Forman's Leaving The Podcast?! (Ep. 144)

0:00 Don't you miss that though, Rachel, when you see everybody posting their Spotify or app, don't you wish you had Spotify so you could post? Your mine would be all kids songs and musicals like it's nothing to brag about really. My number one song because my wife shares, we share the Spotify because I'm not listening to the same songs over and over and over and over again. I'm not going for a run and listening to my playlist ad nauseam. That's what my wife does. She has the same songs. Yeah, she might add one, take one out here or there. I don't know how often she changes it. So anyway, my Sweet Caroline is my #2 Most listened to song of the year, my number one, Most listened to song. Enter Sandman.

0:46 Wow, OK. Yes, yeah, would not, I guess that. Bitch better have my money, isn't? It that's hilarious. Jenna's very early 2000s. Yeah, well, she's got I also look like here. Well, you'll appreciate it. I'm just scrolling through my top songs and just above Bitch Better Have my money is You've Never Had Chocolate Like This by Timothy. Oh man. That would be on my list. This is the underwhelming demand. The podcast that's like eggnog.

1:30 We both get way better when you add rum. Just a fact. Yeah, just. A fact, kind of a waste of time without it to be honest, right? Exactly. Coming up on the podcast, Foreman maintains that couples who say they don't ever argue are lying. Of course. They are. Rachel goes Christmas shopping and of course, buys for herself. Of course she does. Who doesn't? Court, Well, I don't, but, and we will begin with, do you have a good place to hide your Christmas gifts? No. Used to? What do you mean no? I'm the worst gift hider. Like I'm and Jeremy will tell you because I, I will bring home a gift and then I'll just like kind of leave it out or I'll like hide it under my coat And before I have time to put it away, like I just, I should put it away right away. And then I just don't.

2:26 And I just kind of leave it. Yeah. And then someone like picked up the coat and they're like, what's this? I'm like oh shit. Dave, don't you remember hearing a story of there's a gift for Jeremy just sitting inside the door when he came home, just there? Yeah, one time you recall that. That happens a lot. Yeah, but you have children, don't you hide? Them so I usually put them in this closet in the basement, but I they know that now. Mommy's gift closet, Yeah. Of course. So if there's something I really need to hide, I'll take it to my mom's house or I'll have it delivered there. OK, so. You do. You do have. If I really need to try and it's like maybe, maybe it's a big item or something like that that I can't easily hide at my house, then I'll send it to her house, 'cause you know, are they? Not on to that because she lives fairly close within walking distance and they can just start snooping around her. Yeah.

3:17 No, they haven't. They don't. So not that I know of. Are you aware that they've ever snooped and found gifts? No, no, but they. Would never tell you that. So I bought a couple of and I my kids won't hear this anyway, I bought a couple of gumball machines, OK, because I saw them at Shoppers. Shoppers had them. So I bought 2 and and I thought, oh, these are kind of cool. So I bought them for gifts and I had to pick up Julia from dance or theatre and drive home. And then I think she might have saw them in the trunk when she was going in the house because. Then just there a. Few days later, well they were in a bag so I don't know and I was like don't look in the trunk and then a few days later she's.

3:57 Like mom look for. Christmas say that she wouldn't have. Yeah, well, she knows. I don't know. She knows. I think they don't want them spoiled too. Like they don't want the surprise spoiled. They they want it to be So then a few days later she says to me, Mom, can I have a gumball machine for Christmas? And I was like. Yeah, you. Definitely saw, yeah. You definitely saw. Damn it. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Well, you shouldn't have said don't look in the Trump, you're not very good at it. No, you really know. No, I'm not OK. No, because a lot. Of it's a lot of work, you know, it's just a lot of work to hide everything so that no one ever sees it. And up to last year, we had a good spot right at our front door. There's like a bench, but it and with pillows and it's got a, I don't know, a cushion on it and whatever.

4:44 So you could sit there and do whatever for the front door, right? But it also opens and is hollow inside. And that was our spot to just fill with all the gifts 'cause they were like, they don't even know what opens. Like this is cheap, right? They know it opens now and they know that's where all the gifts would be. So nothing can go in there anymore. So somebody found it? Yeah, they found the hiding spot. Most parents, according to a survey, put a lot of effort into hiding the kids gifts. So like 2/3? A. Lot of effort. You're not. You're not one of the Rachel. However, you're not alone. The most trusted places to hide A gift closet, bedroom, car, basement, garage. Yeah, but if you get more creative, you're correct at a loved ones home in the attic. I'm never putting anything in the attic in my I've. Never been in our attic and I'm scared. 'Cause I don't want to look in the attic, I don't want to go up there, yeah.

5:37 Yeah, so I don't do that. I don't know what's with addicts on TV or movies, by the way. Addicts aren't a place where you store things. It's just insulation. That's right. And probably mice who's got a. Floor up there and they're at it. Like I don't have a mine's like beams and and. Insulation. I don't like didn't have a floor either, but not a very good. One. Not a very good one, but that that leads me to my next question. Because in that movie and in that movie, and This is why I put and when I was a kid, I don't know about you, Foreman. I suspect Foreman did. I did Snoop. Well, of course I. Snooped. I don't know about you, Rachel. You don't strike me. Oh, you did.

