January 14, 2025 • 41 mins
(2:52) - Dave's newly adult daughter does a very adult thing
(13:35) - Rachel is about to undertake a new winter activity
(25:40 - Forman's daughter receives a milestone gift
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OK, I have a new winter activitythat I won't tell you about
until we're live. I bet you it's not skiing.
I I'll bet you it's not either. I have a a kid who turned 18,
became an adult, and shortly thereafter did something very
adult. Oh boy.
Well, Harley Harley got a milestone Christmas present, so
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it's. Hot.
Don't tell me. You could shame all you want.
I cannot. Oh, you did it.
This is due to underwhelming demand.
We back, We back. Yeah.
Happy new Year. Happy new Year.
Can I still say that? 14th today.
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No, you. Cannot.
No, you shouldn't. Nope.
But I will. Haven't seen anybody or talked
to anybody for a while. So it's.
Your problem. Yeah, that's your.
I will point out that this is the New Year's resolution of
podcast. So if your resolution was to
start listening, welcome and we thank you.
Thank you. Thank you for listening to the
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1st 5 minutes and then giving upon it like your other
resolutions and. Perhaps, perhaps if your
resolution was to stop listening, we also understand
and you're not hearing this anyway, so piss off.
Yeah, yeah. Or conversely, thanks for coming
back. Or thanks for coming back.
Whatever works. Whatever works for you.
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We are Dave, Rachel and Foreman and this fabulous high quality
podcast is brought to you by Cabs For A Cause.
It's back, It's back. Yes, it'll be April 2nd at the
Canadian Dairy Expo, once again in Stratford, raising money for
the Children's Health Foundation, benefiting the
London Children's Hospital. Anyone throughout Western
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Ontario, Southern Ontario, Northern Ontario, that's your
Children's Hospital for sure. Caps for A Cause has been
advertising with us for a few years now.
Daryl and Sarah Marcus started this because their son was at
Children's Hospital and they wanted to give back and so far,
Daryl says they have raised 100 and $50,000 in total over all of
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the years so far. So they sell calves and take no
Commission because all that money goes to Children's
Hospital. And they just had an update last
week saying that they are currently working hard to
assemble this year's Calves for A Cause lineup, and an extremely
exciting group of heifers is starting to come together.
Good to hear. Yeah, I don't think we need to
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know anymore. Well, if you have an show calf
or genomic giant that you're willing to consign, yes, please
do not hesitate to reach out to Cavs for A cause.
Look them up on Instagram or Facebook.
Apparently there was more. Well, thank you.
There was. Thank you for it.
There was more. OK Cavs for A cause.
Thank you very much. In the period between when we
last recorded a podcast and we are now recording this, my
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youngest daughter and I have two.
I've I've I've so many kids, I can't keep track.
So many. Not that many.
One's about our age and the other is what?
Just turned legally an adult 18Ihave.
Three adult children now. Teen year old.
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Wow. Yes, yes, yes.
She's. Probably so excited.
I think. I mean, I'm her birthday. 19's
bigger, I know. Yeah, well, at one point I
recall three or four months ago when she said can we go to
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Montreal for my 18th birthday? I'm like, no, we're not taking
you to Montreal. I don't.
And that's not happening. I mean, it's not.
How about just got no where? I spent mine, yes.
Well, did you go? I bet.
You. Yeah, that's right.
If you're in eastern Ontario, everyone's just going to Hall
and going to the gas station getting beer.
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I would tell you I took, we tookher and her friend to Mexico
last March break and all they doin Mexico is look at the year of
birth. So she got the adult bracelet
when we went. Oh, they don't care about the
month? Well, wait, because.
It you. Have to be 16?
How old do you have to? Be 18 in Mexico, it's 18 in
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Mexico, so she got. But you went, it was the same
year and she's at the end of theyear I see last.
Winter. Yeah, Yeah.
Her birthday is at the end of the year and her friends is in
September of the year. So her friend didn't get one,
but she did. After the I believe the first
night or the second afternoon, the I think 3 or 4 bars at the
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resort were on to them. Yeah, you can have one.
You got to stop ordering for theother one.
You can't give it to her. Yes.
I Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They catch you on. They catch you on.
OK, so anyway, Long story short,when you're 18, you're an adult.
And yes, I it was funny. Because she's going to vote for
this year. Exactly.
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That's We can vote. I can buy lottery tickets.
Pretty soon on her birthday. I said, hey, happy birthday, you
can vote now. That's important.
I don't really care about. Well, she should care.
It's a very important thing. Very important.
Privilege. I think she does care, but I
mean it. She's 18, I get.
It was early on her birthday morning and that's probably not.
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Was up in a grill. Yeah, not what she wanted to
hear from her dad. No, but Charlie, you get to pick
our next governor. Come on.
Governor. Oh, stop with that nonsense.
That's right, the Gulf of America.
Totally stop. Can you believe?
Like we just stop. Yeah.
So anyway, as it turns out over Christmas we have very good
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friends and we like to exchange with our friends experiences as
gifts. So we got I got together with my
friend, the male friend and we got our wives for Christmas a
trip to Detroit. We know that both of our wives
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are huge Neil Diamond fans and the Neil Diamond brought
Broadway musical, which is called A Beautiful Noise, was
playing at the Fisher Theatre indowntown Detroit.
Didn't even know what was the show.
Let's let's go. What?
We'll do that. We'll book a hotel.
We'll get tickets to the show. Cool four times and go.
That is, by the way, that is so good, so good.
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So good, so good. That's what it's actually
called. Look, the kid that does Neil
Diamond. The kid that does Neil Diamond
on this and it's the Broadway touring show 1 American Idol.
I don't know his name. He was.
You don't. Know his name?
Not that. I watch American Idol I.
Just don't remember, but he sounded so much like and looked
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and sounded like it was like going to see.
It was unbelievable. But we got the night before, we
got from our wives tickets to gosee the Leafs play the Red Wings
in Detroit. Now we're Leaf fans.
He's more hardcore Leaf than I am.
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And I've been to Scotiabank. I'm telling you right now, the
Little Caesars Arena in Detroit,hand over, fist over.
So much better. There better be a hot and ready
around every corner I. Swear to God, Oh, it's every.
It's everywhere. First person to tell me that in
the last week. Yeah, nobody else told me that.
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Well, it's pretty much a brand new arena.
I mean every. Yes, and it's.
Beautiful. Any new arena now is going to be
miles above older ones for. Sure.
And, and, and the best part for me, well, maybe it's not the
best part for you, Foreman, but I lived in Windsor, so I already
know this. And I lived in Windsor years and
years ago when Detroit was lousyand Toronto were lousy.
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But whenever the Leafs play in Detroit, it's probably 6040
Leaf. Red Wing.
Oh yeah. 'Cause they all come in and we
ran into people on the highway, they're coming in from Toronto,
people from Windsor, Windsor people love the Lions, don't so
much love the wings, you know what I mean?
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There, there is even the, even the, the, IT was the coach of
the Buffalo Sabres a couple weeks ago was was in a pregame
interview and he's like, well, you know, if we can score early
and take the crowd out of it, blah, blah, blah.
It's a home. Game.
It's a but it's a game. The Leafs.
And it's easier to get a tick it.
Is. Cheaper Detroit game and
slightly cheaper so even. With the exchange rate is
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cheaper, yeah. So that's our Christmas gift.
Why am I bringing this up? Well.
Yeah, Charlotte turned 18, and now here's your Christmas gift.
Because because she has a job. OK, yes.
And she was included. So there was a ticket purchased
for a Leaf game and a ticket purchased or a Neil Diamond play
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for her. She was the only person, I
think, who was aware that these gifts were being given to
everybody because dad has said something to her and mom has
said something to her and said, well, you got to have this date
off and you got to have this date off.
She's stressing she can't get rid of the shift.
So we finally said, fine, you'llbe OK at home.
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You're 18, you're an adult, you can stay at home on your own.
Sure. And Jana got an e-mail from our
adult daughter saying I got a tattoo, I thought.
She threw a party, but that is so much worse.
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Worse is it? Well.
Is it? It's more permanent I guess.
She was never going to throw a party.
