Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Blake Carter: Toronto Mike'd #280

Episode Date: November 9, 2017

Mike chats with The Move's morning show host Blake Carter about her career in radio, the recent format change at The Move, her cosmetic surgery and more.

Welcome to episode 280 of Toronto Mic'd, a weekly podcast about anything and everything. Proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, a fiercely independent brewery celebrating 30 years in the craft beer business. Visit GLB at 30 Queen Elizabeth Boulevard for $5 patio beers. And propertyinthesix., Toronto Real Estate, done right. And Paytm, an app designed to manage all of your bills in one spot. Download the app today from paytm.ca. I'm Mike from TorontoMike.com and joining me this week is

93.5 The Move morning show host Blake Carter. Hi. I like this, the intro music. Thank you. I'm just getting into it. Who is this? His name is Illvibe. Yes. And he made this for me. This is a

custom. It's sick. I like it like it i'm just sorry i'm not even listening to you i'm just listening to the music can we add this to the playlist yeah at the move i'll see what i can do i'll see what i can do thank you i uh my when i first i've been using this theme song since episode one uh in fact i had the theme song before i had the podcast and my wife always thought like i was i wasn't cool enough oh and i always said well to me i get too bad screw you i'll like i'll it gives me like a target to like work towards and it kind of pumps you up when you start with that music right all right here we go and there's a pavlov dog thing happening for regular listeners like hearing it start like you know what it's

like uh you know how to respond like hey we're in for a dose of real talk. Like this is, this is happening. Here it comes. Thank you so much for the coffee. You're welcome. Guests. Like, I don't know how many guests have come through here, but very rarely do they bring me a coffee? Like I'm really like, I feel uncomfortable if I don't bring someone something and I haven't met you before. So I'm like, I don't know what kind of booze you like or if I bring flowers. Well, I give you the booze. Don't you know how this works? Yeah, I didn't realize until recently when I was stock creeping all the podcasts. But is this right in front of me?

Yeah, that's all yours. All of this? Yeah, it's a six pack. You make it sound like I gave you a two for it. But that's a six pack. It's all yours from Great Lakes Brewery. Alcohol is the way to my heart. Well, if that's all it takes, come by anytime and I'll hook you up.

I've been there before. I went and did a little while ago when I was doing like a community TV show. We went and I interviewed the owner and I got to go check out the brewery. Peter Bullitt? Sure. Okay. Was it like a, I don't know, a 50-year-old white guy? 45-year-old white guy. Okay, you're right. He's in good shape.

He's in good shape. Yeah, he was awesome. He was here like two weeks ago to kick out the jams, which means he came in and we played his 10 favorite songs of all time. Yes. And he told us why he loved the jams. Yeah. He's a good guy.

Yeah, it's cool. And I like that though. So I'm just pulling the beers out right now. I like that they all have cool names. And like this one says pompous ass. I'm not a beer drinker. Yeah. He's a good guy. Yeah. It's cool. And I like that though. So I'm just pulling the beers out right now. I like that they all have cool names and like this one says pompous ass. I'm not a beer drinker. Sorry. Great Lakes, but my,

my fiance, which, uh, I guess before, before we started recording, you mentioned your fiance and I thought that was a pretentious term. Like it just doesn't feel good to hear. I feel like every time you say it, you're bragging.

You're like, my fiancé. I have a fiancé, everyone. My fiancé. And I know people don't hear it like that, but that's how it feels. And so I avoid it. Or he's like a royal French guy. Yeah, no. You know what I mean?

He's not at all. He's just some dude I'm dating. I guess getting married to one day. He's just like a sanitary engineer, but he loves his job and he's good at it. And he's a productive member of society. Definitely. But he's obsessed with this beer. So this is perfect.

No, enjoy the beer. The coffee you brought me, which has caused me to like already dig you the most. You're going to have the easiest like hour here. Did you try it though? Did I put enough milk in it? I'm going to try it it right now but i'm looking at the cup because this is the uh holiday cups right the holiday cups so do we are we allowed to call them christmas i'm gonna call it a christ i celebrate christmas so i'm gonna call it a christmas there is a christmas tree on it yes i think they got in trouble was it last year the year before it's weird how you can get in

trouble for that for not having anything christmasy. Well, there's some Jewish guy right now drinking his Starbucks. He's like, I don't celebrate Christmas. I celebrate Hanukkah. Why can't it be a holiday cup? They should have Hanukkah cups then. They should have everything. They should have Diwali cups.

Yes, and they should have everything. How fun would that be? I'm just looking. There's some doves and there's some ornaments. This is definitely a Christmas cup. I feel like they reused it. Like it doesn't, sorry, I love Starbucks, but that doesn't look like a new cup.

I feel like they've done it before. Starbucks will notbucks i'm not impressed we'll not be sponsoring your show after after this episode thank you so much i'm gonna try it now here yeah i want to make sure i'm very particular i'm not really a coffee drinker as i have like a white peppermint mocha which is just pure sugar so if it's not done right i can't really drink it and like 500 calories but not that you're counting calories no i know i thought about that i'm like oh well it'll keep me awake though you did it perfect it's tasting great okay good and honestly note to future guests like this is the way to to my heart like i have the beer but when you bring me a nice fresh cup of coffee like let's go this is what everybody should be doing this. I try to suck

up as much as I can. So far so good. I played a little Drake there. I don't know if you noticed that, but I'll play a bit more. Because, is it true? This is what I just read, that Drake produced a documentary about you. The Carter Effect? Oh yes, yes. Have you seen it? No. I'm too

nervous to watch it. I wish. I'm waiting for a free it. I wish. I wish. I'm waiting for my, for a free pass, but no, in all seriousness, is that your real name?

Are you really, like your birth certificate, does it say Blake Carter on it? There's parts of it that are real. I had to change a couple things because, or one thing just, you know.

You don't have to tell me your real name. You don't want anyone to find you. That's fair, but then tell me what part. I say a lot of nonsense on the your real name you don't want anyone to find you that's fair but then tell me what part of nonsense on the radio so i don't want someone to find me but is is is the blake part fake i think blake is fake only because you're the only female blake i've ever heard of there's other blakes there's blake lively the act oh my god you're so right like i'm so stupid she's the only one other one so that's it that's where it ends but you're right you just busted my busted my guess there.

But you don't have to tell me your real name. But is your real last name Carter? No, that's not. No, I can tell. That is, you actually, am I correct in this assumption? You gave yourself the name Carter in honor of Vince Carter. Close. Joe Carter.

Close. Okay, I'll give you something. Carter is not right. Well, Carter is not the correct name. Carter was a joke to begin with. I am a huge Lil Wayne fan. And when I first got into radio, my original boss was, you know, like, let's play around with your name. Let's make it cooler as they do in radio. And also, I was in Saskatoon.

It's a little bit smaller so people can find you. And so he's like, let's change it up. And there's a Lil Wayne and a Jay-Z song called Brooklyn or Hello Brooklyn. And in it, there's a line where Jay-Z says, if I had a daughter, guess what I'd call her? Brooklyn Carter. And I was like, Brooklyn Carter, Blake Carter. Done. And I never used it.

My first few years in radio, I was just Blake on the radio. And then when I came to Toronto, they liked it together. And so it kind of just stuck. So is Blake your first name or last name? First name. So you're an actual Blake. Okay. And you added Carter. And it sounds good together. And so it kind of just stuck. So is Blake your first name or last name? First name. Okay. So you're an actual Blake.

Okay. And you added Carter. And it sounds good together. But it does sound like it might be a fake radio name. Sounds much cooler than I am. Yeah. But like the song with my theme song. Yeah.

Much cooler than I am. Okay. So already, even though you brought me coffee, the hard hitting questions came right out of the gate. Well, that was it. That was it. Is Blake Carter your real name? The rest we'll have to see.

I need to bring down Drake because I just need to say a few words about the greatest starting pitcher in Blue Jay history. Because this is the first episode since Roy Halladay passed away. And by the way, do people blog anymore? Like, is this something people still do in 2017? I believe I'm supposed to at work. I blog every day

if my boss is listening. Okay, but you blog for the official website. For the radio station. I don't write my own blogs. But you might have, like, I'm guessing like 10 years ago you might have blogged, really? Like, no? Maybe a lot of your friends did, maybe? Not personally. I've, like, since social media and blogging, all that,

got really popular, I just kind of got into radio. Like, Facebook had just begun and Twitter and everything. So before that, no, I didn't blog. I was partying. Because I've had a blog since 2002. And one of the interesting things about having a blog that long is like I can go into the, you know, the back end and I can search for the term Roy Halliday and see that I wrote 56 entries about Roy Halliday. Oh, my goodness. I know, 56.

Are you okay? Are you still feeling okay? Well, I'm now, I mean, the shock is now it's starting. You know what it's like with time. I know it hasn't been a lot of time, but it didn't hit me like the Gord news hit me, even though I knew the Gord Downey news was coming. Like it really struck me on this personal level,

like a friend died. I don't feel like a friend passed away. I feel like an athlete I like completely admired admired both in terms of his like off field attitude towards it, his work ethic and his on field prowess, like on both levels. I completely I always called it my my healthy man crush. Like I had the I saw on your website. You said that because that's an image I did. I created that image back in like, I don't know what it was, 2004 or something. And I just reused it because I've been writing about Roy Halladay of

basically most of his career. And just because I completely healthily, I think loved this guy. Like this was my, like what an amazing, like speaking of Vince Carter, we only had in that era, the big Toronto athletes were probably Vince Carter, Matt Sundin,

and Roy Halladay, and maybe Carlos Delgado. Those were the four guys we had. And Roy was huge. And I can't believe 40-year-old Roy Halladay is dead. I just cannot believe it. I don't want to say I'm not into sports because I kind of go with that on the show and stuff and I'm just not the biggest sports person but I can appreciate the love that people have for their teams and I do love to go to a game and get pumped up but

I'm not from Toronto so I didn't grow up with him um I wasn't a big fan and then I kind of have done all my learning since he passed away I I watched it on the news and then I kind of almost became obsessed. And I kept like, I started reading tweets and I started reading articles and reading all the wonderful things people had to say about him. I've never read about or learned about an athlete that collectively so many people just loved and had such great things to say about him personally and how he was on the field. And you know how when somebody dies, then all of a sudden, everybody's like, what an amazing guy. Like, then all of a sudden everybody's like, what an amazing guy. Like, and all of a sudden everybody's talking

about how amazing this person was. I didn't know who he was. Right. I'll be completely honest. But the thing about the blog and the 56 entries is that like I have time date stamped entries about this man where it's, I didn't write about how amazing he was when he died.

