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TPS LK S1E1

TPS2: Ain’t No Reason To Get Excited

In this premiere episode of ‘The Produce Stand’ podcast, the hosts Al, Tanya, Mat, and Victor gather to discuss their favorite Canadian comedy show, ‘Letterkenny.’ Expect lots of laughs, a deeper look into the characters, and an overview of the episode’s key moments and witty dialogues. They also delve into their personal lives, Covid-19 impacts, and how they relate to the humor of ‘Letterkenny.’

Episode Limerick
Like Wayne, there simply aren’t many,
Sure as Pastor Glen won’t shag Ginny,
One night at Modean’s,
Angie’s new Beau was mean,
So Wayne welcomed him to fucking Letterkenny.

Chapters

  • 00:00 – Introduction
  • 00:35 – How Was Your Week?
  • 08:26 – On The Seattle Kraken
  • 09:33 – Don’t Bore Us, Get To The Chorus (Episode Recap)
  • 48:26 – Episode Rating
  • 53:03 – The Music on Letterkenny
  • 54:58 – Post-Credits Scene
  • 56:54 – Episode Ranking
  • 57:49 – Outro

Wayne’s Words of Wisdom

It’s a hard life picking stones and pulling teats but sure as God’s got sandals it beats fighting dudes with treasure trails.

— Wayne

Final Rating

  • Mat: Fresh
  • Al: Fresh
  • Victor: Clearance
  • Tanya: Clearance
  • Dean: Fresh

Scientific Twitter Poll

  • Fresh: 87.5%
  • Clearance: 12.5%
  • Compost: N/A

Featured Music

Links:

Clip: [00:00:00] Couple hockey players come up the produce stand the other day.

Allan: It’s Thirsty Thursday. And that means another episode of The Produce Stand, a podcast paying tribute to the great Canadian show, Letterkenny. Now I know what you’re thinking. There are many, um, there are many podcasts about Letterkenny out there, but this podcast comes with 50 percent more profanity. I’m Al, your host, and joining me in the room is the lovely Tanya, and online we have Matt and Victor.

Hey guys, how are you doing tonight? Excellent.

Mat: Very well.

Allan: Alright, so how was your week? Like, uh, the first episode went out last week, and I think we got about eight people listening, which, uh, I mean, there’s four of us, and I know only three of us probably listened to it, so that means at least five other people listened.

Victor: I had,

Mat: I had my wife listen.

Allan: There you

Mat: go. And how much do you have to listen to to actually count as a listen?

Allan: Uh, I don’t know, that’s a good question. Actually, it’s not a listen, it’s [00:01:00] downloads, right? Podcasts have to be downloaded. So I’m not sure how that works. But anyway,

Mat: I may have downloaded it twice.

Allan: Alright, well, that accounts. So we’ve now accounted for all eight listens. Great, I’m deflated already. We haven’t even started. But you know what, it was the first episode, we didn’t really talk about it. We didn’t have a recap or whatever, so it was more of a production meeting. Uh, hopefully, uh, this thing takes off.

Uh, but, uh, on, on that topic, we are now available on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts. So, uh, it will not be for lack of, of, uh, distribution that we don’t get anybody listening to this thing.

Mat: Mark, the pressure’s on now, man.

Allan: That’s right. Um, also, uh, I did start up a, a Twitter account, so, uh, you can follow us on Twitter, At produce stand pod, that’s at produce stand pod.

And I, I noticed that a victory you’ve already, you’re already following us. So that’s a good for you. I’m also following us. We probably have one or two others. Um, so yeah, last week, the first episode dropped and, uh, the homework for [00:02:00] today was to watch season one, episode one. So we will, before we get to the recap though, let’s recap our week.

Uh, Maddie, how, what did you do this week?

Mat: I worked, man. It was just a fucking shit show, but you know, that’s, that’s just labor now under the COVID dome. It’s a, it’s an interesting one. It’s, it’s working kids. That’s it. Uh, balancing that out. I mean, where I am right now, you may see through cause we’re on video.

I stand on my front porch. This has become my official office space, uh, rain or shine. I am stuck out here during the day to avoid the tears of the inner inner world inside the house. So it’s, uh, it’s nice out here on the porch. It’s my own little sanctuary.

Allan: Is everyone asleep right now? Or, uh,

Mat: Uh, no, no, I actually had to abandon Wifey, um, on the newest episode of Grey’s Anatomy to, uh, to move over to Letter Kenny.

So, you know, it’s all about balance in life, so, you know, you get some Grey’s, you get some Letter Kenny.

Allan: They’re not just making new episodes, are they still making new episodes of [00:03:00] Grey’s?

Mat: So let me, okay, I have a, I have something to admit. We started at the beginning. I had never seen it and she convinced me to do it.

And I’m a sucker for punishment. So we’re now into season two, I believe,

Allan: and

Mat: it’s getting pretty intense. Uh, only 16 seasons to go. I think between that letter, Kenny, my time is full.

Allan: That is a commitment too. Cause that, yeah, that’s, I’ve never seen

Tanya: it either. I think we should jump. Jump over onto that side.

Mat: This is quickly going to become a Grey’s Anatomy pod, just for the record.

Allan: Oh,

Mat: no, no. I’m

Allan: all

Mat: But I mean, let’s just But let’s get real. I mean, is this COVID shit? Like I’m running out of things to watch. I swear to God, I’ve watched the hell out of Netflix cable. I’m bored to shit with I’ve watched every new release and now they’re not releasing any new movies.

All the studios have stopped releasing them, you know, cause they can’t put them in theaters. So what the hell do we watch?

Allan: Do you have Amazon prime?

Mat: I do. So

Allan: marvelous. Mrs. Maisel, great show.

Mat: Highly recommended. [00:04:00] Two seasons into that as well. Um, I’m bouncing around shows everywhere.

Allan: And Jack Ryan is decent as well.

It’s really good.

Victor: Oh my goodness. If you’re talking about Prime, you gotta watch The Boys.

Allan: Yes. Oh, I’ve seen it. Yeah, I can’t wait. I’m waiting for the next season of that too. Actually, that’s starting up next week. Next season of The Boys.

Victor: Oh, uh, September, well, no, no, I thought, I think it’s September, I could be wrong.

I thought it was, uh, next week, that would be awesome.

Allan: I thought it was, uh, late July, I thought, uh, next week, I could be wrong, maybe it was something else. I

Victor: don’t know, every day is the same to me, so I have no idea what’s going on. I know next week is, uh, I’ve been watching Umbrella Academy with the family, so we’re looking forward to that one coming back next week.

And we actually started watching BoJack Horseman.

Allan: That’s the one. Umbrella Academy is the one that comes back next week. I got that mixed up. Yes. I’m looking forward to that too. I’m all caught up on that one. That’s another one that I watched with, uh, with a Tanya.

Tanya: Yeah.

Mat: Yeah. I was about to say, we wrap up our week with this cause this is much better than fighting dudes at treasure trails, right?[00:05:00]

Allan: All right. Yes. Uh, quickly, Victor, uh, dare ask how your week went.

Victor: Uh, yeah, I mean, same, you know, crazy work. Um, uh, not a shortage of things to do. So work, work is definitely keeping me busy. And, um, Uh, we decided today that we’re gonna get a new roof for the house, so that’s gonna set us back a bit. Oh, Mozel off.

Uh, so yeah, that’s a, so there’s that kind of stuff going on. We’re gonna get a metal, metal roof, one of these new metal roofs. You won’t be able fancy to be on the cell phone after that.

Allan: Alright.

Victor: Sounds like fun and a rainstorm.

