Jeremy Hotz

Jeremy Hotz is a national treasure, and a legend.  He's been around the block several times and has seen it all, from his very early days at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club, al the way to street hockey getting cancelled all across Canada.  This conversation was a blast.  Check it out, and don't forget to like and subscribe!

Jeremy on the www:
https://jeremyhotz.com

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https://revolutionradio.live

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, it's Dimitri here from Canadian as Heck. Can you
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Revolution Radio Canada. My name is Craig Gee alongside Dimitri,
Alexi and Dirky mcshaircockin and our guest has us laughing
literally already, yes, because I mean that's that's what he
does for a living.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I do for a living, and I think it's about
time there's a revolution in Canada.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, Siria, we'll probably get into that, my friend. But
I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'm with you for the show.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, Revolution Radio Canada. And of course the podcast here
is called Canadian as Heck. Our guest tonight a Canadian
and worldwide legend comedian, the one, the only, Jeremy Hawts
and brother. Thank you so much for joining us tonight.
We were appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Of course, it's it's Canadian. Of course I'm gonna do it.
And the word heck is in it.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Right, not the other word that we told you about
off air.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
You don't say no, you can't see it. Yeah, we
don't say this and don't say that.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, we were, we were, We were much more punk before.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
We just remember when we fought for freedom of speech
and we.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Won and we could say whatever we wanted.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
We can remember when there was rock and roll.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
And then someone came into office and destroyed that for us.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
You know I heard that. You know what I just heard.
My brother told me in Ottawa City council banned street
hockey in Canada. Well, can you believe it? That's you.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Grew angry jeremy street hockey.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Hang on a second, we all, we all did. I mean,
who didn't write that?

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Ernadian culture they're screwing with right there, guys, that Jeremy,
our culture is. Let's remove it all. Let's get rid
of it all.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
My friend, because you're a comedian, are you doing a
bit right now?

Speaker 1 (02:16):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:17):
This is okay, this is really the next show. Now
that I found out about it, of course I will
be Are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Good luck?

Speaker 3 (02:25):
My parents when I was a kid, they wanted us.
They said, go and play street hockey because it's in
the street and you might not come home. And now
city council is getting rid of that that is history.
I'm sorry. If you survived your childhood, you really proved

(02:48):
you belonged.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I want, I want to ask you that, Jeremy. I
have a theory that gen X was literally put on
this earth to test every single theory, every single urban legend,
every myth, every everything that you could possibly you know,

(03:10):
you could possibly go through as a kid. And if
you're still here, then you made it right exactly.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah. Yeah, that's survival. That's how we survived.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Exactly, the whole thing of you know, going in like
your mom and dad would say, okay, you know, go
play with your friends and come back when the street
lights come on, right.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
You know, helicopter parents. We had bulldozer parents. Get out
of here.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
I was telling a story to some friends of mine
the other day. Well want street hockey. Speaking of street hockey,
my brother, it was street baseball, but same kind of premise.
My brother he has he's missing half of it tooth
because he ran into a car. It was parked, but
he ran into it.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
I did I did that. I did that.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
No, I did that too. Don't laugh at that, man.
I raided my shoulder. That happens. Cars are deceiving and
deadly as well.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
You know, well, at least I was on a bike.
Jeremy wasn't even on a bike.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
You know, I was running, but I fell off the
stoop the sidewalk, and my shoe came off. I had
no chance.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
No chance. You're eating it regardless, and.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
This arm came off and went over here because this
site was already occupied here. Oh yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
It's really disturbing.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, that hurts.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
You talked about that in your special Dangerously Handsome did I?

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, because it still hurts everywhere.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
I'm this day to this day.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yo, dude, are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah? It would. I suppose it was.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
You know, that move that Elon mus Musk did. I
can't do that.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
That's fine. I think that's fine.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
That's I think that's a it's a good thing. So
it is a good thing Mississauga has.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
We need to We need to basically have Elon Musk
run towards a stoop, have his shoe fly off in
like you.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Need him hockey, that's what we need.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
You need to hockey does get out that he's.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Probably not introduce street you know, to see the street
hockey things really annoying you guys, right, like when my
brother told me, I'm still angry about it. That's what
I told you about it. I'm furious that they that
they're screwing with that, and I just might hop the
fence at a lawn bowling field and run all over.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
It, right as you should. So in November twenty twenty four,
Mississauga City Council voted to keep a ban on all
street sports, including hockey and baseball.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
I remember that as well as basketball.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
And uh Kitchener, Kitchener has a by law that bands
road hockey, but enforcement of it is discretionary.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well that's Kitchener.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, sorry, so you can still do it in kitchen
or what they're saying is yeah, we don't care.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah exactly right.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah yeah. If you're a certain age, they shouldn't be
able to kick you off the street. You should be
grandfathered into street hockey and caunder for the rest of
your life.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
My grandfathered in.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
You should move to America and start playing street hockey there.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
And if you've got a body check an eight year old,
god damn it, just get into it.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Lean in, lean in those kiss cheap. They need to
hit up.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
They need to know what falling off the curb and
hitting a car feels like it's the truth.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Build.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
They need to play in the snow bank and see
what happens.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, and then your parents yelling when the parents dealing,
going that the snowplow is gonna come and bury you
in there.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
But what's crazy too. That's the other thing, Jeremy is.
Snow is not what it used to be anymore. A
shoe eating awesome.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Shack. Oh oh, he's been looking at his butt. That's shack.
And there he is.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
He's the boy.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
He looks after me on the road. Without him, I'd
just be alone in the room talking to three guys.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Is that a purebred Pomeranian?