6:17 When I was a bit older, I think, and then I think I did it one or two years and I ruined my surprise and then I was disappointed so I never did it again. I never did it again either. I did it once and that was it for for me, it was like it was terrible Christmas because I ruined everything. Well, I kept doing it, and in fact, after one particular Christmas. I knew. You because everything was just in my parents closet. Like there was no creativity to the hiding. Yeah. But one Christmas, months afterwards, I kept checking because before Christmas I had seen, and I probably talked about this before, I definitely have a giant box of Lego, like just like General, whatever, 400 pieces, whatever it is, like just a boatload of Lego. Sweet.

6:59 Can't wait. Yeah. Never showed up on Christmas. Like it didn't go to one of my sisters. Lego. Didn't go to me. I kept going back and rooting through the closet. It would. It would completely disappeared. Who is it for? Where did it go? Lady who listens to this podcast? OK, well, what the hell happened? Maybe we'll find an. Answer. Maybe we'll find. What were you then so we can decipher the year I. Don't know, she's not going to remember anyway. Probably the back of the freezer with other. Foreman kept looking. Foreman still in the. Closet pull it out for this. Year, yeah. I use your gift. I I do most of my gift buying around this time of year for Christmas especially.

7:42 For my wife, does everyone? Yeah. Well, some people don't. Some people buy and but, and I have done this. I'll see. Start like in February. Well, no, I'll see something on sale somewhere and go. That'd be a great Christmas gift, and then I'll buy it. And then I completely. Yeah, sure, forget that I have it. Of course. Right and. Where it is and. Where it is, you don't even think about it. Yeah. So I tend to I'll find a spot like this year, I have a a an empty box that a Christmas tree I think came. I don't want to say where am I anything and I just throw everything. She won't go looking anyway because she doesn't want a boy. Box. Got it. I throw it. I just throw it in there, cover it over so you can't see what's inside right and that. But I want everything there so that I don't forget something. Yeah, this poor old card.

8:31 Goes up there and finds a Mother's Day gift from five years ago. Yeah. Yes, right. Yeah. Have you ever? I do have stuff kind of in different places and I also don't I know because I order a lot of things. I don't open the packages because if I don't open it other the my family doesn't know what it's what it is and it can't ruin the surprise even if I leave the package out right So. That's all the time. Emily definitely discovered something the other day that was in a package like that, a shipping thing, but on the label. Pretty sure she it says what exactly? What? Yeah. So then I don't open the package, but then I have packages all over the house.

9:13 And then sometimes I'll be like, so I have to make a list on my phone. I have a list in notes of what I've bought, and I've checked it off so that I can remember when I'm wrapping exactly what I have. Well my wife does that too. She has a list and everything. But then on Christmas Day when we are opening gifts, she has no idea what she's giving us because she wrapped them a month ago and she'll go, well, maybe open this one. I don't know what it. Is. You know, and, and Charlotte and I both get a kick out of it because she has no idea what she's giving us because she's forgotten. So I said to her this she, because she's got literally anything for the two of us, is already wrapped and under a tree somewhere. Now. Yes.

9:54 Oh yeah, she what? She gets stuff like if something shows up at the door, she comes home from work, takes it downstairs and wraps it. But I said, yeah, you'll be you'll have no idea. She goes, Nope. I know what everything is this year. So we'll see how I'll let you know how that works, OK? Yeah. Yeah. I should do that too. You've. Never lost a gift though You've never found a gift. Yeah, I've like for Yeah, I have forgot about thing and be like I. Figured you. Wouldn't I think I got this and I where is that? Oh, hang on. And then I gotta go shove it in a bag and give it to me. OK. You're the best. Thank you for fulfilling everything I needed out of that. Thank you.

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11:24 You could tell us what message you want. All of that and we have a shout out from a very special person, Santa. Ohh that's why I have all this. OK, that's why I have a. Shout out for the whole dud team, he said. Wow. Yep, and it's a little poem actually. Ohh great. OK, here we so. Glad we charged him, by the way. I don't know if Santa makes money or how that works. Santa give me. Your money Santa OK for here we go for here's Santa wants to give a shout out to the whole dud team. He said Foreman only drinks beer out of bottles and refuses to even go into a Costco, but he does all the podcast sound effects and is the best foil to Rachel and Dave's fun filled quips. Rachel loves to save frozen butter and plays hockey on frozen water with her timely segues. Beauty and charm to boot.

12:24 Sure. She fits perfectly between those two boisterous brutes. Roots, yes. Dave loves reading his headlines, including The Florida Man on and on, and excels taking care of his north of fanshaw pristine front lawn with his witty banter. He's the straw that stirs the drink so the dud team can always stay In Sync. So a Merry Christmas to Dave, Rachel and Foreman and have a happy and prosperous New year. Ho ho ho from Santa, from Santa. Thank you Santa Claus. He says he's got a little joke at the end. If you are afraid of Santa, maybe you are Claus trophobic.

13:05 OK. Thank you Santa, that's so nice. Santa got us into the holiday. That gave us a dad joke. Yeah, well, thank. You He's got a lot of little L's to take long. He's kind of the ultimate dad Santa. With the shout out came some gifts. From. Santa from Santa well. I think these actually say it says here, Merry Christmas to you. This is yours, Foreman. Oh, thank you for a great fun year. Wow. From Jan and John Everett. Oh, thank you. Wow, OK. We're going. To well, you're going to watch the YouTube. This one too. This one just says Dave from Santa. OK.

