Celebrity Snacks!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Something here, something on there. And this time on tn
T chair has been living on the edge. We talk
about celebrity snacks and the oilers are still oiling.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's all coming up right now on TNT, I tell
you what.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Waved Babies was for me. Well, it's summertime right now.
It's summertime for sure. But when I was but a
child watching video hits, Yeah, that was the first place
I ever saw the poor ice cold water on an
unsuspecting suntanner's back and they will bolt upright and maybe

(00:53):
you would see uh part of their.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Bathing suit area that's in the video right, Yeah, like
some math cold water drop.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Is it on purpose or is it like by a mistake?
Like is it like a what's like summer rental styles
or is it like on purpose?

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well, yeah, so it's on purpose. Imagine someone is sunbathing
and maybe they loosen the back of their two piece
bathing suit to get no ten lines on their back,
and then when the prankster pours ice cold water on
her back, she bolts upright and then reveals herself. Oh

(01:36):
classic eighties teenage high school movie. Yeah, move like is
that before meatballs? Oh? Probably around the same time. Yeah, right,
but I will stand behind Honeymoon Sweet as a hit factory. Also,
what does it take is a great love ballot. They

(02:00):
had a lot of bangers for sure. A new girl
now and she's a lot like you. It's a great song. Yeah. Classic. Also,
Honeymoon Sweet is road banging. Oh they are, they're hitting it?
Are they coming to the Trueau?

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:17):
June twenty ninth, you could see them at the arena
at Pickering Casino Resort. They're in Vancouver June seventh, red
River Rock Casino. Didn't we stay there? Oh that's in Richmond, Canada,
going to Winnipeg and they're touring with Lee Aaron.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, we did stay there once because it was like
one of those you know, like when you do the
last minute hotels dot com. Yeah, River Rock Casino. Yeah,
they're out on the road.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
If you're like of a certain age and canadianity's your bag.
Honeymoon Sweet and Lee Arin, that's quite a bill.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
You're guaranteed to be laughing it and up and having
a great night, like just enjoying it.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
And I'm gonna guess I don't even need to see
them to know that. Johnny Fay, I think was his name.
I know he still sounds terrific.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Singing his neck off, Yeah, singing.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
His neck off to like, would you try to what
noise would you try to make to not get your
neck off? Like? Wait, Johnny D, Johnny D. That's the
singer's name, Yeah, Johnny Man. I don't I don't know

(03:38):
much about the suite. I'm gonna say it's d e
E in the same way that Jerry D is d
e E. So I'm gonna say his last name is
probably like Thevenopolis or something. Is that that's a showbiz D. Yeah,
that's a show biz D for sure. So what's going
on in summertime? I know it's been a minute, it

(03:59):
has it has been in a while. I wanted to
close the loop on last time. We were talking about
the car shopping thing, yeah, and how we received a
text saying, hey, so you're coming in? When would you
like to come in? Oh, Saturday at eleven, and then
got another text from someone saying, hey, so when are
you coming anyway? So a few days go by after

(04:20):
our unsatisfying experience at this car dealership, and Carol gets
a text saying, hey, I haven't heard from you with
regards to this vehicle. Are you still interested from the
original person that we'd heard from. Yeah, so Carol writes back, funny,
you should say that we actually went in. We had
an appointment book, as you know, went in and didn't

(04:41):
have a great experience. Then she gets a call from
the salesperson who was there on the day, and the
salesperson says, oh, I see you responded to our AI assistant.
Oh what the hell? What the hell is that? Is
that a loophole? I don't know. I think it's they're

(05:05):
using AI to like personify your experience with this dealer.
So you get a text. The first text was like,
hey wanted to reach out before lunch or before you
go on lunch. Like the wording was kind of weird
and in retrospect. So Carol was texting with a robot
about this experience. So when she complained, the complaint went

(05:28):
to a human being, and the human being called us back.
But I think that's a little greasy. I think you
need to say, yeah, I am a Dealerships AI assistant.
I don't think you can purport to be a human being.
I don't think that's right or cool. No, they definitely
should warn you about that. Yeah. So it's like, what

(05:51):
was I doing the other day. It's a big company
and I was online RBC And the pre recorded guy goes,
I'm RBC's virtual assistant. I'm going to help you find
the person that you need to talk to. And if
one of his questions is can you give me your
four digit thing and you're like yes, it's one, two, three, four,

(06:12):
he goes, great, Oh, they built in a heart like
a chuckle. I don't want a robot chuckling at me. Thanks,
let me get you the person you need. That's where
we're going though, I know, especially for like assistance, like
you know that job executive assistants and like job so

(06:34):
that you have to do stuff, and it's it's just
kind of tasks that you can be doing if you
were sitting at your computer, but you're not because you're
flying around doing meetings or whatever. Right, like all those
and then and then also just analysis stuff right, having
it done in a snap, it's just scary. I also

(06:57):
want to start only responding to emails with the three
options that Gmail offers me. Like, you know, someone sends
you a Gmail and at the bottom it's like sounds good,
I'm not sure, No, be back to you tomorrow. Yeah,
like we really need that. Yeah, I guess so. So

(07:19):
so that's where the car sale stands. That's where the
car sales stands. So we didn't pull the trigger on that.
I think we were both kind of grossed out about
the uh texting with a robot thing. Yeah. So the
search continues. But there's, as I think I mentioned at
the time, there are vehicles for rolling the trailer business
and vehicles for us personally as a family, and there's

(07:42):
just a lot to consider. Sure.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Oh so anyway, you're happy with your hog, right my hog?

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah? Yeah, for sure, two hogs. Everything's morek and fine. Yeah,
Jet just redid the breaks on the truck uck. Oh
see that's nice. That's handy, the rotors and the and
the pads. So do you you just pay for parts
or do you if you pay them and hangs or.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
How does that work? My awesome neighbor was nice enough
to hook me up with some forty off source on
auto parts.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
How do you do that?