I wrote about how amazing he was when he was alive. And I can like, I can see this. And it's quite a phenomenon. I don't think many people have this like you know this archive of sort of your thoughts on things dating back to 2002 but uh roy halliday i look back at the admiration and i had for that guy and when you look back at uh his numbers and just the stats and what a workhorse he was and i know you're not a big baseball buff but like like Toronto Blue Jays starting pitchers don't complete games anymore. Like this does not happen. We had a season recently where nobody completed a game.

Roy Halladay completed so many games. And this is like from a different era. Like even though he only had 200 wins, he had like two wins for every loss. And I hope he makes the Hall of Fame. But man, I did not see this news coming that Roy Halladay was going to die.

So young, his kids. Like I said, I couldn't stop watching all the news coverage. And then I'm really bad at getting deep on Twitter. And I search the hashtag. And then I'm crying over someone I never even knew about. And like, I can't imagine how it was for you, loving him and being such a big fan

and admirer, you know, to hear the news. Well, my brother texted me and said, oh my God, first Gord and now this. That was a text I had. And he didn't say the name. He just said first Gord and now this. And I went, what's Steve talking about? You're like, no, no.

And I know, and I was working away. So I wasn't like in Twitter mode or whatever. And then I jump on Twitter, of course, right away you see like Roy Halliday's dead and it was like holy shit I think my I tweeted uh my the exact tweet I wrote was holy fuck I think is what I wrote it's like Roy Halliday's dead like wow uh and I also will say this though um do you know Humble Howard from the Humble and Fred show? Yes.

Okay. I don't know personally, but yes. So he's, yeah, long since you're a morning show host, he was a longtime morning show host. He once, he flew a plane and he owned a plane with his buddy and he once took me up in his Cessna. Oh my gosh. Like a little plane, like a, yeah.

You're brave. I wouldn't. This was like 10 years ago now. And I was excited to do it. Like I was like, oh my God, we're going to go over the Niagara Falls and it's gonna be cool. But I'm telling you, I wouldn't do it today.

Like I wouldn't do that. Like it just seems too, I just don't want to go into a small aircraft like that anymore. People like joke and it used to be a thing on a show I was on before. It was Worst Case Blake. Because I'm always just going to take the worst case scenario. I was so fearless when I was younger. And now that I've gotten older, I've turned into my mom and I'm scared of everything. And I'm like, I'm scared to fly a regular plane I've gotten older, I've turned into my mom and I'm scared of everything. And I'm like,

I'm scared to fly a regular plane. Like, oh, I can say, I think you're safer in a commercial plane. I feel safer than if I'm driving on the 401 to Guelph. Oh, probably.

So, yeah, but we don't hesitate to jump on the 401. But the idea of flying like a private, smaller, that's where it all happens. Right. That's where you,

we've lost some of the greatest people in these small planes. And then the little one that he was in, oh my goodness, that looked like a toy plane. I know. I know. Like I have anxiety just talking about it right now. Like they're called amphibians or something.

Cause you can take them in the water. But, uh, I just, yeah, I, so I'm done with the small, not that I have a lot of experience,

but I have at least one example where I went up in a small. And they do them on all the reality shows for the dates and everything, right? Like the bachelor, they're famous for taking you on these small plane rides in the helicopter. And I'm like, nope, not for me. Do you know we lost two starting pitchers?

Two Toronto Blue Jays starting pitchers have died in little airplanes now because we had a guy named Corey Lytle who crashed his plane years ago. And he was a four. He was a, you probably don't remember Corey because he didn't have the same legacy as Roy Halladay. But anyway, I'm done with the, I'm done. Like if Howard says to me, a, you probably don't remember Corey because he didn't have the same legacy as Roy Halladay. But anyway,

I'm done with the, I'm done. Like if Howard says to me, hey, you want to go up tomorrow? I'm going to take a hard pass. Just don't want to leave the four kids behind

because I decided to go up in a little Cessna. So, oh, so. How many kids do you have? Four. Four kids?

Yep. You want one? I'm good. No, just the little ones. I like to babysit. I'm good at babysitting. Because I won't say where you live, but you live really close. So be careful what you say. No, I do really. No, I like to babysit. I love kids. I'm just really into dogs right now.

I see that because I follow you on Twitter. There's a lot of dog love going on. Are you rescuing dogs? What are you doing? I think people think I'm doing a lot more than I am. I love animals and I love to work with a rescue when I can. And I work with Save Our Scruff here in Toronto. And when I say work with, I help share some of the dogs that need home. I have done some fostering and some of the driving to help take the dog from the airport to the next foster's house, but you have to be really available. And I'm what you call the foster, foster fail, where I had some foster dogs and then I ended up keeping one of them so now I have two and I'd love to foster more I just don't have the time that's like rent to own yes and you know what that's why fostering is perfect because you get to see does this dog and I had a few and everyone I had I was like I'm adopting

this dog I want them and then after a while you're like okay this dog's not fitting in my home they're not getting along with my other dog and then thankfully they get adopted but then the right dog might come along and then like i say that my pug monkey my original dog he chose my second dog zeppelin because they met each other they were best friends very good monkey and zeppelin yeah so i'm trust me i want like i want a whole sanctuary of dogs and your fiance is okay with that he loved him and his family they love dogs okay good they love love love dogs good um you have to to be around me there is a gentleman i need to give a shout out to because you have like this massive i don't know if you have security i'd be concerned with

this guy i don't know he uh only because he has this big beard i see him on twitter but he's a he's a subscriber. He goes by the name Beats with two Ts. He listens to you every morning and he loves your morning show on The Move. And he said, I guess I often take requests like, hey, if there's somebody in the Toronto media that you want me to invite to come on Toronto Mic, let me know. And of course, I know of you, love what you're doing, but I hadn't extended an invitation because, you know, I'm getting to you're doing, but I hadn't extended an invitation because you know, I'm getting to you.

Like I was getting to you, but beats is like, you got to get Blake Carter on. And I'm like, okay, I'll write her today. Like what she can say is no. And you said yes.

And here you are. So it's all thanks to thank you. So if anyone else knows, if anyone else listening, like has an idea of somebody they want me to reach out to, I'm happy to do it. If it's somebody as interesting as blake well we'll see see how interesting this gets the uh the jury's out but we'll see but you did bring me a coffee so already i'm happy you know what i mean like like this is not and i said you said you said what do you want and i said

like give me a bucket of coffee i'm like i need a big coffee i just had this uh bike ride that's as big as they get i think that's amazing amazing. And I think it's called, I really appreciate that. I struggled though to order that because I order all like the weird fancy drinks. Cause I just like sugar. And so I was like, ah, right. What do you guys have for regular coffee? Oh yeah. You got to do the blends and Starbucks is tricky. Like you got to do like, I think they have like a, they have medium and, and, and mild and what's the dark? They have blonde and stuff like that. So I just, thankfully you text back right at the perfect time.

I was like going to order you the wrong coffee, imagine. I would have been okay with that though. I wouldn't even have said boo about it. I'd be happy to have it. So thank you Beats for recommending this. Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you, Blake, for being here. We're going to do what I call a deep dive full of real

talk right after this break. But first, I want to urge everybody to go to patreon.com slash Toronto Mike and help crowdfund this passion project. So interesting people like Drake. I almost called you Drake. That's fine. I'll take that. Drake and

Blake rhyme. I just realized that. I have done it one too many times, a contest on the radio called Drake or Blake, and it will happen again. And usually people want to hear Blake, I would guess. But interesting people like Blake can make the trip and bring me a coffee, which is great. Let's mix things up again. And let's start with Paytm. So I was just chatting with the folks from Paytm. They're very cool guys from Liberty Village. Paytm is an app designed to manage all of your bills in one spot, so you don't have to visit each separate website to make a payment.

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And you get $10 off your bill payment. So that's just $10 from Paytm for using the app. So do that. $10 is yours and you can thank me later. By the way, Blake, as I listened to this Pink Floyd track, would you consider coming back at a later date to play your 10 favorite songs of all time yes and tell me why you love this song of course even if this goes south and this goes really poorly because

i'm sitting right in front of you i can't say no to your face but i'm gonna edit that out your emails and i will send tweets out and say here's blake saying she'd come back yeah i'll totally come back and she's ignoring my emails so please come come back. And you already mentioned the beer. I think you've already started drinking them. No, you're still drinking your sugary drink. I'm the worst beer drinker because I always just like, we know in like the beginning when it's still cold. And then once it gets warm, I'm like, who wants the rest of my beer? Who has a shot? Well, the trick is not to let it last that long. Yeah, that is true. That is very true. But you can share. I know my wife, for example, she wants a little beer, but not a lot. So she'll crack open a,

she likes the blonde lager and then she'll give me half of it like she's only gonna drink half a can and that's what she does i used to make vodka beers because beer did not have enough alcohol started hating me yeah because i wasn't the biggest beer drinker and so i would do corona with ice and then some vodka and lemon it's delicious like you have a problem yeah we need Blake, you have a problem. Yeah. We need to discuss this. I have a problem where I just work in radio. I think that's what that's called. What time do you wake up? I know this, just to jump ahead, what time do you wake up to get to?

The time I should wake up is about 3.30 in the morning. That gives me enough time to get ready and get on the road for about 4.30. But I usually sleep. Well, I don't sleep. You lay there stressing and going, get up, get up. You need now get up, get up. About 4, four-ish. And then I panic and then I rush and run out the door.

Where is the new Catholic? Where do you broadcast from? Right on the corner of Yonge and St. Clair. We're on like the 20th floor. It's super cool. You can see the whole city. And so in what time are you expected to like sort of enter that building? I like to, for me personally, I like no one's there to catch you, obviously.

