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The Village Confidential
S3,E4-Silver Linings in Age-Old Tales and Toothsome Tribulations
Have you ever found yourself tipping before you've even tasted the coffee, or puzzled over the etiquette of charity auction bids? We've got you covered. Listen as we dissect the knots of tipping culture and share a hearty side-eye at the pressured donations at checkout counters. Plus, we're bringing you our unfiltered opinions on TV must-watches, from the elegance of 'The Gentleman' to the gritty competition of 'The Hundred.' And just when you thought we'd covered it all, we're hitting the gavel on the hilarious behind-the-scenes antics of charity auctions and unexpected gift exchanges that'll have you contemplating your next dinner party strategy.
We're wrapping this rollicking episode with a dive into one of life's less celebrated rites of passage – wisdom teeth extraction. As we say our goodbyes, we leave you with a pang of sweet sympathy for the trials of parenting through teenagers' dentist visits and the promise of our next encounter, where the laughs and life lessons are sure to flow as freely as Lemoncello at a sun-kissed Italian gathering.
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Speaker 1:Welcome to the village. Welcome to the village Confidential. Hello everyone.
Speaker 4:Christine Ernesto and Dr Brad King. What so? I'm not paying you anymore.
Speaker 1:But she's taking it. I had a dollar for everything.
Speaker 2:And I kind of look up my phone and I am in narnia. Oh, I feel like I know you.
Speaker 4:Hello fam, Hi fam.
Speaker 1:Howdy.
Speaker 4:So Christine.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 4:This is two weeks in a row for you. I know as well.
Speaker 1:I'm healthy.
Speaker 4:No hepatitis or anything.
Speaker 1:No God, I've been staying away from that.
Speaker 2:I don't know why I picked hepatitis, but yeah, I mean, it doesn't show up as a rash, that one.
Speaker 4:Isn't that like walking, stepping on a piece of glass? Isn't that what they warn you about?
Speaker 2:I think so Contaminated food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, contaminated food, water, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4:I'd like to get contaminated you talk about vacation.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4:I miss being contaminated.
Speaker 1:Risking your life every time you put something in your mouth. Is this safe or not?
Speaker 4:well, that's the way it is. Anyways, yeah, I'm just. I just need a trip. I need to get out of here okay, so where are you going?
Speaker 1:I?
Speaker 4:bleeped myself without doing it.
Speaker 1:When did this become a G show?
Speaker 4:I'm just like I entered the matrix bitches.
Speaker 2:Well, there it goes. I apologize to my PC friend over there.
Speaker 1:I thought we had this conversation earlier and swearing was still allowed on the show.
Speaker 2:Carbs no Swearing, yes.
Speaker 4:Right, exactly.
Speaker 2:We've never been big ones for rules. That's fair. That's fair boundaries.
Speaker 4:I feel like we made boundaries oh, give me an example of a boundary you don't have any boundaries if you're going to come on the village I just tried to put my hat on over my microphone. I saw that that was funny headphones. Just give me one sec.
Speaker 1:You're after just that to adjust I think sometimes they should record, or we should record and have little video snippets of what's happening around here, because we'll go to video in the fall I just need, I, just, I just need I just need to see us being more consistent with our attendance, that's all.
Speaker 4:Everyone's like this is like early days of a relationship. Everyone's like you're sending your best representative. I just can't wait till the crust shows up and the shitty people show up.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's when you get introduced to the friends.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Maybe we should do. You think we should have guests again?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4:That's kind of assholes, though.
Speaker 1:Well, well, yeah we had a couple that got too drunk, but you know that's okay, we can just shut them up, mute them good, just not post it I think we know, we all know who we're talking about when we talk about that one bit of a disaster, that one yeah no, which one are we talking about? I felt like there's a few.
Speaker 3:It was your guess.
Speaker 1:Okay, I don't even want to follow up with that, oh my God, he was having the time of his life.
Speaker 2:Yeah that was, yeah, went hard, went hard Hard early, Too much too soon went hard, went hard hard early too much, too soon.
Speaker 1:You know when you haven't gotten out.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think that was a lot of it. People were euphoric to actually be around other people and like it was interesting.
Speaker 2:I think you know sneaking out of your car, tiptoeing through, you know jumping in the front door.
Speaker 3:Make sure nobody saw going to this basement with microphones, with other people and like yeah, Wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we can't be the only people that did this, so we provided an unbelievable experience for other people. Sure, for sure, for sure. I agree. So what?
Speaker 4:was the one that refused to record Cause black lives matter for a week. What was that? That was uh wasn't that your guest. Yeah, I think they were uh like an Instagram, uh where they call them when they're, like, always selling stuff on an Instagram influencer influencer. Yeah, wouldn't. We couldn't publish the episode until like a couple weeks after, because it was I remember this, but I never understood why yeah, I still don't understand, even when I'm sitting there I didn't understand
Speaker 4:I don't remember who that was yeah, that I remember who, but it was just like it was. It was. I remember having an out out of body experience in that conversation.
Speaker 3:You weren't here for that.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, I don't think I was here for that.
Speaker 3:I was out in BC.
Speaker 1:Again.
Speaker 4:COVID again it was the second time again 2.2.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:There's been some. Yeah, we had some. We've had some strange experiences and we've had like a couple of stillborns oh my God.
Speaker 3:Right, good God, oh, my God, that's so scary to me I have.
Speaker 1:So I'm on a podcast this Thursday with a friend of mine and he he does this one called shed talk, but they record us so it's actually video. Yeah, and it was all through my bad, my messed up hair experience and so and I'm I'm really worried, like don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 3:We'll see, but he has a different way of doing it like he's this.
Speaker 1:You have to go promote yourself. You got to post it on social media and I'm like I don't know if I feel comfortable doing that, so are you.
Speaker 4:You're 50 right yeah no one cares oh perfect no you're like jamie lee, like you're the equivalent jamie lee curtis, where, you know, at some point everyone cared what you look like, and now everyone's like. Can you please shut up your time's over?
Speaker 2:they're just stoked, you have hair.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I know, yeah. So anything you do, anything you do is the most gangster thing. Oh, fucking hey, think about it that way. It doesn't fucking matter. You, you, you step over that line and I'm well over that fucking line. Nobody cares, because you're just on the precipice of being seen now true, it's true right. They think oh, they're just fucking, they're getting up there.
Speaker 1:You know, maybe make me cry why, because I don't want to get old. I'm not ready for this.
Speaker 4:Like I want things to you're acting like it's coming, but it's there. You're acting like it's coming, but it's there, you're there.
Speaker 2:You're fucking old already, so don't worry about it, just be grateful for the opportunity yeah, okay, I'm trying to.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to spin it that way. Okay, I'm smarter now.
Speaker 4:I'm smarter now, like you. You're talking like it's mission impossible. The first movie they're on. They're going on number eight now. Yeah, okay, it's already happened.
Speaker 2:Wasn't.
Speaker 4:Tom Cruise is over 60, isn't?
Speaker 2:he yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, listen, maybe men take this better. Women don't take it very well. As we age, it's a harder thing for us, I think.
Speaker 4:Because you get that pausing thing.
Speaker 1:What's that? Where you cook, you incinerate Full on, full on. Been through that, jesus, yeah.
Speaker 2:The pausing thing.
Speaker 4:I'm hot, I'm cold. I'm hot, I'm cold Like fuck. Make up your mind, it's enough already.
Speaker 3:Can you tell that to?
Speaker 1:our hormones Like. Trust me Well he's trying.
Speaker 3:Clearly.
