This Week Gemini said Bob LeMent hosted Canadian comedians and podcasters Darcy Fiander and Todd Van Allen, co-hosts of the O Show Pod (OK So Here’s One), for a wide-ranging conversation that blended comedy with anecdotal observations about life in the Great White North. The trio discussed the essence of "street jokes"—simple, classic setups like the "Guy walks into a bar" variety—and shared the origin of Todd’s podcast, which serves as a platform for celebrating these timeless bits. OSHOpod.com https://youtube.com/live/srbA_3h1CY8 Bad AI Transcript Hey, everybody. It's Lament Tonight. And tonight we got Darcy Fiander and Todd Van Allen with us. How are you guys doing tonight? Darcy, you were mentioned first. Go first. I did that on purpose. I'm good. Bob, it's a delight to be here. Thank you so much for having us. Because Darcy usually doesn't say as much. And so I thought I would just throw him out there. Yeah. Yeah. This is the most uncomfortable you've made him in his own house. Well, you guys live in Canada. He's got an air conditioner behind him. I'm like, what is going on with this guy? No, no, no. When it dips to like minus 12 Celsius, that's when you go, it's too hot in here. Oh, okay. Yeah, I can see that. I can see that happening. So you guys are both from Canada? Yes. We just established that. We were actually talking about…
Tim Horton's putting his privates into a box for you on demand. And if anybody likes donuts and whatnot. And so, yeah, you're here on Lament tonight. Thanks for being here, guys. We really appreciate it. And hopefully we'll have some fun. And I think what I'll do is I'm going to turn it over to you guys to do a little monologue for us of sorts. A monologue? Okay, well, actually monologues are not my forte. Darcy, what do you have? All right. What's going on? What's in the news? Darcy, for people who do not know, there it is. That's exactly what I was going to talk about. We are the co-hosts of the O Show pod, which is OK So Here's One, a podcast celebrating street jokes. What we do is we bring on a guest. Bob, you've done the show at least twice now? I think so, yeah. I think after the second time you said
Don't come back unless you're bringing presents or something. Nope, that's absolutely wrong. Every time your presence is there, that is presence enough. But we will also make sure that we get a street joke out of you. Do you remember what your first street joke was that you told us? Oh, I told, I basically, I told the Monty Python joke. That's right, that's right. That's the essence of street jokes. Street jokes are just in the common, because they would have stolen that for their script. Right, oh. Right? So it's just like, it's jokes that are just out there. Guy walks into a bar, that sort of thing. You know, three chickens are sitting on a stool, like that sort of thing, right? Do you remember what your joke was? I do. Okay. What was it? It's a call and response kind of joke. So my dog has no nose. How does he smell? Horrible. There we are. That's the show. That's the show. Well, we talk with people beforehand, and they can come on and promote the things that they're promoting, right? Yeah.
we forgot to do the promoting part. Oh, no, trust me like there was there were times on the previous essence of the of our of our podcast where publicity people would be in the room, and an hour in, we're talking, and suddenly you go, like, what's what's that what's that do you hear that? And that is just the publicist drumming their fingers going, when are we going to talk about the project when when does that happen? So we don't do that now. And actually, it's weird. For about the past month and a half, everyone's been promoting their shows at Fallsview Casino. Oh, really? We have been on a run of a whole bunch of guests that have come on like they're doing Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls. And so they come on and they've been promoting their shows. It has been great. It has been great. Again, you've been on. I don't know if you performed at Fallsview Casino. You should. Not to my knowledge.
