Get ready for a wild ride as we journey through the eclectic musical mind of stand-up comedian, Dave Burke. Picture this: you're on a second date, the mood is right, and you decide to play Body Heat by Krissie - only to have your date abruptly end things. That's just one of the many hilarious and all-too-real stories Dave shares from his life, each one interwoven with a unique soundtrack. From his adventures in online dating to his stint working at a pizza place, every story is as much of an emotional rollercoaster as his comedy sets.
Dave opens up about life on the comedy scene, the challenges it presents, and his admiration for those talented individuals who've left an indelible mark on stand-up's storied history. Ever wondered which comedians have influenced Dave's comedic style or what his thoughts are on tackling sensitive topics? Stick around and find out! And just when you think the ride couldn't get any more thrilling, we take a detour into the world of psychedelics, karaoke, and Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville.
We dissect underground hip-hop and gangster rap, discuss Dave's first album purchase and concert experiences, and even tackle the contentious subject of Nickelback. Wrapping up the episode, we delve into the captivating life story of Maria Callas, America's first pop diva, and Dave's reflections on how her experiences resonate with his own. Buckle up, and let's hit the road!
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Get ready for a wild ride as we journey through the eclectic musical mind of stand-up comedian, Dave Burke. Picture this: you're on a second date, the mood is right, and you decide to play Body Heat by Krissie - only to have your date abruptly end things. That's just one of the many hilarious and all-too-real stories Dave shares from his life, each one interwoven with a unique soundtrack. From his adventures in online dating to his stint working at a pizza place, every story is as much of an emotional rollercoaster as his comedy sets.
Dave opens up about life on the comedy scene, the challenges it presents, and his admiration for those talented individuals who've left an indelible mark on stand-up's storied history. Ever wondered which comedians have influenced Dave's comedic style or what his thoughts are on tackling sensitive topics? Stick around and find out! And just when you think the ride couldn't get any more thrilling, we take a detour into the world of psychedelics, karaoke, and Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville.
We dissect underground hip-hop and gangster rap, discuss Dave's first album purchase and concert experiences, and even tackle the contentious subject of Nickelback. Wrapping up the episode, we delve into the captivating life story of Maria Callas, America's first pop diva, and Dave's reflections on how her experiences resonate with his own. Buckle up, and let's hit the road!
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Welcome everyone to Music Junkies, a podcast about people sharing extraordinary stories about how music has impacted their lives.
Speaker 2:Welcome everyone to Music Junkies. I'm your host, Annette Smith, and our guest today is a stand-up comedian based in Toronto, Ontario. He has an amazing album called Sexual Cactus that I absolutely love, but if you haven't heard it yet, you can hear it on Series XM Radio. He performs at Yuck Yuck's Comedy Clubs across Canada and please welcome David Burke to the show. Yay, I'm so happy to have you.
Speaker 1:I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to talk about these exciting memories I have attached to embarrassing memories. I have attached to these songs.
Speaker 2:I love it. So before we get started, I always ask what was your experience putting your playlist together for me today?
Speaker 1:It was fun putting it together. It's tough when people ask you what's your favorite song or what kind of music do you like, and then it's like I like everything as long as it's good, like the super generic answer it's kind of like my taste is extremely all over the place and it's kind of hard, a hard question to answer and if someone's like name 10 of your top songs, it's hard to think through. But this was a fun, different kind of thing, different kind of question, because it's like 10 songs that you have stories about or memories about and it's kind of fun to think about all those cringy teenage years and those memories and just other kind of things too. So it was fun, fun to put it together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm glad. I don't know what it is. Maybe I need a psychologist on this show or something. I find that most people's playlists, unless they're promoting their own music, most people's playlist is like that grade 4 to like grade 12. It's so crazy to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, those are still the songs that hit the hardest when you listen to them again, even if it's like cringy, you know, you know smash mouth. But I'm actually kind of nodding my head to this and being like, yeah, this song actually rocks a little bit, like you know it's not cool, but I know it's so interesting.
Speaker 2:Maybe I'll have a psychiatrist on here next time and she'll be like that would be very interesting and this is why, and then we'll all learn about it.
Speaker 1:I feel like it's a nostalgia factor. It's like you know.
Speaker 2:It's like where we were meet, yeah nostalgia. All right, we're going to start with your first song. I was listening to your playlist this morning and you're right. You were like all over the place and I love it. I love it. So here's your first song, if we want to play it, like what is happening here. One second, because I was jamming out to this morning I couldn't.
Speaker 1:There's some hits there.
Speaker 2:That's right, I love it. Let's see if he got it working here. I guess you can't just have it all open on all devices apparently.
Speaker 1:No, there's a button you can hit to change device if you have Spotify open.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I just did that. All right, you ready? Yeah, let's see if I can see.
Speaker 1:Baby.
Speaker 2:Hey, buddy, I never had it. Okay, I've never had it.
Speaker 1:Starting off very strong. Yeah, this is probably maybe the most embarrassing story on the list too, so maybe I should have put it further down the list. The story behind this song is I matched with the lady on a dating app. We had a lovely date that ended us in making love at the end of the date and I thought it was like awesome, like great date, like this is going to happen again, like this is an item. Now I'm going on.
Speaker 2:Oh no, you're frozen, oh no.
Speaker 1:I froze for you. Okay, we're back.
Speaker 2:Let's try it again. I was.
Speaker 1:I don't know where we'll start from the beginning here.
Speaker 2:I'll play this. Let's play your first song. Okay, I feel like you're seducing me. Your first song is like body heat by Krinsie.
Speaker 1:I had to start off very sensually. This is not. The recording got frozen there, so now I have to relive this memory twice. I don't know if that was intentional on your part, but I had it. I had a date with the lady that I met on like a dating app and the date went beautifully, like we went out and got some food and a drink and then we, you know, hooked up at the end of it and it was very nice. And so we had a second date and I thought this is, you know, this is going to be great.
Speaker 1:Like the first one went so well and she lived in my neighborhood, so we like went for like a little short walk and I was like do you want to come back to my place and hang out? And she was like, yeah, okay. And she came in and she went to the bathroom and then, while she was in the bathroom, I went to my computer and popped on body heat, cause I recently discovered this album and I was like this album is awesome and I thought it would be a good. But she came into the room she was like what is this porn music? What do you think is going to happen? And I was like I don't know.