13:49 And I was told that I must go first. OK, so I have one for you too. Rachel, don't. Worry they're. In beautiful gift bags. Dave is smaller than mine though, so that's good. It's not a bottle. Looks like it's a liquor bottle. No, it's not. It's not. Oh, oh, wait a minute. Say. It says, yeah, here we go. You'll have to hold it up. Snow plow repair kit it's. A A putting carpet. It's a. Piece of grass, right? So that'll help. You in handy because that that. That'll help you in the spring. Yeah, yeah. Look, I got a a cowbell easy IPA.

14:30 Very. Crazy. It's yes. I might just open that now. Oh well. Well, this early though. Very early in the morning at the moment. Thank you Santa who wants to. Go. Wow. OK, Open Foreman's there. You've got it right there. Yeah, alright. We'll do that. Oh, you got a. This is a. There's a. Bottle there. You. Go Oh, it says. There's words on it. Oh, it says the very last one. What is it? And it's wrapped in foil. Wrapped in the. Very last one. The very a bottle. That's the very last one I. Hope it's a huge bottle of of. Fireball, Fireball. It's a huge a giant moose.

15:11 A chummy. Oval tea bottle. It's. Great. Wow, that's hilarious. Wow. Gift. That's a great gift. That's amazing. Is that inflatable? No, it's plastic. It's hard plastic. It's giant hard plastic. Does it, is it like you put change in the top or is it No, I don't no, OK, It's just. Yeah, the lid comes Lid. Comes off. Oh, you can put things in there. Yeah, that's amazing. The very last Moose Head bottle. Yeah. Wow. Thank you, John and Jan. Holy cow, there's more. What a thoughtful gift. And an actual moose head. Cooking. Getting this out of my hand. You could pour that into the plastic bottle and drink it from there.

15:51 You got two of them. Look at that. Very nice. I got 2 moose heads. 2 moose. Heads and. The bottle. That's very nice. That's a great gift. Yeah, very thoughtful. You can have one of them, Dave, I don't know. You still owe me a six pack from earlier. Do I? Whatever. Are you going to Ottawa? You need me to get me some? Right. That's right. Yeah. It was a hockey bat, didn't you? I absolutely did. Yeah, you did. Hockey bat, right? You know, we never see each other. It's all right. Rachel, here we go. OK, hope this is in a bag. It's from the Chocolate Factory. Oh. Oh, is it ever? It's a big bet. Oh.

16:31 My goodness, you see what you're getting. The Reses P Oh my God, how many? That's humongous. That's. One big ass bag. Reese Pieces, Holy cow. But I love that. Thank you. That's perfect. It's resealable too, but when you get into. It because that's quite a bit. If you do, stop eating you. Can maybe. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it is Christmas. There you go, Merry. Christmas. Thank you so much, John and Jan. Wow, that's so nice. Thank you for the shout out. Yeah. Yes, and to Santa as well. Merry Christmas. Ho ho ho Jesus, you have to leave that in. I think that just got left in.

17:19 Jesus. Did the room clear out? Vibrate wind? Oh. My God, yeah. You couldn't hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant. If you're not doing anything, give me a Stokey. So what's the matter with you? This is due to underwhelming demand, the podcast equivalent of getting a lump of coal in your stocking. You're welcome.

18:05 Yeah. Yeah. Be it, You know. Yeah. Well, you know he's making a list. Right. Checking it twice. Yeah, OK. And if you have anything to say about it, yes. Yeah, keep your damn mouth shut, Yes? Because. Happy couples don't argue. Ever. No. Oh, OK. No, yeah, and, and Dave, most of all will be delighted to know about which ones. Ever. Ever. Not once in 2 1/2 years, according to Travis Kelsey. OK, you're still in the honeymoon I heard. That the two of them, They don't argue. Wait till you're together 22 years, then you might argue like 2 1/2 years.

18:46 It's nothing. Well, yeah, but I mean, I think honestly, we, it's not like we never argue. We do. I think what happens certainly in my case is and it's not it's I'm. You're wrong speaking, and then you realize that. You're speaking on behalf of my wife here. I think after a certain period of time there are things about one another and I don't really have that. You know, there's maybe a couple things that I go, yeah, I wish she didn't hadn't done that or I wish. And it's sort of the, the, you know, where I'll find something in the wrong drawer or, you know, like I'm looking for something from the kitchen and it, it, it, it's moved from its usual spot. That's a typical thing that my wife would do. And I will go, well I wish she hadn't done that or damn it's hard to find that and I don't want to text you at work and go where did you put it?

19:46 That's what you're butter into yourself. Oh, she did. I wish she hadn't done that to. Accept, I tend to accept that those and I'm pretty sure that I quite annoy her on a regular basis. I'm pretty sure I quite annoy her, but she tolerates that to the point where unless I'm really getting annoying and then she'll say. I don't care, OK, You know, or whatever. So. You're just, I would honestly say deal with that. I honestly say I don't think we argue a lot. Not a lot. It's funny how she can say to something that's bothering you. She doesn't care, but you can't say that. No, I know I would never say that. I would never, ever.

