August 26, 2024 • 56 mins
This week we introduce Facebook marketplace guy, talk about annoying hotel room repairs and what’s going on in the gersin firkin!?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Something went on here, something on there, and it's time
on t n T introducing Facebook Marketplace Guy. We talked
about annoying hotel room repairs and what's going on and
gets it's all coming up right now on tn T. Hello,
(00:25):
Hey is that I'm sorry? I don't even know your name.
I just have a marketplace guy. Is that for me? Facebook? Marketplace?
It is? Sorry?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What is what's your name? Marketplace guy? You could just
call me marketplace guy?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Okay, right, yeah, listen. I don't know if you remember.
My name is Derek. I bought a little hibachi barbecue
from you. Oh yeah, I remember that. It thing works great.
And when I when I got there to pick it up,
I paid your price. I met you on time. I
kind of feel like I upheld my end of the
market and you had it in a box. And when
(01:01):
I said can I take a peek at it? You
were like, it's all there? Trust me? Remember I did?
I remember? Like I said, it's all there. I used
it lots. Yeah, it's a really good piece of Habachie
does good barbecues. Doesn't matter where you are, thing cooks
up a flame. Well, I guess that quick question. When
I when I got it home and took it out
of the box. It's missing the lid. There's no lid.
(01:23):
Oh yeah, well it should be there. I mean it
should be right there in the box. But it's not there.
The lid is in there, the lid of the barb.
It has no lid. Well that's a shame. I uh sorry,
this phone, this phone actually is just one of those
fly by night ers. So what buyer beware? Click? Oh oh,
(01:53):
it seems another one of my burner phones is ringing here,
ring ring? Hello? Hi, is this some marketplace guy? That's
the main marketplace guy? Sorry, what's your name? I only
know marketplace guy. It's just call me marketplace guy. It's
pretty much what I do. You know, it's only one
(02:15):
of me. I just wanted to I don't know if
you remember me. I bought a bike from my eight
year old son. I remember I told you I was
living pretty close to the bone and this was a
big expense for me. And you even gave me a
bit of a deal, had the little mongoose. I remember
the little mongoose. Yeah, and real nice one and people
love that. I transferred you for our arrangements and you
(02:39):
dropped it off when I was at work, like you
said you would do. Thank you for that my pleasure.
It does seem to only have one wheel. Yeah, well,
uh really, because I'm pretty sure that I mean, I
mean I rode the thing myself to the drop off spot. Well,
but how you live an hour away? How did you
(03:01):
get home? I guess that's enough. Anyway, this is a
burner phone. Hang on, and you understand my son is crying.
I'm not going to answer this when actually throwing it
in the lake. Goodbye? Click. Oh why does marketplace guy
(03:24):
make my blood boil so much? Because he's real, he's
that's what he's doing. We've encountered that guy. You know
it for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Do it again.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That's okay. Oh, another burner's going over, ring ring you. Hey,
who's this? What do you mean? Who's this you're calling? Me? Yeah?
Who is it?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Marketplace guy?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Son of a whore? I knew it was you. It's
the guy about the barbecue. Call him back again. You
all hung up on me. Barbecue has no lid. Hold on,
Wait a second. This number is the wagon you must
have bought the wagon, That three wheel wagon, that three
(04:13):
wheel wagon with a rusty handle. It came right off
the first time I tried to pull a load of
firewood in it. You son of a whore? Yep, I
know you, but you don't know me. Is that what
you are? And that's why he would always insist on
let me deliver it. Yeah, I can only drop it
(04:35):
off at seven thirty. Oh only when you can't be there. Oh,
don't worry. I know a nice private spot. Teflon, got
nutt and sticks. Totally the marketplace guy, now that you
mentioned it, it's actually probably is EASi. Your way to
no take an advantage of folks is terrible. It is terrible.
(04:59):
But but there's people doing that for sure on the rag.
Well also, I see like marketplace has kind of become
a new place that I like to lurk, like looking
at boats, boats from the seventies and mahogany boats from
the fifties and old tires. Well it's basically are you
selling on Byron? But people have like shirt on there
(05:23):
for five bucks? Like, how does that even work in
terms of shipping? What if you're like, oh I love
that shirt, I used to have that shirt, and you're
like willing to get it, but you're like in BC
and it's coming from like Ontario, Like, how do you
did you? What do you do? You just gotta pay
(05:43):
for the shipping. I can't. I can't imagine there's shipping
involved like a T shirt. But if I'm if I'm
selling a shirt, l I'm not gonna mail like nobody,
You're gonna come get it for you can't see's bag
hanging on my door handle.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, so you're just dealing with the local few kilometers
of the marketplace.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I think. Okay, I got you. Yeah, because you can localize,
that makes sense, Like, so, yeah, I feel that. But
then is the new Kijiji. I don't think the folks
are using ki anymore. No, I don't even Yeah, I don't.
I haven't heard that word even or Craigslist because the
guy croaked the guy right, Oh, I didn't know that
(06:25):
was it for? That? Wasn't there a Craiglist killer? That's
how I remember that name. No way, something's like, come
on over here, scary stuff. Yeah. It also just feels
like a very weird time to be going to people's
houses to pick up a five dollars shirt. Yeah. No, well,
(06:46):
I don't know about the five dollars shirt thing. Is
that really a thing? That's really a thing. Also, I've
I've discovered prom dresses are really a thing, and that
actually makes sense. I wore it once my prom last year.
Come get to buy my dress? You wear it to
your problem like that? I get. Yeah, Well, anything that's
(07:06):
like takes you know, handcrafted or it costs a few
bucks for sure. Cool.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Like I'm looking around the room, I could see lots
of worthy Kagig stuff that you bought' no that's in
the room that I'm like, I could get Gigi that. Yeah,
let's I could put this on marketplace.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I like, you got any stuff in your playing view
that would probably sell on the marketplace? Oh yeah, I
feel like Mike Clattenberg uh posted a free Gemini Award
because Trailer Park Boys won a Gemini Award and he
set it out on the sidewalk in front of his house.
(07:50):
Come think it was like free Gemini Award off, like
the first person here can have it. He put it
on marketplace or whatever. Yeah, that's classic. And I think
I couldn't love the guy anymore, and now I do
even more. I know it was a silent protest. I
can't remember if he shot a video of the guy
(08:12):
coming to get it. But that that is punk rock
Mike Clattenberg classic move right. It is great for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I mean I have some broken Juno awards that I've
never bothered getting fixed, do you? But I don't know
if i'd put one on the street to give it.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
How were they broken? Like from moves and stuff? Yeah,
one fell over while I was cleaning another one the
head you remember the glass math spiral going around.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Sure, the head came off, and so the head's like
beside it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I don't have them up, but like there's somewhere, but
they're one of them's like one of them is the
tall plastic old school ones and it's all shattered inside,
so it looks cooler in a way. Where is it? Like?
You don't, I'm not. Some were packed No, I don't know.
(09:13):
I know there's a yeah, No I don't. Some were
packed in a box. They were tearing it down CBC
on Bell Road where I did street Sense and someone
grabbed these awards for me. So I have these really
obscure like Yorkton, Saskatchewan Golden Sheaf Award for street Sense
kind of deals. Yeah, are kind of nice to have though,
(09:36):
nice memories, you know, Yeah, No, for sure, like I
have all the most of the gold record like golden
platinum albums in my drum room. They're nice to look
at once in a while for memories. But I don't
have them up. You don't. They're just kind of stacked
around in the corners. Why don't you have them up?
(09:57):
Do you feel that it's a little self indulgent. Well,
it's the drum room, so I don't know. I don't
really feel like putting anything on the walls because it
just adds more reflection for sound. But imagine they shatter
because you're wailing on it. No, they would just be
loud and louder in here. Put all this stuff up
(10:18):
and then put a big bunch of glass around and
no thanks. I'm just looking at the lot of a
lot of stuff I could throw on the kajeej in here.
I got, like Mike stands right, that's always a solid
j solid move on the marketplace, aside from vehicles. What
(10:41):
is the item in your possession that you think would
get the most on kajj? Well, probably the instruments is snit.
The drums right right? Drums do all right. Drums aren't
as good as guitars though, like expensive stuff right, there's
(11:02):
boutique things that would go for a lot, like my craviato,
it would go for a lot. But like guitars are
the most insane, Like when you have like a stratocaster
or like a Less Paul from the sixties or seventies,
those things can be worth like hundreds of thousands of
dollars in comparison to expensive drum which could max out
(11:24):
like I don't know, like a couple grand you know,
like what is what is a crazy amount to spend
on a drum kit?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Well, the Kraviados are because they're made by it's basically
five five people, and if you order a Craviato kid,
it takes like up to two years to get what
they just made. And they're solid wood steam like steam
bent or like water. They put them in water for
(11:54):
months so they soften and then they round them and
so they're solid wood as opposed to ply. So they're
very expensive. I mean my kit would have been retail
when I bought it in the two thousand's for eighteen
thousand dollars. Oh, and because they're all big sizes, like
the bass drums of twenty six by fourteen and the
(12:17):
bit the floor toms are sixteen sixteen, eighteen sixteen, like
really big big pieces of wood, right, So would would
you road bang those?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Always? Yeah? Really for sure, definitely And they never went
missing or got cracked or got knocked over or uh no.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But but if anything ever happened to them, the guys there,
you can send it to them and they're awesome to
to fix it.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
For sure. Great company, that's so yeah. Johnny Craviato passed
a little while a few years back, but legendary guy,
legendary company was he? Oh yeah, he actually played with
Neil Young way back in the in the Ducks, the
(13:07):
Rick James, the Rick James band that Neil Young was
in way back in Yorkville, what in the Lafeu And
then he was and then he was in Moby Grape
and then he was like homies with Huey Lewis's drummer
and just like classic stories, just he was buddies with
(13:28):
with all the great legendary American musicians like Jim Keltner
was one of his best friends. Who was you know,
Jim Keltner is a great drummer, played with everybody just
from Bob Dylan to to everybody. You can name.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Literally, there's a handful of you know how, I am
with a handful of musicians that plays on most of
the music from the sixties, seventies and eighties, and he's
one of them. But yeah, great, great company, but they're
going back.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's just it's it's the difference between guitars and even basses,
like older basses. It's just outrageous the amount of money
that go for the for the guitars. Is Crabato a
Canadian company? No, they're American. They're in California, just the
(14:20):
Bay Area. What a life he had? What's that? What
a life Johnny Craviato had? Sorry I cut out for
a I said, what a life? What a life Johnny
Craviato had playing with Neil Young? And did he start
the company? Yep, definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
He had a company called Solid Snare Drums back in
the eighties and he was actually involved with d W
Drums uh for for a little while, did some stuff
for them too, like some amazing kids, and started Craviato.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Have you heard with Spurs about why Neil Young canceled
his tour? No, no, I have no idea. But it's
always unfortunate when something like that happens, because I heard
those that those shows were incredible with Crazy Horse. Yes,
(15:21):
I hope he's okay. Yeah. So what have you been
doing summer wise, Bob Oh, It's been fantastic. A lot
of hanging, a lot of a lot of enjoying the sun.
