Laura Flemming - Marketing Pro Turned 'Vibe Doctor,' Halifax Events

Pull up a chair at the Oxford Taproom and meet Laura Fleming—marketing and events coordinator at Garrison and the creative force behind You Found Flora. We trade festival stories, and unpack how a great night out is actually built: clear incentives, sharp programming, and moments designed to live on your camera roll. Laura takes us from the chaos of pre-production to the glow of a packed crowd, sharing the small choices—signage, stage pacing, social-first clips—that turn one-off shows into must-visit traditions.

We get real about the media we love and the media that drives us nuts. From 90s horror comfort watches to a spirited debate on reality TV ethics, we examine what happens when formats meet incentives. Does Love Is Blind test connection or reward clout? How does editing frame villains and heroes? And why do comedians who master crowd work feel so electric live? Laura’s take: authenticity endures, and audiences can smell misalignment from a mile away. For creators and brands, that means set the rules, honour them, and cut the filler.

We spotlight crushable hazy IPAs, approachable sours, and the story-rich brews that cement community—like Doug's Brau.

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Chapters

• 0:27 Welcome & Taproom Vibes
• 2:00 Laura’s Role At Garrison
• 4:13 Events That Shape The City
• 7:00 Comedy Lineups And Roast Culture
• 11:02 Oktoberfest Chaos And Stein Challenges
• 15:41 From Influencer To Co‑Host Takeover
• 19:00 Rapid‑Fire: Hobbies And Detective Dreams
• 25:05 90s Nostalgia, Horror, And Remakes
• 34:11 Reality TV, Online Fame, And Ethics
• 46:07 Bingeable Shows We Actually Recommend
• 56:58 Books, Audiobooks, And Attention Spans
• 1:04:39 Movie Deep Cuts: Godfather To Bond
• 1:12:58 Music Year-In-Review And Algorithms
• 1:23:05 Local Craft Beer Favourites

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:14

Recording now. I've never heard my voice like that.

SPEAKER_06: 0:21

Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. And welcome to the afternoon fight. I'm Mike Tobin. I am Mac Honry. And who do we have with us today?

SPEAKER_01: 0:27

I'm Laura Fleming.

SPEAKER_06: 0:29

Laura. You look familiar. We found you. We found you.

SPEAKER_01: 0:32

Here I am. Flora's arrived.

SPEAKER_06: 0:34

That's right. So so recently you you joined on our AP team as you found Flora, a media, social media content creator. Yeah. Right? That's cool. You've already had a few things come out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 0:47

It's been it's been a really interesting adjustment, being, you know, I'm usually so much more behind the scenes when it comes to that sort of stuff. So it's been an interesting transition to be the face of it all.

SPEAKER_05: 1:00

So before we get into all of that, the why and the what and the where you come from and all that stuff, we are here at the Oxford Taproom. Like we have been here many times. Right. And uh I've tried this before, but you're trying something new. Yeah. Which is the Doug's brow.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17

Oh, it's a good one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 1:20

Mike. It's quite lovely. Yeah. No, I like it. It's different. Yeah. It's not hoppy, it's not bitter. It's malty kind of sweetness. It's easy drinking. Yeah. It's really easy to drink. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 1:31

Yeah. No, it's good. There's there's like no bitterness to it either.

SPEAKER_05: 1:35

It's a great Oktoberfest beer that Garrison did. So yeah, yeah, it is a color release. What do you got going on over there?

SPEAKER_01: 1:41

I got a little juicy over here.

SPEAKER_05: 1:42

Oh, a little juicy. Yeah. And we're allowed to say that you work with Garrison.

SPEAKER_01: 1:47

Yeah, absolutely. That is so much of my identity.

SPEAKER_06: 1:49

What's your gig with uh Garrison?

SPEAKER_01: 1:51

Uh so I've been with Garrison for three years. I'm currently marketing and events coordinator. So I handle social media and traditional marketing alongside different partnerships with like festivals and all the fun stuff throughout the year. I like to joke that I'm I'm the I'm the vibe doctor. The vibe doctor.

SPEAKER_06: 2:08

There you go.

SPEAKER_05: 2:08

Well, you can see that's what she was saying, though. Like when she does, you know, now being in front of the camera, she did a lot of the stuff behind the scenes. Yeah. So she has a lot of experience.

SPEAKER_06: 2:16

Yeah, yeah. And you've done a lot of stuff this year. Like, I mean, Garrison has supported a lot of really big events in Nova Scotia. Most recently, the uh the concert on the hill that had uh Big X the plug, a couple other uh huge artists here.

SPEAKER_01: 2:29

Yeah, and funny enough, actually, we weren't involved with that one. Oh but because it's on Garrison Grounds, oh Garrison Grounds, I just associated it with that.

SPEAKER_06: 2:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 2:38

And so much of what we do is at that venue because it's so beautiful and can hold so many people.

SPEAKER_05: 2:43

So right. I'm happy they're using that space again. I mean, that's where like some of the great concerts of my teens were held. Uh, best concert I've ever seen in my life was held there. Celine Dion. It was not Celine Dion. It was just Somersault. It didn't happen, but summer Somersault 2000 is what it was. And that was like the best. The best lineup. Look it up. It's honestly you'll be like, How did I meant not see this concert? Yeah, but it's great to see them back here. But the you're and you're wearing the sweater, but the great outdoor comedy festival. Right, that was huge this year as well.

SPEAKER_01: 3:12

Oh my gosh. The the people that organize that are so incredible. We're as a province, as a city, super blessed to have them uh do their festival here.

SPEAKER_06: 3:22

It's and Nicky Glacier's doing it next year. Yeah, they just get announced. She's awesome. And Matt Reif, right?

SPEAKER_05: 3:26

Matt Reif is back. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 3:28

And it looks like the Nikki Glacier night is the first like full female night that they've had.

SPEAKER_05: 3:33

That's right, because they had a few others on that are listed on there. Um I'm trying to remember, I saw it today.

SPEAKER_01: 3:37

Uh fortune. Yes, fortune, right. And Stephanie.

SPEAKER_05: 3:42

She's funny. She is so funny. She's great. She's in the Mindy project, and I love the Mindy project. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 3:47

It's a killer lineup. It's gonna be really fun.

SPEAKER_06: 3:49

She does a podcast that's pretty funny, too. Oh no, she didn't even know that with like her. I don't know if it's her partner or friend or or what, but that it's hilarious. Yeah. Yeah, that should be a great one.

SPEAKER_01: 3:58

Time to start your comedic research. Yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_05: 4:01

That's just it, right? I mean, and I mean Nikki Glazer's been around for a long time, but she just seemed to have skyrocketed after like ripping Gronk apart on the Tom Brady roast. That was great.

SPEAKER_01: 4:11

She nailed that. That was so well done. Absolutely crushed it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 4:15

But she's been awesome on roasts for years. She has been great on roasts. She's always been like one of the best roasters, like on the panel. 100%. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 4:22

Yeah. Yeah. She's she's she's good with that. She's good at being like, you know, deadly strikes.

SPEAKER_01: 4:26

Oh, yeah. She doesn't hold back, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_05: 4:28

So yeah, so that's so there's been lots of events. You're you're in charge of a lot of it. I mean, like, I I was down there, uh, we had speaking of Oktoberfest, I was down there with you for Oktoberfest and like insanity.

SPEAKER_01: 4:40

It was so incredible. And like event planning is so chaotic. Like when you're leading up to the days and you're like, oh gosh, did I forget this? Did I forget that? Is so-and-so gonna show up for this? But then once it's happening and you see everyone around you having so much fun, it just fills me with such joy. That's probably my favorite part of it, is just seeing it all come together.

SPEAKER_06: 5:03

The holding the glass one was fantastic. I was watching some of those videos, they were great. Do you know what? I have that stein.

SPEAKER_05: 5:08

Actually, I I almost thought it's in the trunk of my car.

SPEAKER_06: 5:11

So explain to our listeners what holding the glass one I mean.

SPEAKER_05: 5:14

Yeah, so it's a big stein. Um a liter. It's a is it a liter? A liter of beer. I swear it's bigger than a liter. But anyway, I'll I'll go with that. But it's a nice big stein, liter big. They were filling it with water, and you had to hold it above the rope. And if you drop below the rope, you lost. The last man standing where woman standing got it, right? Got one something. I don't even know what it was, but they won.

SPEAKER_01: 5:32

Fairy stuffed cards. There you go.

SPEAKER_06: 5:33

In your expertise, is it always an older gentleman that just takes it home? I always notice it's like this, always seems to be like this person with a super strong hand.

SPEAKER_01: 5:40

Yeah, it's like an old man's strength that comes out when you're you know testing strength and on a stage with an audience.

SPEAKER_06: 5:46

Yeah, they're always the last few standing, right? They uh something about Will or something. Like, I'll die on this hill. Yeah, God like me gives up in a minute.

SPEAKER_05: 5:55

But I have my Stein in the car and I half thought about bringing it in. Yeah. And I was like bringing it in here, and I was just gonna be like, fill this up, like thing, right?

SPEAKER_01: 6:02

You can. Yeah, it would be cool.

SPEAKER_06: 6:04

I'd like to actually see how long we could do it, like challenge each other. We should do that as a short sometime. I meant to drink, not just a whole no, we'll do the we'll do the old, we'll do, we'll do the old man's strength or mid-wage man's strength. Sure, we can do that.

SPEAKER_01: 6:15

It is shockingly difficult. I promise it won't take up too much of your time.

SPEAKER_05: 6:19

But we we do have to thank because you did mention like how hard it is to get event organizing. I mean, it's not different than podcasting. We actually uh we had two guests schedule on us today, and we saw this as a great opportunity. Called up Laura and we're like, hey, this is a great opportunity for to kind of fit you in and and talk about everything that you know our relationship of what we're doing and all that fun stuff that you're doing.

SPEAKER_06: 6:41

So you're secretly infiltrating our entire operation. So you started as an influencer, now you're on the show, and next week you're replacing me on our live uh a live event because I had to be someplace else. So yeah, you're basically just just taking over.

SPEAKER_01: 6:56

So yeah, you can run, but you can't hide.

SPEAKER_06: 6:58

No, that that's that's cool. And oh I'll I'll lay down, I'll play dead. I'm good. Yeah, my work here is done.

SPEAKER_05: 7:03

Afternoon plant, getting a facelift. But yeah, so it's it's yeah, so we're excited to have you on the team. Um, we're you know, obviously excited to have it here. So I mean, I think it's uh this is a great opportunity to kind of just get anyone who's listening to get to know Laura. Totally. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 7:22

Yeah, I've been looking forward to doing one of these, and this is my first official podcast as well. So it won't be our last.

SPEAKER_05: 7:28

This will be this will open up the universe now.

SPEAKER_01: 7:30

Gosh, I hope so.

SPEAKER_05: 7:30

You're gonna go from being a guest to a host in a matter of like one week.

SPEAKER_01: 7:34

Next week, Mike disappears and no one knows why.

SPEAKER_05: 7:38

That's it. It's banished. Yeah. All right.

SPEAKER_06: 7:41

So yeah, so let's uh yeah, let's kind of get to know Laura. All right. So this is um because we didn't really know how to fill this, we were we made these up on the fly. So these are fun. If any of these are these super whack questions, you can just say, you know, I don't want to answer that. We'll be okay with that. We'll move on. Okay, so these are fun get to know you questions. What's a hobby or talent that nobody would guess you have?

SPEAKER_01: 8:03

That nobody would guess I have. Ooh, I can eat cookies like chips.

SPEAKER_05: 8:08

What does that mean?

SPEAKER_01: 8:09

Like, you know how you open a bag of chips and you can just take them by the handful and then all of a sudden like cookie monster? Like, I'm yeah, I'm low-key cookie monster.

