November 11, 2025 • 38 mins
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(1:14) - Best Halloween display, hands down
(10:15) - The case against slip-ons
(18:50) - Rachel's a gamer?!
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(00:00):
Buy my meth shirt. I buy my meth.
Buy my meth Dave. Rachel Foreman.
Somebody sees someone walking around with that shirt.
Yeah, carrying around the weightof low expectations.
Where coherence goes to die. Right, doing the bare minimum
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and crushing it professional. Disappointed minimum.
And crushing it, right like that's funny on a T-shirt.
This is due to underwhelming demand.
The podcast that's just about anhour of your life you're never
getting back. I have like 40 minutes 45. 45
(00:46):
give or take. Something like that.
You can word that up. No, I am sure.
Easy. On the podcast today, a little
later, we'll find out about Rachel's new thing.
Rachel is apparently a gamer, Yes.
How about that? How about that?
How about that? Who saw that?
Come up, he still doesn't have much else to do.
Yeah, I'm I'm wondering why anyone wants slip on shoes.
(01:09):
I I will explain and and. Convenience, yeah.
We're going to kick things off with Foreman.
Who saw the best ever possible Halloween display anyone could
ever have, Hands down. It's not even a contest.
Wow, OK. Well, well, well.
And. You saw this in Saint Thomas.
(01:29):
In Saint Thomas I. Find that hard to believe?
I. Find that would have.
Credibly hard to believe. OK.
I would have too, until I came up up upon it and it was like a
light shining down from the heavens and a choir of angels
singing, pointing you to the promised land.
(01:51):
They must have had quite a line up then at their home.
There was not. You could walk right up and they
were giving out candy. Were you the only one that
appreciated it then? At the time, there was no one
else around. Nobody else around?
Sure. Well, what was the display?
Was it terrifying? Or it was not scary at all.
And I think that's fine. And I think you know, because we
(02:13):
talked you, we all had a good hash out about adult to wean.
And is that a thing? Should that be a thing?
Well, these guys managed to do it on actual Halloween.
Combine it with trick or treating with your children.
OK. This front porch in Saint Thomas
was transformed into ATV set. Like it's like you're walking
(02:34):
onto a set ready for TV. If you watch the characters they
dressed up as, it's like you just, it's like if you looked up
from your YouTube clip of these guys and looked at the porch, it
was them. It was exact in every way.
They must have got things printed up and made specially
for this. It was absolutely incredible.
(02:55):
Who were they pretending to be? Do you know the characters Bob
and Doug McKenzie? Yes, of course.
Classic. Classic Canadian characters.
You can picture them. They're sitting side by side,
the coffee table in front of them, right?
There's a couple of empty beers,a bowl of Halloween candy.
Of course. On either side, there's stacks
(03:16):
of beer boxes and bottles. Behind them is a backdrop that's
a map of Canada that says Great White North.
Wow. They had the tuques, they had
the Plaid, they had everything. They nailed it.
Wow and. They're just sitting on their
front porch handing out candy. Yeah.
And I go up with Emily and she'sshe doesn't care.
(03:40):
She's just grabbing the candy. And I'm like, this is the best
thing I've ever seen. You guys are awesome.
Yeah. Wow.
And then we are going to leave. And then I thought, you know
what? I have to go back.
I Emily got her candy. We're walking back out the
driveway and like, no, guys, I got to take a picture of you.
It's just too good. Sorry.
Like no one's going to believe me unless I have a picture.
(04:01):
That's they probably loved that.They put a lot of work into it,
right? Exactly.
And then they said, well, sure, but do you know who we are?
I'm like, know who you are and how cool am I in front of my
kids and family and friends and their kids that were with us?
Yeah. Be my proof of how I knew where
they were is I immediately went Oh my God.
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Which meant they immediately opened up the cooler behind the
coffee table and handed me a beer.
Oh. Yes, that was the whole point.
If you knew who they were dressed as, they would give you
a beer. OK, I like that.
Oh my gosh, I love them even more.
Wow. No.
Kidding. And my Yeti happened to be empty
(04:49):
at that exact moment. Perfect.
Timing. Perfect timing.
Yeah. So we're giving everybody all
the parents beer who knew who they were.
Yeah. OK.
And we walked. Honestly, we walked.
Down the street like they're or they.
Yeah, yeah. OK, Yeah.
But we had walked down the street and come back and again,
we're with our friends and theirkids and their the kids are
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running around trick or treating.
They had never gone up because the kid was across the street at
another house or whatever. So their son goes up by himself
and you can hear him from the road.
He's like, can I have a beer formy dad?
And they're like. He's on the street, not just
giving you a beer. Hi, I didn't know he was going
to do it and they gave. Us.
(05:30):
Oh my gosh, that's so funny. Look, I give the.
So they're handing gear out to the parent.
Good. But only the parents who knew
who they were. Yes.
I was going to say that's expensive to give it to all the
parents, but you have to know. Yeah.
Well, listen, I, I salute them for what's a great idea and a
great way for them to spend Halloween that is fun.
I mean, you've got all the like you.
(05:51):
Even though it was a it was a chilly night, you still can
dress warmly with your flannel and all that stuff.
You can sit there and hand out candy to kids and drink beer and
your wives can't get mad at you.Part of the costume, the cost,
part of the deal. Exactly.
So I salute them. But I will say to you, was it
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what a great idea, but was it not wasted this past Halloween?
Because I don't know what it waslike where you were, but it was
dead here and it's not normally.It was really quiet and I blame
the Blue Jays. Yeah, it was dead where I was,
too. Like we were home by 7:45, which
is early for us, and when we were walking back to the house,
(06:34):
it was like it was dead. Everybody was inside.
Yes, well, everybody wanted to be in for the 8:00 game.
This neighborhood had had groupsof busyness, like somehow all
the different kids that were trick or treating ended up
mushing together. And so in this neighborhood you
could be super, super busy and then be dead for 10 minutes.
(06:54):
But there were a lot, there werea lot of kids out in this
neighborhood. OK, alright, well.
That's good. We had, we had a very, very slow
night. And yeah, I don't.
You said 7:45 you were heading back home, so I assume you
wanted to get home before the before the.
Game well the kids were Jeremy was at home and so he could have
started watching. I didn't care.
I took the kids out ohh I see and so I was walking but and
(07:15):
they were like oh we're done. Our legs hurt and I'm like OK
like we'll go home. I think trick or treating in our
neighborhood only was from 6 to 8 Max and that's it.
It was pretty quiet. I thought it was.
It was quieter than normal. We get.
Kids till about 9 sometimes, yeah.
No, usually. Yeah, we do.
Yeah, we get kids after kids like.
After, Oh for sure, after 8 I'lltell you what.
(07:37):
But not this year. Not this year.
The Blue Jays ruined a party that my well, a Halloween party
for my son. Oh.
Really. That I will tell you and you,
you will understand what I explained.
He's in a band. Yeah.
Yes, right. So my son's in a band and
they're called Hwy. 21, by the way.
(07:58):
Good band, really good band. And this.
Booking the highway that's closed six months out of a year.
The this booking was taken, you know, two months prior to when
it occurred, so they were doing an Adultoween party out of
brewery. Oh, they're playing on.
Saturday night, Oh yeah, on Saturday night.
(08:19):
So who knew two months ago that game seven, well yeah, of the
World Series involving Canada's only baseball team would be
played. Yeah, on that Saturday night.
So he said we're playing. He's explaining to me the next
day he said, Did you stay and watch the By the way, my
apologies for him. And I felt very badly.
I I feel badly for any any and all BJ fans.
(08:42):
I was so into that series even and it was heartbreaking.
I was convinced. You know, I typically don't
care. I was convinced they were going
to win. I went to bed.
I didn't even watch the end. I didn't see the end.
I woke up the next day. I couldn't have been more
surprised by the result. I thought for sure they were
going to win anyway. He's doing this.
He's he's asking me the next day, did he stay up and watch
(09:02):
the game? I said no, sorry, I no, I packed
it in. They were leading and I thought
for all sense of purpose that you're going to win this game
and it's going to be over with and people are going to have
their party and they're going tocelebrate and do all that stuff.
So I wake up the next day and I check my phone.
I'm like, anyway, so he's doing this and, you know, people are
watching the game and they're cheering and they're partying
(09:24):
and they're, you know, and everybody's all dressed up.
But there's a lot of focus on the game as well as you know, so
the band's playing and then theylost.
And he said it was a bit of a downer at Keisha.
Party's over. My party ended early.
Oh, and sadly. Yeah, just.
