Doughboys - Toront-dough: Little Canada with Taylor Davis and Carson Pinch

Episode Date: October 29, 2024

Wow, it's a free preview of the Doughboys Double! Taylor Davis and Carson Pinch (@carsonandtaylor) join the 'boys to talk The Old Spaghetti Factory and Tim Hortons before a review of Little Canada. Plus, Little Canada founder Jean-Louis Brenninkmeijer joins the boys for a peak behind the lil curtain.Catch the Doughboys Double every Tuesday at patreon.com/doughboysSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hey up there buddy, it's me, Little Wiger! We've got a big new episode of Doughboy's Double so we made it free for everyone! See, we paid a visit to Little Canada, Toronto's amazing miniatures exhibit, and we talked about it with some cool new friends! This week on Doughboy's Double, Toronto, Dough Canada,ough Canada, The Great Bite North, A Culinary Tour of the Six continues, with Little Canada! Will you shut the fuck up? Finally, let's start the show. Welcome to Doughboy's Dumbelom, I'm Nick Weiger along with the Spoonman, Mike Mitchell, Mitch as Toronto Dough Canada, the Great Bite North, a month long culinary tour of the six continues!

Wow! Wow! Wow! In reality, it kind of ends. Well, chronologically This is the final in-person record up here at podium studios in Toronto Ben and in any I'm like that did the bone. Yeah, I'm like I'm excited that it's ending I'm saying like we're done. We're done with our work. Why that's cute. Why bad to the bone cuz I was like raising my eyebrow Oh, it's like a horny thing. We're done with our work. Why that's cute? Why bad to the bone? Because I was like raising my eyebrow.

Oh, it's like a horny thing. We're not done. We're doing an episode. I'm not horny? I'm never horny. I would just say like, we're done, Ben. It was like kind of a part. Right.

It's like a needle drop in like a, you know. One of our guests laughed. That's all we need. It was out of pity. It was a little full point. I get he's going for a bit here. I'm going to throw a laugh, but I do not get it. It resembled a bit.

Yes. It was a bit. I was happy. Kind of like the... Oh, how should I have done? De-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de- So yeah, Cooling the Gang celebration, I would have gotten more. All right. That I would have gotten more. That was a genuine laugh.

I'm excited it's done. I'm excited. You're out of here. Mitch, I'm excited about that too. Although I've loved, I've enjoyed my time up here in Toronto. Lovely town. Do we do a thing where we record every, all of our episodes in four months and really have a concentrated hate for each other and then have time off?

No, I think we need to have a better system. We'll figure this out in the next year. We did the best we could with your abrupt change of schedule, with your wonderful success and working on your great show up here. Hey, Hollywood calls, you pick up the phone, man. You know what I mean? Yes, what's that Mr. Weinstein? I'll be right there. Mitch.

Harvey Weinstein's stand down and stand by. Mitch, well it's great. We've had a lot of old friends up here, you know, our Canadian friends, a lot of, you know, like friends that are, Americans that are working up here. I think you're alluding to some new friends. This is the Canadian friends, a lot of friends that are Americans that are working up here. I think you're alluding to some new friends. This is the thing, we have some new friends here.

New friends. That I'm thrilled- We're actually more my new friends, not yours, but whatever. Okay, well I'm thrilled to have them on the podcast. We at least have mutual friends in common. Toronto's own Carson and Taylor, Carson Pinch and Taylor Davis.

Thanks so much for being here, guys. Thank you so much. I'm totally open for new friends. I love it. Yeah, Nick, we're game. That's great. Let's exchange numbers. My schedule is really heavy at the moment, but mine's wide open.

Just so busy. Now, our friend in common is- Good choice, by the way. Our friend in common is BlankChex Griffin Newman. Correct. And he connected all of us. And while I'm on that note, I will say- You're not on the text chain.

That's fine. We connected all of us. You're on the text chain cause you're up here. Cause you guys can hang out or whatever. 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.

This is my first time meeting you. This is our first time meeting. Though I feel like we've known each other forever. Yeah, it's been a while. A lot of texting we did. The way Griffin explained this too, if I can, is that he was like, my friend's coming up there to film. He doesn't know anybody.

He's really depressed. He's really lonely. He really hates his life. And we were like, oh, okay, wow. So this guy really needs like a buddy. So we were like right away, like, hey man, like how are you? What do you need? Any recommendations that you need, we'll help you out?

Nothing. See you later suckers. The city is mine. I went and towards the city. He was right. Yeah, to be fair, you were- Depressed lonely man, it's true. I think you were kind of, you know, early on, I think you were kind of a little homesick.

And I think that was kind of coming through, at least in communicating with you electronically. First week in New Orleans having a fucking ball. Yeah. New Orleans. There were some things that made the journey here a little rocky. A little large. When I first got there but there's something I'll say there's a subject we're talking about today which we'll get into but I'll say this things changed things changed that's all I can't without spoiling anything wow things changed you know what I'm alluding to like things change burner rainer rainer okay you you so you also connected us with Miguel Gaultier, who performed a French language version of the Doughboyz intro in our live show. Miguel, a great dude, very, very happy to meet him. We appreciate that connection a lot.

Well, yeah, like I don't really listen to, I was telling this mission earlier, which was like, don't listen to podcasts. Yeah, smart. And then- That's the right call. As a rule. I asked Miguel, and I was like, because you had said I need someone who's bilingual, and I knew Miguel was an improviser.

Yeah. And then I was like, do you know Doughboyz? He's like, yes. I'm like, because you had said I need someone who's bilingual and I knew Miguel was an improviser. And I was like, do you know Doughboy? He's like, yes. I'm like, oh, okay, cool. I kind of know one of them. He's like, what's one? And I'm like, well, okay. And I connected. I don't think he believed me for a majority of it

until I think it came to be. Was he more excited that it was me? I mean, he didn't. Care. Yeah. Yeah. I believe his response was, oh, cool. But that's how I read it. It could have been, oh, cool.

Yeah, that's true. I don't know. I think it was. I like to believe that it was, oh, cool. Miguel was lovely. So Miguel is from Manitoba. I'm curious, are you from Ontario? How long have you lived in Toronto?

We are from Ontario. We're from a small town called Sarnia, Ontario I'm from Brigdon, Ontario, which is a small Subsect of Sarnia. I carry 140 people. Yeah It's a small oil and petrochemicals City is it akin to Hamilton which I know about through Mitch well steel city You know, right but and it part of the industrial heartland of Canada. It's yeah, it's like we're my it's my people are in Hamilton. Salt of the Earth, hard workers.

We put our hard hat on we come and record podcasts every day. Exactly. Sarnia is the cancer capital of Canada. Oh man. And if you're from Sarnia, every, you know, will die from cancer. Oh my god statistic Why is it the cancer capital? Well, they built the largest petrochemicals plant in North America there and When they did that it was out of of a time where they put it really close to the city Like you would never be able to put the plant so close to right people nowadays. And it just still still lives there. And there's sirens that go off every so often. And you know, music to me just go back. You go inside, you shut the windows.

And like an air raid. So basically, like we're dispensing some deadly chemicals into the atmosphere. Get the fucking door. Yeah, I know that the outbreak monkey is also in the city too if that happens, right? The outbreak monkey He's actually really nice He's got a job He works there like he's done a lot. That's what he did after the film like you would hear Yeah, you know, is a dick curious George that. He's like a prima donna.

He knows what he's doing. He knows what he's doing. You know, do you know who our good friends is? The monkey from Friends. Yeah. And the Outbreak Monkey. They hang out, yeah. They look very similar.

Yeah, are they the same? There was that meme that went crazy, the IKEA monkey. Oh, right, that was here. That was here? Yeah. Wow. The IKEA monkey in a parka. Yeah, good monkey.

One of our best monkeys. It was just cute. Yeah, he was cute as hell. I remember there was an explosion at Chemical Valley a long time ago. Oh my god. No one died, no one got hurt. But I remember when it happened because I was staring out my bathroom window, as you do. Yeah, sure.

I was just staring, but the window was open and I heard a distant like, and I was like, and like, what was that? And then my window went, like just did like a shake. And I've always had like a deep fear of asteroids or nuclear weapons. Yeah. So I ran out through my brother's balcony window

and then climbed up to my roof to wait for like the shock blast. Cause I was like, I was like, Sounds like you're embracing it almost. I had been dreaming about this for years. You fear it, but you want to experience it 100%. I like, I feel like I'm going to, I always have these dreams where a tornado just appears on my farm. Yeah. And I'm like, here it goes. He grew up on a on my farm. Yeah. And I'm like, here it goes.

He grew up on a farm as well. Wow. Yeah. So you went up to the roof to embrace it and then just- Oh, nothing happened. And then I just found out on the news that it was just an explosion, but I was like, do you remember when that happened?

Yeah. It was a big deal. Were you close to being closed to windows at this point? No, I didn't know what was going on. Yeah. But this is also, I think it's about like 30 kilometers away from me. And sometimes they don't tell you about these things until then you find out after the fact, like what happened.

Dear God. This is terrifying. Yeah, like and swimming. 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. It was not safe. But then today is okay. Right. So you're like, wait, what's changed in the water?

Like you're like, it's just not as bad. Sarnia is going to be so pissed about this. We love it. Don't get us wrong. I love going back home. Who's going to be so pissed about it? They get there's a little bit of a chip on their shoulder a little bit. Every time I go home, like if they find out that anyone has discouraged Sarnia in any like little way, people talk about it. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. But I will talk up Brigden, the small town, the small village. How many people? 540. Yeah. 540. Yeah. That's where I grew up, which is about half our way from Sarnia. So then I went to like theater camp when I was 13 and I

met Carson. Wow. This collab has been going for since you were teenagers. Yeah. 26 years. That's amazing. I went to theater camp as well. Wags? I never went to collab has been going since you were teenagers. Yeah, 26 years. That's amazing. I went to theater camp as well. Wags? I never went to theater camp. I went to music camp. Camp Arrow. So the three of us.

Three of us, that's why we're closer. That's why we're really good friends. Yeah. And the third, is it Nick? Is it Nick? Yeah, and we met him probably about three years after that. Mitch, I'm Nick. Oh, sorry, you're Nick.

Yeah, our friend. Nick too. Nick too. Is there another Nick that we're friends with? Got it, fair, yeah. Yeah, the Nick. Oh, there's another Nick too. Yeah, so there's another Nick. Is there another Nick that we're friends with? Got it, fair, yeah. Yeah, it's the Nick that we're friends with. You're my coworker. Yeah, the three of us.

So how long have you lived in Toronto now? 2011. 2011, okay, so we moved at the same time. Yeah, we moved to, we started doing theater camp, teaching comedy in Connecticut, and that's where we met Griff. Wow. Wow. Did he come to you as a student of comedy? camp teaching comedy in Connecticut, and that's where we met Griff. Wow.

Did he come to you as a student of comedy? No, no, he was already teaching. He was a junior counselor at that time. Yes. OK. Yes, and we were just a couple of goofball Canadians coming in to teach our improv. It's funny that you say that, because I got to derail you

real quick, but just what you just said, like because we've been talking about the movie Megalopolis, which Francis Ford Coppola directed. I got a lot of it. And the character in Megalopolis, Arby Plaza plays, is called Wow Platinum. That's the character's name, Wow Platinum. We say the word wow a lot on the Doughboys. We also, if something gets five forks, we induct it into the Platinum Play Club. Wow Platinum, both references to Doughboys, I believe.

I believe Francis Ford Coppola is a listener of the podcast because it makes sense because Mitch and I too are a Coppola Goobballs. Coppola Goobballs. Yeah. So yeah, so you're a couple of- So by the way, I just want to say that I looked at Emma and she shook her head no. I looked at Mars, she shook her head. Yeah. I picture Francis Ford Coppola listening to this going, oh, and then shutting down his computer.

That's true. He's done that twice a week, every week in the month of October. So it's very annoying. And he's going to add it to the one I think he forgot. No, I just want to I just want to go back to that. So so you were talking about like you guys are a couple of goofballs. You are meeting Griffin Newman at camp. Yeah. Summer camp in Connecticut. It's a rich kid camp.

All the New York elites, intelligence and their Connecticut, a rich kid camp, all the New York elites in intelligentsia send their children there. A lot of pale kids, people who do not, cannot throw a ball whatsoever. It's amazing. And we met, we taught comedy and we moved to New York. It was too hard to live there and so we moved to Toronto. Because we were illegal immigrants.

That is generally the reason why it was too difficult. Sorry. I know you get really upset. But every time I crossed the border, I did the same trick where I just have one week's worth of clothes. I'm like, I'm just visiting my friends in New York. And then they're like, when you're returning, I'm like, oh, you know, in a bit. And then when I was coming back to visit, I was like, oh, I'm just coming back from New York when I visit my family. Only one time did they grill me, like bring me into a room. Oh, wow.

And give me the- After you took a bunch of pets, the dogs, the cats? No, no, it was, no, I went in there, she just didn't buy it. She saw through me, but everyone I'm working with was like, he's just gonna eat. You were eating the dogs. You were eating the cats.

I wasn't eating dogs and cats. That's not true. Eating the pets. Eating the dogs and eating the cats, that's just eating the dogs. You're eating the cats. I wasn't eating dogs and cats. That's not true. Eating the pets. Eating the dogs and eating the cats, is what he warned us about. I wanted to build a, I told you I wanna build a wall. I grew up on a farm. A northern wall.

Okay, you eat what you get. I wanna build a northern wall and keep you guys in Canada away from the United States. That's what I wanna do. And I told you if Trump had run on that, Wiggs, it's a long way. You would have still voted for it. Yeah.

It's a long border. I have to say this. Largest unguarded border in the world. It's true. We've got to guard it. No, there's some spots where you can just kind of hop over. Yeah, that's wild. I could guard it.

I'll do it. I could do it. You guys should do it. You guys should do it. You guys should do it It will be silly and fun I feel like I There's one thing here the monkey from friends is the monkey from opera. It's the same monkey I know which is very similar to someone we might talk about today Marcel and then also we We have to talk about this.

While you were off getting coffee for 20 minutes. It's not my fucking fault. It's 20, 25. You were nervous yesterday when we were gonna go to Little Canada. That's right, we went to Little Canada. 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. I told you. This all would have worked. Look, I have time. And I added a coffee to your order to make it longer. That's fine. This is all a domino effect from you being late

for breakfast. That's okay. That's all right. You think it's a domino effect from me being late to breakfast. 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. I will say we didn't order anything because we were respectful of the time. I think you can do it now. You guys were very respectful of the time. And you know what, Wags? I found a little factoid out that I was gonna tell you and then you're blaming me.

