
Toront-dough: Little Canada with Taylor Davis and Carson Pinch
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(upbeat music)
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- Hey up there buddy, it's me, Little Wigger.
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We've got a big new episode of "Dowboys Double" so we made it free for everyone.
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See, we paid a visit to Little Canada.
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Toronto's amazing miniatures exhibit and we talked about it with some cool new friends.
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This week on "Dowboys Double," Toronto, "Dow Canada," the great bite North, a culinary tour of the six continues with Little Canada.
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We shut the fuck up.
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Finally, let's start the show.
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(upbeat music)
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(laughing)
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- Stubble, double, double.
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Welcome to "Dowboys Double," I'm Nick Wigger, along with the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell, Mitch, as Toronto, Doe, Canada, the great bite North, a month-long culinary tour of the six continues.
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- Wow.
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- Wow.
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- Wow, wow.
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- And reality kind of ends.
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- Well, this chronologically, this is the final in-person record up here at podium studios in Toronto.
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- Ben and in-en-en-en-en-en-en.
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Ben and in-en-en-en-en-en-en-en-en-en-en.
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I'm like, I'm at the bone.
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- Yeah, I'm like, I'm excited that it's ending.
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I'm saying like, I'm done.
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We're done with our work.
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- Why that's cute, why bad to the bone?
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- 'Cause I was like, raising my eyebrow.
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- Oh, it's like a horny thing.
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- We're not done, we're not done.
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- I'm not horny, I'm never horny.
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I would just say like, we're done, Ben.
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Like, it was like kind of a-- - Right, it's like a needle drop in like a, you know.
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- One of our guests laughed.
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That's all we need.
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- It was good.
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- It was a, it was out of pity.
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- Oh, it was a little funny.
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- I get, he's going for a bit here.
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I'm gonna throw a laugh, but I do not get it.
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- It was settled the bit.
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- Yes.
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- It was, it was a bit.
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I was happy.
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- Kind of like the, I saw it, like-- - I should've done it.
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♪ Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun ♪ - Woo-hoo.
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- So yeah, cool again, celebration, I would've gotten more.
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- All right.
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- That would've gotten more.
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- That was a genuine one.
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- That was a genuine one.
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- I'm excited, it's done, I'm excited.
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- You're-- - Come on.
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- Out of here.
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- Mitch, I'm excited about that too.
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Although I've enjoyed my time up here in Toronto, lovely town.
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- Do we do a thing where we record every, all of our episodes in four months and like really have a concentrated hate for each other and then have time off?
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- No, I think we need to have a better system.
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I think we'll figure this out in the next year.
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We did the best we could with your abrupt change of schedule with your wonderful success and working on your great show up here.
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- Hollywood calls, you pick up the phone man, you know what I mean?
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(laughing)
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- Yes, what's that, Mr.
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Weinstein?
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- Hope you're right there.
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(laughing)
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- Mitch-- - Everyone seems, stand down and stand by.
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(laughing)
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- Mitch, it's great.
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We've had a lot of old friends up here that, you know, our Canadian friends, a lot of like friends that are Americans that are working up here.
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- I think you're alluding to some new friends.
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- This is the thing, we have some new friends here.
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- New friends.
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- That I'm-- - We've got a more my new friends, not yours, but whatever.
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- Okay, well I'm thrilled to have them on the podcast.
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We at least have mutual friends in common.
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Toronto's own Carson and Taylor, Carson Pinch and Taylor Davis.
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Thanks so much for being here guys.
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- Thank you so much.
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- Thank you so much.
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- I'm totally open for new friends.
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- I love it.
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- Nick, we're, we're, we're, we're game.
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- That's great, let's, let's exchange numbers.
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- My schedule is really heavy at the moment.
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- Oh, that's fair.
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- I knew that I was fine.
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- Mine's wide open.
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(laughing)
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- Just so busy.
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(laughing)
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- Yeah.
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- Now our friend in common is-- - A choice by the way.
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- Our friend in common is blank checks, Griffin Newman.
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- Correct.
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- And he connected all of us.
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And I will, while I'm on that, I will say-- - No, you're not on the text chain.
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- That's fine, we connected all of us.
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- You're on the text chain 'cause you're up here, 'cause you guys can hang out or whatever.
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- Which should be fair, we started text chain about, in the beginning of August, and we have not hung out until we did the live show the other night is the first time I saw you.
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- And this is my first time meeting.
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- This is our first time meeting, though I feel like we've known each other forever.
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- Yeah, it's been a while now, a lot of texting we did.
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- The way Griffin explained this too, if I can, is that he was like, - My friend's coming up there to film.
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- He doesn't know anybody.
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- He's really depressed.
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- He's really lonely.
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- He really likes his life, and we were like, oh, okay, wow, so this guy really needs like a buddy.
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So we were like, right away, like, hey man, how are you?
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What do you need, any recommendations you need?
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We'll help you out.
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- That's it.
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- See you later, suckers.
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- The city is mine.
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- Yeah.
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- I went in a tour of the city.
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He was right.
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- Yeah, to be fair, you were-- - I was the only man, I think true.
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- I think you were kind of early on.
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I think you were kind of a little homesick, and I think that was kind of coming through at least communicating with you electronically.
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First week in New Orleans, having a fucking ball.
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(laughing)
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- New world.
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- Yeah, there were some things that made the journey here a little rocky when I first got there, but there's something I'll say.
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There's a subject we're talking about today, which we'll get into, but I'll say this.
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Things changed.
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Things changed.
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- Things changed.
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- That's all I can't, without spoiling anything.
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- Yeah, wow.
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- Things changed.
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- Things changed.
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- Things changed.
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- Burner and Rainer and Rainer.
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(laughing)
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- Okay, so you also connected us with Miguel Galtier, who performed a French language version of the "Dowboys Intro" in our live show.
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Miguel, a great dude, very, very happy to meet in.
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We appreciate that connection a lot.
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- Well, yeah, I don't really listen to, I was telling this to Michelle.
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She was like, don't listen to podcasts.
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- Yeah.
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- And then-- - It's the right call.
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- It's a rule.
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- Miguel and I was like, 'cause you would say, I need someone who's bilingual, and I knew Miguel was an improviser.
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- Yeah.
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- And I was like, do you know "Dowboys" is like, yes?
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I'm like, oh, okay, cool.
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Like, I kind of know one of them.
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He's like, what's wrong?
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And I'm like, well, okay, like, and I connect it.
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I don't think he believed me for a majority of it until I think it seemed to be.
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- Was he more excited than it was me?
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- I mean, he didn't, he didn't.
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- Okay.
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- Yeah.
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- Yeah.
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- I believe this response was, oh, cool.
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(laughing)
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But that's how I read it.
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It could have been, oh, cool.
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- Yeah, sure, no.
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- I think it was, I like to believe that it was, oh, cool.
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- Miguel was lovely.
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So Miguel was from Manitoba.
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I'm curious to each of you, are you from Ontario?
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Like, how long have you lived in Toronto?
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- We are from Ontario.
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- Okay.
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- We're from a small town called Sarnia, Ontario.
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- I'm from Brighdon, Ontario.
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- Which is a small subsect of Sarnia, Ontario.
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- 540 people.
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- Yeah.
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- That is a small town.
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- It's a small oil and petrochemicals city.
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- Is it akin to Hamilton, which I know about through Mitch?
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- Well, steel city.
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- Steel city, right.
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But part of the industrial heartland of-- - It's like where my people are in Hamilton.
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Salt to the earth, hard workers.
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We put our hard hat on, we come in record podcasts over there.
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- Exactly.
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Sarnia is the cancer capital of Canada.
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- That's true, yeah.
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- And-- - If you're from Sarnia, every single person you know will die from cancer.
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- Oh my God.
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- It's statistic.
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- Why is it the cancer capital?
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- Well, they built the largest petrochemicals plant in North America there.
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And when they did that, it was out of a time where they put it really close to the city.
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Like you would never be able to put the plant so close to the people nowadays.
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- Right.
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- And it just still lives there.
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And there's sirens that go off every so often.
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And you know.
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- Music to me.
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- And you just go back.
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You go inside, you shut the windows.
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- Like in the air raids.
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- Exactly, exactly.
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- And we're dispensing some deadly chemicals into the atmosphere, get the fucking door.
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- Yeah, I mean-- - The Osmo that the outbreak monkey is also in the city, two of that happens, right?
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Could it be the outbreak monkey?
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- It could be.
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- I think some same system.
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- Sorry, but he's actually really nice.
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- He's great, he's cool.
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- He's got a job at Temple Valley.
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Like he works there.
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Like he done a lot.
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- Well, that's what he did after the movies.
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- After the film, like he was serious, yeah.
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- You know, it was a dick, curious George.
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- Oh, I feel like that.
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- He's like a pre-Madonna, yeah.
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- He knows what he's doing.
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- He knows what he's doing.
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- You know who they're good friends is the monkey from friends.
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- Yeah.
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- And the outbreak monkey.
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- They get they hang out, yeah.
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- They look very similar.
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- Yeah, they the same.
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- There was that meme that went crazy.
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The Ikea monkey.
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- Oh, right, that was here.
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- That was here.
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- That was here.
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- Yeah, wow.
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- The Ikea monkey in Aparka?
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- Yeah.
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Good monkey.
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One of our best monkeys.
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- This is cute.
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- Yeah, he was cute as hell.
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- I remember there was an explosion in the chemical, but a long time ago.
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- Oh my god.
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- No one died, no one got hurt.
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But I remember when it happened 'cause I was staring out my bathroom window.
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- As you do.
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- Yeah, sure.
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- It was just staring, but the window was open and I heard a distant like (blows raspberry)
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and I was like, what was that?
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And then my window went (blows raspberry)
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like just did like a shake.
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And I've always had like a deep fear of asteroids or nuclear weapons.
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So I ran out through my brother's balcony window and then climbed up to my roof to wait for like the shock blast.
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'Cause I was like, I was like, it sounds like you were embracing it almost.
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- Red, I have been dreaming about this for years.
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(laughing)
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- You fear it, but you want to experience it 100%.
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I feel like I'm going to.
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I always have these dreams where a tornado just appears on my farm.
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- Yeah.
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- And I'm like, here it goes.
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- You grew up in a farm as well.
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- Wow.
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- So you went up to the roof to embrace it and then just-- - Oh, nothing happened.
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And then I just found out on the news that it was just an explosion.
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But I was like, do you remember when that happened?
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- Yeah.
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- It was a big deal.
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- Was this when you-- - This was when you-- - This was when you were at this point.
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- No, I didn't know what was going on.
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But this is also, I think it's about like 30 kilometers away from me.
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- And sometimes they don't tell you about these things until then you find out after the fact, like what happened?
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- Dear God.
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- It was terrifying.
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- Yeah, like, and swimming?
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- Growing up swimming in the lake, you'll just, you'll find out like, oh, by the way, you weren't supposed to be swimming yesterday.
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(laughing)
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It was not safe.
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But then today is okay.
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- Right.
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- So you're like, wait, what's changed in the water?
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Like, you're like, it's just not as bad.
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- Sarnia's gonna be so pissed about this.
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- We love it.
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Don't get us wrong.
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I love going back home.
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- Who's gonna be so pissed about it?
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- They get, there's a little bit of the town.
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- It's a little bit of a chimp on their shoulder a little bit.
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Every time I go home, like, if they find out that anyone has discouraged Sarnia in any, like, little way, people talk about it.
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- Sure, yeah.
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- Yeah.
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- But I will talk up Brighton.
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The small village.
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- Brighton.
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- The small village.
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- How many people?
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- 540.
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- Yeah.
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- 540?
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- Yeah.
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- That's where I grew up.
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Which is about halfway from Sarnia.
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So I went to, like, theater camp when I was 13 and I met Carson.
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- Wow.
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- When they had this collab has been going for a sense of your teenagers.
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- Yeah.
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- Yeah.
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- 26 years.
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- That's amazing.
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- All the theater camp as well.
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Wags?
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- I don't know what a theater camp.
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I want a music camp.
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- Camp there.
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- So three of us.
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- Three of us.
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- That's why we're really good at it, yeah.
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- And the third, is it Nick as a third?
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Is it Nick?
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- Yeah, and we met him probably about three years after that.
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- Mitch, I'm Nick.
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- Oh, sorry, you're Nick.
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- Yeah, I'm sorry.
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- I'm Nick.
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- I'm all of his other-- - Yes, so there's another.
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- It's another Nick that we're friends, got it, a fair yeah.
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- Yes.
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- The Nick that we're friends with.
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- Yeah.
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- You're my three over friend.
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(laughing)
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- So how long have you been living Toronto now?
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- 2011.
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- 2011, okay, it's been a long time.
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- Yeah, we moved to, we started doing theater camp teaching comedy in Connecticut.
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And that's where we met GRIFF.
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- Wow.
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- And did he come to you as a student of comedy?
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- No, no, he was already teaching.
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He was a junior counselor at that time.
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- Yes.
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- Okay.
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- Yes, and we were just a couple of goofball Canadians coming in to teach our improv.
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And it's funny that you say that, 'cause that's a drill you real quick, but just what you just said, like, 'cause we've been talking about the movie Megalopolis, which Francis Ford Coppola directed.
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- I got a question.
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- Megalopolis, RB Plaza plays is called wow platinum, that's the character's name, wow platinum.
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We say the word wow a lot on the doughboys, and we also, if something gets five forks, we induct it into the platinum plate club, wow platinum, both references to doughboys, I believe, I believe Francis Ford Coppola is a listener of the podcast,
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because-- - What makes sense?
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- Because Mitch and I, too, are a Coppola hooples.
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- Coppola hooples.
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- Yeah, Coppola.
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So yeah, so yeah, so-- - By the way, I just want to say that I looked at Emma, and she shook her head now.
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I looked at Mars, she shook her head now.
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I mentioned Francis Ford Coppola, listening to this go, ooh, and then chatting down, it's gonna hit me in the-- - And that's true, he's done that twice a week, every week in the month of October.
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- Yeah, so it's very annoying.
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He's gonna add into the one I think he forgot.
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- No, but I just want to go back to that.
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So you were talking about, like you guys are a couple of goofballs, you are meeting Griffin Newman at camp.
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- Yeah, summer camp in Connecticut, some rich kid camp, all the New York elites - Intelligenci and their children there.
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- Right, a lot of pale kids, people who do not, cannot throw a ball.
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- I think right now it's so great for me.
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- It's amazing, and we met when we talked comedy, and we moved to New York, it was too hard to live there, and so we moved to Toronto.
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- 'Cause we were illegal immigrants.
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- Right, as it is generally the reason why it was too difficult.
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Every time I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know you didn't really understand.
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But every time I crossed the border, I did the same trick where I just have one week's worth of clothes.
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I'm like, oh, I'm just visiting my friends in New York.
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And then they're like, when you're returning, I'm like, oh, you know, in a bit.
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Like, and then when I was coming back to visit, I was like, oh, I'm just coming back from New York when I'd visit my family.
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Only one time did they grill me, like, bring me into a room.
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- Oh wow.
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- And like, give me, do you took a bunch of pets, the dogs, the cats?
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- No, no, it was, no, I went in there.
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She just didn't buy it, she saw through me.
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But everyone I'm working with was like, you're eating the dogs, you're eating the cats.
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- I wasn't eating dogs in here.
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That's not true.
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Eating the pets, that's it.
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- Eating the dogs and eating the cats.
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What do you want us about?
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- I wanted to build a, I told you I want to build a wall.
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- I grew up on a farm, okay?
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- You eat what you get.
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(laughing)
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- I want to build the northern wall and keep you guys in Canada away from the United States.
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That's what I want to do.
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And I told you if Trump had run on that, Wigz.
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- It's a long way to go.
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- You would have still voted for him.
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(laughing)
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- It's a long border.
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- I got to say this.
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- I got to say this.
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- Largest unguarded border in the world.
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- It's straight.
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- We got to guard it.
00:14:18
(laughing)
00:14:19
- Now there's some spots where you can just like, kind of hop over.
00:14:21
- Yeah, that's why.
00:14:22
- I could guard it.
00:14:23
- You could do it.
00:14:24
- I could do it.
00:14:25
- You guys should do it, you guys should do it.
00:14:26
- It would just be fun.
00:14:29
- It would be silly and fun, I feel like.
00:14:31
- There's one thing here.
00:14:33
The monkey from friends is the monkey from up.
00:14:36
- It's the same monkey.
00:14:37
- Same monkey.
00:14:38
- Marcel, which is very similar to someone we might talk about today.
00:14:41
- You would say.
00:14:43
- And then also.
00:14:43
- We have to talk about this.
00:14:46
While you were off getting coffee.
00:14:48
- That's right, for 20 minutes.
00:14:50
(laughing)
00:14:51
- It's not my fucking fault.
00:14:52
It's 2025.
00:14:53
- You were nervous yesterday when we were gonna go to Little Canada.
00:14:57
- That's right.
00:14:58
- We went to Little Canada.
00:14:59
- Yesterday and I was gonna go get McDonald's and I was like, I can get this and be back in 10 to 15 minutes and then it took you about 20 minutes.
00:15:05
- This is all what it worked.
00:15:06
This is how it looked.
00:15:07
- And I had, and I added a coffee to your order to make it longer.
00:15:10
- That's fine.
00:15:11
This is all a domino effect from you being late for breakfast.
00:15:15
That's okay.
00:15:16
That's all right.
00:15:17
- You would have had it at your time.
00:15:18
- It's definitely from me being late to breakfast.
00:15:20
- Yeah, if we would have had time, if you would have been on time for that, we would have ended in time for me to get a coffee before this record.
00:15:26
- I will say we didn't order anything because we were respectful of the time.
00:15:30
- I think you guys were very respectful of the time.
00:15:32
You know what, Wags?
00:15:32
I found a little fact to it out that I was gonna tell you and then you're whining me.
00:15:37
- Please.
00:15:38
- So.
00:15:39
- I was perfectly on time.
00:15:40
- Thank you, Emma.
00:15:41
- Thank you.
00:15:42
- Wow, pretty easy for you to see that you were next door to fucking asshole.
00:15:45
- I was at the dollar store.
00:15:46
- There we go.
00:15:47
- That was out of 730.
00:15:50
Sorry, keep going.
00:15:51
- I don't give a shit when you were up.
00:15:52
I was up at 2 a.m.
00:15:53
- There you go, all right.
00:15:54
- Fuck off.
00:15:55
(laughing)
00:15:57
- Jesus.
00:15:58
- No, you'll understand so soon.
00:16:00
I promise you, Taylor, can you please tell Wyger, the factoid you told me that I told you that he would love.
00:16:08
- Oh, there's that my father is a trained mechanic.
00:16:10
- Wow.
00:16:11
- Yeah, you really did like it.
00:16:13
- What specifically.
00:16:14
- I don't know, like trained.
00:16:15
- That's cool.
00:16:17
Wait, did he, like what?
00:16:18
- Don't you want to tell him to fuck off?
00:16:19
- Why?
00:16:20
No, I mean.
00:16:21
Wait, you're living in a small, you're living in Brighdon, a population of 540, and you are there, like your father is living with you?
00:16:29
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:16:30
- And so is there-- - Sorry, he's the closest city.
00:16:31
- So he's the closest city and the train station there is that where he's largely working?
00:16:35
- No, he was a, he worked for CN.
00:16:37
CN, okay.
00:16:38
- And then he started his own business.
00:16:39
That was based on CN.
00:16:40
They were like, the mechanics for hire.
00:16:42
- Oh, wow, okay.
00:16:43
I don't know anything more than that.
00:16:44
Like I went into the arts.
00:16:46
- Do you know much about the train like industry in Canada?
00:16:50
- Only peripherally, you know.
00:16:52
I saw some of the exhibits and we were walking around Toronto and I saw some of the real cars that were set up on display there.
00:16:59
And I've done, I've like, you know, I know a little bit peripheral research about it, but I've never like ridden the rails up here.
00:17:04
I'd love to do it.
00:17:05
Love to hop on one of those cars going from like, BAMF to Toronto or whatever.
00:17:09
- Do you think you ever ride Ozzy?
00:17:11
I was born as crazy train.
00:17:12
(laughing)
00:17:13
- Yeah.
00:17:14
- You love train, right?
00:17:15
- You would get on it?
00:17:16
- Yeah.
00:17:17
- Jeez.
00:17:18
- I mean.
00:17:19
- It seems scary.
00:17:19
- Yeah, but he's saying all aboard.
00:17:21
(laughing)
00:17:22
- He's very well-organized, really well-organized.
00:17:24
- He don't even need a ticket.
00:17:26
- Yeah.
00:17:27
- I mean, really, when you think about the message of the crazy train, it's like crazy.
00:17:31
Hey, but that's how it goes.
00:17:32
Millions of people are living as foes.
00:17:35
Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget out of hate.
00:17:39
It's pretty wholesome message.
00:17:40
- Yeah, it is.
00:17:41
- But it's also still, right?
00:17:42
- Yeah, good.
00:17:43
- Pistol wheels, what is it there?
00:17:44
- Going off the rails on an unerged crazy train.
00:17:46
- Yeah, going off the rails.
00:17:47
- Yeah, that's a little interesting.
00:17:48
- They don't slow down in residential areas.
00:17:50
That's their issue.
00:17:51
They fly through them.
00:17:53
(laughing)
00:17:55
- Don't you want to tell him to fuck off a little bit?
00:17:59
- I don't know why, you're pushing this so hard.
