Mike Ward Sous Écoute - #516 – Alain Choquette et Olivier Martineau

Episode Date: February 17, 2025

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Thank you! Thank you everyone! Welcome to Mike Ward under listening! Thank you so much! Oh yes! Pinot! The worst thing is that every time I eat pinot, Yann, are you able to eat nuts without them sticking in your mouth for a week? No, I'm like you, I don't know how I eat that, it's like I'm swallowing but it stays in my mouth for three days. And I think I'm a little allergic because... Every time I eat spinach or walnuts, I'm like, hey, that's good, you're a dick.

But then, for an hour and a half, I'm like... That, Daniel Grenier, we had a tour together. Daniel is intolerant to lactose or allergic. When he eats cheese, he shouldn't. Because during one day he's like... And every night he ate cheese just before going on stage. I didn't understand why he did that. And I found him thick and judged him.

And then I just got on board and ate nuts. So, that's it. Two thicks. Yann, how are you? I'm doing great. And you, Mike? I'm doing great. Except I saw that... Oh, sorry. I have nuts. What did you see? I saw that you except I saw that... Oh sorry, I have nuts. I saw that you were a beauty standard according to the Alphas.

Oh yeah, yeah. I am, that's it. Yeah, young people want to become as beautiful as you Mike. Yeah. That's what I thought was funny. You're talking about the guy who did his thing before people wanted to look like Sylvester Stallone. And by the way, I'm from the generation that Sylvester Stallone was hot when I was young. Nobody wanted to look like Sylvester Stallone.

No, no, no. There was a shape. We wanted the shape, the face of Sylvester Stallone. He looks like a vagina after a gang bang. There was a shape. We wanted the face of Sylvester Stallone. He looks like a virgin after a gang bang. Stissé. He's always been puffy in the face. I think that's our standard.

It was Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt. We wanted to be beautiful like them, but not... Yeah, that's it. Did you see yourself more like Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt? I didn't see myself for a long time. I would have liked to be Tom Cruise, I think. If I had to choose. That's good.

During a Butch, it seems that I looked like Ray Liotta. Ray Liotta? The guy from The Goodfellas? Yes. There were a few years where I looked like Ray Liotta. There were a lot of girls who told me that. It was the only girl I could identify with. Today, I look like Danny DeVito. You already said it, but you have the airs of Gildoroy. Yeah.

You could play, let's say Gildoroy makes a film, you could be his brother. Yeah. Yeah. His bitter brother with little hands. But yeah, that's it. When I was young, I didn't dream. I never had that. You know, it was weird. We dreamed of looking like... But you know, it's weird that he ended with, Last hour, the world, what's hot, it's Mike Ward, and Arnaud Solis, and I was like,

nobody wants my shit here. There's nobody. Has anyone become a Patreon hoping that one day, I'll tell you my diet? Every week, people are like, he's going to tell us, he's going to... Oh no, he's still under it, that kind of thing. Now they're like, OK, he's eating nuts.

Now, I know that. Yeah, I thought that was absurd. But I was happy, there were a lot of views. Yeah, yeah. And you also made another video with the guy from the Costco card. Yeah, there was a guy, a guy, that's what it looks like, it's an ad for my TikTok, but there was a guy who, like a kind of baller, who explained to the guy how to impress girls, and he showed his credit card, but it wasn't a credit card, it was a cash card.

And I found it absurd to try to flash with your cash card. Did you just realize it? Did you flash it on the card and do it like... It's my writer. No, no, it's just that I saw that and I was really happy. I found it funny. I was filming my little thing in my office. I uploaded it while it was uploading. My girlfriend said, yeah, Costco has credit cards. And I said, oh, shit. You shouldn't have said that.

But I listened to it again afterwards and it's really not a credit card. It's a request card. It's a request card. Okay, okay. I don't know why he did that. I think the reason why he did it is because I thought to myself, I'm going to show my credit card. He should have done that. But then I was trying to hide everything on my card and it's really complicated. So that's probably what he did.

So that's probably what he did. but at least he didn't take a... You know, as long as he takes a bus pass. He takes... Your warning card. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Apparently, you're going to impress the girls with your warning card. That's good. I have my FADOC card, anyway.

Oh yeah, yeah. That's what my Mike is into. In the pharmacy. The nice contention boots. You have to pick up some small stuff. Well, hey, Yann... Let's start this podcast. Perfect.

I'm super excited this week. We have a guest, it's his first time, to listen. The other is his fourth or fifth time. Usually, when I have someone it's his first time, it's a little news. He's not a little news, he's someone that Asti did... He told me that, I knew he had done the forum. He did the forum 10 nights.

He's the greatest magician in Quebec. He met Mrs. and Gentlemen, and the other one is super thin, too. Mrs. and Gentlemen! Ladies and gentlemen, Go, Chiquette, Olivier Martineau! How are you, young man? Thank you, thank you, thank you for being here. Thank you very much for being here. Is it always like that? Do they do that to everyone? It's always like that, but they're more excited now, since you're here.

Usually, I'm present with my guests and they do it all the time. Where's the chocolate? There, finally, you're there. No, seriously, there are people who must be disappointed. No, you, is there anyone disappointed? No. Ok. Because Olivier is funny. Yes, but you are handsome.

No, I was going to say the same thing to you anyway. Oh, damn it! No, but we'll end together. Hey, but later, that's it, at the top, I knew, I remembered that you had done the Forum de Montréal, but I didn't know that you had done 10 shows in 5 days in a row. What happened was that the bosses of the Forum approached me to build a show for the time of the holidays. So I decided to do a show Cirque et Magie, a production. So they set us up, we said, okay, we're going to play.

Is there anyone who remembers the forum here? Well, that's like the Bell Center, but at that time the club was winning a lot. And there they put the stage on the blue line. Okay, so they called it the studio, I think. So we had 5,000 people, it sold really well. Then they moved the stage back to the red line. We were at 5,000. After that, they moved it back to the other blue line. So we were playing in front of 10,000-12,000 people and it was 10 shows during 5 weeks.

10 shows at 10,000 people. And at first, they thought it was going to be one show at 5,000 people and it was 10 shows during 5 weeks. 10 shows with 10,000 people? Yes. And at the beginning, they thought it was going to be a show with 5,000 people? No, but in fact they thought it was going to be... 5 shows with 5,000 people. Yes, and that was just before... And I was a hockey player, and playing at the Forum, for me, it really had a bigger meaning than...

And you were the last week of the Forum. The last week, the Forum... In fact, what happened, I did my week... Are you interested? Is it because of you that it closed? No. And then we played, and after that, Jean-Marc, per year, did one evening, the 31st, one night or one day, it depends. It must be more this evening. No, but what I mean is it lasted a long time.

OK, one. I'm a little subtle. One night, one night and one morning. OK, and after that, the forum closed, I think, in March-April, so we were the last shows to play there. It's really interesting, a crazy experience. Especially when you're a hockey player, I was a little dick, I played junior and I was thrown there. Did you get thrown with a bench? Did you take a bench?

What did you steal from the forum? Because the forum that closes, it's clear that you had to bring your friends and you're like, hey, take that, you bastard. But you look like a really good guy, you've never stolen anything, I'm sure. It's them who pay for it. In fact, my father was telling me, Honesty doesn't pay for the blow, but it pays later. So the gift I received was the last shirt worn by Patrick Roy.

When he said to Mario, go fuck yourself. So yeah, it was the gift, so it did the job. More than a hot dog toaster. Well, yeah, yeah. You know, when there was the auction, we laugh at hot dog toasters, but when there was the auction afterwards, they made an auction to sell objects, banners and all that. The hot dog toasters sold for a thousand dollars. Oh my God!

But everyone likes hot dogs! No, no, but I understand because we said that the forum's hot dogs were the best in the world. Everyone wanted to get their hands on them. There were hot dog toasters for another estimated dog? No, no, toasties. Were there toasties at the forums? Well, that was what we wanted. Okay, sorry.

They didn't sell 18 beers each. We ate a lot of them. And the breadcrumbs were a collectible. Because people thought that what made the taste was the machine. That's it? People thought it was the machine that made the good adocs. You see, you understood everything. No, I didn't understand. It's a question.

No, but people thought that... Wait, I just got some wine. Yes, people thought that. But it's true that hot dogs... Have you ever eaten a hot dog at the forum? Certainly, but I don't remember. I'm a guy from Quebec, so I went to see music shows at the forum. So I don't remember buying... You know, you don't eat hot dogs while listening to music. It's true that the hot dogs at the Coliseum taste like shit.

But in Montreal, it was good. Well, it's not that kind of evening. We've known the war in Montreal-Quebec. It's better not to talk about Badaboum, because otherwise... What did they do with the mascot? Youppi got it back. What happened to Badaboum? Badaboum? I saw it the other time. Saint-Laurent, Sainte-Catherine. They give 20 bucks and then Badaboum! You...

That's a little joke from my uncle. Hey, we promised each other 2025 that we would fix that, but no. So... We held on for 8 days. Badaboom, I wonder... Badaboom was such a bad mascot. No, why? Well, Badaboom was a mascot that you felt that one day someone would take a mascot,

and someone would actually... I have a brother who likes to do nonsensical things, and my sister knows how it works. But in general, I find mascots scary. I understand. I'm not a big sportsman, I'm not a guy who has a heart with a sports team. I understand that there are people who love that. But the mascots, I don't understand, it scares me. It's the eyes that move. And then it's like, to take a picture with Youppi, you have to pay.

Do you know what was scary? I don't know if it had already happened or not. The scariest thing, one day, I was at the Bell, and Youppi came by, and he said, I like what you're doing. And I was like, oh! And you have tears in your eyes from the grill. It's scary. When do we read what's scary? When do we read what's scary?

When do we read what's scary? I've never been scared of the same thing in my life. Mike, you're a great actor. He's scary! How can we say he's scary? How can we say he's scary? I've never been scared in my life. Mike, you don't have an ordinary life. What's that? No one has that. As an anecdote. Youppi who's sucking things

through his mouth in a grill. Badaboom, do you talk about him? Badaboom, I've never seen him. I had... In the past, I shouldn't have eaten nuts. Well, no. Well, no. Yes, that's it.

In the past, I realized it's hard. I'm going to hide my mouth, but in the past, in Quebec, I'm trying to focus. There are honeycombs on your microphone. There are quite a few. In the time I went to hockey, badaboom, it was the first year, so I never spoke.

