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The Fifth Hour: Boxes of Tapes & Canadian Salute · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me, Ben
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  Speaker 1: Mahler and a Danny g Radio production. He's putting this
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  Speaker 1: thing together here as it is the Big Mallard travel
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  Speaker 1: log as we look back at the weekend that was
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  Speaker 1: last weekend, the Big Vancouver Meet and Greet. Had an
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  Speaker 1: amazing weekend. Oh come, it was great. We had the
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  Speaker 1: meet and greet on Thursday. Friday was just a futz
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  Speaker 1: or round Vancouver day and eat as much poutine as
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  Speaker 1: you possibly can and see the sites. Saturday more of that,
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  Speaker 1: and we had a nice bonding dinner on Saturday night
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  Speaker 1: and then flew back to do the show on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. We'll get into more
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  Speaker 1: details on that here on the Fifth Hour. Obviously, it
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  Speaker 1: is also a celebration today. We love dope holidays. It
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  Speaker 1: is National VCR Day, which is old technology, old technology.
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  Speaker 1: If it hadn't been for Netflix, you'd still be using
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  Speaker 1: your VCR. Unless that's not the case. Something else would
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  Speaker 1: have come along eventually. And I did not know that
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  Speaker 1: the VCR was originally invented in nineteen fifty. I remember
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  Speaker 1: the VCR taking off in my childhood, and I recall
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  Speaker 1: that being like in the nineteen eighties and then the nineties.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a big deal. Blockbuster Video was the
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  Speaker 1: King and all that stuff, and it was really like
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  Speaker 1: the mid eighties. It was a game changing experience. But
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  Speaker 1: I fell down a rabbit hole because why not. And
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  Speaker 1: the VCR was actually invented in nineteen fifty three. The
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  Speaker 1: first device was created by nor Kazu Salwazaki in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty three. It did not go to market until nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty six. In nineteen seventy it started being tossed into
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  Speaker 1: people's homes and there was this big battle, a tech
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  Speaker 1: battle in the VCR, the VHS tape versus the Beta Max,
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  Speaker 1: and they went back and forth and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and VHS came out on top and they had ninety
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  Speaker 1: percent of the VCR market. It was head to head.
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  Speaker 1: It was two different formats, could have gone either way.
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  Speaker 1: You had Sony Beta MAC and VHS by JBC, and
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  Speaker 1: VHS was the clear winner. And I recall my dad
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  Speaker 1: passed away a couple of years ago. We were going
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  Speaker 1: through all this stuff. My mom had left everything, and
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  Speaker 1: of course my Dad's like, I'm not touching anything. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you kids will take care of it when I'm gone.
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  Speaker 1: So we had to go through all stuff. We had
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  Speaker 1: boxes of VHS tapes. My mom bought like every Disney movie.
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  Speaker 1: She loved Disney movies and all this stuff that were
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  Speaker 1: on VHS tapes. And so we didn't have a VCR.
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  Speaker 1: So it really didn't do much good. But today's National
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  Speaker 1: VCR Day and the last VCR. Here's another fun fact
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  Speaker 1: for you, because we're all about fun facts on the
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  Speaker 1: fifth hour. We lived for the fun facts. The last
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  Speaker 1: VCR was produced nine years ago in twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: And a bonus fun fact, this is for Alf the
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  Speaker 1: Alien o Pinter the tops I'm selling VHS movie of
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  Speaker 1: all time. You know what it was, Yeah, The Lion
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  Speaker 1: King sold thirty five million copies. Thirty five million copies.
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  Speaker 1: So the VCRs are still sold today on eBay, but
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  Speaker 1: they're just not being produced, but they're still sold on eBay.
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  Speaker 1: I think the average price if you want to buy
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  Speaker 1: a VCR is like twenty bucks. That's the word on
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  Speaker 1: the streets. So if you want to get one, you
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  Speaker 1: can knock yourself out. Now. Is there going to be
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  Speaker 1: a renaissance? There's been a bit of a renaissance in
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  Speaker 1: the music world recently where people are all gung ho
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  Speaker 1: because of records and they play the old school records.
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  Speaker 1: The record player has been a big, a big thing
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  Speaker 1: in recent years. And there was a documentary also speaking
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  Speaker 1: of old tech on typewriters, and there's a cult group
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  Speaker 1: of people that collect typewriters. And Tom Hanks, the actor,
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  Speaker 1: I guess he's old, you know Tom Hanks, but he's
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  Speaker 1: one of those people that was featured in the documentary
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  Speaker 1: that collects typewriters. That's his thing. What about regular cassette tapes?
