November 18, 2025 • 40 mins
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(1:55) - Lessons from an early snow
(11:42) - Hundreds of hotdog toppings, oh my!
(15:17) - How to find "your people"
(24:23) - An immune Forman
(31:43) - YOUR comments & voice memos!
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(00:00):
If you find it on sale, just buythe goddamn butter.
I hope you beeped that, Rachel. I'm not.
I'm not going to beep it now. I'm not.
This is due to underwhelming demand.
It's Dave, Rachel, and Foreman. This is a podcast, of course.
(00:20):
The podcast. That's like getting snow in
early November. Unnecessary, unwarranted.
Undesirable. Yeah.
Unwanted. Yeah, Add to the list.
They all fit, yeah. I kind of liked it you did.
All right. No, you didn't.
It's better than rain and mud, I'll tell you that.
(00:42):
Well, yes, but it but it's goingto lead to rain and mud.
That's the only problem. Anyway, this fine podcast is is
sponsored today. It's a surprise sponsorship.
The buyer is is hoping that surprise sponsorships may take
off for us. She's doing something for us and
(01:02):
for the business. Surprise someone by having.
Sponsoring their business? Yeah, with us.
As a sponsor with us, what a great surprise.
Yeah, it's Frankenfurter's restaurant.
Yeah, London's best hot dog style American dive bar.
Well, I like the sound of that. They're a hot dog restaurant,
essentially. I mean, they do have other
things, but they're mainly hot dogs.
(01:24):
They've got a bunch of differentkinds of hot dogs and 100 plus
toppings. Fabulous.
But on the podcast today, apparently Forman says he's
immune to disease. I'd like to know a little bit
more about. Starting to already regret
putting this out. Yeah, I know Rachel knows how
you're one of her people and she's going to explain whether
(01:46):
you're one of her people or not.And how you can know who your
people are. That's very handy for.
Rachel. Yeah, life skill.
Thank you, Rachel for that. But I want to start with that
the the snow that's as you hear this podcast isn't around
anymore. I assume it's hopefully.
Not it was. It's not supposed to be.
Depending on where you are. I mean if you're in what in
(02:07):
northern BC, well then it's justthere till May.
It never leaves it. Never goes.
That's Bonnie, right? Shout out Bonnie.
Yeah. It never goes away, but we got
an early snow here and then we got the the fun thing, the snow
squalls after that and people woke up on on whatever morning
it was, I think Remembrance Day Monday.
(02:27):
And. Tuesday, Yeah, with all of.
Schools were closed. All the snow on the ground,
Yeah, yeah. So.
But I maintain that early snow is a weather phenomenon.
An early November, even a late October snow or mid one of those
is a weather phenomenon that really messes with us.
(02:47):
Well, no one was prepared. Well, that's what I think it.
Does it was prepared? It was it, it.
And I knew, like I heard the forecast was for snow and then
there was the chance for snow squalls.
But what are the odds? I mean, if you're somewhere up
in forests. Early November.
Yeah. What are the odds they're going
to get earlier? Yeah, what are the odds we're
going to get a dumping of snow at the beginning in November?
(03:09):
They say 30 centimeters, I say. What's telling?
That's what I say, right? You always tell us that and
nothing happens. Yeah.
So it's no fun when it does, right?
And it actually happens at the beginning of November because
my, even my teenager, on Sunday morning when the snow had begun,
it started overnight and it was snowing outside.
(03:30):
On Sunday, she comes down at, you know, her normal time, 11 AM
Oh, morning. Takes one look outside and
decides she needs to hear Christmas music.
Yeah. My daughter did the same.
It's like. November the 9th shut it off.
It's the most wonderful time. My.
(03:52):
God, stop. It immediately she's been all
she's been at us to decorate andshe wants to listen to Christmas
music every day. See.
Yeah. Messes with you.
It makes you it actually. I mean, there's a number of ways
that it messes with you. Who had their winter stuff
ready? Nobody.
Who like where's your wooded coat?
Where are your boots? You know what the top trending
(04:15):
search on Google was last week? What's?
That When does Christmas music start on the radio Does it OK?
Interesting. Yeah.
Well, that that could be a lot of people from here.
Start on your radio for. Yeah.
By the time you're hearing this,it has already started.
Come on. Yes.
Wow, wow, it's been December 1stto.
(04:35):
Start oh November 14th. Wow.
Because London Santa Claus Parade was on the 15th so.
That's right. OK.
Well, all that stuff is happening and it usually happens
this time of year anyway. Yeah, but when you get an early
snow, it just makes you like, you know what?
I, I have lots of trees that I that I put up in my house.
And so I, I try to pace myself and I slowly but surely put
(05:01):
trees up from this room and thatroom and wherever they need to
go. And I do start early in
November. But my plan is to.
Be Saran. Wrap them with all the
ornaments. Are in the way well.
Not. Exactly.
But they do come out. Some of them come out that way
anyway, so they got to be moved and put in place and decorated
and fluffed and all of that stuff.
So I pace myself. Yeah, I want them done by the
(05:22):
end of November around American Thanksgiving.
I want everything done and up and which.
Is late this year, it's like the29th or something, but.
That's fine. So the end of the month, but all
of a sudden I got, I think I hadone tree sort of up and and I
don't even think we had the lights on it yet.
It was up and then all of a sudden it starts to snow and I
think, well, I better get the others.
(05:42):
I got to run around and get. I got.
I got to. Get everything out I.
Got to get everything out and then I look outside.
The leaves hadn't come off of mytrees.
I have two huge trees in my front lawn.
The leaves hadn't come off. I gathered a few but they just
hadn't come off yet. Then I looked at my front lawn
on the Monday morning and went, Oh my God, look at all the
(06:04):
leaves. Yeah, and on.
Top of the snow. Yes.
Not not anymore. Now they're under all the snow
that came on Monday night. Right.
We. Actually sent children out into
our backyard because we have some small trees that we hope
will one day be very large, but they were all leaning and caving
and buckling under the weight of.
(06:24):
The snow, that's another thing we were lucky that we did our
because it started snowing on the Sunday and we did, we raked
a whole bunch of leaves on the Saturday and cut back stuff and
but you know, it wasn't all down.
So there's still more under the snow, but.
Yeah, well. We did what we could.
Every year I plant 3 palm trees that I put around my pool, you
know, because, you know, that's,it's what you do when you think
(06:49):
you're Jimmy Buffett, you know, and may he rest in peace.
I love Jimmy. See, I have these and they're
the, the last things that we usually dig out of the pot.
Then we put them and send them off to the, you know, wherever
the wherever they go for old plants or whatever, they are
dying out there under the snow. Haven't even.
(07:09):
Haven't even. Really got rid of them yet it's
so sad. I just barely cut back all my
gardens by the time this. Time Palm trees with snow on
them are not fun. Nobody was ready for this snow
because I can tell you that everybody on Monday night was
boot shopping. Of course, we had to go and get
boots because every year we go to the Columbia outlet store,
(07:32):
like the employee store here, and we usually have a pass and I
buy Julia boots and then Kendallgets Julia's old ones because at
least I know they're getting good warm boots, right?
And so this year, of course, Julia boots don't fit.
Kendalls got to wear Julias. Julia has nothing to wear to
school on Monday when it's. Snowing.
And so Monday night, here we are.
(07:53):
And I can tell you that store was busy and the boot section,
that's where everybody was. Of course everybody was.
And then our neighbors told us we have to go buy boots tonight
too. And then people are posting
online, hey, I've got these old snow suits if anybody else
needs, If anybody else wasn't prepared for all this snow free
snowsuit to a good home for whatever, you know, here's the
(08:15):
sizing. So people were taking it because
nobody was prepared for the snow.
Everybody had to pull out all their snow stuff on Sunday and
be like, OK, what fits you? What fits?
This year we were trying on snowpants.
Do your snow pants fit? Nobody was ready.
Everybody was. Doing it, it really does mess
with you the other the other thing I have I, as you know, I I
(08:37):
like my lawn. I try to treat my lawn well,
right. And I have all these steaks that
I put out they're big ones greatbig tall ones yeah.
I don't want to plow destroying my come on if I can help it.
Because that's happened, that's.Roger's job?
Yeah, so I I get, I put all thisstuff up there and except I
didn't have them out because we're not going to get any snow.
(09:00):
We're not getting snow. And the plow went by yesterday.
I'm afraid to look. I am.
I can see what it did to the house across the.
Street. Oh yeah, I'm afraid to look.
I'm sure it's totaled. It's destroyed.
And then by the time you hear this podcast, it'll be, you
know, 10° and green and muddy and it's all gone, so.
Hopefully we've all learned something from this experience.
(09:21):
Then hopefully we'll get our. October.
Well, get our winter tires on and stuff, which I haven't done
yet either. Minor scheduled for this
weekend, but. Yeah, the first, right.