But I often talked about... This is going to be mean, I'll describe it... The little guy who played trumpet. He was always there, but was he someone who was hired by the plant? He was hired and now he plays for another team. I don't remember, the other time I saw him, he plays in Saint-Louis. But he works there. He works there. He works there. Every time I went to sports events, I thought it was a tired guy who was dragging his trumpet.

I didn't think it was someone who watched a show off. I didn't think it was someone who was playing. Imagine, when you arrive at the sandal at 6 o'clock, you have the right to a bag of the same size and it has to be transparent. He should hide his trumpet. But I don't know. You don't have the right to go in or? You don't have the right to be transparent. He needs to hide his trumpet. I don't know. You don't have the right to enter things anymore? You don't have the right to enter anything anymore. Not even a muffin. Well, no.

You suddenly want muffins during the game. Well, yeah. You'll buy one for 14$. It's like that. Not even a little clementine. But people, eat at home before going to see things. Yes, I know. But people, eat at home before going to see things. Yes, I know. But people who would go in, the long trumpets, we can't do that anymore.

No, you have to buy them. Well, let's see. Hey, he told me, it's been a long time since you went to the hockey, because the trumpets... There's no more trumpets? It's been a long time since there's been any. My God, my God! Alain, I don't know... No, it's been a while since I went to the hockey. The thing is, you have to hide everything under your belt.

Whatever you want, you hide it under your belt. That way, it beeps. When they do that, it will beep in front of your belt loop. So depending on what you have, a trumpet would take a big hole. I imagine you would go home with all your food. That's good. You don't have to put a muffin in your bag.

You can put your muffin in the back. No, it's your muffin, madam. After that, you don't look like you're going to take your muffin out. But you don't take it out of your mouth, you prick it. I think I'm going to go. Do you know each other? Yes. Yes, in fact, we met in a theater launch in Gatineau two or three years ago.

More than that. More than that, right? More than that, it was before COVID. And I tell you, Mike, we clicked. We really, this evening, we jotted down and said, Hey, we're two buddies. We've never seen each other again. Oh yeah, that's true.

Never. Never. I was waiting for you to come out of a tottleneck, something, I was focusing on you. I was looking at you. As soon as he moved, he saw my wallet, my wallet, I was checking it. Whether we clicked or you're hypocritical. But it's true that we saw each other a little before COVID. That's when we really discovered each other in friendship.

We had a lot of apples. We had... Yes! Yes, you had 10,000 apples. Yes, well... I said you had 10,000 apples. I had 10 lot of apples. Yes! Yes, I have 10,000 apples! I said you have 10,000 apples! I had 10,000 apples. Where were your apples? In Saint-Placeid.

Do you know that? No, it sounds like Vermont, but where is Saint-Placeid? I really like what you do. It's near Oka. Ok. So I bought a land, I had apples, and I made my ice cream site at the time. And it was really complicated, so I sold everything. Okay.

I really liked that. Why did you buy that? I bought a land. Are you a fan of ice cream sites? Or was it like, you said, hey, I just made 10 evening at the Forum, I have a lot of money, I have to whiten it a little bit. It was just apples, I remember, there was nothing else in it. No, I tried that, it was starting, the ice cream site was super popular.

But you didn't want to be exploited by someone else. You come and pick up the apples. Lévis, that's exactly what I did. Really? Exactly. I was looting my greenhouse. It's complicated. You have to water it. I'd rather imagine that it was you every morning watering your apples. You have to water it. There are types of apples. There are different types.

It goes into wooden boxes. There are qualities. Some fall, some types of shots, and they go into wooden boxes, and there are qualities. Some fall, some don't fall, and some you pick up later. It's really complicated. And to make a good seed, what is it? Are you the ones who fall? Since it really has to be dead, I imagine an apple that is crisp on the wall, it dies and then falls. It doesn't die, but. She doesn't die, but...

She doesn't die, but she abandons it. It's like a... It's like a goodbye to life and AYAY GARLICE! You know? It's the suicide of the apple. Hey, say the same thing! But the ice cream site...

I can answer them. But the ice cream site needs the apples to stay after the ice cream? There are two things. The origin of the ice cream site is that the apples were harvested in winter. So it's the apples that were born. The strong apples. So they picked up those... The strong apples.

Yes. So, that's the real way. So, you take that, you squeeze the juice and you make your ice set with it. The other way that is less good, that is less expensive at the store, is you freeze your apple juice. So, you pick up all the apples that are in the trees, you can even take the ones that are on the ground. You squeeze the juice, you put it in the ass, alcohol and all that, and it makes a citric acid. Do you add a little vodka? Never.

You're trying to pass your stock, right? But you ferment, you ferment your juice. Exactly. But you ferment your juice and then you freeze it or you ferment it while it's frozen? If it's frozen, it doesn't ferment. No, absolutely not. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what to answer to that. He looked at me as if I was a child of a childhood dream that is like, how did you disappear, bird?

There was the fraction of seconds that made him go, hmmm, well no, well no, it's closing, hmmm. If he was real, he would have flattened my back. That's right. So you left this project behind. So we talked about apples during our meeting. We talked about his career too. Yes, that's right. I was cutting apples too. So we really didn't have a conversation topic.

We chose that for a long time. And I know there were girls around. So imagine the girls who were like, hey, you're a liar, you're dangerous. They came back half an hour later and you're still like, the apples, the apples, they should have found us the water. No, on the contrary, I find it interesting. How many guys get drunk together, talk about apples during a drink?

You're right. Have you ever done that, Mike? Huh? Well, I know that... Apart from yourself. When you're going to marry me, my bachelor party, we go to the apples. We go... Out of the stairs, we're going to get married. What happens in Rouge-Mont stays in Rouge-Mont.

But it's true that that's when we met in the middle of the day, and then the COVID-19 came and we got lost a lot. We never saw each other again. We never saw each other again. So tonight when I knew you were there, I was happy. I'm super happy that it's you. You had more hair that time. Yes.

What are you doing? Chemistry. I have the finger, I have the finger to say that. No, but it's testosterone. Alain does that. I'm r in the kind of tabarnak coquetry to try to re-do my favorite from side to side. It starts from there, very long. And sometimes it's a bit of a hassle. I said to myself, I'm going to shave everything, and I prefer this look.

It's cheaper than shampoo. I'm going to shave my hair, and I'm going to shave my hair. And I'm going to shave my hair, and I'm going to shave my hair. And I'm going to shave my hair, and And then she said, it was a joke. I said, yesterday I'm going to shave everything, and I prefer this look. It costs me less than shampoo. Well, everyone takes me for Guillaume Wagner.

It's a win-win-win. No, it's a nice guy. And they haven't started to grow ears yet? No, but that's everyone. It's the ears, the... You have to shave the eyebrows. But it's the testosterone that's everyone. It's the ears, the rosy topgene of the eyebrows, it's that. But it's the testosterone that does that! So you're more thin than you were before.

I'm not thinner. No, it's the same, but less hidden. Were you afraid when you started shaving your hair? Because everyone does calvary, you're always afraid that when you shave, it's really like almost nothing here, but super thick. What scared me was having a cone-like head. Okay, yeah. The flat back. And I was like, because if you don't have a nice crown and you don't have hair, you're like, Chris, wait, you're you could have two strikes. No, that's it. Honestly, I really like this look.

I don't really lose my hair. It's a bit thinned out on the tines. He cites. I'm a bit tired, no one sees the top. Otherwise, listen, it's a bit back, but nothing too bad.

I would even say that if I had to get my hair done, I would do it backwards. And that would be very long. A tail. You should read it. Take that off and sit down. Give me that. Give me that.

But even if I had to get my hair done, I think I would shave them the same. I'm not to the point of tattooing my pimples, for example. Yes, because I will explain. The recessive line for me is there. I've always had a very high forehead, but let's say in the old photos it started here. So I would get my tattooed a little bit here, a little bit there. But if one day I decide to change my mind and shave my dick,

I would shave my ass with two, give me my five two-horned horn, please. Mom, they're not very beautiful. But for me, it's not something that's serious. I have a nice beard. You know I'm already... Yeah, well, yeah. But you might have a bit of a chest too. Well, yeah, but that's it.

No, that's it. But it's still... Yeah, it's good, it's good, it's still there. I went to the strikebershop at 25. I lost my hair. And I remember... And when you get barbed at 25, do you have to go back to 35?

It's not like balls. No, but let's say... No, but if you get barbed here... I'll explain, Mike. You know, at one point in time, you start to get it back. I'll explain. You know, we lose a little bit here,

and we lose those sides. And I remember in. You know, we lose a little bit here, and we lose the other side. And then, I remember in the 90s, we were on TV, it started to get to us. They came out with a spray. It was a little paint. It was hair. And then we put that on. One, you had to find the right color. And I was blond, so it took the color blond.

And then we put that on, we put that on. I had to find the right color. I was blonde, so it took the color of my hair. We would put on this and that. Then one day, the director put on the same black thing. He had tried that, but he had his headphones on. And then he was hot. And that thing was melting in the heat. It started to drip black everywhere. It didn't work. So, I went to see a surgeon. I was referred to a surgeon who was the best in Montreal, Dr. Bédard. So, I went there for a consultation and the secretary received me and told me to go to the office. Mr. Bédard is finishing an operation. He's going to see me. So, I arrived there and So I look at the book. It's like a hairdresser.

The hair dresser. There's a mask and a hat. He just had surgery. And he takes off his mask and hat. He's bald. He doesn't have a hair on his head. But how do you want him to do it himself? He can't... Good point.

But that wasn't the right reason. The reason is that it takes you... To put it there, it takes you there. So that's called the donor zone. So if you don't have enough... The neck? Yes, because here the hair is stronger. They're stronger, the root is stronger.

So that's what's going on in the front. So he didn't have enough to explain to me to be able to dig himself. So I was a good subject. And you went once. No. OK. So I went.

And since then you wear helmets. No, because listen... And since then you wear a helmet. We'll talk about that in 20 years. No, but it's because at the time, the first session I had, it was big claws. Like dolls, 10-hair tufts. So there he drills, there he removing a bandage on the back. Does he freeze on you? Are you frozen locally? When he told me, it hurts less than I'm a dentist, since I got out of there, I said,

hey, you haven't been there in a long time. It hurts, it's not possible. So, now he's removing a bandage, a square on the back, so he's freezing there, and there, and there. And it's a gun that injects you. Taw, taw, taw, he turns around. Fun, huh? Because the scalp is quite thick.

