October 27, 2025 • 34 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Starting your morning off right.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
A new way of talk, a new way of understanding
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with Michael del Chronood.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Morning.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Michael, you're forgetting Japan's number one vehicle export. That's the
Toyota and Toyota, Honda.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Subaru lead the pack as far as liability, along Jefty vehicles.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
The American vehicles still have a long way to catch up.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Nissan Mitsubishi. They're at the bottom of the barrel. Have
a great show, Michael.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm a red blooded American and a Patriot, but I'll
tell you there ain't nothing better than a Toyo vehicle.
Well there's a consensus for it. Yes, we had I
mean I had mentioned. I can't remember who all I mentioned,
but yeah, Toyota, Honda, Subaru Mitsubishi, Nissan. I'm trying to
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think who else are we leaving anybody else still? But
Mazda No, I don't think Masta is Japanese. I think
it's Korean. But yeah, you're right, I think I am.
But anyway, here here's the problem. Japanese brands account for
more than ninety percent of new cars sold in Japan,
so they're only importing fewer than seventeen thousand American vehicles.
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But as we were talking about with our White House correspondent,
demand is a big part of that. Look at here
at home the sales of Toyota and Honda and Subaru
and Nissan and others. But I think the President is
going to try to come away from Japan with at
least an order for some Ford F one fifty, and
(02:00):
that'll be good news in Detroit. But the president's having
an amazing trip to Asia. It reminds me a lot
of the Saudi Cutter trip. In the case of the
Saudi Cutter trip, you know, there was some pieces put
in place for military and foreign policy, a check made,
if you will, for Hamas and getting the Saudi government
and reasonable Muslim nations involved in what Gaza will be someday,
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and then the pressure on Amas and eventually the exchange
of hostages for criminals. We still haven't gotten all the bodies,
and we're still looking at how Gaza looks without Hamas
in it. But it was an extraordinarily successful financial trip
as well in terms of rare earths and airplanes coming
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from Boeing and others, and the President is racking that
up again. So he's already had a very successful visit
in Thailand. He had already put the framework together for
the Thai Cambodia Peace Plan. They signed that into be
got a rare earth deal while he was there, arrived
in Japan at three this morning. There's a lot of
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business to be had in Japan, and then it's onto China,
where we think we're going to have the TikTok deal
finalized at that meeting with she as well as the
framework for a peace deal, which will go from framework
to done deal. And that would suggest a lot of
ground has been made on the fentanyl fight as well
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as some of the things that have separated them on
the trade agreement. So this is turning out to be
a crown jewel of trips abroad for the President and
wrapping up his first year with a great deal of
success and has always celebrated more abroad than really here
at home. Ten minutes after the hour, next half hour,
you're going to freak out. You know, Mike Myers as
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Austin Powers. You know Mike Myers as Wayne's World and
Saturday Night Live. You're about to meet his brother, Paul Myers.
He is an accomplished author from Canada, like his brother,
and he's the older brother. He's out with a new book,
John Candia, Life in Comedy. He looks just like his
brother Mike, and he sounds just like his brother Mike.
(04:12):
And I will do the best I can to stay
focused on Paul and Paul only he deserves that. He's
quite accomplished in his own right. And then Chris Walker,
all things Republicans is up first for US.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Chris is joining us. Chris.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You know, obviously this trip to Asia is huge. It
would be hard for the president to have a successful
first year without it. Doesn't he has made any ground
with Russia and Ukraine. He's made considerable ground with Hamas
and Israel, and he certainly closed the deal with Cambodia
and Thai LAMB. But you know, this needed to be
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a successful trip for the president. I think and it's
looking like it's shaping up to be just that good.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Morning, good morning.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
I guess you're going to refrain from say yeah baby
to Paul Myers on a regular basis.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Yeah, you know, I think one thing that I think
as I'm looking at this trip to your to Asia
and what.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
The president's doing, it's important.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
To remember so much of this work gets done beforehand,
and so you know, yes, we're seeing the headlines, Yes
we're doing a lot of this now, but you know,
I think something that's really to be remembered. It's the
day to day headline chasing that a lot of the
media is doing just to kind of distract from what
the president, you know, is doing. We're seeing the fruits
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of the behind the scenes negotiations of the leaders in
the administration that are really focused on, you know, getting
America in the position that needs to be on the
global stage or something where we weren't for a long time.
So whether it's Cambodia, whether it's Thailand, whether it's you know,
Japan and China next. You know, there's a lot of
great stuff, you know, we have there's reciprocal trade, and
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there's you know, all kinds of of good deals being
being struck that if you were to just read the
headlines of the Washington Post, you wouldn't see the success
that we're seeing coming out of a lot of these meetings,
in these discussions.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Look, I can't lie I didn't get all this tariff
stuff from the beginning. I don't know that I still
completely get it. I can tell you I would have
secured the border. I'd have getten rid of all of
the threatening presence in America. And that's all been very successful.
We've had zero boarding crossings in four months. You had
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one point five million self deport another half million be deported.
I mean, there is no president with a straight face
that can preside over a border crisis ever. Again, because
Donald Trump proved a president consolve it, so I would
have done that. He certainly wanted to end the Russian
Ukraine War and the troubles in the Middle East. He's
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halfway to that. I don't know what I would have
moved don to next. But the president has always stressed
border and unfair deals. I mean, this goes back to
the escalator in twenty sixteen, and when it's all said
and done, I don't think it was ever his intention
to start a trade war, but I think it was
to balance the scale a little bit. Has he walked that,
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has he avoided that trade war? Can this in the
end turned out to be something very successful or did
he create a one distraction he didn't need in his
first year.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
I mean, in terms of of the tariff issue, it's
probably the single biggest thing that I'm not aligned with
the president on. But I also think he's using it
as a negotiating tactic. I think that's something that people
are kind of missing when they look at the at
the holistic you know, look at the Trump administration.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It's in the art of the deal, right.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
He says things outlandish, He says things, you know that
seem unreasonable to get you to make a deal on
the side of the newsday rebole to where he wants
you to be. So, you know, sometimes I think some
of these tariffs that are going out there, one they
don't usually get followed through and which is positive. And two,
you know, I really do think a lot of times
it's a negotiating tool. But you know, constitutionally, this is
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something that Congress needs to you know, expend a little
bit more of its authority on too. This is not
just a policy tool that the president can use in
his discretion. Tariffs are taxes, and taxes are something that
to be lovey by Congress, and so eventually I think
that will get rained in a little bit. But from
my perspective, I agree. I think the border and all
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those things that you mentioned are are are important pieces
of it. I really do think he books a terrorist as.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
A negotiating tool.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I mean, again, look at how how we get to
the point where he gets to announce the trade deal
with Vietnam. Part of that came from his talking about
trade and balances back in the spring. So why get
people to the table? Getting people to negotiated something that
I think is how he approachased this.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
All right, Well, the best the best example was the
outrageous claim of making Gaza the riviera of the Middle East,
and everybody laughed at that, But that tour with Saudi
Arabia and Cutter was really the framework for the future
of the Gaza. It may not be the riviera, but
if it can be Saudi overseen, reasonable Muslim nation overseen,
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that can provide a security, provide a prosperity where the
Palestinian people don't have to turn to thugs like Hamas
and the PLO. That would be brilliant. And it really
had nothing to do with trade, even though I sold
a bunch of planes and I got a bunch of
mineral earths, which which is really what this all seems
to be boiling down to it. You know, we've got
the John Candy interview coming up. Planes, trains, and automobiles. Well,
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this is more like plains, minerals and automobiles, is what
this is turning out? All right, we see the lax
having to halt flights this weekend. This is usually where
these closed government standoffs end, disruption of travel. And if
this should go through the end of the year, which
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even if they come up with a deal, now you're
back at another shutdown in three weeks. If you don't
come up with something through the end of the year,
or you stay closed through the end of the year,
what does that look like, you know, Thanksgiving, Christmas travel
on the horizon.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I think it looks very upsetting for a lot of Americans.
