November 12, 2024 • 42 mins
(1:21) - Is this an acceptable birthday gift?
(13:49) - Embro's new tourism attraction!
(26:06) - Rachel literally nit-picks
(38:15) - YOUR comments & voice memos!
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This week, Embro, Ontario's Thistle Theatre will be bringing Norm Foster's The Ladies Foursome to the stage! Set on the links, this funny, fast-paced, heartwarming story by Canada’s most produced playwright is a definite hole in one! Over eighteen holes, secrets and confessions unravel as the women discuss love, sex, children, and everything in between. This is a story about friendships tested and friendships found.
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(00:00):
So my friend John and Jan, she had a birthday last just a few
days ago. I will tell you what he got her.
What? John?
OK. For her birthday, let's see how
you react. Are we on?
(00:23):
Oh, here we go. We're on.
Of course we're on This is due to underwhelming demand, the
podcast that is not live this week.
No. Which is good because we don't
have to be on our best behavior.Do we sound better?
So strap yourself in. That was us on our best behavior
I. Think I don't know, Was it?
(00:44):
I don't. I don't.
Know, I guess I don't. I hope everyone had fun if you
came to the live show. Thank you very much.
Yeah. Are you talking to me?
Because I'm not sure. Yeah, you too.
Thanks for coming, Dave. Thanks for showing up.
I didn't have that one. No, it's actually all right.
It was good. It was good.
All right. This we are Dave, Rachel and
Foreman and the podcast brought to you today.
(01:05):
Thank you very much. To the Thistle Theatre.
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hear about this. New and just performing.
Just performing and Melissa photography.
Shout out to Melissa who came toour live broadcast.
We appreciate. That also with the live
broadcast, you got to meet my friends Jan and John Everett.
(01:25):
Yep, we did, yeah. They were anxious to actually
meet you guys in person. I was anxious to meet them too
because they I've heard so much about them and so finally I got
to meet them in person which wasreally nice.
I think I speak for everyone in the room that we've all wondered
today and over your last 99 podcast, are you folks all
wearing pants, John? We, I had set it up with me
(01:49):
beforehand that if if no one wanted to ask us a question, he
was there for me. He.
Would. He was going to be my setup guy,
but it turns out we we got, we did get a few questions, so it
wasn't all that bad. Anyway, good friends and Jan
just in between the live broadcast and this recording,
celebrated a birthday. Oh, happy birthday.
(02:12):
Happy. Birthday We got invited to a
little birthday celebration the day of her birthday.
Had a nice time and also my wifemade the cake for the
celebration. Cake was unbelievable.
Really. What kind of cake was it it?
Was and I'd never. I'd heard of it before, but we
(02:34):
didn't really know what it was. Devil's food cake.
Do you know what that is? Yeah, like a chocolate cake.
It's a chocolate cake sure, but not everybody sells it.
Like it's hard to buy one unlessyou pre-order it or.
Oh, they have boxed cakes that are devil's food cake.
Do they? Anyway, this was homemade and
really good. Just saying.
(02:54):
Just saying. Shout out to Jana.
It was really very good. It was top notch.
Awesome. Whether we ever get another one,
I don't know. Anyway, I wanted to talk about
while we were having this lovelybirthday dinner and cake
afterwards it came to our attention one of the gifts that
(03:16):
John bought Jan and I, and I thought that I would see how you
guys reacted to what he got her.She bought her a scale like you
know. What?
A scale. For food, right?
No, no, no, no, no to stand nicebrand new, really fancy digital
(03:38):
a scale. Are they married?
But they. Were as they're married.
They're married. They're still married.
They're. Yes.
Well, it's only been a few days.I gather I'll.
Just everything's fine. As far as I know, he's still
alive. Time, yes.
He's still alive as far as I know.
We live in the same place. Have you seen the Instagrams
where the man does something andthen and then it cuts to, you
(04:01):
know, Mariah Carey singing and like a a death notice of the
guy? Taking my daughter to get her
first haircut and her ears pierced to surprise my wife.
That reminds me of that. I don't.
I don't really tend to look at anything, Mariah.
Carey, 68 to 2024. I know or whatever.
(04:25):
Yeah. So as soon as we found that out
and he gave a sort of half hearted explanation as to why he
thought it was a great idea, letme preface this by saying he he
went all out. He gave her an elaborate
breakfast in bed thing. There were other gifts involved.
(04:47):
A lot of these other gifts involve food and then outcomes
the scale. Well, I don't know what why was
it there for when the scale was was that given I wasn't there
for I wasn't there for the reaction on the scale.
Here's what I know that what little I know is that someone,
an acquaintance of friends, someone they see on a regular
(05:09):
basis, has a brand new digital scale.
And Jan had been using and and must have remarked, boy, I got
this really nice scale or something.
And so, you know, the light bulbgoes off in the man's head.
Well, that would be a good gift.No think.
(05:30):
Turn it off. Turn off the.
Ball. Not as a gift.
You can go out and buy that any day.
Like on a Monday. Tuesday any day.
Not a birthday. Not a birthday, no.
What about Christmas? No mother's.
Day. No, it's not a gift.
That's not a gift. Well, because I think you're
putting your marriage in jeopardy by giving that as a
(05:52):
gift. You'd better have a really good
explanation if you're giving someone a a weight scale for
their weight and not for like, you know, food in the kitchen.
Do you like I never? If I bought you a a food.
In the kitchen scale, I'm putting in this soup.
Yeah. If I buy you that, I don't
think, I don't think you're going to be too thrilled with
(06:14):
that either. No, no, no, you're right.
You're right. But it's better than the
alternative if I'm going to choose between the two types of
scales. Well, you don't want a scale is
what you're suggesting. Not no.
Not for my birthday, no If. I have a certain.
Type of garden that I'm growing then I might need a certain type
of scale. Otherwise no thanks.
Oh, that. Kind of.
(06:34):
Yeah, sure. That's.
A. Different thing to feel for
that. That's a complete then it might
be a business expense and that'sa write off, yes.
OK. Yeah, Yeah, it's perfectly
legal. Now.
You don't need a license for that.
I mean, it's perfectly. That's true, yes, that's great.
So you can write personal. Use Yeah.
Personal use, you know. Sorry about that.
So what did Jan say she was? To my knowledge, she seemed to
(06:58):
be in a you know, she was very much a birthday mood.
She was happy, everything was good.
We had a good laugh about it, I will say that.
Yes. We did.
We we had a pretty good laugh. We, you know, and I, well, she.
Tried to process like you weren't there when it was
initially presented when you then arrived.
(07:18):
Did John have like a scale shaped gash on the side of his
face or he didn't? Oh, no, he didn't.
He had no. He was bruised or something.
Yeah, that. Corner matches the corner of the
scale. Yeah, that's the same degree.
Angle. Look, I'm here to tell you, I,
I, I wasn't the one who did that.
But I, you know, I can vouch formy friend John.
(07:39):
He gave his wife a scale and appears to have gotten away with
it. Well, didn't you?
Once give your wife a vacuum. She asked for it.
She wanted a new vacuum for Christmas.
And we had a whole conversation about that.
And I actually said that to John.
You know, I've had that conversation with John.
(08:00):
And John, you know, wasn't like she requested a scale.
He just was trying to guess at something.
That might like. She seemed enamored with that
somebody else had, so he thought, well, what a great
idea. I will give him half points for
for noticing what she's saying and remarking on and remembering
(08:23):
that she might like that. Very good at that actually.
And the other half of the pointsgot taken away because he gave
it to her as a gift. So.
Well, he's not going to sell it to her, so giving it to.
Her and bring it home be like look what I got just as a you
know I. See.
You know, it's Wednesday. It's a scale.
Do I review? Have a scale at home?
(08:45):
Yes. Yes.
OK, how did that scale get there?
