May 20, 2025 • 36 mins
(1:23) - Rachel's already golfed?!
(12:03) - Forman overshoots it
(19:05) - Dave's pool isn't as great as you think
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(00:00):
Ready to go. I need a bag.
I need a new Golf bag eventually, but those are
expensive. Remember how I won that golf
bag? By getting closest to the pin?
We sold it. It was really stupid.
I don't know, at a garage sale? Oh wow.
But. Well.
That was like 10 years ago so. The guy you wanted the C pap for
$7.00 or whatever. Yeah, probably.
(00:28):
This is due to underwhelming demand with Dave, Rachel and
Forum and the podcast that proves that anything worth doing
is worth doing underwhelmingly. Try saying that five times fast.
You know if your standards are too high in life just leads to
disappointment. Exactly so.
Just accept that this qualifies as entertainment.
(00:50):
That's right. And move on and move on and on
this thing that qualifies as entertainment.
Rachel Golf's foreman overshoots.
And Dave has an extremely third world problem, as always.
Third World or First World? First world, yes.
Sorry, there's no third world possible north of Fan Shop.
(01:12):
Already proved the point how he doesn't know how good he has.
Yeah, you're right. I thought it was.
Yeah, you're right. It's a first row problem.
OK. All right, So you're.
Starting Rachel, I've been golfing.
Have you? Yes, Well, you.
Know you know what hockey players do in the summertime?
We golf. So that's what we're doing.
(01:35):
Now that I'm such an athlete, I'm doing both sports.
I have a winter sport and a summer sport.
Oh wow, are you laughing? Yes, because you said you said
you know what hockey players do in the summertime and you said
we golf. Yes, I am a hockey player.
I'm a hockey player and I am golfing now.
(01:55):
So, as you know, I golfed. How many rounds have you got?
In so far one it just started. No, I've signed up for a ladies
golfing league. That means nothing.
So I'm in a league and we go every week.
Only once. I actually can't go this week
but I am going next week. See, he didn't know what he
(02:19):
knew. Again, this is.
Last week, and that was. Nine holes.
Nine holes. That's not golf.
That's. Just one.
Oh, it is. Half you win a half a.
Time half a golf that's. Fine.
And it was a 5 some there was five of us.
They let us. OK, see, you can't do that.
It's not allowed to. Do carts and one person had her
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push carts and so she would sometimes jump on our cart and
pull the cart as we drove. So that worked because you can
fit 3 bodies but only two golf cart golf bags.
So you weren't you weren't one of the people walking.
No. Was there anybody behind you?
Yes. So this was the, we went on a
Saturday morning and they had a breakfast for us like a
(03:04):
continental breakfast. And, and this was kind of the,
the, the kickoff to, to the whole season, right?
So there's a lot of ladies therethat morning for breakfast and
then you could tee off and, and golf.
So there was a group in front ofus and a group behind us.
So we were trying to keep up. And I think if we didn't have
carts, we would have been a lot slower like we were, yes, we
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would have been. It would have been painful for
the people behind us because there was a twosome behind us
and. A twosome behind a fivesome.
Well, they just, I don't know. That's when they looked it.
There wasn't any way where to go.
The people, we were right up against the people in front of
us. They were walking.
There was three or four of them.So it was a busy time.
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It was fine. We were trying to get it, get
through as much as we can. Dave, you.
Seem to be a stickler for how golf works and what the rules
should be. Just two symbol 5.
But just picture this league is full of Rachel's.
I know well so they they should put a sign up.
I don't. Know where you.
I don't know where you played the but there should be a sign
up saying don't anybody come outSaturday mornings because
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you're. OK, well, it's not always sad.
This Saturday happened to be when a lot of us were there
because oh. It's not Oh so.
You had the breakfast. Jumping all over the place so
nobody. That's not fun.
Right, so you once. Again, now I'm really.
Annoyed now? You're you're really annoying
you. Can book anytime in the week.
I think the typical day is Thursday for the league, but you
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can go any anytime as long as you go and they stamp your card
or whatever. And you get 5 people and you
clog everything up. So five of us joins together,
but we know that like there's going to be weeks where like one
or two of us can't go, or maybe two of us go one day and three
of us go a different day. So it's, you know, they're all
going Thursday. I can't go Thursday.
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I I'm out. So I can't do Thursday.
So that's fine. I'll find another day.
You have to do 12 times in the season, so that's fine.
I'll, I'll make it up at another. .12 How are you going
to do? That I know.
That's two more than hockey, andhockey was a lot, although
hockey was way harder. And you missed.
Several of those. How many hockey's did you miss?
(05:16):
2 So I did 8 hockey scissors 10 and I missed 2 and so yeah.
And eight was hard enough. 8 washard enough. 10 would have been
a bitch. Oh yeah. 12 golfing session.
Well see I so I find golf easierbecause it doesn't.
I'm not in pain doing it, but it's difficult to hit the ball.
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That's not that's not easy, as you know.
So I kind of thought, oh, I'm just going to join this league
and I don't need to keep score. I don't care.
I'm just out there to do it. But no, you have to keep score
and you get points for things like over and above the scores.
There's points for different pricing and whatever.
So the very first week was wear pink week.
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So for every item of pink clothing you wore, you got a
point. So we all came decked out like
we were in pink pants, pink shorts, pink sweaters, shirts,
tank tops, scrunchies, earrings,necklaces, whatever we could
find. Somebody wore a Fanny pack.
Like we rated our little kids pinks things and wore whatever
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we could find that was pink. So I got 12 points because I was
wearing 12 pink things. What does that?
What the hell does that have to do with golf?
Does that count to your score? No.
The points are for some kind of prizing.
They have, you know, different things each week.
I don't really know. I don't know.
What would make you feel good though, Rachel at the end of the
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season if you won an award for excelling in pink?
That's probably the only award I'm getting and I did.
I excelled. So we walk in and we go for
breakfast and immediately somebody says Pink was on
Thursday. We're completely decked out, all
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five of us, but. Only the five of you.
Only us? Yeah.
Everybody else is the normal golf attire.
Well, now I approve of the pink.Yeah.
But the golf lady? Who runs the league?
Is like, no, no, no, it's fine. It was all week long.
You can still wear it. And now I don't know if she said
that just to make us. Feel wearing pink you?
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Should be deducted for wearing. It was one of the old ladies.
They're all, it's full of old lady.
They're probably crabby because they're not wearing pink.
They're having no fun, so you know they.
Wore pink 2 days ago. There were.
Problems where they behind you. That's why they're crappy.
No, this is at breakfast. She might have been mine.
I don't. I actually don't even know who I
was at. What point do you golf?
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OK, so we had breakfast and thenwe went out golfing.
We did. We did go out.
So the Max you can get is doublepar because we needed to know
that. So how?
Many pars did you get? None.
How many double pars did you get?
Pretty much all of them. Yeah, pretty much all of them.
How? Many points do you get for.
(08:09):
That I don't know. I don't know.
You have to score your total. Score and then your putts.
So if you get 8 which is a double par, let's say it's par 4
and you get 8 and you putted 2 times.
I don't know till basically tillyou maxed out at 8:00 and then
it would be like 8/2, right? How often did you Max out then?
(08:31):
I would say 8 or 9 * 8. Times.
Nine times. Was there 1 hole where you
actually got in like 7? Shots did get a couple holes
where I was under the Max. Wow, I don't know but.
That's good. I know I that criminal.
Think or you know you. I do know.