TSA taking a break and not not be part of
our air traffic control all that's going to be very
pressing for Americans. And so yes, I think there's going
to be a growing sense. But again, you know, I
was talking with a Democrat friend of mine on TV
last week, and I mean, he's there trying very hard
to win this on the president. This is this is
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very clearly Chuck Chumer trying to It's just one little
tool to do it. And he's answering to AOC right now.
So this is what's happening. The Democrats are using the
leverage point of pain to try to get the President
to epitulate them pro political win. So you know, everything
I'm hearing from friends in Washington and they elected side
are telling me that this this thing could go through
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Thanksgiving and certainly could go to the end of the year.
I think in some regards that the president is to
make my Dame mood. You know, every time the more
the government shut down, the more they're going to be
able to kind of ease the executive away from the bureaucrafts.
And that's a positive thing overall? Is it?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Because some short term pain.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
For long term day With the exception of Quinnipiac, every
pole suggests the American people are blaming Democrats more than
Republicans and the president is the only one that's not
getting blamed, and quite frankly, his approval rating is up one.
So I don't know that that's a good play for
the Democrats. We'll see and as there's more disruption, that's
usually what ends it. Closing moments with Chris Walker, all
things Republican.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
What do you make of.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Bernie, who is the heir apparent of the civil war
within the Democratic Party? Handing the torch to AOC and
appearing together this weekend and making the mom Donnie race,
which is socialist, communist, Islamist a national story and a
national refere them says a lot about what's coming in
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twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
I think it absolutely does.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
It is where the energy and excitement.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
And enthusiasm is for the Democrats. Again, as I mentioned earlier,
Chuck Schumer is doing this shutdown in part that is
a response to his lest Liane with AOD in his
own state. So yes, this is this is where the
Democrats are going. The problem is that we need to
take it seriously. I think a lot of a lot
of Republicans are conservatives with at AOC and don't take
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don't take her seriously. But I think we need to
be We need to be honest about the young vote
here and how aggressively you know, uh, accelerating their their
support is amongst the country. This is not a fringe
movement now.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
It is the heart and.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Soul of the Democrat Party and it's where they're going.
And so you know, we look at that.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
And dismiss it at our apparel.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
We have to treat it seriously. We have to understand
what's the stake here, and we have to win the
hearts and minds of young but disaffected young voters thinks
of the economy and the country's left and behind. Well,
that's what it's really important to for Reshford to think about.
From conservative principle side.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Bernie was the early leader in twenty sixteen till the
DNC got involved. Bernie was the early leader in twenty
twenty till the DNC got involved. He's passed the torch
to AOC. She's the new Bernie. Jasmine Crockett is the
new AOC. My guess is AOC is the early leader
for the presidential nomination, and then the DNC will get involved,
I think this time with Romney Manuel and your guest
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Shapiro or the governor from Maryland, something like that. But yeah,
this is like a movie I've seen before, and that's right.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
But again this they're winning. Nothing beats winning, and somebody
like mom Donnie winning in New York while it's one
of the most liberal cities in the country, and you
know it should not be a bell whether for the
rest of the country is where the Democrats are looking.
This is different now at least you know they had
something to look at from the Obama years with Joe
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Biden being Ernie Sanders. Now this is where the energy
enthusiasm is that it's totally very hard for the DNC
to kind of tip it scale towards someone other than
you know, an AOC birding type this time, this is
where they are. So we'll see how the takes out.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Time will tell, and it's almost the very song candidate. Yeah,
time will tell. And I think for Kamala who announces
her interest in twenty twenty eight, she'll be the first
gone again in the primary process. She's in for a
shock or obviously she hasn't seen the movie yet and
she fails every time in her starring role. All Right,
All Things Republican with Chris Walker will talk again next
Monday or sooner if conditions.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Warn't this is your Morning show with Michael Deltono.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Mazda is Japanese.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
You were right, Red, I was wrong. We confirmed that
with a listener. So yeah, that's our problem. Toyota, Honda, Mazed, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Nissan.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Japan makes a lot of great cars.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
That's why ninety percent of the new cars sold in
Japan are from Japan and only seventeen thousand are imported
from America. And that's why we buy so many disproportionately
from them. But the President's gonna try to even that score.
We'll have more on that. The US Envoy says trade
with China is getting closer to an agreement from a framework.
Treasury Secretary Scott Assent says the TikTok deal is set,
(15:26):
it'll be finalized with Trump and she and airports around
the country continue to experience delays. Why the federal government shutdowns.
This is usually what ends shutdowns. We can't have this
going into Thanksgiving and Christmas, so I think the days
are numbered for the Democrats are going to have to
cave soon. And the World Series shifts to Los Angeles,
tied at one game apiece. It's the Dodgers and the
(15:49):
Blue Jays tonight from La on Fox Birthdays Today, I
got a correction from a listener. I'm supposed to say
please right, Clese, I believe is how he said it.
Monty Python's John Clees is eighty six years old. Very
from the Goldbergs. Troy Genteel is thirty two. Former Trump
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Marlon Maples is sixty two, a very handsome quarterback. Didn't
really pan out for the Browns. He did for the
fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Brady Quinn now an announcer,
forty one years old. And if it's your birthday, Happy birthday.
Were so glad you were born.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chno, starting
your morning off right, a new way of talk, a
new way of understanding well, because we're in this together.
This is your Morning Show with Michael del.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Chronoh, good morning. I hope you had a wonderful weekend.
It is Monday, October the twenty seventh and twenty twenty five,
and all eyes are on Asia where the President is
just wrapping up deal after he's in Japan. Now, the
TikTok Deal, the China trade deal, will all be wrapped
up later this week. And the viral Labuobu character is
going to be a part of Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Oh,
(17:13):
I'm forced to watch this every Thanksgiving morning. And now
with the Lobuobu involved, I assure you and I meet
no offense by this. The World series moves to Los
Angeles for Game three tonight between the Dodgers and the
Blue Jays.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
But I'm going to interview a Canadian.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I mentioned the documentary on Netflix with John Candy, I
like me and how much it moved me.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
And now the book.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Kind of laying out the humble beginnings in sketch comedy
to becoming a beloved film star. And I think what
we missed which was coming was one of the finest
dramatic actors. Paul Myers, yes related brother of Mike Myers,
tells the full story of the man behind the laughs
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in his new book, John Candy, A Life in Comedy Soul.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
To have you with us, Paul, hey on to meet
you too. Thanks for the time.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
This is going to be a treasure.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I just got through watching the documentary on John Candy,
and I got to tell you, I love John Candy.