SPEAKER_06: 8:21

And it's not like it's Do you make the num num num noise? Or only when I'm shh that's for me to know. That's the best talent. That's great.

SPEAKER_01: 8:33

Yeah, that's a good one. It hurts, it hurts, but I like it.

SPEAKER_06: 8:36

Yeah. Is that a talent though?

SPEAKER_01: 8:38

Or I don't know.

SPEAKER_06: 8:39

I think it's a talent. I guess, yeah. I mean, yeah, why not? All right. Well, if you weren't if um if if you weren't doing what you do now, what do you think Laurel would be doing in an alternate universe?

SPEAKER_01: 9:36

Oh my goodness. Growing up, I wanted to be a detective so bad. I wanted to work for the FBI. Okay, I wanted to be like the Nancy Drew of this universe.

SPEAKER_06: 9:47

Did you read Nancy Drew as a kid?

SPEAKER_01: 9:49

I did. Okay. And I still do. I have like all of the old books.

SPEAKER_06: 9:52

Like the old, old ones or like the remake? Because she she changed up. Yeah. Oh, did she? Yeah, well, she came out again. They all come out again. Oh. She had like a lot of re-releases and they didn't work.

SPEAKER_01: 10:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 10:02

I was always trying to go to them, but the kid didn't want to go see her. She likes had no interest, so we never went.

SPEAKER_01: 10:07

Oh, yeah, true. Like the Nancy Drew like movies and stuff. I have like all the old books, like the old PC games. Oh, the old PC games. Yeah. Holy smokes. Yeah. I've made my way now onto like Nancy Drew PC on Reddit.

SPEAKER_06: 10:20

Those were 90s games, right?

SPEAKER_01: 10:22

They all came out in the 90s for the most part. I mean, there's like there's like 32 of them or something. So they've been coming out pretty consist consistently.

SPEAKER_06: 10:29

Are they still making them?

SPEAKER_01: 10:30

They're still making them. Wow. They took a hiatus because the games kind of started to get bad.

SPEAKER_06: 10:36

Insane.

SPEAKER_01: 10:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 10:37

But how do they start to get bad?

SPEAKER_05: 10:41

I mean, I'm sure they sound great. They'd be fun. Yeah. It's kind of like goosebumps or something. Like I used to love goosebumps when I was in like grade four. Oh my gosh, yeah. That was our age, yeah. You go back and you read them and you're just like, wow, these are trash.

SPEAKER_06: 10:52

Yeah, these are trash.

SPEAKER_05: 10:53

Nostalgically, they're awesome.

SPEAKER_01: 10:54

The writing is so simple, but like I'm turning pages so fast.

SPEAKER_06: 10:58

The first show that ever scared me was Are You Afraid of the Dark? You remember that show, man? Boy, remember it? Like it's the best.

SPEAKER_01: 11:04

Was that the one with the worm?

SPEAKER_05: 11:06

No, no, it's freaky stories. Freaky stories? No, it's freaky stories. No, You Afraid of the Dark is when they throw the sand magic dust on the fire and says uh submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, and they throw it on there and they say the name of the episode. They had one with a clown that was frightening. Blue eyes. Yeah. There's a bunch of good ones. Like I loved We You Afraid of the Dark as a kid. That was great. There was a couple really good ones.

SPEAKER_01: 11:25

Bring back 90s television. Seriously. Yeah. There was a lot of great 90s television.

SPEAKER_06: 11:29

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. There's some good shows out now. I like the newest version of it that came out. That's a few years old now, but the movie it remade it. Oh, 100%. That's better than the original. Yeah, the original is garbage. It's a great remake, right? I still haven't watched the second one because everybody told me it wasn't great. But there's it and there's it too. They made a sequel to the new it.

SPEAKER_01: 11:53

When when I see like a remake of like an original classic, and then they make a sequel to the remake of the original classic, that scares me sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe best you haven't seen the second one.

SPEAKER_06: 12:05

Yeah, I don't know, because the book was massive. Right? Like, and and it was it was a huge weird too. And it got really messed up. Like he just lost his like marbles halfway through the book, and then spiders got involved. It was really remember they turned to a gigantic spider book.

SPEAKER_05: 12:18

Yeah, that was the worst thing. That's not even the weirdest part. The weirdest part is like the all the kids in the inappropriateness. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's a it's a messed up book. That's a pretty messed up book.

SPEAKER_06: 12:29

But but the but the movie is not like that. No, they left that part in the same sense.

SPEAKER_05: 12:34

Like someone was smart and was like, hey, you know what's not good? 12-year-olds like doing inappropriate things to each other in the middle of the book.

SPEAKER_06: 12:41

100%. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But the second one was like them years later. Like, and that's all in the first book. Because I saw the first book, they end up going into like the 30s or 20s or whatever, and now they're living life as adults, and it comes back.

SPEAKER_05: 12:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 12:54

It's all in the same book. Scary.

SPEAKER_05: 12:56

So good concept, but typical to like the Stephen King stuff. It's like it kind of goes a little too weird. Like great concepts, good starts. Yeah. And sometimes good. I mean, outside of like the shining and things like that. He has some really bangers, right?

SPEAKER_01: 13:08

But sometimes you're like, who approved this? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What was the thought?

SPEAKER_05: 13:12

It was a good horror movie, though, the new one. Yeah. It was awesome.

SPEAKER_06: 13:15

It was actually an improvement. Yeah. 100%. But uh where were we on that? I lost my lost my train of thought.

SPEAKER_05: 13:21

Uh we were talking about uh great TV shows.

SPEAKER_01: 13:23

Being a detective.

SPEAKER_05: 13:24

Oh no, we're talking about being a detective. Yeah. See, that's where ADD ADHD takes you.

SPEAKER_06: 13:28

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 13:29

I was really bad at science, and I'm just not really like a numbers math science girly. I'm definitely more writing, but I was looking at doing like studying like forensics and all that stuff, which I should have done.

SPEAKER_05: 13:40

Oh yeah. That is cool.

SPEAKER_01: 13:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 13:42

Never too late.

SPEAKER_01: 13:43

Never too late.

SPEAKER_05: 13:43

You're so I mean, yeah. I mean, probably wouldn't want to work for the FBI right now. You could be a content creator. You could work for the Canadian version. The FBI just bullies people for Trump at this point.

SPEAKER_01: 13:53

Yeah, no, I wouldn't if I had known then what I know now.

SPEAKER_06: 13:56

Imagine if you call like combined forensics with content creation and like you would like, you know, solve a crime while eating like noodles at some new joint. You'd bring them in and dude. I don't know how we roll that out, but that sounds like an actually awesome thing.

SPEAKER_01: 14:10

Yeah, there's something there.

SPEAKER_06: 14:11

A murder in a soup or or whatever. Like, you know, murder happened and there's also a great soup next door.

SPEAKER_01: 14:18

Going in and you're eating pizza, and it's just like little Timmy never stand at a chance. And now meat lovers.

SPEAKER_05: 14:30

Or you just you just totally troll people because there's people who don't like like the sound of people eating or watching them eating. Oh, yeah. So what you do is you They say that's intelligent people.

SPEAKER_06: 14:38

I just saw that the other day. It was like higher IQ people don't like the sounds of other people chewing food.

SPEAKER_01: 14:43

I believe that.

SPEAKER_06: 14:43

Do you? I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_01: 14:45

I mean I do like it.

SPEAKER_05: 14:46

I can't say I like it, but it doesn't bother me.

SPEAKER_01: 14:49

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 14:50

Bothers me. Does it? Oh yeah. Then the the theory's gone.

SPEAKER_00: 14:56

Myth busted. Myth busted.

SPEAKER_06: 15:00

It bothers Andrea when I do it. I know that. Because she'll be like, especially when I'm eating chicken wings, like that's like the bad food. That's when I'm having the most fun in life.

SPEAKER_01: 15:08

Is I'm just like that's a food you've got to mind.

SPEAKER_06: 15:10

I'm just killing a pound of wings, right? And and uh and she's like, you know, oh my god, you sound disgusting, right? Because I'm just you know, that whole thing.

SPEAKER_05: 15:18

You you got to witness me like go to fucking town on uh chicken wings last week. Oh yeah. The spicy eating contest. So yeah, that was crazy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 15:26

So Matt the other week he he uh if you go on her socials, he um entered a Wingagedon. This was at in um Muscadum at Nova Scotia. Yeah, right? Yeah, really nice guy owns that bar. He's a really passionate guy, his name's Will. Yeah, and you would be shocked to see how crazy he got he got this place going for a hotel. It looked like quite I went there to get something to eat before the show. There was nowhere to sit. Like, so I just shot the show on uh uh on my iPhone and captured Matt just uh mowing through some wings and all the contestants, and there were some crazy people there. Yeah, and I mean that daring way. The guy who won in particular was crazy.

SPEAKER_05: 16:08

I uh it appeared I came in second to this guy because he just crushed it. I mean, I uh we uh five people, there was 26 people, five people made it to the finals, um, five people made it to the tiebreaker, and the tiebreaker was who can eat ten wings the fastest of the hottest, like the Carolina Reaper. And I got three or four down. Um, and I I was three down when he had three left. So I was just like, I I at that point I was like, I'm I can't win. So I instead of just completely giving up, I chewed on the last one. So I got like four wings down, and I think everyone else only got like two or something. So uh I came in second, I guess, in that regard. Kudos to you. That's very far second compared to this guy.

SPEAKER_06: 16:50

Oh, that was fun to watch, though. Yeah, it was it was a great event, right? I'd love to see that one again. That was pretty entertaining. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 16:57

So yeah, so the uh we're we're gonna come up with some sort of thing where we're trolling people and we're eating and doing detective work and detective work. Let's just tie it all in. There you go. I have no idea how we pulled that one off. Throw that one into chat GBD and see what it says.

SPEAKER_06: 17:13

I'm sure it'll come up within a way. Excellent idea. Here's nine ways you could do that. Everything's an excellent idea in Chat GPT. Have you noticed that?

SPEAKER_01: 17:20

I appreciate how much support I get from you.

SPEAKER_06: 17:22

You can tell it to tone it down.

SPEAKER_01: 17:24

Oh, can I?

SPEAKER_06: 17:24

Yeah, you can say stop talking to me like every idea is excellent.

SPEAKER_01: 17:27

Like, you know, and stop like be real.

SPEAKER_06: 17:30

Yeah, it's just a total yeah. No, you know, you don't need that much positive. Not all your ideas are great. Sometimes you need to be told they're trash. Oh no. That's true. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 17:38

Tell tell me everything I'm doing is great. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 17:43

So speak we were talking about TV and things like that. So, like, what is your guilty pleasure TV show? Oh, good question.

SPEAKER_01: 17:51

God, I am knee deep in like the shittiest reality TV shows. Okay. Um, like Love is Blind, Bad One. I'm watching that right now. It's so terrible and I hate it. But like um MTV used to do a lot of really good ones. Uh they did like um gosh, like it wasn't like it wasn't called Love at First Sight, but it was like, oh, like uh Are You the One was a crazy one, The Challenge is a guilty pleasure. That's actually a really good show. Um, Temptation Island, ridiculous, causes me so much anxiety, but I cannot look away. All of those like really, really cruddy reality TV shows. My wife likes a lot of them.

SPEAKER_05: 18:32

Yeah, I watch some of them. I watch some of them.

SPEAKER_01: 18:35

They're just so easy. I can do other things while I'm watching them, and it like gives me a little bit of chaos where like my life isn't as chaotic as it used to be. So it fills a void somehow.

