It's all about the wild ride through the world of telemarketing in this episode! We dive into the hilarious chaos of unsolicited calls, with plenty of laughs and a sprinkle of frustration as we navigate the boundaries of what it means to be "voluntary." Our conversation takes a spin with the ever-dreaded Stats Canada surveys that come knocking at our doors—literally! We'll share our personal experiences and rants about how these calls feel more like harassment than helpful outreach, and trust me, there's no shortage of amusing anecdotes. Plus, we throw in some playful banter about music, including an unexpected detour into the saxophone world, where we argue about its rightful place in pop versus jazz. So grab your favorite drink, kick back, and join us as we pass or go through the ins and outs of telemarketing with a side of good humor!

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• In this episode, we dive into the wild world of telemarketers, sharing hilarious anecdotes and frustrations that many can relate to.
• We explore the fine line between harassment and legitimate survey calls, discussing how unsolicited calls can feel invasive and annoying.
• Our casual banter includes playful jabs about the best ways to handle annoying telemarketers, with tips that might just save your sanity.
• We introduce the 'Wheel O Spite', where we randomly choose topics to rant about, showcasing our light-hearted approach to serious issues.
• You won't believe the ridiculous stories we share about our personal encounters with telemarketers that are both infuriating and comical.
• Join us for a fun discussion about why rhythm sections are crucial in music, and how they keep the groove alive in a band setting.

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I had a plan.

We just jumped on my bastard.

The claws, the claws.

They're calling you Wolverine.

Yeah, okay, there, I. I earmarked something for the intro.

Okay, I'm just trying to find it here.

Where is it?

Where is it, where is it, where is it?

I'm gonna find it.

Oh, this might be it.

Oh, no, that's you.

That's you.

I remembered because I said at some point this must be the one.

Okay, you ready?

Here's the new theme song.

Wait.

Oh, yeah.

I'm not sharing.

God damn it.

It's like a theme song.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Why can't I share?

Fuck.

The share button doesn't work anymore.

What the fuck?

Share.

This is the technical difficulty podcast.

Okay, now I'm sharing.

All right.

You should be able to hear anything I do.

Here's the new theme song.

Hopefully I'm grabbing the right audio clip.

You ready?

Okay.

Yeah.

It's a two hour show.

A two hour show.

I'm off to Syracuse today to have a doctor's appointment and I get to listen to Sean Geek and Fast fret.

Hit it.

Welcome to the Sean Sean Geek.

The Sean Geek and Fast F podcast.

Yeah, you got it, folks.

It's me again with a little aptitude for all you out here in white bread land.

Let's see, we're on 92 FM.

It feels like a nice, clean little bed so far.

No one else is using it.

Price is Right.

Did you find your Crusty Dave?

This is bigger than friendship.

This is what you call cosm.

The Buddhists call it, Let me see.

Reincarnation.

We see.

We see.

Hey, wait a minute.

Since when is Pismo beach inside a cave, I wonder.

You know, I just bet we should.

Have turned left at Albuquerque and then.

Maybe a right turn at La Jolla.

You control this.

What the hell shirt are you wearing?

Oh, this is the one I got for.

I think it was for Christmas one year.

So what does it say here?

Just another sexy ass bald guy.

I love it.

I love it.

Oh, my God, this is great.

Do you see mine?

My Value Village.

Fine.

Here.

I'm gonna stand up a little bit.

Well, I was getting.

When I wasn't.

I getting comments to say we gotta buy Todd more shirts because he keeps wearing the same ones.

There, you see mine?

Quebec Poutine.

Yep, Valley Village.

Fine.

So we bought, like, five or six shirts.

What the hell?

No, I'm, like, doing the Ziggy thing.

There we go.

Yeah.

What?

What?

Putin.

Is that.

Is that Putin, Robbie?

Or Is that.

No, no, it's a Putin Quebecois.

It's not a Putin Nouveau Brunswick.

Okay, so this is like a fake poutine.

Okay.

Controversial.

Yeah, I guess it's the same as when they call football soccer.

It's the same thing, isn't it?

They call it the same, but it's not.

What does Kevin Brown have to say about this?

It depends where you're from.

I. I do like soccer and it's the sport.

This is what I will watch.

I used to be a big baseball guy growing up, you know, with dad.

And stuff, but married into the Portuguese family.

Of course, that's.

That's a prerequisite now.

Yeah, it's soccer.

Oh, yeah.

Or.

Or is it soccer?

No, sorry, football.

Yeah, is it football or is it soccer?

It's definitely soccer.

Oh, it's soccer.

Okay.

Oh, yeah.

It's not football.

Well, who says.

Who plays?

Who says it's football?

No, no, sorry, they.

Sir, sorry.

They say it's football.

My mistake.

Okay.

They call it football, right?

Okay.

Yeah.

With a different type of ball.

The only ones you can do with.

Okay.

If you say they've got the ball and they have your foot.

Okay, so now if you went to the oblong football version, if you were to change the name, would.

Would you.

Would you call it pass ball, throw ball?

Because it throws better than it kicks.

Really?

I mean, it's not like you can.

Oh, yeah.

You try and run after what is ball.

You can't do anything with it.

It bounces.