Don't know actually it. Appears think we bought it when
we bought our first house. We're like, oh, we need to
scale. And then there was one on sale
at Canadian Tire and so I boughtit no myself.
OK. Because we didn't have one in
the house. Well before I was in the
bathroom, just done showering and before the podcast this
(09:08):
morning before our taping. Thank you for showering before
this episode. Thank you.
I always like to do that before yes, you know, I do a podcast
and I looked down and there's a scale, nice new digital scale in
our bathroom, which we bought. It was on the you're always,
you're a sucker at Costco if youbuy the stuff that they put out
on the end and we bought, we walked by it.
(09:28):
There it was, and we went, Oh well, let's get that.
It's usually a good deal. Yeah, it's.
Usually a good deal. And there it is.
And so that's how that arrived in our house.
I'm pretty sure with the vacuum,that's what she wanted.
We talked about it, we went through the whole thing.
I made sure she had other gifts and I actually wanted somebody
who listened, got me a great deal on a vacuum.
(09:48):
So it all worked out great. Oh, yeah, that you had to go.
OK, that's right. Yeah.
I bought myself a new vacuum recently and Jeremy and I had
discussed because I wanted a Dyson stick vac because I didn't
have AI, just wanted a stick vac.
That was easy because otherwise we have a a central vac and you
got to go with the hose and all the parts went and it's kind of
annoying to get it out, but I'm like, if I just want to vacuum
(10:10):
the kitchen quickly, I want to stick vac and I want a Dyson.
And there was one on sale and I and Jeremy's like, well, why
don't we get that for Christmas?And I'm like, I'm just going to
buy it now. Like, I don't want to get.
That's not a gift. Like, I'm just going to go buy
it. So I did.
I bought myself a stick vac. Yeah, but it wasn't a gift.
It might have been a gift. OK.
But then I thought of Dave. And I was like, do I want a
(10:32):
vacuum for Christmas? No, I don't.
Well, I don't know. A vacuum for Christmas I.
Was going to buy it for myself. I wouldn't want it.
I, you know, don't get me any power tools for Christmas.
Don't do that, no. Right.
I don't want that either. We learned quickly, and I've
said this many times before, we learned quickly as I think
teenagers, to buy my mom kitchenappliances for.
(10:53):
Christmas. Well, if you have to learn
through trial and error, that's.Not good, no.
And the stage in life we're at right now is that for Christmas,
actually are getting each other winter tires out of our vacation
fund. Sad.
That's very sad, but you alreadyhave a scale, So what else can
(11:14):
you do I guess. Right, we have everything else.
(11:40):
Once again, they have a a production that is on right now.
The ladies foursome and it's by Norm Foster and it's at it's an
embro, the Thistle Theatre. In case you don't know where it
is. They actually sent me a couple
of updates. They said.
So this is from John, who I think is the he's the producer
of the ladies foursome. He says I know Dave has made a
(12:01):
point couple of times on the podcast between women and men on
a golf course and how it would be very different.
I don't disagree. However, he might be interested
to know that Norm Foster also wrote a play called The Foursome
which essentially tells that story.
What happens when 4 old male friends meet for a round of golf
having not seen each other for awhile?
Wow, I just thought he'd be interested to know that Norm
(12:23):
Foster wrote 2 plays exploring the different conversations on a
golf course. Norm Foster must be a golfer as
well as a wonderful playwright. Well, maybe I.
I do not know, but sure well. Interesting.
Thank you for sending that. That's interesting.
That's from John Turvy, who's the producer of the Ladies
Foursome, which is on now in Embro at the Thistle Theatre.
(12:46):
And if you want tickets, they'reonly $25.00 because the show
runs November. Well, what's today, the 12th,
that this day comes out? Yeah, so it's just this
Thursday, Friday and Saturday are the only remaining plays you
got to go see. Them the 14th, 15th and 16th.
In Bro Town Hall, so it's a verysmall, intimate stage, small
intimate theatre. There are limited seats.
(13:07):
So for a great price like this and only three shows left, make
sure you go in and go this weekend because it's going to be
a lot of fun. Thistle-theatre.com is their
website. You can buy tickets there.
Call the box office. 25 bucks. 25 bucks.
What a great night out. Yeah.
And if you're thinking it's about, oh, I don't know, it's
about golf, I don't like. It's not about golf, no.
It's about secrets and confessions and love and sex and
(13:31):
children and everything in between, set against the
background of a golf course. There you go.
Yeah, that's how it works. It's.
Perfect. Sounds fun.
Go to the. Show this is due to
underwhelming demand the Donald Trump of podcasts we're not
(13:53):
going anywhere anytime soon that's.
Please don't compare us to him, sweetheart.
Somehow more popular than ever. Yes, now more popular than ever.
Well, you can say that maybe I don't.
I don't know if that's true about us, though, but Donald is.
That's true, and in Embro, by the way, where the Sissel
(14:14):
Theatre is. Yes.
Santa Claus seems to be more popular than ever.
Oh my God, didn't piddle. Yeah, that's a better one.
Sorry. Because in Embro, and I asked
someone who lives there, you know, what is the population of
Embro? It's not that big.
No, no, she said. Well I always used to say 800
(14:37):
counting livestock, but now it'sgrowing so I'm not really sure.
So. OK.
So maybe another 800 with cows, 1600 with cows.
But it's, you know, it's growing.
There's new subdivision, so I'm gonna guess there's maybe about
1000 embroiders. Embryonians.
It's more fun to say embryoners.Embryonites.
(15:00):
Yeah. And there are two women who seem
like they're spearheading a a campaign to win a contest just
in time for Christmas. And it's Shelly and Tammy who
are spearheading this endeavour to get every single home in
embryo a 12 foot tall inflatableSanta Claus.
(15:20):
Yes. We're trying to get everybody in
the town to buy a Santa Claus toput on their front lawn.
Everybody in Embro. We're trying, we are trying to
get everybody in Embro to put a Santa Claus on their front lawn
and then there's a parade on November 30th.
We want everybody to have their Santa Clauses up.
(15:40):
Yes, there is a street in Toronto and I think it's near my
step family's street actually, and they every house has a 12
foot inflatable Santa and they all put them up on the same day
and it's like a tourist thing now.
Well, tourists are locals and you just drive down and you see
that everybody has a 12 foot inflatable Santa.
(16:02):
It's awesome. Yes.
And why is that awesome? What's awesome?
It's just. Kind of cool that like they all
do it together. Are they all the same Santas?
Yes, Yep. That's not awesome.
That's really boring. But they all have it, like
everyone's participating in the community.
That doesn't make it better. It's.
Just a weird spectacle to see when you're not expecting it and
(16:24):
realize why does every house. Have visible Santas to me are
sort of, you know, pardon this, this is just my personal view
slightly to moderately to maybe a lot tacky.
Yeah, but they're but like. Inflatables in general.
OK, I thought that about inflatables and I still kind of
(16:45):
do, but I broke down and bought one for I.
Have one. Not a Santa for Halloween.
I bought a pumpkin. Like several pumpkins.
It's like an 8 foot long pumpkininflatable thing.
The kids keep telling me, as I mentioned on our live show, that
our Halloween decorations suck. You.
Didn't have any. I have some Luca.
Was Lucas lying? You know where?
(17:07):
You know where Rachel House is? Yeah.
What's in front of their house? Nothing.
Yes. That's not I have some.
Luca, Liars, just a little kid. Using Children of Life.
A child. I have some, but it's maybe not
as many as he has. Yeah.
Anyway, we got an inflatable this year.
I broke down. I bought an inflatable.
(17:29):
So what about for Christmas then?
No, we don't have inflatables for that.
We have the deer, the the light up three piece deer that's on
the that's what we have on the front lawn for.
Like a Wicker thing. I guess, but it's made of light,
like it's all the lights intertwined.