Mind you. There, he freezes, he takes the piece off, he closes you. How does he close you? Well, it's because the scalp is very rubbery. So he grabs the skin, he closes it, and he cuts it. Okay? It's le fun. C'est pas le fun parce que t'es comme ça pendant après deux semaines.

Hey, fait que toi quand tu dors, c'est exactement ça. Ben c'est ça, tu peux pas dormir là. Pis là, il rajoute des spots, il trempit ça. Pis là, il faut que tu y retournes six mois plus tard parce qu'il y a des espaces. Okay? Moi, je me rappelle le soir que je suis allé, I went to my first strike, I went to the Soda Club on Avenue du Parc, there were just rotten Monday at that time, and I had put on a cap by chance because it was not beautiful. How many times in your life someone will come and say, hey, how are you?

Yes, I had 150 holes in my head. So that was my first adventure. After that, I went back six months later, and after that, there was the micrograph. It's interesting. No, it's super interesting. You seem interested. I love that.

You're just convincing me that I made the right choice. I'm comforting myself. And that's one hair at a time. I love that! You're just convincing me that I made the right choice. I'm comfortable. And now it's one hair at a time. The Mallealfalls said, we've become a podcast of masculine beauty. So now, the micrograph is one at a time. That's it. Okay. And then, after that, they released a drug that stops hair loss. Okay.

Okay, which is a... It's arsenic, I think. No, no, no, no, no, no. It's sold in pharmacies. Ah, okay. It's called propethia, which is a drug drug you have to take every day. Oh, that's the one you ban, for example? Well, it can be. It can be. Just 10% of cases.

Oh, really? But I'd rather have my hair cut. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, you think? Yeah? No, I'm... No, it's a question! No, it's a question! But you, were you...

In your family, are men hot or young? It's on my father's side. My father had gone quite young and I'm following him. I would have been a bit like Olivier. You would have been hot! But you know, 30-40 years ago, we couldn't get over our heads because we looked like we had cancer. It wasn't... But today, it's working. Today, it's working very well. I even saw myself when we were playing with apples, Chris!

But also, I have the impression that, you know, at the time, magicians had to be handsome guys. And not that there are hot guys who are handsome, but it's... No, please, cut the quality! But I have the impression that magicians have to be handsome guys. You think so? Well, at the time, at that time, there were some elites, but at the time, I had the impression that it was guys who were... They were muscular, they were always in a chess...

You always have your shirt open. Yeah. The magicians always have their shirts open. Stop it! Oh yeah, you don't think so? Maybe not you, but they always have their shirts open. There's always a little bit of wind. There's always a little bit of wind coming from somewhere.

Magic. No? Did you put eyeliner on yourself? Did you put eyeliner on yourself? There's wind coming from somewhere. Magic. Did you put eyeliner on yourself? No, but I already put on some nail polish. Why did you do that? Because I had a lot of close-ups on my hands.

A lot. And I thought it was a little... What did you think? So you put on a kind of polish? Did you're putting it like a polimont? That's what you're doing in your life? No, no, no. No, but yes, because you know, hands are important to have beautiful hands, especially on the screen. Especially when HD arrived.

When you have hair dents... You don't want a little hand stuck? That's your card! That's your card! That's your card! That's the only one you have. That's your card! I was like... So that's why you had to be good with your hands. I was going to lie down on the table, but I was conscious of my head.

I was aware of my head. When you went, we talked a little about the Forum, but you also made a long run in Vegas. It's about the same years, it's late 90s. I was lucky in my career to be able to live in residences for a long time in places. Anyone who likes that, you arrive, you have your house, you have your place, you don't live far away. You don't bother yourself to sell tickets. You know it's the same place. Exactly, exactly. So yes, I spent five years in Las Vegas. When we're still in the same place. I was at Caesar's Palace, which était sur la strip. Et là quand ils ont bâti le théâtre de Céline,

le théâtre où je jouais, ils l'ont démoli. Et là je me suis ramassé en face au Paris Las Vegas. OK. J'étais le premier show là, une salle de mille, flambant neuve, et j'ai adoré ce séjour-là vraiment. Quand ils ont démoli la vieille salle, ils sont-ils partis avec les petits fours à dogues ou... Non. Oui. Mais c'est extraordinaire quand même. When they demolished the old hall, did they leave with the little hot dogs? It's amazing, I think that there's still, you know, you've had a long career,

and there's still a generation that's not aware of what happened in the 90s. And even I wasn't aware, and I'm 43 years old, it's impressive. It's really impressive. I didn't do that, and there are a lot of people who didn't do that. Vegas for five years. It's extraordinary. It's very appreciated, but it's still... Because you smoke in it, you have the right.

It's smoke. He gave you cards because we want to see your beautiful fingers. Take a card. I can do something to you, I can improvise something for you. A chateau! A chateau! But before, did you give that to Guillaume before? No, that's not my kind of thing. Ok. I took it with filth. No, but I can do it for you.

I don't have my glasses, but do you want to hold the microphone? Yes, of course. Ok, I'll try. Ok, I'll try. Ok, I'll try. Ok, but without you, I was... No, but I can do a little... I don't have my glasses, but do you want to hold the microphone? Well, yes, certainly. Okay, let's try it.

Okay. Really? My God, I feel like I'm part of the show. I love this. I love this. Wait a minute. Are you more used to the mic? Do you want to lift it up a little?

Attach it around your head. Laughter. Laughter. Laughter. Laughter. Laughter. Laughter. Laughter.

Laughter. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. No, but sir, do that. Take one. Take one. Show it to the people over there. Show it to the people, ok. You put it here. He just said, put it in the tray. There you go, it's done.

The cards are on the table. Ok, and I'm going to make you mix. During this time, you can ask me a question. Are you for or against the theater? I'm for to mix it up. During this time, you can ask me a question. Are you for or against the theater? I'm for. Okay. It's good, it's mixed up?

Okay. Now I have no idea what the card is called. It's somewhere in the game. You're going to hold the microphone. Oh, sorry, sorry. And in 15 seconds, Mike, I'm going to memorize the whole order of the game. Okay. Okay.

15 seconds, here we go. Attention, here's go. Hey, my blonde says it's not long, 15 seconds. That's a good guy. Wow, I'm jealous! That's a good gag! Except that during that time, I memorized the whole order of the game. I know exactly each of the positions. Ok. Do you want to make a gag on that? No.

Ok, ok. I'm going to eat nuts and then I'm going to die. Did I make a joke on that? Okay. I'm going to eat nuts and then I'm going to... Okay. I know all the positions. If you tell me the card you chose, I'll tell you exactly where it is in the game. I said Ballet de Carreau. Ballet de Carreau? It's far away from Tabasloc.

50th. There are 52 games. OK, 50th. So it's like the second from the other side. Do we do that? No, but I thought about it. I thought about it, but it's because she's a joker. Okay, joker. There are jokers, yes. Okay, 50th.

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That's where you really came to the world. And I remember you and Patrick Huard. Seriously? Yes. You really, let's say you arrived and you became big celebrities. How did you get to Adlib? I had a job, I had studies and I wanted to do shows. Then I said to myself, I have to go to TV.

And then I called the producers of Adlib at-là, qui étaient dans la deuxième année. Qui étaient qui? C'est qui les producteurs? En fait, le réalisateur s'appelait Jean Guimond. Et la responsable de la recherche s'appelait Diane... J'oublie le nom de famille. Mais c'était aussi simple que t'as juste appelé? I forgot the family name. But it was also five that you just called? Yes, I just called. So then I said hello, I'm a magician.

I said I'd like to go to your show. What did they answer? No. Of course. So then I said to myself, I have to find something that will hook them up. Then I looked at Adeline all week, Mike, and and it hit me right in the face on Thursday night. I'm going to put you in the context. Tell me what would have happened.

Thursday night, Adlib is live from 10 to 11. There's hockey at TVA on Thursday night. They have a problem. What is it? I have to... They have a problem. What is it? The... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the... the They don't know the duration of the show. So I proposed myself as a tampon guest. A tampon guest is someone who is there, a mouthful. Someone who is there, I'm ready, if you take me, you better take me, otherwise you don't take me. First, I had developed a concept where I worked around, I would say, my numbers around a table. There was Jean-Pierre Coelier, there were guests and I customized my numbers according to the guests. So there, he calls me

on Monday to tell me who my guests were for Thursday, so that I can build my number. So he calls me, he says, Alain, here are your guests. And there, it has to be three hot people, because the more my number is good, the longer they will take me back a long time. So they tell me, your guests are... You have three. First, Claude Poirier. Oh, Chris Monsieur Black. Well, yes, of course. He's a generous man with a magic. If it's your card, you're not a stool.

And the other two, the Levesque sisters. Who are the Levesque sisters? The Levesque sisters for the black people. It wasn't them who passed the drug on the finger? The Red Valleys. That's it! Ah, yeah! Yeah, it just landed. 43 years old.

So, finally, we arrive on Thursday. I was building a number, it was really cute, with a small suitcase, a card that appeared in the suitcase. Anyway, and then the show starts. Yes, I know, but you have to start somewhere. No, no, it's okay. It's like the apples. Yes, yes. You have to start somewhere. And then, and then, the show starts.

First, we invite Claude Poirier. Then, the sisters and the green men. And then, the chicanx starts to fight among themselves. Because the green men... Between the sisters? Claude Poirier says, you are guilty. And the sisters and the green men say, we are not guilty. Anyway, you're a hero.

He's perfect. And I'm the clown. I have to go after him. So, Mrs. Diane came to see me, she said, it might not be a good idea, we'll keep you for next week. So next week, Monday, we'll call me, and she said, okay, here's your guest this week, you only have one. And then Olivier, I was speechless. He was my favorite singer.

Okay. Julien Claire. Oh boy, okay. So my first TV show, I did it with Julien Claire, it was great. So much that they kept me for eight years. Did it open the doors of France? No, not at that time. Do you think that if it were the two ladies and the angry man, that he would have invited you back? I might not sure if it's going to be the two ladies and the angry man, that he would have invited you back.

I might not be here tonight. Oh, me too. Adlib was making a million listening sessions every night. We had six million in Quebec at that time. It was a time when... Everyone was watching. One person out of six. It was a time when people were talking about what they had seen the next day.