Allan: Yeah. Yeah. Loud. Cool. Yeah. Well, this week we were on vacation. So, uh, we, we were a different kind of busy, but, uh, today we, we went to Casa Loma, took the kids there and, uh, we almost had, it was almost like a regular kind of vacation day.

Like, uh, we, we, you almost didn’t notice that we were in the middle of a pandemic until of course we had to, well, we had to wear our masks during the tour. But other than that,

Victor: plus one garment.

Allan: Yeah, exactly. Plus, I don’t imagine

Victor: they were handing out [00:06:00] headsets. Uh, no, no. We,

Allan: yeah, we had the, we had the tour heads, like around our neck and, and, uh, they’re, they’re all clean.

Before they were handed over and then we had to drop in a basket before we left. No, it was good. Good day. You,

Mat: you were, you were in my hood there, Al.

Allan: Yeah.

Mat: It’s just, uh. A rock stone away from there.

Allan: Yeah, we were, um, we went down just for that and, uh It was

Tanya: perfect. There was like 20 people there. Yeah. In the mansion of 95 rooms or 98 rooms, whatever it is.

And, uh, yeah, we pretty much had a room to ourselves every place we went. Perfect.

Mat: That’s an amazing truth right now. I hear it from everyone. I mean, if you You know, get over the fear, the concerns of being out there. If you can get over that and get to some of these places, this is the time to do and see everything because you cannot have groups, you get the freedom to enjoy things in a peaceful, quiet environment for the first time ever.

Allan: Yeah, this is supposed to be their busy season and it was, it was not busy at all.

Tanya: Yeah, we were the first into the, to the, um, Uh, garden restaurant, [00:07:00] and uh, everyone was wearing masks, chairs, everything was getting cleaned down. So yeah, it was perfect. Perfect.

Mat: Garden? Is that, is there more than one restaurant in Kastleman I don’t recall?

There are two. Yeah, there’s

Tanya: some, there’s a steak restaurant on the one side and then the garden restaurant on the other.

Mat: So funny quick story in the steak one, uh, wife and I one time went for a little downtown date to the distillery market or whatever, um, middle winter, came back and said, hey, let’s stop and have a quick drink at Casa Loma.

So we wander in the front door. Of the steakhouse, and I swear to God, you know, wifey’s in sweatpants, I’m in like snowsuit, this and that, and we’re like, can we just grab a drink at the bar? And they looked at us and laughed, and the guy said, I swear to God, his first line was, you know, we don’t get a lot of walk ins here, but let me show you where it is.

I think we each had one drink. Our bill came to something like 60 bucks, 60 bucks plus tax for a drink each.

Clip: Oh wow. [00:08:00] Yeah.

Mat: And we definitely stood out. There was all suits and tuxes around us and we’re sitting there looking like bums off the street. But, uh, hey, we enjoyed every second of it.

Allan: The rest, the garden restaurant wasn’t horribly priced.

It was actually quite reasonable. Like, I put it on par with like a keg or something, so it wasn’t that bad. Nice. Yeah. Nice, uh, nice, uh, and atmosphere too. Anyway, uh, so let’s, let’s get back to what this podcast is about, which is, uh, what it’s about. Oh, letter Kenny. Yeah. So

Victor: Al, Al. So, I mean, there was a big piece of news today.

I just want to, I know this is not a sports podcast

Allan: quickly

Victor: your thoughts on the Seattle name.

Allan: The Kraken . Yes, sure. I, I, oh, oh, Matt, you have a, you have an opinion. I,

Mat: I just, I I love it. Yeah, I love it. I love it. As

Allan: long as at the beginning of every sh every before they, they come out, before they skate out onto the ice, they don’t, they, they better have a big booming voice saying, release the Kraken, and then like, have ’em all skate onto the end.

Victor: Oh my God. They’re gonna have so much fun with it. . [00:09:00] And, and you know, you know how in, uh, San Jose, they skate up through a shark?

Allan: Yeah.

Victor: Uh, on the ice, and you know, they’re gonna have to come up, they don’t, nobody knows what this thing looks like, but they’ll have to come up with one, because I’m sure a mascot, they’re gonna have this monster mascot, so.

It’ll be fun, it’ll be fun. Anyway, yeah, I think the name’s fun. And logo’s pretty nice.

Allan: I haven’t seen the logo yet. Oh, somebody honking at you there, Matt? Get off your, uh, get off the porch.

Mat: This is the, uh, I told you I was on a porch. This comes with the sounds of the city.

Tanya: Letterkenny sucks! I thought that was the sound effect of the kraken.

Allan: Yeah. Alright, so, uh, this week’s homework was to watch, uh, uh, episode one of season one of, uh, Letterkenny. Ain’t no reason to get excited, so first we’ll start off. Matt, did you watch the episode?

Mat: I did, about

Victor: an hour ago.

Allan: Alright, so it’s fresh in your mind. Victor, did you watch the episode?

Victor: I watched it yesterday with my wife and my son.

Allan: Oh, awesome. Yeah, and uh, so Tanya and I did watch it as well yesterday. In between episodes of Mrs. [00:10:00] Maisel, I made her watch it. So It’s all about balance. Exactly. So here we go with a recap of Episode 1, Season 1. We open, and first it’s a cold open with, uh, with Wayne, played by Jared Kiso, who is the, uh, co creator of Letterkenny, and his buddy Darryl, played by Nathan Dales, hanging out at the produce stand.

A jeep pulls up with two hockey players, Jonesy and Riley. Uh, they’re dropping off Wayne’s sister, Katie. The hockey players get into a verbal joust with, with, uh, with the Hicks, and here’s how it sounds.

Clip: Nice onesie. All right. Is it coming men’s? Yeah, thank you. Coming men enough for all of us. I think you better come in my I mean you better come up.

I think you better come say that to his face you fucking hicks. Nice execution. You’re doing terrific Hey, I heard about your breakup buddy. She’s a sweetie for what uh, five years, right? Oh, you’re a high school sweetie, right? What’s it to you? Heard she cheated on you, buddy That’s a real kick in the knackers, bro.

Just a real ouchie, bro It’s too bad that she taught you not to fight anymore, buddy Because that’s a fight [00:11:00] on sight for you and her new guy, buddy You Maybe if you’d ever been in a real fight, you might not be so keen for another. What’d you say? You heard me.

Allan: Alright. So sorry about that. You know, we’re new at this, but that’s first of all, uh, the, the, my favorite line in the entire, in the entire series, Oh, I think you come in men and not for all of us.

I think they had me at that show. It’s sums up the show and it’s, it’s awesome. Nice onesie. Does it come in men’s? Oh, you come or I think you come.

Mat: I should have, I should have worn my onesie to this podcast. Now that would have mattered, but I should have done it anyways.

Allan: So, uh, so in that clip, we learned that Wayne is broken up with his girlfriend of five years.

Her name’s Angie. Uh, they were dating since high school. She cheated on him and she also taught him not to fight anymore, which is a pretty big point that we’ll learn why it’s so big later on in the series. But, uh, as they’re talking and during the [00:12:00] verbal jousting, the hockey players take their shirts off and.

Here’s what it sounds like.

Clip: You looking for a tilly buddy? Let’s have a donnybrook! Pump the brakes. You take your shirt off and leave your sunglasses on? What sort of backwards fucking pageantry is that? You gonna fight with those shades or play pokerstars. com?

Allan: So uh, while we were watching this, I did catch Tanya giggling a few times.

So uh, I think, It’s bound to happen. It’s bound to happen, I guess.

Tanya: I think there was only two times.

Allan: Uh, well, we’ll see. So uh, I mean, you know. Obviously, these hicks aren’t your typical hicks. They’re formidable opponents when it comes to verbal, verbal confrontations. That’s why I love this show. Like, they’re not stereotypical hicks.