It goes cockeyed when it lands.

Exactly.

It's.

It's like.

It's like a 12 year old.

12 Year old pubescent boy.

You get no coordination whatsoever.

That's a.

That's a oblong ball.

It's a Weeble Wobble.

It just.

Weevil wobbles everywhere.

Weeble Wobble Ball.

Wait, that has way, way more commercial appeal.

There we go, another nailing someone else's.

Name and sounding arrogant about your sport.

There.

We have another name for a shirt.

The Weeble Wobble Ball.

The Weeble Wobble Ball.

So when we get our notes off of this, the transcript, I'm gonna have to remember that one.

Yeah.

Oh, my word.

Yeah.

So.

So yesterday.

Oh, shit.

Okay, this is.

I know what you're gonna talk about because Sylvie said, have you talked to Todd yet?

I said, no, no, no.

I don't think anybody knows about this.

No.

Okay, yesterday, Monday.

So I.

We've been off.

This was our week off.

Right.

So this was Monday, was our first day back.

So we leave Here, first thing we see, I guess is a, I guess a cat or something got run over or something.

So that was like, okay, well that's not good.

So I'm getting towards work where I turn left at the lights and further up the street there's a crosswalk.

So as soon as someone hits a crosswalk, everybody stops.

Hey, I got all kind kinds of time.

I can turn right.

Some guy blasts out of the parking lot just on this side of the lights, guns it.

So now I have to wait.

And then he pulls out in front of me, trying to go into the parkade where I'm trying to go.

Good thing it wasn't slippery.

Yeah.

So I get behind him, he goes in and I guess before.

So the way it works now is with all the security that we have when you put your, your tag onto the, the thing to open up the gate.

So you have an arm that comes up and then you have an actual roll up gate that comes up, right.

And then you drive through.

So he went up to the, the thing, put his tag in, the gate came up, then the roller gate came up and then he drove through.

So I tapped my thing, the gate comes up, the roller gate comes down and I'm like, what the hell's going on?

So I try and creep up a little bit more maybe I thought it was a sensor thing, so I had to back up.

So I use my tag again.

It says, oh no, you can't use your tag.

You're already inside.

So.

So I guess that's so people don't back or whatever.

Yeah, yeah.

Here's my card.

Here's my card.

You can come in.

Yeah, yeah.

So there's like, oh, for frick's sake.

So I had to press the button to get a ticket for the, the thing to open.

So.

Okay, well that's fine.

So I was like, well, this is a great morning so far.

So I drive in, I was able to park.

Okay, that was fine.

We get to the elevator, it's all good.

We get to the doors, I go inside.

Now during my time off, we had bought bananas.

So you know, after a while, bananas, they start to, you know, they go from green to yellow to the spotty and then they get darker spotties.

And as it gets darker spotty, the skin gets, I want to say mushy, but just it's not as firm.

It's not, it's not held together as much as well.

Okay, so, so I get into my office, I put my stuff down, I grab my bananas and my lunch.

Now this Isn't a euphemism.

Right?

You grabbed your bananas.

Grab my bananas now from where I am, because there's two areas.

There's the area that I'm in and then there's the dispatch area, and that's where the.

That's where the fridge is.

So I take my key and I've got one of those retractable key things.

So it's like a fob on my.

On my side.

So I put the key in, I turn it, I open the door.

And then I noticed that one of my bananas has now peeled itself and now has hit the.

Hit the ground.

So the raw part of the banana hit the ground.

So an.

Oh for crap.

So I grab it and then the other one started rolling out, so I went to grab that.

And meanwhile, while this is happening, I'm walking in the door.

The door closes behind me.

My key is still in the lock on the other side of the door with the rope hanging on this side of the door.

And the only way to open it is to have the other key on the other side to open it with.

So then I had to.

I unbuckled myself, and then from there I threw myself in the fridge.

I says, oh, this is going to be a great Monday.

So then I go around on the outside of the area, and then I use my.

I've got a badge that I can scan in to my area.

So I scanned in, went back to the door where the key.

I left it in.

Then I had to open up the door, take it off, put it back on.

Yeah, it was.

It was quite the.

It was quite the morning.

You know, you have those mornings, like, well, there's three things.

It's like, well, what are the three things?

So I think that was it at that point.

And after that, I think I just locked myself in the office and did my emails because it, you know, when you're on holidays for a week, they tend to pile up.

So, yeah, so that's my story.

And I might have a couple pictures I can probably send you so you can kind of visualize what.

What had happened.

I've got a stringy banana peel and the keys are in the door with the lock on the wrong side.

So I'll.

I'll.

That'd be a great cover for the episode.

Y.

Great thumbnail for the episode.

Maybe that's what we need.

I'll send you those.

So what was it.

What was it you were saying that I was going to say, I don't.

Know if you're allowed to talk about this.

On air.

This might be a private.

Or not private based on where you work.

So apparently something happened today.

It's going to screw you over, I guess, until things are resolved.

Oh, they got hacked.

Are you allowed to talk about it or.

No, no one said I couldn't.

Okay.

It's in the news already.

Already.

Yeah, it's in the news.

I guess they.

I'm not sure.

They.

They hacked into the system somehow.

I guess it must have been a port open or something, so.