So if you hadn't seen it, you felt like a ghost and you heard people talking about it. Exactly. And Patrick, it was the same thing. Patrick came in. We, I replaced a summer with Christian Tetreault and Gilles Payet. We were hosting a talk show. The summer. On the radio or on TV? No, on TV.

Okay. Which was called Dans le Décor. Oh, yes. And it was well named. Yes. And then Patrick started. He was the intern at that time. The intern director.

And then everyone loved him. And he got on Radlib afterwards with his characters. And Jean-Pierre adored him too. So it was really the beginning of the two of us at that time. I just want to clarify because earlier I had the feeling that when you were explaining the number that you wanted to do with the ladies of the Vague, I did like... I just wanted to tell you that it was... I mean, you have to start somewhere.

My reaction wasn't at all about that. It was because you started saying, the ladies of the V had passed out of drug. I had hidden something in a suitcase. And then I said to myself... Hey, no, Olivier, you said that. You didn't hide anything in a suitcase? No, I said a card.

Okay, okay, okay, sorry, sorry. It would have been funny. A credit card. Madam, who put that in your suitcase? Madame, who put that in your suitcase? The drug has been found! It's good! And afterwards, I got help. I talked to Pierre Légaré, who was writing my texts at that time, and he was really, really extraordinary. He said, slow down your turn. You saw that his jokes were so slow. It wasn't a good gag.

There was a delivery. There was an incredible delivery. Pierre Légaré, it was there that we met. You didn't remember it, but we did Piment-Fort together. Me, you and Pierre Légaré. And then, me, Asti, I... nobody knows me.

And Pierre Légaré, at Piment-Fort, he tells me... He explains to me that, hey, if you go to see the concessionaire of your village or your city, they will give you a free car to tell the world that you are the one who drives it. And then I'm like, I don't think so. You know? And he was like, no, it works. And I was like, it works for you, it doesn't work for me. And then he was like, try it, I'm sure it works. And I was too embarrassed, it was before the internet, I was too embarrassed to call,

hey, hello, Mike Ward, Ward, Ward. So I hadn't called anyone, written anyone. When the internet arrived, I was lucky. I sent an email to all the concessionaires in Quebec to become their spokesperson, who gave me a free card. And I got 900 rejections. It's not true. The people didn't even reply.

But it was not true. The majority didn't even answer. But it was just a refusal. And what car do you have today? I have a Tesla 3. A little shark. That you paid for? No, I'm speaking. Oh, really? No, no.

Did you order something? Did someone approach you? No, I paid for everything. I didn't order anything. No? No, no. I paid for everything. It seems that I like to have freedom. I'm in a stage where I'm starting a new cycle in my life. Really? I'm not going to be esoteric, but I've reached a stage where I have a little more freedom, and I'm in the to be esoteric, but I've reached a stage where I have a little more freedom and I'm in the boot fuck off.

What's fun about saying, hey my Tesla is a shitty car and you don't get a call. Exactly. I'm going to have freedom. Thank you very much. Are you fucking a Tesla? I love that. I really like that. I hate Tesla. Because it's a fag. But... No, no, no. No, no, no. No, but...

What I like is that it takes a good one from you. You don't have a good one from your house. I don't have a good one. No, I'll explain the story of the test. So if you don't have a good one, a electric car is not good. I'll explain. The idea of the fuck-off is that it looks like in the quarantine, I kiss this quarantine that's coming, and I'm in the idea of paying for all my things,

and settling my own things. If I can say what I want, I'm not attached to a financial partner. I have the freedom of expression that I want. I can turn myself away from Indycent. If at some point I think that the car is shit, I sell it, I do something else, I want to have the freedom of think, to think about movements. So you're in Carrière, how are you? Well, I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine.

I'm fine. Yeah, I'm fine. You're talking about, for example... But, you know, to be known... I had this feeling with... You know, I've had a truck for two tours. And my last tour, I pulled the truck for too long. And now I'm embarrassed to sell it because I know it's going to suck in the hands of the next person. And I don't want them to tell their friend,

Hey, my friend sold me a truck for $70,000. Well, give him a container. It's still worth 70,000. You can sell it for that price. But if you say he's going to drop it. I sold a bunch of these things. I had a four-wheeled car on the road. It's you, the marketplace, who sold it. Me?

Do you know what my trademark is in life, like in business? I sell my I sell it to you because it's hot, there's misery, that's something, that's something. I'm not a mechanic, I went to the The history of the Tesla. Check this out. Check this out. I hate this, Mike. But tell me why I didn't like this. Why do I think this, Mike? I don't know. Check this out. I've had a Jeep for years. I love it. Did you pay for it?

I paid for my Jeep. Nine? I still owe money to the dealership. I bought it for nine. I go hunting in the woods. I do genetic training. For me, it's important to have... How many apples on your head? Hey, you know what? I started.

There's nothing better than going hunting with an animal that hides behind apples. Yes, but you pull the goats with apples. That's the idea. I make apples, I make apples, I pull my hair, with my hair I catch a bear, the bear I make a coat. You make a long-haired man? That was another story. You're talking about the park?

Yes. Yes, that was another story. Did you go? No, we didn't have the right to. The battle was, if I understood correctly, with the Arbalet, and there were a few people who were ordered to do it. You, you're hunting for rifles?

Rifles, Arbalet, carbines... Ok, all the canif? Yes. But I'm not a canif. Sometimes I just make them pay when they die of a stroke. I make them say, you're lazy, you're worthless, you wish for suicide. But for me, and I say it every time because there's always people who say, I miss Alice, do you agree or not. It's part of our culture. It comes from my Italian origins. The hunting was transmitted like that. If you think what I'm doing is wrong,

you're a bit racist. But jokes aside, for me, hunting is part of something cultural. Do you say an Italian phrase when you kill an animal? Yes. I say, Arrivederci. I say, Arrivederci. I'm lucky that it's part of something cultural. Do you say an Italian phrase when you kill an animal? Yes. I say, I say, arrivederci. But no, no, I have a ritual.

Do you eat meat? I only hunt for meat. I'm not interested in trophies. I collect everything, that is to say if there is a panache or if there is a furrow, I will keep everything because I... You risk trophies? For me... So if you win a Felix, you're going to eat it. I prefer to have a little bag of food instead. But no, for me, I prefer to fill a fridge than a wall.

The idea is that I consume little meat. The meat I eat, I want to know where it comes from. It's a quality meat that is less fatty, more protein. For me, that's how I say it. I don't encourage the industry. And what's the most bizarre animal you've killed? Well, bizarre... I mean, you're a goat hunter. I'm a main bear hunter.

The bear is a bear. It's very good, but it depends on the season. The taste will change between spring and autumn. Depending on what they are greasing for winter. So it must have a chubby that tastes better? No, in the spring they are more lean, they taste less fat. And between a male and a female, the male, it depends. If the male is in the breeding season, he will taste the piss.

But a female, spring, it can taste differently. What part do you eat to taste the piss, my boy. But a female, spring, you know, it can taste differently, yeah. What part of you eat to taste the piss? You know? That was an expression, that was an expression. Well, everything is eaten, in fact. Everything is eaten in an animal. It's not good, huh? But... But... but... but that's it. I'm getting absolutely everything.

And... for me, that was important. But I was talking about... I have apples on my land. It was something I found... Are you hunting apples? No, no. No, not... well, it's usually around 15, but we can start from the first. But... how many apples do you have? Wait, do you have apples or from the first. But how many apples are there? Wait, are there apples or firsts? Firsts! What are you going to ask? I said you're hunting the first.

Oh, I understood the first. I didn't have to educate him. But I'm sorry. Carline! No, we follow your story. That's not it. When you asked, how many apples are there? And you said in a year, there are 12. That's it. And he gulps the piss. That's all I understood.

I planted... well, it's a trap because on my land I planted a dozen apples. But I found it important to have... Do you roast them? No, I let them go wild. And you eat the apples? I don't have time for that. I have a dozen apples. When did you plant them? I planted them two years ago.

So it must be the same water. No, no, it's still growing fast. And I would tell you, it's still fun to eat apples that come from your place. What kind of apples? I planted some honeycrisp. Oh, that's the best. I feel like I'm a witness to a criminal who talks to a detective. He's like, what are the sorts?

It's not a crisis. You're just naming the types of apples you've picked. We spent two hours doing that. I'm trying to do things. Is it our encounter that inspired you to do apples? Among other things, honestly, I started out as a fruit seller. I planted a bunch of things that didn't work, but apples work. It works well.

What other fruit did you try? I tried them all. I tried them all. I wanted to talk about the other ones. But the thing is... But that's a thing. I'm crazy about figs. That comes from the Italian family too.

When my grandfather died, I picked up the figs. And he had brought them back. In time, he would cross trees in the valleys, he would cross many things with land. He didn't check that. So there are many things that come from the village. Yes, in the valleys there were many. There were so many things. If I put trees, they won't see the drugs. I got these trees back. And the trees I got back, well, it's the figs that gave me figs that I ate when I was a figs from the same tree. Sometimes you're like, Oh, Chris, the day is getting old.

There's an expression that says because you're an old apple, you're an old apple. Exactly. I even made some fruit juice. Exactly. It's very healthy. What I eat,

the taste I have in my mouth, at 43 years old, is exactly what I tasted at 5 years old with my family around me. Sometimes, a day you're like, tap, tap, tap, and it's like,

I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm's very wise. And you know, what I eat, the taste I have in my mouth at 43, that's exactly what I tasted at 5 with my family around me. So sometimes, one day, you're like in Tabarnak and it brings you. And it's little moments of happiness like that. I don't need to travel in life, I travel anyway. You need your figs.

Yes, really. Hey, but it calms me down. No, but no. I was given a hundred figs. And I sold half of them this summer at the Jean-Talon market. I didn't think of making fig cider. I thought of doing a lot of things with figs, but the best thing is to eat fresh, it doesn't last long. But I made a fig alcohol at one point and it tasted like shit.

It was fricative alcohol. I thought it was pee alcohol. But yes, I'm in Miscato today, what's going on? Let's say fig alcohol. What were you doing? You were letting it in a jar? It's maceration. You were letting it ferment? With a base alcohol, a white alcohol.

