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This is the best-hanged podcast featuring Max Germond, Shane Cunningham, and I am Mike Beerman. To the best! Hey, podcast! I'm Mike Wai, Max.
We've got Shane and we've got all three of us together in a room. It's got a 101-zero Canada Maxis-backed for tour. Shane needs just in my presence as he always. Hehevely medicated.
Hehevely medicated. They double my dough. Really? They double, yeah.
How are you feeling? I'm glad I enjoyed today. When I saw you all the way out. Yeah, I guess I feel good.
Good hair flow too. Are you growing it? No, I'm trying to get it cut. It's hard to get into a barber.
Yeah. So how's your productivity go? I'm reading like a book a week. Come on, I read a hundred page script in a train ride.
Well, normally that would take me a week. Geez. Maybe a month. Oh my God.
Okay. Is there any side effects? Because that sounds good. Well, this is used to treat narcolepsy also.
So my sleep was shit anyway, but I wasn't a good cycle where I didn't need to take melatonin to go to sleep. But now I'm back on the melatonin to go to sleep. Oh, it's keeping you up a bit. A little bit.
It's a little bit harder to sleep. But besides that, I'm sending way more emails a day. Wow. Maybe like quadruple my email output and I hate sending emails.
I hate reading emails. I'm just like firing them off. Tell spam. I just get an email like that seems like a scam where I got invited for an evening to hang with Nicole Kidman.
It seems like a scam. It's like Omega would like to invite you to an evening with Nicole Kidman. Wow. What's Omega?
That sounds like a scam thing. Apparently it's a high value watch and somewhat to a Rolex. Some people like a better than Rolexes. But I've been invited to this New York City thing to hang out with Nicole Kidman.
George Clooney might be the five thousand of her friends. No, it's like 200 people. Wow. I saw the thing you did with Will Forte.
And it looked like a five thousand. Like a guest at a gala? How did you get in with the dessert? I think it's a mistake.
Oh. So I think I know why. But we're going to plead ignorance and go. That is awesome.
You know, Unzi, to our buddy, my Unzi, the funny start with him getting into university. Do you ever tell me the story? If you've told me something? Really?
Oh, yeah. Well, let's hear it. I forgot. He didn't have the grades to get into UBC.
You think you need like an 85 to get into a 65 or something like that? But you got an early acceptance. And he's like, how did I get early acceptance into UBC? This is a dream.
So he calls in and he realized that they've sent the acceptance letter to the wrong person. So he fesses up because he's like, as soon as later the straight will be up, but I should just be honest. And then the person on the line, the phone, this is like pre-email, I think, or something. This is like 2001, 2002.
I think that's not for sale. It's not for email, but yeah, whatever. And the guy's like, I've never heard of this situation before. Let me pass you to my superior.
And then the superior is like, I don't know what to do. Let me pass you. The call keeps going higher and higher until he talks to the Dean, like two hours later on the phone. That's funny.
Well, I guess if we told you you can come, you can come. That's so weird. And then he's like, I promise I'll do good. And then he was there for three years.
Okay. Speaking of celebs, a couple celebs this weekend. We'll fortify. Yeah.
So we're right at Vegas. Yeah. We're right at it. We're at Al.
You see the weird Al thing. I don't care as much about weird Al. Not that he's not here. We're at Ted Danson and Mary Seymour.
I think we'll fortify and Ted Lasso are way bigger. I think weird Al is an icon to many people. I think he's a big, weird Al is famous guy in that room. That's interesting.
More than Ted Danson. I do think so. So he means more to more people. But to you is weird Al mean a lot.
No. That's all I'm saying. Yeah. I'm very influenced by this great piece in New York Times that was basically talked about weird Al and his career and what he means to people in his anyway.
I really buy into the idea that weird Al touched people. I'm going to go over the last 30, 40 years in a way that has reached more people than SNL comedians. Okay. But no, I think it's most of the things in that room.
Yeah. Yeah. Ted Lasso is huge. But weird Al.
