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Hi, he's Dave Schumpke.

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And he's Graham Clark. And together

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we host Stop Podcasting Yourself. Hello

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everybody and welcome to episode number

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825 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham

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Clark. And with me as always is a man

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who I love, one of

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the things I love most about him is

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that he's figured out the indoor outdoor shoe

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conundrum by wearing a nice pair of clogs.

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Mr. Dave Schumpke. Yeah, this

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is a Birkenstock Boston. It's the mule.

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It's the Birkenstock mule. It's got like

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felt, it looks like a Muppet. And

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this is the one I have. It

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gets very dirty. I have to clean

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it. But it's lightweight

0:52

because it's got that felt top to it. And

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I'm just for the ASMR listeners out here, I'm

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just going to rub that felt top. Yeah,

1:00

yeah, yeah, yeah. They're orange

1:02

in case you're trying to picture it in your

1:05

mind. Yeah, they're orange. And yeah, I'm

1:07

just, I will

1:09

not step outside in them. No, that's completely,

1:12

that makes sense. It's like slippers. You

1:14

know? Literally, I used

1:16

to, I don't want to

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get, I didn't expect to get emotional

1:21

today. But

1:24

I used to wear slippers, but they weren't strong

1:27

enough. Because what I need this for is

1:30

I need to sometimes, even when you have

1:32

an empty dozen egg

1:34

container, you need to crush it. Yeah,

1:36

yeah, yeah, yeah. I used to wear

1:38

slippers. Sounds like an old country song.

1:41

I used to wear slippers, but now

1:43

I wear boots. Yeah. And

1:46

all my exes live

1:48

in Texas. That voice

1:50

you hear is our guest for today, returning guests

1:52

to the podcast, the oh so funny. So

1:54

glad to have her here. Nancy Robertson. Hello.

1:58

Hello. Thanks for having me. This

2:00

is so much fun. It is and it

2:02

feels very Christmasy and festive. It

2:05

is. It is January 8th. I know, so

2:07

I kind of blew it. I kind

2:09

of blew it. No, people understand. Yeah.

2:11

We're not robots. We get a vacation. Yeah.

2:15

And why can't the Christmas spares last

2:18

until January 8th? Have you been feeling the

2:20

Christmas spirit this year? No.

2:22

No, I'm not young. I'm not young.

2:24

It's very warm. The

2:28

fact that my kids' school goes until

2:30

the 22nd, it's like we don't get any

2:32

time off before Christmas. Yes.

2:35

Like, we're not having... It's not Holly. It's

2:38

not Jolly. Yeah. That last week

2:40

before Christmas, do you remember when you were in school?

2:42

Oh my God. Just like absolute killing time. Torture. It

2:45

was like watching the clock tick second to

2:47

second. And how about trying to sleep on

2:50

Christmas Eve? No. How about

2:52

my parents who are insane? And

2:55

sleeping in on Christmas morning? Yeah. I

2:57

was waking up at 5 a.m. once because I knew I was

2:59

getting an easy bake oven. Oh, really? Yeah.

3:03

And my granny and granddad were staying over. And

3:05

my granny got up, who I thought loved me.

3:08

She was like, get back into

3:10

bed. She snapped at me for the first

3:13

and only time. Wow. I know.

3:15

And then I went back to bed. And this is turning

3:17

sad. And I

3:20

cried a little bit. Yeah. Yeah.

3:23

But it was the same way. But

3:25

that last week of school, I loved it. Oh, yeah?

3:28

Because it's like there's like, you know, you're watching a

3:30

movie. Maybe there's a Christmas concert.

3:32

Oh, yeah. Yeah. There

3:35

was always a teacher that went too hard. You know, like

3:37

a teacher who was like, we're going to learn up to the

3:39

last second. Like, no videos,

3:42

no nothing. Book report

3:44

due on the last day before Christmas. Yeah. Did

3:47

you guys, were you guys in the choir? Did

3:49

you sing anything? Let me answer that with a

3:51

song. No. No.

3:59

OK, moving on. Do we want

4:01

to get to Noah's? Yes. Get

4:04

to Noah's. Now

4:06

I remember on this podcast talking

4:08

about a thing that I thought

4:10

was universal, but it turns out it was

4:12

only my school that did it. In

4:14

elementary school when I was a kid, you could show

4:16

up a little bit early in the

4:18

day and everybody would go in the gym and sing

4:21

Christmas carols. Oh. And it was

4:23

like really like you woke up excited for it. Like

4:25

I'm going to go half an hour early and sing

4:27

Christmas carols. And I thought that was universal.

4:29

I thought everybody did that. No. No.

4:33

I've never met another person who has done that. I remember

4:35

there was like a, it was that last week was really

4:37

loose and you could go line dance in the gym. I

4:39

remember, no we did that. We did

4:41

that. Really? Yeah. Until

4:43

like achy breaky Christmas or whatever. No,

4:46

that was after my achy breaky. But yeah,

4:48

no, we did the same thing at Christmas. Where did you

4:50

grow up Nancy? I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Oh, would you go to school? I went to Carousel

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Elementary and Point Grey. Secondary.

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Nice. Nice. And

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you have two siblings, do they also go to same

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schools? They did. Okay. Yep.

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Were you in the same schools at the same time? Yes. I

5:08

came in last. Okay. And.

5:10

Even though you're the oldest. I'm the youngest.

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I know. Oh my God.

5:15

Brode up. Yeah. You really stepped

5:17

in it. I really did. No,

5:19

I was the youngest. Yeah.

5:22

I mean, it was, it grew up in a neighborhood that had

5:24

more money than we did. Right.

5:36

But yeah, you know, I loved elementary school better

5:38

than high school. Oh yeah.

5:40

What's not to love about it? Yeah. Nothing

5:43

matters. Nothing. I think I liked elementary school

5:45

up until the multiplication tables and then I

5:48

was like, this stinks. This

5:50

stinks. Yeah.

5:52

I remember the teacher saying, it's not like in the

5:54

future you're going to be able to carry a calculator around

5:56

your pocket. And I was like, and I

5:59

feel like it will. And now you're

6:01

calculating stuff all the time. Did they try

6:03

phonics on you? No. They

6:05

got me hooked on them. Yeah, they hooked

6:07

on phonics. They did. They tried

6:09

phonics on us. What is it? One of

6:11

my kids, I think, has a phonics-based teacher.

6:14

Well, I think it's basically sounding out

6:16

the... I don't quite remember, but I

6:18

always remember my mom. Up until basically,

6:20

she passed away. Every time

6:22

we'd say something that she didn't agree with,

6:24

she would always say, they should never

6:26

push you through phonics. She

6:29

blamed everything on phonics, on my brother

6:31

and I, because my sister just missed

6:33

it. And Doug and I got into

6:35

it. So, I don't know.

6:38

So, Margo is in grade four,

6:40

and she's learning as part

6:42

of math. They're doing estimation. Estimation. I'm

6:45

getting that phonics right. Yeah,

6:47

they're estimating. And

6:51

I was like... Because I help her with her math

6:53

sometimes, and I... It's like, I'll see

6:55

stuff, and I'm like, oh yeah, you need to learn

6:57

this, so you can learn this and this, and

7:00

then this will lead to this. But estimating

7:02

stuff, what you learn

7:04

in grade four, you'll use that for the rest of

7:06

your life. You'll never build on

7:08

that. It's like 75. That's

7:10

like 80 centimeters. Although

7:16

that five one, you can either round up or down, but they

7:18

always told me to round up. My

7:20

dad was very good at math, to

7:22

the point that if you're

7:25

not a teacher, then it's hard to explain

7:27

a thing that comes second nature

7:29

to you. He was very

7:31

good. He could solve the problems no problem.

7:34

But it was the explaining, I was like, maybe

7:36

you can just do me a solid dad.

7:40

What did he do for a living? I was

7:42

a geologist, now retired. Right.

7:45

No, I met him. That's right. Yes, I did. I

7:48

met your folks, and they're lovely. Graham, do you think since your

7:50

dad was so good at math, is that why your comedy is

7:53

lowest common denominator? No, it's why my comedy

7:55

is by the numbers. Next.

8:00

Nancy, it's so nice to have you here. It's

8:02

so nice to meet you. It's so nice to

8:04

meet you both as well. Now, Nancy, you

8:07

were a guest that we had to cancel a few

8:09

weeks ago because

8:11

you showed up. We didn't have to cancel you because

8:13

of this, but we had

8:16

a guest show up early before. Was

8:18

I a week early? You

8:22

were 24 hours early. And

8:25

you knocked on the door and you said,

8:28

Let me in. Let me in, you son

8:30

of a bitch. We're

8:32

doing this now or never. I

8:35

slept overnight in the car to make sure I'd

8:37

be on time. Are

8:40

you a very punctual person in general?

8:42

I kind of am. I don't like, I

8:45

have a thing about if

8:47

people are, I like if a couple of minutes

8:49

late, that's fine. But if it's people that let

8:51

you wait like half an hour or

8:54

something, then I get kind of irritated

8:57

by that. I will never wait that long. Half

8:59

an hour? See, I learned not to, but I used

9:01

to wait. And then I felt like

9:03

an idiot. Yeah. Yeah. No, my

9:05

cutoff is about 20. And

9:08

that's at the high end. I really need

9:10

this burden to show up. But

9:13

yeah, do you ever find like if somebody meets you

9:15

that shows up late, then you have to hear the

9:17

story of why they're late? And it's

9:19

like, so now that double sucks. Now I know.

9:21

There's more time lost. Exactly. Yeah.

9:24

I had a thing where I was meeting a friend for coffee. And

9:27

I guess once again, I was

9:29

a week early on that one. So

9:31

I was sitting in the coffee shop and

9:35

you could tell I was waiting for somebody because

9:37

I hadn't ordered anything and I kept looking at

9:39

the, you know, at my phone at the time

9:41

and everything. And then I thought, I bet

9:43

you they think I'm on like some kind of

9:45

a seniors dating app and I'm waiting for a

9:47

date. And

9:49

I thought, oh God, they're looking at me with

9:51

pity. And I was like, oh,

9:54

the lonely old broad is waiting for somebody.

9:56

Just keep looking at the door. And he

9:58

saw her through the window and kept walking.

10:00

I'm talking. But

10:03

you were, so you were a day early. You

10:06

know what, yeah, I was a day early with

10:08

you. With me. Yeah. You, and

10:10

we were, I was, I tried to track Graham

10:12

down to see if we could do it then and

10:15

there. But then you

10:17

said, no, no, I'll come back tomorrow. And

10:19

then that day I got strep throat. Yeah.

10:21

I wondered if it was COVID you got

10:23

strep throat. Well, I had had COVID. We've

10:27

been through, we've had it all here. Yeah.

10:30

But, and now you're back. I

10:32

am back. Yeah. It's nice.

10:35

It's nice a week of work. This is perfect.

