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(00:00):
Rachel says we're going to do this and this, this is just like
going skiing or golfing or whatever.
We don't do it. Well, see, somebody was in my
neighborhood selling skis. Youth skis.
Did you buy some? No.
She, well, I thought I might andthought.
About it for a second. Wow.
And now she couldn't even find the post if she tried.
(00:20):
You guys don't think I'd do anything.
I do things 'cause. I do the last we did a bit where
you don't do anything. If I do, I do.
I do things. I golf.
I golf now. I'm a golfer.
Golf. How many times golf?
Like 5 or 6 times this year. Did it was. 1/5 or.
Six. That's true.
(00:42):
Maybe like did maybe one or two.It was one.
No, it was more than one time or. 6.
No, that's. You only told us about 1:00 and
if it had been more you definitely would have told us
about them. So.
Way you go fire. Me because he he.
Did at the in front of an audience.
(01:02):
Every time if I go skiing, I'll take a video, I'll show you.
You won't. This is due to underwhelming due
to underwhelming demand, the Cyber Tuesday of podcast Daily
dollar tour. Is it?
(01:23):
Oh yeah, I guess. Cyber Tuesday, a lot of thing.
No. No, it's Giving Tuesday, right?
Is it? Yes, we've started giving you
this one for free. Here you go, you can have this
one. You're welcome.
You can have it. You should have started on a
more generous note. I feel like it's giving Tuesday.
I didn't know that it was. Here's your new episode.
(01:44):
Because the joke was Siren. Never mind.
I get it. I get.
Never, never mind. Can we?
Can we keep moving? Yes.
Yes, we absolutely can, but not to Swiss Chalet.
Oh boy. You've been warned right off the
bat. OK.
They are welcome to sponsor saidpodcast and clear the air.
(02:07):
I feel like they won't after this.
I feel like they won't. They should.
They should be forced to. They have a lot of explaining to
do. If you look it up, I I feel like
if you looked it up, Swiss chalet is in the same sort of
family group or whatever as the keg.
Who owns the keg? Swiss Chalet is far below the
(02:30):
keg. Oh yeah, it's owned by Recipe
Unlimited Corporation that operates several restaurant
chains such as Swiss Chalet, Harvey's and The Keg.
There you go, Rach. I hadn't.
I've never even heard of Recipe Unlimited.
Order chicken the next time you're at the keg.
You can guess where they're going to get it.
Well I OK I'm going to let Foreman tell a story but I have
(02:53):
gotten sick from Swiss chalet 2 times.
All right, I've got to sit back and not see anything for a while
because I can't afford to be sued.
So go ahead guys. Well, it's not just Swiss
Chalet, Harvey's and the Keg. It's also Eastside, Mario's,
Kelsey's, Montana's, New York Fries, Saint Hubert and the
Pickle Barrel. OK, there you go.
(03:14):
They. Own them all.
Should we really be naming them all?
Maybe. I feel like maybe we should be
anonymous with this. We should just not.
I'm fine with many of those other chains other than.
Yeah, I've actually haven't had any problems at the end.
And I'm generally fine with Swiss Chalet.
In fact, I was excited to go, aswas the entire family, to go
(03:34):
finally get make our annual pilgrimage, as every Canadian
must do, to go get a festive special.
Yes, of course. Yeah, they.
They're back. They are back, Yeah, they've
been back for a little while because I had one too.
Well, and what a genius evening to combine offers when you can
go on the kids, eat free Wednesdays and get a festive
(03:56):
special. Everybody wins.
Sure, yeah. Yes, you would be wrong, David.
You would be wrong, Rachel. Again, just stay out of this.
Beware because even outside of Swiss Chalet, you may drive past
a Swiss chalet on a Wednesday and find a wooden cartoon
chicken that simply says kids eat free with zero fine print.
(04:20):
Right, this is not the problem. There's no fine print on the
website. There's no fine print on the
menu. Oh, OK, so we've really looked
for some. We have because at the end of
the foreman's meal in which Ashley and I had festive
(04:40):
specials and the kids had, you know, a bunch of shit.
Something from the kids menu. Whatever, I don't care.
Probably chicken Nuggets and fries.
Yeah, there's a drink, there's ameal and there's dessert.
Have out. There, Shirley Temple, yeah.
Right. Ashley just wanted her lint
chocolates and we can get out ofthere.
That's right, right. So.
You get the festive special. But on the bill, we were charged
(05:01):
for the kids meals. Oh, I thought it was Kids eat
free Wednesday. It sure was supposed to be what
happened. And so yours truly said whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Kids eat Wednesdays.
The chicken told me so. Right.
The chicken outside says it, Yeah.
And she said, oh, but that's only on regularly priced addled
(05:23):
entrees. If you order regularly priced
addled entree then you get a kids meal for free.
So because you had the festive special, which matter?
Which I was keen to point out onseveral occasions in this
interaction about how the festive special costs more than
a regular meal. Yes, it absolutely.
(05:44):
Yes it does. And I know that because I had
one. Yeah, it's a it's and we had two
several dollars more than the regular quarter chicken meal.
Especially when you go with the white meat festive special, they
cost a little. More yes.
On top of the regular festive special.
You're right, Yes, they charge you for those lint chocolates.
Waitress, do you think? I mean, do you think is it
(06:08):
really that special? Well, it's a fun.
Fact. It appears it's not very
festive. No.
Well, it doesn't bring a lot of good tidings, that's for sure.
No. No.
Joy, their pocket. No one.
Joy. Yeah.
No one gets festive when their pocket's being picked.
Right. No one likes to be bamboozled,
OK, And here we are at we're we're at a stalemate with our
(06:31):
waitress because she said no, no, no, that's not the deal.
And I said no, no, no, that actually is the deal.
And she had to go to the back check with the manager.
She was gone for quite a long time.
I know whether you talked to themanager.
I didn't talk to the manager, she didn't offer that option.
She had to go back twice to another area to talk to them
herself. My and the manager didn't want
(06:53):
to come out the second time. Right.
They did not want to come out. And then in the end, she did
remove the cost of the children's meals, but I believe
it probably came at her expense.Really.
You think so? So she had to.
Again, once again turning not This is not a very festive
special. It's not festive for her either.
(07:15):
No. Did you take special or?
Festive about this. Yes, we gave.
Her a tip OK, good. All right.
What I mean because she did do that then did.
You give her a tip that that covered that covered both of
those meals. No.
And you didn't give her a good. Tip.
Any adult meal. Here's your fault.
You have to faint her, you said.Those are supposed to be the
(07:36):
minute. I said, well, the only reason
we're here. Is.
So these two don't have to pay for anything.
If he had ordered a regular meal, which is cheaper, yes,
then she would have gotten a smaller tip anyway because they
would have only paid for those two meals, correct?
What kind of logic? Is she got a bigger tip because
it was based on the increased price of the festive special?
(07:59):
Right. Yeah, I agree.
I think it should be free and like the festive special any any
adult meal should give you a free kids meal if that's the day
they. All do.
Well, yeah, except for the festive special.
Like that's the only thing not included.
Right. Or any other temporary offer I
suppose. That's dumb like that.
(08:19):
Can't be. Ridiculous.
Yeah. Why?
So we went to Swiss Chalet and it again had the chicken outside
saying you. Kids eat free.
We'll hold on. Stop.
What are you? Doing at Swiss Chalet, did you
not just say at the beginning, at the start of this whole?
Thing. Yeah, one time I got sick of
swish. Yeah.
(08:39):
Why are you back? I believe wasn't it two times
that you've gotten? Severe food poisoning.
Severe at there was two different locations and I won't
go to those ones. OK, but did you?
I have grown up going to Swiss Chalet almost.
Diagnosed food poisoning or is this Rachel going?
I don't feel well so I was poisoned by the food.
(09:02):
Oh no, me, Jeremy and Julia. Actually, Kendall was a baby at
the time. So this was seven years ago. 7
1/2 And so Kendall was a baby. So the three of us got food
poisoning really badly and it like couldn't function.
I had to call my mom and be like, you need to come and take
this baby because no one can care for it today.
Like no one can care for this baby if and Kendall wasn't
(09:25):
heating yet because I'm. Not accusing any any restaurant
of food poison, you know, because that's a.
Serious. That's a serious charge.
It was. It was absolutely because the
chicken was raw. Put.