Speaker 3 (07:15):
That is a purebred long hair chihwahwah, my friend.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Oh my god, I was way off.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, that is you're a Pomeranian. Dimitri get up terrible.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Hang up or Demetri repedia super cute.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
He's a really good looking guy. Runs out at the
end of the show and the crowd goes ooh, they
love him. And then I do a couple of jokes
with them in my hands like this, and then he
we use him because he uh, because I have no
track of time. So when he runs out. I know
it's an hour and five minutes and then I get closed.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
That's how it works.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
He should be let loose on you in about twenty
three minutes.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
He's got amazing biological dogs. Do right, They just do right?
They do one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he wants to supper
at the same time exactly. You come and tell you
every every day you look at the clock, it's five
oh three every single day.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Wow, I think I can tell time, I really do.
I think he looks at the clock. I don't think
it's that impressive.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Look.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
I look like a clock. I can't tell time.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
So that's the truth.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Your next show is on Friday in Halifax. Yeah, at
the Bruce at the Bruce Gutthrow Theater. And I think
you've already let loose with a few spoilers for it.
It's a what do you mean, Well, the whole thing
about how you're so mad about Ottawa City Council banding street.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Hockey, talk about that. Of course I will, but it
will be then and then remember my stuff, and then
the whole thing about Shack, the whole thing about Shack.
At the end, well, he comes out if he does
do that, they don't they want if I didn't let
him run out at the end, they'd be sure to
see the dog.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
They do.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
He's the franchise, I told you. Because I'm very unapproachable,
I guess, but when I got a cute little dog,
people come right up to me.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
When So if you're having a hard day and can't
do the show, you just let him lose, put some
treats on the stage, you know, throw a ball across
the side, and then you're good. You still get.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
What I used to do was I used to rub
a bit of a bit of cheese, like you know,
that processed cheese, the fake stuff. My dog likes ghetto food.
So anyway, I rubbed it on the I rubbed it
on the a little microphone stand next to the big one,
and then when he came out, he'd go right to
the stand and then he would just stand behind it
like that and sniff at it, and and then I
would say to the crowd, what you think he can

(09:35):
You think he can talk? But I stopped doing it
because he wouldn't go to the mic anymore because he
figured out there was no real cheese there.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh, he won't do the fake stuff.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
That's it's got to be real and the whole real
fake stuff, real fake cheese.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
No. And also what he he's been doing is he
sits in a bag and he waits till he comes
out at the end. And now what he's been doing
is timing this. When he jumps out and they open
his bag, he farts. So the three people go, oh
like that, and I hear it, he does it.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'm perfect.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
He's a genius.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, well listen, I mean the best comics are, right,
so they're aggressive genius. So what's really funny? I just
noticed actually, as Jeremy is talking, if you go back
and kind of look at So we've done over one
hundred episodes of this of this pokey little podcast.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
And one of the mic asked me before now.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
I'm honest, we're too nervous. You're you're cute, like I
can't believe you're here right now. But I'm actually but
what I'm actually exactly but what I'm really kind of
laughing at myself for is I'm actually doing a Jeremy
Hawts without thinking about it because my desk is right here,
and I literally do this. Everybody does that way and

(10:59):
I and that's how and That's how I sit right
during interviews and I'm like.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Well, look at it, I'm doing it.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
I'm doing it, Jeremy, I'm doing my best Jerry, Jeremy
hawtson person.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
I'm the only one being respectable. I just want that
to be fucking noted.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, you're the only one that really doesn't steal guys moves.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, exactly. Oh and Jeremy he also he also prefaced
that with saying he's the only one who isn't fucking
stealing anything. So we had to put the F bomb
in there to.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Just be I'm the super I am the most tattooed
in the weirdo.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Therefore, yeah, you got an arm tattoo, the whole.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
Thing, right, I'm well double okay, he's a tattoo artist.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
That's his actual job.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Oh, I get did you put those on and you
went to another guy?

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Know they're there's they're clip ons.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
That was actually pretty funny, Derek. That was actually pretty good.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
My whole life has been led up to this moment
right now.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
I'm just saying here telling Jeremy hot's a joke and
making them laugh there.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
You know, for you when clip ons would have worked
if they were glasses. Lick ons is what you were
trying to go for. There you see them on.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Or press on, press on, iron on, iron on iron.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Iron iron on would have been funny because you would
have had to use an iron to put them on
your arms, So that would have been the best choice. Actually, Craig's.
Craig's got the best one there, I think, iron Derek.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Derek, you just you literally just got you know, a lesson,
You literally got a lesson from a comedy legend. So
there you go, buddy, take there.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
We all do that. We think of the joke, and
then we go what's better, what's better, what's better? And
then if you don't come up with anything, you go
with the thing you want with. That's it, I.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
See, that's it exactly. And as a matter of fact,
so just so you know, Jeremy, we actually do have
a bunch of questions for you. This has been great.
We've been doing this now for twelve and a half
minutes and we haven't asked you a question yet.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Well, I don't start my act for twelve and a
half minutes. When I'm on stage started perfect. I'm hearing
most of that stuff for the first time too, you know, yeah,
you've seen me, guys, I don't really yet.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
I don't have a plan, does anybody?

Speaker 2 (13:19):
No, So I do want to ask you, going back
growing up a wee lad, when did you really start
getting the comedy bug? What? Early on?

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Early on?

Speaker 3 (13:31):
It's cool because I hated it, Like in early grades.
I became the funny guy because it impressed the girls.
I knew I didn't have the face for them, but
if I certainly could make them laugh, they all hung
around me. That that's why, That's what that was about.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Nice. So when did you get huh, well, when did
you get the courage to actually get up on stage
with a and try and try behind a mic? Oh?

Speaker 3 (13:56):
I went in Edmonton, I went on and I tried
it there. Well, the first thing I ever did was
I did yuck yucks in Toronto. I came in a
bus from Ottawa. And then I went on last and
it was an amateur night and I killed for some reason.
I mean, I couldn't believe it, but I you know,
I thought about a few things to say, but I

(14:16):
really killed. I guess I had the right kind of energy.
And then Breslin was there and he said, did you
want to do this? Professionally. It was the first time
I'd ever really done anything. And I said, holy.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Shit, how old were you?

Speaker 2 (14:29):
So Mark Breslin literally comes up to you and say.

