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Budget Hotel Blunders and Comic Con Joy
Ever wondered how attending a Comic Con in Hamilton, Ontario, could turn into an unforgettable adventure? Scott takes you on a rollercoaster ride through the 2024 Hamilton Comic Con, capturing the vibrant atmosphere, dazzling costumes, and lively panels. Along the way, he shares his appreciation for the cooler autumn and winter seasons, reflects on the quirky topic of hurricane naming, and tells a hilarious story involving someone's unique final wish.
But not all adventures are glamorous. Scott recounts his shocking stay at a budget Super 8 hotel in Mount Hope. From broken ice machines to blood-stained pillows, the experience was anything but pleasant. Despite the challenges, Scott manages to find humor in the situation, sharing how he navigated the questionable cleanliness and faulty amenities. This story serves as a humorous reminder that sometimes the cheapest option can lead to unexpected and cringe-worthy escapades.
The episode takes a heartwarming turn with Scott's late-night fast food escapade and memorable fan encounters. Waiting 40 minutes at McDonald's and witnessing drunk kids doing cartwheels at Tim Horton's are just the tip of the iceberg. From celebrity encounters to setting boundaries with an overstayed guest, Scott's tales are a blend of humor, heart, and life lessons that you won't want to miss.
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On this episode of the Powers Point Podcast, Scott regales us with his trip up north to the 2024 Hamilton Comic Con in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Plus a little boot more, Scott, give us a beautiful Canadian beat. We're heading down to Hamilton.
Speaker 2:Oh, can't you see? Comic Con 2024. The geeks are free. Costumes bright and comics in hand. Superheroes and villains in a fantasy land. For Hamilton Comic Con, it's the place to be. Where phantoms collide in perfect harmony, From panels to artists, the magic is real. 2024, it's a geeky ideal. Eat your favorite stars, grab a pick or two. Gaming tournaments there's so much to do. Cosplay contests where fans shine bright. In Hamilton, the future's looking super tonight. Oh, Hamilton Comic Con it's the place to be. Where phantoms collide in perfect harmony, From panels to artists the magic is real. 2024, it's a geeky ideal. Meet your favorite stars, grab a pic or two. Gaming tournaments there's so much to do. Cosplay contests where fans shine bright. In Hamilton, the future's looking super tonight. Hamilton Comic Con it's the place to be. Where phantoms collide in perfect harmony, From cutouts to artists, the magic is real. Where phantoms collide in perfect harmony, From gunners to artists the magic is real.
Speaker 2:2024 is a geeky ideal. From comic books to sci-fi lore, You'll find your tribe and so much more In Hamilton's halls. We gather as one For three epic days. We're having fun. So come on down, don't miss the show. Hamilton Comic Con let's go. Hamilton comic-con let's go, let's go, let's go. 2024 we're ready to play in the city of steel. It's a comic field day.
Speaker 3:Well, hello, hello, welcome to the Powers Point Podcast, season 5, episode 28. I do believe, as Jim said, we're going to talk about some traveling, and then I got a story on the other side of the break that may blow you it's not may, it will blow your mind. But first, if you're just tuning in and you're wondering what we are all about, well, we talk about anything and everything, with the exception of two things no religion, no politics, because, let's just face it, those are bummers and Jim and I aren't experts on those two fields, and we don't claim to be. And, as I always said, if you want religion, go to the 700 Club, they'll take you as a member. And if you want politics, tune in to every other channel on God's Earth except this one, because you won't hear it here, jim, how's things been going, man?
Speaker 1:Okay, the weather is getting cooler, instead of that big heat wave we had for a couple weeks. I'm really enjoying like 60 and 70 degrees.
Speaker 3:Are you like an autumn person, or are you like the warm guy, or are you like the sub-zero winter guy?
Speaker 1:I think we talked about this off mic Pretty much. Fall and winter are the two first and second for me my favorite.
Speaker 3:I agree man, a hoodie and some shorts, a nice bonfire and spring, or just chilling out on the deck and and feeling the breeze yeah, great, because I was born in the fall, so pretty much it's in my blood.
Speaker 1:Uh, plus the summertime with the heat. It's just nobody's happy in the heat, unless you're you're born in the florida or somewhere south where it's hot well, I don't think florida people are too happy at this moment, with hurricane helen or whatever zipping through there they keep giving reports every uh hour these people feel.