They’re not dumb. They’ll talk circles around you. These people. Right? Uh, and then just one last one, uh, in that first scene,

Clip: go tie, go tie. Look at that fucking treasure trail. What’s up with your fucking body hair? Big shoots. You look like a 12-year-old Dutch girl. Your [00:13:00] aesthetician cloth that for you. You can kiss my aesthetician.

You guys do CrossFit. You can cross. Fuck off. Cross fart. How many times you pulled your horn today, bud? What? Oh, she’s bashful. Oh, come on, kitten, I won’t tell anyone. Ballpark 68, you’re a fucking animal. Play a little five on one? Hit the kitchen, mix a batch. Feed the ducks, distribute some free literature.

Go time! Fucking shut up! Riley, Jonesy, This isn’t over! Jinx, he owe me a

Mat: coke.

Allan: Alright. Jinx, he owe me a coke. So in that scene

Mat: And right after he’s like, you’re not getting a coke.

Allan: Yeah. In that scene, four different uh, uh, euphemisms for, for masturbation. In the thirty second, uh, scene there. So uh, It starts off strong, I think.

What do you guys think?

Victor: That’s what, that’s what hooked me initially. That’s why, you know, when I saw that, I thought, well, this is going to be another awesome show. Um, so that first scene, uh, really draws you in

Clip: for sure.

Victor: And then I feel, I [00:14:00] feel like it’s a little bit of a bait and switch, uh, after that, but, uh, uh, initially I didn’t think so yet when I watched it yesterday, I felt a little less excited than I remember being excited the first time I watched it.

Allan: Oh, cause you knew what was coming.

Victor: No, no, no, enough time had gone by that I watched like a fresh episode, but I think because I had my, because I had Linda and my son with me, it felt more juvenile than I remember.

Tanya: Agreed. Agreed.

Victor: On Tanya’s first viewing. I feel like I, I can let my hair down when I, when I, Had hair.

Are you saying the masturbation jokes? A juvenile ? It wasn’t. You know what? I don’t even mean that opening scene. I know that’s what we’re talking about. I just mean after that opening scene for me, the show. Did not hold up. Um, it just felt just there was too many parts. It just felt too That it’s all about the one liners and I was [00:15:00] looking for a little more depth a little more story And it just it just was monotonous one liners or I guess four liners in the case

Allan: Well, you get you definitely get more story as you get on in the season, right?

I’m As you learn more about the characters and what, you know, what they’re about, you do get more story. Uh, Matt, what did you think?

Mat: Yeah. I mean, it took me right back. I loved it. You’re right. I mean, it’s all the whole show is one line and it’s one of those shows. It’s so quick. It’s witty. It’s fast. It’s quirky.

And you can lose track really quickly too. So if you’re not paying attention, you’ll get, you’ll fall by, you’ll fall behind the rant and you’ll lose it completely. So you have to be, I mean, it’s definitely one of those shows that I think if I was really stoned or really drunk, I couldn’t watch. It would probably be good stoned, but it’s hard to follow.

So you get lost. You might end up laughing at yourself or something completely different by the time the scene’s done. So, that said I loved it. Send me back. The hockey guys come in, you know, Riley and Jonesy, they just, they, they, they crush it and they just get [00:16:00] better and better as the show goes on and this was such a good intro for them.

Um, and set such a good initial stage right out of the gate. So Victor, you’re spot on. This is one of those scenes that just pulls you in and you’re like, all right, this is where we’re going. Let’s, let’s, let’s see how this thing pans out. Right.

Allan: What did you think, Tanya?

Tanya: I agreed with Victor.

Yeah. Um, I can, I can, I can appreciate what you’re saying and, and the banter and the, and the hockey boys and stuff, but it’s still, it’s just, it’s too much one liners. There’s not enough, Oh, there’s just not enough context. There’s not enough. I don’t know. It just, it, it, you’re not as

Mat: emotionally involved.

What

Allan: you need is some words of wisdom. So here’s where we have Wayne’s first Wayne’s words of wisdom. Let’s listen. Wayne’s

Clip: It’s a hard life pickin stones and pullin teats, but sure as God’s got sandals, it beats fightin dudes with treasure [00:17:00] trails.

Mat: He’s sick! I have that same quote on my screen right now.

Allan: Uh, pulling stones, or what is it? Picking stones and pulling teats, but sure as God’s got sandals, it beats fighting dudes with treasure trails. I, uh, I think that’s, that’s poetic. It’s, it’s Shakespearean.

Mat: It’s

Victor: symbolic. It’s all those things. And it’s nothing at the same time. There’s for me, there’s better quotes coming up ahead.

So I’m not going to spoil it because I’m sure you have it coming. But, uh, yeah, there was definitely some quotes that were golden that, you know, Melinda and I were having a great time. By the way, William loved the show. I, he thought it was great. He said half the time, I didn’t know what was going on. Uh, uh, especially during that dancing scene.

Tanya: I have a lot to say about that one.

Victor: Yeah, so, uh, I mean, uh, there was, the, the problem is, like, you’ll hear a line, and you won’t understand it, and as you’re trying to decipher it in your head, you’ve now missed the next three [00:18:00] lines. Absolutely. And I think that’s the, that’s the challenge. And that applies especially,

Allan: that applies especially with the skids, cause I, I forgot how fast it was.

The Hicks and the Jocks, they kind of, they’re slow compared to how the Skids are. And of course, it’s because they’re all high on meth when they’re talking. And

Victor: we’ll get there, but as that was happening, I was thinking, Is it okay what they’re saying? Is this okay? Is this appropriate? And then, oh no, one of them is gay, so it’s okay.

No, wait. Is this, is this right? Uh, what’s happening right now?

Allan: Yeah, exactly. Uh,

Victor: so, you know, and so I think I was watching it today as a, as a dad, which is completely different than I watch shows as myself.

Allan: Oh, when we get to the skids thing. You know. Anyway, we’ll get to that. So, uh. Yeah. So, that was the cold open and then the theme plays and now the, uh, scene, scene one, uh, Dar, Darryl and Wayne are, are in, or, Daryl’s at, uh, Wayne and Katie’s house, and, uh, they’re trying to convince Wayne that he should start dating again.

And so Daryl has an idea. [00:19:00]

Clip: Did you talk to Angie yet? It’s been almost a month now. I think you need to get back on the horse. She stepped out on you. Can’t go back to that and get any respect. Not on Letterkenny. Wayne, Angie did you a lot of good. Somewhere along the way you kind of got soft. You’re not even fighting anymore.

You know what you need? Sex. With a girl. Not with just any girl. A good Christian girl. I think I can help you. I’ve been going to the Burning Bush youth group every Sunday. I think you should come with me. I

Allan: The burning bush youth group. All right. So Daryl’s idea is that he needs to find himself a good Christian girl.

Katie’s got a different idea though.

Clip: You need a distraction, something fun. Look at this. It’s called Tinder. Let’s see. There’s all these girls. And if you don’t like one, you just say, Nope, move on to the next. But if you do like one, you can see how close they are and I don’t know, maybe meet up or whatever.

So if you like him, you just type note a message or what’s the scoop? Yeah. You just say something like, Like on a scale of one to America, how free are you right now?

Allan: That’s so cheesy. Um

Mat: Can we jump in here for a second? Yeah, [00:20:00] this this made me laugh So think about where I mean, it’s just again, so let’s be loosely based on listle, ontario And I looked up listle, ontario and stats can in 2016 had a population of about 7, 500 So let’s round it up and call it maybe 8, 000 at best today So The logistics alone of using Tinder in that small town make no sense.