SPEAKER_06: 18:44

There you go. Maybe that's why people like it and they like the drama. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 18:48

It's a hundred percent why my wife likes it. Yeah, she's like, if there's no drama, she's like, oh, this season's boring. Yeah. For me, it's like listening to chewing food. So you know what? I I don't I don't mind joking. I just think that they could be half as long. Sometimes they they're like, you know, they're something like 10 episodes a lot. An hour long each? No, it's not even about that. Uh yes, it is about that, but also uh like there's like 11 episodes. I think I could watch them. Like, I find the idea, like Love is blind, I'll take this is one of the ones that I watch with my wife. I find the concept interesting. Two people sit behind a wall, or many people sit behind a wall, they don't see each other, and they get to they date each other and they whittle people down until they pick one or two that they like. I've seen bits and but they don't see each other, and then they have to agree to be and get engaged before they can see each other, right? So I find the concept behind that very interesting. What I don't care about is the long drawn-out scenes about them just being like, you know, whether they're kissing or swimming or drinking or whatever. And I'm just like, cut this down to like really short, where it's like get the give me the meat of the dating process, see if they like each other.

SPEAKER_01: 19:57

Make them fight and show me that.

SPEAKER_05: 19:59

Or that too, but like let them find out the weird things in it, and then and then like play out the process. Well, and see if it works.

SPEAKER_01: 20:06

It's so interesting now, too. Like reality TV in like the early 2000s, like when Vanderpump rules started, that like reality TV will never be the same because your only source of that was through the TV show. But now you get people applying for these shows because they want brand deals, because they want an online presence. So it's so clear to see. Sometimes when you watch a show, it's like, oh, this person is only here because they want to get 50,000 extra followers on Instagram, you know. That's right. No, you're right. So it's kind of it's kind of tainted it that way, but you know what, Tobin?

SPEAKER_05: 20:39

There you go. That's a way to boost our socials. There you go.

SPEAKER_06: 20:41

You and I can go on on a reality show. I don't want to. I wouldn't want to. I wouldn't be likable on it, I don't think. I just tell everyone to F off.

SPEAKER_01: 20:48

Well, that what's that's what makes good TV.

SPEAKER_06: 20:50

You would get you would get a lot of followers and a lot of death threats.

SPEAKER_05: 20:55

Because that's the messed up thing about this thing. For some people get so invested that they like threaten people, like the the one on Love is Blind, the the lady who who would dump the Asian guy. Yes. Right. They dumped the Asian guy. Like, she's getting death threats. And I'm like, don't get me wrong, she did a shitty move. She was not nice to that man. She led him on, she made him think that she was still in love with him, and she was clearly told production she was breaking up with him weeks before it happened. What show was this? Love is Blind. Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 21:20

So when she met him, she was like, just kidding, I'm gonna leave.

SPEAKER_05: 21:24

Like that's right. So she so yeah, so it was clearly really shitty what she was doing. But so dude was like heartbroken, obviously. No, he didn't know. No, that's we don't. I'm not at the point where he's heartbroken yet. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01: 21:36

So she makes it seem to him like, oh my gosh, I just can't do the show anymore. This is too much pressure, but we'll see each other when this is over. But she told production, like, I just won't get there with him. I don't want to continue.

SPEAKER_06: 21:49

So that was what they showed on TV. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 21:51

So you have so you can see her telling production, nah, but then it shows clips of him telling his friends, like, oh, like we're still gonna see each other. Like that's terrible. We haven't met up yet, but we will.

SPEAKER_05: 22:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 22:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 22:03

There's so yeah, she's dirty. She was she was pretty brutal. That being said, I never in my life would I think to go online and like threaten this woman just because she did something shitty to someone else.

SPEAKER_01: 22:14

No, it's insane. Right?

SPEAKER_05: 22:15

Threaten? No, no, no, no, right?

SPEAKER_01: 22:17

It's just yeah, yeah, people get so passionate, it's a little crazy. And not to mention it was filmed like probably almost two years ago. So, like, it's at least a year ago. You went through when you filmed it, and then now when the world's watching it, and you've probably grown so much since the experience, blah blah. And people are like, How could you do that? That's true.

SPEAKER_05: 22:35

And it was literally like a year ago. The yeah, the the show end like the show recording of the show ended a year ago because in a week or two, the reunion's gonna be on. And the reunion comes on the week after the show ends, like for us who's watching.

SPEAKER_01: 22:49

So then it's a catch up of like, oh, what has happened since the show ends?

SPEAKER_06: 22:52

One year later. I'm learning so much about this stuff right now. I'm I never understood it all. You're going home watching it. What you're going to home watch it. That sounds interesting. I like the concept. The concept of love is love is that's what hooked me up. What I found is why I was like, why are they all so good looking? Put a couple like real, real like monsters in the side. Yes, like on both sides. Not to sound rude, but like put some like put some real challenges in there where you're like shockers and no, you know what?

SPEAKER_05: 23:15

I agree. This is what I've been saying to my wife. And is is listen, uh, beauty's in the eye of the beholder. 100%, right? Yeah, but this is the thing is everyone they put on this show is like objectively good looking, right? Super attractive. Sometimes you look at people and you're like, eh, that's not really my style or what I don't like, whatever. Is but like throw a bunch of people in there, throw in some people that we would consider traditionally not good looking, like find some homeless guy and throw them on there, right?

SPEAKER_06: 23:38

Like, you know, like like uh find find no, but find some people from different walks of life and put them on.

SPEAKER_05: 23:45

But throw some people in there that look vastly, vastly different, and all that like not everyone has a six-pack and all this other stuff. And I think then you can only truly determine if love is blind, because in the end, at this point, this is the thing that is kind of making me get a little annoyed with the show, and kind of I say to every time, like I'm not watching this anymore, is because they're all objectively good looking, and the fact is that when people come on, it's at that point they're just nitpicking because they've already connected on a level, they're eat they either have already connected on a personal, like intellectual level, or they are what you are saying, and they've entered this show not actually to find love as blind, they're on there to boost their Instagram, and then try to find a way of weaseling out of it. And then you do see that a lot on this where they're like they try to remain the good guy while breaking up with the person.

SPEAKER_01: 24:33

But it's like if you're gonna be the good guy, then shut up. Yeah, like tell production the same thing you're telling Buddy if you want to come out clean on the other side. Not saying I'm not justifying being a liar, but if you're gonna Don't be stupid, if you're gonna be a villain on reality TV, be smart about it.

SPEAKER_06: 24:49

I thought the old Big Brother and Survivor formats were good. I've never watched Big Brother. I watched I watched Big Brother, like I watched the whole season of it. And I never watched Survivor either, actually. I watched Survivor as well back then.

SPEAKER_01: 24:59

I actually looked into applying for Big Brother, but then I saw that you have like 71 days of 24-hour like surveillance. Like your whole house is live streamed on the internet for 71 days, 24 hours. And I was like, that actually might put me into, you know, I don't think what that would do to me.

SPEAKER_05: 25:22

I don't I don't I don't think anyone should have the access to watch anyone kind of deucin out.

SPEAKER_01: 25:27

No. Well, that's a thing. There's cameras in the bathrooms, just not in the stalls.

SPEAKER_06: 25:32

But I'm like, this is still like just because of that comment. I'm moving on. That's fine. What was a non-reality show that I don't know, you saw a map that you'll really enjoyed this year, like a movie or picture uh movie or TV show, sorry.

SPEAKER_01: 25:48

Um non-reality TV.

SPEAKER_06: 25:50

Either one of you, so you can jump in too. I'd be curious. I'll think of something. I don't know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 25:54

I'll try to think of it. Man, I'm really chasing I'm really chasing something here. I watched The Summer I Turned Pretty.

SPEAKER_02: 26:02

Okay. Is it good?

SPEAKER_01: 26:04

It's like it's very like young adult drama. Like it's, you know, you watch the the show and you're like, oh, these silly teens, what are they doing? But like you get so attached to the characters. I ended up watching the finale of the show with a bunch of my girlfriends. Oh, okay. And we were screaming at the TV. We were dancing, we were jumping, we were like, it was so much fun to watch. And that was a really fun one that I had this year, actually.

SPEAKER_05: 26:29

Nice. Okay, how about you? You got anything? Uh yeah, you know what? There's there's I guess there's two that I really, really enjoyed for different reasons. One's a comedy, one's not. Yeah, one didn't start this year and one did. So the one that didn't start this year, I just watched it the season one and season two, and I'm really psyched about it because season three starts in like a week. Yeah, is the diplomat of Carrie Russell.

SPEAKER_01: 26:47

Oh, I haven't seen her.

SPEAKER_05: 26:48

So good. Carrie Russell. So good. I remember she was Felicity. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 26:53

I'm gonna write this down. I always need a lot of people.

SPEAKER_05: 26:54

So so good. What's it about? I like it. So she's she's um she's a dip her, she and her husband are a diplomat. He's a little shady, um, and uh, but she's been appointed to be the diplomat from the USA to the UK. That's obviously a high high profile diplomacy type of position. Yeah, yeah. The reason they do it is because they have an the the idea is that they want her to run for the vice president's uh vice presidency in the next election. So they're kind of giving her an opportunity to be high profile. And just like a ton of crazy stuff happens behind the scenes, and uh like there's a there's a uh a UK um aircraft carrier gets attacked, and some people are trying to blame Iran, and some people are trying to blame uh any anyway. It's this whole thing. But season three comes out like in two weeks, and I so pumped because it's so so so Netflix. Netflix, okay. And the other one was on Netflix too, which was called uh Man Inside, or is it Man Inside? Anyway, it's it's um with Ted Danc. Okay. My god, this is so so funny.

SPEAKER_06: 27:57

It's funny.

SPEAKER_05: 27:58

The man on the man on Man on the Inside. That's what it's man on the inside. I never saw either one of those. Yeah. So did with Ted Dancing. Yeah, yeah. Uh basically what happens is there's a uh old age home. Uh there's some burglaries that are happening, like not burglaries, I shouldn't say, thefts that are happening. And someone comes to a uh private audience, private investigator to hire hire this person, and so she can't go in because she's like 40, so she has to get a man on the inside. So she gets Ted Dancing to go in and check into this thing and do reconnaissance for her. Okay, and it's hilarious. Really? So funny. There's like I want to tell you the funny thing that made me actually cry laughing. No, no, tell me. But I don't want to give it away.

SPEAKER_06: 28:38

Don't give it away. I'll uh I'll I'll give that one a shot.

SPEAKER_01: 28:40

Yeah, I feel like I have watched that.

SPEAKER_05: 28:42

Season two of that's coming out pretty soon, too.

SPEAKER_01: 28:45

Wicked. Yeah, I'm gonna have to revisit that because I'm I'm having memories of it happening in my mind, but I can't pick out anything specific about it.

SPEAKER_05: 28:52

Yeah, what about you? I know you liked Alien.

SPEAKER_07: 28:56

Yeah, oh he did.

SPEAKER_06: 29:00

I I I I was enjoying it, but they kept talking. I kept falling asleep. Like I was like, just bring one more aliens. Like, let's just see the get the show on the road. There's a lot of dialogue.

SPEAKER_01: 29:09

Was that like an alien predators situation?

SPEAKER_06: 29:11

Yeah, it was like the new alien show. So there was kind of like aliens, but they came to Earth. It was okay, but I don't I haven't finished it yet. So I shouldn't say I like it or dislike it. I just kind of I I I find I haven't watched a ton of TV this year. I love watching TV, it's like my favorite thing to do, but it's just I've been so busy. I actually I'm a super geek and I I rate most of the things I see on IMDV. Nice as I so I can chronologically like no, but like the shows that hit the highest for me this year. Um I wrote the question, so I was thinking I actually wanted to do a little bit of homework. So Dexter Resurrection, they brought Dexter back. Um, did you ever watch Dexter?