A bit like when you make a limoncello, you're flavoring a base alcohol. And it wasn't good? I had done it wrong, but I've been doing it for a long time. When it's well done, is it good? Yes, I've been doing it for a long time, and I've been missing a, is it good? Oh yeah, I've been doing well with alcohol for a long time, and at one point I missed a batch. It was awful, wasn't it? I bought too many grapes. I said, I'm going to make my wine at home.

I'm going to the market. You're a real drunkard. When I buy too many grapes, I'm like, I'm going to buy my grapes. I was a wine raiser. You buy grapes the small boxes. I got there and someone told me, you're Italian.

It's funny because it's in the middle of a parking lot in Montreal. Once a year, the guy is there for three days. He's a tent, a gas station, with rice fields. There are old Italian gentlemen who go there. Everyone is there. You look like you're in the park. I get there, I I get on the water. And I remember,

back then I had an old horseman, listen, the chucks were on the ground. I had filled that up with a box of raisins, and the guy said, how much is a box of raisins? He said, ten fiascoes. I said, no, I'll take ten. He said, I'll make you ten fiascoes.

Perfect. I load the cart. But what I don't realize is that a box of raisins, it's a lot of juice. And what I don't realize is that a box of raisins makes a lot of juice. And I got up with like 100 liters of wine. And I didn't know what to do with it. And you were very nice.

You were picking with your feet? No, with the machine. I had the kind of thing in the back, the latour. And the press. And listen, finally the wine went bad. But what's funny is that I moved my crutches from one house to another from one thing to another. So I moved my crutches from one thing to another from one thing to another. And finally I threw it away. You had to empty it. For several years.

And I threw it away. Then I said to myself, it's going to be good, it's going to be good. It's going to be old. No, no, it had turned. It would have been fun to taste tonight. Did you have a series with ginger ale? No? No.

Because I noticed all the alcohols that have no meaning. Ginger ale, it solves the problem. The history of Tesla. So, talk to me about Tesla. I have a Jeep. Jeep, not like Steve, I go in the woods, I'm going to make some Tesla. OK, so tell me about Tesla. I have a Jeep. Jeep, not a commercial car. I go to the woods, I'm not better. OK. The thing is, at some point, I get home,

and it's one of the most stolen vehicles in Canada. I get out of our house, and I'm like, Chris, there's no Jeep in the driveway. I'm like, let's see. And in my head, I was asleep. I said to myself, I got out too fast. What did I do wrong? I said, I went out too fast, I did something wrong, I closed the door again. Did you think it was a magic trick?

What's my car? I didn't know. I was holding my breath, I said to myself, I went out too fast, usually I leave later I left too quickly from home. Usually I leave later. The life, the mattress is not installed. I close the door and I go out. And then I go out. There is no jeep and there is broken vines. I do like, damn.

I got eaten by the vines. At least they left the vines. Well yes. It's because they wanted raisins. But then... I was asked to pay for the stolen jeep and I had to order another jeep. But it was long before I got there.

I had a few months between the two. I went to rent a VUS for my life. And the cheapest VUS I found was a Tesla. The Tesla truck. The Greek ones. And I didn't understand why it's the cheapest. It took me 24 hours to understand.

Nobody wanted to rent it because you don't rent it if you don't have a house. It's a hell of a bunch of troops. It's like renting a toaster if you don't have bread. What do you know? You're messing with your toaster. But in the meantime, good comparison, but your toaster wasn't in a parking lot in two kilometers of IGA to load you. I made the parking lots and it was cold, it was winter. So in winter, I was driving 25 kilometers and it was raining.

Sometimes I was in the woods, I was in the woods. I was in the woods? No, I mean, in the woods, I was sometimes in the woods. It's a humiliation. No, I mean, in the shoot, I was sometimes in the woods. It's a humiliation. You, Mike, you're going to Germany to do a show. Tesla is doing a show. I have my tour bus, so I'm in my bus to shoot. You know?

It's rolling my stuff. I'm not a Tesla Y that's looking for new IGA bands. No, it's a joke. I have a little truck to turn. Do you sleep in it? No, no. It's a gas-powered truck. Do you sleep in it? No, no. It's a gas-powered truck. It's like a little tour bus. But you don't sleep in it? I don't sleep in it. I... like a normal car.

But why do you have a tour bus if you don't sleep in it? Because I like to have a sofa, and TVs, and a fridge. But it's not what you drive. And to be able to stand up. I have two TVs. Well, imagine you're playing in Saint-Yacine, you watch TV. I'm like, even when I play at 10.30, I live at 18 minutes from the 10.30. My director is at 9 minutes from the 10.30, 11 minutes from our house. He comes to pick me up in the tour bus.

And I go. It's just me when he arrives, I go into the tour bus. Hey, we have a show. That's it. That's it. Okay. Yeah. Everyone is a patent.

Yeah. Well, no, but I... It's like a toy. You know, it's like a toy. But I understand that. I understand that. You, when you're going to do your show... Yeah, me, it's when I put on my shirt.

It's not... But it's true. That's the worst your show... When I put on my shirt, it's not... But it's true, it's the worst! When I put on my suit, it becomes Batman! And then I transform! I'm like, I'm going to a show tonight! But it's true that sometimes I transform. This is a really funny thing about me. And I think everyone is the same.

You know, I'm really simple about certain things. You know, I'm sad that I'm wearing it on stage, but it takes my little tour bus. And when I see someone who's always worried about the stage, I'm like, check this out, he's going to get the tour bus! Do you always play dressed the same? Do you always have the same clothes? My first tour, yes. My last three or four tours, no. Did you order clothes? No, no. I only wear black. So if it looks a little new, I wear it.

So you would wear it on stage? Yes, I would wear it on stage. As long as I'm not too hot and it's black, I'm happy. You have zero color in your wardrobe? Zero color. Black swimsuit? Uh, yes, yes, yes. Well, yes.

OK. Do you have the clothing constraint sometimes that you have to manipulate things or... It depends on the birds. Oh yeah. Hey, but that's another story. Why is it always the same thing? Why can't it be something else? You can have parrots.

Of course. You're not afraid of them? Even little pigeons? Well, a little one. Not a pigeon. Baby pigeons. But a parrot, you're not afraid of them? I don't make birds. You don't make birds, Olivier.

You don't make birds? No, never. You should. I had a choice with animals. Yeah? I had three horses. Damn! It's hard to hide in your shirt.

It's like a hat. No, well... Hey! I hope you didn't eat figs, huh? I cut a woman in half. Huh? Yeah, at the forum, I cut a woman in half. So I put her in a box.

Hey, is it for the meat or the trophy? But, you know, the magic trick of cutting a woman in half, I understand how it's done, that there's someone who's hidden, and it's the legs. But there, so did you have a horse to hide? How does it work? It was just behind you! How does it work? Cutting a horse in half? Yes, well, I go up an empty box, the horse goes in,

then I take the saw, I go through an empty box, the horse gets in, I take the saw, I pass the saw through the box, then I open the box, and the horse is there, and there are two miniature horses. Okay, that's pretty cute. You're a bastard, you have a horse, you have a bus, I have my stool. No, but you have your shirt. Yes, oh, that's a bummer. And I had chickens, I had two dogs, two Bernese buffaloes. So I dragged them to bring me a zoo with me.

Wow. But no birds. And you know, for your horse thing, it takes one horse and two pony. No, in fact, it's not pony. It's miniature horses, the nuance between the two. You know, the really small ones. ponies. C'était des chevaux miniatures. Le nuance entre les deux. Tu vois, c'est les vraiment petits, là? Les chevaux miniatures, c'est des chevaux qui ont l'air de des gros chevaux, mais sont petits. Tandis que le ponie a l'air un peu... des pattes courtes.

Ah, ouais, ouais, le ponie a l'air pas fini. Ouais. Fait que c'était des beaux chevaux. So it was beautiful horses. So we cut the horse, the bench, two little horses, and the other one bowed, and then for the moment until the next show. Do you do that again? No. What's the trick? I put it in my sleeves. Oh, damn. But could a magician do a t-shirt show where it would show that there are too many things in the sleeves?

No, not at all. They don't hide anything in their sleeves. Let's see, Olivier, you're good. Sometimes. You're good. Sometimes it happens that there are magicians who have things in their hands. It's like if you ask the comedian, is it Saint-Diery, you'll be in good shape. OK.

Huh? Otherwise, next time for the weekend. But I'd like you to come and see me. I could go see you. I know you're playing in Saint-Jean soon. Could we change the first parts, do you think? I don't have a first part. Oh, okay. And that's a polite way to say...

You're not good enough. Or I don't like girls. I don't like girls. You're in the middle of creating the new show. Where are you in the creation? You're really... I'm... Beginning, beginning, beginning. How can I say that?

I wrote... This time... Do you have an hour that you can present? Listen, I did two shows this week. I have 45 shows this year. I have two already. For me, I was pretty busy, I was hot, I was like, it doesn't matter. The next day, I turned it off, I worked really hard.

And now I have something that has a lot of value. But it's shows. I'm surprised. I'm always afraid of missing material. And I get there and it lasts 1 hour 45, 2 hours. I pass all my stock and after that I will go choose the pieces. And it's new that I do that because the other shows, I just did 10 minutes, 6 wires, and I took the best 10 minutes and I rebutted them like the beads in a necklace. And it was something. But now I had the impression of making an album. Now this time I want to do more do a symphony, like a ensemble.

That's why I want to present a piece. What do you want? One hour and a quarter? One hour and a half? I always live an hour and a half. I always try to say one hour and twenty-five, so I can improvise, if there's ever something going on. Are you going to have a first part? Alain, if he wants. Yes, with great pleasure.

Yes, certainly. How do you put on your shows? Because I've been doing this for 30 years. You've been doing this for 35 years. How do you put on your shows now? Is there a big difference between Al let's say, the 80s and 90s and today? I wrote 12. I have 12 shows in an hour and a half. That's a lot!

It's not bad. But there is an evolution through that. At one point, I decided that I didn't make big numbers anymore after my third, so I went more into the interaction. I like that, talking to people, I like that, making them participate. Your side into the interaction. I like that, talking to people, I like that, having them participate. Your funny side. Yes, for example, there's one of the numbers I do where people receive a card game. Everyone follows my hands on the screen. Everyone take your cards, you mix them. Ok, perfect, everyone, ok, choose a card. You bring it to your heart, to my signal, you show it to me.