I do know. Yeah, I there was a couple that
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we got, we got under, Yeah. And on the last hole it was a
par five. My God, and all of us maxed out
at 10 and then we just and one girl just quit.
She's like, you know what? Just put me down for A10 Like
I'm not even she did one drive and she's like, I'm done.
Nope, this is. And we're like, OK, so she just
sat in the cart, drove everybodyaround.
This is the best part of your golf.
(09:13):
Would it have been the breakfast?
Yeah, well, the camaraderie, of course, minus Crabby Lady, but
yeah, the camaraderie is nice. And you have many more, many
more golfs. To tell them.
Although you can't golf this week.
Right. Yes, we have 11 more, but this
was just to update you about my athletic journey.
Prowess. Yes, Prowess I.
(09:34):
Don't think prowess, more jury. And we were all very excited
about look at the end of the year, we're going to be by by
the end of the season, we're going to be so great.
Like we're going to be knocking these things like hitting bombs
down the. OK, well, right, that's what we
expect then. Foreman.
Yes, Rachel just said it. Save that, please.
Yeah, we will repeat. That prediction?
(09:55):
Prediction yes and for Mother's Day Jeremy got me.
Actually I have a golf question for you, but Jeremy got me a new
visor for golf because I requested an A visor and a golf
a new Golf glove for my other hand because I I squeeze the
club so tight it I kind of rub my the right thing.
I wear the glove on my left hand.
(10:17):
Can I wear 2 gloves or is that afaux pas?
No, you can do that. You can do whatever you want.
I don't care. And he said I.
Don't know if you can wear. People don't really do that.
Yeah, on your head. Wear all the gloves you wear the
pink how? Enjoy your breakfast, down the
mimosas and go out in front of me, whatever the fuck.
Exactly, just let me know where you're playing before.
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So don't worry, we're not playing with you, Dave.
No, but just if you're at my golf course, I need to know.
Yeah, No, we're not at yours. Rest assured, we're not there.
Thank you. I'm not saying more than you
think, David. I know.
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This is due to underwhelming demand the podcast that if it
were a soap opera, I believe it would be called Days of Our
Pathetic Lives. Oh yeah.
See, we all agree. Yes, yeah.
Welcome to another episode of Days of Our Pathetic Lives.
Yeah, Foreman. It'll make you ask the question,
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are they still in that coma that's.
Right. He came back to life.
In fact, one year at summer camp, we did a theatre camp and
we did a like a soap opera. You need to talk about something
to do with the flute or the. No, it's theatre camp.
We did, you know, as the world turns, as the world turns.
(11:50):
No, we did as the stomach turns.It was funny.
It was a funny spoof on a Anyway.
How? Good.
It was a riot. Well, Riot.
Here we are, day five days afterthe fact, and I'm still filling
my stomach with leftovers from Harley's birthday party.
It's. Her birthday party, How was that
(12:10):
good? It was 1012 year old girls
sleeping over. Ten of them sleeping over.
Yep. Holy.
Crap 12 year old girls on a sleepover.
Wow, yeah. I would have cut that number
right in half. That's a lot of kids.
I was not in charge. Well, you're very brave.
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You're a brave. I sort of figured that.
Yeah, you. Do that.
I sort of figured that. Yeah, but I'm glad someone was
and it still went well. I mean, other than they're loud
and I'm pretty sure our neighbors weren't fond of us
but. Right.
Yeah. Otherwise, yeah, everyone got
along well. Everyone slept.
We thought there's going to be awhole, you know, this is what
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happens with sleepovers where kids come up in the middle of
the night and say, I can't sleep, I want to go home.
No one did that, so that's bonus.
We did, however, expect them to eat a whole lot more than they
did. So what was the menu?
They're 12 year old girls. They don't eat a lot.
Yes, they do. They do.
Well, not as much as you planned, I guess.
No, the menu was there was an ice cream cake for cuz, you
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know, birthday. Sure.
Marble slab, by the way. Nice.
Strawberry ice cream cake with actual strawberries in it.
Wow. Done.
OK, done. Yeah, beat that Dairy Queen.
I don't think they can and. We lost another potential
sponsor. Continue.
No, I'm saying I'm willing for them to demonstrate to me how
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they're gonna be OK. OK.
So taunting them will work. OK.
All right. So far so good with the keg.
Yeah, yeah. We're zero for zero, yeah.
And there was 2 Costco fruit trays and two Costco veggie
trays. And I went out and picked up an
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order of seven. Pizzas 7 pizzas.
For 10 kids. Yeah, 12 kids.
Well, 12. Right.
Well, there's 10 in total, yeah.10 in yeah plus like.
Ashley and I were gonna eat too.So there's a half a pizza for
each person. Well, yeah, because normally if
we ever do order pizza, the girls will eat like half a piece
each. So we're like, well, we better
(14:24):
have enough for all these kids. OK.
Sure, and it turns out we overshot it by 3 1/2 veggie and
fruit trays and four pizzas. Well, first you could probably.
So you only ate three pizzas? Don't.
Fly while I have. Pizzas left intact.
While I admire while I admire your your decision.
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Or perhaps it was your lovely wife's of.
Course it was. She's the best one.
Great to have a veggie tray. She listens to this, and she
knows to. To want veggie trays for these
kids, how well did they go over?Oh, not bad.
I mean they ate the carrots and they ate the the pea pods,
whatever they are the snow boots.
(15:05):
They don't eat the. Rest of it, No, the broccoli
wasn't a big hit. Yeah, cherry tomatoes.
Not a big hit. Really.
My kids love cherry tomatoes andKendall loves broccoli.
The Pepper birthday. Party sell Peppers though?
Really. I mean, like when you're at the
birthday party. I mean, it's a party.
Yeah, I don't want like to be, Iguess.
Yeah, yeah, I don't. Expect to be.
Also though, we had a candy bar.Oh, fancy.
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I think that went over well. It did, other than they didn't
eat a whole lot of that either. In fact, many of the.
Kids all the pizza that you overfed I.
Was gonna say maybe they filled up on candy and they didn't eat
the rest. That's why.
Well, they. Did have the candy first that
was out all afternoon, but well before the pizza came.
But they didn't eat that much ofit.
And in fact, many of the girls stopped themselves because like
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we're saying out loud, no, I've had too much candy.
Like they had restraint. I don't know how that's possible
at 12. Well, because they're 12 and.
Yeah. Sure, and then they all maybe
basically ate a piece of pizza. So how many pizzas do you have
leftover? Full pizza 4.
OK, so you put even your word. 7. 7/7 is a lot of pizza.
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I mean, 2/1 was medium and one was small.
One, one of the girls has a gluten thing, a legitimate 1,
not just someone who says yeah, yeah.
So she had to get her own. But otherwise, yeah, yeah, it
was. It was a lot of leftovers.
Which, well, I can tell you thisis not the first time that
Foreman has overshot the amount of food.
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Now, I partly. Yeah, this.
I've been to your parties. I wish.
You would just say the last timethat Foreman is overshocked, but
you had to keep going and that'sfine.
When have I ever overdone anything?
Nothing I do is overdone, Yeah. Exactly.
I was at no, I will say that I if I'm throwing a party, I want
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to have more than enough food. I don't want to run out of food.
Yes, right. So you it's, I mean, that's a
good problem to have, but this is not the first time because I
was at one of your kids, but probably Harley's birthday when
you lived here the first time and you guys had so much pizza.
I think you sent us home with one.
Oh, good. OK, so we have done this before.