I thought you'd gone and she wasgoing to.
You came home and she'd throw a party and that was her.
She. Now has a tattoo was a permanent
reminder of turning 18 I guess. What is it?
How big is it? It's where is it?
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It's not big. 6 inches. But it's like this and.
Oh, it's long and thin. It's can't.
Hear your hand measurement. Years can't hear your hand
measurement. Yeah, I know, I know.
It's hard to hear my hand measurement.
It's two years, the birth year of her mother and the and the
birth year of her father, which are quite distant as you well
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know. Different, yeah.
I bet you the tattoo artist had some questions about that.
Well, I don't know. She didn't say.
Perhaps she didn't say. She's quite proud of her tattoo.
It doesn't. Well, that's very sweet
actually, that she got your birth.
Year yeah it's very small OK we're not neither her nor
neither her father that's me or her mother are tattooed I'm not
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I don't really get tattoos but I'm older and I come from a
different generation so I I understand that people do but
you guys are tattoo less it's soodd for your.
Age only because my dad has a a tattoo that he actually got when
he was 18. And the story goes that he took
his 16 year old brother and the two of them got matching
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tattoos, which they still have, and came home and boy, did they
get in trouble for taking the underage brother to the tattoo
shop downtown Toronto because that's where they lived.
Yeah, to get that done. But I'm not against tattoos.
I just have never found one thatI want to have forever.
I'm not her. Choice of your birth years is
meaningful and seems to. Be well, it's just.
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Nice. Get sick of that.
It's not like a butterfly that means nothing or something,
right? It's not something that doesn't
mean anything. When your daughters turn 18 and
the first thing they do is come home with a tattoo, what's your
reaction? Motherfucker.
Yeah, exactly. I would probably be very silent
for a bit, which might be scary.Not, not thrilled.
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Not thrilled. Not to say that I did.
Look, it's over and I, I'm OK with it.
I like. I don't really, you know, it
doesn't. You're like my baby's.
Tattoo. Look at her baby skin.
It's your body that used to liveinside my body.
But you know, whatever. Yeah.
All I did was make you in my womb and birth you and bring you
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into the world. If you.
Listen to that. If you listen to this podcast
and you and you have tattoos, and I know lots of people who
have tattoos and I get it. I don't understand it.
Yeah, I get that a lot of peoplelike them.
You're probably going what's thebig deal?
It's not a big deal, but it was a bit of a bit.
Well, it's, you know, it's kind of a milestone, I think when
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your baby does something so adult.
Yeah, that's very adult. I don't think it's a bad idea.
I think it's, you know, I like tattoos if you're, if you're
into it, My worry was someone who is 18 getting a tattoo or
somebody very young getting a tattoo is that are you going to
like that forever? You know, but.
She does something that's very meaningful to her and.
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That's that's. A good choice.
And I would say, you know, if you would like to be present for
her next milestone, Dave, the Leafs are in Montreal this
Saturday. No, we're not doing that.
We're not going. This is due to underwhelming
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demand. The dry January of podcast.
You know something that seems way longer than it actually is.
That's. Dry January seems longer.
Well, I would think. I don't know.
I've never tried it. No, January itself feels longer
than it is. So, yeah, especially with all
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this snow that we've been getting.
That's true, although I've nevertried dry January, but I am
trying a new winter activity. You guys wasn't bad.
Actually I think you were going to say I'm trying high January,
which is a completely different.Thing that's different.
I'm not trying that necessarily.I would like you to try that,
but. OK, maybe next year, maybe next
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year, this January I've got a new winter sport that I'm taking
up and I have not told you guys before now, OK, Because I.
Know which one? Would you like to guess?
We're already pretty much two weeks into January, so I'm
guessing you've already done this.
Not quite, I'm actually it. Starts all right January. 17th
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it begins. There is a start date so it's
not just on me to do it. OK, good.
Wow. Do you want to guess or do you
want me to just tell you what I'm what I'm going to be doing?
We know. That for sure.
No, it's not skiing. It's not well, no, it's not
skiing. The skiing was still my plan.
This year's my year, guys, this year, this year's my year.
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I'm going to take lessons. I'm going to.
We're going to start to see the whole.
Family the date today. But this kind of came up and it
was I've I kind of was shamed into.
It it's not snowshoeing. No, no.
It's not snowboarding. I don't.
Think it involves I don't, I don't believe, I don't think it
involves skating. It doesn't move skating.
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Oh. It.
Does yeah clue #1. You're definitely not doing it.
So there's a public skate. On January 17th.
Skate on January No, what I havebeen roped into is a learn to
play women's hockey. OK, well, you're never doing
that. You're not doing that.
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Ever nice to be invited though? I am.
Are you coaching? Not only am I doing it.
No, she's passing. Absolutely not coaching.
Not only have I already signed up and paid, I have been
completely outfitted with equipment.
From really by my. Static husband who thinks this
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is both hilarious and endearing that I am taking up a new sport.
I don't. Know about endearing but it's
hilarious. Well, it is hilarious and
endearing, but it's not 5050. So I was going to say no to
this. This is not something.
I think it's the dry January that's.
Got to be there we go. That just clicked in.
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Could be, could be that I'm justgetting too old, but that was
funny. Thank you.
Thank you for that. It's not 5050, you are correct.
Truly, the next time you talk tome, we'll be a hockey player.
How and what position are you planning to play?
I don't even I can barely. Name Name a position on a
hockey. Team Center.
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How? Boldly No, I'm not the goalie.
We do have a goalie. It's all women who are learning
to play. And so it's it's all levels from
those who can't skate. me and I and at least one of the person
skate. Can you?
No, no. At all.
I can skate, I can like get out there, but I'm very slow and
timid. You have a hockey.
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But I think when I, yes, I've got a hockey stick from my
neighbor, he's going to lend me his and it's a good one.
I was like, don't give me your good hockey stick.
He's like, no, it's not like you're going to be.
Oh, he knows not to give you a good.
One on it. That's the only way you're
standing up. Yeah, I think I'll feel better
once I'm out there and I have myequipment on because if I fall,
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I'm less likely to break my hip.Well, it depends on what you
fall on. I don't.
I don't know whether you'll hurtyourself.
So anyways it it ranges from. From my right, yes.
Very sort of that. It ranges from people who don't
know how to skate, but most mostof us have never played hockey.
Some of the most kids who play hockey.
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This is in my. Town.
This is my local arena. They actually have an hour or
what is this? 2 hours, an hour?
An hour set aside? Set aside for a weekly.
We're doing 10 weeks. Never played, Never played
hockey. Now none of them.
If you don't mind, it's a lot, Iknow.
If you don't mind, I have so many questions.
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I bet you do, that's why I savedtelling you what it was till the
actual if we're doing. It yes, this is a complete
surprise to permanent. I know, I know.
Delightful surprise at that. Oh yeah.
If you don't mind me asking, how, how much?
Did that was $150.00 to sign up?That's a bargain I think then.
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I had to get, I had to get all my equipment, which I'm several
$100 in now. Yes.
Just equipment. Even with used and borrowed and
whatever, it's still that much, yeah.
I needed a helmet. I needed everything but skates.
Everything, including a Jill. I didn't even know that was a
thing, but now I have one. Well, do you want to get hit
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there? No, but I didn't think anyone
was going to lift the puck that high and aren't.
You right. Well.
It's not just pucks. It sticks.
It sticks skates. That's.
True. The butt end of a stick I.
Didn't even know how. I don't know how to dress myself
like I don't know how to put everything.
I haven't put all of it on yet. This is but over Christmas my
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husband was so gung ho. Are more entertaining than I
thought it would be. This is so entertaining.
Over Christmas my husband was sogung ho about this.
He was the one that ordered all the equipment and he.
Showed you how to get dressed. Well, he hasn't.
We haven't put it all on yet, but we will and I will send you
a picture. I know.
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All the other girls, I'm in a group chat now and all the other
girls have have shared photos ofthem dressed in all their
equipment. Oh really?
Well, I need to see that now. Do you, do you have a just a a
regular just throw on jersey or do you have a team jersey?
No, we just bought black jerseysplain, but we have pink socks
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because it's a women's team. I need that.