Like, I mean, I’m looking at stats kids. How old do you think they are? Probably are. Let’s say Wayne, what are we guessing? Wayne is,

Allan: uh, he’s probably in his early twenties. Yeah.

Mat: Early twenties. Okay. So if we look at the early twenties to even late twenties, we’ve maybe got. Less than a thousand people, man and woman combined in that category.

Maybe split that in half, you get about a 500 500 mix. So chances are, if you’re going through that app, you know every single person on there, have probably already swiped left or swiped right on every one of them in person.

Allan: Yeah, exactly. So it makes

Mat: no sense. No, no. It doesn’t fucking work.

Allan: No, you’re right.

The math doesn’t, the math doesn’t work. Um, It’s, it reminds me of when Uber first started and I, and I like, [00:21:00] I’m, I’m, I’m in Bradford in my hometown of a population of whatever, 15, like,

Clip: Hmm,

Allan: I wonder if Uber’s up here and there’s one guy, one guy in his car driving around and probably not doing anything.

Getting a lot of hits because it’s, it’s, it’s a tiny town, right? Same thing. Yeah. Same thing with Tinder. It’s that

Mat: one city person who’s gone up there and go, Hey, do they have Uber around here? Oh, sure enough to do. It’s that one guy gets right.

Allan: And it’s probably your cousin or something. Just, uh, you could, you could have just called them directly for a ride.

Victor: Could be your cousin on Tinder as well. Enlist, enlist still maybe.

Allan: Yeah, probably. Yeah. All right. Uh, next scene, we’re back at the produce stand. Wayne, Daryl, and Fun, and now we’re joined by Squirrelly Dan, played by the very funny K. Trevor Wilson, who, uh, the guy I mentioned last time, uh, the most hick, uh, uh, character on the show is actually the one guy from Toronto.

Uh, check out his, uh, stand up comedy. He’s, he’s actually, he’s pretty good. Uh, so his name is Squirrelly Dan on the show. He’s a storyteller, and he tells the story of a time when he and Wayne [00:22:00] got into trouble with some police. Down in the States, uh, during this story we’re introduced to a bunch of what will become running gags on the show.

So, uh, for example, uh, this one here, Hughes makes the most delicious trail mix, Katie and I got to say, that’s what I appreciates about you.

Clip: Is that what you appreciate about me.

Allan: So you’ll hear that a lot. Uh, you’ll also hear a lot of this

Clip: bitter powder squirrely. Dan, Dan,

Allan: uh, and you’ll also hear a lot of, uh, where is, where is, oh, this one.

Clip: You know my second cousin who, Garrett? No. Jart.

Allan: You’ll understand why that’s funny in about 10 episodes there, Tanya. And, uh, and finally, my favorite, and I’m going to be using this a lot.

Clip: Wish you weren’t so fucking awkward, bud.

Allan: I love that line.

Victor: That was my favorite.

Allan: Yeah, I love that. We

Victor: all know one.

Allan: Yes, we all know.

Oh, and there’s a good one here from Katie, too.

Clip: Sort yourself out.

Allan: That comes on later. Sort yourself out. That’s another great, uh, great comeback. Uh, so, scene four, the Hicks. Uh, [00:23:00] go to the local bar called Modine’s, and that’s where we meet, uh, Gayle, the bartender. Uh, she’s, she’s, she’s a bit of a randy person.

Here’s, here’s a little bit of Gayle.

Clip: Four shots of Gelson Brew, please and thank you. One for you too, Gayler. Thank you, Wayne, but I’m off the sauce. Takin eight vitamins a day now. What are you takin I’m takin multivitamin, fish oil, vitamin C, vitamin D, two vitamin D complexes. Yeah, but except how many darts though?

Oh, you got her down then. Last I seen you, you were on a pack and a half of smokes.

Good enough.

Allan: So, darts. Do we, is that our Canadian term? Do we need to explain that one?

Mat: I grew up using darts.

Allan: Yeah, so did I. I didn’t know. Victor, you know, did you know what darts were?

Victor: Well, I have a friend from Sudbury, so

Allan: And there’s, of course, the dart guy was immortalized, uh, for showing up at every Leaf game with a cigarette in his mouth.

That’s right. They even gave him his own radio show. [00:24:00] Uh, alright, Wayne goes to the men’s room and he runs into McMurray at the urinals.

Clip: Wayne. McMurray, how are you now? Good and you? Not so bad. Seen Angie with her new dude, what a fucking dandy. Yeah, he’s got Fugazi diamonds in both ears and leprechaun buckles on his shoes.

He’s running a fucking dippity doo convention upstairs for a salad, driving a 94 Jeep YJ with a wave deco on the side. Enough to loan the Wolfhound to Bangkok, lady boy. Good enough. Don’t you want to hear the best part? You’re going to want to hear the best part. Okay. You want full Bieber eyes. What?

Bieber eyes. Wayne. Wayne. Wayne, look. It’s inappropriate, McMurray. Wayne, just look, for fuck’s sakes. Just fucking look, Wayne. Full Bieber eyes. What’s that? Bieber, the pop star. I’m not familiar with his work.

Mat: So this scene, this thing caught me off guard, um, because of McMurray and again, it all makes sense later. So I hope anyone [00:25:00] listening, remember that clip and how McMurray sounds and he responds because he is one of those characters who evolves like crazy.

Allan: I

Mat: don’t recognize, I barely, he was unrecognizable to me to what I remember him in the later season.

It’s weird. I’m going to go off topic. It reminded me of, and not that I’m a director. Correlation to but the office and Michael Scott, so I’m a big office fan as well and season one Michael Scott was straight up a dick He didn’t under he was just he was just brutal. He was harsh He was his character was he hadn’t found his footing yet until like season two and then he was still a dick But a little more playful, um, and then you started to love him a bit more.

So McMurray’s got the thing. I mean again, i’m remembering the later seasons. He changes Immensely, so it’s going to be interesting to see when you play clips in some of the later episodes And we think back to how he sounded there.

Allan: Yeah, mcmurray does Definitely take a turn later on it’s it’s interesting to see when when the new show starts off and and having the hindsight now Characters change so much even like when I think about the Simpsons, you know When that [00:26:00] first started the show was all about Bart, right Bartman eat my shorts all that stuff and then for probably for the first couple of years and then after that it was all about Homer and Probably for the next 20 years and I haven’t seen since but I feel like Homer became the main the main guy on the Simpsons and Because they found out that he’s a more interesting character.

And I think in shows like this that that are lucky enough to get picked up and last longer, uh, you get these characters taking turns and maybe not being the same character they started off as, right? Another good example of that is, uh, uh, what’s the That show, goddammit, with um, The show with the geeks, with the nerds in it, uh, Big Bang Theory.

Big Bang Theory. Yeah, if you ever watched a pilot episode of that, uh, It’s Sheldon character, he’s like very, Uh, he’s kind of, he’s very different from what he becomes, right? Like, uh

Mat: So different. He’s unrecognizable. Like, it’s, it’s He’s so toned down [00:27:00] compared to what he becomes. He’s

Allan: more interested in girls in that first episode.

And then, and, and, yeah, it’s a very different character. Yeah,

Victor: he was, he was more like a normal human being then they turned him into a robot. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Allan: Which is weird. Which is where usually the characters get more three dimensional, not less three dimensional, but anyway. He

Victor: didn’t even, he didn’t even have that ism with the knocking on the door three times.

Oh yeah, that’s right. In the pilot episode or maybe in the first few episodes.

Mat: I don’t think it was introduced until midway into the first season.

Allan: Yeah, and speaking of isms, I mean, there’s there’s another good letter. Kenny, uh, call back is whenever they take a shot when they when they put the With the shot glasses down.