Well, not yet. You don't have like a punch card or whatever you know what I don't want to say this in case they listen and then they might listen actually that's not oh I know I know they're listening hi I'm sure because we have to do our swipe cards I could just check the time of the swipe card yeah definitely so

I like to be there around five or sometimes I like to sit in my car and like finish listening to the 5 a.m. newscast and then go in just to get myself ready. But, you know, things happen. Some days you roll in there, it's 530. And for me, then you're more panicked and rushing. But what time are you? Does the red light go on?

Like what time? 6 a.m. 6 a.m. OK, because a lot of morning shows are starting at 530. Yeah. And I've done that before in different cities when I've been on a morning show. We did 530. Like, I don't want to give your boss any ideas.

I know. They've talked about it. We'll see. I don't mind. But you're I mean, your audience, let's be honest, you're not Matt Galloway. Like, you know what I mean? Like you I think that six is fine. Like you're you're attracting a younger audience. People always we kind of are now we people are always like, oh, you do the morning show. You work up so early. How do you do that? How do you do that? When I get on the road in the morning, the road's already like, it's not as busy as, you know, typical rush hour. There's people out there, right? You know, lots of people are

getting up and commuting. Yeah. Cause people commute all over the city. So I don't really think I, like, I love the sympathy when people think I work so early and it gets me out of things. I'm like, oh, I gotta be up so early. But there's other, I always see this one guy every morning. One day I'm going to talk to him and he's always out taking his dog when I'm like, oh, I gotta be up so early. But there's other, I always see this one guy every morning, one day I'm going to talk to him and he's always out taking his dog when I'm leaving for work. So I'm like, what job do you do that you're up walking your dog? Or I see people out jog. There's one woman jogging every morning up Mount Pleasant. Yeah, there's some painters out there. Like I always like, to me, I wake up, I don't know, I've never even disclosed this. I wake up at 7.30. This is my wake up time at 7.30. Okay. At that point, you're like ready for your like nap or whatever.

Yeah. Oh yeah. I'm looking at the time like, how much longer? Wow. Hey, we're going to get into a deeper dive later, but I just wondered like what time are you waking up? 3.30 sometimes. 3.30 is my ideal time. If I get up and out of bed at 3.30, then I'm golden. But I tend to kind of hit snooze. But what time are you going to bed in order to be functional at 3.30?

Again, I would love to be in bed by like 8 o'clock, but it doesn't happen. Like last night, I think it was 10. No wonder you're not a sports fan. You can't watch sports. I can't. And you can't watch anything. And for the kind of radio I do, you know, we need to watch a lot of pop culture stuff and like The Bachelor.

Right. And so that doesn't, some of the times it doesn't start till 9 o'clock. So a lot of the stuff I have to review the next morning, I haven't watched. I'm like watching clips the next morning really haven't watched. I'm like watching clips the next morning really quickly. Yeah. Award shows,

they screw us over totally. Like, can't they just start at five o'clock? That would be great. I'll save all my, I have all my morning show questions for you.

I'll save it because I want to tell you about the pint glass in front of you. Oh, oh my goodness, I didn't even see this. Right.

So you have a six pack from Great Lakes Brewery. By the way, they have a new beer because I just saw them tweet a picture of it yesterday called the Etobicoke Choker. Oh, wow. Am I allowed to say you're an Etobicoke native? Can I say that? Because you live on this side of the Humber River. Yes. Yes. Etobicoke is now my city, my home.

You, I wish I had a can for you, but the Etobicoke Choker is coming like soon to Great Lakes Brewery. That sounds so inappropriate. and I really like it. I like it a lot. Absolutely. And maybe, you know what, maybe if this goes well, I keep teasing you here, but thank you for the coffee. Maybe if I can get a can of the Etobicoke Choker, maybe you or your fiancé will want to give this a shot.

Yeah, we kind of have to now. You brought it up. I need to try it. But when you get your Great Lakes Brewery beer, you're going to pour it in that pint glass. Yes, thank you. That is courtesy of propertyinthesix.com. Speaking of Drake, Drake is a real estate agent. Just kidding. Propertyinthesix.com is a guy almost as cool as Drake named Brian Gerstein. And Brian

Gerstein, I should tell Brian I have like 10 cups left. And they're going to go really quickly because I got lots of guests coming in. This is a good photo he has on here. It's his hair, right? He just looks like a nice guy. Like you want to have a beer with him and maybe buy a house from him. I've had a beer with him. Can I just say

that? I've had a beer with this guy. He is a nice guy. And he's like, you know how when you get a, do you have an honest mechanic? You remember the Seinfeld episode and they had an honest mechanic? Like everybody, you just got to find that honest mechanic because that's everything, right? He's the honest real estate guy. Like you don't have to sign anything with him. But if you're, even if you have an agent, I think it's worthwhile to have a conversation with Brian about buying or selling in the GTA. Brian's at 416-873-0292. And here's a message from Brian himself. Property in the six dot com.

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This jingle should also be on the move song list or whatever. Like maybe we add that. I was going to say maybe Brian should get your guy for his next jingle. Will you share? Ill Vibe? Yeah. I believe, I'm 100% sure actually, that Ill Vibe put that jingle together.

Oh, really? Yeah. I referred Ill Vibe to Brian when he was putting a jingle together and that's his handiwork. Oh, wow. Yeah. I referred Ill Vibe to Brian when he was putting a jingle together, and that's his handiwork. Oh, wow. There you go. Do you know Ill Vibe was on, not as Ill Vibe, but as his real name? Because believe it or not, Ill Vibe is not his real name.

What? He was on, what was that CBC series called? Smartest Canadian or something? You know this reality show? I definitely was not on it. Well, honestly, Ill Vibe's not that bright. I'm smarter than Ill Vibe and he was on it.

Seriously. He's a good, smart, talented guy, but I'm smarter than him. My IQ is way higher than his. We didn't ask you. Nobody even asked me. But he was on that show, which I think is kind of funny.

You mentioned you're not from Toronto. No. Where the hell are you from, Blake? I'm from BC and I'm from Surrey, which is just outside of Vancouver. I know it because in 98, I spent a week in White Rock. Yes, beautiful.

I was not in White Rock. White Rock. Well, I would love to say White Rock, but I'm like a little farther over because White Rock is like the really nice, beautiful, I would die to live there area. But everybody's old in White Rock. Yeah. Hopefully, maybe one day I'll retire there. That's the goal, right?

everybody's old in white rock yeah hopefully maybe one day i'll retire there that's the goal right um you're the second guest in a row from vancouver uh yeah second guest in a row from vancouver because brad faye from sports nets from vancouver as well is he from vancouver because everyone says vancouver or toronto and then it's like scarborough and i'm well scarborough's toronto well but you know what i mean like yeah it's more like it's uh i get called out because i used to just say vancouver and then someone would be like, where in Vancouver? And I'm like, oh, sorry. That's outside of Vancouver. Sorry.

That's what you do. Like, I don't think people in Thor, Brian, I just found out cause I, I erroneously said Brian lived in North York, but he lives in Thornhill. And I actually, I don't think anyone from Thornhill when they're like in Vancouver says, oh, I'm from Thornhill. They say they're from Toronto. Yeah. Come on.

Cause that's, that's the thing is you just assume I'd say, I always used to say Vancouver and then people, more people go to Vancouver, I guess now, and they call you out on it. They're like, so where were you downtown? Well, those guys are assholes like myself who will say you're on the wrong side of the Humber river. You're not in Etobicoke. Those guys are assholes. So did you start in radio in Vancouver? Um, not on air. I kind of ended up in radio very randomly. I was working as a receptionist at, it was The Beat. I believe now it's Virgin in Vancouver. Random job, met a girl through a guy I was dating.

She was the receptionist and she's like, I'm moving to do the sticker search, you know, where they take the car out and they spot you with the sticker on your bumper and then you get a prize. Okay, cool. So she was doing that. She's like, we need a receptionist. So I went in for a random interview at the time I was dead set on becoming an actress. And so in my mind at the time, and my 21 year old or 19, how old was I? Anyway, I was like, I can work downtown and go to auditions. Well, you can't go to auditions if you work nine to five. So I started working at the

station and then kind of was like, this is really cool and started kind of becoming friends with people there. And then the morning show guy, uh, who was kid Carson and it was Amy and Nira. They started putting me on the show as kind of like a character. Sure. And I, I made an inappropriate,

were you the receptionist? I was the receptionist. I was just doing reception and I made an inappropriate comment about a postal worker. Tell me the comment and I'll tell you whether I think it was inappropriate or not. It was hot. It was, it turned into this big thing with the hot, the hot, angry postal worker. Tell me the comment and I'll tell you whether I think it was inappropriate or not. It turned into this big thing with the hot angry postal worker. He looked very angry. He looked

like my type. And you don't very often see this young beautiful Canada Post person come in. So he stood out and then I made a dirty comment that I probably can't make anymore. And Kate Carson went on the radio and talked about it. And someone from Canada Post called in and said,

we know your receptionist. He's talked about your receptionist. So then it turned into this big thing. And I kind of got myself out there. But at this point, I was just the receptionist. And then I did street team for a little while. And then randomly, by like the luck of God, I got offered to come do a morning show

by the program director of Vancouver. He wanted to go back to Saskatoon, bring his family back there, you know, smaller city and start a new station. So I went and did a morning show with no experience. And it was terrifying, but also one of the best jobs I've ever had. So you start your radio on air career in Saskatoon. Yes. The Mark Michaels show with myself and Cassie. Is Mark Michaels related to Jay Michaels? Yes.

They're brothers. Yes, I know this. Jay has been on the show a couple of times. Yeah, you know Jay. And that's another fake name, by the way. None of them are Michaels, just for the record. These Michaels is a made-up bullshit, but they both took it. Did they tell you their last name? Yeah, it was like Doodle-ay or something. Which I love. Doodle-ay.

No, Mark was a big name. Oodle-ah-deodly no uh marco like this is uh robin hood and uh the robin hood cartoon i don't know if you're you're a little younger than me you might not remember the robin hood cartoon but please uh that's funny so you start with j michaels the mad dog if we will mad dog's little brother wow i've never actually um i know mad dog over the internet like we will. Wow. I've never actually, I know Mad Dog over the internet, like Weevil Facebook, but I've never actually, I don't think we've ever met in person. He's one of the nicest guys. Yeah. We've stayed in contact because his brother and I launched our show.

