Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 876 - The Listeners

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

We say goodbye to 2024 with a call-in show featuring the listeners and their questions, talents, fits, and hot takes. Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Bluesky.

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 876 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name's Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who, boy oh boy, if I've ever met somebody who's glad to close the book on this year, it's Mr. Dave Schumke. Yeah, what a dumpster fire.

Yeah, what were your lowlights? Oh my god, my bingo card for 2020? Yeah, yeah, what was on it and what was not on it? It was it we really had everything. It had everything that happened. I got one of the good bingo cards I had, you know, that hot Italian American young man shot of CEO. That was right. Remember you that was going to happen this year and I laughed in your face. I said, there's just no way. But because I thought it was going to be an ugly Hungarian man. Like Gavrilo Prinkip?

Yes, exactly. Like probably Serbia. And I'm thinking, I thought I had what else was on my bingo card? Guy who can't name anything that happened this year. The Eras Tour, you said that was gonna net a lot of money. Yeah, I was like, it said Brat Summer and I was like, what does that even mean? What does that even mean?

And then you were saying I Carumbol Summer and I was like, Dave, I think you're doing it wrong. Gray, I'll meet my shorts. I think you're doing it wrong. I'm gray on me by shorts. Well, if you're a first time listener to the podcast, you may not know. Yeah. At the end of the year, we do a countdown of the best music videos of the year. And the number one is Swallowed by Bush off Raz razor blade suitcase. Do you think when Gwen Stefani and Gavin, what is his name?

Gavin? Rossdale. Rossdale. Were they religious? Because now she's religious. Is she religious or is she religious for money? Oh, pray for pay they would call. Well, I've never heard her say anything about God until I saw that ad

for the it's like a praying app. Yeah, it's an air fryer of prayer. And it's a prayer fryer. Yeah, anyways, that was it. That was on my bingo card was Gwen Stefani coming out as a fundamentalist. Well, I don't know actually what sect she belongs to. She could be a Calvinist. Where are the Stefanis from? I'm guessing probably Catholic. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The Stefanis. Yeah. Sounds like an Italian name. Yeah.

She loved a pope. I had a pope summer. That was the crazy thing about me. I wore a big hat everywhere. When Stefani goes to confession, what does she confess? Ah, that she's walking the spider webs. The Pope, the priest is like, don't speak. I like the idea that you would be doing confession to the Pope. That would be big time.

Yeah. Best confession of the year. Hope it's been Whatever a long time since my last confession. I said the s-word in that banana song I want to confess that I'm feeling hella good I want to confess that I wore braces Just for the aesthetics What do you feel will be the Pope's because he reveals at the end of the year his 10 top confessions. Well, first of all, Gwen Stefani confessing, wearing that Indian thing on her forehead. Not cool. Also, what were the...

Cool time. We didn't know. We didn't know, exactly. We were just learning about other cultures at the end her boyfriend was Indian that's right and She was her joku girls that who she hung out with yeah, that was also racial appropriation. Yeah. Yeah We you know what she's she's doing great her and her husband glurb glops and and Did they get married? Yeah. Oh, I don't know. I assume if they're hardcore Christians, they must be living in sin.

Is he hardcore Christian? I think so. I think, I think that's what she said. She said, just very important to us. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Big faith going on. Okay. Well.

Big faith energy. It's the last week of the year. And this is the time of year when we have the listeners call in, the listeners are the guests. Do we wanna get to know them? I would love to. Get to know us. And that means, well, our keener listeners.

Can you see the waiting room, Graham? Or is it only visible to me? I got the two. Yeah, we got that. We got three folks waiting in the waiting room. Do we want to get to them? Hell yeah. I have a running joke I'm going to do.

OK, this is fun. I don't know if I'll announce it. This is going to pop up in my third screen is what I'm that's what I'm looking at There's my screen. There's me you and then Dave Schumke too. Is that what I did? I'm good too is my alter ego. Okay Tours around the country doing your act. He's the one recording this on the other computer and So I'm gonna let our first guest in I just need to check who is our first guest. It's a person whose name is Scott and Scott is going to join us right about now.

The funk soul brother. Scott, are you there? Scott, are you there? Scott, Scott, are you there? I'm here. I'm here. Hey, Scott, where's show us your camera. Don't be shy. I know it's just it's like spiraling.

I'm trying to turn it on, but it's not. It's spiral. There it is. There it is. It's like doing the little circle. Oh, I'm spiraling. Scott, how's it going? Where are you calling us from? I'm calling in from Austin, Texas. Oh, home of Kiltoni. Yeah, Rogan country.

Yeah, mothership. Keep it weird. Oh yeah. Any day of the week, you can go and watch a Burke Kreischer or a Tony Hinchcliffe. You could just stroll down there tonight, as a matter of fact, and just go see. That is true. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of comedy clubs. I have to admit I have been to the mothership once. It was it was pretty cool. But yeah, what's what was your favorite thing about the mothership?

Um, just the vibe. No, that's probably not my favorite. My least favorite thing about the mothership would be the vibe. Uh, I mean, the bodyguards all seem like they're ex-marines. It's a very intimidating place, but I felt very safe. I don't know. I don't go to a lot of comedy shows. So it was just, it was, it was, it was cool to be there.

But, it's nice to know you could, if you wanted to. Exactly. For people who aren't plugged into the scene, the mothership is the like Joe Rogan. Is it a comedy club or is it like, where does he, is it where he does his podcast? It's comedy club right?

Yeah it's just a comedy club yeah. Um that's great and thanks for calling Scott. Um where? Thanks for updating us about the mothership bye. I know I feel so awful that that's what I'm talking about. How long have you lived? I promise I'm not. How long have you lived in Austin?

Um since March so coming up on on a year so I'm pretty near still. Anniversary. So I'm pretty new. Hey, anniversary. Yeah, I can't. Not yet, I guess. Four months from now. In a few months. Yeah. Well, where did you relocate from?

Where did you move from? I was in San Francisco before that. Nice. Yeah. Are you one of these tech bros I hear so much about? No, I mean, I work at a tech company, but I'm not an engineer, so I just. I just do a PR for the tech bros. Oh yeah, they've got good PR this year.

Hmm, oh yeah, yeah. Sounds a great PR from the tech bros. What's the top? What's the big tech story this year? I know that one guy. Like had a an offering for Hawk to a coin and then that went Yeah, I went sideways pretty quick. There was that I mean, I think just a lot of AI everywhere All taking all our jobs, you know, they I just come in for everything

Yeah, I was talking to this little boy and he was like AI AI Carumba. Oh yeah, who is that kid again? He had sort of a Bart Summer. Now, Scott, what do you have under there? Underwear. Yes, one for one. I can see, I see the recurring bit, the birth of. Now Scott, did you have a question? Did you have a talent? Did you have a hot take or do you want to show off your outfit? No I no

talents no hot takes. Man I swear I racked my brain and I like listened to the listener episode last from last year and I was just like these people were so impressive and so charming and I had no smart things to say like they did. I guess I had a stupid question, which is just like a total softball, but I am curious, like, well, maybe I have two. One is extremely mundane, but the first one that's the softball is I guess, um, like, do you guys ever look back on the naming of stop podcasting yourself? And like, I feel like you've talked about it a few times on the show.

Like it's not a very different name. 10 out of 10 no notes. 10 out of 10 no notes. It's perfect then it's perfect now. Yeah, we do regret it deeply, but it's not like it's just a bad name. It's not like offensive to anyone. So that's good. Except the podcasting community,

which we're imploring them to stop. It's a... Yeah, I suppose we are. Do we look back? Yeah, Graham and I have a little private time every week. And we say, I wish we had. We put our hands in a circle. Do you remember if we had any other names, Graham?

When I thought it was gonna be a thing that we did for five episodes, I wanted to call it the Faustino Factor. Bill O'Reilly was still in the air and Dave Faustino is my favorite young Hollywood guy who's still kind of hanging around out there in LA. And so I thought it was funny to just have that be a name, but I didn't think that it would go more than five episodes So it's good that we didn't name it the Faustino factor. I feel like we maybe had the idea of calling it Was it gonna be the original title of mr. Show was gonna be Grand National Championships or something? Oh, yeah, and so I think we we bandied around the idea. Well, if they're not gonna use it, maybe we can. And I also thought at the time, it's stupid now,

but that we, one of the ones on the table was the Joe Rogan experience. And that was just gonna be us two talking about it. It was crazy, like that he would come along and have that name for his show, but looking back that it's more of a fit for him. Was he already he was already doing Fear Factor then yeah? Oh yeah we had been he feared the nation and

we all reap the benefits of early bug eating and they really kind of people only remember the bug eating and like being you know put in a coffin full of spiders or whatever. Yeah. But was there like people getting dropped off a building? I watched a clip recently where it was people jumping out of a window at like the, like a famous Hollywood hotel and they were, you know, attached to a bungee kind of thing or like somebody would let them down slow. But the thing that struck me was how trash talky

everybody was, knowing that they would, their turn would be coming up and it would also be scary for them. So if anything, Joe Rogan was kind of the sensible second thought. He was like, come on, guys. That's not scary to me. I guess that's what- Don't forget a window?

Yeah, if I have a thing on, if I'm wearing a harness. I don't know that that guy knows what he's doing, you know? Him and Joe could have been doing psychedelics early in the morning, you know? It's always a risk. It's always a risk whenever you're jumping out a hotel window, no matter how well. Scott, you said you might have a second question. Yeah, this one's just in my own head, Cannon. Whenever I hear the intro to the podcast, there's like, there's a moment where Graham introduces, he introduces you, right?

And you do this little chuckle and I always in my head Canon thought that maybe Graham did that off the cuff and you weren't expecting it, that it was a true surprise moment during recording that is now the intro. So I would just love to scratch that itch in my mind And I was that planned. I want to know what headcanon. Yeah, I want to hear more about a headcanon I thought way too much about that intro like your last listener It's like what do you have a question? It's how medieval Kurt Cobain ended it all. Oh, that's right oh my god, I had um the uh

I think we're I'm I don't know if I'm laughing. I think we had probably recorded it five or six times and I'm doing like a fake like game show host kind of smiley laughing thing and you know what we're a couple of silly guys. I was just wobbling my head back and forth trying to do the game show guy and I spilled coffee everywhere Class a game Joe. It just sounds so natural. I will say I mean but I Guess okay. So it was it was in and now I almost feel like I wish I hadn't asked now It's taking a little wonder out of it. Oh, well, you know what you can always just get back into your head can and Solitude yeah. Well Scott, know what? You can always just get back into your head, Ken, of solitude. Yeah. Well, Scott, how do you feel this went?

Awful. I mean, I ended up talking a lot. Like, you guys could totally cut this one. I hate to talk to my co-rogan. We can't. You're the first caller. There's no way we can't cut around it and go right to the second caller.

Yeah, we're calling number one. Yeah. Line one. I've been nervous all day. I was like up laying in bed, trying to think of a better question, but the name one, I thought that was- That was good.

Yeah, that was good. That was a peek behind the curtain. Scott, I think you did a really good job. You know what? It's sort of like when someone is on Jeopardy and they ring in before they know the answer, but like ringing in is the most important thing and they're just sitting there and they're like,

uh, why'd you name your show Jeopardy? My head cannon. What is my head cannon? Graham, do you think Josh Stubbs would mind if I used his shirt to clean up this coffee? Probably not. Okay. Well, we're going to have to let you go, but thanks for this ice. Great. Appreciate it. All right. Have a good one. Bye. Okay, well, we're gonna have to let you go, but thanks for this. Thanks, guys.

It went great. Appreciate it. All right, have a good one. Bye. You too. I have to remember how to get people out of the show. Okay. Off and running, off and running with Scott.

Yeah. First caller down. You ready for the next? You know I am. And let me just open this up, and his name name or the caller's name is Dan. Dan, everybody, please welcome to the show Dan. It's a good name, solid name. Short.

Short, yeah. Same two letters starting your name, his name. Oh, DS, same initials too. There you go. Yeah, well, if he ever turns on his microphone and turns on his camera, boy, we'll meet this guy asleep at the switch. Yeah, there is there's Dennis. Hey, Dave. How's it going? Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. It's important to note right off the bat that there's not one but two guitars hanging behind your on the wall. One one small one big Is the small one an ukulele?

It is the baritone ukulele. It's my it's my it's my wife's. Oh, and it's drone left handed. So I never really play it. But is that what first attracted you to her? Was her ability to left hand ukulele? To let I mean, one of many things. I don't know. She doesn't play it that much, to be honest.

Oh, I'm throwing shade and she might. Yeah, yeah. To this. Oh, it is one of the things that attracted me. Her radiant beauty beauty. Oh, no. Oh, no. This is already gone down the toilet, isn't it?

And where are you calling from? Thanks, Dave. I'm calling from Victoria, British Columbia. Oh, man! Dave's alma mater. I go there. Well, I never go there anymore. Graham goes there sometimes. He goes there every four years to do his university, I guess.

