You're A Better Man Than Me! (Ep. 112)

0:00 Hey, did you watch the SNL thing last night? No. Oh, it was so funny, so good. Some of it was funny. I. Don't you taped it? What year is this? Live like recorded on. I taped this. I taped. I recorded it. Yeah, you'll never watch it. Yes, we. Will, we're gonna watch the rest of it today. Sure you will. Yes, we are. Was there enough space on the PVR with all the episodes of Blue Bloods? No, you don't tape that. That's on and enough. Although I'll have you know that Blue Bloods has ended now. It's completely done. Series over. Wow, you're the only person that would know that. You are the only one that would know that that is very true. Hey, this is due to underwhelming demand with Dave Ray Children Foreman, the podcast that comes with a 25% tariff for American listeners.

0:56 Yeah. Because 2-2 can play at this game, OK? Yeah, Really. Yeah, Yeah. With your Captain America hat. I'm sorry, Sir. I'm sorry, I got the captain in performance. Get his captain in Canada hat on, I got. All kinds of Canadian stuff on this is. Wearing roots today. There you go. This is because I got this for Valentine's Day. Captain. America the Captain because we there's a new movie we're in. We're Marvel nerds, so we just went to the I never even thought for a second that my Captain America. That's the first thing Forman thought. Yeah. Why are you wearing? That grab every Canadian thing I have and you put on Captain America just to ruin it. Look.

1:40 OK, I didn't. That's not exactly why, but what I. Actually didn't think about this in more roots, so I feel that very. Yeah, whatever. Listen, stop pooping at anthems. So OK, can we stop that? Off the Boo. I don't love the booing at anthems, but I understand why people might. Well, I guess I understand why, but you know, just. Just win the game and and have more fights please. Yeah, that could work. That was great. That would be. You know, listen, I, I don't understand why we do anthems at sporting events anyway. I I don't, I don't get it. Stop. We could stop. The only place we do it. Stop doing that other. Than that other when it comes. To this with the hockey thing, play the anthem at the end. So I'm not winning the winning.

2:24 Team. Yeah, played at the end of. You do realize how weird it is when you sit through and watch the the anthem of Finland and then Sweden. They're odd. Are they not sure I could even hum those? Well, 'cause I have to have the singers or choirs come out and they sing it in either Swedish or Finnish, right? And yes. I did see one 'cause I think. I heard a Swedish. Choir I haven't seen. That nothing wrong with them and nobody booed those anthems. No, stop doing. Anthems. Well. They're not threatening our sovereignty, no. Stop. Stop booing anthems. OK, well with that said, let's get going. I just got back. I just returned from and I know you did too, Rachel from a holiday South.

3:08 Must be nice for the. Both. Yeah. It was nice. It was nice. It was, it must be nice. It must be nice. It was really nice. Actually. It was so nice to get away from. Tell us more. I'm going to tell you more. I'm not going to waste your time telling what a great time I had when I went. SI don't think Rachel's gonna do that either. But I got to spend an extra day, an extra day in paradise because because the weather here was so. Terrible it must be. Nice.

3:48 It must be nice. We all know that part, yeah. We know that we we were here when you were there. Yeah, I know. Well, what happened was my flight home, which was to have been on a Wednesday afternoon, was cancelled early Wednesday morning even though the flight to where I was thanked. So my plane arrived, but they decided early on, before the snowstorm even hit, that they were cancelling the return flight. So that's what we got. But let me just tell you that, and it sounds great because you do get an extra pretty much a full day in paradise. We had to leave early early the next morning. We were not being stranded at the airport there. No, great.