And so what Mark and I would do is we would listen to Mad Dog and Billy because they were on before us and I would like steal Billy's entertainment because I was new. I literally started in radio having no idea what I was doing and just listening to other people and trying to mimic that. So we would listen to them and kind of get advice from his brother.

And yeah, it's funny how it works. It's a small world. Years later, I'm here in Toronto. That's crazy. And yeah, that's crazy. So you're in Saskatoon where my first wife is from. I keep marrying Western girls.

Like I really do. Just warning you. How many wives? Four kids, how marrying Western girls. Like I really do. Just warning you. How many wives? Four kids. How many wives? Just two. Just two. Okay.

But just warning you because I married a Saskatooner and I married an Edmontonian. Are those the right terms? I never know what to call those things. When we were in Saskatoon, we said, I don't think anyone says it anymore, but we say a Stooner. Yeah. I've never heard. But is it, are you a Saskatooner?

Like really? No. Well. Like, no, if you're, if you're from Sask it, are you a Saskatooner? Like really? No. Like, no, if you're from Saskatoon, are you a Saskatooner? Or a Saskatoonian? No. This is Saskatoon. I should know this. But we, I think Mark and I just called them Stooners, which I don't think is what they

were called. And we used to play a really great game called Stooner or Pooner, which was, I would read names from the phone book when you still had a phone book and you had to guess if it was a porn star or someone from Saskatoon. Oh, that's funny. Which I don't think we can do anymore. You can do a lot of things before that you can't do. The good old days. And you're only like 30 and you're just looking back at the good old days. Thank you. 30. I'll take it. I just realized I was 32 the other day. I thought I was 31 this whole year. I would have guessed 30. But everyone younger than

me, I think they're 30. Everybody. I just assume everyone's an infant. And I'm finally at that age where I'm just like bitter about everyone. As soon as I turn 30, I'm like, I hate everyone younger than me. Okay, so you're in Saskatoon. Yes. And I know you end up in Calgary. Is Calgary the move after Saskatoon? Yes. So Mark left first and I was devastated because we were,

I was really lucky to be really good friends with him. He was my best friend at the time. And then he left and went to Calgary. And shortly after, I followed to a different station and I went to AMP and I worked with Buzz Bishop. So you were competing against Mark. Yes. And it was like this big thing because he was up and we were in the same building too. But were you both morning people? We were both morning show. So you started in mornings, which I've never worked in radio. My understanding is that the morning show is the show.

Like that's where the revenues. I know the drive home show as well. But the morning show is where you want to go because that's where the revenues generated. That's where the big. That is usually the goal until you work it. And then you're like, oh, I want to go back to afternoons. Yeah, I was really lucky. And that's what was hard because there was, you know, there was a pressure and there was

the people that doubted it because I came this girl who was known as the receptionist. And now all of a sudden I'm on this morning show. So I had to do a lot to kind of prove myself. There's a precedent in Toronto in that Melanie from The Edge was the receptionist. I love Melanie. I love her. Is she back from Matt Lee? If you want to match with her.

Yes, she's back. Yes. Is she on The Mornings with Adam? Yeah, it's her and Adam now. Obviously, I'm on air, so I can't really listen. No, they're the evil competition. You're always trying to slash your tires. You know what's so funny is I think that's what it's supposed to be.

And I know when I first went to Saskatoon, the other station there, they were like told not to speak to us and all this stuff. But because I've worked in radio for such a long time, not such a long time, but for a little while now, I've made lots of friends in radio and you move around so much. So my friends are working at all different stations. And we'll get to this, but you're working for like a smaller company. Yeah, for NuCap. Right.

Which was where I was in Calgary. I worked for NuCap as well. Oh, okay. So that's Amp. Amp, yeah. 9.3 Amp Radio. All right. Now, so back to Calgary before we move on from Calgary, because you did, okay, there's an interesting article about you in the Calgary before we move on from Calgary, because you did. OK, there's an interesting article about you in the Calgary Herald. Oh, gosh. Can I read the byline?

Like this is actually like a public newspaper thing. Which one? Like there's so many. I'm like, was there one? Because this subject matter would be personal, except you did a whole interview about it in a newspaper. So I feel like I'd ask you. Yeah, go ahead. OK, the byline reads this.

This is the Calgary Herald back when you were working there. After going in for gel breast implants last June, increasing her cup size to a D from her former A cup, radio host Blake Carter feels she finally looks the way she was meant to. Wow. I don't even remember telling them my sizes. Yeah, that was actually from, I don't think that was

in the Herald originally. It was in like a magazine about like medical and all different stuff, like aesthetics and all stuff like that. So all different things. And I had a boob job

when I was in Calgary. I was like, yes, I'm making a little bit more money, although not enough. And I took out a loan and I had my boobs done. Are boob plants,gary. I was like, yes, I'm making a little bit more money, although not enough. And I took out a loan and, and I had my boobs.

Are they expensive? Yes. They are so expensive. I have no idea. Tell me what we're talking here. Like I'm talking like, I think they used to be like 8,500, maybe they're 8,500 now, but they're like 10,

$11,000. I couldn't afford them. Okay. Cause my daughter's got braces and it was 6,000 bucks. Yeah. So this is more than that. Yes. More unless they've gone down.

But, uh, I was like, I have my whole life. I wanted them for my, my own reasons. And, and I finally was like, I can do this. And no, I so couldn't afford it. It was such a stupid thing to spend my, well, no, it wasn't because it made me happy. And this, they reached out this magazine and I can't remember what it was called though, that I originally did the interview in. Cause it was just about my experience and why. Boob job monthly. Yeah. It might, it might have been that.

It might have been that. And I shared why I did it. And, and all, all of them surprised and made it to the Herald. And I remember when I first read it on the Herald, my boss was like, when did you,

cause it came out after I had left that job and I came to Toronto. So my new boss was like, Oh, what is this? And I'm like, well, first of all, this is me.

And I'm pretty open about a lot. It's real talk. Like this is something you did. I'm not going to Toronto. So my new boss was like, Oh, what is this? And I'm like, well, first of all, this is me. And I'm pretty open about a lot. It's real talk. Like this is something you did. And I'm not going to lie. People who know me can tell there's a difference, you know, they're not like, they're not balloons or anything, but some people might notice. And I, I was like, if you knew the before and after you're not, you're not blind. Yeah, exactly. So, and I guess, I don't know, maybe it's no, I, you know what I do it again. Now I want to say it was cause I was younger and I didn't mind, but I still don't really mind. And I feel like it's such a common thing now. Maybe, yeah, back then it was still pretty common, but I think a lot of people would rather like just lie or not talk about it. And I was like, eh.

Okay. So here's, I mean, I don't, I don't have, this is, I'm a guy, by the way, I don't have breasts. I have breasts, they're just different. But two thoughts on this. One is that you don't have to change your natural body. Of course, if you're an A-cup, by nature, an A-cup is beautiful. Yeah, definitely. But it's your body. And I think your quote was that you finally look the way you were meant to. So you obviously felt you should have something where you didn't have anything. I wasn't happy look the way you were meant to. So you obviously felt you should

have something where you didn't. I wasn't happy with the way I looked. It wasn't the size. It was the way they looked. And that was a personal thing. And I had a coworker say to me once, like, why do you need to get your boobs done? You have a man. And I could, oh, that just made my stomach turn because it had nothing to do with attention or a man. And I know some people might listen and roll their eyes, but I wasn't happy with the way I looked. Well, can I ask you? And so I just, I wanted to change it for me. Okay. Yes. Great. Now the only time anyone will ever see you, uh, maybe your, your eight cups are when you are topless, right? Yes. So the thought there, I understand that thought. Cause let's, I'm not, and I'm the only one who sees, right who's right because right now let's say you had an a cup you could still look this way with bras and

like yes and see again it wasn't about the size it was to me i didn't like the way they okay i didn't like i'll say the shape i didn't like the shape so like i like i think all boobs are beautiful i love all sizes and um it maybe if i'd had different looking a cups or smaller than an a cup, I would have been fine. But just for me at the time, I wasn't happy and I would totally do it again. No regrets. I'm all for people doing what makes them happy. And I'm more, what I don't love is the people that do it and lie about it. Um, you know, if, especially if you are in a, in a position where people are going to be seeing you say for me,, Kylie Jenner getting a lot of work done to her face

when she kept saying, no, no, no, this is the way I look. To me, little girls are looking at her and thinking, why don't I look like that at 15 or 16? When she could just be honest and say, you know what? I look like this because I paid for it and did some modifications, so don't expect yourself to just, you know, right out of

the gate. You know what I mean? I think you should be honest. Cause, cause otherwise the, your, your fans will aspire to look that way when you, you had to, I don't know. I almost said cheat, but you had to get surgery to look that way. And I just, I just think it's unfair. And we're, we're in such a crazy time right now where everyone's trying so hard to be perfect and look a certain way.

And there is no perfect and there is no certain way, but if you are going to tweak and, you know, manipulate that, I am about for personally myself being honest about it. So let me ask you a medical question about breast implants. Just a real, I do. My question is like once you get the implants, is there any like maintenance required ever? Like are they good for life or at some point you have to get them adjusted or something? You have to get them redone every 10 years. 10 years.

Yeah. So it's like that laser eye surgery. Sometimes you have to. Do you have to get them redone every 10 years 10 years yeah so it's like that laser eye surgery sometimes you have to do you have to get them redone again i've never had it but my wife got it and she says at some point the prescription will change and you have to like get them redone or something yeah yeah you're supposed to i know some people maybe don't but yeah you're supposed to so definitely that uh so that was an eye-catching uh byline i can't believe you found that i can't believe you found that i can't believe they put it in the newspaper oh yeah yeah i mean come on you know i have a google alert for

uh former a cup turns d cup and if that shows up in an article i can't believe that that's what was like the headline that's the byline because that makes it that makes it seem like i well i did i like boobs i did want bigger boobs but that's just funny that that's like the first thing and that was a different at the time because um the article goes out of its way to point out that, uh, your boyfriend did not pressure you to do this. Like this was all your idea. Again. And that's probably in the questioning, but this was years ago. Now this was eight years ago. Right. Um, people just assumed that I was doing it for someone, you know, that, that it had to be my, your boyfriend wanted to

buy them or pay. And like, I bought them myself. I wanted them, I think after I got them, I was single shortly after that. So it was for me. And you're still paying. I know, shocking, shocking that a woman would want to do something for herself. But you're still paying off like, like a student loan or student debt. You're still paying off your, uh, your boob job. I'm not very good with money. I'm paying off like a student loan or student debt. You're still paying off your boob job. I'm not very good with money. I'm paying off a lot of things. But that's expensive.