Speaker 1:They're just kind of like giving you the middle finger right now. They're like fuck you, do you think it's that easy? We still trying to have babies right now, like that's what it's all about, you know? Like stop it, stop it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, stop it. Well, it just seems to me like it's a lot, it's a lot to getting old no, the whole menopause thing, it it's a lot, it is a lot. It's a lot to adjust to.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:No wonder DiCaprio does what he does.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I get it. He gets them pre and discards them before that yeah, I get it Good for him.
Speaker 4:He's an asshole. He's a fucking dick yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, totally Sorry, nothing. You got nothing on this game.
Speaker 4:I'm on my own. I'm in the wild, currently processing.
Speaker 2:No, you're not no you're not, You're just.
Speaker 4:There are certain things you leave me in the wild on and you're just like, oh, that's probably not going to play. That's not going to play well when this episode hits here.
Speaker 1:Because DiCaprio's fans are going for you following us.
Speaker 4:I got some late time. I can shut down my social media before it happens I think we're good.
Speaker 2:I think all the girls are good with this yeah, I think they probably agree, except for the whole make up your mind part do you know any dodgy people?
Speaker 1:yes, never run across any of them in my entire life.
Speaker 4:So this is my like. There's this person I've known for years just shut down their social media and it's clear it's for a domestic reason Ruh-roh. Some lines were crossed, obviously, and now just completely invisible.
Speaker 2:So lines were crossed on social media.
Speaker 4:I think this person got outed by one of those facebook. I'm dating your husband, or what? Just in a relationship yeah, and I just can't get enough information, because now it's essentially like queen, whatever who you know. Everyone thought she was dead and they were keeping her.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, kate, princess Kate, princess, kate, princess Kate, that was two days on Twitter.
Speaker 4:For me I could not get enough of that. Was she dead? Like well, because Buckingham Palace was like we're going to announce something and no one had seen her and they had like they did the fake pictures and the claw hands and like I didn't know what was going on it had me, their social media, her social media.
Speaker 1:People need to be fired. It was so badly executed. Yeah, it's terrible.
Speaker 3:No, it's terrible absolutely terrible and then she releases the video.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's got cancer well, no, whichever one knows, like I mean, I was like probably a donald cancer cancer no, I thought they walked.
Speaker 4:The only thing is that I think that she has.
Speaker 1:I think that, and I'm not, I'm not sure if they were being shady here or not, but I think she knew she had cancer sooner than she knew she had cancer. Like, come on, oh for sure, you know so. But that's fine, I get it. You know, and you know what she said.
Speaker 4:I thought they fucking tunneled another one.
Speaker 2:The Mercedes, I thought Elton.
Speaker 4:John was going to have another hit Did you just say that that is so horrible. That's what I thought happened.
Speaker 2:I mean, you were alone.
Speaker 4:I thought Elton John was going to Write a new song, daisy in the wind or whatever. What's the?
Speaker 1:song.
Speaker 2:I heard he's bankrupt so he needs some material. That's what I thought it was. It was.
Speaker 4:Candle in the Wind. Okay, I thought that's what was going to happen.
Speaker 1:Speaking of candles, Speaking of candles, where's our candle?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 4:Rhinos, rhinos.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I didn't need the Trace guys burning candles down here.
Speaker 1:Well, I have a feeling they, yeah, okay. Never know, I feel like need the trades guys burning candles down here. Well, I have a feeling they, yeah, okay, right.
Speaker 2:I feel like they brought their own candles.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah. Well, they were doing whatever the fuck they want. They had the code to my house and they've been in here steady, but I will say, compared to the first reno, this has taken three weeks. So this guy is the guy.
Speaker 2:He's good.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Anyone who needs a good general contractor you let me know. He kicked ass. He's a friend of the show. He is a friend of the show. He got us up and running in between pot. He ran out the whole basement in between our recording.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 4:Nice, well, think about it, dude.
Speaker 2:Well, clearly he knows you. We recorded.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you weren't here. I know that was a month ago. Dude, it was a week ago, oh yeah, two weeks, two weeks, it was two weeks, whatever it was.
Speaker 4:Anyways, they did a good job. Your bunions are on brand new carpet right now.
Speaker 1:I know your bunions are on brand new carpet right now. That's what I can smell. It. I can smell new carpets.
Speaker 4:It's got that new carpet sense your bunions are sitting on this nice friendly carpet yeah, this is a bunion. Can't wait till the ai gets their hands on this episode.
Speaker 1:It's gonna be wild what comes out of that? That's right Rolling around in the bunion-friendly carpet.
Speaker 3:The deep fakes. Deep, deep fakes. Wasn't that awesome.
Speaker 4:I can't wait to do that again. Is Joe Biden dead? Is that his brother? I don't know.
Speaker 1:His doppelganger.
Speaker 4:I think I was on the MAGA Twitter feed or something, because they were saying it's actually Clive biden, or whoever his brother is.
Speaker 3:His name is clive I just threw that out there, cletus so good, have you seen?
Speaker 4:this is where I rapid fire. I got all sorts of shit right now okay new roadhouse well, hang on before we go there.
Speaker 2:Did you see trump's tweet talking about how he won the club championship, or something like?
Speaker 4:that people came after him. You must be very proud yeah, that's a great accomplishment yeah, yeah, it was a good one.
Speaker 1:It wasn't joel, because he doesn't have a phone, right.
Speaker 2:Well, he's got a rotary. Yeah, that was a good one. That was a good one. It wasn't Joe, because he doesn't have a phone.
Speaker 4:Right, well, he's got a rotary phone. It's a rotary. He made my own joke.
Speaker 2:Teed it up.
Speaker 4:New Roadhouse.
Speaker 2:New Roadhouse Movie right. Terrible, Is it bad? Oh, who's in that? Ryan Gosling right.
Speaker 4:No, jake Gyllenhaal, jake Jakey G.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Isn't there a Taylor Swift song about him?
Speaker 1:I don't know. That's a great question.
Speaker 4:Really Swifties. I'll text. I can text. Mike, I thought you were a Swiftie.
Speaker 2:Swifties would know.
Speaker 1:Listen, I like her and I appreciate her and I think she's awesome.
Speaker 2:But well, you're not the only one I'd go there, hey, jake hey let me reach out to my 50s.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna ask oh god, yeah, yeah it. I had to cleanse my palate by watching the old roadhouse with Swayze in it.
Speaker 2:Swayze that was a good one. Oh, that was Jeff Healy was in that, yeah.
Speaker 4:I couldn't remember. I was trying to explain it to Colton. There's a blind guy playing the guitar. Yeah, jeff Healy, I couldn't remember his name Right, I'm like that's him.
Speaker 2:His version of Jimi Hendrix.
Speaker 4:Where did he go? Little bird was unreal. I think he's dead.
Speaker 2:No, I think, Ask your Swifty friends of Jeff Healy's dead.
Speaker 1:Well, let's, let's just Google it. Hey, is Jeff Healy but he was amazing.
Speaker 2:So like is I don't know, whatever he is, he was completely blind from, I think, from birth, yeah, and he played a lap and played the guitar on his lap, yeah, and ripped on that thing. Really good oh so good.
Speaker 1:March, March 2nd 2008,. Age 41 years Wow good. March 20, march 2nd 2008. Age 41 years wow 2008 he's dead. Yeah, march 2nd 2008 healy died of sarcoma in his home. Cancer at the age of 41, that's a tough one. He was buried, not cremated, at parkland sanitary was that a? Shot of my mom no, it was not a shot at your mom did they get the coffin? From costco. Yeah, I felt like that was a shot of my mom. It was not a shot at your mom.
Speaker 2:Did they get the?