Speaker 3:how do you think these people feel that the hurricanes are named after? Like, they got some crazy names and it goes all the way up to Z and then it goes back to A. It's just too much man. It's a hurricane, why does it have to have a name?
Speaker 1:As a kid I remember it was just women's name and then, like a couple years ago or who knows, when they started putting male names down there. So now it's like I don't know if it's every other year or every other storm they pick male female, male female or something. I can't remember how it goes now.
Speaker 3:And now with the woke season or I call it the woke season now they're adding in some crazy names. And now they don't want to name it after males and females, because that's not pronoun right.
Speaker 1:What are they going to name it after? Fruit or vegetables or something?
Speaker 3:I don't know what are they going to name it after? Fruit or vegetables or something? I don't know. We'll probably have to get there. They're okay to be named after Sir Tomato or Lady Zucchini.
Speaker 3:We're here live and Hurricane Guacamole is right upon us, just like everything else. The hurricane has crossed the border. We're like all into this. Uh, it's just, it's crazy, man. You know, people know that these states are going to get nailed with hurricanes, like louisiana, uh, arkansas, georgia, florida but yet people are quick to move down there. Or you got those people that want to move to, like Oklahoma, texas, new Mexico, uh, south Dakota and those are the states that get nailed by tornadoes every year, like one after the other. This is why I feel where we live is perfect, because we don't really get hit by anything.
Speaker 1:No, sometimes tornadoes hit us during. A couple times a year It'll be coming at us from the evil Illinois. We have to always be watching it from there.
Speaker 3:You know, my aunt told me that when she passes and gets cremated, she has one job for me. She's listening to this show. So hello, aunt Rose. She wants me to drop her in front of the hurricane, her urn, so she can fly away. And I said what's wrong with the fan in the backyard? You know? Like why do I have to jump in front of a hurricane?
Speaker 3:Auntie, it's not hurricane season, but I hope this will do when you turn on the fan and it just Right, you pass by some of these shops that got these heavy-duty fans you know that are ridiculous, that are up to my chest, like at Home Depot. Why don't we just turn it on at Home Depot and just let it go?
Speaker 3:Another good thing about this time of year is all the sports that start are starting up hey, speaking of sports, the white sox become the most losing this team in the modern day baseball beating out the detroit lions, beating out the Detroit Lions and the Detroit Lions Tigers no, not me. Chicago always wants to like one-up on people and losing the football season it's crazy.
Speaker 1:Growing up around our area you had to either be a Sox fan or a Cubs fan, and I always saw the Cubs fans as like just drunks that liked we like to drink, we don't care if we win and they were like all these jerks and stuff. So my family just always liked the White Sox.
Speaker 3:But if you listen to the show and you like the Cubs, we love you too, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, there's no hate anymore, and we all know sports are about millions and millions of dollars. The spirit of sports has really changed.
Speaker 3:So anything else been going on, man, since we last talked, which was like two weeks ago. Christmas is coming to your work soon, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they already got it all set up. And I tell you what the customers are already starting to act crazy.
Speaker 1:You know what happened today no um, three guys uh tried to escape, uh run out of the store with uh buggies of alcohol like beer and uh wine coolers I don't know what else they had Pretty much a lot of it got ditched. But they ran to their cars and they took off and then I guess the cops chased them and they said that they they were going down the road there and they hit something or an embankment or something and they the car like spun up in the air and almost flipped, what the heck? And it came hitting down and then they took off but the cops caught them and stuff. It was like a crazy. I guess the news was involved or something. All for just beer, or something. I'm like what a bunch of idiots.
Speaker 3:You know the place you work at, not that particular store. But that store has a crazy draw for crazy people. When I was in Hamilton I thought I'd stop by because I wanted to look for a nice button-down shirt. Some dude went apeshit and just started yelling at this girl worker right, and you know what that girl did.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 3:She turned the intercom on overhead so you could hear the guy really yelling throughout the whole store.
Speaker 1:What Is that like policy or something up?
