow up here in Vancouver? I grew up in North Vancouver. North Vancouver. What school? Seacove Secondary Vancouver. North Vancouver. Yeah. Nice. What school? Seacoast Secondary School. Never heard of it. What about this guy?

You went to what school? Kitsilano. Kitsilano. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like North Vancouver was its own thing in the sense that I didn't really understand what Vancouver was like until I moved back after like doing school on the East Coast. Cause I was, I just thought everything was like North Vancouver and then I was

pleasantly surprised. There's a whole other world. Yeah. Everything is kind of like North Vancouver. Kind of, but I, I, I don't- People wear Cortex. Yeah. Yeah.

People love to hike. It's steep there though. Yeah. Ooh, it's those streets. Lots of hills. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, your calves good?

They're all right. Your family's calves good? Yeah. You come from good calf stock. Yeah, yeah, how are your calves good? They're all right your family's calves good Did you learn to drive on those streets I Still don't know Generation is it is it a common thing? Mm-hmm. Oh, of that generation. Yeah. Have you ever driven, like even in a parking lot or anything like that?

Once. The tractor. Once. Yeah. And I got the accelerate and the brake mixed up and my mom was like, you have to take lessons. I'm not teaching you this. Fair. Yeah.

Yeah. I took lessons. I took lessons as well after my parents tried to show me they're like we're paying for lessons This is not going well at all expensive though. Yeah, and then you have to take the test which I feel twice Yeah, but in Alberta, it's really easy because there's no parallel parking My wife grew up in Switzerland and apparently if you fail the test three times there you have to take a psychiatric evaluation Apparently if you fail the test three times there, you have to take a psychiatric evaluation. That's hilarious. And she didn't get her license until she moved here.

Actually until we had children. That's right. Yeah, if friends that don't have driver's licenses. I hate it. I want to have it. It's very embarrassing. I do think once I get my driver's license, and I will get my driver's license, that I will just never be around.

I also think I will be spending so much more money. What do you mean never be around? I think I'm just going to be going on small trips all the time. Okay. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I didn't have a car for a long, long time and then I got my mom's car. Right.

My wife, she didn't know how to drive, learned, loves it. Loves driving. Yeah. So you might learn and then what have I been missing out on my whole life? I think that's going to be the case. It's pure laziness. Before I was like, oh, I don't need a car in the city, it's fine.

No, I'm admitting to myself that it's pure laziness of not getting my license. So what are you doing instead? Evo? You can't Evo without a license. So what are you doing instead? Evo? You doing an Uber? Yeah, you can't Evo without a license. What am I even talking about? You UBS, you take the bus. What are you doing? I UBS. You stepped out of an UBS this morning. I stepped out of an UBS this morning. I did. And then also...

Step out the UBS at LAX. That's pretty good. It's the best party in the USA, but you're leaving LA. And then also, unfortunately, my boyfriend drives me around. The X Factor. Yeah, yeah. No, he's not the X Factor. The X Factor is who she contacts once a year.

Tell me about this bitch. What is, how long have you been with this young man? It'll be seven years in December. He's been driving for seven years? Yeah. You know what? You'll get your license. He'll probably miss it. He'll be like, oh, I remember when I could drive like around everywhere. Maybe, maybe.

So you have a boyfriend from over seven years ago that you contact once a year? Yes, yeah. Well, he was the first boyfriend that I ever had, and we, all of our friends from our childhood are mutual friends. Right. So we have the same group, so usually something will happen on one of our stories and someone will respond and I'll just go, how's life? And then that'll be that. Nice.

Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, I think so too. I think it's better to have a positive relationship with your ex than to have a really negative, like we don't talk and I would never even say hi to you in public sort of. Yeah. Oh sure.

You're like, I feel like, I'm just imagining what I would do if I saw my exes in public. What the hell, what are you doing here? What the fuck are you doing here? You look great. What are you doing here? How great! What are you doing here? We had a deal, you'd stay out of the YDR area.

Yeah. Yeah, I- You step back in that oobz. Do you have a, like, I feel like as an adult, I got a better sense of what I was like as a teenager from having kind of like extended relationships back then. Do you find that same thing where you're like, this is how I remembered being in high school, but this is how other people remember me?

Do you have any of that? Or are you pretty like down the line? No. I mean, yeah, I guess so. I'm still friends with all of my high school friends. I think that's pretty common for people in Vancouver, no? Yeah. I mean, yeah, I guess so. I'm still friends with all of my high school friends. I think that's pretty common for people in Vancouver, no? Yeah, I mean, yeah. I think, yeah.

It's hard for me to say, I'm not friends with anyone. Even my new friends, I'm not friends with. I'll catch up with them once a year. Yeah, to find friends. Well, that's cool. Yeah, I'm still friends with all of them once a year to find friends. Well, that's cool. Yeah, I'm still friends with all of them. So they really remind me of like the person that I was. But yeah, I think like-

Who were you? Yeah, who were you? Were you a straight A student? No, I was not a straight A. I was actually looking at my old report cards recently cause my mom was like cleaning out her like storage thing. And I was like, oh, I was way dumber than I thought I was. Oh, really?

Way dumber than I thought I was. That's interesting. A lot of C pluses. Okay, well C plus, that gets you over the line. Yeah. I got a lot of C pluses too, but I wasn't dumber. But my teachers were committed to the fact that I just didn't try hard enough.

Right. David only applied himself. I was applying myself and getting C pluses. It's embarrassing. Did you ever have a tutor? I had to go to a tutor. For what subject myself and getting C pluses. It's embarrassing. Did you ever have a tutor? I had to go to a tutor. For what subject?

Math. Yeah, same. Couldn't wrap my head around it. No, me neither. I was fine, I was okay at it, till I hit grade 10, then completely in the weeds. Didn't know how to do anything. Calculus showed up, algebra showed up.

Geometry, all of it. Physics as well, I know that's a separate subject. Can't wrap my head around any number equals this, you know. I had a problem with algebra because of all my X's. I was like, your X equals what? No, no, I'll check in. Oh, I'm so worried that this is gonna be the theme of my episode is X's.

Oh, don't worry about it. Yeah. Well, you pick a theme. Oh, don't worry about it. Yeah. Well, you pick a theme. Yeah, what would you like to be? We don't usually decide on a theme until a little later, but. Math, I'd like math to be my theme. Well, do you remember who your last math teacher was?

Your ex math teacher? Yes, and he recently died. Oh no! Yes, I saw his obituary. Yes, by your valid accord. Oh shit, he went on a worship. He was the teacher killer. The teacher strangler. Yeah, that's weird. I don't know. I guess some of my teachers probably did pass away and I haven't seen. Yeah.

It's really upsetting. He was this Eastern European man, very heavy accent and he would always get mad at me for talking and when I was talking to him, he would say, oh, you're a teacher. my teachers probably did pass away and I haven't seen. Yeah. It's really upsetting. He was this Eastern European man, very heavy accent and he would always get mad at me for talking and without even turning around, like still be on the chalkboard and be like, Nikki, you can walk to Lord, or not Lord of the Rings, London drugs, buy yourself some scotch tape

and just put it right over your mouth. And I always really appreciated his commitment to saying the full thing. You can walk around in your rugs. You can put it in your mouth. To the Lord of the Rings. Most of that movie is walking, in fairness. Most of the Lord of the Rings.

What's your last name? Mordar. Is that from Lord of the Rings? I mean, that's Mordor. I mean, I don't really know it. So I was like, that's pretty good for me. That is pretty good for Dave. It was a Freudian slip, I guess.

I'm trying to get that in there. Yeah, that's fine if you're thinking about Lord of the Rings. Won't talk about that for a while. Freudian slip, it's your last name. You must be thinking about Lord of the Rings all the time. All the time, yeah. You know, there's a really funny far side comic is where Sigmund Freud is sliding into home base

and it says Freudian slide. That was a good one. Anyways, Nikki, where did you go to university? He went over to the other side of Canada. I get it. Is this an education podcast? Yes. I went to Montreal.

I went to Concordia. What was Montreal? Oh, I loved it. I, if I could live there, always I would, but I've heard you need to speak French. Oh, never picked it up while you were there? I did a little bit because I studied journalism and they assumed that if you study journalism here,

you're gonna stay here and be a journalist. Right. Which I obviously did not do. So I had to like take a certain level of French, but I didn't retain any of it. Yeah, Dave also, he did some curricular French. I messed around with some French. Oh yeah?

Yeah, a little bit. See if you guys could talk to each other at all. Oh. Days away. Wow, see. Good work, you guys. Well, how come you had to learn? I did French immersion. Oh, okay. So that you probably remember.

Yeah, but I only know enough to like make fun of it. Right, okay. So that you probably remember. Yeah, but I only know enough to like make fun of it. Right. Fair enough. Do one more round. Brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr brr br these catch phrases that apparently are quite obsolete in French language, like, monnieur or something like that, which is something that people don't even say anymore. But I remember going and trying and talking casually with French people and they were like, no, you sound like an old-timey woman.

Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, you weren't up on the modern phrases. That would be great if you went to an English class and you found out they were teaching like ESL students like 23Skadoos. Yeah, exactly. Look at that knickerbocker over there. You were going to be a journalist? Yeah, that was my goal.

I worked for like the morning show at CTV for a summer, which was probably like the closest I got to actually experiencing daily journalistic life. But then, no, I never was able to secure a job in journalism. Has anyone been able to? I don't know. The, uh, Ariana Huffington, she seemed to do pretty well. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Did you want to be like newspaper, TV, movies? TV for sure. Yeah. Did you want to be like newspaper, TV, movies? Teaching all the true areas.

TV for sure. I think that was just me wanting to be in the entertainment industry and just not knowing it, you know? Right. You had to pick something to do after school. Yes, exactly. I have noticed that so many comedians, like they all studied drama and theater and all that stuff. And yeah, no, journalism, I don't know if it helps me in any way as a comedian. Well, probably. I mean, at least you've got like an inquisitive mind,

you know, like that. When I was deciding where to go to school, I didn't know in Toronto, there was a whole standup comedy course at a college there, which is still exists and a lot of people you know from doing comedy in Canada went through that program. What's it, Ryerson? Humble. Humble.