I don't understand. Why people put?
Deer out on their front yards for Christmas.
It makes no sense. You.
Don't understand anything. I don't I understand the thing.
(17:50):
I think the Santa thing is a great idea.
I hope embryo wins. What do they have to do for this
Santa? Right.
Well, I find it a little bit weird that it is like a a a
brand store sanction contest, a genius way to get to sell more
Santa Clauses. You're saying everybody has to
buy one in order to win this contest, and they're $100 each.
(18:13):
And when you want everyone, likeif you're thinking their contest
idea is, you know, get your whole street to enter for your
street to win, right? They want the town.
So they need like 1000 of these things.
I talked to Tammy on the phone and she says, Oh yeah, I
probably bought about 15 of them, but.
What's 100 bucks right? To have some fun with some joy.
What's 100 bucks? Sure, but then what's 100 bucks
(18:34):
times 15? Starts to get a little pricey.
Wow. Because they really want to win
and their plan is that these things also light up so that
their Santa Claus parade in embryo is in the evening on
November 30th. They they want to make sure the
entire town has one set up by that evening so it can be this
(18:54):
giant spectacle and a tourist attraction.
Is it? So hold on, I think the prize
was everybody received a Santa that but to enter they all have
to buy. You have to buy one.
Yeah, genius marketing ploy. Yes.
What do they win then? I think Broil King throws your
neighborhood a barbecue and theygive you some, you know,
(19:16):
accessories and what is the Royal King swag?
What is the hook with Broil King?
Did they make the Santas? I don't know why.
Is it a BBQ company? I don't know.
Royal King's working with Home Hardware and Home Yeah Hardware
is where you have to buy the Santas from.
And both companies are making bank.
Yes, that seem I don't like thatnow.
I don't like that now. Now you don't like.
No, it's not Everybody won a Santa, no.
(19:39):
I was originally. Prize.
Well, and I was originally interested in their story
because two winters ago or no, it was last winter in Halifax,
there was one St. in Coal Harborthat kind of spontaneously did
this. There were about 20 or so of us
at first how people were going to Costco, you know, pick it up
like 5 or 6 at a time. And then more and more people
(20:00):
just jumped on board. And then, you know, there was
like 4050, sixty of them. And yeah, and then they went on
sale. So a few of us were like, well,
let's go get our money back. And then we just donated.
The difference to Feed Nova Scotia.
And then so everyone did that and one of our friends kind of
mentioned that, you know, this was probably going to get a lot
of attention. So she was like, we should
(20:21):
really attach a charity to this.So that's how the whole Feed
Nova Scotia part came into it. And we've raised so much money,
we thought maybe we've raised like 5, 100 bucks, 1000 bucks,
and we're over $16,000 already. I know it's amazing.
So kind of what started as this really silly fun idea of putting
(20:42):
these tacky Santas on our lawn has turned into this incredible
like give back over the holidaysthat everyone is just loving to
be a part of. I kind of thought that's what
was happening in embryo, but nowit is this brand store
sanctioned. Yeah, Bonanza.
It does kind of go against the spirit of giving and all of that
stuff that happens at Christmas,I think when.
(21:03):
You get a barbecue in the middleof the winter if you have
enough. Barbecue next summer.
I guess you don't like it all now do you?
This doesn't sound. I don't know why they're doing
this. I'm more intrigued with a with
an entire town where every single home has a 12 foot lit up
inflatable sand. Now I'm intrigued.
(21:24):
And you think it sucks? We're going to start our own,
our own contest here where if you buy a sponsorship and you
buy enough of them, we will giveyou, I don't know, some shout
outs. It's more than more than that.
More shout out what? They're buying is a shout.
Out exactly like what's the point of this?
Well, I love that you hate this idea, Rachel, and you own
(21:46):
inflatables and Dave, you hate inflatables, but now you kind of
love the I'm. Sold.
I think it will make it. I don't understand.
It's only good for Home Hardware.
When the last time you were in Embra?
I care about the contest. I'm more interested in seeing an
entire town where everybody has that inflatable standard now.
I like that idea. I think it's a reason to go to
Embra now, yes. Sure.
(22:07):
Yeah, I agree. Well, you.
Can't come because you're miserable about it anyway.
I I wasn't when I was talking about, you know, the street in
Toronto and I think it's better.I think it's cool that they're
all decked out the same way and that's, you know, it's a whole
community thing. But I don't like that Home
Hardware started this contest just to just to sell more this.
Now, so you can't come. What?
(22:29):
That's actually genius of Home Hardware.
And like, they probably saw the Toronto example, they saw the
Cole Harbor example and thought,how can we swoop in the middle
and make some money off this? And they figured it out.
Yeah. And people are playing along.
I love it, I love it. You go in bro.
Into contests where no purchase was necessary.
(22:49):
This is like a ton of purchases are necessary.
We're too stupid to do the skilltesting question now.
You really are in a snit, aren'tyou?
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demand. It's Dave, Rachel inform And
this is the podcast that's like the leaves that fall in your
yard. It happens whether you like it
or not, so. That's true.
The podcast happens whether you.Like it or not, here we.
Are you know what else happens? Whether you like it or not, your
children will inevitably, at some point get lice.
That's the best segue ever. That's the one.
(26:30):
I thought that was very obvious,but OK, you can get that.
How? You tied that in, but it worked.
Thank you. Yeah, we've been dealing with
lice over here. It's gone now, thankfully.
And I thank God never got it. But my kids got lice and we knew
another family that they had lice.
(26:51):
And so I was checking my kids and that's the only reason I was
checking because I knew that they had played with these
children and I thought I better,I better check them.
But if you've had lice, and I think every family will get it
at some 'cause I remember getting it as a kid myself.
The more you say that word, I feel like I have it now.
I mean really itches. Like crazy, Yeah.
(27:11):
Itchy this whole segment. Yeah, I don't even have any hair
left and I'm still itchy. I know it's awful and so
everybody gets it at some point,I think.
They love clean hair, Dave, as you're freshly showered.
Yes, they. Love clean hair.
That's yeah, clean hair is what lice like.
I didn't know that this is this is all very I mean, I we didn't
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really have any. We had we had an issue at camp
and then it turned out that it was overblown the issue and you
know, but lice well, that's where it starts.
There was a, an egg that was, you know, and the, the girl, you
did that at camp they're trainedto look for lice.
And I think they spotted something.
And so we immediately, we had just got home, we had to drive
(27:54):
all the way back and take, you know, 'cause you can't be here.
And then we took her to an expert the next day who said
there was 1 broken egg with nothing in it.
That was it. Nothing in her hair like OK.
Well, that's. Good come through well we and we
needed to have proof to get her back to camp so.
It all worked out, but no lice, yeah.
Last time we had lice that came from day camp and it was cowboy
(28:17):
Day and everyone was sharing cowboy hats.
Oh, why do they have cowboy games that can't have?
That idea? No.
Hats. Yeah, well, see, in our house we
were all sharing hair brushes until now.
So we don't do that anymore. And every day they all get
sterilized. I put them all in in boiling
water every single day after every use.
(28:38):
Yeah, boy. Well, because, well, you have
to. I just just in case.
I mean, it's not going to hurt. Yeah.
So I worked at camp. Fun fact, I was the lifeguard at
camp for a summer. And this is a camp.
I worked as a counselor before and whatever.
And you were the lice. Coordinator.
I was the lice checker, yeah. I had to be trained and check
for lice. And there you get a.
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Little extra bonus. No, you don't.
It just it just, but I learned alot and you know, there's some
kids that have very little lice,but some I just open the hair
and you can see all the eggs andI'm like, OK, you, I don't even
really need to check because I can clearly see that you have
lice. So I, I knew how to check.