Speaker 3:there, I was like shut up, I don't know. I was like shut up, I don't know. I was like shut up, that's crazy. And then I looked at this lady next to me and I was like man, if I want to hear this, I would have stayed home. And she's like oh, you're not from around here. Well, now I'm chit-chatting with some people that I don't even know why this dude's going to eat crap on the speaker. And next thing, you know, it's like security, security. So you had six people in security in black shirts. Yeah, they like it, they look like the blues brothers coming. You know, like they were doing the SWAT team and they grabbed the guy. And you know what the embarrassment part was, what? The guy wasn't Canadian, he was from New York. Oh my gosh, I'm like Canadians are never mad, so this is like a rare thing. And then I hear it.
Speaker 1:and then why would you start something with that ought to make sense.
Speaker 3:It made no sense, but everybody, you know what the people in the store did. They laughed when they put it over the loud overhead speakers. Dude, it was effing and jeffing and dude, he even dropped the C word over the loud speaker.
Speaker 1:Oh, we got a New Yorker here. Oh, he sounds a little upset. Yorker here oh, it sounds a little upsetting.
Speaker 3:It lasted like. It lasted like five minutes, but because she had the dude yelling overhead on the thing that they couldn't call security. Wow, it was she like you know. So I was like man, even at Swamp Pairs Nuts, the store you work at. Yeah still smells more like weed than the store up there where it's legal.
Speaker 1:My store is terrible. My coworker he's allergic to marijuana, so every time coworkers come by to do this one shift he starts gagging and stuff. So we have like an air purifier.
Speaker 3:He has to go in the corner and just start breathing on it because this whole ship just smells like 420 man, dude, why don't you carry like one of those backpacks with like a permanent oxygen mask on, like where he's like like a firefighter? And they got asked walk around some like lord vader?
Speaker 1:if it gets bad, I'm going to have to tell him that he's going to have to gas up.
Speaker 3:It's just nuts.
Speaker 1:It's just crazy because our state isn't even. Marijuana is still illegal in our state, indiana, and everybody just comes reeking and nobody does nothing about it.
Speaker 3:Right, it is, and every state around us is legal.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Ohio, michigan, illinois, kentucky. Even so, our governor refuses to give in. But hey, so OK, now we're going to take a quick commercial when we come back. I got a story that's going to blow everybody's mind, so stay tuned. We'll be back after these messages.
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Speaker 3:Trust me, welcome back so, as we said last week on uh, not last week, I don't even know when this is going to come out september 21st and or 20th and 21st, I went to the great white north uh, a town of hamilton ontario, canada. I've only drove through it before.
Speaker 3:I've never actually stayed in it yeah and uh, it was quite, the city was looking nice. You know, I stayed in a place called mount hope at a really crappy hotel called super eight, and you know I believe in buying the cheapest hotel room because I don't really plan on sleeping there or, uh, hanging out there yeah you know like I like to dump my bags in like a locker and roll out and go explore and walk around, and you know it's canada. What can I, what can happen to you, other than a bear jumping, something you know we've been.
Speaker 3:We're in more dangerous area down here right, right, let me tell you, one of the bad reviews on the Super 8 was five months ago. They said that they wanted to get some ice, but the ice machine was broke, right. So when I the ice machine's upstairs so I wanted to just walk around because Majors Mess Hall wanted me to do one of my famous hotel reviews, like right away, yeah. And so I was happy to oblige. And then I went to the ice machine and found it, and you know what the sign on the ice machine said Jim, what Out of service. Still.
Speaker 1:Out of service. Oh my god.
Speaker 3:Still Wow. And then this shady place, this shady shady hotel. Once I checked in, uh, they said that there was a 200 damage, uh, deposit, wow, but there's nowhere on their hotel that says that, nowhere on the website that says that. And I was like, I was like I'm not paying it. And she's like, oh, okay, now, if that was a policy, yeah, you think they would argue with you that no, this is policy, you have to pay this, you know, and I go. You won't even know. I was in that room because I'm not going to hang out here, you know, and my mistake was I stayed up for like 30 hours and still drove straight through to it, oh my God. And I fell asleep for a couple hours in this place. Let me tell you, there were some toenails in the carpet.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's gross.
Speaker 3:Yeah, tell you, there was some toenails in the carpet. Oh, that's gross. Yeah, uh, there were spiders everywhere and they're like the furniture, like the tops of the, the armoire. Uh, closet, they were sticky oh, that's.