The day before he did mine, he didn't do his.
And then the kids were home and I said take my car.
And he was like, no, no, I've already shovelled out my end.
I'll take my car. I'm like, well, you don't have
(09:42):
snow tires. And then he texts me.
He's like, I almost ended up in the ditch this morning.
I. Don't have snow tires.
I'm not shoveling though. I refuse to shovel.
I did shovel, yeah. No, but it's people going to
find their shovels. Also put your brush in your car
because that I did. Ashley was driving throughout
the all the snow on the Sunday when it first started and came
(10:04):
home, she said. Well you did put the brush in my
car. Yeah, that is your job as the
husband. But you walk by the brushes in
the garage, grab one and drive with it.
That's. Right, that's your job.
As yeah and then when you have said brush, by the way, the next
time it snows, brush the roof ofyour car, you lazy.
(10:27):
I know you can reach it. I could reach the top of that
big ass SUV with the tiny littleshort brush from my car car that
doesn't even extend. So I know when you have the
extender brush you can reach it and you're choosing not to.
Everybody else on the road is looking at you.
The way my voice sounds right now.
What the fuck is wrong with you?Brush it and buddy with a jacked
(10:51):
up pickup truck who couldn't be bothered to brush the roof of
your truck and the entire truck bed.
So it's a fucking Blizzard driving behind you.
Yes. If you're too short for your
truck bud, can I interest you ina Geo metro that might be more
your size? So so happy.
I too. Short for your truck.
That's why he has a truck, because he's too short for a
(11:11):
truck. I'm so.
Happy I brought this up. I'm really happy I brought this
up. Thanks for him.
Can I interest you at a Geo Metro?
(11:42):
This is due to underwhelming demand.
The podcast that's called due tounderwhelming demand because
myth was already taken. Yeah, apparently there's a
podcast called Man. Is there?
Should be, there should be, and it should be us.
But right. Here we.
It's not. And this fine podcast is
(12:05):
actually sponsored, Yes. This.
Surprise. Surprise.
Well, it's a surprise sponsorship for Frank and
Furters Restaurant on King Street in London.
They're essentially a hot dog restaurant, although they do
have other things with like 100 plus toppings.
I didn't know you could put so many things on your hot dogs,
but you can like they've got. Why wouldn't you?
(12:27):
Well, yeah, and if you. Could why wouldn't you?
They have their website says it's London's best hot dog style
American dive bar. Sign me up.
Sure. Yeah, I that's someplace that
I'm intrigued to go. I didn't know I I didn't know
about it. Now I do, and I in fact will be
going. They've got hot dogs called the
Hellhound, Nita Bib, the BuffaloDog, Get Laid, Talk About It,
(12:52):
Piggyback, Canadian, A Rocky Horror, The First Date, Betty
White. They have all kinds of hot dogs.
Betty White. Really.
That one's plain. They sell, they have
merchandise. You can get a T-shirt that says
ask me about my Weiner. You can, yes.
(13:13):
I think it's brilliant. They've got all kinds of stuff
you can put. You can put beef, chili, Philly
steak, sausage crumbs, all kindsof sauces.
Diced pierogies, Tater tots. Twinkies.
Twinkies on. Jalapenos, mushrooms, onions,
Peppers, pineapple, guacamo, Macand cheese, diced pancakes,
Flaming hot Cheetos, sweet chiliDoritos.
(13:37):
Wow, it all sounds great. I didn't crunch.
I didn't crunch. Yes.
Did not know you could put so many different things on your on
your. Why wouldn't you?
They tell us that they pry the themselves on being the over the
top comfort food. They continue to be advocates of
being a local spot that you can grab a hot dog and a beer
(13:58):
without breaking the bank, even with being downtown.
That's right, because they have drink specials every day 450.
Every day their drinks are 4. 50for a YAG or a fireball, a
tequila or PBR. Oh, PBR.
They are the home. Frankenfurters is the home of
the all you can eat hot dog, burger and corn dog challenge
(14:21):
which was. Oh no.
Joey Chestnut. Joey Chestnut.
Yes, he's a. Goat right downtown on James St.
King and Richmond. If you're going to like the
Knights game or what, anything at Canada Life Place or
whatever, you're just downtown for any reason.
Any. Concert The Grinch musical
that's. Sure, yeah.
That's stuff. Frankenfurters restaurant and
(14:43):
bar. So thank you so much and thank
you to their surprise purchaser for purchasing.
They don't want their name mentioned, but it's a couple and
they know a Dave, the owner of Frankenfurters, and so they
purchased this for them as a surprise.
So there you go. Thank you very.
Much you can you can be here foryour supporting your own
business or your favorite business that you do not own.
(15:05):
Absolutely. This is due to underwhelming
demand. The podcast with Dave, Rachel
and Foreman. Rachel, am I one of your people?
Well, I don't think so. Actually, no.
(15:27):
Is. Orman, one of your people.
No, it doesn't seem so. What?
No. Well, I can tell now, who are
your. Here's how you can tell.
I think who your people are. I see.
It used to be that when I would walk into a radio station, I
would feel like these are my people.
We're all kind of a little crazyin the same way.
And so when you go into a radio station, everybody has that kind
(15:49):
of same mentality, which was, which is really nice.
That's how I feel about radio people and radio and why I love
it so much. But here's how I think you can
tell someone is your person, right?
They like your memes, like all of them.
They get your humor. They like your.
Memes. I love to post a lot of memes on
(16:11):
my Instagram Story. I think that's a good place for
them. It's, you know, they don't last
very long. Whatever.
I think they're hysterical. And there's a select few people
who always think they're funny. And I know that those people are
my people. You guys don't ever think
they're funny. I don't think you're making it.
(16:32):
Sometimes things are funny. No, there's.
Some that I think are funny I sent.
You a meme the other day. Yeah, and I'll show it here on
the YouTube, on the YouTube version here that says Bunnam.
You know Bunnam from the Winter Carnival?
Carnival. Quebec.
Quebec City Quebec City Bunnam reveals he used to date both
(16:54):
Katy Perry and former PM Justin Trudeau.
He's lying, like with his head in his hand like it's the
funniest. Provocative.
Fucking thing I I'm still laughing about this days later
after I saw it. And you know why that's funny?
Because you know that Diplo, theDJ, said that he dated both Katy
(17:18):
Perry and Justin Trudeau on a podcast somewhere.
And so that was making news and that was going viral.
And they're like Justin Trudeau dated.
And then Diplo posted a photo. It was a selfie of him and
Justin Trudeau with Katy Perry in the background.
And then this meme comes. I've been dying for days, dying
(17:45):
for days. So I send it to you guys.
I send it. To.
My mom and my sister Jeremy saw it.
Nobody else thinks this thing is.
Funny. No, it's not funny at all.
Except it's not even remotely funny.
One person, my friend Jeanine shout out who always thinks my
memes are funny, and her and I have talked about how we are
(18:06):
each other's people because you just know that the people who
get your humor, those are your people.
That's it. The people who always like your.
Memes. How do you know that Janine
isn't just saying that she gets your humor?
She thinks things. Are funny that I know and.
I know that I have like an odd sense of humor, but I don't
care. I think it's hysterical and I
love to laugh. And I think memes are the
(18:27):
perfect way to express that. OK.
And the memes are the perfect way to express your inner like,
this is what I find funny or whatever.
Like that's the perfect way to express that.
You think you don't. You don't think the person who
likes every single one you know she isn't?
Like everyone. But like that one she thought
was very funny. Anyway, I sent it to my mom.
(18:50):
My mom's like, I don't get it. And I'm like, it's because Diplo
said that she's like, I didn't. I give you a name if you have.
If you require knowledge of specific news stories, then the
meme's not funny. The meme's.
Not funny. It was an entertainment story,
as you know. I'm trying not to be.
I don't I, I am a journalist, which is sad, but the news makes
(19:10):
me angry lately so I can't it's it's mostly American news makes
me angry so I can't be on. And that's what you're seeing on
social media, right, Because you're not seeing the Canadian
news on social media right now. But I do see entertainment news.
And so I did see the Diplo thingmany times and then I came
across with a Bunom meme just. So I get this meme for a minute.
(19:35):
I don't know if you're like me so.
Imagine in your head venom dating both of those people.
Anyway, I see this meme just. Imagine that.
So funny. It's not funny.
It's not even remotely funny. So what's funny is that you
think it's funny. Just imagine Venom on a date
with Justin Trudeau. That's not funny.
(19:59):
It's just not funny. Phenom is funny, yeah, but this
meme made Phenom not funny. You unfunnied phenom.
No, Yeah, I didn't Funnied him up.
No. And I didn't make the meme.
I know you haven't. Did I wish that I knew?
So she sends the meme. I don't think Phenom dated them,
therefore I know it's not funny,you know?
Didn't date anybody? Well, that's why it's just.
