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He's Dave Shunkke, and he's Graham Clark. And together we host stop podcasting yourself. W Hell and welcome to episode number nine, fifty three of Stop Podcast Yourself. My name is Graham Clark. And with me as always is a man who he's keeping the front door open, keep the back door open, getting that crossbreee, mister Dave Shumka. Yeah, doors are now closed. We're now podcasting and we're doing air conditioning. It's summer, this first episode of the summer U let me just check the calendar Y, first episode of the summer. Yeah, getting my. Are you gonna drinkin Arnold Palmer? boy, what's on my list? Yeah, what is on your drinking list thisist? J Just drinking? Oh, I thought on my entire summer list. Oh, I mean, we'll go over that, you know in a bit. Okay, drinking list Arnold Palver, ye Just iced tea, just leven it. Y that's about it Not not a frosty beer No arc beer? Come on. It's illegal. Our guest today, returning guests to the podcast. It's been an awful while. We're super glad to have them back. It's JJ Whitehead. Hello. Hey guys. thanks for having me. and congratulations. nine hundred fifty three, holy mooly. Yeah. Yeah. This is the milestone we never thought we'd make. nine hundred fifty three Yeah, who would have known, you know? That's mental. It is mental. Yeah. There's a lot of podcasters out there you know, bragging about episode fifty. Yeah. way h that big landmark. Here you guys are in your little basement cy hole. It is true. Churning out nine hundred fifty three those people with fifty though, those are good shows. And this is it, right? This we ended at nine fif That was the overall goal, right? Nine fifine like yeah. I should say you're your final guest. Yeah JJ, you've been such a big part of the show over the years. I'm so excited to be here for this. Well let's get to know us Yeah. Get to know us. Now when you came in the door and I had to remind all three of us that you've been here twice before. Right? Yeah. none of us knew that. I remember the first time you were here. Isn't that great how none of us knew that. And that would have been a different different house. different h Maybe wouldn't have even had Children yet? This house No. Y This house feels familiar. This is a different house. Oh no way. This was the house you you would have been here last time Okay. Okay and there were children last time and then but I haven't seen them. they're around somewhere, right? They' hunting this place. I saw a hiding I think I saw a hiding moving lump on your couch. I feel as a parent, I'm like can encourage that. And yet as a former child, no I would Please don't make meet the guests. Yeah, fair enough. And now all he does is meet the guests. I know, it's tough. It's like life really sneaks up on you sometimes So guest For people who don't remember your whole deal, JJ, what's your whole? Nobody's gonna That's not even patronized considering what we've already discussed. Yeah beforefore we turned the mics on, we're like, yeah, noody knows my deal, which is great. It's kind of as a genX comedian, that's what we wanted when we set out our careers. wanted we love that anonymity of getting on stage and getting off. Yeah. And now you have to do so you have to podcast, you have to do all kinds and all sorts of things. So So I don't know where to start with I did I'm no I started in ninety eight, ninety eight from Nova Scotia. fromr Nova Scotia. I started in Scotland Well, you started in Scotish? Oh Scotia. I started in Scottish. Yeah. started in the original Scotia. And I spent seventeen years in Britain Okay. Yeah. And we met at the Nova Scotia Comedy Festival. Yes Yeah back in the day. Halifax comomedy. Yeah, So I would' have been British based then. And you live and I was home in London? I lived I started in Scotland, then I moved to London, then I moved to Manchester and then back to London. And now I live in Los Angeles. So you went U you were there for how long? Eight years? Sventeen years. Oh seventeeneen years in Britain. Yeah. seventeen years in Britain Was that like jarring to go from Britain to LA? U sometimes, but overall I think I was ready. I think I was ready to leave I think I was to leave Britain. Yeah. I as a I don't know how you guys are in Vancouver. I'm more great. I'm always just getting to know Vancouver when I get here, but I love London. You know, I loveved it consonsidered myself a Londoner But I was at that point where I was like, maybe it's time to switch things up about ten years ago. And then Jim Jeffries offered me a job So I came that's that was my ticket to Los Angeles. So it was a good transition to go from the London comedy circuit or the British comedy circuit to the Gymeffersy show in L.A. So it was a good Yeah, pretty good transition. What do you miss? What do you miss about London? Pret. You miss Pret? Fosta that? Is Gre? you mean Do you mean Prt? Mama J? Yeah. Dick go a Pat. Oh my. I miss the gloominess. I miss the misery and the gray and it's so good for comedy as well just the, you know, just the disposition of all the British people Yeah the defeat is a I think of Americans. this is what I feel about' miss Lnandos Oh my gosh, that's a terrible place too. You only have You have all the terrible in your mind U yeah, I will say, I think Americans think life's a competition. Oh sure. And so you got to best the person next to you and they very much feel that way. That's kind of the American thing, isn't it? You know, we got to win. I think the great thing with Britain is they feel life was a competition and they've already lost genererally. And that just makes them great people to be around and drink with. they're not going to there's not going to be a comeback. I mean, it's Britain had had its right. It was such a good empire. Yeah. I never setat, you know? Yeah U yeah, it's I love London. I think like ye, did you find when you moved over there British crowds better than Canadian crowds or just weirder or what? Well, I started in Scotland. Oh right. So so that was a tough one for me, which I will say, yeah, I think Britishd crowds are harder because they heckle more and they're more I guess they consider it playful, but But it's it's a gauntlet if you're a new comic. Yeah. it's kind of training at high altitude. like, holy cow, they're coming from the left. They're coming from the right. They're just yelling at you in an accent you can't understand. Yeah. It's got to be hard. Yeah, heavy drinking audiences. So I didn't start I didn't work in Canada for the first time until two thousand three, I think was my first trip Oh wow overver. And then and then I spent about six months in Toronto when I got a comedy now. I got a comedy now in Cedy now. So that was my training and I would say the audiences were just really polite and nice and I speent a lot of time on a on stage going when does it get? Is there a Canadian like a comedy now for people who don't remember or aren't from here was a series of comedy specials. Yeah that CTV put on for Yeah Five ten years, I don't know. Yeah. Oh, I think a layer ten or eleven. Yeah. probably like at least fifteen everyone on the same big stage with like a salmon colored background. Yeah. What an ugly it looked like the inside of a jawbreaker. The inside of a you know or like a yeah, what ye a jwbaker.'s a jobbreakerer or goobstoppper. Yeah What is the Is there anything now? Do we do stand out specials on TV? No, everybody's putting them on YouTube' migrated hasn't it? I know Crave put out some specials. R. And then, you know, everybody's on Rast Battles is the TV one. Everyone's on Airfce. Airfce. They just announced some new company that's doing a bunch of specials. One of them past guest Erica Siggurson is doing a special. U But yeah, comedy now was like their first two seasons it's like, let's round up the best of the best R And it just over time, they're like, you have twenty minutes of ch. How deep does Canadian show biz go? But it's, you know, it was pretty cool. That's a pretty big highlight for, you know, if you're a young Canad twenty years ago. Yeah. Oh well, I'm sure they're still showing it actually. Yeah. I saw mine after the New Year's ball drop twenty twenty four. So just two years ago, two years ago, I'm sitting there at my parents' place, New Year' we're having a little drink and the ball dropped and the coverage kind of ended and then on came me. and we were just sitting there with our ruming eggnogs. what the heck? It is like they get young comedians and they say, do you have twenty minutes that you're happy watching forever. Yeah ye and sign away all the You know, which still happens. That still happens now. you if you, you know, people out there that are making the great footage making it look good They usually make you sign away everything. And back then you got paid, if I recall correctly, about three thousand dollars. That sounds about right. I was gonna guess four Yeah.ation. Yeah, exactly. If it was today it would be four, I guarantee you. Yeah. But there's a YouTube channel you can go. There's a bunch of them put up there. There is yeah. But like and mine's on my You I put mine up on my YouTube channel. Now when you watch it, are you like, what the hell was I doing? Or are you like, Hey, these bits kind of still got a little Oh, I think I was doing the best I could for a guy who was only eight years in. No sure. nine years ag. Yeah, that was al right. And I did a lot of Canadiana. So that was nice. Yeah. That was a nice gold. remember how I like to ring in my new year Canadian. Yeah. some two thousand three Canadian or whatever. reed Green showhow or something like that. Yeah ye. But when you're like for me coming over from Britain and spending a little bit of time in Toronto just to get the material together. Yeah. I was I was kind of excited when I did all the Canadian stuff. Oh I was it was fantastic and they shot I feel like the night of mine they shot like four different ones and one of them, a guy when I think I was over on the podcast named Todd Allen had a big stain on his shirt and they let him do the whole and then told him afterwards Oh And they were like, we got to do it again. so we had to come the next night and do it all over again. Oh man. I've got one of those as well. but Yeah does Toby Hargrave still live in Vancouver? He lives not in Vancouver. He lives on the island or no up the coast.. Great guy. So before I share this story, I want to clear. I don't want to come across as by when Toby showed up in like it wasn't chip and pepper, but it was a tie dye. It was like a It was basically. It was but it was a very expensive shirt. It was V veryy expensive And Toby started doing his set and they had to stop because it was sweating through know you know, color mismatch kind of way. And I remember watching, it was me in Loughlland Patterson on the side. We were watching were going, oh, this isn't o, it's it's all sweating through They stopped and then they said to Toby said, we might have to restart this. Do you have another shirt And I remember I just remember T me going, but this is really expensive. And and he really went to bat for how expensive it was instead of like how which which says a lot about Canadian because I think that's what a lot of us would think while I'm doing a big Big TV special, big thing. I better get expensive wardrobe. Yeah, yeah, I gotta look my best. And you're trying to explain to a young comic, it's not the cost of the wardrobe here, my man. It's how it's needs to like not be sweating through. It would be really funny though if he'd like like actually when we edit it, can we do it out of order? So I go from being like super sweated through to normal back to super sweaty I love you Tob mey Yeah. I haven't seen you in decades before. For whatever reason, they made me wear like a random pair of shoes they werear they found. Yeah. it was It wass like what do you want to wear. Yeah just a pair of brown shoes.. they were like, No, it has to be black shoes and. I wasn't a fan of idea. That' Sandra. Yeah, who was in charge of shoes. She was in charge of wardrobe And yeah, she made me do a regret something that I regret. there's a thing when I when you look at it I