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  Speaker 1: When I got into radio, we had all my air
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  Speaker 1: checks on cassette tapes. Is there a group that is
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  Speaker 1: obsessed with the cassette tape? Probably not, Probably not right,
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  Speaker 1: Probably does not exist. It is also National Chocolate ice
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  Speaker 1: Cream Day today, which is another bull crap holiday. It
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  Speaker 1: is a time, though, to mention that ice cream was
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  Speaker 1: invented ice cream, ice cream. We all scream for ice
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  Speaker 1: cream five hundred BC, and we can thank the kind
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  Speaker 1: people of the Persian Empire who made ice cream by
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  Speaker 1: pouring a concentrate of grape juice over snow. The original
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  Speaker 1: ice cream was just snow. So the snow cone is
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  Speaker 1: the most pure form of ice cream. Now chocolate, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a big chocolate ice cream person. I'm not, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong with you? I'm just not. I like what
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  Speaker 1: I like and that's it.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: January of sixteen ninety two. January of sixteen ninety two.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the precedent of frozen drinks, early ice cream
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  Speaker 1: flavors that were popular beverages, including chocolate. It was a
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  Speaker 1: chocolate beverage, and then sixteen ninety two frozen chocolate. The
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  Speaker 1: first frozen chocolate recipe was published in a book, The
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  Speaker 1: Modern Steward, but it was in nineteen thirty four the
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  Speaker 1: first chocolate covered ice cream, the Eskimo Pie. You can't
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  Speaker 1: say that that's offensive, Okay, I said it. I said that.
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  Speaker 1: It's a podcast. Eskimo pie, the first chocolate covered ice
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  Speaker 1: cream in nineteen thirty four, and I'm pretty sure that
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  Speaker 1: got canceled when like Antrmiama Pancakes went away and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff disappeared back in twenty twenty so or twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, right around that time. So anyway, National Chocolate
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  Speaker 1: ice Cream Day, I will not be celebrating today. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: it's also Alan Iverson's birthday, one of the all time
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  Speaker 1: great rants in the history of the show. I'm supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be the franchise player. And we in here we
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  Speaker 1: talking about practice, not a game. Not a game. We
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  Speaker 1: in here talking about practice. You know that whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to it today. Being the
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  Speaker 1: look back at the weekend that was in Vancouver, a
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  Speaker 1: number of people reached out to me v emails. Some
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  Speaker 1: of you guys who did say you were going to
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  Speaker 1: show up did not show up, by the way, and
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  Speaker 1: I am aware of that. I knew that was going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. I knew it. I knew it. Anyway, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not upset. I'm very happy the people that made it.
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  Speaker 1: We had a good eclectic group of listeners from Canada
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  Speaker 1: that showed up. The Number one, the number one question
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  Speaker 1: that I have been asked is how the f did
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  Speaker 1: that happen? How did you end up bringing the show
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  Speaker 1: and everyone from the show going to Vancouver. People's minds
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  Speaker 1: were blown. I had people coming up to me and saying,
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  Speaker 1: I never thought I'd ever meet you. This is crazy,
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  Speaker 1: this is like the greatest thing. It was very kind,
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  Speaker 1: good for my ego. Well. The reason that we were
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  Speaker 1: in Vancouver, the driving force, the hostess with the mostest
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  Speaker 1: who had the most Canadian hospitality, and just a sweet
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  Speaker 1: soul who listens to this podcast is a fan of
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  Speaker 1: what we do, and he wanted us to come to
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  Speaker 1: his fine city. A fine Canadian lad. His name is Nico,
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  Speaker 1: and he now joins us here on the Fifth Hour podcast.
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  Speaker 1: He is a Vancouver right. I don't even know if
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  Speaker 1: the thing, but he lives in Vancouver and he reached
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  Speaker 1: out to us a while back, and at first I thought, wow,
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  Speaker 1: this is probably not legit. That's my knee jerk reaction.