Yeah. Humber? Humber, humber. Yeah, humber. And yeah, if I had known that, that's where I would have gone. And here's what they teach you. How to make soup in a coffee maker. Do you teach you how to make soup in a coffee maker if you're a traveling comedian and you need to save money? Possibly

grilled cheese on the ironing board if you're fine ruining the iron board. Oh my god. Yeah I mean what do they do if the hotel has a curing machine? Yeah yeah exactly you got to put your soup through the pod, the Consume pod. Are there any comics that I would know who've gone through this program? Oh yeah. Oh wow. Yeah, it's been around for a long time. Oh my God. Because there's a lot of people's entryway

into doing comic. Yeah. Was like. Yeah, I know it's very controversial and people are always like, you shouldn't do a class to do standup. But I did a course at Second City and I don't know, it motivated me to write

and I probably wouldn't have started had I not had someone who was like, you need to be writing every single day. And I don't know, I think people give it a hard time, but I think it can be useful for some. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I think people, like a lot of people just don't know,

you can, they feel like they need a license to go on stage in some way. Yeah. And like, what are these shows? How do they happen? Yeah. How do I get on? Oh, and that was the thing. Starting out, did you have to go on show up, go up kind of shows? Oh, for sure. Yeah.

Did you? Because when I was doing that, there was old, old, old, old yuck, yucks, and you had to show up and there was no signing up. It's just you sat there in a pod and then somebody came over and went, you, you, you, and you, everybody else, see you next week. Oh, wow. Yeah. And so there's no rhyme, no reason to it. Well, though there was a guy named Jose Garza, and oh, did he do well. He was a favorite of the Yuck Yucks Club, went up every week,

that Jose Garza. Don't know what he happened. Like, I don't know where he ended up. Maybe, maybe he still didn't stand up somewhere else. I don't know what he happened. Like, I don't know where he ended up. Maybe he still didn't stand up somewhere else. I don't know. That's crazy. Also, I feel like that's a really good way to create enemies. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And also just a really efficient way

of ruining a whole evening. Yeah. Oh, for sure. But also just doing a standup show is a good way to ruin an audience too. Oh man. I frequently think that, like, when I see a full sold out show, I'm like, I can't, who

tricked you guys into being? Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, you have the opposite of imposter syndrome. They're the imposters. Yeah. No, that's not the opposite of imposter syndrome. This is adoring crowd. I don't deserve them.

I always feel like if I have a dory crowd, that's fine. I don't have, I'm not selling out Radio City Music Hall. Then I'd probably be like, you're a fake. You know, at this level, I'm like, you're fine. I just can't believe that anyone is wanting to spend their free night watching comedians they don't know. I'm not, and I'm very grateful. I'm very grateful. I 100% agree.

Like I used to do standup and then towards the end, I was like, how am I supposed to relate to these people when I don't understand what brought them here? The thing I think most people who are going to see comedy, especially in a club, are seeing it the same way they would go bowling. Like once a year, it's a fun thing to get your friends together.

We'll go to the comedy club, we'll have drinks after. You will rent shoes. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You'll rent shoes'll go to the comedy club, we'll have drinks after. You will rent shoes. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You'll rent shoes to go to the comedy club. But yeah, I think it's like an event. I don't think, because I think people just go to the comedy club. Right.

They don't, you know, they go to the theater for somebody they know, you know? Right, yeah. What's the, what is the first stand-up comedy show you ever saw? That I ever saw? Oh, I saw? Right, yeah. What's the, what is the first stand-up comedy show you ever saw? That I ever saw? Oh, I saw Dane Cook perform at Rogers. Really?

With my mom. At the Arena, wow. Yeah. How is that? I've never been to an Arena comedy show, so I have no idea. I mean, it was my first time ever seeing comedy, and he was also like the only comedian that I really listened to consistently because someone had made this series on YouTube

where they had taken his standup and put like animation in front of it. And so it was more engaging than listening to like an album. And I just really thought he was so funny. And then I had a great time. Maybe if I watched it now, I would be like, this is bad. He was funny. He was funny. He was funny.

He got a bad name because he was like, I don't know. It's cause he got his popularity through MySpace. At the time, people were like, that's cheating. It's kind of the same way like the Oscars wouldn't allow Tron to be nominated cause they were like, use computers. That doesn't count. Oh really? That doesn't count. Oh. Yeah, so it's that same kind like, use computers. That's, that doesn't count. That doesn't count.

Oh really? Yeah. So it's that same kind of thing. You use MySpace, that doesn't count. Or like TikTok. A lot of people will be like, oh, they're just famous because they post crowd work clips on TikTok. They're not actually funny.

But like, who cares? People buy tickets and not have a good time and then you don't get your money back. At least that is like someone doing comedy, like live comedy. The weirdest is when someone is a TikTok or Instagram person who just does videos by themselves and not in front of a crowd.

Yeah. Right. And then how's that gonna translate to a live show? Yeah. And it usually doesn't. Yeah. Have you been on like a show where TikTok celebrities been on or anybody like that? Yeah. How'd it go? How'd it go for them? I think they're usually quite charming and so it looks,

seems like the audience is having fun, but I don't know. I hate being that judgmental comedian who's like, there's no punchlines, there's no this or that. I don't know. I don't think that's rude of you to hope for punchlines for a comedy. But if people are having fun and enjoying themselves, then who am I to yuck very yum? Yeah, but like, yeah, no, as a first time comedian

to be into, you'd do a lot worse than Dane Cook. I tell you that. Yeah, so true. And as a 18 year old wife, you could do a lot worse than Dane Cook. Doesn't he have a very young wife? He's got a very young wife. Yeah, very young.

And I wish them nothing but the best. Yeah, I remember when he was like huge, there was a story that he came to Vancouver, he was shooting a movie here. Good Luck Chuck. Good Luck Chuck. And he came down to what was, before the Comedy Mix, was a Yuck Yucks.

Okay. So he came down to do a set and- Do you even remember the comedy mix? I wasn't around for the comedy mix. Yeah, it's quite a few years since it was closed, but he, oh, I guess it was the comedy mix. Anyways, he came down to do a set, and the guy that was the manager at the time

didn't understand what that meant, that this is the most famous comedian in North America right now. They had some great managers. Some of the best. Some really good at like hiding when it was time to pay you. But he, like he, to him, it was ending the show on time was the big important thing. So he kept giving Dan Cooke the light.

And, but he wasn't paying attention. He's like, Dan Cooke, what the fuck am I? So they cut his mic. They cut his mic, and then the next day it was in the paper. Oh my God. And that guy got fired, and yeah, Mark Reslen, the owner of the franchise, had to apologize and be like, that's not,

I was stupid of him, and I don't think he ever came back and did any other shows after that, but. Well, that makes sense. How do you not know who Dane Cook is and work at the comedy club? Yeah, maybe the guy was just a fish in that bar sales. Yeah, he was only on Friendster. Right, right. A Friendster comedian? Yeah.

No, the manager. I mean, no, I know, but just could you picture? Oh, seems really nice. Seems like a super quaint kind of fun guy. To me, which, what do you think of mean comedians? I feel like there's more than ever. What do you mean? Well, you know, there's this cohort of kind of like bullies.

Mean on stage or mean like in their personal life? Mostly on stage, but name names. Say more. Like, you're Joe Rogan's company. No, he's not. He's just asking questions. He's just seeking the truth. Do you mean like punching down? No, like it just, it feels like bullies.

Like it's like bullies finally came out this year. You mean just muscular comedians? Muscular comedians, shaved head comedians, tank top wearing comedians. I feel like, do you know what I mean? Like I felt like comedy when I was growing up was for nerds. Like I was nerds in comedy.

Oh, good looking comedians. Yeah, good looking. You think bullies are mean? Absolutely, Dave. Point me in a direction of somebody who's not. Oh boy. I feel the high school bully stuff, but only in like a green room energy, not on stage.

I feel like on stage they're trying to be charming and win everybody over. Okay. Also, cause we, when I was doing comedy, people used slurs. Oh, yeah, absolutely. So it's like, I feel like things have generally gotten less mean.

That's a good, actually that's a good point. So I'll get to you guys. I get what you're saying. But I think the way that I see it is like, there's just a lot more comedians who are appealing to different niches. And so sometimes you see someone that you personally think is so funny

and you see them in a room and they absolutely just bomb and you're like, why isn't this, like I feel like people are doing less of the appealing to the masses and more appealing to like a niche. Yeah, cause who would be somebody that everybody could agree on and say like this versus. Like Nate Barghetti, I guess, or someone like that. Yeah, for a while probably Jim Gaffigan

you could probably rely upon, but I can't think of who would it be like, who's just that wide appeal where it's like, old people like it a young people like it Oh Cosby Yeah, we all agree yeah, it's so funny Yeah, have you ever seen the documentary comedian Because comedian Jerry Seinfeld

It's it in a lot of ways it doesn't age well Stan of Queen. Stan of Queen. I think it's comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry Seinfeld. No, I've never seen it. In a lot of ways it doesn't age well, but in particular where he goes and watches Bill Cosby and is just talking about like, oh man, that was just the best. That was mind blowing. It wasn't. Yeah. But we're going to see a lot of that sort of stuff. Well, I don't know if we should talk about, but the P Diddy stuff.

Oh, no, we should talk about it. That was going to be my next question. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Who do you think, who do you think is involved? I got my own private list, anybody? No, no, what?

Okay, so what we know about P Diddy, it's trigger warning. Yeah, first of all. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. Well, we don't have to talk about it. We don't have to talk about it. Oh, cat's out of the bag. Do you have like a secret? You know, we don't have to disclose, but do you have a have to talk about it. Cat's out of the bag. Do you have like a secret?

You know, we don't have to disclose, but do you have a list of people that you think are probably on the list? Okay. This is, I'm gonna go for a long walk here, but I, the worse my mental health is, the more my TikTok algorithm feeds me conspiracy theories. Interesting.

Okay. And so recently I can't- Or is your mental health just such that you think everything is a conspiracy theory? Could be both, could be a mix of both. So I've been getting all these videos about the situation which are really, I can't tell if they're factual or not. My algorithm is still just guitar pedals. I got really deep on ancient Egyptian conspiracy theories, and I think that has just really

set the tone for my algorithm. This is like people, there's codes written and this and that, or like back in the day, this was conspiracy theory about like Cleopatra. Do you think the sun god Ra is actually going to steal my bird head? Yeah, tell me what's an ancient Egyptian... And this is so stupid, but I like to think myself of like a bit of a critical thinker so that I don't fully buy all of the aspects. But basically, they were just talking about how how precise all of the like, vases and different sculptures that they created, like how incredibly precise all of the angles on everything

were and that like a human, no human could do that. It would have to be some sort of like intelligent machine. That is a conspiracy theory. It's denying slavery. It's true, it's like, but if, and people could do it now, right? Like these things, so why wouldn't they be able to do it? Yeah, I don't know.