Yeah, to get my... I got to get re-accredited. Oh, wow. So I didn't know that's how that went. It is. It's a weird wrinkle here in Vancouver law. Anyways, what do you do in Victoria, B.C.? Right now, I'm mostly a stay at home dad, but I'm a part time carpenter, I guess. Like Jesus.

Stay at home. Yeah, he really was a part time carpenter though, right? Like, yeah, all the other business done. You can't be working on big projects like that's true. They are building. That's true. Take a lot of time off. Yeah, he kind of got to, you know, make a schedule. Yeah, and he got it.

He took a gap year there for a year and back backed around, spread the good word. Within the good word within the good life Well, you know what It is the reason for the season Dan also has a beard listener. Yeah, and Dan do you sometimes wear glasses? I Do sometimes wear all right? Yes Dan, do you sometimes wear glasses? I do sometimes wear glasses. All right. That's the full DS. Just like Jesus. Yeah, there's a lot of parallels between me and Jesus.

We stick Mata that develop. Oh, no. You got to go to your, what do you call it, dermatologist, I guess, if you've got stigmata. You want to take a look at that. I think it would be good if you wanted like a class action lawsuit against M&Ms Because they melt in your mouth not in your hand if you had stigmata you could be like

Through my hand these things look at these guys they melted right through my hand. Yeah, yeah Your honor now Dan just what do you have under there? underwear Now, Dan, just what do you have under there? Underwear. Yeah. To produce. Oh, whoa. That was very smooth. I didn't even see it coming. I have a feeling I'm going to have a really high percentage today. Yeah. Grammy asked or maybe Dave asked you asked how old my kid was.

I always your baby. She's two and a half. OK, nice. She's running circles around you. She's chatting up a storm. Oh, man, she has so much energy and. Do I even bring this up? My daughter's name is also Margo.

Oh, a DS with a Margo. OK. So originally, when we were like coming up with names, I was not against Marco, but it wasn't the top of my list just because listening to the podcast, I get an unfair amount of Margo stories. So I thought the name was more common than it is. Right. Right. So I was like, well, I don't want, you know, I don't want because naming a kid is mostly about you and how unique it is. Right. So I was like, well, I don't want, you know, I don't want because naming a kid is mostly about you and how unique it is. Right. Like it. And you wanted a combination between Margaret and Asgargo.

And you were like, how can I make this work together? I like I know. I know many Margo's now I know Dave's daughter, Margo Kidder, Margo Robbie. Yeah. Yeah. Martindale. What goes on? How do you spell it? M.A.R.G.O.T. That's the way to go.

So we used to live down by Ross Bay Cemetery, which is like a really old cemetery along the water in Victoria. And you know what? We walk through it. I wish they had a lot of new cemeteries. I want some modern cemeteries with a lot of steel and glass graves.

And some corrugated siding and stuff like that. Only people who have died like 2000 and later. And like on the bottom floor is a freshy and the top five floors are dead bodies. They all have dead bodies. That's the, they look like, my wife always says those new houses look like dentist office.

So, you know, you get like a dentist office looking like mausoleum. Yeah. Your cemetery is what you're looking for. So we would walk the cemetery and all the time anyway, just because we lived by it. That's a nice park, basically. But we'd look for old names, like more names on cemeteries, right? Because then are in gravestones. So maybe we find in or Loki these type of names. Marcus Aurelius.

Yes. Yeah. Oh, good. And even going and even go out. That's where I was gonna go. But then, but you'd be surprised, like, because it's Yeah, and even going and even go out that's where I was going to go in the end. But then, but you'd be surprised, like, because it's like eighteen hundreds, late eighteen hundreds, really nineteen hundreds, a lot of a lot of John's, a lot of Williams and a lot of Roberts, if you're a guy. Basically, those are your only options. If you're a white guy in that time. Yeah, for me, the best time was whenever they were naming

me, whenever they were naming guys, Gaylord, that was the best time. That was that was a peak naming. Yeah. So we never found anything. And it's a good name. So if you didn't want to call your kid headstone or grave or anything like that, like this has been staring us in the eye the whole time. Dan, did you have a question or anything?

So. Like, I don't know when it was you were in one episode of the podcast, you referred to these weird emails you get of you got a few of them that were formatted the same of like, I'm so if you're looking for an exciting podcast, yes, I'm so and so. And I can tell you about I've been in the waste management business for 11 years. I was just excited to dumpster. This is the common sizes of dumpsters. Yes. And in my email, I alluded to something like that just because I think about that all the time when I go to write an email, I think of thatsters. Yes. And in my email, I alluded to something like that just because I think about that

all the time when I go to write an email, I think of that structure. I'm like, my name is Dan and I have been in this business for so long. Like I have to stop from doing it. Here's some exciting topics. And so so I actually did look up the price of dumpsters. OK, so I totally bailed. Okay, so.

Well, I just want to. I want to find. What I just want to find that email is my thing. Oh, yeah. So it was big fan of your podcast. May I ask you something? I'm from bins for less. I was wondering if you're looking for a podcast guest. Here are a couple of ideas for podcast topics.

What's the biggest size dumpster you can rent? What is waste management and its process? How much does it cost to rent a dumpster? How much do you, Dan, do you have the info on this? Yeah, yeah. So the smallest bin that you can get for like a commercial kind of project would be seven feet wide, 12 feet long, and then you have your option of wall height.

So you have four or five or six feet. So all in totally full and it has a three ton max all in your like thirteen hundred and fifty bucks. Oh, that's way cheaper than I thought it would be. For how long? So, oh, twelve feet long. So like, oh, okay. You don't really pay a day rate. I think it's just drop off and pick up.

But who's who? How often am I getting it emptied or other than a different guy? This is like this is like this would be like a kind of situation. Yeah, you're building a house like a bin that you just rent to get rid of a certain amount of stuff. Not like I see a regular pick up. Oh, yeah.

The actual. You know what? Look up the other one. We'll have you back next year. You've been great. We're all out of time. Dan, everyone. We love you, Dan.

Bye. All right. We gotta get quicker with these people. We're already behind. Yeah, that's true, but we're having fun. You know what I mean? I know. Well, our next guest will be joining us imminently.

Andro. This's no introduction. This next guest needs no introduction. It's Natalie. Natalie. Hi, Natalie. Hi. Can you guys hear me? We can hear you. We love your voice. Love your glasses. Let's get that right out of the way. First of all, I love those glasses. Good specs. Thank you. Thank you.

I've never had more compliments on a pair of glasses in my life, so I think they have to just be my personality from now on. Well, they never have another pair. A bold frame and they look good on your noggin. So it's meant to be. That's your look. Thank you. Yeah.

I appreciate it. I didn't know I'd get to rate my glasses, but that feels very special. Natalie. That's what we're here to do. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for waiting in the waiting room. Where do you call us from? From Hamilton, Ontario. Oh, the hammer.

Nice. How are the Thai cats? What are their, what does their season look like? What's their five-year plan? I don't know. I think it's over? Yeah, it's over, yeah. But you know, this was a building year for Hamilton and next year could be their year. Now, did you, what are the categories of things?

Dave, you had a question you wanted to ask her. Oh yeah, what do you have under there? Under what? Oh no, she said under what! Damn it! Dave! Graham, you can't set me up. It needs to happen naturally. I thought you meant under my vest.

I know, I feel weird asking a lady. But I it won't stop me. Now, you're in Hamilton. How's Hamilton? It's great. It's great.

We moved here thinking we'd just be here for a couple of years and it's been 11 years now that we've been here and we love it. Do you ever go to the Levity Comedy Club? I have a couple of times. My son was actually at a birthday party there. They got to rent it out and do a Nerf gun game. Like a Nerf gun battle in it. Yeah, it was actually at a birthday party there. They got to rent it out and do a Nerf gun game. What? Like a Nerf gun battle in it. Yeah, it was amazing.

That rules. Yeah. Comedy club slash Nerf gun. That would be cool if there was like, you know, like whatever, Halo or Fortnite or like you play online and you can choose your level and it's like, I choose the comedy club level. I'm going to be in the comedy club. Did you know that my- Your face is doing a set there. Exactly. It's a comedy club level. I'm gonna be in the comedy club. Did you know that my-

And Ricky Gervais is doing a set there at the awkward comedy club. Now did you know that my wife was born in Hamilton? No, I thought she was born in Switzerland or one of the other cool places she lived. No, she was born in the coolest place of all. It's true. That's right.

I was actually listening to the most recent episode yesterday, and you were talking about Arnold Schwarzenegger, seeing him and we live just across from a really beautiful park, and he was filming a movie here. No way. Two summers ago. Yeah, so many people saw him. He was just wandering around Hamilton. Oh my God, I would die on

the spot if I saw him just walking around Hamilton. Yeah. I've been on this spot if I saw I'm just walking around Hamilton. I've been to Hamilton many years ago. It's a nice spot. The people seem very nice there. Yeah, it definitely has its beauty spots. It has its not great spots. What are your top 10 not great spots in Hamilton? Oh no, I don't want to get docked. Top 10 not great spots in Hamilton. Oh no. I don't wanna get docked. Okay, Natalie, we asked people calling in,

do they have a question? Do they have a talent? Do they have, do you want us to rate your outfit? We've already done the glasses. Yeah, the vest, we like the vest. Or a hot take. I have a hot take. Oh shit.

Oh, oh, oh, oh. OK, I'm going to practice this by saying I'm not a monster. OK. I love I love the Muppets. I grew up watching Sesame Street. Oh, love it. Love Muppets Christmas Carol. OK, OK. Love them from the waist up. From the waist down, Muppet legs are disgusting. Hmm. Wow This is a hot day now whose legs do you see it? You see Kermit Kermit's are horrible

Kermit on a bike is particularly horrible Like in the in the scenes where you see like full Fozzie bear walking around or Ernie and Bert walking around Do you see but do they reveal all of it? Like do you ever see full? Yes. Yeah, you do. In the movies, they really go for it in a big way. And in all of my posters.

Yeah, all the posters I have on my wall. And they're all spread out, which is really disturbing. Why would they do that on a poster of Muppets? Kermit, you see a lot more. Like he's usually sitting on a fence. They're just and they're it's like uncanny valley feeling when you see them walking and like they could never support the body that they're on. I hate it. It's like that gives me that feeling when you see like a nature documentary and you can see bugs and gives you like shivers down your spine. I was actually thinking of moving to uncanny Valley. It's very beautiful this time of year.

Oh, that's my hot take. It is not. It gets a lot of press. I mean, the closer you look, the worse it is. So you think Kermit is the worst of the legs or is there somebody else you'd take? Grover. I think it's the really spingly ones. Yeah.

What do you feel about like scooter that's wearing pants and shoes? Is that? You know, it's still, I went and looked at like photos of my vest. Yeah, I feel like the pants and shoes are not so bad. It's like just the skinny, gross, even like Rizzo's little legs bother me. Oh well Rizzo's gross, head to toe. But the legs are particularly gross. I haven't watched, for the,

this is being released after Christmas, but we're recording it a week before Christmas. I haven't watched the Christmas Carol yet, Muppet-wise. This year? Never or this year? This year. I did watch that. That was emotional when it came out

because that was the first, that was the first thing out of the gates after Jim Henson passed away. So. Jim Henson passed away? Yes, Dave. I just, I just watched. Why do you, do you even read my emails that I send to you? Well, there's so many every day.

Here's who's dead, 1989 edition. Um, I just watched the Jim Henson documentary. So good. It was fine. In the way that it made the Mr. Roger Lung Made You Weepy, that was my weepy film was the Jim Henson. For me, it was the one where that one scene where the little girl is doing the alphabet with the Kermit and she keeps saying Cookie Monster instead of the right letter and then Kermit gets upset and leaves and then she says, I love you. But I can see where you're coming from on the legs and like, yeah, the bicycle thing

must have been a nightmare for you, especially when all of them they did in the sequel, there was like, any of them on bikes. Like, God, you probably never slept for a year after that. I was saying I was trying to figure out why I hate them so much. And I think it was around the time when that golf episode came out where he was going to go berserk if they didn't put him in the cage. I feel like I was so young when I watched that. Do you remember that episode where it's like a phase he goes through where they had to

put him in a cage or he'd like eat every cat and kill people? That was early on, right? When he was like still really scruffy. I like those years. I like the years when they hadn't quite figured out. Years. How many years of elves were there? The first year or two, he was crazy. And then he became smooth and he was wearing like Hawaiian

shirts and stuff like that but he was a lot more rough and ready in that especially that first season. How many? I just terrified my childhood brain and then it got manifested in puppet legs maybe. Yeah. When I think about Chucky's legs I get freaked out a little bit. Oh yeah. Okay one last thing before you go, Natalie.

We have one there. No, how many seasons of Alf do we all think there were? Oh. I think there was four. I was gonna say five. It's four. Graham's our winner. We were only allowed to have that much happiness, you know?

Five would have been too much for us to handle. Well, there's a lot of people in the waiting room, Natalie. You understand. You gotta get out of here. Bye, Natalie. Bye, underwear. Yes. Right, who is next on Daddy's list?