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I don't recall that. I'm pretty sure we left with a
full pizza. Yeah.
I'm pretty sure we did. Well, which we should have, but
because in fact, but we didn't offer yet.
However, almost every single girl at this party said well
I'll take it home because my dadwill eat a whole pizza as a
snack. Really.
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All of them said their dads, which is devours pizza.
Well, you know, late night. Snacks, sure, but so part of the
reason I'm like, well, yeah, butI was planning to do that, so.
I'm the dad and I'm going to eatthem.
Yeah, she's just given this. 4 snacks for me.
Did you have party favors for all these girls?
Oh yeah, they all took home candy as.
Well, you might as well go. To the candy bar should.
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Have given them. Pizzas.
I know well. Half a pizza for you.
Half a pizza for you. There you.
Go. You're the You're the Oprah of
pizza. You get a pizza.
You get a pizza. There you go.
It has been handy for lunches for days.
Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
So they have pizza day at school, Yeah.
Plus all the veggies and the fruit that you like.
It's a whole meal, day after dayafter day.
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Groceries for a while, which is a good thing.
You know, turns out I'm the onlyone in this family fine with
that menu, so. Nobody, everybody else is sick
of it. No one wants it.
No one wants the rest. Some of those pizzas.
In the freezer. Yeah, after lunch on Sunday, no
one else wanted a damn piece of anything.
It'll all get thrown out by the time.
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Oh, I'm eating it. I'm.
Out Dale yet? Yes, but I'm still eating it on
principle, yes. Yeah.
(19:05):
This is due to underwhelming demand.
The podcast? That's like having your own
backyard pool. Not as much fun as you might
think. I'd be willing to try.
Oh, well, you did have a backyard.
Yeah. Yeah, you did, and it was great.
By the way, this podcast isn't as much fun as you think.
Just saying that. I mean, the the correlation is
there, but that's what I would like to talk about is a backyard
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pool because I have a backyard pool.
Must be nice. What?
A what? A So does Rachel.
It must be nice. It must be nice.
Must be very nice, yeah? Rachel.
Is not open yet. Is yours open?
Oh yeah, mine's open. What are we talking above ground
like a common? Person or a no I had.
(19:48):
Person. No, you had a pool at one point,
your last host in Saint Thomas and.
Your other house in Halifax, didn't you?
That was a. Swim Spa What's a swim spa?
What is that? It's a.
It's an all weather pool A really it's.
OK, it was nice. It must.
Be it was nice. It must be nice.
It must be nice. It was very nice.
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Yeah, let me ask you something for a minute, because I know you
had that. You had the above ground put in
in Saint Thomas. It was an on ground, so it's
kind of in between, OK. Yeah, basically like a.
Sunken in above. Ground, how much did you, how
much did you know about that pool?
Like could you open and close that pool?
Oh no. OK, good.
(20:34):
That's then I feel better. Don't you open and close yours
yourself? Me.
Yeah. Yeah, of course I do.
I can open and close a pool. I can do that.
Yeah, I can open and I can closea pool.
Can. And Rachel, you grew up in Fafa
Ville. You had a pool when you were a
kid. Didn't you have a pool now?
Yes. You went to camp for the summer.
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OK. Camp was not a huge expense, but
OK, yeah. You did all those things?
Yeah. I was like I had, I've had two
pools in my life. I bought a house with a pool.
I knew nothing about pools. I I still don't think I know
anything about pools. And that's what I'm here to
discuss is that it it is nice tohave a backyard pool, except
(21:20):
it's not as nice as you think because.
Please tell us why. Well, I mean do you not have
issues with your pool? I don't know.
Jeremy does it. Yes, exactly.
That is exactly right. That is exactly what I'm getting
at. Yeah, we have had issues.
We've had to replace some thingsand you know, there's always
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every expense. It is an expense.
Every year, yeah, two weeks. So here's the thing my wife said
to me two weeks ago, well, let'sopen the pool.
I was like a landing. Let's just open the pool and you
open the pool well. Like don't take to it.
It does take two of us to get the cover off.
It's a little easier. To help the cover.
(22:03):
To take the cover off. That's usually when the yelling
and swearing happen. Well, there's no yelling and
swearing when we take the cover off.
We get it off, it's fine. But the issue is, and here's
where if you want, if you have apool in your backyard, if you're
good with pools, I have a friendwho's good with pools, thank
God, because I, I rely on this guy.
I'm texting him all 'cause I haven't got a clue what I'm
(22:24):
doing. And yet, yes, I can open it,
Yes, I could close it, that's amazing.
But opening means nothing. Now you gotta, when I open my
pool, honestly it it's as green as my grass and I look at it and
go, well now what do I do? I throw.
Every year it's been. A long time, I throw a little
(22:45):
shock in there, I'll throw some shock in and then it becomes
less green. And then there's a lot of
vacuuming involved and then there's, and then there's all of
this that's involved. And, and, and I say to my wife,
well, you know, when I opened the pool, I got all of this
stuff to deal with. Yeah, well, let's just open it.
So it's OK for her, 'cause all she has to do is help me take
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the cover off. And then we look at it and it is
as green as my lawn and I go so the.
The day she. Wanted.
To the day she wanted us to openthe pool was a Sunday and I said
can we just wait till tomorrow? Tomorrow's supposed to be warm,
can we do it tomorrow? And she goes OK it nothing.
(23:29):
It's still going to be the same tomorrow as it is today.
I said yes, but I need to prepare myself so I don't sleep
that night. Hasn't he learned by now that
Dave can't do anything immediately?
No, well, I don't. He has to think about things for
a good long time before anythinghappens.
A decision is made. The older I get, the more
(23:51):
anxiety I get because I'm very Idon't want the reason I don't
want to open the pool because I don't want to see what it looks
like. Yeah, I don't want to know what
what thing or things are broken this year, and so far there have
been several. See.
Oh, I don't know. Like if you don't have a pool,
(24:13):
no one cares. I mean, it's just there are
little things. I had a pool, I bought a pool,
didn't know anything about pools.
Several people taught me a few things but I still suck at it.
And in those days I could open apool but there's no way I was
closing a pool. But now I can do both.
I've advanced to where I can do both.
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But we also now have advanced with our pools.
I have a salt water pool. It just means you use pool salt
to create chlorine blah blah blah blah blah.
Keeps your pool going. All of that stuff.
Nobody told me that there was going to be a full on computer
and a motherboard and all of this stuff that I have no idea
(24:55):
what it is. So the other day, you know, I
finally it's the pool's no longer green.
I have it to the point where it's no longer green and I'm
going to put some salt in the pool.
So I put the salt in the pool and then I switch on my computer
motherboard generator and then all it says is no flow.
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I'm like, OK, oh boy, it's been many, many years with this pool.
What the hell does that mean? I.
Know there's always a new issue.Yeah.
So I text my friend, he goes, oh, you need this and you need
that. And how much is one of those?
A couple $100? I don't want to order that
anyway so I put that in but thenI put it in wrong and I'm
(25:39):
texting him. It still doesn't work.
So I finally I got a text back from him and I said I said to
him boy I'm really thankful thatyou helped me.
All that stuff. He goes anytime.
I'm a little busy right now but if we can do it like this then
it saves me some time and gets you educated for the future lol.
So I'm not educated for the future.
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I have no idea what I'm doing for him.
It's just because there's new issues that pop up and then you
have to figure out, OK, what's that?