Speaker 1:I thought it. She was like look, I, I wanted to hang out today to tell you, look, I like you, but I don't think we can continue. I was like, oh, I thought this is going the opposite direction. But she just wanted to do in person, kind of let me down. I'd be like, look, it was a fun night, but I don't think we should do it again. But I had to pause Quincy Jones and be like what? Oh, that's cool, yeah.
Speaker 2:How are those dating apps Like?
Speaker 1:are you enjoying this? I'm thankful to be off of the apps for almost a year now. I've got a. I've got a lovely girlfriend.
Speaker 2:Did you do?
Speaker 1:my, my old days. I mean it's, it's, they're not great. It's kind of a demoralizing experience, swiping on a thousand people and talking to four of them. But I don't know, it seems like meeting people at a bar is is for a while there and, like the 2010s was not as popular as dating apps. Dating apps really had a. I think things are reverting back to the more real life now. Yeah, cause it's.
Speaker 2:I haven't been on a date Like I had. I've been married for 23 years. So, like, for me it's like I don't even know what, but my, our kids were right, like my. My son was, he's married now, but my daughter it's like crazy. I don't understand the concept. Um, it's, it's so superficial, like why would you know? She's been with this guy for six weeks and I'm saying she's like I just want to know and I'm like well, fucking ask him. It's been six weeks, like if he's banging other people.
Speaker 1:I would want it. I'm aggressive enough.
Speaker 2:I'd be like look, look we've had sex Like. I'm not planning on doing it with a whole bunch of dudes, so if you, I just that's just not me.
Speaker 1:So she's had that conversation way before six weeks, like it's, it's not. I'm putting body heat on on the second date, so maybe I move things along faster than they should be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you're like getting there ready to propose with body heat, she might be like what?
Speaker 1:is this Like you said, it's very shallow, Like you're making a. I guess real life is like that too, but less so. If you're at a bar at least you can tell a joke or something before they walk away.
Speaker 2:That's right yeah.
Speaker 1:Did you have?
Speaker 2:a folder on your phone of just like really cool dick pics that you sent out, or no, I don't.
Speaker 1:I'm not a big dick pic sender. I have never really done that before. I don't know why. I'm afraid of it being like documented and then, you know, some day I hopefully you're just Google your game Google yeah. I mean my stand up comedy to shop, not my dick, that's right.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness, I love this song. Your next song here. Red Hot Chili Peppers Can't Go Wrong yeah.
Speaker 1:Great song, great song. I loved the Red Hot Chili Peppers. When I was a younger man this is one of those ones, I guess I played bass and bass guitar. It was really boring playing along with AC-DC. I loved AC-DC so much. My friends played guitar too, so I got a bass guitar so I could play along. But that was like two notes.
Speaker 2:For 14 hours.
Speaker 1:Really so. Then I got into the Chili Peppers because this was of the time and Flea is sick. He's a really cool bassist. Through watching this Flea instructional bass video, he talked about slapping and popping the bass, which was my introduction to Funk and Larry Graham I think that's his name and the P-Funk All Stars and the origins of slap bass and how it was a percussive thing using the slapping of the thumb on the bass.
Speaker 1:I just thought it was super cool and it was also more difficult to play and so it was satisfying to me. Instead of just playing the same thing with a pick AC-DC songs, I could actually learn to slap and stuff and it kind of got me into jazz a little bit and funk and yeah, it was great. So I loved the Chili Peppers and California Cation was a great album that I learned to play all those songs on bass through reading tabs online and for Christmas I asked my Santa or my parents or whoever for a tab book bass tab book for California Cation and I was, I guess, 18 years old or 17 years old, like old enough for sure to be consuming the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But are you frozen again?
Speaker 2:No, I'm a good listener.
Speaker 1:You are a good listener, you're so engaged there. I was twirling my hair or something, but I asked for this tab book. And then my mother came to me and she was like, look, I bought the tab book but your father doesn't want to give it to you because he doesn't think it's appropriate. And I was like what about it? And she was like well, the name California has fornication in the name. I was like I'm 18 years old, like this is I should be allowed. And she was like no, and she was like I mean, we looked through the lyrics and there's a couple swear words too. And it was. My parents were super overprotective and they're not big fans of stand up comedy either, but maybe that's why I ended up being a comedian. But yeah, she was like, look, we can't. So the compromise was that she took whiteout and used whiteout to censor out all the swear words in the California.
Speaker 1:Again, I was like 18 years old and that's, I think, the moment where I was like I'm moving out as soon as possible.
Speaker 2:I'm getting a job today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've got a good idea. I had a job but it was immediately priorities shifted to like I got to get out of here.
Speaker 2:What was your worst job you ever had?
Speaker 1:Ooh, probably Pizza Hut. I would say Although it was a good learning experience, it was my first job but it was just like they weren't very nice to us sometimes. I can remember the Super Bowl. I had to work for the Super Bowl and it was the craziest day ever. It was. You know, it's a very, very busy early 2000s, when Pizza Hut was still a huge thing Before we were going to do stuff.
Speaker 1:And I remember I went to use the bathroom and someone yelled at me for, like, you can't go to the bathroom during this rush, and I was like I had to pee. I don't know what you want me to do but thankfully I've got a.
Speaker 1:You know I've had better jobs since then, but that was a tough job for sure. Good first job doing still that work ethic, though. I remember standing around waiting for the next pizza order. My manager goes what are you doing? And I was like, oh, there's no orders right now. She goes well, if you got time to lean, you got time to clean. Yeah, I was like, oh shit. So you always have to have a rag in your hand, at least to pretend that you're doing something.
Speaker 2:Especially at a place like that, did you find that you smelled like pizza all the time?
Speaker 1:Oh, I smelled so much like the Italian sausage and the onions and stuff. Yeah, to be like in my hands. Yeah, you wash your hands and under your nails as much as you could, but there was no, no undoing that onion and Italian sausage smell. I remember my parents would pick me up and be like you smell so much like Italian sausage Wrong one.
Speaker 2:Did you gain lots of weight from working there, just eating pizza constantly?
Speaker 1:No, that was when I was of the age where I could eat whatever I wanted to and feel no effects.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I miss those ages.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it's. It's a complete mess now.
Speaker 2:I used to put sour cream literally on everything, like I was like, oh, sour cream is free, I am just going to have it literally on everything. And then you know, 30 years later I'm like, oh, I do really still like sour cream, but maybe I won't have it on my corn, on the cob, because now this has the butter, not the sour cream. Well, the word cream is in it.