One, two, three, go. A thousand pickaxes. Damn. So it's people doing things like that. The trick is that it's just pickaxes. signal, vous me la montrez un, deux, trois go, mille hauses de pic. Fait que c'est des gens d'affaires comme ça. Le truc c'est juste les hauses de pic. Non, mais non, ils ont le jeu des mains. C'est quoi le truc? Et je suis plus dans ces idées là, un peu jouer avec la tête des gens. Donc ça demande moins de gros numéros, quoi que dans le show que je fais là,

je parle justement de ce que j' I decided to do in the last show, to talk about 35 years old, 11 shows before, and to go look for numbers I did 25 years ago. And the great assets? I don't like that because I think it's pretentious, but in fact the numbers I preferred to present. I'm talking about the horse cut in half. I said, well, tonight I don't have a horse, so I'm going to cut a child in half. You like that, huh? I love that.

What is it you replace the child if you're two nines? But that, and you also, you had, that's what's funny, you know, every time I hear you, I'm like, I remember it, but you sold, I thought you sold one number at Copperfield, but Copperfield bought five numbers. Yeah, well, the most, I can tell you, I've told it a couple of times, but the most spectacular... You know, I have my top three in my life. Of your best turns in history? You know, I'm sure that in humor it's the same thing. You know, sometimes creation happens, sometimes it doesn't work, but that day we created a lot.

And one of the numbers was... I had the idea to make disappear from the audience of the room. Okay. c'était, moi j'ai eu l'idée de faire disparaître du public de la salle. Ok. Donc douze personnes qui seraient choisies au hasard, montent sur une plateforme puis je les fais disparaître. Et là je travaillais à ce moment là avec un ami magicien et mon maître en scène et là lui il me disait, ben non c'est impossible on va pas répéter des gens, le jour se nomme, faut que les douze personnes soient choisies au hasard. Donc on lance douze ballons, la musique part, les ballons se promènent, la musique arrête the music stops, 12 persons catch the balls, we have a platform, they go up the platform, they go down the curtain, they go up the curtain, let's go.

And by the way, an anecdote, in Saint-Denis, when we were playing, because before the repairs, the stage was small, the platform took so much space that we put it on the ceiling. You played there, in the 1, so directly on the ceiling. And we put it down in the entrance, because there was an entrance. Hey, if you did, sorry to interrupt, but if you did 10 nights at the Forum, Saint Denis 1, how many nights did you do it? In 30 and 40. Damn! And it's a room of 2200. 2200, yeah.

Damn, damn! Yeah, but there was no show at the time. There were dozens of shows. There was Stéphane, there was Brouil, there was Jean-Marc. So the market was there. But still, no sense. I arrived too late for the show, and I'm too old for the internet. I missed everything.

But you still got your hair done, for example. Yes, but now it's gone far, for example. So there, the number 12, I presented it to the United States, and then Copperfield came to see the show, he came to see that number, so he told me, I want to buy the rights to that number. And since he's a billionaire, but at the same time you become a billionaire by becoming a kind of rapist negotiator,

did he pay you if you... did he give you a price that you were like, hey, I can't say no, or did he negotiate you at a low price? Okay, so I'll explain. It's interesting because I said I won. He was coming with Claudia Scheffer. Oh yeah, he was with Claudia Scheffer in time. Oh yeah, that's true. So he came to the show and we met. And I said, I just won the lottery. I put a price in my head. I don't want to talk about money because we always talk about money.

What's the price you were talking about? Excuse me? Ok, I'll tell you. We were in 94. I put a price, strategic, not too high, not too low. 500 dollars. At the time it was a lot of money. American. It was the lot of money. American.

It was the salary of a family. No, no, but how much? 500,000. 500,000 for one round? That's the price. Oh, damn it. In 94. Wait, wait.

Wait, wait. Now, now. Hey, but you just buy the other one. He goes with the platform. No, no, no, he buys the idea. He buys the idea. Damn it. No, no, no, he buys the idea.

Well, you can. Do you have to suck it? Suck. Magic. Okay. But you can't. Did you have to suck it? Just... Magic. But he didn't finish the negotiations.

No, no, he didn't even start. No, no, no. So, he says, I'll call you tomorrow. So, he calls me tomorrow. You, is this the first prize you've ever won? I, I, I, I, 500,000. And were you, were you the first prize? I, I, I, I, 500,000.

And were you, were you the first prize? I, I, I, I, 500,000. And were you, were you the first prize? I, I, I, I, 500,000. And were you, were you the first prize? I, I, I, I, 500,000. And were you, were you the first prize? I, I, I, I, 500,000. And were you, were you the first prize? I, I, I, I, 500,000. And were you, were you the first prize? I, I, I, I'll call you back tomorrow. So he called me back tomorrow.

You were the first one to pick? I was the first one to pick. And were you the first one to pick? No, it was me. 500,000 US dollars. So the next day he called me and said, this is my offer. 25,000. Oh, that's a damn! 25 million!

So now... Don't speak English! I'm going to say it in Italian! In Italian, it's, go for it! So now, I'm discouraged, I'm discouraged, so I say, and then I go to bed, I have the time to sleep, and then the next day, in the middle of the night I had an idea of genius, you know, when the light turns on, I call it the next day. I say David, this is my offer. For you, zero, free. But.

The other one. Zero. Gratis. But. Claude Lejauffeur. I said no, I said, you there, because he came to see my show, he had complimented me, I said there you're going to make a video of yourself, because it was in the cassettes at the time. We're going to make a video cassette of you who says that what you tell me, the comments, that you liked the show, the best show que tu as vu, tout ça. Il a accepté. Une semaine plus tard, je recevais une boîte. Dans la boîte, il y a une cassette de David Copperfield qui dit que je suis le meilleur magicien qu'il a pas vu. J'ai ça moi, dans ma bibliothèque. Des fois, je la regarde. Tu t'es servi de ça pour ton marketing, tu imagines? How much did you earn for your marketing? What happened was that when Paris Las Vegas opened and they were looking for a show, I contacted them and they said, yes, we're interested, do you have a video? I said, yes, I have one, it cost me $500,000.

Look, I sent it back to her, and then it got canceled. Oh, that's great. Who would have thought that's great? That deserves a little applause. Wow. And I also have... I don't know if you want to go into that area, but you also went out with Marie Soleil to go at the time?

Yes. Ok. Is that a question? No, but you had such an absurd life that you sell things at Copperfield, you went out with Marie Soleil. Marie Soleil, you went out with her at what time? Marie-Solet. Marie-Solet, c'était... t'as sorté avec à quel époque? Non, justement dans les... juste avant les États-Unis, on a animé une émission de télé ensemble qui s'appelait Montréal les îles, qui était un genre de talk show extérieur qu'on tournait... aux îles de Montréal? ... sur Lille-Saint-Hélène.

OK. Lille-Saint-Hélène. Oui, la télé québécoise. Bien, quand même, c'est ça. Quand même. On va aux îles, OK? Lille-Saint-Hélène. Carlisque, c'est qui? We're going to the islands, OK? Yes, it's a dilemma. And we spent a summer together, and we had hired Pierre Légaré as a writer. I was always with Pierre, he wrote my shows and all that.

And we had a wonderful summer, we had fun, and we had great listening codes and all that. And we fell in love... You and Pierre? Yes, and we were together for 3 or 4 years. Chris, don't stop talking about Pierre Legarré! It's like the evening is a front. No, it's not! We love Pierre. And it lasted 3-4 years. A good story.

And after that, I continued with Pierre. Did Pierre write for you all his life? No, he wrote on TV and he wrote two shows. My first author was Jean-Pierre Plante. With his little jacket. He was really a sumit. He always had his little jacket. He was also the author of Pim'enfort.

The script describes him as always, he took it and went to jail. He was always wearing his little jacket, he would come and say, My homages. He was intimidating. It was weird. You know, at one point, I don't know about you, I was working with three or four authors, and you know, you're able to tell them, ah, that's shit, that joke.

And he, no. It's going to be this. Pierre. Jean-Pierre Plante. Jean-Pierre. It's theierre. Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre.

Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre. le jeune, ou j'y enseigne des tours de magie, là j'ai une boîte vide, j'ai dit tu vas faire apparaître ce que tu veux de la boîte. Et là, le petit gars il me répond un chien. Je l'avais comme un peu placé pour qu'il me dise un chien. J'ai dit tu veux pas un lapin? Il dit non je veux un chien. T'es sûr? Tu veux pas un lapin?

Et là finalement, je faisais apparaître un chien avec des oreilles de lapin. Ça a de l'air plate là comme ça. Non non, je te dis, je te regarde la face, at your face, it looks flat. No, it looks... But it's funny. I'm a game. I really liked the idea. No, no, but you're going to see it in your head. I'm going to see it in my head. Think about it.

Are you funny? Thumb up. Claudia Schaffer. I think that's very good. And finally it was a very big laugh. There was a reason. So I had Jean-Pierre, then Pierre Légaré for three shows. Then I had Christian Tetreault for one show.

I didn't know that Christian had written the name. Christian was a writer on Adlib. He had the brain behind the gags, the that, and he would make characters too. And he's a mega baseball fan, like you, that must have clicked because of baseball. We really thought about the good years, and he's a brilliant guy, and we really talked about baseball. I have the impression, Alain, that you're 200 years old. You've done some amazing things. And I'm not trying to make you older, but what I mean is that you've done so many things,

you're not 100 years old either, but you've done so much, it's amazing. I don't have any. I find that motivating. I listen to you, and I'm a little younger than you, and I tell myself, who's going to do things? It's funny because I called the producer of Star Academy last week, and I offered him to go and talk to him about what I've been through, l'académie la semaine passée et je lui ai offert d'aller lui parler de moi ce que j'ai vécu parce que moi là je suis parti d'un tour de carte j'ai fait une carrière là dedans si mon père j'avais dit parce qu'il m'a pas vu sur scène si j'avais dit je vais devenir ton père t'as jamais vu sur ça non mon père est décédé avant mon père là on remonte loin connaissait un tour de carte

il me l'a celui que tu as appris non je l'ai trouvé ok il me l'a fait 200 fois mais j'ai fini par le on It was one of the numbers that Copperfield bought, that I was doing an art choreography on a giant screen, on a movie music. So, I'm going to go with that at the start. I'm going to go to the other stories. So, Christian, you're too much. No, I told you you were going to contact the producer of the film. Yes, that's it. Because I want... You were going to contact the producer of the restaurant you're going to see at Starfacademy. You were going to call Wilfred. Montreal, Les Iles.