Money in the middle? I'm suggesting my mom would
serve me completely raw chicken.If you got food poisoning at a
restaurant and you know what restaurant it was like, it's not
(09:47):
like you. Did I can't say that I can't
say. If if you in fact believe that a
restaurant gave you food poisoning, why, why, why, why
and why 30 times more would you ever set foot back and said
restaurant? OK, so here.
Here's my lifelong attachment toSwiss Chalet.
(10:07):
Was it one of the locations thatI probably went to by the way?
It might have been. Yeah, I think that narrowed the
25% closer. Right.
Just, I don't know. Anyway, so I grew up going to
Swiss LA almost every single Sunday for lunch after church.
Every. Sunday, almost every week, yeah.
(10:29):
My whole family, we would go at,I would say at minimum once a
month. Never, Never once did I get
never once did any of us get sick And then and so, so I've
always loved Swiss Chalet I, I got.
Your love of the keg. We didn't.
That's not where we went. We went to Swiss Chalet.
But I do love the keg too. And the mini brands of recipes
(10:51):
Unlimited, right? I, I have no, there's no so I
then I then after I got sick 2 times, like the first time, I
thought, of course it's just a fluke.
So we tried a second, second restaurant a while after a
second location and and got sickfrom that one too.
And so then after that we swore off Swiss Chalet.
(11:11):
We are not. So we have not had Swiss Chalet
for probably 8 years, seven, well since that time, seven
years. But the lure of the festive.
Special, special, yeah, yes. So here's what happened.
We decide we we've gone back to Swiss Chalet maybe two or three
times this year with our friends.
So the allure of the chicken outfront that says kids eat free
(11:33):
because that's that's great. But our chicken did not say
Wednesday days only. So here we go into Swiss Chalet
on a weekend, thinking I'm goingto get my festive.
I'm going to get a. Free on a weekend.
Well, the chicken was out there.It does the.
Chicken says for kids eat from. We're like, oh, kids eat free.
Look at that. Great.
We go in. Oh no, it's only on Wednesdays.
(11:55):
Like what? OK, fine.
Like we just kind of take whatever.
It's only Wednesdays. We're like, all right, fine,
whatever. And then we did get the festive
special. But the festive special, the
food was OK. The service was terrible, very
bad, which is another thing. And it was just very busy.
(12:16):
And then we had to pay for every, everybody's meal.
So we weren't, we weren't thrilled.
We weren't thrilled. Well, they're telling everyone
to come in with the free, free kids and then that's.
How you're getting us all in there, all of us, parents,
you've you've tricked us now. You.
We you've. Tricked us to come in and pay
for more expensive meals, and then you're not giving us the
(12:37):
deal that you've promised. You're not holding up your end
of the bargain. Or the food poisoning you're
used to. Yeah.
Exactly so. Now, damn it.
The last experience I had was not not great.
So now I'm like, you know what, Swish LA, I gave you a chance.
I came back. Eight or eight or nine times.
Fool me. Once fool me.
(12:57):
Once. 9 times. Not no.
I'm gonna go somewhere else, right?
I loved you for so long. And then you then you really
screwed me. And then I gave you a chance
again. And now I'm not.
Not for it. Not here for it.
That's right. So I'm.
I'm with you Forman. And This is why it sucks to be
(13:18):
in the service industry. You too.
Well, tell your boss to take thechicken down.
(13:44):
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Just just saying. Unless you maybe have a friend
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OK, sure. So here's a gift.
That'll cost you money. Well, yeah, you have to buy it
(14:05):
for them. Oh, that OK, Yeah, that makes
sense. We could whip up a gift card,
sure. Well, we are sponsorless, so
that would be great if you, you know, if, if, if what you want
for Christmas is to sponsor thispodcast, you're in luck.
Here's here's your. And really, who's not thinking
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(14:26):
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I have something coming. I have something coming.
All right, It's the holiday season.
(14:48):
Whoop Dee Doo, that's. Right, it's the holiday season.
Dickory dot so so. Don't.
It's time to do your Christmas shopping.
Are you done, Rachel? No, I've barely started.
Oh, I've barely. Started.
I know, I know. It's this is the time though
(15:11):
when I start like Black Fridays.I usually try and have a list by
then so that I know what everybody wants and I can kind
of go through it. But my kids are so Foreman.
Do you find this now? Like the kids don't really play
with toys anymore. They're of the age where like, I
don't really know what to get them now.
They don't play with me. And you can't buy.
You can't buy hardly any clothing of any kind.
Oh, oh, God, she's 11. Oh, yeah.
(15:32):
And no, like, she doesn't pick it out.
Then she's not wearing. It, yes, yeah, that's the same
with. Us and herein lies the problem
so. You're in.
You're dealing, Rob. You're you're dealing with
children and I'm not really dealing with I have a child and
we're we've been after her. Can you please let us know what
you want for Christmas? So because, you know, don't.
(15:54):
Know what to get you? We, we don't know.
We could, you know, try to guess, but that doesn't go well.
Trust. That's not a fun Christmas.
You know, mom and dad guess and and they get the wrong thing.
So, you know, could you please tell us?
So we have a kind of a rule around here that, and that is I
always, as you know, Rachel, I do do quite a bit of shopping,
(16:19):
mostly for my wife, but for other, you know, now I, I kind
of try to look after both the girls in my family and, you
know, I have other kids and stuff that I have to look after.
But I, I come up with ideas on my own that I, you know.
Yes, I have to give Dave credit because he's quite a thoughtful
gift giver and I think he comes up with great ideas.
(16:41):
Actually, but I we use. And here, by the way, I hear
that we are nearly complete our shopping, I've been told.
Oh, good. Good for you.
OK. For you're not doing very good.
I've I've heard. For that I've heard.
That our shopping is almost complete.
So you're going to go out for your wife on Christmas Eve and
find something at Shoppers Drug Mart, right?
(17:01):
No, I already bought her something Winter.
Tires, winter tires. We did discuss that.
Oh, I see. Right.
OK. Well, we're not doing that.
We we tend to now what we'll do.Is.
You know, we generally will go well, what do you want for
Christmas? Because I would like to get her
things that she needs, sure needs.
(17:21):
And if I can provide a couple ofthings above and beyond that,
that's great. So as you know, a number of
years ago, I think my wife askedfor a a vacuum.
And that was like a quite the dilemma because you know, you
don't want to give your wife a vacuum, do you?
Yes. And we worked that one out and
it worked out fine. But this year I got a list.
(17:43):
OK. From her, from your wife, OK.
So a couple of things I've already looked after.
She wanted some running shoes. She needed a new case for her
phone. She's not going to hear this
right. She doesn't listen to.
Me maybe she doesn't doesn't. Tell her not to listen till
after Christmas. Anyway, so here's the other
things on her, things that she'sgiven me that she wants me to
(18:04):
get for her. A bra and a sports bra.
OK, good luck. Those are two different things,
are there? Yeah.
Yeah. Regular and that.
Much I knew and when she asked for I believe it was the sports
bra, she said you better do someresearch and I thought.
(18:27):
Does she have a particular brandthat she liked?
No, I have no idea. OK, I.
Didn't have bras are tricky because you have to try them on
typically or if you know what you wear then you can just buy
that. There's any number.
So you might need to go through some drawers at home.
I have. Bad idea, yeah.
Bad idea. Yeah.
Get Charlotte to help you with that.
(18:47):
Charlotte did help me with that.Right, so women have to wear
different bras when they're working out.
Yeah, you want something because.
They're more supportive. Yeah, for want of a better word,
doesn't jiggle as much. Right.
Correct. Yeah, right.
OK, so I. Won't hang low or wobble to and
fro. Right.
You can't tie them in a knot when they're.
Stopped in there, OK. So.
(19:07):
I have, I've had literally no experience in buying a bra
before, although I really like to use the term brassiere 'cause
I think it's funny. I'm here for a brassiere in some
underpants, yes. Oh.
My. God.
Steer me in the direction of theBrazil panties because I
(19:28):
freaking hate that. I think it sounds so gross.
Can't see. The Lion can you?
No. My.
Can't see it at all, Dad. All right.
So the last time I decided to provide because I knew that it
was required, it was very close to her birthday and Mother's
(19:48):
Day, which always happened at the same time.
So I bought a gift certificate. I spent a lot of money for a
gift certificate and then everything closed down because
it was COVID. Oh yes.