And they worked out for you and you felt more confident. And that's priceless, I'd say. Yeah, for me personally, I think different things make different people feel better. And that was because that's the thing. They're not people aren't seeing them. I'm not showing them. I guess that was my thought. I'm not like girls gone wild out there. That's just not me.

I'm not like I. Like you don't go to work in a bikini top or whatever. No, I'm in was my thought. I'm not like girls gone wild out there. That's just not me. I'm not like, like you don't go to work in a bikini top or whatever. No, I'm in like an XL hoodie every day. That's, and that is the thing too. No one even like, even my boyfriend,

fiance, whatever we want to call him. Like he probably loved to see them sometimes. I'm always covered up. Yeah. He's got to book an appointment. Yeah, pretty much.

So how do you end up in the big smoke in the center of the universe? How do you end up in Toronto on the radio? Um, I came out to Toronto to do a radio show at CHUM. Um, the program director there reached out to me when I was in Calgary and I still really thought I want to do TV. I want to do TV any way that I can. And, uh, that's, um, Bell Media and they have eTalk and they have all that. So I thought, Oh, they got lots of stuff. Yeah. They have everything. So I thought, okay, I'll come out here. And it was for, it wasn't for mornings. It was for evenings. And I thought, okay, I could do TV during the day and radio at night, which didn't really happen. Cause you know, I'm coming in at night and there's no one there and I'm not meeting

and I'm not connecting. So, um So I didn't do exactly what I and I probably should have been a bit more motivated and worked a little harder, but I didn't do exactly what I wanted to do. But it ended up working out because I went from there and then over to Kiss and then now where I am at the move. OK, so we're almost at the move here. But OK, sorry, you went too quickly past. Sorry, sorry. When were you on the, what time of day were you on? Evening, 7 to midnight. 7 to midnight. And Blake Carter on Chum FM.

And by the way, as I think about it, if you, and I don't know this for a fact. Which now sounds so bizarre, I can't believe I was on Chum. But big station, eh? That's a big station, big Bell Media station. But, okay, if you were on TV in front of a camera, is there any way you could write off the breast implants? Right? Because if this is like an aesthetic thing for your career,

isn't that a business expense? Like it's hard to say that as a radio person, but as a if you're in front of the camera. I don't know. Is it too late? I'll ask my accountant. Go see what you can do there. Yeah, too. I think that ship has sailed. Oh, never too late to get a tax refund there. Okay. So at Chum FM and you're doing the, like you said, the seven o'clock shift or whatever. Yeah. Seven to midnight, which was difficult

because I just moved here and I'd be like walking to work when everyone's getting off and everyone's sitting on patios, having drinks. And I'm like, oh, how am I going to meet friends? But what was cool at Chum is that this is when Flo, which which is now the move was still under Bell as well. And they were right down the hall. So I became really friendly with everyone over at Flo. So there was like a Peter who I work with now was doing the evening show. So we became friends right away. Cause we were both working at night. Peter Cash with a K. Yes. Sorry. I better get that in there and he'll be upset. All right. Great. And, uh, so how did you end up at Kiss? Like, did you just get a better deal from No, I got fired. I got let go. First time that's ever happened to me in any job. And it was

devastating. And, you know, at one minute, I think I'm going to move here and do TV and I'm going to do all this stuff. And, you know, there's some movement happening. Maybe they'll move me to a different station, but still mornings. And I'm thinking all these things. And, you know, there's some movement happening. Maybe they'll move me to a different station, but still mornings. And I'm thinking all these things and, uh, out of nowhere, it's like the typical, we're making some changes and you're not one of them, or you are one of them and, you know, you're gone. And so it was awful. And I'm like, why did I move here? And then you start reaching out everywhere. And one of the stations I'd wanted to work at, uh, was KISS. And I had reached out. Ashley Greco from CHUM put my name out there to their program director, Karen Steele.

And so she called me in for an interview. It was awesome. It was more of a talk. But she's like, I like you, but we don't really have anything. So I left devastated. Then they called me back for another meeting with Julie Adam. Same thing. Really great conversation.

She's like, we don't have anything. And I left. And I think I sat in my car and cried that day. Not in my car and a boyfriend's car. And I cried. And then they called me back shortly after and said, Hey, can you do some fill in? And it kind of went from there. No, very cool. Very cool. Because, uh, yeah, that's, so you went from a bell media station. They let you go because everyone in radio gets fired once or twice. And you know what they always say is that your next job is the best job. It's good. It's like, which at the time when you're sobbing, cause you've lost your job and you're so embarrassed and it's not,

it's kind of different cause you're on the radio. Cause everyone knows you have to tell everyone cause you're not there anymore. Uh, so it was, it was awful, but it was one of the best things that happened to me. You're hired to be fired in radio though. Yes.

Unless you're Marilyn Dennis. That's another story. Yeah. But, uh, we'll get to her in a minute. So here we are at kiss 92.5. When do they pair you up with speaking of Marilyn Dennis. That's another story. Yeah. But we'll get to her in a minute. So here we are at Kiss 92.5. When do they pair you up with, speaking of Marilyn Dennis, see how this all segues work.

Are you taking notes? Yes. Everything all goes together. When did they pair you with Adam Wilde? I don't remember how long I was there. I was doing some fill-in on the weekends and some of the day shifts. And then it wasn't too much longer a few months i think at the end of summer and did you guys just click like uh because blake and wild became a brand name show

in the city oh wow um yeah it was did you not know that blake and wild yeah well it goes together i think it goes together nicely um it was just kind of easy i I've been really lucky that the people I've worked with, we've just clicked right away. And with Adam, I'd sometimes do segues with him and Cash because I'd be filling in on evenings. And so they'd be like, hey, Blake's here. She's a new girl. And we'd just talk.

And it just kind of went easily. And then one day I got a call in and they're like, hey, we're making some changes. And that is the thing. I was starting to become friends with Cash. And then they're like, we're making changes. And's another change. And so that was hard. Cause it's like, you want to be excited, but then it's also really hard at the same time. And you already knew Adam's mom from, uh, those 104.5 Christmas parties. Yeah. She's, she's wonderful. She's

wonderful. Yeah. You know, I tried to get her on this show because i had roger ashby on i love roger he's such a good time he was great but with maryland not so not i got a nice like oh i'm too busy sorry but not even from her from like her people like i couldn't even get to maryland like this is how big a deal she is her people let me know how busy maryland is i need to get those people i'm gonna pretend this is blake's person and she's got people and she's when she's done with that maryland i know you're you're at new cap and you're happy and we'll get to that in a minute but you should maryland it should be the the blake show with this maryland the maryland that does sound good yeah but no she's she's she's not going anywhere and she worked like i don't know when she sleeps she is always working like she does her radio show her tv show and then i

can see it because i obviously follow her social media she's always out at concerts and dinners and socializing. And I'm like on my couch dead. Like I would like half her energy. I don't know how she does it. She's incredible. Yep. She's been there a very long time too at Chum, I think since the mid eighties, I think. So that's a long time. Yeah. She's a trailblazer. Definitely. Now this, I was fascinated by this. As somebody who just observes Toronto radio stuff, like when I heard, I heard the rumors and I heard... I think I'm the first guy to tweet where you were going, by the way. I believe if we go back to Twitter and we search.

I bet you we find out I was the first to tweet it. I believe I broke the story. But you're at Kiss 92.5, Blake and Wild in the afternoon with Adam Wild. Yes. La, la, la, la. But then you... You're not fired. You quit. You're like

I'm you left for the competition. This is a big exciting thing. This doesn't happen a lot in Toronto radio. Yeah. And that was probably one of like the hardest decisions ever because I I still do love Kiss and I had a really good time at Rogers and and I still consider Adam a good friend. I wanted to do mornings again and I, and Roz and Mocha were in the way. They're not going anywhere, you know, like they're legends. I don't, and that's what's hard too. I love them. I love them. I'm a big fan and I like them personally. Uh, Roz, Mocha and Maury. Um, so I was like, you know what, if I want to do mornings again, I'm going to have to make a really scary move, literally. So can, yeah, no pun intended. So did you, tell me how this works now. So you went from a big

Bell Media station to a big Rogers station, but then you start talking with NuCap, which is obviously a much smaller company than those. Like, did you just, is it like you meet the program director for coffee or something and you chat about like, well, I've worked for New Cap before. So I was still kind of always talking to people, you know, like we were all like, I'm lucky to have made some really great friends and really great connections. So and also Move used to be Flow. So I was friends with everyone from Flow. Right. So I was still always kind of talking and then it just kind of happened.

And you wanted to go back to mornings and they had an opportunity for you to do mornings at, it wasn't, was it remind me, it was already the move when you went to do mornings, right? Yes, it was.

Okay. So it was no longer flow. And did you, so when you tell this, I'm curious when you tell Rogers that you're leaving, do you have to, do you tell Rogers you're going to the move? No, you're leaving. Do you have to, do you tell Rodgers you're going to, uh, the move? No, you can't. It's, it's so hard. It's so hard what you can and can't say, but they kind of,

I think figured it out and I'm close enough with them that it was like, wink, wink. We, we can't say, but we know. And it was so hard. I cried. I'm not a big crier and I don't think I've cried more in like the last year I cried. I'm not a big crier and I don't think I've cried more in like the last year. I cried. It was awful. But do you, and I have no idea how this works. I really don't. But do you have like, uh, well, you have to wait a certain amount of time before you can go to a station. There's stuff in contracts, there's non-competes and stuff. Cause they don't want you to, because you had a gap, right? Like you quit. And then there was some time before you're on the air. Yeah. Cause you know, it wouldn't be fair if you went to a station and you know, they put all this time and money and invest in you and promote you.