Speaker 3 (08:21):
I was just talking to him randomly and he'd say, hey,
do you know I have a deal on that, Like
let me know. So I'm like, holy cow, So I
just picked up the rotors and brakes for like six
hundred bucks and it's for you know, like Audi Q
seven front and back rotors and uh yeah, the old

(08:44):
ones were crushed like all like corroded, and Jet had
to get the sledgehammer to get the roadors on right.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
They were brutal.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah, it definitely used all the brakes. So yeah, a
great you know, Jet threw them on there and they
were you know, they're fine.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
This is great. But that's a great move having Jet.
That's also what you want to feel like. You want
to feel like you used all the breaks instead of
they're like yeah about thirty two percent. You probably want
to think about switching them out. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Well, I went to a place for looking on about
something else. That was the place where this Audi said
the steer steering column was broken, so I had to
buy a new one, which was sixty six hundred dollars
or some crazy amount. Well, Nelly and I was like, no,
I'll go elsewhere. And I took it to this other
place and they just put some grease on the on

(09:34):
the steering column and it was perfect, like fine, and
they but they said, hey, yeah, these brakes are pretty
much gonzo. And I think the estimate was fifteen hundred bucks,
and I was like, okay, that's you know, just to
know that that's probably how much it would have cost
me if I went into a place. So I whatever

(09:56):
saved I don't know, five hundred bucks by using jets.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Ok street sense. Yeah, and you got your forty parts too.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, six hundred bucks for the rotors and pads and jets.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
I don't even think i've talked to you since I
got rear ended.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well you I, yeah, I think it was. I saw
that we did talk that day and then it happened
because I saw on Twitter that it happened. But and
you were on vacation or on in Orlando, so I
didn't want to say whether you were. I didn't want
to say if you were gone or not.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, thank you, Yeah, yes I was. It's the third
time it's happened in a year, and this third time
was almost to the day from the first time that happened.
I think I talked about Buddy who and it hit
me a year ago who. But this time it was
in the Steitz. No, this time it was in Halifax.

(10:58):
Oh it was. Yeah. I was parked and this person
had just moved to Halifax. I shouldn't say I was parked.
I was kind of inching along in traffic and at
a complete standstill, and they hit me at probably fifty
five kilometers an hour. Ooh man, that's not that's fast.

(11:20):
It is fast. And luckily Sean's driving a very big vehicle.
This person was driving a smaller one, so their car
is very much the worse for wear. Here's a weird thing.
I remember, young drivers, it's never your fault if you're
rear ended. Right, what were they doing? Liked is this Bahamas?

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Like on the side of the road and then right
into the Bakia.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
They said they had moved to Halifax inside of a week,
like they had just been there a few days, and
they were looking for a grocery store. So maybe on
the map on the phone and just rammed me. But

(12:03):
you said from youngerers it's never your fault if someone
rear ends you, they're following too closely. And in this case,
I was stopped, so there's no question whatsoever. But here's
a weird thing. So I'm out my vehicle while ours
is being fixed. Obviously I get a rental because of
my insurance policy. That's nice. But two things that are

(12:26):
kind of a drag about it. One is, now this
will have a record of being in an accident, wasn't
my fault. And the other thing that's really weird that
I have yet to kind of understand is insurance doesn't
cover the HST on the work being done in my car,
so I have to pay fifteen percent of the repair bill.

(12:53):
That seems nuts.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
It is nuts. That doesn't make any sense, especially when
it wasn't my fault. So just going back though, you
were in traffic and this guy just like was there
no traffic and then traffic because you said you were
inching along or was it just kind of slow the
whole time?

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Just kind of slow the whole time.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
So this guy was just coming out of nowhere at
that speed, yeah, man.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Or maybe like came through the light pretty hot and
then just wasn't looking. But the thing is, my friend
Peter that I worked with in Orlando last week, I've
never seen this before. You text him and you get
a text back saying, hey, I'm driving right now. I
won't see your text until I stop. We should all
have that setting on our phone all the time, because

(13:42):
really it's insane when you think about it. Two people
driving towards each other with their head and their lap.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
No, I know, playing wordle, well, hopefully not wordle, like
if it's like, why.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Is that the most offensive part of that statement?

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Well, word a means like they're actually doing it all
the time. But it's sometimes like if you get in
like a text that's like unnerving or like it needs
to needs priority. Obviously should pull over. But sometimes people
will be distracted from like, oh crap.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Well here's here's the thing that's going to happen increasingly
because there are more of these accidents than ever and
I drive the highway a lot, and I see a
lot of flipped over cars on beautiful sunny evenings where
the only possibility is driver in attention. Insurance companies are
going to start to be like, no, we're not going

(14:40):
to pay for that because there are too many of them,
and premiums are going to go through the roof, Like
people are going to have to start paying for it
in ways that they aren't going to be happy about.
So we should just decide, you know what, it's not
worth it. I'm putting my phone down.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, I uh, I don't like driving in the city,
you know, in New York. You ever see people that
have those like bumper bumpers, Like you slam it in
your trunk and it hangs down because you just expect
to get in a fender bender and it protects your bumper. Oh,
that's a new thing. I haven't seen that. Like, Oh,
it's like, okay, we're gonna bang heads a little bit, like.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Like bumper cars. I know it's coming, getting helmets on
the cars and then just being more like a fence
offense pushing cars out of the way. Yeah, I don't
get your own helmet, man, this is how we do it. Now.
That's what you need as a deer one of those
deer bumpers that they have on the front of big rigs. Yeah,