Speaker 1:I mean the sour part. I don't know if that reduces the lot of the calories. If you're putting cream on everything, people would ask questions. That's right.
Speaker 2:All right, okay, this one shocked me, I have to say I have not heard this in a long long time, probably since I was in high school. Slayer Right, yeah, just like they just came recently they were came with anthrax and like, yeah, I was going to go, but it was that like a deer foot in casino. So it's like a 3000, you know oh, that would be.
Speaker 2:Can you, and I think it would have been cool, but I just really don't want to slam dance, and then they have tears there too, so it's like yeah. I didn't want to do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, slayer, I saw them live. They seem like they tore a bunch for an old band.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I saw them in Halifax, where I'm from. I don't know what year it would have been Um late nineties, early 2000s I guess, but um, yeah, it was. It was a cool concert and it was like the first concert where I was with friends that were like let's go up to the front and get right in the right in that slamp it area. And before the show started there was like some shoving going on because people were fighting over who was in the very front row and this guy was like arguing with someone else and he went to punch him and threw it out like a haymaker and this guy ducked it and I was the person behind and I just got completely wiped out by this punch, just knocked down to the ground, and then a bunch of people grabbed the guy and then like dragged him out not security, but like other metal fans, but awesome way to start a Slayer.
Speaker 1:And then they started playing like a minute later I was like oh man, okay, I can handle this, almost that's right, this is a lot off.
Speaker 2:I'm fine, let's go yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go back to the show because it's a minor threat cover. I love minor threat very. You know important hardcore band and yeah, also damage plan opened for Slayer during this concert and damage plan was a band that Dimebag Darrell of Pantera, the guitarist for. Pantera played for before he was shot, so I saw him a few years before he got shot.
Speaker 2:I loved Pantera growing up. What kind of music did you listen to growing up in high school? Was it really really heavy stuff like Pantera, metallica, yeah.
Speaker 1:For sure. Yeah, I loved all those bands. Metallica was super sick. I remember when Metallica like got sober and they went on MTV or whatever it was and they did that interview and I was like what's going on with these guys?
Speaker 2:When did the words become so crazy. Yeah, like that documentary, like, oh my God, stop fucking whining, dude. Like what are you whining about? Every two seconds you're whining.
Speaker 1:And the whole Napster thing too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was like get.
Speaker 1:over it, and that was around the time I was using Napster to download a lot of the stuff I was in junior, high and high school.
Speaker 2:We don't have any money. We don't have $17 to buy an album every.
Speaker 1:It's funny because that was really think about how people consume music. Now what a losing battle that was to be like you can't listen to our music without paying us for each listen. I was like, okay, well, we'll go somewhere else. The industry is completely gone, that way of.
Speaker 2:That's right, and we were doing it anyways. We just mixed you a tape and then gave you the mixed tape for you. You know like how many times, like I know, for me, if we bought a tape, we would just record it, and you know we were doing mixed tapes all the time. So we're already indirectly doing it. Yeah, and that was okay. So I did it on both sides. But hey, man, when Columbia Records went out of business, how are we getting free music?
Speaker 1:Okay, we have to pay for this.
Speaker 2:We have to pay for it or steal it, and you probably yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, if anything, you could argue more for small artists or small artists. I don't think Metallica was that, like what you know, there's being kind of gritty.
Speaker 1:I get as a. You know I have a perspective as a comedian. I don't think I've ever been paid by Spotify and I know my album is on there and people listen to it on Spotify. So Spotify is one of the worst in terms of like plays to pay. But yeah, it's just you got to get your stuff out there. Nowadays there's so much content that exposure is. You know that's right. Get paid a lot of time.
Speaker 2:So is there any topics that you stay away from when you are a comedian? Yeah, like I know there's. I just went seeing Whitney Cummings the other day and she was Hilarious, like she was super funny and and I appreciate her because she just talks about anything, but she kind of like opened up like that and she was like oh fuck, I'm just gonna talk about transgender.
Speaker 2:Whatever, let's do it, let's just get it away and I just kind of appreciated that because it's like we're in this state the how I think of when we see comedians. For me it's like we're in this safe space that we can laugh about this stuff that they're saying. But we do feel it and we do think it, but we want to say it, but we don't want to get her tires slashed after the show.
Speaker 1:I don't have any kind of limits as to what I talk about.
Speaker 1:I think it's just if it's funny, if you can think of a funny thing, I'm not one of those comedians that wants to be like a modern-day philosopher too. I think there's a lot of those guys that Are influenced maybe by great comedians like Bill Hicks or like Patrice O'Neill, that Are these like prophetic voices almost and could talk about these social issues. But when I see new comedians that are like a year in, they jump straight to taking on religion. Yeah, you know, trans rights, everything. It's like well, okay, maybe build up the skill level a bit before you Take a swing at the heavier things. And Whitney Cummings is someone who's been doing comedy for a long time and I'm sure it was all of her observations about it were funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're hilarious.
Speaker 1:It's funny, it's funny, then just let her rip like yeah it's, it's, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think comedians are so in tune with like, is that joke transfer, or is that racist or is this? And you know comedians Will say that at the back the room like, oh, that was a new joke. Yeah, yeah, it's good. You don't think that's like racist or any, danny? And then, because people are always thinking like a wonder, stand up and yell that. But you know it's not, it's a joke about this, it's a joke about you know. Anyways, I don't think there's any limit, I just try to be considerate and it's also just easier to get along and do shows. You can take the extreme edgy route, but people are gonna the heckle and yell stuff and I just don't want the confrontation as much. If there's something really funny though, I'll do it, and if people groan about it, then I kind of chuckle to myself that they're groaning and like I would love to see, like Richard Pryor now, or Robin Williams now, or even like Dennis Leary right now with.
Speaker 2:After COVID and all the crazy shit that's going on right now, like I would love to go see those shows and just have them Lisa, lappin, nally or whatever. Just have them like, totally have their way for two hours. They'll be like George Carlin imagine. Yeah, but there's still a lot of great comedians. Now that we can, you know.
Speaker 1:Doug Stanhope, Louis CK.
Speaker 2:Yeah, who are some of your comedians that you look up to or maybe have a mired growing up getting into this profession? Who did I look up to like I love Dave Chappelle when I was younger.