10:37

Mm hmm. And I was

10:39

just thinking, I had an online

10:41

argument about, you're something of a

10:43

troll. I'm kind

10:46

of a Bill Maher of the internet. But

10:51

I've gotten a debate, I think probably with an

10:53

American person about socks and shoes in

10:55

the house. And that

10:57

the Americans are hard line. They

11:00

are shoes in the house folks. Right. What's

11:03

your, what's your take? Shoes on the house, socks in the house.

11:05

What, what do you do? Well, when I'm at my own home.

11:07

Or when somebody comes to visit. Oh, I

11:10

don't care either way. Okay. Yeah. But

11:12

for me, when I'm at home, I'm socks. Yeah.

11:15

And pajamas. It doesn't even really matter what time

11:17

of day it is. Nice. Yeah.

11:20

I dress for dinner at like, I

11:22

don't know, 1pm. I

11:26

was watching Home Alone. Yeah. What's

11:29

that about? It's about, you

11:32

know what really struck me this time is how

11:35

he like, how good an actor he

11:37

is considering he's alone in every scene.

11:40

Yeah. And I think he

11:42

was alone in life though. I think he

11:44

was. He was able to extract. Yeah.

11:47

I think he was a little baby working

11:49

bee. Yeah. He

11:51

was, he's the best that ever did it. Everyone

11:55

in that, they're all having dinner the night before they

11:57

leave and they're all wearing shoes in the house. My

12:00

shoes are so big, my shoes are so big on

12:02

them. I watched the other

12:04

night, Home Alone 2. And

12:07

Home Alone 2 really just

12:09

rehashes Home Alone 1, but in

12:11

New York City. And have

12:14

you ever seen it? Yes, I have. Trump makes a

12:16

cameo. He does. That's right. Trump tells him which way

12:18

to go in his hotel. And

12:20

the whole thing, like the whole Marv

12:22

and, this is the other guy,

12:25

Marv and Harry? Yeah, Marv and Harry. That

12:27

whole thing happens at an abandoned

12:29

construction site. It's very dark and

12:31

weird. Why? Yeah. Why are they

12:34

all in New York at the

12:36

same time, these three Chicagoans? Exactly.

12:39

Exactly. They don't do a lick of trying

12:41

to, like, Kevin gets

12:43

on a wrong

12:45

flight. They do it again.

12:47

Everything that happens is worse. They do it again.

12:49

Wouldn't you learn from the first go around? But

12:52

yeah, they didn't. And they were really

12:54

stretching on the, because they're running.

12:56

They're running through the airport. They're late, which I think happens

12:58

in the first one. And

13:00

they forgot who they are. They

13:03

do so many things that they

13:05

unnecessarily like to show. So

13:09

you don't have to suspend your disbelief that they've

13:11

forgotten their kid. I didn't notice until I watched

13:13

it this time. But they were like, all right.

13:15

So they make the plan. All right, just grab

13:17

whatever seat you can. Because I guess they want

13:19

the viewers to be like, if

13:21

the kids are in random seats, they won't notice

13:24

that Kevin's missing. Yeah, well, because the parents were

13:26

in business. I'm

13:28

embarrassing myself. And they were in rows

13:30

seats. But

13:32

meanwhile, you never see the kids in

13:34

economy. So it's not like. That's true.

13:37

Yeah. And then the thing is. They

13:39

deserve to lose him for life. Yeah, and

13:41

he deserves to be out on his own. He doesn't need

13:43

them. He doesn't. And it's

13:45

the main foil until Marvin Harry

13:47

showed up as Tim Curry as

13:49

a concierge. And

13:52

Rob Schneider is in it as a

13:54

bellhop. Yes, I remember thinking. And the

13:56

British actress who played the bird lady,

13:59

the pigeon lady. Oh yeah. I

14:01

forget her name. Looks just like Pierce Morgan. She

14:04

does, you woman! Oh,

14:07

she'd love to hear that. Yeah,

14:12

yeah, yeah. Either would

14:14

be flatter. And

14:18

there's now Home Alone 4? What? I

14:20

mean, what's next? Home Alone 5? They

14:23

kept making them long after everybody

14:25

without the original people. Who's

14:27

the kid? Some kid.

14:29

Yeah. Some kid

14:31

who just... Maybe it was the same

14:33

kid over and over in the sequels or it might

14:35

have been a new kid every time. Oh. But

14:38

I think they thought the format was what people liked. But

14:41

I think it was... Look how he's looking. I think it

14:43

was Macaulay Culkin. I do. I do. He

14:45

got a star on the Hollywood Fox... Oh no.

14:48

Block of Fame? Block of Fame? Graham.

14:51

I was thinking about Pigeons. I saw that. Yeah.

14:54

But like, I was thinking like, yeah, he was

14:56

only in a couple movies. He was in tons of

14:59

movies. When I looked at his IMDb, he's in all

15:01

bangers. I think maybe

15:03

getting even Dad was probably the low point.

15:05

I remember... What was it? Like

15:07

Spy Hard or Some... It

15:10

was one of those 90s spoof movies. And

15:13

there's a kid who plays Macaulay Culkin.

15:19

And they're beating him up. And then two guys come

15:21

and start beating him up. And

15:24

they hit him and they're like, this is for Home Alone. This

15:26

is for Home Alone 2. This is for

15:28

my girls. This is for

15:30

my girls too. And he goes, I wasn't in

15:32

my girls too. Brutal. Brutal.

15:34

Brutal. I only

15:36

IMDb when I'm watching stuff from the

15:38

Turner Classic movies. Because I want to

15:41

see how people died. Oh, yeah.

15:43

Because I'm looking at them and going, how old were you

15:45

when you died? What did

15:47

you die of? And

15:50

that's what I find... It's weird. Like I'll

15:52

be watching something and I'll pull up my computer and go, oh. Yeah.

15:55

What are the usual deaths? Oh, a lot

15:57

of smoking. A lot of like... you

16:00

know, emphysema, cancers

16:03

and all that, like lung cancers and stuff.

16:06

Um, they're also all pretty big drinkers

16:08

back in that era. Yeah.

16:10

So it was like heavy drink, heavy

16:12

smoke, you know, pills,

16:15

pills, pills, yeah,

16:17

unregulated, you could have ketamine back then and

16:19

that was fine. Um,

16:21

yeah. What's the worst of the

16:23

Holly, the old Hollywood deaths? Natalie

16:25

Wood is one of the famous. Oh,

16:28

and, um, uh, uh,

16:31

oh for God's sake, you know, um, okay,

16:34

this is really happening a

16:36

lot to me right now. Like I'm, uh,

16:39

forgetting names. Yeah. You know the,

16:41

oh, for God's

16:43

sake. The one I remember

16:45

you, you, you, yours will come to

16:47

you. Okay. But this is what I

16:49

remember from Frasier. The Thin Man, the

16:51

Thin Man, carry on. The Thin Man,

16:54

uh, Slender Man. Yeah. Um,

16:56

it was the death of DJ Quall. Um,

17:00

that was sometimes later. I think you stole.

17:03

Um, the one I remember is,

17:05

uh, one, an episode of Frasier,

17:07

they were talking about Lupe Velez.

17:09

Okay. Who, um, uh,

17:12

was going to, um, wanted

17:15

to end her life

17:18

and had a, uh, overdosed on

17:20

pills and like staged this

17:22

beautiful scene where she would be found.

17:25

But then she had to go to the bathroom and

17:27

tripped and fell and died over their head in the

17:29

toilet. Poetic

17:38

license from old Frasier. Is she dead?

17:40

Do you see any bubbles? Just

17:45

drinking out of the toilet. Like all

17:48

three cast members of Rub Without a

17:50

Cause. Yeah. All early, early

17:52

deaths. Yeah. Natalie

17:55

Wood, she drowned. Off a

17:57

boat with her husband and Christopher Walken. Yeah,

18:00

yeah, there's still a lot

18:03

of stuff that real who done who done

18:05

it on that. Yeah. Yeah So

18:08

the thin man, I'm okay So

18:10

I'm and I can't believe it because he's one

18:12

of my favorite old-timey actor William Powell

18:14

William Powell his wife Okay.

18:17

Now I'm gonna forget about her. She was like a

18:20

blonde bombshell. He had a few wives and She's

18:23

famous back then too. So if you want to look

18:25

up his wife say do you mind David? You've

18:28

got your yeah And but

18:30

she died really young of

18:32

some really weird fever. Oh,

18:35

okay. Yeah disco fever The

18:45

Fox Rock flu zero Okay

18:52

quick facts spouses

18:54

Eileen Wilson no Carol

18:57

Lombard. Yes Lombard. That's yeah, that's who

18:59

it's familiar name Yeah, she died of

19:02

a fever like a weird fever weird. Yeah,

19:04

cuz you could you could die of a

19:06

fever Yeah, no, you're wrong. No, what was

19:08

it? Carol Lombard cause of death plane crash?

19:10

Oh No, that was

19:12

the other one cuz I'm sorry. It was cuz she

19:14

married. Oh You

19:17

know, frankly my dear and I'll give it down. That's

19:19

my personation Clark Gable Clark Gable So

19:21

it's the next seven. I went the next one Diane

19:25

Diana Lewis. No How

19:28

many marriages this guy? Yeah, you sure it wasn't

19:30

Eileen Wilson now that I

19:32

mean maybe he had some

19:35

Harlow extra Maril over in our low

19:37

is you know, our cable. No William

19:39

Powell now we're all over the map.

19:41

Mmm If they weren't

19:43

mentioned in vogue by Madonna, I don't know

19:45

them Harlow

19:47

Jean on the cover of a magazine

19:53

Let's see Jean Harlow cause

19:56

of death weird fever you're right

20:01

But she was married, no, her partner was William

20:04

Powell. They didn't use the term back then, but

20:06

they never married. Love is love. Yeah, love is

20:08

love is love. You're interested whether you're married or

20:10

not. Yeah. Yeah. You don't

20:12

have to bring City Hall into it. Yeah. Yeah.

20:15

Don't soil it. City

20:18

Hall. It's funny, like, I

20:20

feel like if you were married

20:23

twice and divorced twice, I'd

20:25

be like, just let's keep going. Let's just

20:27

keep marrying until maybe we get the right

20:29

recipe and just five, six, seven, who cares?

20:31

Five, six, seven. Six, seven, kick. I'm

20:35

trying to just find her death. It

20:39

better say weird fever. Boy,

20:42

there's so, like, the word death appears 22

20:44

times in

20:48

her Wikipedia. Okay,

20:51

Jean Harlow, illness and

20:53

death, we're gonna find this out. Weird

20:55

fever. Weird fever, some sort of weird fever.

20:58

Harlow had been ill during the previous year

21:00

with a severe sunburn and influenza. What?

21:04

Severe sunburn, I guess back then there

21:07

was no sunblock? I

21:10

don't know, sunscreen, no? So

21:13

the flu and the suntan was what did her

21:16

in? Well, when she did

21:18

not return to set, a concerned gable visited

21:20

her and later remarked she was severely bloated

21:22

and he smelled urine on her breath when

21:25

he kissed her. You're in

21:27

on her breath, both signs of kidney failure.