Speaker 6 (14:31):
Yeah, nineteen yeah, wow, like yeah, yeah, it was nineteen
And I didn't I didn't shave my pubes or anything because.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
That was the time, and you know, I had a
big afro and I was I was looking to get
laid there.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
I was fantastic.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
And there's nothing there's there's nothing that'll get you laid
faster than that stage at Yuk Yuks.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
That's true, not not not back then. Anyway, that was
a very good That was a very good time for
all of us. And it was a dirty time. It
was a very dirty time in the world as well,
because comedy clubs were really filthy. They were almost like
strip clubs without the nudity. That's what they look like.
They were filthy, you know what I mean. And you
never touched anything because you didn't want to get to berculosis.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
That is easily possible from person to still the.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
Same way, they're still the same. I went and saw
I went and saw my buddy Aaron Berg. He came
back to town and he played. He was at Yuck's. I
think like in November October November and we went and
saw him do that, and it's still the it's yuck
yucks is still the same. It's still that nondescript fucking
door in the middle of absolutely nowhere, Toronto and you

(15:46):
go downstairs in the dungeon and it's exactly.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
It hasn't changed. It hasn't changed exactly because I played
tons of clubs in America and they they're not like that.
They're these they spend a lot of money in the room.
There's like those brass things that you saw at the
you know, the brass rails strip club. There was all
over the place. So that stayed, but they made them
a lot more classier. And some of them in America
hold like five hundred people. They're huge theaters, you know.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Trying to remember. There was a club. It was on
TV too. It wasn't cable access, but it was on
TV for a while, the A's and nights. You might
remember this, Jeremy, it was in It was a club
in Burlington. Club the club fifty was a club fifty
four was that what it was?

Speaker 4 (16:32):
And there was fifty four Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah, Yeah, it was it on the Channel eleven.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yes, it was on Channel eleven. That's right, that's right.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Was that not out of Hamilton? Or am I crazy?

Speaker 2 (16:44):
And it was Burlington? Who's Burlington? For sure?

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Burlington?

Speaker 1 (16:50):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (16:51):
What is a Burlington?

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Burlington?

Speaker 4 (16:54):
It's just where the melon used to come from.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
It's actually the Chanlon's are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (16:59):
We don't know what Derek's talking about ever, Mellon.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Literally, honey, do melons melons and stuff?

Speaker 4 (17:05):
Yeah, they used to. They used to grow them in Burlington.
I'm not fucking, I'm making ship up. I'm fucking that's
the truth.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Is it.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
I'm gonna I'm gonna pull. I'm actually gonna pull Farmers.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
How do you know that?

Speaker 4 (17:16):
I was gonna say, no random ship, Okay, I will
If you need some melons, guys, go to go to Burlington.
Actually they don't make they don't grow anything in Burlint.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
I'm trying to do my best Jeremy hots impersonation of.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Is that really?

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Are you sure?

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (17:34):
So it's actually so what's funny? Burlington a Burlington? The
Burlington is the first town literally east of Hamilton.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
Oh it's near Hamilton.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
No, it's literally right beside it, Oh, when you leave.
So if you're traveling east, So if you're traveling east,
you go through Mississauga, Oakville, then Burlington then right, so
I get it.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Burlington doesn't want to be called Hamilton. Who would nobody does?

Speaker 2 (17:58):
That's right. And it says Burlington, Ontario, Welcome home of
the Melons.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah, it does, right, and Hamilton and then it smells.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Yeah, they actually sell t shirts if you go to
any of the like the travel information booths in Burlington,
they have T shirts that say not Hamilton because it smells.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
When we were younger, we used to drive from Toronto
to Hamilton to watch the Argos play the Tiger Cats,
and we sat near the Tiger Cats cheerleaders because they've
looked like sluts.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
And the whole time you did and the whole time you.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Went, well, they were from Hamilton.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
I'm just saying you thought you had more of a
chance with Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Jesus, sixteen minutes with our new Bessie, Jeremy, hawks and
my cheeks are fucking hurting.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
Okay, you need to do exercize.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Holy shit. So I did. Another question I have for you,
Jeremy is when was it officially for you? Did it
get to a point for you eventually where you're doing
like Montreal just for laughs, You're playing some of the
biggest places in Canada and eventually, like your Jim Carrey's like,
you're Mike Myers, You're just like I got to go
to the States. When when roughly did that happen for you?

Speaker 3 (19:21):
When I went to Montreal and then they went crazy
and I got a deal from CBS and Comedy Central
and Bud Friedman told me I should move to the
Los Angeles and then he'll he'll book me in his improvs.
That's what that year that that happened. So then I
listened to those people.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
That's probably an alternative.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Was you know shit, So I left. That was it,
you know, and the rest is I got. I'm one
of the ones that was able to have a career.
This is fantastic. I was. I'm really lucky and now
I get to come back and see Canadians on this
tour and you know, nothing's better for me than people
that are like me. So that crowd is obviously my favorite.

(20:06):
So going across this country for me, there's nothing better.
That's all.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
So how how your you titled this tour, Trey miserrab Yeah, yeah,
is now am I supposed to expect a similarity between
between like the Victor Hugo novel and your show?

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Like no, I hate musicals, so I called that because
music is a garbage and you're not realistic. Because if
you're just walking down the street and suddenly you start singing,
you'll be arrested. So don't do it. So don't listen
to them.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
I've walked down the street plenty of times singing and
like thathing And.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
The way, the way it turns out is I'm Trey
Miserabla when I'm at a musical. That's all it is. Okay,
that's it, And it was it was lay Miserabla. Lay
Miserabla makes me train is a rabbler, get it. That's
all it was.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Well tell you fucking done.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
So I figured half the people would know what it meant.
And I'm right, that's all.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
They miss allab It's wonderful, Jeremy, I want to hate
it to show, Oh you take me.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
I like the nude La miserrabbler, when you see the
man's balls brushing across the stage. That's my favorite. Like
hair La miserable meets here.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Honest to god. Oh fuck, you have to you have
to put that bit in your show, my friend.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Oh that's what.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
You forget your stuff, don't you.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Just literally it comes out and you forget.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
I know there'll be more tomorrow. I'm not re adjusted.
I come up with comedy. That's all I can do.
I do one thing. Everything else. I suck at manteam
whistle flat.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
You're like steam whistle?

Speaker 3 (22:12):
You mean the beer? Yeah, you know, I do like
steam Whistle. And you know what else I like? I
drink Cores Light and I'll tell you why, because it's
it has the least amount of flavor. I'm not a
big flavor guy when it comes to beer because I
find it it's bitter, you know what I mean? Or Heineken,
I won't drink because it smells like farts. Don't you think?