Speaker 4:coffin from Costco? Yeah, certainly I felt like that was a shot at my mom, it was not a shot at your mom. Well, you mentioned cremated on this fucking show. Well, we were talking about.
Speaker 2:I think you termed it set on fire.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Your word.
Speaker 4:Thank you, thank you, thank you. Come at me, love you, mom. Okay, thank you, thank you, come at me, love you, mom. Okay. Bad karma. I know we're talking about dead people on the show yeah, geez, thank you thank god, we don't have candles. Rolling topic's dead yeah, so it was not a good movie yeah, I haven't seen it have you seen the hundred? No it's like south korean subtitle, where it's the hundred fittest people in south korea. It's the second season. You can't, you haven't seen this.
Speaker 1:No this is actual reality this is just don't.
Speaker 4:I know I got a fucking issue. It's deep, deep, it's so bad. Yeah, you know what I watched? Love island games, which is a new version of love.
Speaker 1:Oh, my god, I can't even. Yeah, like you're, you're going into genres that I just never expected to be honest it was a good sunday when people ask me like have you seen it?
Speaker 4:like fucking it's probably a good saturday night too, then. So whoever says that to you, send them my way, because I fucking have, I will I will, because I think I have seen everything. I've watched shit that like oh my god, I know I should this is for you.
Speaker 1:This is what you need to do. You need to start a not a podcast, but an instagram account where you're rating and talking about all the reality tv and all the ins and the outs and everything.
Speaker 4:Yeah. So my favorite thing about 90 day fiance is what's the show where they sit on the couch together and watch episodes of 90 day fiance?
Speaker 2:It is called wait so this show? These people sit on the couch and watch the show. Yeah, and it's their reaction and it's like a commentary.
Speaker 4:So they used to be on 90 Day Fiance and so they'll have like four couples all through the show and they comment on the shit that's going on on 90 Day Fiance.
Speaker 2:This is like the sequel that no one knew they needed.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:So they comment on, they were involved in what they were watching and they're saying, hey, oh my God, this happened behind the scenes.
Speaker 4:No, no, no, no, they were on a previous season and then they get new people that are paired up with immigrants or potential. They were just trying to get the 90-day citizenship.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that what that show is about? That's the whole show, yeah, oh interesting.
Speaker 4:So you have a smoke show from Botswana. That's a bad example. You have a smoke show from one of the stands. Okay, Curtis one of the stands just an absolute rocket. And then some fucking mouth breather from Kentucky with a couple bucks, meet some on sugardaddycom and then they're they're on a show. Is that a? Is that a website? It could be yes dot com not fucking direct enough.
Speaker 1:So anyways so they pair up daddy tlc.
Speaker 4:Here is a. You know they apply into tlc, put them on the show and then one goes to the like the other country, and then they try and make a go of it and get married and come to the States. Typically that's what happens.
Speaker 2:I'm asking for a friend right now. Should I go to private mode if I'm putting up sugarcom on my browsing history?
Speaker 1:I pulled it up. Oh Well, I don't care.
Speaker 4:The reason I brought this up on the most recent episode of 90 day fiance, this one couple. That's where they met. Oh it came up on the show, and then she's left him already.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, so, but after she refused to sign a prenup.
Speaker 4:she's soaking them for half a shit now and she's already moved on to someone else in New York Wow.
Speaker 2:It's wild, that's shocking.
Speaker 3:Is it?
Speaker 4:So as a financial planner.
Speaker 3:I love this shit.
Speaker 4:This is also why I wanted to bring on a family lawyer.
Speaker 3:Talk about prenups because I think it's great I think that would be a great episode.
Speaker 2:That would be hilarious.
Speaker 4:Post-ups. Had that conversation today. What's a post-up?
Speaker 1:It's a prenup that you sign after you're married.
Speaker 4:Oh, that's even trickier conversation.
Speaker 1:That's even the trickier conversation. I don't know how you'd come back from that one.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's a trickier conversation. Yeah, hey, so trickier conversation. Yeah, hey, so I'm getting some shit. Sign this, please, thanks. Yeah, yeah, it's only millions, don't worry about it yeah, so that's a bit of a tougher one. But, um, you know, I've no of 15 of these agreement. I like I've no of 15 of these agreement, Like I've seen them in my practice quite a bit.
Speaker 1:Wow. Pre-numps or post-numps.
Speaker 4:Post.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, and so okay, let's ask the question.
Speaker 4:This is what I want to know. I feel like post-nup is you don't have enough confidence in your abilities. You build wealth. You're like, oh shit, I should have. Should've got a prenup, but I didn't. Oh that's poor planning.
Speaker 3:So, but are we talking?
Speaker 1:like what's? What's the breakdown in um gender here?
Speaker 4:What do you mean?
Speaker 1:Well, I'm curious, so I'm curious to understand this a bit. So, in these post-numps, is this all men that are initiating these post-numps?
Speaker 4:or are there women no. And how long have they been married for. It's all different, right, and it's for different reasons, and some of it is like legacy stuff, so inheritance and that sort of stuff. So I'm in the ballpark where I think inheritance is sort of sacred and it shouldn't be exposed to a bad spouse. That's my opinion of it. Right, it could be wrong, but I you know. But there are just some people.
Speaker 4:they just want they they have nothing, they tolerate someone for a period of time and they want half their shit. Like there's lots of those people what was that celebrity?
Speaker 2:anna smith or something like that, and nicole smith and nicole smith married the 95 year old texas billionaire oh yeah, right yeah, and he died. That's sort of the worst example yeah, and then the family sued to nullify or something like that, whatever. Anyway, she didn't get anything. I don't think from it.
Speaker 4:If there was, which is too bad, cause they had a really nice couple of your relationships.
Speaker 1:You know what she? If she tolerated it for a couple of years, he got it, he should.
Speaker 4:she got a little like what would he have done to her?
Speaker 1:I don't know Name one would have done to her like I don't know, like no, no, no, seriously mispronounced. What did she have to do? I have no idea, I don't know. Maybe he had viagra, maybe you know what I mean. I don't know at 90.
Speaker 4:I don't know. That's the scariest thing. That's scarier than that robot you showed us. I mean, like I will take an ai robot, over 93 year old, loaded up on Cialis, looking to bear down on someone. So like that's the scariest thing I've ever heard. Okay.
Speaker 1:But if she was actually providing some service and not getting paid cause, like maybe she was why do you have to get paid for every this is? I know that I'm just saying, but if she did like, maybe she should get something, not saying she should get half of what he has, but maybe she should get something Not saying she should get half of what he has, but maybe she should get a token.
Speaker 2:This I like for Chuckie cheese.
Speaker 1:Sure, sure, maybe a bucket, and I'm not saying a lot. I'm not saying a lot, I'm just saying.
Speaker 3:What should she get for that? I don't know.
Speaker 4:Or maybe during a period of time she was with him she had lived a good life and she just has to accept that I don't know. Okay, well, what about me? I put on a good show. I don't get anything from ex-relationships. Like I put on a good show, don't I get something? Don't you have a coffee table like it's? It's ridiculous that sexual favors for getting like half of someone's personal oh, I don't disagree with you on that totally agree, like anna nicole smith. Yeah, we all know what was going on there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Famous gold diggers. Let's go. Let's go right now, top 10 gold diggers Johnny Carson's no, they were married, so that's not fair. Come on, christine.
Speaker 1:Hold on. Let me ask my friend.
Speaker 4:Let's wait while she dials up, yeah.
Speaker 2:How about Travis Kelsey?
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 4:That's so true, did you, did you, see, today.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 4:Him and his brother got $150 million for their podcast.
Speaker 2:What Somebody bought that thing.