And then you just ditch them the next day and go to a new station. Right. So they have things in place so that you're not just bopping around and taking advantage. So there was a little bit of a break, but they were great to me and they were happy for me. And I still hopefully have good relationships with people there. And you want to you always work with everyone again. Everyone moves around. So you don't want to be burning bridges and screwing people over. Well, there's so few companies owning radio stations,

you can't afford to burn any bridges. And we get so close when you do radio. You have to really open up and be vulnerable and talk about things like your breast implants and you talk about everything and you get so close to these people. So I personally don't want to be like, peace out and screw anyone over. I would hope to do it in the best way I can. And you made the move to the move. Yes. And you had a morning show. Which I didn't know. I, I was really, cause when I first came here to Toronto and I was on Chum and Flo was down the

hallway, I was like, man, I'd like to be on Flo. Cause I love hip hop. And, and Peter and I actually back in the day, not a lot of people know, we made like a fake demo one night. We stayed there at like three in the morning and made a fake demo because we were like, maybe we can get a show together. And then seven years later, it finally happened. Like we never, that was kind of like a pipe dream.

We never thought it would happen. And then all of a sudden it kind of just came together. Okay, but Blake, a little real talk here is that you don't start with Peter Cash. No, I started with JJ. Because there was JJ and Melanie. Yes. And they were together forever. And I was love them and listen to them. And like, I know Melanie was, she was at flow. I went to her Christmas party before. She's amazing. But when they rebranded from flow to the move, they let some people go in that

rebrand. And Melanie was a victim of that. She was, she was one of the people. And, and this is the thing, like everything's very hush-hush. And they don't, you know, like your parents are like, I'm going to tell you what you need to know. Like, I'm only going to tell you that. That's kind of how things are. So I wasn't sure what was happening. And then. Yeah.

So they don't say, hey, come over. Like, I guess, I mean, do they tell you, hey, we're making a change and you're going to replace Melanie? No, it doesn't go like that. It's more just some talks like, you know, what are you interested in? What are your goals? What do you want to do? And then things kind of happen. It's like it's like a slow process and then everything happens at once.

So here's my question. Yes. What happened to JJ? JJ's not there anymore. JJ is I know he's working on his own podcast and looking to do something else. It just, I don't know. That was, again, my bosses. Like, I don't wish I had more power than they do.

They don't involve you in those personnel decisions? To a point. You get kind of, or at least in my situation, I don't know, maybe I need to be a little higher up on the totem pole, but it's more like this is what we want to do. These are the changes we're making. This is kind of how it's going. They didn't stumble upon your old demo reel with Peter Cash. No, I don't. You know what? Like we always joke about it at work and we're like, can you listen to one of our boxes? He's like, yeah, yeah, I'll get around to it. I don't think he's ever listened. No one wants to. I don't

even want to hear it. It's from seven years ago. But I, and even with Peter, like I never really thought that would happen. That all happened really quickly. And it was like a phone call. This is what's happening. So, okay. So JJ was let go, I guess. Yeah. So how long ago did that, so when did Peter come in for JJ? Um, when was this?

End of, end of August. They, they, end of August? It was like right after, yeah, right after my birthday. Yeah. It was, it was definitely not the most fun time at all. But as we discussed earlier, everyone in radio gets fired once or twice. Like there's no, I, that's the thing. Like when I talk about it, I'm not, I, you don't want anyone to lose a job, but he's super talented. He like, I'm not worried. Do you know what I mean?

I know he's going to be doing whatever he wants to do real soon. And I know he's super talented he like I'm not worried do you know what I mean I know he's going to be doing whatever he wants to do real soon and I know he's already working on things and he does so many things like he's an insanely talented voiceover artist as well and he has his podcast going and I'm sure he already had something going do you know what I mean so I'm not too worried about him and uh Peter Cash comes in and that's been going it doesn't sound like it's been a long time right because if that's august when they make the change we're only in like uh what are we in now november now so peter cash and uh what do we call what do we call this morning show is it called it's called blake carter with peter cash blake carter with peter cash you know it's a good idea

to get your name on the you want to get your name on the name of the show that's the trick here because if it's just called like the breakfast show or something they can slide anybody in there name on the, you want to get your name on the name of the show. That's the trick here. Because if it's just called like the breakfast show or something, they can slide anybody in there. But if it's called Blake Carter show, like you need to hire another Blake Carter. There's not a lot of you out there. Yeah. Or they just change it again. You know, that's the thing. Everything changes. You never know. So you just got to try to, you know, have fun and do the best you can while you're there. I have a question about changes. Sure. At The Move.

This is recent stuff. Oh, I thought you were going to hit a Tupac song. I was like waiting for changes to start playing. Do you have it? No, I don't have it. I'm going to start. I'm going to play a song. Sure.

While we discuss this. Yes, of course. This is so fresh. Like, in fact, when we've had this booked for a while now, right? Today's appearance by you on this show was booked a while ago when we booked you on toronto mic i had no idea that the move was gonna reposition itself like there's been a format i had no idea like when do you find out again like i think this is what's really funny about radio is that you know especially listeners and stuff they think we know everything and we're controlling everything. The jocks, it's us.

You know, if they don't like something, it's our fault. If they love something, it's also us. There's bosses. We have bosses. We have people that are, you know, telling us what music to play and telling us what to do and even content wise. So this was a higher up decision. Of course, it was a decision I'm insanely happy with. this was a higher up decision.

Of course, it was a decision I'm insanely happy with. And I think a lot of us are, and I'm a big hip hop fan and, and like love all the artists coming out of Toronto. Like this, we have just such a big movement here. So it's, it's so exciting.

It is so exciting. You're now using the tagline Toronto hits Toronto's throwbacks. Yeah. Cause we're playing some new music and we still have some throwbacks in there. Okay. So just for those who like just for those who listen, they've noticed a change,

but just, and for those who don't listen, they don't know what we're talking about. So like you, when the flow became the move, it became very throwback-y. Yeah, it was all throwbacks, like 90s. Right. And now you're going to play, for example, I'm playing right now,

Post Malone. Rockstar. Rockstar. So this was a track, that's a new ad really, and now you're gonna play for example i'm playing right now post malone rock star rock star so this was a track that's a new ad really like this is part of your new like i would call it uh new rap is now in the mix songs like this and that's like only this week this started this started monday this is so fresh this is so fresh here i'm so fresh. Here, I'm going to play another one. Go ahead. I love it. Because this guy... Kendrick Lamar, for example. If you look at streaming... This song still gives me

chills when I hear it. Sorry. When you come back to kick out the jams, that's what it's like. It's just chills for like 90 minutes. It's the best when you come back. It's the jams, that's what it's like. It's just chills for like 90 minutes. It's the best when you come back. It's a great track. So Kendrick Lamar is a good example of an artist who like, I have a 15-year-old boy who listens to, all he listens to is rap. He just streams rap.

And he listens to a lot of Kendrick Lamar. But like prior to this week, where would you hear Kendrick Lamar on Toronto radio? I don't think he heard it anywhere. Like, so this is like in terms of streaming with young people, major star that's not on the airwaves in Toronto, but you guys play Kendrick Lamar now. Now we do, we do, which I'm still feel so excited about it. And, you know, these are artists that I would listen to on my own time, but I couldn't just turn on the radio. And I'm still like, it's still so new that I'm shocked

when I can turn on the station that I work on and hear Kendrick Lamar and not have to go put on a playlist. You know what, it's insane. No, I mean, guys, okay, so here's some names. Like I just checked out what you have playing. And there's like, so J. Cole is in there. That's another one my boy listens to a lot. Yep.

I know most of these artists because he, you know, my dad, I need the French Montana or this. I finally figured out there's a Khaled. And there's a DJ Khaled. I know it's confusing. Why so confusing? I know. And there's so many great, Daniel Caesar,

another great Toronto artist, only 22 years old from Toronto. Again, an infant. Well, that's key. Okay, that's key because you have a CanCon requirement. It makes it so much easier because all these insane talents are coming out of Canada. And especially coming out of Toronto and Scarborough and Brampton. It's insane. And it's not just Drake and The Weeknd anymore.

And I think some people think that's all. You know, for the people that don't know and haven't been following, they're going to learn about some really great local artists. But then a lot of people are like, I know I've been on this for so long. See, this is a great jam, okay? This is Khaled, not DJ Khaled, okay? This is Khaled.

DJ Khaled, he's the you played yourself guy. You played yourself. Yeah, and you always hear them say say DJ Khaled. Right. He's on every track, just yelling his name. This is beautiful.

So you played this this morning during your show. You played this. I'm sure we played it a couple of times. My daughter loves this song. She's 13 and she loves this song. She's 13 and she loves this song. How do you feel though? Because I feel like we're at a really cool time with like hip hop and R&B that it's kind of transcending rap and hip-hop and everyone can kind of get into it and i know some of the heavier trap stuff might be okay so i have a i went to high school with a guy named albert albert and uh i told him you were

coming on this is i'm reading his tweet to me verbatim here okay what does it say how did hip-hop evolve to and then he puts in brackets more like devolve see how funny it is artists like little uzi vert i would really like an explanation for this shit trap sucks this is what albert says but i think albert's looking he's like me he's an old guy like me so he's looking for like public enemy i think it's what we're all and that's that's the thing is like every generation and or even just every few years you know the stuff that you love your kids might not love but then maybe in a little while they will love it you know um and and every genre is not for everybody i know a lot of people don't like the mumbly rap or they don't like the trap where i i i just kind of love it all sure and excited about it. A lot of it I like.

I fell in love with Chance the Rapper who I went to see this summer and there's a lot of the new hip hop I really like. I really love this track. He just seems like he's just a sweetheart. I just want to hug Chance the Rapper. Yeah, he's a very cuddly looking, cuddly guy I think.

I'd like to hug him too. And insanely talented and just a good guy. He does so much awesome charity work for the city. He's just a cool guy. But when you make a change is the nature of radio is that when you change anything you're gonna have to deal with the people who don't like change right this is like oh yeah you can't tweak a format without hearing from people who are like i miss all the 90s and throwbacks and stuff like so how has it been this week dealing with those who are like yeah you

definitely you know what you're gonna get it no matter what and i've worked at enough stations in the city um and across canada now you're gonna get it no matter what you play not every not and this is thing everyone's allowed to like what they like we don't have to all like the same thing how boring would that be if everyone was playing the same song or the same types of music so you know some people weren't happy with the throwbacks. Now that we don't have the throwbacks, some people are like, where are the throwbacks? And we do still have throwbacks. You still, yeah. So you still compliment the contemporary playlist with throwbacks. Like they're still there, but it's not as throwback heavy as it was last week.