Before that documentary, I loved him even more. And I
can't imagine how'm gonna feel after I read your new book,
John Candy, A life in comedy that almost wasn't if
his kneecap didn't get blown out right exactly.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
And that's one of the great stories that I discovered
that when John Candy was in high school, actually in
a Catholic all boys school, he was like one of
those tank refrigerator guys on the football team and tore
his knee out and he always you know, it kind
of opened another door for him though, because he didn't
know what to do, because the team was where he
wanted to be, and he realized someone said, you know,
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you're you're kind of becoming He'd like to sort of
pretend he was an extrovert, and then he sort of
became one that night, and they said, go to the
drama department, and he went to the drama department and
he was good at that too. And it was also
a team he could belong on, a team, but team
of actors. And then and to cut to the chase,
and it's in the book in a lot more elaborate detail.
One of the actors he knew in Toronto, or two
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of them were Valerie Bromfield and Dan Ackroyd, and neither of.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Them were famous yet.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
And there was a scene happening with the cast of
the musical Godspell, Martin Short, Eugene Levy and all those people,
and they all heard about.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
This second city from Chicago had.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Been opening a Toronto theater and there was auditions, and
Danny and Valerie Bromfield said to John, who wasn't interested
at all, they said, we're gonna go audition. You can
hang out with us in the ball I'll go to lunch.
And John said, sure, whatever. I'm not going to audition though,
But Dan puts his name in. Dan puts his name in,
and he gets called, and the great Chicago comedy.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Guy, Del Close says, come down to Chicago. I'm going
to teach you. You're great, but you need to learn
how to be a comedian.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
So he put him in a crash course with another
young recruit named Bill Murray, and neither of them knew
what they were doing, but they were in Chicago learning together.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
And to me, that's a great origin story for a comedian.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Oh well, I mean the whole connection.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
And by the way, this is not to insult Canada,
but if you don't have Second City Chicago, you don't
get Second City Toronto. And if you don't have Sarahennight Live,
in some ways, you don't get SETV, which, by the way,
for more seasons. I think se TV was better. From
my perspective, A Living Color had some years that were
better than Sara Night Live. But we'll get back to football,
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because that's kind of how his life ended owning the Argonauts.
But yeah, you're right, if not for that blown knee,
he probably would have been a football player and not
the comedian that we came to know and love, both
on stage in skit programming as well as as a
movie star.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
I think one thing that did it shock you, Paul.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
You know when you think of Dan Akrod, you think
of Acroyd and Belushi. But I would make the case
that John Candy and dan Aykroyd were closer.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
You know, the Great Outdoors. It's good that you mentioned that.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Actually The Great Outdoors was a great what they call
two hand er, you know John.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
At that point, John and Dan.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Knew each other like all through their career, and they
were constantly looking out for each other. I mean, Ackroyd
wrote him into the screenplay for the Blues Brothers as
that you know, that character the parole officer who orders
the three orange whips, and that was a little scene
stealing moment in the You know, he's kind of one
of the many characters in that film that comes and goes,
but you remember him. And and then but then The
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Great Outdoors was a great example of you know, the
two of them knew each other, and it was kind
of about a life at the cabin, which is a
very Canadian thing.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
It could well have been.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Ontario, Canada, but it was actually California where they shot it.
And as Dan says to me in the book, because
I interviewed him quite extensively, he was great. By the way,
Dan Dan has so many great words. He knows how
to explain things. He's I learned about dan ekred on this.
But yeah, Dan was always looking out for John.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
John.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
They did road trips together and then all through their
lives they were doing and there's that film Nothing but Trouble,
which was a big, colossal, weird film his megalopolis. Basically,
dan Ekwrey put all the money into that and it
didn't do very well. But On played two roles in
that film, just as a favor to Dan you know,
and and of course cutting to the end.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Of the book.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
You know, at John's funeral in Los Angeles, the most
amazing eulogy from Dan Aykroyd that I reprint in the book.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
It's this amazing story of a golden man.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
He calls him you just by the way, just when
you said that, chills went up my arms. That's that's
how powerful that eulogy is. It's one of the great. Yeah,
it's one of the great you'll ever hear in life.
Ted Kennedy's of Robert Kennedy puts chills on my back.
This yeah, this one put chills right.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Paul Myers is the author of John Candy, A Life
in Comedy.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You know, we talked about it doesn't happen if his
knee doesn't blow out. Uh, and I wonder if it
happens if his life isn't shaped in tragedy. As you know,
many comedians come as the outcome of tragedy. In his case,
his father dies on his fifth birthday.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
They don't know how to handle it, so they have
his birthday party anyway, But really, what shaped it was?
This pending doom, this un he dealt with loss and
pending doom that he would die young too.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
I think that shaped him a lot. Did you find that.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
I think, yeah, I think you're onto something because just
some people don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
It's an in depth in the book.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
But when John was five years old, his father, who
himself was only thirty five, dies of a heart attack,
leaving him to be raised by his mother and his
aunt in Toronto in a basement in a basement apartment.
And yeah, and their grandmother's in the picture. So you
think of a three matriarchal characters raised him and nurtured
him and probably modeled empathy and kindness for him. But
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he also felt like he had to be even though
he was the youngest of two brothers, he felt like
he had to be the man of the house. So
he starts immediately learning how to look after everyone else.
And so that's a big part of it. But then, yes,
his brother Jim has a heart attack, doesn't pass away.
But then when John reaches his thirty fifth birthday, he's like,
I'm alive still.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
My dad was dead by now. And then you know
he's a big man.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
He's trying to diet, but he's also smoking, and he's
eating and king.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
You know, he's just he's just not you know, I
think he might have been. This is my opinion. It's
not a medical opinion, but I think he was self medicating.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
With of course he was.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Yeah, I mean, I didn't have word, didn't have no
fancy words for that back then, and he didn't get
help until much later in terms of understanding himself and
unpacking this stuff. And people should always get help, by
the way, I could say that in all serious this
is not a PSA, but honest to God, oh, of course,
if you take care of yourself, you don't have to
take care of yourself first.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
But Paul, what was even more astonishing Paul was how
he gets so mad at his brother, who had a
heart attack very young, which probably reinforced I'm going to
die too like my father. And he's yelling to his
friends about his brother and the idiot won't take care
of himself all while John's I mean.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
There are things about John Candy I relate to.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I never say no to people to the point where it's,
you know, wearing me out. When I think of how
he had They called him, they said, look, we did
this movie vacation, it's bombing the test, audience hate the ending.
Can you come in and help bail us out into
a character you used to do? He had a twenty
four hour window. He flies in and he sat and
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shot for twenty three of those twenty four hours. And
this guy would never say no to anything, but he
didn't say yes to himself a lot.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
That's kind of the life.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Yeah, yeah, No, I think he internalized. I think that's
what we would call it today. He internalized a lot
of you know, it kept it in and yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
But at the same time, you know, he in doing
so it made himself happy to make other people happy,
So I think he did get some joy from that.
You know, it wasn't living in fear every day, but
there was a specter hanging over him and he really
felt it as he turned into his forties, and of
course was cut short in his forty third year.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So do you ever think about what we missed? Paul
Meyer's author of John Candy, A Life in Comedy. I
encourage you to read it. There's also a Netflix documentary
out right now, which is I was so moved by it,
and I guess what moved me was we're all in
the same boat. We all get one chance at this life,
this precious life, and how we live it, and how
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we make a difference in others' lives, getting outside of ourself.