4:29 Which is great. Yeah, it wasn't cancelled. Before you get to the airport. Yep, they cancelled. It so we didn't have to worry about that stuff, but you're on the hook for your, if you think that, you know, the airline's going to give you money back for that. No, it's weather related. So you're on the hook. So you got to get your room, you got to pay for an and it's an extra night and it's not cheap. You know, it's just not, it's none of those things, but you know, it's better to be there. And we, we managed to get a room. We had to switch rooms, but we managed to get a room and we spent the night and we had to be up and out the very next day and we were on an early flight. I mean, we got, we took off, we were up and and gone out of where I was staying at like 8 before actually I think before 8:00 in the morning, which was a way better time to fly home than my original flight which was late, late in the afternoon 'cause you don't get home till like 11:00 at night. Or whatever.

5:28 So anyway, off we go, smooth flight, I mean no complaints. And they even fed us, which I thought was very nice of Air Canada cause none of us got food at our resorts 'cause we were up and gone before they even opened for breakfast. So they fed us, they gave us, we all got sandwiches and chips or whatever we wanted. And we were on the ground at 1:15 in the afternoon, which was great. I thought, this is perfect. We can get out of here. You know, it takes you a while. You got to go through customs, you got to get your bags, you got to get to your vehicle. But I can be home. 4435I was happy about that. I thought that. And you know, if the snow stopped, there's no problems with driving all of that stuff, except this is the one thing you don't realize.

6:14 And if you've ever had a flight cancelled, then maybe you understand. And Foreman, I I know that one time you tried to fly out of London, you didn't even, we didn't fly back into. You didn't fly back into. It was buses. It was sitting on the tarmac in Toronto for a couple of hours because they had no place to put us because we weren't we are landing in London and it swooped and turned to Toronto. Yes. And the the you got Oh, nice to hear that you got sandwiches because our plane ran out of water. You couldn't even flush the toilet. I'm not, I'm not complaining, but what happens is a cancelled flight, it's a drain financially and in those ways and, and, and basically when you land at the airport and you're a cancelled flight. And so there, as I said the week before, I know because I was in an Air Canada area, at the gates for Air Canada, there were flights going to Barbados, Bahamas, Jamaica, They're going all over the place.

7:15 Pretty much, yeah. They would have all, Yeah, they would have all been cancelled, likely because of that same, because they would have been coming back the same time on a Wednesday night during a snowstorm. So now we all show up at the airport and you're right, Foreman, they have nowhere to put you. They're expecting you. They let you land. But then they'll have. A gate for you? Yeah, we. You know, we taxied in, we taxied, we taxied, we taxied and then the pilot comes on and says, OK, we're just boat at our gate, but we're waiting for our flight crew. That's it's the other thing that you don't have like, well, the landing crew, because the landing crew is busy with a flight that's supposed to be. There. Oh, I see. They're not right there for you. And then?

7:58 There's nothing worse than sitting on the tarmac and you don't know what's going on. We. Sat and we sat and then, and then how? Long did you sit for? Well, I'll tell you. And so then I'm starting. To enjoy the story now Yeah, I know. Then they. Then they said, well, they're going to switch us to a different gate, which is good because you won't have As to walk to get the customs. I'm like, I don't really care, just can we just get off right night. And so we start moving and moving and moving and moving. And then we sit and we sit and we sit and we sit and they've got, you know, and here's the other thing. The seat belt light is on. You are not allowed to stand. And people, people refuse to understand that because every time we stop, when you're when you're on the ground and everything, people think, well, I'll just get up.

8:43 Yeah. And then you distract my legs. And then the flight attendant screams at them. Ladies and gentlemen, that is a flight risk. Like that's a, you know, like it's a security risk. Must remain in your seats. You start to discover how many people don't care about the rules, how many children are on board, how many babies are on board. They make themselves known. You get all. Of that. Sure you do. So what did I say? 1:15 I'm going to be generous and say roughly around 2:30 we finally walked off our airplane. So we were off the airplane and customs is reasonably quick at a Pearson. They they have a system.