And then there was a rumor that the gift certificate to the
particular place that I bought, there was a rumor going around
that because of COVID and because they've been closed for
(20:09):
a couple of months, they were never going to reopen, right?
Oh boy, did I get in trouble forthat.
Oh my. Don't give me a gift card for a
store that doesn't exist. Right.
Yeah. Generally a good yes.
Sure. Well, you didn't know that at
the time. No, but that's still we.
Didn't think we were going to beshut down for as long as we
(20:30):
were. Excuse it doesn't work.
I tried that. How was I to know?
Yeah, well, true. Truly, none of us knew.
We all thought we'd be home for two weeks and that was.
It so wish me luck Foreman, haveyou ever had to do?
Where are you going to go? What's your plan?
I don't know do. You have a plan, yet you don't
have AI have. I have a size, that's about all.
(20:53):
OK. Well, that's good.
That's a good start. Yes, some bras bra brands fit
differently. Yeah.
So it really is something that. You need to go any further,
Rachel. This is my problem.
I'm stuck with it. I'll live with it.
OK. Do you have like have you gone
through some drawers and you might know like what kind of
(21:15):
what brands she prefers? You bring some examples with you
to the store. No, just at least you know where
to go to find them. Yeah, the store that all that
didn't close during COVID, I cango back there.
Yeah, they're still open, so. OK, Well then that's.
Good. Yeah, good.
Wish me luck. Maybe the customer service
representative could have try some on for you.
(21:36):
OK, I know. I'm sure they love it when men
come in and they're like. I don't think.
I I need to buy a sports bra formy wife.
Like it's not lingerie, it's notlike night.
It's like I. Need her size?
I'm not doing that. No, thank you.
No. That's a big ask.
(21:57):
I think of your wife. That's a big ask.
But if anyone's up for the job, I think it's you.
I'll. Let you know.
Yeah, report back. I'm very intrigued to hear what
happens. This is due to underwhelming
(22:24):
what? Who's talking?
I but I was leaving. I dropped my phone on the floor
and I didn't. We start again.
I'll just keep going, I don't care.
Nobody sponsors this fine thing anyway.
This may be why no one sponsors.Maybe because we shit on
everybody and we don't take it seriously.
If you want to sponsor us, checkout underwhelming.ca, OK?
(22:46):
This this is due to underwhelming demand the podcast
and if podcasts were Christmas decorations, we would be tinsel.
Nobody uses us anymore. I knew that was coming.
You did. I like that you knew that that
was. Coming.
I knew it was gonna be tinsel. Yeah, really OK of.
(23:06):
Course, we're tinsel. Because nobody uses it.
Yeah, because it's completely irrelevant and doesn't exist
anymore. Unnecessary and.
Useless really when you get right down.
No one wants. Useless.
Nobody wants it. That's it.
That's. At least we're we're glitter
and. When you do use it, you have a
high, much higher risk of burning down your house.
Well, that was fun. All right.
(23:27):
We are Dave, Rachel and Foreman.Yes, you know, it was also super
fun this past week. It's.
Sad Rachel, my family and I wentand saw Wicked the movie.
That sounds like fun. Yeah, we went and saw it the day
it came out on the Friday. I think we saw it on the
(23:48):
Saturday, so my girls were superexcited.
As you know, maybe you don't know, I am a big musical theater
nerd. And now my children are as well.
Much to Jeremy's dismay, who haslearned all about musicals in
the last 11 years or more, or a little bit more because a.
Good I like a good show tune I mean I.
(24:09):
Sure. We used to, we used to.
We used to love to sing show tunes.
When we were doing the radio show, we were doing that.
You are 16 going on, you know 'cause we sang that one with
the. I'm going to see that.
Actually, this isn't. That's the Sound of Music, Yeah.
Yes, yeah, at the Grand Theatre.Anyway, so we went to go see
Wicked 'cause it's a much anticipated, huge movie.
Everyone's so excited to see it.And so I got tickets.
(24:32):
I bought tickets like a week anda half early to make sure that
we could get in and get a this. Is like Star Wars for you,
isn't? It yes ohh yeah, this was I was
super. Nearly as probably as much fun.
Well, I think it's way more fun.OK, I've literally never seen
Star Wars. I know, and this may shock you,
but I had never seen Wicked. Well, I didn't even know it.
(24:55):
I know a musical. I've been in musicals.
I've been in The Sound of Music and others.
I didn't even know Wicked was a musical.
No idea. Wicked was a book, wasn't it?
A book 1st and then. There isn't a novel and maybe,
maybe, I guess it's probably based on the novel.
Fun fact, the novel is not for children.
I looked at this book at Costco and I thought Julia really loved
(25:18):
loved the play and I thought I should get her this book.
It is not for. No, they tell you, don't let
your kids. Read do not let your kids read
this book. It is nothing like the musical.
It has a lot of adult themes andany every like, bad, like it's
not good, not good. And I didn't know that.
And before I kind of looked at it, it's not a children's book
(25:40):
at all. But the movie is.
But the movie is, yeah, the the movie is the musical.
The Musical. Came out like 20 years ago on
Broadway and, and so. They tamed it.
They, they, they well. Guessed it, they take it from
the book. Yeah, I haven't read the book,
but I've I've heard that the book is absolutely not for
children. Not just that it's, I don't know
(26:01):
if it's scary, but it's like very inappropriate.
Oh well, I want to read that more than I've ever wanted to
read. Intrigued in reading the book
that I haven't seen. Well, I haven't read.
I don't know. I mean, I don't know if you've
read the book, you let us know what you think of it, OK.
And if you've seen Wicked, let me know because I know a lot of
people went this weekend. I bought tickets.
Our theater was completely sold out, so I'm glad that we got
(26:23):
tickets for when we did. I didn't realize it was so long.
It was 2 hours and 40 minutes. And so I bought the six 6:30 PM
show. So Jeremy's like, oh, the kids
are going to be up really late. I'm like. 1:00 PM, please.
Yeah, I know. We didn't.
I didn't know that. Anyway, so we loved it.
It was so great. Ariana Grande, Cynthia Areevo.
(26:43):
And they sing live the whole time.
They are not recorded and lip synching.
They're singing live the whole time, which is like, amazing.
Impressive when? You think of it, it's like,
well, yeah, they do that on Broadway all the time.
Like these people are these people sing live 8 * a week.
So that's it makes sense that they would do that.
But after that, like accurate sound on a movie set, no.
(27:04):
Well. Yeah, on a movie, you need it to
be absolutely perfect because itplays that way forever.
Right A. Broadway show you could You can
do it again tomorrow night. Yeah, that's true.
That's true. Anyway, so my whole Instagram
feed is now and TikTok completely just musical theatre
stuff and all about Wicked and all the interview clips and all
the actors that were in it. And you know who's in it that
(27:26):
you would be interested to know?Bowen Yang from SNL.
OK, because I know you love SNL.Did you as I do out of curiosity
and I know the answer to this. Because is it the iceberg that
sank the Titanic? Yeah, I saw your Instagram post
or whatever. Yeah, you didn't drag Jeremy to
this, did you? Yes, yeah, we did.
I think he liked it. He didn't say much.
(27:47):
Saturday or a Sunday? It was a Saturday night.
Saturday night. Hockey night, you know?
So the Leafs were probably. They probably lost.
I don't, I don't know they were playing or not, Yeah.
That's really. Were they playing last Saturday?
Oh sure, Yeah, they do. Every Saturday.
Yeah, we were at. Generally.
Generally, You know what else I made him turn off sports for
(28:07):
last night is I finally watched Hot Frosty on.
Netflix, you're just you're, you're so.
I'm a glutton for punishment. I'm not, but I wanted to see it.
Everybody was like, it's so bad,but you can't turn it off.
And so I was like, OK tonight, Jeremy, we're not watching
(28:30):
sports. We're watching Hot Frosty.
It was bad. You didn't like hot frosty?
No, it was OK. It was.
It's very bad. It's a bad movie.
There's some laughs in there like it's OK, but it's not like
it's it's good because it's bad,you know what I mean?
It's not. Right.
It was amazing. Good because it's bad.
(28:51):
No, Wicked is good because it's good.
No, isn't it about it's you're fucking bad now you're
confusing. Me.
Well, wicked. Why is it called?