They always hit the bar twice. So you have you noticed that?

Mat: Yeah, no, I’m gonna be watching now. I’m gonna I’m gonna be watching for that now.

Allan: Really? Oh, it’s it’s it’s like they make a point of Framing that shot every time they take a shot and then they hit the bar twice with with the shot glasses

Victor: But there was only one shot in the first episode, wasn’t it in the first

Allan: episode, but throughout the show, they’ll, they’ll do it all at the same time every time.

And speak.

Victor: You’re expecting way too much of us here.

Allan: [00:28:00] Yeah. Speaking of which, yeah.

Victor: No, but it, I, I recall it, but I don’t recall thinking a big deal about it. Speaking of which, until now,

Allan: they, they talk about a couple of different, uh, uh, a, uh, alcoholic drinks throughout this show. The first one is Guss and Brew.

Which is what? The, the, it’s a Canadian whiskey. It’s fictional. It’s like they made it up for the show, uh, but it’s funny. Um, they also drink a beer called Peppers. And because of the show, a local, local brewery. Has has made a batch of puppers that beer that you can actually buy and they’re trying to also do a Gus and brew whiskey to sell at the LCBO, but they have.

I don’t know. I guess it’s harder to do than than beer. But, uh,

Victor: it’s a, does it, does it come with a dog logo on it?

Allan: Yeah, exactly. It does. It, it’s, it’s, it’s, there you go. It’s straight outta letter. Kenny, like, letter Kenny is the big, like, promotional vehicle for, for ps, which it would have to be exactly. Yeah.

Pretty funny. Yeah. All right. So, uh, wing comes, oh, sorry. Be after that awkward exchange at the urinals, uh, things get a little more awkward when [00:29:00] this guy Alexander comes in and occupies the middle. Urinal.

Mat: Hey, Kev. What

Allan: was

Clip: it? I’m here again. We need to stop it. Gardex Hangout, eh? Gardex Hangout. Yours is like a mushroom in a cornfield.

Mind your fucking business, Alexander. Being Angie with her new dude, what a fucking dandy. Eyes on your own work there, Super Chief. Hehehe. Hehehe.

Allan: Alexander. It’s, so. Oh my

Clip: god. Super Chief.

Allan: Eyes on your own work there, Super Chief. Super Chief. So what I like, I mean already you see it’s a small town and everyone cares about Wayne’s girlfriend and, and, and they see the boyfriend and they want to tell Wayne about the, the new boyfriend and what he looks like and what he’s like and stuff.

So, uh, you can see that the small town kind of mentality and everyone looking after each other. So that’s, that’s pretty cool.

Mat: I had a bit of a flash, a horrific flashback when that urinal scene happened actually. Um, when Alexander walked in there and if you notice what he did, how he walked up. A

Clip: took

Mat: the [00:30:00] middle stall, which, you know, if it’s the only one available, I guess it’s all right in urinal etiquette, but he dropped his pants like straight to the floor.

Tanya: I think that was my first laugh.

Mat: I’ve never seen that in my life. I have. I have one time. It was at work. A long time ago, person no longer, person no longer works there, thank God, and I walked in, there’s someone ass out, pissing in the urinal, and I turned around and walked straight out. I’m like, I can hold it.

Allan: This isn’t at the company we both work at now, is it?

Mat: Oh, 100 percent it is!

Tanya: What? Was he drunk? That’s the only logical reason.

Mat: I just, I, I just wish he wasn’t so awkward.

Tanya: Oh my

Allan: god, that’s crazy.

Mat: Like, I know you guys would have known, but again, this was many years ago, but it was, you know, I, I, I stopped dead in my tracks.

I can see that happening in like,

Allan: in grade school, like in third grade or something, or you know what I mean? [00:31:00] Like, uh, a kid going to the, to the bathroom and pulling it is, but no, not.

Tanya: Full out grown man. Hairy ass and all just.

Mat: Oh, hairy ass anal, let me tell you, I sucked it back in and went back to my desk.

Wow. Alright. Well, I had to share that, that, that moment with you guys. Yes,

Allan: for sharing. As many of those stories as you can bring up, please do.

Clip: Wayne

Allan: comes back from the restroom, Daryl tries to convince him to go to the Burning Bush youth group, uh, to meet girls. He resists, and Gail, the bartender, who’s a filthy flirt, smells blood and tries to move in on Wayne.

Wayne.

Clip: Let’s say we go for a quick ice run, Wayne. I’ve been pushing up on you for years now. Let’s say you give ol Gail a run for the scott buck.

Allan: Wayne gives her some mints and uh, turns around to Daryl and says, I’m in for the youth group. And so that’s how he gets convinced to go. So, scene five, outside the church, we meet the [00:32:00] Skids getting high and dancing.

The Hicks enter the church group and Wayne immediately regrets his decision. He gets a crash course on what Tinder is like.

Clip: Wayne’s been going through a bit of a rough breakup. I thought a night at the Burning Bush might help him out. Plus, he’s been spending all his time on Tinder. Tinder? Did you know that it was originally called Grindr and it was made for gay men to sodomize each other?

No. Yeah. No. Good way to get a finger in your bum. Or a tongue in your bum. Do you know what dick dingers are? No. It’s when they snort drugs off each other’s erect penises. That have just been in bums.

Allan: I love Daryl’s little addition, I’ve just been in bums right at the end of that.

Oh man, the whole thing leading up to that where she does the whole lighter trick and then sucks his finger and Daryl goes, that’s

Tanya: how they got me. That’s how they get you. With a bandaid on.

Allan: I love it. Alright, [00:33:00] and that’s when we meet Pastor Glenn. Played by Jacob Tierney and he’s the other creator of the show the the co writer and producer of the show and he’s also an Unabashed flamboyant preacher. Here’s how he sounds.

Clip: Oh my gourd Hi everybody Quick question for all y’all. How good is God?

There’s almost no one I like more second question has anyone seen where is my beautiful girlfriend, Virginia Jenny, where are you? Jenny, come on up here. Jenny, where are you? Come on. Oh, uh, Jenny. Jenny, Jenny, Jenny. Mmm. I still remember, like it was yesterday, the day that the Lord gave you to me. And he said, Glenn!

This is your blank canvas. It is pale. It is colorless. It is almost cardboard like. I want you to give it life. [00:34:00] To give it color. And I said to the Lord, I will give it everything, everything, except for one thing. One other question? Vaginal intercourse!

Allan: Vagina I’ve never heard a standing ovation given for those words. Vaginal intercourse, yay! So I,

Victor: so, so it’s funny because I feel like he’s stepped out of South Park or something like that into the show because I feel like that’s where you’d find that character. And I, you know, I don’t know if you guys watch the show called The Middle, um, from, uh, uh, It’s not on anymore, but,

Allan: uh, Yeah, I remember the show, but yeah,

Victor: There was also a preacher or pastor or minister or whatever, who was a flamboyant.

And he spoke, he, like, he basically the same kind of character. And that’s kind of, that kind of flashed me back to both South Park and, and the middle. [00:35:00] But uh, yeah, it’s just that continuous theme with the, from the skids to, to this, to the whole, uh, grinder thing. And then all the, and later we’ll see that all those guys on there.

I guess Grindr apps. There’s this theme in this episode that’s very, very, um, I don’t know if it’s, I don’t know, I don’t know if they’re making, if they’re, if it’s being inclusive or if it’s being anti or if they’re just making, making fun of it. So, so yeah, so I don’t know. There was definitely this undertone that I didn’t catch the first time I watched the show, but then watching it with my son, it was felt, felt different.