Speaker 4:Taylor's on the next podcast. No way yeah, $150 million Wow. That's what they're getting paid Impressive For the podcast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, $150.
Speaker 4:Really $150 million $150 million.
Speaker 3:Yeah, with an M Million. I do not like him, I don't like him at all.
Speaker 1:I think that he's totally wrong for her and, yeah, I'm not sure I really like him at all. I think she likes him plenty Well yeah, I know she does, I can see that.
Speaker 2:He's got a fun brother for sure, okay.
Speaker 3:But 150 million.
Speaker 2:So is this dependent upon Taylor Swift being on an episode? Look it up.
Speaker 4:Well, no, she's on the next episode.
Speaker 3:But they got signed before Okay.
Speaker 1:Sorry.
Speaker 4:Go ahead, but it's definitely the it's 100% Taylor Swift bump for sure.
Speaker 3:Oh man.
Speaker 2:Give it to those guys at, but they had a big podcast before they did, they did yeah yeah, okay I never heard it, but it's very good it was very good, because it would be like it's actually great.
Speaker 4:So you watch these guys play on the weekend, yeah, and then they talk about shit.
Speaker 1:That went on like the fall it was actually really good, that's fine it was good content don't don't the uh, and he was pretty open about what you know.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he shot. That's where, that's where the line came. I shot my shot and it worked like he dm'd taylor, yeah, or karen, whatever her name is karen swift.
Speaker 1:Oh boy karen so I just okay, I googled and I think this is going to be an interesting way to go here, but another person that was and this is a male version Kevin Federline, that was married to Britney Spears. He apparently because he was her dancer and rapper and he received a significant amount of attention and criticism for his marriage to Britney Spears. They had a highly publicized divorce and involved spousal support and custody, so he was another one that they considered to be a gold digger.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, he was packing, from what I heard packing what you know?
Speaker 3:what he was packing, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Okay, I honestly don't know how that fucking matters surely it does, britney, what's your word? But speaking of britney, like what the fuck? Britney yeah like she's gone through a transformation.
Speaker 2:Hey, she's completely crazy well, they found that out about 20 years ago in the whole conservatorship or whatever it's called now that's over, so it's public crazy, you know right?
Speaker 4:yeah?
Speaker 1:yeah, it doesn't appear that she's crazy like she was oh boy, okay, maybe not, I don't know, but what happened there, do you think?
Speaker 2:I don't know she can afford it now. I don't know, didn't she release a new album or something like that?
Speaker 1:no, she released a book. She released a book. Oh, the woman in me, the woman in me, yeah, I just don't know, didn't she release a new album or something like that.
Speaker 2:No, she released a book. She released a book. Oh, the book the. Woman and Me, the Woman and Me, yeah.
Speaker 1:I just don't get it.
Speaker 4:She stole the title. I was going to use the.
Speaker 2:Woman and Me yeah for my book.
Speaker 1:Missed opportunity right there, oh I was going to ask you about that.
Speaker 4:When is this book of yours coming out. It's going to be a voice book.
Speaker 2:Just me talking. In the industry, we call it an audio book. Oh, is that, is that what it is in the industry? Yeah, a podcast. I'm going to release an ice.
Speaker 4:The last two weeks I have been struggling with my words. Use your words. Use your words, your words.
Speaker 2:I just can't do it.
Speaker 4:Someone help me. What did you just fucking?
Speaker 1:say, I said old age.
Speaker 4:Okay, she fucking rolls in here with the frosted tips, and now she's blasting us. I don't have frosted tips Doesn't matter. You're 50. Wow, nobody cares. I know I shouldn't have said it. You're Jamie Curtis. Wow, nobody cares.
Speaker 1:I know I shouldn't have said it, you're Jamie Curtis.
Speaker 4:Nobody cares.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to sit here and drink my Olay and just yeah, kick it.
Speaker 4:Kick it. Okay, don't push. Olay, because I don't want them as a sponsor. I hate tequila. I hate tequila. No, I know Cain. He brought this shit into my house, my brand new renovated basement.
Speaker 3:He brought You're welcome, I know.
Speaker 4:Okay, there's something I need to talk about Buckle up. Buckle up is right.
Speaker 3:Should I go to the bathroom?
Speaker 4:first I need to talk about tipping culture okay, yeah, um, it has gotten right out of fucking hand okay for those that don't know the advent of technology.
Speaker 2:This is the ranting section.
Speaker 4:It's not right it is like we need some we know we solicited our listeners to bring up a topic. I got 10 topics. Six of them was tipping culture awesome let's get into it, man it is. It is beyond insane, and I'll just use united center chicago as an example. Like 22 is the default when you buy something there and these are.
Speaker 2:Are these mixed drinks like?
Speaker 4:is there actually? Yeah, something involved in but it's hard to opt out like it's. Like I've never seen the platform and I saw it a few times in chicago like the actual technology. I've never seen it before and it's hard. I'm sure once you figure it out it's easy to opt out, but the fact is that's the default and that is bullshit. Tips should be for extraordinary service, not for earnest huge americana. One's going to fuck off and there you go, give me 20 well, it got your name right, right well, that's and that's.
Speaker 4:That's a change. Only because I use the starbucks app now oh before when I actually like to say it right.
Speaker 2:Right didn't happen so I was at. Where do you?
Speaker 4:come in. How many tips tips do you get?
Speaker 2:Do I get no tips professionally?
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:No tips? Why don't you put that on? You should do that I should.
Speaker 1:People would pay it too, and I would like you would, like you would like 25% up your revenue.
Speaker 4:Why do you hate your Cairo? It just have one person that calls when people don't leave tips. Totally no, she didn't leave a tip. What's the fucking problem?
Speaker 2:Like, exactly like that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, perfect, I do it.
Speaker 2:That's awesome.
Speaker 4:Take me back to my life insurance days.
Speaker 2:So I was. So here's my, here's my rant on tipping. So we were at uh well, I'm going to out of the banquet and a university district with some friends and had a nice night, had a couple of teas, happies, sorry had some drinks, as I have now. And, um, the waitress comes over and she says, oh, we said we're anything else.
Speaker 1:We like.
Speaker 2:We like the bill. She goes okay, would you like to donate to MS society? I'm like um, no, I think we're okay. Another buddy said yep, I'll, I'll do it, just put on five bucks. And she's like are you sure you don't want to donate to the ms society?
Speaker 2:we just put it right under your bill and I was like, if I want to, I'll let you know, but you haven't brought the bill over. You're gonna go ring it up in the system. Then you're going to bring this machine over and you're going to ask me to charge you or to tip 22% on top of the five bucks that I just gave the MS society, that you're going to run through your business and take the tax write off. Not a fan, huge fan of supporting ms society, but that's not the way to do it no I, you know, I mean it's, it's hiding something.
Speaker 2:And then you, you utilize the leverage is to to gain more tips for whatever and the defaults, like you said. 22 of the united center ridiculous it used to be, you know, 10 was kind of just okay, 15 was% was decent, 18 is good and then 20 is like great. And now everything starts at 18%, not the least of which the restaurants have all gone up by 20 to 25% or more in food costs. Granted food costs more. Why does a tip cost more?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's my thing.
Speaker 4:Why do you hate single mothers?
Speaker 2:I feel like we've made a leap here. Oh sorry, I mean that was not disclosed. That's kind of what you just said.
Speaker 4:That's from Reservoir Dogs, by the way.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was yeah.
Speaker 4:Have you ever seen Reservoir? That's the opening scene of Reservoir Dogs, where they're talking about yeah, I remember it yeah. Beautiful scene.
Speaker 2:So good.