9:26 There. You go to kiosks and you do your thing. It's if you've done it once, you know how to do it, and it's. Not that hard, yeah. Yeah. And then we had a little bit of a walk and then down we go to the luggage and there's our luggage carousel and one of our bags was already spinning around. That's awesome. We get it off and then we noticed that it was still going, but most of the bags are gone and there's no more bags I'll give you. Let me see. How long did we stand there? Almost an hour waiting and waiting and waiting with no luggage. No luggage, nothing coming off. And plenty of other people are still standing there, too. There's other luggage going other places, people, flights that are supposed to be there.

10:08 Their luggage was coming off. They weren't having any. Issues. So your whole plane stood for an hour or? Some people were lucky. There was, I think basically what happened is there if another plane came in, they immediately went and got their bags. So we some of our bags came off and then they probably went somewhere else and got other bags. And then eventually our bags ended up coming. But it was a long yeah. So what? Time did I land 115 now I got to get to where my car was parked outside then I got to get the snow off the car with shorts on he's. Still. Wearing shorts.

10:49 Well, you know, I mean, anyway, so we get in the vehicle, we're on the road and Toronto at 4:00 in the afternoon or, and I landed at 1:15, so 4:00. I still got three hours. Yeah, it takes an hour to get out of Toronto airport anyway. Like from landing to getting to. Get that? But that would so that would. Have been. That would have put me at maybe 2:30 that I could accept. But now it's 4:00. Now you're in rush hour. We're. Trying to go from the 427 to the 401 at rush hour in Toronto. Brutal, yeah. Yeah, utility. Is it's brutal. Anyway, Long story short, we arrived home and God bless the City of London. They normally after a a snowstorm. I guarantee you and I know 'cause we just had another one. They won't plow my street usually for two or three days, you know, because we're a side street. I get it.

11:46 I'm not a bus route, whatever. So I wasn't expecting. I knew there would be snow in the driveway. But you know, the city's not going to plow and it only snowed last night. They're not going to plow. Oh, yeah, They plowed. And so we arrived Which? Is not a. Surprise. Yeah, No, it's not. No, it's not because you can't get in the driveway. Well, we attempted to. Oh no, you got. Stuck. If you go fast enough, you could blow through that wall of ice. No, you can't. No, you can't. You can't. Oh no. No, yeah. So I guess I better get out in my shorts and see if I can. Get the Sun stock. Anyway, next time you wear pants on the way home where you take pants in your carry on and you change at the airport, Yeah.

12:26 Wonderful to have that extra day for me. Just wonderful, Just wonderful. I'm sure I'm enjoying it. None. This is due to underwhelming demand. The podcast that will make you say what the hell? What the hell, man?

13:12 Yeah, exactly. Well, I hope that's I hope that's your reaction when we're done. Hell yeah, I. Just do that to myself. Yeah, we are. We are Dave, Rachel and Foreman. Yeah, that's exactly my reaction at the end of my cake baking experience. What the hell you? Bake the cake. Well, I tried to. You, not your wife. No, she was out and Harley and I are oldest who's 11, almost 12, decided let's do something nice and bake cake just because it was the weekend. We had downtime, Ash was out getting her hair done and it gets it. Gets did. Oh yeah, it's a long. She's gone for hours. Yeah, that's you're gone forever.

13:52 I don't know what it is, you guys. Don't understand it, I don't. Understand. It it takes a while to put in and then you have to let it sit and set for, I don't know, maybe 20 minutes? Or why the color? Well, they have to do like just every layer a bunch of. Different colors, all layered and blended and shade. A three hour job like it is like why? It looks lovely. It's beautiful. It's absolutely stunningly beautiful, but it was before that. That's what I think too, but whatever. Yeah, I know. I it's the same. Well, I don't, I don't have any Gray hair, so that's, you know, I'm sure Ashley's the same. She doesn't anyway. OK, I would never, I'm never. I will never know if I have any.

14:33 You don't anyway, because your hair's so blonde. Your hairs would be white. It would go white I think. Exactly. It would be white. You're lucky. And I bet you some of the highlights you get done actually make it lighter, do they not? They do do that. That's a rhetorical question. I. Get lighter and I get low lights, yeah. Just what a waste guy. Money, anyhoo. All of that. We just decided let's make the day a little bit better and we're going to make a cake. And we have the, you know, the Betty Crocker boxed cakes, right? OK, sure. So how hard can that be? Can't be hard. Harley's following the instructions on carrying out the activities.