21:30

Oh, wow. And he

21:33

left her? What do

21:35

you mean, Clark Gable was William Powell? They were

21:37

together. Well, I know, but Clark

21:39

Gable kissed her, I guess. Was

21:41

he in a movie with her? No, I don't

21:45

know. Yeah, she was in the, she was in the Bloater

21:47

Buster. Okay, so if this

21:49

is Wikipedia. It's too big of a problem.

21:52

I just want illness and death of Pedia.

21:56

But it's a kidney thing, apparently. Well,

21:58

probably started. by a

22:00

weird fever. Yeah, weird fever. Oh, you develop

22:02

a weird fever. Yeah, because of it. Because

22:05

of your kidney. Either way, she

22:07

died of a weird fever. Yeah, that's true. I

22:09

feel like I've been... You've done it. I

22:12

feel like I was transported into my phone and now that

22:14

I'm back, I put it down, I'm back in the room

22:16

with you guys. And what did I miss? Oh,

22:19

well, we talked about weird fevers.

22:22

We talked about, I just said, like, just keep

22:24

marrying and marrying until you finally... And I... Did

22:27

I go along with that? Yeah, you went along with that? You

22:30

did. And you were in a trance talking

22:32

about kissing a woman who tasted like urine.

22:34

Yeah. I think that's

22:37

what watermelon sugar is about. Oh,

22:39

gross. Are

22:45

you big movie buff all around or just

22:47

classic movies? I think I'm a pretty good-sized

22:49

movie person. Yeah.

22:54

Yeah. You're a roommate, Brent. He

22:58

is into, like, 70s TV shows.

23:01

Yeah, and 80s. And 80s. Like

23:04

the detective shows. Oh, yeah, he loves the detective

23:06

shows. But I do too. So I don't know

23:08

whether that was us coming together on that or

23:10

whether he was like

23:12

that before. Right. But

23:15

I think his favorite era

23:18

of film, which kind of is in mind,

23:21

was the 80s. Okay. He has

23:23

a soft spot for 80s. I can totally

23:25

see that. And yours is like?

23:28

70s. Okay, but not the 30s. No,

23:30

I like the 30s. It's comfort to

23:32

me. When we go

23:34

out, I always leave Turner Classic Music or

23:37

TCM on the TV for our dog

23:40

when we go out. Yeah. Because

23:42

I think it's calming. Yeah. And it's

23:44

comforting. It's fun to watch those old movies because

23:46

of the acting. Everybody's yelling.

23:48

Yeah, you gotta go. I had such old

23:50

microphones. It was like, everybody has

23:53

to yell. I

23:56

can't even watch anything before, like 1960. I

24:00

mean even mid 60s. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

24:04

It's because of the black and white, but also like that sort of, that kind of

24:06

acting aesthetic. Yeah,

24:12

yeah, yeah. I like anything

24:14

set in New York that has exteriors like

24:16

60s, 70s, 80s, when it

24:18

was like grimy. Yeah, that's why the 70s

24:21

and the like anything shot in New York was

24:23

really good. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. What's your favorite

24:25

movie, Nancy? Oh, for crying out loud. For

24:27

crying in the beer, Dave. Where

24:30

does a girl start? Oh. Go

24:34

by category. Yeah. What's your

24:36

favorite detective slash thriller? Detective

24:39

slash thriller. Thriller. Oh,

24:42

oh, movie. See, it'll all come

24:44

to me when I get home. Yeah, of

24:46

course. We put you on the spot. That's unfair. Truly

24:49

unfair. Dave, what's your favorite thriller? My favorite

24:51

detective slash thriller? Yeah, it can be either

24:53

or both. Mm, maybe seven. Yeah, that's a

24:56

good one. I knew she was going to

24:58

lose her head. You knew

25:00

that? From

25:03

the gab. Sorry if you haven't seen

25:05

this. Oh, if you haven't seen it,

25:07

she says lose your head in terms

25:09

of your temper. Yeah, yeah. You just

25:11

get really cranky. I knew that was

25:13

happening. Yeah. I knew it. I don't know

25:15

why. I went, at the end

25:17

of this, she's going to lose, have her head lost. Wow.

25:20

Yeah. Good. Do you think you maybe have the

25:22

sixth sense like that movie? Yeah.

25:24

Kind of. My favorite thriller. Oh,

25:26

I like Serpico in

25:29

the 70s. I thought that

25:31

was really good. That's Al Pacino with the

25:33

beard. Really good beard. That

25:35

was Al Pacino before he started yelling.

25:37

Yes. Who

25:40

am I to critique any

25:42

like, the safe? But next, says

25:46

a girl who's yelling into the microphone. No,

25:48

no. Um, like,

25:51

yeah, kind of like the, like

25:53

you said, like kind of the gritty, oh, and,

25:56

um, the French connection. Yeah.

26:00

They get away with it at the end. Oh, spoiler. I

26:02

do, but the whole time I was like, those French people

26:04

are gonna get away with it. You

26:06

know, there was a movie that we watched all the time growing

26:08

up that we really liked, and I don't know anybody that's

26:11

heard of it, and you guys probably both

26:13

would have. It's called The Flimflam Man. I've

26:15

heard the name of it. Have you? We loved

26:17

that film growing up, and George

26:19

C. Scott, Henry Morgan, Peter Saracen,

26:22

who I always thought was great because he

26:24

was Canadian, and when I bring

26:26

it up, nobody remembers it. The

26:29

Flimflam Man. Great name. Yeah.

26:31

Huh. But I definitely have heard of it.

26:34

I don't think I've seen it. Wait, was William Powell? No,

26:36

William Powell was a thin fan man. Nice. Very

26:39

nicely done. I just

26:41

had to remember his dang name. I've never heard

26:44

of this guy. You hear that his girlfriend died

26:46

of a weird flu? Yeah, she had a weird

26:48

flu. Yeah. You

26:51

know where the Grinch died of? His

26:54

heart enlargement, the Cindy

26:56

Lou flu. So both

26:58

perfectly valid explanations. The

27:02

Cindy Lou flu. That's

27:06

the saddest flu of all. Yeah, cute

27:08

though. Yeah. All the

27:10

good. It's adorable. So you're

27:12

walking around the house in your

27:14

pajamas with Brent. Yeah. And

27:17

how many times does Brent walk

27:19

up to you and say, hey, Nance,

27:21

who do you think would win? Oh,

27:24

the game? You're like, you're

27:26

gonna fight between Spider-Man and Bigfoot.

27:30

And you're like, I don't know, Bigfoot. And he's

27:33

like, you're out of your mind. That's

27:36

dinner talk every night. Every

27:39

single night. Yeah, it's

27:41

either that, those

27:46

kinds of questions or hockey stats.

27:49

Hockey stats, yeah. And he always

27:51

prefaces it with, I know you're not gonna listen and

27:54

I know you don't wanna hear it, but I just need to talk

27:56

about it. Yeah. Yeah. Just

27:58

have to get it off your head. Yeah. I'm the

28:00

same when it comes to any sports stats stuff. I'm like,

28:02

you could talk to me about it. Don't expect me to

28:04

absorb it or be able to say anything in return. I

28:06

think they make it up. I think

28:09

they make up the stats. You don't need, at this time

28:11

of year in 1949, a

28:13

humidity was a lot lower than it is today,

28:15

which helped the park go left. We

28:18

made it into the net. I

28:20

will, with my wife, I will do like,

28:25

I guess, less

28:28

important statistics, but the kind of fun ones

28:30

that are like, they're number 22 and

28:32

number 33, and

28:35

they scored their 22nd and 33rd goal on

28:38

February 23rd. If

28:41

it's numerology, I feel

28:44

like I can get her into it. Yeah. That's

28:46

not gonna work. Does

28:48

Abby respond or should she walk away? Uh-huh.

28:51

Yeah. She doesn't even take her head

28:53

phone out. Yeah,

28:58

but it just feels nice to just say it. We're like,

29:00

yeah, oh, no, I just have to get it out. Yeah,

29:02

I just gotta get it in the, what am I gonna

29:04

bore the podcast listeners with it? No, you

29:07

married me. You have to do

29:09

this. Do you

29:11

watch hockey, Graham? I watch, like,

29:14

I'm mostly a highlights guy.

29:16

I like, I will watch again. Or highlights for kids.

29:18

Yeah, I like highlights for kids. I like highlights in

29:20

my hair, but

29:22

I will watch a game. I

29:25

just find myself, if I have two hours

29:28

to watch something, I'll watch a movie. Yeah.

29:30

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like, it's sitting down

29:32

to watch a game. Like, if everybody else is watching,

29:34

I'll watch the game. I enjoy following the flames because

29:37

they're from my hometown. Yep. And,

29:40

you know, every year is a different type

29:42

of letdown, but, you know, it's still a

29:44

root, root, root for the home team, but

29:47

the rest of it, try and even

29:49

tell me what the stats in

29:52

baseball are. You can tell me, like,

29:54

I don't know what a home, like, I know what

29:56

a home run is, but like, you don't know what

29:58

they're keeping track of. What else they're... You're a

30:00

slugging. I don't know slugging. I don't know when

30:03

somebody says batting a thousand. I don't know what that means.

30:05

No one is. No one bats a thousand.

30:07

I think stats are fillers. Yeah?

30:09

I do. I mean... Filling,

30:12

what are they filling? Dead spots in the

30:14

program. Yeah.

30:18

I agree. I agree. But

30:21

like, Dave, you've got a memory for these types

30:23

of things because we've done a game on the

30:26

show where I had a random deck

30:28

of hockey cards. And you

30:30

were able to identify... I can't remember what it... Was

30:34

it the team or something? The

30:36

number maybe? Yeah. There would... You

30:38

would give me... Or there would be a little... There's

30:40

a little paragraph about the player that they would put

30:43

back in the day. It's like, in his off time,

30:45

he enjoys fishing. And I'd be like, hmm, Sylvain Lefebvre.

30:52

But like, is that... Do

30:54

you go out of your way to memorize

30:56

stuff or is it just the way that you absorb

30:58

stats? I guess I just absorbed it because I was

31:00

just obsessed and I would read everything.

31:03

Yeah. I never read books, but I

31:05

read the backs of hockey cards. It's fine?

31:08

Yeah. It's probably easier

31:10

to do a book club that way. Honestly, they should teach

31:12

that in school instead of... Yeah, you should just... Set

31:16

of phonics. Yeah, exactly. In my book report, I'm

31:18

doing the 1989 set of O.P.T. in English and

31:20

French. Are

31:25

you a sports person at all? No. I

31:28

mean, unless when it counts. It's like, if we... Say if

31:30

the Canucks got into the

31:32

what? The finals. The

31:34

finals. No, I was

31:36

just gonna let you... You're gonna hang me

31:39

out to drive. Then

31:41

I'll show a little more enthusiasm.

31:43

Sure. When I think there's something to gain

31:46

from it, but no, I'm not... There's...

31:52

No. A few weeks ago,

31:54

Prince Harry dropped the pocket of hockey at

31:56

the Canucks game on purpose. He

32:00

was a... Mr. Bean dropped the puck. And

32:05

his wife, Meghan Markle, was there too.