After midnight. Everybody left.
(09:45):
Yeah. Oh God that sucks.
Do they keep playing till 2:00 AM for just for themselves or
you know. If they get paid for that, so.
Oh wow, that sucks. We think it was bad at home.
Yeah. Try try being at a party.
The one trying to entertain people.
That's right. Yeah.
(10:15):
This is due to underwhelming demand.
It's Dave, Rachel and Foreman. This is a podcast that's like
the month of November. Bleed.
Shitty. Shitty, that's not, but I blame
Rachel anyway. Yeah, I blame.
I'm not bleak or shitty. You're the one who said it, not
(10:37):
us. Not bleak or shitty.
OK, whatever. Can we talk about slip on shoes?
I guess so do. You have some.
Yes, I do. Department.
No, I mean sandals. I guess, yeah.
And I, I have no issue with that.
I, I feel like in the summertime, that's what's great
about summertime, throwing on, you know, whatever flip flops,
(11:01):
whatever you have and yeah, going about your business, just,
you know, don't wear them to work.
I don't want to see your feet. Yeah.
OK, you know how that works. We've already had that
discussion. A cure.
Yeah, we have. You know, we had that
discussion. But they do like around the
house, if you're just going to do this or that, nothing not
you're not going to work or whatever going to be put your
sandals. On.
Yeah, I mean, I it does have me wearing these sandals with socks
(11:24):
and like just like pants or whatever, but you slide them on
because they're the most convenient and easy thing to
just I have on and go run an errand.
Well, I have. Slippers that I love because
they keep my feet warm. You know, in the colder months,
I love my slippers and I slide right into them.
I get that. I understand that.
What I don't understand is shoes.
(11:44):
Slip on shoes. It's it's a big deal now.
Why? Does Skechers and slip on?
Shoes because Skechers makes them right Skechers making the
fortress Skechers and and you can buy knockoffs.
I was talking to a guy like real.
Yeah, you can buy knockoffs. You slip on shoes, I'm sure
cheaper ones. But Skechers has made a habit of
they advertise them and they have people that are slipping on
(12:05):
their Look how easy this is, right?
And I was talking to a guy and he, he had a pair of slip on.
Oh, he says my slip on. This guy's in his early 40s.
Oh, my slip on shoes. They're so handy.
They're so convenient. They're just great.
I love my slip on shoes. I said, what do you need slip on
shoes for? You're like you're.
Why not 4142? Years old, how bad is your back?
(12:27):
Oh my God, Put. Your shoes on.
You just, they're just easy, like they're just convenient and
I'm just going to shove my foot in here and run outside.
Great. All right, here's here's the
thing. Like slip on you.
You know how we we used to laughat old guys running shoes with
the Velcro. You know why they have the
Velcro? Because it's easier.
They don't want to, you know? Exactly.
(12:49):
But it's usually the old guys wearing the Velcro running
shoes, right? Yeah, because it's just easy
for. A while they became cool for
other people though. Maybe, yeah.
But here's the thing. Like you big white shoes, Like
what? You will notice, yeah.
What you will notice as you age,and I don't know how much of it
you're starting to feel, but as you age, so does your body,
(13:11):
right? Right.
Yeah. And your body eventually starts
to there are aches and pains andthings that you can't do like
you used to be able to do right.There are things that you will
probably never be able to do again like you could when you
were younger, or things that I see young people do.
And I go. I could never have done that,
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but I'm amazed. By that I wish I could.
I wish I could, but even now I know I I, I couldn't do it then
and there's no way I can do thatnow.
But I will tell you this. And This is why I don't
understand slip on shoes. Unless you're, of course, you
know someone who's incapacitatedand it's very difficult for you
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to slip on your shoes. You know, a senior.
Uh huh. Uh.
Huh. Well.
You're a senior and you're shitting all over it so.
I know. Yeah.
Well, no, because I'm not givingin yet.
OK, yes, every. Day I have to bend over and tie
my shoes right, and I'm going tocontinue to bend over and tie my
shoes for as long as I can. Right.
(14:17):
I agree with your thought process.
And I've said that to my dad andI have said to my don't give in
to being old, don't give in to it.
I think that's the key, right? Yeah, I get, I get that part of
it. However, I think slip on shoes
are easy. Which is like a 40.
That's that's a 40 somewhat persons thing.
(14:37):
You know what gonna wear? Slip on shoes.
They're great. But what happens is you stop
bending over. You're stopping in your early.
40s It's the beginning of the end.
It's the beginning of the end for you, because if you're not
bending over in your 40s, there's no way you're going to
bend over in your 50s, right? And by the time you hit your
60s, you can't bend over. OK, right.
(14:57):
So Costco was selling those Skechers slip on in, right?
Jeremy said to me, I need new shoes, get me some of those slip
insurance at Costco. And I was like.
Why? OK, so I was at Costco and I was
looking at them and I thought these are they look like old man
shoes. Yes.
And but I bought him a pair and I took them home and he's like,
(15:19):
what do you think? I'm like, I think they look like
old man shoes. And he's like, yeah, you can
take him back. Good for him.
Lo and behold, we find out his dad has the exact same shoes.
There you go. There you go.
And I was like. You don't wanna wear your dad's.
Shoes. We were right.
You don't wanna wear shoes your dad's wearing, right?
No, but if you've been wearing slip on since you were 13 then
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there's no difference like your whole life has been slip on
shoes. It's not like you.
I used to bend down and tie themand now I don't.
You just never have and you never will.
It's not a skill you require anymore.
It's not. Evolution.
Look, yeah, well, the evolution then reminds me of that.
And I always go back to this. There's that movie, the the
Pixar movie called Wally and I, I, I'm telling everybody should
(16:03):
watch that movie. It's a.
Delightful movie. It's a time I.
Hate that movie. There's not a lot.
Seen it? There's not a lot of talking in
the movie. Exactly.
No. But what happens is the humans
in the movie have all become They don't get out of their
chairs, they can't. They're two blobs.
They're blobs. With little T Rex arms and legs,
they're that their. Arms aren't long enough.
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They're they're wearing slip on shoes.
I guarantee you because. So we're in the beginning of the
end. It's the beginning of the end.
Yeah, that's what'll happen to us.
Dig out those laces. You gotta bend over.
And the other thing I try never to do now, this is what this is
another thing. This is an old person thing and
maybe it maybe you people in your 40s are doing it.
(16:45):
But when you stand up, do you push yourself up?
Yeah. Do you?
Yeah, instead of just going. Instead of using your legs.
And down without using your arms.
Oh, out of a chair. Or off the ground.
Oh no, out of a chair I can juststand up.
If I'm on the ground though, I'm.
Like do you? But do you do that?
Do I push myself up? Consciously stand up I do.
(17:09):
Well, now I guess that's. A conscious thing for me now I
just I absolutely. Need to use my muscles.
I stand myself when I get out ofa car, I stand up with my like,
I don't push myself up. I I try not to do that anymore
'cause I know that I'm not goingto be able to.
Maybe in another 10 years, I don't know.
OK. Yeah, that makes sense.
There is a there's an actual sittest.
(17:31):
OK, A study found a simple sit to stand test can predict
whether you'll die in the next 10 years.
Yes, Oh my gosh. That's the one where I fell
over. Remember that?
I do it. I remember that we and I, I
tried doing it and fell into something, trying to stand
myself up. Don't you remember that?
Was that more than 10 years ago?Yeah, I'm still alive.
(17:52):
Sitting on the ground, you have to get up without touching the
ground it. Can you go from standing to
sitting cross legged and then standing again?
That's the other thing that I would like to say to anybody.
Like when I was a kid, I didn't like sitting cross legged.
Everybody did and I didn't like it.
I just didn't like it. I I just fundamentally would
rather have kneeled then sit cross legged.
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I just didn't like doing it. And guess what?
I can't do it. I cannot do.
It well, that's more hip flexibility, I think hip your
hip flexibility. I can't.
Do it now. I wish I could.
Now. That's the one.
See, that's the regret. I gave up doing it.
Now I can't do it. Seeing that whole scene with
your physiotherapist and everyone staring at your butt,
that's, that's what caused it, yes.
(18:36):
Not sitting cross legged in grade.
Three, that's what it was my fault.
Stop wearing those slip on shoes, I'm telling.
This is due to wonderwhelming demand.
The we're Dave, Rachel and Foreman, the podcast that's
called due to wonderwhelming demand because Smartless was
(18:58):
already taken. Yeah, and good for that.
More popular people. Well done and it's a little bit.