But once you eventually figure out what like, OK, this piece
does this, it's kind of common sense to walk through like, oh,
that works like this. So then this works like this and
it's kind of to a. Point, though, because Dave is
(26:20):
demonstrating that that only goes so far, and then something
else happens and you still don'tknow what the hell you.
Have to learn what? Goes wrong and then and then
he'll say, oh, well, that's a different problem.
You, you might need a new salt cell or you might need this or
you might need that. So here's the thing.
Once you get the pool and, and this is what happens at my place
(26:42):
now because you have two youngerkids, Rachel, so I'm sure and
Jeremy does all the work and youdon't do anything.
Maybe you help them with the cover?
Yeah, I do help. But yeah, exactly.
So I get that pool. I mean, I'm on, I vacuum
everyday. I'm scooping stuff out, you
know, like I'm scooping stuff out.
I do all of that stuff. The pool looks good.
(27:03):
It gets warm, the weather's hot.How many times do I go in the
pool? 10 and when I go in the pool, I
go in Pool off and I get right back out and my wife does the
same thing. My daughter, on the other hand,
who used to swim in the pool allthe time, never goes in the.
(27:24):
Pool. Like.
Never. So you're at the stage where
you're not really using it anymore.
No, but it looks good. It looks.
Nice, yeah. It's nice to have open to me.
You have a granddaughter that might like to come and swim in
the summer. She's not big on swimming.
She comes we're. In it all the time.
We're in it every day after school, after all the summer,
(27:46):
all summer long. Every weekend.
We sit back. Like if somebody invites me away
for the weekend, takes me away from my pool, I'm angry.
I just want to be near my pool, right?
Unless you have a pool and then I'll go because my backyard, my
pool, that's my cottage. I don't have a cottage.
I don't have to pay for a cottage.
That's my expense. That's my cottage.
That's my you know, cottages areexpensive.
(28:08):
Cottages need maintenance. Pools are expensive.
They need maintenance, right? That's my cottage.
That's where I want to be. We've set it up the way we like
your. Cottage your, your pool, your
cottage, that thing. Don't take me away from it when
it needs something, if somethinggoes wrong, when it needs
something, if something needs tobe fixed, do you you just go
back downstairs and go, well, that'll get fixed.
(28:30):
That's not my problem. Jeremy, there's something wrong.
Well, no. Usually we both have to solve
that problem because Jeremy goes, figures out that there is
a problem, comes in very angry, and then I have to look up, OK,
how do we fix this because he's too angry.
That's my wife's answer to everything.
When the pool, when there's something wrong with the pool.
(28:50):
Well, have you googled it? Yes.
I've googled it. Yeah, it must be nice to have a
pool. Yeah, and not particularly.
See, This is why my kids are hassling us to where'd you go to
pool again? And I said, first of all, do you
know how much it cost now? No.
And second of all, This is why we bought the little hot tub,
the salt water hot tub for way less maintenance.
(29:12):
Yes, exactly right. You tell them.
Come see Uncle Dave. He'll tell them what they.
Didn't need Uncle Dave. You don't need a pool you.
Don't swim in your pool though, at least.
Well, you can come over. That'd be good.
Somebody use it? Hope you don't run out of food.
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Yes. Or marble slab.
Marble slab. Or marble slab, Yeah.
Where to give you one for free time is a.
Freebie it's a free going to marble Slab because Kendall and
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I are both dairy free now and they have good dairy free ice
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Which you can get made into a whole cake in fact, with the
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Imagine so, yes. Yeah, anyway.
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I don't know who it's from, but.Trudy on Apple Podcasts.
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I guess this because it came through to our e-mail as well.
This podcast deserves a six out of five rating.
It's the most relatable and hilarious podcast you didn't
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know you needed. Thank you for continuing to
bless us with comedic presence. Well, thank you, Trudy.
That's so kind. Podcast.
You didn't know you need it. Yeah.
That will shove it in your face anyway.
Right, that's right. I think what was the you had it
one time, Dave was the podcast you didn't know, you didn't
need. It that's exactly.
Right. Yeah, Well, and Trudy has
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actually sent us several other messages as well.
We read some of them last week. We have so many more because
truly, he's just barreling through episodes here.
Great. So on the topic of Christmas
gifts, Christmas. Gifts.
Oh my. Goodness.
Yeah, and the nonsense husbands have been getting their wives.
(33:10):
This is what my husband and I started doing to avoid it.
We shop for ourselves, get what we want, wrap it up and put it
under the tree. The surprise factor is still
there when I see him react to what I got myself.
And bonus, if you've shopped foryourself earlier enough, you've
forgotten what you got yourself by Christmas.
And it's still a surprise for you, too.
(33:30):
So who wraps them then? The other.
Person to wrap it yourself. Oh, you wrap it yourself, so
it's a surprise for the other person of what you're getting.
Exactly, yes. I see.
OK. Which is fun.
I don't. Really care?
I don't really. Care what I get?
I don't know, I. Don't.
I don't know. That wouldn't work for me.
But yeah, I mean whatever works.Yeah.
(33:51):
Are you curious as to whether ornot my Mother's Day gift went
over well? I actually was going to ask you
about that, yes. So you bought your wife some
pots and pans and we were all very curious as to whether she
would. Like them sonnet?
I mean she no doubts that's whatshe asked for.
She picked them out so I'm assuming she likes them.
Does she like them? Yes.
We haven't actually got them out-of-the-box.
Yeah, but yes, she that's exactly what she wanted.
(34:14):
She was happy to get it. It also came with flowers in a
car. OK, good.
And I got her some coffee because we are really, I don't
know, we're particular about hercoffee.
And so plus the pots, which it turns out she had already
discovered I'd bought several days earlier because I didn't
hide them very well, because what?
(34:35):
What's she doing in the furnace room?
The switch to turn it on and off.
Right. Yeah, she already knew.
I mean, she already knew becauseshe sent it to me.
So why wouldn't I buy them? Sure.
Yes. So you did give her other
things. Flowers.
Yes. OK, that's good.
Very good. So it was a good Mother's Day
(34:55):
then? Yes.
OK, other than it was spent cleaning up from the 1012 year
olds. Well, that's problematic.
Problematic. That was very brave of you to
have that many kids. Oh, I saw your your wife looked
delighted with her pots and pans.
She was, yes, Good. I'd really like.
To see Rachel being gifted with pots and pans.
(35:16):
No, Jeremy knows better. We would just go to Canadian
Tire on a Saturday and buy them.Canadian maybe, Maybe Home
Depot, maybe bed bath and beyond.
Don't know. Don't know if you have enough
time. Yeah.
Nice little Saturday. Nice, nice Saturday outing and
we'd all go together as a family, which gets grading so,
(35:42):
but we all go as a unit, all four of us, everywhere.
Rest of your messages, Trudy next week.
I think you might be overdoing it, Dad.
Russ when was the last time I overdid anything?
Ready to go. I need a bag.
I need a new Golf bag eventually, but those are
expensive. Remember how I won that golf
bag? By getting closest to the pin?
We sold it. It was really stupid.
I don't know, at a garage sale? Oh wow.
But. Well.
That was like 10 years ago so. The guy you wanted the C pap for
$7.00 or whatever. Yeah, probably.
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Rachel Golf's foreman overshoots.
And Dave has an extremely third world problem, as always.
Third World or First World? First world, yes.
Sorry, there's no third world possible north of Fan Shop.
(01:12):
Already proved the point how he doesn't know how good he has.
Yeah, you're right. I thought it was.