It was just basically saying that like these societies were much more advanced than we realized. What if they started out so high and it's just been going down ever since? And like, they figured out how to build giant pyramids with no tools or whatever. And like, now we need all these dumb tools and we're not quite as independent as a- With no tools or whatever. And like, now we need all these dumb tools and we're not quite as independent as a...

With no tools. Yes, we've gotten more evolved. We've gotten less evolved as we use more tools. The tools were part of it, but it was just like, these tools that they made were so advanced. Right. We can't even wrap our minds around them. And who's peddling this?

Some random dude on TikTok. Truly, it did lead me to watching actual documentaries about ancient Egypt. That's where the Algonquin was like, she's doing too much of a deep dive. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, the one that I've, I know I've clicked it once or twice,

but slapping competitions. Oh yeah. What are those? There's a, it's a, speaking of bullies, man, is it a place where bullies can come out and play? Uh, it's a competition sponsored by the UFC, um, where two guys are standing at a, at a podium and they each get to slap each other as hard as they can. And lots of people just completely pass out and get knocked silly but if the guy doesn't move, oh you know that guy's rough you know he's tough and you don't

be on the wrong side of him. I got it, I got two things mixed up because I was thinking there's like a trend where it's like friends and families gather where they put they fill their mouths with water and slap each other with tortillas. This is like the opposite of that. That seems so fun, but also so gross, because they're spitting water everywhere. And also, you're so close to actually hitting them in the face, and you have a closed fist holding the tortilla.

Yeah, but that's, see, in my slap game, nobody's fist, there's no fist, you're not allowed to fist. Only just open palm, slap in the fist, you're not allowed to fist, only just open palm, slap in the face. You're not allowed to fist. Wow, I don't want to be a part of any organization that wouldn't have that. But yeah, if, don't look at one of those videos, because then it'll become your whole feed. Well, maybe I want it to come out.

But it honestly, it sounds like, and it's all, do they win something at the end? Yeah, probably. Okay. I've never watched like, It's just one video at a time So I don't know how the tournament works And but it is like it's controlled and they have like a whole team of people if you get knocked out They like lower you to the ground. They have a doctor and everything And it's like that. It's kind of wholesome It feels almost

Erotic. Yeah, it is kind of stuff on the internet. It's almost erotic. Yeah, it is kind of erotic. All of the stuff on the internet is almost erotic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that tortilla slap thing. I can see how that. That I wanna try. Have you guys seen this family that is like, they review food? Say more, cause there's probably a review of those. Yeah, that sounds like a thousand things.

They feel like they're from New Jersey. I believe the Rizzlers, Boo is one thousand things. They feel like they're from New Jersey. I believe the Rizzler is a, is one of them. It's like. Who's the Rizzler? The Batman villain. One of the members of this family. And they're, you know, reviewing a junk, it's extra junk chocolate cookie.

I would, I watched that. It's so great. There's no wholesome, and they're camera ready, and they're... Boy, I haven't seen enough of them that I can tell you any of their names except the Rizzler. Sure, the Rizzler. The Rizzler is a little boy who's almost silent. Oh no, is he okay?

I don't know, but I, you know, as long as this, as I haven't heard anything bad about this family yet. Yet. Countdown starts now. The fact that you haven't, neither of you know what I'm talking about. This is sort of dead in the water. I do love food reviews though. Watching people eat food and then review it is something that I watched quite frequently.

But I thought that was just like a young millennial thing. It makes me feel better that other people are also doing it. Yeah, I mean, I don't know what to tell you. I eat food every day and I love it. Dave, do try and stop reviewing it. It's, this was pedestrian, he says. He says about almost everything.

This tortilla tastes like it's been slapping somebody in the face. Do you guys like that one guy that's like the chef that watches the viral? Hate him. You know what I'm talking about? He like watches the videos, half him and half the... Oh, and he's basically making fun of the recipe. And then at the end, he like says whether or not

he would eat it or whatever. Yeah, yeah, I've seen that. I don't get, I see him in my feed and I'm like, okay, sure. Then you see he's got like 5 million followers. Really? This guy's not bringing anything to the table. I mean, he's just stepping in where Gordon Ramsay left off,

just being a mean guy about people's cooking. Yeah. It's a formula. Do you like him? Is he your boy? No, but I get it. I get why people like them. It's like the videos are pretty well constructed.

I like the guy who's, he just cooks for a sorority. What? I don't know that. What guy? This is the thing, I feel like no, no things are gonna cross because there's a billion things.

Yeah, so true. What about the guy who does the DND dice and makes a sandwich based off of okay? No. Look, I'm getting slap fight videos. I am not getting anything. Have you gotten any sandwiches of history, guys? He's wholesome.

But it's great that these people are doing well on their own and there's no crossover. Yeah, there's enough idiot eyeballs out there. Gotta get off my phone. I wanna get a new phone. Slowly destroying me. Yeah, I keep a watch on the like, how many hours a day thing. And what do you do about it?

I've been pretty good. I don't use it as much as, I only use it when I'm really bored, which is usually standing in line or on a train or something like that. Otherwise I'm not, I don't know. I don't care. When you put your phone away,

are you then on another screen or do you have a hobby that isn't screen related? No, I have something built in my head. I have an ocular thing at Elon Musk. I was one of the test subjects. I'm looking at it right now. And it's doing that thing where it's like, height, weight, age.

What's it say about my weight? I don't think you wanna know, man. Yeah, no, it's telling me no, don't tell. Don't tell. Oh my God. If they had like, you're like a Terminator style thing. If he was, if the Terminator worked at a fairground as like the guess your weight guy.

After he does a bit of revenging, he goes and gets a job as a carny. Terminator doesn't get revenge. Yeah, they do. The Terminator comes back to kill the guy who, what stuck him with the war. And what one? The second one.

The bad guy comes back as a revenge for the humans. Oh, well, the Terminator in that movie is protecting him. They're both Terminators day. Okay, but it's not revenge, it's pre-venge. Well, I guess it's kind of pre-venge. Yeah, okay, pre-venge, we can agree it's pre-venge. All right, Terminator, you ever seen it? Never seen it.

It's, eh. What about T2 Judgment Day? I've never seen it. Do you know what the Terminator is, that you're familiar with that franchise at all? Yes, yeah, yeah seen it. Do you know what the Terminator is? Are you familiar with that franchise at all? Yes, yeah, yeah. Do you know what the Governator is? Yeah, Arnold Schwarzenegger,

when he served as the governor of California. No, he's a journalist. You can't put him as a journalist, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I wonder if, because I grew up with that movie, I don't know if it would translate to somebody who wasn't around, maybe. I'm excited. I was around for the movies. That you had. I just didn't watch it. translate to somebody who wasn't around, maybe. I'm excited.

I was around for the movies. But you had. I just didn't watch it. I'm not a big movie person. I'd like to be. Interesting. I'd like to be. What do you watch? TV shows.

Okay, all right, yeah. Conspiracy theories. Yeah. I, that's T2 is when I'm excited to show my kids. Oh yeah? When they're big enough. Yeah. But I've only seen it once myself. Really? kids. Oh yeah? When they're big enough. Yeah. But I've only seen it once myself.

Really? Yeah. I've seen it probably at least a dozen times. Is it better than the first one? Oh yeah. Oh. I mean, it's judgment call, but it's a better like big action movie.

Yeah. It's like Toy Story. I think the second one is better than the first one. I think a lot of people think that. Yeah. Did you think, I was watching an interview with Quentin Tarantino and he said that trilogy is the best.

You're watching Bill Maher. No. Really? Yeah. Because he was talking to Bill Maher about it and Bill Maher was like, I'm not familiar. No, I would never watch Bill Maher. I only saw that clip. I feel like that's aggravating.

I showed my kids Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure this weekend. Oh yeah. Have you seen it? No, I've never even heard of it. Oh really? Yeah. Keanu Reeves big stuff on the-

Oh, I love Keanu Reeves. Yeah, it's one of his first and he's Ted. And they have to go back in time and collect all these. They're not gonna to graduate school. Jared Sussman These are stakes as high as Terminator 2. Pete Slauson And well, because they go in the future, their band's music is going to stop all war and suffering. Jared Sussman Yeah.

Pete Slauson So the band needs to stay together. So they go back in time so they can pass history class and they have to go like pick up Joan of Arc and Beethoven. Socrates and yeah, Napoleon. Napoleon turns out to be a real shit. The guy who plays Napoleon is would be perfect if they did a live action. Despicable me. He's so group.

He's so good. Yeah. Good call. Yeah. Anyway, they they all come to the mall. They all go to the mall. So like Genghis Khan is knocking down. He's in the sports store beating up a mannequin and then Beethoven goes to the music store and he's rocking out. They've got a huge crowd around them. Billy the kid is running like

Well, the Billy the kid and Socrates. He goes on some ice. Well, the Billy the Kid and Socrates are just hitting on chicks. Wow. Classic. And from a different time, Dave. Yeah. But- What'd your kids think of it?

They liked it. Yeah? But they were so mean to Beethoven. Like, Beethoven is rocking out in the mall, attracting a big crowd. Eventually, all these historical figures get arrested. They get tracked down by the 30 security guards in matching uniforms in this mall, something that doesn't exist.

And then, Beethoven wasn't doing anything wrong. He was attracting people to the music store. I just feel bad for the guy. Yeah For a variety of reasons. And deaf as well. Yeah. Yeah now with that description you interested now I am because I love a good crossover. I love when they introduce characters that don't belong in that universe Oh, sure universe. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a sucker for that. Also at that time It seems like there was a lot of movies that were coming out around time travel. Yeah, I don't think it's ever stopped Yeah, what's what's a modern time travel like you're right his wife is the last time I can remember it being like a big

Yeah Did I see that? It's every everyone has a different rule where it's like you can't change things you can't change things actually, you know Yeah, maybe it was more of an 80s thing back to the future. Yeah Terminator There's like a lot of them. Yeah, Bill and Ted was definitely one of them and then there was like hot tub time machine That came later but like

Looper Looper sure the one that's like the most like scientifically grounded with they use like refrigeration to do it? Good excellent nice nice save Dave what's going on with you my friend besides introducing one of the classic films of all time to your daughters. I'm doing, this time of year, I'm like, you know, we love the pumpkin spice of it all. What's your favorite season? Are you a summertime? I like spring or fall.