00:18:00
He's just trying to try his father's position.
00:18:02
- I think it's really cool.
00:18:03
- How he raised that.
00:18:04
- Yeah, I'm a Hamilton man.
00:18:06
I know how it is for the fucking working class.
00:18:08
- It's all fair to break then.
00:18:09
- It's like, that's the city.
00:18:12
You don't know the salt.
00:18:14
- Oh my god.
00:18:15
- The salt of the earth?
00:18:16
- 540 populations, is that real?
00:18:18
- It's just farm.
00:18:19
- Tallest hands?
00:18:20
(laughing)
00:18:20
- Your hands.
00:18:21
You don't even get it.
00:18:22
- Yeah, right.
00:18:23
Are you kidding me?
00:18:24
I'm holding podcasts myself all day.
00:18:25
(laughing)
00:18:26
I'm callous stuff, why?
00:18:28
- Now that hand's getting plenty of workout.
00:18:30
(laughing)
00:18:32
- Okay, so you live in Toronto since 2011.
00:18:34
We talked about a couple of topics.
00:18:36
One, I do want to touch on real quick.
00:18:38
Is the Old Spaghetti Factory.
00:18:41
Now, this is a chain we do have in Southern California.
00:18:43
And I used to go to the Old Spaghetti Factory as a kid.
00:18:46
I've never looked into the Old Spaghetti Factory's origins.
00:18:48
Is it from Canada?
00:18:50
Do we know?
00:18:51
- I believe the origins are in Canada.
00:18:53
I guess I should've, I could've looked this up in advance.
00:18:55
I'll never have.
00:18:56
- I have been to the LA location of the Old Spaghetti Factory.
00:18:59
- Yes.
00:19:00
- Griff has been pushing me to go to this spaghetti factory so much and his other recommendation worked out.
00:19:04
So I do need to go before I-- - We should definitely go.
00:19:07
We have been going for 10 years.
00:19:09
- Oh wow.
00:19:10
- Yes, every year.
00:19:12
- Okay, we go.
00:19:12
- It is just real quick.
00:19:14
There is a, it is like A&W where there is a schism between the American and the Canadian brand.
00:19:19
So they're separately owned.
00:19:21
- Yeah, yeah.
00:19:22
- Correct.
00:19:23
The Canadian ones, I would say are a little better.
00:19:26
I would not doubt it.
00:19:27
A&W Canada is far superior to A&W.
00:19:29
- Okay.
00:19:29
- There it is.
00:19:30
- I might be down.
00:19:33
- We're not doing anything.
00:19:35
I mean, we can make this happen.
00:19:37
- I'm just saying, we could go to the Old Spaghetti Factory tonight.
00:19:40
We were gonna go to Prime Sea Food Palace instead.
00:19:43
Now, I will warn you, this spaghetti is old.
00:19:46
- It's quite old.
00:19:47
- But who wants to work with a new spaghetti?
00:19:50
- It's in the name.
00:19:52
(laughing)
00:19:53
- Oh, it's old, okay.
00:19:56
- Now, you can eat it on a street car, which is nice.
00:19:58
- That is cool.
00:19:59
- And they do have a crystal room that you can eat.
00:20:03
- Right, no.
00:20:04
- We've been taking people there for years now, gotten, become friends with the wait staff there.
00:20:12
It's a special place.
00:20:14
The food, hmm.
00:20:16
- Not good.
00:20:17
- It's not good.
00:20:18
- One thing.
00:20:19
- It's the vibes that are impeccable of the Old Spaghetti Factory.
00:20:22
- It's been here since I've been there.
00:20:23
- But I always had a great time.
00:20:24
- Yeah, there's spaghetti.
00:20:25
- I'll be happy as hell.
00:20:26
- But are the meatballs new?
00:20:29
- No.
00:20:29
- No, there's no.
00:20:30
- Nor is that spaghetti.
00:20:31
- The last time that I ordered there, I didn't order the spaghetti and someone asked me why.
00:20:36
And I was like, the one thing that I've always regretted ordering at the Old Spaghetti Factory, is spaghetti.
00:20:44
- Wow.
00:20:46
Every time.
00:20:47
And this is the place that Griff says we have to go more than anywhere else.
00:20:51
- It comes with a free coffee at the end of it.
00:20:53
- Oh, that's true.
00:20:54
- I mean, that's true.
00:20:55
- I don't know if it's like coffee tea and lemonade, right?
00:20:57
Did he ever give a drink choice or just coffee?
00:20:59
- Yeah, coffee tea and lemonade.
00:21:00
- A little ice cream.
00:21:01
- A little ice cream.
00:21:02
- That's great.
00:21:03
- All right, that's not on there.
00:21:04
You should get some spaghetti with butter on it if you like.
00:21:07
That's one option.
00:21:07
- I like spaghetti with butter.
00:21:08
- Yeah, why not?
00:21:09
- Classic.
00:21:10
- It's a little bit of butter.
00:21:11
- Why don't you do some butter on there and it sounds great.
00:21:12
- I mean.
00:21:13
- Yeah, the only thing is you-- - He's not gonna go.
00:21:15
- The spaghetti is old, but at least it's handmade by artists and chefs.
00:21:19
It's like, no, it's not real.
00:21:21
- It's factory made.
00:21:22
- No, it's factory made.
00:21:23
It's factory made.
00:21:24
- Yeah.
00:21:25
- Kind of a slowly-spaghetti.
00:21:27
And making more old spaghetti.
00:21:29
- Yeah, yeah.
00:21:30
- Like you cannot have fresh spaghetti.
00:21:31
- Is that old spaghetti factory a level in Mario Odyssey?
00:21:34
- It is, yeah.
00:21:35
(laughing)
00:21:37
- Did you guys ever go to East Side Marios?
00:21:39
- Was it everything?
00:21:40
- We have never been to East Side Marios.
00:21:42
That is a Canadian chain that is owned by the same company that owns Harvey's and Swiss Shelley and the Keg now.
00:21:50
It's all one company.
00:21:52
- We've never been.
00:21:52
- We've discussed this with Mars.
00:21:54
We should discuss it with you guys too.
00:21:56
We should give you a rundown.
00:21:58
Tim Hortons, I liked.
00:22:00
I yelled at the audience.
00:22:01
I said, you all liked Tim Hortons too.
00:22:03
- Well, we love to hate it.
00:22:04
- You love to hate it, but they also do genuinely love it.
00:22:06
The stores are packed there.
00:22:08
- Well, I think this is, again, the thing.
00:22:10
- We were there Sunday at 5 p.m.
00:22:11
- Yes, packed.
00:22:12
- You can go a lot and still be frustrated with it.
00:22:16
You can be like, this is my place that I go to, but it still kind of sucks.
00:22:19
I go to Starbucks more than I'd like to.
00:22:21
And I think Starbucks kind of sucks, but sometimes it's the best option.
00:22:24
- You know what, we can just ask you 'cause we've announced the restaurants, the other restaurants, except for the last one.
00:22:28
We can just ask your opinions on Tim Hortons, Swiss Shelley, Harvey's, and is that it?
00:22:35
- And Boston Pizza.
00:22:36
- Oh nice.
00:22:37
- There's one thing I want to bring up about Tim Hortons.
00:22:40
- Please.
00:22:41
- And the dislike of it.
00:22:42
And I don't think you guys understand how excited Canadians get when we are mentioned or thought about in any way whatsoever,
00:22:53
(laughing)
00:22:54
because we don't really have a culture of our own.
00:22:58
We're a big melting pot.
00:22:59
And Tim's has really become this manufactured corporate culture for us.
00:23:06
So even if someone hates it, we love that.
00:23:10
- Yeah, yeah, I get that.
00:23:12
They wanted me to hate it.
00:23:14
- Right.
00:23:15
- Very much so, but guess what?
00:23:16
I liked it a lot.
00:23:17
- But also that Honeykruller slaps.
00:23:19
- Great, honeykruller's great.
00:23:20
- This is my issue with Hortons.
00:23:22
I was like, I wanted to know Hortons and I liked it.
00:23:25
And the people were like, "Oh, it's awful.
00:23:27
What did you get?"
00:23:28
I was like, "Well, I got an ice cap."
00:23:29
I'm like, "Well, ice caps are really good."
00:23:30
I'm like, "Okay."
00:23:32
And I'm like, "What else do you get?"
00:23:32
I'm like, "I got Tim bits."
00:23:33
I'm like, "Yeah, Tim bits are good."
00:23:35
And then this is how he's happening.
00:23:37
I got a farmer's rap.
00:23:38
Farmer's rap's are pretty good.
00:23:39
You liked it, they liked it.
00:23:40
They liked it.
00:23:41
- At the end of the day, it's coffee.
00:23:42
But when they're like, "I don't like the coffee," but I will say for me, they want me to say the least of beans.
00:23:47
- They do favorite coffee spot.
00:23:49
- It's your favorite coffee spot.
00:23:50
- And you know how in New York, people hate on Times Square if they live in New York.
00:23:54
- Yes, you don't go to Times Square.
00:23:55
When I lived in New York, it was the first place I took out where I'm like, "Go, I see Times Square, this place is insane."
00:24:01
Every time I went by.
00:24:02
- It is insane.
00:24:03
- We did find a good pizza place in Times Square that we love pizza bar.
00:24:07
- Pizza bar.
00:24:09
Joe's also, there's a Joe's in time.
00:24:10
When New York Times Square.
00:24:11
- It was on 41st Street, is closed the last time I went.
00:24:14
- So one other thing about Tim Horns, I want to say, is that there are a couple like secret menu items that you can get that are I would say incredible.
00:24:25
And it's only like if they have the ingredients available to them.
00:24:29
- A dream girl.
00:24:30
- Have you had a breakfast sandwich there?
00:24:34
- Yes.
00:24:35
- It's very plain.
00:24:36
It's run-of-the-mill, but if they have an everything croissant, you can be like, "Hey, give me a breakfast sandwich but wrap it in that everything, croissant."
00:24:44
- Everything croissant.
00:24:46
- Okay.
00:24:47
- It's so good.
00:24:47
- I did not know what it sounds good about this.
00:24:49
- Yeah, secret, secret off menu.
00:24:51
- I'm living here, so what should I tell him?
00:24:53
- I get the newsletter like everyone else.
00:24:56
- Mars, you're an everything bagel fan.
00:24:59
That's your favorite bagel.
00:25:00
Have you had this everything croissant?
00:25:02
- I haven't, but that is a great hack at the Tim Hortons, what I instead of ordering the regular breakfast sandwich, I say a bacon breakfast sandwich on an everything bagel with mayo.
00:25:11
I think it's really tasty.
00:25:12
It's very affordable too, and it keeps me full for like half the day.
00:25:14
- Wow.
00:25:15
- 100%.
00:25:16
- Okay.
00:25:17
- Wow.
00:25:17
- Now of the other chains, like I have a clear favorite and a place that's near and dear to my heart, Harvey's.
00:25:24
- Yeah.
00:25:24
- It is my favorite.
00:25:26
Having them watching them make that burger in front of you is really enjoyed the Harvey's experience.
00:25:33
I like the burger bar, it's fun.
00:25:35
- So I will say this, we were kind of in the middle on Harvey's.
00:25:39
I think we did three and a half forks each on Harvey's.
00:25:42
- Yeah, but we can experience.
00:25:43
- That's pretty good.
00:25:44
- Yeah, it wasn't bad.
00:25:44
I wish that the, I don't know if I love the burger patty at Harvey's.
00:25:48
- Interesting.
00:25:49
- Yeah.
00:25:50
- Interesting.
00:25:51
- It's, you felt similarly, right?
00:25:53
Like it was like the burger itself.
00:25:55
- Yeah, I mean, I think, but I liked all the toppings.
00:25:57
I like being able to customize it.
00:25:59
That was a lot of fun.
00:26:00
- Yeah, we definitely didn't like it.
00:26:01
- We definitely didn't like it.
00:26:02
We thought it was, we thought it was delicious.
00:26:04
- He was good.
00:26:05
- Yeah, I don't know, I enjoyed Harvey's.
00:26:06
Harvey's was very solid.
00:26:07
- Yeah.
00:26:08
- I mean, I wouldn't give a Harvey's five forks.
00:26:11
So I mean, three and a half I think is a really fair one.
00:26:13
- Okay, that's fair.
00:26:15
- Yeah.
00:26:16
- I enjoy it, but none of these things speak out to me.
00:26:18
- Yeah.
00:26:19
- Interesting.
00:26:19
Do you have a favorite among like outside of that?
00:26:21
Like if there was like, you're talking about all of Canadian chains, all of Canadian basketball restaurants, is there any one that you like good?
00:26:26
- I mean, it might just be Tim Hortons, and that's okay.
00:26:29
- I mean Tim Hortons, I just have an affection.
00:26:31
- Yeah, I enjoy the coffee, and like everyone gives it, it gives a chip, but like I enjoy it.
00:26:35
- It's very much like a Dunkin' Donuts coffee.
00:26:36
- Yeah.
00:26:37
- I liked it, it was like, I like diner coffee.
00:26:40
I like, that's the type of coffee like I do not like Starbucks.
00:26:43
- Like, and I love going to McDonald's and getting coffee.
00:26:44
- 100%.
00:26:45
- But you know what I mean?
00:26:46
- But the last time I drove through the stage-- - It lost the beans.
00:26:48
- No one lost their coffee.
00:26:50
(laughing)
00:26:51
- I know we lost the beans.
00:26:52
- They lost their beans.
00:26:53
- They lost the beans.
00:26:54
- We gotta get to this point once.
00:26:56
- Guess who we sold it to.
00:26:58
- McDonald's, they have a beans.
00:27:00
- Why do you follow the beans?
00:27:01
- Wait, did you listen to our live show episode?
00:27:04
- No.
00:27:05
- I don't know what this is.
00:27:06
- I was just asking about it.
00:27:07
- I don't even know what this is.
00:27:08
- This is what I'm saying.
00:27:09
- Yeah.
00:27:10
- Why?
00:27:11
- You're scared right now.
00:27:11
- Why, your Bing search, people have come back and said, they actually did lose their beans.
00:27:18
I got so much shit at the show because you binged it, and you proved I was wrong.
00:27:23
And you said Sparky is a liar, my transport driver.
00:27:26
- I'd say Sparky was a liar.
00:27:27
- I said it was possibly an urban legend that's being shared.
00:27:30
- You basically called Sparky a liar.
00:27:32
- We'll never say that about Sparky.
00:27:34
- People are coming back to me.
00:27:35
They're saying they did lose the beans.
00:27:37
And McDonald's took the beans.
00:27:39
- I'd love to see some sources on any of this 'cause I just don't know.
00:27:42
- I just don't know.
00:27:43
- Use a Google search engine.
00:27:44
- I mean, search, I find, yeah, who finance Canada seemed like a pretty good source.
00:27:47
- Let me bing, bing, bing, bing.
00:27:49
- Yeah, I'm gonna bing.
00:27:50
- I'm gonna bing.
00:27:50
- You were getting into something, I'm sorry, and I cut you off.
00:27:53
- I don't know.
00:27:53
- About coffee.
00:27:54
- Oh, and every time I drive through the States, I go to McDonald's and get the coffee, and every time I've been, I go to a drive through, and I'm like, I can just get a coffee and they're like, oh, we don't have a, I could put one on the pot right now.
00:28:05
- Yeah.
00:28:06
- And I'm like, no.
00:28:07
- It's not very like a go-to thing, right?
00:28:09
- Well, I gotta say this, there's a lot more, I think you said you guys have some good late night options, and there's a lot more like, I went to McDonald's recently,
00:28:19
and there's like breakfast and lunch.
00:28:21
They serve at the same time.
00:28:23
You have more late night options.
00:28:24
There's like a lot of stuff like that.
00:28:25
- Yeah.
00:28:26
- I think with the States, it's like, we put coffee off, and it's done for the day.
00:28:29
You know what I mean?
00:28:30
Like McDonald's or something?
00:28:31
- Yeah, a lot of times you go to a coffee shop, and you end up ordering an espresso drink, because that's the thing they could at least make fresh, but yeah, the coffee pot is not like staying warm all day.
00:28:40
Yeah, that is a thing I like about a place like Tim Hortons.
00:28:44
And honestly, I would, I prefer the Tim Hortons vibe over the Starbucks vibe.
00:28:49
I went to second cup, which I know is another, like a second tier Canadian coffee chain.
00:28:54
That has more of a star, like a, like a, you know, coffee house sort of energy to it.
00:28:58
A lot of people with laptops hanging out.
00:29:00
And I just kind of like more of the working class vibe of a Tim's, where it's just kind of like, oh, you know, everyone's in here.
00:29:05
And you know, it's not like a place to like, you know, write your screenplay or whatever the fuck, you know.
00:29:10
- I Googled it, I Googled it for you.
00:29:12
And Google says that the McDonald's coffee is not the Tim Hortons original blend.
00:29:18
However, McDonald's coffee in Canada is supplied by mother parkers who used to supply Tim Hortons until Tim Hortons bought their own roasting facility.
00:29:25
- Well, well, well.
00:29:26
Sounds like they took their beans.
00:29:29
- They sound like a bunch of gray air.
00:29:31
- Yeah, sounds like that.
00:29:31
- I think you maybe get two and a half panochios.
00:29:34
- Two and a half panochios?
00:29:36
- Not a full like three to five panochios.
00:29:37
- They took their beans and sounds like-- - And slightly on fire.
00:29:40
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:41
- Sounds like I was pretty, it was much closer to the truth.
00:29:44
- We'll figure out all this out when the month's over.
00:29:46
Let's talk about, little-- - Hold on, what were we just talking about?
00:29:49
Just a second before that, before the-- - We were talking about the other chains.
00:29:54
To go through that quickly, the only one I like is I like Boston pizza.
00:29:57
- Yeah.
00:29:58
- Boston pizza.
00:29:58
- I like Boston pizza for the sake of when my family visits and they are like, where can I bring like 14 people?
00:30:05
- Yes, children in my large parking lot can.
00:30:07
- Right, yeah, yeah, it's Boston pizza.
00:30:09
- I like that, I like that.
00:30:10
- I like that.
00:30:11
- What, Boston pizza did you go to?
00:30:13
- We went to the one on front streets.
00:30:15
- That's the one.
00:30:16
- That's the one, that's the one, that's the spot.
00:30:18
- When we first got to Toronto, we went to a Boston pizza and we only went in because they offered, they had a sign up front that was like free fish bowls.
00:30:31
- Or no, a deal on fish bowls and we were like, what are fish bowls?
00:30:36
And they were triple mixed drinks in an actual fish bowl.
00:30:41
- I saw these being made.
00:30:43
- And it was just so fun to clink them around and cheers with fish bowls.
00:30:48
- I zoned it on them immediately and I was very interested.
00:30:52
At first I thought you meant an actual bowl of fish which Amelia would be down for.
00:30:57
She likes to gamble on seafood.
00:30:58
- That's like $1,000 in seafood.
00:31:00
- But I saw those and I was so interested.
00:31:01
Did you spill coffee or something?
00:31:02
- I thought it did, but I can't find it.
00:31:04
I don't see a drip.
00:31:05
- Like it being just a bowl of fish that you take home.
00:31:08
We just have so much fish.
00:31:09
(laughing)
00:31:11
- I was gonna say this, you like the working class vibe of Tim Horns?
00:31:16
- Yeah.
00:31:17
- You never experienced it up in Hamilton, my man?
00:31:19
- Yeah.
00:31:19
- They have no idea.
00:31:21
- Yeah, I guess I didn't have my driver take me up to Hamilton for my job as a TV actor.
00:31:25
- My coworker Sparky, whose work job is to drive you to set-- - They drive actresses that were both-- - I know, yeah, it's a good thing.
00:31:34
- We're both making a show together.
00:31:35
- It's a great thing that exists within the industry.
00:31:39
I haven't written a screenplay in the Tim Horns but I have signed a lease in a Tim Horns.
00:31:45
- Wow.
00:31:46
- And then we got kicked out for signing that lease.
00:31:50
- They're like, you can't do that here.
00:31:51
- You can't do a business transaction here?
00:31:53
This is a restaurant.
00:31:54
- This is a charity car.
00:31:55
- That's insane.
00:31:56
- I feel like that's like the exact sort of place you have to do something like that.
00:31:59
- Yeah, yeah.
00:32:00
- I did it at a coffee bean myself in an LA.
00:32:03
I was in a wee work once and a guy came up to me and then talked to me about how he wanted to open up a heavy metal bar in Inglewood, which is like a city near Los Angeles and then he was like,
00:32:15
"I won't do a heavy metal sangria bar."
00:32:17
And I was like, "Just don't know that.
00:32:19
"Listen, I'm just thinking about it."
00:32:20
That's a terrible idea of a cool man.
00:32:22
And then he was like, "Hey, man."
00:32:23
'Cause I had an account where I could print from.
00:32:26
He was like, "Can I print something from your account?"
00:32:28
And I was like, "Yeah, I don't go whatever."
00:32:30
He had me print out his divorce papers.
00:32:32
- Oh my God.
00:32:33
(laughing)
00:32:35
- That's insane.
00:32:36
(laughing)
00:32:38
- Irreckable differences.
00:32:39
- Yeah.
00:32:40
- Just obsessed with this sangria metal bar.
00:32:44
(laughing)
00:32:46
- But anyway, yeah, we should talk about Lil Canada.
00:32:48
Lil Canada previously our home and miniature land.