So. I was perfectly on time. Thank you, Amma. Thank you. Wow, pretty easy for you two seeing this. You were next door to fucking asshole. I was at the dollar store. There we go.

I was up at 730. All right. Sorry. Keep going. I don't give a shit when you were up. I was up at 2 a.m. There you go. All right. Fuck off. You'll understand so soon.

I promise you. Taylor, can you please tell Weiger the factoid you told me that I told you that he would love? Oh, is that my father is a train mechanic. Wow. Yeah, you really do like it. What specifically? I don't know, like train.

That's cool. Wait, does he like what- Don't you want to tell him to fuck off? Why? No, I mean, it's- You're living in, wait, you're living in a small, you're living in Brigdon, a population 540, and you are there, like your father is living with you?

Yeah, yeah. And so is there- Sarnia's the closest city. Sarnia's the closest city, and the train station there, is that where he's largely working? No, so he was, he worked for CN. CN, okay. And then he started his own business

that was based in Sarnia, and they were like, mechanics for hire. Oh, wow, okay. Like, I don't know anything more than that. Like, I went into the arts. Do you know much about the train, and they were like, mechanics for hire. Oh, wow, okay. I don't know anything more than that. I went into the arts. Do you know much about the train industry in Canada? Only peripherally.

I saw some of the exhibits and we were walking around Toronto and I saw some of the rail cars that were set up on display there. And I've done, I've like, you know, I know a little bit peripheral research about it, but I've never ridden the rails up here. I'd love to do it. Love to hop on one of those cars going from like Banff to Toronto or whatever.

Do you think you'd ever ride Ozzy Osbourne's crazy train? Yeah, I've thought about it. You love trains, but you think you would get on it? Yeah. Geez, it's too scary. Yeah, but he's saying all aboard. That is true. He's very welcoming.

It's very welcoming. It's really welcoming. You don't even need a ticket. Yeah. I mean, really, when you think about the message of the crazy train, it's like, crazy, hey, but that's how it goes. Millions of people are living as foes. Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love

and forget how to hate. It's a pretty wholesome message, ultimately, on the crazy train. Yeah, it is. But it's also still... Right, yeah. Just the wheels, what is it? Going off the rails under a crazy train. Yeah, going off the rails. Yeah, that's, but it's also still... Right, yeah, good. Pistol wheels, what is it? Going off the rails under a crazy train? Yeah, going off the rails.

Yeah, that's a little intense. I mean, they don't slow down in residential areas. That's their issue. They fly through them. Don't you want to tell him to fuck off a little bit? I don't know why you're pushing this so hard. He's respecting my father's position in how he raised us. I'm a Hamilton man.

I know how it is for the fucking working class. Okay, Hamilton to Brigden is like, that's the city. You don't know the salt. Oh my god. The salt of the earth. 540 population, is that real? It's just farming. Calloused hands?

Your hands are, you don't even get it. Yeah, right. Are you kidding me? I'm holding podcasts podcasts all day. I'm calloused up wise. Now that hand's getting plenty of workout. Okay, so you've been living in Toronto since 2011. We started, we talked about a couple of topics. One I do want to touch on real quick

is the old spaghetti factory. Now this is a chain we do have in Southern California. And I used to go to the old spaghetti factory as a kid. I've never looked into the old spaghetti factory's origins. Is it from Canada? Do we know? I believe the origins are in Canada. I guess I should, I could have looked this up in advance.

I have been to the LA location of the old spaghetti factory. Yes. Griff has been pushing me to go to the spaghetti factory so much and his other recommendation worked out. So I do need to go before I leave. We should definitely go. We have been going for 10 years.

Yeah, oh, okay, oh wow. Yes, every year. Okay, it is, just real quick. There is a, it is like A&W, whereas there is a schism between the American and the Canadian brands. So they're separately owned. Yeah, yeah, correct.

The Canadian ones, I would say are a little better. I would not doubt it. A&W Canada is far superior to A&W USA. There it is. We could go tonight. I might be down. We're not doing anything. I mean, we could make this happen.

I'm just saying we could go to the old spaghetti factory tonight. We were gonna go to Prime Seafood Palace instead. Now I will warn you, the spaghetti is old. It is quite old. But who wants it? What does that mean exactly? It's in the name. Oh, it's old. Okay.

Now, you can eat on a streetcar, which is nice. That is cool. And they do have a crystal room that you can eat in. We've been taking people there for years now, become friends with the wait staff there. It's a special place. The food, hm. Not good.

It's more about the vibes. The vibes are impeccable, the old spaghetti fact. It's been years since I've been, but I always had a great time. Yeah, just spaghetti. I'll be happy as hell. But are the meatballs new? No. They've been sitting there a while. Nor is that spaghetti.

The last time that I ordered there, I didn't order the spaghetti and someone asked me why. And I was like, the one thing that I've always regretted ordering at the Old Spaghetti Factory is spaghetti. Wow. Every time. And this is the place that Griff says we have to go more than anywhere else. It comes with a free coffee at the end of it. Oh, that's true. I mean, that's true. I don't know if it's like coffee, tea and lemonade, right?

Is you have a drink choice or just coffee? Yeah, coffee, tea, lemonade and ice cream. A little ice cream. That's great. All right. Is that on there? Yeah. Yeah. You should get some spaghetti with butter on it if you like. That's one option. I like spaghetti with butter. A little bit of ice cream. That's great. Ooh, all right. Is that on there? You should get some spaghetti with butter on it, if you like.

That's one option. I like spaghetti with butter. Yeah, why not? Classic. Plain noodle? A little bit of butter? Plain noodle with some butter on there? That sounds great.

I'm in. Yeah, the only thing is like you're like, the spaghetti is old, but at least it's like handmade by like artists and chefs. Like, no. No, it's factory made. No, it's factory made. It's factory made, yeah.

Kind of assembly line. Taking old spaghetti and making more old spaghetti. Yeah. Like you cannot have fresh spaghetti. Is an old spaghetti factory a level in Mario Odyssey? It is, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Did you guys ever go to East Side Mario's? Was there ever a thing? Oh, yeah. We have never been to East Side Mario's. That is a Canadian chain that is owned by the same company that owns Harvey's and, uh, and Swiss Shelly and the keg. Now it's all, it's all one company. We've never been great. We've discussed this

with Mars. We should discuss it with you guys too. We should give you a rundown. Tim Hortons. I liked, I yelled at the audience. I said, you all like Tim Hortons too. Well, we love to hate it. We love, you'd love to hate it, but they also do genuinely love it The stores are packed there. Well, I think this again this thing we were there Sunday at 5 p.m Yes, you can go a lot and still be like kind of frustrated with it You know, you can you can be like you can be like this is my place that I go to but it still kind of Sucks I go to Starbucks more than I'd like to and I think Starbucks kind of sucks But sometimes it's the best option

You know what? We can just ask you, because we've announced the restaurants, the other restaurants, except for the last one. We can just ask your opinions on Tim Hortons, Swiss Chalet, Harvey's, and is that it? And Boston Pizza. Oh, nice.

There's one thing I want to bring up about Tim Hortons and the dislike of it. And I don't think you guys understand how excited Canadians get when we are mentioned or thought about in any way whatsoever. Because we don't really have a culture of our own. We're a big melting pot. And Tim's has really become this manufactured corporate culture for us. So even if someone hates it, we love that.

Yeah. Yeah. I get that. They wanted me to hate it. Right. Very much so. But guess what? I liked it a lot.

But also that honey crueller slaps. Great. Honey crueller is great. This is my issue with Hortons. I'm like, I went to Hortons and I liked it. And then people are like, oh, it's awful. What'd you get? And I was like, well, I got an ice cap.

And they're like, well, ice caps are really good. I'm like, okay. And they're like, what else you got? I'm like, I got Timbits. And they're like, yeah, Timbits are good. And then it just keeps happening. I got a farmer's drop. Farmer's drops are pretty good.

You liked, they liked it. They liked it. I think at the end of the day, it's coffee. When they're like, I don't like the coffee. But I will say for me, Timortons is my favorite. They did at the end of the day, it's coffee. They're when they're like, I don't like the coffee. But I will say for me, they lost it, they did lose the beans. It's my favorite coffee spot. It's your favorite coffee spot.

And you know how in New York, people hate on Times Square if they live in New York? They're like, oh, don't go to Times Square. When I lived in New York, it was the first place I took everyone like, I wanna see Times Square, this place is insane. Every time I was excited by it. We did find a good pizza place in Times Square that we

love. Yeah, pizza bar. Pizza bar. Joe's also there's a Joe's in time. But near there, it was on 41st Street is closed the last time I went. 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 that are I would say incredible and It's only like if they have the ingredients available to them Have you had? Have you had a breakfast sandwich there? Yes, it's very plain. It's it's run-of-the-mill, right?

But if they have an everything croissant you can be like, hey, give me a breakfast sandwich But wrap it in that everything croissant. Everything croissant. Okay. And it's so good. I did not know about this. Yeah, secret, secret off menu. I live here. Someone should tell me. I get the newsletter like everyone else.

Marge, you're an everything bagel fan. That's your favorite bagel. Have you had this everything croissant? 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. I think it's really tasty. It's very affordable too, and it keeps me full for like half the day. Wow.

100%. Okay. Wow. Now of the other chains, like I have a clear favorite and a place that's near and dear to my heart. Harvey's. Yeah. It is my favorite. Having them watch, like watching them make that burger in front of you is sublime.

Really enjoyed the Harvey's experience. I like the burger bar. It's fun. So I will say this. We were, we were kind of in the middle on Harvey's. We, I think, I think we did three and a half forks each on Harvey's. Yeah, but we enjoyed the experience. That's pretty good.

Yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't bad. I wish that the, I don't know if I love the burgerks each on Harvey's. Yeah, but we enjoyed the experience. That's pretty good. Yeah, it wasn't bad. I wish that the, I don't know if I love the burger patty at Harvey's. Interesting. Yeah. Interesting. It's, and you felt similarly, right? Like it was like the burger itself.

Yeah, I mean, I think, but I liked all the toppings. I liked being able to customize it. That was a lot of fun. And I liked the things are great. We definitely did not hate it. We thought it was decent. The steam was good. Yeah, I don't know. I not hate it. We thought it was decent. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't know, I enjoyed Harvey's.

Harvey's was very solid. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't give Harvey's five forks. So I mean, three and a half, I think is a really fair assessment. Okay, all right, yeah. I enjoy it, but none of these things speak out to me. Yeah. Interesting. Do you have a favorite among, like, outside of that? Like, if there was like, you're talking about all of Canadian chains,

all of Canadian fast food restaurants. Is there anyone that you like? I mean, it might just be Tim Hortons and that's okay. I mean, Tim Hortons, I just have an affection for him. Yeah, I enjoy their coffee and like everyone gives it, it gives a chip, but like I enjoy it. It's very much like a Dunkin' Donuts coffee. I liked the, it was like, I like diner coffee.

I like, that's the type of coffee like, I do not like Starbucks. Like, and I love going to McDonald's and getting coffee. 100% Yeah, sure, I like McDonald's coffee. But coffee like I do not like Starbucks. And I love going to McDonald's and getting coffee. 100% But last time I drove through the states, no one has coffee. I know we lost the beans. They lost their beans. They lost the beans.

We got to get to this point in one second. Guess who we sold it to? McDonald's! They have the beans! So I follow the beans! Wait, did you listen to our live show episode? No. I don't listen to our live show episode? No. I don't listen to podcasts. I don't even know what this is. This is what I'm saying.

Weig's. You're scared right now. Weig's, your Bing search, people have come back and said they actually did lose their Beans. I got so much shit at the show because you Binged it and you proved I was wrong. And you said Sparky is a liar, my transpo driver. I didn't say Sparky was a liar.

I said it was possibly an urban legend that's being circulated. You basically called Sparky a liar. I would never say that about Sparky. From what people are coming back to me, they're saying they did lose the beans and McDonald's took the beans. I'd love to see some sources on any of this because I did, you know, I just, I don't- Use the Google search engine. The search I find Yahoo Finance Canada seemed like a pretty good source. Let me b of this. Cause I did, you know, I just, I don't- Use the Google search engine. The search I find Yahoo Finance Canada

seemed like a pretty good source. Let me, let me- Let me be in our life. I'm gonna be in our life. You were getting into something, I'm sorry. And I, and I cut you off. I don't remember. About coffee.

There's the- Oh, and every time I drive through the States, I go to McDonald's to get the coffee. And every time I've been like, 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. Like I'll be, and I'm like, no, I,

it's not very like a go-to thing. Right. Well, I gotta say this. There's, there's a lot more, I think, I think you said you guys have some good late night options and there was a lot more like, I went to McDonald's recently and there's like breakfast and lunch they serve at the same time.

You have more late night options. There's like a lot of stuff like that. Yeah. But I think with the States, it's like, we put coffee off and it's serve at the same time. You have more late night options. There's like a lot of stuff like that. But I think with the States, it's like, we put coffee off and it's done for the day. You know what I mean? Like McDonald's or something. 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. Yeah, that is a thing I like about a place like Tim Hortons. And honestly, I prefer the Tim Hortons vibe over the Starbucks vibe. I went to Second Cup, which I know is another, like a second tier Canadian coffee chain. That has more of a coffee house sort of energy to it.

A lot of people with laptops hanging out. And I just kind of like more of the working class vibe of a Tim's, where it's just kind of like, oh, everyone's in here and, you know, it's not like a place to like, you know, write your screenplay or whatever the fuck, you know? I Googled it, I Googled it for you. And Google says that the McDonald's coffee

is not the Tim Hortons original blend. However, McDonald's coffee in Canada is supplied by Mother Parker's who used to supply Tim Hortons until Tim Hortons bought their own roasting facility. Wow. Wow. Well, well, well. Sounds like they took their beans, Wags.

Sounds like a bunch of gray area. Yeah, it sounds like, I think you maybe get two and a half Pinocchios. Two and a half Pinocchios? Not a full like three to five Pinocchios. They took their beans, it sounds like. It pans slightly on fire. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sounds like I was pretty, it was much closer to the truth. We'll figure out all this out when the month's over. Let's talk about Lil' Keem. Hold on, what were we just talking about? Just a second before that, before we- Coffee. We were talking about the other chains.

To go through that quickly, the only one I like is, I like Boston Pizza. Yeah. Boston Pizza. I like Boston Pizza for the sake of when my family visits and they are like, where can I bring like 14 people with children in and just walk in? Right.