(20:21):
Stupid. You don't know that the mom.
Hasn't dated anybody. You don't know that.
That's yes. OK, fair enough.
Nobody knows the Diplo thing, and no one knows or cares if
Diplo is I I knew about it. I knew about it when this meme
came into my inbox. They thought, oh, yeah, but I
was already annoyed at Diplo because I saw that headline.
(20:42):
And for the radio show, I went down the rabbit hole to figure
out what podcast was it on. What did he say?
Let me grab the clip. And it was such an offhand half
a second joke that he said and that was it about.
And I was pissed that I did all that work to find nothing.
But here you are thinking it's the funniest thing ever.
Well, so she says this thing Neither and neither one of us
(21:05):
respond to it. We don't respond at all.
Yes, I looked at it and went if I have nothing to say to this
because I've. Seen it and I can see that
you've not replied. I don't get it.
And I I don't really like it when I don't understand jokes.
But then it says, yeah, but oncedid, I'm like, I don't, I'm
sorry, you've lost me. So then all of a sudden I get a
(21:27):
message several hours later thatjust says, you know, because
Diplo said he dated both of them.
And I'm like. Don't.
Care who Diplo dated, and then she says he was on a podcast.
Diplo. Diplo.
Why would anybody have Diplo even on a?
Podcast I don't even know this is.
So this is so nothing. And he wasn't even being
(21:49):
serious, like he was kidding. But then somebody made this
feeling. Can you imagine who Diplo and
Banam have the same type? I I.
Think you missed your calling? To you, you should have been a
writer at this hour as 22 minutes 'cause they could have
had a field day with Trudeau frolicking through the fields
with Banam. Hilarious, yeah.
Sure, but they would have had to.
(22:09):
It would have had to start with an explanation of the whole
fucking day. You have to explain it anything
it's. It ceases to be funny when you.
For the people, the people who get it, those are my people.
Yeah, OK. I mean, I show you whole.
One person got it. A couple of.
People got it. I have a whole conversation of 1
friend in particular. He's not my person, No.
(22:32):
Yeah, sure. Even like things that Jeremy
gets and I show him, he's like, that's not funny.
I'm like, that is very funny. And he's like, no.
But you see, I get, I get Jeremy, 'cause he's right.
It's not funny. No, he's not.
I don't know. You guys can't be.
You can't just always be conventionally funny.
You have to be like niche funny.Conventionally funny, I thought.
You have to be conventionally funny.
(22:53):
You have to be like off the cuff, like niche I think.
You have to do stuff. Yes, I agree with you.
You have to do stuff. You know when when we say red
sky in the morning, you know, birds of a feather.
Yeah, that's that's niche. That's niche.
Well, that's, that's off the wall.
You know, you're trying to do something that's a little, you
know, sure. You know when a guy calls you
(23:14):
and swears at you for playing Christmas music and you turn it
around and and you've played that same guy's phone call year
year after year after year? Yeah, that's.
That's. How you make it funny?
Sure. Right.
Yeah, that's. Funny, but I'm dating Katy Perry
it's not funny just. Imagine it in your head, Katy
(23:35):
Perry. And But I'm on a date like.
I can't because it's funny. It's not funny.
OK, it's. Not you're not my people.
I know, but here's the thing. I don't think I really want to
be. And yet here we are.
And yet here we are. He's looking through.
(23:56):
It's Aaron Holland, our whole conversation.
You could just scroll back and back and back.
It's nothing but memes and like little stupid videos like that's
how we communicate. People will send you things and
then you're like, that's not funny, right?
Like, I don't care, people. No, all of his are funny.
Oh, OK, so he's your person. He's your person.
(24:18):
That's how you know. Yeah, he's your Boo.
This is due to underwhelming demand, the podcast that's
keeping expectations low and meeting them.
Yes, this is what we do. We are Dave, Rachel and Foreman.
Yes, we're underwhelming and you're welcome.
With someone whose immunity seems to be very high at the
(24:39):
moment. Oh.
Wait a second. Yeah.
Mine. Lucky you.
Oh, you're super? Are you super immune?
Are you superhuman? Do you not get sick?
I mean, I if we keep we keep making me say these things out
loud, then this is probably gonna be come back.
As evidence this was your idea. You'd better knock on wood right
(24:59):
now. I think this is real wood.
Knock on your head. Because everybody in my family's
been sick. Like, very sick.
Like very sick. Well, I.
Just got over COVID and so did Jerry.
Go yes, yeah. How do?
You know it was COVID did you test for?
That I'm sure it was COVID, no? I didn't sure it's COVID.
Well, so I went to the pharmacy in town and I was like, what do
you got for coughs or whatever? And he's like for cost
(25:22):
everybody, he's like. So happy you came in to my
drugstore. Don't cough on me.
Yeah, he's like so many people have come in today and Covid's
going around because people havetested and the last time I was
that sick, it was COVID. Like I haven't been that sick
for a long time. I don't know when was the last
time you had the flu? Do you know what the flu is?
(25:43):
What? Did you have what was the
matter? What?
The fluid? Yeah, well, I.
Mean it was like chills like yeah OK it chills and sweats and
yeah I just couldn't like I couldn't keep my eyes open
that's exhausted did. You have a bad cough.
Did you have trouble? Really.
All stuffed up? Yeah.
I would have shortness of breathgoing up the stairs, stuff like
that. But he wants to blame COVID.
(26:05):
I had, I'm sure it was COVID. OK, sure.
One of those two. He would have no idea.
You have no idea. OK.
No, but everyone here has had been stuffed up and coughing and
hacking and all those things andI haven't at all.
How? Did you escape that?
And I you just like staying. Away from them.
(26:27):
No, no, I and I don't know what the secret is, but it's just
like not getting to me. And normally it would eventually
because that that's what I've also noticed lately too.
And again, just continuously, knock on wood here.
Remember I always used to get, Iwould probably get one bad
sickness a year and I'd lose my voice for like a week.
(26:48):
Yes, yes, the same. Which when you chat for a.
Living is really. A direct no.
It's my favorite way to be sick because then you can't possibly
chat this week because I can't talk.
Can't talk, can't come in right?Yeah, that's the best.
I mean, you get, you know, if you're sick or whatever, there's
always like, well, but can you just, you know, do it anyway?
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Right. We can't talk.
Oh my gosh, we. Would come and do a show and
like one of us would have a raging fever.
And if you like just hopped up on Med, we would come and do
shows with. I don't know why be.
Ridiculous. I don't know why we did that.
Well, pre COVID, yeah, well, I would come in.
For anything was if you if you were obviously if you were in
(27:32):
discomfort and you and, and you couldn't come in.
And there were many times where whatever it is that you were
suffering from you, you just couldn't come in.
But for the most part, if I if Ihad a cold or just a regular
cold, even though I sounded likecrap, I would just come in
because in my mind, and this is sort of old school and I'm old,
it was like, it's the show has to go on.
(27:55):
Yeah, it's, it's not like, you know, I think.
We all thought that it's. Not like you can repeat things
or you can bring in some of the show's got to go on.
And then I know that maybe the two of you rely on me for
certain things and I rely on youguys for so so then you would
feel the guilt of you don't want.
To let the team down, I. Don't want to let the team down
from coming in. So you would we would go in for.
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We shouldn't have done that, butwe did.
No, but that's that's why when you lose your voice, well,
that's like the ultimate well, then I can.
But I can. Get away with, but with the two
of you, I would still be there, most likely.
I think I was quite often, yes. And I just, well, you, you
should know, shit on me and makefun of me all you want 'cause I
can't say anything back. You can't do it.
(28:38):
I remember. Saying to my doctor when we when
the when the first time I had pneumonia and he said you have
pneumonia and I said OK and you came to.
Work for two weeks still, yeah. I had been working.
I had been working and then I I said, OK, so he's telling me
we're gonna, we're gonna up here, you know, then I'm gonna
give you a different meds and yeah, you've got a very bad case
of pneumonia. So yeah, he's telling me all of
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this stuff and I'm sitting on the the, the examination table
in his little room there. And so the last thing I say to
him before he walks out of the room and he just laughed at me.
I said, well, can I go to work? Look, I just went, well, give me
the stuff and I'll go. You know, I don't really care if
I'm gonna get better. Can can I go to work?
And yeah, no. You can't go to work, he laughed
and said. You're not going to work for the
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rest of the week at least. I'm like.
You were off. That was the one time you were
off for a long. Time go in, but when you.
Started getting sick with that. I was like this is not good, you
need to go to the. Well, I was sick.
Yeah, that was a long 1. I had that for 334.
We. Did, yeah.
That's what your lungs needed isto laugh for four hours a day.
That's right. Get sick for him and how?
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He's not getting any of that. I.
Feel like why would you? Why would you even say anything?
Just keep your. Vote.
You keep talking about it here and I haven't, but that's the
sickness with losing your voice.Whatever.