Speaker 1:I loved Cat Williams, dave Chappelle like a lot of these black comics I just loved so much. And yeah, richard Pryor, george Carlin, all the big names too. I love John Panette. I think he's a great joke writer. But then, since I've been doing comedy, I think a lot of my comedians have been doing comedy. I love John Panette. I think he's a great joke writer. But then, since I've been doing comedy, I think a lot of my favorites are just comics that I work with. And you know if I'm thinking like famous American comedians, I love Bill Burr and Louis CK, but there's so many really funny Canadian comics that that are just great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's nice to see actually.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's really nice. There's so many. I could list a billion names. I don't know if you would know a lot of them, but you know Tyler Morris and Jared Campbell, rob Pugh, mike Wilmot. Yeah just guys that I work with Chuck Byrne, martha Chavez a lot of very funny Canadian comics.
Speaker 2:I love it.
Speaker 1:That's the homework for the audience today. Go find a Canadian comedian that you don't.
Speaker 2:Canadian Canadian Canadian comedian. So this next song I don't know if I have it right, because it's very quick and there's not a lot to it, so if I got it wrong I apologize. It's got a kick in apparently takes a while.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it's, one builds up, it's a builder, it's a builder.
Speaker 2:And definitely tell to think Sorry. I said you can definitely tell it's a Pink Floyd song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 2:Speak to me. So there's like this massive 14 hour build up in case you see this.
Speaker 1:Maybe not the best song for it.
Speaker 2:No I love it.
Speaker 1:I love it though. Yeah, I mean you can guess this one. This is the. It's like post move out, you know. First, apartment Living alone, rebellious stage took mushrooms for the first time and my roommate, who was like a, had done mushrooms a bunch and it was like a trip sitter for me and was due to every listen to Pink Floyd and I was like no and so he put on this album yeah, it was sick.
Speaker 1:This, the song builds up and builds up, and it was the dark side of the moon, was the album and the opening song speak to me to build up. And then this, that big scream that burst into the guitar and drums and when you're high on mushrooms for the first time, it's pretty cool, pretty cool experience.
Speaker 2:Tell me a little bit about your mushroom trip. Where'd you go? How many people did you see?
Speaker 1:It was just me and him in the living room. I didn't really like see any like crazy hallucinations, telling like a trip stories, always like telling it to me. Someone's like yeah, and then I was like floating and it's like it's hard to okay, I guess, sure man not even happened.
Speaker 1:We all know it was just in your mind, so I don't know how interesting it is, but we had like a poster of the doors, were there standing like next to an airplane and I kept looking at Jim Morrison's face it was all you know warping around and stuff. It was cool, it was a classic. I've fucked like. What a stereotype really. Just Two 19 year old guys with the poster of the doors, jimmy Hendrix poster smoking a bunch of weed in the apartment. That was a fun, fun first apartment.
Speaker 2:That was when I moved from pizza hut to staple, so I was working at that time You're upgrading your up no more smelling like pizza, which is probably a good thing. Moved on to smelling like weed and what were you like growing up in high school?
Speaker 1:I was always like a really good student and I think by high school I was just bored with school.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So I was just cutting class a lot and reading Friedrich Nietzsche and thinking I was like super deep and philosophical and you know I didn't smoke weed at that time, I didn't start till after high school but so I wasn't like a stoner teen in high school. Yeah, after high school I tried joining the army, actually, and I got rejected because of my eyesight. I've had laser eye surgery since then, but I've had really bad eyes my whole life and my eyesight was so bad that I got rejected.
Speaker 2:That's interesting. What kind of girls did you date in high school? None, none. No girlfriends in high school.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, Wow, no, that didn't happen till I was like 19. That was when I was, when I had that sweet staples money to flash around.
Speaker 2:I was a late bloomer for sure late bloomer, and then so was it a serious girlfriend that you lost your virginity to.
Speaker 1:No, not really, I guess no.
Speaker 2:I guess we were just guys right. It's like any girl that will take me. I just need to get this done.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I mean she was cool, but no, I don't think I had my first real relationship until I was probably 20 or 21. Oh wow.
Speaker 2:That was like my first real girlfriend.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I mean slow, slow on the uptake there. I was always like a super nerdy kid with glasses and not very confident and you know Among my friends that I knew well I was always funny and killing. But with new people I'm always pretty quiet, even still. I'm always kind of quiet at first.
Speaker 2:I find a lot of comedians are kind of like that, like it's either or it's like the abrasive, or like you get introverted, like it's so strange.
Speaker 1:I find when it's appropriate for me to be on, then I can do that like if I'm on stage or you know doing a podcast or something. But if I'm at a party I don't need to be the one like hey, everybody, look at this, I'm just the quiet one in the corner at the party because you know what the social butterflies do their thing. That's right. But if they say up next Dave Burke, then it's when I okay well okay, let's do this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, alright, I love this next song. Nobody's had it on their playlist yet, which I'm surprised. It could easy Eagles yeah, so good.
Speaker 1:Oh, so good.
Speaker 2:What's your memory or your story that's attached to that? So Arizona.
Speaker 1:Do it, carry up. I I'm not a karaoke guy and I was, I guess, like a year and a half ago, a couple of years had a breakup that like really bummed me out and I was performing at the Yuck Yucks in Niagara Falls like the weekend of the breakup. I think we broke up on like a Thursday and then Friday I was in Niagara Falls and there's a Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville in Niagara Falls that we always go to after a show at the Yuck Yucks there, because it's kind of between the hotel and the Yuck Yucks, just because it's a sight to see. I don't know if you've ever been inside of a Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, but it's like they have a giant margarita like blender, like giant, like 20 foot tall blender that's like mixing this big fake green margarita mix and there's palm, fake palm trees and stuff everywhere and it's this tropical vibe.
Speaker 1:And there's been a couple, more than one, occasion where I've been really dejected, super depressed, like doing a crappy show at the Niagara Falls Yuck Yucks and then you end up at the Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville and it's a great contrast, if you're feeling crappy, to have this Artificial Margaritaville environment to be in or if you're in a good mood to. It's just always. It's funny either way to be there, and so this was like post break up. I was like super bombed. I don't know if I had a bad set or a good set, but I was still just feeling depressed and stuff.