Speaker 4 (22:34):
He totally smells like farts.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Smells like farts.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
So like I like you like sitting in a room
of your own farts.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
It's fine.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
Well, I guess what it is. I agree with you. Farts, farts, farts,
that's what it smells like. So put it in a
brown bottle. Green makes it smell like farts. There's a tip.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Process of association, right, Jeremy.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, right, I have to I have to ask you
about I have to ask you about something. Okay, this
is a show that I really, really really loved in the.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Nineties, The news Room. I was on that thing.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah you were, And I'm thinking, like I have, was
that a weird Was that a weird muscle for you
to work with? Like as an actor?

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Like fun? I liked it a lot. Yeah, I liked
it a lot because we made up a lot of
it and he didn't care and that was a lot
of fun to do. Ken Finckelman was a genius. He
was well ahead of his time, and the man should
be celebrated more than he is. But in Canada, so
it's probably not gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
We could have it.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
We should have a day for him. We should name
a lamp a lamp post for him.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
There should be another show, at least, my goodness, at
least show. Yeah. Is the still still like? Is it?
Is it still being funded? There?

Speaker 6 (23:54):
Now?

Speaker 4 (23:55):
For now they're in there, in there in their mid lawsuit.
I think still.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
Okay, Okay, wow, because what's gonna happen to hockey, like
they'll still put it on right.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Oh yeah, but Rogers's on sports Net.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah, Rogers, Rogers owns hockey.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Now it's not on CBC anymore. Brother, Oh, I get.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
It on CBC on Saturday Night in my.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Oh you do?

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Oh yeah, I get it.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
I do. I do.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
It's that old man that's been there for many years,
that screwed uh, that screwed Don Cherry, I forget his
name now. The referee, Yeah, Ron McClain. They kept him
and got rid of the good guy. Typical Canadian move right, unbelievably,
that's like, let's let's keep van of White, Okay.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
I don't think she knows how to ask the questions. Yeah,
just just just for a side note, just gonna point
this out. The Gallagher family among the first growers to
raise cantalope and discovered a very early variety of a
salmon flesh melon, which was later adopted by most goorers

(25:05):
in district. During the nineteen thirties, melon growing in this
district reached its peak, and it started in nineteen oh seven.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Gallagher he smashed watermelons. What the hell?

Speaker 4 (25:17):
See, that's the family, the same family. It's the same family.
It's the same guy.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Did you know brothers were doing the same act at
the same time because Gallagher retired and then his brother
took over the act, and then Gallagher went, I don't
want to retire, and he came back and then there
were two of them. Did you know that? Did not know?
Look it up, man, it's the wow.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Derek, immediately, it's the truth.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Now you got more knowledge, you can break out and
add on mell garbage.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
So weird.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
How did you guys get picked to do this radio thing?
Did you just go together and say, hey, we're going
to do the show and it's US three and it
was Canada, so they went, okay, one guy's got tattoos?
What happened?

Speaker 4 (26:02):
This is I'm the diversity. Yeah, I'm the diversity higher,
this is this is it.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Here, Let's be sympathetic to thugs.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Oh, Derek, I am so sampling that and playing it later.
That's amazing.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
Well is fifty four forty?

Speaker 2 (26:24):
I'm telling you that's it exactly.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, I have had day.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
We had the bass player, this guy, Brad Merritt on
from fifty four four great, remember had him on?

Speaker 3 (26:34):
Yes, I remember.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Brad Merritt literally ripped Derek a new asshole.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
It was amazing because he just could you know.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
Great like the minute the minute we were like okay,
show started and we went to say something and it
was just like like just shot after shot after shot
after shot. He wouldn't shut up, and it was just
came just come out like I'm like, it's just the
tattooed guy's got to like a target on his back.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
You know, I met John Clees, you know, from Monty Python.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, he does that to women. It's weird. Think, yeah
he does. Some people just think it's really funny to
be like mean and stuff. And he just sat there
and listened to it because he was on your show
and you had to shut up and take it.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Oh wow.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Wow. You could have punched him in his face with
your giant tattooed arms and you couldn't do it.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
You'd also have to jump really high.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
Is he tall?

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Oh, he's tall.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
He does he play the bass?

Speaker 4 (27:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (27:36):
Isn't that the least talented member in the band.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
No, it's the most talented member in the band.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Oh is it the bass flair? It's four strings?

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah, but we hold it, We hold it all down
so that everybody else can go off and do their
little important parts.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Oh I thought that was the drummer.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
No, he just knows how to count for.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Were you ever a front man, like the front man,
like the singer guy. No, never, because it's hard to
play four strings and sing.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
It's hard to do anything time sting does it? Sting?
Does it?

Speaker 3 (28:12):
You know Nicky Dolan from The Monkeys could play drums
and sing at the same time.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
That's right, Nicky Dolans could sing. And Mike Nesbitt's mother
invented liquid paper.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Yes she did, she did. That's the truth. I knew that.
I knew that ybody might love him.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
I love him.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
The green Beanie. Did you know that he invented that? Really?
The green Beanie?

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yes, it was never him.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Nobody made it green except the Irish.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
I think it was Michael.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
No, it didn't count. You didn't, it didn't count. Screw
the Irish.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Themselves. I was. I was gonna say there was something
else that was really cool too about the about Michael Nesmith.
I think did anybody watch his He did like a
made for TV sort of multi mini series. It was
called Elephant Parts. Does anybody remember that? I remember nineteen seventies. Yeah,
that was brilliant, real stuff. Yeah, it was really good.

(29:17):
It was very well done.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
That's where the tragically Hip got.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Their name, that's right, really, yeah, the typically Hip got
their name from an elephant part sketch.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Yeah, because you know what the movie the Monkeys movie
was terrible. Do you remember it Head?

Speaker 2 (29:33):
I never?

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah, it was called Head.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah. It was the same director as I think it
was the same director as Twelve vs. Pieces and Easy
Rider or one of those movies you know.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
Like a famous famous.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah, that guy went on to do like that guy
went on to do like legit, legit movies.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Well he started shitty, he did because I I saw
that movie and it was it was shockingly.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Bad, like in kind of the position that you're in,
like with the job that you have, kind of thing
like if you meet like said director for the very
first time, you'd be like, hey, Jeremy, hot's nice to
meet you. The beginning of your career sucked. Have you
have you been able to do that?

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Can?

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Damn?