15:15 You really only need, It's like 3 eggs and a couple cups of milk, and then you mix it together and you put it in the oven. That's basically all it is, right? And you, Rachel, you're saying, yeah, because it's like, you know that off off the top of your head. Yeah. There's some oil in there or something. It might be oil, water and egg. Or oil, milk and egg. Or yeah. Yeah. Now let's I think you should preface this though, Foreman, you're actually a decent cook. Yeah, I know that you cook. I would say on occasion what I do cook, yes. But you, you know, you know your way around the kitchen, I think. So I'm not afraid to do cooking. Now. Baking is obviously different from cooking.

15:56 Sure. Yeah, it's a different category. And some people will say they they like cooking way better than baking or vice versa. Well, baking, yeah. But I don't think this is baking. It's a cake in a box. Like you're true, it's. Not really. Milk and some eggs, maybe some oil. Can it be? Exactly. Yeah, that's why I didn't even glance at the instructions. Who needs those? To which Ashley would say, why would you need instructions? It's a box cake. Everyone knows that off by heart. No one even needs to look at the instructions. Well, I don't know it off by heart, but I would look at the instructions to be like parent. I make this kind. Yeah, OK. So I'm looking through the baking pans now.

16:37 We've mixed the stuff. Harley's the one reading the instructions. I am not. I'm. We're looking through the pans. Is this cake pan good enough? I don't know. She's saying it's however many centimeters deep. And I'm like, yeah, it is good. Done. Let's put it in the pan. Put it in the oven. You check it with the toothpick, see when it's done. Yes. Well, after the whatever it is 10 minutes or the allotted amount of time, you open up the oven to put in the toothpick and realized it looks like a balloon. A chocolate balloon. What'd you did you put? Bacon jiggly. It's a souffle. Basically, he's got a souffle. It's a raw, jiggly souffle. What did you?

17:23 Do it looks like a jiffy pop, Rachel, it does. You know when the jiffy point, We used to put jiffy pop on the and then the thing would pop the. Tinfoil. Yeah, the tinfoil popcorn thingy. Yeah, that's exactly what it looked like, yeah. What did you put in this cake? Well, when I when yours truly wrestled the box out of the recycle bin to read what the hell went wrong went wrong, we did all the we did everything right except that it's supposed to be two pans. It's a way too much mix for what single pan? Did you use a nine inch round pan? Yes, one of. Usually. One of those, yeah, you are supposed to use two Who? Do that.

18:06 Well, it's a lot of batter for one pan. Did it all fit? In five pan it all fit in there. Like. Didn't over to the. Very top it. Was near the top. Yeah. I don't know that was hardly to turn the instructions I'm. Sure, you blame your 11. Year old I cannot let my kids handle and like I have to double check things because stuff like that will go wrong every single time I entrust them with something like. Yeah, but you can't, you can't do everything for your kids. Like they have to learn that, okay, if that's what you say it says and that's what you're doing because you're the one in charge of that. Sure, Yeah. I mean, you're a better man than me. I have to have a lot more control because I would be angry what happened to it? But it's a life lesson for her, right? She learned.

18:53 What happened to yours? So did you. Your cake souffle. What it turns? Out. You can cook it all the way through if you cook it for about 3 times the amount of time it was supposed to cook. For quite thick. Yes, because it's this tall now. Yes, and it will cook. Puffy cake. Yes, doesn't want to come out of the pan very easily. I wouldn't. Think. Yeah, even though it's a greased pan and all, it's been, it's been baking for so long. You've really. Cooked it they. Bonded to each other so when you try and take it out of the pan and put it onto a warming rack or a cooling rack, all the whole thing falls apart into a giant mess all over. The kitchen. Oh God, so did you even get any cake or. Well, yes, because you're I still want to salvage what we can.