I was up actually by Niagara Falls, and it was during COVID, and they wouldn't let me cross over. Right. Sorry. Yeah. You're sorry. I was sorry, too. It was right there. I couldn't see it. You're looking around, and you're like, this is the shitty side. I did not want to tell you. I did not want to say. I'm like, the nice stuff's over on the other side. I can't go over there. I know there's an Applebee's. The shitty side has now got something these days. Because it's so cold, the American side has frozen. No! Are you serious? Yeah. It's running underneath it, but there's a huge ice formation over the top. Really? It's actually something to see. It's like a sneeze guard for Niagara Falls. It's just
People coming in looking for the baby corn with the tongs. There's a chocolate fountain around here somewhere. Yeah, exactly. I have friends that have just invested. I somehow got into this and I really don't know how. There's a bunch of people that I don't even work with. It's like a friend of mine who kind of works with them. And they have like a bi-monthly, it was bourbon tasting, but now since the problems, we've moved to other liquors and it was rye for a while. Now they've rotated around. But someone found… I'm going to ask you about the problems. Importing the things? Yeah, there's that. There's that. I have a stash of some things that I have been whittling my way through very gradually. I'll put it that way.
just in case the contraband police are listening. But they found a, like, you know, the chocolate fountain that you mentioned, which is just like this constantly cycling thing. They found one of those, but for old fashions. Oh, okay. So you make a, I guess, a picture of old fashions. You pour it in this fountain, and then you just Don Draper your way through the night. And it's interesting. Yeah. Let's talk about the new Camaro. The dead mill pen will tell you that it's bitchin'. It's bitchin', that's right. I can't believe right now, at this moment, at this exact moment, we have now halved both of our audiences. There is no reason to watch either of these performances. there's no reason well we will be at the casino yeah a couple weeks that is right. Well, I, you can cross the border now uh yeah i know it's gonna be a question of which bridge, but you'll be fine. You know, I might just walk the sneeze guard to be honest with you. Yeah, that's true. Actually that it was actually to to darcy's point um because the canadian side has, has much like what? 10 times the water that goes over.
There was on record a time where it was so cold that it froze. There's pictures. I've seen that. I've seen the pictures. That's the easiest time to go over in a barrel. I don't know. It's like a slope. Maybe a little harder fall. I don't know. No, because it's soft at the bottom. It's all that water. What if there's stalagmites No, never even thought of that. Right. I can't remember whose joke it was, and I'm going to butcher it. Someone asked me what the difference is between stalagmite and stalactite. I was like, well, stalactites have a C. They hang from the ceiling. And stalagmites have made me want to question every decision that I've gone through up to this point. Yes. Yes. That's it. Oh, my goodness. So, yeah, I guess that's our monologue. Well, what's the weather there on this Canadian side? We got to get the weather report. We may have to do metric. I don't know what the conversion metric is. No, just do metric. I'll convert. Okay. I'll be like an interpreter. So, we actually had a warm day today. It was minus 20. That's about 35 Fahrenheit. No, no, that's way lower.
I know. Oh, no, no. That's. Hang on. Double it. Net 30. So if I subtract this, it should be 15 degrees Fahrenheit. OK, 15. Well, I'm just making everybody feel comfortable. So like we were like minus 20. And so I actually got to wear a lighter coat. It was it was nice. Darcy, what was it in Toronto? Balmy minus seven. There you go. Jesus. So you were back in shorts. Well, you had the air conditioner on for Christ's sake. You got that air conditioner. Just walking around the house and his wife runs the heat. Seriously, though, seriously, my window is open on the other side, further down the room here. The window is open with a fan blowing in air from the outside. Really? It does. Was energy free in Canada or something? I mean, for me, it kind of is. I'm not paying for heat.
And it's the old, old hot water radiators. Right. Yeah. So they were cranked up when it was really cold. And it takes a long time for it to adjust. So when the temperature goes up, it just cooks in here. Right. Wow. Yeah. Windows open. It's like turning the Titanic. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And your answer to that is ice. Yeah. Ice. So. Well, there you go. The only application of that particular word that is actually working. It's 40 degrees here right now. Okay, so that's… Hang on. Fahrenheit. Yeah, so that means subtract 30. So you're like 5 degrees Celsius. Yeah, that sounds about right. Wow, you're good at math. Who knew? You know what it is? Literally, it's double it and add 30. So when you go Fahrenheit to Celsius, you do the opposite. So you subtract 30 and then cut it in half. Yeah. That's what you do. I think that old adage applies to many other calculations. Double it and add 30. Oh, yeah. That's…
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