We're up in Georgian Bay for a bit. We're just
kind of getting getting the best. Like it's been probably
(15:43):
the hottest stretch and uh in terms of like perfect weather,
enough rain, there's been a little bit of both. It's
been kind of wild with the Hurricane Burrell coming through. Yeah,
I'd like you probably got rocked by that. That was
in like that.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
That was just a couple of days ago where Toronto,
the DVP was flooded, Lakeshore was flooded at all the
downtown core.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
The power was out all over the place. It was
a wake up call in terms of modern climate for sure,
showing how the infrastructure needs to be kind of sorted.
It was raining in Drake's house.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's the thing. Toronto is a
lot of great things about it, but the infrastructure and
the traffic and the way it's planned is definitely not
one of them. Like it's archaic in a lot of ways,
the plumbing and the like, a lot of the like
sixty one hundred years old some of this stuff, and
that's underneath Toronto, like it just needs such a rehaul.
(16:49):
And yeah, I'm glad I'm not the mayor, I'm not
Olivia Chow having to deal with that Union station. Well,
I know they're putting a tunnel in underneath to take
care of a lot of that waterway. But look, the
Don Valley River was originally it kind of snaked its
way through all that area, but they just kind of
(17:09):
straightened it out along the DVP, almost like just asking
for trouble, right, Yeah, anytime it rains a little bit,
there's always some water on the south DVP. And now
at this point, if we're going to be getting it
was one hundred and twenty five millimeters of rain in
one literal morning and July's normally gets ninety millimeters the
(17:36):
whole month.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
WHOA.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
So that's what they're dealing with and if that continues,
you have to change things or else it's going to
be continual.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yes, I don't typically find summer rain scary or intense,
like its normally like kind of like a sprite commercial.
But it has been like inches of rain a couple
of times this summer. It's still been fun and I'm
into it, but it's a a whole nother level for sure.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, And I think the good thing about living here
in Newmarket we're up on top of a hill, so
even as bad as it was, it was gone as
soon as it ended. But if you're living anywhere where
water collects, it doesn't matter. Like look at Drake and
the bridle Path, like that area, it's not so valuable
(18:29):
now if you're thinking about that happening once a year, right,
Like insurance companies are going to look at that and go, well,
what's the flooding situation here?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Well, imagine Drake calling his insurance provider. Yeah right, it's
raining in my crib. Okay, Like does anyone who's taken
that call feel bad for him? Or oh, let's put
can we put you up at the holiday inn? I know, right,
(19:03):
I don't know what what I guess? Right, If it's
like big Bucks insurance, they certainly can't fix it right away.
His deductible's four millsy. I just hope it didn't hit
it like his sneaker room and there's that he's at
that hotel at that one at Young I don't know
(19:26):
what it is, but one of those like ones that
are kind of greasy in the old buildings that they
say they're renovated, but you just hear drilling all the time,
but nothing ever happened. Yeah, No, one's staying on the
fourteenth floor. The rooms are so old inside and you
just hear that dinner in the wall. They put them
(19:46):
out with the delta Chelsea. There's only like seven rooms
that are being used. Yeah, And it's just like a
guy with a drill that goes out in the hallway
right outside to make it seem like they're really onto things.
And they have a print out on the wall saying
please like parden our appearance during YEAHI by.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
The way, what the what the fuck is that sound?
And it's always the same thing, you know what I
mean when you're an hotel jackhammer or any other this
never it's like a little jackhammer.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Now it's not you.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Or how about you, it's only that sound. You never
hear like bang bang bang. Never once do you want
(21:03):
me to hit it with the hammer? No, just a sack.
I think I got it, like you could be.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
In Alaska or Florida, he would be like a high
rise building or a motel six.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
It's the same fucking sound every time. What's true? What
is it doing? I don't know, that's what I mean.
It always sounds the saint distance too, right, like just
(21:46):
down and over one realm. You call the front desk like, fuck,
there's noise.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Well, I'm sorry where we're doing some repairs on the
fourteenth floor.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Even that's like three floors away, but it still sounds
like it's right in the corner of your room or
the it's a nice hotel and the elevator doors open
on fourteen they're like, whoa, whoa, Well, you're not supposed
to see that. You're supposed to be an elevator bypass.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Yeah, and you see it, just one map with this thinker,
like like a summer bug.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You never see it, but you always hear it. You
actually see the map doing it. You're like what, and
he's startled. That's it. That's what it is. That's how
they do it. Imagine trying to keep a hotel open
while you're renovating it. Though, what a gong show, I know,
(22:48):
but it seems like they really like to do it
a lot, because it's like almost every time you're in
a hotel you hear it. Oh man, please pardon our appearance.
Well we give it a facelift. So yeah, I know
it's a it's been a good summer, like in terms
of hanging everybody's hanging around. Yeah. Oh, by the way,
(23:14):
Anneale's audition to get into Art high school and she
got in. No way? Yeah, what does that mean? She's
in auditioned for the band on drums since she got in.
So is it actually a different building or it's a
different program at the school she was already going to.
(23:35):
Is it like she's going fame?
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Yes, it's fame, crazy, it's fame. It's a high school
that has a great arts program, so visual arts, drama
and music.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Is it all arts maths? No? No, no, not all,
but like a lot of a lot of it. It's
focused on there's a whole area and spaces that are
focused on it, so it kind of it definitely affects
the vibe of the school. That's so exciting. Yeah, what
(24:11):
grade is is she going into nine? And it starts
in grade nine in Ontario? Yeah? That? Oh yeah? That
where does it start there? Ten? Seven? Ten. Oh, it's later,
and then Quebec gets one earlier, right or I think
they don't have anymore. No, I don't. And that was
(24:33):
I don't think that was seven eight, right, that was
grade seven eight or something six seven eight. Middle school yeah,
six seven eight maybe, and then high school is nine
ten to eleven maybe, and then say jep I forget. Yeah,
that's so exciting. Is she pumped? She's yeah, really pumped
for sure. Crazy. Yeah, that was awesome. It's nervous me
(24:54):
and Lisa sitting in the hallway listen to the audition.
So is the audition like play a pair of Yeah,
she had to learn a snare piece, like a snare
drum piece, and then she had to play three different patterns,
like a rock pattern, a jazz pattern. Wow, she played
a boss and nova, so three different drum patterns. And
(25:16):
then she also played a piece on piano just to
show that she could read and play something. Is is
the old man giving her drum lessons or she kind
of picking away at it herself.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, no, I'm helping her, but she's uh, she loves
music so much that she's uh, she picks picks bands
that she likes and kind of plays along.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
That's the best way to learn. Pick music that you
like and play along with it. So no, it's good,
it's a it's amazing. It's really good for her and
Jack is he finished up A. He was at Lexus
for the end of the last semester doing like a
(26:00):
a co op program there and he's going to be
I think doing a plumbing one next year. Awesome looking
trades wise, which is really smart and John's maybe the smartest.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, John got into uf T and York and he's
thinking of going New York for math, for math, for
pure math. Yeah, like professor styles like professor from Gilligan's
Island styles like, Yeah, definitely not my brain.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Probably Lisa's family brains. Well, you say that, Jeremy, and
yet I would argue that there's in fact, I think
you've explained to me how there's math and drumming. There
is a little bit for sure. Yeah. No, I'm just
super proud to to have them all be, you know,
(27:02):
doing well and happy and enjoying the summer. So, yeah,
what have you guys been up to. You've been traveling
around finding what they're interested in, too, is the big one.
It's huge for sure, And letting them do that on
their own definitely, you know, not trying to persuade them exactly.
Shug has decided to go all in on hip hop.
(27:23):
She's been taking a bunch of different dance styles for
the last few years, but she really really likes hip hop.
So there's she's been dancing in turo. But there's a
team in Dartmouth that is kind of a travel team
that is exclusively hip hop. So she took the initiative
to get in touch with them. She auditioned for them
and she made that team. So she's really psyched about that.