Some people have pink sticks, but the stick I'm borrowing is
black and orange. That's fine, I don't care.
I literally I bought the cheapest things that I could.
Well, of course, yeah. Except the neck guard, I got a
bit of a higher one because it the other ones weren't
comfortable. Well, yeah, but I mean, it's
important not to be cheap in certain areas.
Neck guard would be one. Yeah, Jill would be another.
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Right. Yeah, OK.
Helmet, perhaps the third. Yeah, we.
Got a good helmet? Yeah, OK, good.
Yeah, so I'm. Actually using Jeremy's old knee
pads and elbow pads, that's because he's got which need to
be washed because I don't know when they were used once, but I
mean, I've got those. I, I got pants and you know, and
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I even said to my mom and my sister, I'm like, I got to go
find hockey pants. And my sister says, why do you
need hockey pants? Just wear snow pants.
I said you can't. You can't just wear snow pants.
That's how little my family knows about how to even play
and. Dress for.
Hockey I, I said to Jeremy, I'm like, do you want to come to the
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first practice that we're going to have to get?
Is that really a game? I believe every every single one
of these women's husbands will be there and then a few cases of
beer might tag a lot too. Well, we've told them all not to
come, he said. Nobody can come until at least
Week 3. But I do need someone to dress
me and place me on the ice. I think so, Jeremy said.
No, so I think one of the other Timeless.
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Cases I'd help get you on the ice and then tie.
My skates maybe? Just enjoy the hell out of that.
Then cheers, David. Yeah, all of the husbands want
to come 'cause they, they all think it's hysterical that we're
even trying. Now, this was brought up to me
before Christmas. And then I said, no, no, I don't
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think so. I'm really not the person who
should be doing that. And then we were all at a
Christmas party and somebody there said, you're going to
join, right, 'cause we're all going to join.
I'm like, no, they're like, no, you should.
Anyway, I had my arm twisted enough that I agreed to do it
now, I think. This is the best.
Yeah, this I really is the best.Truly not really looking forward
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to it. I'm not like excited about it.
I know I'm very bad at sports. I am not athletic, but I am at
the age now and I have, I have had so many humiliating
experiences with sports that I have just accepted that I'm bad
And I so now I'm just like, I don't care that I'm bad and I'm
just going to try. And I feel like I'm 41 and I'm
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showing my kids. You're never too old to try
something new. Absolutely and showing.
Myself, you're never too old to try something new and I think
that that's an important. It's just important to try and
try and learn if I like it or don't.
I may not do it next year, but I'm going to do it this year and
see how that's. All well and good.
I agree with you 100%. That's great.
It's a wonderful lesson for girls to learn.
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Yeah, but how long before there's a game?
Because we're coming. We're having games.
I don't think we're having games.
Foreman, do you not want to go? Well, don't they need someone to
do? Don't they need a couple of
professional? We will go.
You need some professional broadcasters perhaps to to
provide play by play, play by play commentary.
I don't. Think it'll be that?
(23:17):
Some music? Oh yeah, we could do that.
No, please. Don't come.
I don't want you there. I don't want I I don't want my
husband there or you 2 especially.
He's coming, No? I know where I know.
I know where you live. I know it's Fridays at 9:00 PM
is when we're. Now I'm coming.
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But then there's a few Saturdaysthrown in there, so we're not
there every Friday because it was hard to get ice time, I
guess. So it's kind of a random
schedule. So we told husbands nobody can
come to a week 3, which I still think is very premature.
But on week two, we're having someone come and teach us power
skating. Good, whatever the I just need
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someone to teach me regular skating.
You will need regular, yes regular standing before.
You'll need a power skating. I can't.
I can go around once and my feethurt not to take a break, so I
don't know how I'm going to. Do a whole You and all these
women are learning to play hockey, but how many other women
on this team will also like you be learning to simply skate?
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Some of them, yes, because there's at least one other woman
who said, well, I can't, I can'tstop.
But I said neither can I, I justrun into the boards with my
hands. So there's there.
There's a few. Of us it's.
Not going to be. It's not graceful or elegant.
We don't know what we're doing. There's a few people on the on
who have signed up and I resent this a little bit who who have
played before, which I think is complete bullshit because you
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should not. Learn to play at the if you've
already played. Exactly, if you played when you
were a kid, go play on the league.
You never played hockey. You've never ever played hockey,
Rachel dated. That's how it works.
Yes, You're. You're.
A blade, but there's there. Are going to be people that are
better at it than you. Everybody will be better than
me, which is fine. I that's my whole life.
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Everyone's better than me. Well, and she's 6 foot five, 250
lbs and playing against you all times.
Always, always. This is going to make my winter.
Thank you, Ray. Yeah, I'll be next week.
I'll be in there Friday night, Dave.
I'll bring a six pack, a Bluetooth speaker and Yakety
Sax. All right.
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This is due to underwhelming demand the the podcast that's
like snow swells in January. You know, something you probably
don't want or need what you're going to get anyway.
It's pretty much us give. It to you.
Yeah, here it is. Too mad you're stuck with it.
Well, I am stuck with a daughterwho has a milestone of a gift
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given to her at Christmas. Oh, another milestone for a
daughter. OK, yeah, Dave's 18 year old.
What? What's up with?
Charlie, now I am intrigued. Yeah, she's 11.
So in Grade 6, she, in year 2025, she is turning 12, right?
When you're 12, there's, there'smore responsibilities.
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You can be home alone. Sometimes you're looking at
babysitting for other children. There's a hell of a lot of swim
practices at the Canada Game Center in the North End of
London, which is very far from Saint Thomas.
Yes, we're not always with her. There's trips you can go between
our house and grandma and grandpa's house, which is
(26:45):
relatively close. But what if something happens in
between? Right.
Right, all of this to say, can you guess what gift that hardly
got this year? You did.
You did. You broke down, didn't you?
Yeah, yeah, she's got a phone. You got her a phone.
It's a slippery slope, isn't it?You?
Cave. It's an old phone.
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We didn't. We're not those parents who got
the kid the new phone and we cut.
The old phones, no. Don't.
Do that. No.
People do it. Yeah, no.
I do that. You know, my kids have a phone
too that they share and it doesn't leave the house unless
they are going around town. This phone does not have data
that is not a part of its plan whatsoever.
(27:28):
It's talk and text. She can connect to our Wi-Fi,
but Google makes it very easy toset up a family plan and I'm
listed as the family manager, which Ashley does not appreciate
me getting that title in her Google family tree.
Not when she already knows that she's the family manager, the
actual family manager, family manager.
(27:51):
That according to Google. But you can set up a child and
there's strict limitations of what they can and cannot do
what? And they need permission for
everything. You can't download anything, you
can't go anywhere unless you getpermission first.
So is. This an Android phone.
Yes, it is. It's like our old Ashley's old
Samsung S9. OK, so it's run by Google.
(28:13):
That kind of a phone, it's a nightmare.
It's got a curved screen. I forgot about it.
It's got a nice curved screen and some extra features.
Because of that it's I forgot. So it was a nice bumped up and
under the tree and and a surprise.
Yes, but we had already got in and and got it all set up and
done and it was ready to go so she could open it and it was
working. Yeah.
So when she opened it, how was that moment?
(28:33):
Yeah. Like her head exploded and she'd
been working to like it's reallythe only thing she really asked.
For right, right, all right. It's her only real true ask.
So in the last couple weeks, hasshe like, how has it been with
her? Is she being responsible with
it? Yes, and I would say for all and
(28:55):
even myself included and all this lead up and how I shouldn't
get the kids a phone and whatever.
Oh, that's bad. It's too early.
They're too young. Yeah, so far it's great.
OK. Because.
When your child has a phone, youcan treat her as your personal
secretary. Well, how does that work, hey?
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Harley, can you text grandma andtell her blah blah blah blah.
Harley, why don't you? Granny would really love to talk
to you. Why don't you go call Granny,
please, Dad? Can you Dad?
Yeah. Yeah, Granny probably was
talking. Do you?
Text her from the basement and say, can you bring me a beer?
Oh no, we do that. We do that all the time.
(29:37):
I haven't got there yet. Supper.