showed up in like these baggy jeans. I showed up in casual clothes Yeah, but with some sharp Wardrobe. Exensive. I just bought some they weren't It wasn't expensive, but it was just some black trousers and some but it was sweat wicking. It was dry fit. Yes, it was very wicking. I had some Adidas gazelles. and a black shirt that I was comfortable in them a little bit superstitious. I think a lot of us comics are too. It was all gig worn Ready to ar, right? Yeah. And then she insisted that I had the that I she doesn't like elbows S who don't know who does? She wouldn't let me roll my sleeves up. And then she didn't she wanted me to wear my baggy jeans So When I look at it, it looks it looks terrible. It barely looks of the era. even I'm therearing these baggy kind of lumpy dad jeans. You know, you want to see a twenty two year old coming in dad jeans or what. Yeah, yeah. It's weird how they do like different shows would have different I feel like on letterman by the end they werere making comedians wear a Lapel mic and just like have their hands free R likeike they're doing a TED talkk Yeah, DJ DMres told me a story about that too. He did He's done Can. Yeah. I think. and he was yeah, and he said he got some really good advice because he didn't realize that his wardrobe blending into the background. Right. And whoever gave him the advice, you know, helped him from be being like the floating head. Yeah Yeah Oh yeah, good point. should like Lettermans set would have been kind of black black and bluish Kind of, I don't know, man. feel like it was a bluer., there it is. there's the old comic b fast fatigue. because I I think he was And Jay Leno was red. I feel like he had a curtain and David Leenterman had just the backdrop of the. Remember David Lenterman, they would they had a screen like a like a mesh screen that they would l for and he would like sprint behind it. passed it every time at the start of the show Man, I miss TV. Yeah, man. StV used to Is that why you had to retire because he couldn't do this had to Yeah before his ACL. J just had to have that indifference. I don't know, man, here we go. Did you I know there's all sorts of like specials and guest spots and stuff like that that you can get in Britain and Australia, that I'll see clips from people that kind of work in those. D you get anything like that? like a Something on TV set or whatever. anything like I know they show clips from like the Melbourne. Oh comedy festival and stuff like that. Yeah, I've got a couple of the New Zealand Comedy festival. I've done their gala. Okay A few times. That was good for clips. Yeah Nice Yeah. I think I've aged out of that though, but there are there' the clips of yeah, like the comedy now and actually the New Zealand galas and stuff. I look at that and I'm like, wow, this is a Very young, young kid, short spiky hair and all that kind of. Oh really? Oh yeah, I can't picture you without this long Yeah. I mean either. I think we're pulling up the comedy now. Yeah, we got We gott to see. We will' play it, but maybe a little bit. All right, Well, I called them dad Je. they' probably They're mom jeans. There we go Oh you'censored. You got a full hour. Yes, I got a full hour. Yeah when you were Jason John Whitehead back then. Well, I've always I changed Jason John Whitead. I had to change it to JJ because of working in America because Americans will get your name wrong on purpose. Right So I had on purpose I had to start. Yeah I they would always be like, James James Johnson, Whitehead. come on to. All right, that's you're being too hard on yourself. Yeah, those pants look pretty good. Ths look great. Well you got I would love to see a distance. I'd love to see a bit of elbow. but And the subtitles here say, all right, applause for mom. And of course I was so I nailed it with the salmon. Maybe it's peach. Yeah, but it looked Jolly Rancher, that's what I was trying to think of. Yeah R Jo I said Gobstopper or whatever. But Gbstopper also works because of the weird light pastel kind of it's gosh, it's a bad looking thing Yeah. I had to close it because I was ashamed of what YouTube was suggesting we watch next. Yeah and it's weird. definitely had to phase out the colorful backdrops Yeah in these comedy shows. Well, they like they had one set and they used that for the entire run and like because they the late eighties, early ninetyies, it was a brickwall. L every comedy show was a brickwall or maybe one was and it just became iconic then Comedy now would make it the like that was your background, but the they would have The intro of the show was all like in a back alley and they would'd be your name would get spray banned on the wall Yeah, ye Oh man, what an embarrassment. Hey. Hey we first sayed of the time. It was of the time. It was the time. Oh I you know what? sometometimes a comment will come up on a comedy now and it'll They don't understand the era. it'll be a fan of Joe Rogan or something This guy took it from Joe Rogan and I have to reply this is before Joe Rogan even did his first podcast. So Yeah, I wonder about. Now I've always ye, wondered about that too. Why is so much of your material overlapping with Joe Rose in' podcast But I do I find that when you're watching young comedians, they're doing material that they don't know has been around since the eighties. Yes. So they're doing like this all these premises that you're like Do you not know that these are Yeah, but they're so confident in them too? Yeah. I gonna tell I've heard it before.ard I don't wan to be like a old timer. I don't wan to be that like. No, you just have to kind of be nice and go keep working on that stage presence kid. Yeah. Keep working on that. Yeah. You got some good stage presence up there That's a good one. What are the bits that like, it's funny though, like, Like I remember people doing UFC jokes when UFCs became big about like Are these half naked men grappling? Is there anything What's really going on there? But that was like could have been a Greco Roman wrestling joke from two thousand years ago or a WWE. Yeah back when it was WWF. Yeah. That was a pretty common Yeah. Yeah, you gonna watch your men in tight grapple with each other again? Yeah, that is a solid bit. mayaybe I'll try something like that tonight Yeah, it all all shows up again. Yeah. Oh man. it's u so many Like, because when you were growing up like, were you into stand upp. D you always want to be a standu? Yeah. Yeah yeah And so what did you do? Becauseuse it wasn't as we had four o'clock four PM Canadian television. We had comedy at Club fifty four and just for laughs. that was your. So you get home from school. Well if you're a kid like me. Yeah That was it. I threw on, I don't remember what was from three to four, but I probably got in the door from school Yeah hky kid Around right to the TV No know about three twenty five. Yeahah, right to the balll cereal right to the TV. four o'clock, I believe was was just for laus and then four thirty was Com at Club fifty four. Oh yes. that Yeah, which nobody would understand now. I know This is the thing. and I've put this just out into the E respond. They have and they said there's there's some places I can see and I've watched the ones that are on there on YouTube and they're great can't them anywhere. Like nobody's uploaded them. So R. They just existed in that time And then never since. Yeah. Isn't that a funny thing about the comedians that are just about seven or eight years older than us. justust one just that extra little generation off the goofy tie generation. Yes. Yeah, and that was the cool. Yeah had the person your personality was in your tongue. Yeah. true. It was goofy. Yeah theoof goofy tie. that was and that was a lot of comedy cllub fifty four stuff like, But they Yeah They don't have the technical ability to cut their old sets into reels. I'm like that's thater great. And then by time by the time they dig out the VHS, they're like, okay, I've gott to take this down to a store and get it converted to a digital file. the store closed. didn't stay in business. There' place There was a place in the mall mall on main street, the like the little one that the IGA was in that did it. And now there's a place I think on Canby that does it. Yeah, but I don't and it's such a strange little Rinky dink place because they'll just put like a table out with like old tapes and be like, we do this. Yeah yeah. I mean, to be fair, I probably do have some tapes that I wouldn't mind updating because I don't have the ability to play a VHS anymore. Or would you ever watch the file? Um, just ones maybe ones for kicks, you know? you know, what was what was they using as a promo tape back in the right? in the ots. And I do obviously I've cut little reels out of a comedy now or something like that. And yeah, Jerd still use it. so ye. and I do have a couple of VHS. My my career started at the VHS. Oh yeah. It started at the end of the VHS Comedy cllub fifty four was like a It was like five minutes Yeah. and it was like was a few sets during the it was a half hour. And so there would be least ten minutes thats. Yeah, there was at least two, if not three. And some of these guys had problems They were all sweating through their shirt. Yeah Yeah, that's true. That's true. Nobody had figured out. And they were not expensive shirt And the audience is at tables as well. if I drinking drinking tles before. Yeah.'s And it's still there. It's still operating in Niam. Yeah. I didn't know that either. And the guy who was the host is the guy who owned it, Ben Guyatt And he would at the beginning of the show, he would tell like a street joke And then he would welcome the first act. And then at the end, his sign up was, Mom, I love you. That't that? Yeah It was Priime TV. But just seeing like what because I used to watch A E's evening at the improv. Carolinineess com com comedy on the road. Yeah, Galas but it's it's funny because like I was talking to a woman I go is that. Yeah, interesting. And She as. How long you've been doing stand up for and I said long enough to have had ISpace account and she said What's myice miss So I was like, o no. And you were like Yeah, do you remember Dane Cook? And she wass like, remember him, I'm married to him Yeah U Yeah, so it's times of chang.'s well it's like we were saying earlier, it's you don't expect things to move on Wout Yeah or as quickly as they do to go from Oh yeah, like like we were saying before the show, I've worked for so many people over the years and a couple of them passed away during the pandemic And even as they hand the reins of their little empire down to the next newbie If they don't know who you are, you're right back to square one. Yeah. And same thing at the comedy store in Los Angeles. that was my biggest not a gripe, but it's just a matter of fact When we were writing the Jim Jeffrey show for for from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty. I felt like on top of the world because we you'd finish a day of writing, then I'd go down to the comedy store and the bouncers kn knew who I was. Did't they give you a high five when you walked in? Little high fiveives All that kind of stuff And And then you know, a few and then the pandemic happened, but now I go down to the comedy store and it's like they don't know who I am. I got to get a next break for them to notice or another thing to notice. And you don't know that the world turns turns over. Yeah, like I wonder Be on the it's the comedy store that has all the Yeah names written on the outside. Yeah. How many names have been painted over during the years because there's only there's limited space on that on that walls Yeah. and also they They try to promote the door stuff quicker than than comics who are right, you know, or touring comedians. And there's nothing that makes a better door person than a stand upp comedian Yeah. Yeah, it's so what you're in town, you're doing a club out in New Westmster. Yes that has called me and it's my first ar. I've never this is this is another new relationship. Yeah, because of course I only ever used to do the Vancouver Yuckucks Which I just doesn't exist anymore. I don't know when it closed down. It it's cool down to the