(15:40):
like those things that they have on the when they're
jousting with the Q tips on in the in those
TeV whatever the American gladiators just big huge cushions on
the film back or your car and people just raging.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Banging into each other. They're knocking back and like it's
literally become to that point where it's you're going to
the what is it? Bumper cars for sure on in traffic.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Because that's one the one thing that I do like
I when I see someone rage and for some reason,
it makes me laugh. What does people? Yeah, if I
see someone really mad on the road, I crack up,
and uh, it almost lightens my mood. When you see

(16:35):
someone losing it, well, yeah it does. It makes me
your way down. When someone snapping, Why is there comfort
in that? I know, right, isn't that weird? Like I
feel kind of bad, But obviously if it's just some
person screaming to himself, it's just it's one of the
funnier things in the world because it's only because you're

(16:59):
not getting where you want to go fast enough and
you're just like it's like you know that show alone.
You ever watch that where they're like by themselves for like, yeah,
one hundred days. Main Lisa watch it all the time.
I love it because it brings you back to what
being human is in a way that the show kind

(17:20):
of demands that. Like you just see the raw primal life,
you know, being alive and trying to survive. So it's
just nice to watch in that sense. But you see
people just starting the show, they start snapping at like
it's raining or their tents banging around in the wind,

(17:40):
and it's making them so mad that they have like attacks,
like the same thing. And it's just so funny because
like it's literally the same as when a baby cries,
because you're crying for no reason. There's no reason for it,
but it's really got to you and you're just kind
of letting it out.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
But I don't think I don't think of the road
rage helps, Like it doesn't help whatsoever, like you know
what I mean, Like because you know they're going to
be doing it again in like two more minutes someone else,
some other point.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
There's a show on Netflix called Love and it's a
Judd Apatow show and this guy, Paul Rust plays the
main character, and he's really kind of kind of a
wimpy cat and doesn't really but he's very cool in
a way. But he never never gets angry, and he
gets pushed around a lot, except there's a road rage

(18:36):
scene where he unleashes on this driver who is doing
something pretty innocuous, like you know, cut in front of
him or sped away at a red light or something.
But I wonder if that's a place where it's sort
of impersonal, so it's a place where people can like
let some air out of the rage balloon. Yeah, because

(18:57):
you don't know who it is. You'll probably never see
them again. So you can go from zero to sixty
on the anger tip pretty easily and then it's sort
of over. But there are no lasting consequences, like in
your home. I hear from the back seat because I
say this all the time. Shouldn't have a license, shouldn't
have a license. So now if someone does something dull

(19:18):
ahead of me, the girls will say, shouldn't have a license,
shouldn't have a license. Yeah, you shouldn't even have a license.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah, no, for sure, Like that's just I throw out
a lot of salad sandwiches when the kids are in
the car.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Salad sandwiches is a great sufface. It sure is. Got
some sleep solid sandwiches going. Yeah, in the positive end,
the negative definitely, speaking of sleep. Went to bed last
night after the first period with a big smile on
my face. The oilers were nothing, and then in the
space of three minutes in the second this is game three.

(19:53):
I don't know when this will come out, but in
a space of three minutes, the stars scored three times. Yep.
I don't know if I always say it or if
it's just a known thing. That an early lead is
kind of the worst thing in hockey, because I think
in their minds they were like, holy cow, okay, we're
up to one. Great.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, well yeah, it was two nuts in and then
all of a sudden it was like three to two
for Dallas and then they tied it up, so it's like, Okay,
it's coming, it's not over. And then yeah, they just
shoveled two more on them.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Yeah, And that was that they have such a deep
bench and like not really superstars the way McDavid and
dry Cidle are, but just a solid team top to bottom.
And I've been worried about them the whole way through.
I really thought the Oilers were playing with a newfound

(20:47):
vigor and confidence. Like, for example, in Game two, the
Stars scored on their first shot and the Oilers even
three years ago, would have just folded like a card table. Yeah,
but they had the spirit and swagger and confidence to
kind of get it back. Yeah. But it's the relentless

(21:11):
like the relentlessness of the other team, the same thing happens.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
I mean, the way that the Leafs were getting grinded
by by the Bruins. It's like just once they were
up you think it's done and they're going to win,
and then all of a sudden they just get ground
out because they just fight so hard defensively scratched that
all of a sudden they're back in the game. And
that's that Florida Panther's same stuff, where it's just so

(21:40):
determined and strong when and it's not necessarily scoring or
just the ridiculous phenomenal ability, it's more just the grit
and pushing and pushing and not ever stopping and going
one hundred percent all the time. Well, here's that that's
what gets team to the end. And I thought that

(22:03):
because the Edmonton's so good when they're playing really well,
it's like, yeah, they'll beat everybody, everyone by five goals,
but it's that extra push that they need to get
over the hump of that and keep keep that momentum
going strong instead of just kind of letting it weak
and falling over.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Here is a table for two at the Hot Take Cafe.
I think the Florida New York series is actually more entertaining,
despite the fact that the Oilers are my team and
obviously I want them to win the series and go
to the Stanley Cup. But as far as a bloodbath
goes like this Rempy kid is so fun to watch

(22:47):
and Florida is so dirty and shameless. You know. You
hear a stat about the Stars like they have been
the most disciplined team in the NHL and they don't
get into any monkey busin this after the whistle. That's
let's be honest, that's the stuff that's kind of fun
to watch. I think an outrage when they're not your team,

(23:09):
it's kind of a joy and you feel like you're
getting away with something when they are your team. So
Dallas and Edmonton has kind of been gentlemanly in a
weird way, but still without the space to make it
a high scoring affair. Yeah, and what whoever wins out
of you know, the New York series. I think that

(23:33):
there's like between New York and Florida, they'll either be
too tired out by the final or they're gonna crush
whoever wins fast. Who do you think it's gonna win?