32:07

Yeah. Was it at the

32:09

Canucks? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice. And what was

32:11

your reason for that? They are doing a

32:14

thing called the Invictus game. Oh, okay, yes,

32:16

yes. He's like the guy for that. And

32:18

it's gonna be happening in Whistler, I

32:20

think. What is this? It's

32:23

like a sort of like

32:25

Olympics for soldiers? I

32:27

think it is, yeah. Former military. Oh, huh. Never

32:31

heard of that before. I didn't

32:33

know I was having a Whistler. I don't know

32:35

if I'm right about that. When I talk like

32:37

this, it means, I don't know. You're not sure?

32:39

I think I heard a detail, but it wasn't

32:42

on the back of a hockey card. Yeah,

32:48

there's like the Commonwealth games, which I didn't know. This

32:50

didn't till I was maybe 14, and

32:52

they happened in Victoria, I don't

32:55

know. That was just the

32:57

British Commonwealth. Yep. But

32:59

like, I think every person

33:02

name was white, if I recall correctly. I

33:05

saw my first boxing match ever at the Commonwealth

33:07

games. Oh. And the thing is

33:10

like you watch boxing and TV and it's

33:12

like two really big guys fighting, but when

33:14

it's two little guys fighting, they really go

33:16

all out. They really punch each other a lot.

33:18

You're into boxing, aren't you? I enjoy it. I

33:21

mean, it's a- We have a poster in the-

33:24

Oh, that's my pro wrestling. Oh, you're wrestling,

33:26

yeah. Thanks, same thing. Same

33:28

thing, exactly. There's a

33:30

ring. Different tights. That's a different

33:32

type. Different type. Yeah. I

33:36

wish there weren't tights in boxing. I

33:38

wish they could come in boxing and just

33:40

have like a persona, like

33:42

the way the wrestlers do. The,

33:45

like I will sit down and watch,

33:47

if I have spare 20 minutes, I'll

33:50

watch one of the events from like 80s

33:52

wrestling. Right. And every person

33:54

had a character. So they would

33:56

bring out somebody and it was Rick the model

33:59

Martel. a perfume, a

34:01

pump that we'd spray on everybody. And

34:04

just like- A lot of love to Sting. And the

34:06

perfume's name? Arrogance.

34:11

Do they still do that? You still

34:13

watch wrestling, right? Not as much, although

34:15

I will watch the one that Cole

34:17

Cavanagh is a part of that, AEW.

34:21

Do they have costumes and things? Yeah, but it's

34:23

not like they're not pretending to be. There's

34:26

no Sergeant Slaughter or- Sure. Yeah, well, not

34:28

the fun. Well, that's

34:31

what I thought was fun about it, wasn't it, kid? Yeah.

34:34

You had like any weird backstories that you had to

34:36

keep up with. It's

34:40

like soap operas for men. But

34:43

why not? Just isn't suits,

34:46

soap operas for men. Yeah, yes, it's

34:48

like suits for men. Did

34:53

you, when you

34:55

were growing up, did your sister or your brother, like,

34:57

were they obsessed with something where you couldn't see

35:00

the appeal at all? I

35:04

feel like maybe my youngest brother was like, why

35:06

does he like wrestling so much? No.

35:08

Does he know it's fake? I just wanted

35:10

whatever they thought was cool. I wanted

35:12

to make sure that I was on board with it,

35:14

whether I understood it or not. Yeah. Yeah.

35:18

Yeah. I remember once my

35:20

sister, when I found out she was on the pill- Big

35:24

day, and then- Big day. Yeah, I got on

35:26

the pill that same day. And

35:29

I was always in elementary school, and she had to

35:31

pick up a prescription. I said, well, I'll go. And

35:34

then that time, anybody could pick it up. So

35:38

I got on her 10 speed, which I could

35:40

barely reach the pedals. And I kind

35:43

of went riding up to

35:45

Westfield's pharmacy, and I

35:47

picked up her pills, and the pharmacist said,

35:49

have a good summer. And I waved at

35:51

him and went, yes, I will. And

35:56

got back on the 10 speed. I

36:00

was in grade five. And

36:02

I just laid it down.

36:10

Oh man. I

36:14

was also the youngest. And

36:17

I was like, we talk on the show

36:19

about how I have no memories of Disney movies

36:21

or anything. Because I just wanted to watch what my older siblings

36:23

were watching. Same here, yeah. And

36:26

then my brother really liked wrestling. Yeah. And

36:29

then he's eight

36:31

years older than me. So

36:33

he left for college when

36:36

I was ten. And then I never

36:38

watched wrestling again. And I

36:40

was shocked when... It just stopped. Yeah,

36:43

I was shocked when other people my age were watching

36:45

wrestling into their 20s and 30s. Yeah.

36:47

But I thought we agreed to

36:49

stop when my brother went away. I

36:52

got some catching up to do. And I

36:55

gave up on it, yeah. Probably in my

36:57

late teens or 20s. But then a couple,

36:59

maybe a decade after that, I watched a

37:01

match. And I was like, why did I

37:03

stop watching this? This is so enjoyable watching

37:05

these guys flip and fly all over

37:07

the ring. They scared me, though, when I

37:09

would see them on TV. They frightened me because they

37:11

looked with their costumes and everything like that. I

37:14

didn't... It was creepy to me. Yeah.

37:17

It was an acquired day. Yeah. Same

37:19

with... My sister and brother used to laugh and

37:21

watch Benny Hill. Benny

37:23

Hill. I was one of the sons of Benny Hill. And he, even

37:25

as a kid, I went, you're a creep. You're

37:27

a creepy guy. I remember watching Benny Hill

37:29

as a kid and being like, I'll get

37:31

this. Yeah. I thought there

37:34

was something about him that was really creepy. And

37:36

I was right. Yeah. Yeah.

37:38

Was he been outed

37:40

as a bad guy? Well, I don't know.

37:43

I mean, I think he died of a weird fever.

37:49

They found him in his home

37:52

or apartment where he had been... This

37:54

is lovely talk. Yeah. But

37:57

he had decayed. Oh, no. Oh. That

38:00

doesn't mean he's a weird guy. Maybe,

38:02

I would say, an unfortunate guy. But

38:05

I think there was kind of weird stuff.

38:07

I don't know. It was mostly the

38:09

show was like, there were a lot of scantily

38:11

clad. Yeah, and chasing. And chain

38:13

chain. And he's like riding a tricycle

38:15

with a horn, chasing a girl in a

38:17

brassiere. Yeah. That's the

38:20

thing about those

38:22

70s movies that are like,

38:24

have, look gritty because of the film stock.

38:26

Yeah. When they were in

38:28

Britain, it looked terrible. Like

38:30

British video from the 70s just looks,

38:34

there's like a brown

38:36

to it. Well, they don't seem like Canadian.

38:39

It's the same kind of, I think, you know? Absolutely.

38:43

Still to this day, if I'm watching a

38:45

movie and I don't necessarily know, I can always, that's

38:48

a Canada. Yeah, me too. No matter what.

38:50

Yeah. Was watching one that

38:52

took place in Somdia with

38:54

Robin Williams and Al Pacino right

38:57

away. Where it was.

38:59

You know why they had in Somdia? You know why they

39:01

had in Somdia. Because Al Pacino wouldn't

39:03

stop yelling. Go

39:06

to sleep out. There's

39:08

a first movie where Robin Williams played

39:11

a bad guy. Lauren Cardinal, who's in

39:13

Corner of Gas. That's right. He's

39:15

one of the cops. Is it type

39:17

casting? Is that, what's

39:20

his face? Christopher

39:22

Nolan. Christopher Nolan. And I didn't realize

39:24

that until the early credits. Oh, what's

39:26

his hat? Yeah. It's cool.

39:28

It's like I'd seen it when it came out, which was I think

39:30

in 2021. No,

39:32

2001. Oh, sorry. Yeah,

39:34

not 2021. I

39:37

haven't seen it for a year. It's 2001, yes. Same

39:42

year that space oddity thing. Audity?

39:45

Odyssey. Dave,

39:48

what's going on with you, my friend? Oh

39:50

my gosh, me? We're on to me already?

39:52

Well, I already talked about how I'm learning

39:54

estimation. But...

40:00

Oh, so here's the thing. We

40:03

just did our episode where listeners call in

40:05

and they ask us questions a couple weeks

40:07

ago. One of the questions was,

40:10

what's the last movie we cried in? Oh

40:13

yeah. And I have a

40:15

new answer. Oh, okay. Like

40:17

more recently? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wonka.

40:21

Oh really? You got a Misty during

40:23

Wonka? Got a Misty in Wonka. Wow.

40:26

You're kidding? I'm not. No, not

40:28

that I think that's sweet, I just kind of

40:30

think like, so it's a new Wonka. New

40:33

Wonka is unfortunately good. See,

40:37

I, that's okay. I'm happy to hear that because

40:40

I'm kind of freaked out that they even remade

40:42

it the second time with Johnny

40:44

Depp. Yeah. And now this, because I

40:46

just think Gene Wilder is. He's the

40:48

top. He's the tops. Well,

40:51

I'm sorry to tell you that

40:53

the new top is the new

40:55

T-Shalame. I

40:57

would not say he's the tops. And

41:00

it's a prequel. Okay. So

41:02

it's about. Origin story. It's an origin

41:04

story. Okay. And it's

41:07

little Timmy C singing, it's a musical.

41:10

Yeah. How is he singing? Singing

41:12

is fine. Okay. He's

41:14

not the greatest singer, he doesn't have to

41:17

belt anything out. No, that's true. Yeah. And

41:20

it's, it's. And

41:22

isn't Hugh Grant the Oompa

41:25

Loompa? Yeah, Hugh Grant's the Oompa Loompa, he

41:27

sings the Oompa Loompa song. Oh,

41:29

that's in there? Yeah. He farts a cloud. The

41:32

original one,

41:35

Charlie and the Star of the Fiery, that was a musical too.

41:37

Yeah, Oompa Loompa. Oompa

41:39

Loompa. Yeah. And then there was Don't Cry,

41:41

Charlie was one of the songs. No, it

41:43

was Don't Cry for Me, Argentina. Yeah. That's

41:46

right. Yep. Geez, I get those

41:48

confused all the time. And Pure Imagination is in that, and it's

41:50

also in the new one. Yeah. Yeah.

