Episode 21 – Season 1 Cast Talkback

Pickaxe in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war and podcasts I'm rob kevin dennis and richard and we're the preferred enemies to show about the warhammer 40 000 war game whether you're a seasoned tabletop veteran or someone who's never moved a mini around a table we invite you to join us as we talk about the lore the game the hobby and our experiences with warhammer 40k that's preferred enemies on spotify apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts a dancer and a sweet talker who live in haspira more singing to you so gather around friends and listen close for the tales about to start hi everybody this is Sean O'Hara here your game master joined by fenton beasley the slide abdulaziz hello everybody or as my player would say hello everybody an almost indistinguishable difference that's different franklin's tying the cutter Paul Oppers hi hi you tell me which is which and clover ivy fern the whisper just get tied hi I never changed my voice she says defiantly I never changed my voice we're just we're here to do a little chat season one of Mall Brats has come to an end and we're here to just you know talk about it uh never done one of these before but all the biggest podcasts do them so we had to try yeah we had to try because everybody loves a behind the scenes look at their favorite shows and that's what we're here to give you that's right by way of talking about this show talking about this show mm-hmm Mall Brats season one of Mall Brats has come to an end and we're here to just you know talk about it season one what else can you say about it what well season one started in 2019 this is good context yeah started in 2019 our first recording was at the just for laughs vancouver head office yes after hours so late so late very late jessica poured a bunch of shiraz into a mason jar that like a two liter mason jar I thought it would give me energy and strength just go through like what am I supposed to do with this I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't supposed to do at a midnight like a midnight start uh-huh it was a midnight start it was yeah wasn't somebody blaring david bowie below and beside us that was the next day the next oh yeah yeah they blended I forgot that it just makes me sleepy yeah jessica doesn't drink very much she doesn't it was you're very funny when you drink yeah thanks I didn't try it again it's pretty easy it doesn't take much to drink no I don't mean like that there's a liquor store across the street from here is there yeah next to the uh the chinese uh street food place oh yeah yeah yeah I was thinking the parkade and then the abandoned grocery store I was like there's got to be something in there there's a guy who sells moonshine and the third floor of the park yeah and then the gay bar also sells beer oh right there's a bar a regular bar yeah yeah um yeah 2019 a million years ago it feels like no kind of was yeah six years ago six years the whole world changed oh god how so kind of like so many times it continues to flux I can't remember if we were like before the world changed or after yeah 2019 2019 pre-covid but not by much it's pretty like everything we were still like in our 20s except for paul yeah it was 49 years old I'm getting younger I'm going down a little bit more I'm getting younger I'm getting younger I'm getting younger I'm getting younger I'm getting younger I'm getting younger I'm getting younger I'm getting younger I'm getting younger I'm getting younger I'm getting younger I'm getting younger I'm getting Benjamin Buttoning Yeah I think the thing that I always think about When I listen to the early stuff is I can't stop Thinking about how different my voice is It was so high And I don't know why it's so low now The pandemic was really hard Maybe it's from a career of talking That could be it But the nice thing about How your voice has aged Is like it's kind of in that Like chocolatey tones Phase where it's like you were You sort of It was this like high pitched sort of academic It's like you would be cast As like the smart Shit disturber In a college comedy before But now you're in your Pedro Pascal Phase Pedro Pascal Pedro Pascal You know what I'll take the comparisons I don't see it but hey thanks out there Everybody Cool I'll take it I'll take it Yeah Yeah!

Five billion other women Find you attractive I'd say like 99% of the world population Would find him attractive I think we've had this conversation A lot of people don't find him attractive What? I know I mean I'm not attracted to guys So I think he looks cool I think yeah there's an ask about him I think his attitude and his voice And his big doughy eyes right And his like active eyebrows His active eyebrows He's got thick fingers too Yes It means he's got a fat hog What?

That's right You don't know how much room there is Leftover?