(27:47):
And Indy just had a piano recital last week. They
have a rising Stars showcase in a church in the
Tea Dot and Indy played Fear Release, which is No
Joey Yeah, no kidding. So there's music coming from every
corner of the house and I love it. Yeah. Are
you guys jamming a bit too? Yeah we are. Yeah,
(28:10):
we were jamming a Sabrina Carpenter has a song called
Please Please Please. We were playing that yesterday as a
little trio Indian drums, Sugar playing bass and me playing
guitar and exciting news. You know, Marianna's trench is India's
favorite band. They're coming to Halifax and playing at the
Lighthouse in November, which is around her birthday, and Carol
got tickets for that, so Marianna's Trench, which will be
(28:33):
really fun. And then last weekend Carol and I went
to a thing with my sister Marge, and folks were
saying that tickets for Taylor Swift are outrageous and out
of control because of the markup through ticket Master and such,
and someone said, you know, they don't have the markup
(28:55):
in Europe, so concert tickets are actually pretty reasonable there
and it's sort of more favorable to the consumer. And
in fact, a lot of people are going to Europe
to see Taylor Swift because it's still cheaper. So it
started as a logistic exercise. We were like, is that true?
Long story is slightly longer. We're at eight o'clock tonight
(29:17):
on the red Eye to Frankfurt and we're going to
see Taylor Swift and Gelson Kirkin tomorrow night and then
fly home the next day. Come on, Yeah, that's happening.
Is like the oilers in terms of it is an avance,
same thing like it's It started family as a logistics exercise,
(29:39):
and then at every turn it was like, well, okay,
our Canada flights are too expensive. West Jet flights are reasonable.
If we could go direct from Halifax, we do it
because you don't know this pain. But when you live
here and have to fly to Toronto first and sit
around for a few hours and then fly overseas, it
just makes it not fun. So Halifax to Frankfurt is
(30:02):
six hours wicked. Actually takes longer to go to Nashville
or Orlando or certainly BC. So you know what, that's
so smart. So it's like, is it right there? Is
it in Frankfurt. It's not. It's near Dusseldorf, Okay. Gelsenkirk,
according to the Internet, is famous for being an industrial
(30:25):
city and it's known for its coal mines. So you
can take like a one of those jet trains like
ten seconds. Well this is so we looked at the trains.
It would be three trains and one of them had
seven minutes to make the connection. But it's actually more
economical to hire a car to drive us from Frankfurt
(30:46):
airport to our hotel in Gelstonkirkin and drive us back
as well. So no stress, no hassle, rip up the
Reaper bond. Yeah, but we're I think we're gone a
total of forty six hours like this. This was not
a plan. It was not our intention to take a
(31:08):
summer holiday in Europe. And so because we're going for
such a short time, it's it's one night hotel. It
is actually more economical than us going to Toronto to
see Taylor Swift perfect which and sugar'll be a better
story too, Yeah, exactly. Shuk's play a lot of acoustic
(31:31):
guitar and you know, learning Taylor jams and uh like
like her music or not. It is astonishing what she
has accomplished. And like even the stats about what she
did for England's food bank while she was there, like
(31:51):
she it's something like she donated more from her tours
in one weekend than British people have in a decade,
like some stat like that. That's like, man, she's doing
it right. You know, you know you're popular when people
are saying you're the devil. Yeah right, and you're promoting
Satan's words, Like that's how you know you're popular when
(32:15):
you're getting people so mad that they're like pulling out
the devil card. Well, do you know the girls. That's
how you really know you're hammering it into the middle
of America in the right spots. The girls weren't really
old enough to know that she has a new song
that is about Kim Kardashian, and so we started kind
(32:39):
of wormholing our way through that story. Why does she
not like Kim Kardashian? What happened there? What was the
Kanye thing? So they were watching just this morning, the
video at the VMAs of Taylor Swift winning Video of
the Year and Kanye interrupting her and him saying, remember like,
I'll let you finish, but Beyonce best record of all time? Whatever. Sure,
(33:02):
And there was an interview clip of Taylor afterwards saying
everyone booed and I didn't. I was a seventeen year
old girl who was sort of trained to try to
make audiences claps, so I assumed they were booing me.
And it was a really long moment. I didn't know
(33:23):
what to do or how to handle it. But imagine
you're seventeen, she said. At first, I was really excited
because Kanye West was on the stage beside me, and
I'd never met him before, and I thought that was
so cool, And then he said this thing and people
were booing. I assumed they were booing me, so I
thought everyone kind of agreed with him, Like, imagine what
(33:44):
that would do to your seventeen year old psyche. Yeah, well,
when you're that popular, you're getting that all the time,
big time. And she has had some of those knocks, sure, yeah,
same with Justin Bieber, Like it's probably traumatic growing up
(34:05):
that young in that big scope, right, It's got to
be no pass to affect you. But whatever, it's a
different like, it's not something that everybody knows about, and
she's handled it pretty well, i'd say, right comparative to
other people in that that same area, I don't. I
(34:26):
don't think I can think of anybody who's had that
level of scrutiny that globally for that long and had
so few missteps. Like apparently the Kim Kardashian thing was
do you know the story? The gist of it is, no,
(34:48):
Kanye wanted to put a lyric in a song about
how he made her famous. So Kanye called Taylor and said,
are you cool if I do this? She said yeah sure.
When the song came out, it said I made you famous, bitch,
and Taylor was like, I never said you could say that,
but Kim had recorded the conversation and put it released
(35:13):
snippets of it that made it sound like Taylor was
lying and she did know. So Kim said she was
a snake. Everyone was calling Taylor a snake on the
social media's. I guess that was the history of it,
but really it's been going on more than ten years.
Like that's yeah, that's bananas, But that's about the biggest
(35:34):
misstep or ugly thing. Yeah, well that's the thing though,
when you're that popular, I don't know. I think most
of those type of stars, I mean, it's almost like
when something bad happens, it's good because it's just more
oppress people talking about you. Yeah. Can I ask a
couple of sort of production questions. She has a huge set,
(36:02):
and you did you see it? All right? Did you
see it in the States A show? No? Never seen it.
So you haven't seen any Taylor Swift shows yet? No.
We went to okay, we went to a benefit called
We Can Survive at the Hollywood Bowl and it was
like where she did a couple songs. Everybody comes out
and does a few songs. So okay, So this is
the first this Yeah, so this is like you're going
(36:23):
to see the spectacle that everybody's been talking about. Yes,
So my question is would they have one set for
North America that they barge across to Europe or would
every country? Is it more economical to probably build their
own version of it? And no, I think that. Yeah,
is there like a second set so they can kind
(36:44):
of leap frog, like we're setting one up in Frankfurt
while they're tearing the out other one down in Milan.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I assume she's probably going worldwide with the same production. Yeah,
and there's probably at least two, if not three, three
setups that are continual, you know, ones being set up
a week or two in advance, you know what I mean.
That's how if it's that big, like I know, they're
(37:10):
rolling stones. When we played with them, they had I
think at least two, if not three stages because it
took a week to build the whole production.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I wondered that. So so it's probably a couple, if
not more. And there's a chance that.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
She might have a contract with a European production company
and then an American one, But generally, if it's that big,
they're probably just going to go one way around the world,
and it'll be just like a couple, if not three,
just flip flopping.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Across each other just to keep up. Imagine the logistics
of that, like.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Yeah, that's that's that's hundreds of semis like thousands of
employees every day in each city for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
And now you're going to Australia. So does her Like
do the people that build the set? Is it mostly
her dedicated people or I'm sure they pick up some
local crews.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
It's like, yeah, it's it's so big that they would
have to be hiring local crews as well. I'm sure
in terms of catering and stuff to help if like
I don't know, it could be by now they could
have it lock box and one thing where everything is one,
because like that's how the world is. It's almost small,
(38:34):
especially if you're if you're someone like that that just
does the same route every time when they tour. So
I mean, but generally you kind of hiring people locally
as part of the deal in a sense, like you're
supposed to create local jobs when you come to cities.
(38:55):
That's why mayors and people that have any authority and
in that area are bringing people to come to the
places to create those jobs. So yeah, they there's tons
of local.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Stuff created and obviously around the event, right, like stuff
that has nothing to do with the artist is affected
positively just before the fact that there's happening going around.
Yeah for sure. This is the same argument we made
about the film business. It's not just people making wages
on the film business. It's the restaurants and hotels and
(39:29):
T shirts and lumber and labor. Yeah for sure. So yeah,
so stuff, Hey, we're rolling here, you want to take
a little break or at you get it halfway point
here somewhere, let's take a break, all right? As much
(39:59):
remember this one She's So Young by Pursuit of Happiness?
What's it called, She's so Young? I don't that one?
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Here here comes the chorus right here, no rec.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
So that's a deeper track from uh Pursuit of Happiness,
which maybe the second single after I'm an Adult Now.
But the funny, the funniest thing is my cousin Elliott
was telling me how you know he has a guy
that has that same kind of voice as as this
is off the top of this song. So like when
(40:47):
the guy talks, he hears this part of this he's
like he's talks like that like that like that's it's
so this boy.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
Yeah yeah, so when the when that guy talks to him,
he's like he starts kind of laughing.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
So he's like probably like why is it is? Elliet
always crack it up when he talks to me, because
he's always like he's just like, you know, how's the
weather today? You know that's all you last week. But
it sounds exactly like that always, so he's cracks him up.
That's good stuff. The have you seen the Trans Canada highwaymen. Yeah,
(41:38):
that's Stephen Page and Craig Northy and the Chris Murphy.
Who else is in there? Mo from Pursuit of Happiness. Yeah,
that's right, they'd be able to. They're doing put together
an evening of pits. They're doing well, right, they're been
crushing it. I think so rip Us High they're doing
(42:01):
like seventies jams right right now? Are they? I think? So?
They put out a record of seventies jams. Well I
thought they just played their hints. Well they probably do both,
but I know they put out a record of covers.
Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Yeah, that'd be Fun exactly. Yeah, I believe that was
the vehicle to uh to do the deal. I'm not sure,
but like it's great that they're doing it.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Are you playing in your band still? What's that? Are
you playing in your band? Still in my band? Yeah?
Like the Fun band? Yeah, yeah, the corporate gig for sure. Yeah.
Have you guys had any gigs?