So I know how to check for lice,which if, if you don't look it
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up, because if, if you, if you hear that somebody in your
child's life, classroom, whatever might have lice, I
suggest you just check their hair every couple days.
Just, you know, in case you, in case they get it.
Because if you're not checking, then it'll just be rampant once
you finally catch it. So I knew that they were playing
(29:41):
with some kids who had it. And so I was just checking their
hair. And then I finally one night
found it in Kendall's hair 1st. And I thought, Oh my God, well,
this is our life now for the next week or two.
And it was. I spent that entire weekend 12
hours, six hours each day, picking through hair, 12 hours.
(30:03):
And I'm like going through it almost strand by strand, trying
to find every little bit. I was treating the hair.
We spent so much money, Jeremy had to go.
As soon as I found it, I said you got to go to Shoppers Drug
Mart and buy the lice shampoo. So he does, he goes, he gets the
shampoo and we use the medicatedstuff because I am not messing
around. I want this to work and I want
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it gone quickly. And some people were like, use
olive oil, use coconut oil, justsmother it without.
No, we're using the medicated shit and we're getting it done.
OK, Can. We can we go backwards though.
When, When, because I feel like when you instructed Jeremy to go
and and and buy the shampoo and when you discovered that you had
(30:46):
lice, I feel like you, you seem very calm, but I feel like when
this was actually happening. I just want to know, can you
give us an indication of? What it was like.
How you reacted? I was upstairs with Kendall and
she's like my head's itchy can you please check it again?
And I said OK. I said I checked you like 2 days
ago anyway so then I found it and I'm like OK you do have it.
(31:10):
And she's like oh and then I yelled downstairs I'm like
Kendall has lice. This is our life now.
And Jeremy runs upstairs What? I'm like, yeah, I need you to go
to Shoppers. Yes.
So he immediately goes to Shoppers Drug Mart, gets the
shampoo from the pharmacist, comes home, we treat Kendall the
(31:31):
next day. I'm picking her hair and
whatever. And then I and then I was like,
I found another, another Live 1.So I, I don't think I used
enough. Turns out it will like it has a
residual effect and it will workover a seven days.
But anyway, I sent him back to get more.
She has so much hair. Kendall has so much hair.
It's so thick. And so the second day, Jeremy
(31:52):
goes back, same pharmacist and he goes, weren't you here
yesterday? And he and Jeremy says, yeah.
And the pharmacist just says I am so sorry.
How is it when you buy the shampoo?
What is it? Just a little bit.
Or a little bottle. It's like a, I don't know what
it's like a mini shampoo bottle basically of shampoo and you're
supposed to use either half or or maybe a whole bottle.
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And I and Kendall has so much hair.
I don't think I saturated it enough.
I think I needed more than one bottle for her.
Julia's hair would be fine with 11 bottle or half a bottle, but
Kendall's is so thick. So I sent him back the second
day. So then the third day I find
lice on Julia and I'm like, OK, back you go all the way back to
(32:35):
shoppers. So he goes back to I'm like, you
know what, just get 2 bottles this time because I'm probably
going to get it too. Get 6, just buy whatever.
So he goes back the third day and this guy's like, you know
what? Same pharmacist.
He's like, you seem like a really nice man, but I hope I
don't ever I see you again. So bad for you, Jeremy.
Jeremy's like, yeah, thank you. And at that point we had bought
(32:58):
out the store of all the lice shampoo.
So he had to get a second kind, a different kind of lice shampoo
that was a little more expensive.
But whatever. We we I'm like, we'll take what
we can get. So now that shoppers was out of
lice shampoo for that day because we purchased all of it.
So we do everybody's hair. I'm picking every day.
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Like it's just ruins your entireweek because I spend hours after
school all weekend long trying to get every single because if
you don't get all the eggs out of the hair, they hatch and then
it just comes back. You need to make sure you get
every single one out of the hairor or they they come back.
It doesn't go away. Did you know that there is a
(33:39):
special lice comb? Yeah, I have that.
It doesn't get all of them out. But when all you use, you use a
shit load of conditioner so the hair is nice and easy to come
through, you're white exactly. And then you use the comb and
that's all you need because theywill eventually all come out and
you don't have to buy any of that shampoo because it doesn't
(33:59):
do that. Looks like they're on the the,
you know, the big slide at. Yeah, but the knits would go.
Some of them were so small. The comb still doesn't.
And I bought the extra. So the shampoo comes with a
plastic comb, which is crap. I bought the metal comb.
I bought a separate metal comb because that the the teeth of it
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are are more together and even that the the knits.
It will get the lice out if you comb the lice but not all the
eggs, and the eggs are so stuck on the hair you have to pull
them with your fingernails. That's how you.
Know that's how you know it's lice.
But we had that lice lady come in once and she she was like,
this is all I'm doing, this is conditioner and this is the
comb. That's it.
(34:40):
Yeah, I yeah, OK, that's fine. I mean if if the comb misses any
then I guess you're just not getting them out.
But do it again. That's.
Yeah, that sounds simpler than going and and annoying the
pharmacist and Shoppers Drug Mart.
Two people had told me that to use the conditioner, but I'm
skeptical that it gets out absolutely every single knit.
So I'm going in and I had the whole setup.
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I had my ring light. I had like reading glasses on
which are magnifying so I could see every strand of hair.
Like I am going through this with a fine tooth comb because I
I'm making sure. In case anybody didn't know,
that's where the term nitpicker comes from.
Poor Jeremy you. Didn't do anything, I did it
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Yeah. Thank you to the the kinsman
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We had some good laughs and the pancakes were awesome.
Thank you. They look good.
I didn't have any pancakes, but the Maple beer was really good.
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Keep it up. I would definitely come to
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Don't know if we're going to do another live.
Show or not that. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah. You write that one down for next
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That you didn't know it needed. That it?
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
I'll write that down. Erica Vincent, the realtor who
was unable to tend, says, I hopeyou guys are able to do it again
sometime. So.
With that in mind, I have a little something for you guys.
(39:29):
Oh, you do? What's that?
Well, last. Week.
I yeah, I heard about it last week.
About how I didn't. Anyway, Long story short, on
this podcast I talked about my trip to Watkins Glen.
Yes. Yeah.
Where I discovered that they were selling off these
(39:50):
misprinted T-shirts that say Watt Kings Glen on them and I
had to have one they had for $10.
You can get a hoodie we got. We bought a bunch of hoodies in
my family. You were wearing one at the live
show. If you see our pictures at
underwhelming.ca, you'll see Dave in the wine I'll wear.
My I'll wear my nice one of my nice hoodies.
(40:10):
And but the friends we were with, they bought lots of
T-shirts. 5 bucks for a T-shirt I didn't even really bother
buying AT maybe just bought. Anyway, turns out you guys were
whining at me last week. Why didn't you bring me back
one? Yeah.
Right. I never even thought to buy you.
Guys for a hoodie actually. Yeah, I well, I never even
thought to buy any. I'd like the whole tracksuit.
(40:32):
Yeah, anyway, turns out my friends John and Jan bought a
whack of T-shirts and in the process?
Needed some new rags, did they? They Yeah, look at their.
Very nice. Sizes that didn't particularly
work for their needs. OK, so it looks like there you
(40:54):
go. Well, there was a pink one
you're holding up and a Gray oneyou're holding up.
I have one for. Two T-shirts.
Of you. Oh.
Johnny, hey. There you go, you got your own
watch. Why did you bring that last
week? We didn't.
Know ever they they heard about they didn't know either so.
They kids from that, they shouldn't have it.
They said something to me and I said, you know, like afterwards
(41:16):
they said we got a couple that we don't know what we're gonna
do with. Do you want them?
Sure, I'll give them to date to Rachel and I.
Bought them off of them and they're yours.
Thank. You Happy birthday, Merry
Christmas and this. Is your only gift happy?