It's why I love documentaries, It's why I love John
Candy's life. I mean, you couldn't find anybody same thing
bad about him. I mean he impacted his wife, his children,
everyone around him. This is a guy that stayed humble.
Hollywood didn't ruin him. What did you take away when
it's all said and done, John Candy equals I think I.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Said the top empathy, kindness, compassion. And here's something we
don't hear much. He was a big male character who
was vulnerable. And you know, I don't want to go
off on a tangent about toxic masculinity, but I would
say that John was the example of how you could
be big and be what they sometimes call gentle giant.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
And I also he stood up for fairness, So I
say gentle, but don't cross him or anyone he sees
being created if anyone see if he saw injustice, he
fought it.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
But I would say, you asked earlier, what did we miss?
Speaker 8 (27:00):
I would say, I would love to have seen him
pursue his dramatic side. That's what was coming. That's what
was coming. And jfk he did a little small part.
Oh it was amazing, Only the Lonely, Only Thelmly. He
played a lot of vulnerability, and even that I like
me seeing that everyone remembers now from Planes Trains.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
You saw an actor there that he could have done
a good will hunting. It might not have been goodwill hunting.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
But he could have done a film where he got
to be just someone's mentor coach.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I mean we saw that with me, We saw that
with Belushi too, right, remember with Continental Divide. But with him,
you brought up what I said to my audience, that
close up of him with a cigarette and JFK, that's
what was coming that scene.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
I like me, that's what was coming.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
This guy was gonna go Robin Williams on us all
late in his career. He was going to do drama
like we've never seen drama before. And I think you
were going to find that to be his greatest gift.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I can't do.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Can I acknowledge the elephant in the room. First of all,
I think you are fearfully and wonderfully made by God
and gifted. And your book's amazing and I want everyone
to get it John Candy of Life in Comedy. But
I have to bring up you're also the older brother
of Mike Myers. What was that like growing up in
that house.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Well, I am in the middle of two three brothers,
So Peter Myers is the older, Mike is the younger,
and we all kind of were.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Similar in age.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
So we consume comedy together as well as music. So
Peter brings the led Zeppelin album into the house. I
bring in I bring in some new wave albums like XTC.
Peter brings the Ramones and.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Bastard.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
But then, but then what we're doing is also consuming,
like uh, Monty Python, Saturday Night Live, all these things,
and so that kind of schooling of ourselves, uh kind
of creates. Uh.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
It's an open university all the way, all the way
through My life was every every and to this day,
we text each other, all three of us.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
We have a three three boy text.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Channel and I'm looking at it right now because we
did a big event here in Toronto and all three
brothers were in the room. It was we were just
talking about how great that was you look just like theme,
it's scary and sound like, yeah, you know, I blame genetics,
you know, like it's a good long it's an okay, look.
I can't say because it's my look. The only time
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it gets weird is the only time it gets weird.
And I'll just share that because it's boring. But is
when literally someone says this is Paul Myers and I
had a you know, I had a record out of
was a band, and they would just say, it's not
it's Mike Myers, and like you get all kind of
obsessed with it. And then then or they say or
they say it's an ugly Mike Myers or something like that.
You're like, dude, if you were standing right in front
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of me, would you say it to my face?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
That's the Internet? That's the Internet. Internet is stupid.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well, you know, but we didn't just see your brother's
chops when he's saying, daddy wasn't there.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I really wasn't going to do it, because you know what,
you're too accomplished as a personality as a musician and
especially as a writer. But your brother is, uh, he
would be on the mount rushmore of treasures for multiple generations.
If you watch all three Austin Powers, you see all
of his talent on display. He's a one of a kind.
(30:04):
Maybe can I just end with this a book on
your brother by his brother.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
Yeah, it might be too hard to write a book
about Mike, But how could I be objective?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
You know? But anyway, but I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
All I know is and I'm not just trying to
button hole this.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
But Mike, Mike was on stage last night telling him
everyone how proud he is of this book, and that
meant a lot to me. Like that he was, you know,
he was really I could tell he was sincere too.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
But he's seen my other four books.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, they'll be shocked at his influence and his friends.
It's a who's who of everyone that made you laugh.
John Candy's life is not to be missed. And we
don't make him greater in death than he was in life,
but he was pretty great in life and flaws and
all has lessons to teach us all and nobody tells
the story like Paul Meyers.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
So get a hold of this book.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
This is your Morning Show with Mike de Tono.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Another terrific trip for the president. He's already got a
signed piece deal with Thailand and Cambodia, not to mention
some mineral earths. It looks as though he will sign
with she the TikTok deal as well as a trade deal.
We'll go from framework to done. He's in Japan right now.
He's selling planes, he's selling automobiles. He hasn't gotten around
(31:27):
to trains yet, but another successful trip for the president. Meanwhile,
we're in a government shutdown at home, and we got
a hurricane and late October Roy O'Neil is joining us
with that story. Usually don't get cat fives this late
in the season, and that's what we got.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
We do.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
And it's bearing down on Jamaica. Maximum sustained wins one
hundred and sixty miles per hour, and it's moving so slowly.
That's really the headline from this story. Only about three
miles an hour. Typically they'll go twelve to twenty miles
or an hour somewhere in there. That means it's over
four times faster at least, and that's one of the problems.
This thing is going to move over Jamaica tonight and
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then just sort of sit there and keep pouring rain down,
maybe up to thirty inches of rainfall. Again, with those
winds of one hundred and sixty miles per hour, sustain
and gusts will be even higher. But always look out
for the water. It's the water that kills you in
these things, and that's why they're urging everyone to evacuate
to high dry land.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
What is the projected storm surge.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
We've seen some estimates of eight to thirteen feet along
the sunnill do it, Jamaica. Yeah, that'll do it. And
then you know, a lot of that is clip side.
A lot of those evacuations have already been underway in
these mandatory evacuation zones. But this could be the strongest,
most powerful take a hurricane to hit Jamaica on record.
It's that much of an anomaly, and as you said,
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especially this time of year as well, so all the
preparations for being finalized that the weather is getting worse
by the hour and it's going to take a long
time for the people who Jamaica to ride this one out.
By the way, heads up to Gitmo. This thing could
be hitting eastern Quba next and could really lash Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
I know some evacuations are already underway there.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
And Hurricane Melissa after that. The trajectory is to go
back out into the ocean. Is a good news and
not be a threat to the United States. But a
lot of people at our base in Cuba and in
Jamaica to be prayed for, that's for sure. Roy O'Neil,
with great reporting as always, we'll talk again tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
That's the latest.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Hurricane Melissa, a Cat five approaching first up Jamaica, after
that Cuba and then into the Atlantic Ocean with a
stop at Guantanamo Bay. All right, but a busy show. Listen,
here's what's in your control. One chance to live this Monday,
October the twenty seventh. You'll never get to live October
twenty seventh, twenty twenty five. Again, make sure you make
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your own. And we'll see you right back here tomorrow
morning for the next your morning show.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
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Speaker 4 (00:31):
Morning.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Michael, you're forgetting Japan's number one vehicle export. That's the
Toyota and Toyota, Honda.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Subaru lead the pack as far as liability, along Jefty vehicles.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
The American vehicles still have a long way to catch up.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
Nissan Mitsubishi. They're at the bottom of the barrel. Have
a great show, Michael.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm a red blooded American and a Patriot, but I'll
tell you there ain't nothing better than a Toyo vehicle.