I like the mild temperature seasons. Yeah, fair enough. We like the pumpkin spice of it all. We like the spookiness, we like the- You guys gonna go to a pumpkin patch this year? I don't believe so. Okay, have you ever done that before as a family? No, the kids have gone with their kindergarten classes. Oh, okay.

I just, I don't know, it seems like something people do. It doesn't look fun to me, but- No, and you're not even picking the pumpkin, I don't think. You're just seeing the pumpkins? I think so, and then they have set pumpkins on the side that you can pick from. It's like when you go to Blockbuster and you take the video and then I get the actual video from behind the camera.

Yes. But the, what I'm realizing is what I like so much about the fall is that so many good movies and TV shows come back. Oh yeah. Yeah, that's so true. What's coming back? Well...

The new Matlock...monk. Yeah, they did do a monk movie. They did? Yeah, I think. Did we talk about it? Nicole Passmore has a brief part on it. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, we must have.

As well as maybe Nug Nargeng. Sure. Shout out to Nug. The, yeah, you know, Slow Horses is back, Only Birders of the Building is back. Is it back? Only Birders of the Building is back? Yeah. Oh, wow.

Is Meryl Streep in it again? I don't think so, I haven't started it yet. I'm waiting for all these to finish up before I even start. Eugene Levy's in it. Zach Galifianakis is in it. Who's the other person? Steve Martin, Martin Short. Martin Short, Selena Gomez. Oh, there's another, the one that's like

the Selena Gomez equivalent. There's a young woman with Selena. Oh, because they're making a movie. There's like a show within a show. Yes, yeah. But this is also when a lot of the like Oscar bait and fun movies come out. Or just not even Oscar bait, but just like. That sounds weird. Are you gonna go off an Oscar bait over there? Come on.

Hey, for your consideration. In this day and age. Hey, for your consideration. In this day and age. But so playing at the movie theater up the street is. Oh yeah. The Francis Ford Coppola film Megalopolis. Yeah. Have you heard of this film?

I've heard of it. I have not seen it. Me neither. No one's seen it. It is. So I've kind of had heard like rumblings of this movie for a while, sort of rumble fish about this movie for a while. And there was, it's like a movie,

Francis Ford Coppola has been wanting to make for 40 years. It's, it's, it's... Why didn't he make it earlier if he wanted to make it so bad? He tried a couple times and it fell apart. There was at least, like apparently, because Lawrence Fishburne is in it. Lawrence Fishburne was also in Apocalypse Now. It's a very young man.

And he remembers, or Francis Ford Coppola talking about it back then. Oh, okay. And then they tried to make it once in like the early 2000s, but it has kind of like a 9-11 aspect to it. And so everything, yeah, everything that came out that era was something 9-11. Okay.

adjacent. Right. Friends had a picture of it on their wall. Ha! Spiderman. Spiderman had to change a Frasier trailer. Council some patients. It was, ah, couldn't, who else?

Veronica's Closet. Yeah. Big three line. That 70's show had a really big. That's right. Anyway, so this is a movie he's been wanting to make for years. It had a weird trailer for it that it was like... It was on the defense.

It was like, cause it was getting panned from the get-go and all the trailer was like, Francis for Coppola made the Godfather. Here are some bad reviews the Godfather got. He made Apocalypse Now, here's some bad reviews. Were the bad reviews like stupid idiot? Yeah. And then it turned out that

those reviews didn't exist in the marketing and then the poster I should say at the movie is Adam drivers holding a t-square Adam drivers in it yeah yeah okay yeah right he's holding it like an architectural team square. Well, maybe if those ancient Egyptians had that, we wouldn't be having this conversation. And he is, okay, so I went to see this movie. How many people were in the theater? It was pretty busy. Okay.

It was a Saturday matinee, so it was like- You got a popcorn, you got a soda? I got popcorn. Well, I believe it was the place where the soda machine doesn't work. Soda machine broke. Oh, it's still broken? Well, I don't know.

I stuck two beers in. Oh, nice, nice. So I got a popcorn and- And a cigar. And I'm laughing at problem child. So I go into this movie. First of all, the trailers for the new movies looked so good.

There's a great new movie with Mark Wahlberg. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a pilot. Planet of the Apes 2. There's a great movie with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. Oh yeah. From Forrest Gump and Robert Zemeckis. This is a sequel to Forrest Gump?

The two of them and Robert Zemeckis, but from the trailer, it looks like it's, takes place in the same living room. Oh yeah. Over maybe millions of years. Oh my god. Hmm.

Yeah, no that's good, because then they can show up at all sorts of historical events. Forscombe can be on the wall, then the Egyptian, they can be in old scrolls, you know what I mean? Tablets, etc. And it uses a lot of de-aging and re-aging Anyway, so so the movie starts and it's

Automatically nonsense Well, so he sold his vineyard and finance this whole thing. Oh really for a hundred it costs 120 million dollars Oh my yeah, because he believed so much in it I mean I do you got a tip a hat to. Because he believed so much in it. I mean, I do, you gotta tip a hat to somebody who's like, I believe in it. I put it all online. That's sort of why I was like, all right.

I didn't wanna know anything about the movie. I was like, I know it's ambitious. Right. And it's directed by, written, produced, directed by Francis Ford Covillat with help from his son. Oh nice. Don't you think when you're that rich, people stop interfering and being like,

this is a bad idea, so you're not getting critical feedback? Especially when you finance it yourself, no one intervenes, you're not getting studio notes. Yeah. Yeah, I think you're right. I think there's a level where people just like, because people must be working on movies where they realize part way through like, this is bad.

Like we're only realizing cause we film it in chunks, but then when you put it together, this is a bad film, but what can you do? You're in the middle of making it, right? Yeah. Well, I feel that way about Avatar. I feel like those are so big and ambitious, but they're- Yeah, he's like invented technology

just like in those movies. But like they do well. Yeah, they do well. And I went to Value Village and I found an Avatar t-shirt, which I was like, I don't think I've ever seen a person wearing an Avatar t-shirt. I loved the second one. Oh yeah.

Me too, the water aspect really elevated. Yeah. And like 3D was amazing. And it was like, that's when I kind of started realizing that I'm at the point in my life where I don't care about the plot, just wanna hang out. Yeah. Just here to hang out.

And you'll be glad to know James Cameron writing a new Terminator movie. Oh, good. That's how he's dipping it though. He's gonna write the course. But he said like, what's not gonna be, we're done with our switch. He's old, we can't do it anymore, it's silly.

Different story, different story. Anyway, so this movie starts and immediately I'm like, this is nonsense. It's very- Is that when you cracked open beer? Pssst. Dude, I had cracked them open before. When I'm in these, watching my Mark Wahlberg trailer. when you cracked open beer, pssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss that they want to get off their chest. What's one of the things where they're like,

where it's kind of an old man? I can't even. Like they used to make architecture with a T-square and ever since that's gone out. I can't point to an idea in the movie. Interesting. Like at all. Okay.

Not that that represents what I just said. I just don't know what the movie. Interesting. Like at all. Okay. Not that it that represents what I just said. I just don't know what the movie's about. So, um. Is that because you got drunk throughout it? That's impossible. This is making a lesson. So my thoughts on this, maybe take the movie with a grain of salt or a keg of beer. Especially given you stuck a keg in. Oh, this is my dog. Oh, this is my C&I dog. Clanger. Hey, Clanger. Good. So, yeah, it's like Giancarlo Esposito.

Gus Frigg is the mayor of. Megalofos. I think it's New York. Carlo Esposito, Gus Frigg, is the mayor of... Make a love? I think it's New York. Okay, sure. New York, as you've never seen it before or... Yeah. When does this take place? I don't know.

Okay. So they might be in New York. Yeah. And then there's a... But there's the like design department. It is run by Adam Driver. And he is this young upstart who's got this vision for this city, not the city,

this like compound called Megalopolis, which will be a building made out of this special material that he has discovered that he won the Nobel Prize for. So it takes place on earth. It's not. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But everyone, I think it's in the future, but it's also, everyone talks in a very kind of like, the dialogue is very, not Shakespearean,

although Adam Driver does the full Hamlet monologue. Oh no, to be or not to be, okay, yeah, yeah. Wow, okay. It's, uh, you know, some people, some purists would be like, that's a fucking blatant ripoff of Shakespeare. His show. Um, although like they do talk in this kind of highfalutin fancy, seize them. Although at one point, John Voight is like hiding. John Voight's in it? Yeah, John Voight's in it.

He's got some old man opinions. Yeah, exactly. And he's like hiding something under his blanket under his sheet. And it's like poking out and he goes, how do you like my boner? Also from Shakespeare, another director of both. Did you stand up and applaud in that way? But he's got like canceled, semi canceled actors in it. Like John Voight, Shia LaBeouf.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where was I? I don't know. I mean, is Dustin Hoffman canceled? He was mean to Meryl Streep and Kramer versus Kramer. That's true. And then he like touched somebody's butt or something like that. God, if we all, you know, touching a butt, I'll tell ya. Finish that. Touchin' a butt, I'll tell ya. Let's finish that. I won't. And then Jason Schwartzman's in it,

because they're related. Oh, that's nice. And Talia Shire's in it, because they're related. What about, is it Nicolas Cage? No, I was like- Is Nicolas Cage canceled? No, he was related to Francis Ford Coppola. Oh, okay.

He's his nephew. He was Nicolas Coppola before he became Nick Cage. Oh, interesting. But Sofia Coppola has he became Nick Cage. Oh, interesting. But Sofia Coppola has nothing to do with it, but Roman, her brother, like co-directed it. And he directed the- He co-directed it?

I don't know, it's like with special thanks to my helper. Hmm. He cleaned up the place. He directed the Peaches video by presidents of the United States of America. Oh, okay, so good pedigree. Yeah. Good pedigree. That's he also wanted, this was his project while he was working on Peaches video by presidents of the United States of America. Oh Good pedigree. Yeah That's he also wanted this was his project while he was working on peaches. He's like someday in my pops are gonna direct

crazy But about architecture. Yeah but Anyway, so an hour and I didn't know what was going on and I was like I should leave I was gonna leave but then I was like, hmm, I didn't know what was going on. And I was like, I should leave. And I was gonna leave, but then I was like, I'm pretty sleepy. These two beers made me kinda sleepy. So did you nod off?