So I think weird Al is a bit more like, today is right now in pop culture. But there's a lot of people who didn't watch it last. Like the big comedy doesn't reach the same amount of people as it did 20 years ago. Yes.
But Michael Jackson says beat it. Weird Al says eat it. Right. When I was talking about recognition, like name brand face.
Like if you were to like put up today because of his face versus real estate. Well, in that case, Carrot top is the most famous person because Carrot top is so recognizable. His look, everything about him, he'd probably be more recognizable than full forte. But he's not as famous.
It seems like you're diminishing a bit of like what Weird Al does too with this parody song. And like being a pioneer of the genre in the 80s. I can do it. I'm not as impressive.
I can do it. But you can only do it because you. Where'd Al? He said that you can see it and emulate it.
He's a guy that sort of created a genre and like this whole thing that people have been doing for 40 years because of what he did became famous for parody songs with clever lyrics. They're not. They're really clever. They are really clever.
They are and I think they speak to people. Like I think the proof is in the pudding. And I think we can do them now. I don't write Amish Paradise, bro.
Like that shit is unreal. White nerdy is pretty good too. Yeah. Mike, you don't think you could write white nerdy?
I think I could. Okay. That's all I'm saying. You're right Amish Paradise though.
I'm listening to one of you. You take Gaines, there's paradise. I'm all through the valley where I harvest my grain. I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain.
But that's just perfect for Amish like me. You know I shine. Fonzi things like electricity. 30 in the morning.
I'm like, oh, this is a different thing. It'll be a nice way to sort of end the run. And I think what happened was if Tim, our buddy Tim Mcallif and Jess go to this event every year and they couldn't make it. They had that's a month.
So I think we were the fill ins. Which is great. Did you initially think the ask was for you to play at the go? No, no.
We should have all this. I would love to. You clearly don't lose the hard. There was a period of time when I was like, are they going to need my help?
Are they going to need my help? And then I started and then had these visions of like doing Dancing in the Dark and leading the entire room or something. Did you actually have that fantasy? I have a way to know that.
To be clear, they had like men, women, women. He was sort of like a room and then other rooms. Oh, got you. Yes.
And he, you don't miss him. He nodded. He would like to acknowledge. Well, there's a restaurant connected to the church where the gal is happening and you can't miss weird owls.
So I thought if he's, he clearly, if he was part of this, we'd know. So he must just be eating dinner. Oh, so he didn't know. He wasn't built.
Is he, is he tall? Cause that was my, that was my speculation when the Daniel Radcliffe movie came up. It's like he felt too short to play weird ow. He was very tall and like kind of like hunched over.
Like he was a too tall for the room. Is he tall in the max? And I'm probably around their size. Gotcha.
So, um, it was cool. There's a former NFL star, Andrew Whitmore, who's been honored for like a lifetime achievement with the Boys and Girls Club or the Man of the Year person of the year because he used to be a kid at the Boys and Girls Club and he gave him amazing speech. Like usually athletes are kind of shitty at speaking. This guy speech was like, are you the president of the United States?
Like really, really good. And future in the talking circuit. Yeah. He's very inspiring.
So in the cocktail reception area before we went into sit down, Olivia kind of grabs me. She's kind of bopping around the room talking to everybody. Oh, hey, I want to just talk to this guy. He's also Canadian.
So I, so I'd seen this couple and they kind of look like from across the room. Like, you know how to just like, you know, just kind of famous or something. But so I'm like, Oh, you're Canadian. Where are you from?
I'm like, Oh, cool. Me too. Like, he's like, really? I was like, yeah, right downtown.
I grew up right there. Where do you grow up? You grew up. Oh, that's where mom grew up.
When I school, you're most collegiate. My mom went to your most collegiate. What do you do? He goes, fitness.
I'm like, Oh, cool. Like, fitness stuff. He's like, yeah. I'm like, okay.
What about you? And then I pointed to his wife, she's like, I'm from Vancouver. I'm like, I was just in Vancouver. I was just in point gray.
Jug. Yeah. And then I'm like, do you know, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg? They're point gray Jews.