41:52

I was like, there's a lot of songs that you

41:54

recognize in this movie. And I remember watching it with

41:56

my dad, and he's like, you don't recognize this one,

41:58

it's stinks. Cheer

42:02

up Charlie, it was called Cheer

42:04

Up Charlie. Okay, and it's a

42:07

prequel origin story that

42:10

tells the story of how he became

42:12

a chocolatier. It does not tell the story

42:14

of how he comes to

42:16

want to kill children. So,

42:19

one part of it, okay, without spoiling

42:21

it. Yeah, it is

42:24

in the beginning, middle or end, where

42:26

you get Misty? Oh, the

42:28

end. Okay. Yeah, the end, because

42:30

of his mother. Oh, yeah. He

42:33

lost his mother and then he reconnects

42:35

with her through chocolate. Nice,

42:37

okay. That's nice. And then

42:39

there's another child and mother

42:42

reunion. Sort of like certain

42:45

Paul Simon song. Yeah, I haven't

42:48

seen it. I

42:51

might not. You haven't seen this movie that you

42:53

can't read? No, I may wait until it's on

42:55

a streamer. I

42:57

may wait until it's on Turner Classic Movies

43:00

in 80 years. 80

43:03

years from now. So, you went to the theater to see

43:05

it? Yeah. And you took the girls?

43:08

Took the girls, no, I made them stay at home.

43:10

This one's for daddy. Here's...

43:14

They stayed home and watched Gluck

43:16

Work Org. They

43:22

cried during that as well. Well,

43:25

it's really sentimental at the end there. Yeah, for

43:27

sure. Well, they put tears. They literally put

43:29

tears in his eyes. But,

43:31

yeah, so we'll check out Wonka.

43:33

Yeah. Okay. Missed

43:36

the end. The other thing that's going on

43:38

with me is this past weekend, Graham came

43:40

over. Yeah! With

43:42

his wife, with Alicia Tobin as

43:45

well, and our friends Jay and Jessica.

43:48

And it's a new tradition that we've had two years

43:50

in a row. Cocktails.

43:53

Christmas cocktails with the

43:55

Shumkas. Nice! Yeah! Nice!

43:59

Delicious and cheesy. and many

44:01

cheeses. Yeah. And just

44:03

like- The Butterton's, can we come next year? Yes,

44:06

please. Sure. We'll add you

44:08

to the list. You weren't allowed to come this year. No. Because

44:10

you weren't invited. Because we weren't

44:13

invited. But next year, I put

44:15

you on the spot. Yeah, next year you're on

44:17

the list. I think we can handle two more.

44:19

Absolutely. And I could maybe come a day early.

44:21

Sure. Help set up, yeah. Um,

44:26

they, uh, normally,

44:29

like our dogs are insane. You met our

44:31

dogs. They're great. I love them. Um,

44:33

but they don't settle down. It takes them a while to

44:35

settle down. But last year when we did

44:37

the evening of

44:40

cocktails, they settled down pretty quickly. This

44:44

year they kept barking the whole time. They've

44:46

got the Christmas spirit. Yeah. Yeah.

44:49

They've got Christmas fever. Or some kind of fever, yeah.

44:51

A weird fever. You should have

44:53

given them a cocktail or two. Yeah, maybe. Well,

44:56

you, you're good at making cocktails. You made

44:58

some, I can't remember, sidecars? What

45:00

did you make? You made a Manhattan, I think at the

45:03

moment. No, I didn't make a Manhattan. I don't have any,

45:05

uh, sweet vermouth. Oh yes, was it? What did

45:07

you make then? What were your cocktail? I

45:10

made, uh, a few sidecars, you're

45:12

right. Yeah. Uh,

45:14

which is like, uh, cognac and lemon

45:16

juice and triple sec. It's

45:19

kind of a sweet. Sweet. Yeah. Uh,

45:22

no, uh, margarita, but instead of,

45:24

um, tequila, it's tongue yak.

45:26

Nice. That yak. Um,

45:29

and then I made another sweet one that

45:31

had like coconut cream in it. Oh yeah.

45:33

And that was how, I didn't know, I

45:36

never saw this before. Dave

45:38

had a can of coconut cream. Have you

45:40

ever seen a can of coconut cream anywhere?

45:42

Yeah, I think so in the grocery store.

45:44

I just never. I never purchased one.

45:46

Yeah. Oh

45:48

yeah. I didn't know if it was going to be a solid or. Shotgun!

45:51

I don't know. Spring, springy snake. Yeah.

45:54

Yeah. He sprayed it on everybody.

45:56

Like champagne. What did you make with that? Hmm.

45:59

What's it called? maybe called a painkiller and

46:02

it's very it's just rum and coconut

46:04

cream and orange juice and Pineapple

46:07

juice so sweet. Oh, oh, you

46:09

see sweet. Yeah. Yeah, you have

46:11

a favorite but everyone else you

46:13

say sweet But everyone's comments or

46:15

these are very strong They're

46:20

gonna be sweet I I I I

46:23

know it's boring but I love Tequila

46:25

and mezcal. I like yeah, I just

46:28

know first no must know. Yeah, I'm not somebody who

46:30

can drink anything Right, you

46:32

know I can drink bourbon tequila

46:36

Rum. Mm-hmm. Now. It's a party now.

46:38

It's a party, but I can't that's about All

46:41

I can do what is the mezcal is

46:43

smoky tequila smoky? Yeah, do you mix that

46:45

with things? You just have that straight

46:48

up shot

46:51

No, I know you exit like, you

46:53

know, I like I love a cocktail

46:58

And I only discover discovered I like

47:00

cocktails like around seven years ago. Oh, yeah

47:02

Yeah, we had a party at a bar

47:05

Yeah, we were down in New York and there was

47:07

a wait to get a seat and I went it's

47:10

snowing out I'm in New York kind of a

47:12

cocktail. Yeah, and I mean not that I hadn't

47:14

had cocktails before but that's what really brought it

47:16

into like I'm gonna continue this and Yeah

47:21

Yeah, no, I like cocktails. Yeah. Yeah, they're

47:23

fun to Watch being

47:25

made. I love that. I like the

47:27

show. Yeah Well, I wouldn't

47:29

you when I make them I put on

47:31

a little arm garters sleeve garters and it

47:33

was just because somebody had died that's a

47:37

Memorial one for

47:39

not Carolina Jean Harlow And

47:45

how is your bartender chat

47:47

it's good Hey, do you hear of

47:50

a Jean Harlow died? Yeah, this is

47:52

the arm band is for weird

47:54

fever awareness There's

47:59

a show that Internet

50:00

bar database to find out their cause

50:02

of death. But yeah,

50:04

all the cocktails you made were, uh, delish.

50:06

Well, they're, um, they should be

50:09

because they're just made out of lemon juice and

50:11

alcohol. But that's no, there's,

50:13

there's something celebratory and I like it with

50:15

you take a nice sip of

50:17

something and then your shoulders go down. Yeah.

50:20

That's a great feeling. I don't wish that stuff

50:23

like that was good for you. You

50:25

know, all this stuff that makes you feel

50:27

good. I know sunshine, happiness, but you know, uh,

50:31

Nancy, have you tried exercise? Take

50:34

a hike. It might change your life. I've

50:38

been trying to turn that frown upside down

50:40

for a long time. Yeah.

50:43

We've got your diagnosis, your frown. Yeah.

50:48

And the cheeses were also

50:50

delectable. Oh yeah. We

50:53

had soft, we had hard. Yeah. We

50:55

put one in the oven. We baked

50:57

debris. Yeah. And the debris came out smelling

51:00

kind of funny. Smell

51:02

like a certain bodily fluid.

51:07

Oh no. No. No. Oh no.

51:10

Yeah. Oh yeah. Yes. Yeah. The other, the

51:12

other. Okay.

51:14

Yeah. Yeah. It

51:16

was very funny because it's one

51:18

of those things where you could see the person

51:21

across the room also realize it. Okay.

51:23

So I'm not crazy. And also I'm not sick.

51:28

So mine, so like

51:31

Jean Harlow's breath, which

51:34

was healthy. So

51:38

like Nancy Reagan's breath. Anyway,

51:43

I encourage everyone to get together with

51:45

good friends. Yeah. You

51:47

know, many happy returns. That's a bird. How

51:49

did it go to? Oh,

51:52

oh, also there was, because there were cheeses,

51:54

like out. Hey,

51:56

once the people start to put, stop speaking at the

51:58

cheeses, I was like. need to go

52:01

back to the fridge and then as I'm doing

52:03

that I'm like well I'm also going to put

52:05

these plates away and then I was like oh

52:07

no I'm doing the thing where I'm cleaning up

52:09

and people are going to start leaving and they

52:11

did. Yeah. It's about

52:13

seven three. Bill

52:15

came here at four and we had

52:18

stayed around for a while. Well about

52:20

ten eleven-ish. See that's reasonable. Of course.

52:22

That's reasonable. Yeah. And

52:24

that's when I stayed up and watched Home Alone 2. I

52:27

needed to wind down. You

52:29

can watch TV after drinks? Yeah.

52:32

I can't. No? Like a

52:35

spinny? Yeah. Just you know I'll

52:37

look I'll do laundry. Oh

52:39

yeah? Yeah because I think I have to wear it out.

52:42

Okay. Before I go to bed. And then do you see the

52:44

laundry the next morning? You're like I didn't put any detergent in.

52:47

I threw all these and my shoes are in there. The

52:51

dog. Yeah.

52:55

No I can watch TV after drinking. I can watch

52:57

too much. I can watch for hours

53:00

and hours. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

53:03

I know I switched to water by

53:05

I had like three full glasses

53:07

of water before I went to bed. Smart. It

53:10

was great. I felt so grown up. It was.

53:13

It felt very grown up. And it was one

53:15

of those things too where your daughter were upstairs

53:18

and probably thinking like why is my

53:20

dad talking so crazy? Were

53:22

they peeking down the stairs? Did

53:25

they come down at all? When I,

53:28

not that I saw. No I don't

53:30

know. They have their screens.

53:32

Yeah they texted us. We

53:37

used to watch all the time. My parents didn't

53:39

have people over for dinner but they'd have people

53:41

over for cocktails. Yeah. And it would always be,

53:43

I don't know why they'd have a

53:46

sirloin cheesecake. Okay. And

53:48

then they got the fancy

53:51

Kraft cheese which came in a

53:53

tube. Like, would you

53:55

like a toothpaste tube? It was kind of like

53:57

that. It had, it looked like a little submarine. and

54:00

the tube would be squishy, it would come out the

54:02

top. Okay. And pretzels. And,

54:04

um, and then they,

54:07

and then they dance. Mmm.

54:09

Which was like, yeah. Like

54:12

ballroom dancing? No, they'd turn on,

54:14

they'd take some of my sister's albums and put them

54:16

on the, on the record player and start dancing. Wow.

54:18

I would just peering out and there was our neighbor.

54:20

She used to go off and on the rug. That

54:23

was her move. She would step up. Oh, good.

54:25

Step up, step down, step up, step down. And

54:27

in here a lot of, woo! From

54:33

there. But it was so exciting. And

54:35

then, cause the next day you'd get leftover

54:37

cheesecake. You'd get all the big stuff that

54:39

you wouldn't get normally. Yeah. I think

54:41

when my parents would do something

54:43

to be either surrounding a holiday usually,

54:46

or like kick off to the summer or something like

54:48

that. But I remember one night,

54:50

the famous Clark summer kickoff. It's not summer

54:52

until we go. Clark

54:54

kick it off. Exactly. Uh,

54:57

one time I was listening, I couldn't hear

54:59

what anybody was saying, but I recognized the

55:02

shape of the fact that my uncle was

55:04

telling jokes. And so it was just

55:06

like, and then my family. How

55:13

come that sounds like the grownups

55:16

in Charlie Brown, but like,

55:18

you never hear them like

55:21

laughing. No,

55:23

yeah. Not like that. I want to hear them.