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Good they make a competition out of something that is absolutely grotesque yeah oh and like when it's zoomed in and in the kids heads there's like ba ba ba ba ba ba heads it's like rock and roll yeah 80s rock and roll happening and then zooming out to a parent watching it it's just like silent kids spitting in the ground disgusting going to shoo them and clean up yeah and then the janitor just be like fucking kids spit on the floor I hate these kids you I've become the thing I hate my favorite stuff was is always the um like the everyday lives of the cool tree kids where it's like you guys hanging out at the at the sugar shack like clovers in her workshop and fenton and franklin or doing push-ups or eating chocolate or it's not doing pushes he's on that rocking horse sitting on his right on his thinking horse franklin when franklin's doing push-ups time to jump on my rocket I'm sure this is doing something and then I love the the culmination of big market where you guys ruin the lives of the fudgies by just creating an absolute chaos riot after tipping over a bunch of chocolate that's unionizing the elves that's another great character scene where clover like goes like goes into like like punisher mode she went too far I went too far big market was fun I like that arc because it was like one of the first big jobs that took like several episodes I would say that you know what maybe that's the scene where the show became the show I think when you sang big market is my favorite part of the episode dancing in the moonlight yeah welcome to big market but you gotta do the voice dwat oh he's kinda got like a voice like this welcome to big market take a snake and take another snake and then those snakes will make more snakes I can't remember how much of that music we're allowed to use in the in the release there are a handful of episodes that get part what it's what it's called partially blocked by YouTube but the bots don't notice it because we absolutely right I guess it's all parody versions of the song so it's not as against the law but we do play the music on the show we did get an email from weird al once stop doing what I do just a picture of him holding a gun well he's gonna hate the finale so I think also I enjoyed um I think also I enjoyed I mean probably just because I just heard it but when Clover and Kestrin ropes have their standoff oh it's so funny one of the greatest scenes it's the most powerful I've ever felt me Jessica I don't you have somewhere stupid to go is such a funny burn because it's it's so effective but so simple and then also just that her walking away and Clover just throwing popcorn after her not even at her just like yeah towards her also you just just being like I have popcorn in my pockets I can be here all day just like as the dump kid that you are you obviously just were walking around with stale popcorn I brought food did you bring food what a fucking loser didn't bring any food okay I will also say that reminds me I love that scene I love Sean like falling apart as Kestrin where he's just like I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I and hates Clover because Clover's kind of a piece of shit.

She's been horrible too. Oh yeah. Clover's a monster. She poisoned her, destroyed her gang, took over her territory. Whatever. Stole her boyfriend. Stole her boyfriend and then there's spoilers so we can't talk about the rest. Yeah, but there's some other, it does not end there. It keeps going. Man. Yeah. From the perspective of anyone else in the mall, like when the Cool Treat Kids set their sights on you must be a truly upsetting moment. Like, oh god, they're coming.

There's nothing I can do about this because they have no shame. There's nothing I can do to them. They're unstoppable. Their random eye is on me now. Yeah. They just decided that I'm their problem. Yeah, there's nothing really targeted about it other than accidental. Exactly. Right? But we never go for anyone who hasn't provoked us. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like provoked is strong in some cases. That's fair. I bet she provoked me. I bet. Flashback. She was rude to you. Yeah.

She was rude. Thank you. Yeah. She was rude so you ruined her life. It's nice to have an ally here. Yeah, it's escalation is what the Cool Treat Kids are the best at. It's escalating a situation. You're hot as fuck, Mrs. Ropes. Oh, the other thing I was going to say was that the Kessler and Cloveron reaction reminded me of is the artwork is also starting to be like my new favorite part of the episode. The episode art is so good. It's so good and I have it up when I'm editing. Oh, nice.

Because I like looking at something while I'm listening to the edit. Yeah. You're doing so good on that. Yeah, look at the Spit Boys artwork. It's the greatest thing I've ever drawn in my life. It's so dynamic. It's so good. Yeah, it moves. That's great. Yeah. We're such, and I like that because it also so well takes into account the context of that scene where it's so obvious that Clover has just woken up. Yeah. So she's in pajamas basically and her hair is pinned up and stuff.