Well there's a consensus for it. Yes, we had I
mean I had mentioned. I can't remember who all I mentioned,
but yeah, Toyota, Honda, Subaru Mitsubishi, Nissan. I'm trying to
(01:17):
think who else are we leaving anybody else still? But
Mazda No, I don't think Masta is Japanese. I think
it's Korean. But yeah, you're right, I think I am.
But anyway, here here's the problem. Japanese brands account for
more than ninety percent of new cars sold in Japan,
so they're only importing fewer than seventeen thousand American vehicles.
(01:39):
But as we were talking about with our White House correspondent,
demand is a big part of that. Look at here
at home the sales of Toyota and Honda and Subaru
and Nissan and others. But I think the President is
going to try to come away from Japan with at
least an order for some Ford F one fifty, and
(02:00):
that'll be good news in Detroit. But the president's having
an amazing trip to Asia. It reminds me a lot
of the Saudi Cutter trip. In the case of the
Saudi Cutter trip, you know, there was some pieces put
in place for military and foreign policy, a check made,
if you will, for Hamas and getting the Saudi government
and reasonable Muslim nations involved in what Gaza will be someday,
(02:23):
and then the pressure on Amas and eventually the exchange
of hostages for criminals. We still haven't gotten all the bodies,
and we're still looking at how Gaza looks without Hamas
in it. But it was an extraordinarily successful financial trip
as well in terms of rare earths and airplanes coming
(02:44):
from Boeing and others, and the President is racking that
up again. So he's already had a very successful visit
in Thailand. He had already put the framework together for
the Thai Cambodia Peace Plan. They signed that into be
got a rare earth deal while he was there, arrived
in Japan at three this morning. There's a lot of
(03:08):
business to be had in Japan, and then it's onto China,
where we think we're going to have the TikTok deal
finalized at that meeting with she as well as the
framework for a peace deal, which will go from framework
to done deal. And that would suggest a lot of
ground has been made on the fentanyl fight as well
(03:29):
as some of the things that have separated them on
the trade agreement. So this is turning out to be
a crown jewel of trips abroad for the President and
wrapping up his first year with a great deal of
success and has always celebrated more abroad than really here
at home. Ten minutes after the hour, next half hour,
you're going to freak out. You know, Mike Myers as
(03:49):
Austin Powers. You know Mike Myers as Wayne's World and
Saturday Night Live. You're about to meet his brother, Paul Myers.
He is an accomplished author from Canada, like his brother,
and he's the older brother. He's out with a new book,
John Candia, Life in Comedy. He looks just like his
brother Mike, and he sounds just like his brother Mike.
(04:12):
And I will do the best I can to stay
focused on Paul and Paul only he deserves that. He's
quite accomplished in his own right. And then Chris Walker,
all things Republicans is up first for US.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Chris is joining us. Chris.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You know, obviously this trip to Asia is huge. It
would be hard for the president to have a successful
first year without it. Doesn't he has made any ground
with Russia and Ukraine. He's made considerable ground with Hamas
and Israel, and he certainly closed the deal with Cambodia
and Thai LAMB. But you know, this needed to be
(04:47):
a successful trip for the president. I think and it's
looking like it's shaping up to be just that good.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Morning, good morning.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
I guess you're going to refrain from say yeah baby
to Paul Myers on a regular basis.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Yeah, you know, I think one thing that I think
as I'm looking at this trip to your to Asia
and what.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
The president's doing, it's important.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
To remember so much of this work gets done beforehand,
and so you know, yes, we're seeing the headlines, Yes
we're doing a lot of this now, but you know,
I think something that's really to be remembered. It's the
day to day headline chasing that a lot of the
media is doing just to kind of distract from what
the president, you know, is doing. We're seeing the fruits
(05:33):
of the behind the scenes negotiations of the leaders in
the administration that are really focused on, you know, getting
America in the position that needs to be on the
global stage or something where we weren't for a long time.
So whether it's Cambodia, whether it's Thailand, whether it's you know,
Japan and China next. You know, there's a lot of
great stuff, you know, we have there's reciprocal trade, and
(05:55):
there's you know, all kinds of of good deals being
being struck that if you were to just read the
headlines of the Washington Post, you wouldn't see the success
that we're seeing coming out of a lot of these meetings,
in these discussions.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Look, I can't lie I didn't get all this tariff
stuff from the beginning. I don't know that I still
completely get it. I can tell you I would have
secured the border. I'd have getten rid of all of
the threatening presence in America. And that's all been very successful.
We've had zero boarding crossings in four months. You had
(06:36):
one point five million self deport another half million be deported.
I mean, there is no president with a straight face
that can preside over a border crisis ever. Again, because
Donald Trump proved a president consolve it, so I would
have done that. He certainly wanted to end the Russian
Ukraine War and the troubles in the Middle East. He's
(06:56):
halfway to that. I don't know what I would have
moved don to next. But the president has always stressed
border and unfair deals. I mean, this goes back to
the escalator in twenty sixteen, and when it's all said
and done, I don't think it was ever his intention
to start a trade war, but I think it was
to balance the scale a little bit. Has he walked that,
(07:19):
has he avoided that trade war? Can this in the
end turned out to be something very successful or did
he create a one distraction he didn't need in his
first year.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
I mean, in terms of of the tariff issue, it's
probably the single biggest thing that I'm not aligned with
the president on. But I also think he's using it
as a negotiating tactic. I think that's something that people
are kind of missing when they look at the at
the holistic you know, look at the Trump administration.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It's in the art of the deal, right.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
He says things outlandish, He says things, you know that
seem unreasonable to get you to make a deal on
the side of the newsday rebole to where he wants
you to be. So, you know, sometimes I think some
of these tariffs that are going out there, one they
don't usually get followed through and which is positive. And two,
you know, I really do think a lot of times
it's a negotiating tool. But you know, constitutionally, this is
(08:15):
something that Congress needs to you know, expend a little
bit more of its authority on too. This is not
just a policy tool that the president can use in
his discretion. Tariffs are taxes, and taxes are something that
to be lovey by Congress, and so eventually I think
that will get rained in a little bit. But from
my perspective, I agree. I think the border and all
(08:35):
those things that you mentioned are are are important pieces
of it. I really do think he books a terrorist as.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
A negotiating tool.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I mean, again, look at how how we get to
the point where he gets to announce the trade deal
with Vietnam. Part of that came from his talking about
trade and balances back in the spring. So why get
people to the table? Getting people to negotiated something that
I think is how he approachased this.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
All right, Well, the best the best example was the
outrageous claim of making Gaza the riviera of the Middle East,
and everybody laughed at that, But that tour with Saudi
Arabia and Cutter was really the framework for the future
of the Gaza. It may not be the riviera, but
if it can be Saudi overseen, reasonable Muslim nation overseen,
(09:19):
that can provide a security, provide a prosperity where the
Palestinian people don't have to turn to thugs like Hamas
and the PLO. That would be brilliant. And it really
had nothing to do with trade, even though I sold
a bunch of planes and I got a bunch of
mineral earths, which which is really what this all seems
to be boiling down to it. You know, we've got
the John Candy interview coming up. Planes, trains, and automobiles. Well,
(09:40):
this is more like plains, minerals and automobiles, is what
this is turning out? All right, we see the lax
having to halt flights this weekend. This is usually where
these closed government standoffs end, disruption of travel. And if
this should go through the end of the year, which
(10:02):
even if they come up with a deal, now you're
back at another shutdown in three weeks. If you don't
come up with something through the end of the year,
or you stay closed through the end of the year,
what does that look like, you know, Thanksgiving, Christmas travel
on the horizon.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I think it looks very upsetting for a lot of Americans.