I nodded off. I was, and when I woke up, it was like, they were showing like stock footage of 9-11 and Hitler. Oh my. That's what they play between movies. The movie just keeps the projector nice and warm. It was, yeah, I couldn't tell you what it's about. I'm glad he made it.

I hope he's not ruined. Yeah, me too. I mean, I feel like that is a thing with directors is they have a thing way in the future, but like the technology doesn't exist like Stanley Kubrick wanted to do AI Ages ago, but the thing to make it just didn't exist yet And he never got to make it he passed away before Steven Spielberg made it and Haley Joel Osment's great and he plays a great robot. I haven't seen it. You lost a great robot great robot

Do you like what you saw though? No. Okay. It was bad, yeah. It was quite bad. But do you think it's gonna become one of those cult bad- It was maybe, it had some Tommy Wiseau to it. Yeah.

The dialogue was that bad. But- Two hour plus, this film? Two fifteen. Okay, two fifteen, not bad. I'm interested in how in this universe, 9-11 happened. Yeah, me too. in how in this universe 9-eleven happened. Yeah me too That would be very funny if you know if a movie started that way and the whole time you're like, what are they?

Why are they all so sad? What's going on? They're not making references back to it. And then I left when I was done I ran into past guests Sean Devlin and Kevin Lee outside, and Sean Devlin knew everything about Megalopolis. I had gone in knowing nothing, and he had watched all these interviews. Oh, so did he tell you what it was? No, he told me about a weird interview

that Francis Ford Cobola gave, someone asked him about like the state of movies and streaming. Yeah. And he was like, and Francis Ford Coppola didn't answer the question. He said, why do they call it streaming? That was him entering into a standup comedy.

And then he was like, yeah, here's a fact. You know who invented streaming? Major league baseball. Maybe he's got a deal with Netflix right now so he doesn't want to say anything negative. Oh, maybe. So he's getting existential with it. Yeah, like what is it even?

Yeah, what does it mean to us as an artist and an audience? Yeah, I like, there was an interview with Ridley Scott? No. He makes bad movies with Adam Driver as well. Oh, sure, yeah. Yeah, what did he make? They made Gucci, House of Gucci. Oh, that movie was so good. I think-

Yeah, I enjoyed it, but I watched it on a plane and I usually like anything I see on a plane. I enjoyed it from purely like this is insane. This whole movie is insane. I like Adam Driver, but I think he picks very challenging roles like Gucci and Ferrari. Oh, he was in Ferrari. Yeah. But I can't remember what the director, who it was, it might have been Ridley Scott or, but they asked him like, what do you think of the Barbie movie?

Because that's what was out at the time. He's like, I don't get it. Like, she's not a human. She's a doll. Why does she go to a gynecologist? That's a good point. But just to do what I asked this like all time director, like, what do you think of the Barbie movie? Oh, I saw the trailer. Have you seen the trailer for the Robbie Williams biopic? No, have you seen the trailer for the Robbie Williams biopic? No have you seen the trailer for the Lego Pharrell? Okay well these are both these are both gonna be good like. Have you heard of it? The Pharrell Lego? Yeah. Pharrell Lego movie. The guy who. Cause I'm happy. Cause I'm happy. From the Grooniverse. But I did, the Lego movie was really good.

Well, it's going to be his biopic in Lego. In Lego. Okay, interesting choice, interesting choice. Yeah, it's a very, all around, it's an interesting choice. Whoever agreed that this was like, maybe this is what Pharrell's wanted to do his whole career. Well, okay, so the Robbie, you don't know who Robbie Williams is.

And you don't need to know.. And you don't need to know. Yeah, you don't need to know. But he was a singer, he is a singer. He's a British singer, was in Take That. And then he had his... Is this clearing it up any for you, is in Take That? No. Okay.

Take That was a boy band. It wasn't big here at all. Yeah. Like they had one hit here. Well, I want you back, but Gary Barlow sang the lead on that, not Robbie Williams. And then he went solo, he had a few hits here, Millennium, Angels, Rock DJ.

Rock DJ, yeah. Where he rips all his skin off. And the music video, not real. And now he's an actor? No. No, he's... So this is his biopic, because he's a huge star in Great Britain.

He was like the bad boy. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, he like came out of this boy band, because he was the naughty one. So they're doing, okay, so they're not doing it as Lego. They're doing it with a Playmobil? They're doing it, but he's an ape. What?

They're doing his life story, but what if one of the apes from Planet of the Apes was Robbie Williams? So he's the ape in a world of non-apes? Are you sure you're not also on Conspiracy Theory TikTok? I did drink a couple beers before I watched this trailer. So the story is about a singing gorilla. It's about a singing gorilla. They call him a monkey in the trailer,

but he looks more like the planet of the apes. Okay, so he's an ape. Do people lose their mind when they hear him sing a song? I don't know. I don't know if it's... Because all the apes, to that point, sign language, you know, very rough around the edges, but he's singing millennia. He's singing in the trailer. He's like live at Nebworth, you know, singing Let Me Entertain You. He actually sings it. I've seen his live performance of Let Me Entertain

You. And they, I think they took it from that. And he says, for the next two hours, your ass is mine. It's great. He's a great performer. He's a great performer. Did he request this? Yeah, that's a very good question. Actually, his wife got it in the divorce. I'm going to make that stupid monkey movie.

Um, but it looks great. Check out the Robbie Williams biopic. I'm legitimately excited about it. There's no reason they should release this movie in North America. He's not famous here. Yeah, but you know what people love here? Monkeys. Yeah.

Oh, monkeys. They're monkey crazy. Yeah. Yeah. So that's, huh. So like two biopics that nobody, seemingly nobody asked for, and also taking a very bizarre angle on it. Yeah, it's like if-

Seems too soon to make Pharrell's biopic too. Yeah, well, agreed. Yeah. Yeah, it's like you've had some hits. Yeah. So- Yeah, he should retire and then a biopic. Yeah.

Yes, or die. Yeah, tragic death. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tragic death would be, that'd be great. Then you'd lose some tickets, you know what I mean? Like they just made Amy Winehouse's. Yeah, that's true. They just made Bob Marley's.

Yeah. They just made Freddie Mercury's. Yeah. Yeah, and that movie was fun because the lead actor was wearing fake teeth the whole time, fake chompers, it was great. Wait, Remy Malek? Yeah.

Oh, wow. I didn't know that. Have you seen it? I have seen it, but I didn't notice. You didn't notice that he had these gigantic teeth? I've only recently been starting to notice veneers, and I think I'm getting pretty good at recognizing them now. Okay. Well, you may want to revisit this movie because it's beyond veneers. I'll give it a re-watch.

I don't think I could recognize veneers. No, I can't. I know some people. Yeah. What is a veneer just like, it's made your teeth white or it's capped teeth? Yeah, it's like fake teeth that they put in, like porcelain, I believe.

Really? Yeah. Okay. And you can pick how white you want them. And some people just go like as white as possible, but you don't realize like a human, an adult human does not have porcelain white teeth. Yeah. Although if you-

Not in your world, where I hang out. If you watch the eighties movies before veneers existed, it's shocking to go back and forth between modern movies and eighties movies, because it's like John Candy's got like, you know, the brownest teeth in history. He was a smoker. Yeah, I can't spot them, but I'm not looking.

Yeah, I've started looking. I've started looking. Let me look. Let me look over here. No, this is a real deal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They've got that light yellow tinge. I dream for the days of light yellow tinge. Back when it was just light yellow. Yeah, you know, I can never for Halloween go as the Joker or anything. The contrast would be too.

I'm so excited for that as well. Oh yeah, are you guys dressing up this year? No, I mean the Joker. Oh, the Joker. Oh, the Joker biopic. Biopic. I've heard from a lot of the critics, it's mostly a courtroom drama. Oh.

Yeah, it's like him in an asylum and then him in court. When they first pitched it as Lady Gaga's in it and it's a musical, I was like, okay, I didn't like the first one, but I'm on board for this. Yeah, cause like the first one they thought that like lone shooters were gonna to attend the movie.

This one, it's all drama kids. Yeah, because it's like a musical and everybody's excited. It's apparently not really a musical. And also there's a big scene in the trailer where they're both walking down the stairs doing the dance, not in the movie. Sure. You can't not do that.

Yeah. Is it just to see an homage to the first movie. I think so. Yeah. And it just looks like a scene where you're like, maybe this movie is kind of cool. Right. Not so much. I don't want to watch it if it's a musical. Yeah. I hate being roped into a movie

and then five minutes in realizing it's a musical. Yeah, that happened with me in a, oh shit, was it Dear? Evan Hansen. Evan Hansen. Oh yeah, it did. Within the first 10 minutes, he started singing, I was like, oh shit, was it Dear? Evan Hansen. Evan Hansen. Oh yeah, I did. Within the first 10 minutes he started singing, I was like, oh shit, how did you not know? I didn't know what it was, I thought it was just a drama about a kid in high school.

Yeah. I don't. There was a like a scene, like a clip came out of an audience watching the Mean Girls musical movie, and she started singing and the whole audience groaned. But then when you watch it in real life, that's like the fifth song. So like they knew it was a musical by then.

But maybe they're just like, maybe it stops being a musical. Yeah. It's just the first half. And then they realized people are like, they're gonna reshoot the first half though. Too expensive. Anyway, I love movies.

I love TV. It's the time. Three cheers. Like this is the time of year for entertainment. Oh yeah. Yeah. Really, indoor kid. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you sock away during the winter and just like- Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've always been an camp. Do you sock away during the winter and just like- Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I've always been an indoor cut. If I could just spend my days reading and watching television, I would be a happy camper. Yeah. Yeah. They are two of the greatest things. They are, yeah. And having a bit of a midday nap. Yes.

Oh my God. If you want to drink as many beers as you want during the day. If you want a midday nap, I recommend Megalopolis. Graham, what's up with you, my man? Well, here's the thing. We are heading into the spooky season and in this neighborhood, there's people like to go all out. Oh yeah.