Allan: Right. Uh, yeah, I can see how that could be. Yeah, taken. Um, I mean, again, I’ve got the benefit of 2020. Uh, I, I, I can tell you that It is very, they are, they are very inclusive as even, or even, or especially with, with, uh, LGBT, LGBT, whatever, the gay community. Yeah. The alphabet community. You’ll have to get that right by the next podcast.

I do. Holy crap. [00:36:00] Um, but, uh, but yeah, in the beginning it does, it does feel like, uh, they’re, they’re kind of hammering on that a bit for sure. Uh, speaking of which, let’s go to the next scene where Wayne goes outside for a dart and the skids start teasing him about being on Grindr.

Clip: Oh, fucking Grindr.

Grinder? Grinder! What? Pretty tell what you’re doing on Grinder, Wade. What are you skids doing out of your parents basement, Stuart? Educate him! The gang and I have been doing hip hop karaoke for the better part of 48 hours. I’ve been on the decks. Ones and twos. For the entire 48! Subsequently spitting hot fire.

Playing Mega Man, Final Fantasy, and original NES. Pokemon Gold and Game Boy Color. Back in small. Abazor, Bubblezor, Venusor, Charmeleon, Charizard, Falken, Charizard! Abazor, Bubblezor, Venusor, Charmeleon, Charizard, Falken, Charizard! Abazor, Bubblezor, Venusor,

Allan: Charmeleon, Charizard, Falken, Charizard! So when you were talking about this earlier, Victor, uh, watching that scene and watching the skids, all I can think of is if my son ever becomes a meth head, he, this would be his, he, this would be him.

Unfortunately, it’s, it’s, it’s very [00:37:00] scary. That’s why, uh, they’re probably my least favorite characters on the show in the beginning. They, they, they, they do get better or they, they do get more, uh, I don’t know, interesting later on in seasons, but in the beginning, uh, yeah, um, I’m not a fan of, of the skid storylines.

Tanya: I think I vocalized my thought when this, when this part came up and I went, what the hell is this? I just don’t understand it. There’s no need. I just, it’s, it’s a very, it was very stupid to me.

Allan: Yeah. I will say though, Tyler Johnson, he plays Stewart is brilliant. Yeah. And, uh, like if you look at him, there, there are angles where he looks like a young Tom Cruise and I, he could have a future in, in films if he wanted it, I think, uh, it’s to be seen, but, uh, cause we’ll see how, how the, what this does for his career, but I think he’s a really good actor and also charismatic and stuff, so I think he could really be, if he wanted to, [00:38:00] and if he got the right break, he could be a good, uh, a big time star.

Victor: I think they’re all good actors. I mean, to be able to say those lines and just with a straight face and just get through it, I think you have to be super talented.

Clip: But,

Victor: but if we’re, if we’re talking about the characters and not the people playing the characters, I think that’s where Tanya’s coming from.

Allan: No, for sure.

Victor: I just, for me, that scene, I looked over at William and I, and he looked at me and he said, what’s happening?

And just like, he didn’t actually say it with the words. He’s just said it with his eyes. He didn’t say what the

Clip: fuck

Victor: he said afterwards, like afterwards we were discussing the shows, but yeah, that was a definitely a WTF scene. Yeah.

Mat: Well, I think, I think what, I mean, now you’ve already touched on a, You know, as the show grows, there’s a lot of different stuff.

This first episode, even like the, this, if you look at the storylines, it’s all about sort of Wayne finding himself again and finding his [00:39:00] inner fighter and this and that, I mean, it’s really a big introduction episode.

Clip: They’re

Mat: laying the ground. They’re showing you who these different groups are. They’re letting you feel them out.

Love them or hate them for day one. At least, you know, sort of who they are, what they are and where they’re, what this is, what they, what they represent. And then they build from there. Right.

Allan: Yeah, for sure. On to the next scene, we’re back at Modine’s The Bar. The hockey players and the skids team up to give Wayne a hard time about being on Grindr.

So, here we go.

Clip: What are you doing with the fertile, Wayne? Getting me to catch you cruising, Grindr? Um, again? Hey, shouldn’t you boys be watching Front Night Lights with a gym sock on your joystick? Chirp Tim Riggins, I fucking dare you. It’s been a little one tree hill and maybe some gossip, girl. However, I think we got some bigger fish to fry right here.

Looking for love over the rainbow now, Harvey Dorothy? I hate you. But can’t confirm deer season’s over. He’s hot and bare now! I fucking hate you too. However, I fucking hate him more. And I just found out he’s ambidextrous. What are they talking about? He likes dicks now. In his bum, or his mouth, all [00:40:00] over.

Allan: In his bum, or his mouth, all over.

He’s ambidextrous, I love that. I just found out he’s ambidextrous. It’s amazing.

Victor: That’s great. That was the only gay joke that was funny.

Allan: Oh man. Uh, Angie’s new boyfriend. Oh, sorry. Go on. Go on, Matt. You have anything?

Mat: I was going to say, you know, the one thing I caught and all that, it made me laugh. And I don’t wonder if it was intentional. I made a quick reverence to gossip. I think it was a gossip girl.

Allan: Yeah. And one tree hill or something like that.

And you know what? I wonder

Mat: if that’s a direct reverence to the tone of their show. I mean, not that I really. Watch those shows, but I’ve caught a couple episodes like ex girlfriend things and that. And I used to always comment on how fast and how quick though they, they spoke within those shows. Right.

And like, especially once you’re here, like I couldn’t even keep up with the dialogue. So I, when I, when you, when they said that, then I’m like, wonder if that was sort of a shot at themselves, um, at sort of the pace at which the show is taking it on.

Allan: Maybe, or it could, it all could also just be the absurdity that there’s a tough hockey player.

Who’s that’s his favorite show is one tree [00:41:00] Hill, like instead of

Victor: maybe

Mat: that’s how I took it though.

Victor: You could be right. I, I, I’m not familiar with that show. So, uh, I’ll have to take your, uh, Thoughts on that one?

Allan: Yeah. Uh, Angie’s new boyfriend walks into the bar. Wayne goes out for a cigarette and runs into his sister who tells him she misses the old Wayne.

Clip: You must be having a fun night. Erbro is gay. LMFAO, in all caps, from Riley. Wayne, you remember when you were 19, those worm pickers kept coming in the night and trampling on our beans? What’d you do? Dogged six foot holes, put a skunk in each one, and waited for him to fall in. Remember when the skids egged Daryl on his bike?

What’d you do? Put stink bombs in a Nerf gun and fired it at him on prom night. Remember when you came in from Chorin and found those messages on my computer from a guy calling me a slut? I wanted a piece of [00:42:00] that guy for a long time. You drove over to his house and broke his nose on his front lawn.

You know, I’m not that Wayne. I think a lot of people do. It’s for the better.

Allan: All right, so a little bit more back story on the kind of person Wayne was before Angie.

Mat: They’re all seeking Wayne the protector.

Allan: Yeah, for sure. And his sister, his own sister, is begging him to come back to rejoin his fighting ways.

That’s pretty good character development. As you go on, you’ll see the buttons that you need to push to get Wayne pissed off at you. And his sister is definitely one of those buttons.

Mat: She knows how to get to him for sure. And I mean, that’s all I turn to. You’re right. They set the stage. They said who he is.

And that’s what it’s like. He’s the protector. And you’ll see that grow, you know. He’s very loyal. He loves his community. But at the same time, don’t fuck with him. Exactly. And, uh. He’ll put you, he’ll put you in your place.

Allan: So a very drunk Alexander from, from the middle stall [00:43:00] stumbles out of the bar and starts pissing in the corner again with his pants down around his ankle.

Mat: Re enter the ass.