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (42:50):
We did one in April and then we're probably gonna
do a couple more in the fall. Nice, maybe some
some summer rehearsals. Just keep the uh, keep the rust
off for everybody.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Keep the chops going. Have you been golfing much? I've
played once and uh so yeah, no, not much. I'm
playing Monday. That got the stomp. The Stigma Tournament is
Monday with Bob and and Ian and everybody. So that'll
be cool, awesome, great. Who's coming this year? I'll let
(43:25):
you know after the fact. I always keep fingers crossed
until we see everybody. Is Uncle Timbo coming? Oh yeah,
Tim Tim will be there. Tools he will be there.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Uh yeah, all the regular bods are coming and uh yeah,
we'll see.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
It's gonna be on golf.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Not really, no, I know, he says he once in
a while, but I think he's more put on records
and hang out and maybe I don't know, maybe plus tennis.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
I don't never seen him on the golf course, big
spider armed. Yeah, right, he's got that tall length. Maybe
that's why he doesn't play golf, because if you have
that that much length and it's it's a little harder
maybe to make contact.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
He could also cover the court in about two steps
like one of those wrestles. So yeah, let's just stick
with the basketball shooting hoops. I have been trying to
take July and August off and staying pretty committed to it.
Other than my part time job of running an airbnb,
which keeps me very busy, I've been trying to not
(44:35):
do actual work and it's been great. Have you been
ripping like some what you'll ripped over to Pi to
fix a window and come back. Yeah, go over and mow,
go over and clean the barbecue. But we actually used
our own cottage for a few days this summer, which
was just the best. Yeah, I'm going to tell you
(44:57):
Pi in the summertime. Man. I know I've said it before,
but it is a magical place, and part of it
is the pace. So there's a woman named Carly Fortune
who wrote a book. She writes kind of a romance,
sort of you know, beach bed bath kind of books.
(45:18):
Nothing too heavy for what I can tell, kind of light.
But she set one on Pi where this woman goes
to Pi and ends up pounding a gentleman and it's
her sister's her no, her best friend's brother, and the
best friend was like, if you do one thing, don't
pound my brother. And she did. So that's a big secret.
(45:39):
So I was the big chance, like the joke, everyone says,
the farmer's daughter joke. Yeah, like you can go there
have oysters forget about the city, but don't pound them.
You're gonna want to, but don't. And he's gonna want
you to, but don't. But so they they they do.
I think it's I don't think that's a boiler. I
(46:00):
think it's fairly obvious that that's what would happen. And
then there's this big balloon of a lie that they're
keeping up together about having pounded and continuing to pound
without her knowing. But the thing that it's it's not
a book I would typically read, but I love the
fact that it was set in pdi. So it's but
it's steamier and more erotically charged than I thought it
(46:22):
might be. So it goes from like I took him
in my hand and could feel like lightning bolts down
there to then we went to cows No way the
firing and then there yeah yeah, rolled around in the
red sand, and then we went to Cows. Yeah. But
(46:46):
it's such a kick when you're from there to be like. Look,
they went to Point Prim Lighthouse, but I had to
read through all the I could feel his bulge growing
to get to thee. We went to the farmers market.
I'm like, check it out. They went to the farmer's market.
Man gave me the red gown. Mm hmmm, as only
(47:10):
up Islander can. You were might to be too worry.
I knew it. I didn't read it over the front
of the dress. I didn't read it like on a
plane or anything, because I didn't want people to think
I was reading this smut. Be the angry husband who
(47:36):
sees the red on the dress all over the dress?
Is that where you were, srety nice? You were giving
her the red gown? I freaking knew it, But I
freakin knew it. Bobby where did we find that the
green gown? Yeah, that was part of like uh we
(47:57):
played it. It was like yeah, like a Russians ancient
ancient British expressions, right like way back in the eighteen hundreds, right, yeah,
the green gown and the beast with two backs was one. Yeah,
that's right, the beast with two backs. That's another one
(48:23):
of that sounds rough, Yeah, it does like that sounds
like dark liquor has to be involved. We're making butter, okay,
southern comforter. I found wow, what all right, let's do this.
(48:46):
These are origins of some classic expressions. Bring home the bacon,
as legend would have it, pork wasn't available to everyone
in the fifteen hundreds, so when a person could obtain
the meat, it made them feel quite special. When visitors
came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off.
(49:06):
It was a sign of wealth that a man could
bring home the bacon, all like looking over his neighbor,
what like laughing and they're eating bacon, like no wonder.
People fought all the time, hanging it out out front,
like give me a break, here's a good one. Dead ringer,
(49:29):
as Internet tales would have it. England as small, and
eventually they started running out of places to bury people.
So at one point in history, it was a common
practice to dig up coffins, take the bones to a
bone house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins,
one out of twenty five coffins were found to have
scratch marks on the inside people had been buried alive.
(49:53):
To prevent this, undertaker Eye decided to tie a string
on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the
coffin and up through the ground and to a bell.
This led to people being saved by the bell or
considered a dead ringer. Wow. Catchy story, but far from
the truth. It is true that for centuries the fear
(50:13):
of being buried alive was real, but it's unclear how
much it actually happened. There you go, scary.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
Yeah, Well, there's an Edgar Allan Poe story about being
buried alive, right, is there? And he had he had
a fear of it. That's probably the stuff. It's like
movies and stories burling around.
Speaker 1 (50:34):
Well, isn't it also safe to assume that everyone has
a fear of it? Who's no, I'm perfectly cool with that. Yeah,
I'm fine with being six feet under in a box
went running out of oxygen? Cool? What are you afraid
of snakes?
Speaker 2 (50:54):
No, you know what, I'm not really I used to
be afraid of spiders where i'd see one in a me,
but now I don't care really, Yeah, you know what,
Like I feel.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
Like like once I saw like I don't know, I
saw like I feel like that if you name them
or something, then they have a personality. Yeah. I've also
I've also seen like there's a person on Instagram who
has jumping spiders as pets and they're actually like they
(51:27):
react like they know the person and they come out
and and they play with them and stuff. I'm like, damn,
I didn't know spiders rolled like that. So it's not
you know, it doesn't bother me as much as if
they're just hanging out. What do you mean Like they're affectionate. Yeah,
like they're cool with like coming out and like no
(51:50):
different than any other kind of pet. Like there's a
reaction to the person and that no definitely knows the person. Yeah,
right makes it less Like even Walnut and Strawberry, Like
I know you didn't like mice, but they had vibes
like they would they would come out of the cage
(52:10):
and go back in it. And one time the cage
was open, remember, and Walnut was like sitting there by
my feet, like can you put me back in the
cage please? And what did you do you want to go?
I just opened the cage near it and it hopped
and went in. They're so furtive, I know, they rip
(52:32):
walnut strawberry. I've been finding tons of one inch frogs. Oh,
frogs are going bananas around the house here this year.
I don't know, little tiny ones, little tiny masks. Oh yeah, why.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
I wonder if it's because it's so humid, Yeah, the rain,
and just it's good to see frogs. That means the
ecosystem's thriving.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
I like seeing all kinds of like there's I like,
it was raining crazy and I sometimes I'll just open
the garage and watch from inside the garage and all
these little tiny frogs were trying to get in from
from the garage outside and I was like guiding them away.
But then I saw one of those like.
Speaker 1 (53:16):
Really smooth green frogs, you know, like they're really fancy looking,
like yeah, I was like, oh, yeah, that's that's what
I'm talking abouts. Yeah, like those things are banging too,
all right, love it. We walked outside our door probably
ten days ago, and Joy hit the brakes, like turn around,
(53:39):
want to go back, and don't want to go out.
And then shortly after our neighbor texted us she has
bees and honey and she said there's a bear in
the front lawn. Ah. So Joy walked outside and was like, nope,
not doing it. Let's go in. Bears. Yeah, bears, Wow, bears.
You can smell bear from far away hopefully, yeah, because
(54:03):
they stink so much. Yeah, and you can see where
they scratch their posterior on trees and stuff. Also at
my old place, I used to find bear barf in
the fields because they gorge on apples and they don't
have the i'mful jeans, so they'd eat till they barf. Yeah,
Or they just eat berries and they're just like berry puke. Yeah,
(54:27):
behind the bush, blueberry grunt, bud. Don't mess with those bears. Well,
BlackBerry is supposed to fight back. Good luck with that.
If it's brown, lay down. If it's black, fight back.
But I think it's from what I understand, I think
they are more afraid of you and probably not gonna Yeah,
(54:49):
it's not like it's not like go punch the bear.
It's like make noise as much as you can and
they'll probably run away. But if they're hungry, or if
they think that you're messing with one of theirs, then
there's nothing you can do about it. Can't even climb trees.
They climb trees like cats. Yeah, I'm not gonna mess
(55:10):
with it, but I would be kind of curious to
see one. I wonder if they have bears. I've seen bears.
I was camping when I was younger in Algonquin Park
and a bear came to our spot, like I heard
it from another campsite across the lake, and then all
of a sudden heard crackling and crackling, and it was
(55:30):
coming right towards our camp. And it was the only
the first time as a kid I had gone camping.
Black bear probably yeah, black bear. Anyway, we just got
out and started pounding the paddles on the canoe and
heard it running away. Were you with your family, No,
(55:51):
I was just with two friends, like sixteen gold camping,
trying it out. Scary scary for sure, Yeah, it wasn't scary.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
It's super scary. Because you're like worried about it happening,
and then it happened and it was going to each
camp sag like that's what you don't want to see
because it was hungry.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
Did you see? Uh? Did you see? I think it
was called bear Man, the documentary about the old guy
who's eaten by the bear terrif. Yeah, because you hear
the audi. Yeah, isn't it like they have like a
during the credits or whatever. Oh yeah, if you want
to check it out, here you go, and you just
hear this horrifying event happening. Do you know what it sounds?