TSA taking a break and not not be part of
our air traffic control all that's going to be very
pressing for Americans. And so yes, I think there's going
to be a growing sense. But again, you know, I
was talking with a Democrat friend of mine on TV
last week, and I mean, he's there trying very hard
to win this on the president. This is this is
(10:37):
very clearly Chuck Chumer trying to It's just one little
tool to do it. And he's answering to AOC right now.
So this is what's happening. The Democrats are using the
leverage point of pain to try to get the President
to epitulate them pro political win. So you know, everything
I'm hearing from friends in Washington and they elected side
are telling me that this this thing could go through
(10:58):
Thanksgiving and certainly could go to the end of the year.
I think in some regards that the president is to
make my Dame mood. You know, every time the more
the government shut down, the more they're going to be
able to kind of ease the executive away from the bureaucrafts.
And that's a positive thing overall? Is it?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Because some short term pain.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
For long term day With the exception of Quinnipiac, every
pole suggests the American people are blaming Democrats more than
Republicans and the president is the only one that's not
getting blamed, and quite frankly, his approval rating is up one.
So I don't know that that's a good play for
the Democrats. We'll see and as there's more disruption, that's
usually what ends it. Closing moments with Chris Walker, all
things Republican.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
What do you make of.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Bernie, who is the heir apparent of the civil war
within the Democratic Party? Handing the torch to AOC and
appearing together this weekend and making the mom Donnie race,
which is socialist, communist, Islamist a national story and a
national refere them says a lot about what's coming in
(12:02):
twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
I think it absolutely does.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
It is where the energy and excitement.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
And enthusiasm is for the Democrats. Again, as I mentioned earlier,
Chuck Schumer is doing this shutdown in part that is
a response to his lest Liane with AOD in his
own state. So yes, this is this is where the
Democrats are going. The problem is that we need to
take it seriously. I think a lot of a lot
of Republicans are conservatives with at AOC and don't take
(12:27):
don't take her seriously. But I think we need to
be We need to be honest about the young vote
here and how aggressively you know, uh, accelerating their their
support is amongst the country. This is not a fringe
movement now.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
It is the heart and.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Soul of the Democrat Party and it's where they're going.
And so you know, we look at that.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
And dismiss it at our apparel.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
We have to treat it seriously. We have to understand
what's the stake here, and we have to win the
hearts and minds of young but disaffected young voters thinks
of the economy and the country's left and behind. Well,
that's what it's really important to for Reshford to think about.
From conservative principle side.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Bernie was the early leader in twenty sixteen till the
DNC got involved. Bernie was the early leader in twenty
twenty till the DNC got involved. He's passed the torch
to AOC. She's the new Bernie. Jasmine Crockett is the
new AOC. My guess is AOC is the early leader
for the presidential nomination, and then the DNC will get involved,
I think this time with Romney Manuel and your guest
(13:30):
Shapiro or the governor from Maryland, something like that. But yeah,
this is like a movie I've seen before, and that's right.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
But again this they're winning. Nothing beats winning, and somebody
like mom Donnie winning in New York while it's one
of the most liberal cities in the country, and you
know it should not be a bell whether for the
rest of the country is where the Democrats are looking.
This is different now at least you know they had
something to look at from the Obama years with Joe
(13:59):
Biden being Ernie Sanders. Now this is where the energy
enthusiasm is that it's totally very hard for the DNC
to kind of tip it scale towards someone other than
you know, an AOC birding type this time, this is
where they are. So we'll see how the takes out.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Time will tell, and it's almost the very song candidate. Yeah,
time will tell. And I think for Kamala who announces
her interest in twenty twenty eight, she'll be the first
gone again in the primary process. She's in for a
shock or obviously she hasn't seen the movie yet and
she fails every time in her starring role. All Right,
All Things Republican with Chris Walker will talk again next
Monday or sooner if conditions.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Warn't this is your Morning show with Michael Deltono.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Mazda is Japanese.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
You were right, Red, I was wrong. We confirmed that
with a listener. So yeah, that's our problem. Toyota, Honda, Mazed, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Nissan.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
Japan makes a lot of great cars.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
That's why ninety percent of the new cars sold in
Japan are from Japan and only seventeen thousand are imported
from America. And that's why we buy so many disproportionately
from them. But the President's gonna try to even that score.
We'll have more on that. The US Envoy says trade
with China is getting closer to an agreement from a framework.
Treasury Secretary Scott Assent says the TikTok deal is set,
(15:26):
it'll be finalized with Trump and she and airports around
the country continue to experience delays. Why the federal government shutdowns.
This is usually what ends shutdowns. We can't have this
going into Thanksgiving and Christmas, so I think the days
are numbered for the Democrats are going to have to
cave soon. And the World Series shifts to Los Angeles,
tied at one game apiece. It's the Dodgers and the
(15:49):
Blue Jays tonight from La on Fox Birthdays Today, I
got a correction from a listener. I'm supposed to say
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Monty Python's John Clees is eighty six years old. Very
from the Goldbergs. Troy Genteel is thirty two. Former Trump
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forty one years old. And if it's your birthday, Happy birthday.
Were so glad you were born.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chno, starting
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Speaker 1 (16:49):
Chronoh, good morning. I hope you had a wonderful weekend.
It is Monday, October the twenty seventh and twenty twenty five,
and all eyes are on Asia where the President is
just wrapping up deal after he's in Japan. Now, the
TikTok Deal, the China trade deal, will all be wrapped
up later this week. And the viral Labuobu character is
going to be a part of Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Oh,
(17:13):
I'm forced to watch this every Thanksgiving morning. And now
with the Lobuobu involved, I assure you and I meet
no offense by this. The World series moves to Los
Angeles for Game three tonight between the Dodgers and the
Blue Jays.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
But I'm going to interview a Canadian.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I mentioned the documentary on Netflix with John Candy, I
like me and how much it moved me.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
And now the book.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Kind of laying out the humble beginnings in sketch comedy
to becoming a beloved film star. And I think what
we missed which was coming was one of the finest
dramatic actors. Paul Myers, yes related brother of Mike Myers,
tells the full story of the man behind the laughs
(17:56):
in his new book, John Candy, A Life in Comedy Soul.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
To have you with us, Paul, hey on to meet
you too. Thanks for the time.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
This is going to be a treasure.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I just got through watching the documentary on John Candy,
and I got to tell you, I love John Candy.