That was an annual event, and that hasn't happened in a few
years now. And what?
Are you doing differently? I don't know, I'm maybe I'm just
that much healthy. I don't I.
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Don't eating everything salad. Every day you are gonna get you
know what's gonna happen? You're gonna get fucking
hammered at Christmas. You're gonna get to what's gonna
happen to you. You're gonna get it when you're
off. Yeah, that's the payback.
You're. Gonna get it when you're off,
when you're off the. Christmas break.
You'll be sick, sick, sick. But you know how much I drink
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coffee, right? Like yes, and there's so there's
I mean, and you find things likestudy finds that coffee can
protect the liver against disease and I think, well, then
that's. Them solve there, I'm going to
live forever. Problem solved, yeah.
I mean, I eat a little bit healthy.
(30:48):
You have some berries, you know,since the popcorn maker showed
up as a present. My God, is that the best gift?
That that's the gift that keeps on giving all your microwave.
Yeah, you make microwave. It's just popcorn and some olive
oil and nothing else. It's literally the healthy.
There's a a study about like thehealthiest snack you can have if
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you want to live to 100 is plainair popped popcorn.
Yeah, Air. Popped popcorn doing that too so
it's the best. Got the Blue Zone diet going,
all that kind of stuff. He's going to live, live
forever. Yeah, well, you should have just
kept your mouth shut. Yes.
In other news, we won't be here next week because Foreman will
be. Very.
He'll be very sick, yeah. This is due to underwhelming
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Sponsor. Yeah, brought to you this week
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Crunch on your on your Hut like they have everything you could
want. Yeah, even when, when the James
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even, you know, they're chattingabout.
Oh yeah, we come down. We know we're downtown London.
We remember. And all those places we've gone
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and where did we go the last time?
They're like, Frankenfurters wasthe best place.
They're like they named a Wienerafter us when we were here.
They're. They're trying to plan on, oh,
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The place to go? Yeah, check it.
Out. You can check them out at
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Who wants to remain anonymous wants to remain a surprise for
Frankenfurters. Now, if someone else wants to
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part of this podcast, how do they do that, Rachel?
Well, you can go to our website underwhelming.ca.
You can e-mail us Dave rachelforeman@gmail.com.
I have figured out how to createa store on our website where you
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can just purchase a shout out for somebody if you want.
It's $20. We'll shout out for 30 seconds.
Typically we give you a lot morethan that though.
But you know 30 is promised and 20 bucks plus HSE.
We never shut up. And we never shut up and we can
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And so you can purchase that on our website
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So check out our website. Yep, because we do update that
we do have new things or. Even at one underwhelming.ca,
just tap on the little yellow coffee cup like Linda
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Thank you. 5 coffee say wow. Thank you.
Love the podcast, something to look forward to in Tuesday
mornings. Keep up the great work.
Love the laughs. Oh, thank you, Linda.
Thank you, Linda. That's great, but we have a
message from Jim Bag. Jim Bag.
Jim Bag always listens, but he'syou've got a lot of issues, Jim
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Bag. So I guess keep them coming I
guess. Did you hear who Taylor Swift
chose to be her bridesmaid So far, no.
No, I didn't have Selena Gomez and yes, Gigi Hadid, I want to
say. OK.
Yeah, why not? Of course, why not?
And phenom, Rachel and phenom. How hysterically funny is that?
I hope an Amazon of Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau's wedding.
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Wouldn't that be hilarious? Right, he's requested to
throuple softball. Yeah, that's right.
OK, Jim Bag says, who censors the YouTube version of your
podcast with five question marks?
Just sitting here playing solitaire on my phone while
watching this week's podcast from Jim Bag.
That's me, Jim Bag. I edit the video podcast, I
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censor it and I beep out the swearing because I don't know if
kids are going to see it. I don't know if kids are good.
So I'd censor it. Who's watching YouTube with
their kids? Kids are just getting into it,
you know? Kids watch YouTube.
If you don't censor it, mark it as explicit.
My kids watch is YouTube but. It keeps it off of kids.
YouTube or YouTube? Kids, they can't watch.
It if you say it's explicit. Mine are on which I do and I say
(35:24):
they ask you when you post it isthis for kids and I say no but
still they if they're on regularYouTube which mine are even
anyway so it's me that does it. Should I not censor?
Is that like? Should I not have?
I didn't know I was being censored.
I don't. Really, Censor?
Swear words. Sure shit isn't censored.
I don't. Really.
Swear it anymore? If nobody cares, that's fine.
(35:46):
I don't know. Should I censor?
Maybe we should put that out as a poll.
Should I censor or not? I'd say no, no, I don't.
I think it's. Unnecessary.
But every once in a while there is an there is an episode where
I don't think there is a swear word and then I will not mark
that as explicit on, you know, Apple or Spotify or whatever.
And then it's clean. Well, I don't.
Most of them haven't. Marked them as explicit.
(36:09):
OK, All right, I won't censor anymore then.
OK, then. There you go, Jimbeg.
You're welcome all. Right, fine.
Yeah, I'm glad you asked Jimbeg.Thank you for hearing that up.
Geez. OK.
OK. Last week we had sponsor.
It was for Jan, for Jan for her birthday.
It was a milestone birthday. For her.
And we talked about her throughout the whole podcast
from her husband John, who wanted to do something nice for
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her, which is how we kind of started this shout out thing.
Well, Jan got back to us. She heard all of that and she
loved it. She says, Hi Dave.
Rachel, inform him. I was watching your podcast on
YouTube as we always do, and youstarted talking about me.
You actually did a shout out wishing me happy birthday.
And then you talked about the book I wrote Never Give Up and
all my accomplishments. I was so surprised.
(36:54):
And I thank my husband John for sponsoring that week's podcast
and it turned into my birthday present.
We have now watched it three times.
Wow, thank. You I hope other people do shout
outs on your podcast. Believe me, it's so fun.
You 3 did an amazing job as you do every week.
I just loved every minute and thank you so much for this
(37:14):
amazing tribute from Jan Thank you Jan.
That's really. It wasn't really our idea it.
Wasn't us. It wasn't us.
It was. That's all, John.
And he told us what he wanted tosay about you, and that was, I
thought it was very sweet and lovely.
So you know where you should go to celebrate downtown London and
get myself a watchdog? Absolutely, yeah.
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John loves a good PBR so that's a good spot.
OK, 450. For a beer, I mean, can't beat
that's no, you cannot eat cheap cheap.
We have a message from at Underwhelming, not CA from
Leanne, which I don't think we've gotten to yet, saying I'm
behind a few episodes and just listen to 137 coming to Rachel's
defense. Somebody.
(37:55):
Freezing butter again. Nice.
I too freeze my butter and cheese.
And cheese. Butter does go moldy if left
out. Yep.
Yeah, for like 3 months, Leanne,Yeah.
I mean. No, it does.
It does. She says yes, butter out, keep
it in the fridge. You have to get and also the
(38:17):
salted butter lasts longer than the unsalted, so just saying.
Well Leanne does say yes maybe in the fridge is fine but I have
more room in my freezer. If buying a bunch went on sale.
Stay strong. How much is a butt when you're
getting butter on sale? Aren't you good with like 2
butter? Maybe 3?
How many butters are? You going through?
7 or $8 right now? Like, that's ridiculous.
(38:40):
However. You could buy butter before 4
for like 399. It's like one 7-8 bucks.
And are you using butter? Yeah, well, I'm using it.
I don't know. Jeremy uses it on toast and I
use it in baking and we've. Cooked the lesson.
You baked muffins? Banana muffin?
Actually, no. Kendall made cookies on the
weekend. OK, so she needed a cup of
(39:03):
butter. A cup of butter.
Right. A cool cup cheese.
Yes. Well, I hope you had time to
thought. Well, no, it's from the fridge
because it also softened. From what I gather from all this
friggin butter nonsense is that it's on sale all the goddamn
time. It's.
Not oh, there's no reason. I guess you could look around,
but if you yeah, you have to find it.
(39:24):
Not for seven. Dollars everyone always seems to
find it on sale my. Butter but cheese that you stock
up. We bought, I don't know, it was
a big thing of cheese the other day and I, I think it, I don't
know, it was like a jalapeno cheese or something.
And the date on it was sometime in 2026, yes.
What are you freezing cheese from?
Exactly. There's a there's a pound of
(39:45):
butter in my fridge right now. There's a pound of butter in my
fridge right now and I checked before this.
It's not due till March 2026. You do not need to stock up.
Just. Come on.
Guys, OK, you do. It's if you find it, if you find
it on sale, just buy the goddamnbutter.
(40:06):
And if you don't find it on sale, wait a week, it'll be on
sale again. I hope you beeped that, Rachel.
I'm not. I'm not going to beep it now.
I'm not.
If you find it on sale, just buythe goddamn butter.