Speaker 3:It's getting worse every description well, when I walked into the room it lead. There's a door that leads to the outside so you can park your car right next to it and walk right out. The door was wide open. Wow, it was very muggy in there and humid, and so I went and I'm like hey, just to let you know the door was open, wide open. She's like oh, the help might have left it open yesterday and I go you want to come and check it out so I'm not getting hit with this damage stuff yeah, they're like we'll check it out.
Speaker 3:When you check out, you know and I'm like, okay, well, whatever. So then the bed, the bed man, sounded like an air mattress when you got onto it, like it crumbled when, I yes, that's basically what it sounded like man and the pillows they were nice and fluffy.
Speaker 3:And then I flipped it over and it looked like somebody had a blood stain. Oh god, you know like when, if you're like. And then I flipped it over and it looked like somebody had a blood stain. Oh God, you know like when, if you're like a bad teeth, it leaks out at night.
Speaker 1:So that was the pillow someone put between their legs.
Speaker 3:Oh, it could have been. It could have been. So I didn't even pull the blankets no Like down, I didn't want to look under it. I just picked all my bags off the floor and put it on top of the sticky cabinet and then they had a leather couch, like a like a five and a half foot leather couch, and it looked somewhat clean, it wasn't sticky and it was right next to the air condition, which, man, you had to leave on for a couple hours just to get some kind of coolness in it. And uh, the leather kind of sucks when you're already hot and you like get up and you're like sticking to it.
Speaker 1:Oh, god, I wouldn't be the shower.
Speaker 3:It was like a shower-tub combo and the damn tub came over my knee and it has a slope, so the closer you stand to the wall, the higher the shower head is. Okay it is okay, you know, because it's like uh, the bathtub was clean, it was very clean, the towels felt fluffy, but they had like this yellowish color to it, but they were supposed to be white, oh uh, the shower floor was tiled. It was clean, know?
Speaker 1:so I basically just slept on the couch and it sounds like you should have brought some holy water or something for that place.
Speaker 3:I should have been. I used my gym bag for a pillow.
Speaker 1:Dang Well, answer this. Did you at least wave to the hidden cameras that were in the bathroom, in the bedroom?
Speaker 3:Oh I walked, walked around naked dude oh geez so if they were watching me, they were watching me check out check out this guy look at the guys in the nude. You know it was. It was very, uh, crazy. I don't. I mean, when I'm in a hotel room by myself, I don't care, dude. All the curtains are closed and they look like half of them were ripped out in the first place. I didn't want to touch the blinds because how thick were the walls?
Speaker 1:did you hear anybody in the next room?
Speaker 3:I did not. The one thing positive about this was the. The 24 inch TV worked. Dude, it was 24. My computer monitor is bigger than that TV. Oh, and they had some really awesome shows on. You know that I enjoy watching like the Trailer Park Boys were on one channel, corner Gas, which is my other favorite.
Speaker 1:That's cool.
Speaker 3:And then really, really cool cartoons that I haven't seen in like ages, like the raccoons I remember them it used to be a real big show, yeah, and, and they had like a uh all-nighter on those raccoon cartoons. Man, I was like oh man, that's a great show.
Speaker 1:Hey, did they have degrassi on there?
Speaker 3:they did man the next generation degrassi oh my god I didn't see drake in his. I didn't see drake's episodes where he's rolling around in a wheelchair oh my gosh but let me tell you, I was really, really hungry right when I woke up from my little nap and I didn't want to go driving around. Dude, they call this place a town, right, hamilton. The population's 507,000 and it's still considered a town. Wow, that's weird. It is a town and, dude, you could drive 20 minutes and not even get to the other side of the town.
Speaker 3:Man, wow, it's, let me tell you. So. I was hungry, right, and I I didn't want mcdonald's, because when I go places I like to try like the local food. Yeah and uh, it's called the 447 wing 447 wing this restaurant. It's unique. It's like a bar slash restaurant and they have like live band karaoke.