Before that documentary, I loved him even more. And I
can't imagine how'm gonna feel after I read your new book,
John Candy, A life in comedy that almost wasn't if
his kneecap didn't get blown out right exactly.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
And that's one of the great stories that I discovered
that when John Candy was in high school, actually in
a Catholic all boys school, he was like one of
those tank refrigerator guys on the football team and tore
his knee out and he always you know, it kind
of opened another door for him though, because he didn't
know what to do, because the team was where he
wanted to be, and he realized someone said, you know,
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you're you're kind of becoming He'd like to sort of
pretend he was an extrovert, and then he sort of
became one that night, and they said, go to the
drama department, and he went to the drama department and
he was good at that too. And it was also
a team he could belong on, a team, but team
of actors. And then and to cut to the chase,
and it's in the book in a lot more elaborate detail.
One of the actors he knew in Toronto, or two
(19:00):
of them were Valerie Bromfield and Dan Ackroyd, and neither of.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Them were famous yet.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
And there was a scene happening with the cast of
the musical Godspell, Martin Short, Eugene Levy and all those people,
and they all heard about.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
This second city from Chicago had.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Been opening a Toronto theater and there was auditions, and
Danny and Valerie Bromfield said to John, who wasn't interested
at all, they said, we're gonna go audition. You can
hang out with us in the ball I'll go to lunch.
And John said, sure, whatever. I'm not going to audition though,
But Dan puts his name in. Dan puts his name in,
and he gets called, and the great Chicago comedy.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Guy, Del Close says, come down to Chicago. I'm going
to teach you. You're great, but you need to learn
how to be a comedian.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
So he put him in a crash course with another
young recruit named Bill Murray, and neither of them knew
what they were doing, but they were in Chicago learning together.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
And to me, that's a great origin story for a comedian.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Oh well, I mean the whole connection.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
And by the way, this is not to insult Canada,
but if you don't have Second City Chicago, you don't
get Second City Toronto. And if you don't have Sarahennight Live,
in some ways, you don't get SETV, which, by the way,
for more seasons. I think se TV was better. From
my perspective, A Living Color had some years that were
better than Sara Night Live. But we'll get back to football,
(20:19):
because that's kind of how his life ended owning the Argonauts.
But yeah, you're right, if not for that blown knee,
he probably would have been a football player and not
the comedian that we came to know and love, both
on stage in skit programming as well as as a
movie star.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
I think one thing that did it shock you, Paul.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
You know when you think of Dan Akrod, you think
of Acroyd and Belushi. But I would make the case
that John Candy and dan Aykroyd were closer.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
You know, the Great Outdoors. It's good that you mentioned that.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Actually The Great Outdoors was a great what they call
two hand er, you know John.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
At that point, John and Dan.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Knew each other like all through their career, and they
were constantly looking out for each other. I mean, Ackroyd
wrote him into the screenplay for the Blues Brothers as
that you know, that character the parole officer who orders
the three orange whips, and that was a little scene
stealing moment in the You know, he's kind of one
of the many characters in that film that comes and goes,
but you remember him. And and then but then The
(21:16):
Great Outdoors was a great example of you know, the
two of them knew each other, and it was kind
of about a life at the cabin, which is a
very Canadian thing.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
It could well have been.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Ontario, Canada, but it was actually California where they shot it.
And as Dan says to me in the book, because
I interviewed him quite extensively, he was great. By the way,
Dan Dan has so many great words. He knows how
to explain things. He's I learned about dan ekred on this.
But yeah, Dan was always looking out for John.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
John.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
They did road trips together and then all through their
lives they were doing and there's that film Nothing but Trouble,
which was a big, colossal, weird film his megalopolis. Basically,
dan Ekwrey put all the money into that and it
didn't do very well. But On played two roles in
that film, just as a favor to Dan you know,
and and of course cutting to the end.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Of the book.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
You know, at John's funeral in Los Angeles, the most
amazing eulogy from Dan Aykroyd that I reprint in the book.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
It's this amazing story of a golden man.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
He calls him you just by the way, just when
you said that, chills went up my arms. That's that's
how powerful that eulogy is. It's one of the great. Yeah,
it's one of the great you'll ever hear in life.
Ted Kennedy's of Robert Kennedy puts chills on my back.
This yeah, this one put chills right.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Let me ask you.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Paul Myers is the author of John Candy, A Life
in Comedy.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You know, we talked about it doesn't happen if his
knee doesn't blow out. Uh, and I wonder if it
happens if his life isn't shaped in tragedy. As you know,
many comedians come as the outcome of tragedy. In his case,
his father dies on his fifth birthday.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
They don't know how to handle it, so they have
his birthday party anyway, But really, what shaped it was?
This pending doom, this un he dealt with loss and
pending doom that he would die young too.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
I think that shaped him a lot. Did you find that.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
I think, yeah, I think you're onto something because just
some people don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
It's an in depth in the book.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
But when John was five years old, his father, who
himself was only thirty five, dies of a heart attack,
leaving him to be raised by his mother and his
aunt in Toronto in a basement in a basement apartment.
And yeah, and their grandmother's in the picture. So you
think of a three matriarchal characters raised him and nurtured
him and probably modeled empathy and kindness for him. But
(23:34):
he also felt like he had to be even though
he was the youngest of two brothers, he felt like
he had to be the man of the house. So
he starts immediately learning how to look after everyone else.
And so that's a big part of it. But then, yes,
his brother Jim has a heart attack, doesn't pass away.
But then when John reaches his thirty fifth birthday, he's like,
I'm alive still.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
My dad was dead by now. And then you know
he's a big man.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
He's trying to diet, but he's also smoking, and he's
eating and king.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
You know, he's just he's just not you know, I
think he might have been. This is my opinion. It's
not a medical opinion, but I think he was self medicating.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
With of course he was.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Yeah, I mean, I didn't have word, didn't have no
fancy words for that back then, and he didn't get
help until much later in terms of understanding himself and
unpacking this stuff. And people should always get help, by
the way, I could say that in all serious this
is not a PSA, but honest to God, oh, of course,
if you take care of yourself, you don't have to
take care of yourself first.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
But Paul, what was even more astonishing Paul was how
he gets so mad at his brother, who had a
heart attack very young, which probably reinforced I'm going to
die too like my father. And he's yelling to his
friends about his brother and the idiot won't take care
of himself all while John's I mean.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
There are things about John Candy I relate to.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I never say no to people to the point where it's,
you know, wearing me out. When I think of how
he had They called him, they said, look, we did
this movie vacation, it's bombing the test, audience hate the ending.
Can you come in and help bail us out into
a character you used to do? He had a twenty
four hour window. He flies in and he sat and
(25:08):
shot for twenty three of those twenty four hours. And
this guy would never say no to anything, but he
didn't say yes to himself a lot.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
That's kind of the life.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Yeah, yeah, No, I think he internalized. I think that's
what we would call it today. He internalized a lot
of you know, it kept it in and yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
But at the same time, you know, he in doing
so it made himself happy to make other people happy,
So I think he did get some joy from that.
You know, it wasn't living in fear every day, but
there was a specter hanging over him and he really
felt it as he turned into his forties, and of
course was cut short in his forty third year.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So do you ever think about what we missed? Paul
Meyer's author of John Candy, A Life in Comedy. I
encourage you to read it. There's also a Netflix documentary
out right now, which is I was so moved by it,
and I guess what moved me was we're all in
the same boat. We all get one chance at this life,
this precious life, and how we live it, and how
(26:03):
we make a difference in others' lives, getting outside of ourself.