(56:38):
He takes his girlfriend there and she ends up getting
killed too. Yeah, it sounds like, yeah it does good child,
definitely good chatting by
Something went on here, something on there, and it's time
on t n T introducing Facebook Marketplace Guy. We talked
about annoying hotel room repairs and what's going on and
gets it's all coming up right now on tn T. Hello,
(00:25):
Hey is that I'm sorry? I don't even know your name.
I just have a marketplace guy. Is that for me? Facebook? Marketplace?
It is? Sorry?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What is what's your name? Marketplace guy? You could just
call me marketplace guy?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Okay, right, yeah, listen. I don't know if you remember.
My name is Derek. I bought a little hibachi barbecue
from you. Oh yeah, I remember that. It thing works great.
And when I when I got there to pick it up,
I paid your price. I met you on time. I
kind of feel like I upheld my end of the
market and you had it in a box. And when
(01:01):
I said can I take a peek at it? You
were like, it's all there? Trust me? Remember I did?
I remember? Like I said, it's all there. I used
it lots. Yeah, it's a really good piece of Habachie
does good barbecues. Doesn't matter where you are, thing cooks
up a flame. Well, I guess that quick question. When
I when I got it home and took it out
of the box. It's missing the lid. There's no lid.
(01:23):
Oh yeah, well it should be there. I mean it
should be right there in the box. But it's not there.
The lid is in there, the lid of the barb.
It has no lid. Well that's a shame. I uh sorry,
this phone, this phone actually is just one of those
fly by night ers. So what buyer beware? Click? Oh oh,
(01:53):
it seems another one of my burner phones is ringing here,
ring ring? Hello? Hi, is this some marketplace guy? That's
the main marketplace guy? Sorry, what's your name? I only
know marketplace guy. It's just call me marketplace guy. It's
pretty much what I do. You know, it's only one
(02:15):
of me. I just wanted to I don't know if
you remember me. I bought a bike from my eight
year old son. I remember I told you I was
living pretty close to the bone and this was a
big expense for me. And you even gave me a
bit of a deal, had the little mongoose. I remember
the little mongoose. Yeah, and real nice one and people
love that. I transferred you for our arrangements and you
(02:39):
dropped it off when I was at work, like you
said you would do. Thank you for that my pleasure.
It does seem to only have one wheel. Yeah, well,
uh really, because I'm pretty sure that I mean, I
mean I rode the thing myself to the drop off spot. Well,
but how you live an hour away? How did you
(03:01):
get home? I guess that's enough. Anyway, this is a
burner phone. Hang on, and you understand my son is crying.
I'm not going to answer this when actually throwing it
in the lake. Goodbye? Click. Oh why does marketplace guy
(03:24):
make my blood boil so much? Because he's real, he's
that's what he's doing. We've encountered that guy. You know
it for sure.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Do it again.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That's okay. Oh, another burner's going over, ring ring you. Hey,
who's this? What do you mean? Who's this you're calling? Me? Yeah?
Who is it?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Marketplace guy?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Son of a whore? I knew it was you. It's
the guy about the barbecue. Call him back again. You
all hung up on me. Barbecue has no lid. Hold on,
Wait a second. This number is the wagon you must
have bought the wagon, That three wheel wagon, that three
(04:13):
wheel wagon with a rusty handle. It came right off
the first time I tried to pull a load of
firewood in it. You son of a whore? Yep, I
know you, but you don't know me. Is that what
you are? And that's why he would always insist on
let me deliver it. Yeah, I can only drop it
(04:35):
off at seven thirty. Oh only when you can't be there. Oh,
don't worry. I know a nice private spot. Teflon, got
nutt and sticks. Totally the marketplace guy, now that you
mentioned it, it's actually probably is EASi. Your way to
no take an advantage of folks is terrible. It is terrible.
(04:59):
But but there's people doing that for sure on the rag.
Well also, I see like marketplace has kind of become
a new place that I like to lurk, like looking
at boats, boats from the seventies and mahogany boats from
the fifties and old tires. Well it's basically are you
selling on Byron? But people have like shirt on there
(05:23):
for five bucks? Like, how does that even work in
terms of shipping? What if you're like, oh I love
that shirt, I used to have that shirt, and you're
like willing to get it, but you're like in BC
and it's coming from like Ontario, Like, how do you
did you? What do you do? You just gotta pay
(05:43):
for the shipping. I can't. I can't imagine there's shipping
involved like a T shirt. But if I'm if I'm
selling a shirt, l I'm not gonna mail like nobody,
You're gonna come get it for you can't see's bag
hanging on my door handle.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, so you're just dealing with the local few kilometers
of the marketplace.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I think. Okay, I got you. Yeah, because you can localize,
that makes sense, Like, so, yeah, I feel that. But
then is the new Kijiji. I don't think the folks
are using ki anymore. No, I don't even Yeah, I don't.
I haven't heard that word even or Craigslist because the
guy croaked the guy right, Oh, I didn't know that
(06:25):
was it for? That? Wasn't there a Craiglist killer? That's
how I remember that name. No way, something's like, come
on over here, scary stuff. Yeah. It also just feels
like a very weird time to be going to people's
houses to pick up a five dollars shirt. Yeah. No, well,
(06:46):
I don't know about the five dollars shirt thing. Is
that really a thing? That's really a thing. Also, I've
I've discovered prom dresses are really a thing, and that
actually makes sense. I wore it once my prom last year.
Come get to buy my dress? You wear it to
your problem like that? I get. Yeah, Well, anything that's
(07:06):
like takes you know, handcrafted or it costs a few
bucks for sure. Cool.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Like I'm looking around the room, I could see lots
of worthy Kagig stuff that you bought' no that's in
the room that I'm like, I could get Gigi that. Yeah,
let's I could put this on marketplace.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I like, you got any stuff in your playing view
that would probably sell on the marketplace? Oh yeah, I
feel like Mike Clattenberg uh posted a free Gemini Award
because Trailer Park Boys won a Gemini Award and he
set it out on the sidewalk in front of his house.
(07:50):
Come think it was like free Gemini Award off, like
the first person here can have it. He put it
on marketplace or whatever. Yeah, that's classic. And I think
I couldn't love the guy anymore, and now I do
even more. I know it was a silent protest. I
can't remember if he shot a video of the guy
(08:12):
coming to get it. But that that is punk rock
Mike Clattenberg classic move right. It is great for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I mean I have some broken Juno awards that I've
never bothered getting fixed, do you? But I don't know
if i'd put one on the street to give it.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
How were they broken? Like from moves and stuff? Yeah,
one fell over while I was cleaning another one the
head you remember the glass math spiral going around.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Sure, the head came off, and so the head's like
beside it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I don't have them up, but like there's somewhere, but
they're one of them's like one of them is the
tall plastic old school ones and it's all shattered inside,
so it looks cooler in a way. Where is it? Like?
You don't, I'm not. Some were packed No, I don't know.
(09:13):
I know there's a yeah, No I don't. Some were
packed in a box. They were tearing it down CBC
on Bell Road where I did street Sense and someone
grabbed these awards for me. So I have these really
obscure like Yorkton, Saskatchewan Golden Sheaf Award for street Sense
kind of deals. Yeah, are kind of nice to have though,
(09:36):
nice memories, you know, Yeah, No, for sure, like I
have all the most of the gold record like golden
platinum albums in my drum room. They're nice to look
at once in a while for memories. But I don't
have them up. You don't. They're just kind of stacked
around in the corners. Why don't you have them up?
(09:57):
Do you feel that it's a little self indulgent. Well,
it's the drum room, so I don't know. I don't
really feel like putting anything on the walls because it
just adds more reflection for sound. But imagine they shatter
because you're wailing on it. No, they would just be
loud and louder in here. Put all this stuff up
(10:18):
and then put a big bunch of glass around and
no thanks. I'm just looking at the lot of a
lot of stuff I could throw on the kajeej in here.
I got, like Mike stands right, that's always a solid
j solid move on the marketplace, aside from vehicles. What
(10:41):
is the item in your possession that you think would
get the most on kajj? Well, probably the instruments is snit.
The drums right right? Drums do all right. Drums aren't
as good as guitars though, like expensive stuff right, there's
(11:02):
boutique things that would go for a lot, like my craviato,
it would go for a lot. But like guitars are
the most insane, Like when you have like a stratocaster
or like a Less Paul from the sixties or seventies,
those things can be worth like hundreds of thousands of
dollars in comparison to expensive drum which could max out
(11:24):
like I don't know, like a couple grand you know,
like what is what is a crazy amount to spend
on a drum kit?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Well, the Kraviados are because they're made by it's basically
five five people, and if you order a Craviato kid,
it takes like up to two years to get what
they just made. And they're solid wood steam like steam
bent or like water. They put them in water for
(11:54):
months so they soften and then they round them and
so they're solid wood as opposed to ply. So they're
very expensive. I mean my kit would have been retail
when I bought it in the two thousand's for eighteen
thousand dollars. Oh, and because they're all big sizes, like
the bass drums of twenty six by fourteen and the
(12:17):
bit the floor toms are sixteen sixteen, eighteen sixteen, like
really big big pieces of wood, right, So would would
you road bang those?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Always? Yeah? Really for sure, definitely And they never went
missing or got cracked or got knocked over or uh no.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But but if anything ever happened to them, the guys there,
you can send it to them and they're awesome to
to fix it.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
For sure. Great company, that's so yeah. Johnny Craviato passed
a little while a few years back, but legendary guy,
legendary company was he? Oh yeah, he actually played with
Neil Young way back in the in the Ducks, the
(13:07):
Rick James, the Rick James band that Neil Young was
in way back in Yorkville, what in the Lafeu And
then he was and then he was in Moby Grape
and then he was like homies with Huey Lewis's drummer
and just like classic stories, just he was buddies with
(13:28):
with all the great legendary American musicians like Jim Keltner
was one of his best friends. Who was you know,
Jim Keltner is a great drummer, played with everybody just
from Bob Dylan to to everybody. You can name.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Literally, there's a handful of you know how, I am
with a handful of musicians that plays on most of
the music from the sixties, seventies and eighties, and he's
one of them. But yeah, great, great company, but they're
going back.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's just it's it's the difference between guitars and even basses,
like older basses. It's just outrageous the amount of money
that go for the for the guitars. Is Crabato a
Canadian company? No, they're American. They're in California, just the
(14:20):
Bay Area. What a life he had? What's that? What
a life Johnny Craviato had? Sorry I cut out for
a I said, what a life? What a life Johnny
Craviato had playing with Neil Young? And did he start
the company? Yep, definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
He had a company called Solid Snare Drums back in
the eighties and he was actually involved with d W
Drums uh for for a little while, did some stuff
for them too, like some amazing kids, and started Craviato.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Have you heard with Spurs about why Neil Young canceled
his tour? No, no, I have no idea. But it's
always unfortunate when something like that happens, because I heard
those that those shows were incredible with Crazy Horse. Yes,
(15:21):
I hope he's okay. Yeah. So what have you been
doing summer wise, Bob Oh, It's been fantastic. A lot
of hanging, a lot of a lot of enjoying the sun.
