A Good Honk! (Ep. 147)

0:00 Have we gone skiing yet? No, we go this Sunday. We go this Sunday next week. Do you know? What the It's going to be fucking freezing. I know. Yeah, like I actually said to Jeremy, maybe we should move because it's going to be so cold. This is due to underwhelming demand. The podcast that's like the Buffalo Bills. Neither of us is going to the Super Bowl again this year. Sad. He caught it, He caught it. I don't know what he was. So mad about those games. It was so mad. It doesn't matter anyway. They're not going. And that joke, by the way, would have been more appropriate on our last episode, right? Except we didn't know who had won when we recorded that last episode.

0:46 Oh yeah. Based on their history, you'd think I would have predicted that and just did this joke. Yeah. Last week before knowing Anyway, on the podcast today, something I've avoided pretty much my entire life caught up with me. Oh, I'll explain. What have you avoided your life? Your whole. Long life. Yeah, Yeah. That's that delights me already. I'm not sure. Why? Yeah, Rachel wants to play. Was Rachel right or wrong? Wrong. OK I for content Jeremy says I'm wrong but everybody he works with says I'm right so. History has taught me since we've played this game, was Jeremy right or wrong?

1:28 Or was Rachel right or wrong? I tend to side with Jeremy on every. All of this. So yeah. You'll see, I think Jeremy's batting 1000 still so. Far, Yeah, so far, so far. But we start forming with. How cold it is and can that freeze your vehicle's horn? What? I've never heard of that. Same with me until I tried to use said horn. Yesterday. Oh, wow. Yeah, OK. Well that. Didn't sound like what do you oh that's. Frustrating. If you're trying like so, you you needed your. Demo. I need a demo. Yes, you. Needed your horn.

2:09 I want to know why first. Well, because it's winter and there's snow and it's cold, yes. And because I'm the good driver and everyone else is the bad driver as we all think about ourselves. Right. Right. So somebody else was pulling a very dangerous maneuver way too close to my vehicle. So the first thing you do is try and slow down, avoid being hit by that vehicle. And while you're doing that, lay on the horn, of course. Yeah. And tell your horn goes and then just stops.

2:50 Do that one again, yeah. Like it was a regular horn down for half a second, yeah, trails off and then just stops making noise altogether. It ran out of steam. And just did you keep trying? I kept trying to push and nothing. Nothing out. Who knew that could have like, you know, car? They could breakdown for any number of reasons, but the horn still works right. So it was like honking and then it like, and then it's like there's a, you know how in like a water pipe, maybe there's like a little bit of water left and then it ends like there, you know, and you, it's like you honk the horn and like the sound that's left in there honks and then it just trails off and ends.

3:30 Like, almost like there's air horn cans where there there's nothing left inside and it just stops, right? That's it, Yeah. I don't even really know how. I mean, I understand the concept of the car horn, I understand that you push it and your car makes noise, but I don't understand, I have no clue how it works. No. I wouldn't even be able to locate the horn in my car. There's like a. Button on the steering wheel like underneath and then a. Concept. I don't know. It's like a doorbell. I don't get the concept of the doorbell either. You push it outside and it rings. I don't know. Like is there a little box under your hood? I was actually making the noise. No, I don't know. I don't know anybody who's ever had trouble with their car horn before, to be honest. This is news to me, yeah.

4:14 OK, I don't know. So. So you kept trying it. It didn't work. It didn't work, so luckily at Country 104, White Law Automotive happens to be a sponsor of the show. OK, they have an. Expert, right. So you did you talk to an expert? I did Neil from Whitelaw and I have already. We did a whole week. We're giving away car batteries. He's an expert on all these. Things you're giving away car battery, What a great time of year for that. We did in December. Oh, OK, yeah, well, still. Listen, we gave away toilets and people wanted them. Absolutely they. Wanted toilets and we they were. Good toilets too, they. Were very good toilets. Yeah, and. These are good batteries.

4:55 Yeah, I'm sure. And how did you give them away, Foreman? Yeah. It was, it was a similar, not will it flush like the toilets, but we did it in a similar fashion. Oh, OK, good. Yeah, good. It's always good to If you're giving away something unique as a car battery, you should come up with a unique way to give it away. Yeah, it was something that you had to know. It was questions that were car related and then whether you were it was true or false, then the expert Neil would stand by and tell you why it was either true or false. Very good, I like that. Much like the toilet. Guys. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, exactly. Sure. So I called up Neil and I said, hey, can car horns ever freeze? And he was like, what? And I was like, yeah, here's what happened to my horn.