Speaker 3:They have older people come there and they dance and just have fun. Man, it's a very great vibe when you go. This place is dedicated to fallen Air Force soldiers from the, basically a couple streets away, uh, so other are up on the wall. Parts of the airplanes are in this, this restaurant, uh it. You can't go in there and have your baseball hat on or make you take your head gear off like the military does. When you go inside back, uh, I told the waitress I was thinking about going bowling in Toronto but didn't know where it was, so she's like I can help you with that. And so she pulled up Google on her phone and we're going over to bowling alleys and how far it is. And then she's like you can take the train schedule and let me get the train schedule for you. Wow, I didn't ask her for all this stuff, dude, this is how helpful they are. That's nice. And then I was like, uh, all right, cool. And she's like the train station's like down this way, catch it, it stops running at 10 30 at night, you know, and make sure you're on there or you can get an uber there. And I'm like yeah, okay, okay, you know, and I go. What do you recommend? And I've seen everybody.
Speaker 3:It was a friday, so fish day, and I like fish and chips, and they had big, big pieces of lightly breaded haddock sounds good. It was 20 Haddock, it was $20 Canadian, which came out to like $17.50 our money, okay. And she upgraded the french fries that are freshly cut to poutine. It had homemade cheese curds on it and sounds good like butter. And then it had the brown gravy, homemade, just poured all over that. Dude, honestly, this is like the best fish I've ever eaten. It was like I had two pieces and it was almost too much for me. It was fat, you know, like you and I can eat it and you know. And then the coleslaw was creamy. Man, it was really good.
Speaker 3:Wow a 447 so it the 447 wing and, uh, if, if, yeah, if you are in hamilton area or you're thinking about driving to it, man, check this little. Don't take me wrong if people are listening, because I have been promoting the crap out of the podcast, so I don't know who's listening at this moment, but this place to me is like a dive spot.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Somewhere that it's good. You know you jump in there for a meal, dude. They got all these burgers, these wraps and they recommend things you know like they're really friendly. It's really different than here. You know they take their time and make sure everybody's happy here. You know they take their time and make sure everybody's happy. You know, uh, the food's a little slow to get, but everything is being homemade.
Speaker 3:That sounds real nice. It it is man. And when she was trying to give me the train schedule and everything, it was really cool man telling you hi and hello, and where's that accent from? And I don't ever hear I have an accent, but obviously we have that Midwest draw.
Speaker 1:Yeah, close to Chicago.
Speaker 5:That's what I was wondering.
Speaker 1:I was wondering how many people noticed your accent.
Speaker 3:Oh, quite a few. Why don't you start talking to people? I took that and I couldn't finish it, man, so I took it back and put it in the refrigerator at the hotel, which was clean on the inside and the refrigerator in my room is bigger than that refrigerator that was in the hotel, dude, in my bedroom, you know and so I fell back asleep for like another hour and then I got up and I finished that off. So then I fell back asleep again and then I was messaging with Karen at like one in the morning and she asked why I was up, because she figured I would be up and sent so I couldn't go to sleep. So what'd I do? I jumped in the car, just explode.
Speaker 3:And uh, I didn't want to drive the Jeep because it's old, it's got a ton of miles on it and uh, driving almost uh 500 miles one way was a lot yeah on that vehicle, because I knew I had to come back 500. So with less than 24 hours I put 1,000 miles on that Wow. And so I found this 24-hour mcdonald's and, uh, I did make a video of this too. So I ordered a chicken sandwich it's called a firecracker chicken sandwich and I didn't even want, uh like, the same food that we have here. Like I didn't want a big mac, they got this new sandwich called the arch, uh, the mcarch, which is like huge. But I didn't want that at two in the morning so I ordered a sandwich called the firecracker chicken, which is a spicy chicken with like bacon on it and some weird sauce, and, uh, took me 40 minutes 40, wow in the drive-thru line to get my food, and then it wasn't even hot.
Speaker 1:That is crazy One in the morning.
Speaker 3:No two in the morning.
Speaker 1:Or two? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:It was that busy.
Speaker 3:No, dude, but I don't know what they're doing doing there, but the cars are lining up in the parking spots in the waiting, uh and, and there was three cars there before me. I was in spot four and holy cow, dude. And then the lady comes out carrying all this mcdonald's and in her arms and she's like looking at the receipts, looking at the parking spots and then going up to the cars and then she's still getting the orders wrong. Then I had some drunk kids in front of me get out of the pickup truck and they started doing cartwheels in the parking lot and that was my only entertainment for 40 minutes.
Speaker 1:Oh my god see you go to the fast food places and it ruins you and you gotta like you stick to those dive bars. That's usually where the best food is well being in camp.