Speaker 3 (23:43):
By the way, I think New York has just seem
like they they've because the way that they'd finished their
first couple series right, they would dusted everybody so fast. Yeah,
And I think it's just to stamina thing with them.
I think they are the best team because they seem
to finish the most in terms of like closing what

(24:04):
they start in games. So and I think Edmonton's problem
is doing that for two periods. I mean, that was
the Leafs problem all year, was like seeing this mind
blowing first couple periods and then all of a sudden,
it's just they can't keep it going.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Oh yeah, it's thirty games. You can't. You can't touch the.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Oilers Like, I don't know whether it's confidence or just
stamina why they don't continue. I think it has more
to do with confidence in a sense because or because
when it really gets the nerves start going, like we're close,
we're almost at the final here, that's when mistakes start happening,

(24:47):
the tingles and being able to deal with that because
they are so talented they should just run through it.
And they have that talent to become the Oilers in
the eighties for crying out loud. You know, do you wonder,
like how much how much does coaching make a difference

(25:07):
at this stage in the season. I think it makes
a lot, because it makes a big difference because they're
especially with younger talented players. Is knowing what to say
and how to motivate them is everything at that point.
That's what the best coaches do, is they're able to
pull from the best and keep the motivate the people
that need it, get the leaders to speak out and

(25:31):
be fundamental every step so they're always involved. Like that's
to have the right people doing their jobs, that's it.
And then keeping keeping morale high, and especially if they're
down right when they they're down a couple of goals
and I think they're out, like that's when it really
that's when the coaching comes into play.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
I saw a speeches intercut between Craig Berube and Sheldon
Keith the Game seven speech. Did you see that? No?
I didn't. Bearubay's speech was like we're f in here
because we're gonna f and win and there's no better
F and team. Let's get the f out there and
f and show them who we f and are. And
Sheldon Keith's speech was like, let's have some fun out there.

(26:17):
Did you see the pictures of Marner and Barubay out
for coffee. No, yeah, they're hanging already, Like what is
that conversation?

Speaker 3 (26:27):
I don't know, see that's the whole thing. Like what
people think when they're reading the papers compared to real
life is completely different. It's like the fact that Keith
got hired before he could even like think about what
he's going to do, right.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Like in yeah, like without the guy didn't even have
a chance to probably ponder what what what you know,
what what does he want to do? He's hired in
two seconds? Yeah, kind of like do this right when
he left it was five seconds you heard in God
it's burn. So that's where we're at. Man. The people

(27:06):
they're hiring.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
The people they're hiring are the best, and it's just
not clicking with the least because it's the leaves.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
The microscope is on it, you know. I wonder, like
obviously the clips of Marty are like hitting the gritty
during practice on his skates, like those things are surfacing
at the worst possible time to make him look like
such a joke or a china or like he doesn't
take it seriously. I know, I don't believe for a

(27:35):
second that professional athletes don't want to win. I don't
believe that.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Something has to happen to break up the party because
the party is a little bit too much, like the
whole like we get it, you guys are awesome, but
just stop pretending you don't care, you know what I mean?
Like the way that they act like it's it's no
big deal. That's bullshit it. I wonder if you're like
a Connor McDavid, if you're starting to think, like, man,

(28:07):
what is what is the secret sauce? I think the
secret sauce he has in that Nathan McKinnon has no
I think that it'll be it takes time to have that.
I think he'll get there. He might be.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
He I'm one of those people that that hopes that
McDavid's gonna come to the Leafs and make make that'll
be the change.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
So I know you don't want to hear that. Well,
but road for me, how does that happen? No, in
the law Like it's almost like with Gretzky and the Leafs,
like he had such a love affair with the team.
I think because McDavid's from you.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Know, right here, New New Market where I live, and uh,
he just that the growing up as a fan of
the Leafs. There's a lot of players who just think
that becomes superstars and they realize it's not a thing,
but like, I don't know, it's the same thing that
I could see Austin Matthews wanting to go to Arizona

(29:11):
in a in a way, right, I'm sure that would
be a place that he would love to be just
because it's part of your part of growing up.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
But it doesn't exist anymore, no, I know.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
But just the idea of going to where he was
even in the States, you know, something closer to America,
growing up in America as a hockey player.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, I don't know, I really don't. I just think that.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Connor McDavid coming here would be nice. It would be
pretty good. But it doesn't. That doesn't cure the Leafs
woes either, because that's what you know. It's always a
defensive issue, either a goalie or the defense isn't strong enough.
It's the same old stuff. There's only there's only like

(30:00):
three teams eventually at the end of the year that
have that defensive capability, and they're the ones that either
win or in the finals, and then those there's this
it's like great pitchers in Major League Baseball. There's always
a floating around playoff teams.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Speaking of great pictures, Shug had her grade nine trip
to Toronto this week, No way. Yeah, And they did
the Aquarium and cn Tower and they went to a
Jay's game, and they went to Niagara Falls and they
went to the Eden Center and Von Mills. They took
the subway, they took the street car. They got their
Toronto on nice. That's a little bit everything. Yeah, they

(30:41):
got the Toronto tapis platter for ninety that's great. Did
you ever go on I know you traveled for like
baseball and stuff. Did you ever go on school trips?

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Not really No, Like it's just endo the city, like
from the sticks, going to the museum or the zoo.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, they went to the rom too.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah, but no, like going to a different city and
experiencing that. But that's good times.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Annals. Annales is on an arts camp this week. Really
is that affiliated with school or that's something yeah?