pandemic. Well it changed to a different It became a comedy mix. Oh no, the other Yaks was on Camby Street. Oh did how long was that open Oh, like years or something like that. The Camby one was open eight years. Yeah, it was there for a long time comics learning about their own local comic the one that's five blocks from here. Yeah. Yeah, it was there for a long time. And then yeah, it went out of business during the pandemic and there was another weekly room that had been around fver. that went away with the pandemic. Yeah So I am because I haven't been hererageous and then just luckily enough I don't know how I've come into contact with House of Comedy, but I actually messaged them like a month ago. Yeah and just went, Hey, you might have known my name before but you don't know it anymore. And then I guess I'm replacing I'm replacing somebody from like the kill Tony podcast or. this wee you are. I'm expecting possible combative Who the heck is this guy? I wanted a guy who had one minute of Well that ster I had to Google the guy, right? So when they went you didn't have to do it. I didn't have to but I wanted to know what I was walking into. they were like, can you replace or you know, we we just happen to have a weekend free and I was like You know, I was very much I've never worked for you guys or anything, but I So the timing must have just worked out. It must have opened my email Sortly I'm getting a cancellation. Cck me out, went, all right, come' do Yeah I doe you're replacing Such and such, I can't remember the guy' name. But I immediately Googled him. and there was a lot of like, I really liked his second minute, but I didn't like his third minute. I wasm just reading through this the like passionate, passionate fandom. Sure yeah. around this Killony podcast, but I'm like it was all about. So all I know is this guy, I think he's done four minutes. Whoa. nice Over time But o my like I mean, it's a bigger fanom than mine. Sure. Yeah I don't have anybody. Well, I thought his comedy now was great The funny thing about watching Kill Tony is that there's everything from somebody who's like lightning quick and so super prepared for the minute and then people who've never done it before and don't even finish it a whole minute And it's it's wild. And they show it all? Yeah, Yeah. they u I gott to watch one one of these I've never I've never seen it either but I've seen clips Yeah. But there's kids out there who get home from school every day at four o'clock have a bowl of cereal R kill something thing. It's their comedy at Club fifty four. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. we have to try to explain to them, you know, back in our day we used to watch comics we've never heard of do six or seven minutes But the thing is like the format of it is ong show Yeah, it's the Gong show. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. Gong show, but with with a panel. Yeah. and was they did start at the comedy store in LA. Right They were there back in the day. And then like I imagine that so like it's such a good preremise for a show. Yeah. I mean, yeah, but if you're a comedy purist, you do kind of think, oh, this is not It's not a nurturing It's a combative way to bring up new comedians. It's not really a nurturing right? personersally, I think probably our era, definitely mine is from where a promoter or a club owner has the responsibility to scout the new acts in his myths. right? You watch them and everything and then you go up to that new act and go, Hey, I like what I saw you do here at on the Tuesday night thing. I'd like to give you a five minutes on our Friday show. And then they come in that new comic, you do five minutes on a Friday. Yeah, you know, And then and then you get judged by the owner again who goes, okay, that was good, but not great. I'll give you another five or if you rock it, they go I'll give you a ten on Saturday. And you kind of work up that way And you freak out ' you're like, Yeahah, I barely even had that fun. you do really bad th say, I'll give you an hour on Sunday. But you're not open on Sunday. Exactly. Exactly. So that's why I kind of like the Gong show, I'm like, o, this is just it's just it's kind of mean. It's kind of a cruel way. But they do get that full minute regardless. likeike and they don't get cut get gonged. Oh they don't get gonged No they to sit there and die. Yeah they they've got to do the minute and then they do an interview with Tony Henscliff who's always read. I don't understand why he always looks like he's just jogged in the door. He's like so reed in the face and he he's Black and white and red all over, is that right? It's not a newspaper. It's a newspaper yeah You guys remember the newspaper? our generation We'd have wed get home from school then you'd have to pick up a bunch of newspapers and deliver them. Yeah, yeah. I weirded everybody out on the on the subway coming here by pulling this out Oh wow. That' flipping sl. like yo, yeah I'm still a hand. I'm still a hand writer writer guy. so same hair. I I use a little moleskin. Yeah, I, uh I'm losing it, I think. I'm losing my hand writing. I'm a phonan. Yeah. ye Yeah, that's true. I don't really write jokes anymore And I don't did you are those in cursive or they Yeah, and I'm getting worse at it. But like kids't read them. No. I' really really well It's as long as they can understand my language, which I mean that's probably getting there too. The prromoters are often like, Hey, can you submit your handwritten jokes to my children? Yeah You could put it in d tang all the better, really Yeah, the coil notebook. I and this is a thing that happens, I think to every comedian ever. Have you lost one Yeah and like every ever get it back I uh I've lost some for good. Yeah But it's like heartbreaking because there's no backup. But I also take photos Oh do you? Yes. I start I sometimes do and and yeah, and I do cue cards. I have some cue cards. Oh wow. It's sometimes so before that so before a show. I'll pull out the notebook. Yeah. and then I'll pull out some cue cards and I flip through the notebook and then whatever premise or joke and then I write it on the ceue card Th then I get six or seven cQ cards and then I have those. Okay. Yeah. And I've lost those plenty of times. And people are shocked at my indifference. when they're like, you left your cue cards here back at the club. and I'm like, don't worry about it. Yeah, you keep that as a souvenir. It is this crazy man. He must write new material every night. I mean, I do love that there's some audiences that that's what they assume like Yeah if it's news set every night. But that's why I would say I can't get it if you're writing stuff on your phone, right?? I can't it doesn't get into my head as well until I've written it with ith my hands like when you were in school and you would I knew people who would they would study byy like rec copying out their note Right. And I was like I'm not interested in doing. I am one hundred percent That guy, I need to keep writing it out in order to get it in. Is there a favorite letter you have to write Jay Jay for my name. Apples. I got a good swoopy. Yeah. Yeah That's good swoopy Jay. You do Do you have a autograph Yeah, I think yeah Th do dots Dots. do dots. I don't do dots. What's dots? What between the J layhead? Oh, no No I just just big swoops. B swoops. J, J and the W. They're all big Yeah, upppy downy, not Donald Trump level, but just kind of the big scribble. Yeah. Here's a pan I'd like you on. to see see the big swoop Yeah W. is This is good. This is why. I love you guys' podcast. This is the only way you get to nine fifty three. I tell you what. It's asking these like if we had l on scribble scbble scribble. No wonder you don't write anymore We can't even find a pin. Let's see let's see how many pins it takes. Okaykay. where two? No way. Yeah, no way. Swoop, swoop It's very swoopy. So okay, but like He That is that's your And then so if you're doing a document and they say sign here, initial here, Th those look like initials to me Yeah, thats that's my initial. Okay. if I'm interpt becausecause if you're signing, I can do were. Yeah, I'm gonna to hold your feet to the fire on this Whoa, you don't even l That's my full. Thats good. That's good looking. Do JJays When you sign your name? He doesn't even lift his hand at any point Oh D I loveve my pen between th those the first and last n. That's what I do. But this guy signing so many autographs? No, Oh yeah, that's it It's all that practice. How many times a year do you think you'd need to sign your name I have to sign it every time I check into a hotel usually. have to sign put a Signature down. Do you think you're breaking a hundred signatures a year? Oh yeah Okay, I come close to that. Yeah, I'm thinking in the more of the fifty to seventy five ion I don't think a hundred. When I renew my car insurance, I do it online now. They don't even need use Well, that's it too. There's a lot of click on the document. What's the auto pen Yeah Auto pen signature thing. Right. There's a lot of that. and sometimes I can't figure out how to get that how because I have a saved one. Yeah. There is one time where I think I did it in marker and scanned it or something Yeah and that exists on my computer Yeah somewhere. Yeah sometometimes you'll stumble across and go, this is perfect to drag and drop. Yeah, yeah, that actual signature. But it's mostly hard to find and I think Peter probably runs out of patience with me and goes, wouldould you just like us to do it? And I'm like, yeah. Let's see yours, Dave. I'm interested in let's see what p. G giveive me the pen. Yeah, which one was it that worked again? It's the white one. This is a mooji so we're talking D Yeah, this is a little D at the end because I kind of love it. It looks o it looks likeuma. That's really good. Yeah. Yeah here it looks like SOS. It also connects, but not. I can see on my pen. Yeah. it, That's all. Let's go ahead there. That's a good looking signature does anyone want to like Now I now do you differ? Why are you from business Dave, like from when you have to sign a that's true. If you differ and then from the one that you're handing out because I I assume out to my fans. Yeah to your fans because I assume a fan could go,, I can counterfit it. That's true. Yeah. Graham, your list looks like your name is Bill. Yeah Clark. Bill Clark What is that That's wow, that's a funky G got the it's got the top and then it's got the little little Girl at the bottom there. Do you think u I like it. We know what The one thing I can gauge from all this is that our signatures are much better than the new generation. I don't think Although mineckable. My dad knows m I mean it still is, but it would have been yeah. But I just remember like Oh, if if you like If you ever wanted to forge your dad's signature, I couldn't come close. He had wonder has the Yeahal penmanhip. I agree with that too. I think it is generational though, but I think both my mom and dad have very nice like myen Ken Michael Whitehead has K KM W and looked very good and it could fit on a flat line Yeah. I think we've lost my we lost the lines. I think. I ignore the lines. you're right. they I mean, my dad's writing is absolutely fantastic. My mom's is completely sometimes unreadable. Oh right. But her signature was easier to forge than my dads. So all the forging I did went through her. What were you forging Gam Graham can't come into school today. he's let Graam out for last period Yes, I've seen his test results. Yeah Yeah, because that would be we love him anyways. Oh because when your teacher sends home a bad test or a bad report card, then they need signed. It's mostly to see if they your parents still love you So because like yeah, I would never, I never forged anything, but the idea of doing an entire like note Please excuse Graham from school as he has a dentist support. That was my way of rewriting and rewriting until I untill I hit the right right style And then you were like Frank Abagnaail. Who that atch me if you ye. O the talented Mr. Ripway. It must be easier now For because I imagine it's done up on there. I mean I for whatever I just email my parent my