19:41 OK, sure. Yeah, yeah. This is like the time where Foreman came over to my house and we were celebrating both of our birthdays and he brought a cake and the cake ended up on the floor somehow. But we salvage that cake and we still ate floor cake. We sure it ate we ate the floor cake, yes yeah, 'cause I think I turned I took it from the counter to a table or the other way around, and the whole cake slid off the tray and just. Yeah, made everyone very happy at that party. So this, Yeah, this is bits of cake all over our kitchen now. So you gather up everything that's not on the floor. Yeah. Put it in a bowl and look up and you then you Google What do you do with broken cake?

20:24 OK, sure. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you could Add all kinds of things to that. You could. Make cake pops actually you. Sure can make cake pops. You know what you're doing, And because you're supposed to you. Yeah. You add the icing into a bowl with all this broken cake and you mix it around. Yep. And then you form it into balls and dip them into melted chocolate. Yeah. And boom, you got a cake pop. Except, wow, probably it's over. Melting chocolate is a real hassle. Yes, you have to do that on a double boiler. That's tricky. And then when you put your ball of cake into that, it just falls apart into the melted chocolate, making a bigger mess.

21:04 You need a bit more icing then. No, there's probably almost too much icing I see. Oh my God. This is what Ashley returns home to find us. Oh. That's doing. Yeah, with balls of cake destroyed and melted chocolate that was melted improperly. My best. This is my favorite story. I think I. Love this story? In a bowl on top of a pot, on top of the stove. Yeah, yeah, There was a whole bunch of chocolate chips and Harley was stirring them to melt them, and it wasn't quite melting enough. Maybe it needed to. You need probably needed to add some either water or melt to that to make it a little more liquidy. Right.

21:46 Yeah, do that or maybe, yeah. And. Maybe you should have let the the cake and icing mixture cool in the fridge for a while so it wouldn't be so hot it fell apart in the melted drop. Yeah, yeah. That's that's how it all works. Yeah, that's and Ashley took over salvage of the cake pops and ended up making the cake pops with the children. And I was uninvolved from that point on, and they turned out great. It's probably wise, no? You're not allowed in the kitchen for a little while not to bake anything.

22:34 This is due to underwhelming demand. It's Dave, Rachel and Foreman, the podcast that never over promises put always under delivers. That's our goal. That's our our life motto. Yeah, so far, so good so far. So good. The streaks alive. Yeah, the streaks alive. That's right. I I had something actually kind of overwhelming happened to me recently. Overwhelming. Yeah, a little bit, a little bit. We're not allowed to talk about that on this podcast. You've never done the wrong wrong venue I guess as I was packing for my trip actually. Must be nice. I know so this was a week or two ago. It must be nice.

23:15 It must be nice. I, I got an e-mail on my phone and I thought, OK, what is this? And I and, and you know, you get spam messages sometimes. So you're very, I don't ever click on links in the e-mail, but this one's, this one was from match.com and it says, Vicki, we're glad you're here. And I was like, what is, what is this message 'cause it came to my inbox, not my junk mail. And I thought, well, that's strange. So and they and I'm not Vicky, right? So I open the open the thing and it says please, please review your account information.

23:56 So here's my zip code I'm. Match. Match.com I'm a woman seeking a man and password. Click to retrieve it and, and I could click there if I wanted to. And the e-mail that was used was my business e-mail actually. So I thought, well, that's strange that that would be used there. So I didn't click on the e-mail and I didn't click on the link in my e-mail. What I did was I'm like, well, I'm going to see if this is legit. So I'm going to go to match.com and try and log in with my business e-mail. Lo and behold, it works. And then it sends me let's reset your password. So then I get a match and I'm like, OK, so this is sending, sending it to me and it is from match.com.