SPEAKER_01: 29:45

I started Dexter, but for I couldn't finish it for whatever reason. Well, how far did you get? Uh oh god, it's been a few years now. Maybe I'll have to revisit it.

SPEAKER_05: 29:56

I personally like they had eight seasons of Dexter. I watched them all, except for the newest one.

SPEAKER_07: 30:01

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 30:02

Um, I think they should have ended after season four.

SPEAKER_01: 30:04

Okay, well, now that I have a fully developed frontal lobe, maybe I'll go back. Rewatch one to four.

SPEAKER_06: 30:11

The new one. This was fantastic. Uh, they had Peter Dinklage in it as the big baddie, right? And he was like a super eccentric billionaire in it. He did a really good job. Um, yeah, it was one of my favorite shows. It was just it was just pure entertainment. Like they they they just knew how to throw all the fun back, they brought back all the old characters. So I just enjoyed the nostalgia of it.

SPEAKER_01: 30:30

I have heard good things about the the remake of that uh and other than that, geez, I can't remember now.

SPEAKER_06: 30:35

What else I watched? Can't think of it now. I just watched Andor. I finished that Star Wars show that took forever. Yeah. I liked it. Yeah? I really did. Again, a lot of talking in that a lot of talking.

SPEAKER_05: 30:44

Yeah. I like shows where they just action show where people fly through space. Let's just talk. Three minutes of action.

SPEAKER_06: 30:51

Same thing with aliens.

SPEAKER_05: 30:52

We got all these crazy aliens.

SPEAKER_06: 30:53

Let's just talk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess that's uh that's That's a new vibe going on. Just a lot of talking. And uh, you know, I kind of want to see in watching the action show, I want to see action. Yeah. Yeah. That's true.

SPEAKER_01: 31:04

What could so I did just finish um, since we're st still talking about movies and TV, I just did watch a movie that they made based off of a book that I read that I really liked.

SPEAKER_02: 31:14

Right on.

SPEAKER_01: 31:15

And it was fine. It was fine.

SPEAKER_02: 31:20

It was fine.

SPEAKER_01: 31:21

I was I was really the book or movie. The book, uh, The Woman in Cabin 10.

SPEAKER_02: 31:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 31:26

And it's uh like a thriller like mystery author that I really, really enjoy. And this book was so popular. The readers really wanted to know what ended up happening to the main character after the fact. And they, you know, the fans were sending her so many emails that she actually wrote a sequel, and it was the first ever sequel that she wrote for any of her books. So I was really excited for the movie to come out so that I could kind of see it in real life. But they wrote or they ended up scripting the movie like they're not going to continue like the series, like how she wrote it. So I found it okay. Kira Knightley was the main person, so love her. She did great. No, she's awesome. Yeah, but books always seem to prevail in those situations, I find.

SPEAKER_06: 32:09

More times than not, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You build the world in your head when you're reading a book differently. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 32:15

My expectations are never anyone else's expectations.

SPEAKER_05: 32:18

I don't I don't read, I don't read anything non-fiction or anything fiction.

SPEAKER_06: 32:20

No, I don't read fiction much anymore either. That's why we're we're so dull and boring. Maybe that's it.

SPEAKER_01: 32:25

A lot of self-help, maybe?

SPEAKER_05: 32:27

No, just uh just maybe something. I just like nonfiction. I like to learn something and like kind of like try to take it away and things like that. So it's like, yeah. And I mean now it's like a lot of podcasts. Obviously, I'm listening to a lot of podcasts, but I'm also listening to like audiobooks.

SPEAKER_06: 32:45

Audiobooks.

SPEAKER_01: 32:46

Yeah, that's a great way to get that info.

SPEAKER_05: 32:47

Yeah, great for driving and stuff. Really good for driving.

SPEAKER_01: 32:50

Ooh, controversial question. Do you consider listening to an audiobook reading?

SPEAKER_06: 32:55

Yeah. Yeah, I do. Really? I mean, it uh I mean, you know, you have ADA I have ADHD. I have a hard time sometimes staying on the page or getting through certain parts of a book, right? If it's boring, I'm not sure. Sometimes, yeah. So it helps me push through the content that I can't get through otherwise. Right, yeah, right. Truthfully, yeah. So I do feel I consider it a form of reading. Um, you know, it depends how what you're learning and absorb absorbing of information style is. I can hear something and recite it. Yeah. Um, I could read something and forget it almost just as quickly, right? So it depends.

SPEAKER_05: 33:30

I'm I'm I'm actually uh I'm on the opposite. I will fully uh because I also like you know, I'm the type of person that it's like if you you know when you make your choice, like some people want like the best of both worlds on many topics. And I sometimes think that like sometimes it's just like just you make your choice, just accept your choice. And my ch like not whether it's a choice or not, I struggle to like sit down and actually read a book. So I do like audiobooks, but I would say I don't consider it reading. Honestly, I don't think I think you get I mean you're obviously consuming content and you're consuming information.

SPEAKER_06: 34:04

You don't see the words on the windshield when you're driving.

SPEAKER_05: 34:06

I don't have that option in my EV yet. Just just wait until uh wait until they've written. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. But uh yeah, I don't I don't consider it reading, but I do consider it really good in the sense that you're learning, you're trying to open your mind to different things. Um you're not you know brain dead scrolling.

SPEAKER_07: 34:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 34:30

So I mean I I would say I don't I would never say I read that book, uh, you know, like in low context if I listen to it. But what do you think? I think it's great.

SPEAKER_01: 34:39

I don't think it's read.

SPEAKER_06: 34:41

So I'm just all alone on this. It's okay.

SPEAKER_01: 34:43

But no, that's okay, because I know a lot of people feel differently about it. Um I'm in the same boat as you being attention deficit situation, and that's what like I know the kinds of books that I can and can't read. So I'm with you on the fact that some books that have longer chapters or tinier font or something like that.

SPEAKER_06: 35:00

When a book's super dense where I don't understand some of like the, you know, I I read a book, I remember reading a book about AI long time ago, um, and Ray Kurzwell, and I couldn't understand half the stuff he was saying, right? You know, so I had to read it, right? Then research, you know, a paragraph or what the hell is he talking about? And then I'll be like, oh, and then I could read the next paragraph. That's when reading is kind of cool. Yeah, like uh, but when it's stuff that I can just understand and digest easily my mind, then then audio is the best option, I feel.

SPEAKER_00: 35:30

Yeah, yeah. Cool.

SPEAKER_06: 35:32

Yeah, so no no token for you. What? No, no, that dude takes like a page to talk about a ham sandwich. It's ridiculous, and I I can't stand that kind of writing. Yeah, that's that his kind of writing. I I bought the the Game of Thrones books and I was so mad. Oh, that's uh Tolkien. That's Arthur Martin. Yeah, I know, but same crap though. What who who's reading that?

SPEAKER_01: 35:53

Fan fantasy series a lot like that, I find a lot of people, yeah, world bestseller who's reading that very popular.

SPEAKER_06: 36:00

They're majorly popular. I know.

SPEAKER_05: 36:02

Not only are they reading it, but they will like have it memorized. And if you describe anything on that gauntlet wrong, yeah, they will call you on it.

SPEAKER_06: 36:09

Yeah, uh no, I can't read that stuff.

SPEAKER_01: 36:11

Don't come for Mike in the comments. Yeah, actually, please do.

SPEAKER_06: 36:15

Yeah, get those get those engagements up and just true. Call them out.

SPEAKER_03: 36:19

Yeah, yeah. Bring your bring your fiery torches.

SPEAKER_06: 36:22

I might, I might, I still haven't finished the Lord of the Ring movies. I still gotta finish the third one. Yeah, they're so good. I hate golem so much. I know people like them, but you're not supposed to like them. Yeah, but I don't mean like I hate him in the fact like, oh, that's a great villain. I'm like, oh, this guy's annoying. That's the point. When I turn on the third movie and I realize, oh, this movie's now 80% golem or whatever, like I didn't even I didn't even finish it. I was like, okay, I don't want to see this character.

SPEAKER_05: 36:48

You're gonna love it. He dies, does he?

SPEAKER_06: 36:50

I never saw that part. I never saw one part. I just saw like I just saw like the first.

SPEAKER_03: 36:56

And if anyone thinks that that's a spoiler. Sorry, it's been out for a hundred years. Yeah, and the book's been out for like a hundred. So yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 37:05

It should have been caught up back. I I didn't know. I uh maybe I'll I'll go watch the second half. Now he's motivated. I just started watching rewatching The Godfather, though. That's a fantastic movie. Best movie ever made. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 37:14

Time to revisit some old classics, I think.

SPEAKER_06: 37:16

Yeah, that's an old one. That's 70, 1970 or 19? No, late 70s. Gosh, before I was born, it was a great movie. Late 70s.

SPEAKER_05: 37:22

Yeah. Greatest movie ever made. Yeah. Well, it's real. Godfather one, Godfather 2. Yeah. Godfather three, steep drop. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 37:29

Yeah. Well, the horse scene, dude. I mean, that is such a great scene of that movie. Do you know the horse scene?

SPEAKER_00: 37:35

No, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_06: 37:36

Uh well, the head and the head. He basically, yeah. This guy has a horse and uh he's you know basically doesn't want to negotiate with a godfather. He wakes up with the horse's head in his bed. Yeah. And I mean, it's a good it's still uh still like a HBO scene today. Like, you know what I mean? It will that was like the first show movie ever that felt like an HBO kind of modernizing, amazing, like if like there's so it's so well written.

SPEAKER_05: 38:01

Yeah, like there's some scenes in there and they talk about justice and everything, and it's so interesting and it makes for really great talking points. Like um there's the in the opening scene. The opening scene. The opening scene where he's with the the funeral director is like his his daughter, I don't know, got sexually assaulted or something like that. And uh he's like, Godfather, you know, I want you to do something about it. This guy did this to my poor daughter, blah blah blah. And uh he's like, Okay, like what do you want me to do? And he's like, Oh, well, and he and he whispers in his ear, and basically you assume he whispers like I want you to kill him. And he says, That I can't do. And he's like, Well, he's like, I want like whatever. He's like, I want he's like, What do you want? He's like, I want justice. He's like, That's not justice. He says, Your daughter is still alive, which leads to a really interesting dialogue, weird moral dilemma of like yes, she is still alive.

SPEAKER_06: 38:49

Obviously, the emotion is the like you want to kill that person, and also his own like how pissed off he is at the beginning of that movie that like he didn't really get any respect from this guy before, but you're here now kind of deal, right? Like it was almost like he didn't kiss the ring, so the man literally kisses his hand and and kind of pays his respects and then he singles to carry out the job, right?

SPEAKER_05: 39:08

I know it's such a cool, it's such a it's such an interesting movie. And like and the scene with Al Pacino and with Diane Keaton just passed away. So there's a scene with Diane Keaton and and Al Pacino when he talks about like uh Diane Keaton's dating him. They're new, like friend they're at the wedding, again, kind of opening scene kind of thing. And he says, uh he tells Diane Keaton's character like what his father does, like right there, and she's like shocked because he said um, you know, uh they want to sign the singer, and uh this singer said, I want to get out of my contract. They tried, they went and talked to him and said, Hey, we want you to sign this contract saying that you're releasing the singer from the hint so we can sign him for something else. And the guy said, Nope, he signed the contract, it's mine. And he goes, and my father, he goes, he sent Luca Brazzi over there, and he said, Either your signature or your brains are gonna be on that sign on that piece of paper. Yeah, and he goes, That's a true story. And I was like, Take that. And just how how he delivered that, he was like, That's a true story, and it's like chilling. Yeah, good movie. Best movie ever made.