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Outside, Yeah, it's it's through her school. It's an arts
camp that's grade seven to high school and it's just
selects students from schools in York region and they go
up to a beautiful camp and Haliburton area and it's

(31:36):
one of those camps where it's like everything you could want.
The big huge mess hall and they have painting and
drama and it's so cool and music and like all
forms of performing arts and it's just incredible.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Love it was she excited to go. Yeah, Yeah, she
went last year and had an amazing time, and this
year already we've only heard from her once, like on
a text, so you know she's having fun and she's great,
having a great time in passing out at night. Right.
I feel like Indie's going on a school trip to

(32:15):
Monkdin this week. They're going to the Lobster Museum in
DPP and have some like light shows that they're going
to go see. It's like an Acadian kind of French
department trip. I love that we're making up for some
of the disappointments of the COVID era. Yeah. I've been
trying to get Poco to take off the post covid era,

(32:37):
referring to it as Poco, but it's not really any traction.
You got to keep trying.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
It's because when you say poco, I see something I
see like a character. So I think UPPERCASEP, uppercase C
and the o's are lowercase, but if I guess it's
also post colonial. But Poco I think COVID. I think
people just don't want to hear COVID anymore. They don't
even want to hear post COVID. They still want like

(33:03):
they just don't want to hear that word.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, that's fair.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
It brings drama up, because that's the closest to modern
first world problems was being locked down and not being
able to go anywhere for months like that really put
the hammer down on people.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
So when I was in Orlando, I went to a
sports bar in the evening to watch a hockey game
a couple nights in a row, and it was one
hundred degrees and it was just nice to kind of
sit outside into the evening. And I met this guy
named Connor who was from Florida. He's probably twenty four
year old cat, you know, Morgan Wallen, math, like light

(33:47):
mullet and a mustache, kind of that dude. And he's
telling me about how they alligator hunt back home, and
how alligator bites are really nice and it's a little
mealy but kind of tastes like chicken. You know. Just
an experience that uh I got. I got to pick
the brain of someone whose upbringing was pretty different from mine.

(34:09):
In a lot of different ways. But he, uh, he
was talking about COVID and how it was so weird
because there was a bar in his neighborhood that closed
for the whole weekend. And I remembered Florida, what happened
until shut down shut down for a weekend during COVID. Yeah,
so that, Oh, that's right, So that's it, but that

(34:31):
was it. Yeah, he said, uh, you know, Florida was
kind of open for business and they didn't really know
what the fuss was. Yeah, he got one jab vaccination
because his sister made him, but he really kind of
wished he hadn't. God, you realize that that it was
a totally different experience there than it was here. Like

(34:56):
Canadians are so uh, such rule followers and so accommodating
that we stayed home because we were told to, whereas
I think generally speaking Americans would be like, I'm not what,
I'm not doing that.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Well, I think that was it. We were looking to
the science of it, and that's what the science said, Well,
gathering is not working and it's not good for this.
And the wave happened, and I remember how sick people
were the first time, right, like that first wave of

(35:33):
COVID was rough like, yeah, well if anybody had it,
and the whole concept of vaccines is to lessen those waves, right,
So it worked in that regard, and it's still around,
like people still get COVID and that's positive and it's
just not as severe and that's a good thing. You know,

(35:55):
all those phrases.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Like social distancing, and I remember the first time there
was an exposure in our town and all the new
like rules like can arrive to get back into Canada.
I remember probably talked about it at the time we
crossed the border, Carol and I into Maine. She was
coming with me to a meeting I was doing in Boston,

(36:17):
and just across the border, Indigo said, there has been
an exposure at our school. And it was new enough
into it that we were like, oh man, we better
go home and be there for And we turned around
first exit in Maine and went back to the border,
and the Canadian immigration officials said, did you guys fill
out a can arrive because it has to be here

(36:38):
twenty four hours before he crossed the border. We're like,
we literally crossed the border ten minutes ago and haven't
even gotten out of our car, and they were like,
well that's not you need a can arrive like one
of those like the system doesn't quite allow for all
the exceptions to the rule yet, but everything is so
brand new and everyone's kind of trying to do the
best they can. It was wild.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Well, I mean, like and let's remind people that that again,
that first wave was rough. Like my mom's remember her
long term care. Seventy people died on that first wave
and she that that they had just got the vaccine.
My mom the like the week before the outbreak happened,

(37:20):
and like, for did you see Cracker Barrel mentioned that
their sales are down, and they're saying, well, that's that
the senior demographic for some reason, had hadn't come back
since the pandemic. No way, that's the demographic that die.
Like you don't forget millions of people died from COVID
and they everyone's like, well, it wasn't COVID. They were

(37:41):
sitting whatever, like if they had any issues in health.
COVID took took that and multiplied it by a million.
Because they have nothing to fight. They have nothing left
to fight. So you know, Cracker barrels saying they're not
coming back. Because yeah, they're all gone, and people need
to remember how many people died that were either weak

(38:06):
or sick or had issues to begin with, And that's
the true tragedy of it. Like not being home alone
having to deal with stuff was one thing, but like
losing a massive amount of vulnerable people, it was a catastrophe.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Oh man. And remember really early on seeing like in
Italy where there was an outbreak and many people died
and people singing to each other on their balconies, like
you realize it. I don't know what you do with
all the feelings at the time when you're just kind

(38:45):
of strapping on a helmet trying to get through it. Yeah,
but the most interesting things can can make me emotional.
Like I remember the first rehearsal of the end cast
of The Lion King after COVID, when all these people
there were probably two hundred of them, had been out

(39:06):
of work for a few years, and they started singing
the first song in the Lion King, and tears just
started pouring down my cheeks. Like the relief of being
you kind of get through it on adrenaline. Yeah, and
then when you realize like the sun is coming out again,
and yeah, I either side of it.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Also, yeah, the energy of live performance, right, that's the best.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah, Like didn't even realize that I was holding that in,
I guess, is my point. Yeah, no, absolutely, let's take
a little break here, take a breaks. Keep up, right, Bob.
So you had an interesting experience in the last week
or so. Yeah, yeah, so, I uh, I got a

(39:51):
call from the Edge Tammy Cole, to be exact, a
program director at Edge one oh two, to come in
and do a demo just to see for the afternoon
position with Casey Joe with Casey Joe. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
So I went in and did a demo with Casey
Joe and it was fun and we had a good time.
And then I went in did a week a couple
of weeks ago, and it was really good. It was
great vibes and fun. And I mean, you know, doing
radio in the past with ten ten and ten you
know tsn uh those are you know, I love sports,

(40:34):
but I'm not an analysis guy at all, So it's
it's you know, you definitely have to keep your eye
on sports and follow what's going on to feel comfortable
doing that, and the same with with ten ten as
you know, as well, like political news like when on
our show, it's like all of a sudden, we were
we have to like look into you know, modern political

(40:57):
news information stories and talk about it. Right, So it's
fine once you're when you do the homework and stuff,
but off the top of our brains, it's not as easy.
So music and pop culture obviously is a lot easier
to draw from and be especially music and be comfortable.