24:43 So I. So I click on reset password. So I log in to match.com because now for some reason I have an account. Now, I am still married and actually at the time my daughter was with me. So while we're doing this, yeah. And I was like, Julia, this is strange. She's like, what is that? I'm like, well this is a dating website so people are. So see you're. Using it as sort. Of a yeah, you're using this then so she was with you while you were doing all of. This trying to date? Yeah, she was with me. Yeah, once. Again, I'm not sure this is something she How old is she? She's 11. Yeah, she's 11. I don't fake with my kid, I teach her about dating. Websitesmatch.com, yeah. That's not trauma she'll carry with her into adulthood. No, not at all.

25:26 That's. True. So I, I love him because I was a little worried that maybe somebody was using my photo, my e-mail and like trying to catfish people, right? Or something like that, right? Because I thought this is strange. So somebody has obviously just signed me up because it's the welcome e-mail that I got. Then I was able to log in and, and and and reset my password. So now I'm into this account. Now this person named Vicki has signed me up for match.com or signed herself up. I guess. Now she's not using my photo, but I so this is this is her photo and I don't know if you guys can see that there. That's her. Her. With a little dog. So I went in and I, I thought she's got nothing on her profile.

26:09 There's nothing really set up. It's, I think she's just started this. So I was able to go in and kind of poke around for a bit and I'm like, yeah, I don't know what this is, but I'm going to close this account because she's not paying for it. She's I, I'm not, I can you have a free account on match? I don't know, but my credit card wasn't on there. You're the expert. Well, yeah, I guess so. How would we know? And like, I don't even know if Vicki and it doesn't say much about Vicki. She didn't have any information. She just said she's a woman seeking a man. And so I'm, I'm kind of poking around a little bit and in the time that I was maybe in match.com for, I don't know, maybe 2-3 minutes, maybe I get like 3 emails from men asking to talk to me quickly to Vicki, should they want to talk to Vicki. Yeah, it sounds to me like this is some sort of. Catfish, I think.

27:04 Yeah, so they just have a stand of stock photo of a woman with a dog. Yeah, they found my business e-mail online. And we'll use this. This random e-mail. And see if we can. Yeah, see if we can. That's what I thought, yeah. So I thought, OK, I'm gonna, I'm gonna just close the account. So I go in and Julia's beside me. I'm like, OK, Julia, we got to let's close this account down. I don't want it associated with my e-mail and so. I go to the read the instructions to you. Yes. So I go in, I'm like close account, OK, yeah, close account. And then I get an e-mail that yeah, your account is closed. In that time, though, I get all these messages from men. So I got 1 and I haven't, I can't even read them anymore because you have to open it to read it.

27:47 And now I've closed my account. Mr. Nice Guy from DC had messaged me and he looks like an old white man in a suit. And somebody else had message a few other people that I have now deleted. But I mean, it's amazing how quickly you get these emails. But I don't know what happened to Vicki. She doesn't have an account anymore. So hopefully she figures that out. But it's all taken care of. But for about 5 minutes, I was on the market, guys. Sure. No. You. Well, Vicky was. Vicky was on the market. Vicky and I think Vicky is probably a 22 year old sitting in his basement. Yeah, sitting in his basement. So. She doesn't even have any a bio up yet. I should have just continued to catfish people.

28:29 That's myself. You. Should have. You should have changed it to your picture. Yeah, yeah. Put up your interests. Oh, Jerry would have loved that, Yeah. And then we'll see what you got, yeah. Yeah, I. Think you reactivate? That.com is one of the legit ones right? Like this like one of the legit so I I felt bad for me to. Feel like yeah, if you really wanted to teach your 11 year old how the world works, yeah, you should have put your picture. Here's how the Internet works. Yeah, that's right. Right. What were you thinking? People are not who they seem, although we've talked about that before, so she knows. See all the all the fine young gentlemen that are interested, even though they don't even know anything about you.