It is this fella. Here comes Daddy Claus, Here comes Daddy Claus. I think it's going okay. Oh, this is going great. And here to carry on the tradition of greatness, we've got Rich. Hey, Rich. Hello. How's it going, guys? Good. How are you? Not bad. To paint the picture for the listener, she's wearing a toque, a green and blue ribbed toque. It looks really good. Looks really cozy. Yeah, it's a wife product.

Nice. Good work. Good work. Probably ripped for her pleasure. And the shirt anyways, it was nice. I mean, this is from Target. No, yeah, Target's good with the like, uh, printed tees. Yeah. Even in the boys section, you can still get the, uh, the girly ones. Sure.

So I appreciate it. Uh, you can get a Ramones shirt for your baby. Yes. They had a red hot chili pepper shirt for your baby. Um, both those bands have lyrics that could be for babies. It's like Gabba Gabba. Hey sounds like I had a less than Jake onesie for my baby I was a baby that I bought it warp tour Probably 2006 or so you knew somewhere down the road you were gonna have a guy knew I was gonna be that that guy

And I I did it He had to live with it. You have you have one child, two child, three child or just one one. She's nine now. Nine. And now more excited for Christmas. Right. Of course.

Yes. She knows Santa's bullshit, but we saw Santa. This is a family show here. Excuse me. Um, she knows, uh, Santa's bullshit, but we saw Santa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. This is a family show here. Excuse me. We know that, you know, let me, if any kids are listening, Santa, it's, it's Santa's politics that are both. Yeah, yeah.

He's done with his bullshit. Yes. Exactly. Yeah. We, we, we still managed to drag her to the mall to see Santa. So I'm kind of, I think this is probably, um, the year, you know, that's going to end. This is probably it. So I'm trying to appreciate it. Well, I can't.

Does she love them all? My kids love them all. The mall. Um, yeah, of course. Yeah. She just, she loves, um, stuffed animals. And it doesn't matter how crappy they are. Um, so you know, the bear workshop, does she like something like that? Of course. Yeah. I mean, and that's, that's the high end. Does she like something like that? Of course. Yeah. I mean, and that's that's the high end. You're going to like waste 50 bucks in there.

But she she'll be just as happy with like the the off brand Pokemon, the off model, you know, Disney characters did you know, in store? Yeah. And that's like all the mall has left now. There's no real toy store. Yeah. Right. So it's less fun for me.

I got to kind of shuffle or pass those places. And well, I mean, let's, let's look at Legos at least. Where, where are you calling us from? Um, I'm in Kansas city. I'm in the suburbs in city. Missouri or Kansas, Kansas on the Kansas side. How do you feel about the new Superman coming out? He's a Kansas citizen.

Is he? Yeah. Yes. He's from Smallville, Kansas. You should know this most of all. My God. That's news to me, I guess. I was born in Nevada.

I've been here most of the time, though. So I don't know. He's Kansas, though. He is. I guess. Yeah. Yeah. I don't care about Superman.

You got to learn about your state that you live in, my friend. Well, I remember in middle school, I failed the state's test. I got Missouri and Kansas wrong. And they're the two squares right next to each other. And you know, I was the only kid. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, we were never quizzed on states in Canada. Yeah. Thank God. I think I could name them all. Not right now, but I think I could do them all. From the song from the Animaniacs song? Does Yakko do all 50? Well, he does the capitals. Oh, the capitals. I couldn't. Because he does all the countries. I know he does the country. Yes. And then does he do the elements? I know that's the same song. Could be element song. Is the. Yeah. Oh, you're right.

The old timey whoever. Tom Lehrer. Tom Lehrer. That's right. I assumed it's some old timey racist diddy that we. Now, wait, are you calling Diddy a racist? Because there's a lot of things you can call him right now, but I don't know.

No, I don't know any Diddy. You know, I'm sure he's a fine, fine fellow. There's our court for the show outside. Now Rich, what do you have under there? Underwear. Yes. Three for four. You got me. Underwear. Yes. Three for four. You got me, damn you.

People, if you got with that one today. Three, we got it with the last caller said under what. Under what. So that's the only one. I loved that bare naked lady song in middle school. So pinch me. I should have been primed, yeah. Get your kid a bare naked ladies onesie.

No, we didn't get on that route Not too late. I left when the one guy left, you know, even page. Yes ever been the same for me agreed I need I need the twin vocals. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I don't because to me guys Though the whole thing started with a big bang For me it always starts with but he was in that right because that was they had a big bang. For me, it always starts with a big bang. But he was in on that, right? Because they had a big lawsuit about that. So I think they're both on that track. Yeah, no, I think it's after him.

Oh, okay. Because I believe he was kicked out because he was arrested for cocaine use. Yeah, he was into the nose candy. And they had just released a kid's album or something. And they were like, we can't, no. Yeah. I went backstage after one of their concerts and their big thing that they do after a concert

that they were like debating whether or not we were going to do it was get McDonald's. I thought that was very wholesome. They're like, should we? Should we tonight guys? I thought they cooked up all the... Okay, we'll get McDonald's. They cooked up all the Kraft dinner that people throw at them.

Oh. Yeah. Do you think they would go in the McDonald's too, to get looked at? Yeah, they tend to. Do you pay attention? Do you think they kind of want it? Yeah, they don't? Now, Rich, do you have a question, a talent,

a outfit, a hot towel? I have a talent. I brought a talent. Oh, nice. Yes. This is a fun little thing I can do with cards. There's a bicycle brand cards. Yes, this is this whole the worm. OK, these are playing cards, everybody playing cards.

They're a nice Donald Duck. Oh, nice Donald Duck. And this is something I learned how to do after me and my daughter watched a bunch of Fool us the pin and teller show love it. Okay I needed to learn like just enough magic slash card stuff to impress a child and I've done it Okay, so this is this is called the worm Make this little box. You're making a box. You're doing for fucked it up immediately segments. You've dropped them already You're making a box. You're doing four. Fucked it up immediately.

Segment. You've dropped them already. It's fine. All right. Yeah. So you've got it for more segments of cars. OK. Yeah. And then this guy comes from there. Nice one pops up in the middle. Yeah. Oh, guys, you know how much I practiced. Did you just botch it again?

I have no idea what the. I did. I did. I did. I did. OK, I'm going to do it fast. I think going slow is what's fucking me. Yep, that's it. That's the worm. So you turned a four box into this is the worst thing. I hate what I do.

This is when she's trying to sleep and you're like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. In the car is like, wait, what even was that? Was that anything? A bit, yes. Yeah, well, you know, I mean, when you show it to her enough, then- Don't I know it. She's lost the appreciation, but that's the worm. Well, I love it.

That's my meager talent. And you know- Rich, we love it. We wanna thank you for calling and- Keep that magic in your heart all year round. And happy new year. Happy new year to you guys too, it was a pleasure. Okay. Bye. We're almost not out of time.

All right, here's our next caller. Caller, are you there? Caller, hello, Kansas City, are you there? Joe Boykin. Is it Danielle? Is Danielle? Yes. We got Danielle. Danielle.

Oh my gosh. It's so exciting. Can you hear me pretty well? Yes. We can hear you so well. Good sound, good viz. This is all, this is all working out. Danielle, where are you calling us from?

I am in Washington, D.C. The seat of power. Exactly. The D.C. stands for the capital. People don't know that. Cool. Is that a common joke around there or is that your own? No, I just I just thought of it a few minutes ago. So you got lucky. You're the first to hear it.

Brand new material. I love it. You think you could say some stupid joke got lucky. You're the first to hear it. Brand new material. I love it. You think you could say some stupid joke and think, well, like, it doesn't stupid. Yeah, you're right. It's exactly that's exactly right. Danielle, do you have a question? A talent. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

We wait, wait, wait. We get right into it. Outfit. Well, I know you have something that's on your mind, Dave. No, I, whoa. Wait, wait, wait. We get right into it? Outfit? Well, I know you have something that's on your mind, Dave. No, I don't. I'll let you, I'll... No, no, no.

I just, you know, we like to get to know the person first. Sure, sure, sure. Danielle? What do you do there in Washington? Are you Mrs. Joe Biden? I do graphic design. That's the coolest thing you've ever designed. Ooh, I got to do a book cover recently for a book and it's got like a bunch of like monsters

and like computer circuits on it so that was pretty cool. But actually, a lot of my job is what's called type setting, which is where you put Yeah, yeah. And the main, like the main crux of it is to make sure that words don't break into inappropriate phrases. So like, if you have the phrase, like farming methods, you don't want it to be like farming meth-uds and then it gets like broken up.

Or like analysis is a big offender. And then the worst one. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Why analysis? What is it about analysis? Because it turns into an analysis. There you go. Pedometer probably gets it.

It's a bit of a problem. And then we had a paper about the Duke of Cumberland. And that was a burden because I had to keep him from being the Duke of Come for like 80 pages. Oh, Duke of Come. Why would that? I just throw some cold water on. Yeah. Did you just like, well, he had to think about baseball for a while.

Um, Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Come, Come Gorm, Gorm, Duke of Gorm. Should I sing the whole song? Now. The subtitle was a British analogy of naval warfare. That also turned into British anal ology of warfare. That was a rough one. It was so long. It was the longest paper. What do you do? Are you focused on the kerning at any point?

Do you do any kerning? Oh, there's so much kerning, kerning, bird, baby. There's kerning, there's tracking, there's lead, leading, leading, leading, wow. For us dum-dums out here, what is kerning? It's like how close the letters are together. Mm-hmm, okay. Yeah.

Now, of all our callers so far, you're making the most use of your swivel chair. I love my swivel chair. I'm sorry. Can you go the whole way around? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice. Hell yeah. And you said it, she did it.

And what do you have under there? Under what? Under what? Ah. And what do you have under there? Under what? Under what? Ah! Um, nevermind. He was trying to get you to say underwear. Yeah. That was the big thing I thought he needed to get off his chest.

Well, but I don't want you to set me up for it, Graham. I know, but you still got a clean shot of it. Yeah, yeah, I got a clean one there. Yeah. Thwarted again. You still got a clean shot at it. Yeah, yeah, I got a clean one there. Yeah. Thwarted again.

Yeah. So Danielle, was it? Yes. Do you have a question? Do you have a talent? Do you have a hot take or do you have an outfit you want us to rate? Yeah.

So I have a talent, but it's really more of a burden because I'm not good at business. But I come up with a lot of things. If you think that's a talent, then boy, oh boy, do I have some. You're not going to be disappointed. I mean, it's gotten us pretty far, Graham. That's true.

I was in MBA and I realized I don't really care about business. I just like the idea of being a business person and like you get to say the names and dress up. It's like business cosplay, like who I'm a business person. Anyway, but I'm cursed with like coming up with terrible. Danielle, something seems to have happened with your audio. I don't know. Oh no. Is it bad? No, it's like your microphone just switched across the room.

Did you throw a microphone across the room? I did not. Oh no. You can't try and pass one off on an audio file like Dave. He's going to sense it. He's going to notice it. Did you not notice it? I did, but I didn't care. Yeah, but we have, we have tens of listeners who are gonna be like, I wanna know about these business,

she's a business person walking around with a little suitcase. So you're like playing business cosplay. Yeah, so I have a business idea. I come up with whatever I had once. I thought I could, he should sort of like, sharp, sharp, you know. We call Dragon's Den in Canada, but anyways, go ahead. had once I thought I could sort of like that. Sure. We call Dragon's Den in Canada, but I. I had a loser's lawyer. Some sharks are dreaded.

Picture this. You're dead. Oh, thank you. I should be deadly caressed by your great, great grandchild. And they show you off at a party because you're now a diamond. Oh yes! So this is like a multi-generational subscription service where you dye your ashes, get pressed into a diamond, and then put until you can pick what you want want a neck or a bracelet or a ring and then it's passed out your children and The fun part is on the way over in the important one child and then with a die. They also get Preston who died And put it to say the generational diamond. Yeah

And the tagline is thanks. It was my grandma Family juice I would like to give you a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for twenty five percent of your company Boy well on that show, do they, they say, um, what's the thing? The bonkers. What does Kevin O'Leary say? Money, gotta have the money. Where's the money? Where's the money coming from though?

You stupid idiot. See, that's how I'm gonna, I don't know where to get the money. I guess for you guys. How do you make the diamond? You press on old, is it ashes? Yeah. Okay, it's not just like a body that you squish. Now here's the crazy thing.

I think, if I'm not mistaken, I think this is already a thing that exists. I bet it's a thing. I bet it is. I've never bothered to look it up because I don't want to make myself sad. I've got enough going on. Well that's our job. I bet it is. I never bother to look it up because I don't want to make myself sad. I've got enough going on. Well, that's our job. Well, she's got enough going on guys. Don't pile on here. All right. She's just got a good idea for business. Okay. Danielle, that's a great idea and a great talent. And I'm sorry, we gotta let you go.

Oh, no problem. I don't want to talk to you anymore. Okay, fine then. Bye. Peace out. Uh... Danielle, bring in the heat. So we talk to five people for five minutes each. Then I give us a 15 minute break. So a buffer zone where we've blown right through our buffer.

Oh, I assumed we had, yeah. Right. So here's our... This was supposed to be our break time. I need to smoke. I'm just looking up Ashes to Diamonds. Yeah, you can do it. It's it's Eterniva is the website. So, hello. Hello.