She's like, I do. I'm like, do you know Nathan Fielder? She's like, I carpooled with him in high school. I was like, Jesse Cruxie.
I was like, of course, I was like, because for our listeners, Jesse Cruxie, Nathan Fielder, Seth and Evan all went to the same high school and we're all in the same improv team, which is utterly insensitive. I know all of them. I was like, Oh, I was a fundraising benefit at a Jewish guys house in point gray two days ago for this fundraiser thing that I was doing. The band was helping out with.
Do you know Dave Barnett? She's like, I know Dave Barnett's brother or sister or something like that. I was like, this is crazy. This is a hell of a conversation you're having.
Yeah. And then I mostly quite. And then I go, so then I go back to the guy. I'm like, what do you do?
What do you do? He goes fitness. I was like, Oh, yes, yes, fitness. I'm an advantage.
Fitness. Cool. And then, was it like Richard Simmons? Well, no, that is basically I'm like, okay.
And then they're like, okay, we have to go out and then they're just kind of walking and stand like five feet over there. So do they not like you? And then I go and then walking away, ashes dying. She's like the whole time.
I know exactly who this is. This is a very famous person. And it's fine. I pull people and like probably 60 40 of people like know this famous person.
She's like, it's like saying like to Dr. Haas, like, what do you do? What do you do? What do you do?
What do you do? I mean, Oz, like you kept on asking what he does and he kept on saying fitness. We need to turn it. So basically, um, it's almost fortunately.
Yes, but it's a celebrity trainer who is known to reform bodies of the stars. Most recently, if you were Google's name, he has to dissociate himself from Kanye West for anti-Semitic stuff. He was also like a correspondent on Oprah. He had his own like signature diet, the five factor diet.
Is this guy taller, like six, three-ish? No. Okay. Maybe don't know.
No, say that. Harley passionate. Do you know this guy? I don't.
I have no idea. Interesting. So like I quiz like other friends like a frontman knows him and he's a red dude. Yeah.
But anyway, and then he ended up sitting at a table and did he warm up? You know why it turned out that he had food poisoning. Oh, yeah. And by the way, he was very friendly.
It was more just, I, born the story as me just being an idiot. How did you find out he had food poisoning? Well, what happened was everybody at our table who knew who he was was like, is he going to eat the bread? Is he going to eat the bread?
Yeah. That's funny. Watching what he could do. And then he didn't really eat anything.
And then he had to leave. And then it turned out to be a good boy. On the point, great tip was Seth Rogen. You were implying via that he maybe could have met Seth Rogen.
So you're like, oh, any chance like sort of motioning like for your wife. You reshaped Seth Rogen's body and he was like, I did. Really? Yeah.
I was like, yeah. He said, you know, when he did the super movie, reshaped his body. I was like, I did do that. That's my work.
He shouldn't say he's in fitness. He should say he's in sculpting. Yeah, that'd be cool. He's an artist.
That's really funny. I do love those interactions. They're hearing about those interactions. Even just in the retelling, I was shrinking a bit.
I think that's the sweet spot where you want to be. Because you want to, because I feel like with famous people, they get treated with such, you know, like reverence. Reverence. Thank you.
And I think it's more fun to treat them all like you don't know who they are. Yeah. You're coming by genuinely too. That's the thing.
I'm not sure what they were. Like as a strategy. Oh, good question. I maybe I will start to do that now.
That's maybe the thing. You should join Shane at the Nicole Kidman. Oh my God. Sorry.
Who are you? What's that? I missed? Yeah.
Did you control the guest list? Are you a friend of Shane's? Yeah. Do you work here?
Do you work here? So then, okay. So then we're leaving the event and Sudekus is there and he's waiting for like a car or something like that. And I was like, what?
He was there on his own. He was there on his own. Yeah. And I wonder if maybe he's found love again.
No, no. I'm sorry. I got to leave my game. A friend of Will's and also I just want to say that I'm also a friend of Nick Nurse because Nick is a big basketballer.
Are they both from Iowa? No, Kansas, Iowa. Okay. They're saying part of the country.