Mother's Day and Father's Day, sure.
OK, not getting another thing from me.
You're gonna have to ship them to us.
(41:37):
Yeah, you're. Welcome.
I don't know when I will get them to you.
Yeah, you'll. Get them one of these days.
Speaking of John, by the way, hecommented on the video of
Rachel's fun fact of the averagebra size.
Did he? All he wrote was more research
needed. That's.
(41:59):
Great David, a write off is a business expense used to reduce
your taxable income. OK, well then why isn't it
called a tax write off? It is.
So my friend John and Jan, she had a birthday last just a few
days ago. I will tell you what he got her.
What? John?
OK. For her birthday, let's see how
you react. Are we on?
(00:23):
Oh, here we go. We're on.
Of course we're on This is due to underwhelming demand, the
podcast that is not live this week.
No. Which is good because we don't
have to be on our best behavior.Do we sound better?
So strap yourself in. That was us on our best behavior
I. Think I don't know, Was it?
(00:44):
I don't. I don't.
Know, I guess I don't. I hope everyone had fun if you
came to the live show. Thank you very much.
Yeah. Are you talking to me?
Because I'm not sure. Yeah, you too.
Thanks for coming, Dave. Thanks for showing up.
I didn't have that one. No, it's actually all right.
It was good. It was good.
All right. This we are Dave, Rachel and
Foreman and the podcast brought to you today.
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Thank you very much. To the Thistle Theatre.
Yes. So ENP Equine, wait till you
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Just performing and Melissa photography.
Shout out to Melissa who came toour live broadcast.
We appreciate. That also with the live
broadcast, you got to meet my friends Jan and John Everett.
(01:25):
Yep, we did, yeah. They were anxious to actually
meet you guys in person. I was anxious to meet them too
because they I've heard so much about them and so finally I got
to meet them in person which wasreally nice.
I think I speak for everyone in the room that we've all wondered
today and over your last 99 podcast, are you folks all
wearing pants, John? We, I had set it up with me
(01:49):
beforehand that if if no one wanted to ask us a question, he
was there for me. He.
Would. He was going to be my setup guy,
but it turns out we we got, we did get a few questions, so it
wasn't all that bad. Anyway, good friends and Jan
just in between the live broadcast and this recording,
celebrated a birthday. Oh, happy birthday.
(02:12):
Happy. Birthday We got invited to a
little birthday celebration the day of her birthday.
Had a nice time and also my wifemade the cake for the
celebration. Cake was unbelievable.
Really. What kind of cake was it it?
Was and I'd never. I'd heard of it before, but we
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didn't really know what it was. Devil's food cake.
Do you know what that is? Yeah, like a chocolate cake.
It's a chocolate cake sure, but not everybody sells it.
Like it's hard to buy one unlessyou pre-order it or.
Oh, they have boxed cakes that are devil's food cake.
Do they? Anyway, this was homemade and
really good. Just saying.
(02:54):
Just saying. Shout out to Jana.
It was really very good. It was top notch.
Awesome. Whether we ever get another one,
I don't know. Anyway, I wanted to talk about
while we were having this lovelybirthday dinner and cake
afterwards it came to our attention one of the gifts that
(03:16):
John bought Jan and I, and I thought that I would see how you
guys reacted to what he got her.She bought her a scale like you
know. What?
A scale. For food, right?
No, no, no, no, no to stand nicebrand new, really fancy digital
(03:38):
a scale. Are they married?
But they. Were as they're married.
They're married. They're still married.
They're. Yes.
Well, it's only been a few days.I gather I'll.
Just everything's fine. As far as I know, he's still
alive. Time, yes.
He's still alive as far as I know.
We live in the same place. Have you seen the Instagrams
where the man does something andthen and then it cuts to, you
(04:01):
know, Mariah Carey singing and like a a death notice of the
guy? Taking my daughter to get her
first haircut and her ears pierced to surprise my wife.
That reminds me of that. I don't.
I don't really tend to look at anything, Mariah.
Carey, 68 to 2024. I know or whatever.
(04:25):
Yeah. So as soon as we found that out
and he gave a sort of half hearted explanation as to why he
thought it was a great idea, letme preface this by saying he he
went all out. He gave her an elaborate
breakfast in bed thing. There were other gifts involved.
(04:47):
A lot of these other gifts involve food and then outcomes
the scale. Well, I don't know what why was
it there for when the scale was was that given I wasn't there
for I wasn't there for the reaction on the scale.
Here's what I know that what little I know is that someone,
an acquaintance of friends, someone they see on a regular
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basis, has a brand new digital scale.
And Jan had been using and and must have remarked, boy, I got
this really nice scale or something.
And so, you know, the light bulbgoes off in the man's head.
Well, that would be a good gift.No think.
(05:30):
Turn it off. Turn off the.
Ball. Not as a gift.
You can go out and buy that any day.
Like on a Monday. Tuesday any day.
Not a birthday. Not a birthday, no.
What about Christmas? No mother's.
Day. No, it's not a gift.
That's not a gift. Well, because I think you're
putting your marriage in jeopardy by giving that as a
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gift. You'd better have a really good
explanation if you're giving someone a a weight scale for
their weight and not for like, you know, food in the kitchen.
Do you like I never? If I bought you a a food.
In the kitchen scale, I'm putting in this soup.
Yeah. If I buy you that, I don't
think, I don't think you're going to be too thrilled with
(06:14):
that either. No, no, no, you're right.
You're right. But it's better than the
alternative if I'm going to choose between the two types of
scales. Well, you don't want a scale is
what you're suggesting. Not no.
Not for my birthday, no If. I have a certain.
Type of garden that I'm growing then I might need a certain type
of scale. Otherwise no thanks.
Oh, that. Kind of.
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Yeah, sure. That's.
A. Different thing to feel for
that. That's a complete then it might
be a business expense and that'sa write off, yes.
OK. Yeah, Yeah, it's perfectly
legal. Now.
You don't need a license for that.
I mean, it's perfectly. That's true, yes, that's great.
So you can write personal. Use Yeah.
Personal use, you know. Sorry about that.
So what did Jan say she was? To my knowledge, she seemed to
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be in a you know, she was very much a birthday mood.
She was happy, everything was good.
We had a good laugh about it, I will say that.
Yes. We did.
We we had a pretty good laugh. We, you know, and I, well, she.
Tried to process like you weren't there when it was
initially presented when you then arrived.
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Did John have like a scale shaped gash on the side of his
face or he didn't? Oh, no, he didn't.
He had no. He was bruised or something.
Yeah, that. Corner matches the corner of the
scale. Yeah, that's the same degree.
Angle. Look, I'm here to tell you, I,
I, I wasn't the one who did that.
But I, you know, I can vouch formy friend John.
(07:39):
He gave his wife a scale and appears to have gotten away with
it. Well, didn't you?
Once give your wife a vacuum. She asked for it.
She wanted a new vacuum for Christmas.
And we had a whole conversation about that.
And I actually said that to John.
You know, I've had that conversation with John.
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And John, you know, wasn't like she requested a scale.
He just was trying to guess at something.
That might like. She seemed enamored with that
somebody else had, so he thought, well, what a great
idea. I will give him half points for
for noticing what she's saying and remarking on and remembering
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that she might like that. Very good at that actually.
And the other half of the pointsgot taken away because he gave
it to her as a gift. So.
Well, he's not going to sell it to her, so giving it to.
Her and bring it home be like look what I got just as a you
know I. See.
You know, it's Wednesday. It's a scale.
Do I review? Have a scale at home?
(08:45):
Yes. Yes.
OK, how did that scale get there?
Don't know actually it. Appears think we bought it when
we bought our first house. We're like, oh, we need to
scale. And then there was one on sale
at Canadian Tire and so I boughtit no myself.