parents' teachers, my teachers, my kids teachers Still in school Yeah We're disappointed with how you did this this test Dad. So my kids would have to I guess break into my phone or my laptop Yeah, right. And then delete my sent mails. But the teacher's gonna reply, gototcha. Yeah, like it's fool's errand. Have you ever seen any of your kids try to write their name? They' like they'll write their own name sign their own name? Or did you give up early on? No lot kids are not gonna need this. In the society we've built, my kids have good panmanship Yeah, because they're girls Girls got it. Girls got it I remember when I was in school, like They All the girls had perfect hand. If you had nice handwriting, it was kind of feminine, wasn't it If I And also have you noticed that these UFC guys are kind of close to kiss it. I bet you, what would I do in this modern eraage maybe I'd like Get an email address that's close enough to my b. Oh and just send a message from that saying, please excuse for scam. Yeah. Oh wow. Wow, that's galarious. Yeah. an you got the email and everything. Yeah, wow to get aroundigned wouldn't do it now. have a photo as well. You'd be able to you know a photo up there with the email. Dad your picture really quick My friend Phil, he would because he was chronically skipping classes. so the school had would call the parents every day when he was missing classes and he would sprint home from school, erase the tapes. and ye. wow. So he stayed completely out of trouble. I mean, eventually he got busted We had a robo caller at my school as well U and yeah, I I never skipped a class my entire L I was so afraid of being in trouble my whole life I still have flashbacks of getting busted. Yeah. Oly got busted. Yeah, I got busted because my uncle was at my house And I didn't know so I just played hookie for the afternoon and came home because I knew my parents were out Whever my dad was at sea or military man or Whatever. and I just I'm not sure. I Yeah, whatever it was I was expecting to just be cool and I come home came in, my uncle's there I chat with my and then the phone rang and I didn't even think. I wasn't even thinking. And of course, my uncle answered like yeah, he's right here And my teacher had me on loudspeaker and everything was like I was so busted You were really busted. And I still have flashbacks of this st. I like, Oh my gosh, why didn't I tell my uncle? like, donon't answer that? Yeah, he would have been he would' have been on site if he totally would have been cool that Yeah That's also a generational thing of like Is your uncle answering your parents' phone? I'm in a weird household' answering their phone. Yeah, Eactly. If I'm a grown up, I'm gonna answer every fucking phone I want Yeah, it's I never got busted for for skipping because I was strategic about it. I would go on days when like I wouldn't be you know, it wouldn't be a test day or it wouldn't be like a day where you would not just be able to just like get lost in the shuffle. Yeah. If I had like a class that was a very small class, I wouldn't go on that day But if it's all like big classes or if there's gim figured out a way to skip. That's exactly how I felt too. I just I didn't account for the uncle factor. Yeah. You just happened to be there out in my kitchen making a sandwich Y Your father was at sea. He was a militaryary guy ye military fisherman. Yeah. A military fisherman. She was fishing in the ocean. Yeah. It was the early nineties, It was the Gulf War Oh really? So if I think of my high school days, Yeahah, my father was in the Gulf W when I was in high school in Re. Tictoryia British Columbia. so U, yeah, that's where base but yeah. so he So when I was in grade, you ever been ten and eleven You ever go to the straight of horror moooz Yeah ye. N's not' really fun in the that And that's comedy S fifty four good, right there? They call it the strait of Hormoose. Have you noticed it? It's Gray. Cd's just laughing so hard. Oh man, it's true. Give that man another shot man U yeah, is u u Do you ever get shots sent up to you on stage and do or do you and I drink them I definitely used to. Yeah. Yeah No don't know, haven't seen as much anymore No if people aren't drinking as much as people are not drinking moreore. it's hard to The young the young folks R. They You don't like it. There's like, yeah, and there's like the industry is in shambles. Yeah. and it's like because I think it's because Pots legal It's just like easy to do a thing that's cheaper. and I also I think I have my theory, which is I think third or fourth tier, which because they try to say the kids are just more health conscious and all that kind of stuff. But I think it's because there's cameras everywhere all the time. Everybody's got a foam on the camera and stuff Drinking can be embarr you get messy Yeah. And I don't think kids want to be I think when you're young, it's a It's going to be embarrassing. It's going when you'husted like a little too drunk outside a bar or whatever. U grinding on a lampose. Be I also think They they're nicely they're nicer dressed now. they' they're all Thitner and nicely dressed. I'm like, where are the slobs? I'm like, oh, it's because You can, where are the slobs? There's your slobs sending emailight. Let's hear from the slobs, but that's I think that it's the risk of embarrassment is too high now. Yeah because there's all these cameras and stuff around, which I think sucks You know because you should be able to just lose yourself lose your inhibition. But like drinking is expensive too. And that too. Yeah. like Yeah, very expensive. You can rack up a hundred dollar bill like Yeah Very easy Which is crazy when you talk to bar owners and stuff. I had I was in New working through New Zealand and a couple of the bars I did shows in are struggling a bit. and I remember talking to somebody about how expensive their drinks were and he goes, Yeahah, but it's because Nobody drinks. And I'm like, shouldn't you why don't you go the other direct? Yeah Yeah yeah. M dr cheaper for people to show up and drink. Did you ever like fucks off? I remember being Mart. It's been a long time, but being in Barsborough just like And we're just bringing free shots for everyone. Yeah. And I'm just being confused. well, are they how free are they? What's in them? Poison. justust take one. Yeah. Yeah. The next one's five bucks. Yeah. Yeah. you like the taste of that one? Well, but they think it is because it's expensive and also because you can just you can get unedible justust hang out all night and not have to worry about a hangover and look at your hand. Yeah anybody ever tell you that theory about like artists like Jim Morrison How like becausecause he was always a mess, right? Jim Morrison used to be puin on himself the slob. It only existed as stories afterwards. like how messy he was, but if all the phones Yeah cameras had been around, The doors may not have had a career and a few other artists. Yeah, other musicians. Heck, some comedians from Club fifty four. probablyroably would have got judged. Yeah The u I always wonder like because there's a plethora of of videideos of people falling off a thing drunk or like falling thinking they're sitting down, they fall in a river or whver. Why do they post those Like either the person themselves or their friend is posting them. Yeah, right. And kind of, I get it if the friend is like, this is hilarious, I'm gonna to put this out. half the videos on the internet. I'm like, why did you post this? This is a private moment between you and that river. My favorite is the there's the Scottish guy And he's like trying to put his Bank Is like ATM card But he's super drunk. And he's like in the middle of the day like struggling to get his ADM card into a piece of metal, which is not a bank machine. And the guy walks by and says,, that's not a bank machine. it's a fence It had to be a Scotsman. Yeah. And he says it with his accent, which I can't do. Yeah, no, but a great accent all the same. Oh God Dave, what's going on with you? Well, it is like a World Cup fever. We sureure World Cup city. with the Scots? Yeah The Scots are playing right now. U againgst the Moroccans and the Tartan Army. I thought it was great the way they took over Boston. Yeah, and drank them. They drank draw. Yeah. That's what Americans need to rethink their definition of alcoholic now There's so much I've been trying to tell them for years. you don't understand when somebody's like, I'm an alcoholic. I make I make bad decisions when I drink. We all do. Yeah Yeah, yeah. you're supp I do most of my good stuff. taxes I get wasted. Yeah. You're supposed to we all meet when we're drunk. You're supposed to That's the that's the secret to dating. none of these dating apps. It's get drunk in the vicinity of the girl you're attracted to. And that's that's how you mate for life Yeah. The ye, the I forgot I was going say never mind. We are in a city the toasting games. Yeah there people are Ah marching to the stadium and singing songs and I went to the fan The fan festival Oh yeah yesterday. Yeah, for Canada's game. How was it? I was down there. I thought it was great. Yeah. Is it the one really good in the amphitheater? It's outside the P andE Yeah Yeah, which I was spelling as P ampersand P and There's a I couldn't figure it out. I was like, where the heck is this P andD place? Everybody's like, it's the Pony. It's over there like, look, I'm got it in my phone P andy. Well everyone's got phones now. That's what makes it so hard to find the peony Yeah It my fone could not find P andy for I thought parks and entertain it's the Parks and entertainment area. you Parks and enttertainment. I'm looking for Pandy. And I eventually solved the riddle. Nice. And remember that it's PNy I and yeah Is it on like I assume gigantic screen. It was music festival size. Yeah. it was they were It's where they play that's where like weird elves go play Oh yeah. Oh yeah in the new amphitheatater. Yeah. in that little amphitheater place Oh That's cool. Yeah, you had to pay to get in there. Yeah you could pay to get like the seated area. but there's a free area. But there was tons of free areas Yeah, tons of free areas, lots of places to sit. It's funny. I'm so I'm You know, I I'm just watching all this at home in my on my couch. but I feel the energy of the city. Yeah. Especially if you're taking a train anywhere, then you really are feeling the spirit when it's hundreds of O burnt face like absolutely. Yeah just like red red and white jerseys that I didn't know. How do all these people have these jerseys? They're more ye, soccer people than I and I guess Mexico had a game last night too because they were all showing up at the P andy grounds as all the Canadians were Reready quite celebratory and Yeah, it is it is cool. That it's like bigger now it's forty eight countries Normally it's thirty two And it's cool that you just get to see like u like little groups of Uh Hey, u what you what's up? Uh Yeah, like the way that Scotland or O Holland? Yeah, I guess all the Dutch are in Texas or something. But even just in in town in town, you're just like, hey, that car's got a bunch of Portuguese flags on it. goodood for you guys. Yeah, it's really nice. L because in all my years li living in England and stuff, I was used to that. Youre you' always used to Euro like European soccer, championships and World Cups It's weird because it's not like the Olympics Like the Olympics has more countries, but no one's like driving through the streets being like And didid you see the Yeah this Moroccan guy throw discus? We love that. Yeah, but they are for football. you know, over in the other in the rest of the world. They're they're all, you know, causing traffic jams and We love it. We love the ball. We love the round ball, the way it rolls, the way it flies. Well you said no none of our big four sports in North America have that kind of Now like even when like we just had the worldld baseball classic in the summer and Yeah Canada did okay. we were going mental over it. Oh yeah. D I want something Was everybody down at the P and D? Yeah, we were cheering on team Canada. The one that was weird is when the Raptors won the NBA finals and