Speaker 1:And Eric Andrews was with me and we went to and James Cummins- and we went to To Jimmy Buffett's, and I have only done karaoke once twice in my life. The first time was like I was forced to do it in Halifax and I did Going the Distance by cake, which was, I guess that's one of the songs on my list too, so we can talk about that experience as well. But the second time was was this one Take it easy? And I just liked it because it was. It seemed like a. The chorus is a nice message, you know. Take it easy.
Speaker 1:Yeah don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy. I don't know, for some reason I was relating to it. I don't know if it's a necessarily true, though it's very true, lyric Right. One's a driver's song. Yeah the song about rebounding. It's like you're on the corner and some hot chicken, a pickup truck like waves at you and you're like I'm back, let's go.
Speaker 2:Let's go. I've been out for three hours now I'm back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the funny thing about this one was I did the the first verse in the chorus and then I put the mic back in the stand and started to walk off and the DJ goes there's a lot left to go back and pull the mic out of the stand. But Eric and I still joke about that there's, there's actually a lot left.
Speaker 2:This is good. Four minutes left there, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:You're going to have to come back here. It's a good metaphor for life. When you think you're putting the mic up on the stand Given up, there's actually two verses left, so get back up there.
Speaker 2:So are you a big strip club guy? Were you a big strip club guy? Go to strip club a lot.
Speaker 1:Never been to a strip club Really.
Speaker 2:Wow yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Wow. Never been Not nobody tried to drag you out there.
Speaker 1:Come on, man, let's go do some dog, I guess that would have happened in Halifax if we, like they, had one in Dartmouth when I was younger called Ralph's Place.
Speaker 2:Oh, the full name is the strip club.
Speaker 1:It's an unfortunate name, but it's been closed and they don't have a strip club in Halifax. I don't. I think it was open still when.
Speaker 2:I was just in Halifax in July.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my first time did a little tour oh nice. Went to Cape Breton, pi, moncton, clough Facts, peggy's Cove, lournas. Yeah, it was amazing. We spent just about two weeks there. It was, it was good weather.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, it was interesting because it was like we're chasing the sun but not chasing like it's very foggy there in the morning. Like I'm originally from BC, so I was really excited to go there and see that ocean. Like I was like I can't wait and then obviously eat all that seafood, because I love seafood, being from the island. Oh, so good, right. So every morning, super cloudy by 12 o'clock, like sun kind of coming up, but very humid, I found it very. I felt like I was. It wasn't what I expected. I didn't expect that many trees and that lush. I did not expect that. Oh yeah, like I expected more of how PI is, like kind of the rolling hills and like potato farmland kind of thing. So I was like this is amazing.
Speaker 2:We, like my husband and I like took over that boardwalk. Like when we got into Halifax we dropped our bags because we've been driving for like eight hours and we hit that boardwalk pretty hard. We hit like nine different restaurants and like nice appetizers and drinks and we stayed at the Lord and we needed the GPS to take us like to the hotel because we had no way, like we were annihilated and we were like five minutes from the hotel. We're like we're just going to use GPS to take us, walk us, back to the war. I love Halifax. It was lots of fun, it was like a whole area and beautiful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so nice, like Canada is a big, beautiful country. It's cool that with comedy I've been able to go from Newfoundland to Vancouver now and yeah, it's really beautiful. That's the next piece of homework for the listeners Go to Nova Scotia for vacation. That's right so there's a Nova Scotia pays me to say that they need it.
Speaker 2:I think a lot of people really rely on that summer it's a chain. You just heard this little cha-ching yeah.
Speaker 1:I get a free lobster now when I go home.
Speaker 2:Free lobster roll. That's right, it's awesome, all right, my uncle was a lobster fisherman.
Speaker 1:Oh, no way, that's how authentic I am as a Nova Scotian. Wow, I remember going out on the boat as a kid. Not fun when you're a kid. It's like, okay, we're getting up at 4.30 in the morning. Kids Get to see what it's like on the boat. I don't want to. Yeah, my grandpa told me that it was on that, sadly.
Speaker 2:I've owned a fishing resort my whole entire life, when I lived in BC.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Okay, so yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So it was really cool to go fishing all the time and all of that stuff. I got to do that every single summer and really, really miss that, like being in Calgary and missing the water, like you must eat. Well, you have the great lakes. We have piss made, man made lakes, like some bunch of dudes just pissed on the side of the road and that's our man made lake. Is there any fishing?
Speaker 1:in there there is, there's lots of fish.
Speaker 2:No, like it's different pick roll or like it's not. Like you're not. I wouldn't eat it. Like I wouldn't be like. Oh my God, I can't wait to take this home to my family with the blue green algae on it. Like it's so delicious. I don't think I would have any of that. It's very I don't know. For me when I moved here, it was so hard. First of all, I couldn't drink the water. When I first moved to Calgary, it's like what the hell is this? This is so gross and I took my kids to like a lake and I'm like we're not going in there. There's probably fucking dead bodies. We are not kids. You're not going in the lake, right, it was when we left. Oh man, there's no good lakes, you know.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I don't think like things went maybe I'm wrong. I haven't been all over Alberta, but around Calgary there's. You know, we built a property on like a man made lake, but we can't even have. Yeah.
Speaker 1:If you can't swim in it or fish in it then it's. What good is it? That's something I've gotten into over the last few years is fishing. I did it as a kid but never as an adult, but over the last five years. I guess I have three fishing rods now and I have my girlfriend out.
Speaker 2:So I love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I love fishing. It's my favorite. All right Next song.
Speaker 1:Well, so we meet again. I said he's grown spiritually since last time.
Speaker 2:Okay, this is the zoning of the book of better aspects. All right, now we're getting some gangster rap here.
Speaker 1:Well, this is uh, yeah, this is uh like underground hip hop, so this is not gangster at all. The next one's a bit more gangster pop song I guess on the list. But I do love hip hop and listened to a ton of it in high school and this probably was like the guy that I listened to the most in high school ASOP rock um, very much not a mainstream kind of guy it's. It's like this intellectual rap which I can't listen to now.
Speaker 1:We talked earlier about how some of this stuff being nostalgic and you listen to it Like yeah but this is like it's very hard for me to revisit this kind of stuff Cause the I don't know, it's just just kind of uh, I don't know what the word is pretentious maybe a little I don't know. It's just like this, high on its own intelligence, like look how many syllables I can fit into this.
Speaker 2:How many words I can spell. Good for you, I can't Right.