55:25

Womp, womp, womp, womp. Wah, ha, ha. Everybody's

55:29

mean in Charlie Brown. Well,

55:31

can you blame them? That kid is a

55:33

fricking sad, sad loser. Who's

55:42

the meanest? Lucy? Yeah.

55:44

Lucy was apparently based on his wife. Oh,

55:46

that's nice. Yeah. And, um,

55:48

but yeah, you know, you're a loser, Charlie

55:51

Brown. Wait a minute. Carl Schultz,

55:54

Charlie Brown. Huh. Never.

55:57

Never. The

55:59

dots. are connected. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah,

56:02

but I thought everybody was mean to me. I love

56:04

them though. I love the Peanuts. They're my favorite. Yeah.

56:07

They, I only realized years

56:10

and years ago, there was

56:12

somebody posted a photo of the fact that the

56:14

Charlie Brown characters were voiced by kids.

56:17

Yeah. Which is, I think probably it was like

56:19

a unique thing at the time. I think so,

56:21

because now adults go in and get paid. Mm-hmm.

56:25

Yeah. Yeah. Most

56:27

of the time. Or Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc would do all

56:29

of the... Do you think Addis Fino,

56:31

they did some funny sounds? Yeah.

56:34

Hawooga. Yeah. Yeah.

56:37

Yeah. Diggity, diggity, diggity, diggity. Not

56:40

at all, folks. Yeah. Graham,

56:43

what's going on with you? I

56:45

was thinking about the other night, this

56:47

is a big time like where the charitable organizations

56:50

come out of the woodwork. Yeah. The

56:53

thing, a couple months ago, I had a thing where

56:55

I told one of them, well, I don't have any

56:57

money on me. I was like, we accept tap. And I was

56:59

like, I just don't want to. Like,

57:02

they really backed me into a corner. And...

57:05

Well, because they have to, because no one has any cash

57:07

anymore. No. Yeah. So

57:10

they had a tap. And I was like, okay, crap.

57:12

And then the other night, you know the Red...

57:16

No, Salvation Army. Has like the

57:18

jingle person jingling. Yeah. This

57:21

guy must have... This must have been his community

57:23

service for a crime, because he couldn't have been

57:26

jingling any less. It's a very loose

57:28

kind of, just watching people go by.

57:30

Not really even making enough noise to

57:32

make people stop. Do they have to

57:34

like talk to the store and be

57:36

like, we're going to be outside your

57:38

store? I wonder. Yeah, probably. Or

57:41

they're like free country. Yeah, you can

57:43

go anywhere you want. Yeah, I can

57:45

jingle wherever I want, man. This guy's

57:47

just got an ankle... I just got

57:49

an ankle bracelet. And

57:53

did you... Did I tap? Yeah.

57:56

I didn't tap. No, but I did one

57:58

of those things in the grocery store. there

58:00

were a they're like the want to give

58:03

two dollars to something many put your name

58:05

on. alarm on the world is not yeah

58:07

reason I say no Nice I know. I

58:10

always I know a. Of

58:13

oh the weirdest one is for

58:15

a merciless as a tangled shoppers

58:17

drug mart and at their cell

58:20

serve terminal. It's.

58:22

Different but such as where I target as

58:24

right as the the hell are essence what

58:26

he does some guy my gray although and.

58:30

Yeah, it's sad. You. Go

58:32

through the check out and then it just has is

58:34

very vague. You want to donate

58:36

to women's health though? I I guess. Med.

58:39

What? Does that mean and so and I did

58:41

Anyone don't do as the first time I

58:43

do just giving those those ads the tax write

58:45

off tagged as right. That is a do

58:47

and. Ah Anyway so this moon

58:50

and we hate us act as this. this

58:52

as allows or the self checkout. it. Shoppers.

58:54

I work is. Like you

58:57

you had been to pay anymore. White.

58:59

Pages and pages of with you on. Do

59:01

this, Do on the a point? Still on.

59:03

Yeah, I've. Who are you gonna

59:06

do? a credit or debit? Okay will when you

59:08

think about as. Yeah. And.

59:10

Lights and Am at Whole Foods. Now

59:12

the it's That's it. That's the future.

59:14

It's all self to. Like that I

59:16

always get confused and then I get cranky so

59:18

I discounted account. And where there's somebody working behind

59:20

their and are crazier than you are? Was her.

59:23

Yeah, Amos

59:30

and Us Yemen have to me this week.

59:33

Is. A has this is very rare is

59:35

very rare. Haven't on twitter. Ah,

59:38

There's. A guy in town Cbc reporter

59:40

called Justin Mattel rise. And. See

59:42

Mcelroy as him as artillery on

59:44

ago as allies is very fun.

59:47

He's a he's like the local

59:49

kind of reporter. He he does

59:51

the city council meetings and he's

59:53

done very fun way of doing

59:55

all these kinds of things and

59:57

survey yeah is sort of and

59:59

he'll do. The like is fun polls that

1:00:01

are like. He. Or or it he

1:00:03

was trying to figure out the city's

1:00:05

worst parking lot. Yeah, I like used

1:00:08

unlike what's the best park and what's

1:00:10

the best Yeah and then he didn't

1:00:12

like only one sorry. catalogued every ice

1:00:14

cream parlor in town. a generated them

1:00:16

and that more that ass yeah. But

1:00:21

this one was similar to the ice. the one

1:00:24

as a as I his ranking and he's talking

1:00:26

about a donor place. I. Just

1:00:28

tweeted. I read tweeted that and said

1:00:30

like why are you. Doing.

1:00:32

A mom and pop shop done a thing

1:00:34

and say telling people at saga he did

1:00:36

do a by mean what yeah and so

1:00:38

like. I. Wrote him as he is

1:00:40

a think this almost every habit he

1:00:43

wrote back and we had a completely

1:00:45

civil back and forth where he was

1:00:47

like as amended my criteria this and

1:00:49

as air act as I've had people

1:00:51

in the past say that and. Have

1:00:54

we had I was like oh thank you

1:00:56

for getting back to me as very sweet,

1:00:58

very sweet. Like Arizona Yeah so it's this

1:01:00

time year Atonement. January

1:01:03

of this is a. Buddhist

1:01:06

monks, Are January is a love

1:01:08

those into everybody's. Married as well

1:01:10

as. ah there's always sad thing

1:01:13

is like those they call Blue

1:01:15

Monday. Yeah, that's like the second

1:01:17

or third Monday in January were

1:01:19

like the saddest this as a

1:01:22

year which is a complete fabrication

1:01:24

process. Now that being said about

1:01:26

the doughnuts, what's your favorite Done

1:01:29

Allentown. Oh well it

1:01:31

it was on the you know

1:01:33

them as. I. Can

1:01:35

remember any down and island. They also had

1:01:37

one. Up! Oh yeah, how

1:01:40

much Lucky Lucky know or

1:01:42

thames know. Honey

1:01:44

as the War On He was the

1:01:46

one in the oh I know is

1:01:48

wrong with that one. It's the one

1:01:50

that the Sets Weldon leaves leaves. Oh

1:01:52

yeah these days yeah they were great

1:01:54

but now they are. You know and

1:01:57

and good for them. Become embroiled

1:01:59

in. Your. Old classmate

1:02:01

from Piker be a well. As

1:02:05

yeah. We're in the same greens ssssss

1:02:07

on and ah and now there's a

1:02:09

huge line up in the Muslims like

1:02:11

of you know you, they section you

1:02:13

often, he is right. and the woods.

1:02:15

I'm happy for them. About

1:02:17

yeah, I was on a spot. That

1:02:19

was your go to don't it? Is.

1:02:21

It's not to personalize. Was your for know

1:02:24

I'm I'm I'm quite open about my donuts.

1:02:27

I like the it's just the one that sent the

1:02:29

pink. On top the very i think

1:02:31

they are on it and highlights anything

1:02:33

with coconut omelet okay as as like

1:02:36

yeah we're we're talking classic donor not

1:02:38

like of filled something now and I

1:02:40

don't like that. Oh gods too much

1:02:42

business going on for our you graham.

1:02:45

Favorite. In the city of those

1:02:47

least donuts of really job as

1:02:49

they're the ones with the elephant

1:02:51

in right now yeah I know

1:02:53

that guy of yeah yeah we

1:02:55

had those at at our wedding

1:02:57

resets more yeah all donuts and

1:02:59

I'm it's have incessant yeah. I'm

1:03:02

just before we were leaving. Your.

1:03:05

The substance. Yeah, I filled.

1:03:07

My pockets assess handy. As

1:03:10

a lily and that item acting like Brent

1:03:12

without the tournament. Season. As

1:03:15

fast. As a yeah I just like swimming

1:03:18

in a cat and like then I said i know there

1:03:20

for the kids I can't. Stop. Oh yes, I

1:03:22

feel my pockets. We had. So.

1:03:24

Much less dirty and then those to

1:03:26

sleep eating it. Mindlessly like

1:03:28

I just had. that's. Why I took it.

1:03:31

Yeah. Yeah. And. Was.

1:03:34

An open bar. Or open.

1:03:37

Yes, Obama open candy bar as well be

1:03:39

right. but it was like you couldn't do

1:03:41

it like you know, Relate

1:03:44

to fill my. I

1:03:46

brought my sermon I go

1:03:49

with beer. I went for

1:03:51

drinks with pass guess Tim

1:03:53

and Day now. Married. Couple

1:03:55

and we're at a bar and the bar

1:03:57

was sitting down but the wizards just brought

1:03:59

us. Drink. Before. Last

1:04:01

call, but like immediately, there is kind of work.

1:04:03

There's the stuff. So. Here's

1:04:06

like they're a could get this to

1:04:08

go and they brought i like a

1:04:10

soup container and they bore isn't a

1:04:12

specific aspect of assume himself get a

1:04:14

assess. Assess Ah

1:04:16

your favorite don't I don't like donuts?

1:04:18

No not on are you are Wayne?

1:04:21

Just. How

1:04:23

can you. Know I did not. Ah, I'm

1:04:25

that I would just

1:04:27

rather have anything else

1:04:29

like what like ice

1:04:31

cream or pie oil

1:04:33

as an. Act. And

1:04:35

D or the really has I had

1:04:38

like no good for me. I want

1:04:40

to really enjoy your mom angle to.

1:04:42

My. Mommy says it is now. He

1:04:46

gave his cousins has his new. Been.

1:04:48

Others here. As

1:04:52

big as he says you had a falling

1:04:54

out of. This is a little bit of

1:04:56

the neighborhood to assess. Think I really wanna

1:04:59

talk about small image you know? Also a

1:05:01

few days and I still get them. Yeah,

1:05:04

I mean we still have like three

1:05:06

hundred. This is this the days until

1:05:09

the sun has. Advised

1:05:13

know I just never my go to

1:05:15

his donuts so I don't have a

1:05:17

favorite but I've eaten donuts. yeah. I.