I think my favorite episode art is the Charles Eve one. Oh, yeah. Where it's like a Christmas photo but then Borbo's fist is coming into the frame. And there's still you guys are all kidnapping Charles, but you still want a Charles Eve picture. So they're all posing. It's so good. It's so cute. It is. Man, there's so many great moments in this season. You know what? I do like these talkbacks. It's a nice retrospective. It's fun to be like, wow, we made a great show.

I have this sentimentality for the Cool Treat Kids where I love them in a way where they are like, I've said this before, but they're sort of younger versions of us if we all had another person who had our back when we were in elementary school instead of just being the fucking weirdos that we actually were. With zero back people. Yeah. It's like having a, it's like being nostalgic for a childhood that you didn't have, but you did have. You remember it like a childhood you had.

I feel like I had quite a rambunctious childhood. Yeah. There was a lot of mall stuff. I think, yeah, I like Mall Brats because it's all the stuff I wanted to do in the mall. But I could only get away with a little bit of stuff in the mall. We did hang out in the mall when we were kids. We did hang out in the mall. And you were very good on your bike. I was great at my bike. That's true. Guys, I was so good at my bike. So good at my bike? Oh yeah, wheelies. Endos? I don't know what those are.

Back wheelie up, balancing on the front wheel? No, I couldn't do that. Sorry, I brought it up. I wasn't that good. Okay, I wasn't that good at my bike. But Sean, I remember when we had started being friends when we were like 23, Sean, holy shit, have we been friends for like 13 years? Yeah. Sean and I were just talking about last night. What have we known Abdul for? We've been friends forever. Yeah, 13 years. Wow.

But when we started being friends, I remember Sean describing your guys' childhood like, and yeah, you'd be like, yeah, I'd like walk up to Jess's house up this hill and then sometimes she would just do a wheelie from that intersection for like a kilometer from the other side. It's like, whoa. She's good. What? And also Jessica was really fast. So sometimes she'd just, I mean, especially if she got spooked by something, she'd just start running and there was no way you were going to catch up.

The road to my house, like before everything was developed, like they had like one streetlight, the whole, for like a kilometer and a half. So I was like, I'd be like booking it and then I'd walk slow under the streetlight and then I just… Where there's safety. There's safety. And then the worst is like you go downhill around the corner like through the, like around, like and the woods get thick and then you're just like, oh fuck, oh fuck, there's no houses here.

Where now there is a bunch of like condos and apartments and shit, there used to just be dense forest around Jessica's house. Like this like kind of creepy old man cabin that like was kind of comforting, but I was like, could be a murder. And definite cougars everywhere. Oh yeah. Kids on the island are terrified of cougars. It's the highest density of cougars in the world. That's what it is. The highest density of mountain lions is on Vancouver Island. So they're fucking everywhere.

I remember playing at the school by my house on the weekend and we were like, we're all playing and then one of my friends is like, there's a cougar on the rock and then we all just… Ah, it's a banyan! Kids running the opposite way. The cougar seeing the one thing it desperately wanted to see, a bunch of prey with its back turned. It was actually laying down. Like I don't think it was like doing anything.

It was just laying there, but I was still like, oh my God, I'm going to get eaten so fast. They always say that if you see a cougar, it has already decided that it's not going to attack you. Wow. Holy shit. That's terrifying. Miles told me a story once where him and one of his dads and one of his groups of stepbrothers were… I think he just has the one stepbrother, but he does have several dads.

We're like dirt biking through the woods and his dad was just like, don't look back kids, and then Miles looked back and there was like a cougar running after him. Oh my God. That's so wild. Holy shit. I've never seen one in the wild and I really want to. It's seen you. Yeah. And then another dirt bike story that Miles told us, remember that one where he told us how he got to their high school graduation? Yeah.

Party in the woods where he just put a flashlight in his mouth and then rode his dirt bike through dense forests. No helmet, just getting whacked in the face by branches. Oh my God. Show up like E.T. With a glowing tummy. Well, like, yeah, recess at my school with the cougars that we would go out of bounds. Well, I didn't really go. I think I went once because I was too scared, but they would go out of bounds and climb up to Cougar Mountain. Whoa. Yeah, pretty cool.