Speaker 1:The only thing that's hard about is wrapping the five syllable words with each other. But ASOP rock is a great artist Like I. You know I'm not knocking the guy, but I guess I was into, uh, into the, the sheer intellectualism of it and stuff, and I listened to a lot of underground hip hop that was not very, uh, mainstream. Maybe just cause it was also underground stuff too, I was like no man, this isn't like Nelly, or like 50 cent, this is really you have to think about this stuff, man Cause I just I don't know if I can support that same interest anymore. But, um, I mean, I went to like a few underground hip hop, like ciphers, like rap sessions in Halifax. I remember I went to one at a coffee shop on Goddard's street and it was all white people. It's like you know, halifax has a good black population, but none of them came to this show and I was like these are bigger nerds than me, like this is uh, this is not cool.
Speaker 1:Let's see, it was really an odd just at all and it was really like mathematical I'm coming in so hyper blabble and it was, you know, just all this super that was, I don't know. Yeah, anyways, asop rock, this was my high school yearbook quote was quoting big bang. That's, that's how far I took it. That was really, really into it, really into it. I was like doing graffiti and stuff too. I was all I was into hip hop. I was really I thought I was thought I was part of a cool thing.
Speaker 2:So I'm just curious do you want to go over your pre show ritual?
Speaker 1:I heard you have a pre show ritual Pre show ritual Um, oh yeah, was that one of the interviews I did there?
Speaker 2:I love it. You think you didn't remember it.
Speaker 1:Do you know what that? I pulled that from a book that was turned into a movie.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you was a fear, but I can look at that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was fear and loathing. Yeah, the the pre show ritual was the bottle of mess, and I can pull it up here unless you want to read.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that'd be awesome.
Speaker 1:Okay, let me find the big Hunter S Thompson fan and loved fear and loathing. I mean too, such a good show I I before every show I consume two bags of grass, 75 pellets of masculine, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker, half full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, laughers, screamers. Also a quarter of tequila, a quarter of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen Amels. Did I add something else to the list? I forget.
Speaker 2:And a light salad.
Speaker 1:And a light salad. That's the punch line.
Speaker 2:Gotta, get your greens in.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That would be a good day. That would be like, that would actually be amazing to go and see you right before you did all that and watch you progress through the show and watch you like transition to all these different who knows what would happen, I would do the two bags of grass and maybe a shot of tequila, but not anything else on the list.
Speaker 1:Never tried acid or it's a lot.
Speaker 2:All right, Now we're going to. Now we're going. Gangster, Yo chow this piece. I'm uptown right now.
Speaker 1:I'm on my way to the West Bank to put a twist on it.
Speaker 2:Thank you, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's. Uh, do you go back to junior high with this one? And I didn't really listen to this song. But, um, I was a pretty nerdy kid, like I said in junior high. Picture me with like glasses on and suspenders and one of those propeller caps. Like, oh, like, really. Yeah, I didn't wear a propeller cap just for the mental image, but there was a talent show in junior high and, uh, this kid that I sat next to in math class chris medley, black kid, and chris sear, another black class made of mine thought it would be funny to Dress me up in like a do rag, in a big jersey, in baggy jeans and stuff.
Speaker 1:Wow have me go and perform choppa style. But uh, I I did it like I enunciated the words perfectly, I'm a chopper style chop. It was like this, uh, exaggerated, kind of like a super white nerdy guy and uh, we won the talent show. It was. It was incredible.
Speaker 1:I just went up and like lip synced or sang along I don't know if we found like a karaoke track of it or whatever but, um, chris game, your do rag and chris gamey's jersey and stuff and I was all like you know, thugging out and the whole school was in the gymnasium and, uh, they were like all right up next and then the choppa style started playing and I came out through the doors and the whole school like lost it because it was like this big reveal of me dressed up that way and I just was like I think it was like uh, the preeminent or like the forming of me as a comedian, because I wasn't like embarrassed. I was always kind of a quiet kid, but I felt like this was uh a performance. So I came out and just had this like I ran, I, everyone had their hand out for like a high five and I ran there around the gym and I had everyone and ran on to the stage and did the song and danced and stuff and we won the uh, the talent show first place.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. What'd you win it?
Speaker 1:was a huge I don't remember. I don't think it was a prize, I just think it was just uh, ego just pride.
Speaker 2:Pride and ego. It felt great.
Speaker 1:It was really cool. I felt so, so cool. Everyone was laughing and loving it and I do think that was maybe the. I didn't think about it at the time that it maybe I could be a comedian or something, but it felt really good. I remember that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I felt good.
Speaker 1:It laughs.
Speaker 2:Do you remember your first cassette CD album that you bought?
Speaker 1:Yes, it was uh an alien ant farm album. I don't know if you remember them. No, they covered um. They covered uh smooth criminal. Oh okay, michael Jackson and did like a kind of rock version, and so I listened to that single and I knew them from that and, uh, that was the first album I bought. I saw it at Walmart.
Speaker 2:Wow but.
Speaker 1:I think I listened to a lot of stuff online before I really yeah, and what about concert?
Speaker 2:What was your first concert you've been to?
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a good question. Um, I can't. I can't say which was first it was. It was probably either Slayer or Nickelback. I saw them both in Halifax when I was in like junior high or high school Nickelback everyone made fun of but they rocked.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know what, like I don't understand the controversy from this day.
Speaker 1:It was one of the best live shows I've ever seen, like they put on a great live show, and maybe it's because I was like a teenager, like you know 15 or whatever, however old I was when but they had like sick pyrotechnics and stuff and like they were actually good live. I don't know if they had backing tracks. I don't think so. I think they just played. Everything was good.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:At one point. What was the singer Kurt?
Speaker 2:Um geez, I can't even remember. Now I'm drawing a blank here.
Speaker 1:I can't even remember anyways, because you guys know what time it is. And they were like what time he goes beer o'clock, and then they like a bunch of beers came up and started throwing beers into the crowd.
Speaker 2:That's awesome.
Speaker 1:Like wow, this is so that's pretty cool 15 year old.