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  Speaker 1: But it turned out to be totally legit. It was
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  Speaker 1: like better than I ever imagined. It was the most
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  Speaker 1: amazing weekend I've had in a long time, and it
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  Speaker 1: was all made possible by our friend Nico. Who is
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  Speaker 1: a listener and I consider now a friend of mine
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  Speaker 1: a friend of the show obviously, and so so, Nico,
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  Speaker 1: you made a lot of people very happy that got
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  Speaker 1: to go to the event and it was just a fun,
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  Speaker 1: fun time at the Mallor meet and greet, the first
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  Speaker 1: ever Canadian Mallard meet and greet there in Vancouver. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll start with this. What inspired you to make this
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  Speaker 1: Vancouver meet and greet happen? Nico?
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  Speaker 4: Well, then I can honestly tell you that it was
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  Speaker 4: probably just a once in a lifetime opportunity. I don't
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  Speaker 4: foresee you sort of coming back to Canada, and I
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  Speaker 4: definitely knew you had a huge following.
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  Speaker 3: Up here, so I wanted to make sure it happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was great. No, No, I have only I
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  Speaker 1: told you I'd only been to Canada for like a
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  Speaker 1: couple hours, maybe even not that much. I was in
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  Speaker 1: Niagara Falls and I crossed over and this was like
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  Speaker 1: back in the days, Nico, where you just showed your
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  Speaker 1: driver's license. You didn't, you know, it was long ago,
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  Speaker 1: and so I just I walked over and it was
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  Speaker 1: like the same stuff, and then that was it. But
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  Speaker 1: I actually have wanted to visit parts of Canada and
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  Speaker 1: I just have never never gotten around to it and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And the other thing which I thought
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  Speaker 1: was interesting here is that years ago, when I started
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  Speaker 1: in radio, these consultants would come in they say, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got this many people listening, and you
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  Speaker 1: know most you do talk radio, and most people they
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  Speaker 1: kind of eaves drop in and they don't they don't
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  Speaker 1: really interact. And so this is back when people were
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  Speaker 1: using fax machines and stuff but to send the facts
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  Speaker 1: there or whatever. And they said, like, it's like less
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  Speaker 1: than two percent or less than one percent of people
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  Speaker 1: that are listening will ever interact with the show. And
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  Speaker 1: even in the age of social media where it's very
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  Speaker 1: easy with all the different platforms to interact, it really
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  Speaker 1: hasn't changed all that much. It's still about the same.
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  Speaker 1: It's still about him. And I bring that up because
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  Speaker 1: I think you are a perfect example. Up until a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks back, or maybe a month or two ago,
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  Speaker 1: you would not really interact, Is that correct, Nico, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you've called the show as far as
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  Speaker 1: I know, and you haven't really interacted. So this is
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  Speaker 1: this is something that is in line with that Is
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  Speaker 1: that accurate.
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  Speaker 3: That's one hundred percent accurate.
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  Speaker 1: YEP.
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  Speaker 3: That is definitely a telling sign.
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  Speaker 4: And I listen on the podcast and obviously your weekday
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  Speaker 4: show and your Fifth Hour as well.
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  Speaker 3: Here in Canada.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately we don't get your NBC syndicated show, which we
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  Speaker 4: are all hoping that we'll get renewed for season three
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, fingers crossed on that fingers. I'm actually I just
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  Speaker 1: had a conversation this week with one of the big
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  Speaker 1: muckety MUCKs over there, and they're like, well, we're still
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  Speaker 1: in the process of putting all that together and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. So I was going to ask you because
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  Speaker 1: when we did the meet and greet, there were several
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  Speaker 1: fans and they were like, hey, you know, we listened
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  Speaker 1: on the iHeart app or the podcast or whatever because
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  Speaker 1: we used to be on in Vancouver and then the
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  Speaker 1: station I guess went out of business that we were
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  Speaker 1: on back in the day. Did you first hear the
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  Speaker 1: show on the radio and then you kind of whished
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  Speaker 1: over how did it? How did that work?
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  Speaker 4: No, just I've always been a podcast listener for you,
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  Speaker 4: so all the way, you know, with Roberto obviously doing
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  Speaker 4: the drops and just following it from there, I just
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  Speaker 4: fell in love with your show. I think that just
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  Speaker 4: everything you hit on is great. And I think the
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  Speaker 4: way Coop and you bust balls against each other for
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  Speaker 4: the Clippers and the Lakers, I love that. And obviously
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  Speaker 4: your your die harders. You're p ones with Jed who
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  Speaker 4: Fled and Blind Scott. I love Blind Scott's stories. They
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  Speaker 4: intrigue me, They make me think, can that actually be real?