SPEAKER_06: 40:10

Yeah, what's one of your favorite movies?

SPEAKER_01: 40:13

Of all time, yeah. Um well, you want to know what? There's very few movies that I can actually re-watch and enjoy. Okay, and I'm a lot like that. The the James Bond movie, um oh gosh. Uh Skyfall.

SPEAKER_06: 40:33

That was good.

SPEAKER_01: 40:34

For whatever reason, I can watch that over and over again. I never seen that one.

SPEAKER_06: 40:38

Oh, that's like one of the most recent ones, right?

SPEAKER_01: 40:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 40:42

Is it the most recent one?

SPEAKER_01: 40:43

No, no, no, no, it's probably three back.

SPEAKER_06: 40:46

Okay. Yeah, probably yeah, two or three. I tried to go back and chronologically watch them, and I got through the Conry films fine, and then they had another guy come in and then I kind of fell off. Roger Moore, two or three more. Yeah, I don't know. I fell off somewhere.

SPEAKER_01: 40:58

I have like they're hilarious. I have like the the box set.

SPEAKER_06: 41:01

What's so good about Skyfall?

SPEAKER_01: 41:06

I I you know what? I think just I mean, it's long, so I mean there's bits in it that I forget every time I re-watch it, but I don't know. Daniel Craig just killed it. Adele like did the soundtrack for it. Like there's just so many bits to it that like who's the baddie in that one.

SPEAKER_06: 41:21

I can't remember the character. Is it uh is it the guy that played the theatre? Is it Queen? Is he the one that's in that one? Or not Queen, the guy that played Freddie Mercury in the Queen movie? Oh is it the same guy? I just forget his name as an actor.

SPEAKER_01: 41:34

Oh yeah, he's incredible.

SPEAKER_05: 41:36

He's he's the villain in the Raymond. I can't remember if that's the one he's in. I I remember I saw it in the theaters, Skyfall. The thing that I took away the most with it was how like ruthless James Bond was in that movie. Oh yeah. Oh yeah? Oh yeah, just ruthless. It's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_01: 41:51

Yeah, I really check it out. Yeah, yeah, cool. Would recommend.

SPEAKER_06: 41:55

Yeah. What about you over there, Mr. Bambi guy?

unknown: 41:58

Bambi.

SPEAKER_06: 41:59

No, no, no, it's a good movie. Um, I don't know. I I I mean, uh yeah, I'm like you, I don't like rewatching movies a lot. Um the one I liked this year that I saw I I'm gonna have to play the fifth. I can't really think of one right now. Oh, you know what one I really liked was uh the substance. Did you guys see that? No. I don't know. It had uh Demi Moore in it. Oh it had her in where she could find this way, like she was getting older and she was um um basically losing her position as like this like kind of um uh aerobics television like mogul. But she found a way that she could start injecting herself with this stuff that would make her super young again, right? But it would also turn into a new monster, right? And she started growing defects and all this stuff. It's a lot of death becomes her. Remember that? Yeah, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of on that thing, but uh way more grotesque and way crazier. I thought it was it came out last year, actually. It was just an option, it was kind of recent. I thought it was one of the better movies I saw last year, and uh I absolutely loved it. Oh, it's fantastic, it's horrifying and funny at the same time, if that makes sense, but uh it's really well done.

SPEAKER_01: 43:09

I love freakish movies.

SPEAKER_06: 43:10

Yeah, it's really freaky. Yeah, but aside from that, yeah, I like happy stuff. Yeah, mostly I just like happy. Let's move into music. Let's talk about like some of the best music. Ooh, okay. You want to go first? Yeah, go for it. Okay, uh, so uh um clips. Uh I love the new clips album this year. Uh they're a rap group that I love since I was a little kid and they put out a new album. Uh one of the guys left and came back. He left to be a minister and came back to the group. Those two rappers actually ended up performing at the Vatican this year. Oh, really? It's kind of crazy. Only one of their songs because the rest of them are way too explicit. So but they had they had a really like touching song, actually, where the they both had lost their mother and father within the same year, within a really short time frame, and their brothers, right? Uh Pusha T and Malice are brothers, the two two guys. And um Yeah, so one wrote a verse about his mom, and the second verse is about the dad, and they lived apart, but they died really close to one another. Wow. And it's kind of a really beautiful rap, right? You know, and it's quite religious as well. So I could see why they wait, they picked that song and not the song after. The song after about coke dealing, they did not pick. Yeah. Uh uh, but uh, but you know, it's a good album through and through. It was like a return to form with like the Neptunes and a lot of these great producers that these guys came from. These dude guys were from Virginia, right? So they're pretty unlikely rap duo. Um, so that one was fantastic. And the other one that I absolutely loved was um on the complete other side of thing. I'm listening to it right now. His name is Country Guy, Country. Tyler Childers. So Tyler Childers is a country guy with a really cool voice, um, and kind of the real outlawish twang. And uh he actually had his last this album most recently produced by Rick Rubin, who's one of my favorite producers and you know, uh moguls. I think he's just a Rick Rubin, who's a really fascinating guy, and he put out some some amazing, an amazing album this year. So I'm listening to like the rappiest of rap and the countryest of country uh simultaneously, and I'm having a great time.

unknown: 45:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 45:11

Life is all about balance.

SPEAKER_06: 45:13

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 45:13

That's wonderful. I know nothing about country.

SPEAKER_07: 45:16

No.

SPEAKER_01: 45:16

I went to Cavendish years ago, and then there was a hurricane, and my tent blew down, and my friends took off with my car, and I didn't know. And I good friends. I think, yeah, I think I came back from that and was like, I think I'm good actually. So that's your country experience. That's my country experience.

SPEAKER_05: 45:35

Yeah, yeah. I honestly mean for me, like a music right now, I'm like completely brain dead of like when it comes to like best in music, because right now my son is heavily in to Nightmare Before Christmas. So that is all I listen to. Oh, yeah. The soundtrack.

SPEAKER_01: 45:52

That's incredible. That's not gonna be.

SPEAKER_05: 45:54

That's not as bad as Frozen. No, he doesn't know. Um no, listen, I sing along. I I I enjoy it, but it's just it's like there's it's every once in a while. I'm kind of like, hey bud, like can we listen to something else? It gets to you after a while. It it it's yeah, so like you can sneak in a couple things here, like um, you know, it's Halloween and he's all pumped about it, so it's like, hey bud, you want to listen to like a different Halloween song? He's like, Yeah, so I put on like thriller, yeah. So it's yeah, I try to sneak a few ones in there that are different, like whatever. But uh I put in the zombie is one of my favorite songs like ever. Oh, yeah. Oh, cranberries, yeah. And so I put that on there, and even though it has nothing to do with zombies, it says the word zombies and he's four. So guess what? He doesn't know that's about the Irish conflict. It's a Halloween song. Oh, that's awesome. So yeah, that's where my life is right now.

SPEAKER_06: 46:41

Crazy went from Taylor Swift to Nirvana and Foo Fighters and and Green Day, all the great 90s fans. Very impressive. So we're having an awesome year from music in the car. It's really actually it's Nirvana's actually getting a little annoying though. Because I'm like, they are annoying. There's like way more other than Nirvana. Please stop playing just Nirvana, right? And I'm like, because there used to be Taylor Swift, it was Taylor Swift for two years. I I've I've put my time in with old T Swift, yeah. Big time, right? I I she has zero interest in the new album, though, thank god.

SPEAKER_05: 47:09

Do you know what? Do you know what Elvis, Nirvana, and Taylor Swift all have in common? You don't like them? Uh that's not what I would say. Yeah. Um but I would put them in the category of probably, in my opinion, some of the most overrated musicians of all time. Oof. All time.

SPEAKER_06: 47:28

That's that's harsh. I I don't uh said harsh. I just said overrated. I didn't say they suck. Overrated is a harsh statement. No, it's not. Matt, if I said you were overrated, you would be pretty like if if people were like, oh, Matt's a great guy, I'd say, nah, he's overrated. Like you would be like, ouch, that hurts more than saying I'm a terrible person. Matt is not a legend among legends. Well, maybe you are in your community until somebody calls you overrated, right? Like, so if someone said, like the coolest guy in I don't know where you live.

SPEAKER_03: 47:57

Prospect. I didn't want to say it.

SPEAKER_06: 47:59

I was just being stupid. Um the coolest guy in Prosper. Someone says, No, he's overrated. He's not that great.

SPEAKER_05: 48:05

I could accept that.

SPEAKER_06: 48:06

You could be accept that. I'd probably be okay with that too, I guess. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I I don't know how Taylor Swift would take that. My she's a megastar, man. I'm not gonna be what do you think of Taylor Swift?

SPEAKER_01: 48:14

I'm not a Swifty. Not a Swifty. I was a fan of her when she did country when we were 16 and she was like teardrops on my guitar. Like I was I was fully enveloped in that, you know, teen drama, wish you know, my life was different, or wish this boy liked me, or whatever. Like I was all into that. But then as it went on, and I heard this kind of a really a really neat take on Taylor Swift recently, of course, with the new album and everything out. But there's like such a clear line when it became less about the art and more about the business. And my issue now is and don't come for me for saying this, but my issue now is like I would love to see her like be like a teammate or like be part of the community, or like I'd love to see her take like a billion of her dollars and like do something with it. You know what I mean? Like, why are you releasing an album and you have 28 remixes of the album and like some like some business decisions like strategically putting out an album at this time to like block you know viewership for another artist that's putting out an album? And it's just it's not to me, it's not about the art anymore. To me, it's all about the business and the money, and that just doesn't really interest me.

SPEAKER_05: 49:37

I I I would say I don't know enough about her um because I just uh because I just I think she's fine. I mean, obviously she's talented, she could know guitar. She yeah, you would, but she writes her own music, so that's good. She, you know, plays her own music, she has a she has a decent voice. I just think for the level of fame that she has and the command that she has, uh, because her people are a little bit cultish.

SPEAKER_02: 49:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 49:58

Um I just think that that she's not as good to deserve that. Sure. Well, and that's what I mean by overrated.

SPEAKER_01: 50:04

I also don't think anyone in this world is worth that sort of cultish method.

SPEAKER_06: 50:09

No, that's very that's the that's the catalyst, that's the point. I mean, the problem is there's so many hardworking musicians out there now, and I mean, you know, music, I mean, music should be driven from the community, right? So what what should happen is we should you should find this cool band downtown tonight, and you say, Mike, this band's really freaking cool. You'd like them, yeah. Right? And I'd be like, Oh, wow, they are cool. Then I tell a few of my friends, and and and and and that's how music has been for so long. Completely with streaming services, what's happening now is our music uh focuses have been really narrowed, unless we're very siloed. So if I'm listening to weird shit, it's gonna feed me more weird shit because I'm in that kind of algorithms around algorithms, right? But uh, if I'm listening to mainstream pop or Taylor Swift, I'm not hearing a lot more artists than just uh T Swift, right? So I think that's the problem, right? But I don't I think I think you know we we you know overrated and stuff. So unfairly, I think Taylor Swift put out uh folklore was a really great record, probably the only one I ever really liked. I like, but it was like it was COVID, and I think she recorded in like a in a cottage or something, and I found it had like a real kind of chill vibe to it. So I liked it quite a bit. But um good song, good, good. She's a good lyric writer, she's an amazing musician, like amazing.

SPEAKER_01: 51:28

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 51:29

So it's like the problem is is that we're you know, we we we we're overemphasizing on on few now more than we ever have before, right? Like, you know, there's another guy like Bad Bunny. It's like, you know, I'm not against Bad Bunny, but I don't wanna I don't listen to any of his stuff. I don't know, I can't name a song. No, no, no. I uh you know, and it's not like I'm it's not like I'm old and that's I'm an older guy, but I'm not old in the sense that I've lost a grasp of new and fresh because I love new music, right? Like so I'm always looking for it. So it's like you know, it's like where's the where's the fun?