Slightly. They've done OK.
They've done all right with that, yeah.
Did you see Sean Hayes and. At the game.
Dodgers games. Yes, yes, I did.
Yeah, yeah. Fun. 18 inning game.
They went to the 18 inning game,Sean Hayes and Jason Bateman.
(19:20):
Yeah. And if they looked like they
were confused about what was going on is because he went on
Jimmy Kimmel and talked about how he he took a gummy before
the game the whole time. I might.
Have something to do with? It yeah, that would do it.
That would do it. OK, well I don't know how to
transfer from that but. Have you taken a gummy this
(19:41):
morning? No, I haven't.
I'm trying to get on my coffee here and have enough.
We're filming this in the morning, we're recording in the
morning early, which we used to do all the time and now I feel
like I can't wake up now. I'm not used to that anymore
anyway, so I've, I've been, I'vebecome quite the gamer here at
home in the last three years. Since you guys went.
(20:03):
To a game, you became a gamer. It's so easy, seamless.
Transition there, Rachel. I can't do that anymore, guys.
I think I'm losing my touch. Are you losing any touch that I
had? I feel like.
Become a gamer. You should have taken a gummy.
Maybe I should I? Would have been a little.
Sharper yes. OK, so I've become a gamer.
(20:25):
And the reason I've become a gamer and I don't, I don't know
if I've talked about this beforeis because I'm trying not to be
on social media as much. I've put all my social media
apps in a folder to make it harder for me to get to because
being on social media makes me angry.
I don't want to read the news. I know you can't read it on
Facebook and Instagram, but everywhere else I just try not
(20:47):
to be on it because it it makes me angry.
And I realized that IA year or more ago and instead I was like
I'm going to download some gamesand start playing games when you
download games on my phone. Oh, OK, so you're not playing
Black Ops or? No, I'm.
Not on like APS 5 or whatever. OK, so you're not technically
(21:09):
like a. Gamer gamer, you're not a.
Gamer gamer. I'm not on Twitch, I'm not on.
What are you playing like Candy Crush Saga or basically?
Like that? Yeah, the one that I'm into
right now. Well, I don't know.
I don't play Candy Crush but I have the one that I'm.
In. Trivia Crack.
Oh yeah, I remember that one. The one I'm in right now is
called Goods Sorting. Goods sorting and you have to
(21:30):
match up the three items and then it kind of clears the board
and you have to clear the board of all the items.
Candy Crush. Yeah.
Candy they're. All the same.
They're all the same, yes, but this one I am so addicted to.
When you start playing games, you get ads for other games,
right? So this is how I got onto this
one. I was playing a different game
before, a block blast or something like that.
(21:51):
Oh, we did talk about that because everybody was playing.
I don't Ashley and has been playing that Harley has been
playing I don't think anymore though.
No, I stopped Block Blast because then there was an ad for
this one. I'm like, oh that looks good.
So then I download that. Right, Emily knows don't.
That's the first rule about these games, like never click on
the ads for other games in the game.
Never I do. Well, that's how I got on to
(22:14):
this one. Exactly.
Yeah, we had this discussion about royal match, how that
annoyed you and you didn't know what it was.
Royal match, I refused to play and I know that you're on that
one because Royal, they have so many ads.
The Royal match ads drive me bananas.
I can't stay. And then they're like, we don't
have ads. I'm like, well, I don't know how
you are paying for all these other ads when you don't have
(22:35):
ads that you're selling. Yeah, there are no ads on Royal
Match. That's that is true.
It's just it's, it's a game verysimilar to all the others.
It's a match game. It's funny, the music, I love
the music in it, but I don't play.
It's a game that I can walk awayfrom.
I don't need to play it, which Ilike.
One of the only people to play one of those types of games with
(22:56):
the sound on. Yeah, I turn the sound off.
Oh I love the sound on your iPadin public too.
Oh no, whenever there's. Slip on shoes.
No, no, no. If I'm playing it, I, if there
are other people around, it's turned down.
But. This game that I'm on, I think
I'm on level like 500 and something, which is ridiculous.
And so I was telling my mom and my and Jeremy about how I'm on
(23:19):
this game and they were like, they yeah, 530, 90 is what I'm
on. And they were like, they
probably are making the levels as you're beating them because
nobody else has probably gotten that far.
And I was like, no, no. And it's one of those games
which I think is like royal match.
You beat the levels and then youget like points to like renovate
(23:41):
the store. Yeah, they all do that.
Sure. Which that I don't care about
that part, but if you do that you get like bonus things for
other to play the levels or whatever.
So I do it. So I'm thinking no, no, no other
people. I'm for sure not like at the end
of this game, like these games don't end right.
Like I'm not that that can't happen.
(24:02):
Like obviously it's still going.You guys are just being silly.
Whatever. Well, lo and behold, the the
levels in the in the store whereyou're like, you know, you have
to do the all these tasks right to like clean the floor, put in
a new shelf or whatever. That's what they that's what
they have you do it stops. They say more levels coming
soon. I did get to the end of it.
(24:26):
I think I'm the Guinea pig for this game because.
You're that good at? It I've stupidly played this
thing so much that now I'm at the end of this game and they're
creating levels for me and it isjust you A month went by yeah,
just me because I'm at the end of it.
No, I don't think. And they don't have any level
They and and so then it takes melike 5 or 10 tries to pass a
(24:50):
level and Jeremy's like, yeah, it's probably because they're
like, oh shit, she's at the end.Don't let her win.
Don't let her win till we can create enough.
The whole you. Thought they built a whole game
and they only and they ended at level 539.
Yes. Well, no, because now they've
added some. No, we've added somebody.
Only a few at. A time.
It's not how it works. Right.
(25:10):
Yeah, I think it does. No, it doesn't, because every,
every. Was it easy when you first
started playing the game? Really.
Pretty easy to get full level. Yeah, All of those games are
like that. It's very easy.
And they give you stuff. You win this and then you win
this. Yeah.
And then it just gets harder. Yeah.
And it gets harder and it gets harder.
Yeah, and then and then they runout of things for you to do and
(25:31):
they're like, hang on. More coming soon.
No, that's what they've said. No, no.
So the more game this week. Because they're trying to
balance that, how hard it is with getting you to keep
playing. Yeah, that's what's.
Happening. I see you'll.
Find a level. You don't think that's all about
me? I can because no, I don't
because I play games too. But I I didn't.
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I reached the stage on these match game things where I just
go, yeah, I'm done. I just, I don't need to play
anymore. I'm not wasting my money on it
like if if. They give me coins.
Or they give me, they give me coins or whatever and like fake
ones. Yeah, the fake ones.
I don't think I wanna spend it. I'm done.
I'll walk away 'cause it. Sometimes they only give you 5
(26:14):
tries, 5 lives. And that's it.
And then you're like, well, and I'm like, done.
I'm done. I'll put the game down.
I don't need to play it. You're playing it if you're
playing it that often. Yeah.
How much are you? Like how often a day are you
playing this game? Like I'm, I would play it
probably 2 times a day for like an hour maybe.
(26:34):
Oh wow. Like it's ridiculous how much
I'm playing. Wow.
Well, I'm trying not to be on social media.
And so then I miss a lot and I'mblissfully ignorant of a lot of
things lately, which is kind of nice because.
Because you know it. Makes me angry.
When you spend 2 hours a day playing.
Game. Then I play this game and I get.
In a game like that, I think your brain turn turns to mush.
Yeah, well, that's fine. That's fine.
(26:56):
I'd rather be turned to mush than hear what Donald Trump is
doing and get mad about it. You know, that's fine.
That was my choice, so that's OK.
I'd rather be mush than care. Well, yeah, yeah, all.
Right, that's fine. 'Cause I would care too much, I
have to omit myself. You don't want to hear about his
(27:17):
Great Gatsby party. No, I heard about it.
I don't want. How'd you hear?
About it. Well, I still am on social media
of. Course you are.
Knew you could never give that up.
Stay away. Yeah, you can't.
A little social media never killed nobody, right?
Wait a minute. I'm off social media honest.
I'm playing a Game 2 hours a dayright?
(27:38):
Yeah, which is? Ridiculous.
Yeah. Just quiz me about today's.
News. What a life.
Hey guys, what a life. We're on to you.
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So far so good. Wow.
Yeah, every other week I have a long drive to Chatham, so it
helps fill that time up. I'm I'm up to episode 5 so far
so. You have a long way to go,
Danielle Long. Way you know when you get here,
Danielle. Yeah.