Yeah, it's Boston Pizza. I like that, I like that. What Boston Pizza did you go to? We went to the one on Front Street. That's the one. That's the one. That's the spot. 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. Or no, a deal on fish bowls. And we were like, what are fish bowls? And they were triple mixed drinks in an actual fish bowl. I saw these being made. And it was just so fun to clink them around and cheers with fish bowls.

I zoned in on them immediately and I was very interested. First I thought you meant an actual bowl of fish, which Amelia would be down for. She likes to gamble on seafood as we found out. But I saw those and I was so interested. Did you spill coffee on yourself? I thought I did, but I don't see a drip. I like it being just a bowl of fish that you take home,

like we just have so much fish. Can you take these bowl of fish home? I was gonna say this. You like the working class vibe of Tim Hortons. Yeah. You never experienced it up in Hamilton, my man. Yeah. You have no idea.

Yeah, I guess I didn't have my driver take me up to Hamilton for my job as a TV actor. My coworker, Sparky, whose job is to drive you to set. They drive actors to set. I know, yeah, it's a good name. We're both making a show together. You're both human guys. It's a great thing that exists within the industry.

I haven't written a screenplay into Tim Hortons, but I have signed a lease in Tim Hortons. Wow. And then I got kicked out, we got kicked out for signing that lease. They're like, you can't do that. You can't do a business transaction here. There's a restaurant. Security cameras just zone in.

I feel like that's like the exact sort of place you have to do something like that. I did it at a coffee bean myself in LA. I was at a WeWork 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, so I want to do like a heavy metal sangria bar. And I was like, just listen to him, just think in my head, that's a terrible idea. I'm like, cool, man. And then he was like, hey, man, because I had an account where I could print from. He's like, cool, man. And then he was like, hey, man, cause I had like an account where I could print from.

He was like, hey, can I print something from your account? And I was like, yeah, like whatever. He had me print out his divorce papers. Oh my God. Oh man. That's insane. Oh man. Irreconcilable differences.

Yeah. Just obsessed with this sangria metal car. Wow. But anyway, yeah, we should talk about Lil' Canada. Like, just obsessed with this sangria metal bar. Wow. But anyway, yeah, we should talk about Little Canada. Little Canada, previously our home in miniature land. 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? It's a very big shopping district, a big touristy area, whole bunch of stores, whole bunch of chain restaurants, a huge mall there. It is created by a billionaire heir, Jean-Louis Brennenkmeijer, a Dutchman who was raised in the UK and spent $24 million of his own fortune so far to build a miniature version of Canada.

We were talking about railroads earlier. This uses the most popular railroad scale, HO scale, which is one to eight7 or 3.5 millimeters equals one foot, if you can wrap your head around that. Which we saw, they show the scale outside when you're first walking in. There's like a big bear and then a raccoon. They show the Canada's tallest man, and then they show them at 1.18 scale, it's a 1 to 1.8 scale or whatever. It's interesting. to one to one eighth scale or whatever. It's interesting.

It's, I mean, it's interesting. Look, when I was walking into that, I was like, this is going to suck, this day's gonna be bad. 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 quixotic, 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. I kind of was primed for that experience. And this was something that one, a topic that the two of you pitched, like as a thing. And we ended 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 so we could discuss it. But like, what was the impetus for wanting to discuss Little Canada? May I? Yes, please. I did not pitch this. Okay.

I fully pitched it. Carson's 110% was behind this. I've gone twice. You've gone twice. It's amazing. I love it. It's the best. So Griff,

so Griff Newman, our friend. Griff and Newman had told us about Little Canada and was like, you have to go. It's the best. So Griff, so Griff Newman, our friend. Griff and Newman had told us about Little Canada and was like, you have to go. You have to go. But again, it could have been in the sense of you have to see Megalopolis. It could have been the same sort of thing. I don't really know what to expect here.

Can I, I'm just gonna say my big thing now, can I, Wags? Well, let me, yeah, go for it. I'm just gonna say my big thing right now. I was very mean to the idea of Little Canada. In the live show I said that if you put Toronto in a juicer and juice out all the cool stuff and then you're left with traffic, and Little Canada, that's Toronto, everything else is gone.

That's what I said, I was being mean to Toronto. It got a big pop. It did get a big pop. I mean, they kind of liked me but hated me and then felt bad. I was being mean to Toronto. It got a big pop. It did get a big pop. They were there. I mean, they kind of liked me, but hated me and then felt bad. I was joking around. Anyways. It goes back to what you're saying. Like any attention at all, you're happy to receive.

100%. Yeah. I went to Little Canada. My mind was changed, maybe on the entire country of Canada. I loved Little Canada. Yeah. It warmed my heart. It was a great experience. It was genuinely one of the best things I did Little Canada. Yeah. It warmed my heart. It was a great experience.

I, it was genuinely one of the best things I did out here. I loved Little Canada so much. Little Canada is magical. I absolutely love going. I love Little Canada. I'm sorry, I loved it. That warms my heart. It was so cool.

It was such amazing craftsmanship. The passion side of it, which again, I was ready for it to be like, oh, this is like the room or whatever. This is some self-financed boondoggle. It's not that. It is like, this is a wholesome thing where this guy genuinely cares about this.

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. And then what they have created is so fully realized and so well thought out and so, you know, brilliantly presented that it ends up being this like incredible immersive experience that to me as an American, as an outsider, this is my fourth time ever in Canada, my first time in the city of Toronto, I'm like learning about this great land and developing a more of appreciation for it as I'm walking

through these exhibits. I love Little Canada. They do a great job with a lot of the stuff of, you know, Alexander Graham Bell's little cottage or whatever it was, right? Wasn't it? Wasn't that? There is. I love Little Canada. They do a great job with a lot of the stuff of, you know, Alexander Graham Bell's little cottage or whatever it was, right? Wasn't it? There is, there's a bunch of stuff like that. I didn't learn too much.

But it's like Canada's Disney to me. I love, it was so much more Disney-like than I thought it would be. It was really a turning point for me in my Canadian journey. I loved it. We had a wonderful morning. Everything changed. There's pre Little Canada and post Little Canada for me.

Let me do a little more table setting for people who don't know what this is and maybe were not aware of its existence. This is from a Toronto life piece called Model Citizen by Luke Rinaldi. Five generations back, Jean-Louis ancestors founded CNA, a global clothing empire with thousands of stores around the world. You might call it the Netherlands answer to H&M if it weren't a century older. By some estimates, the family is worth $29 billion.

Jean-Louis moved to Canada in 1999 to work for the family business, fell in love, never left, and then he visited Hamburg's miniature wonderland, which is the largest model train display in the world. It took nearly 800,000 working hours over 17 years to build inside a 75,000 square foot warehouse, a thousand trains weaved through impeccably detailed recreations of iconic European cities. And to him, the exhibit wasn't a blast from the past, it was inspiration for the future.

I thought, this is this quote, wouldn't it be great if I did something like this in Canada? A single square foot of Little Canada could cost between $500, so a scene in rural Quebec would be something like that, might be $500, and $1,200 for a parked city block in downtown Toronto. So you have a ground floor entrance to a largely subterranean space beneath the tenor. And we arrive there. And so 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. One of them was Jay. And Jay is like, we had a little breakfast side quest because we weren't sure we had time for breakfast. And Jay was like, oh, you totally got time for breakfast. You weren't sure. I wasn't sure.

Yeah, I wasn't sure we'd have time for breakfast. And the guy was like, ah, go get your breakfast, come back here. You'll be fine. Like, you totally got time for breakfast. You weren't sure. I wasn't sure. Yeah, I wasn't sure we'd have time for breakfast. And the guy was like, ah, go get your breakfast, come back here, you'll be fine. Like, you'll be fine on time. He explained everything and he was totally right. And he was also like, like the rest of the staff was completely awesome, super knowledgeable and genuinely enthusiastic about Little Canada.

And that is like, and enthusiasm is intoxicating. And that's part of why it's such an engaging experience. Yes. This warms my heart to hear it is a magical place. Yeah. And all fueled by this Dutch billionaire who didn't really know much about Canada. Did you see at the end, there's like a wall about him? Yes. And there are some quotes and like front and center.

It says there's a quote that just says I Didn't really know much about Canada. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And they put that front and center They just learned it through miniatures. I love that and his his sons Yeah, well, I think they would know that's like you would never have that if that if there was like an equivalent in America And it was like some foreigners they would they would never, I didn't know much about America as a quote. People would like be tagging it with graffiti, you know? People would be like, you know, like lighting the place on fire. It would be like, how dare you not know anything about this country? But like the humility of the people to be like, oh, it's great. You didn't know a lot and you learned some. Carson, that thing at

the end there is very nice and it would have been great to read that at the end about him. Had we not met the man himself in person. Well, Mitch, yeah, you just went for it, but yes. Wow. What are you, what are you, we had to go over it sooner or later? No, it's great.

Wow. Because the staff was awesome. The staff was guiding us through it. Skyler was guiding us into the space downstairs, introduced everything to us. Alana, not the knife, a different Alana helped show us around. And then we met Sophie. Sophie was super helpful.

She recognized you from Love. And I hope, Mitch, I hope you recognize the name pushing Twisted Metal to all the Love fans. You were. I've been doing that. Why is it promoting Twisted Metal? Sophie's gonna be watching Twisted Metal. And Sophie-

I don't know if Sophie will be watching. Sophie said she's gonna watch Twisted Metal, gonna get a Peacock account. Sophie also tells us that Jean-Louis is there today. Yes. And Sophie- I don't know if Sophie will be watching. Sophie said she's gonna watch Twisted Bell, gonna get a Peacock account. Sophie also tells us that Jean-Louis is there today. And we're like, oh wow, Jean-Louis is there today. And she didn't arrange anything, honestly. She just was like, mentioned this,

and we're just walking around, and then this guy comes up to us and is like, are you enjoying yourself? And it was just Jean-Louis just kind of like, casually introduced himself. We had been primed for this. And so- It was like meeting the creator from Ready Player One.

What's the name? Yeah. How tall was he? He's a tall guy. He's a tall guy. Tall drink of water. I heard this. Extremely pleasant.

Extremely pleasant man. Great head of hair. Fantastic head of hair. He was very presentable. He looked great. This all makes a head of hair. He was he was he was very he was very presentable. Yes, right This all makes a lot of sense. I Have a question for you guys, please How much does John Louie pay you three to just? praise little Canada today

Happen to meet the billionaire Podcasters there is like thousands of dollars worth of art around in the studio. Yeah, there is a painting of an at-at right above you that looks pretty good. I will say there is a certain whimsy to Little Canada. There's a little bit of magic. They're very much so.

As soon as you walk in and it goes day to night and you're in Niagara Falls. Great place to start off. Wides almost fell in. Which would have been funny if he drowned in Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls, great place to start off. Lads almost fell in. Which would have been funny if he drowned in Niagara Falls at Little Canada, it would have been great. No water. There is a day night cycle

that's going through all the exhibits and they change depending on what time of day it is. Sometimes there's tides, which it's like an incredible level of detail. Sometimes there's fireworks at night. But yes, the first area you go to is, it's divided into biomes, and each biome is a different part of Canada.

Some are cities, some are larger geographical regions. The first one is Little Niagara. Yeah, yeah, and it's beautiful. And the falls actually look amazing in there. They really do. It's stunning. Yeah, it's a combination of miniatures and then like some video projection elements. Yes, but then, and then there won't get to the finale,

but like there is an actual tide, water rising. Rising, rising. Yes. In the Bay of Fundy. Oh yes, the Bay of Fundy, we saw the Bay of Fundy. We came in through the, we were at the Eaton Center. We were at the Eaton Center. Which we, this is a call forward,

we've already talked about this. But we thought it was funny, because it's the Eaton Center. Yeah, we had to podcast about food. Yeah, the Eaton Center. Basically any place. I'm not sure if you, I'm not sure if you got, oh no, you got it.

Oh, the Eaton Center? Yeah, yeah. Basically. I mean, I got it, I just. Just to tap you through it, it's like basically, like any place the Doughboys go is the Eaton Center. Yeah. It's like the thing we were thinking. You know what we're saying?

When you grow up in Canada as a small child, you have to learn about the Eaton company because it's one of the oldest companies in Canada. I did not learn about that. Like it was founded around like healths Oh, wow, so that the beaver trade back in the exactly I read yes. What'd you say? It's the beaver train. I didn't say the beaver train. I said the beaver trade, but the train is a whole different thing Yeah That's so I would rather take the beaver train than the crazy train

It's always running late to say I'm sorry. That was good as hell. The Beaver Trade was like a crazy thing because it was like kind of a... I read it in the context of a book that was about the huge, horrific fire that was in... I forget which province a few years... I think it was in Alberta, the oil sands a few years back. 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. It's the fur trade. The fur trade. Yeah, it was like must grab. It just killed out an enormous population of animals just because of like, you know, collective greed and the industrialization of this industry

and the same thing happened with, has happened with oil. Yeah. What was the mall? But anyway, sorry, you were talking about the Eaton Company and I was just gonna say, Doughboy's Media is kind of an Eaton Company. Okay, so I pulled up the exact same Toronto light.

You liked that? I loved it. I haven't been happy with you all day. That made me, you're winning me over. Finally, we're just trying to move on. Yeah. 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. They at the point where Jean-Louis was trying to get investors,

he he's quoted to say as they thought I was mad. Yeah, they thought I was mad. And then he found one. He found he found one investor, McLean. And do you know what a Moxie's on the plane? Do you know what a Moxie's is? No. What is a Moxie's? There's a couple Moxie's in in America.

Oh, yes, I do know Moxie's. Yeah, it's like kind of like a diner, right? It's a it's like an upscale upscale diner type place. It's it's kind of made fun of. If you're going to Moxie's, it's it's going to be ironically. 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.

And then it says there was so much to discuss, they decided to meet again at Moxie's two weeks later. And then when they sign, when they ink the deal to incorporate, they sign the documents and they asked a Moxie's manager to act as a witness. Wow. Well, you can't sign those in Tim Horton. They'll get go right out. You try to you try to build a little Canada. witness. Wow. Well, you can't sign those in Tim Horton. That's right. They'll kick you right out. You're trying to build a little Canada.

This is just for coffee. Taylor, did you know that that they plan to expand it like beyond Canada's borders? Like they have the other provinces and other cities that they're doing. But he says he wants to create a beyond Candice border crafting Vimy Ridge. Why are you getting me so, Vimy Ridge?