20:29 Not at all. Jeremy and I argue but not like I would say we bicker and but we never, we don't really have big fights. Bicker. Yeah, the like be like, don't do that, it's annoying and you know, and that and then that's about it, right. Like we don't, if we have a big fight, it might be once a year maybe like, but it's not, I don't know. It's it doesn't last long, so. You bicker, I like to. There was, when I say bickers mattered, I seem to recall as a child. Be the old couple that bickers. For sure as a child there was a comedy team that put out a couple of albums called The Bickersons, and that's funny.

21:11 I recall my parents laughing their heads off. That right? I didn't get the humor in it, but right. Yeah, but they. Really. Got it. They they. Really got it And. They really understood it. You. Weren't married yet? So, yeah, so you bicker. I like the bicker. Yeah, you. Can't live with someone and be with them, you know, almost 24/7 and never argue with them. No, there's never any conflict. Like, come on. Well, there's a Travis. Kelsey and I, I don't know if anybody else has thought of this, but why? Why, why, why? You know, all I'd have to do is look at her bank account and go, well, I'm not fighting with her. That's right.

21:51 Yeah, your net worth is 1.6 billion and she's got 1 billion of it. Yes, don't piss her off. Don't piss her off. Yeah, you're already in. Time to shut up. Right. At 2:00, what are they, 2 1/2 years in? Yeah. I guess, but I mean, how so? She was on tour for a lot of that. He plays football. Actually travel, yeah, but they, I believe they live together for the most part, but they also are independent in that, you know, maybe she has to go to New York and appear on The Tonight Show to promote an album and he's he's gotta go to Dallas, he's gotta go to Dallas to play football or exactly whatever so. But I could see where after 2 1/2 years that's possible. Sure, but this came up in a conversation with George Clooney of all people.

22:36 Was he on? Their podcast before they get everyone I know they get everyone yeah, he's. Booked on ours next week. But he went on to claim that him and his wife Amal have never fought in their ten years. Never, ever, ever. Fuck right off. That's not true. I don't believe that for a second and. He backs it up by saying, I think I read this. I haven't listened to their podcast, but I think I read that he he basically says she's she's smart, she's intelligent. She believes in the same things that I've always believed in. Why would I argue with it? Right? Like why would I fight with? Beautiful, smart stands for all the most important things.

23:16 I can't believe how lucky I am. So what am I going to fight about? Yeah, What would you fight about? Good line. Remember that one, Dave? Yeah, I'm lucky. Well, I try to, I mean, because I, you know, I step back and go, yeah, I'm lucky, you know, So yeah, of. Course. OK, I don't. I wonder if Jeremy is? Extremely lucky I. Don't know about that because you know as we have and you always put on display your own self, you're quite high maintenance. Me. Yeah. He's not talking to me, Me he's. Not talking to me. Yeah. Yeah, I know that I am. And Jeremy deals with it or he just doesn't and ignores me. And that's fine, you know, he just kind of let's me do my. Difficult to ignore too, so that's good for him. The.

24:04 Things that we argue about are generally chores. We argue about who's doing what or who's cleaning what, or you did this and you're not helping with it. That's the kind of stuff that we argue. We don't really argue about fundamental like beliefs or anything like that. So if you're living a cushy life where you've got people helping you with maids and cleaner, you know, you've got nannies, maybe whatever. You don't have. That stuff to argue about. I guess if we assume they're so rich that they they don't have to. Do any more help than we do OK for? Sure. That's possible, you know. That's possible, but I had I know a couple and you I think you guys know I I don't know how well you know them, but at one point we spent a lot of time together with this couple. I don't I don't see them that often anymore. I.

24:51 See, I know you're talking about. I see them on social media and we actually did a couple of overnight trips with them at one point, just like one night. And when you spend any amount of time with the two of them and they're, you know, they, they met, they profess that they are madly in love and they probably are. They've been married a very long time, but boy, oh boy do they go at one another. They're constantly I mean, they it's it's non-stop at times, like one will piss off the other and away they go. And it doesn't matter who's there to see it to the point, and I think I've shared this story with you before. There was a point, I think I don't know where he was. He he wasn't there at that particular point in time. And I remember she was talking with there was a group of us and she goes, well, we want to get married. We had so much funny.

25:42 We want to get married again. I think, well, like on one of our anniversaries, we're going to get married again. And I remember turning to her and I said to each other, yes, what do you mean by that? So they don't even see it. They don't see right that aspect. Part of their, you know, banter they. Are if it works then it works right? We used to. From our friend group from time to time, if there was a group set and we would get, oh, mom and dad are fighting again, there would be there's be some bickering and some some back and forth. Right. Yeah, not so much anymore. Now it's more like, like you were saying, there's a tolerance for your everyday little minute. Thing annoyances.

26:28 But then sometimes it starts to overflow over the side of the dam. Yes. Yeah. And then and then you gotta have some choice words. Yeah. Yeah, 'cause I'm guessing for them in that at your house it's not quiet all the time, no. I mean, in there it's usually arguments with one or both of us, with one or both of the children. Right. Yeah, our house is loud too. Sometimes that ends up to be a get with each other, and then sometimes no matter, no matter whose point you'll we'll say was more valid in the 1st place because of their style of arguing that point. They're wrong anyway for that tone, so it doesn't matter what the original point, you know. Does any of this sounding familiar? And I feel like that's a whole other trap. I wouldn't go down that, yeah.