This is episode 140. 140 Yeah, this.
(29:51):
And Danielle, you wrote us September 26th, way back in
2025, so we'll see what it is when you hear this.
Yeah. It would be a year from now it.
Might be, might be. Yeah, but thank you.
We have a message from Howie whosays I don't own a microwave.
Just like Foreman 21 years ago, I gave my microwave away and I
(30:11):
haven't looked back with not having one.
I reheat everything on the stoveand it tastes so much better.
Yep, he also has a question for us.
Is it normal for teenagers to bescared about telling their
parents they are moving out to live with friends?
My eldest was upfront about it but the rest of them told their
parents the week before and one told them the day of the day of
(30:34):
moving. Why I don't know, are they?
I guess they're afraid to tell them for some reason or they
just forgot. To tell them.
Like, hey, I'm moving out today by I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know what the the protocol is there, but I, you
know, as someone who's well pastthat stage in my life, yes.
(30:55):
When you look back at it, you would, I would say you would
hope that your child, your child, your whoever it is, would
have the courtesy, I suppose, tosay, hey, I'm moving out, right
And not do it the day of. Perhaps give a little, you know,
it's like anything. Maybe give us a little notice.
Speaks to their independence I guess to go and find a place and
(31:18):
get the down payment or whateveryour deposit.
I think as a parent, when you when you have young children,
you can't wait for them to move out.
But when? They want to live with me
forever. But when that stage hits, I
think you're you're more along the lines of, well, please let
me know. So I, I would that's a courtesy,
but I'm not sure that kids that age.
(31:41):
Think about. That look at it that way.
No, Yeah, as I looked. At yeah, I don't know if they're
they're either scared to tell them or yeah, they just didn't.
It didn't occur to them. I got a job and we've got my
house the literally, but I stayed in my parents house while
I went to college and then I gota job and the the job offer was
(32:01):
like they called me on a Friday and said we need you here
Monday. So I moved.
So I moved out. Like immediately.
Yes, well, I had to because I had to leave town.
I had to get a yeah. Did you have a house?
Did you have a an apartment? Somewhere to go?
No, I stayed. I stayed in a motel, believe it
or not, for a while until I found an.
Apartment. Right.
OK. Wow.
No, I just moved for school and then never moved.
(32:23):
Back never went back. Yeah, I was back and forth a
lot. You know.
Because I would move out for school and I'd go back for the
summer and. Like that very much.
See, you're not very nice. I didn't.
I didn't mind it. Well, my parents, I don't know
if my parents, my sister didn't.You're gone.
Get out. Yeah, my sister never wanted to
come back. She was gone.
She was. But I liked, I liked going back.
(32:43):
I would hang out with my. Going to moms for dinner on
Sunday. Yeah, yeah, you suck.
There's nothing better than a good Karen.
Suck. Roast beef dinner.
Like you're old enough you cook your own.
Invite me over. Stop it, right?
Stop. Well, we have an update message,
(33:05):
a clarification from Megan, Megan Clark who sent us a
message on Spotify and you can always leave comments on Spotify
quite a few months ago. Do you remember this one?
My sister and I often gift each other Dick themed items for any
occasion. I do remember that.
It started with one year for Christmas.
We, both unknown, knowingly gaveeach other gifts in that theme.
(33:27):
Yeah, well, Megan would like to clarify that.
Yeah. First saying wait until my
sister and I get matching rooster tattoos closer to the
end of the year. Matching rooster tattoos.
Don't worry, it will be an actual rooster because we both
don't want Peach emoji, eggplantemoji, Peach emoji on our bodies
(33:48):
forever. We have standards.
I get it OK. Sure.
I don't think she means the actual emojis.
Yes, all right to. Answer your hypothetical
question Dave, and give you an answer anyway.
Yes, we do open them on family Christmas.
Yes, we do open them in front ofgrandma.
I am lucky enough to have grandparents that have a sense
(34:08):
of humor as well. We have to get it from somewhere
right? Though my sister will probably
try to claim I am adopted if shereads this.
I think that's hysterical. Good for you.
Clearly we don't have children at these gift like that's what
I'm well. Grandma's there.
I don't really care about grandma.
(34:30):
Who cares whether grandma gets upset?
Grandma probably loves it. I mean, I don't know, but well.
She obviously she has the humor for it.
Grandma went to Halloween parties back in the day where no
one was allowed to talk. But you want your, you want your
7-8 year old there like, you know, when you're opening.
Yeah. OK, Megan, you're gonna have to
clarify again. But yes, she does go on to say
(34:52):
that's half the fun trying to embarrass the other one.
Unfortunately we both do not getembarrassed easily and now it's
honestly just become our weird thing.
I have 0 shame. Yes.
And then you probably try and upthe ante and you're just like,
man, that doesn't bother me. Right, I like that too.
I like look, I, I, I think that's very funny and, and you
(35:13):
should keep doing it, but good. I'm just wondering what the kids
think. If you search for adult coloring
book on Amazon and and scroll long enough you'll see the
coloring book I gifted her the first year.
I don't think he'll be that. I have been freezing butter
since Rachel mentioned that on the OG radio show.
Thank. You All I could think of was how
(35:35):
period. Fucking period.
Smart, yeah. Thank you so much.
Freezing butter is really, really dumb.
And we're not the only ones. Really dumb.
We've heard from so many people who freeze their butter.
Freeze your butter and then you probably freeze cheese.
Another dumb thing. I swap freezing cheese, but I do
(35:55):
freeze the butter. Oh gosh, don't we have a e-mail
from someone who freezes? Oh yeah.
Well, OK, well, I have an e-mailfrom.
We are getting emails from and people backing you up for your
Tin Hat microwave. Thing that's true, Yeah, there's
more people who don't have microwaves than I thought.
Yes, I do have an e-mail from our favorite person, Foreman's
(36:17):
mom. Oh great.
What he says Dear Dave, Rachel and Foreman, I thought I would
set the record straight regarding Foreman's early sports
teams allegiances. Oh, Dave.
OK, yes. You will be happy to know that
Foreman's parents tried to indoctrinate him as an Expose
fan at a very early age. Note the attached photo of
(36:39):
Foreman at four months old, not even walking yet, wearing an
Expose hat. Oh well done, good for them.
I appreciate that. I do appreciate that she is
from. Point Claire.
So. OK, for Foreman's 8th birthday,
as he requested, I don't know ifyou remember this foreman, he
received a Toronto Maple Leafs Jean jacket and hat that he
proudly wore until he outgrew them.
(37:01):
From the smile on his face, thiswas his favorite gift.
If you are thinking for a musical intro for Foreman's
mom's emails, this might do. And she sent us the William Tell
Overture. We could do that.
(37:22):
We could do that, I suppose. Very horse sounding, right?
Because it's the race. Clippity Club.
Club. Clippity Club.
PS Arshambo is pronounced Arshambo archambault bolt but
BAULT OK. Do you pronounce something I
don't I. Don't archambault right?
I don't know. I don't remember pronouncing
that, so I don't know. Well, we, yeah, we tried one.
(37:43):
It was the publisher last month.Yeah.
Pete. Pete.
Pete got it, got it, got it, gotit.
I think I'm probably I. I know I'm bad.
Some photos now that we can share and I love that she
provides us with some good. Can you?
Have content like that, can you?Explain the leaf thing for me.
What's Yeah. Because Ottawa didn't have a
team till then. So when you watch.
You just turned left and became a sense.
(38:05):
You gave up your leaf. You are God damn right I did.
That's weird. And then and then.
That's how all sense fans were created at the time to wait to
realize, hey wait a minute, now we have our own team.
Why the hell is Hockey Night in Canada shoving the Leafs down
our throat all the time and not even letting us watch our own
team? What the hell?
(38:27):
And there it becomes another Sands fan.
Right, OK. Well, because I can say it.
Was pretty oversized on you. You must have worn that for a
couple of. Years, time.
But most of us really don't careabout the sands.
You understand that, right? Most of us don't care about the
leaves either. No, that's not true.
More people do care about. We're tigers.
We're lying. Tigers I can't do.
(38:47):
Anything that's just me.
Buy my meth shirt. I buy my meth.
Buy my meth Dave. Rachel Foreman.
Somebody sees someone walking around with that shirt.
Yeah, carrying around the weightof low expectations.
Where coherence goes to die. Right, doing the bare minimum
(00:21):
and crushing it professional. Disappointed minimum.
And crushing it, right like that's funny on a T-shirt.
This is due to underwhelming demand.