It's so easy to do.

Like anybody.

Like, they're so freaking talented.

Yeah.

Just affecting the door access and.

And the ventilation.

So, I mean, whatever was online at the time is on.

Yeah, but you can't change anything.

So I guess they're working on that.

So that's.

That's.

That's what's happening there.

So that's happened at work before, too, for me.

Because Monday morning, it's crazy.

We have a management meeting in the mornings on Monday morning.

So that came about.

We're all.

We're all on Zoom, right?

There's about 18 people waiting and.

And the big boss is not there and the second in command is not there.

So.

So one of the other guys just called it.

I says, yeah, I think they're.

They're tending to this.

This.

This incident that happened.

So I guess we'll just cancel the meeting for now.

So.

Jeez.

Yeah, so that was my.

That was my Monday.

Today wasn't so bad, but it feels.

Like it's been like.

Like we're recording on Thursday or something.

Like it feels like it's been like four days this week so far.

Well, it's only Tuesday and we already have our libations.

Yeah, I'm already halfway through the first one.

This is going to be a rough episode.

Oh, geez.

So my.

My note taker thing kind of fumbled the ball here, it looks like, because what I've been doing is I've been taking the transcript and.

And basically up.

But we talked about this before.

What do we need to follow up on?

What have we not talked about?

What do we need?

Because we would every.

Every time we record Todd, and sometimes we'd have like a two, three week break between recordings.

We have no idea what we talked about last time.

Ongoing saga according to the.

The charts and.

And stuff.

People need to know what's going on and they need.

When we offer a cliffhanger like, I'm about to build my shed, and then you don't follow up with it.

You don't follow through.

Whatever happened to the Shed.

Yeah, there's called something called fan service.

And this you for fan service is to tell us where are you with your shed?

Well, as you know, like I said, I had last week off, so it was quite the busy week.

But every time I was going to go figure, well, maybe I should go and pick up, you know, the lumber and maybe start the base of it.

Sure.

And it's been overcast and it's, it's always been chances of thunderstorms.

And it's like, okay, well I don't want to start this because it's not pressured like the, the, the base isn't going to be pressure treated like the underneath.

Well, but not the actual floor.

So that's all I need is to get that built.

And then it starts pulling, pouring.

So I was like, ah, I'll wait.

So now it's to the point where I, I might wait till it's, you know, cooler weather and maybe some less, you know, less chances of rain because that's all they seem to be forecasting lately.

Although knowing now that it didn't really rain a whole lot on holidays, it was just kind of a sprinkler here.

Sprinkler that like the weather itself was great.

So we took advantage and, you know, sat outside.

We've got this squirrel.

My man got us a Winnipeg jets bird feeder.

So we use it as a nut dispenser for the squirrels.

So there's one squirrel, he's very vocal and you come out and he sees it, he gets all excited, especially first thing in the morning right where our window is.

As soon as we open up the window, he's on the fence looking in and he's going, I'm here, I'm waiting for my nuts.

So then we come out, we give him a handful of nuts and then the same thing when we come home, he's chirping away and he's running up and down the branches saying, hi, I guess you want to say.

So I'll give him some, some more nets and then Winston will go outside and then it won't bother him at all, which is weird because he'll just lay, he likes to lay under the truck.

And then one of the days I was off, I was just kind of sitting there and this brown squirrel comes up and fairly, fairly big.

He comes up beside me on the left hand side where the barbecue is and I see him there.

So, okay, so I went and grabbed some nuts and I gave him a nut.

And then you take off.

Then he'd come back, give him Another and take off.

And then he made the mistake of going around the other side of the house where the other squirrel is.

As soon as he saw him, he just chased him off.

But Winston just kind of watches the.

Watches the show.

How does he react to it?

Does he get like.

Oh, my God.

Does he get all, like, freaked out or what?

Well, he kind of gets the.

Like, his instinct kicks in where it's like, I should be doing something chasing him.

Like, he.

He gets kind of like a.

Okay, semi pounce.

Or he kind of gets down low to the ground, but he's more so watching.

He's not really, you know.

Sorry, I'm playing Come to my window.

Oh, okay.

I thought it was appropriate anyway.

Go on.

Yeah.

And then we have another squirrel that usually comes out to the front yard.

And the front yard we've got.

Well, the door we have in the front has glass all the way from the top to the bottom.

So Winston will sit there and he'll watch the squirrel as he comes and grabs one nut at a time.

He'll grab it, take off across the street, come back, grab another one.

So that's kind of his entertainment, too.

Simon would lose his.

He howls, he's crying.

He starts pouncing on the window to try to get through.

Oh, he loses his.

It's.

It's crazy.

It's not good.

Not good.

No.

Well, a little different.

So what else has been going on?

Let's see.

We need to get a reaction from Kevin Brown on this tribute song or the.

This song.

But that'll be next week.

We got him and Corey Morrissetter coming in next week to chat.

Sweet.

That should be fun.

Yeah, that should be great.

Yeah, I've got.

I've got a lawnmower I'm going to be selling.

Okay.

Oh, the electric one.

No, not the electric.

No, the.

The gas one.

But I want to get this shed done first so I can get stuff out of the garage.