5:40 And then he says, well, I've never heard of that before, OK. Well, me either. He's like, we don't, we don't sell a lot of horns. Really. Yeah. I've never heard of anybody's horn like what's wrong with the car? Everything of the car is perfect. Low mileage this that. All tires are new. Horn doesn't work. Though, Exactly. Yeah, that's. Weird. The 99% of the cases where they do sell a horn, it's because the vehicle was in a collision, right? And the front end, you know, I'll go master. Where that horn is you? Have to know how a horn functions 1st and then and then does would the cold affect that function? Yeah, he does. I don't think you'd have to replace a car horn.

6:21 Well, right he. Says he could. I don't know. He says it can't, It's possible. So you could just need a new horn. It doesn't last forever, like the whole the rest of the car, theoretically, right? Yeah. And then my next question was, could a horn die due to overuse? Yeah. I mean, it's just worn out. That's probably it. Well done, Foreman. Foreman's the asshole on the. Road. That's right. I love it. It's hung and you're like, who's honking right now? There's nothing happening. Oh, there's a valid reason it's a. Foreman.

7:02 It's Foreman. There's always a reason. Oh, there's a very good reason. A honk. Yeah. And you didn't want to rule out that possibility either, so. Listen, I'm all for a good honk, especially when it's deserved or your nose or my nose. But we were driving the other day and I'm Jeremy was driving and I, you know, and I'm like honk at this brace like this person's right in front of me and I'm like honk at them. And he won't he will not honk. I'm like just lay on the fucking horn. Like, yes, I'm like, yeah. Yeah, you got to have that. Yeah, I I have no issue with honking my. Horn. Yeah, I don't know. He won't. He's. Knowing the road's snow covered, it hasn't been plowed yet and you're just lollygagging dude.

7:46 Dude, drifting into my lane when I'm beside you and just going about your day. No signal. No, not like you need to hear a certain sound for several long, excruciating seconds. I just do one beep no. You so. Toot, you're Tooting no? You know, you gotta give it a long 1. You gotta give it a long long 1. You. Yeah, exactly. I don't know, I do. OK can can, can a horn die from overuse? Yeah, he didn't want to rule it out, OK. All right. So the cold or overuse like what? If so, we're not. We show our. Abilities yes OK so we don't really know whether a horn can die in the cold weather just.

8:28 Putting it out there, have you ever had your horn die? Yeah, exactly. Now, Foreman, do you use it? Is it still not working? Well that I haven't tried it. Today yet? OK, but it didn't work all day yesterday. I can't wait to no. I tried it a few more times, no noise. Really. OK, so this wasn't just a one time thing. No. Oh, I thought. Rachel gasps. Like. Well, that is dangerous. You need to have a horn. Well, it sounds like the perfect vehicle for Jeremy. Well. Yes, he would never know that it's broken. Why didn't you trade cars? You. Might as well just trade. I don't want your fucking car. I need a horn. Yeah, you need a horn. Well, So what are you gonna do for me? I gotta get well, the White Law automotive is as part supplier.

9:12 So he's like, I, you know, he can't rule out the cold, can't rule out overuse, right? But he's happy to look up a new one for me. Do you park it in a garage? At home, yes. Yeah. So then it should work in the morning. It's thought out. Maybe I had a comment that somebody commented that was listening to the radio that said, oh, this happened to my car 1 winter and it was something about the moisture and whatever she's like. But then by the spring it was working again. This is like just wait it out, wait. Here's when you need it. OK. I know, I don't know what a horn costs me either. It's maybe a horn. Doesn't cost the parts guidance. I don't. Maybe it doesn't cost that much, but I feel like installing it would be expensive 'cause that's usually what cost you. Money, yeah.