00:32:51
It is in the basement of the tenor, which is a shopping center, which is, it feels like it's kind of in an area akin to Times Square in Toronto, right?
00:32:58
It's like very big shopping district, big touristy area, whole bunch of stores, whole bunch of chain restaurants, huge mall there.
00:33:06
It is created by a billionaire air Jean-Louis Brenningmeiser, a Dutchman who has raised in the UK and spent $24 million of his own fortune so far to build a miniature version of Canada.
00:33:18
We were talking about railroads earlier.
00:33:20
This uses the most popular railroad scale, HO scale, which is one to eight seven, or 3.5 millimeters equals one foot.
00:33:28
If you can wrap your head around that.
00:33:30
- Which we saw, they show the scale outside when you're first walking in.
00:33:33
- Yeah, there's like a big bear and then a raccoon.
00:33:35
They show the Canada's tallest man, and then they show him at 1.18 scale or whatever.
00:33:43
It's interesting, it's, it's a, yeah, I mean it's, it's interesting, look, when I was walking into that, I was like, this is going to suck.
00:33:51
- Everything we're hearing in the run-up to this is like, okay, this will be kind of like a kitschy sort of thing, maybe, or maybe this will be kind of like, oh wait, this is a weird quicksotic,
00:34:02
you know, like this passion project that this guy's making for whatever reason, and we're just like, oh, this will be a weird thing to explore.
00:34:12
I kind of had, was primed for that experience.
00:34:15
And this was something that one, a topic that the two of you pitched, like as a thing, and we end up having Mitch and I, making the time to go over and be able to tour it fully, which I was glad we got to do,
00:34:26
so we could discuss it.
00:34:27
But like, what was the impetus for wanting to discuss the whole Canada?
00:34:30
- May I?
00:34:30
- Yes, please.
00:34:31
- I did not pitch this.
00:34:31
- Okay, I fully pitched.
00:34:34
- Carson 110% was behind this.
00:34:36
- I've gone twice.
00:34:38
- You've gone twice.
00:34:39
- It's amazing.
00:34:40
- I love it.
00:34:41
- It's the best.
00:34:42
- So Griff, so Griff Newman, our friend.
00:34:45
- Griff and Newman had told us about Lil Canada and was like, you have to go.
00:34:49
- You have to go.
00:34:49
- But again, it could have been in the sense of, you have to see Megalopolis.
00:34:53
- Right.
00:34:54
- You've been in the same sort of thing.
00:34:54
I don't really know what to expect here.
00:34:56
- Can I, can I, can I, can I just say my big thing now?
00:34:58
- Please.
00:34:59
- Can I wax?
00:35:00
- Yeah, you go.
00:35:01
- I'm just gonna say my big thing right now.
00:35:03
I was very mean to the idea of Lil Canada.
00:35:08
In the live show, I said that if you put Toronto and a juicer and juice out all the cool stuff and then you're left with traffic and Lil Canada,
00:35:18
that's Toronto, everything else is gone.
00:35:20
That's what I said.
00:35:21
I was being mean to Toronto.
00:35:22
- You got a big pop.
00:35:23
- It did get a big pop.
00:35:24
- They were there.
00:35:25
I mean, they kind of liked me but hated me and then felt bad.
00:35:27
I was joking around.
00:35:28
Anyways.
00:35:29
- It goes back to what you're saying and like any attention at all, you're happy to respond to everything.
00:35:32
- Yeah.
00:35:34
- I went to Lil Canada, my mind was changed maybe on the entire country of Canada.
00:35:40
(laughing)
00:35:41
I loved Lil Canada.
00:35:42
- Yeah.
00:35:43
- It warmed my heart.
00:35:44
It was a great experience.
00:35:46
I, it was genuinely one of the best things I did.
00:35:49
I loved Lil Canada so much.
00:35:51
- Lil Canada is magical.
00:35:52
I absolutely love Lil Canada.
00:35:54
- I love Lil Canada.
00:35:55
- I'm sorry, I loved it.
00:35:55
- It was so cool.
00:35:57
- It was such amazing craftsmanship.
00:35:59
The passion at side of it, which again, I was ready for it to be like, oh, this is like the room or whatever.
00:36:03
This is some self-financed boondaggle.
00:36:05
It's not that.
00:36:06
It is like, this is a wholesome thing where this guy genuinely cares about this.
00:36:10
He has a genuine love for his adopted homeland of Canada and he wants to share it with the world and he's employing a bunch of artisans to bring it to life.
00:36:18
And then what they have created is so fully realized and so well thought out and so brilliantly presented that it ends up being this like incredible immersive experience that to me as an American is an outsider,
00:36:31
this is my fourth time ever in Canada, my first time in the city of Toronto.
00:36:34
I'm like learning about this great land and developing a more of appreciation for it as I'm walking through these exhibits.
00:36:40
I love Lil Canada.
00:36:41
- They do a great job with a lot of the stuff of Alexander Graham Bell's little cottage or whatever it was, right?
00:36:46
Wasn't it, wasn't it?
00:36:47
- There is.
00:36:48
There's a bunch of stuff like that.
00:36:49
- We've talked and learned too much.
00:36:51
(laughing)
00:36:52
- But it's like Canada's Disney to me.
00:36:56
I love, it was so much more Disney-like than I thought it would be.
00:36:59
- Yes.
00:37:00
- It was really a turning point for me in my Canadian journey.
00:37:05
I loved it.
00:37:06
- We had a wonderful one.
00:37:07
- Everything changed.
00:37:08
There's pre-Little Canada and Post-Little Canada for me.
00:37:11
- Let me give it a little more table setting for people who don't know what this is and are maybe we're not aware of this existence.
00:37:17
This is from a Toronto life piece called Model Citizen by Luke Rinaldy.
00:37:20
Five generations back, Jean-Louis ancestors founded CNA, a global clothing empire with thousands of stores around the world.
00:37:28
You might call it the Netherlands answer to H&M if we're in a century older.
00:37:31
By some estimates, the family is worth 29 billion dollars.
00:37:35
Jean-Louis moved to Canada in 1999 to work for the family business, fell in love, never left.
00:37:40
And then he visited Hamburg's miniature Wonderland, which is the largest model train display in the world.
00:37:47
It took nearly 800,000 working hours over 17 years to build inside a 75,000 square foot warehouse of 1,000 trains weaved through impeccably detailed recreations of iconic European cities.
00:37:57
And Tim, the exhibit wasn't a blast from the past, it was an inspiration with the future.
00:38:03
I thought, this is this quote, "Wouldn't it be great if I did something like this in Canada?"
00:38:07
A single square foot of Little Canada could cost between $500.
00:38:11
So a scene in rural Quebec would be something like that might be $500 and $1200 for like a parked city block in downtown Toronto.
00:38:19
And so you have a ground floor entrance to a largely subterranean space beneath the tenor.
00:38:25
And we arrive there.
00:38:26
And so they, you basically see Little Canada, you see the signage, you see some elevators down, and then there are a couple of people greeting you there.
00:38:33
One of them was Jay.
00:38:34
And Jay is like, we had a little breakfast side quest 'cause we weren't sure we had time for breakfast.
00:38:39
And Jay was like, "Oh, you totally got time for breakfast."
00:38:41
- You weren't sure.
00:38:42
- You weren't sure.
00:38:43
- I wasn't sure.
00:38:44
Yeah, I wasn't sure we'd have time for breakfast.
00:38:45
And the guy was like, "Ah, go get your breakfast.
00:38:47
"Come back here, you'll be fine."
00:38:48
Like you'll be fine on time, he explained everything.
00:38:50
And he was totally right.
00:38:51
And he was also like, like the rest of the staff was completely awesome, super knowledgeable.
00:38:56
And genuinely enthusiastic about Little Canada.
00:38:59
And that is like, and enthusiasm is intoxicating.
00:39:01
And that's part of why it's such an engaging experience.
00:39:04
- Yes.
00:39:04
- This forms my heart to hear.
00:39:06
It is a magical place.
00:39:07
- Yeah.
00:39:08
- And all fueled by this Dutch billionaire who didn't really know much about Canada.
00:39:16
Did you see at the end, there's like a wall about him?
00:39:20
- Yes.
00:39:21
- And there are some quotes.
00:39:22
And like front and center, it says, there's a quote that just says, "I didn't really know much about Canada."
00:39:29
- Mm-hmm.
00:39:30
- And they put that front and center.
00:39:32
- Well.
00:39:33
- They just learned it through miniatures.
00:39:35
- I love that.
00:39:36
- And his sons.
00:39:37
- Yeah.
00:39:38
- There's a thing that would know, that's like, you would never have that if there was like an equivalent in America.
00:39:43
And it was like, some foreigners that would do it never put, "I didn't know much about America as a quote."
00:39:47
People would like be tagging it with graffiti.
00:39:50
People would be like gliding the place on fire.
00:39:53
It would be like, like how dare you not know anything about this country.
00:39:55
But like the humility of the people to be like, "Oh, it's great, you didn't know a lot."
00:39:58
And you learn some.
00:39:59
- Carson, the thing at the end there is very nice and it would have been great to read that at the end about him.
00:40:06
How do we not met the man himself in person?
00:40:10
- Well met, yeah, you just went for it.
00:40:14
But yes.
00:40:15
- Wow.
00:40:15
- What do you do when you just went for it?
00:40:16
- We just went for it.
00:40:17
- Sooner or later?
00:40:18
- No, it's great.
00:40:19
The staff was awesome.
00:40:20
The staff was guiding us through it.
00:40:20
Skylar was guiding us into the space downstairs, introduced everything to us.
00:40:23
Alana, not the knife, a different Alana helped show us around.
00:40:26
And then we met Sophie.
00:40:27
Sophie was super helpful.
00:40:28
She recognized you from love.
00:40:30
And I hope Mitch, I hope you recognize that I am pushing Twisted Metal to all the love fans.
00:40:35
- You have been doing that.
00:40:36
- The wags are promoting.
00:40:37
- Sophie's gonna be watching Twisted Metal.
00:40:40
And Sophie, I don't know if Sophie will be watching.
00:40:41
Sophie said she's gonna watch Twisted Metal.
00:40:43
- Thank you, Sophie.
00:40:44
- Sophie also tells us that Jean-Louis is there today.
00:40:49
- Yes.
00:40:49
- And we're like, oh wow, Jean-Louis is there today.
00:40:52
And she was, she didn't arrange anything, honestly.
00:40:55
She was just, was like, mentioned this.
00:40:57
And we're just walking around.
00:40:58
And then this guy comes up to us and is like, and he's just like, are you enjoying yourself?
00:41:02
And it was just Jean-Louis, just kind of like, like, casually introduced himself.
00:41:06
We had been primed for this.
00:41:08
And so-- - It was like, meeting the creator from Ready Player One, wasn't it?
00:41:12
- Yeah.
00:41:13
(laughing)
00:41:13
How tall was he?
00:41:15
- He's a tall man.
00:41:15
- He's tall guy.
00:41:16
- Right, like a water.
00:41:17
- I heard this.
00:41:18
- Extremely pleasant.
00:41:19
- Extremely pleasant.
00:41:20
- Loft.
00:41:21
- Great head of hair.
00:41:22
- He was very presentable.
00:41:25
- Yeah, great.
00:41:26
- This all makes a lot of sense.
00:41:27
- I have a question for you guys.
00:41:30
- Please.
00:41:31
- How much does Jean-Louis pay you three to just - Praise little candidate today?
00:41:38
- You just happen to meet the billionaire.
00:41:41
- I mean, it's the subcasters.
00:41:43
There is like thousands of dollars with an art around in this studio.
00:41:46
- Yeah, there is a painting of an hat-at right above you.
00:41:48
That looks pretty good.
00:41:50
- I will say, there is a certain whimsy to little candidate.
00:41:54
There's a little bit of magic there very much.
00:41:56
- As soon as you walk in and it goes day to night and you're in Niagara Falls.
00:42:02
- In Niagara Falls.
00:42:03
Great place to start off.
00:42:04
Likes almost fell in.
00:42:05
(laughing)
00:42:06
It was really fun if you drowned in Niagara Falls out little Canada.
00:42:10
It would have been great.
00:42:11
- Yeah, there is a day night cycle that's going through all the exhibits.
00:42:14
And they change depending on what time of day it is.
00:42:17
Sometimes there's tides, which it's like an incredible level of detail.
00:42:22
Sometimes there's fireworks at night.
00:42:24
And so that's, but yes, the first area you go to is it's divided into biomes.
00:42:30
And each biome is a different part of Canada.
00:42:33
Summer cities, summer larger geographical regions.
00:42:36
The first one is little Niagara.
00:42:38
- Yeah, yeah.
00:42:38
It's beautiful.
00:42:39
And the falls actually look amazing in there.
00:42:43
- They really do.
00:42:43
- It's stunning.
00:42:44
- Yeah, it's a combination of miniatures and then like some video projection elements.
00:42:48
- Yes, but then, and then there won't get to the finale, but like there is an actual tide, water.
00:42:57
- Sure, rise and fall.
00:42:58
- Rising and fall.
00:42:59
- Yeah, in the Bay of Fundy.
00:43:01
- Oh yes, the Bay of Fundy, we saw the Bay of Fundy.
00:43:04
We came in through the, we were at the Eaton Center.
00:43:06
- We were at the Eaton Center.
00:43:07
Which we, this is a call forward, we were talking about this.
00:43:10
But we thought it was funny 'cause it's the Eaton Center.
00:43:12
- Yeah, we had a podcast about food, right?
00:43:14
- Yeah, kind of.
00:43:15
- The Eaton Center.
00:43:15
- Basically any place.
00:43:16
- I'm not sure if you, I'm not sure if you got, oh no, you got it.
00:43:19
- Oh, the Eaton Center?
00:43:20
- The Eaton Center.
00:43:20
- Yeah, yeah.
00:43:22
- Basically.
00:43:22
- I got it.
00:43:23
Just to accept you through it, it's like basically, like any place the doe boys go is the Eaton Center.
00:43:29
- Yeah.
00:43:30
- It's like the thing we were thinking.
00:43:31
- You know what I was saying?
00:43:32
- When you grow up in Canada as a small child, you have to learn about the Eaton Company.
00:43:41
Because it's one of the oldest companies in Canada.
00:43:44
- I did not learn that.
00:43:44
- Like it was founded around like Peltz.
00:43:47
- Oh wow.
00:43:48
- So the Beaver Trade back in the day.
00:43:49
- Exactly.
00:43:50
- I read all about Train.
00:43:51
- Yes.
00:43:52
- What did you say?
00:43:53
- Is the Beaver Trade?
00:43:54
- I didn't say the Beaver Trade.
00:43:55
- I said the Beaver Trade, but the Beaver Trade is a whole different thing.
00:43:58
- Yeah.
00:43:59
- Yeah.
00:44:00
- So I would rather take the Beaver Trade than the Crazy Trade.
00:44:02
- But it's always run in, it's always run in late.
00:44:05
(both laughing)
00:44:10
- That was good as hell.
00:44:11
- The Beaver Trade was like a crazy thing 'cause it was like kind of a, I read in the context of a book that was about the huge horrific fire that was in, I forget which province a few years.
00:44:21
I think it was in Alberta, the oil sands, a few years back.
00:44:24
And they were talking about like the Beaver Trade is analogous to the oil industry of just like something that was just like, basically just killed off most of the Beaver population.
00:44:33
- Well, it's the fur trade.
00:44:34
- The fur trade is like, the fur trade is like muskrat.
00:44:37
- Yeah, it just killed out an enormous population of animals just because of like collective greed and the industrialization of this industry and the same thing happened with the, what has happened with oil?
00:44:47
- Yeah.
00:44:48
- What was the, anyway, sorry, you were talking about the eating company and I was just gonna say, "Dowboys Media" is kind of an eating company.
00:44:54
(both laughing)
00:44:55
- Okay, so I pulled up the exact same trauma.
00:44:58
- You like that?
00:44:59
- I loved it.
00:45:00
(both laughing)
00:45:02
I haven't been happy with you all day.
00:45:03
It's not been me.
00:45:04
You're one and you're one and we all hurt.
00:45:06
- Finally.
00:45:07
- Yeah, and we're just trying to move on.
00:45:09
So I pulled up that Toronto life article as well and there are a few choice parts of it that I think are very funny.
00:45:16
At the point where Jean-Louis was trying to get investors, he's quoted to say as they thought I was mad.
00:45:26
- Yeah.
00:45:27
- They thought I was mad.
00:45:28
And then he found one, he found one investor, McLean.
00:45:32
And do you know what a Moxie's is?
00:45:35
Do you know what a Moxie's is?
00:45:37
- No, what does a Moxie's?
00:45:38
- There's a couple Moxies in America.
00:45:42
- Oh, yes, I do know Moxies, yes.
00:45:43
- Yeah, it's like kind of like-- - It's a diner, right?
00:45:45
- Well, it's like an art late night.
00:45:47
- It's like an upscale play, a diner type place.
00:45:51
It's kind of made fun of.
00:45:52
If you're going to Moxies, it's gonna be ironically.
00:45:56
They met for lunch at a Moxie's and a square one to start wrapping their heads about how they could recreate Canada in miniature.
00:46:04
And then it says, there was so much to discuss, they decided to meet again, at Moxies, two weeks later.
00:46:10
And then when they sign the, when they ink the deal to incorporate, they sign the documents and they asked a Moxie's manager to act as a witness.
00:46:20
(laughing)
00:46:21
- Wow.
00:46:22
- Well, you can't sign those in Tim Horton.
00:46:24
That's right.
00:46:25
- Okay, well, look at you right now.
00:46:26
- You try to, you're trying to build a little Canada like, hey, this is just for coffee, get it out.
00:46:32
- Taylor, did you know that they planned to expand it like, beyond Canada's borders?
00:46:39
Like they have the other provinces and other cities that they're doing.
00:46:42
But he says he wants to create a beyond Canada's border, crafting Vimy Ridge.
00:46:49
Why are you getting me so, you know?
00:46:51
- Vimy Ridge?
00:46:51
- Yeah, I understand what Vimy Ridge is.
00:46:53
- You guys know about this?
00:46:54
- We'll tell you about Vimy Ridge.
00:46:55
- This, that me, what you just said, there meant nothing to me.
00:46:58
I'd had no idea.
00:46:59
- Wow.
00:47:00
- No, it's great.
00:47:02
No, I just, how many thousands of Canadian soldiers died at Vimy Ridge?
00:47:06
- Oh, she's trying to help with our one.
00:47:08
You know, it's just our, it was like our biggest thing.
00:47:10
- It's the biggest like battle that could specifically Canadians like turn the tide.
00:47:15
- Wow.
00:47:16
- This was in the European front?
00:47:17
- Yes.
00:47:18
- Okay, wow, yeah.
00:47:19
- So they're going to do a Vimy Ridge?
00:47:20
- I don't know how they're going to do that.
00:47:22
- I know.
00:47:23
- I just feel like a little dead minute isn't it?
00:47:25
Is that what's going to happen?
00:47:26
- 'Cause there are things they do show, they do, they have modeled the highway of heroes.
00:47:30
And I watched a video with, interview with John Louis discussing the highway of heroes is like a thing in Canada where I guess fallen Canadian soldiers are driven down this one, one stretch of road and people line up and salute and whatever.
00:47:42
- Yes.
00:47:43
- And it's like presented with a little bit of, you know, like appropriate, you know, gravity in the exhibit, but it's also like in miniature.
00:47:52
So it's like kind of, and it's co-existing with.
00:47:55
- That's kind of key to the moose in things.
00:47:56
- Yeah, it's, it's just an interesting thing.
00:47:58
- I mean, moose moose wasn't in that part, but we haven't gotten to moose moose yet.
00:48:01
But unlike like the marathon where there's a grim repreat at the end of the marathon, a little funny thing is like-- - There's a lot of, there's a lot of, a great sense of humor throughout it, which is part of the fun.
00:48:08
- And the video you're just going to have people drowning in mud.
00:48:11
(laughing)
00:48:12
- You know, just a little miniature soldiers with, - Bubbles.
00:48:15
- Yeah.
00:48:16
- He's got like having shell shock, you know.
00:48:18
- Committing suicide.
00:48:19
- It's, you know, it's like the classic minute.
00:48:21
- It will be fun to see.
00:48:22
- Everyone's going to let that.
00:48:23
- Carson, we see, we were asking if I saw what?
00:48:25
- The trench foot of the soul.
00:48:29
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:48:31
We were, we were, we were, we guys said, the grim reaper.
00:48:33
And then he said, did you see, and then you, you stopped.
00:48:35
- Well, did you see all the moores?
00:48:38
Did you get all of the, we did.
00:48:39
- We, we got to get to moores, but also, I want to say, Jean-Louis was so nice.
00:48:43
- So nice.
00:48:44
- And how much are you wearing?
00:48:46
- Yeah, what would you wear?
00:48:47
- Do you smell the green?
00:48:48
- I would smell the green.
00:48:49
- Do you smell the green?
00:48:50
- Yeah, it was a flower, I guess.
00:48:51
- A green t-shirt that said clean team on the back.
00:48:54
- So I think maybe he was cleaning some of the miniatures.
00:48:56
And that's partially what he was doing there.
00:48:58
- Oh, don't make sense.
00:48:58
- Because I thought it was interesting that it's a clean team.
00:49:00
And I was like, oh, he's the, he built it, but he's here like Dustin.