27:18 And I'm saying she's so smart and beautiful. Gosh, I'm so lucky. Yeah, there you go. Well done, Foreman. Way to patch that up. This is due to underwhelming demand. It is. It's a podcast. It's a Dave, Rachel and Foreman, the podcast that would appreciate it if all of you people dreaming of a white Christmas would just, you know, stop. Oh, come on. It's just stop. Christmas is fine. Stop a white Christmas. Is fine, but a white like it can go after that. I don't know. Yeah, but stop dreaming. The only people who dream about white Christmas are living somewhere where you don't get one.

28:03 So stop it Like. Well, no, no it OK, I. Want cold. I want the white Christmas. I want snow banks in the backyard. The Christmas lights are on. The fire's going. The kids are playing. Yeah, I'm sitting in the hot tub. Yeah. Watching. But as of January 2nd, that can go away. I know it can. Go away. December 26th as far as I am. Hey, look. It's around for New Year. Goes for all you. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. People stop. Just stay. You need to go somewhere hot in the winter, I know. Soon, I know. I just feel like enough is enough so far. It's early yet, yeah. We have gotten, yeah, quite a bit of snow, so. You can you can back off a bit.

28:43 How about that? Dave, you'll be happy to know, as I've learned lately, that there's been a a someone's put up a giant sign on a balcony in Winnipeg since the 70s and like right over a major highway that just says in plain block letters. Humbug. Nice. It's been there every year for like 50 years. I didn't know that. No, I'm not going that far. I like Christmas. That's kind of hilarious. I don't mind a little bit of snow, but you know, it's early yet. All right, well, as you're preparing for Christmas and going shopping for Christmas, how many, how many gifts have you purchased for yourself while you are Christmas shopping? Not a one. What? Not one. No.

29:24 I mean, there are so many sales, great deals, you just can't help it, right? Yeah, well, as A has a few extra things of hers that have turned up yes now lately. Yeah, you mean you get one for you, one for me, maybe 2 for you, another one for me? No, that's not how it works. Double for this person, but I will now another one for me. I have to backtrack because we we do. Because we're craft beer nerds, We do an advent calendar if we have a beer a day, right? So we have an advent calendar that we create ourselves. A beer a day keeps the doctor away. So, yeah, so we go out and buy. I buy beer that I'm intending to give to.

30:07 So I know. So I'll try to find a beer that maybe I know she really likes. Oh, so you make it for each other. Yeah. So we same. But sometimes I'll see a beer that neither one of us has had and I'll go, well, I'll get two of those. And so I'll say to her, you don't have to do 1 today 'cause I bought one for. This one's for me. Yeah, but no, I bought one for both of us and she'll do the same thing. So technically I have bought myself a gift, but not it's not real. Otherwise, no, I would never buy anything for myself this time of year, ever. Ever. Ever. There's a lot of great sales and, you know, if you've bought stuff for you, what did, what did you get? Because sometimes you're like, I can't pass that up and nobody else is gonna know and I gotta buy it right now.

30:48 And So what I just tell Jeremy was, well, sometimes it just, you know, he just can't get to it or whatever. You know that I cancelled Fabfitfun, right? I was getting the Fabfitfun subscription. Oh, I wish you had told us that. Well, I can. Tell you that it was about a year ago that I cancelled it I. Don't remember that, for all the reasons we consistently highlighted every time you mentioned not. To. Well, anyway, so they had a really great sale on for Black Friday and. Didn't. React I'm I'm a member again. Oh no. OK, so how much box arrived? That's. About 500 bucks a year Canadian. Just complete crap. It's not crap.

31:31 They have great products. Actually I was running low, so I was like, I'll just, I'll just renew. Can't believe that even. Exists. So wow. Wow. And. $500. So I mentioned it to Jeremy one night. We were sitting on the couch and I was like, I think I'm gonna redo this. And he might have been on his phone or watching TV. And anyway, I'm not sure he heard me. But the box arrived. And so then I brought it in and then the doorbell rang 'cause it was delivered. And Julia went out and I was like, oh, that's for me. And Jeremy's like, what is it? And I was like, it's back. And he's like, Oh my God, you did it. It's Christmas. I said, I know, but I couldn't help it. It's such a great prod.

32:13 It's. Such a great thing. I just love getting them. Wow. Well, I refer you back to the last segment where we mentioned high maintenance. But he's not going to get that for me. So I got it myself. And that was when, you know, when it was being delivered. So I can't help it. I can't help that. Obviously not. OK, well what when you when you when you're doing your Christmas shopping for yourself? Yes. Do you try to balance out, you know, money wise, budget wise, what everybody gets? So are you gonna, is Jeremy going to get something of the same value? And I would argue that that's valueless. What you bought, yes, but correct. I would not argue that.