I hope you beeped that, Rachel. I'm not.
I'm not going to beep it now. I'm not.
This is due to underwhelming demand.
It's Dave, Rachel, and Foreman. This is a podcast, of course.
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The podcast. That's like getting snow in
early November. Unnecessary, unwarranted.
Undesirable. Yeah.
Unwanted. Yeah, Add to the list.
They all fit, yeah. I kind of liked it you did.
All right. No, you didn't.
It's better than rain and mud, I'll tell you that.
(00:42):
Well, yes, but it but it's goingto lead to rain and mud.
That's the only problem. Anyway, this fine podcast is is
sponsored today. It's a surprise sponsorship.
The buyer is is hoping that surprise sponsorships may take
off for us. She's doing something for us and
(01:02):
for the business. Surprise someone by having.
Sponsoring their business? Yeah, with us.
As a sponsor with us, what a great surprise.
Yeah, it's Frankenfurter's restaurant.
Yeah, London's best hot dog style American dive bar.
Well, I like the sound of that. They're a hot dog restaurant,
essentially. I mean, they do have other
things, but they're mainly hot dogs.
(01:24):
They've got a bunch of differentkinds of hot dogs and 100 plus
toppings. Fabulous.
But on the podcast today, apparently Forman says he's
immune to disease. I'd like to know a little bit
more about. Starting to already regret
putting this out. Yeah, I know Rachel knows how
you're one of her people and she's going to explain whether
(01:46):
you're one of her people or not.And how you can know who your
people are. That's very handy for.
Rachel. Yeah, life skill.
Thank you, Rachel for that. But I want to start with that
the the snow that's as you hear this podcast isn't around
anymore. I assume it's hopefully.
Not it was. It's not supposed to be.
Depending on where you are. I mean if you're in what in
(02:07):
northern BC, well then it's justthere till May.
It never leaves it. Never goes.
That's Bonnie, right? Shout out Bonnie.
Yeah. It never goes away, but we got
an early snow here and then we got the the fun thing, the snow
squalls after that and people woke up on on whatever morning
it was, I think Remembrance Day Monday.
(02:27):
And. Tuesday, Yeah, with all of.
Schools were closed. All the snow on the ground,
Yeah, yeah. So.
But I maintain that early snow is a weather phenomenon.
An early November, even a late October snow or mid one of those
is a weather phenomenon that really messes with us.
(02:47):
Well, no one was prepared. Well, that's what I think it.
Does it was prepared? It was it, it.
And I knew, like I heard the forecast was for snow and then
there was the chance for snow squalls.
But what are the odds? I mean, if you're somewhere up
in forests. Early November.
Yeah. What are the odds they're going
to get earlier? Yeah, what are the odds we're
going to get a dumping of snow at the beginning in November?
(03:09):
They say 30 centimeters, I say. What's telling?
That's what I say, right? You always tell us that and
nothing happens. Yeah.
So it's no fun when it does, right?
And it actually happens at the beginning of November because
my, even my teenager, on Sunday morning when the snow had begun,
it started overnight and it was snowing outside.
(03:30):
On Sunday, she comes down at, you know, her normal time, 11 AM
Oh, morning. Takes one look outside and
decides she needs to hear Christmas music.
Yeah. My daughter did the same.
It's like. November the 9th shut it off.
It's the most wonderful time. My.
(03:52):
God, stop. It immediately she's been all
she's been at us to decorate andshe wants to listen to Christmas
music every day. See.
Yeah. Messes with you.
It makes you it actually. I mean, there's a number of ways
that it messes with you. Who had their winter stuff
ready? Nobody.
Who like where's your wooded coat?
Where are your boots? You know what the top trending
(04:15):
search on Google was last week? What's?
That When does Christmas music start on the radio Does it OK?
Interesting. Yeah.
Well, that that could be a lot of people from here.
Start on your radio for. Yeah.
By the time you're hearing this,it has already started.
Come on. Yes.
Wow, wow, it's been December 1stto.
(04:35):
Start oh November 14th. Wow.
Because London Santa Claus Parade was on the 15th so.
That's right. OK.
Well, all that stuff is happening and it usually happens
this time of year anyway. Yeah, but when you get an early
snow, it just makes you like, you know what?
I, I have lots of trees that I that I put up in my house.
And so I, I try to pace myself and I slowly but surely put
(05:01):
trees up from this room and thatroom and wherever they need to
go. And I do start early in
November. But my plan is to.
Be Saran. Wrap them with all the
ornaments. Are in the way well.
Not. Exactly.
But they do come out. Some of them come out that way
anyway, so they got to be moved and put in place and decorated
and fluffed and all of that stuff.
So I pace myself. Yeah, I want them done by the
(05:22):
end of November around American Thanksgiving.
I want everything done and up and which.
Is late this year, it's like the29th or something, but.
That's fine. So the end of the month, but all
of a sudden I got, I think I hadone tree sort of up and and I
don't even think we had the lights on it yet.
It was up and then all of a sudden it starts to snow and I
think, well, I better get the others.
(05:42):
I got to run around and get. I got.
I got to. Get everything out I.
Got to get everything out and then I look outside.
The leaves hadn't come off of mytrees.
I have two huge trees in my front lawn.
The leaves hadn't come off. I gathered a few but they just
hadn't come off yet. Then I looked at my front lawn
on the Monday morning and went, Oh my God, look at all the
(06:04):
leaves. Yeah, and on.
Top of the snow. Yes.
Not not anymore. Now they're under all the snow
that came on Monday night. Right.
We. Actually sent children out into
our backyard because we have some small trees that we hope
will one day be very large, but they were all leaning and caving
and buckling under the weight of.
(06:24):
The snow, that's another thing we were lucky that we did our
because it started snowing on the Sunday and we did, we raked
a whole bunch of leaves on the Saturday and cut back stuff and
but you know, it wasn't all down.
So there's still more under the snow, but.
Yeah, well. We did what we could.
Every year I plant 3 palm trees that I put around my pool, you
know, because, you know, that's,it's what you do when you think
(06:49):
you're Jimmy Buffett, you know, and may he rest in peace.
I love Jimmy. See, I have these and they're
the, the last things that we usually dig out of the pot.
Then we put them and send them off to the, you know, wherever
the wherever they go for old plants or whatever, they are
dying out there under the snow. Haven't even.
(07:09):
Haven't even. Really got rid of them yet it's
so sad. I just barely cut back all my
gardens by the time this. Time Palm trees with snow on
them are not fun. Nobody was ready for this snow
because I can tell you that everybody on Monday night was
boot shopping. Of course, we had to go and get
boots because every year we go to the Columbia outlet store,
(07:32):
like the employee store here, and we usually have a pass and I
buy Julia boots and then Kendallgets Julia's old ones because at
least I know they're getting good warm boots, right?
And so this year, of course, Julia boots don't fit.
Kendalls got to wear Julias. Julia has nothing to wear to
school on Monday when it's. Snowing.
And so Monday night, here we are.
(07:53):
And I can tell you that store was busy and the boot section,
that's where everybody was. Of course everybody was.
And then our neighbors told us we have to go buy boots tonight
too. And then people are posting
online, hey, I've got these old snow suits if anybody else
needs, If anybody else wasn't prepared for all this snow free
snowsuit to a good home for whatever, you know, here's the
(08:15):
sizing. So people were taking it because
nobody was prepared for the snow.
Everybody had to pull out all their snow stuff on Sunday and
be like, OK, what fits you? What fits?
This year we were trying on snowpants.
Do your snow pants fit? Nobody was ready.
Everybody was. Doing it, it really does mess
with you the other the other thing I have I, as you know, I I
(08:37):
like my lawn. I try to treat my lawn well,
right. And I have all these steaks that
I put out they're big ones greatbig tall ones yeah.
I don't want to plow destroying my come on if I can help it.
Because that's happened, that's.Roger's job?
Yeah, so I I get, I put all thisstuff up there and except I
didn't have them out because we're not going to get any snow.
(09:00):
We're not getting snow. And the plow went by yesterday.
I'm afraid to look. I am.
I can see what it did to the house across the.
Street. Oh yeah, I'm afraid to look.
I'm sure it's totaled. It's destroyed.
And then by the time you hear this podcast, it'll be, you
know, 10° and green and muddy and it's all gone, so.
Hopefully we've all learned something from this experience.
(09:21):
Then hopefully we'll get our. October.
Well, get our winter tires on and stuff, which I haven't done
yet either. Minor scheduled for this
weekend, but. Yeah, the first, right.
The day before he did mine, he didn't do his.
And then the kids were home and I said take my car.
And he was like, no, no, I've already shovelled out my end.
I'll take my car. I'm like, well, you don't have
(09:42):
snow tires. And then he texts me.
He's like, I almost ended up in the ditch this morning.
I. Don't have snow tires.
I'm not shoveling though. I refuse to shovel.