But Nick has told me that he loves to last so much because it reminds him of his own story going to England and coaching basketball fish out of water just like me in a Midwesterner. He ended in. And he kind of lit up. He's really cool.
I was like, you know, Nick, Nick, I was an NBA guy. He played in a sled game and stuff. He was very, very friendly. So I was proud of myself for that.
That's a good action. So then the next day, Ash and I, there's a part of LA. Kind of middle of the city, um, called large Mont Village. And it's just like one kind of strip.
It kind of reminds me like Blur Street West. Sort of like if you were to go to like the annex sort of thing, there's this one ice cream place in the middle of this, of the kind of stretch that we like to go to. So the Uber, instead of dropping us off right in front of the ice cream thing, I was like, no, drops off the bottom of the street because I just want to walk through the large Mont walk just because it's like, uh, kind of, it's just a nice stroll in the Uber so much. And then I went out and then I make Ash can you do it.
She would do it. It's like a little baby mask. Take me. And I'm not kidding.
I drink probably 50 yards ahead of me. I go, that's Bill Simmons. No way. And then Ash goes, Ash goes, the moment it craze, I'm like, no, it is.
It is. And my friend Ryan Spreger, who's a Boston guy who's a carless producer, he has told me, I always see a Sim is walking around large Mont. So then we're pulling up, we're getting close. Is this like, keep my, this is now like Sunday afternoon.
And I'm like, it's fucking Bill Simmons fucking, and keep in mind, start listening to me solo. I've got you. And I've spent more time listening to the voice of Bill Simmons. Then maybe anyone else's voice in my life, probably outside of Ash.
Like I spent like, going back to like 2006, maybe something like that. How much have we consumed Bill Simmons? And we still talk about Bill Simmons and also Ash listens to all the ringer stuff that we watch. We're texting about Bill Simmons.
So it's like, it's kind of crazy. All the celebrities we've mentioned on this podcast already, he might be number one for me. Like in terms of just like the impact in my life. Bigger than weirdo.
Yeah. But they both play a mean according. So it's so stupid. Okay.
So Simmons, okay. He's drinking is like large ice coffee thing. And he's got his wired in iPod headphones. Like the old school ones.
He's not wearing air pods. He's got a hat sort of like dangling off his head. Was like a floppy dead hat. He's wearing sort of like a very like mint green t-shirt.
And I just go, Bill, big fan. And then he just kind of stops and he stares at me. I'm like, she's too. She likes you too.
And he's like, oh, I'm Bill. Good to meet you. I'm like, Max, good to meet you. And then just sort of.
So the one guy at the point would have a chat in this one. I was so free. I fucking froze. And then he was like, okay.
No Nick Nurse story jamming in a fan's game. Oh my goodness. And then he put his headphones in and turned around. And then I was like, Bill, can you just get blocked off?
You can get the photo. So I was like, and then I was just kicking myself because there was so many natural ends. And I'm the best at that. That's my one podcast.
He's a podcast network. What do you say? Like when you run? What do you say to him?
I would have said, hey, I'm in a band. I'm a friend of Nick Nurse. She's Nick. He's a sports guy.
That's his nickname. That was the end. He would have seen the clip of Nick jamming and they all made fun of the guitar on the the pod. I mean, I'm going to show him a fantasy about other shit who's obviously is like second command pod.
Talked about Max bringing Nick Nurse on stage play guitar. No, Nick during the playoffs we get off the plane holding a guitar. Okay. That photo had been talked about in a wider NBA circle.
Anyway, I just totally froze. I'm just kicking myself. But it was so cool. Yeah.
Yeah. Everybody like that for you guys. Okay. This isn't necessarily like an obvious.
Here's the thing. Simmons I've listened to a bunch, but I don't like revere him in a way that's like, like, if I saw him on, he's just nothing, he's just like a media guy. Like what he's done is remarkable, but it feels very plausible. Like, you know what I mean?
Things break the right way. He's just a content creator that spoke on a podcast. He built that into sort of this empire. what he's done is very sort of remarkable.