9:55 Yeah, I would be inclined to wait till spring, but I'd hate not to have. I'd hate not to have my horn. Yeah, I've and I don't know and I don't know how people do it because one other comment was like, what kind of car is it? Is it a Hyundai? They're notorious for this happening. What kind of car is a reputation for the horn dad? Like anyone. We don't want that. It's it ain't a Hyundai. I mean, it's turned into one. Wow. Jeremy's Hyundai. Jeremy's I don't want Your Car. Really working it though. This is due to underwhelming demand. It's the podcast with Dave, Rachel and Foreman. The podcast that's like a January cold spell. You didn't ask for it.

10:57 You're getting it anyway. There's no escape. Yeah, I. Feel like I'm repeating myself but I don't even want to go back. And it is just so cold. Lately, though, it just doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Who cares? Yeah, too. Cold. No one paying us for this so you can do whatever you want. I know, I know. Yeah, I know. The other thing that nobody asked for is a game this week that. Wasn't bad actually. Thank you. Thank you. Not bad. This week we're going to play. Is Rachel right or wrong? This is your favorite game. You. Do set my answer please. Yes, yeah. OK, So for, you know, con, I guess context, maybe just for information. Jeremy thinks I'm wrong, but then he went to work and told people about it and they think I'm right. So you can be the judge.

11:44 OK, well, I'm inclined, as I said off the top, to side with Jeremy. Yeah, yeah, I know, but he doesn't honk his horn so well. Well, I understand that he. Had into consideration good. Point, you know, very good point. He's. Not a horn honker, which means he's probably a very balanced, even tempered, you know, Yeah. But you 2 aren't because you do honk your. Horn I know, I know. So we're completely. Different do you agree with because you say it's just as necessary as we do it is. That's right. Keep all that in mind. OK? Keep all of that in mind. OK, there's a lot of. Factors in there, OK for your decision. All right, So we go down to the bus stop every day, play with the kids.

12:24 They don't need us to go, but we do. I go out because I take the dog, I drop them at the bus stop, and then I go for a walk with some other moms who are also at the bus stop with their dogs. OK, we have a morning dog walk club we go. We hog the by the way, because I like to go out and and walk in my neighborhood. Yeah, and there's people with their dogs, sometimes two or three. Do you hog the sidewalk? Sometimes, yeah. I hate you. Sometimes I'll go around though, if I know you're not going to go on the road. Yeah, you're And if there's other need. To get out of the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or we we go single file so that we can get by please. Put out your trip wire. Pull the dogs over, yeah. Now I'm even more inclined to see Jeremy. OK, so we go to the bus stop.

13:09 So at our bus stop, our bus stop's humongous. There's I think I counted one time there's 28 kids that get on at our bus. Yeah, it's we're, we're more than half of the bus, our bus stop. OK, So there's lots of kids and there's lots of parents. So in the morning, there's lots of people there, right? There's one kid that kind of always stands by himself kind of off to the side on his phone, scrolling his phone. He leans against this pole and you know, he doesn't, he doesn't say much. He's pretty quiet. So we've noticed before that he has the bus has come, he comes to the bus stop, first of all. And then I think his mom, because he doesn't live far, his mom drives away.

13:49 She goes to work, right. So he's at the bus stop, the mom goes to work and then the bus comes and we've seen him before, just go home. He doesn't get on the bus. OK, So he's not going to school. Once his mom leaves, he just goes back home. He comes to the bus stop and then goes back. So then the other day the bus comes, everyone gets on the bus. He's the last kid and he kind of goes over to the bus and then he walks away from the bus and he starts walking towards home. And I said to him, I didn't even think about this. It would just came out of my mouth, no, aren't you going to get on the bus? And he says, no, it's too cold. And without thinking, I said, you've got to go to school, get on the bus, please.

14:40 So he paused for a minute and and he kind of like wavered. And then he walked toward the bus and got on the bus. Oh my. God and Jeremy says to me, what the fuck, Rachel? Yeah. Why would you say that? Yeah, why would you say that? To him. And I was like, well, it worked. He's going to school. Did it work? And did it really got on the bus too? Well, yeah. Because. Because that that woman over there is going to say something if I don't. I wasn't mean about it. I said it just like that. I said get on the bus please, Like I would to my own kid kind of, you know, like a like a mom. That's okay, they're your kids. They're my kids, yeah.