You are Marnie. Yes, Marnie from sunny San Diego. Nice. How are you doing, Marnie? I'm doing well. I'm happy to be here. We're happy to have you. This is what's going on in San Diego. Christmas is here.

You know, the local baseball stadium has their snow machine out for all the kids. So we're pretending like we have seasons here. So what do they just blast snow into the stadium and kids run around? Yeah, they have like a concrete area where they're setting up like reindeer and Santa Village and a little sledding hill and stuff. Do kids like, can you do it in shorts or do you have to wear snow gear? No, you have to do it in shorts. It's about 70 today, so you're not going to freeze.

Have you ever had a white Christmas in your life or did you grow up in the San Diego area? No, I grew up outside of San Francisco, but my mom is from Iowa, from small town Iowa, so we went out there a few times and had very snowy Christmases. What do you think? What was your takeaway? Yay, nay? Oh, I loved it. I mean, I didn't have to live in it. So it was just all fun and sledding for me. Hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a big thing in Canada. There's like an ongoing kind of narrative of people arriving

in Canada in the winter from countries that do not have winter and just being like blown away. And I was like, yeah, I would be too if I had never seen winter before. And then just plopped in the middle of it. I've been shocked. What do you do in San Diego? What keeps you busy there? Um, hiking is a big thing. So I volunteer with the natural history museum and lead hikes.

So I get to, um, just like info dump on people about plants and animals and history. So that's really great. What's the best plant? Yeah, what's your best like fun fact that you give to people? Okay, so we have a plant here called Lemonade Berry and it's related to poison oak. So some people have an allergic reaction to it, but for those who don't, the berries, which mature in like late summer, early fall,

get this sticky coating on it and it's sour. And so you can put it in a bottle of water and drink it and it tastes just like lemonade. What? That's amazing. Yeah. I didn't know where that was going because you said poison oak and I was like well that's not good for anything. Yeah. Calling something lemonade doesn't keep people away poison would you know. Okay lemonade berries. That's uh. And Marnie what uh what's under there?

Under where? Under there. Under where? Oh, you got me. Yeah, we're getting we're doing fine. Now we we've put out the call. We're looking for other you have a question. You have a talent. You got a hot take.

Oh, I think you want to and I to check out your outfit. I made a note of your email and I liked what I saw there. Oh, okay. I have a talent. So I have been making a sweater. I've been working on it for at least four years. I've been dying to see this. I'm so excited about this.

So it's for my partner. We've been together six years and he kind of asked me to do it as a joke and so I just have taken it like as far as I possibly could and I'm almost done with it. Are you a big knitter or like what? Yeah, I love it's one of my favorite things to do. Then why is this taking you so long? Because it's so hot here in the summertime. I don't want this heavy knitted thing on my lap. Okay. Yeah, it is a cozy thing to do.

I'm going to show it off. So this is the front of this one. Oh, hell yeah. This rules. And I've done the front, the back, and then I have part of one arm done. This is amazing. front, the back, and then I have part of one arm done. This is amazing. Don't be surprised if this is the photo

that goes along with this. Oh, perfect. For the listener, the sweater has a famous character on the front named Popeye. His hat-trace? Hot-cha-cha. His catchphrase? Hot cha cha. Skibbity skibbity. I am a huge, huge, long time Popeye fan. I loved him since I was a kid.

That sweater rules. If your partner doesn't want to wear it, I can pay the shipping to send it up here to chilly Canada. Yeah, I'll let him know. wear it. I can pay the shipping to send it up here to Chile, Canada. Yeah, I'll let him know. He I mean, really, he only is gonna wear it like a month out of the year. So maybe you guys can do like a sweater exchange. Oh, yeah, I could wear it in the cold weather here and then send

it back down for the fall. Maybe he can have the fall. Yeah, I'll talk to him and see what he says. That's so cool. Is it, it's not freestyle. This is from some sort of kit or something like that. A print. Yeah. So an old library book that he found online and the, I'll show you the photo from the pattern.

Oh my, hubba hubba. Yeah. So I think it's a little bit of a sassy sweater. Agreed. Yeah. Yeah. No, I love Popeye. I was just thinking about the movie this morning and how it's been almost a calendar year since

I've seen it. So I'll watch it again because I love that Popeye magic. Yeah. Oh, perfect. You're strong to the finish, Graham, because you eat your spinach. That's right. And I always finish. Okay.

Well, Marnie, thanks so much for calling in. Thanks for having me. Bye. Enjoy the snow. Bye. All right, this next person, boy, their name is not listed here, but we do have a random name here. And I'm just gonna let this person in, and I don't know if we going to let this person in.

And I don't know if we're letting the right person in. This feels like a setup. But hello, person who has just given us a screen name and not a real name. Connecting to audio, we're looking at our dog, Octopus. Sorry, that's my screen name. I'm Maxwell. And then I have a totally different name on my- You sure do.

Maxwell, where are you calling from? Thanks for waiting and welcome to the show. Where are you calling from? Hello. Thank you so much, guys. I'm calling from Seattle, Washington. And I've been listening to you guys since about 2009 to 2010, somewhere in there. So you listen for the one year and then held tight and thought,

yeah, we'll wait. Yeah, wait until I let it brew a little bit. Yeah, we got a lot of listeners back then before the celebrities got into the podcast. Yeah, yeah, back when it was a little more genuine, I feel like. Back when it was a little more genuine, I feel like. Yeah. It was a little cottage industry, really. Yeah. Yeah. It was like, it was a gateway drug because I started with a podcast called You Look Nice Today. And so I was like, yeah, someone's like, if you like that, you should try this. And I was like, okay. And so like, word of mouth played a big part in podcasting back then. Now it's all just Instagram ads.

Yeah. Exactly, yeah. And it's the ladies from the office. Yeah, the hot tour girl. And God forbid they made every... Yeah. Oh God. Now, Max was it?

Maxwell, per for me. Maxwell. Maxwell. Well, you know what? You know why it's hard for me? Because it's not written down. It's not written down here. What do you do there in Seattle? Yeah. Well, typically I work in purchasing and procurement.

But I was getting shopping spree. Yeah. Well, as long as we remain within legality, fiduciary responsibility. Sure, sure. but I put the douche in fiduciary I put the ponzi in responsibility. No. Yeah, there you go nice one But I was getting recruited by a nonprofit in the area and then they lost all their funding So I'm a middleman retail right now. They were committed to the nonprofit aspect.

Do you work on behalf of nonprofits? Is that no, no, I worked. I worked at a major trucking company down here. OK, then I was recruited away from it. And like after I had left the I had left the truck manufacturing company, they lost all their funding. So recruitment just stopped and the non-profits ceased to exist. So now what are you doing?

Are you without a fidouche? No, I'm working as a middle manager at a retail job while my wife is the bread winner and she does not forget to remind me that whenever dishes are ready. Fair. The dishes are ready. I've dirtied them for you. Freshly dirtied.

Now Maxwell, what's under there? You're pointing, I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about. Ah, swinging a miss Dave, swing and a miss. Swing and a miss on that one. We were trying to get you to say underwear. Underwear. Oh gosh, okay.

It's okay, you know what? It's still I think above 50%. And personally, I like it when it goes a little sideways. It's fun to see the different ways that it can go wrong. I was going to say I think the winner would have to be if they just jumped completely I like it when it goes a little sideways. It's fun to see the different ways that it can go wrong. I was gonna say, I think the winner would have to be if they just jumped completely to like, oh, thongs. Yeah, what's under there?

My swords. These nuts. Yeah. Now, Maxwell, everyone wants to know, do you have a question? Do you have a talent? Do you have a hot take or do you have a fourth thing? An outfit you want us to sound in on.

Because you are wearing a nice suit by the way. That's a... Yeah, well, I like dressing in a suit. It makes me feel like James Bond, but I have too many talents to really pick one from. Is this the guy from American Dead or from dead or from I don't think it's American dead but it's a Patrick Warburn yeah for some reason for Kuzco's poison

are that the alien from American dead no it's a it's he's the guy who played Brock Sampson in the Adventure Brothers and he was the tick in the first live action. Is that the only voice you do or are we gonna hear a cavalcade of stars? I have been a dungeon master for Dungeons and Dragons for long enough that I I can kind of switch into any any voice that you need to hear to talk about whatever and then when the Stewie! Yes, I killed Lewis or something. Yes, kill Lewis, yes. Godzooks!

No, I completely blanked on what the questions were or what the prompts were in that email you guys sent. So I was like, I don't know what they want from me. So I guess I should just like show up and be ready. Hey, yeah, that's right. You brought a talent. You brought a hot talent to the game. That was a really good Patrick Warbird. What is also plays a character on Family Guy.

Yeah, he plays Joe. What is your background there? Is it the locks? Yeah, that is from the, if I remember the name correctly, it's the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Okay. Do you think people visit their locks that they put on those things and go back and say,

oh, there's our lock? It's like, we're in love, so let's put a lock on this bridge. Or maybe there's some sort of geocaching thing where they send you a key and you got to figure out which lock you do. That'd be so fun for a certain type of person. Not me, but I could see somebody think

that was a lot of fun. Is there a reason, is there a significance as to why, like when someone picks a background on Zoom, it's a pretty important thing usually. For me, it is just a contrast thing. Like if I had picked a blue background on Zoom, it's a pretty important thing, usually. For me, it is just a contrast thing. Like if I had picked a blue background wearing blue, might have clashed, you know? Yeah. Yeah. It looks good. It looks sharp. It looks and it makes me feel like I'm in Prague.

Yeah, it makes me feel like I'm in love. So it makes me feel like I'm in. I don't know. now we're calling it patrick warbur didn't say it it doesn't really make me feel any sort of way but it keeps me all tingly and you know when you're doing a voice you gotta have a thing that gets you into that voice and mine is uh oh man i i feel bad for anybody's trying to bring in talent after that. That's this is top talent so far Well, you've been great Maxwell are you have is there you know anything you I feel like

I'm getting rid of you too quickly. Is there anything we haven't covered? Are you getting your money's worth? I'm getting rid of you too quickly. Is there anything we haven't covered? Are you getting your money's worth? Wait, are we supposed to stretch these out? I know, I just had this bang. It's five minutes and so that's plenty of time for me. It's plenty. The return on investment for you guys is wonderful

and after 10 years and this is like the fourth year I've thrown my name in that and it finally stuck. Made it up. Yeah. So I think we're good. I think we're solid. All right. Well, thank you for calling in and good luck to you and Patrick in the new year.

Yeah. Hey, I really appreciate your support. 2025 is going to be my year. Gotta support the team. Lewis. Gotta support the team I'm guessing this person's our next person Well, that was fun, he was fine We're looking for Izzy

Do we have Izzy? Hello. Hey Izzy. How's it going? It's going well. How are you guys? Good. Good. Where are you calling us from? Montreal. Montreal. What is their slogan? What are they the what city?

What do you call Montreal? What city? I don't know. The city that's under construction. Yeah Orange cones does Vancouver have anything that we were called van City van City or you know It'd be called the back in the day would be called vanster damn before Your your pot was legalized and all sorts of things like that Excellent. Yes. Excellent. Yes, very good for us

I like all the pictures you have on the wall that. Excellent. Yes, excellent. Yes, very good for us. I like all the pictures you have on the wall. You've got all sorts of very cool like you got a line of cards maybe hanging on. Yes, some cards, some Christmas cards. No, they're mostly just birthday cards that friends have made for me. When's your birthday? Nice. October.

October. I love it. Well, they look so nice, I figured. No one has to know their birthday cards. No one's getting Christmas cards this year because the postal work stoppage. Very true. Yeah. So, you know, there's a lot of I would have sent yous this year. And it's a golden opportunity for me to be like, not only is the strike on they lost the thing I for sure bought for you in the in the shuffle. So, oh, unfortunately. What were you to send me again, Graham? Huh? What were you sending me?

I was going to send you a golden magic eight ball. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Izzy, I was going gonna get you a birthday card. Oh, well, I could have added it to my collection, but next year. Next year. Now, Izzy. Yes. It's Isabelle, is it not?

It is Isabelle, but it feels very formal. Sure. So let's go with Izzy. And what's under there? Under where? Okay, good. You should see the look on your face. You absolute tool.

Every time I fall for it. Isabel, young lady. You know what I'm explaining to do. about young lady. I'm explaining to you. Yeah. Do you have any kind of question or talent or the other things? Well, I have a little party trick that I could do that involves me telling a short story with a prop.

Love it. And or you can rate my outfit. We'll do both. We can do both. Both? Because I wanted to rate it based on seeing it right off the bat. I was like, yeah.

It's a very swirly sweater vest. Yeah. You wanna do that first? Yeah, do you wanna stand up? You wanna show us the whole thing? Yeah, I'll just kinda take my headphones off for a second. I'll stand up for you guys.

Oh, and now we can totally bad mouth easy. Oh, I love that. Oh, there's some brown in the pants. Yeah. I have some as well, actually. Yeah. What I can't show easily is the toadstool socks, but I'm not going to.