Yeah, I understand what Vimy Ridge is. Can I know about this? Well, tell me about Vimy Ridge. This, that meet, what you just said there meant nothing to me, I had no idea. Wow. Wow. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's great. No, it's just how many thousands of Canadian soldiers died at Vimy Ridge? Oh, she's trying to help her one, you know, it's just our it was like our biggest thing

It's the biggest like battle that that could specifically Canadians like turn the tide. Well, this was in the European front. Yes Okay. Wow. Yeah, so they're gonna do a Vimy Ridge. I don't know how they're gonna do that Yeah, I just feel like little dead I don't know how they're going to do that. I just feel like- So like little dead miniatures and shit? Is that what's going to happen? Because there are things they do show, they have modeled the Highway of Heroes and I watched a video interview with John Louis discussing that the Highway of Heroes is like a thing

in Canada where I guess fallen Canadian soldiers are driven down this one stretch of road and people line up and salute and whatever. Yes. 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. So it's like kind of, and it's coexisting with Maurice the Moose and things. Yeah, yeah. It's just an interesting thing. I mean, Maurice the Moose wasn't in that part, but we haven't gotten to Maurice the Moose yet.

But unlike like the marathon where there's a grim reaper at the end of the marathon, little funny things like that. There's a lot of, there's a grim Reaper at the end of the marathon little funny things There's a lot of there's a lot of great sense of humor throughout of it Which is part of the fun and the video is just gonna have people drowning in mud Shock, you know committing suicide, you know, it's the classic meeting. It will be fun to see Gonna love it cars. Did we see we were asking if I saw what I? the trench foot I said the grim Reaper and then you said did you see and you stopped well?

Did you see all the Maurice's did you get all we gotta get to Maurice? but also I want to says Jean-Louis was so nice so nice and We gotta get to Maurice, but also I wanna say, Jean-Louis was so nice. So nice. And- How long was he wearing? What was he wearing? Do you smell that?

Do you smell the green? A green sweater and a green sweater. A green sweater, sure. A green t-shirt that said Clean Team on the back. So I think maybe he was cleaning some of the miniatures and that's partially what he was doing there. Oh, that would make sense. Because I thought it was interesting

that it said Clean Team and I was like, oh, he's the, he built it, but he's here dusting off little people. 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 the restaurant. But he wasn't actually cooking.

So you're saying this was John Louie was doing? He's coming out there, he's like, oh, I'm just doing some work in the back. John Louie is a good man, we saw him there, he was talking with us. I don't think it was just a photo walk. I just like the listeners to understand that Mitch is sitting on a throne of money.

Wow, he is saying these things. John Louie, look, I'm nervous because John Louie is gonna listen to this and then not like us. Yes. I think he had no idea who, like, you know, what the podcast is like or what we're about, but he did very graciously wise.

I got to talk about this. There's like an Italian wall of fame. Yes. Not you don't have to be Italian. I'm not. Thank God. Um, but there's, there's, there's, there's, there's this Italian section that are going to put like people who work in film and he, it's analogous to an Italian restaurant, how they have all the photos on the walls of all the celebrities and so he was like like we have an Italian wall and he was he was a bit starstruck by Mitch to be honest and Mitch was like an you know like an actor and was like oh we could put you on the Italian wall. And he offered to put me on the Italian wall which... That's very nice. John Louie I accept that offer please put me on the Italian wall but

then this motherfucker over here... So I hear this and I'm like me and Emma gotta get in on this. Yeah. So I go to John Louie I like, me and Emma gotta get in on this. So I go to John Louie, I'm like, John Louie, we got this podcast, we're gonna talk about Little Canada. The three of us could be in a little podcast studio. And so he was there, and then as well- You could have heard a pin drop in the room after we pitched this.

I think John Louie liked the idea. John Louie liked the idea, but he was with Camille and Nikki who were helping him out. And they gave liked the idea, but he was with Camille and Nikki who were helping him out. And they gave me the nicest, they were lovely. They gave me the nicest, we can definitely think about that. Sure, sure. Camille was like an executive in Hollywood

when you go out and pitch an idea and they don't wanna talk to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. She did not like the idea at all. And I just wanna get on the Italian wall. That's all I want. Hey, but I think, look, I think the Doughboys could be little lies. I think we'd be on a podcast wall. That's all I want. Hey, but I think, look,

I think the Doughboys could be little lies. I think we'd be able to podcast studio next to the little Tim Hortons, which is in little Toronto. I think that'd be pretty fitting. You basically asked a billionaire if you could have a general. Yeah. If we could have a Jaguar?

A general. Oh, a general. Yeah. That'd be, that kind of is what it was. I would totally ask a billionaire, can I have a Jaguar? I'd be like, of course, the car or the cat? I would totally ask a billion can I have a check? Which would you choose oh the cat yeah the key get you gotta be pretty cool or the but the cats got to drive the car

That's the driver of the Jaguar driving the tank wire As Marshall made a shot a shot. A shot. You don't pronounce the T. Oh, so it sounds like I'm saying shit, basically. A shot, a shot. We should have taken a moment before this and been like, hey, you know, like this is, Little Canada is a very wholesome thing.

The Little Canada people we talked to were hopefully maybe gonna listen to the episode. We could have just like not talked about like, not talking about like shit and said cusses on this episode. We could have. I know we could have said that in advance. We didn't, it's water and a bridge. Have we said cum?

We have not said cum yet. You know, we didn't say cum. Quick, everybody say it. John-Louis, please. Sorry John-Louis. Put me on the Italian wall. And then- You know what else to get put on that wall?

What's that? That's a lot of cum. Oh my God. Jesus Christ. But it's been littleized that? That's the one to come. Oh my God. Jesus Christ. But it's been littleized, so it's just a small amount. Mine's always littleized. Did you get littleized? We'll get to it. All right, all right, all right.

So I want to say I went to the ROM, the Shah exhibit at the ROM, and it was fantastic. I don't know if you saw that. The Royal Ontario Museum. The Cats, yes. Exhibit. He offers to put me on this Italian Wall. Wiggs chimes in and says, you could probably wear something better when you get little eyes. He offered it little eyes week for free. And then this guy chimes in about how I'm looking like crap. No, you weren't wearing your spoon man uniform. 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 shorts. I was wearing a five forks hat. You're wearing the five forks hat. This hat. No, you're not gonna be able to see the forks in that miniature. They're not gonna be able to pick out those details.

Sure they will. The fingers are so. It depends on what miniature you get. Five inches, which is very big. You guys are giants in the world of little get. Five inches, which is very big. You're a giant in the world of little candy. Five inches is big. I was just saying, and we ended up getting scammed. It's above average, yeah go on.

We ended up getting scammed that day anyway, but I was just like, you know, I think people know you as wearing jeans and like a flannel, like shirt over a hoodie, or over a t-shirt rather. He says this is Jean-Louis, shut up, would ya? We still, you still got, you still got mini eyes. I got, I got. He says this is Jean-Louis, shut up, would ya? You still got mini eyes, or little eyes, and he was like you would come back

if you wanna get little eyes again, so it worked out fine. I got little eyes, here's the thing. I also told him to check out Twisted Metal on Peacock, but I hope he'd note it. Great plug. I was wearing an outfit that my mom 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. So you not just wore it to be little lies, you wore it on the podcast. I wore it on the podcast. Well, I don't care about what I wear in the podcast. So I've talked to the littleization people about like what you can do in that littleization station. We talked to Anthony who was manning the littleization station. A great guy. We visited a great guy. And there's not a lot you could, I was like, can I crouch? And they're like, absolutely not.

Yeah. Can I cross my arms? No, that will not work out in the, when we build your figure. This is what I did. Thumbs up was a lot. We gave thumbs up. That's perfect.

Yeah. Yeah, we told you you can't do anything. And then you see all the examples of other men. I'm like, that person clearly, like those people did a group photo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like some people's clothes get a little jumbled up. Should we explain what littleized is?

Yes, we should. Why is asked what some people do? Like what's the craziest thing? I said, yeah, people are getting some mischief. And he was like, yeah, a lot of people like flip the bird middle fingers. We just can't use those. And he said, and then people ask if they can get nude

and get littleized. Because they were shut down. No, there's no children here. We can't shut down. They have you be nude. Never thought about that. Yeah. But I just like that someone's instinct of like, yeah, there's children here. We can't shut down, they have you be nude. Never thought about that. Yeah. But I just like that's someone's instinct of like,

yeah, I want to be tiny me, but like fucking. It's not like you go into a room and go, like people could still just watch you get nude. Yes. There are children everywhere. Where in little Canada are you putting a nude person like streaking across the field? Like where is the nude person going?

In one of the hotel rooms, I guess. I think there's maybe a version, there's maybe a human being who's like, I wanna be miniaturized of me being nude and then they wanna own that. Cause you can also purchase it. And so maybe they wanna own a five inch version of themself. Hang it on the tree.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Exactly. I wanna say this is a lot of fun. The green team. Sorry, just to clarify real quick. I think people have put it together, but littleization is basically,

if you've seen the film Downsizing, the Alexander Payne film. Same thing. Same principle. You get shrunk down. You've all seen that. You've all seen it. Everyone's seen it.

It's actually shot here. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, was it really? At Little Canada. Yeah. They got littleized and they film it all on, like when they're little mini people.

It's shot here in Ontario. I didn't know that. It's like or Honey I Shrunk the Kids. It's just you get shrunk down to a small version of yourself. Yes, that's a Wayne Zelinsky type of thing. Yes. And here it's just one, you get under one orb. I told Ligasys I want 10-1 after when we were done.

You urinated. I urinated afterwards. Something's wrong with that littleization machine, man. It fucking works. I complained, I grabbed Jean-Louis at the end. I was like, what did you do to me? Only what you did to yourself. With his cape and monocle. 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. It's like 128 cameras in a 360, and they take a picture. Yeah, that's what you're getting you, yeah. It was fun to see the green team working. They were walking through the land like giants, which was kind of fun to see.

It was really cool, yeah. Yeah. So one of my favorite parts is that you can walk around the places where they're building all these miniatures. Yes. And talk to these people and ask them how do they make this? I'm sure you must have been fascinated by all the trains. The trains are rad.

So let's step through the lines real quick. By the way, can I also just say that when we went in 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 was no easy feat. I tried to stop you. Too many people.

He was at the gears, it was bad news. So we started in Little Niagara, we talked about that. We go to Little Toronto. Now Little Toronto has the Sky Dome. Now the, what's it called now? The, not the Rogers Center. Is it called the Rogers Center? It's the Rogers Center.

Yeah, the Sky Dome. The Sky Dome is represented and inside there's something like, is it 8,000 different little people just, it just populating the inside of the Sky Dome. Some of them you can't even see. And the dome closes. And the dome closes. And the dome closes.

So there's bits of animation that take place throughout. They're playing, on the little screen, there's a Jays game that's happening on the screen, a real life Jays game. It's the 1993, like the Joe Carter winning. Joe Carter winning the World Series with a home run. And the same thing happens in the, you go to the Scotiabank Arena,

which when they started building it, was the Air Canada Center, which is where the Toronto Raptors play. And they have the basketball court there. But then they also have on the Jumbotron, they have, I assume it's, I believe it's the Raptors game from them winning the NBA title.

I may have missed that, that's insane. Yeah, it's crazy. And so all that stuff is represented. They've also got a miniature CN tower. And then they've got all sorts of Easter eggs throughout. And the biggest Easter egg is, as we're talking about, and as our stickers represent, Maurice the Moose. Maurice the Moose.

Maurice the Moose. So there are four different Maurice's scattered in each of the different biomes. You get a clue sheet. You get a map and a clue sheet that tells you where Maurice, through text, where Maurice might be located throughout. And then if you find all of them, and it's on the honor system,

you get yourself a little sticker at the end. You guys had to use the hints? Yeah, we used the hints. No, I mean- We didn't use the hints. We didn't understand some of them. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. I didn't understand most of them, I don't think.

It's a little inside baseball. Not only did we find every Maurice, I took a picture of every Maurice. And I don't know about when you went, but he was dressed up in a Halloween costume. It was hard as hell to find. So I read the newsletter, obviously, and I heard about these costumes. And I was like, how much did they change? How many costumes are there? Is it just Maurice?

Or is it other things like Halloween themed I think it was just it was just more Little pumpkin bucket in his mouth like you know the pumpkin bucket you used to like trick-or-treat and yeah Maurice is the one thing I love it's adorable. That's awesome. Yeah I mean, I have to explain a little bit of a Kermadec. I'm not. I have to explain. Taylor's a little bit of a curmudgeon. I'm not not a curmudgeon. He's a little bit of a. I'm not just playing the ante for this.

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. So he creates a little bit of a negative experience. I just wanted to enjoy it. It's a beautiful spot. If I was to bring my nephews and nieces,

it would be really, really exciting. Yeah, yeah, if you didn't want to have fun with friends. No, it was competitive. It was like, you guys haven't found Marisa, you losers. Pushing kids out of the way. The results, I gotta say this, there was, besides the Halloween costumes, their Beetlejuice was playing in theater.

So there are some season alterations. Oh, they changed that. They changedice was playing in the theater. Yeah, so there are some changes. You change that every time. Oh, they change that. They change what's playing in the movies every time. Yes. Well, there was Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and was it Downsizing? Downsizing was one of them,

and they had a bunch of the Incredible Shrinking Woman, but they also had, they had like the, they had Bob from Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice who was like represented in miniature inside the theater. Bob was in some other guy. Bob and Phil, I don't know who the other one was. One of a seasonal matter. Bob was another guy. Yeah. Bob and Phil, I don't know who the other one was.

Yeah, one of the other ones. My favorite thing is the fact that there is a Little Toronto in Little Toronto. Yes, I love that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. You can go to Little Toronto, Little Toronto. Yeah. Yes.

And it begs the question that there is a Little Toronto in the Little Toronto that's handed Little Toronto. It goes on forever, you're saying. Shit. Because they have a little miniature making machine inside Little Toronto. That's true. That's true.

Right. The little Easter eggs. The little funny little Easter eggs there. Those are real hoots. Yeah, the beetles. Did you see the beetles? I didn't see the beetles. I didn't see the beetles.

The beetles? Well, there's four like beetles, insects on top of roofs with that. Instruments. That's funny and scary if you And you see the giant rats that live under the city, right? Yeah Yeah, I wish those were just bits. Those are those area. They're very real That's a really tough time for us if you live here beyond November it gets

Yeah, you guys are talking about like, you about like, kids having a good time there. I was looking, I looked over at Weiger and he was looking at John Louie with the biggest smile on his face. I was at the best time. Because he just wrote a check for $200,000. I wish. So we had a, so you go from Little Toronto, you go over to Little Horseshoe.