Speaker 4:Tarantino at his best.
Speaker 2:Oh God.
Speaker 1:I should watch that again now.
Speaker 2:Tarantino movies are so good. Tarantino at his best. Yeah, watch that again.
Speaker 4:Now Tarantino movies are so good. Okay, hold up. They are the gentleman. The series on Netflix. Have you fucking watched it yet?
Speaker 2:No, See people ask me have you seen this as the? My automatic answer is no A the movie a.
Speaker 4:The movie is fucking unreal.
Speaker 2:What's it?
Speaker 4:called the gentleman. It's Guy Ritchie, Madonna's ex.
Speaker 3:He did.
Speaker 4:Snatch, lock and Stock Two Smoking Barrels, Rock and Rolla. What else did he do?
Speaker 2:Did he do Trainspotting did he?
Speaker 4:No, no, no that was, but anyway. So the Gentleman, it was a great movie. So now there's a series that they did of sort of the same London gang, um sort of storyline Right, and it is kind of like Peaky blinders type of thing. No, it's way like it's humorous.
Speaker 1:Oh good, I was going to say, and it is blinders.
Speaker 4:So, yeah, I couldn't do the last step. The last season I just tried to start it three times. I couldn't do it. But, gentlemen, seriously, the last season I just tried to start it three times, I couldn't do it. But, gentlemen, seriously, if you like, want to have a good time? Lots of high quality actors in it, fucking funny shit. That goes on it's.
Speaker 4:It is a great show gentlemen, all right, I'll write it down and I think it's been like one of the best received shows on Netflix. Like they're negotiating hard with Guy Ritchie right now for season two.
Speaker 3:Cool.
Speaker 4:Like it is so good.
Speaker 1:Perfect. I was looking for something you need to watch.
Speaker 4:Yeah, don't watch the hundred.
Speaker 1:I'm actually curious.
Speaker 4:I might have to jump in and see what this is all about.
Speaker 1:But yeah, a hundred, yeah.
Speaker 4:It's. It's pretty wild and it's cool, cause they bring in like yes, it's in Korean, so I didn't really it's all subtitles, but so basically they'll bring in a CrossFitter and they bring in a gymnast, and they bring in an actor, and it's all the top celebrities type thing in south korea judo champions, rowing olympic champions, and they the first competition is running on one of the treadmills where you have to like move it with your feet. I can't the curve treadmills.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, those are hard, they're super hard so hard.
Speaker 4:So there's a hundred of them, right? So the first eight minutes, or something like that, you have to be in the top 50 or you're out, oh. And then the next you have to be in the top x, and then so the top 10 people get. When they go the next thing, which is sort of you have to beat the shit out of each other you get to pick your opponent. Like, if you're number one, you can pick anyone in the fucking top 100 to go against girls involved.
Speaker 1:You can take girls if you want, whatever this sounds like the squid games it's a lot like it, but it's but it's actually the first season was really good.
Speaker 4:Second season, I find like the episodes are super boring, but the concept is amazing, like yeah just because of cross-fitting and like I love that, so I loved watching people work out I get it. I want to watch you sweat, but I mean like mad like these guys are all built in different ways, like there's there's, like heavyweight champion, boxers, and there's, you know, power lifters, and then you have gymnasts, and they're all competing against each other and and they do and there's a hundred people that compete.
Speaker 4:There's a hundred of these. No, no, no, and they're reading it down till there's one yeah, okay and there's one winner, so and there's gonna be one winner, cool. So there was a fireman who's back in it this year. He almost won last year. Okay, should have won last year.
Speaker 1:He was on oh, so you can come back and try again apparently they invited him back do they have to play a game to get back in?
Speaker 4:I don't know, I turned down my invite, but yeah, that would have been a big commitment.
Speaker 2:It was always next year.
Speaker 4:I was the pick for the financial advisor. Yes.
Speaker 3:Oh that's good.
Speaker 2:I don't know the thing, you would have got out of that, though. Is that a full hour episode? My Korean isn't what it used to be. Is that a full hour episode? The financial advisor one.
Speaker 4:My Korean isn't what it used to be. Okay, anyways, back to tipping culture. Christine, what's your?
Speaker 1:take. I don't know Like I I can't, I can't. It's so high Like, and it's just so. I think it started from COVID, where they were trying to drive people back into the industry because they needed bum or like bodies to actually do the job. So they had to encourage people some way with the tips. So I think that's why tips got so big Right. But I think we're at a position now where things are becoming equalized. But once you put something out there, how do you pull it back? Now? That's the question how do we take away those tips? But it is. It's completely annoying and frustrating to me when I go into some place and they just assume that they're going to get a 25% tip and they're. The service is shitty. I mean, I don't mind paying a tip for good service, or even.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Okay, Service honestly, but like seriously 25% of the service, dr Kane, just got me a beer.
Speaker 1:I see that.
Speaker 4:And he got himself a beer but he gets 20% on my beer.
Speaker 2:Would you like me?
Speaker 3:to add that to your bill.
Speaker 2:It goes towards single moms.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3:I'm just not a big fan.
Speaker 1:I think it's getting out of control and there's going to have to be some kind of contraction in that, because people aren't going to pay it anymore.
Speaker 4:Well, when does it get to 50? Yeah Right, yeah. Well, when, when is when?
Speaker 1:does it get to 50? Yeah, right, like yeah. No, there'll be. There'll be something that's going to get kicked in and put in place, but I don't know what that's going to look like or what that means.
Speaker 4:Okay so why don't we just back up here? What is a tip for?
Speaker 2:what a tip is the exceptional service that you receive, and it's part of the ambience of the meal like the why not just add in the price?
Speaker 4:if you're going to fucking do it anyways, sure you can't, why not?
Speaker 1:Cause. It's like cause. If you actually sell the full price that you're paying for something, you would deter people too quickly. Like you have, it's like the. You have to surprise them and let them pick and choose stuff. And then it's like it's $200 because you have to get all the add-ons and when you're in the moment and you're doing something, you're like oh, I gotta have that.
Speaker 4:Oh, I need that hat, I need this, I need that. And it gets all emotional. I used to call them strap-ons it doesn't work like that anymore.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, are we talking about?
Speaker 3:different shopping experience.
Speaker 2:Way different shopping experience.
Speaker 1:Speaking of, do you corners like christine?
Speaker 4:christine, do you tip your massage?
Speaker 1:therapist I don't, I do not, but it's like okay, so my is there a tip function at calgary center of health?
Speaker 4:there's not really, so that's fucking interesting no, I don't yeah I tip my hairdresser though. Why.
Speaker 1:Because she's okay, this was the idea. She's cutting my hair.
Speaker 4:I don't want to fuck it up the next time. No, I asked why, because I just want to say he didn't tip her enough.
Speaker 1:This is new hair. That was done. That fixed the bad hair. That was done.
Speaker 3:This is new hair. That was done. That fixed the bad hair. That was done.
Speaker 1:This is new hair.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah yeah, I was a fastball.
Speaker 2:I was straight up the middle, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everything just feels so much more expensive than now it's crazy.
Speaker 4:I feel like I'm going to get a throat punch from Christine later.
Speaker 2:You might. And you might deserve it, Unless you had when.
Speaker 4:I walked in. You're like oh, nice hair.
Speaker 1:Were you lying.
Speaker 4:No, I was being straight, but you complained about it, and then you're tipping your hairdresser, so I just but I always do, because I always want, I like, but I always want like your hair is in their hands.
Speaker 1:You just never know what they could do, right, yeah?
Speaker 4:I can relate.
Speaker 2:So I don't think you answered the question, though why did you tip your massage therapist? No, didn't, but you do tip your hairdresser.