Allan: Yes. Uh, Wayne’s, Wayne, uh, Angie’s boyfriend comes out and starts, uh, recording Alex with his phone and then kicks Alex into a pile of garbage. Wayne comes to Alex’s defense. Oh,

Clip: fuck. What the hell are you doing? I’d ask you the same thing, you fucking tit. I’m taping an idiot. I’m not sneaking up on dudes and starting fights.

I’m not fighting you. I’m smacking you. Well, that’s right. You don’t fight anymore, do you? I figured I’d have one on deck for sure after I stole your girl. Nothing, eh? No move? She must have trained you well. So what’s it gonna take to get you back on the horse there, champ? Do I go inside and spread Angie right out on the bar when she gets here?

I’ve fucked your girl more times than you’ve had a hot meal. Maybe your sister wants to join us. It’s Katie, right? Shit. Why don’t I go over there and ask her myself? [00:44:00]

Allan: Yeah, and that’s the last straw. Wayne proceeds to kick the guy’s ass, and the rest of the bar comes out to see the fuss, and when they see that old Wayne is back, they immediately stop making fun of him.

I mean,

Mat: does that even justify as old Wayne, or is that just anybody who’s told shit like that might have that same reaction?

Allan: Oh sure, but he doesn’t, so he doesn’t react to the ex girlfriend because, uh, she cheated on him. It was when the guy started talking about his sister.

Victor: So, for me, the show went from, like, it took a complete turn in that scene, right?

So, the show, up until then, has been kind of one liners and jokes and, and pitter patters and all this and all that. And then, all of a sudden, the language and the insults just became, like, vulgar to a different level, right? Especially when he’s going on about his sister. And, and then Uh, Wayne’s reaction.

It’s like, whoa. Like he’s really hammering him. And, and [00:45:00] even the, the, the part about him kicking Alexander into the trash. Mm-Hmm. . You just felt bad. You just felt bad. Like, how could someone do that to another human being? Yeah. That’s not funny. Exactly. This is total, this is, so the show went from like this comedy to.

Like, what just happened? This is nasty. This is terrible. Uh, so yeah, that scene just went dark.

Allan: Yeah. But I mean, they’re setting up the rules for Wayne, right? They’re setting, okay, Wayne, you’re gonna, you’re gonna get Wayne’s attention if you, uh, pick on somebody lesser than you. Or pick on his sister, you know,

Tanya: it became the story of the, the fertile land for what’s the, yeah, Ferdinand,

Mat: Ferdinand,

Tanya: it actually had a story though, like exactly what Victor said, it, it went from its back and forth banter to an actual storyline, some aptly Uh, like actual, something to, to tangible in the story.

You sound

Allan: surprised. I was [00:46:00] surprised. Cause I Of course there’s a story. That’s why I like the show.

Victor: It just was No. Not of course. There’s absolutely nothing happened in that episode that warrants to say of course. No. The whole episode

Allan: builds up to this. It’s all, it’s all character development. It’s all like we’re trying to figure out Wayne and Yeah, this is Wayne.

Like, he, like, Matt, you put it perfectly. Wayne’s the protector and everyone was looking to Wayne to settle things and, uh, it took, it took that to get the old Wayne back.

Victor: But everybody was an antagonist towards him.

Allan: Right.

Victor: Like, everybody. And it took, like, just the worst antagonist to be the one that got him out of his

Allan: shackles.

And again, uh, coming from hindsight, we’ll find out later on that Wayne doesn’t just protect the people he claims to be on, like, in his group. Uh, but anyway, we’ll, we’ll, we’ll see. More evidence of that, but, but this is, I think this is a good introduction to, to his character and, and obviously it sets the scene for everything else.

And,

Mat: and I mean, it shows the [00:47:00] show is very much like an onion. It has layers. Oh my

Tanya: goodness. I know I had the child reference, but really?

Mat: I mean, I get what you’re saying there though. It’s, it’s like, it’s, it’s very one thing direction. Then all of a sudden it shifted. I mean, it reminded me of an old full house episode where you guys are laughing and all of a sudden the music.

Goes all somber and Danny goes in behind Michelle and, you know, cuddles her close and teaches her a lesson and puts something, yeah, every episode had that, I think this does the same thing. The best

Allan: comedy comes from tragedy, right? So, uh, you need to get serious for the funny to be amplified, for sure. And I think that’s all we got there.

Mat: All about balance.

Allan: Uh, and then, so just last scene, uh, before the credits roll, uh, the next day back at the produce stand and, uh, the hockey players dropped Katie off again, but things are a little different this time

Clip: and[00:48:00]

Allan: suddenly everyone’s Wayne’s best friend again.

Tanya: Wayne Restores balance,

Allan: exactly. Balance to they to poke the bear letter. Kenny, what I tell about that, I, I feel bad. I left out in the, the clip after he piece of shit out of the guy’s, uh, the, the, the boyfriend. Uh, he does say Welcome to letter Kenny as he spits and he walks off.

It’s like such a dirty, hairy moment there, right?

So, uh, I mean, so, oh, go, go ahead.

Victor: I was, uh, maybe you’re going to go there anyway, but because I, I got, I have the sense, I have a feeling that every episode, I don’t know if Tanya is going to make it through all of them, but we’ll see. I have a feeling.

Clip: Does she have an understudy?

Allan: No, maybe, maybe Jen, maybe Jen’s her understudy.

I’ll

Tanya: come and watch the kids while she stands on the porch with you.

Mat: I mean, Yuko, I should probably invite you to watch Grey’s and send me back out to the porch.

Victor: So I have a feeling we’re going to go through a bit of a [00:49:00] roller coaster in terms of, um, these episodes, which are, you know, some, we’re going to have a consensus on some rate that we’re, we’re going to think are great.

Others are not going to be so great. And so on. We should come up with like some sort of a rating scale for rating each episode. I think

Allan: that’s a good idea. Can’t believe I never thought of that. So, I don’t know what the rating scale would be, but, um, like,

Victor: Something with a produce stand, like, you know, uh, uh, you know, underripe, overripe, uh, ready for the compost.

Allan: We can’t use the tomatoes. We can’t use the tomatoes. I’m pretty sure Rotten

Victor: Tomatoes is taken.

Allan: Yeah, tomatoes are taken, and, uh, Yeah, that’s, you know,

Mat: I

Allan: don’t know, uh, what, bananas up, bananas down, thumbs up, thumbs down.

Mat: Who in Ontario is growing bananas?

Allan: Yeah, you’re right, you’re right, you’re right. So celery.

Avocado.

Tanya: Avocado.

Allan: Avocado. Celery, carrot, avocado, I can’t, I can’t think of a Can we

Tanya: grow avocados? No, I don’t think so. Uh, no.

Mat: I don’t think so.

Tanya: Guacamole would be, like, the bad.

Mat: I know I’ve [00:50:00] got a lot of those going bad in my kitchen. Yeah. They’re certainly not growing anywhere, though. Well,

Allan: I mean, I know just coming from the marshes, a lot of celery, there’s a lot of carrots, Potatoes.

There’s potatoes. Carrots. Potatoes. So, uh, good point. Damn it, why didn’t we think of this ahead of time? Now we’re, we’re Yeah,

Victor: maybe we can, like, use pickled eggs or something like that.

Allan: I don’t know.

Victor: Pickled eggs.

Allan: Alright,

Victor: let’s I give it three pickled eggs. Let’s, let’s,

Tanya: for today I like the compost.

Mat: Let’s

Tanya: put

Mat: a pin in that for now.

Put

Allan: a pin. Alright, how about this? We rate it fresh or compost? So thumbs up or thumbs down? So What’s

Tanya: middle ground? Oh, wow. We need a middle. ground? We need a

Allan: middle. Ready for sale. Okay, fresh. How about this? Fresh, ripe, or compost? Ripe would be like right in the middle.