Yeah, you're right. It's a first row problem.
OK. All right, So you're.
Starting Rachel, I've been golfing.
Have you? Yes, Well, you.
Know you know what hockey players do in the summertime?
We golf. So that's what we're doing.
(01:35):
Now that I'm such an athlete, I'm doing both sports.
I have a winter sport and a summer sport.
Oh wow, are you laughing? Yes, because you said you said
you know what hockey players do in the summertime and you said
we golf. Yes, I am a hockey player.
I'm a hockey player and I am golfing now.
(01:55):
So, as you know, I golfed. How many rounds have you got?
In so far one it just started. No, I've signed up for a ladies
golfing league. That means nothing.
So I'm in a league and we go every week.
Only once. I actually can't go this week
but I am going next week. See, he didn't know what he
(02:19):
knew. Again, this is.
Last week, and that was. Nine holes.
Nine holes. That's not golf.
That's. Just one.
Oh, it is. Half you win a half a.
Time half a golf that's. Fine.
And it was a 5 some there was five of us.
They let us. OK, see, you can't do that.
It's not allowed to. Do carts and one person had her
(02:42):
push carts and so she would sometimes jump on our cart and
pull the cart as we drove. So that worked because you can
fit 3 bodies but only two golf cart golf bags.
So you weren't you weren't one of the people walking.
No. Was there anybody behind you?
Yes. So this was the, we went on a
Saturday morning and they had a breakfast for us like a
(03:04):
continental breakfast. And, and this was kind of the,
the, the kickoff to, to the whole season, right?
So there's a lot of ladies therethat morning for breakfast and
then you could tee off and, and golf.
So there was a group in front ofus and a group behind us.
So we were trying to keep up. And I think if we didn't have
carts, we would have been a lot slower like we were, yes, we
(03:28):
would have been. It would have been painful for
the people behind us because there was a twosome behind us
and. A twosome behind a fivesome.
Well, they just, I don't know. That's when they looked it.
There wasn't any way where to go.
The people, we were right up against the people in front of
us. They were walking.
There was three or four of them.So it was a busy time.
(03:50):
It was fine. We were trying to get it, get
through as much as we can. Dave, you.
Seem to be a stickler for how golf works and what the rules
should be. Just two symbol 5.
But just picture this league is full of Rachel's.
I know well so they they should put a sign up.
I don't. Know where you.
I don't know where you played the but there should be a sign
up saying don't anybody come outSaturday mornings because
(04:13):
you're. OK, well, it's not always sad.
This Saturday happened to be when a lot of us were there
because oh. It's not Oh so.
You had the breakfast. Jumping all over the place so
nobody. That's not fun.
Right, so you once. Again, now I'm really.
Annoyed now? You're you're really annoying
you. Can book anytime in the week.
I think the typical day is Thursday for the league, but you
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can go any anytime as long as you go and they stamp your card
or whatever. And you get 5 people and you
clog everything up. So five of us joins together,
but we know that like there's going to be weeks where like one
or two of us can't go, or maybe two of us go one day and three
of us go a different day. So it's, you know, they're all
going Thursday. I can't go Thursday.
(04:56):
I I'm out. So I can't do Thursday.
So that's fine. I'll find another day.
You have to do 12 times in the season, so that's fine.
I'll, I'll make it up at another. .12 How are you going
to do? That I know.
That's two more than hockey, andhockey was a lot, although
hockey was way harder. And you missed.
Several of those. How many hockey's did you miss?
(05:16):
2 So I did 8 hockey scissors 10 and I missed 2 and so yeah.
And eight was hard enough. 8 washard enough. 10 would have been
a bitch. Oh yeah. 12 golfing session.
Well see I so I find golf easierbecause it doesn't.
I'm not in pain doing it, but it's difficult to hit the ball.
(05:40):
That's not that's not easy, as you know.
So I kind of thought, oh, I'm just going to join this league
and I don't need to keep score. I don't care.
I'm just out there to do it. But no, you have to keep score
and you get points for things like over and above the scores.
There's points for different pricing and whatever.
So the very first week was wear pink week.
(06:01):
So for every item of pink clothing you wore, you got a
point. So we all came decked out like
we were in pink pants, pink shorts, pink sweaters, shirts,
tank tops, scrunchies, earrings,necklaces, whatever we could
find. Somebody wore a Fanny pack.
Like we rated our little kids pinks things and wore whatever
(06:25):
we could find that was pink. So I got 12 points because I was
wearing 12 pink things. What does that?
What the hell does that have to do with golf?
Does that count to your score? No.
The points are for some kind of prizing.
They have, you know, different things each week.
I don't really know. I don't know.
What would make you feel good though, Rachel at the end of the
(06:45):
season if you won an award for excelling in pink?
That's probably the only award I'm getting and I did.
I excelled. So we walk in and we go for
breakfast and immediately somebody says Pink was on
Thursday. We're completely decked out, all
(07:05):
five of us, but. Only the five of you.
Only us? Yeah.
Everybody else is the normal golf attire.
Well, now I approve of the pink.Yeah.
But the golf lady? Who runs the league?
Is like, no, no, no, it's fine. It was all week long.
You can still wear it. And now I don't know if she said
that just to make us. Feel wearing pink you?
(07:25):
Should be deducted for wearing. It was one of the old ladies.
They're all, it's full of old lady.
They're probably crabby because they're not wearing pink.
They're having no fun, so you know they.
Wore pink 2 days ago. There were.
Problems where they behind you. That's why they're crappy.
No, this is at breakfast. She might have been mine.
I don't. I actually don't even know who I
was at. What point do you golf?
(07:47):
OK, so we had breakfast and thenwe went out golfing.
We did. We did go out.
So the Max you can get is doublepar because we needed to know
that. So how?
Many pars did you get? None.
How many double pars did you get?
Pretty much all of them. Yeah, pretty much all of them.
How? Many points do you get for.
(08:09):
That I don't know. I don't know.
You have to score your total. Score and then your putts.
So if you get 8 which is a double par, let's say it's par 4
and you get 8 and you putted 2 times.
I don't know till basically tillyou maxed out at 8:00 and then
it would be like 8/2, right? How often did you Max out then?
(08:31):
I would say 8 or 9 * 8. Times.
Nine times. Was there 1 hole where you
actually got in like 7? Shots did get a couple holes
where I was under the Max. Wow, I don't know but.
That's good. I know I that criminal.
Think or you know you. I do know.
I do know. Yeah, I there was a couple that
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we got, we got under, Yeah. And on the last hole it was a
par five. My God, and all of us maxed out
at 10 and then we just and one girl just quit.
She's like, you know what? Just put me down for A10 Like
I'm not even she did one drive and she's like, I'm done.
Nope, this is. And we're like, OK, so she just
sat in the cart, drove everybodyaround.
This is the best part of your golf.
(09:13):
Would it have been the breakfast?
Yeah, well, the camaraderie, of course, minus Crabby Lady, but
yeah, the camaraderie is nice. And you have many more, many
more golfs. To tell them.
Although you can't golf this week.
Right. Yes, we have 11 more, but this
was just to update you about my athletic journey.
Prowess. Yes, Prowess I.
(09:34):
Don't think prowess, more jury. And we were all very excited
about look at the end of the year, we're going to be by by
the end of the season, we're going to be so great.
Like we're going to be knocking these things like hitting bombs
down the. OK, well, right, that's what we
expect then. Foreman.
Yes, Rachel just said it. Save that, please.
Yeah, we will repeat. That prediction?