Which is what the kids called it. I don't think it actually exists. It was a rock. It was a big rock. Yeah, it was a big hill. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, we got called in a few times for cougars when I went to John Stubbs, the like military kids elementary school. It was right on the woods. John Stubbs. It was right on the woods and they would just be like, okay, recess is over. Come on in. We're having a recess inside everybody. Paul, what was your favorite? What were you?

You haven't said your favorite. Yeah, I did. I was the first one to say my favorite. And then you said, let's all name our favorite. Oh, right. The roller coaster. It was a great plan. It was the most I picture that often. It was such a cartoony plan that really set up that this show was going to be like a Saturday morning cartoon. I love that we've got different genres kind of for each show. Like fantasy road trip comedy, super goofy Saturday morning cartoon.

And then with up all night, we're trying to do like slightly more grounded teen comedy. Yeah. It's champagne Saturday. Do you guys think that if we went up there and wanted to try on wedding dresses, they'd let us and drink champagne? I'd love to. You would want to do that? Yeah. I always want to try on wedding dresses. Are you kidding me? Basically bubbly Shiraz. Yeah. Every time we come in, Jessica stops at the window outside the dress store and goes, wow.

Even if I've like come in and out six times today, I stand and look at the same dresses. I'm like, wow. I like that. Yeah. You're cool because you are a girl. Yeah, I am a girl. Who hates it when I look at the dresses like I want to try on a wedding dress? The way I dress is pretty gross. That's not what I mean. I mean, it's easy to forget that you're a girl because you're in the same way that Fenton and Franklin think of Clover as just their sibling. Yeah, it's easy.

And they forget that she's a girl. She has like girl dreams. Yeah, it's this. It's sort of a similar vibe. Whenever she does sound effects, we're also like, oh, yeah. She's a girl. This happens in every teen comedy. Yeah. You go, you know, I just forget sometimes that you're a girl. You're not like a girl girl. You're like a cool girl. You're like a guy, basically. There's a scene at a dance or a scene at a beach where she comes out in a dress and her hair is down.

They're like, wow, I wish I was a girl. I come out on the beach. Same clothes. I'm not stripping down my swimsuit. No, no, no way. More fleeces. Yeah, more beaches, more places. Umbrella grumpy. I don't want to be here. Why are we here? Four words. Too hot. Side. Just they make hats that go all the way around. Four or seven. Seven ball caps. North, south, east, west. Okay, so it is not a regular sun hat. No, she's got a face to right.

She's got it set up so wherever the sun is in the sky, that's where the hats are pointing. No, the hat is a lot. Everyone makes fun of my hat. The beach? Oh, because you have big hats. Erin's always making fun of my hat. I think your hats are cool. No. I like your big hats. Yeah, you look great. You look like Marceline the Vampire Queen. Yeah. Her hats are fucking rad. They're big. Yeah, I do have to do that.

I remember one time I was walking around Victoria and I saw you in one of your big hats and I was like, that girl looks like Marceline. And then I was like, oh, it's Jess. I shouldn't have gotten rid of that hat. It was a cool hat. Bring it back. Get another one. One thing I wanted to ask people, what is everybody's favorite NPC? From the first one? From the first season. I love the Ratman. I really like being the Ratman. I mean, Borblow. Borblow's in the first season. He's so good.

Have you not been listening? The re-release? No. No, I haven't. How do I get it? Are you fucking kidding me? It's on Spotify. Or wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah, I know that. Borblow is perhaps the finest illustration of what the flashback mechanic can be. Because he was supposed to be a failure. He was a security guard that then flashbacked into a guy that you hired. Yes. He was a dishwasher. And he came out so hard on the acting. He was like, I'm Sir Bigman the Strange.