She has so many text conversations on the go and it's
all with my sisters. My brother in She's calling in
Halifax like she's she's all over, it's all family except for
(29:58):
like 1 1/2 friends have a phone that she knows 'cause one has to
is like yours has to share it with her siblings.
But she's got like four siblings.
So sometimes she's texting to said friend's brother
occasionally, but otherwise she doesn't have that many friends
with phones. So she it's all family, which is
all great for them and it's great for.
(30:19):
Her yes, that's it's true. Ours is the same in that the
only people my kids can text arefamily and they don't know how
to add anybody else. Like they haven't figured that
out how to add another person tomessage right, which is fine.
But so they got the phone and Julia was into it because she's
the same age as Harley. She's 11 and she was into it for
a while and she'll take it if she's like going out, you know,
(30:41):
around the block to the her friend's house or whatever.
But then often they just leave it at home now.
They don't care. They can't take it to school.
They're not allowed to take. It to school, it's not going to
school. No, if she's on a sleepover or
something she could take it, butschools don't even let them have
the phones now anyway, which I think is good, so they don't.
It's kind of lost its luster to be honest, and they're just
(31:03):
great still on their iPads. That's what I'm hoping, which is
also on my. IPad.
They have iPads. Yeah, they each have an iPad,
Yeah. Well, yeah, my girls have
tablets. They're not good ones.
No, they're old. What are we?
Talking about here, what is? Well, that's.
Watching Netflix and Disney. Yeah, they don't watch the TV,
they watch their iPads. I can't figure out why they
(31:24):
don't care about their phone. Yeah, because they have iPads, I
know. But you can't can't call someone
on an iPad when they're at the park.
And Harley's got like a like a 30 something day streak going on
Duolingo trying to learn Spanishso.
Wow. That's what she does with her
time on her screens. Wow I wish my kids would do
something smart and not watch family YouTube.
(31:45):
I'm not doing that, no. I should start doing Duolingo.
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Enjoy and hope all of you had a great holiday.
Thank you. Yes, Sarah Fitzgerald wrote
Sarah Fitzgerald. Merry Christmas Foreman, we miss
you down here. Merry Christmas Rachel and Dave
as well. Can you guess where down here
is? Yeah, I know where down here.
Is it's the place we call out there?
I know. Oh yeah, I don't know why they
(34:34):
say down East. Why do they say that?
I don't know cuz it's not reallydown it's.
Not down, it's over. It's.
Kind of. It's kind of over.
It's up. It's kind of up.
Now it's up a little bit, Foreman.
Right now, Foreman's down there in Saint Thomas, That's down
there. Yeah, I'm down here.
Down there. We are more S than them.
Do they know that? Yeah, they, I don't know.
(34:55):
We are the southernmost point ofCanada are.
We. Well, we're in the area, yeah.
We're in the in the area. Like, it's about an hour from
us. They're more north than we are.
Anyway. I was.
Just saying, Sarah tolerated a lot of me in Halifax and she put
up with us making a theme song for her because her last name is
Fitzgerald. Yeah.
(35:16):
So if she would call Fitzgerald,it's a call from Sarah
Fitzgerald. Oh my God, that's amazing.
I wish I was on the show when you did that.
That's so. Funny.
I love that. I love that.
OK, Yeah. Mount Elgin, Katie is what I
would like to refer to Katie as now.
Yes. Katie from Mount Elgin when you
(35:37):
mentioned Dave in your headlinesbefore Christmas, yes.
About a Funeral Home getting a liquor license, Yes.
Yeah. Well, she says not headline
worthy. I've been to funerals in
Woodstock with liquor served. Oh, really?
Yes, when a. Relative in Woodstock and nobody
served me liquor. No, she said.
When a relative passed away, we were offered a choice of three
(35:59):
of their favorite drinks when weentered the Funeral Home.
Oh, interesting. Oh, wow.
Well, that's deep. I don't know.
I don't know what the lies this was.
That was an American. Headline with your drink at your
wedding, You can have a signature drink at your funeral.
She quite literally sent us the like the bill of the Funeral
Home so we could see. That's amazing.
Don't tell us surprise. It's no surprise that people
(36:21):
have a drink when someone dies. I mean, either as a salute or as
a yeah. Am I?
We're glad he's gone. What happens when you purchase
the Tribute Lounge with bar and attendant with Smart Serve
qualification up to two hours? Well, I didn't know that was
available here. Like none of us knew that.
(36:43):
So thank you for pointing me out.
I didn't know. Yeah, thanks.
Kim something to think about integrating into your own May
perhaps, maybe. I don't know.
I'm not integrating anything into my own OK?
I'll let everybody else figure it.
Out I we're. Not there, You don't care.
That's true. That's not there.
Don't care. Don't.
Not there. Whatever.
You want? Yeah.
Yeah, Fun. And Ainsley?
(37:04):
Ainsley sent a message to me saying that Foreman, my husband
goes to Angry Bear Barbershop inSaint Thomas because I was
talking about my troubles getting my hair cut before
Christmas. Yes.
I hope this isn't the place thatyou had issues with, but if not
I highly recommend checking themout.
My husband has been going there and their old shop for 6 plus
(37:26):
years now. We take our sons there.
If you go book with Scotty the owner or Toby.
Angry bear, that wasn't where you were going.
No. Okay, but it might be now.
I think it will be. Okay, we were talking about
Christmas gifts that Daves friend bought for his wife.
(37:49):
The bidet was one a while ago, right?
Low flow bidet the low flow. Oh no, low flow the toilet.
That was a low flow toilet I. Said it should be the next one.
What did she get this year, by the way?
I told you we went to the we went to the play.
He did. Oh, that was.
The head. That's a good gift, yeah.
Although I didn't ask him what other things he gave her and I'm
I'm I was there a bidet or? Should be.
I don't want to. Round out the bathroom
(38:10):
accessory. I'm sure he'll tell me now after
years this not what I. Don't scale right anyway, so.
Bonnie a low flow Neil Diamond. OK, so Bonnie sent us an e-mail
about bad gifting. She says you were talking about
bad gifts. It reminded me of a story my
partner told me about his parents.
His dad consulted him on gettinghis mom a scale for Christmas, a
(38:32):
bathroom scale. He warned his dad not to, but he
did anyway. His mom threw the scale out of
the house when she opened it, sothat was not that.
Mom didn't appreciate getting a scale.
That that's not a Merry Christmas.
Not a Merry Christmas. Yeah.
So if you're going to get someone to scale, you'd better
really know them quite well, I think.
(38:52):
Well, make sure you know that they really want and would
appreciate your scale. OK all.
Right, Dad. Thanks, Rach.
Do you guys remember, do you remember 1 Christmas?
We were talking about this on the radio years ago and it was
like, I think her name was Barb.And she got her to say, I got
the backpack sprayer, the backpack sprayer.
(39:16):
Oh my gosh, I got a backpack sprayer from my husband.
Like a pesticide sprayer. Yes, the opening that in front
of all the family, it was like he was like, oh, let's see if it
fits. I'm going seriously like.
I remember that. What did she say?
They were still married though. Like there was still.
(39:38):
She just laughs about it. Because.
Because the next year she calledback and said, oh, I'm backpack
sprayer, Barb. It's backpack sprayer Barb.
They got a brand new shiny red Camaro, which my husband thought
that he thought I would like, had it delivered.
Yeah, into his man cave shed. Lovely convertible, but
(39:58):
standard. I don't drive standard and I
couldn't drive, so figured that one.
Yeah, it was a little. What's a backpack sprayer?
Yeah, that's right. You really do.
Have to if you have. The best listeners.
They are so funny anyway. You know it's important to read
the room. You really do need to read the
(40:20):
room before you. Know don't ever, ever buy your
wife a backpack sprayer. I can guarantee that she does
not want that either at all, butcertainly not as a gift.
That's. Something you go out on a
Saturday and you pick up at Canadian Tire because you need
it. You don't give that as a gift.
Don't go all in on that, Rachel,because somewhere, somebody.
(40:41):
I would double down on that. Somebody wants a back.
OK, you if you a woman, would like a backpack sprayer from
your husband for Christmas, you let me know if that's something
that would you would really loveto get.