SPEAKER_01: 52:04

Maybe maybe it's not the individuals that we have something against, but it's everyone else around them.

SPEAKER_05: 52:08

I think it's more that honestly. I think it's more than right, and I really do.

SPEAKER_06: 52:14

I think she seems like a nice person. It goes back to as far as Nirvana, right? You know, Nirvana. Nirvana's not a terrible band.

SPEAKER_05: 52:21

Um people just love them way too much.

SPEAKER_06: 52:23

And don't get me wrong, I am a Foo Fighters fan.

SPEAKER_05: 52:26

So one third of that band, yeah, yeah, I think is one of the greatest. Like Dave Grohl, uh, take away his indiscretions, but Dave Grohl's one of the greatest people in music, like I think ever. But I'm a huge hip-hop guy.

SPEAKER_06: 52:38

And you know what? People like you know, fond over Tupac forever. And I'm like, nah, he's not my favorite rapper, not even by like I wouldn't put him in my top ten. And it's not that I don't like Tupac.

SPEAKER_05: 52:47

You wouldn't put Tupac in your top ten, no. What? No, didn't we record a podcast like a year ago where you said he was in your top five? Oh, no way. Well, look, play the tape back.

SPEAKER_06: 52:57

Let's play the tape back.

SPEAKER_05: 52:58

Which which episode were we? A we had a pod A we have a podcast, or A we started a podcast.

SPEAKER_06: 53:03

Oh, he's in my top five. Pretty sure you didn't. We did the top five in that?

SPEAKER_05: 53:05

Pretty sure we did, yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 53:06

I said Tupac?

SPEAKER_05: 53:07

I'm pretty sure, yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 53:08

Yeah, well, maybe it changes.

SPEAKER_05: 53:09

Yeah, I mean, you were allowed to change your mind.

SPEAKER_06: 53:11

No, no, but I I don't know if I'd put him in my top ten. I mean, I would probably because I'd probably go for more of the New York guys, like who I'm listening to today, right? Diddy. Not that that New York guy. And we're off. So so he so there's been some people you can banish people from your Spotify, eh? So if you don't want to hear them on random anymore, so uh a Diddy has been banished, and as well as Kanye this year. That's so you banished Conway. I loved Kanye West for years, but he's a but I I just can't support um you know, I mean, I know he has a mental illness, right? So I mean there's there's part there's part of me that's like kind of like okay, well, I get it. Like, you know, you're you know, you're off your mitts, right? Yeah, you know, but still like Christ, dude, you can't be saying that stuff, right? Like you can't be anti Semitic, you can't be inciting hatred, you can't be trying to when he put he put Harriet Tubman on his betrayal list, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 54:05

I'm like, brother, what?

SPEAKER_06: 54:07

No, well, like he's not making any sense anymore, right? And it's been a while too. Yeah, it's been a while. So I uh you know, yeah, you but you and I had Taylor Swift blocked for a while too, and the reason was is because Gracie would just play her in my car nonstop, and I would be like, dude, I need a break for Taylor Swift. I was like, I don't know what's happening, I guess she's gone. Why is Taylor Swift not working? Yeah, so so I banished a few. Yeah, so Diddy's not there anymore, right?

SPEAKER_01: 54:31

Well, that's uh kind of backpedaling a little bit. It's uh a huge reason why I really love going to festivals. Yeah, like there's not many artists will you'll where you'll see me dish out you know, hundreds of dollars to go see them for one show. But I have seen a lot of artists and paid a fraction of what probably people would have seen to see them individually. Like that makes sense, and it's been incredible experiences. A couple years ago, I saw Billy Eilish, I saw Kendrick Lamar, I saw Fred again, all in the same 24 hours. And I was like, this is individual. Yeah, I was I was cooked at the end of it. Where was that at Osiega? Oh, nice. Oh, you're Osaka. Okay. I'm an Osiega vet. Nice. I was there for like seven years or something in a room.

SPEAKER_05: 55:17

My four-year-old loves bad guy. Oh, yeah? Loves it.

SPEAKER_01: 55:20

Oh, it's a great, it's a great song.

SPEAKER_05: 55:21

It's a it's a it is a cool song, but he just like because again, he's four, so he's like, he hears bad guy, so he's like, haha, bad guy's like super villains.

SPEAKER_01: 55:29

Well, and it is it is kind of a spooky song. That's a good, yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 55:32

So yeah, he loves that song.

SPEAKER_01: 55:33

Yeah, we stand Billy. If you're listening to this, I love you.

SPEAKER_06: 55:37

You want to come on a podcast?

SPEAKER_01: 55:38

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_06: 55:39

Or Taylor Swift, come come here and defend yourself to these these guys. I'll I'll have your back.

SPEAKER_01: 55:43

I don't dislike you, I dislike everyone around you. We'll just sing folklore songs.

SPEAKER_06: 55:47

There you go. There you go. Okay, so uh where were we there?

SPEAKER_05: 55:51

We were gonna do uh uh we were also gonna talk about our favorite because we're at Garrison, yeah. We were gonna talk about our favorite Garrison craft beer of the year.

SPEAKER_06: 56:00

So Garrison, yeah, we're going to plug this one specially for Garrison because we're here at Heroes Garrison, brought to you by Garrison. Not really, but um I mean I mean, give us some money if you want. We will take donations.

SPEAKER_01: 56:12

Uh send me an email when we're done.

SPEAKER_06: 56:13

Yeah. All right. So um uh for me, um, I like the Heisen one. What's a Weissen was probably my favorite seasonal you guys did this year. Yes. Um, I'm still uh I'm still uh the the juicy, the big juicy is still my favorite here in Garrison, if I'm being 100% honest. It's just a nice beer. I that's the one I tell other people to try, and they all like it. So I never look like a bad person when I recommend a beer to someone. So that's the one I always uh always recommend.

SPEAKER_05: 56:45

It Big Juicy is probably a top five most crushable beers that's eight percent or higher. Yeah, like easily crazy. Like there's very few. Like you look at um uh Le Findamonde by Unabrew, that's a nine percent beer, crazy crushable for a nine percent beer. Same thing when you get to um uh what's it called? Their uh Delirium Tremens, again, another high alcohol beer. No, again, crazy crushable.

SPEAKER_06: 57:12

That happy place one's pretty good.

SPEAKER_05: 57:13

Happy Place is good, but I'll tell you, like juicy, when it's a nice sunny day on a Friday. Oh, yeah, I really do love like to go and pick up a couple IPAs, and juicy is goes down pretty fast for an 8% beer. Yeah, and you don't taste it, it's just all flavor, it's fantastic.

SPEAKER_01: 57:34

It's the perfect foundation for a day for an evening if you want one. Like it just it's so good. Before I, you know, years before I ever started, uh I was gonna say dating Garrison. What the heck? This is probably kind of like that in. We are this is maybe the longest relationship I've ever been in. Um, no, years before I ever started working here, me and my best friend Vero shout out, she's in Korea. Um, we would go to the liquor store and we would each get a juicy, and then we would get like a six-pack of whatever else we were gonna drink that night. And that was smart. Yeah, the Kickstarter. Absolutely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 58:08

So we I used to do the same thing. That being said, though, Hafe Weisson is a style, it's one of my favorite styles. And if you want to drink many, yes. That's what I had when we were we I had the Hafe Weisson when I went down to meet them. And I'm telling you, I won't never in my life have I like wanted to just say like to my wife, just come pick me up. Because it was a sunny day, late September, and the Hafe Weisson was flowing real good in that gigantic mug. Yeah, and I wanted to have like six of them.

SPEAKER_01: 58:37

Yeah, we we ended up running out of kegs that that Oktoberfest week. We were scouring for I was wondering you guys ran out of uh oh my gourd too. Yeah, oh my god, yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 58:47

Pumpkin beer gone. Oh yeah, yeah. It's we don't have any I gotta pick up a couple actually, just because it's nice to have one there for pumpkin carabin. They started canning the the what we're drinking here, Doug's brow. Oh yeah? Yes. Yeah, they started canning. I didn't think that you guys were gonna can it, but uh, I guess because you ran out of uh well we we started we canned it last year as well.

SPEAKER_01: 59:04

You didn't it's a special brew that we make for um for our friend Doug, guy who runs Legendary, his best friend passed away a few years ago. So we make Doug's brow for Doug. He loved Oktoberfest. Yeah. So this is for him every year. And it's really nice. It's a delicious beer to go along with it, too. So tasty beer.

SPEAKER_05: 59:24

Yeah, yeah. So yeah, so uh juicy, is that what you're saying?

SPEAKER_01: 59:28

I mean, yeah, juicy is an OG. I can never I can never stray away from juicy. Um Hefeweisen also fave. Um, oh my Gord, when we get the cinnamon sugar rim. Yeah, ooh, so good. Um, but summertime though, one that like I love to introduce to people who say, like, oh, I don't like beer. I give them mango dragon fruit. Okay, yeah. The sour. Yeah, because it's not right up your alley. Oh my gosh, it's not sour. No, no. Well, it's not an aggressive sour, it's very approachable. But like when you pour it out, it's like it's like beautiful, like like ruby red color. And people are like, what is this?

SPEAKER_05: 1:00:04

Oh gosh, remember that super sour one you guys had? Sour to the people. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:00:07

I think we may or may not still have a couple cans downstairs. Sour to the people is sour.

SPEAKER_05: 1:00:13

Yeah, beautiful. I love it. Yeah, that was that was tough. So that's the uh so that's the favorite beers. Now, I guess last question we have here, um before we move on to 2026, I guess, kind of thing, is uh favorite new restaurant.

SPEAKER_01: 1:00:29

Oh does it have to be new?

SPEAKER_05: 1:00:32

Or like new new to you, yeah. It could be new to you.

SPEAKER_01: 1:00:36

Well, my favorite restaurant of all time, I'll shout this out, is the Canteen downtown Dartmouth.

SPEAKER_05: 1:00:42

It's the best place in Dartmouth, period.

SPEAKER_01: 1:00:44

It is the best ever. They grow their vegetables in their little garden on the rooftop of that building. Even like if I see something on the menu and I'm like, don't know what that means, guess what? Doesn't matter because I know when I order it. It's going to be delicious.

SPEAKER_05: 1:00:58

The Cropster Roll.

SPEAKER_01: 1:00:59

Oh. Cropster roll.

SPEAKER_05: 1:01:01

It's snow crab and lobster roll. Oh, yeah. The cropster roll.

SPEAKER_06: 1:01:05

Nice. Love it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:06

And legendary. I was there recently.

SPEAKER_06: 1:01:08

Like a master chef owner, a winner. It is. No. Won that winner or nominee? Or winner. I don't know if they won or whatever, but they're finalists or something. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:16

Shout out, Renee.

SPEAKER_06: 1:01:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:17

What up, Renee? Um, I went recently and I had the the lobster pasta. And the sheer amount of lobster that they put on that dish, like I'm going.

SPEAKER_06: 1:01:28

Oh no, you need to. I gotta check that one. I've checked it out once before. I can't, it's so long I haven't been there in a long time.

SPEAKER_01: 1:01:34

And anytime they do like a scallop dish, also incredible.

SPEAKER_05: 1:01:38

The scallop and snow pea risotto? Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. So exactly love it. Awesome. Okay.

SPEAKER_06: 1:01:47

Lunch. I know we did though. I we had We actually did go to Burger King for lunch. I had a bacon and cheese whopper, and it was it was unreal.