I did shovel, yeah. No, but it's people going to
find their shovels. Also put your brush in your car
because that I did. Ashley was driving throughout
the all the snow on the Sunday when it first started and came
(10:04):
home, she said. Well you did put the brush in my
car. Yeah, that is your job as the
husband. But you walk by the brushes in
the garage, grab one and drive with it.
That's. Right, that's your job.
As yeah and then when you have said brush, by the way, the next
time it snows, brush the roof ofyour car, you lazy.
(10:27):
I know you can reach it. I could reach the top of that
big ass SUV with the tiny littleshort brush from my car car that
doesn't even extend. So I know when you have the
extender brush you can reach it and you're choosing not to.
Everybody else on the road is looking at you.
The way my voice sounds right now.
What the fuck is wrong with you?Brush it and buddy with a jacked
(10:51):
up pickup truck who couldn't be bothered to brush the roof of
your truck and the entire truck bed.
So it's a fucking Blizzard driving behind you.
Yes. If you're too short for your
truck bud, can I interest you ina Geo metro that might be more
your size? So so happy.
I too. Short for your truck.
That's why he has a truck, because he's too short for a
(11:11):
truck. I'm so.
Happy I brought this up. I'm really happy I brought this
up. Thanks for him.
Can I interest you at a Geo Metro?
(11:42):
This is due to underwhelming demand.
The podcast that's called due tounderwhelming demand because
myth was already taken. Yeah, apparently there's a
podcast called Man. Is there?
Should be, there should be, and it should be us.
But right. Here we.
It's not. And this fine podcast is
(12:05):
actually sponsored, Yes. This.
Surprise. Surprise.
Well, it's a surprise sponsorship for Frank and
Furters Restaurant on King Street in London.
They're essentially a hot dog restaurant, although they do
have other things with like 100 plus toppings.
I didn't know you could put so many things on your hot dogs,
but you can like they've got. Why wouldn't you?
(12:27):
Well, yeah, and if you. Could why wouldn't you?
They have their website says it's London's best hot dog style
American dive bar. Sign me up.
Sure. Yeah, I that's someplace that
I'm intrigued to go. I didn't know I I didn't know
about it. Now I do, and I in fact will be
going. They've got hot dogs called the
Hellhound, Nita Bib, the BuffaloDog, Get Laid, Talk About It,
(12:52):
Piggyback, Canadian, A Rocky Horror, The First Date, Betty
White. They have all kinds of hot dogs.
Betty White. Really.
That one's plain. They sell, they have
merchandise. You can get a T-shirt that says
ask me about my Weiner. You can, yes.
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I think it's brilliant. They've got all kinds of stuff
you can put. You can put beef, chili, Philly
steak, sausage crumbs, all kindsof sauces.
Diced pierogies, Tater tots. Twinkies.
Twinkies on. Jalapenos, mushrooms, onions,
Peppers, pineapple, guacamo, Macand cheese, diced pancakes,
Flaming hot Cheetos, sweet chiliDoritos.
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Wow, it all sounds great. I didn't crunch.
I didn't crunch. Yes.
Did not know you could put so many different things on your on
your. Why wouldn't you?
They tell us that they pry the themselves on being the over the
top comfort food. They continue to be advocates of
being a local spot that you can grab a hot dog and a beer
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without breaking the bank, even with being downtown.
That's right, because they have drink specials every day 450.
Every day their drinks are 4. 50for a YAG or a fireball, a
tequila or PBR. Oh, PBR.
They are the home. Frankenfurters is the home of
the all you can eat hot dog, burger and corn dog challenge
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which was. Oh no.
Joey Chestnut. Joey Chestnut.
Yes, he's a. Goat right downtown on James St.
King and Richmond. If you're going to like the
Knights game or what, anything at Canada Life Place or
whatever, you're just downtown for any reason.
Any. Concert The Grinch musical
that's. Sure, yeah.
That's stuff. Frankenfurters restaurant and
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bar. So thank you so much and thank
you to their surprise purchaser for purchasing.
They don't want their name mentioned, but it's a couple and
they know a Dave, the owner of Frankenfurters, and so they
purchased this for them as a surprise.
So there you go. Thank you very.
Much you can you can be here foryour supporting your own
business or your favorite business that you do not own.
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Absolutely. This is due to underwhelming
demand. The podcast with Dave, Rachel
and Foreman. Rachel, am I one of your people?
Well, I don't think so. Actually, no.
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Is. Orman, one of your people.
No, it doesn't seem so. What?
No. Well, I can tell now, who are
your. Here's how you can tell.
I think who your people are. I see.
It used to be that when I would walk into a radio station, I
would feel like these are my people.
We're all kind of a little crazyin the same way.
And so when you go into a radio station, everybody has that kind
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of same mentality, which was, which is really nice.
That's how I feel about radio people and radio and why I love
it so much. But here's how I think you can
tell someone is your person, right?
They like your memes, like all of them.
They get your humor. They like your.
Memes. I love to post a lot of memes on
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my Instagram Story. I think that's a good place for
them. It's, you know, they don't last
very long. Whatever.
I think they're hysterical. And there's a select few people
who always think they're funny. And I know that those people are
my people. You guys don't ever think
they're funny. I don't think you're making it.
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Sometimes things are funny. No, there's.
Some that I think are funny I sent.
You a meme the other day. Yeah, and I'll show it here on
the YouTube, on the YouTube version here that says Bunnam.
You know Bunnam from the Winter Carnival?
Carnival. Quebec.
Quebec City Quebec City Bunnam reveals he used to date both
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Katy Perry and former PM Justin Trudeau.
He's lying, like with his head in his hand like it's the
funniest. Provocative.
Fucking thing I I'm still laughing about this days later
after I saw it. And you know why that's funny?
Because you know that Diplo, theDJ, said that he dated both Katy
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Perry and Justin Trudeau on a podcast somewhere.
And so that was making news and that was going viral.
And they're like Justin Trudeau dated.
And then Diplo posted a photo. It was a selfie of him and
Justin Trudeau with Katy Perry in the background.
And then this meme comes. I've been dying for days, dying
(17:45):
for days. So I send it to you guys.
I send it. To.
My mom and my sister Jeremy saw it.
Nobody else thinks this thing is.
Funny. No, it's not funny at all.
Except it's not even remotely funny.
One person, my friend Jeanine shout out who always thinks my
memes are funny, and her and I have talked about how we are
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each other's people because you just know that the people who
get your humor, those are your people.
That's it. The people who always like your.
Memes. How do you know that Janine
isn't just saying that she gets your humor?
She thinks things. Are funny that I know and.
I know that I have like an odd sense of humor, but I don't
care. I think it's hysterical and I
love to laugh. And I think memes are the
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perfect way to express that. OK.
And the memes are the perfect way to express your inner like,
this is what I find funny or whatever.
Like that's the perfect way to express that.
You think you don't. You don't think the person who
likes every single one you know she isn't?
Like everyone. But like that one she thought
was very funny. Anyway, I sent it to my mom.
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My mom's like, I don't get it. And I'm like, it's because Diplo
said that she's like, I didn't. I give you a name if you have.
If you require knowledge of specific news stories, then the
meme's not funny. The meme's.
Not funny. It was an entertainment story,
as you know. I'm trying not to be.
I don't I, I am a journalist, which is sad, but the news makes
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me angry lately so I can't it's it's mostly American news makes
me angry so I can't be on. And that's what you're seeing on
social media, right, Because you're not seeing the Canadian
news on social media right now. But I do see entertainment news.
And so I did see the Diplo thingmany times and then I came
across with a Bunom meme just. So I get this meme for a minute.
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I don't know if you're like me so.
Imagine in your head venom dating both of those people.
Anyway, I see this meme just. Imagine that.
So funny. It's not funny.
It's not even remotely funny. So what's funny is that you
think it's funny. Just imagine Venom on a date
with Justin Trudeau. That's not funny.
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It's just not funny. Phenom is funny, yeah, but this
meme made Phenom not funny. You unfunnied phenom.
No, Yeah, I didn't Funnied him up.
No. And I didn't make the meme.
I know you haven't. Did I wish that I knew?
So she sends the meme. I don't think Phenom dated them,
therefore I know it's not funny,you know?
Didn't date anybody? Well, that's why it's just.
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Stupid. You don't know that the mom.
Hasn't dated anybody. You don't know that.
That's yes. OK, fair enough.
Nobody knows the Diplo thing, and no one knows or cares if
Diplo is I I knew about it. I knew about it when this meme
came into my inbox. They thought, oh, yeah, but I
was already annoyed at Diplo because I saw that headline.
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And for the radio show, I went down the rabbit hole to figure
out what podcast was it on. What did he say?
Let me grab the clip. And it was such an offhand half
a second joke that he said and that was it about.
And I was pissed that I did all that work to find nothing.