Speaker 3:I want to go to a place that we don't have many in this until you get up to michigan. I want to go to tim horton's. Uh, there's really good food there, and so I I went and ordered an extra large coffee. By this time it's now like 3 20 in the morning. I was like, hey, can I get a box of timbit, which is like our donut holes at duncan donuts, and she's like no food, only coffee. I'm like I want some donuts, you know. She was like no, no food coffee. It was like it was like that Saturday Night Live skit no, pepsi Coke, yeah, you know, cheeseburger, yeah. And so that was my disappointment. There there was kids still hanging out, man just sitting around on their on the skateboards in the parking lots, just like skating around, and I was like, man, we can't do that. The cops should be all over that. Yeah, by this time I was over-excited because I went to go meet the Pink is In cast.
Speaker 3:My mistake was I never went back to sleep. Then I had to drive home the same day, oh, my gosh. So here I am, I put myself in again, being up over 20 hours driving, and uh. So I picked up, uh, natalie Batari from the bus station, who's hottie, who you and I both talked to on this show? Yes, and she was. She was really cool man. She was uh emotional because the bus was late and she knew I was waiting. And uh, she's like I'm sorry, I'm sorry'm sorry, I'm yelling at the bus driver, you know, and he's not hurrying up. Well, they closed the roads to Hamilton from Toronto so they had bypassed. You think construction here is bad? Holy cow, dude up there makes us look like nothing.
Speaker 1:I don't know. My area is pretty bad right now. They're going to start another big year year long project on this one road.
Speaker 3:Dude, it's bad here too to keep shutting main roads down without warning, oh my God. So like you're on your way to work and you got to bypass everything. But so I grabbed Natalie and uh, I was like, hey, you gotta stop crying, because if I walk in with you they're gonna think that I was mean to you, you know, and they've never met me. And that made her laugh. And so then when I came in, lisa Crawford. Or when I pulled into the parking lot, granny BJ, who I've never talked to because she don't really do social medias.
Speaker 3:Margaret lamar yeah she was sitting, she was in the parking garage, she was just pulling up and so I escorted her and natalie and I felt like personal security because we had quite the walk down the street and when I came in, lisa crawford who's like the main, the creator, one of the creators of pink is in. She was standing there and she gave them badges so they can get it free. I had to wait in line because I paid for a ticket, so I had to get scanned and then I can go in, but now I lost them, because now there's four floors oh, massive floors and and, and they kept saying text me, where are you, where are you? I'm like I don't know. You know like, they're like we're on the four floors and I'm like okay, so I passed the revenge on nerds cast. Wow, uh, they were all there, dude, everybody was there, but I wasn't there to see them.
Speaker 3:I was there to meet the Pinkazin cast. Yeah, because where else can I find a place that had 13 guests from this show on there. And when I walked up to the table, the nicest people in the world, uh, darren, who plays ruby larue. He's seen me and and he was walking me around the different people and he's like look at, look at who's here, look who's here, uh, and and they were all happy and I went to go shake hands and they were all happy. And I went to go shake hands and they're like we don't shake, we hug, we know each other. Aw, canada. There was a person there who I've been trying to get on my podcast for two years now. Man, really that Jane Eastwood, the one who discovered John Candy.
Speaker 1:Oh yes.
Speaker 3:And she's like oh, you're Scott, you know. And she's like why'd you stop emailing? And I was like I didn't want to bug you no more. You know, you're working and I figured sometime I'll email you down the road and blah, blah, blah. And so she's like oh, I'm free on this month, let's do it. And I'm like awesome. So, like I said, I talked to her a long time and, dude, she's friends with some people that would blow your mind yeah, she's a legend to this day, you know, and she thinks that's funny when I when I say she's a legend, because she is, you know.
Speaker 3:and then I I met kim lombard, who plays pit barnett, the CEO on the show, and man, he is the nicest guy in the world, man. He asked how Len was doing because Len sent him her books that she wrote. He's telling me about the books that he enjoyed. Lisa Crawford was awesome. Natalie was awesome you missed this interview but Caroline Pazinas, who plays Alcatraz, she was awesome.
Speaker 1:Yes, I really wanted to ask her questions too.