There's one that I walked past, 12-foot skeleton, blinking eyes. Cool. Looks side to side, blinks its eyes. Some people have already had their inflatables up. Inflatable Frankenstein. I've already got my veneers in. Yeah.

Hey, how you're going is Freddie Mercury. Yeah. There's one guy down the street from where I live that goes all out. Like he decorates his whole house. He has a theme. but it hasn't. All these other people are getting the things they're flaming pumpkin head. I've seen this guy hasn't started yet and I'm dying to know what it's going to be. So exciting.

Yeah. Last year was carnival. The first year that I saw it, it was like a prison and like he changes it all completely. Does a whole new theme, a whole new characters and oh, it's so spooky too. Does he have kids? I don't know.

Okay. There's someone in the neighborhood who has like four or five skeletons. Oh yeah. And in their yard, they every day they change it. And so like today the skeletons are eating like a dog. And then one day the skeletons are playing cards and one day they're like, you know,

sneaking into the, sneaking up the balcony. I hope that they know how appreciated that is. Yeah, it's really sweet. I've seen online, I've seen a picture of a skeleton doing the Australian break dancing. Oh yeah. Oh yes, I saw that too. Now that's an algorithm we can all enjoy.

This Olympics was so, they really caught the algorithm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I still get pictures of people's penises knocking over things. Wait, what? I did not get that. You didn't see that? The high jumper? No. Paul Vaulter. Paul Vaulter, yeah. It hit the bar with his gigantic wang.

I missed that. Well, how did you miss that? I don't know. My algorithm Volter, yeah. And he hit the bar with his gigantic wang. I missed that. Well, how did you miss that? I don't know, my algorithm's broken. Yeah, you're reading somewhere or something like that. You were, that was probably the day your ex got married and you were trying to track him down. Yeah, exactly. Like, gotta stop it from happening.

The whole future depends on it. Yeah, I've always lived in apartment buildings, so I've never really been able to enjoy the houses being decorated around me. Yeah. I live in an apartment building as well, and I make it my mission to go into suburbs, see what everybody's doing. Yeah, you gotta. There's a park that during COVID, every house did went all out

and they had like candy shoots. And it was amazing. Everybody did their house up to the nights because everybody had so much time. So it was really, I love it. I love Halloween. I love decorations. I love spooky robotics, animatronic,

which, when I was a kid, that was enough to run a theme park. An animatronic just talked and said a few things. And now you can buy them at Spirit Halloween. Yeah, or Canadian Tire. Are you going to buy one? Put one in the kitchen? Yeah, I mean, I want one of the 12-bit skeletons, but then it would have the whole theme of

the apartment would have to be a skeleton. But also I'm looking forward to watching things. And one thing that I've watched, which is definitely in my algorithm, is a Netflix short series called McMahon, Mr. McMahon. Oh, about wrestling. About wrestling, yeah, wrestling things. And I've had- Is it a docu-series? Docu-series. Okay. McMahon. Oh, about wrestling. About wrestling, yeah, wrestling things. And I've-

Is it a docuseries? Docuseries. Okay. Yeah. Do you know who this Mr. McMahon is? No, it's sports related. It's sports adjacent. Okay.

Yeah, you know the WWE. Who are familiar? He's the big boss man. Oh, okay. He's the guy who created it. Okay, cool. But his dad created it. He just took it over from his dad. Yeah, but he made it enormous. Oh, yeah. He's the guy who created it. Okay, cool. But his dad created it. He just took it over from his dad.

Yeah, but he made it enormous. Oh, absolutely. And he- I'll give him that. Yeah, he's a bad man in general. He's a very bad man. Not in a fun way. But I've had a lot of conversations about it with friends. And there's something in the wrestling universe

called the Montreal Screwjob, which was a guy who was gonna retire from one league and move to another. And they said, we'll make it so that you don't have to lose the title, we'll have a big brawl and it'll be just everything's disqualified. Who was the guy? Bret Hart, the hitman Hart.

He was the one that was supposed to, but Vince McMahon said, you're not taking the title with you. So they did a pin and then they rang the bell really, really fast. And then that's how Bret Hart lost. Oh, they rigged it so he would lose? Yeah, it was all rigged.

It was something of a screw job. It was some sort of, someplace screw job. But you probably heard about this at Concordia. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Journalism won a lot of them. Yeah, exactly. Oh no, he failed screw job.

Day one. We're going to talk about Shawn Michaels today, so I need you to put away your textbooks. Shawn Michaels, did he win? He's a, yes. He was the winner of the hard rub. The hard-broke kid. And so, I've heard about this story a thousand times.

And like, honestly, it's on every wrestling podcast. It's on anything that you've ever made about wrestling. It's in, you know, hieroglyphics. In hieroglyphics. You can see him being pinned. Degeneration to generation. Right, yeah. But the, it's interesting because this time it's him doing all the talking.

Usually it's wrestlers like him. McMahon. Who's old at this point? He's an old man. He's an old man. Anyways, the story that I didn't realize was the beginning of a new era of wrestling. It was more edgy. And it started with that because Bret Hart spat right in his eye. And he said like in the interviews,

like still this day, I don't know how he did it. I don't know how he landed that spit so perfectly. So, okay. Before the screw, boy. Here we go. Okay. So Bret, the Hitman Hart. Yes.

Was a wrestler for the WWE. And he wanted to go to- WCW. WCW, where Hulk Hogan had already gone. Yes. Where had- And became a bad guy. Wait, what does WCW stand for? Wrestling Chance Wrestling. World Championship Wrestling.

Okay, okay. And so he wanted to go there. Yeah. And Mr. McMahon said, that's fine, sir. Yeah. When did the spitting happen? After the screw job. After the screw job.

So he was like, I'm leaving. He's like, well, OK. Leave that behind. Leave the belt behind. Yeah. But he, well, first he said, you can take the belt. And we won't screw job you. He said, it's his last match. So he said, he won't screw job you. He said it can it's his last match.

So he said, oh, they'll bring in a bunch of wrestlers. It would be a disqualification. And so then he gets to technically keep the belt, but also he doesn't have the belt. Oh, he didn't lose the belt. So that was the deal. But then he did get beaten. Then he did get beaten.

Okay. And then after that, he walked right up to Mr. McMahon. And he said, Hawk to us. Spit on that. He Hawk to us. But from quite a distance, like it he walked right up to Mr. McMahon and he said, huck to us, spit on that thing. He hucked to us, but from quite a distance. Like it wasn't right in his face. He was in the ring and Mr. McMahon was down on the floor. This was a public thing?

Yeah, yeah, he spat right in his eye. In that event? At that event? Oh my gosh, I thought this was at a meeting later. Thank you for joining me here. Sorry about before, I got nervous and I rang the bell. And so did he ever join WCW? What did he change his name to?

Oh, he owned the Hitman Heart. Oh, because Hulk Hogan became Hollywood Hogan. Yeah. What? And he became a bad guy. And Razor Ramon became Scott Hall. Scott Hall. Yeah, anyways, the documentary's very interesting for that.

But then the other part of the Montreal screw job that I didn't know is that after this all went down, Brett was in the locker room and Vince said, I had it in my head and he absolutely had the reason to do this, I went in to be punched in the face. He was like, are we going to sit and talk to him? I gave him a punch in the face. And both of them agreed. It was quite a punch.

Oh. And like he got a black eye. And they had different accounts of what type of punch it was. But I never heard that story before. There was a tortilla in his hand at one point. What? Do you, you're a married man. Do you have shows you watch with your wife and shows you watch without your wife?

Yeah, this is one without. This is a solo project. Do you, Happy Night hardly have any shows we watch together anymore. I'm rewatching. We mostly share videos with each other. Mostly get into bed and say, here's some things I saw today. Good night.

Where does the crossover happen on things that you do watch? Like, what's the genre? Even then, it's like, because of our kids and our schedules, it's, a few years ago, it just felt like unfair to be like, well, this new episode's out, but I can't watch it for like three more days. Right. So you go ahead and watch it. And now we're like, well, sometimes we watch the same shows. But mostly she doesn't want to watch

Only Murders in the Building. Yeah, there's a lot of... She wants to watch shows with dragons in them. Oh, yeah, I don't want wanna watch the dragon-based shows either, but I do wanna watch Only Murders in the Building. We always come together on thrillers, horror or true crime. Okay, yeah.

Those are the genres that I overlap with my boyfriend. Yeah, with my wife, it's almost entirely horror movies. Yeah. Yeah. And we're watching The Sopranos. I never watched this series. Oh yeah, how far are you in it now? Christopher was just shot. Shot by two thugs trying to make a name for themselves.

And he is in the hospital, and he's come out of his coma and he's on the mend. So that's the big thing. Did you ever watch The Sopranos? No. Worth watching. The Sopranos and The Wire, the two that I haven't watched

that are on my list. That's you and your boyfriend should really just this fall make it prestige television. Yeah. You've seen Breaking Bad? I've seen Breaking Bad. Okay. What's another one of the ones that would fall under that?

Mad Men? Mad Men, yeah. Succession. Succession I've watched. Oh, I'm really excited for Severance to come back. Did you guys watch Severance on Apple TV? The underground bunker kind of place. It's like, it's the one where basically when they go

into work, they forget who they are outside of work. And when they leave work, they don't remember what happened after. Sort of a modern fable. Hmm, I've tried watching it, but I couldn't get into the, there's too many rules. Oh, okay. I don't like it when viewers like to learn this.

What? But it seemed, I don't need it to be uplifting, but it kind of just bumped me out. Oh yeah, it's a big bummer. And it's all fluorescent lighting the entire time, which is even more of a bummer. That also reminds me of a job that I had with like in a windowless office with fluorescent lights.

Yeah. So yeah. But yeah, this is McMahon. I've been solo on this one. Yeah. I've communicated with a lot of friends that have watched it. So that's kind of kept me going.

And I have one more episode to watch. Who are your, who's in your wrestling group chat? Oh, Macho Man. Tatanka. Oh my God. Kamala. Tugboat. Sensational Sherry. Did Tugboat ever fight Ricky the Dragon's steamboat in an all-boat? From all-boat extravaganza.