(09:55):
Prediction yes and for Mother's Day Jeremy got me.
Actually I have a golf question for you, but Jeremy got me a new
visor for golf because I requested an A visor and a golf
a new Golf glove for my other hand because I I squeeze the
club so tight it I kind of rub my the right thing.
I wear the glove on my left hand.
(10:17):
Can I wear 2 gloves or is that afaux pas?
No, you can do that. You can do whatever you want.
I don't care. And he said I.
Don't know if you can wear. People don't really do that.
Yeah, on your head. Wear all the gloves you wear the
pink how? Enjoy your breakfast, down the
mimosas and go out in front of me, whatever the fuck.
Exactly, just let me know where you're playing before.
(10:38):
So don't worry, we're not playing with you, Dave.
No, but just if you're at my golf course, I need to know.
Yeah, No, we're not at yours. Rest assured, we're not there.
Thank you. I'm not saying more than you
think, David. I know.
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See, we all agree. Yes, yeah.
Welcome to another episode of Days of Our Pathetic Lives.
Yeah, Foreman. It'll make you ask the question,
(11:27):
are they still in that coma that's.
Right. He came back to life.
In fact, one year at summer camp, we did a theatre camp and
we did a like a soap opera. You need to talk about something
to do with the flute or the. No, it's theatre camp.
We did, you know, as the world turns, as the world turns.
(11:50):
No, we did as the stomach turns.It was funny.
It was a funny spoof on a Anyway.
How? Good.
It was a riot. Well, Riot.
Here we are, day five days afterthe fact, and I'm still filling
my stomach with leftovers from Harley's birthday party.
It's. Her birthday party, How was that
(12:10):
good? It was 1012 year old girls
sleeping over. Ten of them sleeping over.
Yep. Holy.
Crap 12 year old girls on a sleepover.
Wow, yeah. I would have cut that number
right in half. That's a lot of kids.
I was not in charge. Well, you're very brave.
(12:31):
You're a brave. I sort of figured that.
Yeah, you. Do that.
I sort of figured that. Yeah, but I'm glad someone was
and it still went well. I mean, other than they're loud
and I'm pretty sure our neighbors weren't fond of us
but. Right.
Yeah. Otherwise, yeah, everyone got
along well. Everyone slept.
We thought there's going to be awhole, you know, this is what
(12:54):
happens with sleepovers where kids come up in the middle of
the night and say, I can't sleep, I want to go home.
No one did that, so that's bonus.
We did, however, expect them to eat a whole lot more than they
did. So what was the menu?
They're 12 year old girls. They don't eat a lot.
Yes, they do. They do.
Well, not as much as you planned, I guess.
No, the menu was there was an ice cream cake for cuz, you
(13:18):
know, birthday. Sure.
Marble slab, by the way. Nice.
Strawberry ice cream cake with actual strawberries in it.
Wow. Done.
OK, done. Yeah, beat that Dairy Queen.
I don't think they can and. We lost another potential
sponsor. Continue.
No, I'm saying I'm willing for them to demonstrate to me how
(13:40):
they're gonna be OK. OK.
So taunting them will work. OK.
All right. So far so good with the keg.
Yeah, yeah. We're zero for zero, yeah.
And there was 2 Costco fruit trays and two Costco veggie
trays. And I went out and picked up an
(14:02):
order of seven. Pizzas 7 pizzas.
For 10 kids. Yeah, 12 kids.
Well, 12. Right.
Well, there's 10 in total, yeah.10 in yeah plus like.
Ashley and I were gonna eat too.So there's a half a pizza for
each person. Well, yeah, because normally if
we ever do order pizza, the girls will eat like half a piece
each. So we're like, well, we better
(14:24):
have enough for all these kids. OK.
Sure, and it turns out we overshot it by 3 1/2 veggie and
fruit trays and four pizzas. Well, first you could probably.
So you only ate three pizzas? Don't.
Fly while I have. Pizzas left intact.
While I admire while I admire your your decision.
(14:44):
Or perhaps it was your lovely wife's of.
Course it was. She's the best one.
Great to have a veggie tray. She listens to this, and she
knows to. To want veggie trays for these
kids, how well did they go over?Oh, not bad.
I mean they ate the carrots and they ate the the pea pods,
whatever they are the snow boots.
(15:05):
They don't eat the. Rest of it, No, the broccoli
wasn't a big hit. Yeah, cherry tomatoes.
Not a big hit. Really.
My kids love cherry tomatoes andKendall loves broccoli.
The Pepper birthday. Party sell Peppers though?
Really. I mean, like when you're at the
birthday party. I mean, it's a party.
Yeah, I don't want like to be, Iguess.
Yeah, yeah, I don't. Expect to be.
Also though, we had a candy bar.Oh, fancy.
(15:28):
I think that went over well. It did, other than they didn't
eat a whole lot of that either. In fact, many of the.
Kids all the pizza that you overfed I.
Was gonna say maybe they filled up on candy and they didn't eat
the rest. That's why.
Well, they. Did have the candy first that
was out all afternoon, but well before the pizza came.
But they didn't eat that much ofit.
And in fact, many of the girls stopped themselves because like
(15:50):
we're saying out loud, no, I've had too much candy.
Like they had restraint. I don't know how that's possible
at 12. Well, because they're 12 and.
Yeah. Sure, and then they all maybe
basically ate a piece of pizza. So how many pizzas do you have
leftover? Full pizza 4.
OK, so you put even your word. 7. 7/7 is a lot of pizza.
(16:16):
I mean, 2/1 was medium and one was small.
One, one of the girls has a gluten thing, a legitimate 1,
not just someone who says yeah, yeah.
So she had to get her own. But otherwise, yeah, yeah, it
was. It was a lot of leftovers.
Which, well, I can tell you thisis not the first time that
Foreman has overshot the amount of food.
(16:37):
Now, I partly. Yeah, this.
I've been to your parties. I wish.
You would just say the last timethat Foreman is overshocked, but
you had to keep going and that'sfine.
When have I ever overdone anything?
Nothing I do is overdone, Yeah. Exactly.
I was at no, I will say that I if I'm throwing a party, I want
(16:58):
to have more than enough food. I don't want to run out of food.
Yes, right. So you it's, I mean, that's a
good problem to have, but this is not the first time because I
was at one of your kids, but probably Harley's birthday when
you lived here the first time and you guys had so much pizza.
I think you sent us home with one.
Oh, good. OK, so we have done this before.
(17:20):
I don't recall that. I'm pretty sure we left with a
full pizza. Yeah.
I'm pretty sure we did. Well, which we should have, but
because in fact, but we didn't offer yet.
However, almost every single girl at this party said well
I'll take it home because my dadwill eat a whole pizza as a
snack. Really.
(17:41):
All of them said their dads, which is devours pizza.
Well, you know, late night. Snacks, sure, but so part of the
reason I'm like, well, yeah, butI was planning to do that, so.
I'm the dad and I'm going to eatthem.
Yeah, she's just given this. 4 snacks for me.
Did you have party favors for all these girls?
Oh yeah, they all took home candy as.
Well, you might as well go. To the candy bar should.
(18:01):
Have given them. Pizzas.
I know well. Half a pizza for you.
Half a pizza for you. There you.
Go. You're the You're the Oprah of
pizza. You get a pizza.
You get a pizza. There you go.
It has been handy for lunches for days.
Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
So they have pizza day at school, Yeah.
Plus all the veggies and the fruit that you like.