When I, the joke, my wife listens to the, listens, I think she still listens. I'm not saying she has stopped listening, but she was listening to the move with the throwbacks. And when I go in her car, cause I usually drive my car, but sometimes I'll pop in her car cause it's more convenient and it's always on the move. And the joke I said to her was every time I turn on the car, I hear the Fugees. Okay. I said, every second track is the Fugees. Like I heard this song a lot when you, when the switch first happened. So, um, the people who enjoyed hearing like lots of Fugees, they're going to be like, what's with the the Yo Gotti or the Yo Gotti? Yeah, you might still hear a Fugees in there because we still do have the throwbacks, but you just can't ever make anyone happy.

And people kept asking for the R&B and the hip hop and people wanted new songs and they wanted hits. And even though we had been throwbacks for a while, we were still getting requests. Which was funny. Like on the Friday before they made the changes, we got about two or three requests for Post Malone Rockstar. And I'm like, how do they even know? It's coming. We couldn't say anything and it's coming. We just, you just got to keep trying.

And hopefully people love this as much as we love it. And it works. But it is kind of insane. Like Toronto, which is a a huge city what is this the fourth biggest like metropolis in north america what a massive city and what a diverse city like uh so much diversity like it's insane when you consider that prior to this week no station in the city was playing kendrick lamar like digest that for a minute that's crazy right i work like i'm sorry i'm friends with a lot of radio people obviously who work at different stations in the city,

whether it's a rock station, Top 40, and when I go to a party with them, that's what we're listening to. Do you know what I mean? We're dancing to Yo Gotti, so I know people

love this music and it is insane that no one was playing it before. So here's my question now that I've chewed on your changes for the last few days here.

How is, so the move now, is it me or is it now the same as days here. How is, so the move now, is it me or is it now the same as flow? Like how was the flow different from the current move or is it very similar? I'd say it's, it's still similar. I just think it's so hard not to keep saying move and make it cheesy, but you know,

it's kind of, we have moved on and we went with move and, but what was flow before it became the Throwbacks Move and it was Flow, it was playing current hip hop, right? Yeah. But not as hard maybe? Was it, I don't know, like maybe you weren't here.

I'm trying to think. Well, when I first came here, it was when The Weeknd was just getting big and it was a lot of drinks. Oh, there was, I get it now. No, say no more. There wasn't enough CanCon to support the format. No, this is a Canadian dilemma.

Like for sure, say no more. I'm totally just, it just like crystallized. You couldn't be this because there wasn't enough Canadian music in that genre to support it.

It's why Q107 when it was classic rock had to play so much Guess Who. Every second track had to be the Guess Who because you had to have your CanCon requirement and there, you know?

And I don't think listeners know that either, that there is a thing with a CanCon requirement. But now it's like it doesn't matter that there's a requirement because all of the top artists are Canadian. Right, right. And the majority of them from Toronto. And Party Next Door? I have to admit, do you know Party Next Door? Yes. I wish I knew

him. I know his music. Jessie Reyes she's incredible she was at our station and I missed it I had something else that afternoon every time someone brings her up I go I almost met her everyone at the station has pictures with her

we used to have this contest who's met the most famous person and then the summer that just passed my daughter met Will Smith and now the contest is ruined now because how am I going to meet someone bigger than will he was jayden was filming a movie will smith's son was filming a movie in toronto and across the street from my daughter's very good friends uh and so they would go there to see uh jayden smith filming this movie which is called life in a Year?

No, A Year and a Day? Life in a Day? A Year and a Day? Something like that. You'll know when it comes out as that one. But Will apparently came to Toronto to support his son. And Will was hanging out there too. And Will came over.

There's a video of it. Will comes over to meet the girls, who are like the excited 13-year-old girls who are watching Jaden film or whatever. And he was like, meets them, you know, gives a hug, does photos. So now that my daughter has met Will Smith, She won forever. Yeah, like I don't know how to like, Is that contest over?

Like Ron McClain doesn't compete. Like how am I going to compete with that? You know, I can't. It's over. I think it depends which circle you're in. Yeah, I don't know how to beat. That might trump it. If anyone can hook me up with someone bigger, I don't even know. I was thinking of like the list of people bigger than will smith is really small

like i don't even know who to like target to beat this that's pretty that's pretty big yeah like is tom hanks bigger than will smith i don't think so yeah i think maybe depends on the age group like i think my mom would be more into Tom Hanks. That's right. That's right. Yeah, that's right. It depends on the age group. Okay. Format's changed. You're going to love it. And if you are missing the throwbacks, they're still there. And you know, like change sucks. Some people just hate change, but this is a change that can happen now where maybe it couldn't have happened a couple of years ago because now there's enough Canadian content to support the change. I just put on my program director's hat and I figured it all out. Look at how smart I am.

One thing I have to ask, though, my friend Wesley Williams, is there still room for this track? Can this jam still get played on The Move? Definitely. Because it was definitely played prior to this week. Of course. Make sure there's room for it. Don't worry,

it's not going anywhere. Speaking of my friends, Scott Turner. Is Scott Turner at The Move? Yeah, he's the program director. He is my boss. Did he have, was it his decision

to make this move? No pun intended, we're going to keep doing that? It's so hard not to say the word move, though, when talking about this. I know. I do it all the time.

Make room for Maestro in your new place. Even Beats told me that he loved... Maestro's not going anywhere. Good, because it's just... No one else is playing Maestro. You're like the only station,

excluding any CBC Radio 2 or whatever. This is a classic song, though. Like, this..., or whatever. This is a classic song though. Like this, don't worry. This is a classic throwback for Toronto. Keep it going. Tell me what's,

tell me about working with Scott Turner and what influence he's had over, uh, the playlist. If you know, like, like when you get these things from up high and they come down and say, okay, now we play,

you know, Khaled and we play French Montana or whatever. And Kendrick Lamar and J Cole. Uh, is that like coming from Scott? I think Scott really, really loved and believed in the throwbacks. And what's cool about Scott is he just loves radio and loves music so much. And he can appreciate music.

It doesn't really matter what his favorite kind of music is. He can just appreciate what's popular and why people like it, you know? And so I don't know exactly where this all came. I think it was like a group thing, obviously, but he's into it. He seems excited, but he like, he loves, like that was his thing, the throwbacks. So I was worried he was going to be sad and he's not.

He's like right on board. Like, let's do this. And he's going to make sure there's a little maestro in the mix. Yeah, yeah. He won't. Scott Turner himself will come down and press play on the maestro i'm a big fan of scott turner uh when he was with chorus he did a show on sundays uh at the edge uh called spirit of radio sundays and i loved it because it was like geared at like old farts like me who just wanted to hear

like the old jams and he has a lot of fans and what i liked about him is he would take my calls like i could ask him questions about it and he would answer the phone and talk to me directly like he was so accessible and so like real he he will talk to anyone he loves so i shouldn't be like flattered by this he will talk to anyone no no no no but he that's the thing like he loves um to respond to listener emails so if you don't like anything email scott turner and on me um he likes to you know jump on the facebook page and respond he just he just likes to talk to people and he just loves to talk radio and he loves to talk music yeah absolutely i'm gonna get him back to kick out the jams uh have you had him down here yep

yes okay awesome because he has a i've had lots people from, before your time when you were out west, you're very young anyways, but the old CFNY, like the David Marsden Spirit of Radio CFNY from like the 80s, I've had a lot of those people here just because I'm fascinated with that era of music in Toronto.

So Scott Turner was a part of that. So he came over to talk about that. But I'm going to get him back to kick out the jams. I have some questions for you, Blake go ahead from uh listeners okay and this one's kind of rude i hate to say this it's kind of rude but it's from andrew and it's a legit question he has for you and i'm just gonna read it because it's not from me but it's from andrew and andrew says why does blake carter play dumber than she actually is? I've heard her

act like she doesn't know much about a subject, but her follow-up questions and behavior always prove otherwise. And then he follows that up with, I think it's really awful. Women tend to dumb themselves down when they have male co-hosts. I'm not sure who it's supposed to appeal to. I wish I could remember the anecdotal reference because it really stuck with me. So I, that's Andrew's question. Um, is there like when you play off, uh, your co-host, do you sometimes for the shtick or sometimes for the, uh, entertainment value, will you play dumb? I'm, I don't think I play, well, I think I'm joking or being sarcastic and I have a, my sarcastic voice and my regular voice is very close to the same thing. So I think sometimes maybe on radio, people don't get that I'm joking.

Like I'll even say sometimes like, yeah, I'm so into sports. I'm so sports. And then people actually think I am. And, you know, and I'm like, no, I was totally sarcastic. Like I know nothing. You know, I'm very self-deprecating. I like to joke around and I'm like, no, I was totally sarcastic. I know nothing. You know, I'm very self-deprecating. I like to joke around and I'm very sarcastic. So you might have thought I was playing dumb,

but I could just be messing with you. And I also like to be unassuming. You can get away with more that way. People don't expect it. The good part of that question is he's... He really thought a lot about me though. So I'm very like... And he says you're not dumb. I know.

You prove yourself otherwise. You are not dumb, which is what I think is the takeaway from this. I think Andrew doesn't get my sense of humor or just, you know, maybe I just said something that rubbed him the wrong way or maybe I was just joking. But that's not a thing. Or maybe I really didn't know what I was talking about.

I'm the first person to admit maybe I really had no clue about that topic. So when I was talking about. I'm the first person to admit. Maybe I, maybe I really had no clue about that. So when I got this question, uh, I wondered like, is that a trope or like a thing where when there's a guy and a girl hosting a show, the girl acts a bit dumb,

like, because that's like, um, I feel like that's like an ancient, the way they used to do things. Yeah. The girl was supposed to be the co-host. The girl was supposed to be the laugh track.