15:22 And I don't, I don't know this kid. I don't know his parent. I don't know. I barely know the kids name. I don't know his last name. I know his first name. Figure he is. He's probably 10-11, maybe, I don't know, 10 or 11. Slightly younger than your old he's. Just barely able to stay home alone by himself all day. You know, age, age wise, typically, right. So he and and everybody sees that this kid is is not getting on the bus, right. Even the bus driver who can't get who can't get out and say, hey, come on, right. And so I didn't even think about it. And I just said get on the bus, please.

16:04 And then he did. He didn't want to. He wanted to go home. OK, should. I should I have done that? OK, well, I would say. Should I have kept my mouth shut? I admire you to a certain extent for trying to help out. I get what you were, I think, attempting to do right. But because of what you did, if you, if you think about it, Rachel, we wouldn't have Ferris Bueller wouldn't have had a day off if you had been at his bus stop. That's true, That's true. But Ferris is a teenager this kids. Ferris Bueller, one of the most delightful movies ever made. Yeah, would not have had a day off because of the nosy neighbor.

16:51 Right. Yeah, but this kids way younger than Ferris Bueller. Right, so I'm going to I don't really care how much younger. I mean, he, he's, he's got a little scam going on and you, you ruined it. That day, I ruined it. Yeah. Now listen, we're recording this early in the morning, so I could. I'm not at the bus stop today, so for all I know, he could just go home. I don't know. Well, if you're not there, he's going home. Maybe he shouldn't. He should take advantage when you're not there. I would. In my opinion it takes a village and if that was my kid, get them on the fucking bus. Well, yeah, but that's. Yeah, see, that's where I'm going to say I could if that was my child.

17:36 Please, random lady at the bus stop, tell my kid to get on the bus. Yeah, do it. Have at it. If I'm him though, I'm that young and I already have life figured out. Shut the hell up neighbor lady already. Have life figured out? Yeah. I don't shut up, thanks very much. I'm going to go home and play video games all day. Look. Right, There's stay out of it. There's always somebody watching, you know, well, here now, I've talked to other mom friends who have said no, I would have done that. I would have done that too, really. But it seems to be the that must be a mother like. That's a mother you did. What? Yeah, that's, that must be, Yeah, it must be a sort of a nurturing sort of.

18:17 Listen, I wasn't mean about it. And if you didn't get on the bus when I said get on the. Bus please. Not at all. I would have just been like, well whatever, it's not my kid, but I try. Not my It's not my pig, not my farm. Yeah, that's what Jeremy said. He's like, that's not your business. None of my business. No, it's not. If you are concerned, I would say the route that I would be more inclined to take would be to say something to the mother after she if she's dropping him off. Maybe just have a conversation with her if you happen to know. Where I don't, I actually don't know who she is. I don't. I barely know what the car looks like. Jeremy knows the car. He's like, Oh yeah, she leaves and then he. That would be the road I.

19:00 Really know her. That would be the road I would. Take 'cause she she doesn't know that any of this is happening, she still. Doesn't. Know because as soon as it's like 930 the school would call call her. But he must have some school calls way of figuring this out otherwise he would, I don't know, doing it every day? You have to either call the school and say you're absent or you go on the app and say you're absent. So I would guess that he doesn't do that. He might. Well, maybe, I don't know, He. Might like if he's got this figured out, he must have that figured out. I'm not sure he has much figured out to be honest. I think he just goes home and hopes for the best. One of my best friends in high school but missed, I think it was over of an entire semester of just staying home just because he felt like it, just to play guitar.

19:44 He'd every single video game system available at the time. Wow, and he's just never and. He's a fine fully functioning adult now. Everything is fine. OK? You gotta let kids live their life. No, kids can't just decide what they want to do. Well, some kids don't know. Some do, some don't. You know, you don't want to. You don't want to. You don't want to be a helicopter mom. No. Or neighbor. This or neighbor? Even you're the drone. Yeah, you're the drone. You're the neighborhood drone. I'm not spying on people. I'm not covering over their backyard. You. Got to figure out What Car she's driving, what else she lives in. You want to you want to go right now. I know you want to go right now and look in his windows to see if he's home playing.

20:26 Video games don't. I don't care if he goes home, fine. But I that day, it was out of my mouth before I even thought about it. Because I would say that to my kids, right? Or any other kids that I know and that's. Different though it was. Just it was just out of my mouth and I just didn't even think about. It kids, it's OK if it's people you know. My kids, I'm shoving them on the bus more. On the bus, then this one where you don't know the kid, you don't know the circumstances, you don't know any of it. So you think? You know or someone. 'S wrong. Yeah, I would. Somebody's got to got to have done what I did. No, I don't think so. I don't. Your wives do it. I don't know.