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  Speaker 4: And then Real Talk, who doesn't really call anymore, but
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  Speaker 4: when he does on the podcast, you can hear his
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  Speaker 4: uncensored version, and I think that is just absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Back up, back up up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Real Talk left for four years, he came back
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  Speaker 1: for like how long he was back, maybe a couple months,
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  Speaker 1: and then he's vanished again. However, though, Nico, I still
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  Speaker 1: get I still get people that will send me emails saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I heard Real Talk. You know, he lives in the
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  Speaker 1: New York area and he'll call some other show late
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  Speaker 1: at night or whatever, and so there's there's that. And
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  Speaker 1: so when you first started hearing the podcast was a
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  Speaker 1: blind Scott's been calling the show forever. I can't get
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  Speaker 1: rid of blind so well, I do get rid of
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  Speaker 1: blind Scott. I should send you, Nico, some of the
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  Speaker 1: emails that blind Scott sends me when he every once
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  Speaker 1: in a while something will go wrong and he will
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  Speaker 1: send me the most vile emails and it'll be one
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  Speaker 1: after another for like literally a day or two, and
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  Speaker 1: then after that it's like a quick apology and it's
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  Speaker 1: like nothing happened. It's it's fascinating, it's absolutely fascinating. And
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  Speaker 1: also I wanted to mention some of the misconceptions I
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  Speaker 1: had about your fine city, Nico, as you live there
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  Speaker 1: in Vancouver, and you actually brought this up. And then
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  Speaker 1: I went to a store after we had this conversation
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  Speaker 1: at the meet and greet the US either that or
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  Speaker 1: the dinner. But everyone in Canada had milk that was
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  Speaker 1: bagged milk, and I had always heard that, and so
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  Speaker 1: I went to one of your fine grocery stores near
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  Speaker 1: in Vancouver, and I did not maybe I missed it,
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  Speaker 1: but I did not see any bag milk. I guess
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  Speaker 1: I missed that, Aisle Nico, So that that is nonsense?
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  Speaker 1: Is that correct? And you confirm, as a proud member
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  Speaker 1: of the Vancouver community there and a proud Canadian, not
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  Speaker 1: everyone has bag milk. In fact, most people don't have
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  Speaker 1: bag milk. Is that accurate?
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  Speaker 3: That is one hundred percent accurate.
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  Speaker 4: And bag milk is in the residential side, is not
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  Speaker 4: on in the business side within restaurants. Yeah, absolutely there
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  Speaker 4: is an abundance of bag milk, but from the residential
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  Speaker 4: side for normal consumers, no, bag milk does not exist
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  Speaker 4: in normal grocery stores.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and would be I think we can all agree,
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  Speaker 1: very inconvenient for the day to day life, right, if
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  Speaker 1: you have a bag of milk, it's it just would be. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I guess if you're in a restaurant, obviously it's different.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're living your day to day life, probably
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  Speaker 1: not that great. One of the other things, uh nico
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  Speaker 1: is that and this was this was something that came
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  Speaker 1: up with the meet and greet. And everyone in Canada
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  Speaker 1: loves hockey. It's a religion and that's it. And you
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  Speaker 1: have to love hockey if you're Canadian. Like, there were
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of guys that were at the meet and
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  Speaker 1: greet that like, they like hockey, but it's like they're
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  Speaker 1: basketball fans or they like football, whether it's the Canadian
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  Speaker 1: Football League or the NFL. So what is the real story,
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  Speaker 1: boots on the ground, Nico, there is it. You have
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  Speaker 1: to be a hockey fan in Canada, Like, what's your
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  Speaker 1: experience with that, Ben.
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  Speaker 4: So, Hockey is still the number one sport in Canada,
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  Speaker 4: but it's definitely not a full following. Every single Canadian
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  Speaker 4: you mean, is not going to be a hockey fan.
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  Speaker 4: And for me myself, my number one sport is not
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  Speaker 4: hockey as well. You know Vancouver obviously back in the
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  Speaker 4: day we had the Grizzlies, which we've lost.
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  Speaker 3: But there's a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Of Canadians that follow the NFL like a religion, as
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  Speaker 4: do most Americans. So we do have the CFL up here,
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  Speaker 4: which is a version of the NFL. It is a
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  Speaker 4: great product, but nowhere close to being on an NFL version.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if these CFL, I I know they've fetched
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  Speaker 1: around it. They remember they put teams in America years ago.