Speaker 3 (30:21):
The guy was so bad. You can't you know. I
think if you're John Travolta you can do that and
the guy would laugh, right, Yeah, you have to be huge, huge,
huge to be you know. And it depends on the director,
you know, if he's if he if he's garbage, then
maybe you can't. But I wouldn't do that. I don't
do the mean stuff, but I think it.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
But you did, like you didn't You didn't, You didn't
rib Ken Finkleman for Greece too well.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
Ken was deserved that.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Ken was a special kind of guy in the mean
time word of Ken, the more he liked just so, yeah,
I tracked him, Yes, yes, yes, Jeremy, Jeremy, can I
tell you the time that Ken, this is really great?
Can you think him? And called me into his dressing
room bathroom and there was a little black feather on
the toilet seat, and he said, do you think this

(31:13):
is some kind of voodoo thing and someone's trying to
curse me? And I said, nope, that's a down jacket
and it came out of that and it fell on
the toilet and then I left. I mean, he's a genius,
but he's also incredibly stupid, all right, So I remember

(31:35):
that happened.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, I can't always.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
Used to bust each other's balls, And so did Mark Farrell,
who's still a really good friend. Of mine to this day.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Awesome.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Yeah, that was a lot of fun. And Tanya Allen
too was a friend. Yeah, we're still all friends. It
was a great fun time for us. We were in
a Canadian show and they didn't have any.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah, I mean at that time. At that time, I
remember like Twitch, Like CBC also had Twitch City and
that was good. That was a really good period for
this Hours twenty minutes. So I don't know, like there
was like there was some cool stuff on CBC at
the in the nineties, you know, around.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
But then it went away and now it's weird catwalk.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
I don't know that. I don't know this person.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
The last person that I remember on This Hours twenty
two minutes that I really dug with Shauna Jumder. He
was he was the last guy that I really liked that.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Sean was a good guy. Bet what happened there. He's
not even on that anymore. He's good. He was a
friend of mine back in the day before I left
and everything.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
He was.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah, yeah, he was a good, good looking guy. He
belongs on TV. I don't understand. He should have his
own show.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
He's coaster. Hey, when you play Halifax. I wonder if
he might be at your show, Jeremy.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Maybe because does he live there.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
I don't know where he is now, I don't know,
but I know he's a Newfoundlander, right, so.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah he's Finlander.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
You're right, he's yeah, he's from Newfoundland.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah, yeah, good guy though. Seriously, one of the few,
one of the guys that I came up with, which
was which is nice when they're still around, because a
lot of them they're gone, you know that, huh, Like
they're yeah, And a lot of my friends, like I
like when I played the comedy Magic Clever the Laugh Factory,
I'm the oldest guy sometimes. That's awful. That's stinks. I

(33:18):
used to be the kid man. What happened? Jeez?

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Your hair? Honestly, it was just a beautiful shade of
brown when you were doing some of those Montreal fests.
Like I'm just saying, it's not what it was back
in the nowo thousand, but anyways, not there was, Okay.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
It's Sean's been doing He's he was in something something
undone in two thousand and one and he's in a
series called from Uh which has he's been in like
ten episodes of that.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
That was That was shooting out, and that was shooting
out in oll. That was shooting somewhere anyway. I'm sorry
to interrupt.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
I was from is it a Canadian show? Because a
lot of American show shoots there, and it's.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
Just yeah, it looks like American pro.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
Yeah, because it's cheap and it's yeah, they shoot in Canada's.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
American science fiction horror television series created by John Griffin.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
So it's not a comedy, no horror. I don't think
I'd want to do something like that if they came
to me instead, we want to put you in a
horror movie. You're going to be a zombie. I would say,
how fucking ugly am I? Right away? I would say,
and I would go, why am I not the lead zombie?

Speaker 2 (34:49):
So you asked for the lead part, but the zombie
is still Okay, that's good.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
I'm gonna be a zombie. I get lead zombie and
I get extra credit and more. I want a large
I want catering just for me.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
I want to be the front man.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
It's like John Bennette when John Finnett lost, when John
Pannette lost all that weight, and he had that little
bit in the show where he was like and my
friends would come up to me and they say, wow,
you've lost a lot of weight. You can really tell
in your face. He's like, how fat was my head?

Speaker 3 (35:15):
That's funny. He was great friend of mine that died,
and that's a horrible thing that happens. Hey, jeez, your
generation dies and then you're still alive and you're like,
I should have died. What happened? Then you get to
be a legend.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
That's it. That's it, which you are Jeremy talking about.
We're talking about earlier talking about news radio and and
like sort of newsroom excuse me, sorry, newsroom, you know,
with you know, going and doing different Canadians going and
doing different things. There's a great movie that I absolutely adored,
and I'm wondering if you remember this comedian. It's a

(35:52):
movie called It's All Gone Pete Tong and there was
a fellow that played Max Hagar in it and he
was is sent acally like the manager of the world's
biggest dj okay. His name is Mike Wilmont. Mike Wilmot, Mike, Yes,
a Canadian guy. Yeah, in this movie, My god, he

(36:14):
was so freaking funny. Did you ever like work alongside him?

Speaker 1 (36:17):
And before.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
Yeah. Sure, it was an old Canadian guy that I
worked with that used to do the Montreal Festival with me.
Came up at the same time. Really really funny comic,
moved to England, was really well known in England. That's
where what he did. He went to He went to
the UK instead of uh, you know, Los Angeles, New
York the other America. That's that's what he did.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Nice, very cool. Yeah, no, I just that's one of
my favorite movies. So I just was wondering if you'd
ever like run into him or work.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
I haven't seen the picture.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah, oh it's but I imagine because he went I
imagine because he went to the UK. That's how he
got that part that.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
It's all gone Pete Tong for sure.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yeah, it was it a UK movie.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
I believe it is.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Yeah, English, he was well known and he the guy.
It's really funny. He went really far and he deserved
everything he got. He's one of my favorite comedians and
just because he's from Canada doesn't mean anything, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Well, also, that's the question. Next question I had for you.
Would you be able to share with us some of
your like your influences of the comedians that you loved
growing up before you really started to get into the Yeah, Cheech.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
And Chong and George Carlin. Yeah, that's it. Those those
are the ones that the Cheech and Chong for the
first movie that they made up in. Smoke is still
one of my favorite comedy movies I've ever seen. It
was really funny. Slapshot is the other one. I think
that's a great movie too. Uh. And then as far
as you know, listen, George Carlin, I went to see