It's a whole meal, day after dayafter day.
(18:22):
Groceries for a while, which is a good thing.
You know, turns out I'm the onlyone in this family fine with
that menu, so. Nobody, everybody else is sick
of it. No one wants it.
No one wants the rest. Some of those pizzas.
In the freezer. Yeah, after lunch on Sunday, no
one else wanted a damn piece of anything.
It'll all get thrown out by the time.
(18:42):
Oh, I'm eating it. I'm.
Out Dale yet? Yes, but I'm still eating it on
principle, yes. Yeah.
(19:05):
This is due to underwhelming demand.
The podcast? That's like having your own
backyard pool. Not as much fun as you might
think. I'd be willing to try.
Oh, well, you did have a backyard.
Yeah. Yeah, you did, and it was great.
By the way, this podcast isn't as much fun as you think.
Just saying that. I mean, the the correlation is
there, but that's what I would like to talk about is a backyard
(19:28):
pool because I have a backyard pool.
Must be nice. What?
A what? A So does Rachel.
It must be nice. It must be nice.
Must be very nice, yeah? Rachel.
Is not open yet. Is yours open?
Oh yeah, mine's open. What are we talking above ground
like a common? Person or a no I had.
(19:48):
Person. No, you had a pool at one point,
your last host in Saint Thomas and.
Your other house in Halifax, didn't you?
That was a. Swim Spa What's a swim spa?
What is that? It's a.
It's an all weather pool A really it's.
OK, it was nice. It must.
Be it was nice. It must be nice.
It must be nice. It was very nice.
(20:12):
Yeah, let me ask you something for a minute, because I know you
had that. You had the above ground put in
in Saint Thomas. It was an on ground, so it's
kind of in between, OK. Yeah, basically like a.
Sunken in above. Ground, how much did you, how
much did you know about that pool?
Like could you open and close that pool?
Oh no. OK, good.
(20:34):
That's then I feel better. Don't you open and close yours
yourself? Me.
Yeah. Yeah, of course I do.
I can open and close a pool. I can do that.
Yeah, I can open and I can closea pool.
Can. And Rachel, you grew up in Fafa
Ville. You had a pool when you were a
kid. Didn't you have a pool now?
Yes. You went to camp for the summer.
(20:56):
OK. Camp was not a huge expense, but
OK, yeah. You did all those things?
Yeah. I was like I had, I've had two
pools in my life. I bought a house with a pool.
I knew nothing about pools. I I still don't think I know
anything about pools. And that's what I'm here to
discuss is that it it is nice tohave a backyard pool, except
(21:20):
it's not as nice as you think because.
Please tell us why. Well, I mean do you not have
issues with your pool? I don't know.
Jeremy does it. Yes, exactly.
That is exactly right. That is exactly what I'm getting
at. Yeah, we have had issues.
We've had to replace some thingsand you know, there's always
(21:41):
every expense. It is an expense.
Every year, yeah, two weeks. So here's the thing my wife said
to me two weeks ago, well, let'sopen the pool.
I was like a landing. Let's just open the pool and you
open the pool well. Like don't take to it.
It does take two of us to get the cover off.
It's a little easier. To help the cover.
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To take the cover off. That's usually when the yelling
and swearing happen. Well, there's no yelling and
swearing when we take the cover off.
We get it off, it's fine. But the issue is, and here's
where if you want, if you have apool in your backyard, if you're
good with pools, I have a friendwho's good with pools, thank
God, because I, I rely on this guy.
I'm texting him all 'cause I haven't got a clue what I'm
(22:24):
doing. And yet, yes, I can open it,
Yes, I could close it, that's amazing.
But opening means nothing. Now you gotta, when I open my
pool, honestly it it's as green as my grass and I look at it and
go, well now what do I do? I throw.
Every year it's been. A long time, I throw a little
(22:45):
shock in there, I'll throw some shock in and then it becomes
less green. And then there's a lot of
vacuuming involved and then there's, and then there's all of
this that's involved. And, and, and I say to my wife,
well, you know, when I opened the pool, I got all of this
stuff to deal with. Yeah, well, let's just open it.
So it's OK for her, 'cause all she has to do is help me take
(23:07):
the cover off. And then we look at it and it is
as green as my lawn and I go so the.
The day she. Wanted.
To the day she wanted us to openthe pool was a Sunday and I said
can we just wait till tomorrow? Tomorrow's supposed to be warm,
can we do it tomorrow? And she goes OK it nothing.
(23:29):
It's still going to be the same tomorrow as it is today.
I said yes, but I need to prepare myself so I don't sleep
that night. Hasn't he learned by now that
Dave can't do anything immediately?
No, well, I don't. He has to think about things for
a good long time before anythinghappens.
A decision is made. The older I get, the more
(23:51):
anxiety I get because I'm very Idon't want the reason I don't
want to open the pool because I don't want to see what it looks
like. Yeah, I don't want to know what
what thing or things are broken this year, and so far there have
been several. See.
Oh, I don't know. Like if you don't have a pool,
(24:13):
no one cares. I mean, it's just there are
little things. I had a pool, I bought a pool,
didn't know anything about pools.
Several people taught me a few things but I still suck at it.
And in those days I could open apool but there's no way I was
closing a pool. But now I can do both.
I've advanced to where I can do both.
(24:33):
But we also now have advanced with our pools.
I have a salt water pool. It just means you use pool salt
to create chlorine blah blah blah blah blah.
Keeps your pool going. All of that stuff.
Nobody told me that there was going to be a full on computer
and a motherboard and all of this stuff that I have no idea
(24:55):
what it is. So the other day, you know, I
finally it's the pool's no longer green.
I have it to the point where it's no longer green and I'm
going to put some salt in the pool.
So I put the salt in the pool and then I switch on my computer
motherboard generator and then all it says is no flow.
(25:16):
I'm like, OK, oh boy, it's been many, many years with this pool.
What the hell does that mean? I.
Know there's always a new issue.Yeah.
So I text my friend, he goes, oh, you need this and you need
that. And how much is one of those?
A couple $100? I don't want to order that
anyway so I put that in but thenI put it in wrong and I'm
(25:39):
texting him. It still doesn't work.
So I finally I got a text back from him and I said I said to
him boy I'm really thankful thatyou helped me.
All that stuff. He goes anytime.
I'm a little busy right now but if we can do it like this then
it saves me some time and gets you educated for the future lol.
So I'm not educated for the future.
(26:00):
I have no idea what I'm doing for him.
It's just because there's new issues that pop up and then you
have to figure out, OK, what's that?
But once you eventually figure out what like, OK, this piece
does this, it's kind of common sense to walk through like, oh,
that works like this. So then this works like this and
it's kind of to a. Point, though, because Dave is
(26:20):
demonstrating that that only goes so far, and then something
else happens and you still don'tknow what the hell you.
Have to learn what? Goes wrong and then and then
he'll say, oh, well, that's a different problem.
You, you might need a new salt cell or you might need this or
you might need that. So here's the thing.
Once you get the pool and, and this is what happens at my place
(26:42):
now because you have two youngerkids, Rachel, so I'm sure and
Jeremy does all the work and youdon't do anything.
Maybe you help them with the cover?
Yeah, I do help. But yeah, exactly.
So I get that pool. I mean, I'm on, I vacuum
everyday. I'm scooping stuff out, you
know, like I'm scooping stuff out.
I do all of that stuff. The pool looks good.