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  Speaker 1: They tried to yes, and it didn't really didn't really
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  Speaker 1: connect like they could put a partnership together. The NFL's
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  Speaker 1: never had a like a real minor league, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know if the Canadian football they
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  Speaker 1: would even want to be that. I could be like,
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  Speaker 1: we're our own entity. We have our own history and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. But if they could form some kind
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  Speaker 1: of partnership, I think that would be perfect. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: they did in the past, and I don't know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'm just bringing something up that happened. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: that would ever fly though? If the team in your
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  Speaker 1: area in British Columbia that my favorite team, as you know, Nico,
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  Speaker 1: I always mentioned the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, if they were
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  Speaker 1: like with the Green Bay Packers or you're like, you're
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  Speaker 1: a cowboy fan, right, Nico. You mentioned you're a cowboy
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  Speaker 1: like a partner with these teams, Like, wouldn't that make
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  Speaker 1: sense for everyone involved? I think it would. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I can definitely tell you that there
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  Speaker 4: was talk about this, and I can't remember how long
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  Speaker 4: ago it was, but our CFL commissioner at that time
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  Speaker 4: had some discussions about this, and the bottom line is
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  Speaker 4: the CFL is only three downs.
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  Speaker 3: NFL is four downs.
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  Speaker 4: CFL has a bigger football, They have shorter fields than
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  Speaker 4: the NFL, and the field goal posts are in to
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  Speaker 4: the end zone, they're not at the back end. So
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  Speaker 4: CFL didn't want to change any of that in order
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  Speaker 4: to adapt to the NFL. There had to be a
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  Speaker 4: lot of changes and CFL didn't want to lose their identity.
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  Speaker 3: So I think those talks had sacked and I don't
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  Speaker 3: foresee it. I think it would be a great idea, But.
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  Speaker 4: Then it goes back to you had discussed this recently
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  Speaker 4: on your podcast as well. It is a very different
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  Speaker 4: tax bracket up here, and most Americans they don't I'll
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: tick the raptors. They don't view the raptors of coming
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: up here. We were lucky to get Kawhi Leonard obviously
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: with what with a trade, but he didn't stick around.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: He didn't want to.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: He wants to go back to his hometown for his
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: kids in La Obviously lucky for the Clippers. But you know,
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: most Americans when it comes coming out of college, I
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: don't foresee them wanting to come up to Canada to
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: play any type of professional sport.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, they do get paid like in American money though, right,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: and some of the guys have loved it, especially like
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: in baseball and playing for the Blue Jays back you know,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: years ago. Man have been thirty years when they were really, really,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: really good back back in the day. Some of the
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: other stuff here at Nico just you know, rapid fire here.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I did not realize. I know, in Quebec you have
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: to know French. In that whole thing. I did not realize.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Even in Vancouver, like taking the plane up to visit
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: your fine city and all the announcements on the plane
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: were also in English and French. And then also there's
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of just day to day stuff like when
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: you're in school. I assume you have to learn. If
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: you're going to school in Canada, you have to learn
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: both language. You have to be bilingual. Is that accurate?
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: That is correct?