21:09 I, I, I, I feel like, I don't feel like my, I'll, I'll have to ask her. I don't feel like she would, but she would probably be more inclined to do it than I would. Yes. I feel like there'll be an awful lot of discussion between Ashley and I, but I don't think she would actually tell the kid, hey, get on the bus. Yeah, I don't think you. I don't think so. I. Well, for I live in a small town, I think it takes a village. Everybody knows that this kids not getting on the bus and just going like, you know, so it's. Not I harken back to one of the greatest movies ever made, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Don't spoil it. We could have had our own Ferris. That's right.

21:49 Yeah. Thanks to me, we don't. This is due to underwhelming demand. It's the podcast. That's like having a winter storm on your birthday. It's like driving in a winter storm on your birthday. It's like walking in a winter storm on your birthday. It's like shoveling snow in a winter storm. I don't have a joke here, I'm just looking pretty shitty. I'm just looking for sympathy. Happy birthday. Happy. Birthday day. Yeah. I don't really. I don't it. Was last week and he's 29. Yeah, again.

22:31 And it's snowed. Snowed. I wonder when he'll turn 30. Look. If you've never shovelled snow on your birthday, you don't know what you're missing. I haven't. No. No. Have you, Foreman? Nope. No. We're in May. Yeah. end of May. Both of us. Yeah. We just miss it. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes it's cold, but there's not been snow. Yeah, well, Speaking of just missing. Something. Oh boy, I'm. Glad you dropped that off. I have pretty much avoided this my entire, I don't want to say adult life, but almost my entire driving life. Let's do it that. Way since I began driving on my own your. Horns always work.

23:17 Yes, my horns. Always. This is a long time ago. I have broken from overuse. Somehow you don't know that for sure. Yeah, somehow in all low those many years that I've been driving a vehicle, I have never, ever, ever hit anything that was alive before I hit it. Alive. Oh, you've never hit an animal? I've never. Hit like no like a like a squirrel. Never. Oh, I might as well have cloud through the forest at this point. I have. A such a city boy. Not. Really though, well I have a city boy, but I I once I had a job where I lived in London, drove to Stratford every. Day.

24:01 Oh yeah. And I avoided. I remember avoiding a dog that ran a clock. Across the road in front. Of you know, I have had Look, Rachel, doesn't matter whether you're a city boy or not when you drive to work the bulk of your working career at 4:00 in the morning. Right. Yeah. The animals are out. There are animals that are all over the place. I remember 678 deer crossing in front of me on Richmond St. by the university 1 morning. Yeah, they're always in Hyde Park, at on, at Riverside. You know, I recall we used to do Dave's Animal Kingdom sometime because I'd see something and wonder, yeah, what was that? Right, but I didn't hit.

24:41 I hit a skunk on the way to work one. Well, this is. Why? I believe. In the morning, I believe it's. It's not. I feel like, here's the thing I had now I've hit two birds, but really they hit me. OK, you know what? I. Mean that's. What I'm like a Birds always fly into a they, they, you. I. Don't. Yeah, no, I that's happened to me twice, but it it was, there was a long period in between the first time and the second time and the second one was no fun because it was stuck in the grill at the front. And like you. Got to get that. OK, so, but I look, I see like and I see roadkill everywhere.

25:24 And so my all of all of the time that I've been driving, whenever I see roadkill, I go, huh, couldn't avoid it, huh? How does that happen? How do you not you know like I know and my wife tells me well don't swerve and I don't think I've ever swerved. I've slowed down. I've done things to like and squirrels I think are getting smarter. Personally, I think squirrels, over my lifetime anyway, seemed under city squirrels understand that there. Are cars squirrels? Yeah, have. You ever noticed how they sometimes start there and you go, oh, he's going to go, but then he goes? Nope. Nope, I see there's a car. Yeah, see, they're getting smarter. They are getting now they're not completely 100% foolproof or anything.