Yes, sure, so Wicked and I know that you loved the Wizard of Oz
Wicked is about how the Wicked Witch becomes the Wicked witch,
right? Yes, And the and the Witch of
the North. Glinda is the the good witch,
(29:13):
right? My fan theory is Glinda is
actually not very nice. And if you watch the movie,
you'll be like, Oh yeah, like she's kind of mean.
She's a bully. I said it come at me.
I the. Wicked, the wicked.
Witch I feel it makes you feel. Bad for her, for goodness sake.
The Wicked Witch. Stole photo.
(29:35):
In the Wizard of Oz, so eventually she becomes, so
anyways, the the wicked that came out was Part 1.
There's going to be a Part 2 great.
Which then ties in who becomes like the Tin Man and the
Scarecrow and the Lion, right? And it ties all that.
Together. We already know that, yeah.
But yeah, I think we already know that.
(29:56):
We're would become Are they the?Farmhands from Dorothy's.
Well, in her dream they are. Yeah, but I don't know they're
gonna tell I. Like I know from 80 years ago.
What are you talking about? In Wicked, in the that some of
those characters become these characters.
OK, Like that's part of the story.
I feel like we should have left that, you know, you know, this
(30:17):
was a book that. Was it that was cool and badass?
Why didn't HBO make the movie? Why didn't HBO?
I don't know, maybe they will, but I haven't read the book.
And don't buy it for your children for Christmas are.
There any flying monkeys in this?
Movie. Yes, there is.
Yeah. Oh, did everyone in the theater
sing? No.
The Rock said you could. He did.
(30:39):
Yeah. He says go ahead and sing.
Yeah, and Moana. Yeah.
Sing, sing, sing. Moana's next.
Next weekend, yeah. Are you poor Jeremy?
Wow. Merry Christmas to Jeremy.
(31:12):
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We like to hear from you. Yes, we do.
As a matter of fact, this is theportion of the podcast where we
(31:34):
get some of your feedback, so and thank you for that.
Yeah, yeah. Thank you.
Thank you to Jerry. Show.
Yeah, Jerry sent us a segment idea.
Why I'm? Why I?
Why am I the one reading this? OK.
Send Foreman out with Aaron, youknow from ENP Equine.
Right. Yeah.
For a day in the life type piece, let hilarity ensue.
(31:57):
Yeah, that would be actually with her.
To do the equine massage and nerve release.
Yeah, that would be fun. Me massaging a horse, that's
what. We all want to go out and make
the horses feel better, take care of them.
You'd get all squeaky and that'sa great idea.
Thank you for that last long. We will investigate that.
(32:19):
Yes, right. Yeah.
OK, well, Katie says I'm a MountElginite here.
Mount Elgin? Are you just listening to the
podcast today? Just reading this one.
OK, go ahead. Yeah.
Yes, they're the ones that theirtown challenge is for everyone
to have a giant inflatable gingerbread man.
And so she says 84% of the people voted on our Facebook
(32:42):
poll for gingerbread men. Only 4% wanted snowmen and one
of those 4% called in it was Anita.
Anita did speak up and admit to being the one who called in when
it was questioned in our neighborhood Facebook group.
The pressure is on for her to participate because she was the
one that called and that's why we talked about it and said that
my town's doing this, but I don't want to participate.
(33:04):
But I don't want to. You know what?
I commend Anita for not posting anonymously.
Good for you. Fair.
Yeah, You owned that. You stepped up, and I think
that's very brave of you. Good for you, Anita.
Yes, over and all your. Neighbors love you, Anita.
They just. Well, she's the one being peer
(33:25):
pressured into buying one of these things.
Sure. Yeah, that's right.
You should. If somebody doesn't want to buy
it, I mean, whatever. Right.
Yeah, over an embro they're doing the the giant 12 foot tall
inflatable Santas. Right.
Yeah. Yeah.
And so Donna says, yes, Ambronians, next year we will
have to make kilts for them. Maybe we could put them up for
July 1st? That's funny.
(33:47):
For the Highland game, they do. The Highland games to them bro
That's true. I actually, I approve of that.
So if you're buying them and you're going to use them like
people use those huge tall skeletons at at Halloween and
they dress them up for all sure.Yeah, have at it.
I I approve that. Good idea, what do you find it
Bonus of those home harbor one. My approval but I.
Know I think they're already made for it because all of them
(34:09):
already have a Maple Leaf on Santa his chest and the little
gift he's holding is already Plaid like.
It's nice. What do you think of?
Highland Games. Is it Santa's or Snowman that
we're talking about here, Santa?Santa's.
That was the Santa's. What do you think Santa's
wearing under his skill? Don't ask.
(34:30):
Mistletoe, mistletoe. That's a good one.
Sure. I'll take this though.
Never mind. Oh my God.
OK. Aintley commented about your
lice, Rachel. I don't think we.
Yeah, yes, yeah. It's gone now, thank God, but I
(34:51):
checked every day for two weeks.It was oh God, annoying.
If you miss 1 egg, those suckerscome back.
That's the problem. Anyway, what'd she say?
Well, Aintley said. I hope our household has had
their lifetime share of lice. My two and four year old boys
got it and I refuse to just shave their heads.
(35:12):
Taking care of that was more exhausting than laboring both of
them. Yeah, Oh my gosh, it is
exhausting. Yeah, so she says her lice kit
is olive oil, Saran wrap, medicated treatments, rubbing
alcohol in a spray bottle. Oh, rubbing.
Alcohol. Oh, those are all used.
I don't have the. Medicaid, yeah.
(35:32):
OK, so you're using everything. Well, the the olive oil is like
the conditioner that you had told me about.
Foreman and someone else told meto use the conditioner and just
comb everything out. The medicated stuff kills
everything. And then I don't know what the
rubbing alcohol does. You sure it's rubbing alcohol or
is it just alcohol? Maybe just alcohol.
(35:53):
That's what I needed, yeah. Sure, we have a couple of voice
memos. Great.
OK. Which are just lovely.
The first one we've received comes courtesy of Erica Vincent,
the Realtor. Yes, okay, Erica.
Hi guys, Erica Vincent here. I was just listening to your
episode where Rachel, you were talking about one of your girls
(36:16):
having head lice, or maybe it was both your girls, I don't
remember. We had our own incident with
head lice a couple years ago. It was absolutely awful.
I completely freaked out. I think you handled it a lot
better than I did. I panicked.
I went out to Shoppers and bought like 5 bottles, I think,
of lice shampoo. I was also thinking back to when
(36:39):
we worked at camp. So Rachel and I worked at camp
together for a few summers and Iwas never one of the people that
was doing the lice checks, but Ilived in staff quarters with the
people that did them. And they would come back talking
about it and we would all just feel so itchy all night.
And eventually we learned that the lice like clean hair.
(37:02):
And so when we were anticipatinga new group of kids, all of us,
all the girls, all the girls staff because we had the long
hair, we would stop washing our hair for like two or three days
before the new group of kids were coming in.
So that was how we. Dealt with that.
Yes that's true. And I was the lice picker at
camp. Want to hear another one?
(37:22):
Hey guys, it's Dave and Elmer. Number one, it was great to hear
from Scotty the other day. That was kind of cool.
Going back a couple of episodes.Dave was complaining about the
South end Costco. Well, any Costco around
lunchtime is a shit show, so that's on him.
And the admitting thing on the Facebook groups, I admit the
(37:44):
Elmer and Area Community News Group about 9000 members.
I've got the anonymous posts turned off, it's my discretion
whether they get in or not, and I turned it off because it just
caused nothing but arguments andcrap.
So if you can't put your name onit, you can't send it.
Yeah. Other than that, I hope you guys
are doing well and we'll talk soon.
(38:04):
Have a great day. Bye.
He agrees. Thank you, Dave.
It should be turned off. That's.
Right. Yeah, I agree.
If you can't say it in public, then don't say it in public.
It's one of our mottos here. Switch LA so you know, deal with
it. I can't wait to post.
I can't wait to post anything and everything on Elmer's
community news to know that it'sgoing to get boosted by the
(38:25):
moderators now that's great to know.
Rachel says we're going to do this and this, this is just like
going skiing or golfing or whatever.
We don't do it. Well, see, somebody was in my
neighborhood selling skis. Youth skis.
Did you buy some? No.
She, well, I thought I might andthought.