Speaker 2:I lot. I miss the old school concerts, the concerts. Now it's like I don't understand the concert, like I just I don't understand. I just went to like the 90s um concert was like vanilla ice scene scene music factory Color me bad, which blue I'll get to that? Um, and then sugar hill. First of all, I don't remember a black guy in color me bad and the whole band except for the lead singer was black. So I was a little confused by that um, and we Were on stage with vanilla ice for his whole set. So we're like dancing. Oh wow, that whole whole theater was all chairs. So like every time I go to a show like that, it's all chairs. But I just took my kids to chasing summers on the weekend. How can we don't have chairs at raves? Like I don't understand.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, I guess, raves, you're all in ecstasy so it's hard to sit down right. Yeah, I guess we're not gonna get into a fight, but just seems kind of yeah you know, what I don't get about concerts is uh Phones and I sound like a boomer when I say this but like, push your goddamn phone away and just listen to the music and it's irritating.
Speaker 1:Maybe taking a picture is fine, but when I see people recording the whole show, it's like You're missing out. I don't know man, like he's just for your youtube page or like what are you doing? Like.
Speaker 2:I can't.
Speaker 1:Really, it bothers me so much.
Speaker 2:I had a girl in front of me and literally Was recording and I pushed her because she doesn't know that I'm an old lady, she's like 19 to stands in front of me and I'm like five, two. I'm like hey. She's like yeah, and I'm like don't fucking stand in front of me and record. She's like uh.
Speaker 1:Okay and I'm like no seriously like if you were record.
Speaker 2:I know that I have an awesome spot, I get that, but don't fucking stand in front of me and record like.
Speaker 1:Come on, it's supposed to be his unwritten rules of concert attendance for people.
Speaker 2:You know it's so crazy, it's too pushy and stuff.
Speaker 1:It's really. Hey, I was at a show a few weeks ago and I had to get close to the front just so that I didn't see a screen of lights in front of me, like I just didn't want to.
Speaker 2:I know it's too bad, all right. Next song this one I have not heard before until to tell the other day, and then today, and I listened to your play list. So is this song called diva, costa diva?
Speaker 1:Costa diva yeah, yeah, maria Callas. I think um is a super interesting artist. I listened to her a bunch during COVID and the lockdowns and stuff. I got really, really in a very depressed dark place during the lockdowns because I wasn't doing any comedy.
Speaker 1:Everything was just shut down completely and uh, I live alone and my I had a part-time day job and that worked to switch to remotely completely, so I was just home alone for weeks on end and I would pop out to see a friend once every week and it became like once for a couple weeks and then it just like months went by of me just being super depressed all the time and, uh, somehow I came across Maria Callas and I started reading about her life. Super interesting woman. She's like America's first pop diva, like first famous singer that also like had a attitude and was like a, you know, had this American diva thing. But she um had a bunch of interesting uh relationship. Like her whole career was super interesting. She lived in Italy for a while, then came to America. Her mother was kind of abusive and stuff and pushed her into singing and it didn't like take off right away. But then she just she started doing bigger and bigger things. She dated um oh, it's the guy's name now.
Speaker 1:I should have refreshed myself here okay he was, uh like, one of the richest men in the world oh, wow yeah, what was JFK's um um Onassis, jackie Onassis Aristotle Onassis was the guy's name he was.
Speaker 1:She had an affair with Aristotle Onassis when he was with Jackie, um, yeah, and then, um, she ended up being with Aristotle or getting a bunch of she. He had a bunch of control over her somehow, and at the end of her life, maria Callas was living in France, in this home, and she just didn't leave. She was just locked in all the time and she started abusing pain pills and listening to her old records and looking out the window, basically, and then she, she died, um, after being abused and controlled by by this man, like she was by her mother as a child. Anyway, super interesting life. I didn't convey it in the best way because it's been a few no, but that's crazy but very interesting.
Speaker 1:I think she would be an amazing subject of like a biopic if the I don't know if there's anything in in the works, but like super interesting and just such a sad end to her life. But, um, I could somewhat relate to the feeling of being like locked inside and you know, I wasn't taking like opiates and stuff, but just smoking a bunch of weed and just feeling really depressed and like unable to practice my, my craft, my art, yeah, makes me want to live. So, um, I can kind of listen to that and think back to that feeling a little bit, but I'm very glad that we're not in that situation anymore yeah, I agree, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember it was just so, but like everything about it was so bizarre, like the whole entire thing was just like and we have some property outside of Calgary, so whenever, like it was literally our, was it like our 20, 21st or 20th anniversary, and we're like going the next day it was like March 16th or something and we get this. I get this email from the rimrock hey or no, from one of the restaurants in Banff. Hey, we've canceled your reservation. I'm like, okay, that's kind of weird. And then the other restaurant canceled. And then I'm like kind of phone the rimrock and find out what's like going on.
Speaker 2:So we phone, they're like oh yeah, you can come but nothing's going to be open and you're just kind of being in your room. I'm like, well, we're not paying $500 a night and fucking sit in a room like that's ridiculous, we're not gonna go there. So we phone the kids and we said, hey, if this, if it's like zombie apocalypse by morning. Just head to the property. We're all gonna go to the property, right, and we like put water there like we had no idea what was really like.
Speaker 2:I wasn't crazy or anything like that, but we were just like how crazy it was starting to get like around us. It's like I don't want my kids to be in their older, but I don't want them to be in this environment. I want this. If we're gonna be locked down, I want us all together. For one, I don't give a fuck what the government says, we're all gonna be together. I don't care. And my daughter's on her own. It's fine for my son because he's married, but you know, I don't want my daughter to be alone going through this on her own.
Speaker 1:That's awful right yeah, I mean, you know what direction it's going to.
Speaker 2:So that's what yeah, and you didn't know what to believe.
Speaker 1:The property to go to?
Speaker 2:no, I mean and what was real, what wasn't real, and it was just.
Speaker 1:In every day the rules are changing and this is changing, and so insane like I, find weird now is like we don't want to look back at it, we just want to like move. I know, not question anything that happened, but like what we need to hindsight is 2020. We should look back. And now they're saying that it probably came from a lab. It wasn't. It's like, okay, well, who the fuck, what the I had, I don't know. Again, it's when you start people like let's just not, let's just move on yeah, let's just move on.
Speaker 2:I don't know if that's the wrong. It's because I think people were going off the rails and they don't want to remember all the crazy shit like walk this in the supermarket are you fucking kidding me, like this is and I live.