33:03 Objectively, Dave's correct. No, no, yeah, he's getting several things that add up to enough. Yeah. Like per month, really. As a subscription, yeah. No, right. I mean, no, he's not getting a subscription, but he's getting a few. That will add up to that, at least to that. And has he bought anything for you? Of course. Yes, he has. I don't know what he's got for me though. So you're going to make out like a bandit. Although I do know that he did get me some pajamas because I ordered them myself because it was also a Black Friday deal. And I was like, I'll just get and you can just give these to me on Christmas. So that was. You just ignored the whole you make out like a bandit thing. You just.

33:46 You do you. Know so does he, so does he. I you know what? When I buy gifts I go overboard and my family tells me you've got to stop. It's because I do love to give gifts also in addition to buying things for my own self. You just love to give gifts to to not only everybody, but to yourself as well. Yes, you can't help yourself. You just love giving gifts. But I can't be the only one. I'm sure you're buying things for yourself because you're finding things that you like when you're shopping for other people, right? So you, I'm, I'm sure you're finding something for yourself. It can't be just me. Well, I'm the beneficiary of of some of that. I am the beneficiary of some of that because my wife through the year we'll purchase, she'll see something generally while she's on a computer online on her phone something and go Oh well, I would like that.

34:41 I will order that because it's on sale and then when it comes she'll just put it somewhere and then the closer the Christmas we get she goes, oh I bought this about 3-4 months ago, you can give it to me for Christmas. Right. And I'm like, OK, great, that doesn't stop me from going out and buying Christmas gifts. She. Needs to have a few surprises, but at least then she's getting the size or the color or whatever the items. Like she did you then, since you've given yourself this fun box, whatever it is, Yeah. For Christmas keeps giving. It's not really for. Christmas. It's just to yourself for Christmas. And when it arrived at the door the other day, I'm going to assume you gave it directly to Jeremy so he could wrap.

35:24 It I gave it to myself and opened it right away. OK, so then it's not? A Julia was right there beside me. Oh, it's. Not a Christmas gift then. It's just I just gave something to myself. I bought this for myself and it happened to be purchased around Christmas. I see. OK. I mean, if we could go around Willy nilly buying all kinds of stuff for ourselves, we could. But yeah, see our bank account, it only is so much money in Yeah. And that's, yeah, that happens at my house too. But you know. And all that money is directed at the children's gifts. So Ashley and I are debating should we get each other stay in air fryer this year? That's. That's how the adult gifts work in our house. Oh, OK, see, you're not giving gifts. No decision has been made yet.

36:07 But I that's very different from my house. Yeah, clearly, very clearly. It's slightly different from mine too, but not to the degree that Rachel, it's slightly different. It's slightly different here. Well, it's going to be a very Merry Christmas. For everyone. Yeah. I like that. You love to give gifts. Sure. I question that you like to give gifts to yourself. Well, and I try not to, but this one I just couldn't pass up. Yeah, you know, sure.

37:22 The this is due to underwhelming demand. It's a podcast where Dave, Rachel and Foreman and I want Rachel to break this to you gently, but this may be the last podcast for a bit. Yeah, well, till after Christmas. It's Rachelle fault. Gosh, that's son and ominous. It's just for Christmas. It's just a. Christmas for a few weeks I'm going away to my sisters house and then we're and then it's Christmas and it's just busy so we're not. Able to get them from from us. We're not going to be around for Christmas. You're welcome. Rachel's gonna be buried in Cape Breton, yes? Well, no, I'll be back anyway, yeah. I think they quite literally just got married. 4050, sixty something centimeters. Of snow I know.

38:03 And you know what? That. Enough my. Sister's tree fell on her house. Oh, so it didn't, it didn't break anything, but it was this big tall tree and it's like on the roof, like lean. Oh, it's yeah, they they got really hammered. Have a great time, yeah. Well, hopefully that's gone by the time we get there. I don't know because the flight won't go out and. See, and, and they're always the saving grace of no matter how bad a storm might be in Halifax, Scotty, you always know it's worse than Cape. Breton It's worse than great, that's true. That's a good point, I know. Anyway, if you would like, if you would like us to keep doing our podcast and, and we intend to keep doing our podcast, but had there been a sponsor for next week's podcast, we wouldn't be taking the week.

38:47 Well, we would have to figure that out. We. Would have had to figure. That out not really around recording we. Would have we would have figured it out and how, how, how can you sponsor this podcast? Well, you can go to our website underwhelming.ca. There's sponsorship page there. There's a sponsorship page. You can check that out. You can e-mail us Dave rachelforeman@gmail.com. Great deals for packages and more multiple. Episodes as we Santa gave us a shout out. You can do shout outs, anything at all. You could buy us coffees, feel free. Sure, and coming soon, Dud Murch. Oh. It's in the works. Maybe by the time this is published, we'll have it ready to. Go.

39:27 We'll see. This is coming the. Thing I'm waiting on, I ordered a couple of pieces to see what it was like because we've, you know, quality control. Quality. Control. I'm doing the quality so we'll see and and then once I approve that, it'll be fine. You are them. Are you gifting them to someone on your list? No. Another gift for yourself. Yeah, Yeah. I didn't think about that, although Julia asked me if she could have some, so I ordered a sweater and a took and we'll see, maybe. All right, you let us know. Merch is coming. Merch. The merch is underwhelming, just like our podcast, so okay, keep an eye out for that. Let us know what you like and don't like and because you know it's for you. So we'll do that.