Now I wasn't aware of this, the Little Gordon Horseshoe. The Golden Horseshoe. I wasn't aware of this region, but Hamilton is within the Little Golden Horseshoe. Hamilton's Horseshoe. I wasn't aware of this region, but Hamilton is within the Little Golden Horseshoe. Hamilton's part of that? Yeah. Is this just a part of Ontario?

Is this a region of Ontario? Well, you gotta realize that 90% of our population is in this one corridor in Ontario. And the Golden Horseshoe is a part of that. Got it. And it goes pretty much from Montreal to Ottawa to Toronto to Niagara Falls, Hamilton to Sarnia. So this kind of represents the regions

that aren't major cities. Yeah. 90% of the population is just an undead. I thought it's 90% along the border of the whole way. Along the border, but most of our population is hugging the United States and the golden horseshoes is around that and around the great lakes. Yeah.

So you go through that, there's a bunch of choo-choos that's one thing that's happening there. Maybe a small representation of your father somewhere. Oh, my father's there. Working away, he's there? I saw him. Oh, that's awesome. How big is he?

He's six feet. Oh, he was a huge model. No, just there at Little Canada, and I was like, I'm so disappointed in what you've done with your life, Taylor. Do you know what I will say? So Sophie, who we met, and this was later on, this was in Little East Coast, I believe, yeah, it was Little East Coast. Sophie, in miniature, was a representation of the bar where her parents met. And we got a picture of Sophie pointing at the miniature

version of the bar where her parents met. She's like, that's a crazy thing to think about. She's like, this is like a miniature version of like how I exist. Yeah. Oh my God, that's crazy. Conceived there? So I don't know.

Well, we didn't get into this detail. I mean, are the minis doing what we're thinking they're doing? I'm asking, were they there? I will say this, they're working on an east coast, they're working on the- Little west coast. I'm sorry, little west coast. Yes.

There's a bunch of other biomes in development, including Little Rockies, Little North. The one that's under construction in public is Little West Coast, and you're seeing people just sort of walk around building this, like British Columbia. Did you see Little America? Did you see it at all?

No. There was a little America section too. Oh, I didn't realize that. Yeah, it was great. There was a Capitol building, there was a little January 6th. Oh, that's nice. And Maurice was leading the charge.

Oh, wow. That's the weird thing about Maurice, that you're like, oh, he's pretty nice, and then as it goes on, he's doing more and more kind of fucked up stuff. Yeah. The farther you get deeper into Canada, he's just getting, he's just saying them real.

I've heard him talk about weird things about vaccines. Yeah, he's super anti-vax. Yeah, there's a little protest thing and they're in front of like, yeah, like a doctor's office, they're protesting. It's him and RFK Jr. Yeah, RFK Jr. is rioting him when you find him on time. Yeah. And then you see RFK Jr. Yeah, RFK Jr. is riding him when you find him on time. And then you see RFK Jr. is like eyeing him,

like licking his lips. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, I could throw this into Central Park. Yeah. Which is great detail too. It is really amazing. Little RFK licking his lips. Yeah, there's a little bit of animation.

He's rubbing his belly. So you had little golden horseshoe, little Ottawa, which is for Americans who may not know this, Ottawa is Canada's capital. And so we were, which is for, for Americans, may not know this. Ottawa is Canada's capital. And so we were, I heard you, but I'm just saying this. So, so we're in Ottawa and you see Parliament Hill. Didn't care. Jay had told us-

I do now because of Little Game. It is the most boring part of Little Game. But here's the thing. We asked Jay what his favorite part was of, who helped us out up to up top, what his favorite part of little Canada was he was like Parliament Hill and Parliament Hill in Little Ottawa is a showstopper because you see Parliament and then at night There's a fireworks display and it's a real hoot and and one of the the other guides there was telling us that

Kids will line up while the fireworks are going off in front of Parliament and sing Oh Canada and I was like that's so beautiful One of the people who works there. Yeah, that's not true. Oh, there's no way. We are not that patriotic. The kids we like. I mean, maybe when school like a class of third graders comes through on a school trip, they feel so inspired.

Yeah. Yeah. 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. Did you feel like the national anthem rising in you? I felt a little patriotic, just because of the land, you realize the land is so vast. It really is.

Free. And so small at the same time. Oh my God, it's coming. We talked about this the one time when we went, was it's coming. Did you guys, okay, we talked about this one time when we went, was that do you feel tired and then kind of sleepy between the nighttime and the daytime? Yeah, definitely.

Did it kind of trick your body and be like- Light for sure does that. We were yawning so much. Anytime we'd turn to nighttime, Wies and I would just lay down on the floor and sleep until the morning, right? Yeah, it would happen a few times. Yeah, yeah.

Because it's an accelerated day night cycle. So we were getting great like 11 minute night sleep. We were wondering if- We could have super well rested. Yeah, I would hit REM every night. Yes. We were wondering if in that world is time sped up? 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, does time, they perceive time on a different scale. Right. Because how many days would it be just in one day, how many days would you experience in Little Canada? It's nine, what is it, 18 minutes would be a day? Something like that, yeah.

I feel like their day is just a- 15. 15 minutes? It's just a nightmare experience. I think they're living in hell. Right. Like it is every 15 minutes and like they can't get out of Toronto. They're like, wait, wait, the horseshoe is here, but where's the highway?

Whenever giants are depicted in media, they're always like moving really slowly. Right. So I think like time is like affecting them differently than us. Manager. One day in little Canada, 96 days. Wow. Whoa. That's wild to think about.

Fuck. What? So like 24 hours? One day in Little Canada is 96 days. 24 hours? One of our days is 96 of their days. And one of our days is 96 of their days. Yeah.

So you're living a year in, you know, in four days. It's wild to think about. Yeah, they're in hell. Isn't it, Berk? It's wild to think about. Yeah, they're in hell. Isn't it, Burt? It's just a punishment. Your lifetime would be less than one of our calendar years. Are you gonna be put in there?

Are you gonna put yourselves through that? We're talking about it. We're negotiating with Jean-Louis Jean-Loup. Yeah, I think it might be cool if there's a little podcast studio and we're all in there. I don't care about him getting in. I just wanna get put on the Italian wall. Yeah, that might be cool. there's a little podcast studio and we're all in there. I don't care about him getting it. I just want to get put on the Italian wall. That might be cool.

We're in there with Mitch. Yeah, I think we're probably three of us. Well, you do get to choose where Minnie goes. We do, yeah. I would like to be in this area. I don't think you get to pick specifically where, but you're like, I'm going to be in Toronto. Yeah, and you could be put in the Roger Center

or Scotia Bang. I'll just say this. Our weird listeners will come and try to find us at Little Canada. I'm just saying that. Yeah, for sure. So if you want to miniaturize us, which we want, clearly,

you'll get a bunch of weirdos who look like us coming in, which maybe you don't want. Maybe you don't want them giving some sort of lewd tribute to the doughboys in miniature, because that could happen too. Yes. You don't want a group of people who are going to come in and start eating the miniatures either. What our listeners will most likely do.

Is it cake? Petite Québec. 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. Well, I said it was pretty good. It was pretty good. And so, and I think like the red coins in Super Mario 64. Well, I said it was pretty good. It was pretty good. And I think like the red coins in Mario 64, as you progress further in the game, the difficulty starts to heighten a little bit.

The difficulty gets higher. Petit Quebec trying to find Maurice the Moose was pretty hard. 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 Maurice's will be right next to each other. So they'll have a huge stretch with no more Reese's

and then all of a sudden there's two more Reese's. And he's in these little Halloween costumes, which are so, everything is so detailed. Is Quebec the winterized one? Yes, it's winterized, yeah. Is he like in a ghost costume? Like that would make it really difficult. I thought he was on the ice.

Like he's on the ice for one of them. He is on the ice for one of them, yeah. I love the traffic jam in Quebec. Traffic jam's fun. It's just like where the cars pull over and you can just tell the guy's like, Just for one of them, yeah. I love the traffic jam in Quebec. Traffic jam's fun. It's just like where the car is, you can just tell the guy's like, oh, god damn it.

And he has to turn around. Those are my favorite of the minis, is like you can find like realistic things of people just going through their day. Yeah. Having a terrible one. I talked to them, because there's a moment where you can talk to the,

there's the miniaturization, like the miniature maker section, where you have some of the craftspeople who are working and they will talk to you while they're working and we talked to them for a bit and they were like oh yeah the the hotel in um in little ottawa right that's where that's where the hotel is is like like we each got to do our own room and if you look through all the rooms like some of the rooms are like more like grounded and some of them are

just like bananas yeah but it's really cool because 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 whole experience, but you can spend a lot of time there if you're trying to hone in on every single detail that's included on find all the Easter eggs. They were making a little more East there and I picked it up. I looked under it. It's really detailed.

I'm saying like everything down there, they detail everything. Yeah. Like his like hooves and his legs and stuff. Yeah, that is part of it. Mm hmm. So those are really detailed. Like the tails. The tails. Yeah. Yeah.

And he's got like some fur on his undercarriage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stuff like that too. That's cool. Yeah. That's it though. That's it. There's a little bit more.

Okay. Well, that's crazy. Yeah, the antlers got to be good. Yeah. Oh yeah, the antlers. Yeah. Well, he's got the Canadian flag, like the little insignia on it. Yeah, that's on there too. That's great.

But yeah, his dick, butthole, his balls. Dick, butthole, and balls. Wow, that's amazing. Oh, that's the year time. And he's packing heat too, X. We know. Yeah, they're not going to put Maurice in there unless he's packing. Yeah, and it's cold.

He's representing. I did like that. And like you say, Montreal is colder. So it did show that it was smaller in Montreal. That's true. Yeah, that's true. He had some moose shrinkage. Yes. Did you see when they're making, the section where they're making all this stuff, there's

a ton of Maurice's in there? Yeah. Yes, yeah. Yeah. We caught every... They're going to... Look, they might be adding some more and more Reese's, but also I think like that, like, as they, they add more areas.

Yeah. But I can see them increasing, they could easily cram in more than four per area because there's more places to tuck them away. And you know what? I will be back to Little Canada at some point. I'm coming back. I'm coming back for sure.

Well, in betwe- I went six months apart and one whole section was completed in that time. Wow. Yeah. It's really cool. What is the mall? The other area is Little- Is it the Eaton Center? Went six months apart and one whole section was completed in that time Wow. Yeah It's really cool. I did what is the mall? Yeah, there is little sent center mall that it's in no, it's it's been new It's beneath the tenor is the name of the center was across the road from the

Hot tip there's Harvey's in that building. That's great. Oh, it's gonna be wow Is the Eaton Center mall is like course there'd be a Harvey's at the Eaton Center. I liked it. The Eaton Center Mall is like your famous big mall, right? Well, it is the famous mall. Until you go to Edmonton. Oh, Edmonton's got the world. Yeah, Lisa Gilroy is telling us about the world's biggest mall in Edmonton.

A fellow sketch partner, Lisa Gilroy. Oh yeah, oh wow. We were on the Skechersons together. We did a show called Sunday Night Live for a few years. Wow. Wow. Yeah. I love it. There's also the first mall,

we shoot out near one of the first malls in Toronto, which is a big mall, but it's kind of in the middle of nowhere, or closer on the outskirts. What's its name? I forget. It's a mall. a oh is it the Yorkdale or Which is pretty big like an actual mall. Yeah, the Eaton Center is like a Central destination to go to I love the I was having a great time I don't always hate some things that are just I'm like, why can't it be cool? You hate little Canada? I

Did not hate it. I didn't like the people I was with. The different thing. You know what? I enjoyed my time. Amen to that, my friend. No, but the, what I gotta get to Emma, Emma was there. Oh no, she was great.

What? Offended. But the Eaton Center, like, how dare you say that about me and Emma collectively. Yeah. Like when I go to the Eaton Center, like my favorite time, now this is controversial. My favorite time to go to the Eaton Center, like my favorite time, now this is controversial. My favorite time to go to the Eaton Center is during Christmas time when it's most chaotic.

Wow. 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 there. He feeds off hate. Yeah, well the trick is to go there without any agenda, like I don't need to be outta here by a certain time. I'm like, I'm just gonna do it.

He doesn't need any gifts either. He just goes. I walk around and eat myself. It's so much fun. It's wild. There's so many people. I returned to Ring Light for an audition where I was auditioning

to play the role of Bubba the love sponge. This is true. Hell yeah. And Joe read as Hulk Hogan, Samojo. He helped me out with the audition. Yeah, who's that? I can say it now, right? I don't know.

Who cares? Well, maybe not. Is that being made? Was that? Is that actually going say it now, right? Who cares? I don't know. Well, maybe not. Is that being made? Was that? Is that actually going to the announced, right? I think it's maybe not being made. Well, I don't know. I think it may be, I don't know.

We'll see what happens. I heard it got squashed. I can say it. I didn't get the part. Who gives a shit? You'd be a great love spy. I don't even know if I should say thank you. That's the world's famous cut.

I can totally believe someone would fuck your wife. Almost fuck his wife. It was funny, the audition, like anyone who watched it was like, damn, that Hulk Hogan's really good. I was like, yeah, Samoa Joe did it. Yeah, it was. Great actor. I know, but I'm saying they never said anything about my performances.

Bob at Law's responses, Joe knocked it out of the park. Did he book it? It was great actor. I know I'm saying like they were never said anything about my performances above it lost boxes Joe knocked out of the park He vote Hogan I think Ben Affleck That speaks to like where our industry is now though that you have to you have to recruit a fellow actor to read Opposite you to attempt to get a role Yeah, where's that used to be a process where you go in with like a professional casting person and they give you notes Yeah, but now it's now you have to get your friend to do free labor and shoot it on your own. It sucks It's a nightmare. So I hated the Eaton Center because I

only got in there and walked to Best Buy to return the ring light and then I got back and I had like a $15 parking ticket. I mean just like to pave to get out of there 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 because I have a rental car. And I like- That's a train, that's a choo-choo destination. Yeah, I've driven in that,

my rental car like three times total. Sure. But there's like a rail stop right under the- Yes, and walking through there, it was like, oh, this is nice. If I had trained here, I would have liked a lot. What is the theme park, speaking of, we're in this world oh wonderland wonderland oh that's good did they make a movie about wonderland right or no no are you thinking

like jesse eisenberg yes i'm not it but it was like similar like yeah it's called adventure land right adventure land yeah but wonderland's like our like a big big amusement. We took Griffin and a couple of the New York boys This summer you guys know cedar point in oh hi. Yeah, we know cedar. Yeah, they own wonder Used to be a paramount Amusement park so every every ride used to have be tied to a movie. Paramount lost it. And they're all named something different now. We all know it like that ride is the top gun. But now it's called like deck.