Yeah, yeah, because my garage is getting smaller, and it's.

It's just a matter of just grabbing stuff and putting into a shed.

So mom was trying to get me to buy a gas lawnmower.

Like, why?

Why?

Well, I don't know.

What do you have right now?

I have an electric one.

You plug it into the wall, and Bob's your uncle.

Yeah.

I mean, they're.

They're.

You don't have to worry about gas.

Well, that's the thing.

I don't want to.

Like, we're going.

We're going into a gasless society, you know?

Well, more so.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like my battery one.

That's.

That's good.

I used to have electric one.

I remember I used to have that stupid long cord like when.

Yeah, we were in Riverview.

I. I'd mow the lawn and I'd have to, you know, take the cord and flip it back.

And then you had to cut the lawn a certain way so you didn't run over the cord.

You had to keep moving all the time.

I have a question for you with your Nissan.

Sorry, I don't know why I'm thinking about this right now, but you're pulling up with the car.

We're talking about pulling the cord.

Talk about gas mowers.

Right?

So I was talking to some guy.

I'm not going to say who it was.

We'll just say he was a car guy.

Okay.

On the selling side.

And apparently the Toyota RAV4, no more gas.

Pure hybrids.

They're.

They're making them as hybrids only.

Oh.

So hybrid.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So basically the equivalent of your vehicle, but for Toyota and I think the Honda's CRVs are going the same way.

Which is the other equivalent.

Well, mine's full gas.

The Rogue is full gas.

It's it.

Out of all the ones that are gas, it probably has a higher miles per gallon or per liter, depending where you're from then the others.

It.

It's kind of closer to the hybrids, but not, you know, not that good.

But still.

Still pretty good.

Yeah.

Mine has an eco function on it.

This crazy thing which.

Which I realized when I'm on the highway driving a lack to Bonnie and I want to pass somebody.

Oh yeah.

Okay.

Let's slowly pass this car.

We'll take our time.

There's oncoming traffic.

It's only a two lane highway.

You don't have a switch.

Well, I gotta turn it off.

Oh, okay.

I got a big green button I can turn off.

Okay.

As opposed to the big red button.

But yeah, I had went jamming one day and my gas was.

I was like a quarter tank, maybe a little less.

I was like.

So I put it in eco mode and what it does is every time you stop the car, it tells you what the best trip was.

Right.

Okay.

So that one comes up every time because I put it in eco mode.

No balls whatsoever.

You know, limping your way home pretty much.

But it didn't use as much gas.

Are you suggesting ecologists have no testicles?

Todd.

What?

Ecologists have no testicles.

Well, you just said they got no balls.

You said your eco has no Balls.

So.

Oh, my.

So are you making a disparaging comment about ecologists or.

Or oncologists?

I don't know what the frick's an ecologist?

Just talking out of my ass.

Just like.

Just like normal.

So, like E stem.

What is that E.

What's this thing?

I. I've got all these things here, but unfortunately, I don't have my.

What's this Here.

Okay, so.

Oh, my God.

Okay, so that sound clip.

Yep.

I don't know if you heard it there or not, but I'm talking to Peachy Peach about Kissy Kiss.

One of my favorite lyrics of all time in a song.

Favorite, favorite, favorite.

It's the one I quote all the time.

Never heard you say it before.

Well, now you've heard it.

And this is.

I'm gonna play it again.

Take a look.

Well, you know what?

Fuck it.

I'm gonna play the song.

One of my favorite songs of all time.

Who's it by?

I don't think anybody else has probably heard it.

Oh, see, nobody likes my music.

You know what?

Okay, wait, hang it.

You have a different taste.

Can we.

Can we address some fucking controversy here again?

Do I need my rap music?

Okay, okay, your turn.

Where's my rap music?

Okay, so I've got.

This is extended 1 1/2 minutes.

I got 1 1/2 minutes.

The voicemaker plate.

Okay, so there's this chat, and I don't know if it's mixtapes from hell or from.

And the podcast where.

I don't know.

I'm in so many fucking chat rooms.

Okay?

This is my rant.

I'm in too many fucking chat rooms that half the time I don't know if I'm on.

We're on our channel or someone else's channel.

I have no fucking idea.

So anyway, they're talking about the greatness of saxomophones.

I don't like saxophone.

You don't like saxophone.

I don't don't like you.

Lewis in the news.

Yeah, but that's proper use of saxophone.

See, there's proper saxual satisfaction in a song.

Unfortunately, most of the time people are going for the quick pop on the saxual satisfaction quick.

You know, like in.

I don't know, a Madonna song with a saxophone in it.

Like, what's the point?

It doesn't service anything.

But generally, my complaint about saxophone is that you'll have a band to get together.

Careless Whisper.

Hell,.

I might have to insert some sound clips later.

But anyway,.

It's like an orchestra.

Okay, Anyway, generally.

See, this is My thing in the 80s, right?

So in the 70s, you had all these Leonard Skinner and all these Southern fried rock bands, you know, dual guitar, sometimes three guitar players in a band, you know?

But then you get bands like old ZZ Top, like, very guitar.

Like it's not just chunky, like stanky guitar, you know?

And that is the hook.

The guitar that.

There's a little hook in that.