00:49:03
- I used to work with a chef who didn't actually cook, who pretended to cook, but he would come out in a chef's jacket to be like, hi everybody, welcome, thanks for coming to me.
00:49:12
- Wow.
00:49:13
- But he wasn't actually cooking.
00:49:15
- So he was saying this was Jean-Louis doing it.
00:49:16
- He was doing it.
00:49:17
- He's coming out there.
00:49:18
He was like, oh, I'm just doing some work in the back.
00:49:20
- Jean-Louis is a good man.
00:49:21
We saw him there.
00:49:22
He was talking with us, he's.
00:49:23
- I don't think it was just a photo.
00:49:25
I just like, the listener is to understand that Mitch is sitting on a throne of money.
00:49:29
(laughing)
00:49:30
Like he is saying these things.
00:49:32
Jean-Louis, look, I'm nervous because Jean-Louis is going to listen to this and then not like us.
00:49:37
- Yes.
00:49:38
- I think he had no idea who like, you know, what the podcast is like or what we're about.
00:49:43
But he did very graciously wise.
00:49:45
I got to talk about this.
00:49:47
There's like an Italian wall of fame.
00:49:49
- Yes.
00:49:50
- Not, you don't have to be Italian, I'm not thank God.
00:49:53
(laughing)
00:49:55
- There's this Italian section that we're going to put like people who work in film.
00:50:00
- It's analogous to an Italian restaurant, how they have all the photos of the walls and all the celebrities.
00:50:05
So he was like, we have an Italian wall and he was a bit star-struck by Mitch to be honest.
00:50:10
Mitch was like an actor and was like, oh, wait, could put you on the Italian wall.
00:50:14
- And he offered to put me on the Italian wall.
00:50:16
- That's very nice.
00:50:17
- Jean-Louis, I accept that offer.
00:50:18
Please put me on the Italian wall.
00:50:20
- But then this might pop over here.
00:50:21
- Then I start to hear this.
00:50:22
And I'm like, I mean, I'm gonna get in on this.
00:50:25
- Yeah.
00:50:26
- So it's so good to Jean-Louis.
00:50:26
I'm like, Jean-Louis, you know, we got this podcast.
00:50:28
We're gonna talk about a little Canada.
00:50:30
The three of us could be in a little podcast studio.
00:50:33
And so he was there and then as well.
00:50:35
- You could have heard of Pin drop in the room.
00:50:38
- I was.
00:50:39
- I mean, Jean-Louis liked the idea.
00:50:40
- Jean-Louis liked the idea.
00:50:42
But he was with Camille and Nikki who were helping him out.
00:50:45
And they gave me the nicest they were lovely.
00:50:48
They gave me the nicest.
00:50:49
We can definitely think about that.
00:50:51
(laughing)
00:50:52
- So Camille was like an executive in Hollywood when you go on a pitch and idea and they don't wanna talk to you.
00:50:57
- Yeah, yeah.
00:50:58
- Right.
00:50:59
- She did not like the idea at all.
00:51:00
And I just wanna get on the Italian wall.
00:51:02
That's all I want.
00:51:03
- Hey, but I think, look.
00:51:05
I think the doe boys could be little lies.
00:51:06
I think we'd be able to podcast studio next to the little Tim Orton's, which is in little Toronto.
00:51:10
I think they'll be pretty fitting.
00:51:11
- You basically asked a billionaire if he, if you could have a general.
00:51:15
- Yeah.
00:51:16
(laughing)
00:51:17
- If we could have a Jaguar?
00:51:18
- A general.
00:51:19
- Oh, a general.
00:51:20
- Yeah.
00:51:20
- That kind of sort of was.
00:51:21
- I would totally ask a billionaire.
00:51:23
Can I have a Jaguar?
00:51:25
(laughing)
00:51:26
I'm like, of course, the car.
00:51:27
(laughing)
00:51:30
- Which one do you choose?
00:51:31
- Oh, the cat.
00:51:32
- Yeah, the key to choose.
00:51:33
- The cat would be pretty cool.
00:51:33
- Or the?
00:51:34
- But the cat's gotta drive the car.
00:51:35
- Oh, the cat's the driver of the...
00:51:37
- A Jaguar driving Jaguar.
00:51:39
- Like that's the one.
00:51:40
- I'm gonna have a little hat.
00:51:41
- A little hat on the hat.
00:51:43
- As Marcil made a shot.
00:51:45
A shot.
00:51:46
- We don't pronounce the teeth.
00:51:47
- Oh, so it sounds like I'm saying shit, basically.
00:51:50
A shot, a shot.
00:51:51
- We should have taken a moment before this and been like, "Hey, you know, like this is Lil' Canada's "a very wholesome thing.
00:51:57
"The Lil' Canada people we talk to work."
00:51:59
Hopefully, maybe in a listen to the episode, we could have just, like, not talked about, like...
00:52:04
- Shit.
00:52:04
- You're not talking about, like, shit and said, "Cuts" is on this episode.
00:52:07
- We could have.
00:52:08
- I know we could have said that in advance.
00:52:09
We didn't.
00:52:10
It's water and a bridge.
00:52:11
- Have we said, "Come"? We have not said "come" yet.
00:52:13
Yeah, we did say "come".
00:52:14
- Quick, everybody said.
00:52:15
- Don't be on the way, please.
00:52:16
Sorry, don't be.
00:52:17
- Hold on, they tell you all.
00:52:19
And then, you know, they don't know how to get put on that wall.
00:52:21
- That's a lot of come.
00:52:23
- Oh my God.
00:52:24
- Jesus Christ.
00:52:25
- But it's been, it's been littleized.
00:52:28
So it's just a small amount.
00:52:29
Mine's always littleized.
00:52:31
- Did you get littleized?
00:52:34
- Hold on, hold on.
00:52:35
- Okay, I wanna say I went to the rom, the shot, exhibit at the rom, and it was fantastic.
00:52:42
I don't know if you saw that.
00:52:43
- The Royal Ontario Museum.
00:52:44
- Yes.
00:52:45
- Exhibit.
00:52:45
He offered to put me on this Italian wall.
00:52:49
Wags.
00:52:51
Chimes in and says, you could probably wear something better when you get littleized.
00:52:54
He offered it littleized before free.
00:52:57
And then this guy chimes in about how I'm looking like crap.
00:53:00
- No, you weren't wearing your Spoon Man uniform.
00:53:03
And if you're being represented in like, you know, one to 87 scale or whatever the fuck, like you probably should be wearing instead of like-- - I was wearing a five-fourth hat.
00:53:13
- You were in the five-fourth hat.
00:53:14
- You're not going to see the four.
00:53:16
- They're not going to make up those details.
00:53:18
- It depends on what miniature you get.
00:53:22
- Five inches, which is very big.
00:53:24
(all laughing)
00:53:25
- Giant in the world of little care.
00:53:27
Five inches is big.
00:53:29
- I was just saying, and we ended up getting scanned.
00:53:32
- We ended up being scanned at day anyway.
00:53:33
But I was just like, you know, I think people know you as wearing jeans and like a flannel shirt over a hoodie or over a T-shirt rather.
00:53:41
- And this is John Louis shut up.
00:53:43
- Would you-- - You still got, you still got many eyes.
00:53:46
- I got sat.
00:53:47
- I got many eyes.
00:53:48
- And he was like, you would come back if you want to get little eyes to again.
00:53:50
So worked out fine.
00:53:51
- I got little eyes.
00:53:51
Here's the thing.
00:53:52
- I also told him to check out Twisted Metal on Peacock.
00:53:54
But I hope you've noted.
00:53:55
- Great plan.
00:53:56
- I was wearing an outfit though my mum and sister told me never to wear, which is these army shorts and my fish, that little fish white shirt that I wear in this hat.
00:54:05
- So you're not just wore it to be little eyes, you wore it on the podcast.
00:54:07
- I wear it on the podcast.
00:54:08
So I don't care about what I wear on the podcast.
00:54:11
- So I've talked to the littleization people about what you can do in that littleization station.
00:54:17
- We talked to Anthony, who was maddening the littleization station.
00:54:20
- Great guy, we visited, great guy.
00:54:21
- And there's not a lot you could, I was like, can I crouch?
00:54:24
And they're like, absolutely not.
00:54:25
- Yeah.
00:54:26
- Can I cross my arms?
00:54:27
- No.
00:54:28
- That will not work out when we build your figure.
00:54:32
- This is what I did.
00:54:33
- Thumbs up, thumbs up.
00:54:34
- We get thumbs up.
00:54:34
- That's perfect.
00:54:35
- Yeah.
00:54:36
- Yeah, we were told you can't do anything.
00:54:37
And then you see all the examples of other men.
00:54:38
And I'm like, that person clearly, like those people did a group photo.
00:54:42
- Yeah, well.
00:54:43
- Some people's clothes get little jumbled up.
00:54:46
- Yeah.
00:54:47
- Should we explain what littleized is?
00:54:48
- Yes, we should.
00:54:49
- Why's, why's asked what some people do?
00:54:51
Like what's the crazy thing?
00:54:52
- I said, yeah.
00:54:53
People have been getting some mischief.
00:54:54
And he's like, yeah, a lot of people like flip the bird, no fingers, we just can't use those.
00:54:57
And he said, and then people ask if they can get nude and get littleized.
00:55:01
- Is it a shut down place?
00:55:02
- No, they're children here.
00:55:03
- Wow.
00:55:04
- We can't shut down day.
00:55:04
You have to be nude.
00:55:05
- Never thought about that.
00:55:06
- But I just like that someone's instinctive.
00:55:08
- Yeah, I want to be tiny me, but like fucking.
00:55:09
- It sounds like you go into a room and go, like people can still just watch you get nude.
00:55:13
- Yes, there are children everywhere.
00:55:15
- Where in little Canada are you putting a nude person, like streaking across the field?
00:55:20
Like where is the nude really strange?
00:55:22
- It's really strange.
00:55:23
- In one of the hotel rooms, I guess.
00:55:24
- I think there's maybe a version, there's maybe a human being who's like, I want to be miniaturized of me being nude and then I want to own that.
00:55:31
'Cause you can also purchase it.
00:55:33
And so maybe they want to own a five inch version of themselves hanging on the tree.
00:55:36
- Yeah, I guess so.
00:55:38
(laughing)
00:55:40
- I want to say this is a lot of fun.
00:55:42
The green team.
00:55:43
- Sorry, just to clarify real quick.
00:55:45
I think people have put it together, but littleization is basically, if you've seen the film downsizing, I was under pain film.
00:55:50
- Same thing.
00:55:50
- Same principle.
00:55:51
- You get shrunk down.
00:55:52
You've all seen that.
00:55:53
- Yeah.
00:55:54
- You've all seen, you've all seen it.
00:55:55
- It's actually shot here.
00:55:56
- Yeah.
00:55:57
- Yeah.
00:55:58
- Was it really?
00:55:58
- A little Canada?
00:55:59
- Yeah.
00:56:00
- They got utilized and they film it all on like when there were a little many people.
00:56:03
- It's shot here in Ontario.
00:56:05
- I didn't know.
00:56:06
- It's like a, or honey I shrunk the kids.
00:56:07
It's just you get shrunk down to a small version of yourself.
00:56:10
- Yeah.
00:56:11
- Yes.
00:56:11
- A Wayne Zalinsky type of thing.
00:56:12
- Yeah.
00:56:13
- And here it's just one, you get under one orb.
00:56:15
I told Laxas, I went, I went 10-1 after when we were done.
00:56:20
- You urinated.
00:56:21
- I urinated afterwards.
00:56:22
Something's wrong with that littleization of a Z-man.
00:56:25
(laughing)
00:56:25
It fucking, it fucking works.
00:56:28
(laughing)
00:56:29
I could find it.
00:56:30
I grabbed John Luey at the end.
00:56:31
I was like, "What did you do to me?"
00:56:34
"Only what you did to yourself."
00:56:36
(laughing)
00:56:37
- Yeah, I took a million there.
00:56:39
- His cape.
00:56:40
(laughing)
00:56:41
- I'm monical.
00:56:43
- Yeah, I think that there's some parts of that machine that work, but it's a very easy process you go in, they shrink you down to five inches in this little orb.
00:56:51
- It's like 128 cameras in a 360, and they take a picture.
00:56:55
- Yeah.
00:56:56
- It's like, that's what drives you.
00:56:58
- Yeah.
00:56:59
- It was fun to see the green team working, they were walking through the land like giants, which was kind of fun to see.
00:57:04
- It's really cool, yeah.
00:57:05
- Yeah.
00:57:06
- So one of my favorite parts is that you can walk around the places where they're building all these miniature.
00:57:12
- Yes, and talk to these people, and ask them how they make this.
00:57:17
The train, I'm sure you must have been fascinated by the all the train.
00:57:20
- The train's so rad.
00:57:21
- So let's step through the line.
00:57:23
- By the way, can I also just say that when we went and the wags and I went into the littleization machine together, and that thing was like really, like it was like smoking and checking to littleize us with no easy fee.
00:57:33
- I got them tried to stop you.
00:57:35
(laughing)
00:57:37
- He was on the gears, it was bad news.
00:57:39
(laughing)
00:57:41
- So we started a little Niagara.
00:57:43
We talked about that.
00:57:44
We go to little Toronto.
00:57:46
Now, little Toronto has the Skydome, now the, what's it called now?
00:57:49
The, not the Roger Center.
00:57:50
Is it called the Roger Center?
00:57:51
- It's the Roger Center.
00:57:52
- Yeah, the Skydome.
00:57:53
- Yeah, the Skydome is represented, and inside there's something like, is it 8,000 different little people, just populating the inside of the Skydome.
00:58:01
Some of them you can't even see.
00:58:03
- And the dome closes.
00:58:04
- And the dome closes.
00:58:05
So there's bits of animation that take place throughout.
00:58:08
- And they're playing, on the little screen, there's a J's game that's happening on the screen of real life J's game.
00:58:13
- 1993, like the Joe Carter win.
00:58:16
- Joe Carter winning the World Series with the home run.
00:58:19
- And the same thing happens in the, you go to the Scotia Bank Arena, which when they started building, it was the Air Canada Center, which is where the Toronto Raptors play, and they have the, you know, they have the basketball court there,
00:58:29
but then they also have on the Jumble Tron, they have, I assume it's, I believe it's the Raptors game from them winning the NBA title.
00:58:34
- And when you miss that, that's insane.
00:58:37
- Yeah, it's crazy.
00:58:38
And so all that stuff is represented.
00:58:39
They've also got a miniature CN Tower, and then they've got all sorts of Easter eggs throughout.
00:58:44
And the biggest Easter egg is, as we're talking about, and as our stickers represent, Maurice the Moose.
00:58:49
- Maurice the Moose.
00:58:50
- Maurice the Moose.
00:58:51
So there are four different Maurice's scattered in each of the different biomes.
00:58:55
They're, you get a clue sheet.
00:58:57
You get like a map and a clue sheet that tells you what's where Maurice, like through text, where Maurice might be located throughout, and then if you find all of them, and it's on the honor system,
00:59:08
you get yourself a little sticker at the end.
00:59:10
You guys had to use the hints?
00:59:12
- Yeah, we used the hints.
00:59:14
- No, I mean, we used the hints.
00:59:16
- We didn't understand some of them, so.
00:59:18
- Yeah, sure.
00:59:18
- Sure, sure, sure.
00:59:19
- You understand most of them, right?
00:59:20
- It's a little inside baseball.
00:59:22
- Not only did we find every Maurice, I took a picture of every Maurice.
00:59:25
- Oh, that's amazing.
00:59:26
- And, I don't know about one you went, but he was dressed up in a Halloween costume.
00:59:32
- Get Halloween costumes.
00:59:33
- So, I had another layer of fun.
00:59:35
- So I read the newsletter, obviously.
00:59:37
And I heard about these costumes, and I was like, how, how much did they change?
00:59:42
How many costumes are there?
00:59:43
Is it just Maurice?
00:59:44
Or is other things like Halloween themed?
00:59:48
- I think it was just Maurice.
00:59:50
- It was just Maurice.
00:59:50
- But he's also holding like a little pumpkin bucket in his mouth, like, you know, the pumpkin bucket to use to like trick or treat.
00:59:56
- Yeah, and Maurice is the one thing I love.
00:59:58
- It's a door.
00:59:59
- It's awesome.
01:00:00
- Yeah.
01:00:00
- Is that the one that you loved?
01:00:02
- I mean, okay, no.
01:00:03
I have to explain myself a little bit.
01:00:04
- Taylor's a little bit of a chromed in.
01:00:05
- I'm not a chromed in.
01:00:06
- He's a little bit of a chromed in.
01:00:07
- I'm not just playing the anti for this.
01:00:09
I'm just saying, when you go to one of these events with Griffin and Carson, and that group, they get so excited and everything's a bit, and you can't enjoy it.
01:00:18
So he creates a little bit of a negative experience.
01:00:21
(laughing)
01:00:22
- I just wanted to enjoy, it's a beautiful spot.
01:00:24
If I was to bring my nephews and nieces, it would be really, really exciting.
01:00:27
- Yeah, yeah.
01:00:28
- I'm gonna enjoy it.
01:00:29
- Or have fun with friends.
01:00:30
(laughing)
01:00:31
- No, he was competitive.
01:00:33
It was like, you guys have some summary set.
01:00:34
You lose, there's some running around pushing kids out of the way.
01:00:37
- There was also, I gotta say this, there was, besides the Halloween costumes, their Beetlejuice was playing in theater.
01:00:44
- Yeah, so there was, there were some dreams at every time.
01:00:46
- Oh, they changed.
01:00:47
- They changed what's playing in the movies every time.
01:00:49
- Yes, that's fun.
01:00:50
- Well, there was, there was, Honey, I shrunk the kids and was it downsizing?
01:00:53
- D downsizing was one of them, and they had a bunch of the incredible shrinking moment, but they also had, they had like the, they had Bob from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, who was like represented in miniature inside the theater.
01:01:02
- Bob wasn't the season one guy.
01:01:04
- Yeah.
01:01:05
- Bob and Phil, I don't know the other one.
01:01:06
- Yeah, what are the other ones?
01:01:07
- One of the other ones.
01:01:07
- My favorite thing is that fact that there is a little Toronto in little Toronto.
01:01:11
- Yes, I love that.
01:01:13
- Oh yeah.
01:01:13
- So you can go to little Toronto, little Toronto.
01:01:15
- Yes.
01:01:15
(laughing)
01:01:16
- And it begs the question, that there is a little Toronto in there.
01:01:19
- A little Toronto in there.
01:01:20
- A little Toronto in there.
01:01:21
- A little Toronto in there.
01:01:22
- A little Toronto in there.
01:01:22
- A little Toronto in there.
01:01:23
- It goes on forever.
01:01:24
- You're making machine inside little Toronto.
01:01:28
- That's true.
01:01:28
- Right.
01:01:29
- The little Easter eggs.
01:01:30
- The little funny little Easter eggs there.
01:01:33
- Oh, those are real, who.
01:01:34
- Yeah.
01:01:35
- The beetles.
01:01:36
Did you see the beetles?
01:01:37
- I didn't see the beetles.
01:01:38
- I didn't see the beetles.
01:01:38
- Well, there's four like beetles insects on top of a roof with that instrument.
01:01:45
- That's fun and scary if you, big eyes, yeah.
01:01:47
- And you see the giant rats that live under the city.
01:01:50
- Right, yeah.
01:01:51
- You saw some of that, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:01:53
- I wish those were just bits.
01:01:54
- Those are real.
01:01:55
- Those are real.
01:01:55
- They're very real.
01:01:56
- That's a really tough time for us.
01:01:58
- Yeah, if you live here, beyond November, it gets, yeah.
01:02:02
- You guys are talking about like, you know, like kids having a good time there.
01:02:04
I was looking, I looked over at Wager and he was looking at John Louis with the biggest smile on his face.
01:02:11
- 'Cause he just wrote a check for 200,000 dollars.
01:02:13
- I was a plug.
01:02:15
- So we had a, so you go to, from little Toronto, you go over to a little horseshoe.
01:02:20
Now I wasn't aware of this, the little Gordon horseshoe.
01:02:22
- That's the little Gordon horseshoe.
01:02:23
- I wasn't aware of this region.
01:02:24
- Yeah.
01:02:25
- But Hamilton is within the little - Hamilton's part of that.
01:02:27
- Yeah.
01:02:28
- Is this just a part of Ontario?
01:02:29
Is this a region of Ontario?
01:02:30
- Well, you gotta realize that 90% of our population is in this one corridor in Ontario.
01:02:39
And the golden horseshoe is a part of that and that goes pretty much from Montreal, the Ottawa to Toronto, to Niagara Falls, Hamilton to Sarnia.
01:02:48
So this kind of represents the regions that aren't major cities.
01:02:51
- 90% of the population is adjusted on to, I thought it's a 90% along the border.
01:02:56
- All along with the border.
01:02:57
- Along the border, but most of our population is hugging the United States and the golden horseshoe is around that and around the Great Lakes.
01:03:05
- Yeah.
01:03:06
- So you go through that, there's a bunch of chew shoes that's one thing that's happening there.
01:03:13
Maybe a small representation of your father somewhere.
01:03:16
- Oh my God.
01:03:16
- Working away.
01:03:17
He's there?
01:03:18
- I saw him.
01:03:19
- Oh, that's awesome.
01:03:20
- How big is he?
01:03:21
- He's six feet.