OK. Because we didn't have one in
the house. Well before I was in the
bathroom, just done showering and before the podcast this
(09:08):
morning before our taping. Thank you for showering before
this episode. Thank you.
I always like to do that before yes, you know, I do a podcast
and I looked down and there's a scale, nice new digital scale in
our bathroom, which we bought. It was on the you're always,
you're a sucker at Costco if youbuy the stuff that they put out
on the end and we bought, we walked by it.
(09:28):
There it was, and we went, Oh well, let's get that.
It's usually a good deal. Yeah, it's.
Usually a good deal. And there it is.
And so that's how that arrived in our house.
I'm pretty sure with the vacuum,that's what she wanted.
We talked about it, we went through the whole thing.
I made sure she had other gifts and I actually wanted somebody
who listened, got me a great deal on a vacuum.
(09:48):
So it all worked out great. Oh, yeah, that you had to go.
OK, that's right. Yeah.
I bought myself a new vacuum recently and Jeremy and I had
discussed because I wanted a Dyson stick vac because I didn't
have AI, just wanted a stick vac.
That was easy because otherwise we have a a central vac and you
got to go with the hose and all the parts went and it's kind of
annoying to get it out, but I'm like, if I just want to vacuum
(10:10):
the kitchen quickly, I want to stick vac and I want a Dyson.
And there was one on sale and I and Jeremy's like, well, why
don't we get that for Christmas?And I'm like, I'm just going to
buy it now. Like, I don't want to get.
That's not a gift. Like, I'm just going to go buy
it. So I did.
I bought myself a stick vac. Yeah, but it wasn't a gift.
It might have been a gift. OK.
But then I thought of Dave. And I was like, do I want a
(10:32):
vacuum for Christmas? No, I don't.
Well, I don't know. A vacuum for Christmas I.
Was going to buy it for myself. I wouldn't want it.
I, you know, don't get me any power tools for Christmas.
Don't do that, no. Right.
I don't want that either. We learned quickly, and I've
said this many times before, we learned quickly as I think
teenagers, to buy my mom kitchenappliances for.
(10:53):
Christmas. Well, if you have to learn
through trial and error, that's.Not good, no.
And the stage in life we're at right now is that for Christmas,
actually are getting each other winter tires out of our vacation
fund. Sad.
That's very sad, but you alreadyhave a scale, So what else can
(11:14):
you do I guess. Right, we have everything else.
(11:40):
Once again, they have a a production that is on right now.
The ladies foursome and it's by Norm Foster and it's at it's an
embro, the Thistle Theatre. In case you don't know where it
is. They actually sent me a couple
of updates. They said.
So this is from John, who I think is the he's the producer
of the ladies foursome. He says I know Dave has made a
(12:01):
point couple of times on the podcast between women and men on
a golf course and how it would be very different.
I don't disagree. However, he might be interested
to know that Norm Foster also wrote a play called The Foursome
which essentially tells that story.
What happens when 4 old male friends meet for a round of golf
having not seen each other for awhile?
Wow, I just thought he'd be interested to know that Norm
(12:23):
Foster wrote 2 plays exploring the different conversations on a
golf course. Norm Foster must be a golfer as
well as a wonderful playwright. Well, maybe I.
I do not know, but sure well. Interesting.
Thank you for sending that. That's interesting.
That's from John Turvy, who's the producer of the Ladies
Foursome, which is on now in Embro at the Thistle Theatre.
(12:46):
And if you want tickets, they'reonly $25.00 because the show
runs November. Well, what's today, the 12th,
that this day comes out? Yeah, so it's just this
Thursday, Friday and Saturday are the only remaining plays you
got to go see. Them the 14th, 15th and 16th.
In Bro Town Hall, so it's a verysmall, intimate stage, small
intimate theatre. There are limited seats.
(13:07):
So for a great price like this and only three shows left, make
sure you go in and go this weekend because it's going to be
a lot of fun. Thistle-theatre.com is their
website. You can buy tickets there.
Call the box office. 25 bucks. 25 bucks.
What a great night out. Yeah.
And if you're thinking it's about, oh, I don't know, it's
about golf, I don't like. It's not about golf, no.
It's about secrets and confessions and love and sex and
(13:31):
children and everything in between, set against the
background of a golf course. There you go.
Yeah, that's how it works. It's.
Perfect. Sounds fun.
Go to the. Show this is due to
underwhelming demand the Donald Trump of podcasts we're not
(13:53):
going anywhere anytime soon that's.
Please don't compare us to him, sweetheart.
Somehow more popular than ever. Yes, now more popular than ever.
Well, you can say that maybe I don't.
I don't know if that's true about us, though, but Donald is.
That's true, and in Embro, by the way, where the Sissel
(14:14):
Theatre is. Yes.
Santa Claus seems to be more popular than ever.
Oh my God, didn't piddle. Yeah, that's a better one.
Sorry. Because in Embro, and I asked
someone who lives there, you know, what is the population of
Embro? It's not that big.
No, no, she said. Well I always used to say 800
(14:37):
counting livestock, but now it'sgrowing so I'm not really sure.
So. OK.
So maybe another 800 with cows, 1600 with cows.
But it's, you know, it's growing.
There's new subdivision, so I'm gonna guess there's maybe about
1000 embroiders. Embryonians.
It's more fun to say embryoners.Embryonites.
(15:00):
Yeah. And there are two women who seem
like they're spearheading a a campaign to win a contest just
in time for Christmas. And it's Shelly and Tammy who
are spearheading this endeavour to get every single home in
embryo a 12 foot tall inflatableSanta Claus.
(15:20):
Yes. We're trying to get everybody in
the town to buy a Santa Claus toput on their front lawn.
Everybody in Embro. We're trying, we are trying to
get everybody in Embro to put a Santa Claus on their front lawn
and then there's a parade on November 30th.
We want everybody to have their Santa Clauses up.
(15:40):
Yes, there is a street in Toronto and I think it's near my
step family's street actually, and they every house has a 12
foot inflatable Santa and they all put them up on the same day
and it's like a tourist thing now.
Well, tourists are locals and you just drive down and you see
that everybody has a 12 foot inflatable Santa.
(16:02):
It's awesome. Yes.
And why is that awesome? What's awesome?
It's just. Kind of cool that like they all
do it together. Are they all the same Santas?
Yes, Yep. That's not awesome.
That's really boring. But they all have it, like
everyone's participating in the community.
That doesn't make it better. It's.
Just a weird spectacle to see when you're not expecting it and
(16:24):
realize why does every house. Have visible Santas to me are
sort of, you know, pardon this, this is just my personal view
slightly to moderately to maybe a lot tacky.
Yeah, but they're but like. Inflatables in general.
OK, I thought that about inflatables and I still kind of
(16:45):
do, but I broke down and bought one for I.
Have one. Not a Santa for Halloween.
I bought a pumpkin. Like several pumpkins.
It's like an 8 foot long pumpkininflatable thing.
The kids keep telling me, as I mentioned on our live show, that
our Halloween decorations suck. You.
Didn't have any. I have some Luca.
Was Lucas lying? You know where?
(17:07):
You know where Rachel House is? Yeah.
What's in front of their house? Nothing.
Yes. That's not I have some.
Luca, Liars, just a little kid. Using Children of Life.
A child. I have some, but it's maybe not
as many as he has. Yeah.
Anyway, we got an inflatable this year.
I broke down. I bought an inflatable.
(17:29):
So what about for Christmas then?
No, we don't have inflatables for that.
We have the deer, the the light up three piece deer that's on
the that's what we have on the front lawn for.
Like a Wicker thing. I guess, but it's made of light,
like it's all the lights intertwined.
I don't understand. Why people put?
Deer out on their front yards for Christmas.
It makes no sense. You.
Don't understand anything. I don't I understand the thing.