(37:49):
at the Arts Center when I was a kid and went,
one day, I'm going to do that. And that's why,
because of him, you know. And then I got to
meet him when I did Letterman. He was on I
think two shows happen to me and he was there
and I got to meet him. That was like amazing. Yeah, yeah,
that was amazing. Yeah. I got a couple of those.
I got Jerry Lewis pinched my cheeks after a show

(38:09):
at the Laugh Factory and said, ooh your face right
after they said don't ask him for a picture. He's
really mean. And then he goes, Oh, I love this kid.
And then he goes, hey, can I have a picture
with you, mister Lewis, sare no problem.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
And how some people how some people tell you don't
look this guy in the eye, and.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Then yeah, that guy, you.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
Know, and then yeah, that beautiful.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
It was the great thing of all time that happened
to me. The guy that I saw in black and
white movies when I was five on TV and there
he is. I mean, Jesus, that was fantastic. You know.
So there are a few good things that Rihanna, I
mean she said she was her favorite. Really yeah, but
only in Rolling Stone magazine.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
Never in public.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Never.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
That was a good thing, you know. I mean, there
are good things and you got to find them and stuff.
And because of my anxiety disorder, I don't like you know,
you know what happens. You I think I'm a piece
of shit. Yeah, that's what happens.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
We don't like your piece of shit.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
No, you that because.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
It's Derek. That's me, That's.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
Derek, Derek. That is how rumors get started, and that's
how Jeremy hot.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Okay, that's how my face looks. You know.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Dmitri has resting bitch face.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
Yeah, he stole it from this lady. Speaking of speaking
of good things and careers and stuff like that. In
nineteen ninety seven, Keanu Reeves did Shakespeare. He did Hamlet
in Winnipeg and you did.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
Speed to Ah. I guess what My second tonight show
was with Keanu Reeves. And we both smoked at the time,
and I was smoking a player's light and he's Kadian
and he stuck his head in my dressing here when
he went are those players light? Yeah? And he goes,
can I have one? And I go sure, and he

(40:12):
bummed a cigarette off me and we smoked a cigarette
and chatted.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Wow, yeah, it must be. It must really be, Like
is it a trip to you to just kind of
sit back some days and go holy shit, like.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Yeah, that guy's famous, way famous. Yeah, career sometimes, sure, sure, sure,
yeah it does. You know that was a really cool thing.
He was the nicest guy. He just started telling me
a story. He's what a nice guy, you know, Like
really they really when when you're completely non threatening and
you have something they want, they'll talk.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
To you like a like a player's light.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah, I used to smoke. I used to smoke the
Rothman's blue.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
I used to blue.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
Remember when you could smoke, You could smoke because they
didn't really tell you you were dying that.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
Remember that's of course there was no hideous warning on
the cigarette package, so you could go down the Beckers
and buy a pack for you.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
And for one of the ways that I'm one of
the ways I met Derek was being a nightclub DJ.
That's how Derek and I met. And I remember like
smoking in a nightclub in so I would be standing
in the DJ booth constantly having a cigarette going right,
so I'd reach I'd throw down a song, reach over,
grab a couple of puffs of a smoke, run to
the bar, get another drink, come back, have another cuffs

(41:36):
of puffs of smoke. I remember going home and smelling
so fucking bad that I was like, I got to
take a shower. Yeah you know what I mean. But
what's funny about that? But what was funny about that
was I went took a shower, got myself all freshened up,

(41:56):
dried myself off, dried my hair, went outside and met
another cigarette.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
That was the time, you know, all, yeah, we all
were gross. Well yeah, civilization right there. Cigarettes spoil boy, Yeah,
just smelling box a pack and you got to get
them on the reservation, right.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
Yeah, get them on the res. You can get them
for like eighteen bucks. Eighteen eighteen bucks will get you.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Really, so do you really save that much?

Speaker 2 (42:25):
You do?

Speaker 4 (42:26):
Red smokes?

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Are you sure?

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Yeah? But aren't they just called cigarettes? They have no brand,
they just called them.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
Yeah, they're just they're just cigarettes.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
And you get them coming a ziplock ziplock bag.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
In a bag the like dute little chin and boiled
decks and stuff in a little cardboard box or anything. No,
it's just fucking bag of smokes.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
Wows have changed, yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
They sure have Theyah, but one thing's for sure. The
government still loves taking those tax dollars off of them.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
So well that's why they cost so much, right, they're
just jacking it up.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Yeah, uh, jacking up the prices, just like our pell
Galen Weston. Oh, I'm starting to get political. I should
I shouldn't even know who that is? The owner of
law Loss, the owner of law Blass, That the lablass
the guy. Yeah, and oh did you know so, Jeremy Nicholas, Jeremy,

(43:20):
did you know that? Uh? Law Blaws also owned Shoppers
drug Mark? Did you know that?

Speaker 3 (43:25):
No, that's ridiculous. Did you know that I got a
I got a positive COVID test that Shoppers drug Mark
once and then I just went to the to another
place and it was negative. Just bald face lighting.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
I went down the road place, I went down the
road to the rex al and it was it was negative. Like,
what the hell is that about?

Speaker 3 (43:46):
I don't know. They were threatening to call off one
of my shows, and then we just got another one
and then they just lost the results. Freaking of course
you want to hire a nurse instead of just having
the guy that stalks the shelves.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Don't let Galen Weston test you next time. That's why
are you wearing.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
A security shirt.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
I thought it was Mike Nichols that owned Law Laws
from the Mike Nichols. I'm the president of Law Laws, remember, Mike.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Mike Nichols directed the graduate.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Oh wrong, guy, they call me half right.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Hot before we let you go.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Dude, Oh my god, you are awesome. You are so awesome.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
We we we've occupied a lot of your time.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, it's really long, this interview. Yeah, I think you
gonna look at it later.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
And I've actually been doing that the whole interview.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
I can't believe I fell for that again.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
But that's that's why, that's why Derek is called Dirky
mcshirt cocking.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
I'm not wearing that.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
He's gonna stand up and not be wearing pants.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
But we'll cover your arm.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Cover your cover it with your long tattooed arms. Man,
Come on, come son it so Friday.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
So Friday, Jeremy's and Halifax and then he then you
can catch him in Moncton. Then he goes to Richmond Hill. Well, yes, London, Ontario. Yes,
the gorgeous Hamilton, Hamilton.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
We're going to because I'll tell you what happened in Hamilton.
You'll love this. This is my crack team, my crack
agency here. So they booked me into this place and
then we had to change the venue because it was condemned.