40:12 OK? We've got lots of emails. I've got a few things here. Last week I talked about how Jeremy's was on a training and they took a bio break and I was like what the fuck is that? Just call it a break. Oh my gosh. I'm in a business planning workshop today and they just told us to take a 15 minute bio break. Bio Breaks. Actual fuck. She's like, you're right it's weird. Just call it a break. It is weird. Like what do you think I'm doing on my break? Like bio break? You don't say go, they'll have a smoke break. Assuming everybody needs to go. No, just just. Bio break break break means you could do anything. What do you break? Break means that break means the same thing I. Like it Bio. Break makes you sound like an idiot.

40:53 Well, we're taking a bio break for a few weeks. No, we're just taking a break. It's a bio break for a Christmas break. Actually, it already has a name. About the Christmas gift story, I just listened to your last episode and I have a weird gift story. The first Christmas I spent with my husband's family, there were gifts under the tree for him, his three siblings, and myself, all labeled from Aunt Flo. My husband doesn't have anyone in his family named Flo, and when I was younger, a visit from Aunt Flo meant you were getting your period. Yeah, it that's what it means. Yeah, this is getting very. Uncomfortable. So I already thought it was weird. Turns out there was some old Christmas song that referred to receiving underwear from Aunt Flo. So every year since they were kids they would get underwear from Aunt Flo.

41:38 His mom continued this tradition until after my kids were born until someone finally told her it was a bit weird. I think the partners got thrown under the bus as the final straw because it was weird to receive underwear from your mother-in-law. But I'll never forget how awkward it was to open a pair of underwear in front of my in laws and my husband, and we'd only been dating for a few months at that point. That would be awkward. That's awkward. That is awkward. Yeah. Yeah. Well, on the same subject matter, I bet I better get in some of Megan's comments from Spotify. OK, you'll recognize which Megan in a second, right? Who first? First comment is? To be fair, I saw the meme on Rachel's story.

42:19 You know which one? Yes, and I laughed out loud. I'm happy I am Rachel's kind of person. Thank. You Megan, Megan, you are parentheses penis girl. Yes, the Dick themed gifts, yes. Right. And so from the last episode Megan says. Oh my gosh. OMG the monotone Megan from Foreman after Dave mentioned gag gifts made me laugh out loud. To be clear, there you go, this is just my sister and I. I am actually a great giver of gifts otherwise, I swear. OK. OK, well, I believe that. But I'm strangely flattered that I was the inspiration behind the episode title.

43:00 I'll send photos of some of the gifts via e-mail one day. OK. I would like to see them actually you're going that. Drawer. You're the only one. I need to see your collection of Dicks, I told. You I do not want to see. OK collect give an e-mail from Howie who sent us a message on our website which you can do underwhelming.ca. Howie says I am weighing in with butter. Thank you. When you use a lot in baking every week it when it goes on sale you grab it and stock up because paying $8 for butter is insane. That being said Giant tiger has it on for 444 this week limit 4. So I grabbed my forum, my wife grabbed 4 and we had eight. And when stores get butter in it's always frozen like a GT where I got mine this week. Oh I didn't, I know they were.

43:45 It was frozen when stores got it. Really. Thanks to everybody backing me up in the butter. Buy it. That would I would. Be there I think when they receive it and then it thaws in the fridge when they. And then how much worse are you making it by refreezing? It. I don't know that's true. Oh yeah, we have a. Point. Yeah, right. We have another e-mail from Debbie. Remember she sent us an e-mail a while ago and she was on episode 138. Well, she's caught up now, Debbie. She says, hey there, I'm caught up. And I heard on the last episode when you read my e-mail, Foreman said he would tell me offline what parking lot he uses. I haven't seen that. Can you let me know?

44:26 Yes, we'll do. You need to e-mail her back because she wrote to us. Yeah, by the way, to you for the last week, it's it's free again, Deb, okay. Is it? Nobody checking anything. Free again. There's so many messages this week, Ben sent us a message. He says. I watch you guys every week on YouTube. I just watched episode 143. Drawer full of Dicks Rachel. I also freeze my shredded cheese and my butter. Thank you. And also thank you for not censoring your podcast. OK, if you're buying shredded cheese, that's another problem altogether because they put because they put chemicals in it so it will stay shredded. Otherwise it would all stick together when they sell it in the store. So that's it's full of Yeah, you'd, she said. Shred your own cheese.

45:12 Don't do, don't buy that. Stuff and I will actually give y'all freezing people 1/2 a point because Kamiko who listens did have a point where she will shred. She will have a block of tree shredded, shredded herself, right? Right. And and put it into different portions of whatever in freezer bags and then freeze that. OK, so when needed it's already done and shredded as long as it's not in there for too long. But. That'll give her a half a point for that. It takes so a lot of. Time for half a point. It takes so little time to shred cheese, why would you buy it in a bag you. Guys are so hard to please. Well, I'm just telling you like, there's chemicals in it. Stop it.