But here you are thinking it's the funniest thing ever.
Well, so she says this thing Neither and neither one of us
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respond to it. We don't respond at all.
Yes, I looked at it and went if I have nothing to say to this
because I've. Seen it and I can see that
you've not replied. I don't get it.
And I I don't really like it when I don't understand jokes.
But then it says, yeah, but oncedid, I'm like, I don't, I'm
sorry, you've lost me. So then all of a sudden I get a
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message several hours later thatjust says, you know, because
Diplo said he dated both of them.
And I'm like. Don't.
Care who Diplo dated, and then she says he was on a podcast.
Diplo. Diplo.
Why would anybody have Diplo even on a?
Podcast I don't even know this is.
So this is so nothing. And he wasn't even being
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serious, like he was kidding. But then somebody made this
feeling. Can you imagine who Diplo and
Banam have the same type? I I.
Think you missed your calling? To you, you should have been a
writer at this hour as 22 minutes 'cause they could have
had a field day with Trudeau frolicking through the fields
with Banam. Hilarious, yeah.
Sure, but they would have had to.
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It would have had to start with an explanation of the whole
fucking day. You have to explain it anything
it's. It ceases to be funny when you.
For the people, the people who get it, those are my people.
Yeah, OK. I mean, I show you whole.
One person got it. A couple of.
People got it. I have a whole conversation of 1
friend in particular. He's not my person, No.
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Yeah, sure. Even like things that Jeremy
gets and I show him, he's like, that's not funny.
I'm like, that is very funny. And he's like, no.
But you see, I get, I get Jeremy, 'cause he's right.
It's not funny. No, he's not.
I don't know. You guys can't be.
You can't just always be conventionally funny.
You have to be like niche funny.Conventionally funny, I thought.
You have to be conventionally funny.
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You have to be like off the cuff, like niche I think.
You have to do stuff. Yes, I agree with you.
You have to do stuff. You know when when we say red
sky in the morning, you know, birds of a feather.
Yeah, that's that's niche. That's niche.
Well, that's, that's off the wall.
You know, you're trying to do something that's a little, you
know, sure. You know when a guy calls you
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and swears at you for playing Christmas music and you turn it
around and and you've played that same guy's phone call year
year after year after year? Yeah, that's.
That's. How you make it funny?
Sure. Right.
Yeah, that's. Funny, but I'm dating Katy Perry
it's not funny just. Imagine it in your head, Katy
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Perry. And But I'm on a date like.
I can't because it's funny. It's not funny.
OK, it's. Not you're not my people.
I know, but here's the thing. I don't think I really want to
be. And yet here we are.
And yet here we are. He's looking through.
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It's Aaron Holland, our whole conversation.
You could just scroll back and back and back.
It's nothing but memes and like little stupid videos like that's
how we communicate. People will send you things and
then you're like, that's not funny, right?
Like, I don't care, people. No, all of his are funny.
Oh, OK, so he's your person. He's your person.
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That's how you know. Yeah, he's your Boo.
This is due to underwhelming demand, the podcast that's
keeping expectations low and meeting them.
Yes, this is what we do. We are Dave, Rachel and Foreman.
Yes, we're underwhelming and you're welcome.
With someone whose immunity seems to be very high at the
(24:39):
moment. Oh.
Wait a second. Yeah.
Mine. Lucky you.
Oh, you're super? Are you super immune?
Are you superhuman? Do you not get sick?
I mean, I if we keep we keep making me say these things out
loud, then this is probably gonna be come back.
As evidence this was your idea. You'd better knock on wood right
(24:59):
now. I think this is real wood.
Knock on your head. Because everybody in my family's
been sick. Like, very sick.
Like very sick. Well, I.
Just got over COVID and so did Jerry.
Go yes, yeah. How do?
You know it was COVID did you test for?
That I'm sure it was COVID, no? I didn't sure it's COVID.
Well, so I went to the pharmacy in town and I was like, what do
you got for coughs or whatever? And he's like for cost
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everybody, he's like. So happy you came in to my
drugstore. Don't cough on me.
Yeah, he's like so many people have come in today and Covid's
going around because people havetested and the last time I was
that sick, it was COVID. Like I haven't been that sick
for a long time. I don't know when was the last
time you had the flu? Do you know what the flu is?
(25:43):
What? Did you have what was the
matter? What?
The fluid? Yeah, well, I.
Mean it was like chills like yeah OK it chills and sweats and
yeah I just couldn't like I couldn't keep my eyes open
that's exhausted did. You have a bad cough.
Did you have trouble? Really.
All stuffed up? Yeah.
I would have shortness of breathgoing up the stairs, stuff like
that. But he wants to blame COVID.
(26:05):
I had, I'm sure it was COVID. OK, sure.
One of those two. He would have no idea.
You have no idea. OK.
No, but everyone here has had been stuffed up and coughing and
hacking and all those things andI haven't at all.
How? Did you escape that?
And I you just like staying. Away from them.
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No, no, I and I don't know what the secret is, but it's just
like not getting to me. And normally it would eventually
because that that's what I've also noticed lately too.
And again, just continuously, knock on wood here.
Remember I always used to get, Iwould probably get one bad
sickness a year and I'd lose my voice for like a week.
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Yes, yes, the same. Which when you chat for a.
Living is really. A direct no.
It's my favorite way to be sick because then you can't possibly
chat this week because I can't talk.
Can't talk, can't come in right?Yeah, that's the best.
I mean, you get, you know, if you're sick or whatever, there's
always like, well, but can you just, you know, do it anyway?
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Right. We can't talk.
Oh my gosh, we. Would come and do a show and
like one of us would have a raging fever.
And if you like just hopped up on Med, we would come and do
shows with. I don't know why be.
Ridiculous. I don't know why we did that.
Well, pre COVID, yeah, well, I would come in.
For anything was if you if you were obviously if you were in
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discomfort and you and, and you couldn't come in.
And there were many times where whatever it is that you were
suffering from you, you just couldn't come in.
But for the most part, if I if Ihad a cold or just a regular
cold, even though I sounded likecrap, I would just come in
because in my mind, and this is sort of old school and I'm old,
it was like, it's the show has to go on.
(27:55):
Yeah, it's, it's not like, you know, I think.
We all thought that it's. Not like you can repeat things
or you can bring in some of the show's got to go on.
And then I know that maybe the two of you rely on me for
certain things and I rely on youguys for so so then you would
feel the guilt of you don't want.
To let the team down, I. Don't want to let the team down
from coming in. So you would we would go in for.
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We shouldn't have done that, butwe did.
No, but that's that's why when you lose your voice, well,
that's like the ultimate well, then I can.
But I can. Get away with, but with the two
of you, I would still be there, most likely.
I think I was quite often, yes. And I just, well, you, you
should know, shit on me and makefun of me all you want 'cause I
can't say anything back. You can't do it.
(28:38):
I remember. Saying to my doctor when we when
the when the first time I had pneumonia and he said you have
pneumonia and I said OK and you came to.
Work for two weeks still, yeah. I had been working.
I had been working and then I I said, OK, so he's telling me
we're gonna, we're gonna up here, you know, then I'm gonna
give you a different meds and yeah, you've got a very bad case
of pneumonia. So yeah, he's telling me all of
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this stuff and I'm sitting on the the, the examination table
in his little room there. And so the last thing I say to
him before he walks out of the room and he just laughed at me.
I said, well, can I go to work? Look, I just went, well, give me
the stuff and I'll go. You know, I don't really care if
I'm gonna get better. Can can I go to work?
And yeah, no. You can't go to work, he laughed
and said. You're not going to work for the
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rest of the week at least. I'm like.
You were off. That was the one time you were
off for a long. Time go in, but when you.
Started getting sick with that. I was like this is not good, you
need to go to the. Well, I was sick.
Yeah, that was a long 1. I had that for 334.
We. Did, yeah.
That's what your lungs needed isto laugh for four hours a day.
That's right. Get sick for him and how?
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He's not getting any of that. I.
Feel like why would you? Why would you even say anything?
Just keep your. Vote.
You keep talking about it here and I haven't, but that's the
sickness with losing your voice.Whatever.
That was an annual event, and that hasn't happened in a few
years now. And what?
Are you doing differently? I don't know, I'm maybe I'm just
that much healthy. I don't I.
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Don't eating everything salad. Every day you are gonna get you
know what's gonna happen? You're gonna get fucking
hammered at Christmas. You're gonna get to what's gonna
happen to you. You're gonna get it when you're
off. Yeah, that's the payback.
You're. Gonna get it when you're off,
when you're off the. Christmas break.
You'll be sick, sick, sick. But you know how much I drink
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coffee, right? Like yes, and there's so there's
I mean, and you find things likestudy finds that coffee can
protect the liver against disease and I think, well, then
that's. Them solve there, I'm going to
live forever. Problem solved, yeah.
I mean, I eat a little bit healthy.