they were like, this is Canada's team. And I was like, not out here.. I got on the west coast He always driving around with Rapor flag or whatever like Right. Yeah ye. Toronto was Bedlam, but you know, right word for it. Anyway, I like it. I think it's fun. Would you go to one of these viewing spots? No I'm thinking of going to the next one. It's well worth it. Yeah, I think I skip out, give a note to my employer. Graham can't come into today it. Graham's momum says he can't come into it. I think that's his mom terrible p. Well, that's also a good thing if you're a kid. if you can just be illegible. Yeah and just put like And I have like put like a time on that. I guess he has to leave at ten I will say I have just began I will say I don't think I wasn't jealous of the people who paid to go into that amphitheater because there's plenty going on around the grounds and stuff. There's multiple screens. There's even a band on in the free bit. Oh nice.and for whatever, ten minutes What it is. Oh, I can look I took a picture. I'm guessing it's the watch. I can't remember I can't remember offhead but I don't think they listed. You can go online and see what bands are playing, but I don't think want to they're saying they're showing the free band. I want to say I Yeah. I want to say dug in the slugs, but it wass not dug in the slg. I mean, that would be h. I got a But the name reminded me Am I overheard this week Doug in the slugs related overheard. W, wait for that one Oh, there's the end of their name. leut Ingle trut could be single strut C be jungle strut yeet. I'll uh searching, I'm searching. This is I'll just Google P and E band B and D band. Oh come on But you weren't you't guys to crowd or whatever crd thought. Yeah. would I kind of feel that too, but I want to go for a bit just to be like No, was there was definitely enough space Yeah Yeah, ye, I hear you. I just don't want to go to any of this. The other thing that's going on so my kids are their school year is ending That That was the perfect time for that Can we hear more from Jungle Strut? Oh, maybe that was it Jungle Strut.'s Let's just call it Jungle Stut. We are Jungle Strut! That's just so funny. so right. L I guys we're out of school. Yeah.! Jungle strut. it was the end of the school year. Today they had beach day Nice or they head down to the beach. Love, okay. And u You know, Do the parents have to drive or is theres at a bus? is where we everyone this is the one where you drop your kids off at the beach. Okay. All right. See later kids. See you later kids, here's a twenty dollars bill. Get yourself some chicken fingers. Yeah. orr soft serve if you're into that. Uh that's fun. Y. We never did that one I was Oh they have so much stuff at the end of the year Right Like that's way more fun than anything we had. We had like sports day. Yeah you get You have to do a three legged race. But how many things do you have to pay for as a parent? Is that Well like are they running up a tab That is certainly a thing. Yeah. And last week They had they went to the the amusement park Okay, nice. The grade sixes and seven s go to the amusement park. Okay. And so um My daughter in grade six will go again next year as well. And I volunteered to go with them. Oh fun. They her own. Yeah. And they said, you get to go for free Okay Although you've already paid for your daught. U, but and then I took the bus with the glass And no one sat next to me. I was saying I was like, didid you make a friend? Fashbacks? And not even your kid? No, she's got friends. Did she at least acknowledge that you're related? Only for that twenty bucks And we went to and like the teacher was like, okay, well U what we're going to do is we're going to There's like a u an the that day of the that the A amusement park it's called Play h That day it's just like eleven and twelve year olds. like there's no it's not open to the public. Right. So you'll just be on the lookout for your own kids, Kep an eye out for Right, But you're free to ride rides and do whatever you want. except for like we ask that like maybe for one hour, you There's an area where we're putting all of our backpacks And you just kind of stay there And so I did that I roote on Margot and I rode on the roller coaster. Okay Um There Oh what one thing about when I go to amusement pact is people always butt in line. peopleeople always are sneaking through the line and I hate it. Yeah I no one like there's no policy that stops anyone doing. That happened yesterday at the fan thing. Oh Yeah because you had to queue up to get into the grounds and and I was on my own, right? I was just coming out But I was on my own and I was in behind maybe two other couples But the width of the lanes were definitely four or five people wide. Yeah. and I had some sneakakes coming up the left and I I was on my own. I wanted to call them out, but I'm looking you're looking around at Is anybody else going to be on my side? Is anybody watching this? as the And so many people are just on their phone not like Yeah, not noticing that they're And it was a group too. I could tell there was one guy with the who was being the main prick. the one who was just, you know, he passed me He went from four people behind me to all of a sudden he's ahead of me and he had three or four people with him and they're kind of shyer or whatever. they know that they're Fuding ahead. Yeah, ye Q But I you know, I just I let them Yeah go. I do it. I have in the past stopped people. I hate doing it and but like there's no one working there whose like job it is to be like, Hey get back. It's not a win, is it? Be becausecause when you do it too, you become assle somehow. but you can't quite weigh up what was great about this was there were so many teachers there That they were just calling out kids who weren't even their own students. They're like, I see you give l. That's good. I'm from a different school. S these are lessons that should last a lifetime. Who are these kids that I encountered yesterday button ahead me. Yeah. it's my my big thing in lines is wherever I'm standing in line in front of me is where everybody passes through the line and I just always automatically off the guy where they're like that guy we can cross the l means you're a nice person I're not trying to be at all. They just all of a sudden, I'm the guy Yeah Yeah Because if you end up moving up to the like closer to the person in front of you, the person in behind you won't create the lane. Yeah, that's it. So then all of a sudden the responsibility once again comes back to you and you just stay h and I'll be the good person again And so the other part of my responsibility was hanging back with the backpacks. Oh yeah. and there were take any snacks. You could have were g all the way. Well, a lot of kids had there were like picnic tables And a lot of kids bought uh like these iced lemonades And so so many of them spotted iced lemonade went back to the picnic tables put their ice lemonade down and went and rode on the rides and then came back. Didn't know? saw a table full of icice lemonade. Do you know this one's mine? There's like sixty of them on the table that are identical. justust take one of you kids j around anyway It years ago we're done were eight one and then she got led somehow. Some are getting spilled all over everywhere. Oh. Oh, it was just a mess. But I loved it. ten out of ten, go on the wooden roller coaster. old roller coaster. What park was this again? It's Layland. It's at the PNy. It's connected the Pandy. Okay The only playland I grew up with was McDonald's. so that's the classic playland. McDonald's used to have all the playlands. It was a place to go for your bind through the tubes down the slidide. Oh now there's a groty. those playlands wouldn't have lasted through COVID. No, well I don't know where McDonald' stands on I saw a u like at school just like we get the kids get given these ads for like sign up for soccer or these there are these like summer day camps And one of them was like, it's just a day camp where you go out and do activities and the activities are like paint ball or whatever, like laser tag. And one of them was IKEA I'm like, what do you do? You're just sending them to the ballpit Or the teachers are like, putut this together. You kids all get together and put together the shelf We're going over to Mr. Simpson's house to put together his furnter. Yeah an armoir or something like That's great if a teacher iss really in the game for the grift. I'm Yes, I'm a teacher. I'm great for I' teacher, but I'm also in it for the free labor Yeah you do one day IkeEA, you do one day power washing my front yard Like a karate kid, likeike what on he get? lot of wax Wax on wax off kids. When you're done with the car do the windows, there's a lesson to be had. Yeah, I never thought about it, but grifting kids is probably pretty sweet. Like they don't know any of the grifts, you know. So you know, give me twenty, I could turn into thirty and then, you know, as soon as you get it Disappear. Wh'd that guy go? I don't know. I believe that's the plot of paper Mon Anyway, we're winding down the school here loving it. They have four more days and o, I don't think they're doing one more thing.'re not doing another activities. just let's wait out the clock. I think they're just waiting out the clock. Maybe one day they you know, get to bring out the sponges and clean the blackboards. And that means the responsibility is all yours starting in four days, right? So you technically only have four days only a freedom. four days of freedom. ye. then my kids are It' going be all over me Dad, Dad. Oh, teach me something. Dad, we've learned so much this year. I want the learning to continue. hereere's how you You know what? I can't deliver it So' true. Well I just lost a day of dayca Yeah. And also it's not, you know, the diagrams tell you, you don't need to be able to Read or anything, you could get kids right out of kindergarten helping you put your I of furniture out It's universal language. You just have to be that one guy in the IKEA catalog who's on the phone to IKEa. Hey, you forgot a dowel Sometimes you do you miss the dowel or a screw Do you do either you currently have an IKa that you built in your place? My apartment is only IKA. nice Ia And I inherited some IKA stuff too. Really? Yeah, I actually had, o shoot, I usually know the name of it, but that simple table that they have, which has two shelves, which is great. They're about forty bucks. Is this a coffee table? Yeah. like a clog or something or We'll find the a Kirg. Is it this guy Let me bring it over here There's a two level guy There's one in black. there's one in brown This is a side table here. There it is. Yeah. Oh nice. It's a lack. Lack Lack. That's it. Nice. a classical lack. I inherited a white lack. Okay. and And I you know, I keep my furniture black because it's economical. Yeah. but I currently have two lacs. So I have the white lak that I inherited from the previous tenant and I have a black lack on top of it. Oh nice. coovered with a black sheath. so it's got my router and all my TV st Okay. But it's got a thing so you can't tell that it's a completely mismatched hidous. Unless you walk over and you lift up the I think that TV because you see this a lot where somebody will have a screen mounted to the wall And then there's just this cord that you have to somehow hide. I feel like there should be, you know, like something that charges it like battery somehow back and forth instead of just being a cord. at least give people the option of a white cord because a lot of walls are white Yeah blend a bit better, but it's really just nothing kind of a gacks up room quite like that cable just coming down from the t. Yeah Yeah. they do u Yeah, it is weird like Unli I have so much stuff now that is we have like a table wall mounted TV and it Um If we still had cable coming out of the wall, that would be an issue. but there's every box is now wireless. R. We just have a like giant wad of wires behind the TV. R Yeah. Yeah You seeine mine are in my lack. Yeah. all myires and stuff and that's why it's covered with the Canvart smartet and I don't have a wall mounted TV I rent? Yes I