I would like to hear from you. I want to talk to Barb and see
what she's gotten said. Valentine's Day is coming.
(41:01):
Valentine's Day is coming. I think we're done.
No gift is inappropriate until you give it a chance.
OK, I have a new winter activitythat I won't tell you about
until we're live. I bet you it's not skiing.
I I'll bet you it's not either. I have a a kid who turned 18,
became an adult, and shortly thereafter did something very
adult. Oh boy.
Well, Harley Harley got a milestone Christmas present, so
(00:23):
it's. Hot.
Don't tell me. You could shame all you want.
I cannot. Oh, you did it.
This is due to underwhelming demand.
We back, We back. Yeah.
Happy new Year. Happy new Year.
Can I still say that? 14th today.
(00:45):
No, you. Cannot.
No, you shouldn't. Nope.
But I will. Haven't seen anybody or talked
to anybody for a while. So it's.
Your problem. Yeah, that's your.
I will point out that this is the New Year's resolution of
podcast. So if your resolution was to
start listening, welcome and we thank you.
Thank you. Thank you for listening to the
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resolution was to stop listening, we also understand
and you're not hearing this anyway, so piss off.
Yeah, yeah. Or conversely, thanks for coming
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youngest daughter and I have two.
I've I've I've so many kids, I can't keep track.
So many. Not that many.
One's about our age and the other is what?
Just turned legally an adult 18Ihave.
Three adult children now. Teen year old.
(03:21):
Wow. Yes, yes, yes.
She's. Probably so excited.
I think. I mean, I'm her birthday. 19's
bigger, I know. Yeah, well, at one point I
recall three or four months ago when she said can we go to
(03:43):
Montreal for my 18th birthday? I'm like, no, we're not taking
you to Montreal. I don't.
And that's not happening. I mean, it's not.
How about just got no where? I spent mine, yes.
Well, did you go? I bet.
You. Yeah, that's right.
If you're in eastern Ontario, everyone's just going to Hall
and going to the gas station getting beer.
(04:04):
I would tell you I took, we tookher and her friend to Mexico
last March break and all they doin Mexico is look at the year of
birth. So she got the adult bracelet
when we went. Oh, they don't care about the
month? Well, wait, because.
It you. Have to be 16?
How old do you have to? Be 18 in Mexico, it's 18 in
(04:25):
Mexico, so she got. But you went, it was the same
year and she's at the end of theyear I see last.
Winter. Yeah, Yeah.
Her birthday is at the end of the year and her friends is in
September of the year. So her friend didn't get one,
but she did. After the I believe the first
night or the second afternoon, the I think 3 or 4 bars at the
(04:51):
resort were on to them. Yeah, you can have one.
You got to stop ordering for theother one.
You can't give it to her. Yes.
I Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They catch you on. They catch you on.
OK, so anyway, Long story short,when you're 18, you're an adult.
And yes, I it was funny. Because she's going to vote for
this year. Exactly.
(05:11):
That's We can vote. I can buy lottery tickets.
Pretty soon on her birthday. I said, hey, happy birthday, you
can vote now. That's important.
I don't really care about. Well, she should care.
It's a very important thing. Very important.
Privilege. I think she does care, but I
mean it. She's 18, I get.
It was early on her birthday morning and that's probably not.
(05:33):
Was up in a grill. Yeah, not what she wanted to
hear from her dad. No, but Charlie, you get to pick
our next governor. Come on.
Governor. Oh, stop with that nonsense.
That's right, the Gulf of America.
Totally stop. Can you believe?
Like we just stop. Yeah.
So anyway, as it turns out over Christmas we have very good
(05:56):
friends and we like to exchange with our friends experiences as
gifts. So we got I got together with my
friend, the male friend and we got our wives for Christmas a
trip to Detroit. We know that both of our wives
(06:18):
are huge Neil Diamond fans and the Neil Diamond brought
Broadway musical, which is called A Beautiful Noise, was
playing at the Fisher Theatre indowntown Detroit.
Didn't even know what was the show.
Let's let's go. What?
We'll do that. We'll book a hotel.
We'll get tickets to the show. Cool four times and go.
That is, by the way, that is so good, so good.
(06:39):
So good, so good. That's what it's actually
called. Look, the kid that does Neil
Diamond. The kid that does Neil Diamond
on this and it's the Broadway touring show 1 American Idol.
I don't know his name. He was.
You don't. Know his name?
Not that. I watch American Idol I.
Just don't remember, but he sounded so much like and looked
(07:01):
and sounded like it was like going to see.
It was unbelievable. But we got the night before, we
got from our wives tickets to gosee the Leafs play the Red Wings
in Detroit. Now we're Leaf fans.
He's more hardcore Leaf than I am.
(07:21):
And I've been to Scotiabank. I'm telling you right now, the
Little Caesars Arena in Detroit,hand over, fist over.
So much better. There better be a hot and ready
around every corner I. Swear to God, Oh, it's every.
It's everywhere. First person to tell me that in
the last week. Yeah, nobody else told me that.
(07:42):
Well, it's pretty much a brand new arena.
I mean every. Yes, and it's.
Beautiful. Any new arena now is going to be
miles above older ones for. Sure.
And, and, and the best part for me, well, maybe it's not the
best part for you, Foreman, but I lived in Windsor, so I already
know this. And I lived in Windsor years and
years ago when Detroit was lousyand Toronto were lousy.
(08:02):
But whenever the Leafs play in Detroit, it's probably 6040
Leaf. Red Wing.
Oh yeah. 'Cause they all come in and we
ran into people on the highway, they're coming in from Toronto,
people from Windsor, Windsor people love the Lions, don't so
much love the wings, you know what I mean?
(08:23):
There, there is even the, even the, the, IT was the coach of
the Buffalo Sabres a couple weeks ago was was in a pregame
interview and he's like, well, you know, if we can score early
and take the crowd out of it, blah, blah, blah.
It's a home. Game.
It's a but it's a game. The Leafs.
And it's easier to get a tick it.
Is. Cheaper Detroit game and
slightly cheaper so even. With the exchange rate is
(08:46):
cheaper, yeah. So that's our Christmas gift.
Why am I bringing this up? Well.
Yeah, Charlotte turned 18, and now here's your Christmas gift.
Because because she has a job. OK, yes.
And she was included. So there was a ticket purchased
for a Leaf game and a ticket purchased or a Neil Diamond play
(09:09):
for her. She was the only person, I
think, who was aware that these gifts were being given to
everybody because dad has said something to her and mom has
said something to her and said, well, you got to have this date
off and you got to have this date off.
She's stressing she can't get rid of the shift.
So we finally said, fine, you'llbe OK at home.
(09:30):
You're 18, you're an adult, you can stay at home on your own.
Sure. And Jana got an e-mail from our
adult daughter saying I got a tattoo, I thought.
She threw a party, but that is so much worse.
(09:51):
Worse is it? Well.
Is it? It's more permanent I guess.
She was never going to throw a party.
I thought you'd gone and she wasgoing to.
You came home and she'd throw a party and that was her.
She. Now has a tattoo was a permanent
reminder of turning 18 I guess. What is it?
How big is it? It's where is it?
(10:12):
It's not big. 6 inches. But it's like this and.
Oh, it's long and thin. It's can't.
Hear your hand measurement. Years can't hear your hand
measurement. Yeah, I know, I know.
It's hard to hear my hand measurement.
It's two years, the birth year of her mother and the and the
birth year of her father, which are quite distant as you well
(10:34):
know. Different, yeah.
I bet you the tattoo artist had some questions about that.
Well, I don't know. She didn't say.
Perhaps she didn't say. She's quite proud of her tattoo.
It doesn't. Well, that's very sweet
actually, that she got your birth.
Year yeah it's very small OK we're not neither her nor
neither her father that's me or her mother are tattooed I'm not
(10:57):
I don't really get tattoos but I'm older and I come from a
different generation so I I understand that people do but
you guys are tattoo less it's soodd for your.
Age only because my dad has a a tattoo that he actually got when
he was 18. And the story goes that he took
his 16 year old brother and the two of them got matching
(11:20):
tattoos, which they still have, and came home and boy, did they
get in trouble for taking the underage brother to the tattoo
shop downtown Toronto because that's where they lived.