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: So when you're going through schooling kindergarten through grade eight,
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: your mandatory is French. And once you get into high
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: school you can go off to like German or Spanish
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: or anything like that. But all we have to grade
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: eight you're learning French. In order in Canada, if you
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: want any type of government job or to become a
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: police officer, you have to know French.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would not be I would not be able
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: to do that. I barely know English, Nico. I don't.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's you know, I would be in trouble.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Another thing about this is something I had no idea
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: about Stanley Park amazing. This is an absolute treasure in Vancouver.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: And I granted I didn't know much about your fine city,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: but this park was just amazing. It's literally this forest
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: surrounded by water, and you got this amazing view on
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: one side of the skyline, which is a very impressive.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I love the city skyline and I love big trees,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: which is an odd juxtaposition because I do. I love
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: going to. One of my favorite places to go is
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: the giant forest in Sequoia here in California, and it's,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: you know, it's two thousand year old trees and all
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: that stuff, but I love being it out there and
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: then also being in the city and you could stand
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: in this giant forest at Stanley Park and it's better
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: than Central Park in Manhattan, which me know, my brother
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: lives in New York and I go back there every
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: couple of years, and it's like, me know, everyone in
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: New York brags about Central Park and how amazing it
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: is and all this stuff. It's like, No, Stanley Park
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: is just great. How often are you able to go?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I know you a little bit outside the city, Nico,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: but are you able to get over there and enjoy it?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Because You've got the city on one side, this beautiful skyline,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: and then the other side you've got like a nice
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: body of watter. There's a couple of bridges there. It's
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: just perfect the way they did that. It's amazing.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Stanley Park is absolutely, absolutely stunning.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: You get to walk the sea wall, and that seawall
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: basically goes on forever, and it is on a beautiful day.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: It's a great walk.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: It is something that Vancouver doesn't necessarily promote enough. But
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: you know, when people come there, they are stunned, they're
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: amazed by just how beautiful it actually is. And you're
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: absolutely right, the skyline, there's nothing like that within with Canada.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: I know, the other epicenter is sort of Toronto, but
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: the Vancouver is on its own.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: It's it's absolutely beautiful there.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It's it's amazing, and I believe I'm
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: correct on this. I was wandering through, futzing around Stanley
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Park and I came across the statue of Lord Stanley,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: which I'm ninety nine percent that's the same like the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup, right, the same, dude, is It's the same deal, right,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: That's wild. That's crazy to me. Yeah, yeah, Also, you've
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: got another interesting story a Nico here, and you were
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: telling me about it when we got together. There you
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: have your son is not just a soccer player. He
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: seems like a world class soccer prodigy guy who is
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: working his way up the ranks here, and you were
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: telling me a little bit about that. And I think
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: it's fascinating how this works because I didn't know a
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: lot about it. You were kind of explaining some of it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: But what's it been like for you to navigate your
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: your son who's like you're start of playing, Like, is
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: it semi profess? What what we were able to go
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: to one of your your son's games? What is it
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: like semi pro or minor leagues? I'm not even sure
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: what it was, but it was. It was very intense.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: It ain't in a shootout, I know that. So kind
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: of explain, like, what's that been like for you?
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, there's been lots of prows and tribulations
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: within it. Obviously soccer, Like we were sort of just
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: touching bas Soccer is not even probably the top three
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: sports within Canada right now. Obviously you have your other
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: sports that dominate Canada, including baseball, even though it's just
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: the Toronto Blue Jays within Canada, but soccer has been
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: something where my son, it's been his passion sort of
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: since day one. We've put him in lots of other
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: sports when he was really young, and he just excelled
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: within within soccer and he's been going through it. He's
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: had great coaches from the Wolf Soccer Academy and the
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Areas Ball Academy and he just keeps going. He is
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: on his way to Sweden in next month for the
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Gothia Cup, which is another huge tournament. He just came
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: back from Spain from this MIC tournament. He's been doing great.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: He had a contract presented to him out in Europe
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: and we're trying to see what other avenues are available
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: as well.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: It's just been tremendous.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: That's great. And your son's a It plays on defense, right,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: he's a shutdown. You know, I'm not the big soccer guy, Nico,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: but your son is a very good defense man. I
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: was watching as you were mentioning that he's so good.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Often teams will try to even avoid where he's at
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: right because he's been so effective at that.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, he plays right back, and what I've
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: been telling him is obviously it's not in his generation,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: but I've been saying that he's sort of the Durrell
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Revis Rivis Island. You know, when Revis was at the
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: top of his game, quarterbacks wouldn't they throw that ball
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: close to his area?
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: So and my son's sort of been the same.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Some teams do challenge it, and you know, he's just
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: been amazing his speed, his field awareness, and just the
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: overall abilities that he's encompassed throughout the many many years.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: And it's just been absolutely something that we are so
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: proud of him for.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: That's great. I was telling you the story at Fox
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio years ago one of our talk show hosts,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: the morning Guy, Mark Patrick, who did the show at Indianapolis,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and Mark was a casual friend of mine. I did
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the show prior to him, and we struck up a
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: friendship and Mark would send me emails about his son,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and you know, he was in high school and then
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: he went to college for a few years and he
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: had been drafted a baseball player, been drafted in Major
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: League Baseball and then and we were kind of going
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: back and forth for a while and then his kid
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: ended up like in the Major League. I was like, whoa,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: this is like wild. It was a closer for the
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Washington Nationals to get a kid named Drew Storren who
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: played in the major leagues for a couple of years,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and it was really it was a cool thing. And I,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: as you know, I don't have the soccer geen, but
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I am going to follow your son's journey. And you
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: also mentioned that as a parent of a kid who's
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: really good at soccer, Like I know, in the globe,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: soccer is the king, and we do very well if
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: we just talked more soccer on the show, I guess,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: But on our show it's very very popular globally, and
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: there's a whole like I don't know, how do I
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: describe it, Like a shady, dark alley element to it, right,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: if you're a top soccer player, Like, how does it
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: work behind the scenes. Now, you said your son was
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: offered a professional contract in Europe, so you've got that,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: But there's also a lot of I don't know, how
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: do I describe it here? That like a dark website thing,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I guess is the way to describe it. But there's
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: a lot going on behind the scenes to move people around, right,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of interesting things. Would that be correct? Niko,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: How would you describe it?