Obviously, but I wouldn't see him and think he's any different than running in a certain execs at Bell or other places. Interesting. But if it was like someone like Paul McCartney, or like someone you mentioned earlier, Will Forte who you respect, like interesting weird comedy stuff that feels sort of like, oh wow, like how do you think of that? How do they do that?
I know how Pilsimas does his trick. So it just be like, oh, there's like a really rich guy that builds a company with his sports opinions. And I think that's awesome. I respect the hell out of him.
But I don't think he's like, he's not unique in a way what's like, he's a guy I could get a beer with. And I have dinner with him, does that make sense? No, totally. It's like if it's Paul McCartney or some song writer or amazing director or someone that wrote some script that I'm just like, Jesus, like what you're doing feels very unique and risky or like weird or like not anyone would have thought to do it.
I think he just sort of like became very successful based on like a format that had existed. And he sort of, you know, he's a pioneer too obviously. He's writing it with the internet and becoming his pan's thing. But anyway, so Bill's not that way for me, but I get for you, it's like, who's in my ears all the time and you know there's that guy?
I also think that with Simmons, the it's so funny because you're right, he doesn't have this mystical quality that a lot of artists that we have here have. He's like, I'm not going to tell myself. Sorry, I was misty. Yeah.
That's a good question. That's a good question. I was like, can you still give me a little chuckle now knowing what the hell is talking about? Like there's times in dynamic between Rusillo and Simmons where Rusillo will kind of like subtly.
Oh, 100%. Because Bill, you know Bill's a little older and he's just like, he's the boss. Yeah. And so it's kind of like, yeah, he just has that boss exec energy to me more so than like, yeah.
Anyway, you're totally right. But I do think there, what he's sort of been able to parlay one thing to another is remarkable. And I think that's awesome. And he's done it with the same spirit of the thing that I like in our friend group.
Or he just is only kind of doing stuff with his friends and making stuff he's sort of fearless. But don't people think he's an asshole? I'm sure some people think he's an asshole. I'm sure a couple of hip pieces over the years.
I think anyone that's a boss that starts a big company like that is going to things are going to. Oh my god. Yeah. I have like detractors, not to absolve because some of the, you know, I'll get opportunities for people in my audience.
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I did. I did. I'm about how he's not truthful in his stories. Yeah.
And actually, you got me thinking because there was complaints made by some of his staff that he wasn't the most like, you know, open minded as a boss or he wasn't the most like encouraging. You can just back checkers. Which by the way, also kind of like sometimes if you've got to be writing jokes, you don't want the wedding blanket going, wow, that's not actually true. Like I'm also going on the process.
Yeah, which I also kind of agree with. But basically, it's your point. If you could become big enough, you will have to trackers. Do I need to trackers?
I'm becoming pretty big. We're starting a second. Probably just talking about grievances. No, I.
But what does your take? Are you aware of any detractors? I don't know. I don't know.
I like to think I'm a bit of a no. You're not big unless you have detractors. You never have a lot of detractors. You never if you're so big, you never hear of your detractors.
You're not playing arenas without a few people. No, no, no, no, no. Actually, speaking of that, so we put out this Instagram story about our song, Life Is, and when inspired the writing of it. I thought that.
Yeah, and part of the inspiration to have me pick up the first place was this obituary that I read in the paper, and go back to, not as fast as I remember the one before. Do you read the obits? Like, sort of just as a matter of process. I never read the obits.
I'm actually a terrifying lyrics. Yeah. No, I usually hate the obits. So what led you to this?
This wasn't a tissue. It's a tissue. That's the name of this episode. No, it was in the proper process.
It was written by Michael Ignatius, who used to the former Liberal Party leader about a young staffer who was my H. about my brain cancer. So that's why it was important. It made me think of my own mortality and my own relationships.
So in the swipe, I posted a little thing of the article. I got the digital copy and I made a part of the piece that I put together. One thing I'd like to another and Justin Trudeau shared it. Sure, your thing?
Yeah, because it was a liberal staffer. Oh, no. Oh, no. You think I've got the trackers before?