Speaker 3:She's like I'm your only archaeologist, you know. So you know this is good that we're meeting. And then there was two people that I was really looking forward to meeting Sarah Heim, I think you've been on with her, yeah, for Alice is Fine, yes, short. And then she was on before with Lynn and me, and then Trish, who I've known for 10 years but I've never met her, you know, and it was awesome to like be same room, face to face, and you know I had to pull her aside to tell her what she meant to me, because she is kind of like the third co-host on this third or fourth co-host on this pod, like the silent yeah like she helps us get guests.
Speaker 3:You know, uh, I was like without you, I wouldn't know anybody at this table right behind me. You know, uh, because of her we wouldn't have all those guests, you know, and I've become friends with almost all of them, and so it was just so awesome. I hung out with them for like two and a half hours. I didn't really care about nothing else. I did get mad. Here's the thing and this makes me sound anti-american man, but this is the difference. You had all the old school wrestlers sergeant slaughter, rikishi, heath ledger, the rouges and skinner skinner who steve kern, but nobody was with them, know, and they were all in front of me, and so I was going to get tugboats info to bring him in for autograph signing, for Backbreaker, because he doesn't come in this area and I was told that.
Speaker 3:he told me that if I want to talk to him, it'd be 50 bucks.
Speaker 1:Oh man.
Speaker 3:You know, and, like all the American wrestlers, wanted money just for you to talk to them. But like all the Canadian actors, they hug you, greet you, make you feel like you're one of them.
Speaker 1:Wait a minute. What about the Rougeau brothers?
Speaker 3:The Rougeau's were getting pictures and autograph signings from. They had people standing in front of them. Okay, nobody else was down Sergeant Sauter's way or Ricky, so he was just sitting there twiddling his thumbs.
Speaker 1:See, I would have went right after the Rougeau's. The Rougeau's, out of all those wrestlers, are the ones I would have loved to meet.
Speaker 3:I would have too, but the line was kind of a iffy and it was like 75 dollars, uh, to get autographed picture for both of them, which comes out to like 50 bucks us. You know, yeah, bam margera, no showed. Oh, man, his table was there but he wasn't, and then they posted on there that he, he decided not to come. You know, so the money would be refunded that people paid. Yeah, I was gonna get my my barber, who's a big fan of BAM, you know, a surprise autographed picture. Yep, no show, you know. So I guess you're too big, too good. And then at two o'clock I I told the wife I'd be home by 10. So I wanted to really make sure I was home by 10, even though I missed it by 20 minutes. And you know, I was happy to sleep on my bed, but I'm still like I want to be back up there. Yeah, it was just, it was a different world. And uh, you need a passport, man, I know. Go up there.
Speaker 1:I know I even told Merlene, my wife. I said I want to, I wanted to go up there and stuff, but I couldn't right away because I don't have a passport. She was just looking at me like, ok, but I'm like I always wanted to just go right across to Canada and come back.
Speaker 3:Right and I was home when I said I would be, you know, if it wasn't for taking extra long at the border. But I was handing out business cards at the table to people and our listenership has gone up pretty pretty good from Canada in the last week. So keep telling your friends about us and we appreciate you. If you like the show. Speaking of hockey updates coming up in November, the cast of Shorzy going to be going against, like the old school Detroit Red Wings hockey. So you got a TV show against the Red Wings. Yeah, it's going to be played in Detroit, so I'm thinking about going up there for that.
Speaker 1:Oh, man Now wait a minute.
Speaker 3:That might be something I go to.
Speaker 3:Big news Pink is in movie is coming out in November 27th. Its premiere is at the movie theater in Hamilton and then it'll be working its way around. That's another thing, something I've always wanted to do. They invited me to come shooting the filming because they had to film the final two scenes of the movie when I was like a little kid, like I gotta go home, you know, and like, oh man, you can come and watch. It's gonna be Trish and Ellie Ray and let's see who who plays the grandmother on my Little Pony and she also plays Warden Dungworth. They were so nice, man.
Speaker 3:I I Got the new Pink is In shirt. They didn't have no 3Xs. I looked for it, they didn't have it and then they gave me like a bill from the TV show that they. So again, that was my trip. Now I got a story that's going to blow your mind, because I heard this on the kyle and jackie o show and they're from australia. I, I want to. I want to make sure I get this right. Hold on while you're waiting. Uh, if you guys want to contact us, you can contact us through uh, powerspointpodcast at yahoocom. Uh, podcast Scott on X, formerly known as Twitter, and Powers 31911 on Instagram Now Jim.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:Listen to this headline.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:Monkey saves six-year-old girl from rape. What From rape saved six-year-old girl from rape? What?