We're up in Georgian Bay for a bit. We're just
kind of getting getting the best. Like it's been probably
(15:43):
the hottest stretch and uh in terms of like perfect weather,
enough rain, there's been a little bit of both. It's
been kind of wild with the Hurricane Burrell coming through. Yeah,
I'd like you probably got rocked by that. That was
in like that.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
That was just a couple of days ago where Toronto,
the DVP was flooded, Lakeshore was flooded at all the
downtown core.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
The power was out all over the place. It was
a wake up call in terms of modern climate for sure,
showing how the infrastructure needs to be kind of sorted.
It was raining in Drake's house.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's the thing. Toronto is a
lot of great things about it, but the infrastructure and
the traffic and the way it's planned is definitely not
one of them. Like it's archaic in a lot of ways,
the plumbing and the like, a lot of the like
sixty one hundred years old some of this stuff, and
that's underneath Toronto, like it just needs such a rehaul.
(16:49):
And yeah, I'm glad I'm not the mayor, I'm not
Olivia Chow having to deal with that Union station. Well,
I know they're putting a tunnel in underneath to take
care of a lot of that waterway. But look, the
Don Valley River was originally it kind of snaked its
way through all that area, but they just kind of
(17:09):
straightened it out along the DVP, almost like just asking
for trouble, right, Yeah, anytime it rains a little bit,
there's always some water on the south DVP. And now
at this point, if we're going to be getting it
was one hundred and twenty five millimeters of rain in
one literal morning and July's normally gets ninety millimeters the
(17:36):
whole month.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
WHOA.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
So that's what they're dealing with and if that continues,
you have to change things or else it's going to
be continual.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yes, I don't typically find summer rain scary or intense,
like its normally like kind of like a sprite commercial.
But it has been like inches of rain a couple
of times this summer. It's still been fun and I'm
into it, but it's a a whole nother level for sure.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, And I think the good thing about living here
in Newmarket we're up on top of a hill, so
even as bad as it was, it was gone as
soon as it ended. But if you're living anywhere where
water collects, it doesn't matter. Like look at Drake and
the bridle Path, like that area, it's not so valuable
(18:29):
now if you're thinking about that happening once a year, right,
Like insurance companies are going to look at that and go, well,
what's the flooding situation here?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Well, imagine Drake calling his insurance provider. Yeah right, it's
raining in my crib. Okay, Like does anyone who's taken
that call feel bad for him? Or oh, let's put
can we put you up at the holiday inn? I know, right,
(19:03):
I don't know what what I guess? Right, If it's
like big Bucks insurance, they certainly can't fix it right away.
His deductible's four millsy. I just hope it didn't hit
it like his sneaker room and there's that he's at
that hotel at that one at Young I don't know
(19:26):
what it is, but one of those like ones that
are kind of greasy in the old buildings that they
say they're renovated, but you just hear drilling all the time,
but nothing ever happened. Yeah, No, one's staying on the
fourteenth floor. The rooms are so old inside and you
just hear that dinner in the wall. They put them
(19:46):
out with the delta Chelsea. There's only like seven rooms
that are being used. Yeah, And it's just like a
guy with a drill that goes out in the hallway
right outside to make it seem like they're really onto things.
And they have a print out on the wall saying
please like parden our appearance during YEAHI by.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
The way, what the what the fuck is that sound?
And it's always the same thing, you know what I
mean when you're an hotel jackhammer or any other this
never it's like a little jackhammer.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Now it's not you.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Or how about you, it's only that sound. You never
hear like bang bang bang. Never once do you want
(21:03):
me to hit it with the hammer? No, just a sack.
I think I got it, like you could be.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
In Alaska or Florida, he would be like a high
rise building or a motel six.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
It's the same fucking sound every time. What's true? What
is it doing? I don't know, that's what I mean.
It always sounds the saint distance too, right, like just
(21:46):
down and over one realm. You call the front desk like, fuck,
there's noise.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Well, I'm sorry where we're doing some repairs on the
fourteenth floor.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Even that's like three floors away, but it still sounds
like it's right in the corner of your room or
the it's a nice hotel and the elevator doors open
on fourteen they're like, whoa, whoa, Well, you're not supposed
to see that. You're supposed to be an elevator bypass.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Yeah, and you see it, just one map with this thinker,
like like a summer bug.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You never see it, but you always hear it. You
actually see the map doing it. You're like what, and
he's startled. That's it. That's what it is. That's how
they do it. Imagine trying to keep a hotel open
while you're renovating it. Though, what a gong show, I know,
(22:48):
but it seems like they really like to do it
a lot, because it's like almost every time you're in
a hotel you hear it. Oh man, please pardon our appearance.
Well we give it a facelift. So yeah, I know
it's a it's been a good summer, like in terms
of hanging everybody's hanging around. Yeah. Oh, by the way,
(23:14):
Anneale's audition to get into Art high school and she
got in. No way? Yeah, what does that mean? She's
in auditioned for the band on drums since she got in.
So is it actually a different building or it's a
different program at the school she was already going to.
(23:35):
Is it like she's going fame?
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Yes, it's fame, crazy, it's fame. It's a high school
that has a great arts program, so visual arts, drama
and music.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Is it all arts maths? No? No, no, not all,
but like a lot of a lot of it. It's
focused on there's a whole area and spaces that are
focused on it, so it kind of it definitely affects
the vibe of the school. That's so exciting. Yeah, what
(24:11):
grade is is she going into nine? And it starts
in grade nine in Ontario? Yeah? That? Oh yeah? That
where does it start there? Ten? Seven? Ten. Oh, it's later,
and then Quebec gets one earlier, right or I think
they don't have anymore. No, I don't. And that was
(24:33):
I don't think that was seven eight, right, that was
grade seven eight or something six seven eight. Middle school yeah,
six seven eight maybe, and then high school is nine
ten to eleven maybe, and then say jep I forget. Yeah,
that's so exciting. Is she pumped? She's yeah, really pumped
for sure. Crazy. Yeah, that was awesome. It's nervous me
(24:54):
and Lisa sitting in the hallway listen to the audition.
So is the audition like play a pair of Yeah,
she had to learn a snare piece, like a snare
drum piece, and then she had to play three different patterns,
like a rock pattern, a jazz pattern. Wow, she played
a boss and nova, so three different drum patterns. And
(25:16):
then she also played a piece on piano just to
show that she could read and play something. Is is
the old man giving her drum lessons or she kind
of picking away at it herself.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, no, I'm helping her, but she's uh, she loves
music so much that she's uh, she picks picks bands
that she likes and kind of plays along.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
That's the best way to learn. Pick music that you
like and play along with it. So no, it's good,
it's a it's amazing. It's really good for her and
Jack is he finished up A. He was at Lexus
for the end of the last semester doing like a
(26:00):
a co op program there and he's going to be
I think doing a plumbing one next year. Awesome looking
trades wise, which is really smart and John's maybe the smartest.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, John got into uf T and York and he's
thinking of going New York for math, for math, for
pure math. Yeah, like professor styles like professor from Gilligan's
Island styles like, Yeah, definitely not my brain.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Probably Lisa's family brains. Well, you say that, Jeremy, and
yet I would argue that there's in fact, I think
you've explained to me how there's math and drumming. There
is a little bit for sure. Yeah. No, I'm just
super proud to to have them all be, you know,
(27:02):
doing well and happy and enjoying the summer. So, yeah,
what have you guys been up to. You've been traveling
around finding what they're interested in, too, is the big one.
It's huge for sure, And letting them do that on
their own definitely, you know, not trying to persuade them exactly.
Shug has decided to go all in on hip hop.
(27:23):
She's been taking a bunch of different dance styles for
the last few years, but she really really likes hip hop.
So there's she's been dancing in turo. But there's a
team in Dartmouth that is kind of a travel team
that is exclusively hip hop. So she took the initiative
to get in touch with them. She auditioned for them
and she made that team. So she's really psyched about that.
(27:47):
And Indy just had a piano recital last week. They
have a rising Stars showcase in a church in the
Tea Dot and Indy played Fear Release, which is No
Joey Yeah, no kidding. So there's music coming from every
corner of the house and I love it. Yeah. Are
you guys jamming a bit too? Yeah we are. Yeah,
(28:10):
we were jamming a Sabrina Carpenter has a song called
Please Please Please. We were playing that yesterday as a
little trio Indian drums, Sugar playing bass and me playing
guitar and exciting news. You know, Marianna's trench is India's
favorite band. They're coming to Halifax and playing at the
Lighthouse in November, which is around her birthday, and Carol
got tickets for that, so Marianna's Trench, which will be
(28:33):
really fun. And then last weekend Carol and I went
to a thing with my sister Marge, and folks were
saying that tickets for Taylor Swift are outrageous and out
of control because of the markup through ticket Master and such,
and someone said, you know, they don't have the markup
(28:55):
in Europe, so concert tickets are actually pretty reasonable there
and it's sort of more favorable to the consumer. And
in fact, a lot of people are going to Europe
to see Taylor Swift because it's still cheaper. So it
started as a logistic exercise. We were like, is that true?