01:03:22
(all laughing)
01:03:24
- He was a huge, he was like, I know he was just there at Little Canada, and I was like, "I'm so disappointed in what you've done with your lifetime."
01:03:31
- Do you know what I will say?
01:03:32
So Sophie, who we met, and this was later on, this was in Little East Coast.
01:03:37
I believe was, yeah, I was Little East Coast.
01:03:39
Sophie said, in miniature was a representation of the bar where her parents met.
01:03:46
And we got a picture of Sophie pointing at the miniature version of the bar where her parents met.
01:03:51
That's a crazy thing.
01:03:52
- This is like a miniature version of how I exist.
01:03:54
- Yeah.
01:03:55
- Oh my God, it's crazy.
01:03:57
- Conceived there?
01:03:58
- So I don't know.
01:03:59
- We didn't ask.
01:04:00
- We didn't get anything else.
01:04:01
- I mean, are the minis doing what we're thinking they're doing.
01:04:02
(all laughing)
01:04:03
- We're asking where they're there.
01:04:05
I will say this, they're working on an East Coast.
01:04:10
They're working on the-- - Little West Coast.
01:04:12
- I'm sorry, Little West Coast.
01:04:13
- There's a bunch of other biomes in development, including Little Rockies, Little North.
01:04:17
The one that's under construction in public is Little West Coast.
01:04:20
And you're seeing people just sort of walk around like British Columbia.
01:04:24
- Did you see Little America?
01:04:26
Did you see it at all?
01:04:27
- No.
01:04:28
- There was a little America section too.
01:04:29
- Oh, I didn't realize that.
01:04:30
- Yeah, it was great.
01:04:31
- Oh.
01:04:32
- There was a capital building.
01:04:33
There was like a little January 6th.
01:04:35
(all laughing)
01:04:35
- Oh, that's nice.
01:04:36
- And Maurice was leading the charge.
01:04:39
- Oh wow.
01:04:39
(all laughing)
01:04:40
That's the weird thing about Maurice that you're like, oh, he's pretty nice.
01:04:43
And then as it goes on, he's like doing more and more kind of fucked up stuff.
01:04:46
- Yeah.
01:04:47
- The fire that you get deeper into Canada, he's just getting, he's just saying I'm real.
01:04:50
- I've heard and talked about weird things about vaccines.
01:04:53
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:04:54
- Super anti-facts.
01:04:55
- Yeah, there's a little protesting in there in front of like a doctor's officer, they're protesting.
01:05:01
- It's him and RfK Jr.
01:05:02
- Yeah.
01:05:03
- Yeah, RfK Jr.
01:05:04
is riding him and when you find him on time.
01:05:06
- And then see, RfK Jr.
01:05:07
is like eyeing him, like looking his lips.
01:05:09
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:05:11
- I could throw this into the Central Park.
01:05:12
- Yeah.
01:05:13
- Which is great detail to the public.
01:05:15
- It is really amazing.
01:05:16
- RfK rubs looking his lips.
01:05:17
- Yeah, there's a little bit of animation.
01:05:18
He's rubbing his belly.
01:05:19
- Yeah, so you had low golden horse shoe, little Ottawa, which is for Americans.
01:05:25
I mean, I know this Ottawa is Canada's capital.
01:05:27
And so we were, I heard him, but I'm just saying that.
01:05:29
So we're in Ottawa and you see Parliament Hill.
01:05:32
- Didn't care.
01:05:33
(laughing)
01:05:34
- Jay had told us-- - I do now because a little gay.
01:05:36
- It is the most boring part of Little Cane.
01:05:38
But here's the thing.
01:05:39
We asked Jay what his favorite part was of, who helped us out up top.
01:05:43
What his favorite part of Little Cane was he was like Parliament Hill.
01:05:47
And Parliament Hill in Little Ottawa is a showstopper 'cause you can see Parliament, and then at night, there's a fireworks display.
01:05:53
And it's a real hoot.
01:05:54
- That is true.
01:05:54
- And one of the other guides there was telling us that kids will line up while the fireworks are going off in front of Parliament and sing O Canada.
01:06:01
And I was like, that's so beautiful.
01:06:03
- That's so cool.
01:06:04
- And who said that happened?
01:06:05
- One of the people who works there.
01:06:06
- Yeah, it's not true.
01:06:08
(laughing)
01:06:09
- There's no way.
01:06:10
(laughing)
01:06:11
- We are not that patriotic in the mental kids.
01:06:12
We're like, I mean.
01:06:14
- Maybe when school, like a class of third graders comes through on a school trip.
01:06:17
- Yeah, it feels so inspired.
01:06:19
- Yeah, yeah.
01:06:20
- I mean, every time that I've been there, which is twice, it has really been a melting pot of people coming to see Little Canada.
01:06:28
- Did you feel like the National Anthem rising in you when the little patriotic?
01:06:34
- 'Cause the land is, you realize the land is so vast.
01:06:38
- It really is.
01:06:38
- It's free.
01:06:39
- And so small.
01:06:40
At the same time.
01:06:41
- Oh my God, it's coming.
01:06:42
(laughing)
01:06:43
- Did you guys, we talked about this when we went, was that do you feel tired and then kind of sleepy between the nighttime and the daytime?
01:06:50
- Yeah, definitely.
01:06:51
- Did they kind of like trick your body and be like-- - Life for sure does that, yeah.
01:06:53
- Yeah, yawning so much.
01:06:55
- Any time we'll turn to nighttime, why is I would just lay down the floor and tell the morning, right?
01:07:01
- Yeah, it would happen a few times.
01:07:02
- Yeah, yeah.
01:07:03
- Because it's an accelerated day night cycle, so we were getting great like 11 minute night sleep.
01:07:06
- We were wandering.
01:07:07
- We could have super well rested.
01:07:08
- Yeah, I would hit REM every nine minutes.
01:07:11
(laughing)
01:07:12
We were wandering if in that world is time sped up.
01:07:17
- Yeah, so like you're a bug, where it's like you live your entire lifetime in 24 hours, is like the sort of thing like to them just tie, are they perceived time on a different scale?
01:07:26
- Right.
01:07:27
- 'Cause how many days would it be just in one day?
01:07:29
How many days would you experience a little kinda, but what is it?
01:07:32
18 minutes would be a day?
01:07:33
- Something like that, yeah.
01:07:34
- I feel like 18 minutes.
01:07:35
- 15 minutes.
01:07:36
- 15 minutes?
01:07:36
- It's just a nightmare experience.
01:07:38
I think they're living in hell.
01:07:39
(laughing)
01:07:40
- Right, it is every 15 minutes.
01:07:42
And like they can't get out of Toronto.
01:07:44
They're like, wait, wait.
01:07:45
- The horseshoe's here, but where's the highway?
01:07:47
- Whenever giants are depicted in media, they're always like moving really slowly, right?
01:07:53
So I think like time is like affecting them differently than us, miniature.
01:07:59
- One day in Little Canada, 96 days.
01:08:02
- Wow.
01:08:03
- Whoa.
01:08:04
- That's wild to think about.
01:08:05
- What?
01:08:06
- So like one day in Little Canada is 96 days.
01:08:10
24 hours.
01:08:11
- One of our days is 96 of their days.
01:08:13
- One of our days is 96 of their days.
01:08:15
- Yeah.
01:08:16
- So you're living a year and it's four days, it's wild to think about.
01:08:23
- Yeah, they're in hell.
01:08:24
(laughing)
01:08:26
- It's just a punishment.
01:08:28
- A lot, your lifetime would be less than one of our calendar years.
01:08:31
- Are you gonna be put in there?
01:08:32
Are you gonna put yourselves through that?
01:08:35
- We're talking about it.
01:08:36
We're negotiating with John.
01:08:39
- Yeah, I think I should say to John.
01:08:40
I think it might be cool if there's a little podcast studio on where we're all from.
01:08:43
- I don't care about him getting in.
01:08:45
I just wanna get put on the Italian wall.
01:08:47
- Yeah, but we're never in there with Mitch.
01:08:49
- Well, you get to choose where many goes.
01:08:51
- We do, yeah.
01:08:52
- You get like, I would like to be in this area.
01:08:54
I don't think you get to pick specifically where, but you're like, I'm gonna be in Toronto.
01:08:57
- Yeah, and you could be put in the Roger Center or a Scotiabang.
01:09:00
- I'll just say this.
01:09:02
Our weird listeners will come and try to find us at Little Canada.
01:09:07
I'm just saying that for sure.
01:09:09
So if you wanna miniaturize us in which we want clearly, you'll get a bunch of weirdos who look like us coming in, which maybe you don't want.
01:09:17
- Maybe you don't want them giving some sort of lewd tribute to the doughboys in miniature.
01:09:22
'Cause that could happen too.
01:09:23
- Yes.
01:09:24
- You don't want to, you don't want to group of people who are gonna come in and start eating the miniature.
01:09:27
(all laughing)
01:09:29
- What are listeners will most likely do?
01:09:31
- Is it cake?
01:09:31
Petique Quebec, we went through there, and that was where, look, I was comparing, I thought this was a pretty good analogy, comparing Maurice the Moose to the Red Coins in Super Mario 64.
01:09:42
You guys always pretty good.
01:09:44
- It's pretty good.
01:09:44
- It's pretty good.
01:09:45
And so, and I think like the Red Coins in Mario 64, as you get progressed further in the game, the difficulty starts to hide.
01:09:50
- The difficulty gets higher.
01:09:52
- Petique Quebec, trying to find Maurice the Moose was pretty hard.
01:09:56
He's pretty tucked away, and sometimes they'll do a thing where they're evenly spaced, but with some of the other ones, they'll be like two more races, they'll be like right next to each other.
01:10:03
So they'll be a huge stretch with no more race, and all of a sudden there's two more races.
01:10:07
- And he's in these little Halloween costumes, which are so detailed.
01:10:09
- Everything is so detailed.
01:10:10
- Wait, is Quebec the winterized one?
01:10:12
- Yes, it's winterized, yeah.
01:10:13
- Is he like in a ghost costume?
01:10:15
Like that would make it really difficult.
01:10:16
- I thought he was on the ice.
01:10:18
- Yeah, he's on the ice for one of them.
01:10:19
- He's on ice for, for one of them, yeah.
01:10:21
- I love this one.
01:10:22
- It's a traffic jam.
01:10:23
- In Quebec.
01:10:24
- Traffic jam's fun.
01:10:25
It's just like where the car's supposed to go.
01:10:26
I mean, you can just tell the guys, like, "Oh god, damn it!" (laughing)
01:10:29
- And he has to turn around.
01:10:31
I'm like, those are my favorite of the minis.
01:10:33
You can find like realistic things that people just going through their day.
01:10:36
- Yeah, having a terrible one.
01:10:38
- I talk to them, because there's a moment where you can talk to the miniaturization, like the miniature makers section, where you have some of the craftspeople who are working and they will talk to you while they're working.
01:10:48
And we talk to them for a bit and they were like, "Oh yeah, the hotel in Little Ottawa, right?"
01:10:54
That's where that tells is like, we each got to do our own room.
01:10:58
And if you look through all the rooms, like some of the rooms are like more grounded and some of them are just like bananas.
01:11:03
But it's really cool, 'cause they all have their own little flair, and it's just like the sort of thing of like, again, you budget about 90 minutes to get through the old experience.
01:11:09
Because there's been a lot of time there if you're trying to hone in on every single detail that's included in a final Easter eggs.
01:11:14
- They were making a little more yeast there and I picked it up, I looked under it.
01:11:17
It's really detailed.
01:11:19
I'm saying like, everything down there, they detail everything.
01:11:23
- Yeah, like his hooves and his legs and stuff.
01:11:26
- Yeah, that is part of it.
01:11:28
- So those are really detailed?
01:11:29
Like the tails?
01:11:30
- The tails, yeah, yeah.
01:11:31
- And he's got like some fur on his undercarriage.
01:11:33
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:11:34
- Okay, that's cool, yeah.
01:11:36
That's it, though.
01:11:37
That's it.
01:11:38
- There's a little bit more.
01:11:39
- Okay, well that's crazy.
01:11:41
- Yeah, the antlers got it.
01:11:41
- Yeah, all the antlers, yeah.
01:11:43
- Well, he's got the Canadian flag like the little and sticking on it.
01:11:46
- Yeah, that's right.
01:11:46
That's one of the two.
01:11:48
- That's great.
01:11:48
- But yeah, his dick butt hole, his balls.
01:11:51
(laughing)
01:11:53
- Dick butt hole and balls.
01:11:54
- Wow, that's amazing.
01:11:55
- Oh, that's your time.
01:11:56
- Yeah, and he's packing heat to us.
01:11:59
- No.
01:11:59
- Yeah, they're not gonna put more yeast in there unless he's packing.
01:12:02
- Yeah, and it's cold.
01:12:03
- He's representing.
01:12:04
- I did like that, and like you're saying, like Montreal is like colder, so it did show that it was like smaller in Montreal.
01:12:11
Like he was, yeah, that's it.
01:12:13
- Yeah, it's a moose shrinkage.
01:12:14
- Yes.
01:12:15
- Did you see when they're making, where the section where they're making all the stuff, there's a ton of more reases in there?
01:12:20
- Yeah.
01:12:21
- Yes, yeah, yeah.
01:12:22
We caught every-- - They're gonna, they're, they're, look, they might be adding some more more reases.
01:12:26
But also, I think like that-- - They should.
01:12:28
- As they add more areas.
01:12:30
- Yeah.
01:12:30
- But I can see them increasing.
01:12:31
They could easily cram in more than four per area, because there's more places to take them away.
01:12:34
- I know what.
01:12:35
- I will be back to little Canada at some point.
01:12:37
I'm coming back.
01:12:38
- I'm coming back for sure.
01:12:39
- I went six months apart, and one whole section was completed in that time.
01:12:44
- Wow.
01:12:45
- Yeah.
01:12:46
It's really cool.
01:12:47
- What is the mall, is there a little center mall that it's in?
01:12:52
- No, it's been, it's beneath the tenor is the name of the center.
01:12:55
- Was it gonna cross the road from the east to the center?
01:12:57
- The hot tip, there's harvies in that building.
01:13:00
That's great.
01:13:01
- Oh, it's a good heart.
01:13:02
- Wow.
01:13:03
- The Eden Center mall is like, - Of course there'd be a harvies at the Eden Center.
01:13:07
- Eats.
01:13:07
- I liked it.
01:13:10
(laughing)
01:13:11
- Is the Eden Center mall is like your famous big mall, right?
01:13:15
- Well, it is the fame.
01:13:16
- Until you go to Edmonton.
01:13:18
- Oh, Edmonton's got the world.
01:13:19
Yeah, at least a killer voice telling us about the world's biggest fall in Edmonton.
01:13:21
- Oh.
01:13:22
- A fellow sketch partner, Lisa Gilroyo.
01:13:26
- Oh yeah, oh yeah.
01:13:26
- We were on the Sketchersons together.
01:13:28
We did a show called "Sunday Night Live" for a few years.
01:13:31
- Wow.
01:13:32
- Yeah.
01:13:33
- I love it.
01:13:34
There's also the first mall.
01:13:35
We shoot out near one of the first malls in Toronto, which is a big mall, but it's kinda in the middle of nowhere, or closer on the outskirts.
01:13:44
- I forget.
01:13:45
- Oh.
01:13:46
- Is it the Yorkdale or YorkSunday?
01:13:47
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
01:13:49
- Which is pretty big.
01:13:50
- That's like an actual mall.
01:13:51
- Yeah.
01:13:52
- The Eden Center is like a central destination to go to.
01:13:56
- I loved the Eden Center.
01:13:58
- I was having a great time at Eden Center.
01:13:59
- I want to always hate some things that I'm like, "Why can't it be cool?"
01:14:02
- You hate little Canada.
01:14:04
- I did not hate it.
01:14:06
I didn't like the people I was with.
01:14:09
(laughing)
01:14:09
- That's a different thing.
01:14:10
- You know what?
01:14:11
- I enjoy men to that, my friend.
01:14:13
- No, but the Eden Center was there.
01:14:16
- Oh no, she's great.
01:14:17
- I'm not offended.
01:14:18
- But the Eden Center, like how dare you say that about me and Emma collective?
01:14:21
- Yeah.
01:14:21
- Like when I go to the Eden Center, like my favorite time, now this is, this is controversial.
01:14:26
My favorite time to go to the Eden Center is during Christmas time when it's that, it's most chaotic.
01:14:30
- Wow.
01:14:31
- And it'll be filled to the brim and people are pissed off, but I just like feed off of, I go there, the trick is to go to the heat.
01:14:36
- The trick is to go there without any agenda.
01:14:39
Like I don't need to be out of here by a certain time.
01:14:40
I'm like, I'm just gonna do it.
01:14:41
- He doesn't need any gifts either.
01:14:43
- He just goes.
01:14:44
(laughing)
01:14:45
- I walk around and eat with myself.
01:14:46
- It's so much fun.
01:14:47
It's wild.
01:14:48
- It's so many people.
01:14:49
- We're turned to ring light for an audition where I was auditioned to play the role of Bubba the Love Spongebob.
01:14:56
- True.
01:14:57
- That was yeah.
01:14:58
- In Joe Red as Hulk Hogan, Samo Joe, he helped me out with the audition.
01:15:02
- Yeah, how nice of him.
01:15:02
- I can say it now, right?
01:15:03
- I don't know.
01:15:04
- Oh, maybe not.
01:15:05
- Is that being made?
01:15:06
- Is that being, is that actually being made?
01:15:08
- It's not being made, right?
01:15:09
- It's not being made, right?
01:15:10
- I think it may be.
01:15:11
- I think it may be.
01:15:12
- I don't know.
01:15:13
- We'll see what happens.
01:15:13
- I heard it, that's clashed.
01:15:14
- I can say it.
01:15:15
I didn't get the part who gives a shit.
01:15:17
- You'd be a great Love Spongebob.
01:15:19
(laughing)
01:15:20
- I don't even know if I should say thank you.
01:15:22
(laughing)
01:15:24
- The world's famous cop.
01:15:25
- I can totally believe someone would fuck your wife.
01:15:27
(laughing)
01:15:30
- It was funny.
01:15:30
- Almost fuck his wife.
01:15:31
- Yeah.
01:15:32
- It was funny, the audition, like, people were like, anyone who watched it was like, "Damn, that Hulk Hogan's really good."
01:15:38
I was like, "Yeah, Samo Joe did it."
01:15:39
Yeah, it was.
01:15:40
- Great actor.
01:15:41
- I know.
01:15:42
- But I'm saying like, they were never saying anything about my performances.
01:15:44
Bubba, the Love Sponsors.
01:15:46
Joe knocked out of the park.
01:15:47
- He booked it.
01:15:49
- He booked it.
01:15:50
- He booked it.
01:15:50
He booked Hogan.
01:15:51
I think Ben Affleck.
01:15:52
- But that speaks to like where our industry is now, though, that you have to recruit a fellow actor to read opposite you to attempt to get a role.
01:16:00
Whereas that used to be a process where you'd go in with like a professional casting person.
01:16:03
- And they'd give you notes.
01:16:04
- Yeah, but now you have to get your friend to do free labor and shoot it on your own, it sucks.
01:16:08
- It's a nightmare.
01:16:09
- So I hated the Eaton Center because I only got in there and walked to Best Buy to return the ring light.
01:16:15
And then I got back and I had like a $15 parking ticket.
01:16:18
I mean, just like to pay to get out of there.
01:16:21
It was like so quickly and then I also was like, oh, I'm never gonna drive in Toronto again is something that I figured out pretty quickly 'cause I have a rental car.
01:16:29
- Yeah, that's a train.
01:16:30
That's a Tucci destination.
01:16:32
- Yeah, I've driven in my rental car like three times total.
01:16:37
- Sure, but there's like a rail stop right under the Eaton Center.
01:16:39
- Yes, and walking through there, it was like, oh, this is nice.
01:16:41
That's cool.
01:16:42
- By train here, I would have liked a lot.
01:16:43
What is the theme park, speaking of, we're in this world.
01:16:47
- Oh, wonderland?
01:16:48
- Wonderland.
01:16:49
- Oh, that's cool.
01:16:50
- Did they make a movie about Wonderland right or no?
01:16:53
- No, you think like Jesse Eisenberg.
01:16:55
- Oh, yes, I'm not it.
01:16:56
- But it was like similar to like, yeah, it's the same thing then, right?
01:16:59
- Adventureland.
01:17:00
- Yeah, yeah.
01:17:01
But Wonderland's like our like big, big amusement park.
01:17:04
- We took Griffin and a couple of New York boys this summer.
01:17:07
- Do you guys know Cedar Point in Ohio?
01:17:09
- Yeah, we know Cedar Point.
01:17:10
- I've never been.
01:17:11
- They own Wonderland.
01:17:12
- Oh, wow.
01:17:14
- It used to be a Paramount amusement park.
01:17:19
- So every ride used to have be tied to a movie, but Paramount lost it and they're all named something different now.
01:17:29
But we all know it, like that ride is the top gun.
01:17:32
But now it's called the light deck.
01:17:34
- But it's, you know what it is.
01:17:35
- Wow, that's why I love that.
01:17:37
I wish I should have, well, there's still time.
01:17:39
Is it still open or is it closing?
01:17:41
- Well, actually.
01:17:42
- It was a question to Halloween.
01:17:43
- They're switching to Halloween Haunt, which is rollercoasters in the dark.