Maybe. No, they were from different eras. But I watched a documentary with them in it, Tugboat and Earthquake, that they used to be called the natural disasters, but then Tugboat became Tugboat and Earthquake, that they used to be called the natural disasters, but then Tugboat became Tugboat, and he had like a sailor's hat and a striped shirt. Surely, yeah. Yeah, where like white bell bottoms, I guess,

was like the other. Oh, like a sailor man. Yeah, the HMS Pinafore. Anyways, Tugboat's a listener, so shout out to you, Tugboat. Keep doing what you're doing. But yeah, no, I don't have an official group. I just have people that are in my life somewhere that have been like, what have you seen it?

No, Kevin Banner would be the number one to you think I talked to. He's got two kids. He's got no time. No, you gotta have somebody who's real degenerate. Ryan Beale? Does Ryan Beale? Well, I mean, we did a- Ring, ring, bell, don, dandy.

For years, we did, yeah. We did a wrestling show together for years and years. Oh, okay. But no, you're not talking to him about it. No, it's, I should send him a message and see what he thinks. Just reach out. I will.

Hey Ryan, in light of the McMahon documentary, I wanted to reach out. Anyways, if you have any inkling whatsoever to learn anything about wrestling, you can watch it. You've kind of sold it. Yeah, it's- The drama of it sounds pretty interesting. There's the drama of it,

and then there's also like a lot of pageantry Right. in wrestling, which is like, if you never, have you ever watched wrestling? My younger cousin used to be a big fan of like, the one that's like really theatrical, is that WWE? There's a new one called AEW and it's very theatrical. Maybe it's that, but the one where they have like chairs and they throw them at each other and there's the heel.

That's just wrestling in general. Okay, yes, I've watched some of that, but clearly not very much. It is fine, it's like kind of watching like a parade kind of thing, like there's a lot of colors and characters and fireworks and yeah, and dramatic storylines. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, and then he became a character. He decided to become a character himself as being the mean boss.

Yeah. Nobody hated him. But was it a character? Well, exactly. He was getting spit on and punched. But then he made his daughter a character and his son a character and his wife a character. At one point she was catatonic and being wheeled around.

That was very funny because she said she couldn't act. Oh. Oh. Did she want to be a character? Yeah, well, I don't think it was a choice in the book, man. I was told everybody would become a character. So, but yeah, it's actually weird because it is sincerely a family business.

It's giant. It's wholesome. Yeah, it's wholesome. It's worth watching. It's worth watching if you're curious at all. But- Speaking of family businesses and wrestling, check out Fighting With My Family

starring Florence Pugh. Oh, is that good? I never seen that. Oh, shit. But it's a bit like a true story of a wrestling person. I don't think I've ever seen it. Oh shit. But it's a bit like a true story of a wrestling person. I don't think I've ever seen it. No. Well, there we go.

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There's a lot of stuff up in the air, but it's going to be a good show show so this is in Ottawa so if you are anyone in Ottawa if you are Jim Balsillie from the movie about black You think he was going to look really able to do that? He wanted to buy the Pittsburgh Penguins and puts them in cabs. OK, so if you are the guy who created Corell Draw. Or you're Bruce Coburn on behalf of World Fund, 56th Fire Street, Ottawa. If you are Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister Kim Campbell. If you're Alanis Morissette.

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Okay. Overheard. Overheard. This segment on the show just keeps getting better and better with each passing year. If you overhear it, we want to hear it too. And you can send it in to us at spymaximumfun.org. We always like to start with the guest. Nikki, you haven't overheard.

Okay, so this one was really hard because I do have noise canceling headphones, but I made it a point this week to not wear them. We always like to start with the guest. Nikki? Yeah. You haven't overheard. Okay, so this one was really hard because I do have noise-canceling headphones, but I made it a point this week to not wear them. Okay. So the last thing I remember was I was on the, I was on the SkyTrain. The last thing I remember. The last thing I remember hearing that was interesting was I was on the SkyTrain and there was a Chinese woman there and she had like a bag

of all of her things that she had bought that day. One of them was a pair of shoes. And then there was a white lady there and she starts talking to the woman as though she doesn't speak English, which is an assumption that she had made, but she's talking to her in the most patronizing way possible. Like really so like, I like your shoes

and like pointing to her shoes. And then the woman just responds to her in like perfect English. And you can see her just like all of the light in her eyes just fade so quickly. And it just brought me so much joy because I felt like such a quintessential Vancouver interaction.

Welcome. Yes, yeah. Where someone's trying to be so friendly, but they're actually coming off as like slightly racist. Yeah. And the other person responds in a very like plain way and they're like, oh, I need to check myself a little bit. Yeah.

It just brought me joy. It also brings me joy whenever someone has the intention of doing something nice, and it goes the complete opposite way. Yeah, my big thing is somebody who's trying to do something cool and it goes, like, check this out. And then it goes, somebody falls or a whole project collapses. Yes. Yeah.

It's like the- Megalopolis never gets made. It's tension building without it ever being released and something in that brings me a lot of joy. Seeing her have to stand next to this woman for the rest of the SkyTrain ride and not say anything and just feel so embarrassed. Oh, I would have moved all the way to the other side of the SkyTrain. See you guys later.

Or I'd get off at the next stop. All the way for the next train. The best part was she was with her husband or partner, whoever, as well, and they had been talking previously. And then after that interaction, her and her husband also stopped talking. You did it again, Janice.

Yeah, yeah. Everywhere they go. Yeah, you're always doing that. Dave, do you have an over? Mine is an overseen. Okay. So my algorithm fed me this guy who, like it was a video of this guy

who does like vintage everything. Like he lives in an old timey house. Oh wow. He's got, he wears old timey clothes, his all of his like pots and pans and everything. Old timey. And he like, you know, brings in a thing of flowers he's gotten and he puts them in a vase.

And we'll take wearing suspenders and shit like that. Where is this? Is it like Portland? I think he's European. Oh, he's European, okay. And then he, it's like, it was in the middle of the summer and he's all sweaty. And he has an old timey tap and drinks water,

pours it into a glass, but he has a glass straw that he drinks out of. And one of the comments on this post was, don't understand why using a straw when you're using your own glass. And all the comments under that are, don't understand why using a straw when you're using your own glass and you know people are all the comments under that are you know saying oh I have sensitive teeth so I do that and blah blah blah and the guy who originally posted was

like no it's to keep my mustache dry and one of the comments- Cause in all time and times you didn't wash your mustache. No water should touch my mustache at any point. And then one of the comments was, my husband does the same thing. He's looking for an antique mustache cup, but finding one for lefties is a challenge. Oh my God. As niche a problem as you could possibly have.

Are the mustache ones like it's a half? I looked into it. It's like, it's a cup, but it's got, yeah, sort of like a panel that kind of blocks where your mustache would hit it, but then water does pass through underneath. Right. So it's kind of hard to imagine, but,

and as someone who, like I definitely Kind of hard to imagine, but, and as someone who, like I definitely, sympathize with this person, cause I'm a person who's like, we'll just try to hunt down the one thing I need. Yeah, what's the last thing you were trying to hunt down? 10th pair of jeans. I bet someone on Etsy is selling those mugs.

Oh yeah, no, definitely, for lefties. Right, yeah, there's, lefties? Right, yeah. No one's talking about that. There's struggle. Well, what am I supposed to drink to? My tea right-handed? I... It's flushed.

I can't get the whole of this. I did remember that I just wore a pair of jeans the other day that I bought in 2009. Wow, same size as 2009. And I wore them on stage at the Halifax Comedy Festival. That's how old they are. Yeah, wow, still wearable? Oh no, I had to let them out.

Yeah, they're wearable, they're patched. They're patched, okay, cool, cool. Blow, my crotch is blowing them out. Oh no. So much crotch blow out, I had to get a new gusset. There was also a scene in the documentary where Sean Michaels stuffed a sock in his shorts and everybody's like, yeah, he stuffed a sock, he stuffed a sock and then it comes to him and he goes,

it was gauze? I put gauze in my shorts. It wasn't a sock, it was g to sock. It's stuffed to sock. And then it comes to him and he goes, it was gauze. I put gauze in my shorts. It wasn't a sock, it was gauze. That's good. Yeah. Does that make it better, is gauze like? I don't know. It's just everyone's got it wrong.

Right. That he's clearing the air. It was gauze. And yeah. And so now I know too. Yeah. I mean, if I was wearing tights in front of everyone, I'd stuff. Sure. I mean, if I was wearing tights in front of everyone, I'd stuff.

Sure, I'd stuff the front and the back. The Pantcrapper. That was your nickname as a wrestler. He's always got a full diaper this one. That's why my intro music is just like, oh, I made another. Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. Do you get on Instagram posts that are like,

the whole account seems to be like, whatever, people, you know, falling down, but on the bottom, at the top it says, what if there was an account that was just people falling down? Yes, please. No. I always get these and it's like, you know,

what if there was an account of just people, of just jump scares or just sports bloopers and it says it at the top of the video and it must be annoying to follow these accounts because it says at the top of every video, what if there was an account that was, but I saw one the other day that was, what if there was an account that was just people crapping their pants. But it had scary music, and it looked like they were just sneaking, like there was a toddler. It's a very scary thing. In a diaper.

A toddler in a diaper standing there. And the person with the camera was behind them, and it said, what if there was an account that was just people crapping their pants? And it had spooky music, and then you just see this diaper fill up. They don't scare him at all. It's just.

Gross. I would follow that account. Yeah. Sure, yeah. But I want adults crap in their pants. I don't want children crap in their pants. Yeah. I want them to realize and panic.

Yeah. Oh, my jeans is what I want to hear. There's a good video of a Scottish boy, a little Scottish boy who's talking and then he says, I've just shat myself. We're a little guy. My overheard comes courtesy of a gang of three girls that were, because there was a holiday Monday, out of school having a blast.

And the one girl to the other two was like, when I say pee, you say za. Pee and then they went za. And she's like, when I say P, you say za. P and then they went za. And she's like, no, do it. Do it right. P za. But it's not P za, it's pizza.

P za. When I say P, you say za. Za. I fear I'm that friend. You're the one trying to do a callers' fund? Yeah, participate. Yeah. You need somebody like that, because otherwise nobody would participate in anything.

That's true. That's true. Thank you for spinning it. And yeah, some would say that you're kind of a hero. Yeah, some would. Yeah. You're sort of like the character from Megalopolis that Adam Driver plays, Cicero. No, wait, he's Caesar. There's Caesar and Cicero. That's another reason it's all like old timey.