Long story is slightly longer. We're at eight o'clock tonight
(29:17):
on the red Eye to Frankfurt and we're going to
see Taylor Swift and Gelson Kirkin tomorrow night and then
fly home the next day. Come on, Yeah, that's happening.
Is like the oilers in terms of it is an avance,
same thing like it's It started family as a logistics exercise,
(29:39):
and then at every turn it was like, well, okay,
our Canada flights are too expensive. West Jet flights are reasonable.
If we could go direct from Halifax, we do it
because you don't know this pain. But when you live
here and have to fly to Toronto first and sit
around for a few hours and then fly overseas, it
just makes it not fun. So Halifax to Frankfurt is
(30:02):
six hours wicked. Actually takes longer to go to Nashville
or Orlando or certainly BC. So you know what, that's
so smart. So it's like, is it right there? Is
it in Frankfurt. It's not. It's near Dusseldorf, Okay. Gelsenkirk,
according to the Internet, is famous for being an industrial
(30:25):
city and it's known for its coal mines. So you
can take like a one of those jet trains like
ten seconds. Well this is so we looked at the trains.
It would be three trains and one of them had
seven minutes to make the connection. But it's actually more
economical to hire a car to drive us from Frankfurt
(30:46):
airport to our hotel in Gelstonkirkin and drive us back
as well. So no stress, no hassle, rip up the
Reaper bond. Yeah, but we're I think we're gone a
total of forty six hours like this. This was not
a plan. It was not our intention to take a
(31:08):
summer holiday in Europe. And so because we're going for
such a short time, it's it's one night hotel. It
is actually more economical than us going to Toronto to
see Taylor Swift perfect which and sugar'll be a better
story too, Yeah, exactly. Shuk's play a lot of acoustic
(31:31):
guitar and you know, learning Taylor jams and uh like
like her music or not. It is astonishing what she
has accomplished. And like even the stats about what she
did for England's food bank while she was there, like
(31:51):
she it's something like she donated more from her tours
in one weekend than British people have in a decade,
like some stat like that. That's like, man, she's doing
it right. You know, you know you're popular when people
are saying you're the devil. Yeah right, and you're promoting
Satan's words, Like that's how you know you're popular when
(32:15):
you're getting people so mad that they're like pulling out
the devil card. Well, do you know the girls. That's
how you really know you're hammering it into the middle
of America in the right spots. The girls weren't really
old enough to know that she has a new song
that is about Kim Kardashian, and so we started kind
(32:39):
of wormholing our way through that story. Why does she
not like Kim Kardashian? What happened there? What was the
Kanye thing? So they were watching just this morning, the
video at the VMAs of Taylor Swift winning Video of
the Year and Kanye interrupting her and him saying, remember like,
I'll let you finish, but Beyonce best record of all time? Whatever. Sure,
(33:02):
And there was an interview clip of Taylor afterwards saying
everyone booed and I didn't. I was a seventeen year
old girl who was sort of trained to try to
make audiences claps, so I assumed they were booing me.
And it was a really long moment. I didn't know
(33:23):
what to do or how to handle it. But imagine
you're seventeen, she said. At first, I was really excited
because Kanye West was on the stage beside me, and
I'd never met him before, and I thought that was
so cool, And then he said this thing and people
were booing. I assumed they were booing me, so I
thought everyone kind of agreed with him, Like, imagine what
(33:44):
that would do to your seventeen year old psyche. Yeah, well,
when you're that popular, you're getting that all the time,
big time. And she has had some of those knocks, sure, yeah,
same with Justin Bieber, Like it's probably traumatic growing up
(34:05):
that young in that big scope, right, It's got to
be no pass to affect you. But whatever, it's a
different like, it's not something that everybody knows about, and
she's handled it pretty well, i'd say, right comparative to
other people in that that same area, I don't. I
(34:26):
don't think I can think of anybody who's had that
level of scrutiny that globally for that long and had
so few missteps. Like apparently the Kim Kardashian thing was
do you know the story? The gist of it is, no,
(34:48):
Kanye wanted to put a lyric in a song about
how he made her famous. So Kanye called Taylor and said,
are you cool if I do this? She said yeah sure.
When the song came out, it said I made you famous, bitch,
and Taylor was like, I never said you could say that,
but Kim had recorded the conversation and put it released
(35:13):
snippets of it that made it sound like Taylor was
lying and she did know. So Kim said she was
a snake. Everyone was calling Taylor a snake on the
social media's. I guess that was the history of it,
but really it's been going on more than ten years.
Like that's yeah, that's bananas, But that's about the biggest
(35:34):
misstep or ugly thing. Yeah, well that's the thing though,
when you're that popular, I don't know. I think most
of those type of stars, I mean, it's almost like
when something bad happens, it's good because it's just more
oppress people talking about you. Yeah. Can I ask a
couple of sort of production questions. She has a huge set,
(36:02):
and you did you see it? All right? Did you
see it in the States A show? No? Never seen it.
So you haven't seen any Taylor Swift shows yet? No.
We went to okay, we went to a benefit called
We Can Survive at the Hollywood Bowl and it was
like where she did a couple songs. Everybody comes out
and does a few songs. So okay, So this is
the first this Yeah, so this is like you're going
(36:23):
to see the spectacle that everybody's been talking about. Yes,
So my question is would they have one set for
North America that they barge across to Europe or would
every country? Is it more economical to probably build their
own version of it? And no, I think that. Yeah,
is there like a second set so they can kind
(36:44):
of leap frog, like we're setting one up in Frankfurt
while they're tearing the out other one down in Milan.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I assume she's probably going worldwide with the same production. Yeah,
and there's probably at least two, if not three, three
setups that are continual, you know, ones being set up
a week or two in advance, you know what I mean.
That's how if it's that big, like I know, they're
(37:10):
rolling stones. When we played with them, they had I
think at least two, if not three stages because it
took a week to build the whole production.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I wondered that. So so it's probably a couple, if
not more. And there's a chance that.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
She might have a contract with a European production company
and then an American one, But generally, if it's that big,
they're probably just going to go one way around the world,
and it'll be just like a couple, if not three,
just flip flopping.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Across each other just to keep up. Imagine the logistics
of that, like.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Yeah, that's that's that's hundreds of semis like thousands of
employees every day in each city for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
And now you're going to Australia. So does her Like
do the people that build the set? Is it mostly
her dedicated people or I'm sure they pick up some
local crews.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
It's like, yeah, it's it's so big that they would
have to be hiring local crews as well. I'm sure
in terms of catering and stuff to help if like
I don't know, it could be by now they could
have it lock box and one thing where everything is one,
because like that's how the world is. It's almost small,
(38:34):
especially if you're if you're someone like that that just
does the same route every time when they tour. So
I mean, but generally you kind of hiring people locally
as part of the deal in a sense, like you're
supposed to create local jobs when you come to cities.
(38:55):
That's why mayors and people that have any authority and
in that area are bringing people to come to the
places to create those jobs. So yeah, they there's tons
of local.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Stuff created and obviously around the event, right, like stuff
that has nothing to do with the artist is affected
positively just before the fact that there's happening going around.
Yeah for sure. This is the same argument we made
about the film business. It's not just people making wages
on the film business. It's the restaurants and hotels and
(39:29):
T shirts and lumber and labor. Yeah for sure. So yeah,
so stuff, Hey, we're rolling here, you want to take
a little break or at you get it halfway point
here somewhere, let's take a break, all right? As much
(39:59):
remember this one She's So Young by Pursuit of Happiness?
What's it called, She's so Young? I don't that one?
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Here here comes the chorus right here, no rec.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
So that's a deeper track from uh Pursuit of Happiness,
which maybe the second single after I'm an Adult Now.
But the funny, the funniest thing is my cousin Elliott
was telling me how you know he has a guy
that has that same kind of voice as as this
is off the top of this song. So like when
(40:47):
the guy talks, he hears this part of this he's
like he's talks like that like that like that's it's
so this boy.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
Yeah yeah, so when the when that guy talks to him,
he's like he starts kind of laughing.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
So he's like probably like why is it is? Elliet
always crack it up when he talks to me, because
he's always like he's just like, you know, how's the
weather today? You know that's all you last week. But
it sounds exactly like that always, so he's cracks him up.
That's good stuff. The have you seen the Trans Canada highwaymen. Yeah,
(41:38):
that's Stephen Page and Craig Northy and the Chris Murphy.
Who else is in there? Mo from Pursuit of Happiness. Yeah,
that's right, they'd be able to. They're doing put together
an evening of pits. They're doing well, right, they're been
crushing it. I think so rip Us High they're doing
(42:01):
like seventies jams right right now? Are they? I think? So?
They put out a record of seventies jams. Well I
thought they just played their hints. Well they probably do both,
but I know they put out a record of covers.
Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Yeah, that'd be Fun exactly. Yeah, I believe that was
the vehicle to uh to do the deal. I'm not sure,
but like it's great that they're doing it.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Are you playing in your band still? What's that? Are
you playing in your band? Still in my band? Yeah?
Like the Fun band? Yeah, yeah, the corporate gig for sure. Yeah.
Have you guys had any gigs?