26:06 No. Based on what I. See along the highway. Based on what I've seen so well. Humans aren't either, so. No, that's true. So but. If you have a horn, you can warn them. Well, yes, but you have to be able to do that, yeah. No, Everybody has that ability, this. Happened to me just after six AMI had just dropped my wife off a couple of weeks ago. It's it's pitch black at that hour. It's winter time and I believe I was on Windermere Rd. which I'm always on. I'm just heading back home and at the out of the corner of my eye on the on the passenger side, out of the corner of my eye in an instant, I see I have no idea what I'm guessing for those.

26:53 If you don't want to know, you know, you may want to squirrel ahead here, but I'm guessing little Bunny, I'm guessing you know, I I don't think a squirrel. Bunny's out right now. Oh God, they're everywhere. Oh. Yeah, kidding. Oh. Yeah, the bunnies are out. It was a wrap, I believe. I believe that's what it was. I did because it was like, and I see it, but I'm lit it literally. And then it's like bump, right? Like I had no, absolutely no chance to. There's no way, not a chance. Like it was so quick and so fast and I went, wow, I like first of all, I felt bad because I had and I wanted to go back when it got light out to see just exactly what I had done right because I didn't know.

27:47 Whenever I hit an animal and and I don't want to, obviously no, but no. You want you try not to, but you can't swerve because you you might. This was so. Into the pitch or whatever so fast. My stomach drops like, oh God, I feel. And you feel so badly, right? Yeah. And you don't know. Oh, like it sometimes you just don't know. I mean, it could have been a cat. I don't know. I don't think. It was so quick. It was so fast, I have no one. Anyway, I was busy that day I and and lo and behold I ended up back there later in the day, but there was nothing by that point. There was nothing on the road which made me think well isn't there a road killed crew I think. There is, yeah. There is or did did this, whatever it was, somehow managed to get to the other side before it. That can't happen, You know, I don't know at. One time a deer hit me and then it ran away. It hit you.

28:43 Yeah, it ran right into how? Many things. Have you hit skunks? More deer? Yeah. Skunks. Deer. Well, that's pretty much it. I had a deer run into my car because it was the middle of the night. I'm driving into work. That was the damage on that. You run into the side. Front new wheel well and a. Bumper wow, I never want that I. Had AI had a porcupine? A porcupine, Yeah 'cause it was a big thud. It cracked the front bumper and we. Puncture your tire or something. Well, it was right in the middle of the front of the car. The same car that the horn doesn't. Wow, a porcupine. Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen. I've never seen. A porcupine in that a zoo. I think, but not in the wild. 'Cause it was a big bump, that. I know mine was not.

29:24 It wasn't a big bump, it was just. Well, I pulled over and, and to see what was that? And it was Oh my God, it's a porcupine. Like a little speed bump. Yeah. Yeah. And I and in high school, I did hit a deer for sure. And my parents minivan at night. How did that get? That probably didn't end well. No. Well, it ended with me waiting to be rescued at the side of the road. And then that's when, as you may recall, farmers came out of the field and asked you. Want that? You want that deer? Yeah, yeah. No one asked if you want that rabbit. That's the funniest thing because I was during the Christmas holidays, I was on the four O 2 traveling and I saw several dead ones. Several.

30:11 I actually started counting. I'm like that's a lot. So I don't know where those fire. Where's the people that where the? Deer feet, I don't know. Yeah. Maybe, well, maybe they take the holidays off too. Maybe they take the holidays. Maybe. Maybe. Well, you don't want one that's been laying there for a while either. Like, well, it's just cold enough, I mean. Fairly fresh. Like they're fresh, they're frozen in the freezer. Then flash frozen, it's ready to go. OK. I. Know all right if you're an animal lover, it's. Time to win, Sorry. Well, you should have not listened to this. Yeah, at West, the roads during the summer time are littered with Gophers. Gophers. And you know what they sound like. No, the beep, the beep. That's sad.

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32:24 Maybe you do. Listen. That could be the next big thing. You could start a podcast. Bumper stickers, right? Podcast. Stickers and you can go to our website and you can also e-mail us gave rachelforeman@gmail.com. We like to hear from you. We want to know what you think and we're at that point in the podcast. We have some comments, do we not? Yes, we do. Last week, Foreman, was the last week of the week you talked about your new air fryer. Yes. Last. Episode literally last night, Ashley says. Can you imagine a time before the air fryer? You use it that much, We don't use it. Wow, even a like a cup of VA and.