About it for a second. Wow.
And now she couldn't even find the post if she tried.
(00:20):
You guys don't think I'd do anything.
I do things 'cause. I do the last we did a bit where
you don't do anything. If I do, I do.
I do things. I golf.
I golf now. I'm a golfer.
Golf. How many times golf?
Like 5 or 6 times this year. Did it was. 1/5 or.
Six. That's true.
(00:42):
Maybe like did maybe one or two.It was one.
No, it was more than one time or. 6.
No, that's. You only told us about 1:00 and
if it had been more you definitely would have told us
about them. So.
Way you go fire. Me because he he.
Did at the in front of an audience.
(01:02):
Every time if I go skiing, I'll take a video, I'll show you.
You won't. This is due to underwhelming due
to underwhelming demand, the Cyber Tuesday of podcast Daily
dollar tour. Is it?
(01:23):
Oh yeah, I guess. Cyber Tuesday, a lot of thing.
No. No, it's Giving Tuesday, right?
Is it? Yes, we've started giving you
this one for free. Here you go, you can have this
one. You're welcome.
You can have it. You should have started on a
more generous note. I feel like it's giving Tuesday.
I didn't know that it was. Here's your new episode.
(01:44):
Because the joke was Siren. Never mind.
I get it. I get.
Never, never mind. Can we?
Can we keep moving? Yes.
Yes, we absolutely can, but not to Swiss Chalet.
Oh boy. You've been warned right off the
bat. OK.
They are welcome to sponsor saidpodcast and clear the air.
(02:07):
I feel like they won't after this.
I feel like they won't. They should.
They should be forced to. They have a lot of explaining to
do. If you look it up, I I feel like
if you looked it up, Swiss chalet is in the same sort of
family group or whatever as the keg.
Who owns the keg? Swiss Chalet is far below the
(02:30):
keg. Oh yeah, it's owned by Recipe
Unlimited Corporation that operates several restaurant
chains such as Swiss Chalet, Harvey's and The Keg.
There you go, Rach. I hadn't.
I've never even heard of Recipe Unlimited.
Order chicken the next time you're at the keg.
You can guess where they're going to get it.
Well I OK I'm going to let Foreman tell a story but I have
(02:53):
gotten sick from Swiss chalet 2 times.
All right, I've got to sit back and not see anything for a while
because I can't afford to be sued.
So go ahead guys. Well, it's not just Swiss
Chalet, Harvey's and the Keg. It's also Eastside, Mario's,
Kelsey's, Montana's, New York Fries, Saint Hubert and the
Pickle Barrel. OK, there you go.
(03:14):
They. Own them all.
Should we really be naming them all?
Maybe. I feel like maybe we should be
anonymous with this. We should just not.
I'm fine with many of those other chains other than.
Yeah, I've actually haven't had any problems at the end.
And I'm generally fine with Swiss Chalet.
In fact, I was excited to go, aswas the entire family, to go
(03:34):
finally get make our annual pilgrimage, as every Canadian
must do, to go get a festive special.
Yes, of course. Yeah, they.
They're back. They are back, Yeah, they've
been back for a little while because I had one too.
Well, and what a genius evening to combine offers when you can
go on the kids, eat free Wednesdays and get a festive
(03:56):
special. Everybody wins.
Sure, yeah. Yes, you would be wrong, David.
You would be wrong, Rachel. Again, just stay out of this.
Beware because even outside of Swiss Chalet, you may drive past
a Swiss chalet on a Wednesday and find a wooden cartoon
chicken that simply says kids eat free with zero fine print.
(04:20):
Right, this is not the problem. There's no fine print on the
website. There's no fine print on the
menu. Oh, OK, so we've really looked
for some. We have because at the end of
the foreman's meal in which Ashley and I had festive
(04:40):
specials and the kids had, you know, a bunch of shit.
Something from the kids menu. Whatever, I don't care.
Probably chicken Nuggets and fries.
Yeah, there's a drink, there's ameal and there's dessert.
Have out. There, Shirley Temple, yeah.
Right. Ashley just wanted her lint
chocolates and we can get out ofthere.
That's right, right. So.
You get the festive special. But on the bill, we were charged
(05:01):
for the kids meals. Oh, I thought it was Kids eat
free Wednesday. It sure was supposed to be what
happened. And so yours truly said whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Kids eat Wednesdays.
The chicken told me so. Right.
The chicken outside says it, Yeah.
And she said, oh, but that's only on regularly priced addled
(05:23):
entrees. If you order regularly priced
addled entree then you get a kids meal for free.
So because you had the festive special, which matter?
Which I was keen to point out onseveral occasions in this
interaction about how the festive special costs more than
a regular meal. Yes, it absolutely.
(05:44):
Yes it does. And I know that because I had
one. Yeah, it's a it's and we had two
several dollars more than the regular quarter chicken meal.
Especially when you go with the white meat festive special, they
cost a little. More yes.
On top of the regular festive special.
You're right, Yes, they charge you for those lint chocolates.
Waitress, do you think? I mean, do you think is it
(06:08):
really that special? Well, it's a fun.
Fact. It appears it's not very
festive. No.
Well, it doesn't bring a lot of good tidings, that's for sure.
No. No.
Joy, their pocket. No one.
Joy. Yeah.
No one gets festive when their pocket's being picked.
Right. No one likes to be bamboozled,
OK, And here we are at we're we're at a stalemate with our
(06:31):
waitress because she said no, no, no, that's not the deal.
And I said no, no, no, that actually is the deal.
And she had to go to the back check with the manager.
She was gone for quite a long time.
I know whether you talked to themanager.
I didn't talk to the manager, she didn't offer that option.
She had to go back twice to another area to talk to them
herself. My and the manager didn't want
(06:53):
to come out the second time. Right.
They did not want to come out. And then in the end, she did
remove the cost of the children's meals, but I believe
it probably came at her expense.Really.
You think so? So she had to.
Again, once again turning not This is not a very festive
special. It's not festive for her either.
(07:15):
No. Did you take special or?
Festive about this. Yes, we gave.
Her a tip OK, good. All right.
What I mean because she did do that then did.
You give her a tip that that covered that covered both of
those meals. No.
And you didn't give her a good. Tip.
Any adult meal. Here's your fault.
You have to faint her, you said.Those are supposed to be the
(07:36):
minute. I said, well, the only reason
we're here. Is.
So these two don't have to pay for anything.
If he had ordered a regular meal, which is cheaper, yes,
then she would have gotten a smaller tip anyway because they
would have only paid for those two meals, correct?
What kind of logic? Is she got a bigger tip because
it was based on the increased price of the festive special?
(07:59):
Right. Yeah, I agree.
I think it should be free and like the festive special any any
adult meal should give you a free kids meal if that's the day
they. All do.
Well, yeah, except for the festive special.
Like that's the only thing not included.
Right. Or any other temporary offer I
suppose. That's dumb like that.
(08:19):
Can't be. Ridiculous.
Yeah. Why?
So we went to Swiss Chalet and it again had the chicken outside
saying you. Kids eat free.
We'll hold on. Stop.
What are you? Doing at Swiss Chalet, did you
not just say at the beginning, at the start of this whole?
Thing. Yeah, one time I got sick of
swish. Yeah.
(08:39):
Why are you back? I believe wasn't it two times
that you've gotten? Severe food poisoning.
Severe at there was two different locations and I won't
go to those ones. OK, but did you?
I have grown up going to Swiss Chalet almost.
Diagnosed food poisoning or is this Rachel going?
I don't feel well so I was poisoned by the food.
(09:02):
Oh no, me, Jeremy and Julia. Actually, Kendall was a baby at
the time. So this was seven years ago. 7
1/2 And so Kendall was a baby. So the three of us got food
poisoning really badly and it like couldn't function.
I had to call my mom and be like, you need to come and take
this baby because no one can care for it today.
Like no one can care for this baby if and Kendall wasn't
(09:25):
heating yet because I'm. Not accusing any any restaurant
of food poison, you know, because that's a.
Serious. That's a serious charge.
It was. It was absolutely because the
chicken was raw. Put.
Money in the middle? I'm suggesting my mom would
serve me completely raw chicken.If you got food poisoning at a
restaurant and you know what restaurant it was like, it's not
(09:47):
like you. Did I can't say that I can't
say. If if you in fact believe that a
restaurant gave you food poisoning, why, why, why, why
and why 30 times more would you ever set foot back and said
restaurant? OK, so here.