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (42:50):
We did one in April and then we're probably gonna
do a couple more in the fall. Nice, maybe some
some summer rehearsals. Just keep the uh, keep the rust
off for everybody.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Keep the chops going. Have you been golfing much? I've
played once and uh so yeah, no, not much. I'm
playing Monday. That got the stomp. The Stigma Tournament is
Monday with Bob and and Ian and everybody. So that'll
be cool, awesome, great. Who's coming this year? I'll let
(43:25):
you know after the fact. I always keep fingers crossed
until we see everybody. Is Uncle Timbo coming? Oh yeah,
Tim Tim will be there. Tools he will be there.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Uh yeah, all the regular bods are coming and uh yeah,
we'll see.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
It's gonna be on golf.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Not really, no, I know, he says he once in
a while, but I think he's more put on records
and hang out and maybe I don't know, maybe plus tennis.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
I don't never seen him on the golf course, big
spider armed. Yeah, right, he's got that tall length. Maybe
that's why he doesn't play golf, because if you have
that that much length and it's it's a little harder
maybe to make contact.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
He could also cover the court in about two steps
like one of those wrestles. So yeah, let's just stick
with the basketball shooting hoops. I have been trying to
take July and August off and staying pretty committed to it.
Other than my part time job of running an airbnb,
which keeps me very busy, I've been trying to not
(44:35):
do actual work and it's been great. Have you been
ripping like some what you'll ripped over to Pi to
fix a window and come back. Yeah, go over and mow,
go over and clean the barbecue. But we actually used
our own cottage for a few days this summer, which
was just the best. Yeah, I'm going to tell you
(44:57):
Pi in the summertime. Man. I know I've said it before,
but it is a magical place, and part of it
is the pace. So there's a woman named Carly Fortune
who wrote a book. She writes kind of a romance,
sort of you know, beach bed bath kind of books.
(45:18):
Nothing too heavy for what I can tell, kind of light.
But she set one on Pi where this woman goes
to Pi and ends up pounding a gentleman and it's
her sister's her no, her best friend's brother, and the
best friend was like, if you do one thing, don't
pound my brother. And she did. So that's a big secret.
(45:39):
So I was the big chance, like the joke, everyone says,
the farmer's daughter joke. Yeah, like you can go there
have oysters forget about the city, but don't pound them.
You're gonna want to, but don't. And he's gonna want
you to, but don't. But so they they they do.
I think it's I don't think that's a boiler. I
(46:00):
think it's fairly obvious that that's what would happen. And
then there's this big balloon of a lie that they're
keeping up together about having pounded and continuing to pound
without her knowing. But the thing that it's it's not
a book I would typically read, but I love the
fact that it was set in pdi. So it's but
it's steamier and more erotically charged than I thought it
(46:22):
might be. So it goes from like I took him
in my hand and could feel like lightning bolts down
there to then we went to cows No way the
firing and then there yeah yeah, rolled around in the
red sand, and then we went to Cows. Yeah. But
(46:46):
it's such a kick when you're from there to be like. Look,
they went to Point Prim Lighthouse, but I had to
read through all the I could feel his bulge growing
to get to thee. We went to the farmers market.
I'm like, check it out. They went to the farmer's market.
Man gave me the red gown. Mm hmmm, as only
(47:10):
up Islander can. You were might to be too worry.
I knew it. I didn't read it over the front
of the dress. I didn't read it like on a
plane or anything, because I didn't want people to think
I was reading this smut. Be the angry husband who
(47:36):
sees the red on the dress all over the dress?
Is that where you were, srety nice? You were giving
her the red gown? I freaking knew it, But I
freakin knew it. Bobby where did we find that the
green gown? Yeah, that was part of like uh we
(47:57):
played it. It was like yeah, like a Russians ancient
ancient British expressions, right like way back in the eighteen hundreds, right, yeah,
the green gown and the beast with two backs was one. Yeah,
that's right, the beast with two backs. That's another one
(48:23):
of that sounds rough, Yeah, it does like that sounds
like dark liquor has to be involved. We're making butter, okay,
southern comforter. I found wow, what all right, let's do this.
(48:46):
These are origins of some classic expressions. Bring home the bacon,
as legend would have it, pork wasn't available to everyone
in the fifteen hundreds, so when a person could obtain
the meat, it made them feel quite special. When visitors
came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off.
(49:06):
It was a sign of wealth that a man could
bring home the bacon, all like looking over his neighbor,
what like laughing and they're eating bacon, like no wonder.
People fought all the time, hanging it out out front,
like give me a break, here's a good one. Dead ringer,
(49:29):
as Internet tales would have it. England as small, and
eventually they started running out of places to bury people.
So at one point in history, it was a common
practice to dig up coffins, take the bones to a
bone house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins,
one out of twenty five coffins were found to have
scratch marks on the inside people had been buried alive.
(49:53):
To prevent this, undertaker Eye decided to tie a string
on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the
coffin and up through the ground and to a bell.
This led to people being saved by the bell or
considered a dead ringer. Wow. Catchy story, but far from
the truth. It is true that for centuries the fear
(50:13):
of being buried alive was real, but it's unclear how
much it actually happened. There you go, scary.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
Yeah, Well, there's an Edgar Allan Poe story about being
buried alive, right, is there? And he had he had
a fear of it. That's probably the stuff. It's like
movies and stories burling around.
Speaker 1 (50:34):
Well, isn't it also safe to assume that everyone has
a fear of it? Who's no, I'm perfectly cool with that. Yeah,
I'm fine with being six feet under in a box
went running out of oxygen? Cool? What are you afraid
of snakes?
Speaker 2 (50:54):
No, you know what, I'm not really I used to
be afraid of spiders where i'd see one in a me,
but now I don't care really, Yeah, you know what,
Like I feel.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
Like like once I saw like I don't know, I
saw like I feel like that if you name them
or something, then they have a personality. Yeah. I've also
I've also seen like there's a person on Instagram who
has jumping spiders as pets and they're actually like they
(51:27):
react like they know the person and they come out
and and they play with them and stuff. I'm like, damn,
I didn't know spiders rolled like that. So it's not
you know, it doesn't bother me as much as if
they're just hanging out. What do you mean Like they're affectionate. Yeah,
like they're cool with like coming out and like no
(51:50):
different than any other kind of pet. Like there's a
reaction to the person and that no definitely knows the person. Yeah,
right makes it less Like even Walnut and Strawberry, Like
I know you didn't like mice, but they had vibes
like they would they would come out of the cage
(52:10):
and go back in it. And one time the cage
was open, remember, and Walnut was like sitting there by
my feet, like can you put me back in the
cage please? And what did you do you want to go?
I just opened the cage near it and it hopped
and went in. They're so furtive, I know, they rip
(52:32):
walnut strawberry. I've been finding tons of one inch frogs. Oh,
frogs are going bananas around the house here this year.
I don't know, little tiny ones, little tiny masks. Oh yeah, why.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
I wonder if it's because it's so humid, Yeah, the rain,
and just it's good to see frogs. That means the
ecosystem's thriving.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
I like seeing all kinds of like there's I like,
it was raining crazy and I sometimes I'll just open
the garage and watch from inside the garage and all
these little tiny frogs were trying to get in from
from the garage outside and I was like guiding them away.
But then I saw one of those like.
Speaker 1 (53:16):
Really smooth green frogs, you know, like they're really fancy looking,
like yeah, I was like, oh, yeah, that's that's what
I'm talking abouts. Yeah, like those things are banging too,
all right, love it. We walked outside our door probably
ten days ago, and Joy hit the brakes, like turn around,
(53:39):
want to go back, and don't want to go out.
And then shortly after our neighbor texted us she has
bees and honey and she said there's a bear in
the front lawn. Ah. So Joy walked outside and was like, nope,
not doing it. Let's go in. Bears. Yeah, bears, Wow, bears.
You can smell bear from far away hopefully, yeah, because
(54:03):
they stink so much. Yeah, and you can see where
they scratch their posterior on trees and stuff. Also at
my old place, I used to find bear barf in
the fields because they gorge on apples and they don't
have the i'mful jeans, so they'd eat till they barf. Yeah,
Or they just eat berries and they're just like berry puke. Yeah,
(54:27):
behind the bush, blueberry grunt, bud. Don't mess with those bears. Well,
BlackBerry is supposed to fight back. Good luck with that.
If it's brown, lay down. If it's black, fight back.
But I think it's from what I understand, I think
they are more afraid of you and probably not gonna Yeah,
(54:49):
it's not like it's not like go punch the bear.
It's like make noise as much as you can and
they'll probably run away. But if they're hungry, or if
they think that you're messing with one of theirs, then
there's nothing you can do about it. Can't even climb trees.
They climb trees like cats. Yeah, I'm not gonna mess
(55:10):
with it, but I would be kind of curious to
see one. I wonder if they have bears. I've seen bears.
I was camping when I was younger in Algonquin Park
and a bear came to our spot, like I heard
it from another campsite across the lake, and then all
of a sudden heard crackling and crackling, and it was
(55:30):
coming right towards our camp. And it was the only
the first time as a kid I had gone camping.
Black bear probably yeah, black bear. Anyway, we just got
out and started pounding the paddles on the canoe and
heard it running away. Were you with your family, No,
(55:51):
I was just with two friends, like sixteen gold camping,
trying it out. Scary scary for sure, Yeah, it wasn't scary.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
It's super scary. Because you're like worried about it happening,
and then it happened and it was going to each
camp sag like that's what you don't want to see
because it was hungry.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
Did you see? Uh? Did you see? I think it
was called bear Man, the documentary about the old guy
who's eaten by the bear terrif. Yeah, because you hear
the audi. Yeah, isn't it like they have like a
during the credits or whatever. Oh yeah, if you want
to check it out, here you go, and you just
hear this horrifying event happening. Do you know what it sounds?
(56:38):
He takes his girlfriend there and she ends up getting
killed too. Yeah, it sounds like, yeah it does good child,
definitely good chatting by
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