33:04 Yeah, I already used your advice, Air. It after air. Fryer, I already used your advice, Dave. We were having wraps the other night. Not not burritos that you had suggested, but just wraps. So like with like lettuce and tomato, whatever. So cold, other than the chicken, which is obviously hot, we put in it, but then I put it in the wrapped it up with that in the air fryer. It's sealed it shut. It made it crispy on the oh it's the best. Nice. For you, I'm never having a cold ever again. No. Why would you? Why would? You OK? Well, Julie has written to us on our website. You can send a message right through our website. She has a recipe for you Foreman. Oh, responding to your air fryer episode, she says one large tortilla, pizza sauce spread over the tortilla, 1 mozzarella stick or just shredded cheese, pepperoni and any other pizza toppings of your choice. Roll up, spray with vegetable oil. Air fry 4 to 5 minutes at 375.

34:01 So good in filling. Oh wow, that's. A roll. Yeah, I like that. Pizza Roll. Yeah, genius. Thank. You and easy and four to seven minutes or 4 to 5 minutes, whatever. Yeah, awesome. Perfect. Thank you. We have another message from Lindsay DeVos. Devoe. God, I never remember. I'm sorry, Devoe. Sorry, Lindsay. She corrected us Once Upon. A time I know, and then I got Devoe. Anyway, she says. Hi guys. Happy new Year, Lindsay here from sunny Halifax, NS. Sunny. Going. Back just have like a shut down the whole province storm nobody had electricity type of weather. Well, my sister, not in Halifax, but she had. It was a storm though. Yeah, yeah, I believe before Christmas, something about something your kids shouldn't be watching or something like that, she says. Well, I wanted to mention my husband allowed my two kids, aged 10 and five to watch the movies Happy Gilmore and Happy Gilmore 2.

34:57 Yeah, No, no, yeah, no. And. To your most recent episode about Foreman's blind date, I'm all for it. How is it any different than buying a ticket yourself and sitting next to a complete stranger? If it allows you to watch hockey, why not have a great day from Lindsay? Well. Thank you, Lindsay. Thank. You very much. That's true. I think that was you, wasn't it? You had let the kids watch something. Yeah. Christmas Christmas vacation, which Jeremy? But it's rated PGI think anyway. I don't know. We the kids, we had the kids watch Uncle Buck over our holidays, so that was good. Yeah, that was Ashley was giving me a few looks at some of the choice words and that, but it was overall fine. Yeah. You know, let's find the home alone. Kids and it's, I guess, kids.

35:38 Just become. But then. Then I went one step further and then said, well then, if we all like that, let's watch the great outdoors. What's that? That was. Worse, that's Dan Aykroyd. Probably I never at least. Dan Aykroyd and John Candy, I believe, right? Yeah, they go to. A funny movie. Funny movie. Yeah, but maybe a lot more choice words as it turns out for 8 year old years. Yes, Yeah, I got a. Lot more. Dirty work. We'll look at that one so. Yeah, Julie has been watching Stranger Things and. She. Got. I know. Yeah, she got us into it. So now we're all because I never watched it. Ashley and I've been watching it but and hardly wants to and we're like, I don't think so. I didn't watch it.

36:18 I don't think it's it's for me. But, but, but Charlotte really liked it to the point where she was right around her birthday when she turned 19, her champagne birthday, she was out celebrating her birthday till whatever hour. I don't know, I, I don't know. I'm sound asleep when she gets home and woke. Got up early in the morning just to watch the latest episode of Stranger Things before someone on social media tells you what it's about. Oh yes, she has to. Avoid her phone and do what? We go through all of that. Even I'm scared of some of the stuff. You're stranger. So I'm like a couple episodes ahead of Julia and we've just started season 4. Jeremy and I 'cause we're we're behind, but I know what's I need to know what's happened, what's going to happen and I've searched it so that.