The podcast that's just about anhour of your life you're never
getting back. I have like 40 minutes 45. 45
(00:46):
give or take. Something like that.
You can word that up. No, I am sure.
Easy. On the podcast today, a little
later, we'll find out about Rachel's new thing.
Rachel is apparently a gamer, Yes.
How about that? How about that?
How about that? Who saw that?
Come up, he still doesn't have much else to do.
Yeah, I'm I'm wondering why anyone wants slip on shoes.
(01:09):
I I will explain and and. Convenience, yeah.
We're going to kick things off with Foreman.
Who saw the best ever possible Halloween display anyone could
ever have, Hands down. It's not even a contest.
Wow, OK. Well, well, well.
And. You saw this in Saint Thomas.
(01:29):
In Saint Thomas I. Find that hard to believe?
I. Find that would have.
Credibly hard to believe. OK.
I would have too, until I came up up upon it and it was like a
light shining down from the heavens and a choir of angels
singing, pointing you to the promised land.
(01:51):
They must have had quite a line up then at their home.
There was not. You could walk right up and they
were giving out candy. Were you the only one that
appreciated it then? At the time, there was no one
else around. Nobody else around?
Sure. Well, what was the display?
Was it terrifying? Or it was not scary at all.
And I think that's fine. And I think you know, because we
(02:13):
talked you, we all had a good hash out about adult to wean.
And is that a thing? Should that be a thing?
Well, these guys managed to do it on actual Halloween.
Combine it with trick or treating with your children.
OK. This front porch in Saint Thomas
was transformed into ATV set. Like it's like you're walking
(02:34):
onto a set ready for TV. If you watch the characters they
dressed up as, it's like you just, it's like if you looked up
from your YouTube clip of these guys and looked at the porch, it
was them. It was exact in every way.
They must have got things printed up and made specially
for this. It was absolutely incredible.
(02:55):
Who were they pretending to be? Do you know the characters Bob
and Doug McKenzie? Yes, of course.
Classic. Classic Canadian characters.
You can picture them. They're sitting side by side,
the coffee table in front of them, right?
There's a couple of empty beers,a bowl of Halloween candy.
Of course. On either side, there's stacks
(03:16):
of beer boxes and bottles. Behind them is a backdrop that's
a map of Canada that says Great White North.
Wow. They had the tuques, they had
the Plaid, they had everything. They nailed it.
Wow and. They're just sitting on their
front porch handing out candy. Yeah.
And I go up with Emily and she'sshe doesn't care.
(03:40):
She's just grabbing the candy. And I'm like, this is the best
thing I've ever seen. You guys are awesome.
Yeah. Wow.
And then we are going to leave. And then I thought, you know
what? I have to go back.
I Emily got her candy. We're walking back out the
driveway and like, no, guys, I got to take a picture of you.
It's just too good. Sorry.
Like no one's going to believe me unless I have a picture.
(04:01):
That's they probably loved that.They put a lot of work into it,
right? Exactly.
And then they said, well, sure, but do you know who we are?
I'm like, know who you are and how cool am I in front of my
kids and family and friends and their kids that were with us?
Yeah. Be my proof of how I knew where
they were is I immediately went Oh my God.
(04:27):
Which meant they immediately opened up the cooler behind the
coffee table and handed me a beer.
Oh. Yes, that was the whole point.
If you knew who they were dressed as, they would give you
a beer. OK, I like that.
Oh my gosh, I love them even more.
Wow. No.
Kidding. And my Yeti happened to be empty
(04:49):
at that exact moment. Perfect.
Timing. Perfect timing.
Yeah. So we're giving everybody all
the parents beer who knew who they were.
Yeah. OK.
And we walked. Honestly, we walked.
Down the street like they're or they.
Yeah, yeah. OK, Yeah.
But we had walked down the street and come back and again,
we're with our friends and theirkids and their the kids are
(05:10):
running around trick or treating.
They had never gone up because the kid was across the street at
another house or whatever. So their son goes up by himself
and you can hear him from the road.
He's like, can I have a beer formy dad?
And they're like. He's on the street, not just
giving you a beer. Hi, I didn't know he was going
to do it and they gave. Us.
(05:30):
Oh my gosh, that's so funny. Look, I give the.
So they're handing gear out to the parent.
Good. But only the parents who knew
who they were. Yes.
I was going to say that's expensive to give it to all the
parents, but you have to know. Yeah.
Well, listen, I, I salute them for what's a great idea and a
great way for them to spend Halloween that is fun.
I mean, you've got all the like you.
(05:51):
Even though it was a it was a chilly night, you still can
dress warmly with your flannel and all that stuff.
You can sit there and hand out candy to kids and drink beer and
your wives can't get mad at you.Part of the costume, the cost,
part of the deal. Exactly.
So I salute them. But I will say to you, was it
(06:13):
what a great idea, but was it not wasted this past Halloween?
Because I don't know what it waslike where you were, but it was
dead here and it's not normally.It was really quiet and I blame
the Blue Jays. Yeah, it was dead where I was,
too. Like we were home by 7:45, which
is early for us, and when we were walking back to the house,
(06:34):
it was like it was dead. Everybody was inside.
Yes, well, everybody wanted to be in for the 8:00 game.
This neighborhood had had groupsof busyness, like somehow all
the different kids that were trick or treating ended up
mushing together. And so in this neighborhood you
could be super, super busy and then be dead for 10 minutes.
(06:54):
But there were a lot, there werea lot of kids out in this
neighborhood. OK, alright, well.
That's good. We had, we had a very, very slow
night. And yeah, I don't.
You said 7:45 you were heading back home, so I assume you
wanted to get home before the before the.
Game well the kids were Jeremy was at home and so he could have
started watching. I didn't care.
I took the kids out ohh I see and so I was walking but and
(07:15):
they were like oh we're done. Our legs hurt and I'm like OK
like we'll go home. I think trick or treating in our
neighborhood only was from 6 to 8 Max and that's it.
It was pretty quiet. I thought it was.
It was quieter than normal. We get.
Kids till about 9 sometimes, yeah.
No, usually. Yeah, we do.
Yeah, we get kids after kids like.
After, Oh for sure, after 8 I'lltell you what.
(07:37):
But not this year. Not this year.
The Blue Jays ruined a party that my well, a Halloween party
for my son. Oh.
Really. That I will tell you and you,
you will understand what I explained.
He's in a band. Yeah.
Yes, right. So my son's in a band and
they're called Hwy. 21, by the way.
(07:58):
Good band, really good band. And this.
Booking the highway that's closed six months out of a year.
The this booking was taken, you know, two months prior to when
it occurred, so they were doing an Adultoween party out of
brewery. Oh, they're playing on.
Saturday night, Oh yeah, on Saturday night.
(08:19):
So who knew two months ago that game seven, well yeah, of the
World Series involving Canada's only baseball team would be
played. Yeah, on that Saturday night.
So he said we're playing. He's explaining to me the next
day he said, Did you stay and watch the By the way, my
apologies for him. And I felt very badly.
I I feel badly for any any and all BJ fans.
(08:42):
I was so into that series even and it was heartbreaking.
I was convinced. You know, I typically don't
care. I was convinced they were going
to win. I went to bed.
I didn't even watch the end. I didn't see the end.
I woke up the next day. I couldn't have been more
surprised by the result. I thought for sure they were
going to win anyway. He's doing this.
He's he's asking me the next day, did he stay up and watch
(09:02):
the game? I said no, sorry, I no, I packed
it in. They were leading and I thought
for all sense of purpose that you're going to win this game
and it's going to be over with and people are going to have
their party and they're going tocelebrate and do all that stuff.
So I wake up the next day and I check my phone.
I'm like, anyway, so he's doing this and, you know, people are
watching the game and they're cheering and they're partying
(09:24):
and they're, you know, and everybody's all dressed up.
But there's a lot of focus on the game as well as you know, so
the band's playing and then theylost.
And he said it was a bit of a downer at Keisha.
Party's over. My party ended early.
Oh, and sadly. Yeah, just.
After midnight. Everybody left.
(09:45):
Yeah. Oh God that sucks.
Do they keep playing till 2:00 AM for just for themselves or
you know. If they get paid for that, so.
Oh wow, that sucks. We think it was bad at home.
Yeah. Try try being at a party.
The one trying to entertain people.
That's right. Yeah.
(10:15):
This is due to underwhelming demand.
It's Dave, Rachel and Foreman. This is a podcast that's like
the month of November. Bleed.
Shitty. Shitty, that's not, but I blame
Rachel anyway. Yeah, I blame.