But it's you know what it is. Wow. That's why I love that. I wish I should have. Mom, there's still time. Is it still open or is it closed? Well, actually, the switch into Halloween, they're switching to Halloween Haunt, which is roller coasters in the dark. Interesting.

It is quite good. Yeah, and a lot of haunted houses. Yeah. And they're really, really fun. It's quite amazing. I'm gonna have to check it out. Little East Coast encompasses Halifax, or I'm sorry, Nova Scotia more generally,

Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, what am I missing? New Brunswick. No, yeah, so it's got all the provinces that are over on the East Coast of Canada. And you're walking through there. This is where they have the section where the tide rises and falls with the day night cycle,

which is really cool to see. Where Sophie's parents bar is. Oh yeah. But yeah. That's where they're, and the night's young. the I mean, I mean milliseconds is even probably pretty good. Yeah, honestly. In little Canada? That's lasting. You'd be a stud.

A stallion. Yeah. By the way, speaking of Paramount, just want to give a little plug. Twisted Metal Paramount Plus up here in Canada. Oh, how about that? It's on a different network. It's not on Peacock. I've been telling people to subscribe to Peacock so if he's going to sign up for the wrong

free trial. Oh, you messed up. I have Paramount now. Listen, Paramount, if you're listening to this, upload your Survivor episodes the day after. Not a week after, please. Wow. Guys, I got good news for you. Oh, actually bad news, they don't listen.

Yeah. Paramount's not listening at all. Yeah. That is annoying. They should upload the day after. I agree with you. There was a little bite section, but I was hoping there'd be more of a little gimmick to it, but there doesn't seem to be.

The pizza was kind of small. The pizza was kind of small. There was an ice cream that was kind of small? But it wasn't like they had a teeny tiny cookie or anything like that, which I thought could be fun. So we didn't really have any of the little bites But we just sort of walked through it and everyone there was lovely to talk you didn't have the moose tracks drink No, we didn't we should have there's like a bubble tea ask drink. That's fun. And it's like Maurice's piss

I'm not joking about this. This actually exists. You can get a Moose Tracks drink. Wow. But it's not his piss and shit. It looks. It's supposed to be. Well, it's not implicit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. Moose Tracks, yeah.

It's on his footprint. Yeah. It's true. I would have loved this. We should have done it. Maybe, you know what? Maybe we have to go back. You know what's crazy if you look,

cause there is that part in the snow and you can see Maurice's moose tracks and there's like, there's the hoof prints, but then there's just like a long dragon. And there's like a little quote with like, kind of like that Jesus quote where like, well there's one set of footprints, I was carrying you.

And it's like, when there's no line, it was cold. What is the line? What is this? There's no line it was cold. It was cold I absolutely love this place. I thought it was so cool. I I had I was just smiling the whole time Emma you had a great time, right? I loved it. I was 30 minutes late to meet Mars because I couldn't leave And Mars you've been to little Canada before. I've been there. I loved it. I'm so glad you guys went. 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 us Canadians do. So it makes me really happy. I feel like almost like as an outsider, there was, there was like a level of appreciation of just like, like, oh wow, look at how rich and fertile this land is. What you know, as part of the exercise. Oh, look at how, like,

I don't really know what Canadian parliament looks like. Like that's- You get me nervous about how fertile the land is. I don't know what you're gonna do. The land is very fertile. Oh, Jesus. Yeah. I could breed with this land.

Yeah. Oh, Mitch, I want to know, cause there's also like a little Hamilton. And- There is a little Hamilton. There is a little Hamilton. I wish I could get shrunk down, be with that working class city.

I love it. It was fantastic. It looks- They did have the original Tim Hortons in class city. I love it. It was fantastic. It looks- They did have the original Tim Hortons in Little Hamilton. That's true. We talked about putting, if they don't build us a podcast studio, we could go be at the Little Tim Hortons. The original-

That's right. It's a good place to do it. You've never been there though, so that's kind of, you know, stolen value. Well, there's a Tim Hortons in Toronto too, a Little Toronto, right? Or is there just one in Hamilton? No, I think it was just in Hamilton.

Okay, then I missed it. Although there might be one, It's possible watching the live show and talking about Tim Hortons. Do you guys know why Tim Hortons is famous in hockey? He was a defenseman, right? You know, was it his big claim to fame? I wouldn't have without Tim Horton.

Was that the slap shot? The slap shot is invented. The slap shot. That's amazing. The movie Slapshot maybe wouldn't exist. Oh, no, I thought you meant he The Slapshot. The Slapshot is Tim Hortons. He invented the Slapshot. That's amazing. The movie Slapshot maybe wouldn't exist. Oh, no, I thought you meant he directed Slapshot. He created the movie Slapshot. Yeah. The Slapshot was a was a a a a move that he popularized.

Wow. Wow. That's really cool. Yeah, I could never do a Slapshot Simon. He might have been drunk. And then well, then that's when you heard a lot about him being drunk. Yeah, it's how he passed. Yeah, the the land does look really fertile. I noticed a few snow patches in the Toronto, which is not winter themed lag.

So I don't know if you got your hands in there. You were I think you were in there with the green team. There was also, there was a little space where there, there was like a Michigan troll area. There was the area with the people who were actually crafting the miniatures. Yes, yes, yes. And then there was also, there was also just this section

where the, what did you say? The miniature makers. The miniature makers. Yes. And then there was also the section where you saw the cars go, the buses and the cars going to this little area that was kind of a control center. And they would like turn around and be in there

and then leave. Yeah. I don't think we've maybe not made enough a meal about how many vehicles there are. Not just, not just, not just, you know, trains in motion, but cars, boats. They're moving. And they're all moving.

They all have cycles. They all have lights. The maid of the mist at Niagara Falls goes out and goes into the falls and comes back. That was it. That was a moment for me. I think we should rank this out of Forks for real. But this is, that's what happened for me.

I went, when I walked into Little Niagara, it was on already. I see the Maid of the Mist moving through. And I was like, this is incredible. The boat is moving. I didn't know that the boat would be moving. And that's all it took for me. But a lot of Canadians, I'm like, I'm going to Little moving I didn't know that the boat would be moving and that's all it Took for me, but a lot of Canadians. I'm like I'm going a little Canada

Like what are you talking about a lot of Canadians still don't know what this place is So how many people were in there would you say at the same time as you? Not many who doesn't maybe it wasn't like hugely populated. It's really busy the way I heard I heard that they need at least like five to seven thousand people in and through there to break even per day a day. That's a lot. That's not possible. Well, here's the thing. And I'm not saying this, John Louie, but is this some sort of tax haven sort of situation is like,

it is- Is Little Canada, can you, is that like a city that you can claim or something? Like- I don't live in Canada, I live in Little Canada. It's gotta be hemorrhaging money, it's gotta be. Wait, he's got middle taxes. Right, middle taxes, that's what it is.

The taxes are the same taxes you would normally get. They're in 196th, 187th. Here's what I would say. 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.

I think it is employing a lot of people who do a very specialized line of work. He's doing God's work. I think versus like having like some bullshit charity that's like, oh yeah, this is the advancement of people fund and it's just like funneling money and it doesn't actually do anything. Yeah, cancer research, whatever. Exactly, yeah.

Who gives a shit. So some bullshit charity. Versus something like that, versus like one of these open scams or like some fake product or whatever, some bullshit Kickstarter. At least this guy has something tangible something like that versus like one of these open scams or like some, you know, like some fake product or whatever, some bullshit Kickstarter. At least this is, this guy has something tangible

that people enjoy and appreciate. I agree with this, this is like, well think of like any hobby you have, like, or like people who make little trains at home or like, or like get paint minis and like D&D stuff. How have you not started that? You don't do that? I've thought about getting into like Warhammer figurines

or like making like fucking building Gundams or something like that. I'm a big D&D guy. Are you really? I love minis. Yeah. But painting them I'm terrible. That shit's so cool, but I'm just also like, I'm gonna get obsessive about it

and where I'm gonna put all this shit. That's my issue. And this is, 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. Taylor, you can't just make miniature breakdance and breakdance. No one's going to go see it.

They might like it. I like it. Maybe 12 people a day might come to it. Yeah, 12 people. And people ask asking for directions because they're lost in the middle of South West Station LCBO. The gas station is right there. The town has three streets.

But Taylor, sorry, I interrupted you. Are you done saying what you were gonna say? I'm sorry. No, I was just saying, I'm like, it could be a vanity pressure, but it's one of those things, if you can do it, why wouldn't you? Like, I can build this thing.

I have money to. It's not hurting the world. I think it's adding a richness and color to the world. He's a Walt Disney figure. They know I never met Walt Disney. So fuck Disney. I love Jean-Louis is great. I love Jean-Louis.

Fantastic guy. This trip was, look, I'm just going to say it. Five forks for me. Five forks for Little Canada. Five little forks for Little Canada. Five little forks. From Little Wigs. Like on my hat.

Yeah. I just absolutely thought this was so great. I wanna go back, I can't wait for more of it to be built. I can't wait to see all of the stuff that's added and changed. Carson, how about you? Five Forks. Five Forks, wow. As soon as I came into Little Canada,

it was that wow factor as well. As soon as I saw the falls, I was like, oh, this is different than I thought it would be. I was ready to make fun of this a lot and I'm actually having a nice time. And it does have that sense of wonder that you want, that you had as a child when you were like building stuff. You know?

Yeah. Five forks, moose, plus moose tracks. Wow. Yeah. And moose and the line too. Taylor, plus moose tracks. Wow. And moose, and the line too. Taylor, don't be pressured to say what's in your heart. I'm certainly feeling the pressure. Yeah.

Everyone's, I mean, Carson, you're talking about this whimsy, the magic of childhood. You were stiff arming kids, running through that place. I had to find Maurice. I know. I had to find Maurice. I know. I had to find him. Yeah. But in the spirit of little Candid,

I'm gonna give it five little forks. Wow, five little forks. Wow. Wow, wow, platinum. Platinum Play Club. Wow, platinum. It's a little little platinum plate. This is a little guy.

A little tiny platinum plate. Oh, that's cute. Could be part of our podcast tableau. Oh, so cute. They don't like it. They're also going to expand into space. They're going to. Are they going to make the Canadarm? Yes, they're going to make a Canadarm. And not the rest of the.

And the International Space Station and a little Chris Hadfield. A little Chris Hadfield. Wow. Playing. Playing. From what? From Metallica? Don't you remember the guy? It's James Hetfield. Who's also American. The astronaut who played David Bowie in Space.

Oh, right. Yeah, okay. I was thinking James Hetfield. What would be a good name for that heavy metal sandwich spot or whatever it is? Oh, the heavy metal sangria bar? It'd be like, you know,

I'm just thinking of Slayer's raining blood. Slayer Sangria, yeah, oh yeah. Oh yeah, well Slayer Sangria, that's a near rhyme, but I was just thinking of raining blood if it was raining Sangria, I don't fucking know. Rage? No. Yeah.

I was trying to say like- Satana-Gria? Oh, there you go. Yeah. Satan and Sangria, that's the way to make a poor friend. Satansgria? Yeah, that's the way you make a poor friend. Getting there.

That's the way to go. I'm trying to put Panini and Pantera together, but it's not a Panini. It's not a sandwich place. No, so whatever. It could be. Well, that's the food they have. It's Sangria's and Panini's.

One thing I- I want to say, what were you gonna say? I was gonna know one thing. There was a little bit of a kerfluffle because Mitch was telling everyone that there was a Maurice the Moose that I missed and that I didn't actually deserve my sticker. He missed one.

I saw it, it was underneath the Hamilton Globe. I saw it, I also helped you spot out additional Maurice's. I helped you spot additional Maurice's. I know, I'm just saying, this is a collaboration. You missed one of them, that's all, it's fine. You're saying I missed one of them, and I saw it. You got the sticker, it's okay. I saw it, and this is not stolen, Valor,

I earned the sticker, I explained to everyone who you said I didn't see where that Maurice was. Do you folks believe him? And I saw it, and if you look at the picture that you have. Click the online poll if you believe why, right now. I'm telling the truth. We never lie about that.

That Maurice and Vimy Ridge is going to be so disrespectful. It's him stomping germs with. We have to ask you one last thing. We were talking about some financial stuff money. What is Toonie diving? Oh my god. Is this Griffin? Yeah, this is Griffin.

Griffin told us to not look Griffin. Griffin has the stats. Griffin told us to not look it up and then also ask. I told him that we, this is a little blue for us. But okay, okay. So we- It's gonna be very level for the- It's gonna be appropriate for our plot.

You guys have ones. You have bills in America. We have a lot of coins. We love our coins. You've seen the Toonie Which is the two dollar coin? Yes. Mm-hmm Yeah Carson explain this in detail. So if you go to a strip club, mm-hmm, and you don't have fives You don't tens you don't have 50s. Mm-hmm. You have two knees have two knees. How would you think a stripper would take? Griffin. What are you doing?

You want to ask this on a little hand episode? You hold it in your mouth, you lay on the stage. And strippers are fully naked. Oh my God, Griffin. I strippers are fully naked again. Oh my god, Griff! I will say this, Griffin at 19 years old, 20 years old, the first thing he came to me was like, I want to go. I want to go to the 25th. We're like, we're not going.

No. It's not a real thing. And I don't think it's a real thing. We just had heard about it. People have done it. Griffin, you naughty little dog. What the hell? I used to work in the strip club in Sarnia, Ontario, for two shifts, two shifts.

I could not. What did you do? I was the DJ. You were a strip club DJ? Wow. Yeah, for two. Fellas dollars clap louder than hands. I did exactly that. And in the first day I did it, the waitress was because I was I worked in the theater. The waitresses were like, you're the best one who's ever done this.

Wow. And Sarnia, Ontario, because you had some showmanship. Exactly. Yeah. 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. I thought your mother pulled you out of would come in for sure at some point. I thought your mother pulled you out of that. She said that I-

If you just keep working. Yeah, it was beneath me. Yes, but I was hard pressed. Yeah, I love it. Wow, that's cool. Did you have any technique? Did you have anything you remembered saying or were you there for such a short stretch

that it's all kind of a blur? It was a blur. I remember all the names were Destiny or Brooklyn or whatnot. And there would be a window out to the stage and the audience and then there would be a window to backstage and I was quite young. I was probably like 19 at this time.

And I didn't have a lot of experience with women. 19 years old and I would not do well as a strip club DJ. I don't know if you're gonna work in a strip club in the States. You might be able to work in under 21. I don't know, it really depends on the facility. But the women were also sometimes kind of really nice to me. Sure.