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, as a sportsperson myself and watching college
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: players in any form, when they're coming up, they're going
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: to have lots of different agents, and you fully know
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: that agents can take full advantage of the player they represent.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: And I believe Shaquille o'mo had that incident happen to
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: him when he was coming up, and there's been lots
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: of players and you have to be very cautious. And
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: within soccer two. Canada is a little bit different because
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: outside of Canada, I can tell you Europe does not
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: really seek Canadian soccer as something where they can pick
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: players from. So when you go off to Europe, you
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: really have to have some type of skills and talent
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: or have a very strong learning ability to pick it
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: up quite fast in order to wow those European coaches
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: in order for them to see you as an asset.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: And that is one of the biggest things. You do
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: have to be very cautious within every sport. Within soccer,
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: it's it is a lot tougher because agents within soccer
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: they like you when you're up. When you're down, they
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: won't give you a second look.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had told you I had an agent in
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: my you know, obviously broadcasting much different when you're a
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: gas bag as opposed to an athlete. But I had
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: an agent and it was a not a good, not
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: a good experience. The agent kind of ghosted me. I've
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: been ghosted by women, but not normally, you know, an agent.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't think that would that would happen. And I'm
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: sure someone's listening, like, well, what's the kid's name? You've
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: got to say, say the name. I want to fight out.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: So if you want, it's up to unique of you want,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: you know, promote your kid. Can people follow kind of
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: the journey? I know he's he's still a couple of
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: years away. I guess I'm not sure exactly the timeline
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: on this, but he is in the queue. He's in
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the developmental states. As you said, he's traveling the globe
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: from Canada to to different countries to play in these
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: these European events. So if people want to follow your kid,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: just gonna throw his name out. And how can people
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: keep track of this stuff?
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely?
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: You know so his primary social media content is on Instagram.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: He does have a YouTube channel as well.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: Uh, the Instagram handle is m dot militch o nine,
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: So M dot M I l I C zero nine
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: and you can follow his journey and uh, you know
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: he tags Ben in almost all his hosts and reels.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: And definitely looking forward to, uh you see him go
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: further and let's continue this journey altogether.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know for sure, and I will. I'm excited.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to something to keep an eye on.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: And you know, these things have I've been you know,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: it's not all about me, Nico, but I've been lucky
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: some of the people that have reached out over the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: years have gone on and done amazing things, and I'm
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: so proud of everyone. We had a guy that used
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: to email me when he was going to to he
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: was in Florida going to like wrestling school, and he
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: became this world class professional wrestler with the WWE, and
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: it was like, it's just wild and this stuff happens
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: all the time. So I'm excited for your son and
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: you and and good luck, and I again want to
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: thank you, Nico. I had so many people come up
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: to me at the Vancouver meet and greet. They were
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: just I can't believe you're here. This is amazing. We
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: had people of all ages. You rolled out the red
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: carpet for me, the wife, the team on the show
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: and everything, and so it was just a wonderful weekend
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and one of the great weekends I've had. And it's
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: all because of your your kindness and whatnot. So thank you, Nico.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I know you're actually on vacation right now. We dragged
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: you into this, so I'll let you get back to
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the sun the beach. You're not even in your native
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: land there in Canada, so thank you for coming.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: I appreciate it, Nico, absolutely, and hopefully next year we
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: will see you in Toronto and maybe blind Scott will
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: actually makes the trip off.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's allowed in Canada, but we'll see,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: all right. Thank you, Nico.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, thank you. Have a great one. Thanks again, my
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: relation