01:17:47
- Interesting.
01:17:48
- Quite good.
01:17:49
- Yeah.
01:17:50
- And a lot of haunted houses.
01:17:51
- Yeah.
01:17:52
- And they're really, really good.
01:17:52
- It's quite amazing.
01:17:53
- I'm gonna have to check it out.
01:17:54
- Little East Coast encompasses Halifax, or, I'm sorry, Nova Scotia more generally.
01:18:00
Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, what am I missing?
01:18:04
A New Brunswick, Nova, yeah, it's got all the provinces that are over on the East Coast of Canada.
01:18:11
And you're walking through there.
01:18:13
This is where they have the section where the tide rises and falls with the, the, the, the, the day night cycle, which is a few restaurants for Sophie's parents' bars.
01:18:22
- Oh yeah.
01:18:23
- But yeah.
01:18:24
- That's where they, and the night, the night's young, the lights are off at the old time.
01:18:29
- Nine minutes.
01:18:30
- They got nine minutes to conceive.
01:18:33
- Man.
01:18:34
- Yeah.
01:18:35
- How long would I last and a little kid?
01:18:36
(laughing)
01:18:38
- How many milliseconds?
01:18:39
(laughing)
01:18:41
- I mean, I mean, milliseconds is probably pretty good.
01:18:44
- Yeah, honestly, in the middle of Canada.
01:18:46
- You'd be a stasting.
01:18:48
- A stally.
01:18:48
(laughing)
01:18:51
- By the way, parents being a paramount, just want to give a little plug, twist the metal paramount plus up here in Canada.
01:18:57
- Oh, how about that?
01:18:58
It's on a different network.
01:18:59
- I've been telling people to subscribe to Peacock.
01:19:01
So if he's gonna sign up for the wrong retrial.
01:19:02
- You messed up.
01:19:04
- I have paramount now.
01:19:05
- Listen, paramount, if you're, if you're listening to this.
01:19:08
Upload your survivor episodes the day after.
01:19:13
- Wow.
01:19:14
- Not a week after, please.
01:19:15
- Wow.
01:19:15
- Car's like, "I've got good news for you."
01:19:18
Oh, actually bad news.
01:19:19
They don't listen.
01:19:20
(laughing)
01:19:21
- Paramount's not listening at all.
01:19:24
- Yeah.
01:19:25
- That is annoying.
01:19:25
They should upload the day after I agree with you.
01:19:28
- There was a little bite section, but I was hoping there'd be more of like a little gimmick to it, but the doesn't seem to be.
01:19:35
- The pizza was kind of small.
01:19:37
- The pizza was kind of small, but it wasn't ice cream.
01:19:39
- That was kind of small.
01:19:40
- But it wasn't like they had like a bunch, like a teeny tiny cookie or anything like that, which I thought could be fun.
01:19:44
- So we didn't really have any of the little bites, but we just sort of walked through it.
01:19:47
Never one there was lovely to talk to.
01:19:48
- You didn't have the Moose Tracks drink?
01:19:50
- No, we didn't.
01:19:51
- We should have.
01:19:52
- There's like a bubble tea-esque drink.
01:19:54
- That's fun.
01:19:55
- And it's like Marisa's piss.
01:19:57
(laughing)
01:19:58
- And shit.
01:19:59
- And shit.
01:20:00
- And shit and piss.
01:20:01
- And shit.
01:20:01
- I'm not joking about this.
01:20:03
This actually exists.
01:20:04
You can get a Moose Tracks drink.
01:20:06
- Wow.
01:20:07
- But it's not his pissant shit.
01:20:08
- But it looks like it.
01:20:09
- It's supposed to be.
01:20:10
- Well, Moose Tracks.
01:20:11
- Moose Tracks.
01:20:12
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:20:13
You're right.
01:20:14
- It's not his footprint.
01:20:15
- Yeah, that's true.
01:20:17
- I would love this.
01:20:19
We should have done it.
01:20:20
Maybe we have to go back.
01:20:22
- Yeah, it was crazy if you look 'cause there is that part in the snow and you can see Moose Tracks.
01:20:26
And there's like, there's the hoof prints, but then there's just like a long dragon.
01:20:30
(laughing)
01:20:32
- And there's behind him.
01:20:34
- And there's like a little quote with like kinda like that Jesus quote, where there's one set of footprints.
01:20:38
- Yeah, I was carrying you.
01:20:41
(laughing)
01:20:42
- And it's like, when there's no line, it was cold.
01:20:45
(laughing)
01:20:47
- There's no line.
01:20:48
It wasn't buried.
01:20:49
(laughing)
01:20:50
- You're in a little comeback.
01:20:51
- I absolutely love this place.
01:20:53
I thought it was so cool.
01:20:54
I had, I was just smiling the whole time.
01:20:56
Emma, you had a great time, right?
01:20:57
- I loved it.
01:20:58
- I was 30 minutes late to meet Mars because I couldn't leave.
01:21:01
(laughing)
01:21:02
- And Mars, you've been to Little Canada before.
01:21:04
- I've been there.
01:21:05
I loved it.
01:21:06
I'm so glad.
01:21:07
You guys went and I'm so glad you guys enjoyed it too 'cause I wasn't sure if you're coming from out of Canada if you'd still appreciate as much as Canadians do, so it makes you really happy.
01:21:14
- I feel like almost like as an outsider, there was like a level of appreciation of just like, like, oh wow, look at how rich and fertile this land is.
01:21:21
What you know as part of the exercise.
01:21:22
Oh, look at how, look, I don't really know what Canadian parliament looks like.
01:21:26
- You're being nervous about how fertile the land is.
01:21:28
I'm really gonna do it.
01:21:29
- It's very fertile.
01:21:30
(laughing)
01:21:31
- Oh, Jesus.
01:21:32
- Yeah.
01:21:32
- I could breed with this land.
01:21:34
(laughing)
01:21:35
- I want to know, 'cause there's also like, a little Hamilton.
01:21:38
- There is a little Hamilton.
01:21:39
- There is a little Hamilton.
01:21:40
- It's like a get shrunk down be with that working class city.
01:21:42
(laughing)
01:21:44
- It was fantastic.
01:21:44
- They did have the original Tim Horton's in Little Hamilton.
01:21:47
- That's true.
01:21:48
- Talk about putting, if they don't build us a podcast studio, will you could go be at the Little Tim Horton?
01:21:53
- The original one.
01:21:53
- It's a good place to do it.
01:21:54
- You've never been there though, so that's kind of, you know, storm about.
01:21:57
- Well, there's a Tim, there's a Tim Horton's in Toronto too, a little Toronto, right?
01:22:00
Or is there just one Hamilton?
01:22:01
- No, I think it was just in Hamilton.
01:22:02
- Okay, then I messed up.
01:22:03
- Although there might be one, that's possible.
01:22:05
- Watching the live show and talking about Tim Horton's, you guys know why Tim Horton is famous in hockey?
01:22:12
- He was a defenseman, right?
01:22:15
- You know, his big claim to fame, I wouldn't have without Tim Horton.
01:22:20
- What was that?
01:22:20
- The slap shot.
01:22:21
- The slap shot is to have invented the slap shot.
01:22:24
- That's amazing.
01:22:25
- Okay, the movie slap shot, maybe when it exists.
01:22:27
- Oh, I thought you meant he directed slap shot.
01:22:29
(laughing)
01:22:31
- He made it the movie slap shot.
01:22:32
- Yeah.
01:22:33
- Yeah.
01:22:34
- The slap shot was a move that he popularized.
01:22:39
- Wow, that's really cool.
01:22:41
- Yeah, I could never do a slap shot time.
01:22:43
- He might have been drunk.
01:22:45
And then that's when he heard a lot about him being drunk.
01:22:48
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:22:49
- It's how he passed.
01:22:50
Yeah, the land does look really fertile.
01:22:55
I noticed a few snow patches in the Toronto, which is not winter themed lags, so I don't know if you got your hands in there.
01:23:03
I think you were in there with the green team.
01:23:04
(laughing)
01:23:06
There was also, there was a little space where there was like a mission control area.
01:23:12
There was the area with the people who were actually crafting the miniatures.
01:23:14
- Yes, yes, yes.
01:23:15
- And then there was also just this section where what did you say?
01:23:19
- The miniature makers.
01:23:20
- The miniature makers.
01:23:21
- Yes.
01:23:22
- And then there was also the section where you saw the cars go, the buses and the cars go into this little area that was kind of a control center.
01:23:29
And there were like turn around and be in there and then leave.
01:23:32
- Yeah, I don't think we've made, we've maybe not made enough a meal about how many vehicles there are.
01:23:36
- Oh, yeah.
01:23:37
- And they're not just trains in motion, but cars, cars, cars.
01:23:41
- They're moving.
01:23:42
- And they're all moving.
01:23:43
They all have cycles.
01:23:44
- Yeah, they're made of the mist and Niagara Falls goes out and goes into the falls and goes back.
01:23:48
- That was a moment for me.
01:23:50
I think we should rank this out of Forks for real, but this is just.
01:23:52
(laughing)
01:23:53
That's what happened for me.
01:23:54
I went, when I walked into Little Niagara, it was on already.
01:23:57
I see the maid of the mist.
01:23:59
- The maid of the mist took off.
01:24:00
- Moving through and I was like, this is incredible.
01:24:02
The boat is moving.
01:24:03
I didn't know that the boat would be moving and that's all it took for me.
01:24:06
But a lot of Canadians, I'm like, I'm going to Little Canada.
01:24:08
They're like, what are you talking about?
01:24:09
A lot of Canadians still don't know what this place is.
01:24:12
- So how many people were in there, would you say, at the same time as you?
01:24:16
- Not many.
01:24:17
- Two dozen, maybe.
01:24:17
- It wasn't like hugely populated.
01:24:19
- It was really busy the moment we went.
01:24:20
- I heard, I heard that they need at least like five to 7,000 people in and through there to break even.
01:24:29
- A day?
01:24:30
- A day.
01:24:30
That's a lot.
01:24:31
- No way.
01:24:32
- No way.
01:24:33
- Well, here's the thing.
01:24:35
And I'm not saying this, John Lilly.
01:24:36
But is this some sort of tax haven sort of situation?
01:24:42
- Is it okay, is that like a city that you can claim or something like?
01:24:50
- I don't live in Canada.
01:24:53
I live in Little Canada.
01:24:54
- It's gotta be emerging money.
01:24:57
It's gotta be.
01:24:58
- Well, he's got little taxes.
01:24:59
- Right, he's got taxes, he's got taxes, he's got taxes, he's got taxes, he's got taxes, he's got taxes, he's got taxes.
01:25:03
- They're in 196, the 197.
01:25:05
- Here's what I was saying.
01:25:06
If this is purely a vanity project, if this is purely, he's something he's singing his own money into, or if this is some sort of tax dodge, whatever it is, I think it has a wholesome quality to it.
01:25:17
I think it is employing a lot of people who do a very specialized line of work.
01:25:21
- He's doing jobs work.
01:25:22
- I think versus like having like some bullshit charity that's like, "Oh yeah, this is the advancement of people fund."
01:25:30
And it's just like funneling money and it doesn't actually do anything.
01:25:34
- Yeah, I can't say research, whatever.
01:25:35
- Exactly, yeah.
01:25:36
- So some bullshit charity versus something like that, versus like one of these open scams or like some fake product or whatever, you some bullshit kickstarter.
01:25:47
At least this guy is something tangible that people enjoy and appreciate.
01:25:50
- I agree, I think this is like, well, think of like any hobby that you have, like we're like, people who make little trains at home or like, or like get paint minis and like d&d stuff.
01:26:00
- How have you not started that, you don't do that?
01:26:03
- I've thought about getting into like war hammer figurines or like making like fucking building Gundams or something like that.
01:26:08
- I am a big, I'm a big D&D guy.
01:26:09
- Are you really?
01:26:10
- I love minis.
01:26:11
- Yeah, but I think that's terrible.
01:26:12
- That's shit's so cool, but I'm just also like, like I'm gonna get obsessive about it and more I'm gonna put all this shit, that's my issue.
01:26:18
- But I think if I had the money, and I was like, and you know, it's just like, I wanna make a little thing and everyone would be like, that's crazy.
01:26:24
- Taylor, you can't just make miniature break d&d and break d&d, no one's gonna go see it.
01:26:28
- But they might like it.
01:26:30
- Maybe 12 day people a day might come and see it.
01:26:33
- Yeah, 12 people in break d&d.
01:26:35
- Maybe like two people actually asking for directions 'cause they're lost out in the middle of Southwest.
01:26:40
- Where's the gas station, LCBO?
01:26:42
- The gas station LCBO is right there, the town has three streets.
01:26:46
- But I got to tell her, sorry, I interrupted you.
01:26:48
- Are you John saying what you're gonna say, I'm sorry.
01:26:51
- No, I was just saying, I'm like, it could be advantageous, but it took one of those things if you can do it, why wouldn't you?
01:26:56
Like, yeah, I can build this thing.
01:26:58
I have money to it.
01:26:58
- It's not hurting the world.
01:27:00
- I think it's adding a richness in color to the world.
01:27:03
- He's a Walt Disney figure, then no, I never met Walt Disney, so, fuck Disney, Jean-Louis is great.
01:27:09
I love Jean-Louis.
01:27:11
Fantastic guy, this trip was, look, I'm just gonna say it, five forks for me.
01:27:18
- Five forks for a little Canada.
01:27:20
Five little forks for a little Canada.
01:27:21
- Five little forks.
01:27:22
- For little likes.
01:27:23
- Like on my hat.
01:27:24
- Yeah, I just absolutely thought this was so great.
01:27:27
I want to go back, I can't wait for more of it to be built.
01:27:31
I can't wait to see all of the stuff that's added and changed.
01:27:35
Carson, how about you?
01:27:36
- Five forks, five forks.
01:27:37
- As soon as I came into little Canada, it was that wow factor as well.
01:27:41
Like, as soon as I saw the falls, I was like, oh, this is different than I thought it would be.
01:27:46
I was ready to make fun of this a lot, and I'm actually having a nice time.
01:27:51
And it does have that sense of wonder that you want, that you had as a child when you were building stuff, you know?
01:27:59
- Yeah.
01:28:00
- Five forks plus mousse tracks.
01:28:04
- Wow.
01:28:05
- And the wine too.
01:28:07
- Taylor, don't be pressured.
01:28:09
- I'm certainly feeling the pressure.
01:28:11
- Yeah.
01:28:12
- Everyone, I mean, Carson, you're talking about this whimsy, the magic of child, you were stiff-harming kids running through that place.
01:28:21
- I had to find Maurice.
01:28:23
- I know, and.
01:28:24
- Yeah.
01:28:25
- But, you know, in the spirit of little Canada, I'm going to give it five little forks.
01:28:31
- Wow, five little forks.
01:28:32
- Wow.
01:28:33
- Wow.
01:28:34
- It just serves it in the Platinum Play Club.
01:28:36
- Wow.
01:28:37
- Platinum.
01:28:38
- That's a little Platinum Play.
01:28:40
That's the little guy.
01:28:41
- A little tiny Platinum Play.
01:28:42
- Well, that's cute.
01:28:43
- Could be part of our podcast, I blow.
01:28:44
- Oh, that's so cute.
01:28:45
- They don't like it.
01:28:46
- They're also going to expand into space.
01:28:49
- They're going to make the Canadarm?
01:28:51
- Yes, they're going to make a Canadarm.
01:28:53
- And not the rest of these.
01:28:54
- And the International Space Station and a little Chris Hadfield.
01:28:57
- A little Chris Hadfield.
01:28:58
- Wow.
01:28:59
- And Plings.
01:29:00
- From, wait, from Metallica?
01:29:02
- It's Hadfield.
01:29:03
Do you remember the guy you, like, the astronaut?
01:29:05
- Oh, Prince Hadfield.
01:29:06
- Who's also American?
01:29:07
- The astronaut who played David Bowie in space.
01:29:10
- Oh, right.
01:29:11
Yeah, okay.
01:29:12
- It's our thing.
01:29:13
- I did think, I was thinking James Hadfield.
01:29:16
What would be a good name for that heavy metal sandwich spot or whatever it is?
01:29:21
- Oh, the heavy metal sangria bar.
01:29:22
- Yeah.
01:29:24
- It'd be like, like, you know, I'm just thinking of, like, Slayer's raining blood.
01:29:28
- Slayer sangria, yeah.
01:29:29
- Oh, yeah.
01:29:30
- Well, Slayer sangria.
01:29:31
That's, like, a near rhyme.
01:29:33
But I was just thinking of, like, raining blood if it was, like, raining sangria.
01:29:38
I don't fucking know.
01:29:39
Rage ria knows.
01:29:41
- Yeah.
01:29:42
- I was trying to say, - Sit and agree.
01:29:44
- Oh, there you go.
01:29:45
- Sit and agree.
01:29:45
- Oh, yeah.
01:29:46
- Sit and agree.
01:29:47
That's the way to make a boyfriend.
01:29:48
- Sit and agree?
01:29:49
- Yeah.
01:29:50
That's the way you make a boyfriend and an air.
01:29:51
That's the way to go.
01:29:52
- I'm trying to put Panini and Pantera together, but it's not a Panini.
01:29:55
- It's not a sandwich place.
01:29:56
It could be.
01:29:59
- But that's the dude they have.
01:30:00
It's St.Gria's and Panini.
01:30:03
- I wanna say what were you using?
01:30:05
- I was gonna know one thing.
01:30:06
There was a little bit of a kerflafal because Mitch was telling everyone that there was a Maurice the moose that I missed and that I didn't actually deserve my citizenship.
01:30:15
- He missed one.
01:30:16
- I saw it.
01:30:17
It was underneath the Hamilton globe.
01:30:18
I saw it.
01:30:19
I also helped you spot out additional Maurice's.
01:30:22
- I helped you spot a dessert.
01:30:23
- I know, I know.
01:30:24
I'm just saying, this is a collaboration.
01:30:26
- You missed one of them.
01:30:26
- That's why I missed one of them.
01:30:27
- You got the sticker.
01:30:28
It's okay.
01:30:29
- I saw it and this is not stolen valor.
01:30:31
I earned this sticker.
01:30:32
I explained to everyone who you said I didn't see where that story was and I saw it.
01:30:37
- If you look at all my people, if you believe why.
01:30:40
- I'm telling the truth.
01:30:41
- Okay.
01:30:42
- We'll never lie about that.
01:30:43
- That Maurice and Vimierage is gonna be so disrespectful.
01:30:45
(laughing)
01:30:48
- Him stomping term.
01:30:51
(laughing)
01:30:54
- We have to ask you one last thing.
01:30:55
We were talking about some financial stuff money.
01:30:59
What is Tuni diving?
01:31:01
- Oh my God.
01:31:02
- Oh my God, this is driven.
01:31:03
- Yeah, this is driven.
01:31:04
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:05
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:06
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:07
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:08
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:08
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:09
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:10
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:11
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:12
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:13
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:14
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:15
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:16
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:17
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:17
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:18
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:19
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:20
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:21
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:22
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:23
- It's driven out the stack.
01:31:24
- In America, we have a lot of coins.
01:31:26
We love our coins.
01:31:27
You've seen the Tunis, which is the $2 coin.
01:31:31
- Correct.
01:31:32
- Yeah, Carson, explain this in detail.
01:31:35
- So if you go to a strip club, and you don't have fives, if you don't have tens, you don't have fifties, you have Tunis.
01:31:44
How would you think a stripper would take...
01:31:49
- You're a griffin.
01:31:52
- This is what you do.
01:31:55
- You want to ask the same thing?
01:31:56
- You hold it in your mouth.
01:31:58
- You hold it in your mouth.
01:32:00
You lay on the stage.
01:32:01
- And shippers are fully naked.
01:32:03
- And they...
01:32:04
- Oh my God.
01:32:06
- Griff.
01:32:07
- I will see this.
01:32:07
- Griffin is at 19 years old, 20 years old.
01:32:12
The first thing he came to me was like, "I want to go."
01:32:14
I went to the screen and he said, "We're not going."
01:32:17
It's not a real thing.
01:32:19
And I don't think it's a real thing.
01:32:20
- You just heard about it.
01:32:21
- Oh people have done it.
01:32:22
- Griffin, you're not a little dog.
01:32:24
What the hell?
01:32:25
- I used to work in the strip club in Sarno, Ontario for two shifts.
01:32:32
Two shifts, I could not handle it.
01:32:34
- What did you do?
01:32:34
- I was the DJ.
01:32:35
- You were a strip club DJ?
01:32:36
- Wow.
01:32:37
- Yeah, for two shifts.
01:32:38
- Bella's $glap louder than hands.
01:32:41
- I did exactly that.
01:32:43
- Wow.
01:32:43
- And the first day I did it, the waitresses, 'cause I worked in the theater.
01:32:47
The waitresses were like, "You're the best one who's ever done this."
01:32:51
- Wow.
01:32:52
- This is it, Sarno, Ontario.
01:32:53
- Just 'cause you had some showmanship.
01:32:55
- Exactly.
01:32:57
- Yeah.
01:32:57
But I knew that I could not keep doing it because I knew a teacher that had taught me would come in for sure at some point.
01:33:05
- I thought your mother pulled you out of that.
01:33:07
- She said that I'd-- - I would keep working.
01:33:09
- Yeah, it was beneath it.
01:33:10
- It was beneath it.