Here's my lifelong attachment toSwiss Chalet.
(10:07):
Was it one of the locations thatI probably went to by the way?
It might have been. Yeah, I think that narrowed the
25% closer. Right.
Just, I don't know. Anyway, so I grew up going to
Swiss LA almost every single Sunday for lunch after church.
Every. Sunday, almost every week, yeah.
(10:29):
My whole family, we would go at,I would say at minimum once a
month. Never, Never once did I get
never once did any of us get sick And then and so, so I've
always loved Swiss Chalet I, I got.
Your love of the keg. We didn't.
That's not where we went. We went to Swiss Chalet.
But I do love the keg too. And the mini brands of recipes
(10:51):
Unlimited, right? I, I have no, there's no so I
then I then after I got sick 2 times, like the first time, I
thought, of course it's just a fluke.
So we tried a second, second restaurant a while after a
second location and and got sickfrom that one too.
And so then after that we swore off Swiss Chalet.
(11:11):
We are not. So we have not had Swiss Chalet
for probably 8 years, seven, well since that time, seven
years. But the lure of the festive.
Special, special, yeah, yes. So here's what happened.
We decide we we've gone back to Swiss Chalet maybe two or three
times this year with our friends.
So the allure of the chicken outfront that says kids eat free
(11:33):
because that's that's great. But our chicken did not say
Wednesday days only. So here we go into Swiss Chalet
on a weekend, thinking I'm goingto get my festive.
I'm going to get a. Free on a weekend.
Well, the chicken was out there.It does the.
Chicken says for kids eat from. We're like, oh, kids eat free.
Look at that. Great.
We go in. Oh no, it's only on Wednesdays.
(11:55):
Like what? OK, fine.
Like we just kind of take whatever.
It's only Wednesdays. We're like, all right, fine,
whatever. And then we did get the festive
special. But the festive special, the
food was OK. The service was terrible, very
bad, which is another thing. And it was just very busy.
(12:16):
And then we had to pay for every, everybody's meal.
So we weren't, we weren't thrilled.
We weren't thrilled. Well, they're telling everyone
to come in with the free, free kids and then that's.
How you're getting us all in there, all of us, parents,
you've you've tricked us now. You.
We you've. Tricked us to come in and pay
for more expensive meals, and then you're not giving us the
(12:37):
deal that you've promised. You're not holding up your end
of the bargain. Or the food poisoning you're
used to. Yeah.
Exactly so. Now, damn it.
The last experience I had was not not great.
So now I'm like, you know what, Swish LA, I gave you a chance.
I came back. Eight or eight or nine times.
Fool me. Once fool me.
(12:57):
Once. 9 times. Not no.
I'm gonna go somewhere else, right?
I loved you for so long. And then you then you really
screwed me. And then I gave you a chance
again. And now I'm not.
Not for it. Not here for it.
That's right. So I'm.
I'm with you Forman. And This is why it sucks to be
(13:18):
in the service industry. You too.
Well, tell your boss to take thechicken down.
(13:44):
This is due to underwhelming demand.
It's a podcast. The podcast that would make for
a pretty lousy Secret Santa gift.
Just just saying. Unless you maybe have a friend
with a business and they would like a sponsorship.
OK, sure. So here's a gift.
That'll cost you money. Well, yeah, you have to buy it
(14:05):
for them. Oh, that OK, Yeah, that makes
sense. We could whip up a gift card,
sure. Well, we are sponsorless, so
that would be great if you, you know, if, if, if what you want
for Christmas is to sponsor thispodcast, you're in luck.
Here's here's your. And really, who's not thinking
of that? That's right, here's your
(14:26):
opportunity. Dave.
Rachel Foreman at Gmail dot com OK or you can go to our web
website, underwhelming.ca. Go there.
Dot CA yeah, that's new. So check it out because we
really like to show it off. We would.
We would like Dave. 'S going to write a new blog for
us too AM. I yes, I do.
I have something coming. I have something coming.
All right, It's the holiday season.
(14:48):
Whoop Dee Doo, that's. Right, it's the holiday season.
Dickory dot so so. Don't.
It's time to do your Christmas shopping.
Are you done, Rachel? No, I've barely started.
Oh, I've barely. Started.
I know, I know. It's this is the time though
(15:11):
when I start like Black Fridays.I usually try and have a list by
then so that I know what everybody wants and I can kind
of go through it. But my kids are so Foreman.
Do you find this now? Like the kids don't really play
with toys anymore. They're of the age where like, I
don't really know what to get them now.
They don't play with me. And you can't buy.
You can't buy hardly any clothing of any kind.
Oh, oh, God, she's 11. Oh, yeah.
(15:32):
And no, like, she doesn't pick it out.
Then she's not wearing. It, yes, yeah, that's the same
with. Us and herein lies the problem
so. You're in.
You're dealing, Rob. You're you're dealing with
children and I'm not really dealing with I have a child and
we're we've been after her. Can you please let us know what
you want for Christmas? So because, you know, don't.
(15:54):
Know what to get you? We, we don't know.
We could, you know, try to guess, but that doesn't go well.
Trust. That's not a fun Christmas.
You know, mom and dad guess and and they get the wrong thing.
So, you know, could you please tell us?
So we have a kind of a rule around here that, and that is I
always, as you know, Rachel, I do do quite a bit of shopping,
(16:19):
mostly for my wife, but for other, you know, now I, I kind
of try to look after both the girls in my family and, you
know, I have other kids and stuff that I have to look after.
But I, I come up with ideas on my own that I, you know.
Yes, I have to give Dave credit because he's quite a thoughtful
gift giver and I think he comes up with great ideas.
(16:41):
Actually, but I we use. And here, by the way, I hear
that we are nearly complete our shopping, I've been told.
Oh, good. Good for you.
OK. For you're not doing very good.
I've I've heard. For that I've heard.
That our shopping is almost complete.
So you're going to go out for your wife on Christmas Eve and
find something at Shoppers Drug Mart, right?
(17:01):
No, I already bought her something Winter.
Tires, winter tires. We did discuss that.
Oh, I see. Right.
OK. Well, we're not doing that.
We we tend to now what we'll do.Is.
You know, we generally will go well, what do you want for
Christmas? Because I would like to get her
things that she needs, sure needs.
(17:21):
And if I can provide a couple ofthings above and beyond that,
that's great. So as you know, a number of
years ago, I think my wife askedfor a a vacuum.
And that was like a quite the dilemma because you know, you
don't want to give your wife a vacuum, do you?
Yes. And we worked that one out and
it worked out fine. But this year I got a list.
(17:43):
OK. From her, from your wife, OK.
So a couple of things I've already looked after.
She wanted some running shoes. She needed a new case for her
phone. She's not going to hear this
right. She doesn't listen to.
Me maybe she doesn't doesn't. Tell her not to listen till
after Christmas. Anyway, so here's the other
things on her, things that she'sgiven me that she wants me to
(18:04):
get for her. A bra and a sports bra.
OK, good luck. Those are two different things,
are there? Yeah.
Yeah. Regular and that.
Much I knew and when she asked for I believe it was the sports
bra, she said you better do someresearch and I thought.
(18:27):
Does she have a particular brandthat she liked?
No, I have no idea. OK, I.
Didn't have bras are tricky because you have to try them on
typically or if you know what you wear then you can just buy
that. There's any number.
So you might need to go through some drawers at home.
I have. Bad idea, yeah.
Bad idea. Yeah.
Get Charlotte to help you with that.
(18:47):
Charlotte did help me with that.Right, so women have to wear
different bras when they're working out.
Yeah, you want something because.
They're more supportive. Yeah, for want of a better word,
doesn't jiggle as much. Right.
Correct. Yeah, right.
OK, so I. Won't hang low or wobble to and
fro. Right.
You can't tie them in a knot when they're.
Stopped in there, OK. So.
(19:07):
I have, I've had literally no experience in buying a bra
before, although I really like to use the term brassiere 'cause
I think it's funny. I'm here for a brassiere in some
underpants, yes. Oh.
My. God.
Steer me in the direction of theBrazil panties because I
(19:28):
freaking hate that. I think it sounds so gross.
Can't see. The Lion can you?
No. My.
Can't see it at all, Dad. All right.
So the last time I decided to provide because I knew that it
was required, it was very close to her birthday and Mother's
(19:48):
Day, which always happened at the same time.
So I bought a gift certificate. I spent a lot of money for a
gift certificate and then everything closed down because
it was COVID. Oh yes.
And then there was a rumor that the gift certificate to the
particular place that I bought, there was a rumor going around
that because of COVID and because they've been closed for
(20:09):
a couple of months, they were never going to reopen, right?
Oh boy, did I get in trouble forthat.
Oh my. Don't give me a gift card for a
store that doesn't exist. Right.
Yeah. Generally a good yes.
Sure. Well, you didn't know that at
the time. No, but that's still we.
Didn't think we were going to beshut down for as long as we
(20:30):
were. Excuse it doesn't work.
I tried that. How was I to know?
Yeah, well, true. Truly, none of us knew.
We all thought we'd be home for two weeks and that was.
It so wish me luck Foreman, haveyou ever had to do?
Where are you going to go? What's your plan?
I don't know do. You have a plan, yet you don't
have AI have. I have a size, that's about all.
(20:53):
OK. Well, that's good.
That's a good start. Yes, some bras bra brands fit
differently. Yeah.
So it really is something that. You need to go any further,
Rachel. This is my problem.
I'm stuck with it. I'll live with it.
OK. Do you have like have you gone
through some drawers and you might know like what kind of
(21:15):
what brands she prefers? You bring some examples with you
to the store. No, just at least you know where
to go to find them. Yeah, the store that all that
didn't close during COVID, I cango back there.
Yeah, they're still open, so. OK, Well then that's.
Good. Yeah, good.
Wish me luck. Maybe the customer service
representative could have try some on for you.
(21:36):
OK, I know. I'm sure they love it when men
come in and they're like. I don't think.
I I need to buy a sports bra formy wife.
Like it's not lingerie, it's notlike night.
It's like I. Need her size?
I'm not doing that. No, thank you.
No. That's a big ask.
(21:57):
I think of your wife. That's a big ask.
But if anyone's up for the job, I think it's you.
I'll. Let you know.
Yeah, report back. I'm very intrigued to hear what
happens. This is due to underwhelming
(22:24):
what? Who's talking?
I but I was leaving. I dropped my phone on the floor
and I didn't. We start again.
I'll just keep going, I don't care.
Nobody sponsors this fine thing anyway.
This may be why no one sponsors.Maybe because we shit on
everybody and we don't take it seriously.
If you want to sponsor us, checkout underwhelming.ca, OK?
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This this is due to underwhelming demand the podcast
and if podcasts were Christmas decorations, we would be tinsel.
Nobody uses us anymore. I knew that was coming.
You did. I like that you knew that that
was. Coming.
I knew it was gonna be tinsel. Yeah, really OK of.
(23:06):
Course, we're tinsel. Because nobody uses it.
Yeah, because it's completely irrelevant and doesn't exist
anymore. Unnecessary and.
Useless really when you get right down.
No one wants. Useless.
Nobody wants it. That's it.
That's. At least we're we're glitter
and. When you do use it, you have a
high, much higher risk of burning down your house.
Well, that was fun. All right.
(23:27):
We are Dave, Rachel and Foreman.Yes, you know, it was also super
fun this past week. It's.
Sad Rachel, my family and I wentand saw Wicked the movie.
That sounds like fun. Yeah, we went and saw it the day
it came out on the Friday. I think we saw it on the
(23:48):
Saturday, so my girls were superexcited.
As you know, maybe you don't know, I am a big musical theater
nerd. And now my children are as well.
Much to Jeremy's dismay, who haslearned all about musicals in
the last 11 years or more, or a little bit more because a.
Good I like a good show tune I mean I.
(24:09):
Sure. We used to, we used to.
We used to love to sing show tunes.
When we were doing the radio show, we were doing that.
You are 16 going on, you know 'cause we sang that one with
the. I'm going to see that.
Actually, this isn't. That's the Sound of Music, Yeah.
Yes, yeah, at the Grand Theatre.Anyway, so we went to go see
Wicked 'cause it's a much anticipated, huge movie.
Everyone's so excited to see it.And so I got tickets.
(24:32):
I bought tickets like a week anda half early to make sure that
we could get in and get a this. Is like Star Wars for you,
isn't? It yes ohh yeah, this was I was
super. Nearly as probably as much fun.
Well, I think it's way more fun.OK, I've literally never seen
Star Wars. I know, and this may shock you,
but I had never seen Wicked. Well, I didn't even know it.
(24:55):
I know a musical. I've been in musicals.
I've been in The Sound of Music and others.
I didn't even know Wicked was a musical.
No idea. Wicked was a book, wasn't it?
A book 1st and then. There isn't a novel and maybe,
maybe, I guess it's probably based on the novel.
Fun fact, the novel is not for children.
I looked at this book at Costco and I thought Julia really loved
(25:18):
loved the play and I thought I should get her this book.
It is not for. No, they tell you, don't let
your kids. Read do not let your kids read
this book. It is nothing like the musical.
It has a lot of adult themes andany every like, bad, like it's
not good, not good. And I didn't know that.
And before I kind of looked at it, it's not a children's book
(25:40):
at all. But the movie is.
But the movie is, yeah, the the movie is the musical.
The Musical. Came out like 20 years ago on
Broadway and, and so. They tamed it.
They, they, they well. Guessed it, they take it from
the book. Yeah, I haven't read the book,
but I've I've heard that the book is absolutely not for
children. Not just that it's, I don't know
(26:01):
if it's scary, but it's like very inappropriate.
Oh well, I want to read that more than I've ever wanted to
read. Intrigued in reading the book
that I haven't seen. Well, I haven't read.
I don't know. I mean, I don't know if you've
read the book, you let us know what you think of it, OK.
And if you've seen Wicked, let me know because I know a lot of
people went this weekend. I bought tickets.
Our theater was completely sold out, so I'm glad that we got
(26:23):
tickets for when we did. I didn't realize it was so long.
It was 2 hours and 40 minutes. And so I bought the six 6:30 PM
show. So Jeremy's like, oh, the kids
are going to be up really late. I'm like. 1:00 PM, please.
Yeah, I know. We didn't.
I didn't know that. Anyway, so we loved it.
It was so great. Ariana Grande, Cynthia Areevo.
(26:43):
And they sing live the whole time.
They are not recorded and lip synching.
They're singing live the whole time, which is like, amazing.
Impressive when? You think of it, it's like,
well, yeah, they do that on Broadway all the time.
Like these people are these people sing live 8 * a week.
So that's it makes sense that they would do that.
But after that, like accurate sound on a movie set, no.
(27:04):
Well. Yeah, on a movie, you need it to
be absolutely perfect because itplays that way forever.
Right A. Broadway show you could You can
do it again tomorrow night. Yeah, that's true.
That's true. Anyway, so my whole Instagram
feed is now and TikTok completely just musical theatre
stuff and all about Wicked and all the interview clips and all
the actors that were in it. And you know who's in it that
(27:26):
you would be interested to know?Bowen Yang from SNL.
OK, because I know you love SNL.Did you as I do out of curiosity
and I know the answer to this. Because is it the iceberg that
sank the Titanic? Yeah, I saw your Instagram post
or whatever. Yeah, you didn't drag Jeremy to
this, did you? Yes, yeah, we did.
I think he liked it. He didn't say much.
(27:47):
Saturday or a Sunday? It was a Saturday night.
Saturday night. Hockey night, you know?
So the Leafs were probably. They probably lost.
I don't, I don't know they were playing or not, Yeah.
That's really. Were they playing last Saturday?
Oh sure, Yeah, they do. Every Saturday.
Yeah, we were at. Generally.
Generally, You know what else I made him turn off sports for
(28:07):
last night is I finally watched Hot Frosty on.
Netflix, you're just you're, you're so.
I'm a glutton for punishment. I'm not, but I wanted to see it.
Everybody was like, it's so bad,but you can't turn it off.
And so I was like, OK tonight, Jeremy, we're not watching
(28:30):
sports. We're watching Hot Frosty.
It was bad. You didn't like hot frosty?
No, it was OK. It was.
It's very bad. It's a bad movie.
There's some laughs in there like it's OK, but it's not like
it's it's good because it's bad,you know what I mean?
It's not. Right.