No, but the young people, the 20 people who dream of doing a career there, there are some who are going to get screwed right away. And you still have to show them that everything is possible. And me, my job is that, mon métier, c'est ça, c'est que je suis parti d'un métier qui était impossible, puis j'en ai réussi à gagner ma vie. Donc c'est ça que je veux... Tu as traversé quoi? Trois, quatre décennies?

Comment on fait pour se renouveler? Comment on fait? Parce que la société a changé, les goûts des gens ont changé, les médias ont changé. Comment on fait pour se tenir à jour? Olivier, notre métier s'appelle show business. C'est show et business. Il faut que tu sois fort aussi au niveau affaires. Il faut que tu sois... Bon, une autre anecdote, quand je suis arrivé, j'avais tout le rêve de jouer à France. Fait que là, j'ai décidé, ok, je m'en mène loin théâtre en France, puis je vais partir.

Fait que je partirais avec mon petit show, mes two techs, and we have a theater far away, for four months, Théâtre de la Guéthée, a 400-seat room, which is big in Paris. It's still pretty big. So now, I have to find a person who knows me. What am I doing? The tape? 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, no, no, no, no. You have to go on TV. And then I found the show, I proposed to myself the most viewed show in France, which was called Les plus grands cabarets, with Patrick Sébastien. So there, I sold an idea of several numbers. end, I became a regular guest. And that sold tickets. So a four-month contract in Paris turned into a four-year contract. Five years in Vegas, four years in Paris.

In residence. You have your house, you're not far away. I think we can announce it. Four years in Sussex, too. Four years. Hey, Yann, we're going to... I would like to ask questions. What do you think?

Well, it's already... Already? Yes, it's already more than an hour and a half. At the end, we always end up with questions from the audience. Was it interesting? It's so interesting! It's great! Yes.

It's beautiful. Is that a magic show! I told you before, before we got here... Plates anecdotes are often the most interesting. Often, that's what fascinates me about people, with your experience, your talent, that no matter who you are, you tell your story and you're like,

I'm not sure if it's interesting. It's going to fascinate me all the time. But it was really interesting. Even the fig business, I wasn't sure about that. That was the only thing that was... No, but seriously, when we go to the grocery store tomorrow, we buy figs. I feel like eating them. Do you know what? They'll never be as good as mine. I'll try to offer them this summer.

You're coming home to eat some girls? Yeah, we said that five years ago. Yeah. We never saw each other again. We're like that. We're not proud. We're strong. It's a strong friendship. Yeah, that's it.

Yann, question. Question to Alain. It's Martin who asks, did the Masked Magician show by Val Valentino... Did you see that? Masked Magician was at Fox, about 10-15 years ago. Show the videos. Excuse me, Yann.

Well, actually, you just wanted to know if it had an impact. Is Martin here tonight? No, it's Alain, but maybe Martin is here. No, but is it Martin who's asking the question? No, it's Alain. No, it's Martin. You're Alain? Who am I? Excuse me, Dorian.

Yeah, excuse me. Your guest is called Alain. Who am I? You're making a big fuss. What's going on? I'm confused, it smells like toast. What's going on? Yann,, it smells like toast. What's going on? Yann, I thought it was Alain Godette. I was like, he's pretty cool, Yann. He's asking Alain a question.

OK. Excuse me. OK. To put you in context, I was in Las Vegas at that time with magicians, a lot of magicians worked there. And the Mask Magician is a guy who has masked himself and revealed secrets that have existed for decades and decades. And what it did, I was looking at it with the eyes, I said, do something. Because from the beginning, even if he was masked, the way he moved, we knew who it was. Who was it?

Valentino. And then I said, do something, stop that, all that. And finally, he did three, four special shows. What it did is that it put old numbers in the trash that we wanted to do. Okay. It renewed, finally. That's it. So it did that. So it's not a problem. No, it was a good thing.

It's like a storm had passed, everything destroyed, and we rebuilt it. It's good as a parallel, probably. Yeah, it's perfect. I find it fascinating. It's like we share the same job, but not the same job. We do the same thing, but not exactly the same. You know, magic for a long time was like... You know, the struggle for a while was when you said, hey, it's fake, and they were like,

hey, we're going to fight for real. And then one day they just assumed, wow, it's fake. He was like, hey, we're going to read it again. We're not going to do it for real. And then one day, they just assumed, yeah, it's a show. And magic, I have the impression that it's the same thing. The problem with magic is that everyone copies everyone. So it's a bit like Elvis. Magicians have no personality, they all look alike. So you have to find your voice,

you have to find your personality, you have to find your personality, the audience has to be hooked on what you do, and that's where the challenge is. Because when you say to your father, he's going to become a magician, he's going to go back to school, I'm not sure. Especially, I have the impression that there is one magician at a time who really makes a lot of money. I think. I had that impression that it was was harder to be a magician than... I didn't know it was going to be a mess. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

But when you say one at a time, what does that mean? I have the impression that from the outside, when there is a magician, one makes millions, and the others win. Are you talking about Quebec? I'm talking about Quebec. I have the impression... I'm laughing in there. Why do I feel like you're in the movie Goodfellas? That it's... Funny how! Funny how! Like I'm a clown!

Excuse me, I'm going to dance! But... But, let's say, your whole career, at the time, we had the impression that you were rich as you couldn't do it. And it seems like there's one at a time that one at the top. Well... I don't know why. It's just me. Wait, I'm giving you some impuls.

I have this feeling, but also... No, but it's because magic... It's more of a niche. It's him who said it. I have nothing to see in there. No, but magic, the problem is that people won't see magic. They will see the guy they know, who they saw on TV. And there are three magic shows that sold tickets in 35 years in Quebec

because they had been on TV, quite simply. While humor, people will see humor, even if they don't really know the humorist. They like humor, they like to laugh. Magic, you have to go get them, they have to know. When you're in the United States, in cities like Las Vegas, Atlantic City, people will see shows. So it's not the same. They see a magic show, we'll go see a magic show, we'll go see a ventriloquist. When you were in Vegas, how many shows did you do per week? 18 shows per week. 18 shows per week in a 1000-seat room?

No, 18 shows per week was a 500-seat room. But it's 9,000 tickets per week, and you sold how many tickets per week? There were quieter days, there were quieter periods. They told me, I played six or three weeks, three shows per night. We could do a capacity of 80% approximately. Okay, that's crazy. And Paris, we played, Paris, Las Vegas, we played six or three weeks. So it was...

And I had caught, at that time, I had caught a hold of another story. I don't work here! It's not me! It's not me! And there's the boss! Go get another glass of wine for Mr. Chacquette! I had a request to host a show for L'Auto-Québec called La Lampe Magique. At that time, I was playing in Paris, Las Vegas, and we were shooting two shows every two Sundays.

And my night off was on Monday. No, excuse me, we were shooting on Saturday. You could lie to us, Alain. Mon soir de congé était le lundi. Excuse-moi, on tourne le samedi. Tu pourrais nous mentir, Alain. Non, mais je te chasse mon affaire. Et là, alors là, on accepte le contrat. Ça veut dire que là, le samedi, je fais mon show, puis là, il fallait que je sois ici le dimanche matin pour venir tourner. Fait que tu prenais l'avion.

Je prenais l'avion. Tu dormais pas. Je dormais dans l'avion. Je venais tourner mes deux émissions. I was here on Sunday morning to come and film. So you were taking the plane. I was taking the plane. You weren't sleeping. I was sleeping in the plane. I was filming my two shows. You were sleeping in a close-clubs. After that, I was taking the plane, I was going back to Vegas and I was playing on Sunday night. So that was a pretty special period. But Las Vegas was fun in the past, but I won't be coming back today.

Why? It's too much. The city doubled, there's too much heat, there's pollution, there's traffic, which wasn't there in the past. The sidewalks aren't bigger than they were, and there's more people. And now, you're currently filming in Quebec, do you feel that it's your old fans, like it's your old fans who discover you, or is it a mix of the two? It's the old fans who bring their children, their friends... Well, that's it. Do you meet up with the crowd after all the shows?

Yes, yes, me all the time. Yes? You, Mike? Uh, yes. Are you going to start? No, I was always... But now, now you're going to do it? No, I was always, yes, but I did a bronchitis before the holidays. So my last 10 shows, I didn't want to kill my fans.

But now you're healed. Yes, I'm healed. So now you're going to meet the world? I'm going to meet the world. I'm going to hold her hand, poke her mouth. But yes, I like to meet people. The best thing I can say is, a man who says,

my father brought me to see you when I was little, today I bring my children. It's fun to say that, but at the same time it means you're old. Yes, yes. Are you one of the oldest you've had on the show? How old are you, Alain? Can I answer? You are not the oldest!

No, no, no, there were a lot of really old people. They're going to be 80, not far from 90. That's true, that's true. But since I'm not following you, I don't know who you are. But I know it too. It's okay, you since I don't follow you, I don't know who you are. But I don't know him. It's okay, you don't follow me either. Olivier, I'm looking at you for example. I'm not a pure person.

Yann, question. Yann, do you have a lot? Yes, I have a few. Here, Yann, one for Olivier. Do you still have your horse? No. good question. He's got it cut in half! I have two! No, he's... He would be sick!

He ate it during COVID. It would be sick! But he was salty, he's like dead in his teeth. Listen to the pee. That... All of that without the magic trick... It would be traumatic. You lie down, there's a horse, you get up, there are two little horses.

You're like your beard with a shock. Shock. Shock. You're a shock. Shock. No, I... I imagine Mrs. Fauché. Jockette! Stop making my children angry!

You're a real man. You only have small hair. You have hair that's like a white horse, and it's dragging you to the ground. That's good. You buy a lemon, and the next day, you get up, it's two oranges. Jockette! You buy a little lemon and the next day you get up with two oranges. CHOCAL!

I had... I had a horse. I had a horse. A horse, a horse from Clydesdale? You see, the last time I talked about it was when I came here last year. Chris, I don't remember. I wasn't there, I was just interested. I'll count it for you.

I'll tell you something, last night I was afraid of something. I said to myself, Chris, I hope I won't repeat things. I said it last time. Because last time I had a beer. And tonight, people who see me drinking, Chris is in a cage, it's like the fourth or fifth party.