(30:48):
You have some berries, you know,since the popcorn maker showed
up as a present. My God, is that the best gift?
That that's the gift that keeps on giving all your microwave.
Yeah, you make microwave. It's just popcorn and some olive
oil and nothing else. It's literally the healthy.
There's a a study about like thehealthiest snack you can have if
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you want to live to 100 is plainair popped popcorn.
Yeah, Air. Popped popcorn doing that too so
it's the best. Got the Blue Zone diet going,
all that kind of stuff. He's going to live, live
forever. Yeah, well, you should have just
kept your mouth shut. Yes.
In other news, we won't be here next week because Foreman will
be. Very.
He'll be very sick, yeah. This is due to underwhelming
(31:44):
demand. We are a podcast for Dave,
Rachel and Foreman and this podcast, this has been
surprisingly or by surprise or something brought to you.
Sponsor. Yeah, brought to you this week
by Frank Antwerter's Restaurant and Bar, 172 King Street,
downtown London. Go there, eat wieners.
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Shove wieners in your yamo they.Have so many different toppings
like you can put. You can do anything you want.
Crunch on your on your Hut like they have everything you could
want. Yeah, even when, when the James
Barker Band were in town a few weeks ago, by the way, they
even, you know, they're chattingabout.
Oh yeah, we come down. We know we're downtown London.
We remember. And all those places we've gone
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and where did we go the last time?
They're like, Frankenfurters wasthe best place.
They're like they named a Wienerafter us when we were here.
They're. They're trying to plan on, oh,
we ought to go back after we getout of the stupid radio
interview. Like that's with you.
The place to go? Yeah, check it.
Out. You can check them out at
frankenfurters.com. They have a website and yeah,
thank you to the surprise personwho.
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Who wants to remain anonymous wants to remain a surprise for
Frankenfurters. Now, if someone else wants to
surprise someone, do a shout outfor someone, whatever, and be a
part of this podcast, how do they do that, Rachel?
Well, you can go to our website underwhelming.ca.
You can e-mail us Dave rachelforeman@gmail.com.
I have figured out how to createa store on our website where you
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can just purchase a shout out for somebody if you want.
It's $20. We'll shout out for 30 seconds.
Typically we give you a lot morethan that though.
But you know 30 is promised and 20 bucks plus HSE.
We never shut up. And we never shut up and we can
do whatever we want. It's our own podcast.
And so you can purchase that on our website
(33:33):
underwhelming.ca/store or there's a thing on the top that
says store. I'm working on a few other
things as well, but that's, that'll be it's later to come.
So check out our website. Yep, because we do update that
we do have new things or. Even at one underwhelming.ca,
just tap on the little yellow coffee cup like Linda
Winteringham did. Yeah, yeah.
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Thank you. 5 coffee say wow. Thank you.
Love the podcast, something to look forward to in Tuesday
mornings. Keep up the great work.
Love the laughs. Oh, thank you, Linda.
Thank you, Linda. That's great, but we have a
message from Jim Bag. Jim Bag.
Jim Bag always listens, but he'syou've got a lot of issues, Jim
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Bag. So I guess keep them coming I
guess. Did you hear who Taylor Swift
chose to be her bridesmaid So far, no.
No, I didn't have Selena Gomez and yes, Gigi Hadid, I want to
say. OK.
Yeah, why not? Of course, why not?
And phenom, Rachel and phenom. How hysterically funny is that?
I hope an Amazon of Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau's wedding.
(34:37):
Wouldn't that be hilarious? Right, he's requested to
throuple softball. Yeah, that's right.
OK, Jim Bag says, who censors the YouTube version of your
podcast with five question marks?
Just sitting here playing solitaire on my phone while
watching this week's podcast from Jim Bag.
That's me, Jim Bag. I edit the video podcast, I
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censor it and I beep out the swearing because I don't know if
kids are going to see it. I don't know if kids are good.
So I'd censor it. Who's watching YouTube with
their kids? Kids are just getting into it,
you know? Kids watch YouTube.
If you don't censor it, mark it as explicit.
My kids watch is YouTube but. It keeps it off of kids.
YouTube or YouTube? Kids, they can't watch.
It if you say it's explicit. Mine are on which I do and I say
(35:24):
they ask you when you post it isthis for kids and I say no but
still they if they're on regularYouTube which mine are even
anyway so it's me that does it. Should I not censor?
Is that like? Should I not have?
I didn't know I was being censored.
I don't. Really, Censor?
Swear words. Sure shit isn't censored.
I don't. Really.
Swear it anymore? If nobody cares, that's fine.
(35:46):
I don't know. Should I censor?
Maybe we should put that out as a poll.
Should I censor or not? I'd say no, no, I don't.
I think it's. Unnecessary.
But every once in a while there is an there is an episode where
I don't think there is a swear word and then I will not mark
that as explicit on, you know, Apple or Spotify or whatever.
And then it's clean. Well, I don't.
Most of them haven't. Marked them as explicit.
(36:09):
OK, All right, I won't censor anymore then.
OK, then. There you go, Jimbeg.
You're welcome all. Right, fine.
Yeah, I'm glad you asked Jimbeg.Thank you for hearing that up.
Geez. OK.
OK. Last week we had sponsor.
It was for Jan, for Jan for her birthday.
It was a milestone birthday. For her.
And we talked about her throughout the whole podcast
from her husband John, who wanted to do something nice for
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her, which is how we kind of started this shout out thing.
Well, Jan got back to us. She heard all of that and she
loved it. She says, Hi Dave.
Rachel, inform him. I was watching your podcast on
YouTube as we always do, and youstarted talking about me.
You actually did a shout out wishing me happy birthday.
And then you talked about the book I wrote Never Give Up and
all my accomplishments. I was so surprised.
(36:54):
And I thank my husband John for sponsoring that week's podcast
and it turned into my birthday present.
We have now watched it three times.
Wow, thank. You I hope other people do shout
outs on your podcast. Believe me, it's so fun.
You 3 did an amazing job as you do every week.
I just loved every minute and thank you so much for this
(37:14):
amazing tribute from Jan Thank you Jan.
That's really. It wasn't really our idea it.
Wasn't us. It wasn't us.
It was. That's all, John.
And he told us what he wanted tosay about you, and that was, I
thought it was very sweet and lovely.
So you know where you should go to celebrate downtown London and
get myself a watchdog? Absolutely, yeah.
(37:34):
John loves a good PBR so that's a good spot.
OK, 450. For a beer, I mean, can't beat
that's no, you cannot eat cheap cheap.
We have a message from at Underwhelming, not CA from
Leanne, which I don't think we've gotten to yet, saying I'm
behind a few episodes and just listen to 137 coming to Rachel's
defense. Somebody.
(37:55):
Freezing butter again. Nice.
I too freeze my butter and cheese.
And cheese. Butter does go moldy if left
out. Yep.
Yeah, for like 3 months, Leanne,Yeah.
I mean. No, it does.
It does. She says yes, butter out, keep
it in the fridge. You have to get and also the
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salted butter lasts longer than the unsalted, so just saying.
Well Leanne does say yes maybe in the fridge is fine but I have
more room in my freezer. If buying a bunch went on sale.
Stay strong. How much is a butt when you're
getting butter on sale? Aren't you good with like 2
butter? Maybe 3?
How many butters are? You going through?
7 or $8 right now? Like, that's ridiculous.
(38:40):
However. You could buy butter before 4
for like 399. It's like one 7-8 bucks.
And are you using butter? Yeah, well, I'm using it.
I don't know. Jeremy uses it on toast and I
use it in baking and we've. Cooked the lesson.
You baked muffins? Banana muffin?
Actually, no. Kendall made cookies on the
weekend. OK, so she needed a cup of
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butter. A cup of butter.
Right. A cool cup cheese.
Yes. Well, I hope you had time to
thought. Well, no, it's from the fridge
because it also softened. From what I gather from all this
friggin butter nonsense is that it's on sale all the goddamn
time. It's.
Not oh, there's no reason. I guess you could look around,
but if you yeah, you have to find it.
(39:24):
Not for seven. Dollars everyone always seems to
find it on sale my. Butter but cheese that you stock
up. We bought, I don't know, it was
a big thing of cheese the other day and I, I think it, I don't
know, it was like a jalapeno cheese or something.
And the date on it was sometime in 2026, yes.
What are you freezing cheese from?
Exactly. There's a there's a pound of
(39:45):
butter in my fridge right now. There's a pound of butter in my
fridge right now and I checked before this.
It's not due till March 2026. You do not need to stock up.
Just. Come on.
Guys, OK, you do. It's if you find it, if you find
it on sale, just buy the goddamnbutter.
(40:06):
And if you don't find it on sale, wait a week, it'll be on
sale again. I hope you beeped that, Rachel.
I'm not. I'm not going to beep it now.
I'm not.
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