In that.

In that guitar line.

That's the hook of the song.

That's the meat of the song.

And it's ballsy and it's sexy and it's stanky.

Right?

Not like Harris Wilfred.

Not like Carolus Whisperer.

That is so limp.

One is an erection, one is a flaccid penis.

That's the difference between.

It's catchy.

It's got a hook.

It is catchy.

It is a hook.

That's.

That's the hook for the song.

But the hook doesn't change.

It remains constant through the whole song.

So there's no variation.

Well, that's true.

I must put on.

Now, if.

If we.

If we hear Careless Whisper and compare it to Panama, which has the better hook?

I don't think Panama has saxophone phone.

No, no.

Although.

And which was that comment that I sent to you?

I said, what was that great.

Was that great Van Halen song with the sax solo?

You remember the one?

No, no, because there wasn't one.

The clarinet.

Yeah, through the clarinet.

But that is possibly one of the best solos of any kind on any Van Halen album, because it was Jan Van Halen playing.

And if there was no Jan Van Halen, there would be no Eddie Van Halen or Alex Van Halen island for that matter.

So, you know, it was his.

Their dad.

Because of their dad, they had the chops.

Yeah.

What was the mom's name?

Oh, I can't remember now.

Trivia.

Trivia question.

What's Ellie, Eddie and Alex's mother's name?

All right, you know what talks about.

I'm sure Dwayne is yelling at the radio right now.

Wow.

Or Josh.

No, sorry, it'd be Josh.

I think it'd be Josh.

Josh be like, what the hell are you doing?

Okay, so I'm just trying to find this song.

Oh, my God.

Where's this album?

See, we totally went off on it.

We totally went off, and I totally forgot what I was doing.

Oh, talking about Josh.

Yeah, I was talking to him quite a while back regarding the Tonx pedal, and I couldn't really get it to work properly.

So our spin.

Spin the wheel.

Little Clip that we have.

That's.

That's what I actually used.

I use a Tonx pedal for that.

But just a little blurb.

You got a lot of springs in your area.

Every time you type, it sounds like you're in a.

You get like shock absorber springs that are in the background.

Ringing.

Or is it.

That's that this thing typing.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

So apparently someone's gonna.

We can.

Okay, they're recording now.

Those that end the podcast will rock.

We start.

I started earlier so I didn't interrupt someone else's flow.

So I could maybe shot you show up on their show or something.

But now they're recording early today.

You're like, what the hell?

Well, what time do they normally record?

7 O'.

Clock.

7 O'.

Clock?

Oh, yeah.

We started half an hour late because Ellie lost her Tamagotchi.

Well, it was gonna be earlier, but.

Oh, well, anyway, that's all right.

Okay.

So I was trying to find this song.

Okay, this is a passer passer go.

So I've got to go back.

Okay.

You can vamp or something now.

Is this the one that you just played, bag boy?

Yeah, that's the one I just played.

Okay, let's.

Let's hear.

Hear what?

The sound song sounds.

Okay, you ready?

Okay.

Y.

All day you're so pretty when you're thankful to me get some pretty dreaming you're faithful to me.

Your bones gotta let all my shame.

Here comes the line.

Hang on.

I was talking to peachy peach about kissy kiss.

Totally your cup of tea.

Obviously in your wheelhouse.

You definitely have different taste in music.

I don't even.

What.

What.

How many BP.

What was the beat like?

How many BPMs was that?

It wasn't very fast.

I. I couldn't even figure out what kind of a beat that was,.

Which was emulated by.

On a song by the Dandy War.

Or.

Wait, Dandy Warhols.

No, Dandy Warhol by Spoon Spoon emulated that beat on one of their other songs.

Except they didn't.

The drummer wasn't there for whatever reason.

I'm not sure why, but instead they.

Played the bucket or something.

No, they.

They.

They mouthed.

They mouth the mouth.

They mouthed both the drums.

Wow.

Wait, come.

I mean, I've heard of someone, like, humming, you know, a tune or you know the lyrics, but not humming the drums.

Okay, well, here we go.

Here's the.

Here's the other song.

Emulates the beat I'm making up, by the way.

Oh, no, that's wrong.

What?

I don't want A live clip.

I want the actual album.

This is their voices emulating the drums.

Oh, here we go.

Hang on.

Okay,.

Can you hear the bass?

I think someone's going.

Instruments.

We don't need no stinking instruments.

We got a live mic.

That's all we got.

Can we use the live mic?

You know?

Yeah, that's like the.

That's like the guy from Police Academy.

He was.

Who was doing the.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Doing the whole thing.

Yeah.

Holy whole band.

Your cat's loud.

Oh, yeah.

Well, what's he.

What's he pissed off about?

Oh, because I'm.

Because, I mean, here he likes to sit in my lap and give you.

Sometimes he.

He lays on my.

On my stomach and falls asleep.

But he can do that later.

Oh, boy.

So you don't like either one of those songs?

I'm.

Not something I'd have on my ipod playlist.

Let's just put it that way.

No.

Yeah.

Or pay money to go see.

Wow.

Yeah.

Although there's not very many bands that I would pay to go see now because it's just.

It's just astronomical.

The price tag.

Yeah.