(41:18):
So I had a really good time. It was great
to be in the space of the Edge. You know,
the history there between the band and even me personally
by from giving Alan Cross the OLP demo to you know,
going on the air with Humble and Fred way back
in the day, and just just kind of having a

(41:42):
good history with coming in and popping in there and
just listening to it, hearing OLP for the first time.
It was on the edge. So it was cool to
be there and then get a feel for it and
we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
Did you tell that story about getting Alan Cross a demo?

Speaker 3 (42:02):
He tells the story better than I do, But yeah,
for sure, I have many questions.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Obviously we do hit the post and sort of our
take on the probably eighties and nineties. All right, everybody's
like Morning Zoo Crew kind of thing. And we've done
TSN and News Talk, which are talk stations. So what

(42:34):
is the gig. Well, I think it's it's primarily conversation,
like and also you call, you take calls as well,
so it's getting a feel for Toronto and kind of
relating to Toronto. I think that's the goal of the show.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
And obviously there's top news stories and it's those kind
of the the most viral I guess entertaining stories, stories
that you can if you can, I find them great
if you can take something away from it and not
just the headline and follow it, but like have something
personal connected with that or have have a kind of reaction.

(43:19):
That's that's going to kind of make people either crack
up or have a different viewpoint, you know, just get
trying to get people to chat. And I think that's
that's kind of the sweet spot is so kind.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
Of average conversation three or four bits an hour, but
then they play three in a row and then it's
news and all that stuff. Like how much room do
you have to wank?

Speaker 3 (43:45):
Yeah, you have like three minutes or so, depending on
what it is. I think the most being seven minutes,
but like mostly like three minutes, and sometimes it's it's
chatting about something. Sometimes it's a pre recorded phone call.
Sometimes it's talking about a contest or whatever, you know,

(44:09):
throwing out going out to either.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Music or to a news story or traffic or whatever.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
So it's just get kind of three or four five
to three or four times of conversation and then a
couple of calls and and uh and then just kind
of just trying to fit in wherever you can. Something interesting, right,
either it's something funny or something entertaining.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
What is Casey Joe's background?

Speaker 3 (44:41):
She's a butt, right, She's a total but she's awesome.
She's from BC so she worked, she worked, she worked
at the Peak and like Sea Fox. Uh so yeah,
that's and she just I think she's only been here
for about seven eight months or something like that. Wow,
so to just freshly there and uh yeah, so I

(45:04):
guess the previous host left and they're looking to replace
so cool.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Well, yeah, obviously your pedigree would make you an excellent
choice for that gig. How did you find the every day?
At this time, I'm going into this place, I'm going
to do this thing, and then I'm going to drive home.
Like was did you like that structure? Yeah, I don't mind.

Speaker 3 (45:28):
I mean because of the time wise, it's it's three
to seven, so being down there between one and two,
and it's the DVP right down there, no like, so
there's no traffic between noon and one thirty. Really it's
kind of a quiet spot for the DVP southbound and

(45:49):
then coming back it's after seven, so the madness of
the DVP still lingering going north, but it's you can
deal with it. So getting down there in forty five
minutes or forty minutes and getting home and an hour
is not bad. And it's a yeah, it's it's a

(46:11):
good little sweet spot of the day.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
My thing is when I'm sort of put in a
traditional radio context, I find myself, I think because my
background is sketch kind of doing a guy like, Hey,
everybody who's Jonathan torn Like, I don't even I don't
feel like I sound like myself. Yeah, you're you're can't
do the same wherever you are. Yeah, that's what I's
gonna say. You're you're just jare. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
I get that probably serves you really well in that context,
I hope. So because I think, yeah, I think by
being myself instead of.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
More Gregarius very like it sounds it starts to sound
fake as soon as I do that, Yeah, you know
what I mean, Like it's.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
I can't so yeah, I have to rely on just
knowledge and understanding and just reaction. That's it, which is great.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
That's my favorite kind of radio listening is just when
you hear something that you might not have thought of
or say, or you or you or something that's just
a reaction, or if you can tell people like each
other like, that's also great.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
And I think that that's definitely a thing with Casey Joe, Like,
I think we had charisma and respect for each other
in that regard, So that's important as well, big time.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
Yeah, I'm gonna tell you from us doing TSN, I
learned probably three valuable life lessons that I think about
all the time. The first one was this before the
first time we did it, I got in my head
and was thinking, Man, somebody's gonna and say, do you
know so and so's batting average from the twenty ten season,

(48:04):
And I'm not going to know it, And I'm going
to be exposed as a charlatan. Who would think you
would know that? Though I know, but I had this
inner voice going, man, what are you doing. You're a poser,
you don't belong there. And I realized the biggest attack
was coming from within my own head. Yeah yeah, you're

(48:25):
chirpping yourself, which is weird, I know. So because of
TSN Radio, I realized the following one. Nervous and excited
are the same feeling, and it's just a matter of
what you tell yourself. I felt nervous, but I was
also just excited. So when I rebranded that is you're
just excited, it means you're taking it seriously. Go have