It's without alcohol. I really don't drink alcohol. Very rarely. Me too. So I was afraid. Now I know, I know I'm talking about it. But I was afraid to repeat myself. But the story of the horse is that I adopted a horse.

I didn't have it for a long time, because unfortunately it was a stroke of bad luck. But the horse was very sick. And a few months later, he died. We couldn't save him. The horse was very sick and a few months later he died. We couldn't save him. Listen, we have a call from the pension. It was a horse that had...

When we bought it, I was told that it was maybe 14 or 15 years old, but after that we realized, which is not young, but not old for a horse either, and after that, well, at the death we realized that it was a horse that was much more late-10s than early-10s. And you see, it made me think about what? Pension phone, and yeah, you have to come back, your horse doesn't get up. And a horse that doesn't get up, it's excessively big. I learned a lot, I'm not a specialist on horses, but I learned a lot in the little time I had, because I had, what, not even a lot. I'm not a specialist on horses. I learned a lot in the little time I had.

I had like, not even a year. And then you have a horse. So you get there. What were you doing with your horse? I was doing horse riding. Did you go? You know, I have white girls who do horse riding. And it's just young girls. So it's full of young girls and you, too heavy for this poor horse, you killed your horse, you bastard. First of all, I'm never heavy enough for any horse.

But I think, maybe the girls at the table make English salt. Me too, it's Western salt. No, I wouldn't go with the bomb. Not that. I made Western salt. I went to the woods and all that. It was really fun.

It was another kind of pension. I got there, it was gentlemen tonight, it was something else. It was completely something else. It was fun. It was fun for the community too. No, it's not fun. It's fun for the community that goes around it. No, it's not fun. No, it's not fun. It's fun to make horses.

But taking care of horses is a job. That's why I was in pension too, because I didn't have a place at home. But you see, he calls, he says, come on, the horse is not getting up. You get there and listen, it was difficult. Put the horse in the trailer. Find a trailer. Someone, go, a horse in the trailer. Find a trailer. Someone, go! A trailer. Someone lend us a trailer.

So the horse is dying over there. You say, I'll take him home. The horse is sick. We don't know what's going on at that moment. He doesn't get up anymore. Hey, go try to get a horse that weighs two tons. So we start to pull the horse, I lift him up.

But where do you take him? In the trailer, we go down to the Saint-Thier-Saint veterinary hospital. Saint-Thier-SSaint's veterinary hospital. Saint-Thierry-Saint, yes. I'm going north, so I cross that, and I'm in the tunnel carol, and I have the horse in the back, and I can't stop because if I stop, as long as there is movement, the horse is in balance. But if I stop, the horse will collapse.

And if it collapses at that moment, a horse will let itself go. Listen, it can be very, very difficult... It's like Ian. Not me who said it! So in the tunnel... I swear I flashed that. What was the name of the bus? Speed? I was like, I never got off by myself.

So he finally gets there. It took 20 minutes. He gets off the horse and there are at least 6 or 7 people around the horse. It was an emergency. He got there and took care of them. He gave them some products to remove the pain. Then he came back to see me after 20 minutes. He said, look, it's 10 or 12 miles to operate on him and there's little chance of getting out of it or else it's over. So Chris, you go in with your horse, which you love,

and half an hour later you're off with a trailer empty, I mean, I'm going to break it. Oh, yeah. So no, I don't have my horse anymore, that's a good question. But... Wait, but I'm going to put the cherry on the sundae. At least you left with your trailer empty, they didn't put the corpse in it.

No. You know, imagine you're going to put the corpse in it. No. You know, imagine you're going with the corpse of your father. But no, you know, but in fact, because they always give you the choice, which is not one, you know, do you want to do it, incinerate and come back. And then you come back to get a big pocket crisis. Oh yeah, a big thing. And then I do, and it's not free.

It's not free. So you try to spend 1500$ for a chicken pocket? Wait, no. So we donated some to the hospital, the veterinary, so that it can be used for students in training. At least it can be used like that. No waste! Oh my God!

That's touching. Yeah, I'm going to God! That's touching. Yeah. Yeah, I was going well there. Very touching. There's another question. Oh, not funny. There's Jerome asking, for Alain, how was it to do jokes,

L's and J's at Pied-Mamfort in front of Mambooché? Oh yes, because when there was, everyone remembers, and we talked about it at the top, everyone remembers that there was a moment in Piment-Fort where Mom Bush was there in the audience. But what I don't remember is you who had made the joke about him while he was in the audience. I'm still alive. Wait a minute, he was in the audience and you made a joke?

No, I'm explaining. He made a joke about Mom Bush. Mom Bush is dead, he's still there. So watch out, you bastard! And now, you better walk with your asses tight! He already killed your horse! SHOCK! SHOCK! Every time he kills a horse one, he's even a little orange.

Just by applause, how many people have already seen Piment Fort? OK. Well, Piment Fort, at the beginning, we had gags on... We each had two newspaper articles of the same day, okay? And we would get together and write gags in teams on these two articles, two in the head.

And these two photos were taken... taken and recorded so that after that, once we put the little box, they put the pre-recording to have the close-up on the... so once it's recorded, you can't do anything anymore. So I had a gag on the... the ELS, so the headline was... the sleeve, it was the ELS Angels destabilized according to Carcajized. Okay. You knew Mum was in the room? Well, no, we don't know. We know the audience is downstairs, and we know they're there. So I went to meet them to tell them, hey, I have a gag on you, is it bothering you? And they said, no, go, go, go.

So I was a little more comfortable, and I did the gag. If you want to see it on YouTube, you make a hot pepper, Alain Chocquette, Mom Boucher, and they'll see it. But you're crazy, gag! What was the joke? I don't have internet! Ok, I had two. I had two gags. I'll do it again. What was the premise? I'll do it again.

The L's Angels destabilized according to Carcajou. You were more destabilized than... I didn't want to do it. Norman said, yes, yes. Anyway, it's for me he's going to say. I didn't want to do it. And Norman said, oh yeah, oh yeah. And it was, in any case, for me, he's going to say it. It was funny at the time. The second one.

The Hells Angels destabilized according to Carcajou. Mom from my... There were two options. Very good gag. Very good gag. It was good taste. Yes. No, no, no.

And it was... It's a good gag. The second one is a good gag. You like the second one? Yes, the second one is a good gag. But in fact, I did first. It's funny. And what was cool is that at that moment, everyone laughed, so it lightened up the atmosphere

and we were able to do other things. Did they do a close-up of the other guys? Yes, of course. Go see it in person. I'll go check it out. It's quite stressful. You'll see Mom who goes, Fuck you!

Fuck you! Then he puts his rabbit in his box. I cut you in half! Well, Yann, another question. How many are there left? There might be one or two left. There's one for Olivier. What was your best hunting success? His horse.

I was going well, I was going well! A success of chance... Listen, it's hard to say, I don't see it as a success of chance. I realized that everyone, let's say, it's very... I was vegan for a long time, and it's a hot city, and I realized that hunting is more of a camping thing. So people are always upset to do, hey, I killed this thing, and I'm like, I'm just eating chicken. I'm not upset at all about what I'm doing as a choice, but I don't see it as a success. For me, it's... well, listen...

A bear? A bear! I have to admit that the first bear is really something that... The sixth bear, are you crazy? You're never crazy. Are you like BAAH? You're never crazy. It's always a new experience. A palanquin bear, it must be crazy.

White, white, white, red. It must be crazy. You're like a magic dress. It must be a forest. It's like magic! It's time you went to get those two chateaux. Shocker! But... We should make some chandails tomorrow. Shocker! But no, the first word, it's for sure that it marked me. But... I should make some help songs. Chock-a-doodle-doo! But no, the first bear, it's for sure that it marked me.

And I realized, I would say that I'm... What is a pride is that I'm a sharpshooter. It's really... If you go into the mirror, it's over. And you eat everything you kill. Everything. I think that's my biggest success. I get everything, really everything. back. The bear tastes the pee. Not all the time! When you kill in the spring.

But honestly, if you eat everything you kill, all the animals will taste the pee. You have to... You know, don't eat everything. You know... Leave some boots in the bin. You know, that's not in the sink. I think the compost exists. Well, Yann, last question. Alain, you were one of the first in the mainstream media.

Were there already someone in Quebec that often saw on TV as a magician? Ah, magicians, let's say in the 50s. You know, who were inspired maybe? Olivier Guimond, magicians. Well, in fact, inspired because he was such a charismatic man. Magic Tom, who was on TV at the time. Magic Tom, that Chantal did a... I felt Chantal slip in her chair. Magic Tom.

What was it? Was there a magic thumb? No, Magic Tom! What was that? A magic thumb? No, Magic Tom was a... I don't understand! Magic Tom! What was that? What were you saying? My hair is dead! What's going on?

Magic Tom, why does it say that? It's a magic thumb! Tom, T-O-M. Tom T-O-M. Tom, like Thomas. Tom T-O-M. And he was a charismatic man, a Scotsman, silver hair, blue eyes. And we could see him on various shows, both in English and French. Canadian or American? Quebec. Quebec, yes. And he was from Montreal.

He was doing magic in a restaurant every Sunday, which I forget the name of. What if the chauvet was broken? No, but... If... Imagine that. No, but... That you're like, it was a great widow, you can see it at the Pâtunier. No, but it was like his rodent.

So it was one of the first... Before that, there was Bob. Michel the magician, I hear. Hey, dry, dry, dry. No. Michel the magician was the magician who had in Radio Canada in the 70s. Thank you, thank you. That was a good question, actually. Michel, the magician. His name was simple.

Michel, the magician. My name is Michel, I'm a magician. I wonder if you're a magician. Where did you find that? You're crazy. I'm curious. I wonder where you found that sound. It's like the cars. It's like René, the singer. What is it? I don't know. Michel, the magician.

It sounds more like a pervert than a showman. He just made me do a magic trick. It sounds... Michel the magician! It sounds more like what a diabolist victim says. Hey, Michel the magician! Michel the magician! Are you able to identify him? He's here.

Michel the magician! We're going to end it there. We can't end it there. Thank you, Thomas. Thank you, Alain. Thank you, Alain. Thank you, Yann. Thank you, you all. Thank you, Michel Le Magichet. We're sending you the project. On s'en voulez, à présent. you