But that's, we know it's there. It's part of it. You're wearing a very trippy kind of orange and brownish kind of vest. Yes, hand knit. By you? Yes. Nice. Well done. Thank you. And then you're wearing a kind of like a beige-ish skirt or dress. Corduroy wide leg pants. Hell yeah. Yeah. Okay. I hear those things coming a mile away. Yeah, yeah. Cords for Dave. Yeah, I'm a corduroy fan. Well, and I gotta say it, you're serving C-word.

Oh, thank you so much. The C-word being crochet. Yeah. Oh, good. Yeah. That's what I was hoping. Yeah. That or cantaloupe was the other one.

Oh my gosh. You're serving cantaloupe. Can I come over for breakfast then, please? I like there was a, Zoolander was on TV a couple of weeks ago and there's like at the climax of the movie, one of the guys like who's Christine Taylor's assistant or partner at this big crisis point, he just walks over with two cantaloupes with um cottage cheese and she's like it's not not the time very funny that guy doesn't get any funny thing to do in the movie he's not i don't even know why he's there

and then he shows up with this it's great anyway 10 out of 10 on the outfit. Yeah. Now let's see, let's hear this story. Let's see this prop. Okay. So the prop is a boat. Little paper boat. Little paper boat. Or a gammy boat. Yes.

So there, the story goes, there was once a charter ship that was hired to sail from the North Atlantic to a Southern port and deliver some cargo. The captain had been given an advance to hire a full crew, but he was a greedy and reckless man. So he engaged only a handful of scoundrels and criminals who would work for next to nothing intending to keep the rest of the money for himself. As the ship left port, the captain set her bearings and retired to his cabin, leaving the crew to handle the sailing. But by

evening, they were drunk asleep on the deck, and a strong wind had blown the ship into frozen waters. The captain and crew awoke to a loud crash. The ship had hit an iceberg. She's tearing off. Off comes a part of the ship. They rushed to assess the damage and found the stern had taken the impact. But by some luck, the ship was still seaworthy and the captain decided to sail on until they came to the next available port. It took all the next day to get back on course and as evening set in once again, so did a heavy fog in the low visibility.

The captain began to panic at the helm and steered too close to a crop of jagged rocks, clipping the ship's bow. Off goes another piece of paper that that over with the red into a great storm. The captain and his crew were tossed by huge waves as the sky opened and a bolt of lightning came down, striking the mast and felling it like a tree. Damn, there goes the middle bit. There goes the mast. With this, the ship was done for,

and she went down with all that was on her. When the merchant who had hired the ship heard of its fate, he inquired if anything had been salvaged from the wreck. But the beach was scoured and all that remained of the ship and its crew was the captain's shirt floating in the surf. And there is the captain's shirt. Yes! Here we go. I've never seen that before.

Me either. That was great. Oh, good. I didn't know where it was going. I like, I was hoping for some kind of big reveal and man oh man, did you stick the landing. Yeah, that was cool. Oh good, okay, yeah. Isabel, you rock.

I feel like that, I really, that, I would freak out. I gotta learn to do that for my kids. Oh yeah, it's super easy. I don't actually remember where I learned it. I just kind of, I guess I saw someone do it and then I just tried to copy it. It's one of these things.

All good stories happen. Yeah. Well, you've been great. Thank you for waiting in the waiting room for so long. And I, you know, I hate to say goodbye, but I love to watch you leave. Bye. Bye.

Alrighty. Now who's next? Do I see this name? Yes, I do. Couple of people are just staying in the waiting room after their call. You never know. Somebody may bail at the last second

and they need to be called in again. Now we have a new listener. Oh, and they're in a car. Jesse? Jesse G? That's me. Hell yeah. What's up, Graham?

Dave? It's everything, man. It's all happening here on the call. I'm glad you're back. I'm sorry we kept you in the waiting room so long. These always go way over. I'm familiar, yeah. I listen every year.

I'm the dev shit who didn't call in last year. Oh, so you could wait in the waiting room all day, man. Yeah, I logged in last night. Nice, smart. Now, I logged in last night. So, nice. Now I'm missing this one. Jesse, you're in a high-vis vest in a truck, it looks like. It looks like the airport is in the background. Yes.

Or a prison tower. Yeah, that's my job site behind me. I'm hiding from my construction workers. OK, where are you? I'm down in Long Beach, California. I will be LBC. Yes, it's it's it's something. I live up in Washington, though, on the Olympic Peninsula just out to you guys. So no, I'm just so this year down there just for work.

Just for this guy right here. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So how far along is the project? So this year down there just for work. Just for this guy right here. Yeah. Oh, yeah. How far along is the project? We're like 70, 80 percent. So we're there, man. And you're there next year. Nice.

Are you building a whole airport? No, it is a modernization. So we got this whole thing and the building below it. And we're making it nice. Nice. About seven and a half million bucks. No big deal. And we're talking kind of low for me. This is a huge project for me, man.

Well, for you, I'm high and I'm happy for you. And I appreciate it. But like if, you know, these these things run into the hundreds of millions in terms of airports. Not on Jesse G's watch. He keeps it on budget on time. Yeah, not all of us, Dave. Some of us, you know.

Well, I mean, I'm happy for you. I was actually just wondering what's under there. Under what? Ah, swinging the best. You son of a bitch. Those kids always try to get me with chicken butt. I guess what? Chicken butt.

Yeah, I'm trying to get as many people to say under what as possible. Under where? Well, you got me. I didn't though. You said under what? Yeah, you said under what, so that doesn't count. That doesn't count as a win. Welcome Jesse, you were the caller last year

who was on the list. You know what, honestly, it didn't mind. We probably razzed you on the show, but we always end up going over time. So I like it when people don't show up. I freed up some space, yeah. Now, Jesse. What do you bring into the table. Now, Jesse, you bring into the table. Yeah. What do you bring to the table?

Do you have a question? Nothing. I just wanted to bring really, you guys with a bunch of questions. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's great. Yeah. I mean, a town. What am I going to do with my truck? You know, I don't know. Wheelies, don't know.

Oh, yeah. You want me to drive somewhere? No, Graham, let me see this gold tooth. The years, man. Oh, it's in the way in the back. I've been so curious about this thing. Oh, that's sick. That's sick to getting another one next year. So of three gold teeth. Yeah, I had a gold. I had a gold tooth, but I left it on Kevin McAllister's carpet.

Oh, shit. That's that's how you knew that he was the bad guy because he saw the gold in the cops teeth. Don't see a lot of cops walking around gold teeth anymore, but that's a lot of anyone with them in the front. I want to get one in the front. That'll be my my greatest final form will be having one one of the front teeth gold. One of your laterals.

Yeah, one of my lateral. Yeah, this time last year I was missing a lateral. I got an implant and I was, oh man, I was thinking about going gold. We could be twins. One of the one of the feelings that I got, he made it a porcelain without even asking me. And I was so pissed off. It was so because I'm paying for it.

I want to go all the way. I want I wanted to show off, you know. You want to look like the lead singer of Sponge. Yes. Exactly. Every sleazebag. Dave, do you want me to show you any body parts? No. Well, you got anything replaced lately? We shaved your head, but now you have all this hair. Yeah, I know.

I'm jealous of bud. Yeah. I mean, it's fine. Yeah. Yeah. I got it. I went back to my normal hairstylist, Andy, and she gave me a proper haircut and it was great.

And then it started growing in and like, damn, I'm and she gave me a proper haircut and it was great. And then it started growing in and like, damn, I'm going to need to get another haircut. Boy. That's how she drums up business. Yep. Yeah. You give a good haircut, but it only lasts so long.

Yeah. You had another question, Jesse. Oh yeah. Dave finished a sentence. No more maybes. Uh, my baby wants rave. My baby has rabies. Something something in the middle of the Andes. Oh, I don't know that second part.

I forget that just no more maybes. My baby's got rabies. That's silver chair. I believe the song is freak. Runs through my head 50 times a day. It was like a rumor about Silverchair, or maybe it was just like a stupid new story, but one of them worked in a record store and it got fired.

Yes, you bring us up every time you go. We're coming in asking for autograph. Graham, do you, I mean, I guess I do it as well, but like when you hear a thing and you're like, oh boy, am I gonna repeat this story? At a certain point in our 16 year history, are you just like, yes, I'm going to repeat the story? At a certain point in our 16 year history, are you just like, yes, I'm going to repeat the story. I'm going to repeat it. It's as good a story as that.

And it bears repeating. No more maybes. Your baby's got rabies. I've never actually listened to the song. I hadn't actually thought to do that. Bon bonona bon bonona. I hadn't actually thought to do that. Bum, banana, bum, bum, banana. I'm a freak of nature. That's as good as the song. That's as good.

That's as good as anything they ever recorded. Yeah. I think was that the video where they there was a big thing in the 90s in music videos of like I think maybe a shirtless old man, but also like, plastic surgery or like injecting old people. I think that was the video where silver chair who were famously teenagers were playing their music in like a hot room and all their sweat was being collected to be injected into an old person.

We should all be so lucky. Hell yeah. Um, anything else? Any other question? Sure. Graham, you're a vegetarian, you're allergic to everything and now you're not even free. Yeah.

So what do you get to eat? Like what's on your menu, man? What'd you have for breakfast? Uh, I had for breakfast. I had a corn tortilla with an egg and some salsa and cheese. OK. And and so I've been on the cheese is on the menu. I've become real close with potatoes. Potatoes. Rice are big stars now, egg showing up and

doing a lot of good work. And then just just candy and vegetables. Those are the last things that are open to me. Yeah. Breakfast, candy and vegetables. Exactly. Sounds like yeah. Okay. Yeah. So not much but eating as well as as a king. Graham's coming over and one more. You do. Graham's coming over in a couple of days. I'm hosting my annual evening of cheeses and cocktails. Oh, yeah. Prime up some eggs and probably do a big egg thing. Maybe oatmeal. Yeah.

All right, Dave. You can probably do a big egg thing, maybe oatmeal. Yeah. All right, Dave, so a few weeks ago, you spilled the beans on your jeans. Oh, yeah. You're like a raw denim Japanese denim guy. I'm not Japanese. I posted a picture of my eight or nine pairs of jeans. All snap, but on the gram or something. Yeah, on our gram. I didn't, I don't, I don't got that.

I gotta go check it out. It's worth getting just for that. Instagram.com slash stop podcast to yourself. Do you want any, did you have a question about the jeans? No, just, yeah, I wanted to quiz you on them, tell you that I'm also wearing some fancy pants jeans. Mine are Japanese though, so. Oh, you know what?

I'm currently wearing some Japanese as well. All right. What are yours? Oni. Okay, mine are Orslo. Okay. Okay. I only know about this pair I'm wearing,

so I'm not, yeah, I'm not a denim head. pair of wearings, so I'm not. Yeah, I'm not a denim head. Ask me what kind of pants I'm wearing right now. All leather. None. Oshkosh, but gosh. The grownup line. Yeah. Yeah. My brother informed me that Oshkosh does have a grown up line and he has a rugby shirt from them.

Well, Jesse, you've been great. You've been great. This has been a real treat. I'm glad that we were able to actually get you on the horn. Thanks for picking me again, guys. I appreciate it. Let me make up for last year. That's so embarrassing.

Now get back to that work. Yeah. Yeah. They're mad at me. There's a plane circling and it can't land until you finish. And I'm the guy in charge of that. Yeah. I'll get out there. Go, go, go. Favorite podcast ever. Love us so much. Us too. Now we have. Now this person. Right. Okay. Now we have, now this person, boy,

maybe we got rid of him too quick because our 110 caller didn't show up. But, and it looks like maybe our 125 caller didn't show up because when I emailed her back, she said, I actually can't make it. Ah, shit. I can't make this time, but I might show up another time. Well, I don't think she did.

So I guess we'll just go to, oh, wait, no. Oh, our person, she is here. She just showed up. Nice. And let's see what happens. Here we go. We got her. You made it. You made it.

Uh oh. Can you hear us? Hello? Hello! Hello! Hello! Hi. Is this Lucia or Lucia? Lucia. You're at the first time. Thank you very much for calling into the show. Where are you

talking to us from? I'm calling from Calgary, Alberta. Coast Nampsco. Now, how long have you lived in Calgary? Not since high school. So I can't. Damn it. Well, what's your favorite local high school?

Western, I think is one. Yeah, Western is a good one. Yeah. What quadrant of the city are you in? Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest? I live in the Northwest. Okay, yeah. Kensington?

Is that in the Northwest? It is, but I live way further than that. I'm way out in Tuscany on the edge. It's like, it used to be like Kensington was like, and there's one more community and then there was a field. And I was like in the mountains. What do you do in in Calgary, Alberta? I work for the Calgary International Film Festival. Oh, nice. Love it. Well, I actually have learned it by reading, so it's kind of rude to correct me. What was the theater in Kensington called? The Plaza.

The Plaza. Do you like the updates they made to the Plaza? Yeah, it's great. I actually just came from a movie there just now. What did you see? Queer. Is it good? Yeah, it's really good.