01:33:10
- Yes, but I was hard pressed.
01:33:13
- Yeah.
01:33:14
- I love it.
01:33:14
- Wow, that's cool.
01:33:15
Did you have any technique?
01:33:16
Did you, like, were you doing it?
01:33:17
What, did you have anything you remembered saying?
01:33:20
Or were you just, were you ever such a sort of stretch that it's all kind of a book?
01:33:22
- I was, it was a blur.
01:33:24
I remembered, like, all the names were destiny or Brooklyn or whatnot.
01:33:29
And there was be a window out to the stage and the audience.
01:33:34
And then there would be a window to backstage.
01:33:36
And the, and I was quite young.
01:33:38
I was probably like 19 at this time, and I didn't, I didn't have a lot of experience with women.
01:33:44
- I would, 19 years old and I would not do well as a strip club DJ.
01:33:49
- I don't know if you're gonna work as a strip, in a strip club in the States.
01:33:52
You might be able to work in under 21.
01:33:54
I don't know, it really depends on the facility.
01:33:56
- But the women were also sometimes kind of really nice to me.
01:33:59
- Sure.
01:34:00
- They would be like, oh, they wanna see who the new person working is and I just didn't know where to look.
01:34:07
And, but I wanted to be nice and polite and talk to them.
01:34:11
But they were fully naked, right beside me.
01:34:14
- Oh, I, yeah.
01:34:15
- Did you look at their forehead?
01:34:15
- Yeah, I was just like, right over top.
01:34:18
- Yeah, just DJing, just see.
01:34:20
- That's kind of how I just talk to everyone if it makes you feel better.
01:34:22
- Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:34:23
I don't know, I don't know what it would be like to work at a strip club.
01:34:27
But all I wanna say is that I think tuning diving should be out of the Olympics.
01:34:32
(all laughing)
01:34:34
That's all I know.
01:34:35
- I can't wait to see how the Australians do it.
01:34:38
- What was the name of the strip club?
01:34:39
- It's called the port, the river, the river port.
01:34:42
- The river port.
01:34:42
Wait, where was this again?
01:34:44
- In Sarnia, Ontario, the cancer capital of Canada.
01:34:47
- Hold on, the river port in Sarnia, it's in Little Canada.
01:34:51
(all laughing)
01:34:53
- Maurice is there.
01:34:54
- Yeah, he did it.
01:34:54
- He had a very sick dead center.
01:34:56
He's not dancing.
01:34:57
- He's tuning diving.
01:34:58
- Next to Mr.
01:34:59
Whitlock.
01:35:01
- We, we.
01:35:01
(all laughing)
01:35:03
- Do you want to hear your teachers?
01:35:05
(all laughing)
01:35:06
- We should have asked for a little bit of Canada episode.
01:35:08
- It's a little Canada episode.
01:35:10
This was a thing that you wanted us to talk about.
01:35:11
- It was hold some up until this point.
01:35:13
- Yeah, this is, this is where we're working.
01:35:14
- We're having a nice time.
01:35:16
- Griffin.
01:35:17
- Thanks for all Griffin.
01:35:18
- Thanks for all Griffin.
01:35:19
- Thanks for all Griffin.
01:35:20
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01:36:50
- Catch up chip.
01:36:51
- You can get in Canada.
01:36:53
- The lace catch up chip.
01:36:54
- You've tried them.
01:36:55
- So we have tried those, but you said there was more that we found.
01:36:58
- So no name is a very distinct Canadian one.
01:37:01
This is cheddar bacon.
01:37:03
- Wow.
01:37:04
- We gotta try those.
01:37:05
- Love that.
01:37:06
- Now the best.
01:37:07
- Regular ripple cut is going to be the no name.
01:37:10
- Wow.
01:37:11
- This is going to be-- - The brand is called no name.
01:37:13
- It's just called no name.
01:37:14
- Wow.
01:37:15
- And then-- - I know some people here are a bit of a heat sequer.
01:37:19
- Oh, hell yeah.
01:37:20
- So we got spicy all dressed.
01:37:21
- I was eyeing the spicy all dressed.
01:37:23
- Spicy all dressed.
01:37:24
- Wow, can't wait.
01:37:25
- You guys had old dress before?
01:37:26
- We had old dress before.
01:37:27
- We had old dress before.
01:37:28
- We had old dress before.
01:37:29
- Classic Canadian flavor.
01:37:30
Dill pickle.
01:37:31
- Love it.
01:37:32
- Yeah, all dressed as-- You can't get all dressed in the States, but we've had it in Canada, and Canadians have sent it to us, and we love it.
01:37:38
I wish it was available in the States.
01:37:39
- We got a Miss Vicky's Applewood smoked BBQ.
01:37:43
- These are-- - This is great.
01:37:45
- That went actually really good.
01:37:46
I buy those off.
01:37:47
- The only one we've had is the ketchup chips.
01:37:49
This is fantastic.
01:37:50
- A spicy Dill pickle.
01:37:51
- Wow.
01:37:52
- Let's, can we do a quick chips and hail?
01:37:53
- Yeah, let's do a real quick chips and hail.
01:37:55
- All right, we're gonna do quick chips and hail.
01:37:57
I'm gonna start it off off.
01:37:58
- There's no back too big, no back too small.
01:38:01
If you got chips just call, chips and hail, rest you range,
01:38:13
chips and hail, every flavor.
01:38:15
- I'm starting with a spicy all dressed.
01:38:17
These are ruffles brand.
01:38:20
- Oh my God.
01:38:23
I love it.
01:38:25
- These are wonderful.
01:38:27
- What a revelation, really good.
01:38:29
- Also, these are official chips with the Toronto Raptors.
01:38:31
How about that?
01:38:32
- Wow.
01:38:33
- I'm gonna say this.
01:38:34
- Mars if you had the spicy all dressed?
01:38:35
- I'm not.
01:38:36
- Are you a bit of a heat seeker?
01:38:37
- Oh, yeah.
01:38:38
- I'm gonna toss these your way.
01:38:39
- Yeah, or you're gonna have some chips.
01:38:40
- Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:38:41
I'm gonna say this.
01:38:43
These are the only bacon chips I've ever liked.
01:38:45
- Really?
01:38:46
- The cheddar bacon chips, yeah.
01:38:47
I only think I've had these.
01:38:50
- I generally don't like a bacon flavor.
01:38:52
- I do like that.
01:38:53
- Same.
01:38:54
- Applewood smoked BBQ.
01:38:55
- I'm gonna try and do a little less crinkling and chip crunching in the microphone for the mesophonial.
01:39:02
- I'll cut it.
01:39:04
- Now that is the most addicting, like, regular chip.
01:39:08
- That is a great regular chip.
01:39:10
Just a straight up ripple cut.
01:39:13
- I mean, I've had all of these.
01:39:16
I'm just enjoying a snack.
01:39:18
I haven't the spicy dope pickle in Miss Biggie's.
01:39:21
We do have this in the States.
01:39:22
This is a great flavor.
01:39:23
We've gotten this in Jersey, Mike.
01:39:24
When I was a kid, I grew up in Southern California.
01:39:28
One thing we would do is school fundraisers is, we did this in Boy Scouts too, and this was actually the context where we did this fundraiser.
01:39:36
Live studio, you'd be a live studio audience for a TV taping and then they would give your school or give your organization money.
01:39:43
We went to Boy Scouts, we'd go to live TV tapings for in my six grade class.
01:39:47
We went to family feud.
01:39:49
Boy Scouts went to a live, it was like a Dick Clark's Battle of the Bands.
01:39:54
I don't remember the name of any bands, but I just remember the one group that all the Boy Scouts loved and the whole crowd fucking loved.
01:40:02
This is the best band.
01:40:03
It was a Skaw band and they had a song where the chorus was...
01:40:09
- Ripple chip and onion dip.
01:40:12
- Ripple chip and onion dip.
01:40:14
- Ripple chip and onion dip.
01:40:15
The song was called Barbecue.
01:40:16
I'm just about going to a barbecue and it's just like a Skaw punk jam about having a good time at a barbecue.
01:40:20
And we're all like, "We love this, this is so great."
01:40:22
And then the band that won was like some, this band that had a song called, "Get your phone call" or whatever.
01:40:27
It was just like everyone was like, "All right, kind of."
01:40:29
I guess there were better musicians, but it was one of those things where you saw the divide between the panelists like the professional evaluators and then the masses in terms of a lot of politics.
01:40:40
Yeah, it was one of those things.
01:40:41
A lot of politics.
01:40:42
This all dressed ruffles, spicy all dressed ruffles.
01:40:46
One of my favorite chips, it's weird.
01:40:48
It's a fantastic chip.
01:40:49
It's one of my favorite chips of all time.
01:40:51
Great, great spice, you're right.
01:40:52
It's just like the best.
01:40:53
It's an all-timer for me.
01:40:54
It's delicious.
01:40:55
- It's kind of does, yeah.
01:40:56
Anyway, do you ever find out what band that was?
01:40:58
- No, I could never find it.
01:40:59
- But you still remember the lyrics?
01:41:00
- Every time I ever ripple chip, I think, "Ripple chip."
01:41:02
- And onion dip.
01:41:03
- Ripple chip and onion dip.
01:41:04
- I'm very familiar.
01:41:05
It's Oasis.
01:41:06
That's who it is, right, right.
01:41:08
- They're gonna do it in their reunion tour.
01:41:09
- Oh yeah, that's the huge one.
01:41:10
It's what I'm gonna go.
01:41:11
Like, seeing through Instagram, now the people getting Oasis tickets.
01:41:18
Were you guys fans of Oasis before?
01:41:20
Or is it just 'cause like, they're back?
01:41:23
- I don't know.
01:41:25
I wasn't really.
01:41:26
- That's a great question.
01:41:27
I gotta try those ones.
01:41:28
- I had the same question.
01:41:29
I was like, "I didn't know this many of you were fans of Oasis."
01:41:32
- 100%.
01:41:33
- What?
01:41:34
- They're fine.
01:41:35
- Yeah, they're fine.
01:41:36
But I'm not fighting for a ticket.
01:41:38
- No.
01:41:39
- Fantastic.
01:41:40
- I found out the process.
01:41:41
- It's so good.
01:41:42
- My get-play goes, "Tether and Campbell."
01:41:44
"Met up a duck or both huge Oasis fans."
01:41:46
I may have known this for years, but they were both so excited about Oasis tickets.
01:41:49
And Heather's actually like, "I'm going to London to see Oasis, like making a trip out of it."
01:41:53
I'm just like, "They're past events."
01:41:54
- Heather is.
01:41:55
Heather and Campbell.
01:41:56
- That's great.
01:41:57
- Apparently they're playing Edinburgh Fringe.
01:41:59
- Wow.
01:42:00
- Really?
01:42:01
- Yeah.
01:42:02
And I'm like, they're playing one of the opening nights in Edinburgh for the Fringe.
01:42:06
- And for Oasis.
01:42:07
- And I'm like, "Oh, you're taking away "from so many of the artists."
01:42:10
- This is a real thing.
01:42:11
You need a bit.
01:42:12
- No.
01:42:13
- I actually heard about this, too.
01:42:14
They're actually opening for a Matt Qualix One Man show.
01:42:17
(laughing)
01:42:20
Tails from the hole.
01:42:23
(laughing)
01:42:25
- He's very rat, man.
01:42:27
- He's a rat, man.
01:42:28
- He lives in a wall.
01:42:29
- Man, this no name.
01:42:30
This brand is a revelation.
01:42:32
I did not know about this at all.
01:42:34
Mars, do you know?
01:42:35
No name at all?
01:42:36
- Yeah, very beloved brand in Toronto.
01:42:38
Very cheap, too.
01:42:40
- These are good ones.
01:42:41
- Everyone's loves knowing it.
01:42:42
- These are awesome.
01:42:43
- Yeah, they're good.
01:42:44
- This company is good.
01:42:45
- This company is good.
01:42:46
- Nothing but good things for us.
01:42:47
(laughing)
01:42:49
- I gotta say this.
01:42:50
That's my last one I gotta try.
01:42:52
There's a last bag I gotta try here, with a deal pickle, no name.
01:42:56
Every one of these chips is a snack.
01:42:58
I like every single one of them.
01:42:59
Some more than others.
01:43:01
But they're every single one of these chips are good.
01:43:03
- I have the bacon left.
01:43:04
- Wags, every chip is a snack.
01:43:06
- Yeah, they're all great.
01:43:07
- Would you say any of them are a whack?
01:43:08
- No, they're all good.
01:43:09
I mean, once I like more than others, the all dressed spicy all dressed are the best.
01:43:14
- Those are the winner for me, but.
01:43:16
- Yeah, spicy all dressed is, you can kill them.
01:43:19
- I love those misvickies that you, the- - The apples look perfect.
01:43:22
I really like misvickies in general.
01:43:25
- These are real good.
01:43:26
- You can make them.
01:43:27
- Bacon chips usually are bad.
01:43:28
Those are great.
01:43:29
- These remind me of, there used to be a cracker that was like a cheddar cracker with a bacon tinge to it.
01:43:35
It might have been better cheddar with bacon that I remember enjoying.
01:43:40
I actually kind of like artificial bacon flavor.
01:43:43
I think these are working for me.
01:43:44
- You remember my top three?
01:43:46
- Yeah.
01:43:47
The spicy all dressed.
01:43:49
- Yep.
01:43:50
- Those misvickies smokey.
01:43:53
The, what is it?
01:43:54
The applewood barbecue.
01:43:55
- Yep.
01:43:56
- And the ripple cut, no name.
01:43:59
Ripple cut, no name is great.
01:44:01
These are actually the, the dill pickle, no name is a problem.
01:44:03
My least favorite, but I still think they're good.
01:44:06
- Do you get, do you get dill pickle down there?
01:44:09
- We have dill pickle chips.
01:44:10
I don't know, are dill pickle chips as popular in the States?
01:44:13
Maybe not as popular, but.
01:44:14
- But we have them.
01:44:15
You can get them at like a sandwich shop.
01:44:17
- Or grocery store.
01:44:18
- I think the, wait, have you all had just had the spicy all dressed?
01:44:23
- Yeah, but I love them.
01:44:24
- Well, we'll circulate some of these.
01:44:26
(laughing)
01:44:27
- Just take it, just keep in the oven.
01:44:29
- We'll circulate some of these and we'll, yeah, we'll have more of them over there post record because we're wrapping up.
01:44:34
Um, this was awesome.
01:44:36
Thank you for bringing this King's Bounty of Chips.
01:44:38
What about your chips?
01:44:39
- Your new friends, my old friends.
01:44:40
- How fun is this?
01:44:41
- We're new friends.
01:44:42
- Anytime.
01:44:43
- I guess it's gonna come back.
01:44:44
We'll figure out a chain week in review.
01:44:46
We'll put maybe one more up here or maybe we'll figure out something that's in both the US and Canada.
01:44:50
We'll figure it out.
01:44:51
- Any time.
01:44:52
- But this is awesome to have you here.
01:44:53
And hey, we have a little special surprise for everyone.
01:44:56
A little special bonus.
01:44:57
A little conversation with John Louis, the mastermind behind little Canada.
01:45:03
Enjoy.
01:45:04
- Wow.
01:45:05
- Hey buddy, we welcome now founder and chief visionary officer of Little Canada.
01:45:13
John Louis, Brenek, Meyer.
01:45:14
John Louis, thank you so much for joining us.
01:45:16
- It's a pleasure to be with you.
01:45:18
Thank you for the invitation.
01:45:20
- We were just so enchanted by Little Canada.
01:45:23
We all had a great time.
01:45:24
And our guests for the podcast episode did as well.
01:45:27
So Little Canada opened in August of 2021.
01:45:30
So it's just been over three years.
01:45:32
You were telling me us that Little West Coast, which was a region that was under construction when we were there, has just opened as of basically, you know, very, very recently.
01:45:42
Like, how has Little Canada grown since its opening?
01:45:45
- So we opened back in August 21 with what we call destinations.
01:45:50
We opened with five destinations.
01:45:53
That was the critical mass that we needed in order to open to the public.
01:45:57
With a, what we call a 19 minute experience.
01:46:02
And since opening, we've added two new destinations.
01:46:07
And that is Little East Coast, which we opened last summer.
01:46:11
And then we opened this year, literally last week, Thursday.
01:46:16
We unveiled Little West Coast.
01:46:19
And so now we actually talk about a two hour experience, versus the 19 minutes experience.
01:46:26
- Yeah, we, I think we all felt we wish we'd budgeted more time because we went around and we saw everything.
01:46:32
And we saw the destinations and we found all the Maurice the Moose is, which I do want to ask about.
01:46:37
But, but I like, like, there's just so much to see there.
01:46:40
Is there a, is there a particular detail?
01:46:42
- Just, just, just a heads up.
01:46:44
Nick, I don't think found one of them.
01:46:46
- I, I did find all of them.
01:46:48
Mitch thinks I cheated at finding Maurice the moose, but I did find, I did find the one that was in Hamilton.
01:46:55
That you thought I did.
01:46:56
- I don't know how you feel about him getting the sticker still.
01:46:58
So I just want to check with you.
01:47:00
- I deserve a sticker.
01:47:01
- It's not stolen by others.
01:47:02
- It's not stolen by others.
01:47:03
- Okay.
01:47:04
- Is there a detail about Little West Coast that you have a particular fondness for?
01:47:09
- Well, I'm particularly fond for a number of details, because Little West Coast is what I call the book end of the experience.
01:47:18
So it comes right at the end of the two hour experience.
01:47:23
And the team has introduced a number of new elements, which we've not done before.
01:47:29
And the one that really stands out is the mist that comes down the mountains of the Rogers Pass.
01:47:35
- Wow.
01:47:36
- Wow.
01:47:37
- Yeah.
01:47:38
- Really, really cool.
01:47:40
The second one is there's an orca that comes out of the other of the water and then disappears back into it.
01:47:50
And the thing goes for a part of dolphins.
01:47:53
And these are all animations that the team over the last 18 months have developed just for Little West Coast.
01:48:02
Really, really cool.
01:48:05
- I think that I was so surprised by how immersive the experience was.
01:48:10
And if you go to the exhibit, you see a part of your inspiration for it.
01:48:15
But was there anything?
01:48:16
Because for me, when I walked in there, I'll tell you, Jean-Louis, I was skeptical at first.
01:48:23
And Little Canada completely won me over.
01:48:25
This is the truth.
01:48:26
I loved it.
01:48:28
And I think that it's just such a magical experience from you walking and you see Niagara Falls and then you're really just, you're thrown into it.
01:48:35
Was there any inspiration behind that?
01:48:37
It reminded me of kind of going to Disney Land or Disney World when I was younger and seeing stuff like that.
01:48:44
Was there any inspiration like that that made you make the exhibit or wanted it to be immersive like that?
01:48:49
- Well, it really dates back to when I was growing up in Europe.
01:48:53
My family, we lived in the UK and of Dutch parents, my parents were Dutch and my grandparents all lived in Netherlands.
01:49:03
And so in the summer, my father would take us to the Netherlands to visit our grandparents on both sides.
01:49:10
And we always, every year visits with the place from Maduro Dam, which is in a way it's a journey of discovery through the Netherlands in miniature.
01:49:19
It's outdoor, it's much larger.
01:49:23
But it was really when my father would tell us stories about his youth growing up in the Netherlands.
01:49:31
And so my sister and my brothers and I, we learned so much about the country just through storytelling.
01:49:39
And that was really the inspiration for this.
01:49:42
The whole idea is that retail stories through the exhibits that we built.
01:49:50
But what's really magical is when parents with their kids and the parents start to tell stories to the kids about what is prompted by what they see.
01:50:03
So the West Coast is a beautiful example of that because there are elements about Canada as a country that most people don't know.
01:50:13
I never knew that there's a desert in British Columbia on the West Coast, that there's a tropical forest, that there's old growth trees,
01:50:24
that actually ran Reynolds, grew up in a house in Vancouver, which we actually picked it and put into the world just for the family.
01:50:34
Wow.
01:50:36
The birthplace of Deadpool?
01:50:38
Is it a little bit of that?
01:50:40
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:50:41
So we actually have a little Deadpool of him in front of the earth.
01:50:47
So it's a bit of time and cheek and some humor, which is integrated into the experience.
01:50:53
And as you mentioned earlier, there was there's Maurice.
01:50:56
Maurice is traveling through now is discovering little West Coast, because little West Coast is new.
01:51:04
Now the reason we have Maurice in the world is really just to, it's a facilitator for the guests to discover what we built.
01:51:14
So people are looking for Maurice, but at the same time they're discovering things that we put into the destination.
01:51:22
Right.
01:51:24
It's done extremely well.
01:51:26
We were, we wanted to find every Maurice and we did except for Nick for one.
01:51:31
I thought I found all of them.
01:51:34
We felt great.
01:51:35
We felt great about Maurice.
01:51:37
He's a little cute little guy.
01:51:39
I loved it.
01:51:40
Jean-Louis, we're going to ask.
01:51:42
Is the, you know, Nick and I, we got a little eyes.
01:51:46
Has the machine been able to littleize us?
01:51:49
Is it still working in overtime to shrink us down to size?
01:51:52
It takes about three weeks, three to four weeks.
01:51:56
Okay.
01:51:57
Okay.
01:51:58
And so we took up, we imagine that we took 128 pictures of you all at once.
01:52:06
Wow.
01:52:07
From different angles.
01:52:08
And many I'd say.