Speaker 1:Because he doesn't ask for a tip, and I don't even. He has my credit card on file. He just charges my card. I don't even have the option to give him a tip. If there's anybody in this world, I would give a tip. It's and he's not even. He's my osteo. I love this guy. He's so great. I would tip him because he's worth it.
Speaker 4:You've got to be 50 to have an osteo.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, don't you have an osteo? I clearly don't.
Speaker 3:Twice a month.
Speaker 1:He like, fixes all my problems. I'm telling you, I need him, I can't live without this guy.
Speaker 4:Yeah, all of your problems, a lot of them, a lot. I was going to go there.
Speaker 2:Does he do your hair?
Speaker 1:He did it. God. Do you know what?
Speaker 3:I would let him do my hair, I would totally let him do my hair.
Speaker 1:I trust him that much.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I was like, should I go there? No, he's already there, I'll be there first. Oh. I can't wait to tell him about this?
Speaker 1:That'd be hilarious.
Speaker 3:Maybe that throw punch is coming for sure.
Speaker 2:I'm used to it. Yeah, I'm used to it. I'd love to know if we get some comments about what people think of tipping culture.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's wild, like I've run into a lot of it, and it's it's painful man. So I went to see shane gillis when I was in chicago, who is the comedian who got kicked off saturday night live. Oh yeah, that's right. And so that was at the chicago theater, which was in their um, in their theater district. Most amazing italian food I had on the trip, though, was after that, like it was right, in that district. There again, the technology platform they used in that theater was confounding.
Speaker 2:To try and minimize tip, it's so hard because don't you have to go like the other and then you gotta select the.
Speaker 4:You know this one I hadn't seen before and it was just like it was. It was tough, like it was just like what the fuck? And it's lined up out the door. People try, you know, people trying to get drinks to get into the show is yeah, and I know I'm sounding like a moron, but it, yeah, you get, you're kind of in that mode and you're just like, yeah, yeah, I'll give you a whatever Right.
Speaker 1:That's where they get you. Yeah, uh, huh.
Speaker 2:I go to a ski lodge here in uh Watson, bc, and you have to pay your your bar tab on the morning after the last night, which typically is a pretty big night and you know, let's say, you bought some hats and you bought some shirts, and you bought, bought a jacket or something like that. You know a few hundred dollars worth of stuff, and you get down in the morning and you pay a tip on your total. Oh man, and so that's the stuff that I, you know I'm like. I understand that people and people in the restaurant industry I was there for years and you depend upon that tipping income because typically you're not making much anyway.
Speaker 4:Totally. So, oh, you mean like minimum wage. Is what, 94 bucks an hour now?
Speaker 2:Maybe something like that.
Speaker 4:And you don't even like. Let's be honest, they didn didn't fucking declare it on their taxes, so it's like a hundred percent like fuck right off. Sorry, that's how I feel. Next question are you sorry? I'll let you finish your story.
Speaker 2:I don't feel like you're that committed to that but uh, when, when, when it's all packaged in and there's a bunch of hidden stuff in there, like, let's say, you've got a $300 bar bill and you've got another $300 gear, but you've got 600 bucks, they expect you to tip on. I think that's. It's deceitful in my mind, because there's no service in purchasing a shirt or donating to the MS Society.
Speaker 4:That's like bottles of wine that you tip on it Like that's bullshit. That is bullshit. Wait, how so? Yeah, well, because they should not get tipped on the value of a fucking bottle of wine.
Speaker 2:Agreed. So what is it? So let's talk about raw cost. So what does it cost the server?
Speaker 4:Now Christine's situation when it's a four liter box, you should fucking get that tip 22% all day Four liters. You tip that person Four liter box Wine skin. You get to take the skin home. If there's a little bit left, love it.
Speaker 1:I don't even do that anymore.
Speaker 3:I just have the bra with the wine in it and the beer belly.
Speaker 2:I just put it in there and I just sip. There's the visual. I'm not drinking.
Speaker 1:I'm not drinking, I'm not drinking their shit. So, I do that. I'm happy to have Christine back in the studio, so I smuggle my alcohol into the theater, like I go, and I take my little Mickey with me of vodka because I'm like I'm not paying fucking $25 for a fucking Moscow mule or a Coke with vodka in it. So I take a, get a pop and I pour half my bottle of vodka in there and away I go.
Speaker 2:So we were.
Speaker 4:I used to do the dome with a Jugo juice before they took it out. I'm like oh mighty, kale, coconut water, what's that? 12 calories? Perfect, give me that, tito's. Here we go. I can't remember. Here we go, I can't remember we were talking about this some other night.
Speaker 2:Oh, it must have been at one of the parent parties. Anyway, how do they get booze into movie theater or into the bar back in the day, like when you were just you know what. You couldn't afford the bar drinks, you brought in your own.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And they're all like right in the cleavage, oh yeah. You just take a Mickey or whatever and just shove it right down there and she's like no one's going to check you.
Speaker 4:Well, now that I'm 50, that's a viable option, absolutely. You can put it right under the flaps Right in the moops you can put three in there, right in the moops, right in the moops.
Speaker 2:That's a viable option. That would be awesome yeah.
Speaker 4:You can't compete with me. I'm sorry, I know you guys got menopause, but when I hit 60.
Speaker 2:I got stuff falling everywhere and I will stuff any.
Speaker 4:Any bottle of booze, yeah that's amazing, just like it's just like a booze yeah, that's right yeah are we bringing grandpa to the game?
Speaker 2:because he's the best Grandma. Lift your right chesticle up.
Speaker 3:I need to put something underneath yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, out of your socks. Take it out of your socks. Oh my gosh, where's?
Speaker 1:this conversation going right now.
Speaker 3:It's a it's, it's really nowhere, but we're here.
Speaker 2:I like it, and chesticles now hit the village.
Speaker 3:Chesticles hit the village. Chesticles, chesticles, chesticles, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Got to stuff the moobs full of beers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but there's a bra for that yeah.
Speaker 2:A tip for that service, for sure.
Speaker 4:Did you go to the Kipper Soft retirement game? I did not.
Speaker 3:I did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I heard it was really well done.
Speaker 4:It was the did yeah, I heard it was really well done. It was the best yeah.
Speaker 1:Are we still talking about tips, or are you going a different direction here?
Speaker 4:It's a bit of a different direction. It was actually funny Because I so. What happened was well, kipersoft's a hermit, right.
Speaker 2:Hey Lick lives in Finland.
Speaker 4:He's a hermit, right hey, lick lives in finland, he's a hermit, so I was like I wanted one of. So what happened is the flames, their warm-up jerseys, all had 34 on it, had the 34 on the crest, yeah, and so we signed them all and then they auctioned, or they put those up in the charity auction. So I got one. I got posposal's jersey, that was kiprasov's jersey, signed awesome. So cost the number, it was good yeah at the same time, there was kiprasov's mask signed on the table his like game worn mask it was?
Speaker 4:no, it was. But it was a legit mask and he'd signed it and it had his.
Speaker 2:You know the skull, yeah yeah, that was one of the best masks going so just over what do you think that went for? It's got to be $18,000 and $20,000.
Speaker 4:So we're in the second period intermission. So the deal on those charity auctions is as soon as the puck drops. Third period it's over, okay, okay kind of like the 50 50 so when I got I was checking out the kipper soft jerseys in the first period intermission I had. I threw in three different bids on different ones and I actually bid on markstrom's game worn one or not game warm, but warm up one anyways you uh bid on Markstrom's game-worn one or not game-worn but warm-up one.