They would be like, oh, they wanna see who the new person working is. And I just didn't know where to look. And but I wanted to be nice and polite and talk to them. They were fully naked right beside me. Oh, wow. You look at their forehead. Yeah, I was just like, I great over top.

Yeah, just DJing. That's kind of how wives talks to everyone. If it makes you feel better. Oh, yeah. I don't know. I don't know what it would be like to work at a strip club, but all I want to say is that I think Tuni diving should be added to the Olympics.

That's all I know. I can't wait to see how the Australians do it. What's the name of the strip club? It's called the Port. The River Port. The River Port. Wait, what was this again? In Sarnia, Ontario, the cancer capital of Canada. Hold on, the Riverport in Sarnia. It's in Little Canada. Maurice is there.

Maurice is dead center. He's not dancing. He's toony diving. Next to Mr. Whitlock. Is he one be your teachers? Griff, you should have asked. There's a Little Canada episode. There's a Little Canada episode. This was a thing that you wanted us to talk about. It was wholesome up until this point. Yeah, this is, this is revolting. We're having a nice time.

Griffin. Thanks a lot, Griff. Thanks, Griff. Five forks for Little Canada. Five forks for Little Canada. And hey, you know, five forks for our two new friends for first time guests, but not last time guest. We'd love to have you all back.

Old friends and a new friend who you did, yeah. Of course. Taylor Davis, Carson Bich, thank you so much for being here. Anything you'd like to plug? You can find us at at Carson and Taylor. We are a sketch duo, but we started doing magic two years ago, and now people won't let us stop doing it. I mean, that's why the dough boys picked us.

I mean, we're getting really up there. You guys really know how to pick your guests. I mean, we're a huge get. Guys, we're wrapping up here, but I'm not gonna let it happen. Yeah. I'm not letting us wrap up. Carson brought chips.

That's right. And we are gonna taste at least some of these chips for say before we say goodbye. All right, what do we have here? Okay, so really quickly. Yes, I'm gonna show you for three seconds something we do at our show, please That's right real magician Taste I can't just flew out of Taylor's hand and hit me. That's how good of a magician we are. Our audio listeners have to watch it, find the video of that.

That was spectacular. So we have our right, like this. By the way, this is kind of what it looked like. Not a lot of girth. Length is very impressive. Very thin. Length is very impressive. Very thin. Length is what matters. This is the best ketchup chip you can get in Canada.

The Lay's ketchup chip. I have had that chip. We've tried them, so we have tried those, but you said there was more that we. So the no name is a very distinct Canadian one. This is cheddar bacon. Wow. We gotta try those.

Love that. Now the best regular Ripple Cut is going to be the no name. Whoa. This is gonna be. The brand is called no name. It's just called no name. Wow.

And then I know some people here are a bit of a heat seeker. Oh, hell yeah. So we got spicy all dress. I was eyeing the spicy all dress. Spicy all dress. Okay, wow, can't wait. You guys had all dress before. We have had all dress. We have. I was eyeing the spicy all dressed. Spicy all dressed. Okay, wow. Can't wait. You guys had all dressed before.

We have had all dressed. We have. Okay, I was gonna say, it must be popular. Classic Canadian flavor dill pickle. Yeah, all dressed is, 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. I wish it was available in the States.

We got a Miss Vicky's Applewood smoked BBQ. These are, this is great. This is wild. That one's actually really good. I buy those off. Carson, only one we've had is the ketchup chips. This is fantastic. A spicy dill pickle.

Wow. Can we do a quick chips and hail? Yeah, let's do a real quick chips and hail. All right, we're gonna do a quick chips and hail. I'm gonna start it off. There's no bag too big, no bag too small. If you got chips, just call. Ch-ch-ch-chips and hail.

Rest your range, ch-ch-ch-chips inhale rest your range ch-ch-ch-chips inhale every flavor it doesn't matter fail what some i forget the rest of the lyrics oh you do great i'm gonna fix i'm fixing a post i'm gonna i'm biting into these cheddar bacon potato chips i'm starting with a spicy all dress these are ruffles brand oh my god I love it These are wonderful space. What a revelation really good Also, these are official trip of the Toronto rafters. How about that? Wow, I'm gonna say this Mars Have you had the spicy all dressed? Are you a bit of a heat seeker? Yeah, I'm now I'm gonna spend a house. He's your way

Yeah, I'm gonna say this These are the only bacon chips. I've ever liked Cheddar bacon chips. Yeah, I don't think I've had these I Generally don't like a bacon flavor. I do like that I'm gonna try to do a little less less chip a less crinkling and chip crunching in the microphone for the mesophonics I'll cut it Now that is the most addicting like regular chip that we have. That is a great regular chip, just a straight up Ripple Cup. I mean, I've had all of these, I'm just enjoying a snack.

I have had the Spicy Dill Pickle in Ms. Vicky's. We do have this in the States. This is a great flavor. I've gotten this at Jersey Mike's. When I was a kid, I grew up in Southern California, and Ms. Vickie's, we do have this in the States. This is a great flavor. I've gotten this at Jersey Mike's. When I was a, so when I was a kid, I grew up in Southern California, and one thing we would do is like school fundraisers is,

we did this in Boy Scouts too, and this was actually the context where we did this fundraiser. So live studio, you'd be a live studio audience for a TV taping, and then they would like give your school or give your organization money. So we went as Boy Scouts, we'd like go to live T.T.V. tapings for in my like sixth grade class. We like went to like Family Feud in Boy Scouts.

We went to like a live. It was like a Dick Clark's Battle of the Bands. And 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 like fucking loved. And we're like, this is the best band. It was like it was a ska band. And they had a song that was like, where the chorus was,

ripple chip and onion dip, ripple chip and onion dip, ripple chip and onion dip. And the song was called barbecue. I was just about going to a barbecue and it was just like a, like a ska punk jam about having a good time at a barbecue. And we're all like, we love this, this is so great.

And then the band that won was like some like, you know, this band that had like a song called like, get your funk on or whatever. And it was just like, we're all like, we love this. This is so great. And then the band that won was like some, like, you know, this band that had like a song called like, get your funk on or whatever. And it was just like, like everyone was like, all right, kind of, I guess there were better musicians, but it was one of those things where you see, you saw the divide between the panelists, like the professional evaluators and then the masses

in terms of enthusiasm. Yeah, it was one of those things. A lot of politics. This all dress ruffles, spicy all dressed Ruffles, is one of my favorite chips. It's weird. It's a fantastic chip. It's one of my favorite chips of all time.

Great spice, you're right. It's just like Tabasco. It's an all-timer for me. It's delicious. It kinda does, yeah. Anyway, did you ever find out what band that was? No, I could never find it. But you still remember the lyrics?

Every time I have a Ripple chip, I think of, Ripple chip and onion dip. It was a very familiar. It's Oasis Right, right. They're gonna do it in their reunion tour. Oh, yeah, that's a huge I'm gonna go like seeing through Instagram now the people getting Oasis tickets and like Were you guys fans of Oasis before or is it just cuz like they're back. I don't know. I Wasn't really a great question. I gotta try those Or is it just cause like they're back? I don't know. I wasn't really. That's a great question.

I gotta try those ones. I had the same question. I was like, I didn't know this many of you were fans of Oasis. 100%. What? You're fine. Yeah.

They're fine. But I'm not fighting for a ticket. No. Fantastic. This plane. I found out in the process. It's so good. Two of my friends, my get-play goes,

Tyler and Campbell and Matt Abadar are both huge Oasis fans. I may have known this for you, but they were both so excited about Oasis tickets and Heather's actually like, I'm going to London to see Oasis, like making a trip out of it. They're passionate fans. Heather is, Heather Ann Campbell. Good for her, that's great. Yeah. Apparently they're playing Edinburgh Fringe.

Wow. Really? Yeah. And I'm like, they're playing one of the like opening nights in Edinburgh for the friends And I'm like, oh you're taking away from so many the artists there. This is a real thing. Yeah a bit. No, I Actually heard about this too. They're actually opening for a Matt Kowalick's one-man show Tales from the hole He's a rat man, lives in a wall. Man, this is no name.

This brand is a revelation. I did not know about this at all. Mars, do you know? No name at all? Yeah, oh yeah. Very beloved brand in Toronto. Very cheap too. These are great.

Everyone loves knowing you. These are awesome. Yeah, they're good. This company has done nothing but good things for us. I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say this. Yeah, they're good. These dills are great.

This company has done nothing but good things for us. Wow. I'm gonna say this. That's my last one I gotta try. This is the last bag I gotta try here, the Dill Pickle No Name. Every one of these chips is a snack. I liked every single one of them.

Some more than others, but every single one of these chips are good. I have the bacon left. Wags, every chip is a snack. Yeah, they're all great. Would you say any of them are a whack? No, they're all good. I mean, ones I like more than others.

The all-dressed spicy all-dressed are the best. Those are the winner for me. But yeah, spicy all-dressed can kill them. I love those Miss Vickies that you... The apple smoked barbecue, I really like Miss I like Miss Vicky's in general. These are real good. And the bacon chips usually are bad. Those are great.

These remind me of there, there used to be a cracker that was like a cheddar cracker with a, with a bacon tinge to it. Might've been better cheddars with bacon that I remember enjoying. I actually kind of like artificial bacon flavor. I think these are, these are working for me. You're in for my top three.

Yeah. The spicy all dress. Yep. Those Miss Vicky's smoky, the what is it? The Applewood barbecue. Yep. And the Ripple Cut No Name. Ripple Cut No Name is great.

These are actually the Dill Pickle No Name is a problem. My least favorite, but I still think they're good. Do you get Dill Pickle down there? We have Dill Pickle chips. I don't know, are Dill Pickle chips as popular in the States? Maybe not as popular, but. But we have them.

You can get them at like a sandwich shop or a grocery store. I think the, wait, have y'all had, just had the Spicy Y'all Dressed? Yeah, but I love them. What will circulate some of these? Just take it just do it keep in the elbow more will circulate some of these and will love Well, yeah, we'll have more of them over there post record because we're wrapping up. Um, this is awesome Thank you for bringing this Kings bounty of chips. What a bunch of chips

You're new friends my old friends. How fun is this? We're new friends time You guys gonna come back. We'll figure out a chain we can review. We'll put maybe when we're up here or maybe we'll figure out something that's in both the US and Canada, we can do it. We'll figure it out. Anytime. But this was awesome to have you here.

And hey, we have a little special surprise for everyone, a little special bonus, a little conversation with Jean-Louis, the mastermind behind Little Canada. Enjoy. Wow. Hey buddy, we welcome now founder and chief visionary officer of Little Canada, Jean-Louis Brennickmeyer.

Jean-Louis, thank you so much for joining us. Oh, it's a pleasure to be with you. Thank you for the invitation. We were just so enchanted by Little Canada. We all had a great time and our guests for the podcast episode did as well. So Little Canada opened in August of 2021. So it's just been over three years.

You were telling 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. Like how has Little Canada grown since its opening? So we opened back in August 21 with what we call destinations. We opened with five destinations. That was the critical mass that we needed in order to open to the public with a what we call a 90 minute experience. And since opening, we've added two new destinations. And that is

Little East Coast, which we opened last summer. And then we opened this year, literally last week, Thursday, we unveiled Little West Coast. And so now we actually talk about a two hour experience versus a 90 minutes experience. Yeah, I think we all felt we wish we'd budgeted more time because we went around and we saw everything and we saw all the destinations and we found all the Maurice the mooses, which I do want to ask about. But there's just so much to see there. Is there a particular detail about-

Jean-Louis, just a heads up, Nick, I don't think found one of them. I did find all of them. Mitch thinks I cheated at finding Maurice the moose, but I did find the one that was in Hamilton that you thought I did. I don't know how you feel about him getting the sticker still, so I just want to check with you. I deserve the sticker. It's not stolen. I don't think he does. Okay. Is there a detail about Little West Coast that you have a particular fondness for?

Well, I'm particularly fond for a number of details because Little West Coast is what I call the book end of the experience. So it comes right at the end of the two hour experience. And the team has introduced a number of new elements which we've not done before and the one that really stands out is the mist that comes down the mountains of the Rogers Pass. Wow, wow, I love that. Yeah, really, really cool. A second one is there's an orca that comes out of the water and then disappears back into it.

And the same goes for pod of dolphins. And these are all animations that the team over the last 18 months have developed just for Little West Coast. Really, really cool. Little West Coast. Really, really cool. I think that I was so surprised by how immersive the experience was. And you know, if you go to the exhibit, you see, you know, a part of your inspiration for it. But was there anything, because for me, when I walked in there, I'll tell you, Jean-Louis, I was skeptical at first. And Little Canada completely won me over. This is the truth. I loved it. And I think that it's just such a magical experience

when you walk in and you see Niagara Falls and then you're really just, you're thrown into it. Was there any inspiration behind that? It reminded me of kind of going to Disneyland or Disney World when I was younger and seeing stuff like that. Was there any inspiration like that that made you make the exhibit or was younger and seeing stuff like that. Was there any inspiration like that that made you make the exhibit or wanted it to be immersive like

that? Well, it really dates back to when I was growing up in Europe. My family, we lived in the UK and of Dutch parents. My parents were Dutch and my grandparents all lived in Netherlands. So in the summer, my father would take us to the Netherlands to visit our grandparents on both sides. And we always every year visited a place, Maduro Dam, which is in a way, it's a journey of discovery through the Netherlands in miniature. It's outdoor, it's much larger. But it was really when my father would tell us stories

about his youth growing up in the Netherlands. And so my sister and my brothers and I, we learned so much about the country just through storytelling. And that was really the inspiration for this. The whole idea is that we tell stories through the exhibits that we've built. 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. 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. 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 that actually ran Reynolds grew up in a house in Vancouver, which we actually wow, put it and put into the world just for the wow. The birthplace of Deadpool is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wow. Yeah. So we actually have a little Deadpool of him in front of Wow. Yeah, so we actually have a little Deadpool of him in front of her. Yeah. So, yeah, it's a bit of tongue and cheek and some humor which is integrated into the experience.

And as you mentioned earlier, there's Maurice. Maurice is traveling through now, is discovering Little West Coast because Little West Coast is new. Now, the reason we have Maurice in the world is really just to facilitate for the guests to discover what we've built. So people are looking for Maurice, but at the same time, they're discovering things that we've put into the destination. Right. It's done extremely well.