Yeah, to get that done. But I'm not against tattoos.
I just have never found one thatI want to have forever.
I'm not her. Choice of your birth years is
meaningful and seems to. Be well, it's just.
(11:43):
Nice. Get sick of that.
It's not like a butterfly that means nothing or something,
right? It's not something that doesn't
mean anything. When your daughters turn 18 and
the first thing they do is come home with a tattoo, what's your
reaction? Motherfucker.
Yeah, exactly. I would probably be very silent
for a bit, which might be scary.Not, not thrilled.
(12:03):
Not thrilled. Not to say that I did.
Look, it's over and I, I'm OK with it.
I like. I don't really, you know, it
doesn't. You're like my baby's.
Tattoo. Look at her baby skin.
It's your body that used to liveinside my body.
But you know, whatever. Yeah.
All I did was make you in my womb and birth you and bring you
(12:24):
into the world. If you.
Listen to that. If you listen to this podcast
and you and you have tattoos, and I know lots of people who
have tattoos and I get it. I don't understand it.
Yeah, I get that a lot of peoplelike them.
You're probably going what's thebig deal?
It's not a big deal, but it was a bit of a bit.
Well, it's, you know, it's kind of a milestone, I think when
(12:46):
your baby does something so adult.
Yeah, that's very adult. I don't think it's a bad idea.
I think it's, you know, I like tattoos if you're, if you're
into it, My worry was someone who is 18 getting a tattoo or
somebody very young getting a tattoo is that are you going to
like that forever? You know, but.
She does something that's very meaningful to her and.
(13:06):
That's that's. A good choice.
And I would say, you know, if you would like to be present for
her next milestone, Dave, the Leafs are in Montreal this
Saturday. No, we're not doing that.
We're not going. This is due to underwhelming
(13:36):
demand. The dry January of podcast.
You know something that seems way longer than it actually is.
That's. Dry January seems longer.
Well, I would think. I don't know.
I've never tried it. No, January itself feels longer
than it is. So, yeah, especially with all
(13:58):
this snow that we've been getting.
That's true, although I've nevertried dry January, but I am
trying a new winter activity. You guys wasn't bad.
Actually I think you were going to say I'm trying high January,
which is a completely different.Thing that's different.
I'm not trying that necessarily.I would like you to try that,
but. OK, maybe next year, maybe next
(14:19):
year, this January I've got a new winter sport that I'm taking
up and I have not told you guys before now, OK, Because I.
Know which one? Would you like to guess?
We're already pretty much two weeks into January, so I'm
guessing you've already done this.
Not quite, I'm actually it. Starts all right January. 17th
(14:41):
it begins. There is a start date so it's
not just on me to do it. OK, good.
Wow. Do you want to guess or do you
want me to just tell you what I'm what I'm going to be doing?
We know. That for sure.
No, it's not skiing. It's not well, no, it's not
skiing. The skiing was still my plan.
This year's my year, guys, this year, this year's my year.
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I'm going to take lessons. I'm going to.
We're going to start to see the whole.
Family the date today. But this kind of came up and it
was I've I kind of was shamed into.
It it's not snowshoeing. No, no.
It's not snowboarding. I don't.
Think it involves I don't, I don't believe, I don't think it
involves skating. It doesn't move skating.
(15:25):
Oh. It.
Does yeah clue #1. You're definitely not doing it.
So there's a public skate. On January 17th.
Skate on January No, what I havebeen roped into is a learn to
play women's hockey. OK, well, you're never doing
that. You're not doing that.
(15:47):
Ever nice to be invited though? I am.
Are you coaching? Not only am I doing it.
No, she's passing. Absolutely not coaching.
Not only have I already signed up and paid, I have been
completely outfitted with equipment.
From really by my. Static husband who thinks this
(16:08):
is both hilarious and endearing that I am taking up a new sport.
I don't. Know about endearing but it's
hilarious. Well, it is hilarious and
endearing, but it's not 5050. So I was going to say no to
this. This is not something.
I think it's the dry January that's.
Got to be there we go. That just clicked in.
(16:31):
Could be, could be that I'm justgetting too old, but that was
funny. Thank you.
Thank you for that. It's not 5050, you are correct.
Truly, the next time you talk tome, we'll be a hockey player.
How and what position are you planning to play?
I don't even I can barely. Name Name a position on a
hockey. Team Center.
(16:53):
How? Boldly No, I'm not the goalie.
We do have a goalie. It's all women who are learning
to play. And so it's it's all levels from
those who can't skate. me and I and at least one of the person
skate. Can you?
No, no. At all.
I can skate, I can like get out there, but I'm very slow and
timid. You have a hockey.
(17:14):
But I think when I, yes, I've got a hockey stick from my
neighbor, he's going to lend me his and it's a good one.
I was like, don't give me your good hockey stick.
He's like, no, it's not like you're going to be.
Oh, he knows not to give you a good.
One on it. That's the only way you're
standing up. Yeah, I think I'll feel better
once I'm out there and I have myequipment on because if I fall,
(17:35):
I'm less likely to break my hip.Well, it depends on what you
fall on. I don't.
I don't know whether you'll hurtyourself.
So anyways it it ranges from. From my right, yes.
Very sort of that. It ranges from people who don't
know how to skate, but most mostof us have never played hockey.
Some of the most kids who play hockey.
(17:56):
This is in my. Town.
This is my local arena. They actually have an hour or
what is this? 2 hours, an hour?
An hour set aside? Set aside for a weekly.
We're doing 10 weeks. Never played, Never played
hockey. Now none of them.
If you don't mind, it's a lot, Iknow.
If you don't mind, I have so many questions.
(18:18):
I bet you do, that's why I savedtelling you what it was till the
actual if we're doing. It yes, this is a complete
surprise to permanent. I know, I know.
Delightful surprise at that. Oh yeah.
If you don't mind me asking, how, how much?
Did that was $150.00 to sign up?That's a bargain I think then.
(18:38):
I had to get, I had to get all my equipment, which I'm several
$100 in now. Yes.
Just equipment. Even with used and borrowed and
whatever, it's still that much, yeah.
I needed a helmet. I needed everything but skates.
Everything, including a Jill. I didn't even know that was a
thing, but now I have one. Well, do you want to get hit
(18:58):
there? No, but I didn't think anyone
was going to lift the puck that high and aren't.
You right. Well.
It's not just pucks. It sticks.
It sticks skates. That's.
True. The butt end of a stick I.
Didn't even know how. I don't know how to dress myself
like I don't know how to put everything.
I haven't put all of it on yet. This is but over Christmas my
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husband was so gung ho. Are more entertaining than I
thought it would be. This is so entertaining.
Over Christmas my husband was sogung ho about this.
He was the one that ordered all the equipment and he.
Showed you how to get dressed. Well, he hasn't.
We haven't put it all on yet, but we will and I will send you
a picture. I know.
(19:39):
All the other girls, I'm in a group chat now and all the other
girls have have shared photos ofthem dressed in all their
equipment. Oh really?
Well, I need to see that now. Do you, do you have a just a a
regular just throw on jersey or do you have a team jersey?
No, we just bought black jerseysplain, but we have pink socks
(20:02):
because it's a women's team. I need that.
Some people have pink sticks, but the stick I'm borrowing is
black and orange. That's fine, I don't care.
I literally I bought the cheapest things that I could.
Well, of course, yeah. Except the neck guard, I got a
bit of a higher one because it the other ones weren't
comfortable. Well, yeah, but I mean, it's
important not to be cheap in certain areas.
Neck guard would be one. Yeah, Jill would be another.
(20:24):
Right. Yeah, OK.
Helmet, perhaps the third. Yeah, we.
Got a good helmet? Yeah, OK, good.
Yeah, so I'm. Actually using Jeremy's old knee
pads and elbow pads, that's because he's got which need to
be washed because I don't know when they were used once, but I
mean, I've got those. I, I got pants and you know, and
(20:46):
I even said to my mom and my sister, I'm like, I got to go
find hockey pants. And my sister says, why do you
need hockey pants? Just wear snow pants.