(48:46):
fun like it's the same symptoms. Your palms are sweaty
and these weak arms are heavy, all that, but just
tell yourself you're excited. The second thing is the inner
critic that I had attacking me from inside my own brain.
Gave him a name, gave him a personality. When I
talk to kids at school all the time, I talk

(49:07):
about the inner critic and how personifying them is the
best thing you can do, because it could be a
little grandmother going now, dear, don't forget to do this,
be careful, whatever, Or it could be a big kind
of high school bully that you visualize in your head going,
you suck, You'll never do this. But when you get
to know your inner critic as another person, then it

(49:28):
kind of makes it a sitcom dynamic. Like give it
clown shoes. Yeah, there's Balky in your head and you're
just trying to be Larry. You give it some wacky accent, Yeah,
just to kind of make it sound like it's just so.
Here's the crazy thing. By personifying the inner critic in

(49:50):
my head, my guy's Eric. Now when he doesn't show
up at big moments for us, I'm like, this is
kind of weird that Eric's not here. Where does he?
So it took me like something that could throw me
off my game or kind of rattle me to something
that I actually can not only manage but kind of
miss the guy when he's not there. It's like the
sitcom of your life in your own head. And the

(50:12):
third thing is, and this is all from TSN Radio,
I started identifying the worst case scenario because sometimes the
abstract looming oh man that would be terrible that you
don't identify is so much worse than Okay, let's actually
discuss what is the worst possible thing that could happen?

(50:35):
Someone calls in asks a question that it makes it
clear I don't know what I'm talking about, and they
don't have me back. Okay, yeah, that's not like the
sun will still rise. I'm still married to Carol, I
still live this life, I still live where I live. Like,
that's not the end of the world. And more often

(50:56):
than not, what you assume is the end of the
world genuinely isn't. Oh yeah, definitely, yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
I mean it's like, look, you know, looking back at like,
mistakes happen. That's part of it. You really have to
you have to kind of do a lot of those
mistakes to feel comfortable big time.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
And the I think that the mistake you can make
is pretending you know what you're talking about when you don't. Well,
how many people have made not only a lifetime, some
people have achievement awards doing that falling up and I

(51:39):
would I would much rather just say, oh, I didn't
know that, or I'm that's not my area, or you
know way more about this than me than trying to
sound like I do. I was trying to think of
the worst qualities in people, and I think fake is one,
overcome is another. What do you think I guess they're

(52:07):
a lot greedy, jealous, Like what the worst traits? Yeah,
I think I'm gonna say just selfishness. You know.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
When you're just someone who's just yeah, they're all you
can just say, everything is about themselves.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
That's the worst.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
Yeah, the worst, because it's just like, what's life for
if you're only concerned with one person? Like that's insane,
Like how can you get anything out of it?

Speaker 1 (52:41):
Yeah? Hey, so let's play a game of Canadian celebrities. Okay,
we give each other one of them and the other
says a favorite. You have to in the question. You
have to ask what their favorite thing is? Oh okay,
I like that.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
So, for example, let's start with the new I guess
the Bebes is having a kid, right, yes?

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Bebes? And Haley Is that his wife's name? Yes, Haley Bieber,
the the daughter of the Wilson Phillips girl and the Baldwin.
Oh yeah right, yeah, it's quite a pedigree. Yeah, okay,
So what is Justin Bieber's favorite snack? Do you know

(53:33):
what popped into my head? What? Goldfish? Can you picture
him eating goldfish? I just spit out my water here
like a little tiny bowl of like Haley sets out
a bowl of goldfish Happer's Farm on the Island for sure. Yeah,

(53:53):
like not even not even like the fancy kind, just
the string straight to the guy like orange one. Yeah,
because they kind of like not unlike Tim Horton's where
now there's pizza and stuff. Oh yeah, goldfish started popping
off with like cinamon fun goldfish and what I do

(54:17):
I do? Like those ones that are just sand blasted
with cheese and you see those those ones, they're just
like I don't even know how they got so much
on it glue gun.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
Yeah, like they're just like God, like they need another coating,
another coating.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Some guy with safety goggles and ear goggle. Yeah, like
you know, like if there falls on your shirt, like
you have to take your shirt off, like it's gone. Yeah,
Like it's like you see the whole imprint of the goldfish.
For sure, you look like freaking Lemmy from Motorhead hands

(55:04):
even crushing goldfish that hard. Last week I got the
new I don't know if they're baked, but they're like
alien sized goldfish and you're biting into a cheddary cloud
because there's actually an opening in the like you could
store a penny in there. If you wanted to or

(55:24):
a pearl, you can. Yeah, I can bite it open
and use it to store ship. I think. I think
that's what Bieber's crushing for a snack. Nice Okay, I
always say Canadians at a certain nager taught about the boobs
and the beebes. So once Michael Bublaze snack of choice
snack Michael Bublaz. Yeah, uh, I think he's going with

(55:56):
like I don't like reg like barbecue, Laize. It's so
hard to picture somehow him in a suit, like ready
to go on stage and he's just hand bombing the
last few kid, lady, it's no undignified somehow, I know,

(56:18):
and bomb and like, yeah, he doesn't like he's not
the type to have to have them like in a
bowl or some fancy crystal ball, just hand bombing from
the bag just to show. He's like offering them to everybody.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
He stars are just like you, the security guard outside
his door.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
He's like offering the hand in the bag. Do you
think Poco people share things like a bag of chips
as much as they used to. Uh, I don't think so. Yeah,
like people's hands, you know what I do like the
of the Poco. Both my two favorite things is like

(57:03):
not blowing out candles anymore. Like that's disgusting now that
when you think about it, what it is like you
literally spit on the on the cake after have the
birthday like they're blowing. You don't see it, but it's
bringing all over those candles. You know. I've been so