37:11 Oh my God, I was. Too scared? Oh. Wow, 'cause I can't. Part of the fun. No part of the I know, but I need to know I I still know the story, but I need to know the basics of is this person found or is what happens to this person whatever right you're. Doing what Melody does, Melody and Halifax does it for every show she watches. Yeah, She always looks up how it's going to play out. First she wants to know everything, and then she starts watching. Sure. It's insane. Yeah, I don't mind that. I don't mind knowing. Yeah. So I have to. I've told Julie it's getting scary now. You like? Like you like a movie like Titanic, 'cause you pretty much know what's gonna happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

37:52 Since Lindsay brought up my blind date, Aaron, Aaron a a Aaron has sent me message as well, because that was at a sense game right when I was in Ottawa. Yeah, he said. Oh, Foreman, I spent last weekend in Ottawa, went to a sense game against Montreal. Dave. Yeah, it's an amazing arena, but the Montreal fans are so disrespectful and rude. They have no care for anyone else and then leave, then leaving the arena. It took us an hour to get from our parking spot in Lot 5 to the road and the drivers in Ottawa are the worst I've ever come across. Okay, well, that's that's part of the joy of going to a live sporting event, yes. Yeah, it's true.

38:36 But I forgot last week that while I was in town, Dave, I found an amber ale from the Ashton Brewing Company. Oh lovely. I found a the Front Porch Coal style ale from Calabogie Brewing. Wonderful. I found a Sun split IPA from Dominion City Brewing. Thank you very much. I hope I'm getting all of these. I'm expecting three more here. Hang on. And all from the Perth brewery, the Calypso IPA. Wonderful. The last dual logger. Wow. You really went Foreman. This is the.

39:18 Best and the PS de Resistance from Big Greg Brewery, owned by Chris Phillips of the Ottawa Senators. Yes, the Alpha Bomb Hazy IPA. Oh, well, I don't know what I'm going to see you, but I'd look forward to seeing and enjoying those. Thank you, Foreman. Thank you if it. Takes too long. I don't want them to spoil so. Well, I understand I'm people. Be drinking them. Yeah, right. You may need. To head on down to Saint Thomas. I would say that, well, it's winter time and it's very different. Like I think they closed Highbury the other day because you couldn't even get to but. You got a working horn, You're fine. I got a working horn. Yeah, Yeah. I'm gonna be there tonight. I we may need to.

39:58 We need. We should meet up. Yeah, I believe now I have a reason to meet with you to. Get beer. Yeah, on Spotify, by the way, we have. There's a few more, a few more here. Spotify Megan wrote about last week's episode titled A Few Dicks Hanging Out. Yes. And Megan of all people wrote. I haven't listened yet, but I'm loving the title. We know she's. She's the drawer full of. The drawer full. Of yeah, Megan, yeah. Awesome all. Right. Yeah. Rachel, did you have any other emails there? I only had the two. No, I only have the 2. Well then I happened to have two. But not emails. They are voice memos. Oh, from Nova Scotia.

40:40 Oh, Scotty, back to Scotty, OK. Hey guys, I hope you had a great holiday. I just listened to the latest episode since you got back. Butt or bus. Big fan, big fan of that. You really should keep doing it. So I was going over. I even had to write a list. I wrote a list of the stuff that went in people's asses. So baseball. My question is, when the doctor removed it, did he do like a you're out of there move? You know, that would be a point. I would expect that anyway. When you mention the bonsai tree, thank God that wasn't in somebody's butt because all I pictured was Mr. Miyagi, you know, wax on, wax off. I hope he put wax on it before he put it up there. I hope so.

41:26 Potato with googly eyes. I'd also wasn't in there, but I pictured that coming out too. And then, you know, as it's coming out, the doctor looks and all he sees are the two eyes looking at him. I'm sorry Dave, I know you don't like to hear the details and stuff. But no. That's what happens and. There's a. There's a second. Part OK, good, good. Oh, and a couple of the last ones, like the light bulb. You didn't say what kind of light bulb. So I was kind of picturing A fluorescent tube light bulb. So it was sticking out of his ass like another two or three feet that's long. It might be easier to put in and remove.

42:07 But you know, a difficult car ride for sure. And the sandal that was up somebody's ass is actually a French guy. His name was Philippe Philop. I'm sorry. Thanks Scotty. When I pictured the light bulb, I pictured one of the bulbous like old, you know, regular light bulbs like the rounded. Not a fluorescent. One, no that that would make more sense, to be honest. Again, not a comfortable car ride, as Scotty says. Very true. Yeah, very true. Fair enough. A difficult car ride for sure.