Now, we also have overheard sent in to us from people all over the world. If you want to send one in, send it in to SPYMaximumFun.org. And this first one comes from Bart M. Las Vegas. I just had kids say the darndest for my six year old in the top three of best jokes ever. Tulip, my daughter, asked for another gummy worm and I said, if you could tell me a good joke, you can have one. Three bad jokes in, she asked what a good joke was.

I said the premise and punchline have to be related Thinking this was way over her head nonsense. He thinks for a minute goes. What did the premise say to the punchline? Hey, do you think we're related? She nailed it I didn't see the twist coming. It's great. Do you think we're related? I like how three jokes end, she's like, what is a good joke? Yeah. Yeah.

With my nephew. Well, I mean, yeah. That's like the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over. Okay, we've done three, let's find out. Let's, how do we make some progress? You were gonna say about your nephew. Oh yeah, they

Nephew niece they got a hold of the idea I think it was the knock-knock joke was like banana banana banana orange you glad I didn't say banana So they thought it was knock-knock who's there aren't you glad? Something that was the only guy Aren't you glad you're sitting down? This next one comes from Emma and Eric from Chicago, Illinois. Wait, that orange you glad you didn't say banana,

that's like expert level. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have to tell a bunch of bad jokes first. Yeah. You have to say orange a lot. Yeah. No, banana. Banana.

Banana a lot, then you're orange you glad. Yeah, I guess it's banana a lot. Then you're orangey glad. Yeah, I guess it's banana a lot. I've had a couple beers. Emma and Eric from Chicago, Illinois. We were sitting outside of Starbucks and there was an older man talking loudly on his cell phone in a classic Chicago accent. I can't do. We overheard him say,

he was the most unlikely cop on the take you'd ever seen. He looked like Jay Leno. Which you can trust a guy who looks like Jay Leno, right? That guy's an upstanding state of shit. Big chin though. But you know what, he's honest. He leads with his chin. Yeah, that was his thing, that he had a big chin.

That was like his. But it wasn't that big. It wasn't freakish. It was just kind of, kind of big. If you were a caricaturist, you'd go for it. Oh yeah. It was like the jaw and chin in combination. There's something quite large about it. He was sort of a gigachad.

I don't know what that is. Me neither. Oh, you gotta get on my algorithm. No, it's these young men. They wanna have a very jawline. It's very important to them to have a good jawline. So they're mewing. Mewing.

Mewing is you stick your tongue on the roof of your mouth and you're like basically exercising your jaw. So you like cut the fat out underneath your jaw. I don't know, you tone the muscles. It's hard to lose jaw fat. It's one of the hardest things. I have TMJ, so it's always. Too much jaw.

Yeah. Like Freddie Mercury. Yeah, exactly. This last one comes from Angela from Toronto. My seven year old son just said this to me. There's two things you need to know about me. One, I got two butt cheeks. Two, I love you.

That's a Valentine's Day card right there. Yeah, I've got butt cheeks and I love you. I've got two butt cheeks. My God, what if you had more? I don't like the picture of a world like that. One in the middle. There's no butt crack. It's just another butt cheek.

It's just another. Yeah, it's just another butt. It's just another yeah yeah it's just three butt trees. Now what are you gonna do? I don't know man. Guess I gotta get surgery. In addition to overheards that are written in we also accept your phone calls if you want to call us our phone number is is 1-844-779-7631. That's one. Ugh. Spy pod one, like these people have. Hello, Dave and Graham and possible guests. This is Andy from Brooklyn. I have a overseen. I've been jogging before work and so I usually go out between about 730 to 830 in the morning and I was driving through Brooklyn today and you know it's around 8 so parents are dropping their kids off at school people are on their way to work and I see a woman with a shirt and the shirt says this was my only shirt that didn't have cum on it. And she was just wearing it in the broad daylight.

Anyway, it didn't appear to have cum on it. So at least she's accurate. Off I go. Thank you, right? Yeah. Off I go. Turn around. So that's an indoor shirt only, I guess. You throw on a robe over top of that.

Yeah, I mean, that's maybe not a shirt. It is. Is it? Yeah, I mean, you know, I think sometimes maybe you get a party shirt. So you've got a silly thing and you keep it in your... But you know what? I don't mind wearing a shirt when I come on it to a party shirt. So it's kind of a silly thing and you keep it in your. But you know what? I don't mind wearing a shirt when I come on it to a party.

Yeah, do you have anything, not with a slogan on it necessarily, but it's inside only. You would never wear it outside of the house. Like just one that's in tatters. Or I have one that I got from Emily Heller when I worked with her a decade ago that said, I'm horny for Emily Heller.

It's a picture of her. But I don't wear that out of the house. I don't, you know, I'm not exposing kids to Emily Heller's horniness. I think I'm realizing that my toxic trait is I would wear that out of the house. I would wear the cum shirt out of the house. No, I don't really, okay.

Oh, actually, to bring it back, my Dane Cook shirt. shirt Oh shit, I got a Dane Cook shirt when I went to the Yeah, yeah his performance and I only wear that in house In-house because I just don't want other comedians to make comments on it, right? But it's like the perfect It's like so soft. Yeah perfect t-shirt. I don't wear Yeah, I don't I just don't wear I It's a perfect t-shirt. I don't wear, I just don't wear. I don't think I've ever seen you with a shirt that had anything.

Yeah, I don't like little comments from people. Yeah. What does that mean, stuff like that? So I wear- You think you're better than me? Sometimes you might catch me walking the dog in a little mountain gallery comedy shirt. Oh, sure, yeah.

That's just, that's around the neighborhood neighborhood to kind of yeah, sure. Okay, next phone call. Hi, Dave Graham and possible guests. This is Tomas from Dallas calling in with a overheard. I was sitting at a bar watching some Thursday Night Football. when I overheard a girl seemingly on a first date with this other guy who was saying, the girl is the girl. Oh, fuck man. Damn, let me straighten this out. So he called back. Hey Dave, Graham and possible guests, this is Tomas for the first time calling in.

So I was sitting at the bar watching some Thursday Night Football when I was overhearing a girl talking to this guy and the girl seemed like they were on a first date but the girl ended up saying at one point, um, ends, she ended up saying, whatever, whatever, I'm gonna keep going. Alright, so the girl ended up saying, um, alright, oh wait, fuck, what did she say, fuck! Alright, no, no, no, we're gonna keep going, I got it. Alright. Oh wait, fuck. What did she say? Fuck! Alright, no. No, no. We're gonna keep going. I got it. The girl ended up saying, um, so some of my friends, they're short kings, but I tell them that it's okay. So... God, that's fucking, yeah, whatever.

Yeah, have a good one, Dave. Just Dave. Oh wow. Yeah, that was really good. I was on the edge of my seat. Yeah, the ones where people screw up are very special. Yeah, boy, I have another, but maybe it's for another time. We've all been through a lot with that first one.

Yeah, that was heavy duty. All right, here's your final phone call. Hey, Dave and Graham, this is Louis in Los Angeles, and I love the show, you guys are awesome. Hey, thanks. My 11-year-old son is a Boy Scout, and over the summer I was on a trip with him on an island so we were by the ocean and I overheard one of the scout master guys, these are middle-aged

dads wearing green shorts and carrying around clipboards, yeah. But I overheard one of them shout in a commanding military kind of voice to a kid, Scout, your Crocs must be in sport mode. Also, I've always wondered, Dave, why do you say igh before the phone number? And what was the first episode when he said it? Off I go. Well, sport mode is when you have the little strap. That's what I was thinking, yeah, yeah.

I don't say igh before the phone number. The igh is part of the phone number. That's right. 1844-779-7631, that's one. UGH, ugh, Spypod one. And I believe I first said it in 2016 when we got it, when a listener, I wanna say Hunter, recognized that it would spell ugh. So there's that.

Yeah, there's a little bit of history for you. Get in the crocs, get your crocs in sport mode. Always. Yeah. You wear crocs? No. No, I'm meaning that. But if I did, I'd know. You've got some crocs, don't you? No.

Oh, I thought you had around the house crocs. I've got, no, I wear these around the house. Oh yeah. I'm around the house right now. They're Birkenstocks. Yeah. They're nice. I like the color. Thanks. Yeah. But according to the website, the color's tomato, but I don't think so.

I'd say that's like a burnt orange. Yeah, it's orangier. Yeah. Like a Cheeto. There you go. Yeah, it's a Cheeto. Maybe Cheetos are brighter than that. With Cheesy though.

Anyways, thank you so much for being our guest. Thank you for having me. Tell us, where can we hear your podcast? Give me a rundown. Cheesy? Is that Jay-Z's brother? Yep. for being our guest. Yeah, thank you for having me. Tell us where can we hear your podcast. Give me a rundown. JZ, is that JZ's brother? Yep. Your podcast, Soft for Us.

Soft for Us, it's on Spotify. What does the name mean? Everybody asks that and I regret naming it that. But then the other day somebody commented on our, we do like the video on YouTube and someone commented being like, is it because you guys make men soft? And they were trying to be mean, but that was what it was. So we're like soft individuals, sensitive individuals. And then also it's a play on soft being soft,

men being soft. Oh, yeah. I just assumed that you enjoyed a sort of comfort. Soft for us. That is the main theme, but yeah, get three female comedians in the room and obviously there's conversations.

And it's on Spotify, it's on all the places. Yeah, yeah, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, yeah. Get us on YouTube, get our YouTube numbers up. Yeah, is it soft for us on YouTube? It is, yeah, yeah. But yeah, you can get it anywhere. We're on all of the platforms. Find us on our new Instagram as well.

Find us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get at us and tell us, you know, what are your favorite trends, that type of thing, what are your great viral videos. These are things we wanna learn. We want people to comment about their favorite viral videos. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, send them to us. So, and I will say, cause this comes out the second week of October, I think. Boy, who can tell anyone? I wanna say it comes out on the 14th. Yeah, Thanksgiving Day in Canada. Okay. Oh wow. So this coming Sunday, I will be in Ottawa, Ontario,

doing a show at the Laugh Lounge Theater, and tickets are available now. It's on the 20th. Love to see you there. Again, thank you, Nikki, for being our guest. I'll just take a quick selfie for our Instagram. Okay. Get in there, Graham.

Oh God. Me get in there. Graham, your face is so blonde blocked that's the way i prefer it amazing i'm kind of like wilson for a moment anyway anyway in the show um uh thank you everybody out there for listening uh we just hope you have a great fall a fun halloween so come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself.