June 1, 2025 • 54 mins
In this episode of 'Squirrels After Dark,' Sharon Da Boy’z hosts a lively discussion featuring a colorful cast of characters including Rick Hunter, T-Bone, J-rod aka Pup Titan, Jooky, and special guest Pup Noah. The episode opens with casual chatter about sleep habits and Friday night routines before a boisterous introduction to Season 3, Episode 11. Throughout the conversation, participants reminisce about various life adventures, dealing with annoying public behavior, and reflect on their personal growth over the past three years. They also delve into work-related grievances, unionization efforts, and the challenges of customer service. The episode is peppered with humorous banter, notably about coffee habits, unique passions, and travel experiences. As the podcast progresses, the group reveals their appreciation for quality time off from phones and the joys of deep conversations among friends. The episode concludes with shout-outs and acknowledgements for their listeners and the Coquitlam First Nations' traditional territories.
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Vacation to me now, I feel very rested.
It's actually the past few past couple Fridays I've had is I've
gone to bed like I pass out on the couch and I wake up at about
7:30. Oh no. 7:30 at night or in the
morning? In the morning, is that good or
bad? Doesn't help me.
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I like. I I like because.
Usually I'm like for the weekends I like to sleep in a
bit, but lately I've been sleeping in until about 1:00.
Like half the day is gone. I'm like fuck I need to stop
doing that. Plus I need to stop polishing
off a 15 pack of beer the night before.
And welcome to squirrels after dark.
(00:43):
Oh shit, oh fuck. Yeah, that was recording.
You all need to pay attention when I'm saying recording now.
OK, my apologies on that. Now that's good.
Welcome to After Dark. It's season 3, episode 11.
Glad to be here. I'm your host, Sharon Dubois.
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We are not safe for for public. We're we're not safe.
Just I think we've demonstrated.That already wow right?
Wonderful cast with me today. We are missing a Co host
Sprinkles Silent Peter and the kids are not with us today.
We shout them out and miss them always.
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Don't judge me. That just looks so wrong, yeah.
There's a lot going on here, spider pups trying to drink some
wine and it's oh damn, I should have taken a picture.
Too late. You ever see those pictures of a
dog with their snout pressed up against a patio window and it's
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just all teeth? That was.
That. That's what I just saw joining
me today. Loving husband Rick Hunter,
spider pup, micro pup. Wonderful thing, sexy as fuck.
T-bone is here. What up?
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T-bone. T-bone is the sultry sounds of
jukey. Wow.
Hey, coming off of her concert, she was amazing.
Absolutely amazing. The cutest Otter pup ever.
Titan. J Rod.
Rare. Nice.
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Yay. And a very special guest joining
us today we have pup Noah. Hello, welcome to the shit show
as mine has so frequently been described as the.
Buttery at its finest. First off, I would like to say
anybody that listened to the first episode, I was wrong.
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Wow. Oh snap, that took a lot.
I-90 goes S out of Billings, Mt towards Wyoming and then through
South Dakota. Don't.
Leave them hanging. What else?
Noah? Win, Noah.
Don't leave them. Hanging puppy.
Puppy. Rare.
What happens? Own it.
I-94 continues eastwards out of Billings.
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I-94 actually continues northeast out of Billings.
It's not even just East. It just gets better.
Damn. Barely Northeast.
It's pretty northeast because itgets pretty close to the
Canadian border. No it doesn't.
Up, yeah. Oh God.
I love this to be continued. Yeah, no kidding.
On another episode. Shame, shame.
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Twisting the blade a little bit there.
I did have to look at all these routes while I was plotting my
trip across so I know where these routes go.
I love the confidence like I'm with you.
I'm on your side. Yes.
Oh, look at that. You won't take Noah's side.
Noah's just so confident. I admitted I was wrong.
That took a lot. It did, and the only reason why
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I came to that conclusion is because I never actually drove
I-90 through Wyoming. I always turned off at.
Didn't you say US 112 or something like that?
Yeah, it was. God I should have googled that
highway anyway, but yeah, it cuts.
It cuts through Montana and intothe next state and it barely
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dips into Wyoming like for 12. Miles, it drives through
Wyoming. That was a weird look from J Rod
pouring my glass of wine and he was giving me a weird look.
This bottle of wine is brought to you by the Superstore.
In Jackson the Real. Canadian Jackson store in
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Jackson Trig just which is ironically.
Has anyone seen that commercial like it shows?
Oh my God. It's a commercial from the real
Canadian superstore and I can guarantee you from working there
at one point I have never seen the employees look that happy in
my fucking life opening up a superstore.
I cannot actually ever remember seeing a commercial for
Superstore. It's only recently it's.
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There's two of them and they arenarrated by Michael J.
Fox crazy. Yeah, well.
Now I'm looking forward to. It's crazy, but I saw the
employees and they're like so happy and they're like smiling
and I'm like happy. Neither there's.
One lady that I talk to all the time and she's always talking
about my tattoo. It's a rare I, I generally don't
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see that much pleasantry. I mean, it's not just that, just
like any job, just like, just Hejust smiles and like, I work.
You have that one experience that that Vietnamese lady that
told you we need to retire there.
And she is still. I haven't seen her for a while.
I'm kind of concerned. She's a real sweetheart.
Maybe she retired to Vietnam. Maybe she took her own advice.
I'm getting the fuck out of here.
You. Never have.
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Wait, I hear her background. I hear, I hear her background
chatter. I hear nothing.
Oh, I do. But I'm also sick and stuffed up
and my ears aren't quite workingright and I'm about to sneeze
but I'm not, so I'm having issues at the moment.
If our listeners hear weird ambient conversation going on
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from the background, it would bebecause our hey.
Shut up. We can hear you, Chris.
Volume down a little bit back there.
They're sensitive. I think you're right about in
the nicest party not being able to be quiet for two hours.
Told you. Oh snap, you're just calling
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everybody out today. Might I add, I have not been on
my phone through the first main podcast and I have not been on
my phone on this. Podcast good for you puppy.
Neither have I, although I was definitely on it during the
break. So was I.
That's when we're allowed. With you are allowed.
If not, you get called out. Remember the point of this
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podcast? I still love it because we have
to sit around at the table for one to two hours and shoot the
shit with our friends without staring at your phones.
I wish we were shooting at shit,that'd be fun.
It's not that great. It's it's messy and flattery.
Cans are fine. OK, cans are fine, but just the
whole point of it, I was like, Ilove this.
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You know, when we get together and otherwise, whenever we ever
would get around, even pre show,anytime we're all on our phones,
me included, someone's always onthe phone at some point.
That's the whole premises of this is that you, you're forced
to put your phone down for two hours and get caught up every
two weeks, which is why we love this podcast and we have our
guests on the show. And I'm again, I'm so proud that
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right up until the end of Season3, we do not now have one open
guest spot available. We are booked for the entire
rest of Season 3 right up until December.
This. Is going to be very cheesy, but
like this is, I feel like this is a creative outlet for all of
us. It's an art form.
And it absolutely. It's empowering.
We're all empowering each other,which is pretty cool.
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Well, you go back to the first episode.
I always say, how much have we learned about each other?
Oh my God, straight. How much have we grown?
We've learned too much about each other.
But we've grown a lot, I think, over the last three years.
Yeah, I think every one of us. I started the podcast.
I wasn't a puppy. I wasn't involved in the pub
community. J Roy wasn't an Otter.
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Those were the good old days. You know, like.
I'm always an Otter. I'm sure you were.
In your bye when we first met you either.
Well, yeah. Once I came out, he just.
Came out. Yeah, I came out exactly.
But I didn't fully embrace it until I did the first.
No, not the first. Well, maybe like the second
episode. It's the second episode again,
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just. Just for the record, that's
powerful. J Rod Kisses on the first date.
Nice. Only if I've had a few beers,
and only if I've had a few beers.
Good point, good job buddy, and we love you to desk because
you've been involved with SO. Many of our friends we were all
pretty on the wagon there that that night at the John B with
the Co worker. Yeah, the Co worker.
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That's right. There's so much stories.
It's great if I was to go back and just listen to this.
Keep on. I do have a question for our
guest, please do you have any passions?
Good question. Sprinkles would be Jelly
sprinkles. Worthy.
I would say my passion is photography.
I went cool. I went to school back in Ontario
for photography. Are you not one of the
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photographers for the? I let him speak.
I did not finish my course because I didn't want to do the
English requirement, the math requirement that the Ontario
government requires every program to offer in college.
What? Yeah, they want math and English
continued. And I just decided not to do
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those. So and I, I kind of dropped out
near halfway through the second year of photography because
money wise and you know, life sits in the way.
It is a course. It is very interesting.
I need to go get my camera fixedbecause my camera is no longer
working OK. But I do very much enjoy
photography and I do like going out and taking photos and
whatnot. Have.
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You looked at. Continuing the courses here.
All my courses are null and voidnow because it's been so long
since I've been out of college, but I am thinking about going
back to school eventually. Well, I hopefully that perhaps
we might be look forward to seeing you as the one of the
photographers in the in the community in the upcoming years.
(10:23):
Maybe. And take your time.
You do that because we're not going anywhere.
You do have another passion, coffee.
I wouldn't say coffee is a passion.
I drink a lot of coffee and I work at a coffee shop.
I wouldn't say it's a passion. Paid.
Yeah, it's a paid passion. If you had one nugget of advice
to put out there, what would it be?
(10:44):
Listen to your close friends because they have your best
interests at heart and I have recently learned that probably
in the last month to listen to my close friends.
Good for you puppy that's. A great piece of advice
actually. Right.
And everyone's looking look at heartfelt moments.
Wow. Sprinkles is going to be, I
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mean, she listened to the episode.
I think just actually be Jelly. You know, T-bone came up with
some like really good questions.Jelly this Dick?
Sorry. And there it is, and we're back
to it, and we're back to the norm.
Welcome back. But those were great.
Questions. Then this is your time to
explore it and on back. Sorry, welcome.
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Yeah, there's a lot of it. Oh God.
Yeah. Yeah, we're, we're just going to
end that there. And you're continuing on your
episode. I Yeah, fuck my life.
Why am I getting involved? I'm just going to sit there and
get drunk. Yeah, that's what we're all
doing anyhow, Dad. Drink.
Drink away. Drink away.
Mike Oh, we didn't do it. Cheers.
Cheers. Everybody.
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I'm not leaning or reaching so all.
Right, we got it. We didn't even do that.
The only one I didn't clink withwas my hubby, but I'll clink
with him later. Yeah.
Well, yeah, maybe. Do you have any future dream
plans? Really just going back to school
and I want to get a Monday to Friday job because I'm done
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working the weekends. It's it's it.
Sucks and dealing with customersface to face every day all day,
I'm over that. So I want to have like an office
job is probably OK. I don't really care what kind of
office job I do, just an office job.
One that you're not dealing with.
Customers face to face all day. I've crossed out customer
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service. I love my job, right?
I probably go I'd probably go postal if I was stuck in an
office for 8 hours a day. Although I actually enjoy having
a weekday off because the storesaren't as busy and.
If I could have, like if I couldwork Sunday through Thursday and
have Friday, Saturday off, I would be OK with that.
But I really want like Friday night off and Saturday off
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because that's when a lot of my friends hang out and go to
parties and whatnot. And the events.
A lot of events happen on a Friday night or Saturday during
the day. I just can't attend because I
open at my store so I'm up before the sun's up.
That's disgusting. It's a 4:30 alarm is not fun,
no. A 4:30 alarm, that is.
Jeez. Rick and I are usually just we
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go to bed at 5:00 AM. Yeah, there we go.
But we also, I mean, Rick gets home from work at 33.
During the weekdays I'm at home from work anywhere between 1:00
and 2:30, if not 3:30 or later, depending if I have to do a
switch or not. So yeah, 5:00 AM is when we're
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like just crawling into bed and you're like just getting up.
I'm leaving the house at 5:00. You're you're you're finished
your first coffee and heading out.
No, I don't. I actually I don't have a first
cup of coffee until I get to work.
Makes sense? Yeah, pay.
For it because I don't wake even.
I don't wake up early enough to brew myself a coffee in the
morning to leave time in the of the house, because sometimes I
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wake up enough to get my clotheson, yeah, and go use the washer
and brush my teeth and run out the door and just barely make it
to work on time, I hear. You.
Oh good God. 430 is when my alarm goes off.
I may be crawling out of the bedat 4:50.
Fair. Oh, wow.
You're really pushing it down. Yeah.
So I start my shift at 3:00 in the afternoon.
I have my alarm set for 10:45 inthe morning.
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Not a morning person. I tend to usually drag my ass
out of bed between 10:45 and 11:00, but it's to sloth down
the stairs, make my coffee, and out onto the patio to have my
one hour of morning aliveness. That sounds great.
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And then I watched the news, andthen Rick's allowed to say good
morning to me. What about when I saw you when I
was going to the when I was leaving the petrol camp?
On Friday, Yeah, yeah, that was like 2:00 in the afternoon it.
Shouldn't it? Wouldn't.
Take you that long to get to work?
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No, cuz you work. I work 2 minutes away.
Yeah, yeah, I'm 1.2 kilometers from my driveway to my parking
spot at work. Can't relate.
But. But usually when I take when I
take my lunch break, it's between 1:50 and 2:00.
And you saw me that day because I left really late because I
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slept in a little bit later. I needed a little bit longer
start and. You still would have gotten to
work on time though. I never said it was late.
I also have to go to Tim's to get a cup of life.
Coffee is where? We have, you know, we only have
32 cups of Tim Horton's Tim things in.
Our Yes and I have a cup. I make a coffee of Tim Horton's
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to start my day at home and thenI leave.
I go to Tim's and get my coffee so that I can actually deal with
the people at work. One sip of coffee for me.
Like literally reminds me why I live it's.
Good. I never it it never.
It truly is a cup of life. I agree with this I.
Agree, I never got the. The nectar of the guts.
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Satisfaction of drinking coffee.Like I don't drink coffee.
Me neither. I've never drunk.
I've never seen you. I've never had a cup of coffee.
I actually. Like what is out?
I actually. What is the allure of drinking
coffee? That's a good question.
Like it keeps me out of jail forwhat?
It's a stimulant, right? Like it's a stimulant.
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So it's a, it's a, it is a form of a drug little bit.
And a mild diuretic too, so it keeps you, keeps things flowing
in the. Brain.
OK. I don't know how that translates
to like maybe dopamine, I guess.But yeah, I got an immediate
some sort of chemical hit. I know with people who have ADHD
and drink, coffee actually helpscalm them down and helps them
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fall asleep because it does the opposite of what your brain is
doing, the chemical balance. So like a neurotypical person
will drink coffee and it helps wake them up because their brain
is just not there yet. But someone who has ADHD drinks
coffee because their brain's always on the go.
It actually helps calm their brain and most most of them can
fall asleep after having a cup of coffee.
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And also, it's apparently neurodivergent people are a
little bit lower on the dopaminefirst thing in the morning.
In general, we have lower dopamine levels.
That's why people like, you know, wake up and start
scrolling on their Instagram andstuff, right?
I don't know. That's like I'll power through a
couple of monsters and I'm stillgood to go.
(17:35):
See that rate? There is your caffeine intake.
That's you're drinking caffeine.It's not really.
It's like your monster drink hasdouble the caffeine of what our
coffee has. Yeah.
Well, I think. That actually.
You rely on the caffeine aspect.Of it well, no I don't I don't
buy I don't buy the two monstersevery day I'll buy it just for
the hell of it like for me personally it's the caffeine
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doesn't really do anything for me like I'll.
Are you sure? Because a lot of people
associate caffeine with coffee only I.
Do. Do you find when you drink the
monsters, like throughout the day, you start to have a little
bit more energy? A little bit, but.
Not as much. That's the caffeine.
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That's the caffeine kicking in. OK it does.
Even though it says on the can like don't proceed.
More than one thing on a day if you're if you're if your
caffeine levels are really high,it could actually you might have
less energy in total Your, your,your, your engine's getting fed
too much caffeine, right? So it could affect your your
actual your whole capacity. It doesn't.
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Affect your nervous system because it causes you to shake.
If you have too much caffeine, Ihave the shakes.
Yeah, if you have too much caffeine, it'll cause you to
shake. And not only that, the more
caffeine you drink actually reduces it's it's the same as
smoking your Your body naturallyproduces caffeine.
Your body naturally produces nicotine.
You. Don't know that.
Which is why people who smoke their body does not.
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It reduces their natural production of nicotine.
You don't. Do it.
Put it right into the microphone.
You do it microphone adjacent. Nope, I was just rude.
Way to go cluck Norris. As you were saying, Sharon, the
boys. Yeah, I agree.
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A cup of coffee sounds pretty good, right?
It doesn't. With that one, see.
This is why only Jukie's allowedto touch Cluck.
Because you do not understand the etiquette of cluck.
But it was. Too far for Juki, so too bad.
Now it just sounded sick. Because she, like, really
squeezed. It, at least my cluck, never
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sounded like normal. But no, yes, your your body
naturally produces caffeine and nicotine and it's the same
thing. The more coffee you drink, the
less your body produces because you're supplementing that.
It's the same with nicotine and cigarettes.
People who smoke, their body reduces the natural production
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of nicotine, which is why it's so hard.
Another reason why it's so hard for people to quit smoking or
for heavy coffee drinkers to quit drinking coffee is because
their body is not used to producing it as much as the body
needs because it's been supplemented so, so long.
Did not go there. Yeah, that's interesting.
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The more you know. Your Your body produces its own
nicotine. Your body produces its own
caffeine. So the rainbow is flying
overhead. Right.
Yeah, the more you know Rainbow from.
That shooting star. Oh good thing that I didn't
mention in last episode. Went and saw Lilo and Stitch
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last night with my husband. That's.
Out. What were you wearing?
Thoroughly disappointed it's notavailable in VIP theater.
But no, it's not in the VIP theater.
You have to go to regular. Theater for that.
OK, Stop. What?
Were you wearing? Before we continue, when you go
to the theater, shut the fuck up.
(21:15):
Yes, Oh my God, the people. I fucking hissed at a couple
beside us and they stopped for about 5 minutes and then you
continue the entire God damn movie.
They did not shut. Up.
I will throw things at people. I was going to get up at the end
of it. I was literally going to walk
over. So I'm like, if you don't shut
up, I'll go get the usher and I'll get your asses kicked out.
And it's it's not like they wereright next to us.
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They were. We were in the center of the
very back row and they were basically sitting in the seats
at the. End of eight seats, 8 to 10
seats away. We could hear them.
It's not, it's not fucking cheapgoing there either, no.
No, fuckers. And he hissed.
Like, literally, he hissed. At it wasn't a bark, it was a
hiss. I was like I gave A and I hissed
at them and they stopped for about an hour or.
(21:58):
Like they looked at him and he'slike movie.
Right. Oh yeah, I was at the point.
Yeah, I was done. I was fucking pissed.
I was like who? This is why I hate the public.
Slightly turned on, aren't you? Do you?
Think he has appropriate? Seriously.
It's not. Entirely.
Before the show and unfortunately I wish I had my
pop hood because I would have put the pop hood on and looked
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over them like and then it wouldhave shut them like freaked them
out. Maybe they would have left.
Start humping them. Well, and the thing about it too
is he brought the hood but left it in the truck.
What? Of course, because.
We weren't in VIP. VIPI had.
Nowhere to put it. There were supposed to be people
sitting beside us. I didn't know the.
Ten o'clock 10:00 PM showing there was like literally
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everybody that was in the theater were all adults.
Like why was this not in VIP? Why didn't?
Anybody else say something? But the people in front of us,
they were being kind too, because I heard them.
They were aggravated. I was the only one that actually
just. I just had enough.
Yeah, no, I'm a no bullshit person with that stuff either.
I would just go get something. I'd be like somebody shut up.
We came to watch the movie, not hear you talk.
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So yes, we went and saw Lilo andStitch last night, the new
release. And yes, I was wearing my Stitch
onesie. I regretted every second of it
because that thing is so fuckingwarm.
Like we were getting. When we got home, I looked at
Rick. I'm like, hey, I'm never wearing
this thing again unless we're inEdmonton and it's the middle of
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December and -35 outside and I'mNaked underneath because I was
sweating like mad. Like it was.
Horrible, like a horror in church.
Fat kid in candy store. Pick a choice.
Good analogies. Right.
I mean, we could go a little bitdarker.
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Recovering alcoholic in the liquor store, sweating, lots of
sweat. It was.
There was sweat. I even need the liquor store for
the sweat. Oh, that's your right, this is
your. Episode So yeah no, I mean I
yes, I wore my stitch onesie andI brought my stitch stitch
blanket as well. It was more of a pillow than it
was anything else because I was dying of heat.
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But yeah, we went and saw that so that was a good thing to
happen. Yay.
Got a phone call, had to go. Yeah, emergency phone call.
That's fine. So yeah, that happened.
That was great. Good times.
And I'm review with no. This is why I hate humans,
because just like, just stupid. Yeah, stupid, stupid people.
When you deal with them for 8 hours a day they are awful.
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Yeah, I know. I worked 30 years in hospitality
industry. Believe you me, I'm well aware
of of, you know, Jukey needs to deal with it at the same time.
Yeah. What the hell is going on with
our podcast, people? People got to pee.
One went up, two calm. Down I'm telling sharing
something. I get up and like.
I had a potential family emergency, but it was just a
weird message that my dad sent and he's like, what?
(24:48):
I'm like, oh, you're just sayingwhat's up?
OK everyone, I got to go back. That's good.
As long as you're OK. Yeah.
Oh, wait, wait. Everyone's away from the table.
Maybe I should just let the podcast continue.
Just like no one say anything. I'm away from the table.
Should we be? Should we be quiet?
No. I had to tell Sharon something
important. I know we were laughing cuz as
soon as everyone you know as soon as the main.
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He didn't. He didn't do it last, He didn't
do it last episode, and he didn't do it this episode
either. I knew.
Yeah, you caught on that too. Yeah, yeah, I'm just waiting.
I gain. I cannot do it because I know.
Yeah, it's I. Pronounce it properly.
Yeah. Fuck no, I can barely talk right
yesterday. So I go.
We're doing a meat draw and it was really cute.
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So I go out to a couple of our regulars and they're real sweet
people. And you know when you when
you're doing a draw, there are two sets of tickets, right?
One set of tickets you give to the customer, the other set of
tickets you put in the bucket. You know that's what you draw
for. But unfortunately, me being
because I couldn't fucking brainyesterday, I gave them a set of
eight tickets and I didn't separate them.
(25:50):
So they had both sets. How?
How am I? Going to win if I have all the.
Tickets. Yeah, seriously.
Come on. And that's what they said.
They're like, I feel like, I'm like, I feel like we're missing
something. I don't think we can
participate. And I was like, oh shit.
So we did that. And then I went out.
I was dealt with. Obviously we just put their
tickets for the next drop. Yeah, they had actually drawn.
Yeah. And we had to draw.
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So they they they still had all their tickets for the solution.
That's good. Yeah.
That Holly. Yeah.
So we so we put them in. But I was redeemed because,
yeah, not only when we did the draw, the next draw.
So the second draw their ticketswere in, they won, and then the
next draw after that they won a game.
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So they didn't win on the draw that they they got into, they
won twice on the third draw. So, but they won twice.
So which was I'm like, I'm like,oh, thank God I was somewhat
redeemed in my stupidity. Yeah.
Sorry. Yes, I'm back now.
Sorry. Head to washroom you're.
Good. So it was good.
So it was a lot. It was a lot of fun, fun.
And if any of you have never been there of any of our guests,
I mean, obviously I know most ofyou are out of country, but if
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any of our local, you know, in the community customers want to
do it. I mean, we do a meat drive.
We will be doing it till the endof June every Saturday for the
Crossroads Hospice Society at the Golden Parrots Pub from
three till 5. It's happy hour prices.
It's good. It's such a good little place
and we love meat. How much are the tickets?
They are three for 5/8 for 10. And the Golden Paris pub has one
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of the most extensive gluten free menus.
Courtesy of the executive chef. Yes.
I'm totally familiar with the menu.
An amazing, amazing person. And delicious tacos.
You've never been there yet, have you?
No, I have. Not we'll go in the summertime
we'll take you in the summertimecome on over we'll we'll make it
a day and come over in a one of these days I'm sure we'll have
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it on Saturday. We'll we'll be able to make a
date on. A Tuesday or Wednesday?
Taco Tuesday, Wing Wednesday. Tuesday, Wednesday works best
for me. Yeah.
Meet up with J. Rod Trivia on Tuesday.
Tuesday is trivia night. Well, you know J Rod maybe you
cuz I'm work the weekdays, but you know J Rods and he goes they
able to maybe you guys can meet on a Tuesday, Wednesday.
Yeah, that would be nice becauseI can't go.
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But now you have a friend. You guys know each other, now
you can go. Really good food.
Excellent. Food and the prime rib dinner on
Saturdays after 4:00 PM is amazing.
It's all about making connections and there you go,
there's a nice connection you may be able to go.
Yeah, I would recommend the poutine with pulled pork.
So good. Barnyard burger with a fully
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cooked egg. Buffalo chicken dip.
Coming off the menu. Yam fries or onion rings.
Our yam fries are changing. What?
We're getting waffle fries. They're so.
Good waffle. Wait, are you?
Wait, are you getting rid of theyam fry?
Getting rid of the regular just stick yam fries, but they're
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gonna be a waffle fry. But they're yam waffle.
Fries. They're sweet potato fries.
That's some sweet that's. Texture taste.
Sweet. Potatoes, well, technically what
we call yams, are. Sweet potatoes.
I'm glad you're all happy, but my products coming off the menu
I. Will make you.
They got rid of the potato skinsages ago already and I'm
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disappointed. Sorry.
Still waiting for my fennel sausage rigamotoni.
Working on it. It's gonna.
Be a feature, I'll do it. Don't worry.
I'll even do it gluten free. So excited for that.
Was there a balloon just released in the room?
Right. So now I've got people asking me
for like gluten free mozzarella sticks and deep fried Pickles.
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I'm like, do you, do you realizehow much work?
That's frightening. They're good.
Though oh wait, do it again. It sounded like a queef.
What? Interesting.
How the how would you know what a queef sounds like?
Yeah. I've been with women.
I know what they sound like. 40 years ago.
That doesn't mean I don't forgetwhat they're what a queef sounds
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like, doesn't it? Doesn't mean they changed.
The sound of a queef doesn't change over time.
It's the same as it was 20 yearsago as it is now.
Nope, no way more squeaky. On that note.
Thank you. Well.
Done. Sorry, thank.
Thank you to J Rod for remindingthis and absolute apologies go
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out. But for both episodes, we are
recorded on the traditional and unseeded territories of the
Coquitlam First Nations. And we thank you for allowing us
to be here, but we apologize fornot acknowledging you at the
beginning of the episodes. Thank you Hun.
J Rod pointed that out and I waslike my bad but he was also like
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taking his time telling me I'm like just spit it out already I
have to freaking pee. I noticed it earlier but I
didn't want to point out anotherfault for you.
Damn. Snap.
Wow, Noah's just throwing down today's episode I.
Hope you're reaching over to turn that mic off.
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Thanks for coming out. Your time on the mic is done.
No. No, no, son of a bitch.
You've met. You've met your rival.
Wow. Yeah, Noah's just throw down
today one. Nice piece.
Sound before you. Oh yeah, please.
Just lean in. Just.
Lean in. Just just lean in.
Doesn't stress that far. You got to lean.
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In. It's a queef.
Thank you to my friend's youngerbrother who taught me how to do
that. There we go, elementary.
My friend's younger brother, Mother.
Yeah, taught a brother to a queef.
That, for our guess, is what a queef sounds like from a gay man
from. The I didn't realize you were
able to get that tight of a squeak out of something with so
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much teeth, right. He's still doing it.
Sounds like an. Elephant Artie, sit down.
Thought about you for once. Poor.
Artie over there being. Abused by a human?
Artie's gonna be back in the pot.
Artie, you have another spots booked on the podcast.
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I know, I'm excited. Yes, your birthday.
It's gonna be your birthday episode, so would you like to be
100? Percent.
He couldn't keep quiet for two hours.
Right, I told you. Yeah, no, I, I.
Would you like to be on another episode?
Yeah. Good.
We're booking into 2027. 2026 smart ass.
Oh, is it 6 next year? It's only 2025.
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Wow, I don't even know. Yeah, it's booked for season 3
and it is hard to believe I'm still every time shocked that we
are going to go in the season 4 four years of in this podcast.
You said we had a new country that joined us, but you never
said which country. Our newest country is Spain.
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Hi Spain, Hola Hola maybe gracias for listening?
That was horrible. It's on Spotify.
Yes, I know. Sorry, please keep listening.
I might know who it is, he says.Because it's not like 6 million
people living in Spain or anything.
A. Little more than that.
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There's probably 6,000,000, morethan 6 million in Barcelona.
I want to. Say fair.
Hey. You know what?
It's not about you this time. I know it was your turn 2 weeks
ago. But who?
Who do you think it might be, myfriend?
Rossan from. Leon, you think it might be.
Rossan Roth you want, you can goand say your microphone.
San, go ahead and say who you think it might be.
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Is it Rossan from Hi Rothy? There you go.
From where? Leon.
Leon. And you know what, after the
episode, the specifics of the actual Spotify will give me the
details of the country in the area.
So I will be able to tell you the specific area in Spain who
actually joined and it very wellmeet be that area.
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Does this give me permission when Artie's back on the podcast
just to keep interrupting a? 100%. 100% yeah, no, jump in.
Yeah, you have the right. You've earned that right.
I mean in all fairness he was silent for the main episode and
this is the chaos episode so I kinda expected it.
Yeah. Yeah, you're good.
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No, I'll go take a look. When we're doing the after the
show, I will be able to take a look and see.
My God. He.
Stopped. Doing the.
Flossing. Flossing already is flossing and
behind us. I'm like, God, that is so.
I'm so happy in my back to him. Freaking I don't.
I'm not even gonna call. I'm not even gonna justify that
with a dance move. That's just the worst movement.
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You get a smack, we eat a water bottle.
We have one. I know.
Unfortunately, it was normally reserved for Ganymede, Yeah.
Ganymede. Actually, but Ganymede's been
behaving himself lately, and it's so I'm just gonna have to
make it as a bad puppy. Just too bad.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ganymede couldn't make it to the
last part. He was having a, he was having a
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day to himself. Sometimes we need.
That absolutely that's OK. We all know I love it when
people message me on the party and they're like, I can't come.
I'm like, I feel bad. I'm like really don't.
I am gonna don't. I've got a.
Lot of background noise going onhere.
Yeah, there is. Sorry guys.
I will have it correct. That all right, but your show.
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Yeah, I know the chaos that Susie, why is everybody looking
at me except Juki? Oh, you're looking at me through
the camera. And yeah.
Sharon, you didn't do the I did.You weren't here.
Oh. Damn, all right.
I even shouted you out for reminding me that I didn't do
it. But I did do it.
OK, good. Thank you, Jay.
For landing acknowledgements. By the way.
Oh, land. OK yeah, landed and all.
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That's that's what it was. Good God, you're all doing the
fluffy thing. Hey I started.
That I don't. Oh no, it's your thing.
It's my thing, it is your thing,it's my thing.
It's just like Jukie's thing is,which he does at his show when
you know the fun fact. Yeah, we didn't have one.
Today Jukie's there's fun fact. Yours is collecting fluff.
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Yeah, I think. You had a fun fact with the
nicotine in the brain that. Was a fun fact.
Yeah, that. Was fun.
I'm I'm absolutely positive about the whole nicotine thing,
the caffeine thing, I'm. You're bullshitting us.
Well, I'm not, no, not bullshitting.
I'm skeptical. I can't.
I can't say for sure, but I'm pretty sure that because I know
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your body naturally produces nicotine because I've heard that
before being a smoker, a heavy smoker myself, I've heard that
that your body has a natural nicotine production.
Can we have arty or handler Daniel figure that out for us?
What? But we're not gonna the.
Body naturally produces caffeine.
Or nicotine we could do. What was that?
(36:33):
I was yelling at them, not at the.
Audience OK, I'm sorry. I was just saying Google if the
body naturally produces nicotineor caffeine.
I would, but I'm not gonna be onmy phone until the end of the
you don't. Want to get called out?
You don't want to be pineappled pineapple.
Thank you. That's why you're here.
Just. Out of curiosity, has anybody
ever noticed that? Like when they see, you know,
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like subdom clips or something like that, they're safe word
always seems to be pineapple. Why is pineapple like a default
safe word I? Don't know, I don't know.
I use my Penguin. Well, Kevin Hart.
I do the traffic light system. The Simpsons was cinnamon.
Cinnamon. Sharon, the boys, OK, there's
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your answer. And then that should be the last
one from your background. No, the human body does not
naturally produce nicotine. Nicotine is naturally occurring
alkaloid found primarily in plants, most notably the tobacco
plant blah blah blah blah blah. So bullshit.
The human body does not have thegenetic machinery or metabolism
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metabolic pathways to synthesizenicotine.
Bullshit. Bullshit.
Well, I was bullshitted by the. What's your fun fact guest?
Doctors have told me that the body naturally produces
nicotine, which is why it's hardto quit.
A fun fact, if you want coffee with more caffeine in it, get a
lighter roast. The darker the roast, the less
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caffeine is in it. That's.
True, that's true. Fun fact, decaf does not contain
any caffeine. Live decaf does actually contain
a little bit of caffeine. For for those listeners, there's
an echo of a ghost in the background.
Boo, eh, sorry, that was funny. That's a.
Canadian ghost. Hey, I was just reiterating what
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I was informed by by doctors. That's a bad.
Doctor are they? Are they real doctors or were
they fake doctors? No, no, no.
They were real doctors. I.
Did you see their diploma? I went to a medi clinic to get
smoking cessation, stop smoking prescription for like Chapex or
something and the doctor specifically told me he's like,
(38:47):
yeah, your body will have a hardtime.
It's stopping smoking because ithas to re initialize its
nicotine creating function. And I was like, oh, he's like
yeah, the body creates nicotine and that's why smokers have a
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hard time stopping and blah blahblah blah blah.
But apparently that's wrong. Did he pass?
Although that might have been from like Android AI so this.
Was recently. Don't be on here.
You want me to take a look at mypsychology textbook?
Don't be dissing, Nicked. Android.
They're a good phone. I'm sorry, there's Android AI.
AI. Questions being asked off the
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podcast there. Would anybody like to repeat
what was being asked off the podcast?
Already something about psychology textbook.
Already has a textbook in front of him and was asking he's got a
section on nicotine and he was asked he has nicotine somewhere,
yeah. Thank you.
Just to make sure, because the listeners can't hear it, because
you know already he's in the background.
And he's supposed to be silent. Yeah, T-bone.
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Favorite band slash genre? Not a band, but the singer Adele
is my absolute favorite singer. I you.
Are gay. I was so fortunate last year in
2024 to fly out to go see her final opening show for the last
50 shows that she was doing in Vegas back in January 2024.
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I spent way too much money on the ticket, more than I would
like to admit, but I spent five days in Vegas and it was special
in my life. Awesome, how much was the
ticket? She's amazing.
It was. Can we guess?
Yes. OK, wait, wait.
Canadian dollars or U.S. dollars?
Good question. I will do it in Canadian
dollars. OK, I'm gonna say 2 grand.
(40:36):
Not quite 2 grand 16. OK, let me let me tell you where
I was sitting. I was up at the top balcony, the
second balcony at the very front.
Wow. Oh, OK. 2nd balcony at the front
where at the sphere? At the Oh, it would have been
Caesars. Yeah, Caesars.
Caesars, second balcony, front row, second balcony.
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Yeah, I'm I'm gonna stick with my original 1675.
Not quite that much. 1500. Not quite that much, almost
1300. 1300. For a single ticket my man, I
went alone. My trip and hotel cost half of
what it cost me for the single ticket.
That was only like a 2 hour concert.
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But you know what? I never.
Forget, right? I'll never forget.
And again, she would go back to Vegas and do another show.
Even though I'm not crossing theborder.
I would 100% drop the money and go again.
I love Adele. She seems like a genuine person
or a good person, right? I've seen clips of her doing her
concerts and she's so interactive with the audience.
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Like she's so real. The.
Guy proposed to his girlfriend at the time.
Yes, what she, what she also does at the beginning of her
concert, actually after she sings her song Hello, because
that's how she's kind of forced to open every concert.
Now she has, she picks a seat that's up on the top balcony
because those are the cheapest seats and they save two seats at
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the very front, right in front of the stage and two guests will
go down and win. So she does that every show.
So that's that's sweet. So people have who can't afford
the $3000 tickets. When I add I almost dropped the
$3000 for those front tickets. It's super.
Tempting also. Very tempting.
I was in Portland, OR sick from work because me and my mom
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wanted to go on a little weekendvacay and I was in Portland, OR
frantically trying to pay for these tickets.
Shout out to you though, for doing all these adventures by
yourself like that. That takes a lot of, you know,
courage and I. Didn't go to Vegas alone, that's
cool. I met with my brother in Vegas,
but I did the concert on my own because obviously. 1200, almost
$1500 for a ticket. Something they weren't
(42:42):
interested. In but you did do the drive
across the Yeah back home at Christmas solo.
Not solo there, solo back. OK, so when the drama really
happened, you were solo? Yeah, damn.
I feel like you got people can learn a lot traveling by
themselves and stuff. Totally.
It's the same cognitively. It's fun.
I've done like Rd. trips to Calgary and whatnot.
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Like I love doing Rd. trips evenon my own.
Like I just love the road trip itself is the adventure, not the
destination I find because so much can happen on a road trip
there. You go, it's self awakening.
There you go, there's my fun fact about me.
I once took a cruise to Hawaii by myself.
To Hawaii. But you have.
A day cruise? How much fun did you have?
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It was amazing, I bet. But Juki is looking forward to
when we get to do the gay cruise.
Cruise, she's so excited. For that, she's going on a gay
cruise with. Caribbean.
We're doing a Caribbean gay cruise.
Yeah, they allow. They allow straight women.
Remember the gay crews? Why not?
I wanna do a gay crew so bad butI can't afford it at the moment.
Well, we're doing. We're not doing.
Talk $1300 on a Dell, you could do $1300 on a gay.
(43:49):
Crew OK, but I pay for a car now.
I like back when I paid for the ticket, I didn't have a car or
car insurance to pay for. Yeah.
But we're we're saving up for my50th in Grand Cayman, so.
This is gonna be a few years, Yeah, we're not talking next
year. It's gonna be a few years, so
perhaps in a few years. I need money.
I need a new job. Yeah.
Anyone hired? We have.
A few years. Well, that's what you're gonna.
Go back to school for right. There's lots hiring.
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We have, we have, we have a lot of just don't think about it.
It's not, it's not, it's not happening tomorrow.
No. So I was just saying.
Don't settle for minimum wage anymore.
No, you've. Done that.
I don't make minimum wage. I make quite a bit over minimum
wage. Really good, Yeah.
No, I make almost what minimum wage is what, 17 something 1765?
(44:33):
I make almost $8 more. Wow, there you go.
Good for you. Just.
Because you've been there. So long and.
I'm I'm having raises. I'm part of management.
I'm not manager, but I'm part ofthe management team.
Well, good for you. So at McDonald's, this would be
a swing manager. Shift supervisors, but our
official we're called part of we.
Call them MO D's manager on duty.
(44:55):
We're just, I'm part of the management team.
I've been with the company for so long so my pay is higher.
My Co worker who's been with thecompany three years longer than
me is only making $0.20 more than I am.
So my company sucks to work for and I support unionization for
my company. My bet?
Which my store may or may not beunionized.
(45:15):
I my, my company, so I, I gain, I'm lucky for what I do and my,
for how long I've been. I know we're not the highest
wages, but we got a lot of benefits and good and I'm
treated well. So not the highest wages, bitch.
You make like it's $6 more than an hour than I do and I'm union
and you don't do anything. You're a night shunt yard bitch.
(45:37):
I love how this sets up. I don't do anything.
I'm an assistant lead hand by the way, I'm.
Still sick all night. God you need to stop with that
title. Seriously.
Are there some locations that are unionized right now?
Yes, so. Interesting.
Me neither. British Columbia I can count
(45:59):
123456 stores in the lower mainland and the island that are
unionized as of currently and that's British Columbia alone.
My store was the most recent store to unionize and we are
fighting for better wages and better working conditions than
(46:20):
what we are currently for. You guys, I'm yeah, I'm proud of
you guys. That's you guys work really hard
and you guys deal with a lot of shitty customers.
Yeah, you deal with shitty people.
We don't get enough labor to have staff on the floor.
That's the problem. Yeah, ain't nobody finding labor
nowadays. I'm referring that.
It's, it's so difficult for companies to find employees
right now because I, I actually don't know the reason, but my
(46:43):
personal theory is the our, our,our generation, we worked.
If we wanted anything, we workedfor it.
We were forced out as children still in school to do paper
routes if we wanted money. I remember.
Paper I would like to. Nowadays, just.
Say quickly, though, Kelp turn the boys, if you don't mind is
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in their case, though, their company's just cheap, like their
company's just they want the want them want to work these
guys to the bone. And like with us, it's not the
matter of having people, it's they don't pay the hours like I
don't, I don't make, I don't do a 40 hour work week.
I don't do anywhere close to a 40 hour work week.
I do anywhere from 30 to 33 hours a week.
(47:28):
I could have a full shift every day of my five days a week and
have a 40 hour work week and we would be properly staffed at my
store, but my the company doesn't want to give it.
And and the biggest reason for that is once you start having
full time employees, you have have to provide benefits.
So with my company, after you, if you work 20 hours or more,
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you get full time, you get benefits. $5000 for therapy too.
So. It tells you a lot actually.
If you know my company, you understand what company I work
for, but you just have to work aminimum of 20 hours a week to
get benefits. So it's not a full time position
that you need benefits. It's just 20 hours.
So the only thing is, is we would just get paid more on our
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weekly bi weekly paychecks. OK, I'm at a loss for that one.
Interesting because I pay, I payinto the, I pay into RSPS and my
company matches me up to 5% I believe.
And you're not full time. I'm not full time.
I pay into stocks for my companyand they match me up to 10%.
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So like we have those other benefits, but when we just got a
recent pay increase earlier thisweek, I went up $0.73 in my pay
I and it was a 3% increase they promised us when they switched
from every six months pay increase to a yearly increase,
it was going to be 5% every time.
So where's my other 2% my increase when?
(48:54):
And they're like, oh, we don't have money, but yet you give the
C the brand new CEOA $150 million bonus for signing on to
the company. There you have it, holy.
Shit. Holy shit.
If that doesn't fully on, tell the company.
Yeah, nothing could have prepared me for that number.
What? That that's that's exactly.
(49:15):
Say universal money. Holy shit, read between the
lines. That's.
Gross that that's the problem ofit and it's publicly out there
and you see people trying to struggle and the people you're
doing and like 150 million to sit behind a desk.
No, and just to sign on, just tosign on the desk.
I'm sorry. But you know, those numbers are
out there and it's it's terribleto see companies that do it.
(49:35):
And when they know that our company's a different story.
We actually had a meeting and our owner basically came up and
he said given the current situation of tariffs and the
stuff going on, you know, we cannot guarantee that, you know,
we're going to be able to continue to do the increases,
(49:58):
you know, with this year becauseyou know, we're going to try.
But obviously there's tariffs involved and there were
transportation. However, the one thing that he
said is like, you know what? During the entire pandemic, not
one person in this company lost their job.
Which is it? Kind of like it spans across
what? Manitoba, Like Saskatchewan,
(50:19):
Alberta, BC. Multiple Canadian countries, so
not one person during the entirepandemic had to worry about
providing for their family or losing their jobs.
And during this current crisis of what's going on, whether it
be now or within the next 4 years, while this particular
individual is in country, whatever, we guarantee you that
no one will need to worry about losing their job.
(50:43):
Ain't nobody getting laid off. And for me, for my company, that
was three CE OS ago. Now during the pandemic, they
made sure people who were not comfortable working or did not
want to work or the store had tobe closed because of what kind
of store it was. They made sure those employees
got their average paycheck everytwo weeks without any questions,
OK, during the pandemic, but that was a few CEOs ago.
(51:07):
CEOs have changed policies working.
We're no longer. That's almost disturbing cuz the
pandemic was only what, five years ago?
And you guys are on your third CEO system?
So the one CEO stepped down and then we got the original CEO
back to cover for the time beinguntil they found a new CEO,
(51:28):
trained the new CEO. They 2.
I know I can see the time. I'm not talking to you, I'm
talking to J Rod. As you were saying.
So the original CEO came back, we got trained the new CEO, that
CEO basically got pushed out of the board of directors.
And then we got the new CEO thatwe currently have from Chipotle,
(51:51):
my dad. And if you ever have been to a
Chipotle and see how they run like a factory line instead of
treating people like humans, that's essentially what they're
trying to do with my company as it is.
On that note, we are at the Shadow Times.
I will. I sound weird.
(52:13):
Do I sound weird? No.
You're good. Anybody else?
I sound weird to me. You're OK.
I love being sick. 988, if you're in crisis, call it this
is this is a North American thing. 988 is available in the
States and Canada Outside worldly.
Reach out, mental health is the thing.
(52:35):
It's OK to not be OK. Contact your local directory for
numbers cuz 988 isn't available around the world.
Good point, good advice. Yeah, Hon, you're looking at me
(52:56):
like I'm forgetting to say something for some.
Reason. Yep, Not at all, that's not.
Convincing. Not at all.
I'm gonna hear about this later.I know I will.
You are absolutely you did a wonderful job.
You did all your shout outs thank you to all the listeners
that are gonna be on the show today and everyone thank you for
Noah for joining us on today's podcast.
Thank you for all the guests forbeing here today again and all
(53:17):
of our cast members that make itevery week to week I.
Would like to say absolute natural on the mic.
Right. I think.
Just because working drive through I'm just.
So used to there. You go, radio voice.
You did really well. Hi, welcome to coffee place.
May I take your Urda please? And we look forward to having
Noah back on future episodes, probably in Season 4 in 2020.
(53:40):
Yeah, we ain't got room for you there for the.
Rest of us, I'm just gonna interrupt Arty's podcast later
on. There we go.
Well, that's for honestly. Yes.
Fully deserved, totally. Yes, I agree.
Arty agrees. So.
I'm not gonna make it all about me especially.
It's great after his birthday. I love that.
Arty's nodding his head. Maybe you what?
Maybe you might. Would you like both to be on
(54:02):
your episode? You realize we do have extra
microphones if you'd like on your episode?
Would you like to join already for his episode?
I'll join if he wants me to join.
What's that? No, I'll watch.
OK, well, you're. Gonna be a voyeur.
On behalf of handler Daniel and Pop Artemis in the background,
thank you everyone for joining us.
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Love, peace and chicken grease. We'll talk at you in two weeks.
Two weeks indeed. Love you guys, Barker Bark.
I was going to say see you, but that didn't work.
Vacation to me now, I feel very rested.
It's actually the past few past couple Fridays I've had is I've
gone to bed like I pass out on the couch and I wake up at about
7:30. Oh no. 7:30 at night or in the
morning? In the morning, is that good or
bad? Doesn't help me.
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I like. I I like because.
Usually I'm like for the weekends I like to sleep in a
bit, but lately I've been sleeping in until about 1:00.
Like half the day is gone. I'm like fuck I need to stop
doing that. Plus I need to stop polishing
off a 15 pack of beer the night before.
And welcome to squirrels after dark.
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Oh shit, oh fuck. Yeah, that was recording.
You all need to pay attention when I'm saying recording now.
OK, my apologies on that. Now that's good.
Welcome to After Dark. It's season 3, episode 11.
Glad to be here. I'm your host, Sharon Dubois.
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We are not safe for for public. We're we're not safe.
Just I think we've demonstrated.That already wow right?
Wonderful cast with me today. We are missing a Co host
Sprinkles Silent Peter and the kids are not with us today.
We shout them out and miss them always.
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Don't judge me. That just looks so wrong, yeah.
There's a lot going on here, spider pups trying to drink some
wine and it's oh damn, I should have taken a picture.
Too late. You ever see those pictures of a
dog with their snout pressed up against a patio window and it's
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just all teeth? That was.
That. That's what I just saw joining
me today. Loving husband Rick Hunter,
spider pup, micro pup. Wonderful thing, sexy as fuck.
T-bone is here. What up?
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T-bone. T-bone is the sultry sounds of
jukey. Wow.
Hey, coming off of her concert, she was amazing.
Absolutely amazing. The cutest Otter pup ever.
Titan. J Rod.
Rare. Nice.
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Yay. And a very special guest joining
us today we have pup Noah. Hello, welcome to the shit show
as mine has so frequently been described as the.
Buttery at its finest. First off, I would like to say
anybody that listened to the first episode, I was wrong.
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Wow. Oh snap, that took a lot.
I-90 goes S out of Billings, Mt towards Wyoming and then through
South Dakota. Don't.
Leave them hanging. What else?
Noah? Win, Noah.
Don't leave them. Hanging puppy.
Puppy. Rare.
What happens? Own it.
I-94 continues eastwards out of Billings.
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I-94 actually continues northeast out of Billings.
It's not even just East. It just gets better.
Damn. Barely Northeast.
It's pretty northeast because itgets pretty close to the
Canadian border. No it doesn't.
Up, yeah. Oh God.
I love this to be continued. Yeah, no kidding.
On another episode. Shame, shame.
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Twisting the blade a little bit there.
I did have to look at all these routes while I was plotting my
trip across so I know where these routes go.
I love the confidence like I'm with you.
I'm on your side. Yes.
Oh, look at that. You won't take Noah's side.
Noah's just so confident. I admitted I was wrong.
That took a lot. It did, and the only reason why
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I came to that conclusion is because I never actually drove
I-90 through Wyoming. I always turned off at.
Didn't you say US 112 or something like that?
Yeah, it was. God I should have googled that
highway anyway, but yeah, it cuts.
It cuts through Montana and intothe next state and it barely
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dips into Wyoming like for 12. Miles, it drives through
Wyoming. That was a weird look from J Rod
pouring my glass of wine and he was giving me a weird look.
This bottle of wine is brought to you by the Superstore.
In Jackson the Real. Canadian Jackson store in
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Jackson Trig just which is ironically.
Has anyone seen that commercial like it shows?
Oh my God. It's a commercial from the real
Canadian superstore and I can guarantee you from working there
at one point I have never seen the employees look that happy in
my fucking life opening up a superstore.
I cannot actually ever remember seeing a commercial for
Superstore. It's only recently it's.
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There's two of them and they arenarrated by Michael J.
Fox crazy. Yeah, well.
Now I'm looking forward to. It's crazy, but I saw the
employees and they're like so happy and they're like smiling
and I'm like happy. Neither there's.
One lady that I talk to all the time and she's always talking
about my tattoo. It's a rare I, I generally don't
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see that much pleasantry. I mean, it's not just that, just
like any job, just like, just Hejust smiles and like, I work.
You have that one experience that that Vietnamese lady that
told you we need to retire there.
And she is still. I haven't seen her for a while.
I'm kind of concerned. She's a real sweetheart.
Maybe she retired to Vietnam. Maybe she took her own advice.
I'm getting the fuck out of here.
You. Never have.
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Wait, I hear her background. I hear, I hear her background
chatter. I hear nothing.
Oh, I do. But I'm also sick and stuffed up
and my ears aren't quite workingright and I'm about to sneeze
but I'm not, so I'm having issues at the moment.
If our listeners hear weird ambient conversation going on
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from the background, it would bebecause our hey.
Shut up. We can hear you, Chris.
Volume down a little bit back there.
They're sensitive. I think you're right about in
the nicest party not being able to be quiet for two hours.
Told you. Oh snap, you're just calling
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everybody out today. Might I add, I have not been on
my phone through the first main podcast and I have not been on
my phone on this. Podcast good for you puppy.
Neither have I, although I was definitely on it during the
break. So was I.
That's when we're allowed. With you are allowed.
If not, you get called out. Remember the point of this
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podcast? I still love it because we have
to sit around at the table for one to two hours and shoot the
shit with our friends without staring at your phones.
I wish we were shooting at shit,that'd be fun.
It's not that great. It's it's messy and flattery.
Cans are fine. OK, cans are fine, but just the
whole point of it, I was like, Ilove this.
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You know, when we get together and otherwise, whenever we ever
would get around, even pre show,anytime we're all on our phones,
me included, someone's always onthe phone at some point.
That's the whole premises of this is that you, you're forced
to put your phone down for two hours and get caught up every
two weeks, which is why we love this podcast and we have our
guests on the show. And I'm again, I'm so proud that
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right up until the end of Season3, we do not now have one open
guest spot available. We are booked for the entire
rest of Season 3 right up until December.
This. Is going to be very cheesy, but
like this is, I feel like this is a creative outlet for all of
us. It's an art form.
And it absolutely. It's empowering.
We're all empowering each other,which is pretty cool.
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Well, you go back to the first episode.
I always say, how much have we learned about each other?
Oh my God, straight. How much have we grown?
We've learned too much about each other.
But we've grown a lot, I think, over the last three years.
Yeah, I think every one of us. I started the podcast.
I wasn't a puppy. I wasn't involved in the pub
community. J Roy wasn't an Otter.
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Those were the good old days. You know, like.
I'm always an Otter. I'm sure you were.
In your bye when we first met you either.
Well, yeah. Once I came out, he just.
Came out. Yeah, I came out exactly.
But I didn't fully embrace it until I did the first.
No, not the first. Well, maybe like the second
episode. It's the second episode again,
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just. Just for the record, that's
powerful. J Rod Kisses on the first date.
Nice. Only if I've had a few beers,
and only if I've had a few beers.
Good point, good job buddy, and we love you to desk because
you've been involved with SO. Many of our friends we were all
pretty on the wagon there that that night at the John B with
the Co worker. Yeah, the Co worker.
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That's right. There's so much stories.
It's great if I was to go back and just listen to this.
Keep on. I do have a question for our
guest, please do you have any passions?
Good question. Sprinkles would be Jelly
sprinkles. Worthy.
I would say my passion is photography.
I went cool. I went to school back in Ontario
for photography. Are you not one of the
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photographers for the? I let him speak.
I did not finish my course because I didn't want to do the
English requirement, the math requirement that the Ontario
government requires every program to offer in college.
What? Yeah, they want math and English
continued. And I just decided not to do
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those. So and I, I kind of dropped out
near halfway through the second year of photography because
money wise and you know, life sits in the way.
It is a course. It is very interesting.
I need to go get my camera fixedbecause my camera is no longer
working OK. But I do very much enjoy
photography and I do like going out and taking photos and
whatnot. Have.
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You looked at. Continuing the courses here.
All my courses are null and voidnow because it's been so long
since I've been out of college, but I am thinking about going
back to school eventually. Well, I hopefully that perhaps
we might be look forward to seeing you as the one of the
photographers in the in the community in the upcoming years.
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Maybe. And take your time.
You do that because we're not going anywhere.
You do have another passion, coffee.
I wouldn't say coffee is a passion.
I drink a lot of coffee and I work at a coffee shop.
I wouldn't say it's a passion. Paid.
Yeah, it's a paid passion. If you had one nugget of advice
to put out there, what would it be?
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Listen to your close friends because they have your best
interests at heart and I have recently learned that probably
in the last month to listen to my close friends.
Good for you puppy that's. A great piece of advice
actually. Right.
And everyone's looking look at heartfelt moments.
Wow. Sprinkles is going to be, I
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mean, she listened to the episode.
I think just actually be Jelly. You know, T-bone came up with
some like really good questions.Jelly this Dick?
Sorry. And there it is, and we're back
to it, and we're back to the norm.
Welcome back. But those were great.
Questions. Then this is your time to
explore it and on back. Sorry, welcome.
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Yeah, there's a lot of it. Oh God.
Yeah. Yeah, we're, we're just going to
end that there. And you're continuing on your
episode. I Yeah, fuck my life.
Why am I getting involved? I'm just going to sit there and
get drunk. Yeah, that's what we're all
doing anyhow, Dad. Drink.
Drink away. Drink away.
Mike Oh, we didn't do it. Cheers.
Cheers. Everybody.
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I'm not leaning or reaching so all.
Right, we got it. We didn't even do that.
The only one I didn't clink withwas my hubby, but I'll clink
with him later. Yeah.
Well, yeah, maybe. Do you have any future dream
plans? Really just going back to school
and I want to get a Monday to Friday job because I'm done
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working the weekends. It's it's it.
Sucks and dealing with customersface to face every day all day,
I'm over that. So I want to have like an office
job is probably OK. I don't really care what kind of
office job I do, just an office job.
One that you're not dealing with.
Customers face to face all day. I've crossed out customer
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service. I love my job, right?
I probably go I'd probably go postal if I was stuck in an
office for 8 hours a day. Although I actually enjoy having
a weekday off because the storesaren't as busy and.
If I could have, like if I couldwork Sunday through Thursday and
have Friday, Saturday off, I would be OK with that.
But I really want like Friday night off and Saturday off
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because that's when a lot of my friends hang out and go to
parties and whatnot. And the events.
A lot of events happen on a Friday night or Saturday during
the day. I just can't attend because I
open at my store so I'm up before the sun's up.
That's disgusting. It's a 4:30 alarm is not fun,
no. A 4:30 alarm, that is.
Jeez. Rick and I are usually just we
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go to bed at 5:00 AM. Yeah, there we go.
But we also, I mean, Rick gets home from work at 33.
During the weekdays I'm at home from work anywhere between 1:00
and 2:30, if not 3:30 or later, depending if I have to do a
switch or not. So yeah, 5:00 AM is when we're
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like just crawling into bed and you're like just getting up.
I'm leaving the house at 5:00. You're you're you're finished
your first coffee and heading out.
No, I don't. I actually I don't have a first
cup of coffee until I get to work.
Makes sense? Yeah, pay.
For it because I don't wake even.
I don't wake up early enough to brew myself a coffee in the
morning to leave time in the of the house, because sometimes I
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wake up enough to get my clotheson, yeah, and go use the washer
and brush my teeth and run out the door and just barely make it
to work on time, I hear. You.
Oh good God. 430 is when my alarm goes off.
I may be crawling out of the bedat 4:50.
Fair. Oh, wow.
You're really pushing it down. Yeah.
So I start my shift at 3:00 in the afternoon.
I have my alarm set for 10:45 inthe morning.
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Not a morning person. I tend to usually drag my ass
out of bed between 10:45 and 11:00, but it's to sloth down
the stairs, make my coffee, and out onto the patio to have my
one hour of morning aliveness. That sounds great.
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And then I watched the news, andthen Rick's allowed to say good
morning to me. What about when I saw you when I
was going to the when I was leaving the petrol camp?
On Friday, Yeah, yeah, that was like 2:00 in the afternoon it.
Shouldn't it? Wouldn't.
Take you that long to get to work?
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No, cuz you work. I work 2 minutes away.
Yeah, yeah, I'm 1.2 kilometers from my driveway to my parking
spot at work. Can't relate.
But. But usually when I take when I
take my lunch break, it's between 1:50 and 2:00.
And you saw me that day because I left really late because I
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slept in a little bit later. I needed a little bit longer
start and. You still would have gotten to
work on time though. I never said it was late.
I also have to go to Tim's to get a cup of life.
Coffee is where? We have, you know, we only have
32 cups of Tim Horton's Tim things in.
Our Yes and I have a cup. I make a coffee of Tim Horton's
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to start my day at home and thenI leave.
I go to Tim's and get my coffee so that I can actually deal with
the people at work. One sip of coffee for me.
Like literally reminds me why I live it's.
Good. I never it it never.
It truly is a cup of life. I agree with this I.
Agree, I never got the. The nectar of the guts.
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Satisfaction of drinking coffee.Like I don't drink coffee.
Me neither. I've never drunk.
I've never seen you. I've never had a cup of coffee.
I actually. Like what is out?
I actually. What is the allure of drinking
coffee? That's a good question.
Like it keeps me out of jail forwhat?
It's a stimulant, right? Like it's a stimulant.
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So it's a, it's a, it is a form of a drug little bit.
And a mild diuretic too, so it keeps you, keeps things flowing
in the. Brain.
OK. I don't know how that translates
to like maybe dopamine, I guess.But yeah, I got an immediate
some sort of chemical hit. I know with people who have ADHD
and drink, coffee actually helpscalm them down and helps them
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fall asleep because it does the opposite of what your brain is
doing, the chemical balance. So like a neurotypical person
will drink coffee and it helps wake them up because their brain
is just not there yet. But someone who has ADHD drinks
coffee because their brain's always on the go.
It actually helps calm their brain and most most of them can
fall asleep after having a cup of coffee.
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And also, it's apparently neurodivergent people are a
little bit lower on the dopaminefirst thing in the morning.
In general, we have lower dopamine levels.
That's why people like, you know, wake up and start
scrolling on their Instagram andstuff, right?
I don't know. That's like I'll power through a
couple of monsters and I'm stillgood to go.
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See that rate? There is your caffeine intake.
That's you're drinking caffeine.It's not really.
It's like your monster drink hasdouble the caffeine of what our
coffee has. Yeah.
Well, I think. That actually.
You rely on the caffeine aspect.Of it well, no I don't I don't
buy I don't buy the two monstersevery day I'll buy it just for
the hell of it like for me personally it's the caffeine
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doesn't really do anything for me like I'll.
Are you sure? Because a lot of people
associate caffeine with coffee only I.
Do. Do you find when you drink the
monsters, like throughout the day, you start to have a little
bit more energy? A little bit, but.
Not as much. That's the caffeine.
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That's the caffeine kicking in. OK it does.
Even though it says on the can like don't proceed.
More than one thing on a day if you're if you're if your
caffeine levels are really high,it could actually you might have
less energy in total Your, your,your, your engine's getting fed
too much caffeine, right? So it could affect your your
actual your whole capacity. It doesn't.
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Affect your nervous system because it causes you to shake.
If you have too much caffeine, Ihave the shakes.
Yeah, if you have too much caffeine, it'll cause you to
shake. And not only that, the more
caffeine you drink actually reduces it's it's the same as
smoking your Your body naturallyproduces caffeine.
Your body naturally produces nicotine.
You. Don't know that.
Which is why people who smoke their body does not.
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It reduces their natural production of nicotine.
You don't. Do it.
Put it right into the microphone.
You do it microphone adjacent. Nope, I was just rude.
Way to go cluck Norris. As you were saying, Sharon, the
boys. Yeah, I agree.
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A cup of coffee sounds pretty good, right?
It doesn't. With that one, see.
This is why only Jukie's allowedto touch Cluck.
Because you do not understand the etiquette of cluck.
But it was. Too far for Juki, so too bad.
Now it just sounded sick. Because she, like, really
squeezed. It, at least my cluck, never
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sounded like normal. But no, yes, your your body
naturally produces caffeine and nicotine and it's the same
thing. The more coffee you drink, the
less your body produces because you're supplementing that.
It's the same with nicotine and cigarettes.
People who smoke, their body reduces the natural production
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of nicotine, which is why it's so hard.
Another reason why it's so hard for people to quit smoking or
for heavy coffee drinkers to quit drinking coffee is because
their body is not used to producing it as much as the body
needs because it's been supplemented so, so long.
Did not go there. Yeah, that's interesting.
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The more you know. Your Your body produces its own
nicotine. Your body produces its own
caffeine. So the rainbow is flying
overhead. Right.
Yeah, the more you know Rainbow from.
That shooting star. Oh good thing that I didn't
mention in last episode. Went and saw Lilo and Stitch
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last night with my husband. That's.
Out. What were you wearing?
Thoroughly disappointed it's notavailable in VIP theater.
But no, it's not in the VIP theater.
You have to go to regular. Theater for that.
OK, Stop. What?
Were you wearing? Before we continue, when you go
to the theater, shut the fuck up.
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Yes, Oh my God, the people. I fucking hissed at a couple
beside us and they stopped for about 5 minutes and then you
continue the entire God damn movie.
They did not shut. Up.
I will throw things at people. I was going to get up at the end
of it. I was literally going to walk
over. So I'm like, if you don't shut
up, I'll go get the usher and I'll get your asses kicked out.
And it's it's not like they wereright next to us.
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They were. We were in the center of the
very back row and they were basically sitting in the seats
at the. End of eight seats, 8 to 10
seats away. We could hear them.
It's not, it's not fucking cheapgoing there either, no.
No, fuckers. And he hissed.
Like, literally, he hissed. At it wasn't a bark, it was a
hiss. I was like I gave A and I hissed
at them and they stopped for about an hour or.
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Like they looked at him and he'slike movie.
Right. Oh yeah, I was at the point.
Yeah, I was done. I was fucking pissed.
I was like who? This is why I hate the public.
Slightly turned on, aren't you? Do you?
Think he has appropriate? Seriously.
It's not. Entirely.
Before the show and unfortunately I wish I had my
pop hood because I would have put the pop hood on and looked
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over them like and then it wouldhave shut them like freaked them
out. Maybe they would have left.
Start humping them. Well, and the thing about it too
is he brought the hood but left it in the truck.
What? Of course, because.
We weren't in VIP. VIPI had.
Nowhere to put it. There were supposed to be people
sitting beside us. I didn't know the.
Ten o'clock 10:00 PM showing there was like literally
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everybody that was in the theater were all adults.
Like why was this not in VIP? Why didn't?
Anybody else say something? But the people in front of us,
they were being kind too, because I heard them.
They were aggravated. I was the only one that actually
just. I just had enough.
Yeah, no, I'm a no bullshit person with that stuff either.
I would just go get something. I'd be like somebody shut up.
We came to watch the movie, not hear you talk.
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So yes, we went and saw Lilo andStitch last night, the new
release. And yes, I was wearing my Stitch
onesie. I regretted every second of it
because that thing is so fuckingwarm.
Like we were getting. When we got home, I looked at
Rick. I'm like, hey, I'm never wearing
this thing again unless we're inEdmonton and it's the middle of
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December and -35 outside and I'mNaked underneath because I was
sweating like mad. Like it was.
Horrible, like a horror in church.
Fat kid in candy store. Pick a choice.
Good analogies. Right.
I mean, we could go a little bitdarker.
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Recovering alcoholic in the liquor store, sweating, lots of
sweat. It was.
There was sweat. I even need the liquor store for
the sweat. Oh, that's your right, this is
your. Episode So yeah no, I mean I
yes, I wore my stitch onesie andI brought my stitch stitch
blanket as well. It was more of a pillow than it
was anything else because I was dying of heat.
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But yeah, we went and saw that so that was a good thing to
happen. Yay.
Got a phone call, had to go. Yeah, emergency phone call.
That's fine. So yeah, that happened.
That was great. Good times.
And I'm review with no. This is why I hate humans,
because just like, just stupid. Yeah, stupid, stupid people.
When you deal with them for 8 hours a day they are awful.
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Yeah, I know. I worked 30 years in hospitality
industry. Believe you me, I'm well aware
of of, you know, Jukey needs to deal with it at the same time.
Yeah. What the hell is going on with
our podcast, people? People got to pee.
One went up, two calm. Down I'm telling sharing
something. I get up and like.
I had a potential family emergency, but it was just a
weird message that my dad sent and he's like, what?
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I'm like, oh, you're just sayingwhat's up?
OK everyone, I got to go back. That's good.
As long as you're OK. Yeah.
Oh, wait, wait. Everyone's away from the table.
Maybe I should just let the podcast continue.
Just like no one say anything. I'm away from the table.
Should we be? Should we be quiet?
No. I had to tell Sharon something
important. I know we were laughing cuz as
soon as everyone you know as soon as the main.
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He didn't. He didn't do it last, He didn't
do it last episode, and he didn't do it this episode
either. I knew.
Yeah, you caught on that too. Yeah, yeah, I'm just waiting.
I gain. I cannot do it because I know.
Yeah, it's I. Pronounce it properly.
Yeah. Fuck no, I can barely talk right
yesterday. So I go.
We're doing a meat draw and it was really cute.
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So I go out to a couple of our regulars and they're real sweet
people. And you know when you when
you're doing a draw, there are two sets of tickets, right?
One set of tickets you give to the customer, the other set of
tickets you put in the bucket. You know that's what you draw
for. But unfortunately, me being
because I couldn't fucking brainyesterday, I gave them a set of
eight tickets and I didn't separate them.
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So they had both sets. How?
How am I? Going to win if I have all the.
Tickets. Yeah, seriously.
Come on. And that's what they said.
They're like, I feel like, I'm like, I feel like we're missing
something. I don't think we can
participate. And I was like, oh shit.
So we did that. And then I went out.
I was dealt with. Obviously we just put their
tickets for the next drop. Yeah, they had actually drawn.
Yeah. And we had to draw.
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So they they they still had all their tickets for the solution.
That's good. Yeah.
That Holly. Yeah.
So we so we put them in. But I was redeemed because,
yeah, not only when we did the draw, the next draw.
So the second draw their ticketswere in, they won, and then the
next draw after that they won a game.
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So they didn't win on the draw that they they got into, they
won twice on the third draw. So, but they won twice.
So which was I'm like, I'm like,oh, thank God I was somewhat
redeemed in my stupidity. Yeah.
Sorry. Yes, I'm back now.
Sorry. Head to washroom you're.
Good. So it was good.
So it was a lot. It was a lot of fun, fun.
And if any of you have never been there of any of our guests,
I mean, obviously I know most ofyou are out of country, but if
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any of our local, you know, in the community customers want to
do it. I mean, we do a meat drive.
We will be doing it till the endof June every Saturday for the
Crossroads Hospice Society at the Golden Parrots Pub from
three till 5. It's happy hour prices.
It's good. It's such a good little place
and we love meat. How much are the tickets?
They are three for 5/8 for 10. And the Golden Paris pub has one
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of the most extensive gluten free menus.
Courtesy of the executive chef. Yes.
I'm totally familiar with the menu.
An amazing, amazing person. And delicious tacos.
You've never been there yet, have you?
No, I have. Not we'll go in the summertime
we'll take you in the summertimecome on over we'll we'll make it
a day and come over in a one of these days I'm sure we'll have
(27:37):
it on Saturday. We'll we'll be able to make a
date on. A Tuesday or Wednesday?
Taco Tuesday, Wing Wednesday. Tuesday, Wednesday works best
for me. Yeah.
Meet up with J. Rod Trivia on Tuesday.
Tuesday is trivia night. Well, you know J Rod maybe you
cuz I'm work the weekdays, but you know J Rods and he goes they
able to maybe you guys can meet on a Tuesday, Wednesday.
Yeah, that would be nice becauseI can't go.
(27:58):
But now you have a friend. You guys know each other, now
you can go. Really good food.
Excellent. Food and the prime rib dinner on
Saturdays after 4:00 PM is amazing.
It's all about making connections and there you go,
there's a nice connection you may be able to go.
Yeah, I would recommend the poutine with pulled pork.
So good. Barnyard burger with a fully
(28:20):
cooked egg. Buffalo chicken dip.
Coming off the menu. Yam fries or onion rings.
Our yam fries are changing. What?
We're getting waffle fries. They're so.
Good waffle. Wait, are you?
Wait, are you getting rid of theyam fry?
Getting rid of the regular just stick yam fries, but they're
(28:40):
gonna be a waffle fry. But they're yam waffle.
Fries. They're sweet potato fries.
That's some sweet that's. Texture taste.
Sweet. Potatoes, well, technically what
we call yams, are. Sweet potatoes.
I'm glad you're all happy, but my products coming off the menu
I. Will make you.
They got rid of the potato skinsages ago already and I'm
(29:01):
disappointed. Sorry.
Still waiting for my fennel sausage rigamotoni.
Working on it. It's gonna.
Be a feature, I'll do it. Don't worry.
I'll even do it gluten free. So excited for that.
Was there a balloon just released in the room?
Right. So now I've got people asking me
for like gluten free mozzarella sticks and deep fried Pickles.
(29:21):
I'm like, do you, do you realizehow much work?
That's frightening. They're good.
Though oh wait, do it again. It sounded like a queef.
What? Interesting.
How the how would you know what a queef sounds like?
Yeah. I've been with women.
I know what they sound like. 40 years ago.
That doesn't mean I don't forgetwhat they're what a queef sounds
(29:42):
like, doesn't it? Doesn't mean they changed.
The sound of a queef doesn't change over time.
It's the same as it was 20 yearsago as it is now.
Nope, no way more squeaky. On that note.
Thank you. Well.
Done. Sorry, thank.
Thank you to J Rod for remindingthis and absolute apologies go
(30:03):
out. But for both episodes, we are
recorded on the traditional and unseeded territories of the
Coquitlam First Nations. And we thank you for allowing us
to be here, but we apologize fornot acknowledging you at the
beginning of the episodes. Thank you Hun.
J Rod pointed that out and I waslike my bad but he was also like
(30:24):
taking his time telling me I'm like just spit it out already I
have to freaking pee. I noticed it earlier but I
didn't want to point out anotherfault for you.
Damn. Snap.
Wow, Noah's just throwing down today's episode I.
Hope you're reaching over to turn that mic off.
(30:46):
Thanks for coming out. Your time on the mic is done.
No. No, no, son of a bitch.
You've met. You've met your rival.
Wow. Yeah, Noah's just throw down
today one. Nice piece.
Sound before you. Oh yeah, please.
Just lean in. Just.
Lean in. Just just lean in.
Doesn't stress that far. You got to lean.
(31:08):
In. It's a queef.
Thank you to my friend's youngerbrother who taught me how to do
that. There we go, elementary.
My friend's younger brother, Mother.
Yeah, taught a brother to a queef.
That, for our guess, is what a queef sounds like from a gay man
from. The I didn't realize you were
able to get that tight of a squeak out of something with so
(31:29):
much teeth, right. He's still doing it.
Sounds like an. Elephant Artie, sit down.
Thought about you for once. Poor.
Artie over there being. Abused by a human?
Artie's gonna be back in the pot.
Artie, you have another spots booked on the podcast.
(31:51):
I know, I'm excited. Yes, your birthday.
It's gonna be your birthday episode, so would you like to be
100? Percent.
He couldn't keep quiet for two hours.
Right, I told you. Yeah, no, I, I.
Would you like to be on another episode?
Yeah. Good.
We're booking into 2027. 2026 smart ass.
Oh, is it 6 next year? It's only 2025.
(32:15):
Wow, I don't even know. Yeah, it's booked for season 3
and it is hard to believe I'm still every time shocked that we
are going to go in the season 4 four years of in this podcast.
You said we had a new country that joined us, but you never
said which country. Our newest country is Spain.
(32:35):
Hi Spain, Hola Hola maybe gracias for listening?
That was horrible. It's on Spotify.
Yes, I know. Sorry, please keep listening.
I might know who it is, he says.Because it's not like 6 million
people living in Spain or anything.
A. Little more than that.
(32:56):
There's probably 6,000,000, morethan 6 million in Barcelona.
I want to. Say fair.
Hey. You know what?
It's not about you this time. I know it was your turn 2 weeks
ago. But who?
Who do you think it might be, myfriend?
Rossan from. Leon, you think it might be.
Rossan Roth you want, you can goand say your microphone.
San, go ahead and say who you think it might be.
(33:17):
Is it Rossan from Hi Rothy? There you go.
From where? Leon.
Leon. And you know what, after the
episode, the specifics of the actual Spotify will give me the
details of the country in the area.
So I will be able to tell you the specific area in Spain who
actually joined and it very wellmeet be that area.
(33:41):
Does this give me permission when Artie's back on the podcast
just to keep interrupting a? 100%. 100% yeah, no, jump in.
Yeah, you have the right. You've earned that right.
I mean in all fairness he was silent for the main episode and
this is the chaos episode so I kinda expected it.
Yeah. Yeah, you're good.
(34:01):
No, I'll go take a look. When we're doing the after the
show, I will be able to take a look and see.
My God. He.
Stopped. Doing the.
Flossing. Flossing already is flossing and
behind us. I'm like, God, that is so.
I'm so happy in my back to him. Freaking I don't.
I'm not even gonna call. I'm not even gonna justify that
with a dance move. That's just the worst movement.
(34:23):
You get a smack, we eat a water bottle.
We have one. I know.
Unfortunately, it was normally reserved for Ganymede, Yeah.
Ganymede. Actually, but Ganymede's been
behaving himself lately, and it's so I'm just gonna have to
make it as a bad puppy. Just too bad.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ganymede couldn't make it to the
last part. He was having a, he was having a
(34:43):
day to himself. Sometimes we need.
That absolutely that's OK. We all know I love it when
people message me on the party and they're like, I can't come.
I'm like, I feel bad. I'm like really don't.
I am gonna don't. I've got a.
Lot of background noise going onhere.
Yeah, there is. Sorry guys.
I will have it correct. That all right, but your show.
(35:07):
Yeah, I know the chaos that Susie, why is everybody looking
at me except Juki? Oh, you're looking at me through
the camera. And yeah.
Sharon, you didn't do the I did.You weren't here.
Oh. Damn, all right.
I even shouted you out for reminding me that I didn't do
it. But I did do it.
OK, good. Thank you, Jay.
For landing acknowledgements. By the way.
Oh, land. OK yeah, landed and all.
(35:28):
That's that's what it was. Good God, you're all doing the
fluffy thing. Hey I started.
That I don't. Oh no, it's your thing.
It's my thing, it is your thing,it's my thing.
It's just like Jukie's thing is,which he does at his show when
you know the fun fact. Yeah, we didn't have one.
Today Jukie's there's fun fact. Yours is collecting fluff.
(35:48):
Yeah, I think. You had a fun fact with the
nicotine in the brain that. Was a fun fact.
Yeah, that. Was fun.
I'm I'm absolutely positive about the whole nicotine thing,
the caffeine thing, I'm. You're bullshitting us.
Well, I'm not, no, not bullshitting.
I'm skeptical. I can't.
I can't say for sure, but I'm pretty sure that because I know
(36:10):
your body naturally produces nicotine because I've heard that
before being a smoker, a heavy smoker myself, I've heard that
that your body has a natural nicotine production.
Can we have arty or handler Daniel figure that out for us?
What? But we're not gonna the.
Body naturally produces caffeine.
Or nicotine we could do. What was that?
(36:33):
I was yelling at them, not at the.
Audience OK, I'm sorry. I was just saying Google if the
body naturally produces nicotineor caffeine.
I would, but I'm not gonna be onmy phone until the end of the
you don't. Want to get called out?
You don't want to be pineappled pineapple.
Thank you. That's why you're here.
Just. Out of curiosity, has anybody
ever noticed that? Like when they see, you know,
(36:55):
like subdom clips or something like that, they're safe word
always seems to be pineapple. Why is pineapple like a default
safe word I? Don't know, I don't know.
I use my Penguin. Well, Kevin Hart.
I do the traffic light system. The Simpsons was cinnamon.
Cinnamon. Sharon, the boys, OK, there's
(37:15):
your answer. And then that should be the last
one from your background. No, the human body does not
naturally produce nicotine. Nicotine is naturally occurring
alkaloid found primarily in plants, most notably the tobacco
plant blah blah blah blah blah. So bullshit.
The human body does not have thegenetic machinery or metabolism
(37:37):
metabolic pathways to synthesizenicotine.
Bullshit. Bullshit.
Well, I was bullshitted by the. What's your fun fact guest?
Doctors have told me that the body naturally produces
nicotine, which is why it's hardto quit.
A fun fact, if you want coffee with more caffeine in it, get a
lighter roast. The darker the roast, the less
(37:59):
caffeine is in it. That's.
True, that's true. Fun fact, decaf does not contain
any caffeine. Live decaf does actually contain
a little bit of caffeine. For for those listeners, there's
an echo of a ghost in the background.
Boo, eh, sorry, that was funny. That's a.
Canadian ghost. Hey, I was just reiterating what
(38:24):
I was informed by by doctors. That's a bad.
Doctor are they? Are they real doctors or were
they fake doctors? No, no, no.
They were real doctors. I.
Did you see their diploma? I went to a medi clinic to get
smoking cessation, stop smoking prescription for like Chapex or
something and the doctor specifically told me he's like,
(38:47):
yeah, your body will have a hardtime.
It's stopping smoking because ithas to re initialize its
nicotine creating function. And I was like, oh, he's like
yeah, the body creates nicotine and that's why smokers have a
(39:08):
hard time stopping and blah blahblah blah blah.
But apparently that's wrong. Did he pass?
Although that might have been from like Android AI so this.
Was recently. Don't be on here.
You want me to take a look at mypsychology textbook?
Don't be dissing, Nicked. Android.
They're a good phone. I'm sorry, there's Android AI.
AI. Questions being asked off the
(39:29):
podcast there. Would anybody like to repeat
what was being asked off the podcast?
Already something about psychology textbook.
Already has a textbook in front of him and was asking he's got a
section on nicotine and he was asked he has nicotine somewhere,
yeah. Thank you.
Just to make sure, because the listeners can't hear it, because
you know already he's in the background.
And he's supposed to be silent. Yeah, T-bone.
(39:51):
Favorite band slash genre? Not a band, but the singer Adele
is my absolute favorite singer. I you.
Are gay. I was so fortunate last year in
2024 to fly out to go see her final opening show for the last
50 shows that she was doing in Vegas back in January 2024.
(40:14):
I spent way too much money on the ticket, more than I would
like to admit, but I spent five days in Vegas and it was special
in my life. Awesome, how much was the
ticket? She's amazing.
It was. Can we guess?
Yes. OK, wait, wait.
Canadian dollars or U.S. dollars?
Good question. I will do it in Canadian
dollars. OK, I'm gonna say 2 grand.
(40:36):
Not quite 2 grand 16. OK, let me let me tell you where
I was sitting. I was up at the top balcony, the
second balcony at the very front.
Wow. Oh, OK. 2nd balcony at the front
where at the sphere? At the Oh, it would have been
Caesars. Yeah, Caesars.
Caesars, second balcony, front row, second balcony.
(40:56):
Yeah, I'm I'm gonna stick with my original 1675.
Not quite that much. 1500. Not quite that much, almost
1300. 1300. For a single ticket my man, I
went alone. My trip and hotel cost half of
what it cost me for the single ticket.
That was only like a 2 hour concert.
(41:19):
But you know what? I never.
Forget, right? I'll never forget.
And again, she would go back to Vegas and do another show.
Even though I'm not crossing theborder.
I would 100% drop the money and go again.
I love Adele. She seems like a genuine person
or a good person, right? I've seen clips of her doing her
concerts and she's so interactive with the audience.
(41:39):
Like she's so real. The.
Guy proposed to his girlfriend at the time.
Yes, what she, what she also does at the beginning of her
concert, actually after she sings her song Hello, because
that's how she's kind of forced to open every concert.
Now she has, she picks a seat that's up on the top balcony
because those are the cheapest seats and they save two seats at
(42:00):
the very front, right in front of the stage and two guests will
go down and win. So she does that every show.
So that's that's sweet. So people have who can't afford
the $3000 tickets. When I add I almost dropped the
$3000 for those front tickets. It's super.
Tempting also. Very tempting.
I was in Portland, OR sick from work because me and my mom
(42:21):
wanted to go on a little weekendvacay and I was in Portland, OR
frantically trying to pay for these tickets.
Shout out to you though, for doing all these adventures by
yourself like that. That takes a lot of, you know,
courage and I. Didn't go to Vegas alone, that's
cool. I met with my brother in Vegas,
but I did the concert on my own because obviously. 1200, almost
$1500 for a ticket. Something they weren't
(42:42):
interested. In but you did do the drive
across the Yeah back home at Christmas solo.
Not solo there, solo back. OK, so when the drama really
happened, you were solo? Yeah, damn.
I feel like you got people can learn a lot traveling by
themselves and stuff. Totally.
It's the same cognitively. It's fun.
I've done like Rd. trips to Calgary and whatnot.
(43:04):
Like I love doing Rd. trips evenon my own.
Like I just love the road trip itself is the adventure, not the
destination I find because so much can happen on a road trip
there. You go, it's self awakening.
There you go, there's my fun fact about me.
I once took a cruise to Hawaii by myself.
To Hawaii. But you have.
A day cruise? How much fun did you have?
(43:25):
It was amazing, I bet. But Juki is looking forward to
when we get to do the gay cruise.
Cruise, she's so excited. For that, she's going on a gay
cruise with. Caribbean.
We're doing a Caribbean gay cruise.
Yeah, they allow. They allow straight women.
Remember the gay crews? Why not?
I wanna do a gay crew so bad butI can't afford it at the moment.
Well, we're doing. We're not doing.
Talk $1300 on a Dell, you could do $1300 on a gay.
(43:49):
Crew OK, but I pay for a car now.
I like back when I paid for the ticket, I didn't have a car or
car insurance to pay for. Yeah.
But we're we're saving up for my50th in Grand Cayman, so.
This is gonna be a few years, Yeah, we're not talking next
year. It's gonna be a few years, so
perhaps in a few years. I need money.
I need a new job. Yeah.
Anyone hired? We have.
A few years. Well, that's what you're gonna.
Go back to school for right. There's lots hiring.
(44:13):
We have, we have, we have a lot of just don't think about it.
It's not, it's not, it's not happening tomorrow.
No. So I was just saying.
Don't settle for minimum wage anymore.
No, you've. Done that.
I don't make minimum wage. I make quite a bit over minimum
wage. Really good, Yeah.
No, I make almost what minimum wage is what, 17 something 1765?
(44:33):
I make almost $8 more. Wow, there you go.
Good for you. Just.
Because you've been there. So long and.
I'm I'm having raises. I'm part of management.
I'm not manager, but I'm part ofthe management team.
Well, good for you. So at McDonald's, this would be
a swing manager. Shift supervisors, but our
official we're called part of we.
Call them MO D's manager on duty.
(44:55):
We're just, I'm part of the management team.
I've been with the company for so long so my pay is higher.
My Co worker who's been with thecompany three years longer than
me is only making $0.20 more than I am.
So my company sucks to work for and I support unionization for
my company. My bet?
Which my store may or may not beunionized.
(45:15):
I my, my company, so I, I gain, I'm lucky for what I do and my,
for how long I've been. I know we're not the highest
wages, but we got a lot of benefits and good and I'm
treated well. So not the highest wages, bitch.
You make like it's $6 more than an hour than I do and I'm union
and you don't do anything. You're a night shunt yard bitch.
(45:37):
I love how this sets up. I don't do anything.
I'm an assistant lead hand by the way, I'm.
Still sick all night. God you need to stop with that
title. Seriously.
Are there some locations that are unionized right now?
Yes, so. Interesting.
Me neither. British Columbia I can count
(45:59):
123456 stores in the lower mainland and the island that are
unionized as of currently and that's British Columbia alone.
My store was the most recent store to unionize and we are
fighting for better wages and better working conditions than
(46:20):
what we are currently for. You guys, I'm yeah, I'm proud of
you guys. That's you guys work really hard
and you guys deal with a lot of shitty customers.
Yeah, you deal with shitty people.
We don't get enough labor to have staff on the floor.
That's the problem. Yeah, ain't nobody finding labor
nowadays. I'm referring that.
It's, it's so difficult for companies to find employees
right now because I, I actually don't know the reason, but my
(46:43):
personal theory is the our, our,our generation, we worked.
If we wanted anything, we workedfor it.
We were forced out as children still in school to do paper
routes if we wanted money. I remember.
Paper I would like to. Nowadays, just.
Say quickly, though, Kelp turn the boys, if you don't mind is
(47:06):
in their case, though, their company's just cheap, like their
company's just they want the want them want to work these
guys to the bone. And like with us, it's not the
matter of having people, it's they don't pay the hours like I
don't, I don't make, I don't do a 40 hour work week.
I don't do anywhere close to a 40 hour work week.
I do anywhere from 30 to 33 hours a week.
(47:28):
I could have a full shift every day of my five days a week and
have a 40 hour work week and we would be properly staffed at my
store, but my the company doesn't want to give it.
And and the biggest reason for that is once you start having
full time employees, you have have to provide benefits.
So with my company, after you, if you work 20 hours or more,
(47:49):
you get full time, you get benefits. $5000 for therapy too.
So. It tells you a lot actually.
If you know my company, you understand what company I work
for, but you just have to work aminimum of 20 hours a week to
get benefits. So it's not a full time position
that you need benefits. It's just 20 hours.
So the only thing is, is we would just get paid more on our
(48:10):
weekly bi weekly paychecks. OK, I'm at a loss for that one.
Interesting because I pay, I payinto the, I pay into RSPS and my
company matches me up to 5% I believe.
And you're not full time. I'm not full time.
I pay into stocks for my companyand they match me up to 10%.
(48:32):
So like we have those other benefits, but when we just got a
recent pay increase earlier thisweek, I went up $0.73 in my pay
I and it was a 3% increase they promised us when they switched
from every six months pay increase to a yearly increase,
it was going to be 5% every time.
So where's my other 2% my increase when?
(48:54):
And they're like, oh, we don't have money, but yet you give the
C the brand new CEOA $150 million bonus for signing on to
the company. There you have it, holy.
Shit. Holy shit.
If that doesn't fully on, tell the company.
Yeah, nothing could have prepared me for that number.
What? That that's that's exactly.
(49:15):
Say universal money. Holy shit, read between the
lines. That's.
Gross that that's the problem ofit and it's publicly out there
and you see people trying to struggle and the people you're
doing and like 150 million to sit behind a desk.
No, and just to sign on, just tosign on the desk.
I'm sorry. But you know, those numbers are
out there and it's it's terribleto see companies that do it.
(49:35):
And when they know that our company's a different story.
We actually had a meeting and our owner basically came up and
he said given the current situation of tariffs and the
stuff going on, you know, we cannot guarantee that, you know,
we're going to be able to continue to do the increases,
(49:58):
you know, with this year becauseyou know, we're going to try.
But obviously there's tariffs involved and there were
transportation. However, the one thing that he
said is like, you know what? During the entire pandemic, not
one person in this company lost their job.
Which is it? Kind of like it spans across
what? Manitoba, Like Saskatchewan,
(50:19):
Alberta, BC. Multiple Canadian countries, so
not one person during the entirepandemic had to worry about
providing for their family or losing their jobs.
And during this current crisis of what's going on, whether it
be now or within the next 4 years, while this particular
individual is in country, whatever, we guarantee you that
no one will need to worry about losing their job.
(50:43):
Ain't nobody getting laid off. And for me, for my company, that
was three CE OS ago. Now during the pandemic, they
made sure people who were not comfortable working or did not
want to work or the store had tobe closed because of what kind
of store it was. They made sure those employees
got their average paycheck everytwo weeks without any questions,
OK, during the pandemic, but that was a few CEOs ago.
(51:07):
CEOs have changed policies working.
We're no longer. That's almost disturbing cuz the
pandemic was only what, five years ago?
And you guys are on your third CEO system?
So the one CEO stepped down and then we got the original CEO
back to cover for the time beinguntil they found a new CEO,
(51:28):
trained the new CEO. They 2.
I know I can see the time. I'm not talking to you, I'm
talking to J Rod. As you were saying.
So the original CEO came back, we got trained the new CEO, that
CEO basically got pushed out of the board of directors.
And then we got the new CEO thatwe currently have from Chipotle,
(51:51):
my dad. And if you ever have been to a
Chipotle and see how they run like a factory line instead of
treating people like humans, that's essentially what they're
trying to do with my company as it is.
On that note, we are at the Shadow Times.
I will. I sound weird.
(52:13):
Do I sound weird? No.
You're good. Anybody else?
I sound weird to me. You're OK.
I love being sick. 988, if you're in crisis, call it this
is this is a North American thing. 988 is available in the
States and Canada Outside worldly.
Reach out, mental health is the thing.
(52:35):
It's OK to not be OK. Contact your local directory for
numbers cuz 988 isn't available around the world.
Good point, good advice. Yeah, Hon, you're looking at me
(52:56):
like I'm forgetting to say something for some.
Reason. Yep, Not at all, that's not.
Convincing. Not at all.
I'm gonna hear about this later.I know I will.
You are absolutely you did a wonderful job.
You did all your shout outs thank you to all the listeners
that are gonna be on the show today and everyone thank you for
Noah for joining us on today's podcast.
Thank you for all the guests forbeing here today again and all
(53:17):
of our cast members that make itevery week to week I.
Would like to say absolute natural on the mic.
Right. I think.
Just because working drive through I'm just.
So used to there. You go, radio voice.
You did really well. Hi, welcome to coffee place.
May I take your Urda please? And we look forward to having
Noah back on future episodes, probably in Season 4 in 2020.
(53:40):
Yeah, we ain't got room for you there for the.
Rest of us, I'm just gonna interrupt Arty's podcast later
on. There we go.
Well, that's for honestly. Yes.
Fully deserved, totally. Yes, I agree.
Arty agrees. So.
I'm not gonna make it all about me especially.
It's great after his birthday. I love that.
Arty's nodding his head. Maybe you what?
Maybe you might. Would you like both to be on
(54:02):
your episode? You realize we do have extra
microphones if you'd like on your episode?
Would you like to join already for his episode?
I'll join if he wants me to join.
What's that? No, I'll watch.
OK, well, you're. Gonna be a voyeur.
On behalf of handler Daniel and Pop Artemis in the background,
thank you everyone for joining us.
(54:23):
Love, peace and chicken grease. We'll talk at you in two weeks.
Two weeks indeed. Love you guys, Barker Bark.
I was going to say see you, but that didn't work.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!