It's a lot different than I was expecting and really cool. It's based on a Burroughs novel, which I didn't realize. And do you think Craig's gonna go all the way with the with an Oscar nom? Yeah, nice. Yeah. He rules it's his it's his time. That's his year 2025 is the year of Daniel Craig. Yeah, just interesting choices like he's great.

Yeah, what is his character's name in the like James Bond? There's a the B Bertrand Barnard In the night though, yeah Ben Benoit Blanc That's the one that's him What do you have any of the programming done for the upcoming film festival? No, we just opened submissions a couple of weeks ago, one month ago. And so, yeah.

We should submit. Yeah, what's the shortest amount of time you're allowed to submit a movie with? A minute. Yes. Really? I'll see you at the festival. Well, we're actually going to submit this entire Zoom session. Okay. I don't know that that would play well on the big screen.

Does someone have to watch it if it's submitted or can people like get five minutes in and be like, no. No, I believe we have to watch it all the way through. I'm not on the programming team, so this is a little out of my wheelhouse. But I think two people have to watch it all the way through. I'm not on the programming team, so this is a little out of my wheelhouse, but I think two people have to watch it all the way through. Okay, wow. That's a turn their key. Basically, I know a couple of people who are in the on the Juno listening panel for the comedy award and last year, one of them had to listen to a hundred albums for one person that's too much for one person yeah that person is now locked

away in an asylum and a literal funny farm one of our previewing volunteers watched like 500 short films or something ridiculous like that see but mine would only be a minute, so that wouldn't even take, you know. Sure. 500 minutes, you're done. Yeah. I'd rather watch one 500 minute film

than 500 one minute films. That's good, that's good policy. And I would rather a duck sized horse than a horse sized duck. And I would like a bottle in front of me instead of a full frontal lobotomy. And I would also like to add one tequila,

two tequila, three tequila, four. Lucia? Lucia, what's under there? Under where. Yes. As I was saying it, I was like, don't say it. Don't give them the satisfaction. I like stopped myself. I did some good acting there.

I did a bit of acting. See, this is why this should be released as a film. You're right. You deserve an award for that acting. And I'm gonna get to the bottom of this knives out mystery. Is that James Bond? Yeah. Shaken not stirred, y'all.

Do you have a question? Do you have a talent? Do you have a hot take or an outfit? Oh, I have an outfit. Oh yeah. outfit oh yeah yeah can you see it no you're wearing a hoodie a green hoodie green hoodie can you see the symbol on it though I can now see it giving a middle finger I'm holding a piece of chalk. I'm holding that. What does it say? Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings. Cool. What is that? That was, I think, a Canadian TV show from my childhood that disappeared many, many years

ago. And is this a cartoon program about a kid that has magical chalk? Yeah. Do you remember on SNL when Mike Myers would, so it was based on this, when he was the little kid in the bathtub, I forget the name, Simon. Simon, yeah.

He liked to do drawings. Yeah. So yeah, that was based on this cartoon. Now, do you remember the catchphrases from that character? From Simon. Yeah, he had a British accent. He said he will go ahead. Yeah, he would call people cheeky monkeys, cheeky monkeys, because they were trying to look at his bum. And he

didn't. When he stayed in the bathtub too long. He got prune hands. Yeah. I just watched a video of one of the ad parodies they did that was about British toothpaste and it was so funny. It was so exactly perfect. And at one point Chris Farley says, and it tastes good on a cracker. Do they still do the parody commercials on SNL? I assume they do. Or is it all just Colin Jost? Anyway, so good outfit, great outfit.

Do you think somewhere there's a Simon, unproduced Simon movie screenplay? I certainly hope. Yeah, and if we can get it on Simon Cowell's desk, I'm sure he'll put some money behind it. And hopefully Mike Myers would still do it. He doesn't. He's hard to work with. Oh no, we're talking about hot takes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I've heard things, you know, people who worked on The Love Guru have said some things about him. You were talking to Justin Dipper like He's got some things to answer for as well. Did you see the the Thing people were making fun of him for yesterday No, but I'm very eager to hear what he was wearing at his concert tour Which is apparently didn't get ruined by his drunk driving He was wearing like a harness he was on wires and the harness kind of compressed his genitals and it made him look like it had a teeny little weenie there it's

just not Justin Timberlake's year yeah you can't stay away from what wardrobe malfunctions that's the I just wish he would go back to the Justin Timberlake's year. Yeah. He can't stay away from wardrobe malfunctions. That's the... I just wish he would go back to the Justin Timberlake we loved from his Man in the Woods era. Yeah. I don't think there's any era that people loved. What's that? What'd you say?

There's no era of Justin Timberlake that people loved. Oh, we loved him pulling off Janet Jackson's shirt. Yeah, we loved it when he would sing, back around. We like that. We like the fedora he wore in that one video where he was in a parking lot. There's a lot to love. There's a lot to love about Justin Timberlake. Yeah, I mean, there's, yeah, read the Britney book. It's great. He's- Did you's on opposite day. Nice.

Well, Lucia, you've been wonderful. Thank you for making time for us. Of course. Thank you so much for having me on. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. You too. Bye.

Well, that was nice. That was great. Well, back around, we go around. Bye. Well, that was nice. That was great. Well. Back around. We go around and around. Oh, it goes around. It goes.

Yeah. We've been coming back around. Back around. Okay. This next person is coming to join us and it's going to be pretty good. We're hoping that we're talking to Dalton. Oh my god, I see what's right behind Dalton. Hello.

Hello, how are you? I'm good, I'm good. Not gonna ask how you guys are because you've probably answered that question 20 times already today. We're doing bad in case you want to. Yeah, we're in mourning. Great, great.

Dalton, you, I recognize your name. You're a big, you're in the Facebook group, is that right? Yes, I am. I feel like Dalton, were you, maybe a year ago after every episode, you would try to get people talking about one of the things we talked about on the show? Oh, yes. That lasted for a whole like three or four weeks. And then I forgot.

Well, I mean, it was good work and we appreciated it while it lasted. Yeah. Nobody wants to talk about this show after that day. I think people mostly just want to post a picture of a license plate. Yeah. Or one of the T-shirts say, you know, I'm a, you know, well, bad boy that was born in January. Yeah. Yeah. Or one of the t-shirts that say, you know, I'm a bad boy that was born in January. Yeah. Dalton, where are you calling us from? I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nice. We had somebody who previously lived there and moved to where? Oh boy. I think they moved to Southern California. It's nice down there too. What do you do in San Francisco? Well, currently I got laid off about a month or two ago. Whomp, whomp.

But I hear about that. That stinks. Yeah, I work in branding. So I was previously a professional namer. I named things. Oh my God. Anything we know? Yeah, anything that you can talk about that you've heard of?

I don't know if I necessarily can talk about. I worked at Intel, the computer chip company. Oh, sure. Did you name Tostitos? Was that something you named? No. No, they make a different kind of chip at Intel. Ah ha ha.

Did you make a? Anyways, it was nice having you, Dolan. Boy, I remember when computers were like Pentiums. Boy, that whoever named that, probably. Yeah. That was a long time ago, way before my time. Yeah. Before that, we had 486s, 386s, 286s.

Boy, they really went for it. Yeah. And we hope they're still at it to this very day. Yeah. Dalton, I can see, well, what's under there? Dare I say under underwear? Ah, he knows. He knew it and he went over it and he's fine with it and it's great.

Dalton, you have something in the background there. Yeah, that's correct. I realize, I recognize it. And I know you, in your email to us, you included a little information about this. Yes. Yeah, go ahead. Those are two dance dance revolution arrows.

They are, correct. Graham knows it as DDR. He's sort of a big DDR head as well. Yeah, you're a big gamer, Graham. I'm a big gamer. Everybody knows that I love Red Dead Redemption. I love Mario, whatever thing is out for Mario these days. Mario.

Mario. But yes, I've been a DDR player for more than 20 years. Been in a bunch of competitions and Wow. Run. What is a competition like of that is how many people are competing. There's like local ones that are, you know, maybe about 30 people or so. And then they're like, there's a few what we call majors, they're all basically run

by the community. There's one official tournament series, but nobody really cares about it because Konami, the Japanese company, doesn't really like Americans that much, it seems. Have you ever DDR'd in Japan? I have, I actually, I went to Japan back in 2018, I think, to go watch some of my friends who were in the world championship.

And actually my roommate is the two-time world champion, DDR world champion. Wow! No way. Oh, that rules. What, when there are these tournaments, is it at like a pre-existing arcade that has the machines, or do they go to like a conference center

and bring in a bunch of machines? You, it depends. Sometimes they're at actual arcades, and then there are other ones where, yeah, it'll be like a convention center or hotel or whatever, and people bring in all their sorts of arcades and machines and things like that. I prefer that because at an arcade,

I'm playing Contra and I don't want anybody to fuck up my Contra player. Yeah, I'm usually playing double dragon I Play solitaire at the arcade. Yeah, I play lethal enforcers Yes, I was just gonna say yeah some of the some of the bigger tournaments you can get you know hundred two hundred people or so They can get really pretty pretty big. Yeah. Yeah, favorite song to dance to Oh, I mean

Am I am it was that a stupid question? Not not really. I mean I should have a good person. I should clarify that like The competitions aren't typically like actually dancing, you know We're the type of players that like play to get a high score. And so it's it's, you know, the sweaty guys that you see at the mall, like holding onto the bar on the back and just moving really, really fast. So it's not so much dancing per se. So you do hold onto the bar? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Most top tier players, there's a couple that that don't. But it's it's pretty hard for the course.

Do you even need the music or do you just go off the visuals? Oh yeah, it helps to have the music. Sometimes it's fun to like, if you're playing on a home setup or something, it's fun to kind of like turn off the music completely and just see how you can do with like in-game silence. I bet that sounds insane. You just hear the the going crazy. Yeah, you have a home set up. Yeah. Well, so my roommate has a full like arcade cabinet thing. And then I also have sort of my own cobbled together

like pad and PC and TV monitor set up. How long before you think this ends up in the Olympics? Oh, well, they did announce like a video game Olympic, like eSports Olympics kind of thing. But for being the most like athletic video game there is, like it doesn't actually have that big of a like audience. Like we've tried, you know, sometimes we live stream the tournaments and stuff and we get a few hundred people watching on Twitch.

But I think it's because it's not like directly head to head. Like you can't you can't affect your opponent's performance. Really, it's really just kind of two people playing at the same time. And whoever gets the higher score wins. So it doesn't have that like direct head to head. Are there ever DDR competitions and CCR shows up? Cleatons Clearwater Revival? Not not that I can recall. competitions and CCR shows up. Cleans, clear water, revival. Not not that I can recall.

OK, all right. What would be a number one CCR song to dance to on a dance dance revolution? I mean, I'm I think. I might be too young for them. I could not name a CCR song. Sorry. Do you know? Do you know? OK, you know, you've ever been in them? Well, we'll go to we'll go with that one then you know how they went on the right

well on the rise rather on the rise there, you know how like we've been talking in the last few years about How like the Monster Mash and Thriller and Ghostbusters were always the Halloween songs and now people are adding like Disturbia. Just anything that kind of has a spooky word in the title. Yeah. Well, Badmoo. I heard Badmoo on the rise this past Halloween season in a playlist. Uh one of the recent versions of DDR had a shut up and dance. Um I guess it's kind of along the same lines of like it has dance in the

title and it's yeah and the the same lines of like it has dance in the title and it's Yeah, and the fallout boy song dance dance. Yeah In one I think that would be on my Halloween playlist as well because shut up is a scary word to hear Yeah, if a witch tells you to shut up And the witch said to Hans Lingren, shut up! Shut up! I'm trying to mix a brew over here. Caldron! Well, Dalton, have you gotten everything you wanted out of this call?

Yeah, just about. Just good seeing you. Good seeing you too. I was hoping you'd ask about Carly Rae Jepsen, my Carly Rae Jepsen shirt. Stand up so we can see this. We can only see the top part. Maybe it's getting cut off there. Carly Rae Jepsen, Canada's best export.

Shout out to CRJ. We love CRJ here. She's a big listener. We love her. Actually they changed the TV show, The Jetsons to the Jepson's here because of her. That's right. It was a huge swing. I watched that, yeah.

Well, you've been great Dalton. Thanks Dalton. Happy New Year. Off I go. We haven't gotten many off I goes or any. All right, I think this is our next person. How late, how behind the times are we for this person? We're only 13 minutes late on this one.

Okay. Hello. Jen. Hi friends. Hello, how are you? I'm great. I'm nervous to meet you, but here we are, hi. This is it.

This is, everything's run up to this. So don't blow it. Jen, where are you calling from? I am in Pittsburgh, PA. Oh yeah. Nice. You go to the Andy Warhol Museum? Just once. No, it's not a weekly thing? Where you go eat a lunch there?

First time in my life this past summer. So. And? And it was odd to have a museum just devoted to one person. Fair enough. I mean, that's unique. Well. I mean, there's a lot of buildings devoted to this.