SPEAKER_05: 1:01:54

Like, you know, the the the person that made my burger did a commendable job, and sometimes you just don't show up to I I we we had to go out for lunch to kind of figure out some stuff here to work on and to figure this out. Yeah. And uh I I parked in the in Bears Lake at the parking lot, and I said and I looked and I said, Mike, like subway or burger king? And he was like, Burger King.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:14

Did you get one of the little crowns?

SPEAKER_06: 1:02:16

No, they were on the table. I didn't put one on today, though. I just wasn't, I just didn't feel like a king today.

SPEAKER_01: 1:02:22

That's okay. Tuesday after a long weekend.

SPEAKER_06: 1:02:24

Some days I do. Yeah, it depends what meds I'm on. Yeah, but today I just didn't feel like a king day. I was just kind of humble.

SPEAKER_05: 1:02:30

But in all seriousness, like my favorite like kind of restaurant to me or whatever right now is Oliva. Like I love going there. Yeah. Chef G's awesome. Always takes care of my guy. Just there last week. I'll be down there next week with you, actually. That's right. We'll be down there. Yeah. Oh my gosh. So honestly, like he makes the best like Lebanese food, so authentic, and it's it's high quality. And it's like honestly, it's kind of the place to be. You go there at night, and you're going to probably like run into some high profile people. So oh tee. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:03

All right.

SPEAKER_05: 1:03:04

So yeah, that's my go-to.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:06

Well, and I just always think about that friggin' video of chip smacking the hummus. That's iconic.

SPEAKER_06: 1:03:12

Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah. So that's on our six million views. Yeah, six million views of chip slapping hummus there.

SPEAKER_01: 1:03:20

Yeah. I have to get down there. I haven't I haven't yet, but I trust your judgment.

SPEAKER_05: 1:03:24

Yeah. So are you are you going with Burger King there? Uh I'm surprised you're not KFC.

SPEAKER_06: 1:03:29

I'm gonna lock in uh shout out to all the fast food joints. They don't get enough love. Uh um, no, I th I think uh I don't know. I mean, uh I've eaten a lot of places here. I I had a really nice night at that smoke and ash, was it down in the water buttons? Salt and ash. Salt and ash. There you go. Terrible it is. Uh there is there's sea smoke and salt and ash, yeah, both down there kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah, I went to both places and just combined it. There you go. Yeah, no, no, no. But uh no, that was a really nice dinner that we had down there. Uh we went down with some friends one night. It was lovely. Yeah, yeah, that is a good spot. Yeah. I had oysters and other things.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:00

Another one down there I would recommend is Matadora.

SPEAKER_06: 1:04:03

Oh, yes, haven't tried that yet. That's one of the top uh restaurants in Canada now or something.

SPEAKER_05: 1:04:08

No, no, no, no. There were two down there. I don't think that's the one that uh there's there is a restaurant down there that is like borderline getting it's the the mystic.

SPEAKER_06: 1:04:16

The mystic.

SPEAKER_05: 1:04:17

And that's there's talk that it could be getting a Michelin star.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:20

Oh my gosh, I forget that that one's even down there. Well, and I'm also like Do you know the Michelin stars?

SPEAKER_06: 1:04:25

Okay, let me ask you this question. Sure. Okay. I'm ready. True or false? The Michelin star guy is the same as the Michelin tire guy. False. True. What?

SPEAKER_05: 1:04:35

No, it's then it's true. Shut up. Yeah. Why? Michelin invented the uh the Michelin guide as a way to get people to drive more to use their tires more to weigh other tires out.

SPEAKER_07: 1:04:45

What?

SPEAKER_05: 1:04:45

And so Michelin's crazy? The Michelin star rating, one star is like worth a stop, yeah, two stars is like worth a detour, and three stops is worth a trip.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:55

That's incredible.

SPEAKER_06: 1:04:56

And now it's the most prestige prestigious thing you can get for a restaurant like the world.

SPEAKER_01: 1:04:59

Well, I'm I'm just I'm I'm I'm locked on the fact that, like, how come this guy finding a rating for his tires and also the entire way that restaurants have been built? Why was that all formulated at the same time?

SPEAKER_05: 1:05:10

He just it was a brilliant, it was a brilliant thing that the guy, the Michelin guy, was just like, how do we get people to use their tires more? And he was like, I'm gonna make a list of the best restaurants that you have to eat. And basically, like the bigger the more stars you get, the more you have to drive further to get to them.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:28

How did that oh, it translated to tires because driving.

SPEAKER_05: 1:05:32

Driving, yeah. And so basically it's like getting people to put extra thousand kilometers of car on their tires.

SPEAKER_01: 1:05:38

Wow, that's sneaky, and whoever that guy is, kudos to you.

SPEAKER_06: 1:05:42

Yeah, it'd be cool if they got a star though, man. That place that would be very cool. Yeah, yeah. All right. You know what? Okay, so uh we had you know, we're we we we actually ate a whole hour here in five minutes. So you're you're uh running to be one of our longest guests, which is fantastic. Oh my gosh, let's just shoot the shooting. Sorry, but also you're welcome. That's awesome. Wow, you're doing great. Um Do you want to do the Two Truths and a Lie game? What do you think?

SPEAKER_00: 1:06:04

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_06: 1:06:05

Two truths and a lie, and uh we'll try to guess. Uh you can just say whatever you want, and then we'll go into our ten questions.

SPEAKER_01: 1:06:12

Okay, let's do it. Um, two truths and a lie. I can't swim. I got in a fight once and didn't fight back.

SPEAKER_05: 1:06:28

I think that's called just getting beat up.

SPEAKER_01: 1:06:33

Yeah, that's my lie, actually. Just kidding. And uh I think donuts are overrated.

SPEAKER_05: 1:06:44

Oh. I think that's true. I think that's true because that's a very specific.

SPEAKER_02: 1:06:49

What was the first one you said? I'm sorry. I can't swim. Yeah, yeah, that's a lie. You can swim.

SPEAKER_05: 1:06:54

I think. Yeah, I'm gonna go with number two. I think number two is the lie. Oh no.

SPEAKER_06: 1:07:00

Which one's a lie?

SPEAKER_01: 1:07:02

I think donuts are overrated. Oh, really? That was a lie. Oh, yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02: 1:07:06

So, so okay. On the overrated, totally tricked us. Yeah, good job.

SPEAKER_01: 1:07:09

Yeah, I can like like uh swimming is just why would I be in the water when I could be on land?

SPEAKER_06: 1:07:16

That's fair. That's a good, good, good. I like that. I appreciate that. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:07:20

Like, oh if you want me in the water, give me a noodle, give me a floaty, like give me something. I don't need to.

SPEAKER_06: 1:07:24

I feel like the same way when people are like, Yeah, you want to climb a tower? I'm like, no. No. Fucking fine here. I'm good. I can see it. Yes, yeah. That doesn't make sense.

SPEAKER_01: 1:07:33

Yeah, and then one time I was in a fight and didn't fight back, I started laughing.

SPEAKER_06: 1:07:38

Oh, there you go. Were they like so detail? So this fight, what happened? Were they like uh like were they just unable to hurt you?

SPEAKER_01: 1:07:46

Uh no, no, I got like bonked in the head and then uh I started to laugh.

SPEAKER_06: 1:07:51

Concussion laugh. That's called concussion, yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's not so playing.

SPEAKER_01: 1:07:55

Yeah, and then one of my friends came and swooped me away, and that was the end of the thing. Oh, there you go.

SPEAKER_06: 1:07:59

There you go. Yeah, okay. Anyway, great job. Moving on to the Jen Glade voice. All right, okay.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:08

Um that being said, don't try to fight me.

SPEAKER_06: 1:08:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:11

I will fight back.

SPEAKER_06: 1:08:12

So here's here's some Laura Fleming here, uh, aka you found Flora. Okay, uh follow uh uh Laura on Instagram if you get a chance, please. And uh yeah, she's doing lots of great stuff on there. Um, number one, if you could bottle one feeling and sip it forever, what would it be?

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:31

Oh my gosh. Do you need one word or like the explanation of the feeling?

SPEAKER_06: 1:08:36

Just go for it.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08:37

Oh my gosh. It is a hot August late afternoon, and the sun is setting, there's a little bit of a breeze, but it's still hot, and I'm dancing in the sun with my friends. If I could bottle up that feeling and step it forever, you would never see me again.

SPEAKER_05: 1:08:56

That's very detailed. That's good. Okay, excellent. I feel very passionate about that. That was not where I would have been like anger. I wish to feel rage all the time.

SPEAKER_06: 1:09:07

Just that. Just my blood boiling and all moments of life. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 1:09:15

The rage I feel in traffic.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:17

Yeah. And so I guess in one word I would say euphoria.

SPEAKER_05: 1:09:19

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:20

But specifically, it takes me back to those moments.

SPEAKER_05: 1:09:22

That's no, that was a great answer. Great answer. Number two. So, uh, what's the one question you wish people would ask you more?

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:31

Oh God, are you hungry?

SPEAKER_05: 1:09:36

That's a great question. And then and then the typical response would be like, you know, like, are you hungry? You'd be like, Yes. And then I would ask you, like, what do you want to eat? And then as a typical woman, you'd be like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:46

Exactly. Yeah, exactly. I need you to give me two options and then I'll pick.

SPEAKER_05: 1:09:50

There you go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 1:09:51

Actually, you can give me three options and then I'll pick. I can narrow it down from three, but Okay, there you go.

SPEAKER_06: 1:09:56

All right. If you were an animal in your next life, which one would you choose and why?

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:02

I think I'd want to be a horse.

SPEAKER_06: 1:10:07

Why? Elaborate.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:10

Um, well, I mean, they're large enough that like people don't really fuck with you.

SPEAKER_06: 1:10:14

Okay, sure.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:15

Which is nice. Also, they're majestic.

SPEAKER_06: 1:10:16

Kids don't understand them. They'll pull on your tail, they'll mess you out.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:19

Well, and then good luck. Good luck to your kid. Then you kick them. Yeah, and like, I don't know, I'm just a horse. Off to the glue factory. Oh no.

SPEAKER_07: 1:10:29

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:30

Yeah, no, they they can run fast, and it just seems like uh uh I don't know. Horse movies always made me cry growing up. So There you go. There you go.

SPEAKER_05: 1:10:40

That's a good answer. Question number four. So who is the who is one person in your life right now that you are thankful for and why?

SPEAKER_01: 1:10:48

Oh, that's cute. This is gonna be I can't think of anyone. Thank myself. I'm thankful for myself. Yeah. That's answer. I mean, honestly, I think just like in general, I'm pr this is gonna be wow, wow, wow. But in general, I'm like pretty grateful for the people that I've learned to like surround myself with now that I've gotten older. Like it's a really weird thing going through your 20s and seeing, you know, friends that you've had for a really long time and you kind of grow apart or things start to get problematic or whatever. And like I I think, I think right now I'm grateful for my ability to choose the right people. That's good. I think that's great. That's kind of deep.

SPEAKER_05: 1:11:30

Yeah, no, but that's good.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:31

Good answer, Michael.

SPEAKER_06: 1:11:32

Good answer. Number of quite five is not deep. How many colors are in a bag of Skittles?

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:38

Oh shit. Oh. Um did you not look up the answer?

SPEAKER_06: 1:11:51

I did I didn't look up the answer.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:53

There's purple, there's orange, there's green, there's red, and there's yellow.

SPEAKER_06: 1:11:56

I'm in airplane mode here, man. I think you're right.

SPEAKER_01: 1:11:58

Yeah, I think I am right.

SPEAKER_05: 1:11:59

Let's just go. I think it's five. Tell us if we're wrong in the comments. You know what? Call us out in the comments. That's okay.