Yeah, Borblow's great. I love the Ratman. Oh, that rat moment. When you release the rats in the restaurant. Oh, yeah. That's one of my favorite moments. I'm here. Worst nightmare. And then a slow whip. It's just the elevator from the Shining. The butt rat. Who's my favorite? I mean, Borblow, but he kind of almost doesn't count as an NPC. He's just a normal NPC. Yeah, he's the character that I play, basically. But I do love Borblow. He's so complex and also so simple at the same time.

I mean, also, obviously, I love Seamus. How could you not? Sure. Perhaps my interpretation of the worst parts of my teenage self in one person. It's too much of a clear window into both your sexualities for me. I'm so sorry. It's the accent play that I'm like, I feel like I'm watching something here. I just have to avert my eyes and ears. I feel like the listeners that don't realize Jessica and I are married are the ones they're blissfully unaware. I should never have mentioned anything.

It's healthy. We didn't for a long time. Actually, again, our friend Zena didn't realize we were married. Oh, that's such a cute realization where you're just like, my two favorite people from my favorite podcast. They're like, oh, we're married. She's also friends with my sister Amy before she listened to this. And then she realized like, oh, Jessica's Amy's sister. Oh, that's such a sick realization. She said, send me a series of messages that was like, I didn't know you were married.

Fat Billy wife 2005. Wait, why 2005? Because we've been together since 2005. Right. We're coming up on 20 years. Holy shit. And we're only 25. I was 25 when you guys met. That's so fun. Talk about your girlfriend from kindergarten. Julia? Yeah, Julia was so cute. Your girlfriend in kindergarten? Julia was. She was the biggest crush I've ever had. And also possibly ever had. Yeah. Well, Aaron possibly not a crush. I don't know. She was just not a crush.

Like, you mean you were genuinely in love or what do you mean? No, no. She was just like, we're friends. Oh, like you just really liked her. I just really liked her as my friend. Totally. Yeah. Kids don't really have sexual attraction. Yeah. So it's just like, I just want to be best friends with Julia forever. This is the best. I mean, is it bad if when I was little I was like, I really want to hold hands. Really hard. Yeah. Because kids are so physically affectionate with one another.

That was my crush. I was like, can we hold hands? Yes. That's a comfort thing. That makes sense. Totally. That's just being best friends with someone. So cute. Yeah. So that was Julia. I wonder where she is. Hope you're well, Julia. I can find out what was her last name. I couldn't find her. Oh, okay. No, no, Paul. No! It's me, Julia, the whole time. Oh, no. It's Triangle Face. Hold on. Oh, my God. My hands are so cold. I didn't realize I was cold until I touched him. Yeah, I am a fur.

You didn't realize what you were missing until you touched him. Oh, gosh. Now they can find equilibrium. Wow. But yeah, she was on my first day of kindergarten because I entered halfway through the year because we moved to the Middle East. I was like terrified. And the teacher, Miss Sam, who also I had a crush on, introduced, she's like classic. You know the kindergarten teachers that are like got it like the overalls. Oh, yeah. She had overalls. I was thinking tweed skirt.

I think she also had a tweed skirt. But she was like, you know, the people who you're like, man, you change a bunch of kids lives because you're the best kindergarten teacher. Yeah, they were like fruit earrings and stuff. Zero memories from kindergarten. Yeah. Absolutely not. Gotta block those things out. Not a one. It was a rough time. We all have those decades. Wait. Sorry. I do have one. I have one memory from kindergarten.

It was when I was listening to the Lion King theme song and they say kings and vagabonds. And I was like, what's a vagabond? And the teacher was like, it's like a poor person. And I was like, we're vagabonds. My family is vagabonds. That's so good. Kings and o'hara's. Sorry. Sorry. Kings and vagabonds. That's us. Yeah. O'hara's are kind of vagabonds. Sort of vagabondish. Yeah. My dad was not happy to hear that. I said, we're vagabonds. We're vagabonds. But sorry, your teacher.

Oh, she introduced me to the class and everyone went and sat down and I was like, I don't know what to do now. And then Julia came up to the teacher and she's like, where's the new boy gonna sit? And then she let me sit next to her. Julia's an angel. And then we were best friends until second grade. And then it got weird because I got made fun of by my family for having a girl best friend. And I was like, are we not allowed to be friends? Best friends? Oh, yeah. That all fucked up.