1:05:22

I was on planet earth to say

1:05:24

I'm absolutely not an alien Arizona guys

1:05:26

lauded as I've and I've eaten donuts

1:05:28

and there's a circle food as. A

1:05:31

through. The know why the highest sir on

1:05:33

and try on the I do like a

1:05:36

pizza fiat. And. See those rule

1:05:38

by. With the under.

1:05:41

My. Granddaddy sit on seats as I italian.

1:05:43

Hot takes. Do

1:05:47

is the where they knew at the time. I

1:05:49

used to him. Never

1:05:51

thought that be know that some of

1:05:54

my italian on cancer things at abbey

1:05:56

sites ask if someone an average a

1:05:58

family in like this. The clears avenue

1:06:00

in that town gotta. Mcdonalds.

1:06:03

For the first time. There. Are like

1:06:05

a joystick or that new Scottish rest. Of

1:06:09

us. It's

1:06:12

a big day when a small town gets

1:06:14

of France and who are like I think

1:06:17

most small towns. probably the first France they

1:06:19

get is Tim Hortons would be my guess.

1:06:22

As place that Canada has really

1:06:24

attached or and tired nationality doom.

1:06:27

Ah, you're from your we didn't have

1:06:29

now Barnes amp. Well. As a

1:06:31

which is very weird. Yeah, like as

1:06:33

as. A Canadian

1:06:35

and everyone. Yeah being I got the Canadian

1:06:37

thing and I never got that. I never

1:06:39

understood him on we were shooting and vagina

1:06:41

people are like. Well. You know

1:06:43

what? he it with everything At Ten September somewhat less.

1:06:46

yeah I got out. I've never been to his house.

1:06:48

I don't know. If

1:06:50

we have oil. And and it

1:06:52

was never a never big. Things

1:06:55

I think I looked it up the

1:06:57

first Vancouver Tim Hortons of Ninety Ninety

1:06:59

Four. So really, I was it like

1:07:01

it wasn't Probably Somewhere I don't know.

1:07:04

It's. Like end of the a when and other you first.

1:07:07

Came out or whatever years ago member

1:07:09

being a kid they didn't have it

1:07:12

in the city. Mikey.burnaby. Oh you have to go

1:07:14

And they didn't bring him. Into the city and I ran

1:07:16

out as I wanted to see where the bear was

1:07:18

and I wanted magnet the root beer and everything. but

1:07:20

yeah we couldn't know. That you know, reign of the

1:07:22

senseless. Automatic.

1:07:26

Well. As soon as it

1:07:28

is as well as far as remember as

1:07:31

aws sold as was is the aging in

1:07:33

the back of my head I think that

1:07:35

sense for and vulgar the whoop their. Ah

1:07:40

of by for me. it was also like.

1:07:45

If we also had slept

1:07:47

in Vancouver as of we

1:07:49

didn't have. That. Superstore.

1:07:52

All. Our ah save on foods know

1:07:54

guy we now do. But. now

1:07:57

it as an adult i can't tell those who

1:07:59

stars apart because I'll always call one the

1:08:01

wrong name. Right. There's too much

1:08:03

stuff in these places. I can't,

1:08:06

I get overwhelmed. I went to

1:08:08

Indigo chapters bookstore the other

1:08:10

day. It's a department store. It is

1:08:12

a department store. Yeah, books are very

1:08:14

much an afterthought. Books are wallpaper, and

1:08:16

you're mostly getting a hot water bottle.

1:08:19

Yeah. Yeah,

1:08:21

it's, we had in

1:08:23

Calgary, mostly had Robin's donuts, which was

1:08:25

a place that you could smoke in.

1:08:29

Oh yeah, yeah. Had no

1:08:31

disposable tin ashtrays,

1:08:33

and it was

1:08:35

really popular with truckers. Well, you

1:08:37

had a Robins on Fraser Street, I remember,

1:08:39

years ago. Which was just, it was basically

1:08:41

the same as Tim Hortons. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1:08:43

yeah. Do you remember when, well, you probably

1:08:45

don't. You could smoke in movie theaters?

1:08:48

No, I was just, you could

1:08:50

smoke still in restaurants when I was

1:08:53

a youth, but I don't think, I

1:08:55

think maybe movie theaters and airplanes had,

1:08:59

but you could sit in a smoking section in a

1:09:01

restaurant, and also go to a restaurant and see a

1:09:03

cigarette machine. Hey, I was, my first job

1:09:05

I ever had, I was a receptionist at Swan Luster

1:09:07

Engineering, 1525 Robson Street. And

1:09:12

I smoked back then, and I could

1:09:14

smoke as the receptionist. Really? Yeah. On

1:09:16

the job? You bet. Wow. An

1:09:19

engineering company on Robson Street. If

1:09:21

you imagine. Where on Robson? Closer

1:09:24

to Denman, and the building's

1:09:26

still there, but I

1:09:28

don't know what it is now. I don't even know whether

1:09:30

Swan Luster Engineering still exists. I

1:09:33

imagine they're probably gonna swallow it up by

1:09:35

a conglomerate or some sort. Oh, probably. You

1:09:37

don't go to the annual reunion? Yeah. They

1:09:39

don't invite me anymore. Yeah, well, you'll

1:09:42

be, sorry, sorry I didn't invite you this year.

1:09:45

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1:09:49

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1:11:28

If you got ears or eyes on the

1:11:31

street, absolutely report back here

1:11:33

to us. We always like to start with the

1:11:35

guest. Nancy, do you have something funny you've overheard?

1:11:37

Well, I don't know whether it's funny or not, but

1:11:39

I do. I was at the airport in

1:11:43

October and I was just standing there and

1:11:45

I heard a group of women walking past

1:11:47

me. I didn't, I wasn't looking at them,

1:11:49

but I heard them and I heard one

1:11:51

woman say, I am

1:11:53

nothing without my eyebrows. It's

1:11:55

true though. It is

1:11:58

true. Now I'm kind of regret that I... I didn't look

1:12:00

up. And I kind of said,

1:12:02

you're right. Yeah, you

1:12:04

gotta draw something on there. Yeah, yeah. Eyebrows

1:12:07

are so funny. Yeah, you don't

1:12:09

know you need them. Yeah, to

1:12:12

look, you know, human. But

1:12:14

it's like, have you

1:12:16

seen the show, Barry? Sorry for a lot of

1:12:18

listeners who don't have eyebrows that are gonna think

1:12:21

I'm going in on them. There's

1:12:24

a guy on it that has no eyebrows. He

1:12:27

doesn't know anything. Yeah, he doesn't, you have no hair. But

1:12:30

he really doesn't in real life. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:12:32

And I think he pulled it off. I think

1:12:34

he looks pretty good with it. He looks terrific.

1:12:36

He has alopecia. Right, yeah,

1:12:39

yeah. And yeah, I

1:12:41

was trying to think, I think that's what killed

1:12:43

Gene Harlow. No, it was a weird fever. I

1:12:46

don't know how many times I have to tell you

1:12:48

it was a weird fever. In

1:12:52

the movie Drive, Albert Brooks is the bad

1:12:54

guy. I love him. He shaved his eyebrows

1:12:56

because he wanted you to think there's something

1:12:58

not right. Like just looking at

1:13:00

him, like there's something not quite right about this guy.

1:13:02

Did you see the documentary on him? Just last night.

1:13:04

Yeah, I love him. He, it's

1:13:07

on Rave? Yeah. And

1:13:09

it's so funny. He was so, I mean, not

1:13:12

that he isn't anymore, but his stuff that he

1:13:14

did on late night talk shows.

1:13:16

Was unbelievable. Yeah. Yeah.

1:13:20

His ventriloquist, he's like, I'm gonna smoke while

1:13:22

I do. Ventriloquist and they

1:13:24

just throw the puppet on the floor. That's a

1:13:26

bigger man. Dave,

1:13:31

do you have an overheard? I have an overseen. This

1:13:34

is something that was posted in

1:13:36

the neighborhood Facebook group. Is

1:13:39

it next door or is it just a Facebook group? It's a Facebook

1:13:41

group. Okay. I'm in the next door as

1:13:43

well. Not under

1:13:45

my real name. What is it? Neighborhood Facebook.

1:13:48

Just our, there's like on Facebook, you

1:13:50

can join groups, our

1:13:52

podcast as a group. Yeah. And there's also

1:13:55

one for this neighborhood. Oh, okay. And so

1:13:57

it's just like, did anybody notice the... Like

1:16:00

a fake one for the kid to play

1:16:02

with. Maybe you wake up at five in

1:16:04

the morning because Santa brought you an Easy

1:16:07

Bake Rice Cooker. This kid

1:16:09

is obsessed. Was,

1:16:11

I never had, as a

1:16:13

youth, I never had anything prepared in an Easy Bake

1:16:15

Oven. Where they wanted to get up at five in

1:16:17

the morning because it would take all day to- Yeah.

1:16:20

Yeah. Because it was just a light bulb, right?

1:16:22

No, I know, but I lit my comforter on

1:16:24

my quilt on fire with the light bulb.

1:16:26

Oh yeah. And you were cooking it? Yeah.

1:16:29

I was cooking it because you get these little tiny

1:16:31

metal cake plates and you get a cake mix. And

1:16:34

you put it in. Uh-huh. And then you put

1:16:36

it into the little oven. Mine was baby blue, white

1:16:38

trim, anyways. And

1:16:42

so, you put it in and then you bake it from,

1:16:44

and the light bulb is what gives it the heat

1:16:46

to bake. Yeah. But I put it on my

1:16:48

bed. Oh. And I guess

1:16:50

I was preoccupied doing something fantastic. Right. And

1:16:53

it fell to its side. Oh. The

1:16:57

cake mix fell on my quilt and

1:17:00

the light bulb started burning

1:17:02

my quilt. Ooh. Wow.

1:17:05

The amount of trouble you must have

1:17:07

got in from that. No, they didn't,

1:17:10

you know, mom and dad, we weren't

1:17:12

helicopter'd. Yeah, yeah. We

1:17:14

were not helicopter'd. Yeah. Yeah, the

1:17:16

point of being a helicopter parent is to punish

1:17:18

the children. Yeah. Not

1:17:21

about safety. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, Graham,

1:17:24

do you have an over-heard? I do,

1:17:26

and this was a woman that I

1:17:28

feel very jealous of. This was in

1:17:30

the coffee shop the other day. She

1:17:32

was talking to her friend and she said, I've never

1:17:34

had the flu, so I don't know what it's like at

1:17:36

all. Huh? I was like, Jesus, that's

1:17:39

impossible. You haven't had the flu. I

1:17:41

can't believe that people- She just dropped a Gene Harlow

1:17:43

about that. Yeah. Can you

1:17:46

imagine never having the flu? It's a-

1:17:49

How old was she, do you think? She was probably in her

1:17:51

like, early 30s, I

1:17:53

would say. Yeah, I didn't get a flu until I was 40. You

1:17:57

got the 40 flu. Yeah, I got the- when

1:18:00

my body was going through the change. I

1:18:04

got my first flu after menopause. Oh,

1:18:06

yeah. OK. Just imagine

1:18:08

a fluless

1:18:11

person. Yeah. Yeah. That sounds like a

1:18:13

boat. Yeah, I think that's a liar.