Speaker 5 (45:40):
Okay, wait, so you're booked in the music you're booked
in the music hall.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Is that that's the new venue?

Speaker 3 (45:48):
No, it's called the sunkthing or other. I can't remember. Okay,
the landscape I think.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
I don't know it. I don't know that venue.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Okay, I don't know either. I'm looking it up right now,
guys on my phone, so we can tell people, because
don't do that. Don't do what you're doing a because jeez,
you'll end up. Yeah, I think that's the wrong. Hang
on a second, I'm looking at it up.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
So the previous venue was condemned.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
It was condemned, that's for sure. And then I went, yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
We are talking about Hamilton, so that does stand the reason, right?

Speaker 3 (46:23):
So yeah, music up here? Now it's not it's at
the it's at the Hamilton place. I don't know for music.
It says it's at the musical Oh so still at
the music hall?

Speaker 4 (46:37):
Okay, all right, well it's condemned.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Well something's condemned, so just make sure that you go
to the right show.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
Maybe the Argo cheerlead Hamilton in the eighties, what maybe Catcher.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
Eighties.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
Maybe they're still there. Maybe you have a chance.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
A couple of the girls are working the.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
Bar and Hamilton. That's a bad rap.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
It does. It does the Hammers The hammer is a
great place.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
That's a great I bought I bought a Hamilton beach
coffee maker once and I threw it out because my
parents took me to a beach in Hamilton when I
was a kid and it was ship. Hamilton gets a
bad rap.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
It sure does.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Really, any continuous to get one.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
Puts that beach down around Dafasco. Was that because that's understandable.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
It's lovely island. Lovely island where all the birds hang out.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
The smokestacks in the background.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
That's you know, I love more than anything else. I
would love Hamilton to get its own hockey team, which
would force the Toronto Maple Leafs to play better. I
really wish they would do that.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Well, I don't. I don't know, I don't. I don't
think there's any hopeful beliefs anymore. Like I really just don't.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Are you a Laice fan? I am at my I
would love to see them win the Cup and they
haven't in your lifetime, and now you start to think
they ain't gonna.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
Well, it's I know, I dare not hope anymore. I'm
a broken man, you know.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Yeah, But so that, like the beliefs not winning the
Cup is like all sorts of like comedy fans asking
like when is Eddie Murphy going to do another comedy special? Right,
and it's like, you know, do you do you bunny
chance have a calendar for twenty fifty you know, like
it's it's just that it's not going to happen.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
I mean, well, because it's been so many years, and
then they keep getting mad at the fans when we
call them names. Something to get you can't know, No,
I don't care. If you didn't play on the team
in those previous years, you've inherited the legacy.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Okay, you sound like you sound like you've been hurt
by the Leafs.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Oh my god, are you kidding me? My god? And
so of all my fans who love the Leafs, they've
been hurt. They this team is you know, Canadians used
to be happy. It's so many caller it's the Leafs.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Oh, jeremy, my friend, there's so many other reasons. It's
not just the Leafs. But yeah, the Leafs are definitely one.
But we've got just way too many reasons to not
be happy anyway.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
But you know what, keep you know what, keep your
keep a stiff upper lip. You know it worked for
the English, so keep a stiff upper lip. Look at them,
they got a new king, good looking guy, don't I
don't know how fit on the bill, but somehow they did.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Well. We haven't seen that bill yet. Maybe that's maybe
that's why we haven't had a new twenty yet you know.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
His his mother. His mother looks better.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
His hands are better.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Sure he's not well. He's not well. You can tell
by the hands. He's not well. You know what you
can tell by his hands. His hands are like our balloons,
you know, So what does that mean? Fluid or something?
You know?

Speaker 2 (50:20):
They are they liver spotted or what's going on?

Speaker 3 (50:22):
They don't have to act though. I don't know geese,
you know, like really, I've never noticed that before.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
They're like sausages, you know, like you know, so.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Well maybe finger maybe I don't know. I don't know.
Guys his hands next time, and.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
Please do report back.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Yeah that's right, Yeah, yeah, I want to hear about
his sausages fingers.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
You're normal and it's just you. What if you want
to eat his fingers for breakfast?

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Yeah, that's right. Bangers and mash for brecky right that.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
So February thirteenth was is the Hamilton Show at the
Non Condemned Venue? Yes? Yea Valentine's Day.

Speaker 5 (51:18):
You're Insarnia home Valentine's come and see that then, because
I'll be extra special, mister, because I don't have a girl,
So that'll be that, you know.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
I'll I'll bring you a tight Cats cheerleader.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
Okay, so I said a girl.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Okay, oh wow, oh come on February twenty seventh, Hometown show,
algon On Comments Theater in Ottawa.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
That's yeah, that'll be that'll be a zoo. Lookout for that.
If you're going to go to that, you better get
your tickets immediately. Trust me. I don't know. I haven't looked,
but I know that's forgetting.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Then Febru show. Then February twenty eighth, Grand Theater, Kingston.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
Oh, yeah, Heyston. Yeah. They always put me there because
it's near the penitentiary.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Actually, that's a really nice theater. You know, it is
the Grand, the Grand. That's like, yeah, I I I
was backstage for ron James show there working the teleprompter
for a CBC special.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
Yeah. Ronnie James is a nice guy. How's he doing.
I haven't seen him in a long time.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
It's been a few years since i've seen him.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Actually, nice guy, really good guy. And I hope for him,
you know, very funny man, Jeremy.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
It's great to hear you still say A. That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
I do good for you. A. But I've lost the
Canadian accent. But the a stuck you know, yeah, good
good said, I still have it. So it sounds like
an American who occasionally says.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
A yeah, dude, this is okay.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
So and then well I'll just I'll just finish off
by saying thirteen fourteen fifth mark thirteen fourteen fifteen, Saskatoon,
Regina and Winnipeg.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Yeah, that's the end of the tour. That's it. It
ends in Winnipeg at the Casino at the.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
Club Region Region Region Events Center.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
Yeah awesome, Okay, Well, Jeremy, we can't thank you enough
like this has just been Honestly, this has literally been
an absolutely awesome interview. We've never done anything like this.
We've never actually had a comedian on. Well there you go, right,
and it's just this has been fantastic. So thank you

(53:34):
so much for your time and good What do.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
You have on here? Poets?