Yeah, and then of course, inevitably, there's people that are just like, anytime you're attached to a Trudeau tweet, people are like, well, why didn't you do this about this? Well, you've shot all those vaccines up your ass. Then you can just double win me. That buffalo story is a little bit.
Oh, my goodness. But anyway, back to his amanache. So I'm really curious to know what you guys think about this. Because do you want to explain to the listeners what the, if you can recall what the issue was?
Yeah, sure. There was a big piece. Was it that the time that I know it was an execute? I don't know who did.
It was an execute. It was a feature piece where like a writer had spent time with him and asked him directly about certain pieces from his standup specials. So basically the standup comedian, he shares anecdotes. One of them is about how, you know, after doing on what it was just showing Netflix, it was like a political show.
I just came around with it and it was about the show. But anyway, he had a story about how he got sent anthrax to his home or what he thought was anthrax. And his five-year-old daughter opened it in the white powder one everywhere. So it was sort of an example of, you know, the hate he got or the danger they were in for using.
His opinions, that story is not true, but he used it to great effect. It's an emotional truth. It's an emotional truth. There was a bunch of things that just weren't true.
And I guess the worst one being about the woman. Yes. There was a girl he was dating, I guess, or had a crush on it was a friend in high school. And he asked her to go to the prom and then he showed up at the house with the Chris Al-Hajer or whatever.
And he was a little bit older than the other. And when he saw the photo, then she had a married brown guy. This is the way he describes the story. They talked to the ex-girlfriend.
She's like, one, that's not true. My dad absolutely never said that. That's like not true. And I guess they said that he had also before he had performed the special, invited her and her husband out.
And she was like, at first I thought it was like a nice kind of reconnective, but now she thinks he just wanted to embarrass us that night in the room. Because he uses her photo, a photo of them. These are the allegations within the story. And when in front of him, San said, like, you know what, I mean, I don't know what it is.
I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. So, how do we feel about it?
What are the rules here? Because I think if he wasn't talking about political things and if he didn't come off as sort of sanctimonious and moralistic as he does, which is sort of his role as like the TV on air personality, then I don't think anybody would care. Like, lots of comedians just make up a random ass story. That are just funny.
But because it's all sort of couched in politics and like these and racism and the American experience, like there seems to be some expectation that it is true. Like that there's no fabrication involved. Is that like the issue? Yeah.
Is that the issue? Yeah, I think that's why people find it. So like for him in particular, it's kind of like how. I mean, this woman looked bad.
And this woman was getting bullied online. So that's crossing it. Like you have to bring fictional people into your fake story. You can't bring a real person to make them look bad and have them be attacked online.
Yeah. And then there's something icky about like, it's your point, like, you know, the story of someone sending anthrax to his home and his young daughter opening it in the powder going over. Like that story, like is it meant to manipulate? Is it meant to get like emotional?
Is he maybe relating a story he read somewhere? So like it does have an emotional truth to him? Like I can't speak to those things. I think that's what he's doing.
He's just combining the worst experiences from some people that are, you know, Muslims in American making them all out of the story. Putting it through his prism. Yeah. And so again, it's your point though.
Like I think all of his political sort of like, because his comedy is meant to be, I don't know if the word sanctimonious or political or to make you think or to make you feel, it starts to feel like manipulative. But that being said, like any standard, it's designed that way, you know. There was that one comedian who said he was in the, worked in the towers when the, during the night of the night of the league. So yeah, that way, he wasn't doing it in a comedic bit.
He just flat out lied about that. But I think if you're doing a comedy bit with that premise, that would be crossed the line. It's a tricky thing to know, but I think you know it. Yeah.
If you're capitalizing on some sort of tragedy or something kind of sad, where people's real lived and experiences and then presented them as your own. And then, I mean, ultimately he has profiting off these things. He sells out these arenas and he had the show on Netflix and it is what it is. Yeah, I feel the other thing too is that, you know, she puts, I think it's, I think a white writer who wrote the piece and now he's not eligible for the Daily Show job.