Crazy.

It's like, oh, wow.

Rush would have been a good one if I would have went to one.

But it's like you have to pay for accommodations.

You have to pay for the flights, then you have to pay for the exhaust tickets.

Yeah.

And you're in a whole different place.

It's in Toronto where everything is like four times the price.

Because we're Toronto.

I don't understand the appeal of Toronto.

Like, everything's so expensive.

Why?

Because we're Toronto.

Yeah, but what's the appeal?

Because we're Toronto.

Well, yeah, it's the biggest.

You know, it's the biggest city in Canada.

I'm sure.

But I don't know, it's kind of a turn off.

You're paying for.

You're paying for being in the.

In the heart of it all, I guess.

You know what Toronto is the equivalent of?

It's me wearing a suit.

Right?

You're wearing a suit.

Wearing a suit.

Hang on.

And then I take the suit off, you're like, oh, that's all.

That's equivalent of Toronto.

It's dressed up really nice.

But why?

I'm going to get a lot of hate mail now.

Or as they say in the U.S. the man from Toronto.

Toronto, Ontario.

L45QA.

Have you seen that?

Yeah.

Have you seen that movie?

Which one?

From Toronto.

No, I haven't.

Is it any good?

No, I watched it.

I don't Remember?

So it couldn't have been that.

Yeah.

Memorable.

Not memorable at all.

Yeah.

So neither one of those songs appealed to you?

Didn't like the fake drums that I got.

Good.

You know what, if I had to pick between both of them, I would say the second one.

Yeah, it is a little more commercially appealing.

Trying to think.

Okay, well we're on this same bent here.

So let me know if you like this one.

And this will be the last.

So these are all Skelly songs, I guess, songs that Skelly introduced me to.

So I'm gonna play this one.

You may have heard this one.

So let me know if you like this one.

Y5O Nice.

The original.

The stones.

Wow.

They don't have keyboards.

Fit today.

I used to have one too.

Maybe I'll come and have a look.

I really love.

Yeah, I do.

Yeah.

I'm glad you like mine too.

See we're looking pretty cool.

Get you.

Somebody to tell oh yeah, I wait tables too No, I haven't heard your band Cuz you guys are pretty.

Seen you.

But if you dig on vegan food.

Welcome over to my work I'll have them cook you something that you really love.

Cuz I like you yeah, I like you and it feeling so bohemian like you yeah, I like you yeah, I like you and I feel.

Wow.

Pleased to meet you.

Won't you guess my name?

Wait, who's that guy just hanging at your pad?

He's looking kinda.

Yeah, you broke up.

That's your bad.

I guess it's better if he always pays a rent.

And he doesn't get bit about sleeping on the couch when I'm there.

You have not put your hand up once, sir.

So I get a feeling you're actually enjoying this one.

This one's a head bopper.

Yeah, it's out of all three of them I listened to so far, this is the best one.

Yeah, it's actually got pulled into the Flushed Away movie.

The animated movie about rats that live in the sewer.

They actually had a very alternative soundtrack.

So this is a very alternative band.

So that was the.

That was Bohemian.

Bohemian like youe by the Dandy Warhols.

The song before was Stay, Don't Go by Spoon King.

And the reason I'm saying this is because Mighty K, also known as Gibraltar, is going to complain that we didn't list the song titles.

And then she.

What song was it?

And then the first song was Bone Machine by the Pixies.

So the reason that we started with this whole thing was the Pixies.

The first song was the Pixies.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

It was their really less commercial outing, which is my favorite album.

Oh, okay.

Surfer Rosa is the name of the album with a nude lady on the front in a Mexican dress.

You know, the flamenco.

She wearing a dress or was she naked?

No, she's wearing the dress bottom and not the top.

Oh, okay.

It's like very risque cover.

Now everyone's gone to check the.

Chaz Charles is going to be whacking off to this episode because that's what he does.

They're all googling the album cover now.

Yeah, Pixie surferosa.

Anyway, don't Google hemispheres.

It's Todd's ass, Canada's ass on the back of that cover.

Are you gonna grab it?

You're gonna show people.

I'm sure Chaz Charles has never heard that album.

No, you think?

No, probably not.

And he wasn't just in Toronto watching Rush in Toronto.

I'm so jealous he was there.

And Kevin from In Obscuria was there too.

Oh, my daughter got me a for Christmas one year.

It was.

Well, back when I guess albums were kind of going out of style.

People were taking albums and they were making clocks out of them.

Kind of similar what they're doing with the CDs and DVDs.

So I've got.

I get the COVID Like an album cover.

It's like shows the back in the hemisphere as well.

You've seen it, so.

Yeah, it's like.

Okay.

I don't even know where I put it.

It's not on the wall.

I noticed.

No, but you get that Marky Mark Wahlberg poster on your wall.

No, no.

Okay, one more song because it reminded me of something else.

Yeah, I don't know.

Hanes.

Okay, here's one more.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Tim, me and Ollie have problems.

Justin has none.