So one guy I know who had some crazy ideas as well. Yeah, and that guy's name? Chuck E. Entertainment Cheese. Um, Jen, what's a famous food from Pittsburgh? What's Pittsburgh known for? Oh my god Um this thing that they do at Primani's where they put coleslaw in french fries on a sandwich In french fries on a sandwich Wow. Yeah, it's it's a it's a it's not good

We're talking like a hoagie or these just pieces of bread. What are we looking? It's really good Italian bread that they make locally that they get from Mancini's. Okay, I'm dropping names all over the place. Hell yeah, give a shout out. From Mancini's to Mancini's. Yeah, all the things. So there's the- Is it a hot sandwich?

Usually, yeah. Cause like coleslaw, cold. Right. That's why it's called coleslaw. Fried, hot. And fried, because they're fried. But you would, what's worse, hot coleslaw or cold fries? Oh, god.

Cold slaw. Hot coleslaw? If what's worse? Yeah. No. Hot eats or cold treats? What's worse? Hot eats.

Oh, okay. Cool treats is the number one. Yeah, in the land of Dairy Queen, we treat you right. Yeah. What do you do in Pittsburgh, Jen? Well, for me personally, I'm retired. So I do a lot of hiking. A lot of great hills to get your calves all, you know, strong. In fact, I just heard on one of my favorite podcasts, yours, about Jay Leno falling down a hill and I was like, that's right.

Was that in Pittsburgh or outside Pittsburgh? It was outside Pittsburgh. Yeah. I think it must have been up by the airport because that's where he would probably stay. Yeah. Somebody was breaking it down from Pittsburgh about why he was staying at like a quality in or whatever he was staying at.

Because I don't think there's a lot of, oh my God, you guys, I'm so nervous. No, that's exactly what they said. There's not a lot of hotels. There's no fancy hotel by where he was playing. Right. So where else would he have stayed? You don't fall down the hill if you can help it.

Can you imagine going for ice in a hotel and then seeing Jay Leno walk down the hallway. All the ice on his face because he's hurt himself. Yeah. Let me have some of that. He says. Yeah. Oh, what's under there? Where me? No, not good enough. He was trying to get you to say underwear. Oh shit. No, no, you don't give him the satisfaction. Yeah, I'm not keeping track, but I think I may have slipped under 50% on my underwear. Um, Jen, do you have a question? Do you have a talent?

Do you have a hot take? Do you have an outfit? Okay, so the problem is no to none of that because I was thinking about it for, you know, for two days now. I'm just hoping that you would ask me something that I would have an answer to and that you needed a person who would only that you were running behind and maybe you needed someone that would be you could just say hi and I could meet you. Jen, does retirement rule?

Because it seems like it rules. It totally rules. Yes. Yes. Right. It's true. Is that chair that you're in, is it a Rook liner? It is.

Yeah. Hell yeah. You know, it's the most comfy seat in the house. What can I do? Yeah, and like what time, what time you up every morning in retirement? Are we early, late? Yeah, it's early.

It's still dark out. It's like seven. It's fine. I'm not a layabout yet. As a layabout, I can't recommend it enough. Can I show you my cat real quick? He's right here. Yeah.

What's his name? His name's Rufus. Hey, Rufus. Hey, Rufus. Hey, Rufus. Rufus, can you hear us? Rufus. He's a very good kid,

and you know, he deserves to meet you guys too, so. What kind of diet is Rufus on? What is he, is it natural foods? Is he on? No, he's an Iams guy. Oh, sure, yeah. That's treating your pet, right? Iams is good.

Getting all these free advertisements for all these things. I'm so sorry. Is it wet food or cold food? No, wet food or dry food? Is it coleslaw or fries? Yeah, there are coleslaw and dry food. Yeah.

Those are the two options we never get, wet and cold. Yeah. Those are the two options when you're a cat, wet and cold. Yeah. But. If I had a cat, I would warm up that wet food. I really want to get the smell going. Okay, I'll do it. Yeah. Do you have a slow cooker, a crock pot?

Yeah. I hope it's fine. A slow cooking cat. Your neighbors call the police. I think somebody's fine. A slow cooking cabin. Your neighbors call the police. I think somebody's dead in there. No, you gotta slow cook it so it's just falling off the can. Well, you've seemed disgusted by every food and we love to hear it.

And thanks for making the time for us. It was nice to meet you. Are you kidding me the time for us. It was nice to meet you. Thank you for getting me. Are you crazy? It was wonderful. Thank you. I hope the call is going well, the show. It's going very well.

You'll get a chance to listen to it and judge for yourself. I will. All right, see you Jen. Thank you. Okay. Now how far behind are we? Now we're only 15 minutes behind. Okay. Okay, okay.

Okay. Hello. Hello, ho, ho, ho. Ho, ho, ho poster in the background, are you calling us from British Columbia? I sure am. All right. Whereabouts? I'm up north. I'm in a small town called Mackenzie, which is a couple hours north of Prince George.

North of Prince George? Yes. Wow. Prince George, they say, is only about halfway up. So big city province. Yes. Wow. That's George, they say is only about halfway up. So I don't think I've been north of Prince George for comedy. I've been to Prince George for comedy, but you've been know that there's another stop Yukon. I've been to the Yukon, but just northern BC.

I feel like that's the last and you're a couple hours. Wow. So where what the hell time the sunset? Yeah. Oh, early these days. Yeah, probably for 15. I'm guessing. Yeah. Yeah. And then you got five minutes till 420. All right. Yeah. Right. Oh, party time.

Yeah. That's what I do in the dark. It's more fun to 420 in the dark. Camille, what do you do up there in north of Prince George? You forget the name of the town? Mackenzie. Um, well I, myself and, um, my partner actually run a video production company. Shit! Yeah.

Yeah. So we started out in Prince George and we found that we were just working, um, around the region a lot, so we didn't really need to be in the city and real estate is cheap up here and it's really beautiful. So we decided to relocate. So we spent a lot of time on the road listening to you guys. Nice. Now, do you make ads for like Lloyd's Jewelers or something like that?

Or what type of things are you shooting with your production company? Well, actually, starting out, my partner, he did a lot of he started out working for the TV station in Prince George. So, oh, yes, he did the local jewelers. Yeah. And all of that. What is that? CKPG? How do you know? Yes. Yes. I know all the call letters. Oh, yes. Nice. Yeah. So back in the day, he did that. I was a reporter there. But nowadays we've been doing a lot of videos for various heavy industrial projects, construction and mines and such. So I'm usually in my PPE uniform.

So it's nice to not be wearing that today. And when you make like an industrial video, do you include a lot of industrial music? Yes. Cool in there. Go, go, go, go, go. The more epic, the better, you betcha. Yes. I'm so plugged into the scene.

You were a reporter at the station. He was making videos at the station. How'd you guys fall in love? You know, just, you know, just the white balancing on your teeth We had a good rapport we had a good report important Yes, yes Actually leads so we've been together a long long time now it. It's been, I think, eight years. And in 2025, we're getting married. Okay, no longer living in sin.

Exactly, exactly. So Mike, I have a question for you fellas. Before you ask the question, what's under there? Under where? Well, that still counts. No, that counts for sure. He's trying to make you say underwear. I'm gullible as they come. Where? Well, that still counts. No, that counts for sure. He's trying to make you say underwear.

Yeah. I'm gullible as they come. Yeah. Yeah. You're not alone today. Yeah. You had a question for us and we are ready to try to field that question. Okay.

Well, you're both married men and you've attended a lot of weddings over the years. You have questions about the wedding night? Uh, let me just put... You've got nothing to worry about. No, I mean, if you're off, Graham. No. So, and I know that Graham even emceed some weddings back in the day. Several weddings, yeah. So my question for you is that I want our wedding to be really fun and memorable, not boring.

So what would you, what do you think makes a wedding memorable and fun? Would you say? Now, Graham, you used to have a great bit about wedding invitations. Oh, yeah, I had a joke about sending out wedding invitations and on most of them, you put formal dress, but then on a couple of them, you put Jedi theme. Then you have a couple of people showing put Jedi theme and you have a couple people showing up dress like Jedi's like Yoda or such so that's my big advice do that I'll do that to my friends who are good sports yeah I feel like some of the

ants might not take it sticks in the mud what would make it memorable? Two words, bouncy, catamaran. You wanna have fun at a wedding? There you go. Yeah, I think like any kind of, boy, any action sports or like a big rocket sled that will shoot people into the water would be fun. That's fun. One of those things where it's a giant inflatable

kind of bag and somebody's lying on it and then two people jump on it and blow the other person into the water would be fun. That's fun. One of those things where it's a giant inflatable kind of bag and somebody's lying on it and then two people jump on it and blow the other person into the water. Yeah, I'm assuming this is a water wedding. I mean, I wish, no, it's a park garden wedding. Is this in Mackenzie the park, everybody traveling to Mackenzie? This is going to be in New Westminster. Ah, okay.

Tropical destination. Yeah, that guy won the... Price is right. Price is right, yeah. Yeah. You know, open bar goes a long way, and, you know, getting a DJ, you can never go wrong with a DJ.

And then making an animal the ring bear, everybody loves that. Yeah, no an animal the ring bearer, everybody loves that. Yeah, no one forgets that. Dog, cat, monkey, whatever you got at your disposal. Yeah. Penguin, oh my God, yeah, if you have a penguin. Penguin or pangolin.

Pangolin. Oh yeah, either of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, either one. Was the pangolin the animal that they blamed for COVID? Nice. Yes, yes. Which I think is unfair to the animal. I think, you know what? It was like the bat council were the people who started that rumor.

Yeah. How about Pangolin? Yeah. Fade for by the Wuhan bat council. Yeah. So when is the big day? It is May, May 2025. Yes, 2025.

Spring. Yeah, all the all the beautiful creatures emerging. I'm envisioning now a squirrel being the ring bear. I feel like, you know, they're plentiful. They're plentiful. But you know what? You got to have them on some kind of leash because they will take off on you with that ring and they don't I? This global warming is getting crazy. These these

The squirrels don't go away for winter anymore. They're just out and about Yeah, and they wear sunglasses now, which is like where the fuck did you get those? Yeah, and they're like Hawaiian shirts and stuff and they rule I mean it doesn't rule yeah it's a good time for squirrels well um Camille you've been a good sport and uh congratulations on on uh on the announcement and uh here's to many happy returns uh have a good wedding and uh enjoy new ismister and all it has to offer. You bet I will. Thank you guys so much for all of the entertainment and laughs over the year. I appreciate you. Our pleasure. Thank you. We appreciate you.

Two more. She had a really nice red turtleneck, very festive kind of looking turtleneck. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Thomas. of kind of looking turtle neck. And hey, hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Thomas. Thomas. Hello, Dave and Graham. Hey, good to see you guys.

Good to see you too. Thomas was one of our callers from the first year we did this. I believe it was the first, yeah. And you were at college at the time, right? I was in college. Michigan. Yes, you remember a lot. Yeah, good to know. That was the year we had so many Michiganers. College at the time, right? I wasn't Michigan. Yes, you remember a lot. That was a year we had so many Michiganers.

Yes, that was. And now I'm no longer in Michigan. I no longer represent the crew. I had to leave. They asked me to move. Yeah. And now I live in Dallas now. Came down here after college.

Yeah. What are you doing down in Dallas? I'm. Came down here after college. What are you doing down in Dallas? I'm working at Texas Instruments actually. No! The calculator guy. Calculator folks. Hell yeah. Graphing calculators.

You got them? Graphing calculators. The small ones. The ones with big numbers. The ones go click clack. Do you do... Yeah, anyone ever do that boobless thing? The boobless thing. Yeah. I know I met the guy actually behind the guy.

Oh, yeah. Invented that. Yeah. Cool. We got a patent on that. Bob, you got to make the eight. We got to make the eights look more like upside down bees. Yeah. Lowercasecase though. What do you do at Texas Instruments? Oh, it's it's a whole lot of nothing.

I feel like sometimes I'm doing a lot of nothing. Sometimes just looking at charts, Excel shit like, I don't know. So I stuff. Yeah. Somebody gives me an Excel chart to look at. I can stare at it all day and not know What the hell is on? Oh, yeah I love just staring at it like changing some of the colors on it So it looks like it's a different thing than what my boss last saw. Well

Yeah, you um Am it correct me if I'm wrong. Are you the guys who make the the sign that says beware of ogre? Oh No, that that's Shrek's this instrument Nice hey guys. thanks for coming out now Tomas when you were on the first time mm-hmm that is yes you had a talent is that correct I had two that we had done yeah I had I attempted to play the Seinfeld theme for you guys that one on a base on a base and Speaker didn't work at all Yeah, that was fun and then yeah, I had the the basketball dunk that yeah, I was mentioning so often basketball I

attempted to Yeah, like a way up into the be one of these Mandela effect things. Yeah, they put a lid on it. It's burned in my memory, this, uh, this attempt. Now behind your head, is there? There is another basketball hoop. Oh, yes. It's the same one, in case we need redemption for the don.

In case we need, I mean, we we it feels like Chekov's basketball hoop Before you do that. What is under there? I? Feel like you are you trying to get me to say underwear I'm freaking humiliated here Have you been trying that out on the call? Have calls? Have I been trying? No, I've been succeeding, okay? I mean, we'll have to do the tally after the show. We will tally it, but it's pretty close to 50-50 at this point. Pretty good, yeah.