I had that relationship. And so then I just found a very gay best friend. Steven. Fine, if you won't let me be friends with a girl. I'll be best friends with a guy who I will fuck. Someday. Coming for you, Steve. Coming for you, Steve. Coming for you, Steve. That's great. Did we do favorite NPCs? Kind of. Borbo. I love Doris because she's just so nice. Yeah. Rara. Rara made me laugh so hard in the beginning.

Rara became, kind of became Rara in that one scene that was a cutaway from the My Alchemical Romance concert where Borbo was in a wheelchair and he was just like, I don't know what I'm doing with my life. Rara. Yeah, we see so much. We see so much more of Rara like the therapist in season two. Yeah, totally. Wonderful. He's so funny. Just the first one where like first like, what the hell? Like we were always so afraid of the thing that's in the vent.

Oh yeah, I loved, I loved the early Rara stuff when he was just the hobnoblin that lived in the vent. Yeah. And then in the closing, you kind of created the character of Rara because in the closing of every episode as the camera strafes away, Rara is always doing something and then the Charles Eve episode, he like takes the balaclava and winks at it. The camera. So dumb. What's something we wish we could have done in season one? What? Oh. I don't know. Is that a normal question to ask?

It's a normal question. What would you have changed about season one? Could use a re-listen for that question. Yeah. It's almost as if everyone else did re-listen. I don't think I would change anything about season one, but like I think that every time I listen to myself run a game, I think about how I would have done it differently. Yeah, that makes sense. Because it's all so improvised. I come into every episode with no plan.

So every time I'm like, oh, I could have done this or I could have done that. But considering that, I think the first season's really strong. I love it. Yeah, it's so fun. I love it. I don't know that I would have changed anything. I guess not. I might have leaned more into the hippie stuff. I think there was some good, there'd be some good jokes in that, but I think that's all right. She's like, Clover became more of like trash kid than hippie and I feel okay with that. Yeah.

That kind of makes sense. I love trash kid Clover. I am a trash kid. So it's just naturally where I veer to. Yeah. A natural raccoon. Yeah. I like that. The moments where Clover just like kind of like flips into like rage mode is so fun. Yeah. Where she's just like, well, I'm gonna burn these kids alive. I'm gonna make this whole situation way worse for everybody. Really un-hippie like of her. Yeah. Because he did that there. Is it? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Maybe not. That's true. That's true.

They're a very angry bunch. That is true. The true hippie of what Clover is. It's knowing when to apply the anger. Yeah. I think that is the true hippie way, which I think you do very well as Clover. I mean, I'm a real life. Yeah. Yeah. Trash kid. Trash kid. Yeah. Trash kids for life. What about you, Paul? I really, I mean, I don't know about doing differently, but I think I really appreciated finding the softness and Franklin, the dance, dancing side. Yeah. Yeah.

That really fleshed him out for me a lot. So, yeah. I feel like right now in the, spoiler, future present tense, he's a little more angry trying to like come find the way back. I know that we still have a bit of that dance weirdness, but yeah, I really appreciate his like flighty heart dancing stage. I just remembered another scene that I really liked, which is in Big Market when he stops dancing after he's trying to show off for Grefg's Mushlin. He's like, right. That's the best part.

They call me tux. Who calls you that? And then Grefg goes, why? Why? Because they pulled it out of nowhere for Sean. They call me tux. What? That's the best part of the season. Just the post musical, like, he's breathing so hard. That's the best part. They call me tux. That is like a character thing that I feel like I bring in a lot. It brings so much context to any situation. I love it. Yeah, I love it. It's one of my go-tos.

I love it because it reminds everyone like how much effort our characters have put into stuff. Nothing's easy for us. I got, I get too much sloth, mate. I got, right there. It's getting me in the side. Grefg is also kind of a fantastic character. Oh, sure. Grefg is great. I feel like with Grefg, I'm never, I'm never, I'm never, I'm never, I'm never, I'm never, I'm never, I'm never, I'm always trying to get back to that first interaction. Yeah. Because the voice was like so, so good. Yeah.