Mat: Isn’t ripe where you want it?

Tanya: Ripe is fresh.

What produce are you buying? When I say ripe

Victor: for the pickings, right?

Tanya: Spoiled, no. On sale. Clearance.

Mat: Which [00:51:00] white do you want to use?

Tanya: There’s fresh, there’s clearance, and there’s compost.

Allan: Oh,

Victor: yeah. Clearance. Yeah. All right. All right. We’re still edible. Oh, that’s good. Yeah.

Allan: Okay. Day old. So fresh clearance or compost. All right. So yeah, good idea. I like that. Victor. Uh, way to think on your, on your ass there.

Um, Matt, why don’t we start with you? Uh, this is the first episode. Would you rate it a fresh, a clearance or a compost?

Mat: I mean, I know what’s coming and I’ve been there. I’m going to give this one a fresh just, just to, just to start on a positive.

Allan: All right. Matt gives it a fresh. Victor, how about you?

Victor: For my second viewing, uh, I give it a clearance.

Clearance. My first viewing was, was a fresh, but my second, which was two years ago, Uh, my, my, uh, yesterday’s viewing was definitely a clearance, but I can tell you that my, Linda and, uh, William would have probably given it a fresh.

Allan: Awesome. I love William and, and Linda. [00:52:00] All right. And Tanya, what would you give it?

Tanya: All right. The beginning of it, I was like, Oh, okay. And then the middle was like, uh, compost. And then the end kind of brought it back together. Cause there was a bit of a story there for me, which I like, I appreciate. So I’ll put it in clearance.

Allan: All right. We got a clearance from Tanya. That’s awesome. I’m gonna obviously give this a fresh because this is the episode that reeled me in and uh, and for sure I love this show.

So i’m gonna definitely give it a fresh So we got two freshes and a clearance no compo or two two clearances. So no compost. That’s amazing

Victor: And Al, I think you should be ready in case there’s ever a time, and I’m not sure it will happen, that everybody gives, uh, gives it a fresh rating. Uh, you should have, like, a sound effect ready, uh, or

Allan: something like that.

Alright, okay, I’ll have to work on, on something. So, you know what, what we could have done, too, is, like, the compost could have also been a

Clip: Hard

Allan: no. A hard no. Uh, But anyway, we’ll, we’ll, we’ll work on that. It’ll [00:53:00] get better. Awesome. So, um, let’s see. Why don’t we talk a little bit about the music on the episode?

So the other thing that I wanted to mention to, to our, our, um, I can’t even say dozens of listeners, cause I don’t think we’re at 12 yet, uh, is, um, I’ve created a, uh, the Spotify playlist. That’s going to have all these, uh, songs on them that, that are on Spotify anyway. So for example, uh, the prima Donna’s by Kaboom Atomic, uh, Tom, Atomic, which is a hip hop song that gets played while the hockey players drive up in the Jeep.

There’s one here that Victor would like the name of Doogie Gilmore Chop Chop by Anakin Slade. That’s also a song that the hockey players play in the Jeep. Uh, Save Me featuring, uh, KDB by Keys and Crates. That’s the, uh, Drum and bass beat that the skids are dancing to outside the church hall, which I actually listened to it’s a great [00:54:00] track I actually really like the track

Victor: Is that a remake of the save me song from smallville?

Allan: No, uh, it is not not at all. All right um There’s also a song called worms. That’s a hard no By by new sunset. I I could not find a link to it on spotify though But the one that I want to uh, really, um, talk about is Focus or put a spotlight on here is actually this one called everyone looks like everyone.

It’s um the song That plays when old Wayne comes back and starts fighting It’s a great rock and tune I love it So, uh, check out the band, uh And there’s a

Victor: rap song at the end during the credits.

Allan: Yeah, and then the song at the end is called Wolfpack by Pigeonhole. Also a pretty, uh, pretty bangin tune. But I, I just wanted to give, uh, everyone who looks like everyone some, uh, some love.

It’s, uh

Victor: By the way, did everybody watch past the [00:55:00] credits?

Allan: Yes.

Victor: To the, alright, then there’s a bunch of one liners after that as well. There is. And

Allan: I think those, I want to say that, aren’t those just replaying the Letterkenny Problems uh, episode, uh, YouTube episodes? Or are they fresh? Like, I don’t remember.

Matt, do you know?

Mat: No idea I didn’t actually get that far.

Allan: I have it on the clip, but it’s pretty long, so I’m gonna, I’m not gonna, I’ll save you guys from playing it. I didn’t,

Victor: I didn’t find them particularly funny. They were just there, you know. Yeah, a couple, a couple of them

Allan: were, were, were, were chuckles, but uh, you’re right, they were kinda I thought

Tanya: it was the beginning.

Beginning of the next episode. I’m

Allan: like, what are

Tanya: you doing? I’m like, we’re only supposed to be watching one. One. That’s it.

Victor: We stopped it. I stopped it just to make sure what happened here. Because the app that we’re using isn’t supposed to go to the next episode. Right. So I didn’t know what was going on, but then, yeah, we just realized that it’s just, uh, you know, bonus footage.

Allan: Yeah,

Mat: and I

Victor: wasn’t aware there

Mat: was a post credit [00:56:00] commitment here as well. No, so in

Allan: the first season, uh, they do that at the end of every episode post credits. Uh, I feel like after the first season they stopped doing it. And again, I feel like those were just the the the youtube serial that they just tacked on at the end, but I could be wrong anyway, because it’s it’s similar to what they did on youtube where it’s just, uh, Uh, uh, Wayne, uh, Daryl, and um, Squirrely Dan, uh, doing their one liners or whatever.

And, and, they’re, they’re, you know, they’re amusing. Do you

Victor: know why they call him One Squirrely?

Allan: No, it’s, it’s his nickname. I’m not sure. I

Tanya: have the name squirrely. No, yours is just squirrel. Oh, different, different meaning on that. Different.

Allan: So do you guys, uh, have any, uh, closing remarks or comments before we wrap?

Oh, sorry. One last thing for our website. I am listing everyone’s top three favorite episodes [00:57:00] because this is the first one. This is going to be everyone’s number one. But, uh, as we, as we move on, uh, I’ll be asking you guys, you know, where this is gonna rank, so that we can kind of keep a, a running, uh, ranking of, of these episodes.

Mat: So I guess once we get to episode four, we start bumping one off? Exactly. Is that the idea?

Allan: Yeah, so, and I feel like It will be fun

Victor: to see if Tanya’s episode ever changes.

Allan: Well, I’m sure that even like, uh, I think fart book is either episode three or four and she may not, she may not even let me put it on, like there might be an empty spot and she’ll say, just leave fart book off.

So we’ll see, we’ll see how that goes.

Tanya: That was painful the first time.

Victor: Yeah, I’m, I’m, I’m not crazy about fart jokes. So, uh, we’ll, we’ll see how that goes.

Allan: All right. Sounds good. So I’m just going to start wrapping it up then here. That’s all we have for this episode. Next week we’ll recap episode 2 from season 1 called Super Soft Birthday.

I, I, I, actually this is going to be one of my favourites. Please [00:58:00] rate us on iTunes if you like the show. If you don’t, then by all means continue to hate listen, we’re not proud. Um, follow us on Twitter, at Produce stand pod. Uh, we also invite you to visit our website, the produce stand pod. com for other episode of recaps, the list of your favorite episodes, and to email us.

If you email us, we might even read your email on the podcast. Thank you for joining us. Now we’re going to get balls deep in a bottle of Gus and brew at Modine’s. See you next week.

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