We wanted to find every Maurice. And we did, except for Nick, for one. I thought I should have found all of them. We felt great about Maurice. He's a little cute little guy. I loved it. Jean-Louis, I got to ask, is the, you know, Nick and I, we got little eyes

, has the machine been able to little eyes us is it still working in overtime to shrink us down to size it takes it takes about three weeks three to four okay okay alright shrink you so we took up

imagine that we took 128 pictures of you all at once, from different angles. Too many, I'd say. Yeah. Those 128 pictures have to be morphed into one file. Then it needs to be cleaned because there are elements that you want to remove to clean the file and then it

gets sent to a printer and the printer takes depending on the size of figure that you that you buy but the three quarter and the two and a half inch are what we are made from resin and so you're actually lying down on your back on the bed of the printer and then we're just layering. It's a bit like when you have a CT scan or an MRI, it's the reverse. We're just layering on top. Whereas the five inch version is made on Gibson and so that's in a bed of powder of Gibson powder and a laser basically bonds the Gibson into the into your figure in color. Wow those looks really spectacular the big boys yeah I definitely want one of those but yeah yeah, I mean, that being also close to the end

and the idea that you can be a part of the exhibit is so cool. It's such a fun bonus to people. I think it gets people so excited that they don't realize that you can be a part of this exhibit once you leave. And that's so fun. And you can be a part of it for eternity, because it will outlive, like my father who passed away three years ago, he's in the world and he's been there. Oh wow. Yeah. So he's-

That's beautiful. As a word, immortalized in our world. Yeah. That's amazing. I love that. Yeah, that's great. One thing we were struck with when we were just, you know, beyond the exhibits themselves, beyond the destinations, which are so meticulously crafted, and like you said, had it have like this tongue in cheek sense of humor that we were not expecting, but it was just talking to the people who work there.

There's such an immense pride and enthusiasm in Little Canada, like an eagerness to show off their favorite parts of each destination. Like how much of that comes from just like people having, your staff just having a personal investment in Little Canada? Cause I was just like, it seemed like everyone was so genuinely excited to work there. Well, it's two things.

One is, it's giving them the freedom to express their art, their feelings about the country. So many guests have asked me, well, who decides on all the little detail? And we say no one. It's the Chateau Laurier. You may recall seeing the Chateau Laurier, you may recall seeing the Chateau Laurier with all the rooms. Right, the hotel.

The hotel. And in each room there was a scene. It's not like that someone, or me, or anybody else, sat behind a desk and started to decide, okay, I'm going to this in this room, I'm gonna put this in this room. What we did is we just said to everyone in the team, create your own room. You decide what you wanna put in the room. We told them what they're not allowed to put in, which are the sin industries. I call them the sin industries.

Unfortunately, the Doughboy's podcast might qualify as a sin industry. Unfortunately, the Doughboys podcast might qualify as a sin industry. Oh, okay. It's true. You could be breaking your own rule. Sorry. Yeah. But this was the outcome. Now, obviously, we didn't want to double, double up. So there was one member of the team who coordinated it. And I went, I made two rooms actually. One of them is my most favorite movie which was Shawshank Redemption. And so I decided to create a scene

of Shawshank Redemption in the hotel. So that's one of them. That was you. That was, that was my... Wow. Yeah. Now, I'll divulge that I didn't do it all on my own because I'm not very good at it. But that was, that was the only reason why that room with that Shawshank Redemption scene in it is because I wanted to put it in there. And so that is the case for all the rooms that we have in the Chateau Laurier.

So whether it's West Coast or any other destination, all those little nuggets and little scenes, they are decided in the moment when the artisan makes a model and the scene. They suddenly decide, oh, I'm now going to, for example, in West Coast, because I'm going to have a big fish fishing and is pulling out a fisherman out of the water. I like that. That's fun. Yeah, that is a lot of fun. That's not something you can really think about and design in advance. It happens in the moment when they are preparing, making it and painting it and then,

oh, I'm now going to do this and then they put it in. That's fantastic. Speaking to your staff, too, almost everyone that we spoke to, like Nick was saying, was so interested in the exhibit. You could tell that there was more than just pride. They actually loved looking at it. And Sophie, I believe it was, Nick, showed us where her parents met in Little Canada.

There was a bar. And the personal touch of the staff there, also just having a connection to all of Canada was fantastic. It was great. By the way, for our listeners, we should say that Mitch lost his voice a little bit. That's why he sounds a little hoarse. It's because Mitch and I had a huge fight

before we did this interview. So that's why he was yelling at me for no reason. I was not yelling at him for no reason. I lost it on set, Wiggs. That's right. Filming Twisted Metal season two. Very cool. Jean-Louis, 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. We get bigger and bigger. Added to the waistline over the course of doing Doughboys. Yeah. I did want to ask you, because we are primarily a food podcast, and I did want to ask you some food questions. The first thing is Little Bites,

which is the food court option within Little Canada. Mitch and I, I think our reaction to it was, is the food court option within Little Canada. Mitch and I, I think our reaction to it was, have you thought about more like littleized food options? Like, could you get like some like really tiny, you know, like a really little slice of pizza or something like that? Not that you can actually hit one to 87 scale or whatever it is, but like, you know,

like really lean into the miniaturization, the littleization of the food. Jean-Louis, as you can see, we aim to keep your customers unsatisfied by giving them some tiny food. No, but a casing point that you bring up a great idea, which we've been thinking about and how we could implement it. And one of the first experiments which we're going to implement is maple syrup. So we have our own little batch maple syrup which we sell in our little things gift shop. 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. And we would put a scoop, or my mother would put a scoop, into the pan.

And then we would say to my mother, oh, can we make a small one? And she would put a little dot next to it. So the idea is that we're going to introduce little pancakes. I love it. Commensurate with little bites. That's great. But then we're going to put a really small one next to it,

and then just a little drop of maple syrup on it. That's cute. I love that. Yeah. So yes, the whole premise of little Bites is not to provide a full meal to, I guess, not at all. It's really just to get a taste of Canada. Yeah, Little Bites. So when we do events in the evening, which we have a catering kitchen, and we have some wonderful space in front of Ottawa where we can do this. We serve little bites, so these are little hors d'oeuvres which we pass around and we do that in

each destination. So if you're in Quebec, it's Quebec. If you go into the East Coast, it could be a little lobster roll. In Quebec, it could be Montreal meat. Wow. In the future, Paris, we would put a slider. In BC, it could be a Nanaimo bar, and so on. So that's the idea behind Little Bites. Another food question, this is not pertained to Little Canada specifically,

but you are like, as you mentioned, you are Dutch and you grew up in the UK. Is there any Dutch food you really love? Oh yes, there's one of the things that in Burlington, that's the only one I know, there's actually a Dutch shop. It's called The Dutch Shop. Why? My wife goes there probably once every six weeks.

And we pick up some very typical Dutch things. And one of my favorites is a krentenbollen, which basically is a bun, a raisin bun, but there's no cinnamon in it. So in North America, it's very typical to have cinnamon inside it. This has got no cinnamon. It's just pure a bun, a raisin bun.

And I can eat four, six in one go, just with a bit of butter in it. Oh, man. Are they little bites? How big are they? No, they're probably like this. Okay, got it. They're probably a little bit too big,

but they're Dutch, they're not Canadian. So it's a very typical Dutch thing. The other thing is eel, smoked eel. Oh yeah, I, smoked eel. Oh yeah, I do like eel. I usually have eel in the context of like unagi, like with sushi, but tell us about the smoked eel you like. Well, I grew up with that, again, on holiday in the Netherlands

because the Netherlands is a very flat country. There are no hills, except really down in the south of Maastricht. But there are a lot of canals and a lot of waterways. And so one of the activities that we did during the summer was to go sailing. I learned to sail in the Netherlands. And we would pick up a bag of smoked eel and you would peel the skin off and then you would literally eat it,

ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta, off the bone. And it was delicious, absolutely delicious. And then with a little bit of, my father would drink a Yenever, which is a little bit like a gin to wash it down. But you would eat that on the boat. So that we sometimes pick up at that shop. Wow.

As well as other, on-bait cook, which is like a gingerbread, which you have for breakfast. You just slice it, it's like bread. You slice it, you put a bit of butter on it. Also, very, very good. Those are really the Dutch. And then the for hot meal, very typical is sausage and then carrots and mashed potatoes mixed together in one. Wow.

So it looks like mashed potatoes, but it's got carrots in it. Is it got like an orange to it? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So it's, um, and, and unbeknownst to me and my sister and my brothers, it was the perfect way to eat vegetables without realizing that we're eating vegetables. My dad always said that we were one to two percent Dutch. That's what my dad always said.

I think it's my good side, the one to two percent of me. That's decent. Jean-Louis, I want to ask, as far as, this is a big question, I guess, but as far as you opened right around the pandemic, the pandemic halted the opening of Little Canada, correct? Yes, it delayed us by 14 months. Oh, wow, yeah. And then your opening, you said that you said in 2021. How do you feel about its growth in the word getting out? And where do you see it expanding in the future? Is there anything that you see doing with the exhibit? I mean, it's already so immersive, it's already great as is,

but do you have any plans for the future? Well, so we opened in August 21. We added two new destinations, as I mentioned earlier. We're going to add a third one next year. And this one I'm particularly excited about because it's in a separate room, has a double door, and it has its own HVAC system to it. It's going to depict the three territories of the north of Canada. Oh wow! Oh wow! 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 and so we're kind of adding a sense to the experience. The other thing is since we opened the biggest surprise for me was the response from our guests. I never expected that we would get the response that we did, which was people get, it evokes a sense of, it's, how do I say it? It's not a rational response. It's an emotional response. And as you mentioned earlier, the team exudes that themselves when you talk to them, because they just feel so proud to be part of.

And more recently, even non-Canadians have been coming up to me and the team and saying, thank you for doing this. This is exactly what we need. It's almost like you come into little Canada, you see the country the way it should be, not the way it is, and you forget about reality. You forget about all the struggles and the challenges that we all face. all the struggles and the challenges that we all face. On top of that is we have ratings which are unheard of. We're at 4.9 on Google. We're 5.0 on TripAdvisor.

We got the top attraction in Ontario Ward last night for the third year running. Wow. So, congratulations. Yeah, congrats. Thank you. As soon as anybody walks in, they're hooked as it were. The challenge that we still have is, okay, what is Little Canada? How do you say it? They're hooked as it were. Right. The challenge that we still have is, OK, what is little Canada?

How do you explain it? You can't. It's almost impossible to explain. It really is. I've been trying to explain it since we got back and I can't. I just keep showing people pictures and then going, the pictures don't do it. Justice, though. And even videos don't do it justice either. I had one guest who came round into Toronto and he basically just said, oh my God, what the hell have you done?

But that's a response that you would, yeah, it's not a response that you would expect, far from it. It's like, yeah. It may be. My co-host, well, I was going to say my co-host, I wouldn't call you rational, but you're definitely not emotional. My co-host, Jean-Louis, he had the biggest Cheshire cat smile on his face.

Oh, yeah. You were on Cloud 9, Nick. And also, the star of the show that I'm working on right now Stephanie Beatrice She took her daughter and and they absolutely They loved it. They had such a blast so big thumbs up all around from the twisted metal crew Yeah, my biggest smiles in in Canada were it were at Little Canada and then writing the choo-choo Because I really love the commuter rail there. And then the plane ride back?

Yeah, that was... No, actually, I will say this, to your point, Jean-Louis, of like, as an American, and I've been to Canada four times, twice to Vancouver, once to Saskatoon, and then my most recent visit to Toronto was my first visit to the city. It made, walking around Little Canada as someone who,

hasn't spent a lot of time in the nation, it did have me suddenly thinking like, oh, I wonder, I should go visit St. John, New Brunswick. I should visit Prince Edward Island. I should see some regions of Canada that I was previously unfamiliar with. And so yeah, I think that's a common experience for a lot of people who are at the exhibit.

I did have, I know we're running out of time, but I did have one more question for you, which was, you yourself immigrated to Canada, you come to the country in 1999, is that correct? Yes, that's correct. And you've lived there now for a quarter of a century, you've spent a bunch of time there, you obviously have a passion for its natural beauty,

its vastness, its culture. But what is it about the Canadian people that 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? Well I think there's two things. One is I didn't know anything about the country. I never heard of Terry Fox. I never heard of Wayne Gretzky. I thought that basketball was invented by an American. And in fact, even- Yeah, we still believe that down here.

Yeah. And it wasn't until the 2010 Winter Olympics at the closing ceremony in Vancouver, when William Shatner came on stage and I said, what, Captain Kirk will start Enterprise as Canadian? I had no clue. And I said, what? Captain Kirk or Star Enterprise is Canadian? I had no clue. And to this day, I'm still learning about the contributions of Canada in the world, whether it's the whether it's inventions like insulin, as an example,

or whether it's the foghorn, or whether it's even the Robinson screwdriver, there are so many stories to tell about Canada. In addition, I recognise very early on that the majority of Canadians will never have the opportunity nor the means to see all of the country for themselves. It's just too vast. 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. They are, you fly four hours here and then you've got to take another flight and then you go another four hours north.

My son lives in Prince, in Fort St. John. He's a helicopter pilot. Wow. And he's home now. He's come home for two weeks, but it's almost a five hour flight from Toronto to Vancouver. And then it's 12 hour drive from Vancouver

to Fort St. John. And he's in the middle of nowhere. It's stunningly beautiful. He says it's fantastic, but he's in the middle of nowhere. And there are beautiful lakes, beautiful forests, beautiful wildlife. And that's what really inspired me to do this, to show how different Canada is from the West Coast to the East Coast, from the North to the South, and all the stories that we can tell about its history, the geography, the people. the people, because the people is, I say that many times, that we're all immigrants. Every one of us is an immigrant. The only people who are not immigrants are the First Nations Indigenous peoples. And there, again, there's tremendous amount of stories to share, to

tell and to share. That's what Little Canada is about. We connect people, places and stories about Canada through the art of miniature. Well, it's awesome. It's awesome. We loved it and we're so impressed by it. And I, you know, and anyone who's listening to this, who's watching this, you know, who, who visits Toronto or, or, or lives in Toronto should, should see Little Canada. Cause it's, it's, it's an incredible experience. Yeah. So thank you so much.

Thank you so much for giving us a little bit of your time. Uh, Jean-Louis Brennickmeyer and congrats on Little Canada. We loved it. Well, thank you very much. It was a pleasure to be with you. And, uh, I wish you well with your podcast and all your endeavors that you are engaged with. Thank you. We're going to wrap it up. We're going to wrap it up soon, the podcast. I mean,

Yeah, it's almost done. It's almost done. Thank you, Jean-Louis. Yeah, the mission accomplished on your end. It's a little, little kind of fantastic. We loved it. Appreciate it. Thank you very much Wow, that's this week's big-sized little doughboys double every end being a larger episode, but I wanted to call a little Fuck it. Can you can you end the episode? See you later?