It's why I love documentaries, It's why I love John
Candy's life. I mean, you couldn't find anybody same thing
bad about him. I mean he impacted his wife, his children,
everyone around him. This is a guy that stayed humble.
Hollywood didn't ruin him. What did you take away when
it's all said and done, John Candy equals I think I.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Said the top empathy, kindness, compassion. And here's something we
don't hear much. He was a big male character who
was vulnerable. And you know, I don't want to go
off on a tangent about toxic masculinity, but I would
say that John was the example of how you could
be big and be what they sometimes call gentle giant.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
And I also he stood up for fairness, So I
say gentle, but don't cross him or anyone he sees
being created if anyone see if he saw injustice, he
fought it.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
But I would say, you asked earlier, what did we miss?
Speaker 8 (27:00):
I would say, I would love to have seen him
pursue his dramatic side. That's what was coming. That's what
was coming. And jfk he did a little small part.
Oh it was amazing, Only the Lonely, Only Thelmly. He
played a lot of vulnerability, and even that I like
me seeing that everyone remembers now from Planes Trains.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
You saw an actor there that he could have done
a good will hunting. It might not have been goodwill hunting.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
But he could have done a film where he got
to be just someone's mentor coach.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I mean we saw that with me, We saw that
with Belushi too, right, remember with Continental Divide. But with him,
you brought up what I said to my audience, that
close up of him with a cigarette and JFK, that's
what was coming that scene.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
I like me, that's what was coming.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
This guy was gonna go Robin Williams on us all
late in his career. He was going to do drama
like we've never seen drama before. And I think you
were going to find that to be his greatest gift.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I can't do.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Can I acknowledge the elephant in the room. First of all,
I think you are fearfully and wonderfully made by God
and gifted. And your book's amazing and I want everyone
to get it John Candy of Life in Comedy. But
I have to bring up you're also the older brother
of Mike Myers. What was that like growing up in
that house.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
Well, I am in the middle of two three brothers,
So Peter Myers is the older, Mike is the younger,
and we all kind of were.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Similar in age.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
So we consume comedy together as well as music. So
Peter brings the led Zeppelin album into the house. I
bring in I bring in some new wave albums like XTC.
Peter brings the Ramones and.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
Bastard.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
But then, but then what we're doing is also consuming,
like uh, Monty Python, Saturday Night Live, all these things,
and so that kind of schooling of ourselves, uh kind
of creates. Uh.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
It's an open university all the way, all the way
through My life was every every and to this day,
we text each other, all three of us.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
We have a three three boy text.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
Channel and I'm looking at it right now because we
did a big event here in Toronto and all three
brothers were in the room. It was we were just
talking about how great that was you look just like theme,
it's scary and sound like, yeah, you know, I blame genetics,
you know, like it's a good long it's an okay, look.
I can't say because it's my look. The only time
(29:12):
it gets weird is the only time it gets weird.
And I'll just share that because it's boring. But is
when literally someone says this is Paul Myers and I
had a you know, I had a record out of
was a band, and they would just say, it's not
it's Mike Myers, and like you get all kind of
obsessed with it. And then then or they say or
they say it's an ugly Mike Myers or something like that.
You're like, dude, if you were standing right in front
(29:34):
of me, would you say it to my face?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
That's the Internet? That's the Internet. Internet is stupid.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well, you know, but we didn't just see your brother's
chops when he's saying, daddy wasn't there.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I really wasn't going to do it, because you know what,
you're too accomplished as a personality as a musician and
especially as a writer. But your brother is, uh, he
would be on the mount rushmore of treasures for multiple generations.
If you watch all three Austin Powers, you see all
of his talent on display. He's a one of a kind.
(30:04):
Maybe can I just end with this a book on
your brother by his brother.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
Yeah, it might be too hard to write a book
about Mike, But how could I be objective?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
You know? But anyway, but I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
All I know is and I'm not just trying to
button hole this.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
But Mike, Mike was on stage last night telling him
everyone how proud he is of this book, and that
meant a lot to me. Like that he was, you know,
he was really I could tell he was sincere too.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
But he's seen my other four books.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, they'll be shocked at his influence and his friends.
It's a who's who of everyone that made you laugh.
John Candy's life is not to be missed. And we
don't make him greater in death than he was in life,
but he was pretty great in life and flaws and
all has lessons to teach us all and nobody tells
the story like Paul Meyers.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
So get a hold of this book.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
This is your Morning Show with Mike de Tono.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Another terrific trip for the president. He's already got a
signed piece deal with Thailand and Cambodia, not to mention
some mineral earths. It looks as though he will sign
with she the TikTok deal as well as a trade deal.
We'll go from framework to done. He's in Japan right now.
He's selling planes, he's selling automobiles. He hasn't gotten around
(31:27):
to trains yet, but another successful trip for the president. Meanwhile,
we're in a government shutdown at home, and we got
a hurricane and late October Roy O'Neil is joining us
with that story. Usually don't get cat fives this late
in the season, and that's what we got.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
We do.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
And it's bearing down on Jamaica. Maximum sustained wins one
hundred and sixty miles per hour, and it's moving so slowly.
That's really the headline from this story. Only about three
miles an hour. Typically they'll go twelve to twenty miles
or an hour somewhere in there. That means it's over
four times faster at least, and that's one of the problems.
This thing is going to move over Jamaica tonight and
(32:05):
then just sort of sit there and keep pouring rain down,
maybe up to thirty inches of rainfall. Again, with those
winds of one hundred and sixty miles per hour, sustain
and gusts will be even higher. But always look out
for the water. It's the water that kills you in
these things, and that's why they're urging everyone to evacuate
to high dry land.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
What is the projected storm surge.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
We've seen some estimates of eight to thirteen feet along
the sunnill do it, Jamaica. Yeah, that'll do it. And
then you know, a lot of that is clip side.
A lot of those evacuations have already been underway in
these mandatory evacuation zones. But this could be the strongest,
most powerful take a hurricane to hit Jamaica on record.
It's that much of an anomaly, and as you said,
(32:49):
especially this time of year as well, so all the
preparations for being finalized that the weather is getting worse
by the hour and it's going to take a long
time for the people who Jamaica to ride this one out.
By the way, heads up to Gitmo. This thing could
be hitting eastern Quba next and could really lash Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
I know some evacuations are already underway there.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
And Hurricane Melissa after that. The trajectory is to go
back out into the ocean. Is a good news and
not be a threat to the United States. But a
lot of people at our base in Cuba and in
Jamaica to be prayed for, that's for sure. Roy O'Neil,
with great reporting as always, we'll talk again tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
That's the latest.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Hurricane Melissa, a Cat five approaching first up Jamaica, after
that Cuba and then into the Atlantic Ocean with a
stop at Guantanamo Bay. All right, but a busy show. Listen,
here's what's in your control. One chance to live this Monday,
October the twenty seventh. You'll never get to live October
twenty seventh, twenty twenty five. Again, make sure you make
(33:51):
a difference in other people's lives, make sure you cherish
your own. And we'll see you right back here tomorrow
morning for the next your morning show.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
We're all in this together. This is your morning Show
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