(27:03):
It gets warm, the weather's hot.How many times do I go in the
pool? 10 and when I go in the pool, I
go in Pool off and I get right back out and my wife does the
same thing. My daughter, on the other hand,
who used to swim in the pool allthe time, never goes in the.
(27:24):
Pool. Like.
Never. So you're at the stage where
you're not really using it anymore.
No, but it looks good. It looks.
Nice, yeah. It's nice to have open to me.
You have a granddaughter that might like to come and swim in
the summer. She's not big on swimming.
She comes we're. In it all the time.
We're in it every day after school, after all the summer,
(27:46):
all summer long. Every weekend.
We sit back. Like if somebody invites me away
for the weekend, takes me away from my pool, I'm angry.
I just want to be near my pool, right?
Unless you have a pool and then I'll go because my backyard, my
pool, that's my cottage. I don't have a cottage.
I don't have to pay for a cottage.
That's my expense. That's my cottage.
That's my you know, cottages areexpensive.
(28:08):
Cottages need maintenance. Pools are expensive.
They need maintenance, right? That's my cottage.
That's where I want to be. We've set it up the way we like
your. Cottage your, your pool, your
cottage, that thing. Don't take me away from it when
it needs something, if somethinggoes wrong, when it needs
something, if something needs tobe fixed, do you you just go
back downstairs and go, well, that'll get fixed.
(28:30):
That's not my problem. Jeremy, there's something wrong.
Well, no. Usually we both have to solve
that problem because Jeremy goes, figures out that there is
a problem, comes in very angry, and then I have to look up, OK,
how do we fix this because he's too angry.
That's my wife's answer to everything.
When the pool, when there's something wrong with the pool.
(28:50):
Well, have you googled it? Yes.
I've googled it. Yeah, it must be nice to have a
pool. Yeah, and not particularly.
See, This is why my kids are hassling us to where'd you go to
pool again? And I said, first of all, do you
know how much it cost now? No.
And second of all, This is why we bought the little hot tub,
the salt water hot tub for way less maintenance.
(29:12):
Yes, exactly right. You tell them.
Come see Uncle Dave. He'll tell them what they.
Didn't need Uncle Dave. You don't need a pool you.
Don't swim in your pool though, at least.
Well, you can come over. That'd be good.
Somebody use it? Hope you don't run out of food.
(29:49):
This due to underwhelming demand, a podcast, the podcast
with Dave, Rachel and Foreman and we have a website
underwhelming.ca. You can go there and see us and
see other things and learn otherthings like, hey, we need
sponsors and we do. Sponsors help us keep the
podcast going. So go to our website or e-mail
(30:12):
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You work at a Dairy Queen. A Dairy Queen?
Yes. Or marble slab.
Marble slab. Or marble slab, Yeah.
Where to give you one for free time is a.
Freebie it's a free going to marble Slab because Kendall and
(30:32):
I are both dairy free now and they have good dairy free ice
cream so well. Yeah, nice to know.
Which you can get made into a whole cake in fact, with the
dairy. Free.
Imagine so, yes. Yeah, anyway.
(31:02):
E-mail underwhelming.ca. Yeah.
Hey, you can go to, if you get your podcast on Apple, you can
always leave a review. Do that.
Yes you can. Please.
You can do that directly throughunderwhelming.ca as well, also
on Spotify, and I believe we've had a couple reviews lately.
One is from Emily, who did it straight up through
(31:24):
underwhelming.ca. Nice.
Five stars. We won't take anything less.
So. So if you're thinking of three,
just don't bother, OK? But Emily says this is one of my
top podcasts. One of my top podcasts.
I have to muffle my laughter when I listen at work.
(31:44):
Dave, Rachel and Foreman have a special banter and always funny
stories. Segments like headlines, Good
Idea, Bad Idea and Rachelle Fun facts are an added bonus.
I wish the episodes were longer.Oh, thanks.
For doing the podcast. Oh, you really don't?
Thank you so much. That's nice.
Thank you. Thank you.
That's. Awesome, amazing.
(32:05):
We have another review and this one is a six out of five rating.
I like that too. I know, exceptional.
I don't know who it's from, but.Trudy on Apple Podcasts.
Oh, is it OK? Well, then you can see it.
I guess this because it came through to our e-mail as well.
This podcast deserves a six out of five rating.
It's the most relatable and hilarious podcast you didn't
(32:26):
know you needed. Thank you for continuing to
bless us with comedic presence. Well, thank you, Trudy.
That's so kind. Podcast.
You didn't know you need it. Yeah.
That will shove it in your face anyway.
Right, that's right. I think what was the you had it
one time, Dave was the podcast you didn't know, you didn't
need. It that's exactly.
Right. Yeah, Well, and Trudy has
(32:49):
actually sent us several other messages as well.
We read some of them last week. We have so many more because
truly, he's just barreling through episodes here.
Great. So on the topic of Christmas
gifts, Christmas. Gifts.
Oh my. Goodness.
Yeah, and the nonsense husbands have been getting their wives.
(33:10):
This is what my husband and I started doing to avoid it.
We shop for ourselves, get what we want, wrap it up and put it
under the tree. The surprise factor is still
there when I see him react to what I got myself.
And bonus, if you've shopped foryourself earlier enough, you've
forgotten what you got yourself by Christmas.
And it's still a surprise for you, too.
(33:30):
So who wraps them then? The other.
Person to wrap it yourself. Oh, you wrap it yourself, so
it's a surprise for the other person of what you're getting.
Exactly, yes. I see.
OK. Which is fun.
I don't. Really care?
I don't really. Care what I get?
I don't know, I. Don't.
I don't know. That wouldn't work for me.
But yeah, I mean whatever works.Yeah.
(33:51):
Are you curious as to whether ornot my Mother's Day gift went
over well? I actually was going to ask you
about that, yes. So you bought your wife some
pots and pans and we were all very curious as to whether she
would. Like them sonnet?
I mean she no doubts that's whatshe asked for.
She picked them out so I'm assuming she likes them.
Does she like them? Yes.
We haven't actually got them out-of-the-box.
Yeah, but yes, she that's exactly what she wanted.
(34:14):
She was happy to get it. It also came with flowers in a
car. OK, good.
And I got her some coffee because we are really, I don't
know, we're particular about hercoffee.
And so plus the pots, which it turns out she had already
discovered I'd bought several days earlier because I didn't
hide them very well, because what?
(34:35):
What's she doing in the furnace room?
The switch to turn it on and off.
Right. Yeah, she already knew.
I mean, she already knew becauseshe sent it to me.
So why wouldn't I buy them? Sure.
Yes. So you did give her other
things. Flowers.
Yes. OK, that's good.
Very good. So it was a good Mother's Day
(34:55):
then? Yes.
OK, other than it was spent cleaning up from the 1012 year
olds. Well, that's problematic.
Problematic. That was very brave of you to
have that many kids. Oh, I saw your your wife looked
delighted with her pots and pans.
She was, yes, Good. I'd really like.
To see Rachel being gifted with pots and pans.
(35:16):
No, Jeremy knows better. We would just go to Canadian
Tire on a Saturday and buy them.Canadian maybe, Maybe Home
Depot, maybe bed bath and beyond.
Don't know. Don't know if you have enough
time. Yeah.
Nice little Saturday. Nice, nice Saturday outing and
we'd all go together as a family, which gets grading so,
(35:42):
but we all go as a unit, all four of us, everywhere.
Rest of your messages, Trudy next week.
I think you might be overdoing it, Dad.
Russ when was the last time I overdid anything?
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