(17:50):
I think the Santa thing is a great idea.
I hope embryo wins. What do they have to do for this
Santa? Right.
Well, I find it a little bit weird that it is like a a a
brand store sanction contest, a genius way to get to sell more
Santa Clauses. You're saying everybody has to
buy one in order to win this contest, and they're $100 each.
(18:13):
And when you want everyone, likeif you're thinking their contest
idea is, you know, get your whole street to enter for your
street to win, right? They want the town.
So they need like 1000 of these things.
I talked to Tammy on the phone and she says, Oh yeah, I
probably bought about 15 of them, but.
What's 100 bucks right? To have some fun with some joy.
What's 100 bucks? Sure, but then what's 100 bucks
(18:34):
times 15? Starts to get a little pricey.
Wow. Because they really want to win
and their plan is that these things also light up so that
their Santa Claus parade in embryo is in the evening on
November 30th. They they want to make sure the
entire town has one set up by that evening so it can be this
(18:54):
giant spectacle and a tourist attraction.
Is it? So hold on, I think the prize
was everybody received a Santa that but to enter they all have
to buy. You have to buy one.
Yeah, genius marketing ploy. Yes.
What do they win then? I think Broil King throws your
neighborhood a barbecue and theygive you some, you know,
(19:16):
accessories and what is the Royal King swag?
What is the hook with Broil King?
Did they make the Santas? I don't know why.
Is it a BBQ company? I don't know.
Royal King's working with Home Hardware and Home Yeah Hardware
is where you have to buy the Santas from.
And both companies are making bank.
Yes, that seem I don't like thatnow.
I don't like that now. Now you don't like.
No, it's not Everybody won a Santa, no.
(19:39):
I was originally. Prize.
Well, and I was originally interested in their story
because two winters ago or no, it was last winter in Halifax,
there was one St. in Coal Harborthat kind of spontaneously did
this. There were about 20 or so of us
at first how people were going to Costco, you know, pick it up
like 5 or 6 at a time. And then more and more people
(20:00):
just jumped on board. And then, you know, there was
like 4050, sixty of them. And yeah, and then they went on
sale. So a few of us were like, well,
let's go get our money back. And then we just donated.
The difference to Feed Nova Scotia.
And then so everyone did that and one of our friends kind of
mentioned that, you know, this was probably going to get a lot
of attention. So she was like, we should
(20:21):
really attach a charity to this.So that's how the whole Feed
Nova Scotia part came into it. And we've raised so much money,
we thought maybe we've raised like 5, 100 bucks, 1000 bucks,
and we're over $16,000 already. I know it's amazing.
So kind of what started as this really silly fun idea of putting
(20:42):
these tacky Santas on our lawn has turned into this incredible
like give back over the holidaysthat everyone is just loving to
be a part of. I kind of thought that's what
was happening in embryo, but nowit is this brand store
sanctioned. Yeah, Bonanza.
It does kind of go against the spirit of giving and all of that
stuff that happens at Christmas,I think when.
(21:03):
You get a barbecue in the middleof the winter if you have
enough. Barbecue next summer.
I guess you don't like it all now do you?
This doesn't sound. I don't know why they're doing
this. I'm more intrigued with a with
an entire town where every single home has a 12 foot lit up
inflatable sand. Now I'm intrigued.
(21:24):
And you think it sucks? We're going to start our own,
our own contest here where if you buy a sponsorship and you
buy enough of them, we will giveyou, I don't know, some shout
outs. It's more than more than that.
More shout out what? They're buying is a shout.
Out exactly like what's the point of this?
Well, I love that you hate this idea, Rachel, and you own
(21:46):
inflatables and Dave, you hate inflatables, but now you kind of
love the I'm. Sold.
I think it will make it. I don't understand.
It's only good for Home Hardware.
When the last time you were in Embra?
I care about the contest. I'm more interested in seeing an
entire town where everybody has that inflatable standard now.
I like that idea. I think it's a reason to go to
Embra now, yes. Sure.
(22:07):
Yeah, I agree. Well, you.
Can't come because you're miserable about it anyway.
I I wasn't when I was talking about, you know, the street in
Toronto and I think it's better.I think it's cool that they're
all decked out the same way and that's, you know, it's a whole
community thing. But I don't like that Home
Hardware started this contest just to just to sell more this.
Now, so you can't come. What?
(22:29):
That's actually genius of Home Hardware.
And like, they probably saw the Toronto example, they saw the
Cole Harbor example and thought,how can we swoop in the middle
and make some money off this? And they figured it out.
Yeah. And people are playing along.
I love it, I love it. You go in bro.
Into contests where no purchase was necessary.
(22:49):
This is like a ton of purchases are necessary.
We're too stupid to do the skilltesting question now.
You really are in a snit, aren'tyou?
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this is the podcast that's like the leaves that fall in your
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or not, so. That's true.
The podcast happens whether you.Like it or not, here we.
Are you know what else happens? Whether you like it or not, your
children will inevitably, at some point get lice.
That's the best segue ever. That's the one.
(26:30):
I thought that was very obvious,but OK, you can get that.
How? You tied that in, but it worked.
Thank you. Yeah, we've been dealing with
lice over here. It's gone now, thankfully.
And I thank God never got it. But my kids got lice and we knew
another family that they had lice.
(26:51):
And so I was checking my kids and that's the only reason I was
checking because I knew that they had played with these
children and I thought I better,I better check them.
But if you've had lice, and I think every family will get it
at some 'cause I remember getting it as a kid myself.
The more you say that word, I feel like I have it now.
I mean really itches. Like crazy, Yeah.
(27:11):
Itchy this whole segment. Yeah, I don't even have any hair
left and I'm still itchy. I know it's awful and so
everybody gets it at some point,I think.
They love clean hair, Dave, as you're freshly showered.
Yes, they. Love clean hair.
That's yeah, clean hair is what lice like.
I didn't know that this is this is all very I mean, I we didn't
(27:33):
really have any. We had we had an issue at camp
and then it turned out that it was overblown the issue and you
know, but lice well, that's where it starts.
There was a, an egg that was, you know, and the, the girl, you
did that at camp they're trainedto look for lice.
And I think they spotted something.
And so we immediately, we had just got home, we had to drive
(27:54):
all the way back and take, you know, 'cause you can't be here.
And then we took her to an expert the next day who said
there was 1 broken egg with nothing in it.
That was it. Nothing in her hair like OK.
Well, that's. Good come through well we and we
needed to have proof to get her back to camp so.
It all worked out, but no lice, yeah.
Last time we had lice that came from day camp and it was cowboy
(28:17):
Day and everyone was sharing cowboy hats.
Oh, why do they have cowboy games that can't have?
That idea? No.
Hats. Yeah, well, see, in our house we
were all sharing hair brushes until now.
So we don't do that anymore. And every day they all get
sterilized. I put them all in in boiling
water every single day after every use.
(28:38):
Yeah, boy. Well, because, well, you have
to. I just just in case.
I mean, it's not going to hurt. Yeah.
So I worked at camp. Fun fact, I was the lifeguard at
camp for a summer. And this is a camp.
I worked as a counselor before and whatever.
And you were the lice. Coordinator.
I was the lice checker, yeah. I had to be trained and check
for lice. And there you get a.
(29:00):
Little extra bonus. No, you don't.
It just it just, but I learned alot and you know, there's some
kids that have very little lice,but some I just open the hair
and you can see all the eggs andI'm like, OK, you, I don't even
really need to check because I can clearly see that you have
lice. So I, I knew how to check.
So I know how to check for lice,which if, if you don't look it
(29:20):
up, because if, if you, if you hear that somebody in your
child's life, classroom, whatever might have lice, I
suggest you just check their hair every couple days.
Just, you know, in case you, in case they get it.