SPEAKER_06: 1:12:04

Whatever.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:05

Also, I only like original Skittles and Sour Skittles. Sour Skittles are the best. They're the best. What about tropical?

SPEAKER_06: 1:12:12

Yeah. Nah, get away from it. I don't know. I don't know what they're doing. I don't need that. No, I don't think I don't know who likes tropical Skittles. Never met anyone.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:18

When the other options are as great as they are, why would you have to get those when the other Skittles aren't there? Exactly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 1:12:23

All right, question number six. So who is the comedian that made you laugh the hardest at the great Canadian Outdoor Comedy Festival? 2025? The one that just happened, yes, 2025.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:35

Um, you know what? Uh Jeff R. Curry.

SPEAKER_05: 1:12:39

I saw pictures with you hit with him. Yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:41

I am a huge fan of his. He's great. And I think it was kind of a show that like wasn't like as expected, maybe. Like he's he is kind of a I mean, he's still very popular, but like he's, you know, a smaller name than like Bert. I no, I agree with you.

SPEAKER_05: 1:12:57

I think he's under I think he's under the radar.

SPEAKER_01: 1:12:58

A lot of people don't get excited about him, like he's so snappy. He doesn't really like his jokes. Sometimes you're like, oh man, but like his whole presence isn't about like you know being mean or like anything like that. He's he's an all-around great dude. If you have not seen any of his stuff, please, please, please look him up.

SPEAKER_05: 1:13:18

I think he's actually one of the best comedians who do who does crowd work right now.

SPEAKER_01: 1:13:23

Yes, agreed. Yeah, agreed. I feel like he kind of started this like crowd work movement.

SPEAKER_05: 1:13:28

I I I I kind of feel like uh I hate to say it, but I kind of feel like Matt Reif is the one who really kind of popularized it. I just think he's I just think that the I just think that that's his whole act, and every time I've seen like, and I'm not I mean to shit on the guy because he has some funny things and everything, but I feel like that the crowd work thing is his whole act, and I always laugh. Yeah, I don't really laugh that much at him.

SPEAKER_01: 1:13:52

I didn't love his Netflix special, but his like clips on TikTok I find funny.

SPEAKER_05: 1:13:56

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, he's a good he's a good clip guy, he is special. I honestly I was kind of like looking for a dance.

SPEAKER_01: 1:14:03

That being said, Matt Rife, see you next summer.

SPEAKER_05: 1:14:06

Yeah, I mean he'll he'll sell out, he will a hundred percent like he'll absolutely he could sell out two shows. Yeah, he's huge. A little he's so industry.

SPEAKER_01: 1:14:13

This probably isn't a secret, but last year they added the second show because 9,000 tickets sold out in less than 48 hours. So all the people online being like, Matt Reif, we don't want to see you. Hey, guess what? Yeah, people do, and you know what?

SPEAKER_06: 1:14:28

And he's popular generationally as well. That's when you can do comedy and you can appeal to you know, uh, my demographic, an older demographic, and a younger demographic, that's when you're really, you know, ch winning in the terms of Charlie Sheen winning. Yeah, you've been all over Charlie Sheen. I'm obsessed with that documentary. I forgot I should have mentioned that earlier. Yeah, yeah. So far as well.

SPEAKER_01: 1:14:47

Yeah, no, that was a really, really fun.

SPEAKER_06: 1:14:49

Question number seven over to you, though. Okay. What is one experience or place you have visited that you never want to go back to and why? That I never want to go back to. You did something and he was just terrible. Oh my god. You did a thing and you're just like, I never want to do that again. Could be like a sport. Oh could be like could be anything.

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:08

Oh, you're not talking about a specific place.

SPEAKER_06: 1:15:10

It could be a place, it could be whenever you want. If you traveled somewhere and it sucked.

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:16

Can I be honest about London, England? Sure. Hey, what the heck is that place about?

SPEAKER_02: 1:15:21

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:22

I feel like I went every single bar had the same menu.

SPEAKER_06: 1:15:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 1:15:28

Yeah. Welcome to London.

SPEAKER_06: 1:15:30

Yeah, I think London is pretty yeah, I agree with you.

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:33

It was like everything was the same.

SPEAKER_06: 1:15:35

And fish and chips. But like, even like I'm sure when you go further into London past a tourist bit, you'd probably get more variety, would you not?

SPEAKER_01: 1:15:44

I mean, maybe, but I feel like the restaurants even had like I remember being shocked because the the literal menu, like same items, yes, but even like the format and the look of the menu was the exact same at every single pub that we went to. And I was like, this just seemed like what I'm sure that there are beautiful places in and around that area, but I wouldn't probably never travel back there.

SPEAKER_05: 1:16:08

I I've never been to London outside of flying into Heathrow. Um, so I've never been there. Uh, I would love to do a show there because I think this it very much the drinking culture there. I would love to do an afternoon plaintiff. They're the original afternoon plaintiffs.

SPEAKER_00: 1:16:21

Okay, I take it back. If you make that trip, I'm on I'm coming.

SPEAKER_05: 1:16:25

So that is something I'd like to do. Yeah. Um, but no, I I don't think anybody is like, oh yeah, the you know, the UK is like, you know, celebrated for their culinary stuff.

SPEAKER_03: 1:16:36

Like outside of like Gordon Ramsey, but Gordon Ramsey went to Paris to learn how to cook. Yeah, there's two sides of it.

SPEAKER_06: 1:16:40

Like, so so with the time we spent in London, there was you're absolutely right. I didn't, from my own experience, and we we traveled quite far, we we didn't see a bunch of different variances in food. Um, but uh, you know, I did I I I loved being there though. It was a really cool spot, it's very expensive too. Um, London's a really expensive place, but like the difference when you go from London to Paris in terms of variety of like foods and options, you're just like, whoa.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:06

Yeah. Right? It's quite mind-blowing. And I care so much about food. Like to me, like the food and drink experience is like so a huge part of life.

SPEAKER_06: 1:17:16

I mean, sometimes we take for granted how amazing Halifax is because we have so much variety here.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:20

Absolutely growing heavily, yeah.

SPEAKER_06: 1:17:22

It's growing over the last eight, uh, like it's probably not always been that way. I mean, unless you're from Spritefield and you got just pizza, yes, you know, or 19 variations of pizza places. Yes. But uh, but you know, but like downtown, I mean, gosh, there's a lot of variety. There's so many great options, and they're so well made here, right? So we're a little spoiled.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:41

I have a hard time now hearing people being like, oh, Halifax sucks. Like, I want to leave, like I remember growing up hearing that so often, and I'm like, that never really made sense to me. And like, especially now these days, I'm like, no wonder we have way too many people.

SPEAKER_06: 1:17:54

I don't feel Halifax sucks.

SPEAKER_01: 1:17:56

No, I don't, I don't think that way at all. I love it here. I love it here.

SPEAKER_06: 1:17:59

No, I love it here too. I really do. I think we're I mean, I think it's a very fortunate place to be.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:04

Yeah, agreed.

SPEAKER_06: 1:18:05

100%.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:05

Agreed.

SPEAKER_05: 1:18:06

Yeah. All right. So, question number eight. Uh, what do you think will be the biggest change in the world in the next hundred years?

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:12

Whoa, a hundred? Um, the biggest change probably will be that the world will implode on itself.

SPEAKER_02: 1:18:18

Okay, there you go. So we're going to Mars.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:21

See you later.

SPEAKER_06: 1:18:22

All right.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:23

I just I just can't see it.

SPEAKER_06: 1:18:25

No, I just can't see us rocking another hundred years, this globe, you can't see it turning around for another hundred years.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:30

Ah, well, like the pace that it's going, man. How is everyone supposed to like keep their brains? I don't know. I don't know. Technology.

SPEAKER_05: 1:18:39

Some sort of meta device.

SPEAKER_01: 1:18:41

Yeah, well, that's that's what I mean. Like we'll be enclosed in a glass case and our brain is going to be outside of our body. And sorry if that's freakish, but that's what I believe.

SPEAKER_06: 1:18:49

Cool. Yeah, that's what it is. Question nine over to you. Okay. How do you prefer to handle conflicts or disagreements? Apparently, just take punches to the head.

SPEAKER_01: 1:19:00

Laugh and roll in the face. Okay, you know what? You take it out on me and I'll just deal with it in private. That's really funny. Um, I mean, like, ideally, I'd love to be like, well, I'd like to sit down and have a strategic conversation and just like, you know, really communicate clearly. And that is what I believe should happen. You know, I uh I went to school for communications. I feel like I can write a good email, I can, I can speak well when it comes to having discussions with people, but really I get nervous. Oh I get I do when it when I when I have to, you know, express my feelings in about something that like isn't popular or maybe isn't like if I'm directly speaking to someone about like, oh hey, like you did this and I hate it. Obviously that's not the way that I would say it, but I I really I'm a people pleaser. So I have a really, really hard time telling people that they've upset me.

SPEAKER_05: 1:20:03

Wow. What's that feel like? Is I love telling people to do upset me. I love conflict.

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:09

Well, it's just kind of it's just kind of meant that like when I'm done with someone, I just kind of like it's it's just it's just over. Yeah, yeah. Which is in some ways easy and in some ways not so great, but I work that out on my own too. Just ghost on people.

SPEAKER_05: 1:20:24

So question number 10. So what is the all-time best type of beer, style of beer for you?

SPEAKER_01: 1:20:33

Oh, I love my hazy IPAs. Yeah, they're pretty fantastic. Period. I like yeah, yeah, it's the best. Oh wait on that. I think like my favorite style outside of that is like the hef, like the weeded like banana. You and I are very aligned there. Yeah, but like hazy IPAs, like um, I'm gonna shout out uh Exile and North Street, the unfiltered. Yep. Incredible. Um, yeah, so the hazier the better.

SPEAKER_05: 1:21:00

Honestly, we we get some good hazy IPAs here. There's some great ones. Yeah, we do. We we we produce some good hazy IPAs in the case.

SPEAKER_06: 1:21:08

We got three or three or three or four topics that I can just think of right off the top of my head that I like a lot.

SPEAKER_01: 1:21:12

Yeah, Nova Scotia's got it going on.

SPEAKER_06: 1:21:14

Yeah, man. Yeah, 100%. All right. So last call. All right, last call is the last thing we'll ask you, then we'll leave you alone finally. Um we uh what's one piece of advice you were given in your life that you'd like to share with us and our listeners today?

unknown: 1:21:27

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01: 1:21:28

Trust your gut.

SPEAKER_02: 1:21:29

Trust your gut.

SPEAKER_01: 1:21:30

Oh, trust your gut. Whether that's ladies, whether that's your like woman's intuition or whatever else, like it's like when you do a test and you're doing multiple choice, and the first answer that you think it is, and then you second guess yourself, and then the second guessing is usually wrong. If your gut is telling you something, trust it. It's more than likely right. And if it's not right in that moment, it will be right later on down the road. Sometimes it's about playing the long game.

SPEAKER_06: 1:21:58

All right. Very good.

SPEAKER_05: 1:21:59

Love it. Yes, you're that's it. We're all done. We are all done. We're just gonna do a quick shout out. Yes. I mean, so yeah, so obviously, uh Laura being a part of the team now, uh, you know, hosting some podcasts and being on on uh social media. You found Flora, so we found her. And we uh yeah, so everyone should be flocking over to your Instagram, following you. Any businesses listen to that, reach out to us because Laura is the perfect person to highlight your business. And yeah, I guess uh final cheers to 2023. Yes, thanks everyone for listening. Cheers to you, Laura. Thank you so much for the first time.

SPEAKER_06: 1:22:37

All right, have a great one.

SPEAKER_02: 1:22:38

This was awesome. Bye.