I'm not bleak or shitty. You're the one who said it, not
(10:37):
us. Not bleak or shitty.
OK, whatever. Can we talk about slip on shoes?
I guess so do. You have some.
Yes, I do. Department.
No, I mean sandals. I guess, yeah.
And I, I have no issue with that.
I, I feel like in the summertime, that's what's great
about summertime, throwing on, you know, whatever flip flops,
(11:01):
whatever you have and yeah, going about your business, just,
you know, don't wear them to work.
I don't want to see your feet. Yeah.
OK, you know how that works. We've already had that
discussion. A cure.
Yeah, we have. You know, we had that
discussion. But they do like around the
house, if you're just going to do this or that, nothing not
you're not going to work or whatever going to be put your
sandals. On.
Yeah, I mean, I it does have me wearing these sandals with socks
(11:24):
and like just like pants or whatever, but you slide them on
because they're the most convenient and easy thing to
just I have on and go run an errand.
Well, I have. Slippers that I love because
they keep my feet warm. You know, in the colder months,
I love my slippers and I slide right into them.
I get that. I understand that.
What I don't understand is shoes.
(11:44):
Slip on shoes. It's it's a big deal now.
Why? Does Skechers and slip on?
Shoes because Skechers makes them right Skechers making the
fortress Skechers and and you can buy knockoffs.
I was talking to a guy like real.
Yeah, you can buy knockoffs. You slip on shoes, I'm sure
cheaper ones. But Skechers has made a habit of
they advertise them and they have people that are slipping on
(12:05):
their Look how easy this is, right?
And I was talking to a guy and he, he had a pair of slip on.
Oh, he says my slip on. This guy's in his early 40s.
Oh, my slip on shoes. They're so handy.
They're so convenient. They're just great.
I love my slip on shoes. I said, what do you need slip on
shoes for? You're like you're.
Why not 4142? Years old, how bad is your back?
(12:27):
Oh my God, Put. Your shoes on.
You just, they're just easy, like they're just convenient and
I'm just going to shove my foot in here and run outside.
Great. All right, here's here's the
thing. Like slip on you.
You know how we we used to laughat old guys running shoes with
the Velcro. You know why they have the
Velcro? Because it's easier.
They don't want to, you know? Exactly.
(12:49):
But it's usually the old guys wearing the Velcro running
shoes, right? Yeah, because it's just easy
for. A while they became cool for
other people though. Maybe, yeah.
But here's the thing. Like you big white shoes, Like
what? You will notice, yeah.
What you will notice as you age,and I don't know how much of it
you're starting to feel, but as you age, so does your body,
(13:11):
right? Right.
Yeah. And your body eventually starts
to there are aches and pains andthings that you can't do like
you used to be able to do right.There are things that you will
probably never be able to do again like you could when you
were younger, or things that I see young people do.
And I go. I could never have done that,
(13:35):
but I'm amazed. By that I wish I could.
I wish I could, but even now I know I I, I couldn't do it then
and there's no way I can do thatnow.
But I will tell you this. And This is why I don't
understand slip on shoes. Unless you're, of course, you
know someone who's incapacitatedand it's very difficult for you
(13:56):
to slip on your shoes. You know, a senior.
Uh huh. Uh.
Huh. Well.
You're a senior and you're shitting all over it so.
I know. Yeah.
Well, no, because I'm not givingin yet.
OK, yes, every. Day I have to bend over and tie
my shoes right, and I'm going tocontinue to bend over and tie my
shoes for as long as I can. Right.
(14:17):
I agree with your thought process.
And I've said that to my dad andI have said to my don't give in
to being old, don't give in to it.
I think that's the key, right? Yeah, I get, I get that part of
it. However, I think slip on shoes
are easy. Which is like a 40.
That's that's a 40 somewhat persons thing.
(14:37):
You know what gonna wear? Slip on shoes.
They're great. But what happens is you stop
bending over. You're stopping in your early.
40s It's the beginning of the end.
It's the beginning of the end for you, because if you're not
bending over in your 40s, there's no way you're going to
bend over in your 50s, right? And by the time you hit your
60s, you can't bend over. OK, right.
(14:57):
So Costco was selling those Skechers slip on in, right?
Jeremy said to me, I need new shoes, get me some of those slip
insurance at Costco. And I was like.
Why? OK, so I was at Costco and I was
looking at them and I thought these are they look like old man
shoes. Yes.
And but I bought him a pair and I took them home and he's like,
(15:19):
what do you think? I'm like, I think they look like
old man shoes. And he's like, yeah, you can
take him back. Good for him.
Lo and behold, we find out his dad has the exact same shoes.
There you go. There you go.
And I was like. You don't wanna wear your dad's.
Shoes. We were right.
You don't wanna wear shoes your dad's wearing, right?
No, but if you've been wearing slip on since you were 13 then
(15:41):
there's no difference like your whole life has been slip on
shoes. It's not like you.
I used to bend down and tie themand now I don't.
You just never have and you never will.
It's not a skill you require anymore.
It's not. Evolution.
Look, yeah, well, the evolution then reminds me of that.
And I always go back to this. There's that movie, the the
Pixar movie called Wally and I, I, I'm telling everybody should
(16:03):
watch that movie. It's a.
Delightful movie. It's a time I.
Hate that movie. There's not a lot.
Seen it? There's not a lot of talking in
the movie. Exactly.
No. But what happens is the humans
in the movie have all become They don't get out of their
chairs, they can't. They're two blobs.
They're blobs. With little T Rex arms and legs,
they're that their. Arms aren't long enough.
(16:24):
They're they're wearing slip on shoes.
I guarantee you because. So we're in the beginning of the
end. It's the beginning of the end.
Yeah, that's what'll happen to us.
Dig out those laces. You gotta bend over.
And the other thing I try never to do now, this is what this is
another thing. This is an old person thing and
maybe it maybe you people in your 40s are doing it.
(16:45):
But when you stand up, do you push yourself up?
Yeah. Do you?
Yeah, instead of just going. Instead of using your legs.
And down without using your arms.
Oh, out of a chair. Or off the ground.
Oh no, out of a chair I can juststand up.
If I'm on the ground though, I'm.
Like do you? But do you do that?
Do I push myself up? Consciously stand up I do.
(17:09):
Well, now I guess that's. A conscious thing for me now I
just I absolutely. Need to use my muscles.
I stand myself when I get out ofa car, I stand up with my like,
I don't push myself up. I I try not to do that anymore
'cause I know that I'm not goingto be able to.
Maybe in another 10 years, I don't know.
OK. Yeah, that makes sense.
There is a there's an actual sittest.
(17:31):
OK, A study found a simple sit to stand test can predict
whether you'll die in the next 10 years.
Yes, Oh my gosh. That's the one where I fell
over. Remember that?
I do it. I remember that we and I, I
tried doing it and fell into something, trying to stand
myself up. Don't you remember that?
Was that more than 10 years ago?Yeah, I'm still alive.
(17:52):
Sitting on the ground, you have to get up without touching the
ground it. Can you go from standing to
sitting cross legged and then standing again?
That's the other thing that I would like to say to anybody.
Like when I was a kid, I didn't like sitting cross legged.
Everybody did and I didn't like it.
I just didn't like it. I I just fundamentally would
rather have kneeled then sit cross legged.
(18:14):
I just didn't like doing it. And guess what?
I can't do it. I cannot do.
It well, that's more hip flexibility, I think hip your
hip flexibility. I can't.
Do it now. I wish I could.
Now. That's the one.
See, that's the regret. I gave up doing it.
Now I can't do it. Seeing that whole scene with
your physiotherapist and everyone staring at your butt,
that's, that's what caused it, yes.
(18:36):
Not sitting cross legged in grade.
Three, that's what it was my fault.
Stop wearing those slip on shoes, I'm telling.
This is due to wonderwhelming demand.
The we're Dave, Rachel and Foreman, the podcast that's
called due to wonderwhelming demand because Smartless was
(18:58):
already taken. Yeah, and good for that.
More popular people. Well done and it's a little bit.
Slightly. They've done OK.
They've done all right with that, yeah.
Did you see Sean Hayes and. At the game.
Dodgers games. Yes, yes, I did.
Yeah, yeah. Fun. 18 inning game.
They went to the 18 inning game,Sean Hayes and Jason Bateman.
(19:20):
Yeah. And if they looked like they
were confused about what was going on is because he went on
Jimmy Kimmel and talked about how he he took a gummy before
the game the whole time. I might.
Have something to do with? It yeah, that would do it.