still rent guys. Soy I right there with My TV is on top of the lack. That lac and all the router and all that stuff is hidden underneath. Well, you know what? once you go lack, you'd never go back. Yeah. All right, comedy at Club fifty four is Gay, what's going on with you? U so this past week, I I heard of I've heard about this guy. He's a musician And somebody told me a long time ago, I saw a poster and I was like, whoo's that guy? It's an interesting poster And the person I was like, Ohh, you'd love that guy. his name'ed BA Johnston Okay And he's in jungle strut Yes the lead singer of Jungle Stat Um He is a solo musician that tours all across Canada seemingly constantly And he writes songs about beer and eating junk food and pot and Hamilton he's from Hamilton. so he's got a lot of songs like Hamiltonim Mitchell. Somebody in the globe of Mail said that he's like the new stomping on Connors because he just him. He travels coast to coast And this guy, I gotta tell you is the most entertaining motherfucker there is. Oh, where did you see him? I saw him at a little bar called The Heatley and he it was completely sold out and completely at the Heatley. Exactly. An anyway, we'll be back with more comedy at cl before. I love Um But yeah, this guy is like Like I I've heard of his name. Yeah. I'm used to' around. He's been around a long time And I'm used to going to a show where the band just kind of stands on stage and maybe does some banp between songs. For the most part Standing mostlyotionally motionless on stage, right? Right? Emotionally on stage. This guy, he was everywhere. He was running all over the bar. He was pouring drinks for people from the town. was like sureurely they couldn't have agreed to this. And his music is kind of full see? like a lot of with a guitar, but then sometimes he would just put on like kind of a keyboard bass and he would sing the song And he was running outside. He was singing bunch of songs from the sidewalks. At one point he was on the hood of his own car and he was playing out in the street And like I say, he got up on the bar, he's pouring people Aarently young people aren't drinking much. so he's need a guy to do it. He's forcing it He's showing them outth done. But yeah, he was so entertaining and I just he's I think he's a R age. So he's c doing this a long time, but he also like didid like, you know, James Brown's jump into the splits I of he was doing that all over the place. we do that. Yeah.. I heard I crouched on stage the other day and I heard my knee crack. I heard my knee crack as I got up and I looked at the front row to see if any of them I felt like none of them heard it. but was like that sounded loud from they just think it's a glitch in the microphone. don'sir That's a little bit poppy What are you doing that you crouch on stage? I I can be a croucher. Yeah. Yeah It was a high sometometimes when it's a high prowls the stage. I find this phenomenon seems to happen in Canada as well where a lot a lot of times the audience's heads are at your feet here. Why do they they love a Yeah that's true. stage here for some reason. and I disagree with that. I don't like looking down. I don't like it when their necks are craned Yeah But sure we do have that. I feel that the audienceces headads ideally should be at about your waistline at most waistline, chest or whatever when you're prefering They have their eyes on the merch. And when I'm on one of those stages where their eyeelin is at my feet. Yeah. I do find myself about halfway through my set, I'll sit. I'll come over and I'll sit on the stage and just bring everything down So that their ey you get better eye contact And does it work? Do you so like I think it works. I think it really helps the audience zone in aook. because I think you can feel it. You can feel when I want the audience zoning out. Yeah. Mine is like a real mellow comedy. Yeah I think it is blackout. So yeah, I do I'll sit on the stage in those situations and yeah, I was getting up from one of those situations. So luckily yeah, I got them to zone in and everything, but as I got up I heard was a bunch of cracking and I was like, Oh yeah, this is ot long for this. Yeah, I should just wait on stage until the audience filters out and I stand. I think I would That' be hilarious. It Thank you good night. Yeah Wh down on the Why are you still sitting here? Good m. Thanks for coming everybody. I'm just gonna to sweep the spotlight into a smaller spotlight. I mean actually you could probably down on their level then on your feet and exit that way. I think I was a teenager when my body my like knees and shins started cracking. Yeah, I think I had a I think I had a cracking neck whenever I kind of . Oh, I've definitely I've had a few injuries in my life and Yeah, I don't know how you guys are doing with that stuff, but yeah you gota keep track of your diet more. Yeah because the cra what you eat is directly related to your body pain. W The cracking doesn't hurt. The cracking is just like percussive Yeah, it's just percussive, but it does make me it doesn't hurt, but it does make me like worry like At what point? is it used to be one crackking? Yeah. Currently I'm on about four like I can hear when I get up, it's like That's more cracking than it used to be. There's things that hurt but they don't crack you when you're getting out of a whistle. When you're getting out of a couch Yeah I make noises. Yeah and when I go down, it's f down to the couch. Yeah. there's a little bit And you just realize, oh, I shouldn't That's really bad. I'm a single guy too, so I I'll do it on a date. And I'm like, Oh no. what did I do just keep snapping That's like dude. That's kind of a cool trick. Why did I do that? Yeah, makeaking noise. Also, do you worry about sneezes? No, I don't like with incontinence. No no no, but that but that I think about that now and then. Yeah. Oh, I've been getting targeted ads of some sort of underwear that like Holds in Oh yeah like I think Yeah algorithm's given up on me. I get There's a name for that kind of underwear that holds in pe. Well, it's not a diaper. Well, this is this is a brand of it has like in the crotch area. It's got some sort of squeezing squeezes your wiener. Yeah squeezes your twist your wiener one way or the other. Like a radio knut. Yeah Lty Lzy. My algorithm gives me a Ceri yoga Whi whichich Yeah, I don't know. It used to give me places to travel and activities to do. And then there was like, you know, gym, you know, gym class kind of stuff. Right now the algorithm is charioa. So I think the algorithm's given up on. Yeah. Yeah they figured out. Yeah this is what this Yeah is But what were you saying about sneezing Oh, yeah, I've got a so I've got an old injury in in my back by my shoulder blade, like a pinched nerve from twenty years ago. Yeah. But sometimes if I sneeze and it probably depends if I've been really lazy or if I've been physically active. And I have to think about it on the when I'm recoiling for the sneeze because it can kill me if I if ye sneze hard in my back right by my shoulder blade and I'll just convulse in pain So sneezing is not enjoyable. I love sneezes. Yeah, it's ne. you're very lucky. I have to I usually what do you do? Do you hold the I do my best to hold it in and I get worried and or I'll just try to tense my whole back So that hopefully don't Yeah, hopefully I don't pull the muscle or whatever. I used to split Yeah and one sneeze away from having to be in bed for the day That's just the way it is. but when I was a kid, I had really chapped lips. and so when I would sneeze, it would split my lip open Ohit. And so like now when I sneeze I lick my lips right before every time. Yeah, that's well, that's the least's a that's that's the least little on the scale. Yeah a worry. Also you figure out like you figure out this weird way to contend with it and it's all like those little things like as long as I don't do this. As long as I don't do that.. As long as I have this underwear, it's a diaper, it's a diaper really but it is for collecting this. You get a lot of that and I get I think I maybe looked at one video once, but Dualeipa is all over my feed. Hey I were playaining be wor I was with Duaipa's. Yeah, she's the top of the pile. Yeah, yeah, yeah Y that is true U Yeah, exactly, but keep it coming. It's fine. So this guy hugely entertaining had No Douaipa. No' absolutely. I don't know if Douaipa would go for elcool., Maybe she does. I've never even do a concert of. Well, I mean, you got a birthday com me up I'll get you some tickets seated seated sure the seated section Oh yeah, I've been to several rock concerts in the last little while where seating was an option. Yeah. and it's the best. I've entered the I've entered the standing before the concert starts. You know how it all goes in phases. So when we were younger men, you could stand the whole time. You stand before the band comes on, you stand when the band is on, you just stand you're on your feet And then the next phase is kind of tired tired first time dead Fays and you show up and you kind of sit, you sit in your seats because there's nothing going on yet. The band isn't out. Yeah or anything. So you sit with your friends and you're chatting, you talking about your kids or whatever. then the band comes on and then you're up You're on your feet And then the next phase, which is the phase I'm in now where you show up and you're on your feet. Because and with my my friends who have older kids Yeah, who are maybe They don't have to be as attentive to or anything like that So we were all on our feet. We went and saw we saw live And big wreck Oh wow in Halifax with my brother and a whole bunch of friends, but all either have kids who were in the eighteen, nineteen year old range.. And I noticed we all showed up. We were all on our feet. What before the band came on, we're all chatting and catching up with each other and everything. And then when the band came on, that's when we all sat down. That's the new face. We'll stand up for lightning crashes Yeah, the sit down concert, nothing beats. Al so how would I really like is when u You know, you see a guy stretching before the show doing a lot. Oh I am just gonna be standing aw while. The I read an interview with I not an interviewer I just saw it posted on a clip was Olivo Rodrigueo says because a lot of people that stand in the front that get their early wear Diapers They're not diapers. They' D. They're the newper Th these newuke piss fans. You really seem to defend this a lot. I feel like you might have some ins p knowledge. But She says you can smell it. Yeah. ye. What? Yeah, 'cause there's it's so many people in the front row that are Is it that it or are her fans so young that they're still in diapers That's great becausecause you get to sit with the baby. Yeah I dont have to stand with the baby the whole time. Um yeah, that would be interesting to go on the floor. my baby. I gott to get the first That thing like, u They say that about New Year's Eve in New York. If you want to be in Times Square, there's no bathrooms anywhere. Yeah, you got you bring BYOD. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not a big fan. I got offered a couple of music festivals as well because I'm going over to Britain. Go to Britain in about three weeks. and yeah, there's it's music, you know, summer music festivals And I just I I would prefer to just play a club play a club and go home to my hotel and I'll have a great time. But if I'm doing a music festival in a comedy tent or whatever, like Glastenbury has a comedy tent, Leeds and reedding festivals have comedy tents If I do do the comedy tents, I don't want to be camping and I'm just I'm like I'm done camping, but it's just they's so epic. There's just tens of thousands of people. Yeah. And you know, I got to pay three times during the night or whatever. I'm like, it's just it's not my jam anymore. a promoter is like, yeah, we'll get you a good camping place and all that. I'm like Yeah we. Dude, I'll do your gig, but I kind of want to go and stay in a hotel then Absolutely not. Yeah atast provide a space. You are opening for the prodigy. Yeah. And I had that opinion was starting to creep in about J just an opinion, not with the having to have your, you know, having to be able to piss in the middle of the night. Yeah. But u I enjoy seeing a band in a in a theater or something. If if you really like a band, the best place to see it is in a with acoustics and everything Yeah Yeah. So I did have that opinion fifteen years ago and I was like, this isn't the ideal place to make me a fan of these bands. They don't sound as good. R or anything like that. So I've stuck to that opinion that that I would like, I'll go see the band When it's a manageable theater outing rightight. I'll be in at eight o'clock, I'll be out at eleven.ll it' be great. Yes Andance festivals, there's no laws. Yes. so. I feel so guilty though when because I've done it for years. I've had the tents and, you know, play Gossenberur like a city basically. Right. And so really fun five days, you know, but It's not as much fun. And you feel so guilty when they're like, I'll get you we can provide you a tent if you need any. I'm like, Well, that right there? I don't think I want to do the game Yeah Um But yeah, if this gentleman Bay Johnson is coming to your town. he did he has a whole song about Hawkins cheheesies. He was pouring them in people' mous. He got a giant bag of Hawkins aboutawkins cheese. Yeah, this guy this gu is like mrter Canada. Okay. Yeah. and song about he has a song about beers and what the beers are in every province in Canada. what the, you know, the go to beers are I want to Yeahah. Yeahah, see this. This guy. he's a lot of fun. and he did think you laugh so much. It was so simple, but He would saying he would turn his back to somebody and pull their shirt over his face and then sing.be This I don't understand that. Every trick in the b about every trick pulling their shirt over his face. Yeah, so he's putting his head and then pulling the shirt over his face. Is he like below them? Well, he basically does it right to your head So he grabs he goes under your shirt. Okay and then he's singing and he does yeah, he's so funny And like I say, but the thing is crazy. He's running around outside. He was up on his carplaying This is a wired mic This was there was somebody behind him the whole time. Oh feeding line to him basically. It sounds like that's part of the theatrics. Yeah. Yeah. and he does. He's got all the greatest like Mike whipping around kind of stunts ands not it'ast like pure Pure entertainment. sounds great, yeah So if you're he's traveling around this summer, if you see's coming to your town. Run, don't walk. Exactly Um do you guys want to move on to some overheard? Yeah, sure. 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Search Mission to ix ZYXX in your podcast app Or on maximfun dot org dot Keep it fresh Oard Over heard's a segment on the show where we discuss Great hilarious things that we have overheard or seen. And if you want to send one in to us, you can send it in AsPI at maximumfund. org. We'd like to start with the guest, JJ. Oh, you haven't overheard. I have two options. I have the best heckle that I've ever received in public normal in day to day life Perfect. Oh Okay. Okaykay. And then I have a simple I had to correct somebody somebody used the term Uh, I don't want to take it for he he goes, I don't want to take it for grantite. And I had tryed to correct them and I was a PN. Well but the weird thing is I can see how that made sense. J see oh yeah, granite. You think, oh, it's a solid I don't want to take this as a solid destructible thing. It's great. And I was trying to explain to him that it's granted. It's And he's like, no, I don't want to be grant. Why would I grant something? I'm like, Oh my God So so I just had to explain this guy granite the overhe I want to share with you. So it was a public heckle. I lost my phone I live just off a Hollywood Boulevard. And in LA. So cool. And I lost my phone and I found, you know how when you lose a phone or an iPad or something, you can go on find my iPhone. And you usually get to watch it go to the airport and then offten ye somewhere else in the world and it's gone. But losing your phone on Hollywood Boulevard, you know, mere hundred one hundred yards from my apartment I was able to follow it up and down. So obviously an unhoused person picked it up And it was going up and down Hollywood Boulevard like the whole for a week. Oh wow. And I was watching it from my home computer and whenever it was somewhere for a long term, I would jump on my bike and go the corner and try to find it, right? So I was doing this for for like more than a week actually, trying to get my phone as it went up and down And one night I saw that it was at the Bourbon Room, which is close to the adantagous theater and stuff on Hollywood Boulevard, Jumped on my bike. I looked quite disheveled. It was probably it was eleven o'clock at night or whatever when I It's there. It's at the Bourbon room.m going got on my bike and went to the bourbon room to try to find my phone and and I'm holding up my find my iPhone and I'm talking to the bouncer. You're holding it up on a different phone? On Yeahah, I had I had another iPhone they give you a temporary loner phone or whatever. So I had it and I'm talking to the bouncer And I didn't belong in the nightlife of Los Angeles. Now I had clearly just gotten off my couch and And I darted out to try to find it. And anyway, there's a queue of people going into the bourbon room and somebody goes She's not gonna take you back, mate. And I laughed. It made me laugh. was But everybody in the line laugh. I was just like, this is the best. L I just it was incredibly embarrassing, but I thought that was so good. I realized that's what I looked like. I looked like I'm standing at this club and I'm talking to a bouncer and I'm going have you seen? Is there a homeless person around here that has like maybe a trolley with and I'm looking for my phone and just it was the perfect heckle. It made me realize maybe Need to let it go. Yeah. Yeah exactly. Did you ever get it back? I did. Oh yeah. Yeah, I did. because eventually it went to a shelter which was also it's also close to my place. just off Ho Boulevard. I noticed it was there for a couple of days Okay so obviously the unhoused person that had my phone had lost interest in it. Oh. because he or she was carrying it around with them up and down Hollywood Boulevard, but now it was just at this YMCA type place So I managed to go down and show them do the same thing. I showed the guy who was running it Yeah my find my iPhone. What if the person at the door there was like It's not going to do that gu back even for YMC standards like that. No, they were weirdly they're very cooperative, very nice. I got to see the inner workings I understand. Yeah, I understand what these shelters look like inside now. I'd never seen but it was an old gymnasium. Oh and But it would all it was divided up into like kiosks. L like there was probably like fifty like kind of little bed zones and stuff, but it had basketball hoops. it was an old fun Well, basketballball I think interesting, but throw some balls out there let's do some three on three. Yeah. I did feel guilty as well because the guy who runs the shelter or whatever, he didn't know exactly which person had it. Right. But he just had me there pointing at the find my iPhone Right. It's in here And you found it. And so I had to be there while he questioned everybody And so it felt kind of awkward. but yeah, eventually my phone was given back to me Nice. Yeah. Then you did played a horse. Let me see if I can do a three point Yeah. Let me see if I can' still the best heckle I've ever had. That is. I wasn't even thinking of what I looked like or like just doing this and talking to a bouncer like this and pointing out my phone. that is what it looks like. I must look like she's in there. know I know that she's somebody She's not gonna take you back, man That's right Dave, you haven't overheard? Mine is well, do we mention Doug and the sllugs earlier Doug and the Slugs who are a Canadian band from the nineteen eighties. Yeah, My first ever first ever concert, concert. As a kid, free concert, like concert in the park, somethingomet like what you would see at the P and D. Right? Yeah. an zone And they are kind of a party rocin band. Yeah. They probably know they have some drinking sessions after they. fun. fun time. And this is the song Making it Work. It was on the radio in the car the other day Yeah They start right away Is work? work last a little longer. And So we were driving in the car and my nine year old heard this on the radio and she goes This song sounds like it belongs in Threk. You know what? She's not round Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty good. It does have a bit of a rambling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I could see Shrek. It's a very mon. Yeah, it's very montagey, isn't it? Yeah Shrek's triang out outfits. Were like building something something to get the girl back from the castle ye. But yeah, doing some sagg Yeah really dononkeys in there trying to contribute. He's kind of in the montaga work any way Yeah Oh my God. It's funny, like Y just When you're a kid, you're just like, this is the best song ever. Then there goes a period where you're like, this is embarrassing. Then you come back around, the song's great. Yeah. I don't think anyone's ever gone through that with making it work by duking the slugs. They've loved it their whole lives. I just went on an emotional role Yeah Yeah, JJ was like, Yeahah, that was my first concert. And second and third. I'm a dug headad. What can I say? Yeah, I travel from town to town. probably the slug concert. What's the dirty the Nor McDonald film? irty work? Dirty work. Dirty work. Yeah That sounds like. Yeah. that would be in that sound. That would be an opening. Yeah, because I don't know. We' going around pranking people and stuff and they they're, you know, Well they're taking out yout. Yeah. He had a sitcom, Norm McDonald did, and their song T Bad was the theme song Making it work. making it work. This kind got a making it work vbe. There it go. like you l Making it work. He Well I've got the world at my fingertips. this is magical computer I've got. Graam, do you have an overheard? I do. I was at the airport. Can I get your autograph here quick? Yeah, just hand me one of those pens there. Okay J Just do it over top of JJ. Yeah, okay. this time I got swoops And we're going to get o. K it real g' work. All right, it worked and you made it work. Thanks, man Um, yeah, mine is the group of boys that I feel like must have been Sorry, where were you? This is at the airport. Okay And there's a bunch of kids there with Parental chaperones. I think they maybe were coming from a sports tournament or something. But at one point U this one kid punched the other kid in the stomach and the kid fell down and was like, why did you do that? And the dad had to walk walk the kid and like you're not supposed to do that. But then went went to the bathroom and a bunch of them were in there and somebody in the stall peeing and then farted. and the kid just said, veryy matter of fact, Wh there's rain, there's thunder. So wise That's good parenting. a good dad has taught him that. It's nearly a fleetwood maxong. The idea of just like punching your friend and the stuff. There's so many left. That sounds very millhouse. Why would you do that? There's just so much violence among children That I just remember like being a young adult and It ends for different people at different times. you just realize, o, you gott to stop punching people in the arm Or like yeah, it was just so funny because they were all. They all kind of looked like they were the same kid with different haircuts. L they all look like kind of like Uh beefy, you know, farm kids Right What kind of what do you think they were traveling for? the four H club. They're going on a four H tour Yeah. They're going to see all the pigs in the country. Do you know what the four Hs are No I don't think I know any of them. I harvest one of them. Oh boy Do you any clues? No idea. Hell happainess. Hell honesty and U hiscus Hibiscus we're looking of the four Hs fourour H Cub It's a