Speaker 1:From rape.
Speaker 3:Monkey saved six-year-old girl from being raped in Udder Pradesh. What was trying? You're going to have to let me know where that's at.
Speaker 1:Wait a minute. What was trying to rape her? Drag the key A guy? Oh my God at what was trying to rape her.
Speaker 3:The guy dragged the key A guy.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God, and he kidnapped a girl and took her to the woods or the forest, so it said. A troop of monkeys reportedly intervened to save a six-year-old girl from a rape attempt in Uttar Pradesh. According to Times of India report, a man lured the student to an abandoned house and attempted to assault her before he was forced to flee by a, a herd of monkeys. I did not know more than one monkey was a herd, yeah, and, and you could. You could look this up on google and all the news reports pop up with like it's a legit story. So I guess they they seen what was going on. They heard the child crying and so they came in and attacked the guy.
Speaker 1:I hope they start clawing his junk and stuff and just start ripping his eyes out or something.
Speaker 3:I hope so too, but they're like the little monkeys the little monkeys it's. You can't see the stupid because the damn light, but they're like little monkeys here, man, and it was like a little herd, a whole, you know, a herd, yeah, and they came out of the trees and went right for the guy. That's awesome. That's all I got and, and again, we appreciate everybody joining us and uh, tell your friends about us, like it, follow us, share us. Well, not share us, but uh, I'd like to be us uh, we're spoken for selfish uh, yeah, selfish, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:But yeah, guys, hopefully we got some guests coming up here in the near future and they're going to be very entertaining.
Speaker 1:So anyone new with? That let us know what they want us to talk about and stuff.
Speaker 3:Maybe somebody has questions. You know like you do your this and that maybe they want to throw some this questions. That that I'm not gonna jinx it yeah, but so I'm looking forward to these and again, thank you to the pink is in cast for being such a great host. I will be back up there soon, but I'm not going to drive this time. I think I'm going to fly. It's only an hour.
Speaker 1:I will get my passport soon, I swear.
Speaker 3:Hopefully, man. It takes 13 weeks now to get, so time it. And if you get just the license, well, you can't go on a plane with just the license, you have to have the book. But if you drive, you only just the license. You can't go on a plane with just the license, you have to have the book. But if you drive, you only need the license. Okay, and since we're at the end of the show, we're going to hit everybody's favorite segment, gem.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:Drop some knowledge on it with a great quote.
Speaker 1:All right, here it is.
Speaker 3:If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice that's deep dude well, it's from neil pert you made the choice of not to do anything yeah, you still have made a choice.
Speaker 1:Just like the song said I, I had to keep it Canadian.
Speaker 3:I dig it, man, I dig it. So with that, my friends, we will talk to you again next week.
Speaker 5:Bye, I'll be here for a while. Yes, it's true, I don't offer to, but I'm kind of through. You're starting to linger like a bad cologne. It's time for you to hit the road alone. I don't mean to be rude, don't take it wrong, but every party ends with a goodbye song. So long bye. Time for you to leave now. You've overstayed your welcome anyhow. Hit the door, grab your shoes, don't forget your keys. So long bye, oh please, oh please, just leave.
Speaker 5:We had a good time. Yes, it's been fun, but my couch is crying for you to be done. The fridge is empty. The snacks are gone. Take the hit, my friend. It's been too long. It's not you, it's me. Wait. No, it's you. I love you to bits, but I need my room. So long bye. Time for you to leave now. You've overstayed your welcome anyhow. Hit the door, grab your shoes, Don't forget your keys. So long bye, Don't let the door hit you on the way out. We laughed, we danced, we sang all night, but now you're here past midnight. You don't gotta go home, but you can't stay here. Time to disappear, my dear. So long bye. Time for you to leave now. You've overstayed your welcome anyhow, Hit you later, alligator, it's time to scoot so long bye and take your leftover loot. So long bye. Don't make it awkward, please, Before I fall asleep or get down on my knees. You were the life of the party, but that's all done. So long bye. It's been real. Now run.