We had a few under what's. Under what's. Under what's, yeah. You can't wear under what. You can wear under armor. Yeah. Oh, that's what I'm wearing right now in under and over. I wear the both styles.

Um, it's in the fantastic that the brand under armor has become like a like a sports. Yeah. To as well. Not like defense or personal. It's arguably the dumbest name for a company that because it contains underarm as the main part of the trademark. Underarm or... Yeah. Now expand the brand a little bit.

Tomas, we're over time today. We were running out on low on time and I blame myself. Yeah. I had another podcast call low on time and blame myself. Yeah. I had another podcast call in. I was calling. Yeah, I understand. Push that one back. Yeah.

Do you have do you have a basketball or you do you have any? Oh, yeah, he's got one of a basketball. Yeah. How often do you do it? Don't you? Well, how often do you use the basketball hoop? I use it a fair bit. Like, I mean, if I'm ever like working from home here or something, I'll just

throw one over there, nevermind that not even close. Now it's also far enough away that I have to like awkwardly get up to retrieve it now, so, uh, you want me to get it without the dunk or. No, I want to see it. You want to see it. We'll set it up. You're going to you're going to pick up the ball. Is there any special dunk you're going to attempt?

Is there going to be a I wanted to do a big windmill because it's far enough away that I think I could get it all in. OK, yes. We know in the frame just for you guys. Yeah, OK. Yeah, thanks. All right. This is rad.

He's having the dog. Yeah. Thanks. All right. This is rad. He's something that he's put his headphones down. Should I hang up on him? No, I got to see this dunk. OK. Oh, he's stretching. Yeah, he's and oh, yeah. He nailed it. Nothing but net Thomas.

You know, the really the. Yeah, you know, the really the yeah, you did it. Oh, did it. That world. I don't know. You're an all star. It was. We loved it. I already did. I declared for the NBA draft a bit ago, but they haven't accepted.

Yeah, that's when they do that. Yeah. They do. And they just say like, like declared for the NBA draft. I feel like anyone can kind of declare for the NBA draft. Yeah. Don't have to be a good basketball player. Why is the NBA draft leaving me unread? Well, Tomas, we got to get to our last caller. We want to thank you for all you've done for us.

Thank you guys. Congratulations on your redemption. Thank you. Yeah, I'm glad that one was more successful this time. Yeah. It was great. It was great. I couldn't have asked for anything more. Yep. And thank you guys for everything you guys do as well.

Love listening to the show and stuff. Blah, blah, blah. He was giving you my flowers. Yeah. Thank you. And thanks for the calculators. I don't have any flowers. Yep.

I'll get you a discount on the next one you need. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. It one you need. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's all right. Bye Thomas. Bye guys. Bye. And finally, finally somebody's going to bring the heat.

How late is this? How late are we based on my schedule for 20 minutes and 20 minutes late 20 minutes. Okay. Okay. There's our baby. Can you see me? I can get it There's our- Can you hear me? Can you see me? I can do it all.

Yes. Yeah. Can you hear us? Am I here? I can hear you. I can feel you. We can see you. We can feel you.

We're hearing you. I acknowledge you. Nima, how are you? I'm amazing. I can't believe this. Thank you for waiting. You're our final caller of the day. Yes.

That's what I was hoping for. That's amazing. Okay, so we're gonna get a do it countdown at the end, I guess. Oh yeah. Yeah. Okay, well I've been training. I've been listening to all the old listener episodes.

You've been training? Oh yeah? What comes after seven? Depends which direction we're going in. That's true, that for counting up to 10. Nima, Is it? Yes, where are you calling us from? I'm calling you from Dubai Shut up. Really if for real for real from Dubai. I'm at my parents home right now

That's why we have this beautiful. It's 2 in the morning Oh shit, they're letting you record? Yeah, yeah. Why are you whispering? Well, no one's home. Oh. No, because I came here to visit my parents and I discovered that they're not even here. You should have made a phone call before you went. Well, I called, I was supposed to come December 3rd. I called them that week. They're like, we're not even there.

Well, I can't change my ticket now, guys. It's Christmas time. Dubai is an expensive place. It is so Here I am. Why Emirates I Sure did fly Emirates. No, actually this time I flew United Oh cuz United is doing a a direct flight now, so Yeah, so I'm back and Dubai changes every time direct come here From New York. Okay every time direct from New York.

Okay. You're to Dubai. What is that? Where are we talking? A 12 hour flight? We're talking in a 12 hour flight. Yeah. Okay. Exactly.

International man. Yeah. Well, I try, I try to keep up. Um, this guy's got like, you can't see it in his frame, but he's got so many globes in his room. I know he likes to shake a globe once in a while. To shake a globe once in a while. He likes to shake a globe. And behind you are it seems like it's a mantle of a bunch of pictures.

Are these your brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews kind of collection? Yes, I would do want to point out that this, this is Sophia here and she's been a star of one of the overheards, which Graham, you did an excellent line read. Oh, thank you. Well, yeah, yeah. Oh, it was it was New Year's. And right after New Year's, she whispered to me that she was like, I'm going to say my name for the first time in the New Year's.

And then she goes, yeah, it sounds so new. And it was so funny because like I was so excited that I got her on a podcast. So I took the segment and I sent it to my brother. And apparently I'd said she was seven at the time and she was nine. And so my brother just wrote back, she's nine. And I was like, yeah, but I made your daughter famous.

And now every time I bring it up to her, I'm like, I got you on a radio show. And she's like, yeah, but I made your daughter famous. And now every time I bring it up to her, I'm like, I got you on a radio show. And she's like, you said my wrong age. So we're gonna continue annoying her through this process, I guess. Yeah, kids are pretty persnickety about that age thing. How long ago was that? That must've been six years ago.

I'm on year nine of listening to you guys. Oh, really? Wow. So she's gotta be like either 13 or 15. Yeah, I know. I don't want to risk it. I don't want to make a definitive statement. Is it sex in the city, too? Does that take place in Dubai?

Is that you know, I knew you're going to reference this. Of course, I have to ask. Well, it's Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, as you recall, and Abu Dhabi, also the home of where Nermal gets shipped. Yes. Yeah. I've been shipping Nermal and Garfield for so long. I know. If you ship them here, it would take me an hour to pick them up. Oh, OK. OK. Yes.

So and I am right now just for your information, if this is exotic for you guys, I I'm on the island that's shaped like the palm tree. Oh, yeah. I was literally going to ask about that island. That's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm yeah, I'm looking at the building where Lionel Richie will be performing for New Year's Eve. Fuckin' A. Yeah, that's how I do it, man. Now, you got to take a ferry over to get there or does a plane? Do you have to take a plane over? How do you get on that?

It's you just drive on. And honestly, once you're on the island, it's it's so big. So like the trunk is just like a giant avenue. Imagine like six lane highway on one side, a park in the middle and another like six lane thing. So when you're driving down, everything feels, when you hear a lot of things feel normal, like six hours ago, I was in a mall in a ski slope

with real snow. It was the first time I'd done that. But once you're, you know, you see it, you can see it from the mall and it seems so crazy. But then once you get inside, you're like, oh, it's like a ski school here. And they have like a whole, like everything is done in a way where,

you know, on the ground, it feels very normal, but there's still very bugged out things that happen. Did you grow up there? Yeah, so I grew up here. My family moved here in 81 when there was nothing going on here. And I went through all of high school here with like nothing going on. Like when I was 16, we got we got a movie theater, you know, that kind of stuff.

But I was we got a cookies by George. Yeah. Well, I did want to say that, you know, that kind of stuff. Yeah, but I was we got a cookies by George. Yeah. Well, I did want to say that, you know, we always got things in weird order. So like when I was 16, we didn't have a McDonald's yet, but we did have an A&W. Yeah. And it's crazy because at the time we were like, what the hell does this stand for? And still to this day, I have zero clue what it stands for. I have no idea. I figured you guys all the way out there in the West. What did you say?

Abu Wabi. A remix to a classic. Yeah, I thought I was going to alupe Dave on this, but Dave. OK, I'm waiting for the interception. Yeah. Nima, what's under there? What's underwear? Okay.

That counts. We'll give you that. Dave made you say underwear. Ah, damn it. I didn't know we were gonna do new classics. I thought we were doing old classics. Oh yeah, we're doing them all. That's a new classic.

Um, boy, so do you, for us, Nima, do you have a question? Do you have a talent? Do you have a hot take or a fit? Okay, so I do wanna mention the talent that I have is that I've made this painting up here. Oh shit. Okay, yeah, I was thinking about,

I was gonna ask you about that. It looks like a plaid through some kind of frosted glass. Yeah, but it's just, like it's painted tiny pixels. And the whole reason I bring it up, I'm not so show-offy, is like, dude, this is 100% true stories. I started listening to you guys nine years ago when I moved back to Dubai. So I'd lived here in my childhood, then lived 20 years in the States and then I moved back

here. And then after that, I moved to Roswell, New Mexico and then New York. But when I came back here, I was so bored. I was doing all this freelance weird work and then I discovered podcasts and then discovered your podcast and I was like listening to it so much that like when I'd get home after a drive, I'd like start doodling. I was never an artist. This was like, I was 38 when I started doing this stuff.

So like, I started making this kind of work and now I'm, I'm a professional artist. No, you really? Yeah. work and now I'm a professional artist. No, you really? Yeah, no, for real. I've been doing it for like at least eight years full time. So I feel like I owe you guys something. What would you like? Well, take a commission, whatever you got.

Okay, I guess 25% of everything you got. That was a lot less than I was expecting. You drive a hard bargain, But no, you know what? I will say is like I've always wanted to. I will do this is because my work is all geometric. And so I am going to make a painting of your octagon logos one day. Hopefully next year I can present it to you guys. Well, you've basically secured yourself a spot for next year.

Yeah. You do so much geometric stuff. What's your favorite shape? Oh, tough, tough question. I'm going to go for square. Classic. Yeah. You know what?

Yeah, I'm an old 50s guy myself. I like the classics. This guy thinks inside the box. Yeah, So then just just for you guys to see, I was going through my stuff here at my parents house.

Old cassettes and stuff. So I do want to show you just for your reference because we used to have bootleg tapes. This is what our tapes, this is of course Europe, as you can see. The final. This is how the bootleg tapes used to be where we would get like they would just like Put the album cover right there in the middle and then just give like type setting

Tronic if you like Yeah, yeah, so we had like everything here was bootleg growing up So that was just a little show and tell for you. That's great. My questions. Okay. So I listen to about minimum 300 episodes a year. I do a lot of drawings.

So yeah, so I have to. You got it. That's the least. Yeah. So one of the things I always think about is like, so many of your jokes have become like embedded in my brain as like, you know, every time I hear them, the setup, the punchline is the same. And I, and I, and sometimes I hear you guys like when you're on like an episode, you're

like, did we talk about this? I always wonder like, do they know these jokes as well as I know these jokes? So starting last year, I started taking note of like what made me laugh the most. Like if I'm walking down the street, I would like stand to the side and take notes on them. So I want to do a thing where I recount to you, give you guys the setup for my favorite joke from each one of you and see if you can figure out what the punch line was. If in real time, yeah, okay. So Graham, yours is one that for years I thought was maybe the funniest thing I'd heard. I don't know if it's even that funny, but it just resonated with me.

And I finally found it again this year. So, and we can do this in newlywed style too, if you want. Like, however you want to run it. However you want to do it. You know what, I'll just throw it out there and see how it goes. So, Rams was, you were talking,

you'd just gone to Rotterdam. Oh yeah, okay. And it was around a time, you just gone to Rotterdam. Oh yeah, okay. And it was around a time where I just went to Rotterdam for the first time, so it really resonated with me. And Dave, Graham had said, you know, it was really futuristic. Dave said, was it like the Jetsons? And then Graham said. Fuck, I don't know what I said.

I was high as shit. I just got from a ride or down. I don't know what that was doing. I'll give you that. I'll give you the the first part. The first part is that you said no flying cars, but. Fuckable robots. No flying cars, but a whole lot of Elroys.

And I love that because it was my exact sentiment when I went there. Meaning dorky little blonde kids? Yeah, just like futuristic little blonde boys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of Elroys. That really touched my heart. So I'm glad that it could make you laugh again and that I did a piece of read of it. Oh yeah, that's good.

Ha ha ha ha. Dave, you have two choices, either slash. Your money or your life. Yeah, slash based or fictional porn stars. I gotta go slash based. Okay, slash. Yeah, this one really stopped me in my tracks. So this is how you described Slash's dress code

in the November rain video. Oh man. In the style of, you know, like smart casual, stuff like that. So like you came up with a term for his dress code. I want to say like snake casual. No, no, no. It's even better than that.

Cartoon formal. Yeah, because he wears like he's going to the funeral and the wedding. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So well, I'm glad I could make you guys laugh with your own jokes. Nima, there's only one thing left, and it's 10 9 8

7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 Happy New Year Everybody get out there and smooch some Bye Happy New Year! Everybody get out there and smooch some. Bye!

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