charitable organization Let's find one And it's where kids can hang out and be kids. And you learn to do by doing and it's for kids ages six to twenty one Yeah, You imagine you're twenty one year old working with this six You guys are the same level, if you understand? Head heart, hands and health Okay, headad, heart, hands and hellalth. That's nice. You know the four ages. mostly a podcast about learning. You're learning about Club fifty four. You're learning that wherever there's rain, there's thunder. You're learning about the LAC product line at IKEA. The LAC it's a very reliable table. Yeah,'t it doesn't get loose at all. Oh it's an IkeEa. They don't get loose over time It's a solid one. Solid, reliable. Now we also have overheard sent in to us by email. If you want to send one in, you can send it to SBY at maximfund. org. This first one is from Chelsea from Chicago I'm sitting at my child soccer practice when the mom next to me, while recounting a story from work, says, Apparently it's not PC to call it the autopsy room anymore. Now I have to call it the lunch room. U The autopsy room? Yeah. Do you think maybe because it was like Bad bad food or cold or cold cuts or something like that. Cold that in the first place. It that's the thing it's a bit of a mystery. Okay. All right. What I'm picturing is it's in a hospital and they used to have the autopsy room and they moved the cafeteria and they came move to somewhere else, you know? Right. Yeah. So the, you know, the old timers who've been there a long time, they just called the autopsy room. Yeah. like when a like when a Bohemian bar moves into like an old hardware store and it's still called the toolbx. That' called the autopsy. They do autopsies. that at the hospital Wh they move them to the police station? I mean For sure Morg is in the hospital. Is that the same as an autopsy room? I guess the Morggan autopsy room are probably adjacent. I think they're in close proximity to each other. And it'd be a weird place to eat. I imagine they're underground Yeah, they're probably underground. they can float the bodies out to It probably like has a very pungent odor of like I guess, not necessarily dead people, but Ebalming fluid and stuff like that, like some sort of fluids. Yeah, I don't I think maybe you don't embalm them at the No, youural home. Yeah. maybe I'm thinking more like alcohol probubbing alcohol. Yeah, and they put them in draw. The drawers with the I mean, I assume how old they work? are you questioning that? They just hang you up by your shirt like looks like a meat walk body Are they piling up in there? I don't know. Maybe they keep been going, you know? That's the way when I used to run it, where you're in, you're out This next one comes from Kurirsten M This is heard over the radio in a park and fly shuttle. dririver one. Elvis D copy. dririver two. Thank you very much. And then there was the signs for twenty seconds and then driver two heads H Lemonade is a refreshing drink. So they're having fun. Oh, that is Eddie Murphy. Yeah Uh they're they're having fun on the way. I I worked on a Movie Did in the email did it say do the Elvis voice Well, I just assumed. W it says, thank you very much. You kind of have to do it, ye. Yeah Um I did say it says in brackets. Elld' voice. Okay Okay But I was yeah, working on film once I had my walkie talkie taken away because I kept Baconoesosank callalls. Graham, give us your radio. right. And you were the intimacy coordinator on it? S. And I had to do it all without a war keeps the intimacy coordinator in check. All right, it's at maximum eroticity. Let's bring in the camera. It's erodickin here. All right, You can't say that another thing. That's why it was taken away. Yeah U this last one comes from Julie from Washington I heard my fourteen year old ask my eleven year old Are you in mood to be fine with you look exactly like type of joke? You do need to brace yourself. Did you miss a word there? Are you in mood? Did I miss a mood? Yeahbe It pretty kind? Yeah L the kind roaster. Yeah. You look exactly like someone, but Yeah, yeah. I'm not sure we can How are you feeling? Yeah If I canair sir, do you mind if I make fun of your huge nose? I know yesterday I had a big we had kind of a blow up about you looking like, you know So and so shhrek. bad that you're not a shhrek now. And you thought that ogres were cool and okay. In addition overheds that are written in we also accept your phone calls. If you want to call us our phone number is one eight four four seven seven nine seven six three one, that's one. Ugh. Spypod one. You can also send us a voice memo to SPY at maximumfund. org like these people have Hey Dave Graham and possible guest. It's Jeff in Bellingham, Washington with an overheard for you. My wife and I were going to see the movie The Backroooms the other day. and there was a couple next to us, and the guy kept talking during the movie and he was commenting about the things that were going on. And right when the main character is about to go into the backrooms, The guy exclaims, Oh, I wonder if these are those backrooms. And then the character goes into the backrooms and he says, Oh, I guess I was right. I gotta huch here. It' hilarious. W was his friend blind Yeah, I love that. I love love anything about that. Right Yeah, Oh, maybe this is why the bab's called Yeah. Okay. so it's not just a weird phrase. It actually is about a backroom. What do you mean by backrooms? Oh now I get it I was shot here in Vancouver back aroundad. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh, really. Yeah. All I know is it was a YouTube kid or something and he's b broken It an iPad kid, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's that and the obsession one Right. It was directed by like, yeah, the k has totally changed the industry now because like in Los Angeles and stuff, they're all like, Do you have a movie we can make for less than fifty grand? Well your find My phone movie might be the next one on the dog, right Oh I got a film for. Yeah It's a story about the lost phone filmed on that very ph It's okay. we can use Well that phone's lost, but I get a free loaner in the meantime Here's your next phone call Hi, Dave Graham and possible guest. This is Kay calling in with an overheard from Montreal I was in a cafe where you can go and do crafts while you sit there. and there was these two teenage girls at the table next to ours. and One of them said to the other, o, my mom's being so annoying. She won't stop texting asking where I am And the other girl said, Oh, well, she knows me. whyy don't you tell her you're with me And that girl responded Oh, she knows you, but she does not like you. No friaking way. Harsh Yes U the social disconnect of today We would have been more polite when we? Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Oh yeah, I should tell her I'm with you. Oh my phone's not working. Yeah weird. Exactly. How do you spell your name here? the letter M doesn't work on my phone. She hates you, man. Mandy U Well that brings us no. No doesn't we have a third one. Oh really? Yeah I forgot. And here's your final. Is it Doug in the Sugs? Hi Graham and Dave and gu. impressive guests. Oh Hey. Carol calling from the San Francisco East Bay calling with an overheard from the waiting room at the doctor's, specifically a spine surgeon. So there was an older lady who was brought in by whom I'm assuming was her daughter And she was She showing her daughter lots of stuff on her phone and trying to get her to look at it with her. And she said, Oh, I wanted you to see this. Look at this. They have toe transplants now and the daughter said you don't need a toe transplant And she said, I might No frigin way. I might never know. Now that they're doing them. out. I'm picturing going into hospital and they have a range of toes. Wh toe would you like? H I want a long middle toe. That's your balance. I want a big pinky toe. Yeah, I want some super balance. Also, you gotta be nice to your mom if you're in the waiting room of the spine surgeon because you probably stepped on a crack. Anyway, Ma love you. thans for watching comedy of Club U Well, that does bring us to the end of this here podcast JJ, do you have something anything that you want to plug? I got a couple things. Go on. I got a so I do have a drybar special coming out. Yeah, couple drybar specials coming out. actually This is clean comedy. And that's clean comedy nice. Which I found I did okay. I did it was fun. Yeah. I did hereere's some of the tricks I did. I did instead of instead of what the fuck I did a little little what the whats? What What? Yeah did what the what? Yeah here we go what the What? and yeah. so can we hear a few of them you what the what? Yeah it just give me like some options. Well you go What the what? That one. Yeah, that's that one I used three times. And then there was a couple of what the what? And you know, so have you thinkink about this the other day that there's not as many catchphrase comedians as maybe there once were Right in the meantime, whenever we have you next on tell us if you come up with a good catchphrase for your comedy. What the what? Yeah's ye. There is a couple of catchphrase comics out there likeah. You've got your The guy that yields hamburger? is the hamburger guy. Yeah Hmburger. The guy who gave you a Igacius who calls himself fluffy, That's a big one. Yeah. He might be a redneck. That's still going around. That' be more popular than ever these days. Yeah U So thank you so much for being our guest. Oh more stuff. I was done Yeah, So yeah, I don't know when those dry bars are coming out, but They should be fun. And then if any of your British people out there, I'm going to be at the Edinburgh Festival this year in in a play in a play. Yeah in a guy Masterson play, which is and it's a satire of twelve angry men. Okay. And I can't wait. It's going to be it's I've never done a I was going to say have you ever been in a play? I've not not on this level I've been I did a couple of plays back the day, but never this is going Guy Mastersons like a big BAT awward winning director. Oh wow. It And the cast is really cool. Super excited. adn number seven. That's a good one. Yeah. I got get my hair cut off in a couple of weeks. Okay. Oh really Yeah. soll be because it's set in nineteen fifty eight and you would be you have to look racist. Yeah you would be a derelict back then with your long hair. Exactly get on the journey. Yeah I dont think you'd get on it Yeah, exactly Yeah, so I'm really looking forward to that, you know Yeah. That's why I'm heading over to Britain in a few weeks. That's exciting. start rehearsals and so you doing thirty days of this. I think it's twenty two twenty two. Okay. O yeah, whatever it is the it's the first it's three quarters of the festival. So nice And festival' a month long. Yeah for anybody you know in a tent. Festival, ye. Yeah. Well luckily I've had from my days back in Scotland, I've got some friends there that I that I will stay with and yeah. I can rely on In fact the Shout out to the Krugers who I stay with. I Freddie one of them I yeah, Scottten Gen Kruger. fleep. We became friends in my first festival back in ' ninety nine And two thousand, we were friends back then. they were at school at the Edinburgh University. Okay. and now they still live in Edinburgh, but they have big smart home and two kids like you know, like eighteen year old in So they got older kids now and that's who I generally stay with in Scotland. So nice. Shout out to them Sout out to the Krugers, shout out to the Vorgheses. shhout out to the Myers, yeah,olly. And shout out to Oh, these xenomorphs Yeah. Brish people, keepep your eyes out, C and see. It's a satire of twelve Agry Men. It's Guy Masterson's eleven and eleven half angry men. eleven and half angry men. Yeah. Love it. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for being a guest. Thank you, everybody. Thank for listening. if you haven't explored the catalog of Doug in the Slugs, now's the time. Have a nice summer with the Doug in the slugs soundtrack in the background. Yeah I just take it day by day. Yes. Make it work. 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