29:09 That's right, because she knows and we've talked about that stuff before for Internet, Internet safety, right? Because she has Roblox. Anyway, I'm not a match anymore so. Really wish you were. We do too. Yeah, I think it would have. Been it would have made for even it. Would be better for Dave and Foreman if you remained there. Well, what I told Jeremy about it, he's like, you logged in? I'm like, yeah, I wanted to see who's pretending to be me. It's the weird part. It's like. Why did you log in? I'm like I because I didn't know what they were using as my photo. Like a. Photo I'd be a little suspicious too, Jeremy. Yeah. What are you used to it? Yeah. What are you doing logging in? Yeah, that's. Right, I would have assumed none of those links went to anywhere good, but you do. You, you and.

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31:21 Thank you. Thank you very much for that. Again, underwhelming.ca, that's the website. This is the part of the podcast where we we like to respond or get your feedback. So what do we got this time around? OK, I have an e-mail from Anna Neufeld. She says, hi, my name is Anna. I just finished episode 25. Rachel. Yeah, she's a little behind. This is This is 112. Yeah. Anna, let us know when you get here. Episode 112. OK. 12 Tell us the date and the year. Yeah, that's kind. Of NEAT episode 25, she says. Rachel, you're talking about aches and pains when you're 39. I'm 41 now. Yes.

32:01 That was a long time ago, girl. Me and all my friends have aches and pains before we turned 18. Turns out we should have listened to our employer at the time and not picked up those heavy boxes lol. Oh well, you live and learn, right? Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Pains. When you're 18, you're invincible. That's right. When you're 40, you're not so much. Oh, tell me about. It Christine, 40. Nine forever, eh, Dave? Yeah. That's right. Well Christine sent us a message saying OMG I'm laughing so hard at Rachel saying and I quote I don't know why. It's like I'm planning to shit myself every day. Oh yeah, that's about packing excessive amounts of underwear, Yeah. Your word's not mine, which I still did. And Christine says we learned to ski in Quebec, so it's not a pizza stop, it's a grand VA.

32:52 Grand V OK. Yeah, or Grand V Grand V Grand V. I don't know. I don't know what that is. I call it a pizza. Aaron, Aaron, Aaron, said. Rachel, you either need less or more support in your insoles for your skates. There you go. You don't have enough support in your skates, which is why your feet hurt and to pick a way to shoot. Most people who play golf and hockey shoot the same way. I'm a lefty in golf and hockey. Hope that helps. How would you know with that one time you golfed this year? No, I golfed several times this year and I'm a righty in golf, so I'm probably a righty in hockey. We have another one. We had a week off. We had a week off of hockey and I was away, so I've had two weeks off.

33:36 So I think next time I should have another. Next time I should have another hockey update for you. This. Hockey adventure you've just started on You keep missing practice, you don't go. Well, the way that we've recorded it hasn't happened in the time. Yeah, you're right. You're right. It sounds like that, doesn't it? You're all living for the next practice, which you keep not going to. Yeah, you. Keep not going to it. AJ had said Rachel First off on the topic of the backpack weed sprayer. OK Oh yeah, that was Barb with the backpack sprayer that she got the Valentine sprayer for Christmas. My husband purchased me a backpack operated weed whacker and leaf blower for Mother's Day last year.

34:19 Yay and I absolutely love. Them OH. OK, well he knows you well then, I guess. Battery operated weed whacker slash leaf blower. Damn, that's a that's a piece of. Equipment right there. I didn't know you could get a backpack weed whacker. Oh no, it's just battery operated. Battery operated whacker and blower. Yeah, I see. OK, well. That was First off, second off from AJ. It's called pizza to stop when skiing. No, it's not. Yeah, the guys are just dumb and don't know what they're talking about. As in you and I. Yeah, she says. Pizza to stop and French fries to go fast. Or pick up more. Speeds side parallel, right? Yeah.