1:18:15

Is it a liar and a boat?

1:18:17

Yeah. Oh, no. I have diarrhea all

1:18:19

the time, so I don't really know

1:18:21

what you're talking about. I find it

1:18:23

hot. Yeah. No,

1:18:28

I just get routine daily sicknesses. I've

1:18:30

never had the flu. Yeah. Funny thing.

1:18:32

I can't taste anything. My

1:18:35

tongue is off. Now,

1:18:38

we also have overheard sent into us from all

1:18:40

over the map. Oh, yeah. If

1:18:42

you want to send one in, send it into

1:18:44

SPY at Maximum Fund dot org. This

1:18:46

first one comes from Mike, right in

1:18:48

our backyard, North Vancouver. My overheard

1:18:51

came after there was a mass

1:18:53

stabbing in our neighborhood North Vancouver.

1:18:56

Was that what you heard? Yeah, yeah. At the library,

1:18:58

I think. And shortly after the local

1:19:01

Lions Club put together a drive through

1:19:03

candlelight vigil through Lynn Canyon. And as

1:19:05

we're driving through the very solemn vigil,

1:19:07

one of the volunteers casually says to

1:19:09

another, Well, just good to show you.

1:19:11

People love a good parade. Well,

1:19:14

there you go. Yeah. Yeah.

1:19:17

It's a fact of life. People love a good parade. I

1:19:19

mean, you know, a procession, whatever you got. Uh,

1:19:24

yeah, that's rough. Yeah, that is. I

1:19:26

don't know what to say. You're off.

1:19:29

It's a misunderstanding

1:19:32

of the occasion. Yeah,

1:19:34

I hope so. Yeah. Well,

1:19:37

I mean, you're volunteers. You're not sifting through

1:19:39

them as well. It's also people will just

1:19:41

like a drive through vigil that is catnip

1:19:43

to people with cars. That's

1:19:47

true. Well, now we got somewhere to

1:19:49

go. It's Friday night. We don't have anywhere to go.

1:19:52

Oh, this next one comes

1:19:54

from Gina S. Parts Unknown in

1:19:57

a coffee shop said she's

1:19:59

become the. Yeah,

1:22:00

so keeping them out of

1:22:02

a very psycho relationship.

1:22:04

Yeah. Ooh, that sounds

1:22:07

a little carry-like. Yeah. Hmm.

1:22:10

Yeah, something, yeah. I want

1:22:12

friends. I've never wanted friends.

1:22:15

I just want to hang out with your mom. Yeah.

1:22:17

Please, Mummy, keep the boys away from

1:22:20

me. Mummy! Mummy,

1:22:23

can I get in your backpack? I

1:22:27

promise I'll shrink down very small,

1:22:31

Mummy. Anyway,

1:22:35

it's very healthy. The creepy

1:22:37

portion of the show. Well,

1:22:40

in addition to overhears that are written in, we also

1:22:42

accept your phone calls. If you want to call us,

1:22:44

our phone number is 1-844-779-7631. That's

1:22:49

one. Ugh. Spypod

1:22:51

one like these people have.

1:22:56

Hey, Dave, Graham, and wonderful guests. This

1:22:58

is Rebecca calling from Chicago. I'm actually

1:23:00

in LA, and I just visited the

1:23:02

La Brea Tar Pit Museum, which is

1:23:04

awesome, and everyone should go. I

1:23:07

walked into the bathroom just in time to hear

1:23:09

a slightly exasperated mom say to her kid, you

1:23:12

know, there's other Christmas songs. And

1:23:14

then there was a silence, and suddenly I hear,

1:23:17

last Christmas I gave you

1:23:19

my heart. Thanks, no friggin'

1:23:21

way. Oh,

1:23:25

wow. Now I feel I went

1:23:28

down to LA and never went to that museum. I feel

1:23:30

like I missed out. Yeah, well, I think if that's the

1:23:32

sound you're going to hear in a bathroom, that's a

1:23:34

good one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. There

1:23:36

was, yeah, that normalized singing songs in

1:23:38

bathrooms. There was a challenge this year

1:23:40

of, it was called the Last Christmas

1:23:42

Challenge, I think, and it was,

1:23:45

you see who can go the longest without hearing

1:23:47

Last Christmas by Wham. Yes.

1:23:50

But I don't think anyone

1:23:52

wins, because that song rules. Yeah, nobody

1:23:54

loses, that's for sure. What

1:23:57

was the one last year that my family... never

1:24:00

heard of. I'd never heard of two. It

1:24:02

was apparently like everybody else

1:24:04

knew it. I'm trying to remember what it

1:24:07

was. There was one when we

1:24:09

went to Switzerland

1:24:12

a few years ago. We flew through Heathrow.

1:24:15

And apparently the big, like this is a

1:24:17

huge pop Christmas hit in England by Chris

1:24:21

Rhea. Chris Ray. Oh,

1:24:23

driving home. Driving home. And

1:24:28

it has made no impact in North America.

1:24:30

I have heard every year here. Do you?

1:24:32

Yeah. And I crack up every time I start. I

1:24:34

mean, sorry, Chris Rhea, if you're here. He's a big

1:24:37

listener. You're a big listener like that. But it

1:24:39

is driving home for Christmas. Something,

1:24:42

something. Yeah. He's sort

1:24:44

of the British springsteen. And

1:24:46

I sing something. Yeah. And

1:24:48

British Mariah Carey, Shane. What's

1:24:50

his name? McGowan? He

1:24:55

just missed his big season by like just

1:24:57

a couple of weeks. I wouldn't go on

1:24:59

British. Was he Irish? I don't think he

1:25:01

might have been Irish. Are

1:25:05

you British?

1:25:07

Anyway, before... Dave's

1:25:10

finally a report. Yes. Here's

1:25:13

your next phone call. Hi,

1:25:16

Dave, Graham, and possible

1:25:18

guest. This is Tomas

1:25:20

from Dallas calling in

1:25:22

with a overheard. I

1:25:26

was in Walmart

1:25:28

recently just chopping around, doing

1:25:31

the stuff. And as

1:25:34

I was walking around, there was

1:25:37

someone just talking out loud

1:25:39

to themselves, and I overheard them

1:25:41

say, Well, I never

1:25:43

expected to be the Walmart shopper that

1:25:46

I am now. I

1:25:49

don't know what that means, but

1:25:51

no freaking way. Yeah. It creeps

1:25:53

up on you. All of a sudden, you're what

1:25:55

you hate. It makes kind of

1:25:57

sense that you're talking in a conversation. And

1:26:00

he said this person was talking

1:26:02

to themselves. Yeah, if

1:26:04

you told me to, you're this type

1:26:06

of Walmart shopper. But maybe this person

1:26:09

is thrilled about being a shop that

1:26:11

they are now. Maybe

1:26:13

it wasn't like, oh, my life's over.

1:26:16

No, this is God's plan. Yeah. You

1:26:18

know what's funny is Walmart almost replaced

1:26:21

all the mom and pop shops and became it. And

1:26:24

now it's all that they're cute. You're like, they're a

1:26:26

little bit cute. Yeah. Walmart,

1:26:28

they're the small business now.

1:26:30

Yeah. They're absolutely not a small business. No,

1:26:32

I know. Like, make way more money

1:26:34

than Amazon. Don't they sell a pile of

1:26:36

guns? Yeah, you can

1:26:38

get a pile of guns. Like just loosen

1:26:41

a box like DVDs. Yeah. Diapers

1:26:43

and guns. Like an advent calendar of guns. Diapers

1:26:45

and guns. That's the name of the band. Diapers

1:26:49

and guns. What are we waiting for?

1:26:51

That is two of them guys made of his gun. Just

1:26:55

some diaper, actual diapers. All

1:26:57

right. Then your final phone

1:26:59

call. Hi,

1:27:02

this is Ben from Mount

1:27:04

Vernon, New York with an

1:27:06

overseen. I was down

1:27:08

in the Bronx, little

1:27:11

Italy this past weekend and

1:27:13

was in the Italian, in the Italian market

1:27:16

and they had a T-shirt

1:27:18

mostly about being Italian

1:27:20

from the Bronx. But

1:27:22

one shirt I noticed that I

1:27:25

live on the corner of Kiss My

1:27:28

Ass Avenue and No

1:27:30

Friggin' Way. I

1:27:33

live on the corner of what? Kiss

1:27:35

Ass Avenue and No Friggin' Way? Was

1:27:38

it really? No Friggin' Way. I thought he was

1:27:40

just signing on. No. Oh. No

1:27:43

Friggin' Way. That's what I thought. That's

1:27:45

what he heard? No. Well, it's a T-shirt he

1:27:47

saw. I live on the corner of

1:27:49

Kiss My Ass Avenue and No Friggin' Way. Oh.

1:27:52

I love it. Yeah. Yes,

1:27:55

and I got it. I loved it. That's

1:27:57

why I played it. Graham and Nancy. I

1:28:00

hate it. No, we don't. No,

1:28:02

no, no. We don't. Oh

1:28:04

my gosh. This, no. Dave,

1:28:07

don't leave, don't leave, Dave. I

1:28:09

just actually thought he was, that

1:28:11

was what he's going, it was kind of like a

1:28:14

crank thing. Yeah, oh no one would ever crank

1:28:16

us. Would they? Have

1:28:18

you ever got crank calls on mute? Yeah. We

1:28:20

get a lot, we used to get fake ones. We

1:28:23

used to get people calling in and like saying something

1:28:25

from a movie or whatever. Right, some funny baloney. Some

1:28:27

funny baloney. Like I'll have what she's having. Yeah, they'll

1:28:29

say I'll have what she's having or I'll

1:28:32

never go hungry again, that kind of thing. That's

1:28:36

the Chicago way? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:28:38

Yeah. Friends

1:28:40

are always a country minute. Let me hear

1:28:42

your ears and whatnot. Well,

1:28:44

hello, Dolly. Yeah. Well,

1:28:49

that brings us to the end of the podcast. Nancy, thank

1:28:52

you so much for being our guest. Thank you so much

1:28:54

for having me. It was lovely. Yeah, this was so

1:28:56

much fun. Yeah. And a happy new year

1:28:58

to you. We have

1:29:00

an old one. Happy new year to Vulcan.

1:29:02

We have an old one. Oh, for crew year.

1:29:04

Yeah. Gonna make a coconut drink.

1:29:07

Yeah, yeah. And thanks everybody out there for

1:29:09

listening. If you haven't had a coconut drink in a while,

1:29:12

you know, do yourself a favor, go ahead

1:29:14

and have one. Come on back

1:29:16

next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself.

1:29:18

Thank you.