It was amazing. Good because it's bad.
(28:51):
No, Wicked is good because it's good.
No, isn't it about it's you're fucking bad now you're
confusing. Me.
Well, wicked. Why is it called?
Yes, sure, so Wicked and I know that you loved the Wizard of Oz
Wicked is about how the Wicked Witch becomes the Wicked witch,
right? Yes, And the and the Witch of
the North. Glinda is the the good witch,
(29:13):
right? My fan theory is Glinda is
actually not very nice. And if you watch the movie,
you'll be like, Oh yeah, like she's kind of mean.
She's a bully. I said it come at me.
I the. Wicked, the wicked.
Witch I feel it makes you feel. Bad for her, for goodness sake.
The Wicked Witch. Stole photo.
(29:35):
In the Wizard of Oz, so eventually she becomes, so
anyways, the the wicked that came out was Part 1.
There's going to be a Part 2 great.
Which then ties in who becomes like the Tin Man and the
Scarecrow and the Lion, right? And it ties all that.
Together. We already know that, yeah.
But yeah, I think we already know that.
(29:56):
We're would become Are they the?Farmhands from Dorothy's.
Well, in her dream they are. Yeah, but I don't know they're
gonna tell I. Like I know from 80 years ago.
What are you talking about? In Wicked, in the that some of
those characters become these characters.
OK, Like that's part of the story.
I feel like we should have left that, you know, you know, this
(30:17):
was a book that. Was it that was cool and badass?
Why didn't HBO make the movie? Why didn't HBO?
I don't know, maybe they will, but I haven't read the book.
And don't buy it for your children for Christmas are.
There any flying monkeys in this?
Movie. Yes, there is.
Yeah. Oh, did everyone in the theater
sing? No.
The Rock said you could. He did.
(30:39):
Yeah. He says go ahead and sing.
Yeah, and Moana. Yeah.
Sing, sing, sing. Moana's next.
Next weekend, yeah. Are you poor Jeremy?
Wow. Merry Christmas to Jeremy.
(31:12):
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It's a podcast. It's a podcast that doesn't have
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We like to hear from you. Yes, we do.
As a matter of fact, this is theportion of the podcast where we
(31:34):
get some of your feedback, so and thank you for that.
Yeah, yeah. Thank you.
Thank you to Jerry. Show.
Yeah, Jerry sent us a segment idea.
Why I'm? Why I?
Why am I the one reading this? OK.
Send Foreman out with Aaron, youknow from ENP Equine.
Right. Yeah.
For a day in the life type piece, let hilarity ensue.
(31:57):
Yeah, that would be actually with her.
To do the equine massage and nerve release.
Yeah, that would be fun. Me massaging a horse, that's
what. We all want to go out and make
the horses feel better, take care of them.
You'd get all squeaky and that'sa great idea.
Thank you for that last long. We will investigate that.
(32:19):
Yes, right. Yeah.
OK, well, Katie says I'm a MountElginite here.
Mount Elgin? Are you just listening to the
podcast today? Just reading this one.
OK, go ahead. Yeah.
Yes, they're the ones that theirtown challenge is for everyone
to have a giant inflatable gingerbread man.
And so she says 84% of the people voted on our Facebook
(32:42):
poll for gingerbread men. Only 4% wanted snowmen and one
of those 4% called in it was Anita.
Anita did speak up and admit to being the one who called in when
it was questioned in our neighborhood Facebook group.
The pressure is on for her to participate because she was the
one that called and that's why we talked about it and said that
my town's doing this, but I don't want to participate.
(33:04):
But I don't want to. You know what?
I commend Anita for not posting anonymously.
Good for you. Fair.
Yeah, You owned that. You stepped up, and I think
that's very brave of you. Good for you, Anita.
Yes, over and all your. Neighbors love you, Anita.
They just. Well, she's the one being peer
(33:25):
pressured into buying one of these things.
Sure. Yeah, that's right.
You should. If somebody doesn't want to buy
it, I mean, whatever. Right.
Yeah, over an embro they're doing the the giant 12 foot tall
inflatable Santas. Right.
Yeah. Yeah.
And so Donna says, yes, Ambronians, next year we will
have to make kilts for them. Maybe we could put them up for
July 1st? That's funny.
(33:47):
For the Highland game, they do. The Highland games to them bro
That's true. I actually, I approve of that.
So if you're buying them and you're going to use them like
people use those huge tall skeletons at at Halloween and
they dress them up for all sure.Yeah, have at it.
I I approve that. Good idea, what do you find it
Bonus of those home harbor one. My approval but I.
Know I think they're already made for it because all of them
(34:09):
already have a Maple Leaf on Santa his chest and the little
gift he's holding is already Plaid like.
It's nice. What do you think of?
Highland Games. Is it Santa's or Snowman that
we're talking about here, Santa?Santa's.
That was the Santa's. What do you think Santa's
wearing under his skill? Don't ask.
(34:30):
Mistletoe, mistletoe. That's a good one.
Sure. I'll take this though.
Never mind. Oh my God.
OK. Aintley commented about your
lice, Rachel. I don't think we.
Yeah, yes, yeah. It's gone now, thank God, but I
(34:51):
checked every day for two weeks.It was oh God, annoying.
If you miss 1 egg, those suckerscome back.
That's the problem. Anyway, what'd she say?
Well, Aintley said. I hope our household has had
their lifetime share of lice. My two and four year old boys
got it and I refuse to just shave their heads.
(35:12):
Taking care of that was more exhausting than laboring both of
them. Yeah, Oh my gosh, it is
exhausting. Yeah, so she says her lice kit
is olive oil, Saran wrap, medicated treatments, rubbing
alcohol in a spray bottle. Oh, rubbing.
Alcohol. Oh, those are all used.
I don't have the. Medicaid, yeah.
(35:32):
OK, so you're using everything. Well, the the olive oil is like
the conditioner that you had told me about.
Foreman and someone else told meto use the conditioner and just
comb everything out. The medicated stuff kills
everything. And then I don't know what the
rubbing alcohol does. You sure it's rubbing alcohol or
is it just alcohol? Maybe just alcohol.
(35:53):
That's what I needed, yeah. Sure, we have a couple of voice
memos. Great.
OK. Which are just lovely.
The first one we've received comes courtesy of Erica Vincent,
the Realtor. Yes, okay, Erica.
Hi guys, Erica Vincent here. I was just listening to your
episode where Rachel, you were talking about one of your girls
(36:16):
having head lice, or maybe it was both your girls, I don't
remember. We had our own incident with
head lice a couple years ago. It was absolutely awful.
I completely freaked out. I think you handled it a lot
better than I did. I panicked.
I went out to Shoppers and bought like 5 bottles, I think,
of lice shampoo. I was also thinking back to when
(36:39):
we worked at camp. So Rachel and I worked at camp
together for a few summers and Iwas never one of the people that
was doing the lice checks, but Ilived in staff quarters with the
people that did them. And they would come back talking
about it and we would all just feel so itchy all night.
And eventually we learned that the lice like clean hair.
(37:02):
And so when we were anticipatinga new group of kids, all of us,
all the girls, all the girls staff because we had the long
hair, we would stop washing our hair for like two or three days
before the new group of kids were coming in.
So that was how we. Dealt with that.
Yes that's true. And I was the lice picker at
camp. Want to hear another one?
(37:22):
Hey guys, it's Dave and Elmer. Number one, it was great to hear
from Scotty the other day. That was kind of cool.
Going back a couple of episodes.Dave was complaining about the
South end Costco. Well, any Costco around
lunchtime is a shit show, so that's on him.
And the admitting thing on the Facebook groups, I admit the
(37:44):
Elmer and Area Community News Group about 9000 members.
I've got the anonymous posts turned off, it's my discretion
whether they get in or not, and I turned it off because it just
caused nothing but arguments andcrap.
So if you can't put your name onit, you can't send it.
Yeah. Other than that, I hope you guys
are doing well and we'll talk soon.
(38:04):
Have a great day. Bye.
He agrees. Thank you, Dave.
It should be turned off. That's.
Right. Yeah, I agree.
If you can't say it in public, then don't say it in public.
It's one of our mottos here. Switch LA so you know, deal with
it. I can't wait to post.
I can't wait to post anything and everything on Elmer's
community news to know that it'sgoing to get boosted by the
(38:25):
moderators now that's great to know.
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