35:02 No, I don't know. What? AJ has been an avid skier since she was 5 or 6. Yeah, OK, Well, it's snow plowing. Yeah, it's snow plowing. You've been wrong. Since you were five, yeah, I had. I had. A skiing lesson was in the last, I don't know, six or seven years, and it was snowplow. That's yeah, that's what she said. Because you're an adult. Because you're an adult. AJ OK, Wrong since five years old. That's what your name should say. Wrong. I think you're right, AJ. AJ goes on. Thirdly, I love that you are playing hockey. Well, apparently only sometimes. No, I grew up playing. I was a goalie and I was pretty good, if I do say so. But Take Me Out of my gear and I absolutely suck at skating so don't get too discouraged from playing with other hockey players.

35:50 I'm sure they would gladly help you and give you some pointers. I love that you found a group of ladies to do this with and I feel like there is hope as I gave up my hockey career too soon and wish I had played longer in my younger years. Also, as my husband can't skate, I have now been tasked with teaching our two year old son how to skate since she's a skater. So you best believe that the parent and taught skates are just as much practice for me as they are for him. Yes, well, it would be for me too. Sure. Yeah, the the women on the team are awesome. The ones that are really good are very encouraging of us who are not very good. So it yeah, it's a great vibe all around. So you're right.

36:32 We have a couple messages from Megan. Megan Clark, did you see this? Rachel, she says. I'm a bit behind on listening to the podcast. I got an injury, but I'm currently listening to your hockey Woes, especially regarding stopping. I used to teach skating to people of all ages, including adults. One of the first things we teach you is to stop. We do it by using a large permanent marker with a thick tip. We draw a star, a happy face or whatever on the ice. Excuse me? You have to erase it with your blade and that will get you used to the motion of stopping without having to pizza or run into the boards. Yes, we were practicing like pushing out basically like making the snow with our ice. You could have some improved significantly by the time you get this message, of course.

37:13 Just wanted to give you a tip in case you were finding it difficult. And she said. Significantly, because she. Hasn't been there. No I have not improved she says also use the hair dryer to warm up the skate and then put it on. It helps to form to your foot for the pain. You can also try the soup can in the skate trick over a night or two but I found it didn't help as much. I said stretch it out. I will try that and this is me replying. My feet hurt under the arches so I don't know if that's a skate like a boot issue or not. I think it's just because I have no arch support or muscles under there. I don't know. She says it may help to strengthen your feet and she says that's what I thought about the feet, but it couldn't hurt. I always wore orthotics in my skates, but I skated about five days a week so I could do it.

38:03 I did try some arch support soles in there and it didn't really help. Like I didn't help the arch support it it, it supported it. But my, I think it's the muscle, like I don't have muscles in there. Like I haven't used those muscles that you, when you're, when you're doing hockey, it's like muscles that you didn't know you had are being worked. You're like, oh shit, where'd that come from? Why do I have pain there? Oh, that's you're using way different muscles. Yeah. So. That's what it's like with virtually all It doesn't matter whether it's hockey or walking or or riding a bike or. Ashley shoveled half the driveway yesterday and she is down and out today. Yeah.

38:44 And so, finally, let's get to one more. We do have a voicemail sent to us through underwhelming.ca. Yes, from Lindsay in Halifax, whose last name we don't know how to pronounce. Oh yes, Lindsay, DeVos or DeVos? This message is only 19 seconds and I have a sinking feeling. Well, not a sinking feeling, but a funny feeling that we're about to find out. Oh. Here we go, all right. Hey Dave, Rachel Foreman Lindsay here from Halifax, just finished listening to episode 110 and you guys were trying to figure out how to pronounce my last name. It is pronounced Devoe. Have a great day guys. Bye. Lindsay. Devoe Devoe, you don't even pronounce this.

39:32 Years later, we finally Melody and I never knew the whole time I was on the air in Halifax either. We never. Say her name all the time. I want to know what, how to properly say it. Devo. Lindsay Devoe. Thank you. Lindsay. Yeah. Thank you for letting us know and for all your messages to keep them coming. Sorry for literally the years of getting it wrong. Yeah, we butchered your name. We're Lindsay. Alicia Lindsay, right? Yeah. It's hard to screw that up, Devo. Lindsay.