So basically that show kind of made announcements saying Hassan's not going to be filling in for, what was Trevor Noah? Trevor Noah was leaving. Yeah. And then you're kind of like, because Hassan's kind of good, like he'd be a good replacement for that, but maybe, you know.
I never liked him. I never found him funny. OK, yeah. But I didn't like him because I didn't find him funny, but I found him very arrogant.
Like I've listened to him on armchair experts and stuff. And he thinks he's very good looking. And ultimately he will say that. And that's always awkward.
I mean, nothing's wrong with thinking you're looking, but if you say that out loud, that's very annoying. That is a nice. And it doubly made me feel weird because he was saying DAX was a six. And then people always say, I look like DAX.
People personally felt like such an attack. So you bastard. So yeah, for that reason, I do not like him. You still get DAX a lot?
All the time. Yeah, constantly. Really? All the time.
Yeah. And anytime someone says, oh, you know who you look like? It's never not DAX. No, sometimes it's that crap.
Yeah, the same thing. That's cool. Yeah. That's cool.
That's really cool. It's a lying in comedy, yes or no. I think you can do it as long as you're doing it on stage. And people in the audience are like, that's probably made up.
It's like, you show me the bit. I'll tell you if it's OK. You know when you see it. The end of the day seems crossing the line.
Yeah. And it's like using your own little kid to sort of anyway. Speaking of little kids, I went to a Raptors game with my five year old daughter, Winona. I love the story.
It was we were at the Art Gallery. They were doing some in Hamilton. And they were doing some things. I was like, oh, I was like, when Burton now, I'll take her down.
I was like, yeah, cool. So I mean, we go to the Art Gallery. They're doing like sort of like pumpkin sort of design. And you had all these little records that were donated by a record store in Hamilton.
I was called. But anyway, and they were painting them. So you got to like paint the records. Like kind of like it was really cool.
Anyway, so we're doing that. We leave the gallery after like a couple hours. And I was like, let's get some food. And she wanted to go to the electric diner or whatever.
And I'm like, oh, that's back the other way. I'm like, we got to go back up the hill or whatever. She's like, I really want to look at that. I'm like, all right, there's one in the house.
We'll try that one. She's like, OK. So I'm like, or, you know, we could go to like someone over there and down there. She's like, subway.
I'm like, fuck me. Way cheaper. Let's just go subway. So as we're pulling into subway, I get a text from our mutual friend Simon Jane, he's like, hey, he's like, are you in town?
I'm like, I'm not. He's like, oh, I got to actually pair the wraps tickets. If you want a couple tickets. And I was like, oh, no chance.
I'm like, I'm with Winona. Actually, hold on. I messaged Dan. I didn't want to call her because obviously wins in the car.
I don't bring Winona in the game. I was like, hey, this thing just happened. I'm literally right beside the highway to Toronto. But I won't be back.
So probably like, I don't know, 839. So it'll be past bedtime. And we won't be home. We'll just get food Toronto.
So yeah, go. That'd be amazing. So I mean, we got on the road and I was like, do you want to wrap your skin? Do you want to get on my highway right now?
And she was like, yes. It's like, I'm like, Greg's probably working. Well, we'll have a good time. Anyway, this is just to get me to this thing where on the way out, we're driving.
We're listening to Taylor Swift, her choice not mine. And I'm so cool. I do enjoy Taylor Swift. The problem is that it's all that plays in the house right now.
Like, kids music. I don't know if it's pretty good, but I agree with you. Taylor is fantastic. I think she's amazing.
But you can't play anything else. And we just like slide in like a little bit of like, I don't know. I'm just like, no. So anyway, we're driving.
And she's in the back. And I get a text. I'm in a little text group with our former boss, David Johnson, great guy. And John Popless is in this text.
We text mostly about raptors sometimes like comedy, whatever movies he's liked. But because I'm driving, I play it on the speaker because I'm like, oh, it's David Johnson. David Johnson never sent anything like with a swear word or anything like that. So I'm not worried about what the text is going to say with Winona.
He's an older guy. He's fine. He's going to play it clean in text for sure. So I start playing the text in the car.