(57:24):
I'm a big last week where people had a birthday
cake and they used their hands to wave to make
winds to blow out the candles. Yeah, yeah, love it,
love it great. And then what's the other one? Yeah,
I'm I'm okay with like just general distancing, not being

(57:44):
you know, big pile up, lineup, you know, like give
me some space. Yeah, some of that's good. Sure, okay,
I'm into it. Give me another celebrity okay, just doing snacks,
I guess. So okay, what's uh Ryan Gosling's favorite go

(58:08):
to snack? Do you know he's like that guy's like
he's up there now, he's if not number it's got
to be number one now, right, number one, like male
movie star guy. Yeah, it's definitely the Ryans. No, Ryan
Reynolds is only Deadpool. That's all he does. If you

(58:30):
think about no. Outside of Deadpool and the Booze, Ryan
Reynolds really has no He's not really in the movies
and the soccer thing and the phone thing. I'm not
worrying about him. He's doing he's doing fine. He was
at the Canadian Screen Awards last year. I can't remember
if I told you at the time, and uh, he was
talking about he was taking his family and he said,

(58:52):
it's just such a classic joke, but it made me laugh.
He said, Uh, I want to thank my mom and
dad of course, in uh, my two brothers with whom
I'm very close Dean and I want to say Greg
like he didn't know his name. Yeah, you know what
I mean. It's it is, but it's I remember when
he first came on the scene and he was talking

(59:15):
exactly the same way, and it was always like a
comment that was like, oh, come on right, and it
was like he was annoying in the beginning, and then
I was like, Okay, he's he's cool, it's funny, and
you know he does good, stands up for the right
things or whatever. And now he's starting to get annoying

(59:35):
again to me. He's starting to go back to when
in the beginning in where I feel like he's like,
can you not say something that's just like so condescending, Like,
can you actually not do that in an interview? You know? Interesting,
You're over? Yeah, I'm turned. I think he's uh, well,

(01:00:00):
he's His accomplishments are impressive in many different tears of entertainment.
For sure. I'm not saying he's a bad guy. No,
I'm gonna say. I saw clip the other day of
Gosling on Stephen Colbert's show, and you know, Stephen Colbert
asked those questions like Keanu Reeves, where do we go

(01:00:21):
after we die? Yeah, so he asked Ryan Gosling what's
the best sandwich? And he said ice cream? Okay, that's terrible.
So I'm gonna say ice cream. Your celebrity is he's
not Canadian, but he spent some time here in Newfoundland,

(01:00:41):
I know. But Ryan Gosling ice cream sandwiches, Yeah, crushing them,
like fancy ones that he got like at the Malibu
Cafe mart. Yeah. Like it's two Ariwan chocolate chip cookies,
chip cookies with oat milk ice cream between those.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
That's that's been preyed upon. Twenty Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
I was. I was picturing just the old school standard ones. Yeah, okay,
to remind him of the old days. Yeah, okay, here's
free Chapman's a Chapman. Yeah, Chapman's classic. Jason Momoa, uh,

(01:01:31):
Jason momoam almond bark, you know, like that stuff with
the nuts, and yes, I was imagining a big plate
plate of those crushed up. I was imagining jerky, like

(01:01:52):
a caribou jerky or exotic meat jerky, because it's kind
of fat free and ripped. Yeah, yeah, that's true. And
I think we're going it's a snack, so we're going
on cheat day. I imagine, you know, he likes to
like crush guinness and stuff, so imagine his snacks are
probably pretty elaborate. A friend of mine had to measure

(01:02:14):
him for his Awquaman costume. Yeah did I tell you that? Yeah?
And he's popular with folks, eh, yeah, every inch of them. Yeah,
that's an intimate transaction. He's probably asking, So what's the
numbers down there? How long's me taint? Yeah? So did

(01:02:35):
did you give me one? Or oh, yeah, you gave
me one, give me one more than we'll wrap her up. Okay,
this is a good one, because you know there's it's
happening a lot. Seth Rogan, Oh wow, huh. I'll tell

(01:02:55):
you the first thing that popped into my head in Oh,
I want to get it right. It's on Washington in Uh.
It's just kind of on the edge of Venice and
Marina del Rey and Seth Rogen by the way, is
getting to that point now where it's like, all right,
it's getting a little annoying. This trip I can't miss

(01:03:19):
when he's like lighting that huge bong at the Hollywood
Bowl or whatever, Why does he do that exactly? Like,
come on, man like, it's not nineteen eighty six where
people are like, oh my god, that's pot. Well does
he do that in a public Yeah, it was some
big live event and.

Speaker 5 (01:03:37):
He had a huge bong on stage and he was
lighting it, and I'm like, come on, man like, if
that's just making pot not cool, it's like the opposite
of cool, it's really making it not cool.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
Yeah. I'm outdoor grill on Washington Boulevard in LA. It's
a parking lot, this greasy little place and you get
delicious ribs and they give you like corn bread that
they just finished making, and I picture him hitting that up.
You eat it in the parking lot. Your chin is

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covered in grease four times a week. He gets door
dashed to bring it over right, just like in between meals. Yeah,
I dig it one more, just one more, just before
we go? Okay for Sutherland, after after a night on

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the town, like maybe after like a night where like
and he jumps on that Christmas tree. Yeah, or a
night out with Shane McGowan. That was a great story. Yeah,
that is a good one. What's his snack poutine? Steamy?
Steamy to bring him back home? I don't know. My

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instinct is that he probably has something semi healthy to
count a ract all the liquor, and maybe sneaky darts.
I don't think there's any sneaky darts. I think there's
just straight up darts. Maybe uh not a salad, No,

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come on, really, I don't know. Maybe bean salads what
you're gonna say, or maybe it's some up chuck salad.
He's just hurling, yeah, Berlin and hurling, Berlin and hurlin. Alright,
enjoyed the groomer, all right, but I have a good

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way good chatting