I said you can't. You can't just wear snow pants.
That's how little my family knows about how to even play
and. Dress for.
Hockey I, I said to Jeremy, I'm like, do you want to come to the
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first practice that we're going to have to get?
Is that really a game? I believe every every single one
of these women's husbands will be there and then a few cases of
beer might tag a lot too. Well, we've told them all not to
come, he said. Nobody can come until at least
Week 3. But I do need someone to dress
me and place me on the ice. I think so, Jeremy said.
No, so I think one of the other Timeless.
(21:29):
Cases I'd help get you on the ice and then tie.
My skates maybe? Just enjoy the hell out of that.
Then cheers, David. Yeah, all of the husbands want
to come 'cause they, they all think it's hysterical that we're
even trying. Now, this was brought up to me
before Christmas. And then I said, no, no, I don't
(21:50):
think so. I'm really not the person who
should be doing that. And then we were all at a
Christmas party and somebody there said, you're going to
join, right, 'cause we're all going to join.
I'm like, no, they're like, no, you should.
Anyway, I had my arm twisted enough that I agreed to do it
now, I think. This is the best.
Yeah, this I really is the best.Truly not really looking forward
(22:11):
to it. I'm not like excited about it.
I know I'm very bad at sports. I am not athletic, but I am at
the age now and I have, I have had so many humiliating
experiences with sports that I have just accepted that I'm bad
And I so now I'm just like, I don't care that I'm bad and I'm
just going to try. And I feel like I'm 41 and I'm
(22:35):
showing my kids. You're never too old to try
something new. Absolutely and showing.
Myself, you're never too old to try something new and I think
that that's an important. It's just important to try and
try and learn if I like it or don't.
I may not do it next year, but I'm going to do it this year and
see how that's. All well and good.
I agree with you 100%. That's great.
It's a wonderful lesson for girls to learn.
(22:57):
Yeah, but how long before there's a game?
Because we're coming. We're having games.
I don't think we're having games.
Foreman, do you not want to go? Well, don't they need someone to
do? Don't they need a couple of
professional? We will go.
You need some professional broadcasters perhaps to to
provide play by play, play by play commentary.
I don't. Think it'll be that?
(23:17):
Some music? Oh yeah, we could do that.
No, please. Don't come.
I don't want you there. I don't want I I don't want my
husband there or you 2 especially.
He's coming, No? I know where I know.
I know where you live. I know it's Fridays at 9:00 PM
is when we're. Now I'm coming.
(23:38):
But then there's a few Saturdaysthrown in there, so we're not
there every Friday because it was hard to get ice time, I
guess. So it's kind of a random
schedule. So we told husbands nobody can
come to a week 3, which I still think is very premature.
But on week two, we're having someone come and teach us power
skating. Good, whatever the I just need
(24:00):
someone to teach me regular skating.
You will need regular, yes regular standing before.
You'll need a power skating. I can't.
I can go around once and my feethurt not to take a break, so I
don't know how I'm going to. Do a whole You and all these
women are learning to play hockey, but how many other women
on this team will also like you be learning to simply skate?
(24:20):
Some of them, yes, because there's at least one other woman
who said, well, I can't, I can'tstop.
But I said neither can I, I justrun into the boards with my
hands. So there's there.
There's a few. Of us it's.
Not going to be. It's not graceful or elegant.
We don't know what we're doing. There's a few people on the on
who have signed up and I resent this a little bit who who have
played before, which I think is complete bullshit because you
(24:44):
should not. Learn to play at the if you've
already played. Exactly, if you played when you
were a kid, go play on the league.
You never played hockey. You've never ever played hockey,
Rachel dated. That's how it works.
Yes, You're. You're.
A blade, but there's there. Are going to be people that are
better at it than you. Everybody will be better than
me, which is fine. I that's my whole life.
(25:05):
Everyone's better than me. Well, and she's 6 foot five, 250
lbs and playing against you all times.
Always, always. This is going to make my winter.
Thank you, Ray. Yeah, I'll be next week.
I'll be in there Friday night, Dave.
I'll bring a six pack, a Bluetooth speaker and Yakety
Sax. All right.
(25:40):
This is due to underwhelming demand the the podcast that's
like snow swells in January. You know, something you probably
don't want or need what you're going to get anyway.
It's pretty much us give. It to you.
Yeah, here it is. Too mad you're stuck with it.
Well, I am stuck with a daughterwho has a milestone of a gift
(26:02):
given to her at Christmas. Oh, another milestone for a
daughter. OK, yeah, Dave's 18 year old.
What? What's up with?
Charlie, now I am intrigued. Yeah, she's 11.
So in Grade 6, she, in year 2025, she is turning 12, right?
When you're 12, there's, there'smore responsibilities.
(26:23):
You can be home alone. Sometimes you're looking at
babysitting for other children. There's a hell of a lot of swim
practices at the Canada Game Center in the North End of
London, which is very far from Saint Thomas.
Yes, we're not always with her. There's trips you can go between
our house and grandma and grandpa's house, which is
(26:45):
relatively close. But what if something happens in
between? Right.
Right, all of this to say, can you guess what gift that hardly
got this year? You did.
You did. You broke down, didn't you?
Yeah, yeah, she's got a phone. You got her a phone.
It's a slippery slope, isn't it?You?
Cave. It's an old phone.
(27:07):
We didn't. We're not those parents who got
the kid the new phone and we cut.
The old phones, no. Don't.
Do that. No.
People do it. Yeah, no.
I do that. You know, my kids have a phone
too that they share and it doesn't leave the house unless
they are going around town. This phone does not have data
that is not a part of its plan whatsoever.
(27:28):
It's talk and text. She can connect to our Wi-Fi,
but Google makes it very easy toset up a family plan and I'm
listed as the family manager, which Ashley does not appreciate
me getting that title in her Google family tree.
Not when she already knows that she's the family manager, the
actual family manager, family manager.
(27:51):
That according to Google. But you can set up a child and
there's strict limitations of what they can and cannot do
what? And they need permission for
everything. You can't download anything, you
can't go anywhere unless you getpermission first.
So is. This an Android phone.
Yes, it is. It's like our old Ashley's old
Samsung S9. OK, so it's run by Google.
(28:13):
That kind of a phone, it's a nightmare.
It's got a curved screen. I forgot about it.
It's got a nice curved screen and some extra features.
Because of that it's I forgot. So it was a nice bumped up and
under the tree and and a surprise.
Yes, but we had already got in and and got it all set up and
done and it was ready to go so she could open it and it was
working. Yeah.
So when she opened it, how was that moment?
(28:33):
Yeah. Like her head exploded and she'd
been working to like it's reallythe only thing she really asked.
For right, right, all right. It's her only real true ask.
So in the last couple weeks, hasshe like, how has it been with
her? Is she being responsible with
it? Yes, and I would say for all and
(28:55):
even myself included and all this lead up and how I shouldn't
get the kids a phone and whatever.
Oh, that's bad. It's too early.
They're too young. Yeah, so far it's great.
OK. Because.
When your child has a phone, youcan treat her as your personal
secretary. Well, how does that work, hey?
(29:15):
Harley, can you text grandma andtell her blah blah blah blah.
Harley, why don't you? Granny would really love to talk
to you. Why don't you go call Granny,
please, Dad? Can you Dad?
Yeah. Yeah, Granny probably was
talking. Do you?
Text her from the basement and say, can you bring me a beer?
Oh no, we do that. We do that all the time.
(29:37):
I haven't got there yet. Supper.
She has so many text conversations on the go and it's
all with my sisters. My brother in She's calling in
Halifax like she's she's all over, it's all family except for
(29:58):
like 1 1/2 friends have a phone that she knows 'cause one has to
is like yours has to share it with her siblings.
But she's got like four siblings.
So sometimes she's texting to said friend's brother
occasionally, but otherwise she doesn't have that many friends
with phones. So she it's all family, which is
all great for them and it's great for.
(30:19):
Her yes, that's it's true. Ours is the same in that the
only people my kids can text arefamily and they don't know how
to add anybody else. Like they haven't figured that
out how to add another person tomessage right, which is fine.