Ex girlfriends in black Jennas Everywhere I go there it is When I take a stroll there she is When I'm out the door what I'm looking for Same looking car that I saw 12 seconds ago they're so popular you can't get away Girls drive them in Encino and they drive them in LA Some are different, some are older and the boy body style has changed but my heart was still shut because to me they look the same Ex girlfriends, black chedas Ex girlfriends, black chedas Ex girlfriends, black shadows Ex girlfriends, black chedd.

What do you think of that?

It's another scaly pick.

Okay, so what is the chorus?

What did he see?

What's he saying?

Ex girlfriends in black Jettas.

Black Jettas.

Okay.

I didn't understand what he was saying.

So it's making a photo.

His ex girlfriend drives a black Jedi.

I guess I. I guess and I guess it's a common thing.

You date.

You date girls, they break up with you and then they get.

They buy a black Jetta.

Like they're kind of like their breakup victory party, something.

I don't know.

They rent them.

When you.

When you split up.

Skelly sent me this song.

I'm like, what the fuck?

This isn't you.

This is nothing like you.

What the heck is going on?

So that was.

I'm a Robot.

Well, at the very beginning, it was like a car going from one ear going, you know, through the other ear.

So I was like, that's pretty cool.

Yeah.

And then.

And then the techno stuff come up and it's like, okay, well, this would be good.

This would be a good song for the bar, you know, with the lights and the whole thing going.

Yeah, yeah.

But yeah, it's more of a rappish.

And that's.

Rap isn't really my.

My bad.

But it was.

I mean, it was like white rap.

So it was like.

But for, you know, for a song, for song sakes, it was.

It was decent song.

I like it.

I don't know why.

It was one of, I think Skelly's daughter and brought that song into the house.

Or.

No, this is more.

This would be an 80s.

It feels 80s, but it's not.

It's a 80s.

Two thousand and tens.

Two thousand and tens or 22 thousands.

I don't know.

Let's look.

It actually gets to the year, doesn't it?

Let's see.

Oh, no.

What type of album cover?

Does this have anything worse?

It's just the name now.

Oh, okay.

No, but that's the thing.

Skelly would.

Would bring interesting things to the table.

Black Jeddah.

Yeah, maybe.

No, it just says I'm a robot.

I am a robot.

Okay.

Like a movie.

I am robot.

Yeah, pretty much.

Yeah.

But this is the knockoff.

I am a robot.

Yes.

Yeah.

Like Sony and Sanyo and San Yono and Panasonic and, you know, all the knock Bait men.

Bait Man.

Instead of Batman.

Bateman, You, Mary.

They always have those action figures, those.

Those knockoffs.

Instead of Batman it was B A T E Man.

Or instead of Batman it was Spidey man or something.

Or they'd always have like bad knockoffs.

Yeah.

Like borderline, like legal, I guess.

And those are the ones where they had the plastic.

It Was toxic plastic.

Plus it had, like, the arms and stuff.

They would have that big seam down the middle, like where they would fuse the plastic together.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And it was really sharp.

So then you'd end up cutting yourself.

You know the ones that sell the doll of all the.

Yeah, those ones.

Yeah, those ones.

Remember, dad used to chew the hands off them and the fingers.

By the time he was done, the fingers were like this long.

Spaghetti.

What are you doing?

Like you didn't have his ice.

He didn't have his ice.

That's why.

Because when he has his ice, he was a cruncher.

Yeah, he broke.

I don't know how many teeth he broke just by.

Because he had softer teeth, too, on top of that.

But yeah, he liked to crunch his ice, but then he liked to gnawing the fingers of.

Or what do they call it?

Which basically translate as men.

Men.

Men.

The English.

In French.

Yeah, Men.

Or in English would be.

Or men.

Oh, man.

In English.

Because French and English is back.

Well, that's.

That's a woman.

In Portuguese.

Is all men.

Really?

Yeah.

Well, isn't that weird?

Or man.

Woo.

Woo.

Man wool.

Holy.

We're totally off, off track here.

Okay, what do we want to do?

Oh, wait.

Is there a topic recently that you added that you really want to talk about, or do we want to just go and spin the wheel of spite?

Let's spin the wheel so it comes up.

Get up on Adrian and so you can write and on all your topics.

Aren't you all wheel.

Oh, yes.

The best wheel spin song in the business.

Not.

It was good.

Todd.

Todd.

Stuff's awesome.

Especially that dive bomb.

This what gets me every time.

Oh.

Oh, that beat.

Which one?

The last one.

The beat.

The middle one.

The down or the up?

The wheel or the grunt?

Is it the elephant or the.

The horsey?

The man horses at the end.

The manatee.

I don't know.

Oh, God.

I remember the first.

When I.

You were playing at LJR school.

I think the curtain was drawn.

The curtain had been pulled back.

And I'm sitting in the front row because I can sit in the front row.

It's excited.

You know, I'm sitting in the front row.

Well, you're.

You're with.

With Brian and.

And Richard and everybody at the time.

No.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I remember you're behind stage and you're doing all these, like, sound effects and.

And I remember you doing, like, the.

You're doing all.

A whole bunch of different animals.

I think you did an elephant.

You did the Horse.

And everyone's like, what the hell is.

That the race car?

Or actually in France.

Noise level.

All right, let's spin this wheel.

So I gotta see if I can find the last time I hit the F9 button.

The last time I hit the F9 button on the wheelo spite, it turned off my touchpad on my computer.