Speaker 4:Did you bid on Huberto's? I did not, and I'm not going to take that. I actually like John, so I do like him. I do too. He's got no one to pass to Anyhoo. Anyhoo, so the bid on the mask is $,500 bucks after the first period, Right?
Speaker 2:Is that? Like what was it?
Speaker 4:It was just in one area of the dome. There could have been another mask at a different one of the tables, but so I put a bid. In Second period I put another bid in. There were two guys that were going to go to the grave on this, so I realized this.
Speaker 2:And you put in another bid, didn't you? I kept bidding.
Speaker 4:So they were fighting with each other. And then meanwhile, I'm in there and I could have got stuck with this mask. And then meanwhile I'm in, I'm in there and I, I could have got stuck with this mask. I didn't. Thank God, $8,500 later, and I contribute to at least $4,000 of that.
Speaker 2:Wow, so it went for 8,500. Yeah, okay. Well, I was a little overzealous.
Speaker 4:You're over but both those guys would have had it for significantly less and more for me, and that is my favorite part about charity auctions just bid some kids, hey, for sure you guys, you're not getting it for cheap. There's no deals here there is no fucking deals here right, and anytime I see someone trying to steal stuff, I always crank it up. Like especially I'm at a charity event, I crank up everything have you gotten stuck with something before?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah but one of my buddies this is actually a good story.
Speaker 4:So one of my buddies, he wanted this barbecue set and it was just like a small, cheap little barbecue. It had tons of shit in there all worthless shit, but it still had lots of stuff in there I think I know the story and I love it so he he bit on it.
Speaker 1:Was this you no?
Speaker 4:I smashed him on the bid and he didn't know it was you right. Well, he did. So what happened was at this specific one. It was for the Humane Society, and each time you bid on something, your name went up on, like when you outbid someone, it went up on the big screen.
Speaker 2:Right upon, like when you outbid someone.
Speaker 4:It went up on the big screen during the right and could you guys see each other at the time when this is going on? And he, he's like. He turned to me and he's like the fuck are you doing? I'm like what? Why do you hate dogs, right? He's like tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm not bidding anymore, I don't give a shit. What? Why do you hate dogs, right? He's like tell you what I'm going to do. I'm not bidding anymore, I don't give a shit. So he just stopped bidding. So I got hung out on this stupid barbecue thing.
Speaker 4:Right, Like hung out, Like it was bad. So I got dented pretty bad that night because I got hung out on a few other things so I was on a bad run that night so I sat in the darkness that evening at the dark table and so what I decided to do.
Speaker 4:I took this giant basket full of barbecue stuff in and I told lisa, my assistant. I'm like, okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna courier this thing, one item at a time, to him during christmas, but you have to make sure nobody knows where it's coming from. So we paid off the courier. They tried to crack the courier by 20th day, right, and the garbage that was in this basket, I just sent it to him one piece at a time.
Speaker 4:Just like body parts sending it yeah just like body parts sending it, yeah, and it was all wrapped in um disney wrapping paper so he thought he had a stalker right sending him stuff. So then we have coffee meeting. It's like everyone's kind of it's christmas, everyone's getting ready to go on vacation and I'm sitting sitting there and Lisa wanders in with the barbecue, which is actually what he wanted, and he's like you motherfucker, like he could not figure it out. We used the dodgiest courier to take it. He was threatening him You'll never deliver again, trying to find out where it was coming from.
Speaker 2:That is so beautiful.
Speaker 4:So if you ever get hung out on a basket at a charity auction, there you have recourse. It's painful, it's. I probably paid six times that in courier fees. Oh, totally, it's not worth every penny, but I haven't thought about it twice and it's a deduction Perfect, I wish you could use that as a deduction. How to make your gift basket tax deductible even though it's for a charity.
Speaker 1:How to maximize it.
Speaker 2:It's E-w-y-d-e-r steve, have you ever been, uh, have you ever been re-gifted something that you knew where it came from?
Speaker 1:oh man, I'm sure I have. I just can't think of anything right now, have you?
Speaker 2:I have tell Ernesto have you? Have you got a story?
Speaker 4:No, but I've definitely. I do it all the time, Okay.
Speaker 3:So, we have like we have the most.
Speaker 2:Here's the story about Ernesto.
Speaker 4:Yeah, perfect. I just thought I'd open the door before it got really awkward and embarrassing.
Speaker 2:So we have this amazing group of neighbors that we live down in Bowness and this one night I loaned my truck to a buddy of mine to take something to the dump or whatever. So he comes over. Thanks so much. That was awesome, Didn't disclose he left a bunch of fertilizer and shit in the back of my truck.
Speaker 2:Do you mind to take something to the dump or whatever? So he comes over. Thanks so much. That was awesome. You know, didn't disclose. He left a bunch of fertilizer and shit in the back of my truck. I had to clean up, but we respect irrespectively. Brought me a nice bottle of wine like this is awesome take it. Thanks very much, and I go look at the wine and it's the bottle of wine I gave him last christmas and I wrote on it. I'm like like dear blah, blah, blah, merry Christmas, no oh my gosh, gave me back the bottle they gave me.
Speaker 1:I love that. Did he do that intentionally?
Speaker 2:No, didn't know. That's why writing a label is so much fun.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:That's a gold. I never even encouraged me to do that, yeah, so.
Speaker 2:I brought it back over to his place for the next party. So this bottle of wine has just been me to do that. Yeah, yeah, so I brought it back over to his place for the next party. So so this back and forth for years now.
Speaker 4:Once you get past the awkwardness of someone who fucking actually does that to you, which I've done that before it's amazing, uh, but I haven't been caught. Knock on wood.
Speaker 2:But it'll make me think. The barbecue story just sold the barbecue.
Speaker 4:The barbecue was like it was a really good view into what it's like being sociopath it was. It was like I kind of fucking dug it Like it was like I kind of fucking dug it Like. It was like it was so measured at, like I was picking certain things out of the basket at certain times, just so it wouldn't give it away A little like anonymous note.
Speaker 4:I threw some other shit that wasn't in the basket. That was pretty funny in there, yeah. So it was like I felt like I was on silence of the lamps it was awesome, yeah, yeah your bottle of chianti.
Speaker 4:No, I took all the booze out. Good for you, good call. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, it was the worst gift basket and I wish I could remember who actually like who was the sponsor of it. Yeah, yeah, ended up with a rasmus anderson jersey. It's too small. Oh no, I I got lit up like I got beat up pretty bad at humane society last year yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2:I mean, this is the gamble, right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't give a shit Like I'm a big, I'm like I hate people with fucking T-Rex arms at charity auctions and charity nights. Just do it, man. Like the whole thing is raising money for like a great cause and if you have, you know, if you, if you care enough to show up, you should care enough to like show up sure right, I got that.
Speaker 4:But I mean we have people like christine. I buy her a fucking four liter bottle of coke zero and she's what had one drink I told you I wasn't gonna drink all of it look at that.
Speaker 2:Not even hit the label yet the, the Tito's sure took a hit, though.
Speaker 4:It was dented no, tito's goes bad in Ernesto's house.
Speaker 2:I'm a fan. That's my tricky choice for the Tito's. Tito's yeah, it begins away.
Speaker 4:It just and it's. I don't know how many? Um uh chat groups.
Speaker 4:I have that tito's is part of the title really yeah like with buddies, like it's awesome, like it's. It's this little sort of subculture that we have. The best was we went. Four of us went to, uh, mexico, and just smashing tito's the whole time next, but it was expensive in mexico. Sure, it's the whole time in Mexico, but it was expensive in Mexico. Sure, it's not even done in Mexico. I know it's in Austin. We tried to go for a tour there and they went in the door.