That would do it. OK, well I don't know how to
transfer from that but. Have you taken a gummy this
(19:41):
morning? No, I haven't.
I'm trying to get on my coffee here and have enough.
We're filming this in the morning, we're recording in the
morning early, which we used to do all the time and now I feel
like I can't wake up now. I'm not used to that anymore
anyway, so I've, I've been, I'vebecome quite the gamer here at
home in the last three years. Since you guys went.
(20:03):
To a game, you became a gamer. It's so easy, seamless.
Transition there, Rachel. I can't do that anymore, guys.
I think I'm losing my touch. Are you losing any touch that I
had? I feel like.
Become a gamer. You should have taken a gummy.
Maybe I should I? Would have been a little.
Sharper yes. OK, so I've become a gamer.
(20:25):
And the reason I've become a gamer and I don't, I don't know
if I've talked about this beforeis because I'm trying not to be
on social media as much. I've put all my social media
apps in a folder to make it harder for me to get to because
being on social media makes me angry.
I don't want to read the news. I know you can't read it on
Facebook and Instagram, but everywhere else I just try not
(20:47):
to be on it because it it makes me angry.
And I realized that IA year or more ago and instead I was like
I'm going to download some gamesand start playing games when you
download games on my phone. Oh, OK, so you're not playing
Black Ops or? No, I'm.
Not on like APS 5 or whatever. OK, so you're not technically
(21:09):
like a. Gamer gamer, you're not a.
Gamer gamer. I'm not on Twitch, I'm not on.
What are you playing like Candy Crush Saga or basically?
Like that? Yeah, the one that I'm into
right now. Well, I don't know.
I don't play Candy Crush but I have the one that I'm.
In. Trivia Crack.
Oh yeah, I remember that one. The one I'm in right now is
called Goods Sorting. Goods sorting and you have to
(21:30):
match up the three items and then it kind of clears the board
and you have to clear the board of all the items.
Candy Crush. Yeah.
Candy they're. All the same.
They're all the same, yes, but this one I am so addicted to.
When you start playing games, you get ads for other games,
right? So this is how I got onto this
one. I was playing a different game
before, a block blast or something like that.
(21:51):
Oh, we did talk about that because everybody was playing.
I don't Ashley and has been playing that Harley has been
playing I don't think anymore though.
No, I stopped Block Blast because then there was an ad for
this one. I'm like, oh that looks good.
So then I download that. Right, Emily knows don't.
That's the first rule about these games, like never click on
the ads for other games in the game.
Never I do. Well, that's how I got on to
(22:14):
this one. Exactly.
Yeah, we had this discussion about royal match, how that
annoyed you and you didn't know what it was.
Royal match, I refused to play and I know that you're on that
one because Royal, they have so many ads.
The Royal match ads drive me bananas.
I can't stay. And then they're like, we don't
have ads. I'm like, well, I don't know how
you are paying for all these other ads when you don't have
(22:35):
ads that you're selling. Yeah, there are no ads on Royal
Match. That's that is true.
It's just it's, it's a game verysimilar to all the others.
It's a match game. It's funny, the music, I love
the music in it, but I don't play.
It's a game that I can walk awayfrom.
I don't need to play it, which Ilike.
One of the only people to play one of those types of games with
(22:56):
the sound on. Yeah, I turn the sound off.
Oh I love the sound on your iPadin public too.
Oh no, whenever there's. Slip on shoes.
No, no, no. If I'm playing it, I, if there
are other people around, it's turned down.
But. This game that I'm on, I think
I'm on level like 500 and something, which is ridiculous.
And so I was telling my mom and my and Jeremy about how I'm on
(23:19):
this game and they were like, they yeah, 530, 90 is what I'm
on. And they were like, they
probably are making the levels as you're beating them because
nobody else has probably gotten that far.
And I was like, no, no. And it's one of those games
which I think is like royal match.
You beat the levels and then youget like points to like renovate
(23:41):
the store. Yeah, they all do that.
Sure. Which that I don't care about
that part, but if you do that you get like bonus things for
other to play the levels or whatever.
So I do it. So I'm thinking no, no, no other
people. I'm for sure not like at the end
of this game, like these games don't end right.
Like I'm not that that can't happen.
(24:02):
Like obviously it's still going.You guys are just being silly.
Whatever. Well, lo and behold, the the
levels in the in the store whereyou're like, you know, you have
to do the all these tasks right to like clean the floor, put in
a new shelf or whatever. That's what they that's what
they have you do it stops. They say more levels coming
soon. I did get to the end of it.
(24:26):
I think I'm the Guinea pig for this game because.
You're that good at? It I've stupidly played this
thing so much that now I'm at the end of this game and they're
creating levels for me and it isjust you A month went by yeah,
just me because I'm at the end of it.
No, I don't think. And they don't have any level
They and and so then it takes melike 5 or 10 tries to pass a
(24:50):
level and Jeremy's like, yeah, it's probably because they're
like, oh shit, she's at the end.Don't let her win.
Don't let her win till we can create enough.
The whole you. Thought they built a whole game
and they only and they ended at level 539.
Yes. Well, no, because now they've
added some. No, we've added somebody.
Only a few at. A time.
It's not how it works. Right.
(25:10):
Yeah, I think it does. No, it doesn't, because every,
every. Was it easy when you first
started playing the game? Really.
Pretty easy to get full level. Yeah, All of those games are
like that. It's very easy.
And they give you stuff. You win this and then you win
this. Yeah.
And then it just gets harder. Yeah.
And it gets harder and it gets harder.
Yeah, and then and then they runout of things for you to do and
(25:31):
they're like, hang on. More coming soon.
No, that's what they've said. No, no.
So the more game this week. Because they're trying to
balance that, how hard it is with getting you to keep
playing. Yeah, that's what's.
Happening. I see you'll.
Find a level. You don't think that's all about
me? I can because no, I don't
because I play games too. But I I didn't.
(25:53):
I reached the stage on these match game things where I just
go, yeah, I'm done. I just, I don't need to play
anymore. I'm not wasting my money on it
like if if. They give me coins.
Or they give me, they give me coins or whatever and like fake
ones. Yeah, the fake ones.
I don't think I wanna spend it. I'm done.
I'll walk away 'cause it. Sometimes they only give you 5
(26:14):
tries, 5 lives. And that's it.
And then you're like, well, and I'm like, done.
I'm done. I'll put the game down.
I don't need to play it. You're playing it if you're
playing it that often. Yeah.
How much are you? Like how often a day are you
playing this game? Like I'm, I would play it
probably 2 times a day for like an hour maybe.
(26:34):
Oh wow. Like it's ridiculous how much
I'm playing. Wow.
Well, I'm trying not to be on social media.
And so then I miss a lot and I'mblissfully ignorant of a lot of
things lately, which is kind of nice because.
Because you know it. Makes me angry.
When you spend 2 hours a day playing.
Game. Then I play this game and I get.
In a game like that, I think your brain turn turns to mush.
Yeah, well, that's fine. That's fine.
(26:56):
I'd rather be turned to mush than hear what Donald Trump is
doing and get mad about it. You know, that's fine.
That was my choice, so that's OK.
I'd rather be mush than care. Well, yeah, yeah, all.
Right, that's fine. 'Cause I would care too much, I
have to omit myself. You don't want to hear about his
(27:17):
Great Gatsby party. No, I heard about it.
I don't want. How'd you hear?
About it. Well, I still am on social media
of. Course you are.
Knew you could never give that up.
Stay away. Yeah, you can't.
A little social media never killed nobody, right?
Wait a minute. I'm off social media honest.
I'm playing a Game 2 hours a dayright?
(27:38):
Yeah, which is? Ridiculous.
Yeah. Just quiz me about today's.
News. What a life.
Hey guys, what a life. We're on to you.
(28:02):
This is due to underwhelming demand.
It's a podcast and you probably already knew that you're
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Maybe I should stop saying that.Anyway, we are Dave, Rachel, the
foreman. And as you may have noticed
while watching or listening to this podcast, we are
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(28:22):
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Somebody did buy us coffees, right?
Yeah, they didn't leave a name, it just says someone bought 5
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There's no message. Nothing.
So thank you very much. We'll take them.
I mean, it's not coffee. It's 20 bucks.
So that's. Yeah, we love that.
Yeah. Yeah.
We keep this thing. Going absolutely thank you and
(29:05):
thank you to everyone who's leftus a if you as well, you can
review us on Apple podcasts on Spotify.