Speaker 1:I live in Toronto too, and it was just I think it was so prolonged here for no reason yeah, yeah, you guys were and well, I couldn't like leave. Nova Scotia was locked down. If I went to home for a visit, I would have had to isolate for two weeks. Yeah, I can't really do that. So I just stayed here and kept working and yeah, it's crazy, I was not. I feel like I'm permanently changed by that whole experience. Really.
Speaker 2:I feel a lot of people are and I feel the ones that are really suffering right now like a lot, like we had our kids really young, um, and what I'm seeing now is all the parents that have kids 15 and younger. They're a mess, they're absolutely a mess. That's a generation I need and like the computer and stuff too.
Speaker 1:We're all connected to the internet. I guess we're lucky because we're of this generation where we have the internet now but we grew up with just playing around the neighborhood. Yeah, like just call, call your friend on the landline and be like I'll be there in 30 minutes and then you.
Speaker 2:If not, I'm just driving to your house because we're gonna run into each other, because you're, it's just like we had.
Speaker 1:We just tell you know, telepathic, we just knew that, that's remember my mom would be like let's go and just knock on the door and we just get in the car and drive to their house, not gonna be like are you home, like let's yeah and now it's like, oh god for good, we'd be surprised if you knock on my door, it takes me for a psycho.
Speaker 1:It's like such a different yeah so we're lucky that we've had both of them. It could be kind of normal have one foot in the past that's right, I agree, all right.
Speaker 2:Next song start today start today gorilla biscuits.
Speaker 1:Um, this, I guess. Uh, it's a song I listened to a ton like three, four years ago. Um, before COVID, I uh got into a health kick. I was like exercising a bunch, didn't eat carbs, I like went down to like 135 pounds. I was just like super tiny and just uh, had no muscle but had abs and I felt like super ripped as hell you know, since then I've blown back up to like 200 now.
Speaker 1:So I'm like fully the other end eating ice cream every night. But this was when I was like this was like motivational hardcore punk music. Uh, start. Today it's like my room's a mess and I can't get dressed. Gotta give you a bite, a clock and uh, it's just a motivational thing. Like you can do it, man, like there's a bunch of that are kind of motivational workout music that is great if you're looking to work out gorilla biscuits.
Speaker 1:The whole album uh, start today is great. Um, hate breed, which doesn't sound like a super motivational band, but but it is it's like a hardcore boom in your face, like you can do it like my son listens to all that when he works out as well, so no it's good stuff, it's. Uh, I should get back into working out a little bit.
Speaker 2:I gotta listen to more gorilla biscuits so, dave, where do we like what's coming up for you over the call it. The next six months are you gonna be traveling again. You have like some dates set up. Where can we stalk you? Where can we follow?
Speaker 1:you can uh follow me on instagram at Dave our Burke um every other platform as well but instagram. I guess I'll be posting about stuff I will be coming out west um doing Calgary, edmonton, try to hit up vancouver again too, before the end of the year, so keep your eyes out for that um. You can see me on yuck yucks dot com as well. I think I have a profile there, so you'll see all the shows I'm doing with yuck yucks. Uh, this weekend. I don't know when this episode will come out, but I am going to be recording an album, so keep your eyes out for my upcoming album. Sexual cactus is like five or six years old now, so I gotta update that. Um. And it's cool. This weekend too, I'm uh headlining the Toronto yuck x is 730, and then tom green is doing shows at 10 30, so I'm opening for him as well.
Speaker 2:So that's awesome, yeah so it'll be.
Speaker 1:Uh should be a cool weekend. Hope they get a good recording out of it. Get that next album that's really cool.
Speaker 2:All right, we're on your last song. Are you ready?
Speaker 1:let's do it.
Speaker 2:Let's do it reluctantly crouched at the starting line, engines pumping and thumping in time. The green light flashes, the flags go up, churning and burning, the yarn for the cup they deathly maneuver. These guys remind me of bloodhound gang a lot cake yeah, yeah, yes.
Speaker 1:I guess I have this, a similar vibe. I love cake. Um, great band, again some cool bass songs. I'm learning to play a few cake songs on bass when I was doing that when I was younger. But this one is the uh karaoke. I guess I kind of spoiled it already, but this was the first time that I got forced to do karaoke, one of two times. My first performance, um, I mean, the guy just speaks the lyrics the whole time pretty much. So it was like my silent protest to uh being dragged up to do karaoke. But I remember doing that at beer leaves and helifax and uh, they have a comedy show every wednesday night at eight o'clock or nine o'clock and then it's followed by karaoke afterwards.
Speaker 2:So oh, cool it's funny.
Speaker 1:Sometimes the karaoke is more popular than the comedy and when you're closing out that show you'll see the room start to fill up with karaoke people and it kind of gets louder and louder and sometimes the start of the comedy show is the best. But uh, many fun memories. They've been doing that show for like over 15 years, I think, and every time I'm in helifax I go back to beer leaves on wednesday and do the comedy and then stay for the karaoke. There are some professional karaoke singers, of which I am not one, but uh, I don't know if you've ever gone to a karaoke place and you see the regulars that come yeah, it's aggressive, it's like they have their song and they go up and nail it and every other regular is like okay, there she goes playing black velvet again.
Speaker 1:We've seen that. But then the newbies are like holy shit, like she can actually nail this one song and uh, yeah, I love karaoke it's.
Speaker 2:It's fun to like not all the time, but it is fun to go with a bunch of friends and you're like and I'm gonna go up there and do like a virgin or like whatever. Let's do something fun on there instead of like the regulars that go on there. And you're right, they do do black velvet and yeah, you know they try to do whitney or it's a good one yeah, yeah, yeah, just really belting it out well.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much today for joining me today on music junkies. I hope you had a good time. I had a good time, but before I let you go, I would love some words of wisdom that you'll leave to our guess, oh man.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you, annette. So much for having me on um words of wisdom. I don't know. Everybody keep on trucking. It's. It's tough out there. We're all broke right now and barely keeping it together, but we can do it, I think. Uh, things will get better and more fun. Just listen to music. Listen to maria callas if you're really in a deep hole, or Slayer if you just got punched in the face, or Quincy Jones if you feel, if you feel like making love. Whatever your feeling is, however, you just get some tunes going. And listen to the music junkies podcast too.
Speaker 2:I love it. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Like, follow, subscribe. I will give you all of Dave's socials for you can like, follow and subscribe and stalk him as well. And uh, yeah, awesome peace. Oh, my god, stop fucking whining, dude.