45:54 OK, I've one last e-mail from our favorite listener, Foreman's mom. Oh. Gosh, do we want to do that before or after? Because we you have some more. Well, I've got some fun our Spotify Wrapped as a show has. Come, I wanted to sit back and just enjoy the e-mail, but OK, I'll wait. To the end. Let's do it. OK. Yeah. Total new audience this year is up 214%. Wow. All right. That's 229,000 minutes you've listened to. Thank. You. Thank you. That's amazing. Yeah, the episode that was played 30% more than our average episode. Bag full of Dicks? No drawer full of Dicks. No, not yet, because that was only last week, so it wasn't enough time yet.

46:36 Yeah, a real bummer. Episode 120 from April 2025. Why was that so good? I don't know the topics included. Dave is in on the latest Costco craze. OK, will Rachel play more hockey? And Foreman digs himself a bigger hole. Yeah, riveting. OK. Riveting, yeah. Sure, We've reached 12 countries this year in in order, Canada #1, followed by the US, the UK, Brazil and at #5, Uzbekistan. Really. Who's listening from Uzbekistan? That's awesome, somebody. Somebody else if you're listening. From outside of Canada, I want to hear from you, yes. Please.

47:22 I want to know who's listening. Dave rachelforeman@gmail.com please tell us. I want to know where you're from. We are a top 10 show for 291 fans. We're a top five show for 250 fans. We're a #1 show for 121 fans. Wow. Half of our top fans have binged 2 or more episodes in a single day. Half of our top fans hit play within the 1st 24 hours of a new episode. Our fans listen to us longer than 96% of other shows they listen to. We get an average rating higher than 94% of other shows and more comments than 97% of other shows.

48:03 Wow, that's. A good. The top other show they listen to, Yes, is Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard. OK, good one. I've never heard that one. It's it's OK. It's a great guest. You did a great long episode with Luke Combs. It's fascinating. I just don't really. Honestly, I don't like him. I'm not the biggest. Why? I don't know him. He's, you know, I, I feel the same way about him as I feel about the girl in the Wicked movie, Ariana Grande. I don't really like her either. She's really good. She's really good in the Wicked movie, but I I assume she's just playing herself which is why I don't like. Her it does seem like that. Yeah yeah. The final the final stat we have here from our Spotify Wrapped as a show 2025 yes.

48:48 The top artists our fans listen to, yes. Any guesses? Luke Combs. He's #3. Oh. Oh the what's his name? God, I can't remember. I don't know. Can't. I can't. Put that person on the list. Put my tongue. Yeah, another country. You know the popular. The guy that throws chairs. Yeah, Morgan wallin #1 and Luke Combs is #3 OK gym bag. Our number two top artist that all our fans listen to is Taylor Swift. Swift. I mean, that's everybody's number 2 except gym bags, I think. Gym bag. Yeah, so we're Morgan Wallin, Taylor Swift, Luke Combs, followed at #4 by Nickelback. What?

49:35 Yeah, rage. Yeah, rage does not like. Not me. Rounding out the top five? Eminem. Really. Wow, what? A what? An eclectic group. That's a very eclectic group, yes. Yeah. OK, it's a very pale group, but it's. Eclectic. It's a quite pale that's. Very eclectic. Yes, right. OK. All right. OK. Thank you, Forman. Thank you for the rap and now. I like Spotify, rapt. I, I like that it gives us all that anyway. OK, yeah, we've an e-mail from Forman's mom, who says, dear Dave, Rachel and Forman. I thoroughly enjoyed episode 143, Drawer full of Dicks with earmuffs Foreman.

50:22 With regards to the parking game though, this is for you. Dave suggested that a paid parking space should be a feature added to any job offer. However, he was admonished for being behind the times and told deals like that do not exist. They don't. When I moved to from Montreal to Ottawa in 1973, I added an unusual condition to my job offer that my new employer had to pay for moving my horse. Not Windsor, but my first horse of a lifetime. Paid parking was not a priority for me then. I was lucky to source. Removal was. I was lucky to skate to work on the Rideau Canal many winters. Oh, she was skate. She was working near there, so she skated there I think. That's not a, that's not a convenient way of commuting because that lasts like less than a month, a year. She skated to work.

51:11 Oh right, I'm yeah, I'm reading that. I was lucky to skate to work on the Rideau Canal for many winter days so I didn't need parking, just a backpack for my boots. There you go. Fascinating. OK, that's. Amazing. Dave, the list of off limit gifts was very funny. I have a suggestion to compliment Megane Family Dick theme which may fall into either category 4 Intimate clothing or Category 2 Hygiene items or simply Category XA Drawer full of Dicks. A hybrid rubber plant created by a family member who shall remain nameless is a stylish addition to anyone's Knick knack shelf. It is so cute and under the radar that many people may not get it unless they read the plants care description. Do you know what that is for Foreman? No.

51:55 Oh, I see a rubber plant like maybe like a like a dildo like you're sticking that on your shelf. I don't get it. I'm looking forward to hearing other suggestions from off limit gifts from your listeners. Foreman's done now he's leaving the podcast. You've. Ruined Foreman's Life, OK. Foreman's He's literally left the. He's left the building and I don't. Blame him. A rubber plant, but it's in. Yeah, well. But it's in quotes so I wasn't sure. OK, Happy holidays. Merry Christmas, see you in the new year. Well, maybe. Foreman might just be us. Just maybe the two of us.