Speaker 2 (53:38):
I mean, my god, musicians mostly musicians.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
A musicians. Oh okay, so we've.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
We've we've had a lot of people on that you
would be like, oh, yeah, absolutely, I know in all
those people, you know.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
Have you ever done a magician?

Speaker 2 (53:50):
No, yeah, not yet.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
They just want to do tricks, that's it. That's all
They want to do so if you want to be
wowed by their tricks. I don't trust them. They they
hang out in Vegas with hookers, you know what I mean?
All of them, Yes, all of them.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Wait a minute, now, are we are we? Is this
truth or is this half truth? Houghts happening right now?

Speaker 3 (54:17):
You got to figure those out for yourself, all right,
we gotta.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
You just watched David Copperfield from a distance, you know.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
And you're looking at Copperfield going, I wonder what he's
doing after the show. I think I know. According to
Jeremy Hawts, I know where he's going.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
You can follow him home and he's not a really
good musician. He won't know you're.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
There, Jeremy, dude, thank you so much. Man. We really
appreciate you being here. And uh, you picked a song.
We were like, hey, you give us a song yea
to close out the night. You picked a great tune
by a lovely group of Canadian boys called the Guess
Who the Guess Who? Yeah, American woman, what u uh?

(55:00):
Is this something special for you?

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Yeah? Just because they sang a song about this is
why I chose. Because they sang a song about America
and stay away because they wanted to be Canadian, but.

Speaker 5 (55:12):
Uh, like, uh, they don't like.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
The two main guys from the band, Burton Cummings.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
And Yeah and Bachman, Randy Bocker.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
And Randy Backman are both Canadian and they hate each
other's guts.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
Like so many good bands front men do. Yeah, if
I can Jeremy really quickly before we let you go.
Do you have any idea how the guests who got
their name?

Speaker 3 (55:42):
No, I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
There was gonna be a fucking quiz.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Here's some great this is the question. That's a tough question.
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
So the the the guess who actually ended up getting
their name because when they released their very first single,
which was called Shaken all Over Yes, a lot of
DJs were saying, gosh, this sounds like an America Like
it sounds like you know, American bands, like you know,
it's it's really really cool. Who is this buy? And
they didn't want because Canadian DJs didn't want to play
Canadian music. So what they did was they sent out

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a record that said the guess who question mark on it.
It was a white label that said the guess who.
The songs called Shaken all Over and that's how they
got their name.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
That's beautif what a great story. I'm glad I know
that because when I was a really young kid and
I heard American Woman, I thought it was one of
the greatest rock and roll songs ever written. And they
were Canadian.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
It's still one of the best guitar riffs ever.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But then they did clap
for the wolf.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Man with yeah not so much, not so much.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
I think I think Bachman had left by that point.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
I got okay, so I gotta be asked. I got
to ask you guys this real quick too. Here laughing
the guess who do you guys like that song? I've
never liked that. I don't care for it.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
No, I do you have big.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
Like well, really, Burton.

Speaker 4 (57:01):
That wasn't even close to the melody.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
But sure, I'm trying my best, Derek.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
He did have a good voice though.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
Great. Cummings Theater in Winnipeg is dreadful. They've got to
fix it up. Hey, seriously, they got wooden, they got
wooden seats up top there. You know, have you ever
been into it? No?

Speaker 1 (57:22):
No, I haven't been there.

Speaker 4 (57:24):
Trying trying to stay out of the stabby Canada.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
Because somehow it's not condemned yet.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
Can I just say, can I just say something like,
ask your opinion? Because because Jeremy, you've seen a lot
of entertainers. Is Burton Cummings the sweatiest man in show business?

Speaker 3 (57:45):
He sweats? But he had the big he had the
Gary Carter hair, he had the crazy.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
He certainly did. He certainly did.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
Yes, you don't you know who else?

Speaker 2 (57:54):
You know who else had that fantastic Gary Carter hair
was Geno Vanelli.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Yes, he did.

Speaker 7 (58:00):
One huge and then he had more hair on his
chest because it came out like that and there was
more there, like a problem.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Wonderful. Yeah, g.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
Horses, I remember that song?

Speaker 1 (58:15):
Yeah, black cars, black cars, you know.

Speaker 3 (58:18):
Yeah, I remember Gino Vanelly? Good god?

Speaker 2 (58:22):
Yeah, people got to move and you want to your song?

Speaker 1 (58:26):
Do you want to switch your song?

Speaker 2 (58:28):
I think next time, next time. Hopefully someday we'll get
Jeremy back. Next time we get him back, let's just
talk music the whole show. I think it.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
But do you do you agree that Burton Cummings is
the sweatiest man in show business?

Speaker 3 (58:42):
He's pretty much yeah, because he's you know, he's hairy
like he's a hairy guy, you know, so they they sweat.
That's the way it is. It's discussed. All the hair
on my legs fell out, which is because I'm old.
I guess I don't know why. When I asked the doctor,
he just looked at me and like, you didn't know.
So anyway, it's all fell out, and I can't take
my I can't take my pants off anywhere because people

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will think I'm a cyclist.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
A swimmer.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
Jeremy, Jeremy, Jeremy, you were talking about it earlier, so
I do have to ask the pubes.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
Are they still there? They're still there because you know
they're still there because my dick thinks I'm still in
the seventies.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
Beautiful, Yeah, I think I think in the business that's
what they call a mic drop. Yeah, alrighty, Jeremy, thank
you so much, my friend, really appreciate you hanging out
with us. All the best of luck with the tour
and let's see some guess who for you. Okay, this
is a wicked, wicked tuner, our new bestie here at

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Revolution Radio Canada, Jeremy Hotts on tour. Now check them out?
Is it Jeremy hots dot com.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Yeah, that's what I went with.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
That's what you have to go with. My friend, my name,
that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:06):
I haven't the whole time, so.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
No, absolutely Already here's American Woman the guests who thanks again, Jeremy.
We really appreciate it. Brother, have a great night.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
See you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Take care, take care, Canadian as heck. Revolution Radio