01:52:09
Yeah.
01:52:10
And so, yeah.
01:52:11
And so those 128 pictures have to be morphed into one into one file.
01:52:18
And then it needs to be cleaned because there are elements that you want to remove.
01:52:24
To clean the file and then it gets sent to a printer.
01:52:27
And the printer takes depending on the size of the figure that you buy.
01:52:33
But the three quarter and the two and a half inch are what we are made from resin.
01:52:39
And so you're actually lying down on your back on the bed of the printer.
01:52:45
And then we're just layering.
01:52:47
It's a bit like, you know, when you have a CT scan or an MRI.
01:52:52
Um, it's the reverse.
01:52:54
We're kind of just layering on top, on top.
01:52:58
Whereas the five inch version is made on Gibson.
01:53:03
And so that's in a bed of, of powder of Gibson powder and a laser.
01:53:09
Basically bonds of Gibson into the into your figure in color.
01:53:15
Wow.
01:53:16
Those looks really spectacular.
01:53:18
The big boys.
01:53:19
Well, I definitely want one of those.
01:53:22
But yeah, no, I mean, that being also close to the end and the idea that you can be a part of the exhibit is so cool with such a fun bonus to people.
01:53:33
I think it gets people so excited that they don't realize that you can be a part of this exhibit once you leave.
01:53:38
And that's so fun.
01:53:40
And you can be a part of it for eternity because it will outlive like my father who passed away three years ago.
01:53:48
He's in the world.
01:53:49
Sorry.
01:53:50
And he's been there.
01:53:51
Wow.
01:53:52
Yeah.
01:53:53
So he's beautiful as it were immortalized in our world.
01:53:57
Yeah.
01:53:58
That's amazing.
01:53:59
I love that.
01:54:00
Yeah, that's great.
01:54:01
One thing we were struck with when we were just, you know, beyond the exhibits themselves, beyond the destinations, which are so meticulously crafted.
01:54:09
And like you said, it had, it had like this tongue in cheek sense of humor that we were not expecting.
01:54:13
But it was just talking to the people who work there.
01:54:17
That's an immense pride and enthusiasm in little Canada, like an eagerness to show off their favorite parts of each destination.
01:54:27
Like how much of that comes from just like people having a part, your staff just having a personal investment in little Canada.
01:54:34
Because I was just, I was just like, it seemed like everyone was so genuinely excited to work there.
01:54:39
Well, it's two things.
01:54:46
One is, is giving them the freedom to express their, their art, their, their feelings about the country.
01:54:52
So many guests have asked me about who, who decides on all the little detail.
01:55:00
And we say no one, we don't, it's a shadow Laurier, you may recall seeing the shadow Laurier with all the rooms.
01:55:10
Right, the hotel, yeah, hotel.
01:55:12
Yeah.
01:55:13
And in each room, there was a scene.
01:55:16
It's not like that someone or me or anybody else sat behind the desk and started to decide, OK, I'm going to put this in this room.
01:55:24
This in this room, what we did is we just said to everyone in the team, create your own room.
01:55:33
You decide what you want to put in the room.
01:55:36
We told them what they're not allowed to put in, which are the sin industries, I call them the same industries.
01:55:44
Unfortunately, the Doboy's podcast might qualify as a sin industry.
01:55:48
It could be breaking your own rule.
01:55:53
Sorry.
01:55:54
But this was the outcome.
01:55:56
Now, obviously, we didn't want to double, double up.
01:55:59
But so there was one member of the team who coordinated it.
01:56:04
And I went, I, I made two rooms, actually.
01:56:10
One of them is my most favorite movie, which was Shawshank Redemption.
01:56:17
And I decided to create a scene of Shawshank Redemption in the hotel.
01:56:23
So that's one of them.
01:56:25
That was you.
01:56:26
That was, that was my.
01:56:28
Wow.
01:56:29
Yeah.
01:56:30
Now, I'll divulge that I didn't do it all on my own, because I'm not very good at it.
01:56:37
But that was, that was the only reason why that room with that.
01:56:43
Shawshank Redemption scene in it is because I wanted to put it in there.
01:56:48
And so that is the case for all the rooms that we have in the chat room.
01:56:53
So whether it's West Coast or any other destination, all those little, little nuggets and little things.
01:57:00
They are decided in the moment when the.
01:57:04
The artisan makes.
01:57:06
A model and the scene.
01:57:08
They suddenly decide, oh, I'm now going to.
01:57:11
For example, in West Coast is I'm going to have a big fish.
01:57:16
Fishing.
01:57:17
And he's pulling out a fisherman out of the water.
01:57:21
I like that.
01:57:22
That's fun.
01:57:23
There is a lot of fun.
01:57:24
That's not something you can really think about and.
01:57:29
And design in advance.
01:57:32
It happens in the moment when they are preparing, you know, making it and painting it.
01:57:38
Oh, I'm now going to do this and then they put it in.
01:57:42
That's fantastic.
01:57:43
Speaking to your staff too, almost everyone that we spoke to like Nick was saying was so interested.
01:57:50
In the exit, you could tell that there was more than just pride.
01:57:53
They actually, you know, they loved looking at it and Sophie, I believe it was Nick.
01:57:58
Showed us where her parents, where her parents met in little Canada.
01:58:03
There was a bar and the personal touch of the staff there also just having a connection to all of Canada was fantastic.
01:58:11
It was great.
01:58:12
By the way, for our listeners, we should say that Mitch lost his voice a little bit.
01:58:16
That's why he sounds a little horse.
01:58:18
It's because Mitch and I had a huge fight before the episode before we did this interview.
01:58:23
So that's why he was yelling at me for no reason.
01:58:26
I was not yelling at him for no reason.
01:58:28
I lost it on set wags.
01:58:32
That's right.
01:58:32
Filming Twisted Metal Season 2.
01:58:34
You might have to, when you little eyes Nick and I, year after year, you might have to keep adding to us as we keep doing this podcast.
01:58:43
We get bigger and bigger.
01:58:45
Added to the waistline over the course of doing doughboys.
01:58:49
I did want to ask you, because we are primarily a food podcast.
01:58:54
I did want to ask you some food questions.
01:58:57
The first thing is little bites, which is the food court option within little Canada.
01:59:07
Mitch and I, I think our reaction to it was, have you thought about more like littleized food options?
01:59:13
Like, could you get like like some like really tiny, you know, like a really little slice of pizza or something like that?
01:59:28
You can see we aim to keep your customers unsatisfied by getting a tiny food.
01:59:37
No, but a casing point that you bring up a great, a great idea, which we've been thinking about and how we could implement it.
01:59:44
And one of the first experiments, which we're going to implement is maple syrup.
01:59:52
So we have our own little batch maple syrup, which we sell in our little things give shop.
01:59:59
And so one of the ideas is, and I don't know if you experienced this, but when I was growing up, we would have pancakes.
02:00:08
And we would put a scoop or my mother would put a scoop into the pan.
02:00:16
And then we would say to my mother, "Oh, can we make a small one?"
02:00:20
And she would put a little dot next to it.
02:00:24
So the idea is that we would, we're going to introduce little pancakes.
02:00:30
I love it.
02:00:31
Commence it with little bites.
02:00:33
But then we're going to put a really small one next to it.
02:00:37
And then just a little drop of maple syrup on it.
02:00:40
That's cute.
02:00:41
I love that.
02:00:42
So yes, the whole premise of little bites is not to provide a full meal to, I guess, not at all.
02:00:51
It's really just to get a taste of Canada, yeah, little bites.
02:00:57
So when we do events in the evening, which we have a catering kitchen and we have some wonderful space in front of auto where we can do this,
02:01:08
we serve little bites.
02:01:10
So these are little adurbs which we pass around.
02:01:15
And we do that in each destination.
02:01:19
So if you're in Quebec, it's Quebec.
02:01:22
If you go into the east coast, it could be a little lobster roll.
02:01:27
In Quebec, it could be Montreal meat.
02:01:32
Wow.
02:01:33
And if you go to Paris, we would put a slider in BC, it could be a nine, I'm a bar.
02:01:41
And so on.
02:01:43
So that's great.
02:01:44
That's the idea behind this advice.
02:01:48
Another food question.
02:01:49
This is not pertained to little Canada specifically, but you are like, you know, as you mentioned, you are Dutch.
02:01:55
And you grew up in the UK.
02:01:56
Is there any Dutch food you really love?
02:01:59
Oh, yes.
02:02:03
There's one other things that in Burlington.
02:02:04
That's the only one I know.
02:02:06
There's actually a Dutch shop.
02:02:08
It's called the Dutch shop.
02:02:10
Why am I wife?
02:02:11
My wife goes there probably once every six weeks.
02:02:14
And we pick up some very typical Dutch things.
02:02:18
And one of my favorites is Canton ball.
02:02:23
Which basically is a bun, a raisin bun.
02:02:28
But there's no cinnamon in it.
02:02:30
So in North America, it's very typical to have cinnamon inside it.
02:02:35
This is not no cinnamon.
02:02:37
It's just pure.
02:02:39
A bun, a raisin bun.
02:02:41
And I can eat four, six in one go just with a bit of butter in it.
02:02:46
Oh, man.
02:02:47
Are they are they little bites?
02:02:49
How big are they?
02:02:50
No, they're probably like this.
02:02:52
Okay.
02:02:53
They're probably a little bit too big, but they're Dutch.
02:02:58
They're not Canadian.
02:02:58
So it's a very typical Dutch thing.
02:03:00
The other thing is eel, smoked eel.
02:03:04
Oh, yeah.
02:03:05
I do like eel.
02:03:06
I usually have eel in the context of like unagi, like with sushi.
02:03:11
But tell us about the smoked eel you like.
02:03:14
Well, I grew up with that again on holiday in the Netherlands.
02:03:19
Because the Netherlands is a very flat country.
02:03:24
There are hot, there's no, there are no hills.
02:03:26
Except in the really down in the south, south of Mustricht.
02:03:32
But there are a lot of canals and a lot of waterways.
02:03:34
And so one of the activities that we did during the summer was to go on.
02:03:39
Go sailing.
02:03:40
I learned to sail in the Netherlands.
02:03:43
And we would pick up a bag of smoked eel.
02:03:48
And you would peel the skin off.
02:03:50
And then you would literally eat it.
02:03:54
Off the bone.
02:03:55
Oh my god.
02:03:56
It's delicious.
02:03:57
Absolutely delicious.
02:03:58
And then with a little bit of my father would drink a, a little bit like a gin to wash it down.
02:04:11
But you would eat that on the boat.
02:04:14
So that we sometimes pick up the, that shop.
02:04:18
Wow.
02:04:19
As well as other on bait cook, which is kind of like a gingerbread.
02:04:27
You have for breakfast, you just slice it, it's like bread.
02:04:31
You put a bit of butter on it.
02:04:34
Also very, very good.
02:04:37
Those are really the Dutch.
02:04:39
Yeah.
02:04:40
And then the, for hot meal, very typical is sausage.
02:04:47
And then carrots and mashed potatoes mixed together in one.
02:04:52
Wow.
02:04:53
So it looks like mashed potatoes, but it's got carrots in it.
02:04:56
Is it got like an ore snack?
02:04:58
Yeah, yeah.
02:04:59
Okay.
02:05:00
So it's, and, and, and unbeknownst to me and my sister and my brothers, it was the perfect way to eat vegetables without realising that we eat vegetables.
02:05:17
Yeah.
02:05:18
My dad always said that we were one to two percent Dutch.
02:05:21
That's what my dad always said.
02:05:22
I think it's my good side.
02:05:23
The one to two percent of me.
02:05:24
That's decent.
02:05:25
Jean-Louis, I want to ask, as far as, this is a big question, I guess.
02:05:32
But as far as you open, you open right around the pandemic.
02:05:35
With the pandemic halted the opening of, of little Canada, correct?
02:05:39
Yes, it delayed us by 14 months.
02:05:42
Oh, well, yeah.
02:05:43
And then you're opening, you said that you said in 2021.
02:05:46
How do you feel about, you know, its growth and the word getting out.
02:05:51
And where do you see, you know, it expanding in the future.
02:05:54
Is there anything that you see doing with the exhibit?
02:05:57
I mean, it's already so immersive, it's already great as is.
02:05:59
But you have any plans for the future.
02:06:01
Well, so we open in August 21.
02:06:05
We added two new destinations, as I mentioned earlier.
02:06:09
We're going to add a third one next year.
02:06:13
And this one I'm particularly excited about because it's in a separate room as a double door.
02:06:22
And it has its own HVAC system to it.
02:06:28
It's going to depict the three territories of the north of Canada.
02:06:34
Oh, wow.
02:06:35
Oh, wow.
02:06:36
And when the guest walks in, they're going to feel a chill because we're going to reduce the temperature just enough for it to be noticeable.
02:06:48
And so we're kind of adding a sense to the experience.
02:06:55
The other thing it is.
02:06:58
Since we opened.
02:07:01
The biggest surprise for me was.
02:07:04
The response from our guests.
02:07:07
I never expected that we would get the response that we did.
02:07:12
Which was.
02:07:15
People get it evokes a sense of it.
02:07:19
It's a mode.
02:07:21
I said it's not a rational response.
02:07:24
It's an emotional response.
02:07:27
And as you mentioned earlier, the team.
02:07:30
Exudes that themselves when you talk to them because they just feel so proud to be part of.
02:07:36
And more recently, even non-Canadians have been coming up to me and the team and saying thank you for doing this.
02:07:46
This is exactly what we need.
02:07:48
It's it's almost like.
02:07:50
You come into little Canada.
02:07:52
You see the country the way it should be.
02:07:56
Not the way it is.
02:07:57
And you forget about reality.
02:07:59
You forget about all the struggles and the challenges that we all face.
02:08:06
On top of that is.
02:08:09
We have ratings which are unheard of.
02:08:13
We're at 4.9 on Google with 5.0 on TripAdvisor.
02:08:19
I got we got the traction in Ontario ward last night for the third year running.
02:08:26
Wow.
02:08:28
Congratulations.
02:08:29
Thank you.
02:08:30
As soon as people as soon as anybody walks in.
02:08:35
They're.
02:08:39
That I said they hooked as it were.
02:08:42
Right.
02:08:43
The challenge that we still have is.
02:08:46
Okay.
02:08:47
What is little Canada?
02:08:48
How do you explain it?
02:08:49
You can't.
02:08:50
It's almost impossible to explain.
02:08:52
It really is.
02:08:53
I've been trying to explain it since we got back and I can't.
02:08:55
I just keep showing people pictures and then going.
02:08:58
The pictures don't do it just as well.
02:09:00
And even videos don't do it just as either.
02:09:03
I had one guest who came round into Toronto.
02:09:07
And he basically just said, oh my god.
02:09:10
What the hell have you done?
02:09:15
But that's a response it.
02:09:17
That's a response that you would.
02:09:19
Yeah, it's not a response that you would expect far from it.
02:09:23
It's it's like.
02:09:26
Yeah.
02:09:27
It might my co host.
02:09:29
Well, I was going to say my co host.
02:09:31
I wouldn't call you rational.
02:09:32
But you're not.
02:09:33
You're definitely not emotional.
02:09:35
Sure.
02:09:36
My co host.
02:09:37
Jean Louis.
02:09:38
He had the biggest chess.
02:09:39
I.
02:09:40
Cheshire cat smile on his face.
02:09:42
Yeah.
02:09:43
He was.
02:09:44
He were on cloud nine.
02:09:45
Nick.
02:09:46
And also.
02:09:47
The star of the show that I'm working on right now.
02:09:49
Stephanie Beatrice.
02:09:50
She took her daughter.
02:09:51
Absolutely.
02:09:52
They loved it.
02:09:53
They had such a blast.
02:09:54
So big thumbs up all around from the twist and metal crew.
02:09:57
Yeah.
02:09:58
My biggest smiles in Canada were at little Canada and then writing the chew chew.
02:10:03
Cause I really love the commuter rail there.
02:10:05
And then the plane ride back.
02:10:07
Yeah.
02:10:08
No, actually, I will say this.
02:10:10
And to your point, Jean Louis of like as an American.
02:10:13
And I've been to Canada four times.
02:10:15
Twice to Vancouver.
02:10:16
Once to Saskatoon.
02:10:17
And then my most recent visit to Toronto was my first visit to the city.
02:10:20
It may walking around little Canada as someone who, you know, does it.
02:10:25
Hasn't spent a lot of time in the nation.
02:10:27
It did have me suddenly thinking like, Oh, I wonder I should go visit Saint John New Brunswick.
02:10:32
You know, I should visit new Prince Edward Island.
02:10:34
I should see some of these some some regions of Canada that I was previously unfamiliar with.
02:10:41
And so yeah, I think that's a common experience for a lot of people who are who are at the exhibit.
02:10:47
I did have, I know we're running out of time.
02:10:50
So I, but I did have one more question for you, which was, you know, you're, you yourself, immigrated to Canada.
02:10:57
You come to the country in 1999.
02:10:59
Is that correct?
02:11:00
Yes, correct.
02:11:01
And you've lived there now for, you know, a quarter, a quarter of a century.
02:11:06
You've spent a bunch of time there.
02:11:08
You obviously have a passion for, you know, it's, it's natural beauty.
02:11:13
It's vastness.
02:11:14
It's natural beauty.
02:11:15
It's vastness.
02:11:17
It's culture.
02:11:18
But like, what is it about the Canadian people that like you really responded to that made you want to make this into your adopted homeland and made you want to build this tribute to the nation?
02:11:29
Well, I think there's two things.
02:11:31
One is, I did not, I didn't know anything about the country.
02:11:37
I never heard of Terry Fox.
02:11:39
I never heard of Wayne Gretzky.
02:11:41
I thought that I thought that basketball was invented by an American.
02:11:46
And in fact, even we still believe that down here.
02:11:49
Yeah.
02:11:50
And it wasn't until the 2010 winter Olympics at the closing ceremony in Vancouver, when William Shatner came on stage.
02:12:00
And I said, what?
02:12:02
Captain Kirk has started to prize this Canadian.
02:12:05
I had no clue.
02:12:07
And to this day, I'm still learning about the contributions of Canada in the world, whether it's the,
02:12:17
whether it's inventions like insulin has an example or whether it's the fog horn.
02:12:25
Or whether it's even the Robinson screwdriver.
02:12:30
There are so many stories to tell about Canada.
02:12:36
In addition, I recognize very, very early on that the majority of Canadians will never have the opportunity nor the means to see all of the country for themselves.
02:12:48
It's just too vast.
02:12:50
Yeah.
02:12:51
Even after 25 years, there are still provinces and territories that I've not seen and it takes an effort to actually go to these places because they're not just around the corner.
02:13:04
They are.
02:13:06
You fly four hours here and then you've got to take another flight and then you put another four hours north.
02:13:12
My son lives in Prince in Fort Sangergon.
02:13:18
He's a helicopter pilot.
02:13:20
Wow.
02:13:21
And he's home now.
02:13:23
He's come home for two weeks, but it's almost a five hour flight from Toronto to Vancouver.
02:13:31
And then it's 12 hour drive from Vancouver to Fort Sangergon.
02:13:41
And he's in the middle of nowhere.
02:13:43
It's stunningly beautiful.
02:13:46
It's, he says it's fantastic, but he's in the middle of nowhere.
02:13:50
Yeah.
02:13:52
And there are beautiful lakes, beautiful forests, beautiful wildlife.
02:13:59
And that's what really inspired me to do this, to show how different Canada is from the west coast to the east coast.
02:14:10
From the north to the south.
02:14:13
And all the stories that we can tell about its history, the geography, the people, because the people it is with.
02:14:25
I say that many times that we're all immigrants.
02:14:29
Every one of us is an immigrant.
02:14:31
The only people who are not immigrants are the First Nations Indigenous Peoples.
02:14:37
And there again, there's tremendous amount of stories to, to share, to tell and to share.
02:14:44
That's what little Canada is about.
02:14:46
We connect people, places and stories about Canada through the art of miniature.
02:14:54
Well, it's awesome.
02:14:56
It's us.
02:14:57
We loved it.
02:14:58
And we're so impressed by it.
02:15:01
And I, you know, and anyone who's listening to this who's watching this, you know, who visits Toronto or lives in Toronto should see little Canada, because it's an incredible experience.
02:15:11
Yeah.
02:15:12
So thank you so much.
02:15:13
Thank you so much for giving us a little bit of your time.
02:15:16
Jean-Louis Brennick Meyer and congrats on the little Canada.
02:15:26
We loved it.
02:15:28
Well, thank you very much.
02:15:28
It was a pleasure to be with you.
02:15:29
And I wish you well with your podcasts and all your endeavors that you are engaged with.
02:15:30
Thank you.
02:15:31
We're going to wrap it up.
02:15:32
We're going to wrap it up soon.
02:15:33
The podcast.
02:15:34
I mean, yeah, it's, no, it's almost done.
02:15:36
It's almost done.
02:15:38
Thank you, Jean-Louis.
02:15:39
Yeah, the mission accomplished on your end.
02:15:41
It's a little, little kind of fantastic.
02:15:43
We loved it.
02:15:44
Appreciate it.
02:15:45
Thank you very much.
02:15:46
Wow, that's this week's big size little doughboys double every under being a larger episode, but I wanted to call it a little.
02:15:57
Okay, can you, can you, can you end the episode?
02:16:00
See you later.
02:16:01
(laughing)
02:16:03
- Don't boys need ya.
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