But so they got the phone and Julia was into it because she's
the same age as Harley. She's 11 and she was into it for
a while and she'll take it if she's like going out, you know,
(30:41):
around the block to the her friend's house or whatever.
But then often they just leave it at home now.
They don't care. They can't take it to school.
They're not allowed to take. It to school, it's not going to
school. No, if she's on a sleepover or
something she could take it, butschools don't even let them have
the phones now anyway, which I think is good, so they don't.
It's kind of lost its luster to be honest, and they're just
(31:03):
great still on their iPads. That's what I'm hoping, which is
also on my. IPad.
They have iPads. Yeah, they each have an iPad,
Yeah. Well, yeah, my girls have
tablets. They're not good ones.
No, they're old. What are we?
Talking about here, what is? Well, that's.
Watching Netflix and Disney. Yeah, they don't watch the TV,
they watch their iPads. I can't figure out why they
(31:24):
don't care about their phone. Yeah, because they have iPads, I
know. But you can't can't call someone
on an iPad when they're at the park.
And Harley's got like a like a 30 something day streak going on
Duolingo trying to learn Spanishso.
Wow. That's what she does with her
time on her screens. Wow I wish my kids would do
something smart and not watch family YouTube.
(31:45):
I'm not doing that, no. I should start doing Duolingo.
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crazy stories about your lives coming, Graham says.
Have a great holiday season and continued success in 2025.
Thanks, Graham. That's warm.
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wrote. Merry Christmas and may your
Turkey be fully cooked. Oh, is that the same Kathy
Gordon who might have cooked a chicken breast in a microwave
and served it to Foreman? Might be, might be.
Thank. You, Kathy.
Happy Julian. Had written I miss you guys
(34:14):
already but everyone deserves a break.
Enjoy and hope all of you had a great holiday.
Thank you. Yes, Sarah Fitzgerald wrote
Sarah Fitzgerald. Merry Christmas Foreman, we miss
you down here. Merry Christmas Rachel and Dave
as well. Can you guess where down here
is? Yeah, I know where down here.
Is it's the place we call out there?
I know. Oh yeah, I don't know why they
(34:34):
say down East. Why do they say that?
I don't know cuz it's not reallydown it's.
Not down, it's over. It's.
Kind of. It's kind of over.
It's up. It's kind of up.
Now it's up a little bit, Foreman.
Right now, Foreman's down there in Saint Thomas, That's down
there. Yeah, I'm down here.
Down there. We are more S than them.
Do they know that? Yeah, they, I don't know.
(34:55):
We are the southernmost point ofCanada are.
We. Well, we're in the area, yeah.
We're in the in the area. Like, it's about an hour from
us. They're more north than we are.
Anyway. I was.
Just saying, Sarah tolerated a lot of me in Halifax and she put
up with us making a theme song for her because her last name is
Fitzgerald. Yeah.
(35:16):
So if she would call Fitzgerald,it's a call from Sarah
Fitzgerald. Oh my God, that's amazing.
I wish I was on the show when you did that.
That's so. Funny.
I love that. I love that.
OK, Yeah. Mount Elgin, Katie is what I
would like to refer to Katie as now.
Yes. Katie from Mount Elgin when you
(35:37):
mentioned Dave in your headlinesbefore Christmas, yes.
About a Funeral Home getting a liquor license, Yes.
Yeah. Well, she says not headline
worthy. I've been to funerals in
Woodstock with liquor served. Oh, really?
Yes, when a. Relative in Woodstock and nobody
served me liquor. No, she said.
When a relative passed away, we were offered a choice of three
(35:59):
of their favorite drinks when weentered the Funeral Home.
Oh, interesting. Oh, wow.
Well, that's deep. I don't know.
I don't know what the lies this was.
That was an American. Headline with your drink at your
wedding, You can have a signature drink at your funeral.
She quite literally sent us the like the bill of the Funeral
Home so we could see. That's amazing.
Don't tell us surprise. It's no surprise that people
(36:21):
have a drink when someone dies. I mean, either as a salute or as
a yeah. Am I?
We're glad he's gone. What happens when you purchase
the Tribute Lounge with bar and attendant with Smart Serve
qualification up to two hours? Well, I didn't know that was
available here. Like none of us knew that.
(36:43):
So thank you for pointing me out.
I didn't know. Yeah, thanks.
Kim something to think about integrating into your own May
perhaps, maybe. I don't know.
I'm not integrating anything into my own OK?
I'll let everybody else figure it.
Out I we're. Not there, You don't care.
That's true. That's not there.
Don't care. Don't.
Not there. Whatever.
You want? Yeah.
Yeah, Fun. And Ainsley?
(37:04):
Ainsley sent a message to me saying that Foreman, my husband
goes to Angry Bear Barbershop inSaint Thomas because I was
talking about my troubles getting my hair cut before
Christmas. Yes.
I hope this isn't the place thatyou had issues with, but if not
I highly recommend checking themout.
My husband has been going there and their old shop for 6 plus
(37:26):
years now. We take our sons there.
If you go book with Scotty the owner or Toby.
Angry bear, that wasn't where you were going.
No. Okay, but it might be now.
I think it will be. Okay, we were talking about
Christmas gifts that Daves friend bought for his wife.
(37:49):
The bidet was one a while ago, right?
Low flow bidet the low flow. Oh no, low flow the toilet.
That was a low flow toilet I. Said it should be the next one.
What did she get this year, by the way?
I told you we went to the we went to the play.
He did. Oh, that was.
The head. That's a good gift, yeah.
Although I didn't ask him what other things he gave her and I'm
I'm I was there a bidet or? Should be.
I don't want to. Round out the bathroom
(38:10):
accessory. I'm sure he'll tell me now after
years this not what I. Don't scale right anyway, so.
Bonnie a low flow Neil Diamond. OK, so Bonnie sent us an e-mail
about bad gifting. She says you were talking about
bad gifts. It reminded me of a story my
partner told me about his parents.
His dad consulted him on gettinghis mom a scale for Christmas, a
(38:32):
bathroom scale. He warned his dad not to, but he
did anyway. His mom threw the scale out of
the house when she opened it, sothat was not that.
Mom didn't appreciate getting a scale.
That that's not a Merry Christmas.
Not a Merry Christmas. Yeah.
So if you're going to get someone to scale, you'd better
really know them quite well, I think.
(38:52):
Well, make sure you know that they really want and would
appreciate your scale. OK all.
Right, Dad. Thanks, Rach.
Do you guys remember, do you remember 1 Christmas?
We were talking about this on the radio years ago and it was
like, I think her name was Barb.And she got her to say, I got
the backpack sprayer, the backpack sprayer.
(39:16):
Oh my gosh, I got a backpack sprayer from my husband.
Like a pesticide sprayer. Yes, the opening that in front
of all the family, it was like he was like, oh, let's see if it
fits. I'm going seriously like.
I remember that. What did she say?
They were still married though. Like there was still.
(39:38):
She just laughs about it. Because.
Because the next year she calledback and said, oh, I'm backpack
sprayer, Barb. It's backpack sprayer Barb.
They got a brand new shiny red Camaro, which my husband thought
that he thought I would like, had it delivered.
Yeah, into his man cave shed. Lovely convertible, but
(39:58):
standard. I don't drive standard and I
couldn't drive, so figured that one.
Yeah, it was a little. What's a backpack sprayer?
Yeah, that's right. You really do.
Have to if you have. The best listeners.
They are so funny anyway. You know it's important to read
the room. You really do need to read the
(40:20):
room before you. Know don't ever, ever buy your
wife a backpack sprayer. I can guarantee that she does
not want that either at all, butcertainly not as a gift.
That's. Something you go out on a
Saturday and you pick up at Canadian Tire because you need
it. You don't give that as a gift.
Don't go all in on that, Rachel,because somewhere, somebody.
(40:41):
I would double down on that. Somebody wants a back.
OK, you if you a woman, would like a backpack sprayer from
your husband for Christmas, you let me know if that's something
that would you would really loveto get.
I would like to hear from you. I want to talk to Barb and see
what she's gotten said. Valentine's Day is coming.
(41:01):
Valentine's Day is coming. I think we're done.
No gift is inappropriate until you give it a chance.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies!
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!