And I can't quite get back to it, but I'm going to keep working on it. Well, maybe that's your, your journey into chocolatey Sean. Oh, yeah. It's probably part of the deepening of my voice has made it harder to do the highs and lows. Uh, I, you know what? I'm going to take voice lessons. I'm going to get back to Grefg Smushlet. You should. All right. Thanks for joining us, everybody. For this season one, Mall Brats talk back. We'll be back for season two, probably.

Uh, and you'll hear season two in a few months. And let me tell you from here on out, things get pretty great. Yeah, man. Season two premiere is going to be so funny. Yeah. It's so good. Just wait, you guys. Honestly, it's a real cliffhanger. Season two premiere is like, it's very, very, it's one of my favorite scenes of all time. If you like season one, you're going to love season two. So we'll see you next time. Here, let me get you the actual date. We're back on June 30th. Okay. July 1st.

Okay. I'm going to say June 30th. It comes right after that. Get ready for Canada Day. Canada Day. And if you liked season one, you're going to love season two, which we will be back for June 30th. Right before Canada Day. Right before Canada's Day. The most Canadian podcast on Pickaxe releasing on Canada Day. Yeah, we actually are for sure the most Canadian podcast. The most Canadian podcast on the network. That's great. That's cool. Hello, Pickaxe. Welcome to Canada.

Remember how you used to own us? Not anymore. Except actually, they kind of still do. They kind of still do. We're actually still, actually, all of them are on our money still. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shout out to the king. No, no, no. We drive on the other side of the road here. Yeah, we drive over here. But our governor general has to talk to the king sometimes. Should we use their language in Canada? Everything we do. Yeah, yeah. But we also use a little bit of those guys' language too. Yeah.

I'm sure we have to have a portrait of the king on all our boats. We have to. We genuinely had, when I worked at the military newspaper, we had a portrait of the queen. And that was just in a drawer because they were like, we don't want to put it up. So I put it up in my office and I was like, I think you have to have it. Yeah. So what? Maybe we're all legally required to have the middle name Elizabeth. And now Charles. Charles. Charles. I like that they just kept it Elizabeth. Yeah. So what?

That technically the governor general somehow contains some kind of occult presence of the royal family? Oh, like they're the avatar of the monarchy? That's sort of how Canada was set up is the governor general is the avatar of the royal family incarnate in North America. You're describing authority though. So like any person with authority is to be an authority. Yeah. Yeah. Technically an occult representation of an idea. Kind of. You're granted authority by the crown. Actually, yeah.

Capital T, capital C, the crown. That is a strange concept. It's so weird. Like in courts, there's a little bit of the queen in every court. Yeah. And now the king. The crown. Because even like our public broadcaster is a crown corporation. Yeah. It's a corporation that technically has to answer to King Charles. Jesus Christ. A lot of the country is crown land. Yeah. Like it's just land, land, that is used for nothing except for that.

We ride on the queen's ferry to get to the rest of the country. So thank you, England, for taking us back to the podcast. I can't. I can't. The prodigal son of podcasting returns to the sceptered isles of Britannia. X, X, X, X. Oh, Britannia. Britannia. June 30th, the day before Canada Day. In the mud. All right. We'll see you June 30th, everybody. Bye. Bye. Bye. All right. Okay. That was great. All my Irish ancestors just got so mad that I saluted the king. Sarcastically. Absolutely.

It was sarcastic. It was sarcastic. It was sarcastic. Irish people know what sarcastic salute when they see one. That's true. Yeah. And I was saluting twice. That's even less sarcastic. Yeah. Super salute. It looks like you're trying to look at a distance. And so ends the tale of the cool treat kids. Always up to no good. So tiny and greedy. And angsty they be. As they navigate crime and puberty. And though our journey may belie a conclusion, we will not leave you without a resolution.

Resolution. Return next week to the chocolate store as the cool treat kids plan their next score. And for you, I'll gladly spout more. I'll gladly spout more.