Because if you're not checking, then it'll just be rampant once
you finally catch it. So I knew that they were playing
(29:41):
with some kids who had it. And so I was just checking their
hair. And then I finally one night
found it in Kendall's hair 1st. And I thought, Oh my God, well,
this is our life now for the next week or two.
And it was. I spent that entire weekend 12
hours, six hours each day, picking through hair, 12 hours.
(30:03):
And I'm like going through it almost strand by strand, trying
to find every little bit. I was treating the hair.
We spent so much money, Jeremy had to go.
As soon as I found it, I said you got to go to Shoppers Drug
Mart and buy the lice shampoo. So he does, he goes, he gets the
shampoo and we use the medicatedstuff because I am not messing
around. I want this to work and I want
(30:24):
it gone quickly. And some people were like, use
olive oil, use coconut oil, justsmother it without.
No, we're using the medicated shit and we're getting it done.
OK, Can. We can we go backwards though.
When, When, because I feel like when you instructed Jeremy to go
and and and buy the shampoo and when you discovered that you had
(30:46):
lice, I feel like you, you seem very calm, but I feel like when
this was actually happening. I just want to know, can you
give us an indication of? What it was like.
How you reacted? I was upstairs with Kendall and
she's like my head's itchy can you please check it again?
And I said OK. I said I checked you like 2 days
ago anyway so then I found it and I'm like OK you do have it.
(31:10):
And she's like oh and then I yelled downstairs I'm like
Kendall has lice. This is our life now.
And Jeremy runs upstairs What? I'm like, yeah, I need you to go
to Shoppers. Yes.
So he immediately goes to Shoppers Drug Mart, gets the
shampoo from the pharmacist, comes home, we treat Kendall the
(31:31):
next day. I'm picking her hair and
whatever. And then I and then I was like,
I found another, another Live 1.So I, I don't think I used
enough. Turns out it will like it has a
residual effect and it will workover a seven days.
But anyway, I sent him back to get more.
She has so much hair. Kendall has so much hair.
It's so thick. And so the second day, Jeremy
(31:52):
goes back, same pharmacist and he goes, weren't you here
yesterday? And he and Jeremy says, yeah.
And the pharmacist just says I am so sorry.
How is it when you buy the shampoo?
What is it? Just a little bit.
Or a little bottle. It's like a, I don't know what
it's like a mini shampoo bottle basically of shampoo and you're
supposed to use either half or or maybe a whole bottle.
(32:15):
And I and Kendall has so much hair.
I don't think I saturated it enough.
I think I needed more than one bottle for her.
Julia's hair would be fine with 11 bottle or half a bottle, but
Kendall's is so thick. So I sent him back the second
day. So then the third day I find
lice on Julia and I'm like, OK, back you go all the way back to
(32:35):
shoppers. So he goes back to I'm like, you
know what, just get 2 bottles this time because I'm probably
going to get it too. Get 6, just buy whatever.
So he goes back the third day and this guy's like, you know
what? Same pharmacist.
He's like, you seem like a really nice man, but I hope I
don't ever I see you again. So bad for you, Jeremy.
Jeremy's like, yeah, thank you. And at that point we had bought
(32:58):
out the store of all the lice shampoo.
So he had to get a second kind, a different kind of lice shampoo
that was a little more expensive.
But whatever. We we I'm like, we'll take what
we can get. So now that shoppers was out of
lice shampoo for that day because we purchased all of it.
So we do everybody's hair. I'm picking every day.
(33:18):
Like it's just ruins your entireweek because I spend hours after
school all weekend long trying to get every single because if
you don't get all the eggs out of the hair, they hatch and then
it just comes back. You need to make sure you get
every single one out of the hairor or they they come back.
It doesn't go away. Did you know that there is a
(33:39):
special lice comb? Yeah, I have that.
It doesn't get all of them out. But when all you use, you use a
shit load of conditioner so the hair is nice and easy to come
through, you're white exactly. And then you use the comb and
that's all you need because theywill eventually all come out and
you don't have to buy any of that shampoo because it doesn't
(33:59):
do that. Looks like they're on the the,
you know, the big slide at. Yeah, but the knits would go.
Some of them were so small. The comb still doesn't.
And I bought the extra. So the shampoo comes with a
plastic comb, which is crap. I bought the metal comb.
I bought a separate metal comb because that the the teeth of it
(34:19):
are are more together and even that the the knits.
It will get the lice out if you comb the lice but not all the
eggs, and the eggs are so stuck on the hair you have to pull
them with your fingernails. That's how you.
Know that's how you know it's lice.
But we had that lice lady come in once and she she was like,
this is all I'm doing, this is conditioner and this is the
comb. That's it.
(34:40):
Yeah, I yeah, OK, that's fine. I mean if if the comb misses any
then I guess you're just not getting them out.
But do it again. That's.
Yeah, that sounds simpler than going and and annoying the
pharmacist and Shoppers Drug Mart.
Two people had told me that to use the conditioner, but I'm
skeptical that it gets out absolutely every single knit.
So I'm going in and I had the whole setup.
(35:03):
I had my ring light. I had like reading glasses on
which are magnifying so I could see every strand of hair.
Like I am going through this with a fine tooth comb because I
I'm making sure. In case anybody didn't know,
that's where the term nitpicker comes from.
Poor Jeremy you. Didn't do anything, I did it
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Yeah. Thank you to the the kinsman
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Denise said it was a great way to spend a Saturday morning.
We had some good laughs and the pancakes were awesome.
Thank you. They look good.
I didn't have any pancakes, but the Maple beer was really good.
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Keep it up. I would definitely come to
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Don't know if we're going to do another live.
Show or not that. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah. You write that one down for next
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That you didn't know it needed. That it?
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With that in mind, I have a little something for you guys.
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Well, last. Week.
I yeah, I heard about it last week.
About how I didn't. Anyway, Long story short, on
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Yes. Yeah.
Where I discovered that they were selling off these
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misprinted T-shirts that say Watt Kings Glen on them and I
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You can get a hoodie we got. We bought a bunch of hoodies in
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And but the friends we were with, they bought lots of
T-shirts. 5 bucks for a T-shirt I didn't even really bother
buying AT maybe just bought. Anyway, turns out you guys were
whining at me last week. Why didn't you bring me back
one? Yeah.
Right. I never even thought to buy you.
Guys for a hoodie actually. Yeah, I well, I never even
thought to buy any. I'd like the whole tracksuit.
(40:32):
Yeah, anyway, turns out my friends John and Jan bought a
whack of T-shirts and in the process?
Needed some new rags, did they? They Yeah, look at their.
Very nice. Sizes that didn't particularly
work for their needs. OK, so it looks like there you
(40:54):
go. Well, there was a pink one
you're holding up and a Gray oneyou're holding up.
I have one for. Two T-shirts.
Of you. Oh.
Johnny, hey. There you go, you got your own
watch. Why did you bring that last
week? We didn't.
Know ever they they heard about they didn't know either so.
They kids from that, they shouldn't have it.
They said something to me and I said, you know, like afterwards
(41:16):
they said we got a couple that we don't know what we're gonna
do with. Do you want them?
Sure, I'll give them to date to Rachel and I.
Bought them off of them and they're yours.
Thank. You Happy birthday, Merry
Christmas and this. Is your only gift happy?
Mother's Day and Father's Day, sure.
OK, not getting another thing from me.
You're gonna have to ship them to us.
(41:37):
Yeah, you're. Welcome.
I don't know when I will get them to you.
Yeah, you'll. Get them one of these days.
Speaking of John, by the way, hecommented on the video of
Rachel's fun fact of the averagebra size.
Did he? All he wrote was more research
needed. That's.
(41:59):
Great David, a write off is a business expense used to reduce
your taxable income. OK, well then why isn't it
called a tax write off? It is.
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