Oh, yeah.

So I gotta make sure I do it very carefully here.

There's a glitch.

So the F9 key is northwest of the 9 button.

You can probably hear the background.

Do you say the F9 key is northwest?

Northwest, yeah.

Be northeast, wouldn't it?

That's actually northwest of my number nine button.

My number nine.

Above my number nine is F8.

And to the right, see?

Yeah, mine.

Mine is staggered to the left.

I got one of these wireless logitech keyboards.

Yeah, see, that's better than what I got.

Mine's cry.

I got it.

I should actually plug a. I much prefer.

That's good.

Very thin.

And it's got the little pad here.

Very thin too.

Especially if you're gaming.

Having on your lap.

Like, I've got a gaming1.corsair1.

It's.

It's made out of metal.

It's like a tank.

What.

What the hell did I buy that for?

And it has this huge cord that comes on it.

And it's.

It's one of those.

Oh, let's put a heavy duty cord on it, make it really thick.

And then they've got this material over it, like old.

Old wiring where they have the knob and tube.

It's got that material, like it had that all over it.

And it's all frayed just by moving it around.

I should have just kept this to use in the.

On my gaming computer in the living room.

Okay.

I found it.

I found one.

So I. I spun the wheel.

Okay.

Spun the wheel.

Oh, okay.

I didn't hear it, but okay.

Well, no, there's no sound.

Oh, okay.

I'm working on it.

I'm working on it.

I gotta come up with a. I need.

I need a sound.

A sound effect for that.

But that's probably as close as it gets.

Yeah.

Grab the one off of A Price is Right when they're spinning the wheel.

Yeah, yeah, I'm sure there's a sound bite out there for that.

Okay, so this is topic 20 on the board.

Oh, and the category is Rant.

Okay.

Which means Todd entered this into our to do.

Oh, my God, Am I gonna remember this one?

Okay.

I don't know.

I better open up to do.

Because there might be a better spelling.

Oh, it's one of those.

You get mad and then you're just typing so fast that you can understand.

What the hell is saying.

So here, here's what it says.

Stats Canada asking for a survey voluntarily, but keep calling to.

They call.

Sorry, they call my work, which is unprofessional.

Call other residents in the same house.

Now it's just harassment.

Yeah, well, okay, so you get Stats Canada, okay?

Sometimes they send out a survey and it's mandatory, right?

So they send this in the mail because everybody in Canada or wherever, they all have to fill out the census.

You have no, you have no option.

You have to do this because I, you know, against the law, apparently.

Yeah.

So they sent this other one which was.

And it says right on there, it's voluntary.

Wait, does it really?

Yeah, well, this particular one was a voluntary one.

So it wasn't myself, actually done.

I had gotten it and.

So the hell are you drinking?

Sorry, I can't hear it.

That's good.

Sorry.

Yeah.

So it's like being waterboarded.

Yeah.

So.

So, so basically it comes in the mail, okay.

So you open it up and it says it's totally voluntary.

Okay.

So she threw it out.

So then she gets another letter in the mail while back later, I don't know, a couple weeks maybe or so, and then she sees it, it says voluntary.

So she throws out again.

So then about a week or so later, they.

She gets a phone call saying that they want to do this survey, and then she says no, it says it's.

It's.

Says it's voluntary, I'm not going to be doing.

Well, you need to do it.

And you know, they're basically pushing for her to do it, and she says, no, I don't have time right now.

Anyway, so that was it.

So then they called back again later on and asked her to do it again.

She says, listen, it says, it says it's voluntary.

I don't have to do the survey.

Stop harassing me.

So then a couple weeks later, I.

Get a call asking, so which phone number were they calling?

Sorry.

Now, is it me?

Did they call me or, you know, this was a while back.

They either call me or I got a letter or something rather, saying that they wanted her to fill in this thing.

And that's when I, that's when I wrote it down.

I was pissed off is, what the hell's this got to do with being voluntary?

You know, like, do not.

You know, when someone calls you One of those solicitors you say, put me on the do not call back list because I don't want to hear from you again.

You know damn well I'm not going to give you dick.

All.

So all you're doing is you're wasting your time and you're wasting my time.

So to send these surveys in the mail.

Right.

What's that?

So they called you at work, though.

Was it work?

Yeah, they called my work, which is unprofessional.

What?

Yes, they called my work number.

How did hell did they get my.

What, did they go into her file and go, oh, who lives with her?

Oh, okay, let's see.

He lives with her.

Oh, what phone numbers do we have for him?

Oh, let's call him at work during the day.

I don't think.

I think that's more than unprofessional.

That, that is.

That's harassment, too, because they're pulling you.

They're pulling you away from your work.

Well, it's just.

Which you get in trouble for slacking off.

Unethical, regardless.

Yeah.

How'd you get number.

Like, if we had a third person, like, say, when Tegan was here, if they would have gotten a hold of her to try and do the same thing.

It's like, what are you doing?

What does.

Voluntarily.

What does.

You know, what does that mean to you?

Because I think I had.

Because I had heard what was going on and I. I told him.

I says, this is harassment.

I says, why are you calling me?

First of all, the survey's got nothing to do with me.