Leave us, you know, five stars, preferably an either or yes,
show us to more people. Yes also love if say you started
out simply merely as a listener of the radio station country 104
and then, as Danielle has said, she said back in September,
(29:29):
saying I started listening to your podcast.
So far so good. Wow.
Yeah, every other week I have a long drive to Chatham, so it
helps fill that time up. I'm I'm up to episode 5 so far
so. You have a long way to go,
Danielle Long. Way you know when you get here,
Danielle. Yeah.
This is episode 140. 140 Yeah, this.
(29:51):
And Danielle, you wrote us September 26th, way back in
2025, so we'll see what it is when you hear this.
Yeah. It would be a year from now it.
Might be, might be. Yeah, but thank you.
We have a message from Howie whosays I don't own a microwave.
Just like Foreman 21 years ago, I gave my microwave away and I
(30:11):
haven't looked back with not having one.
I reheat everything on the stoveand it tastes so much better.
Yep, he also has a question for us.
Is it normal for teenagers to bescared about telling their
parents they are moving out to live with friends?
My eldest was upfront about it but the rest of them told their
parents the week before and one told them the day of the day of
(30:34):
moving. Why I don't know, are they?
I guess they're afraid to tell them for some reason or they
just forgot. To tell them.
Like, hey, I'm moving out today by I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know what the the protocol is there, but I, you
know, as someone who's well pastthat stage in my life, yes.
(30:55):
When you look back at it, you would, I would say you would
hope that your child, your child, your whoever it is, would
have the courtesy, I suppose, tosay, hey, I'm moving out, right
And not do it the day of. Perhaps give a little, you know,
it's like anything. Maybe give us a little notice.
Speaks to their independence I guess to go and find a place and
(31:18):
get the down payment or whateveryour deposit.
I think as a parent, when you when you have young children,
you can't wait for them to move out.
But when? They want to live with me
forever. But when that stage hits, I
think you're you're more along the lines of, well, please let
me know. So I, I would that's a courtesy,
but I'm not sure that kids that age.
(31:41):
Think about. That look at it that way.
No, Yeah, as I looked. At yeah, I don't know if they're
they're either scared to tell them or yeah, they just didn't.
It didn't occur to them. I got a job and we've got my
house the literally, but I stayed in my parents house while
I went to college and then I gota job and the the job offer was
(32:01):
like they called me on a Friday and said we need you here
Monday. So I moved.
So I moved out. Like immediately.
Yes, well, I had to because I had to leave town.
I had to get a yeah. Did you have a house?
Did you have a an apartment? Somewhere to go?
No, I stayed. I stayed in a motel, believe it
or not, for a while until I found an.
Apartment. Right.
OK. Wow.
No, I just moved for school and then never moved.
(32:23):
Back never went back. Yeah, I was back and forth a
lot. You know.
Because I would move out for school and I'd go back for the
summer and. Like that very much.
See, you're not very nice. I didn't.
I didn't mind it. Well, my parents, I don't know
if my parents, my sister didn't.You're gone.
Get out. Yeah, my sister never wanted to
come back. She was gone.
She was. But I liked, I liked going back.
(32:43):
I would hang out with my. Going to moms for dinner on
Sunday. Yeah, yeah, you suck.
There's nothing better than a good Karen.
Suck. Roast beef dinner.
Like you're old enough you cook your own.
Invite me over. Stop it, right?
Stop. Well, we have an update message,
(33:05):
a clarification from Megan, Megan Clark who sent us a
message on Spotify and you can always leave comments on Spotify
quite a few months ago. Do you remember this one?
My sister and I often gift each other Dick themed items for any
occasion. I do remember that.
It started with one year for Christmas.
We, both unknown, knowingly gaveeach other gifts in that theme.
(33:27):
Yeah, well, Megan would like to clarify that.
Yeah. First saying wait until my
sister and I get matching rooster tattoos closer to the
end of the year. Matching rooster tattoos.
Don't worry, it will be an actual rooster because we both
don't want Peach emoji, eggplantemoji, Peach emoji on our bodies
(33:48):
forever. We have standards.
I get it OK. Sure.
I don't think she means the actual emojis.
Yes, all right to. Answer your hypothetical
question Dave, and give you an answer anyway.
Yes, we do open them on family Christmas.
Yes, we do open them in front ofgrandma.
I am lucky enough to have grandparents that have a sense
(34:08):
of humor as well. We have to get it from somewhere
right? Though my sister will probably
try to claim I am adopted if shereads this.
I think that's hysterical. Good for you.
Clearly we don't have children at these gift like that's what
I'm well. Grandma's there.
I don't really care about grandma.
(34:30):
Who cares whether grandma gets upset?
Grandma probably loves it. I mean, I don't know, but well.
She obviously she has the humor for it.
Grandma went to Halloween parties back in the day where no
one was allowed to talk. But you want your, you want your
7-8 year old there like, you know, when you're opening.
Yeah. OK, Megan, you're gonna have to
clarify again. But yes, she does go on to say
(34:52):
that's half the fun trying to embarrass the other one.
Unfortunately we both do not getembarrassed easily and now it's
honestly just become our weird thing.
I have 0 shame. Yes.
And then you probably try and upthe ante and you're just like,
man, that doesn't bother me. Right, I like that too.
I like look, I, I, I think that's very funny and, and you
(35:13):
should keep doing it, but good. I'm just wondering what the kids
think. If you search for adult coloring
book on Amazon and and scroll long enough you'll see the
coloring book I gifted her the first year.
I don't think he'll be that. I have been freezing butter
since Rachel mentioned that on the OG radio show.
Thank. You All I could think of was how
(35:35):
period. Fucking period.
Smart, yeah. Thank you so much.
Freezing butter is really, really dumb.
And we're not the only ones. Really dumb.
We've heard from so many people who freeze their butter.
Freeze your butter and then you probably freeze cheese.
Another dumb thing. I swap freezing cheese, but I do
(35:55):
freeze the butter. Oh gosh, don't we have a e-mail
from someone who freezes? Oh yeah.
Well, OK, well, I have an e-mailfrom.
We are getting emails from and people backing you up for your
Tin Hat microwave. Thing that's true, Yeah, there's
more people who don't have microwaves than I thought.
Yes, I do have an e-mail from our favorite person, Foreman's
(36:17):
mom. Oh great.
What he says Dear Dave, Rachel and Foreman, I thought I would
set the record straight regarding Foreman's early sports
teams allegiances. Oh, Dave.
OK, yes. You will be happy to know that
Foreman's parents tried to indoctrinate him as an Expose
fan at a very early age. Note the attached photo of
(36:39):
Foreman at four months old, not even walking yet, wearing an
Expose hat. Oh well done, good for them.
I appreciate that. I do appreciate that she is
from. Point Claire.
So. OK, for Foreman's 8th birthday,
as he requested, I don't know ifyou remember this foreman, he
received a Toronto Maple Leafs Jean jacket and hat that he
proudly wore until he outgrew them.
(37:01):
From the smile on his face, thiswas his favorite gift.
If you are thinking for a musical intro for Foreman's
mom's emails, this might do. And she sent us the William Tell
Overture. We could do that.
(37:22):
We could do that, I suppose. Very horse sounding, right?
Because it's the race. Clippity Club.
Club. Clippity Club.
PS Arshambo is pronounced Arshambo archambault bolt but
BAULT OK. Do you pronounce something I
don't I. Don't archambault right?
I don't know. I don't remember pronouncing
that, so I don't know. Well, we, yeah, we tried one.
(37:43):
It was the publisher last month.Yeah.
Pete. Pete.
Pete got it, got it, got it, gotit.
I think I'm probably I. I know I'm bad.
Some photos now that we can share and I love that she
provides us with some good. Can you?
Have content like that, can you?Explain the leaf thing for me.
What's Yeah. Because Ottawa didn't have a
team till then. So when you watch.
You just turned left and became a sense.
(38:05):
You gave up your leaf. You are God damn right I did.
That's weird. And then and then.
That's how all sense fans were created at the time to wait to
realize, hey wait a minute, now we have our own team.
Why the hell is Hockey Night in Canada shoving the Leafs down
our throat all the time and not even letting us watch our own
team? What the hell?
(38:27):
And there it becomes another Sands fan.
Right, OK. Well, because I can say it.
Was pretty oversized on you. You must have worn that for a
couple of. Years, time.
But most of us really don't careabout the sands.
You understand that, right? Most of us don't care about the
leaves either. No, that's not true.
More people do care about. We're tigers.
We're lying. Tigers I can't do.
(38:47):
Anything that's just me.
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