Speaker 1:You were there, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Mexico has a pile of tequila, by the way, if you're interested.
Speaker 4:I'm not a tequila guy.
Speaker 2:It does not go well with her now stuff just f?
Speaker 4:y near his rum. Yeah, I can't do rum?
Speaker 1:had a bad experience on rum there. Yeah, grade 11 is it buck is away.
Speaker 4:Yeah, mine was grade 12, grade 11. That room was spinning like a mother.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah sambuca, black sambuca and me light that shit on fire.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't mind the sambuca.
Speaker 1:Well, I just drank too much and can't get it. Yeah, see, like one is good yeah, I think we did a bottle.
Speaker 4:We just were excited about it being black and chug a lug you know what I had last night? I was like damn, this is legit. And, of course, like a degenerate, I chugged it and I shouldn't have been meant to be sipped like an absolute degenerate, was puccinella their lemon. What's the lemon shot?
Speaker 1:Oh, the Lemoncello, lemoncello, but it was made in house.
Speaker 4:Oh, that was delicious it was like fucking moonshine. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Is that legal? Is that legal Right? Sorry if I over you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4:Love you a long time. Didn't read the label yeah, but man, I whacked that thing back, right? Everyone else is like sipping.
Speaker 2:I'm like oh, fuck, it's this kind of I thought I was at.
Speaker 3:I thought I was at dewey stevens, I think it is a sipping thing, did you?
Speaker 2:like slam the the shot glass over on the back alley like what are you doing?
Speaker 3:like when do the?
Speaker 1:napkins drop it's back open hey yeah, but it's not the same if you, I went in there really a couple years ago because I was and I can't, I was picking someone up or something and I'm like what is this?
Speaker 2:this is not the back alley, no, it's not well, it's not like it was 25 years ago.
Speaker 1:We were last there yeah, like, but that's what it needs to be like the grungy, the dirt, you never know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 2:Like, you know what I mean imagine the environmental, like the environmental footprint of the, of the napkin drop at midnight too, wasn't it hell's nose? Uh, what was the song? It was always an acdc song, wasn't? It it was thunderstruck thunderstruck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yes, that's right. No, it wasn't wasn't it I will tell you what it is I feel like if anybody ever wanted to buy that land, they'd have to deal with all the alcohol contamination in the soil you know underneath it yeah, well, that whole area oh yeah, that's actually true.
Speaker 4:There's, there's so much bad shit that's gone on there too, yeah.
Speaker 2:Like uh, that place was amazing. It was so much fun there.
Speaker 1:Oh my, I, honestly, I I haven't had another bar. That was that fun.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't remember one. Well, maybe Curly's.
Speaker 2:Did you ever go to Curly's?
Speaker 1:That place was super fun yeah.
Speaker 2:Curly's that place was super fun. Yeah, curly's, nothing will beat the old den. This one, I don't think so.
Speaker 1:Maybe this was part of it, but I'm sure it's understruck Midnight.
Speaker 4:This is what went down in back alley, you sure?
Speaker 3:This is such a good riff.
Speaker 2:So this brings back a little like not a back alley memory. Have you guys seen the documentary on Netflix called Trainwreck?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Oh, you got to watch it.
Speaker 1:What's that?
Speaker 2:So it's a three episode documentary on the 1999 Woodstock. So it's a three episode documentary on the 1999 Woodstock. And so the 1969 Woodstock, whatever it was like peace and love and all that kind of stuff, and 1999 Woodstock was complete anarchy.
Speaker 1:Okay, Wait, I think I might have. And there's like shots like people in the mud. Was there like a rain?
Speaker 2:People in the mud. They ran out of water.
Speaker 1:It was super hot. I have they burned the mud they ran out of water.
Speaker 2:It was super hot. I have seen that they burned the entire like they burned it down.
Speaker 1:Like it was complete chaos.
Speaker 2:Yes, and you know, in Peace and Love. They had, or sorry, the 1969, they had like whatever Name your hippie artist back in the day and it was all Peace and Love and all mellow right. Well, these guys like let's do, Rage Against the Machine, let's do rage against the machine.
Speaker 1:Let's do limp biscuit, you know, and an amazing concert, but everyone would have control yeah, like the limp biscuit played um break things actually this was it.
Speaker 4:This is what they played at back alley yes, yes, but I do. I know thunderstruck always played there too and Kiss there my Heart. I remember that one. But at midnight, this is when they blew the yeah, okay, actually, I think this is great. I think this is great and I think it was the lyrics they were going for. Someone's got a fact check. Yeah, can you look it?
Speaker 4:up, it's pretty bad Christine's our fact checker. Yeah, yeah, it was right here as soon as it dropped man, those little power chords are so good yeah, oh, pet peeve. Number three this week Nickelback tickets at Stampede. Oh yeah, guess what my seats were.
Speaker 2:How much?
Speaker 4:600 a seat.
Speaker 2:What For Nickelback Now? I hate Nickelback again. No 600 a seat, yeah.
Speaker 3:Are they?
Speaker 4:at the Domeurday night a stampede. Nope, sunday night a stampede, the last. They're the closer at the dome gross so I bought them because I'm gonna scale the shit out of those you are hey, I'm sorry, I'm fact checking right now but can you turn that down a bit?
Speaker 1:it's so. According to this one, it's a bullet with butterfly wings from smashing pumpkins no, smashing pumpkins, no.
Speaker 4:So what where?
Speaker 1:I saw on a youtube video it's a napkin toss at the back alley 1996 okay, so what happened there?
Speaker 4:I can tell you what happened in 1996 at the back alley with bullet and butterfly wings. Okay, do you remember? Molson used to have the mystery band that they would bring out to the biggest bar.
Speaker 2:Wait, I was there for that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and that's what that is. I was there for that, that's right. And I was choked. I wasn't there for that Cause. Oh, and I was choked, I wasn't there for that. Oh, man Right, you had to open a certain beer and then you got an invite to the biggest band and the biggest bar. Yes, that's what that was.
Speaker 2:Oh man, Well, you're a new fact checker.
Speaker 4:No, it's just, there's certain things about Calgary. I remember yeah, I remember that was the second time I saw. I remember puking in the back of curlies and then just going back on the dance floor. Everybody fact, I feel like I did I met a new girl that night after I threw up. That's impressive. I didn't say that can I borrow?
Speaker 2:borrow that napkin.
Speaker 4:We went to church together.
Speaker 2:Of course you did, I was praying that night I'm sure you were.
Speaker 4:For about an hour, but I rallied.
Speaker 3:Puking rally.
Speaker 1:Amazing the way you can push your body back in the day.
Speaker 4:hey, yeah, I think we've pushed this episode way too long we probably we're well over our hour time limit that was.
Speaker 2:Uh, that was a fun little little journey, though, yeah there was a lot of nostalgia in that one yeah, a little bit of humane society to preserve her folks.
Speaker 4:Okay, dr kane, can you take us? Well, first off, christine, anything you want to say, I just hope the wisdom teeth removal goes well tomorrow.
Speaker 2:You're having your wisdom teeth out tomorrow.
Speaker 1:No, my daughter is like oh, I've already had my new. It was terrible. So I feel him for yeah, is that what happened?
Speaker 4:Yep, you had your wisdom teeth taken out All those years ago. Makes sense on the fact checking. See, that's a dad joke, that's a wisdom tooth joke I'm going to get punched in the throat later.
Speaker 2:Probably might be a couple times. Dr Kane On that note late have a couple of times.
Speaker 4:Dr Kane on that note late. Have a great night, everyone. Ciao.