She was just there to support the male. And I just think that has there to support the male. And I just think that has so gone out the window. I always think of Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP, who was a beautiful woman, voluptuous, beautiful woman, really,

really smart, but she knew how to play a character to sort of get her way, like use her sex appeal and like act dumb to kind of wait. Like she was. I don't know if I ever, I think I can joke around. I don't think, I also don't't i don't want to ever sound dumb so if i'm not in like super informed on a topic i'm not gonna take my soapbox and go off on it and act like i know better or preach to people unless i really know about it and definitely like you like i'm a person i have insecurities i don't want to sound stupid. No, so you're not playing dumb.

That's what you're saying. I really am dumb. You really are dumb. It's not an act. That's funny. Shane Smith asks, why is music heard on radio so different from radio in clubs and bars? You never hear Ed Sheeran in clubs.

And he puts in parentheses, thankfully. I don't think this is directly at your playlist at The Move. I think this is like a general statement. Well, because everyone would just be like laying on a couch cuddling if we played Ed Sheeran at a club. Because people at a club want like fast, hyped up dancing music. Right. That's just, that's programming. But we want to sing along.

And also a club isn't radio. A club is DJ. And it's like quick snippets of it. You're not going to hear a full song at a club either. I don't get to many clubs, so I can't speak to this one. It's been a while for me. And when I used to go to clubs, it was to hear grunge music. I wanted to hear Rage Against the Machine so I could go in the mosh pit.

I never went to clubs and heard dance music. I never did that. I see. I'm like a hip hop club person. If I go to a club, I want to dance and I want to dance to hip hop. They would throw some Cypress Hill into the mix. But I do i do love rock and i'll like listen to that when i drive and i'll go to a rock club but if i'm gonna dance it needs to be hip-hop here yeah uh what else we have here uh derrick this guy derrick wellsman says for blake isn't your morning show voice guy

just the greatest this derrick guy thinks your morning show voice guy is really good. Is that true? Who does your voices? We have, we are so lucky. I feel like we have like this like secret treasure that nobody realizes, like how insanely, insanely,

like we are so lucky to have him. He's very good at the imaging. That's what it's called. The imaging. Yeah. And his voice. So, but terrible juror, like don't put him on a jury, but he's a great. There imaging. That's what it's called. The imaging. Yeah. And his voice. So, but terrible juror,

like don't put him on a jury, but he's a great, but, um, I just adore him. And so I do a thing called Blake's take, which is my entertainment and I, it's called Blake's take.

Uh, and he started doing for us like as a joke when we were just like warming up the show and doing some practice shows, he would make like a joking intro. And I'm like, no, I really like that. So now every day I write new ones about random pop culture stuff and I'll send them to

him, but I never know what he's going to do with them. And he adds voices. And that's my, one of my favorite parts of the show is hearing. I don't listen to them before I listened to them live on the radio. So you can have an authentic reaction. Like when you came here and you, we were chatting and I said, stop talking to me because we need to do this on the recording because you don't want to fake you don't want to fake stuff right no i and people can smell fakery and that's why when you talk about your breast implants and stuff like i find it refreshing because that's real talk like this is a real thing and you're going to talk honestly about it and it's not shtick it's just it's blake and i think that's what i love i loved it if people have questions like reach out to me i don't mind i like to talk about pretty much that's why i'm on the radio i like to talk and i like to talk to people so yeah, like reach out to me. I don't mind. I like to talk about pretty much.

That's why I'm on the radio. I like to talk and I like to talk to people. So yeah, Derek is incredible and I love him. So lucky to have him. Around the corner, like, can you see it? Do you see the Blue Jay thing on the wall? I see the Blue Jays. And okay, you can't see from here, but Roy Halliday signed that. The aforementioned greatest starting pitcher in Blue Jays history.

His autograph is on that. Ask me. I'm trying so hard to see what it is. Itays history. His autograph is on that. Ask me. I'm trying so hard to see what it is. It's there. I'll show you later. But ask me who gave that to me so that I could put it. Oh my gosh. Who gave you that Blue Jays poster with Roy Halladay's signature on it?

It's a great question, Blake. Derek Welsman. Really? Yeah. Oh, are you guys really good friends uh he's been here we are uh we communicate a lot digitally okay but he's i won't uh he came here for an episode and we talked about his uh because he was on the dean blendel show and stuff and we talked about his career in radio he's so funny and i yeah i'm a i have a lot of time for derrick he's a big argos

fan so we should probably say go Argos. Like I know he's excited about it. Go Argos. And I know they are hosting a conference final. The thing about the CFL that makes me laugh is that we kind of, we went, there we go. I think we had a 500 record and now we're in the conference final. Like we skipped, you know what I mean? Wait, wait, wait.

The CFL is football, right? Right. I'm just kidding. Back to Andrew at the beginning there. We don't play dumb, remember? But so for Derek, we'll just say go Argos. And he's great. So I'm now thinking of New Cap. And you have two radio stations in Toronto. Yes.

You have The Move, where you work. And there is Boom. Boom. How close are the studios? Like, are you down the hall? I can touch the studio. I can touch Stu Jeffries. I shouldn't say that, but I could. Stu, by the way, cried twice on my show. He sat there and cried twice. Yes.

So I'm thinking, so you're the first. What did you do to him? I was just, you know, talking to him about his legacy. And he choked up a couple of times. But I will say this. I think you're my first person from the move slash flow like you're my first person cool first of many hopefully yes but on the other side there at the boom side i've had uh i've had stew jeffries on i've had kj on yes i've had may pots on i love all of derrick on

like i think i don't know who i'm missing like i think i've almost collected the whole set but uh you're my first person at the the 93.5 yeah we're like we're lucky to have them kind of like we call them you know sister stations and we call them the big sister and we learn a lot from them and um they're all really great people like Stu will like pass by the studio in the morning and be like I love this song this is a great song or he'll just like he'll pick up on something because like you know they play the different stations in the office and like one day it's one station one day it's the other so he'll come in and comment on a break and you're like stew jeffries likes what i said i'm uh i only met him the one time usually that's how it works but those people i mentioned uh may pots kj and um

stew all sweethearts like just just the nicest although k. Although KJ, I found out of KJ, he didn't, he wasn't particularly comfortable talking about himself, which made for an interesting experience because where I wanted to talk about a station that called CFTR before your time, I'm not talking about the old news thing,

but that used to be top 40. And I, KJ was a big part of that and it was a big part of my youth. And I had lots of CFTR questions and I could tell he wasn't really comfy with going down McMemory Road and talking about old radio stories. It wasn't KJ's thing.

But Sweetheart of a Man, May Potts was tremendous. Speaking of the old CFNY I mentioned earlier with Scott Turner, May Potts was a key person there. She is the person because she's coming on after us, but Potts was a key person. She is the person like, cause I'm, cause she's coming on after us, but she's there a little early. And so like, she's,

I, I pee like I'm pregnant. So I'm always going to pee and she's like doing her makeup. So like, she's my bathroom friend. We always meet in the bathroom and have our conversation and check in with each other. She's just a wonderful person.

She's wonderful. And you already mentioned Stu Jeffries is wonderful. And Matt story, when he checks in, like when he's filling in every now and then he's great. They're so, they're awesome. Speaking of you,

you know, Stu Jeffries, who used to host a country music show. Did you know that? I did not know that. He has a country music background. I'm not surprised. He looks like he would look good in a cowboy hat.

Well, when you were coming on, I had a question for you. I wanted to know your song, like I'll say your favorite song, so we could play it and chat about it as sort of to get to know your song, like I'll say your favorite song so we could play it and chat about it as sort of to get to know you a little bit. And as a teaser for when you come back to kick out the jams. Okay. And I was thinking in my head, I'm thinking, oh, the chick from the

move. I'm going to get myself a little Uzi Vert song or a little Wayne song, but let's play it now and then we'll talk about it. Please do. Blame it all on my roots I showed up in boots And ruined your black tie affair The last one to know The last one to show I was the last one you know the last one to show I was the last one you thought you'd see there

and I saw the surprise and the fear in his eyes when I took his glass of champagne and I toasted you said honey we may be through but you'll never hear me complain.

Cause I got friends in all places. You can sing along if you want. It is taking everything in me not to screech into the microphone. Do it. I can't do it. I've done it before at a talent competition and never again. Fine, I'll do it. I've done it before at a talent competition and never again. Fine, I'll do it. I got a friend.

Nope, we're hungry. I think I'll slip on down to the oasis. Oh, I've got a friend in love. Stu will be happy to hear you've chosen Garth Brooks. I just, I have many reasons for this song. Let me hear it. This is Friends in Low Places, as if you didn't know. Tell us.

Okay, so when I was younger, I really admired this girl who was a couple years older than me, and she could sing like, oh my goodness. She had an incredible voice. And one year, we all had a trailer at the same campground she sang this song and i was much younger and i just looked up to her and she sang this song and i just of course i had to go find this song and memorize it and i had to sing this song like natalie steel and i memorized it and then years later in high school i had a girlfriend with another beautiful voice but she was scared to sing on her own and her sister used to also um

actually you might know do you know missy peregrine she scared to sing on her own. And her sister used to also... Actually, you might know. Do you know Missy Peregrine? She used to be on Rookie Blue. And now she's doing a couple other movies. Yeah, so people in Toronto will know Missy Peregrine. So her little sister and her used to sing. And when Missy graduated, her sister Mandy was too scared to sing on her own. So she said, will you sing with me? I can't sing. And we sang this

in front of the whole school in grade 12. And then flash forward again, I voiced the Garth channel on SiriusXM. Just so random. Get out of here. So now I feel like I've just always had a connection to this song. It just makes you happy, though. I don't care if you like hip-hop or rock or what,

but there's something about this song. I would say this crossed over. Like, you know, this is not a country... This is a country song, yes, but it's a pop, a pop hit. It's a drinking buddy song. It's like you're sitting around the campfire or you hear it at a wedding or, you know, I screech it at home all the time. But it just kind of keeps popping up in my life in little moments and I just love it. Before Kiss was Kiss, it was Kiss with a C and this was their jam.

They lived off of this new country stuff. And see, I never even listened to this when it was on the radio. I just heard it from a girl singing it and then looked it up on my own and yeah, it just keeps coming back into my life and I just love it. I love it when people go off script.

Like, I did not see Garth Brooks coming when I asked you for your favorite song. I'm honest, I would have lost a lot of money on that bet. So I just like it when people kind of throw you a curveball. I love him. He just won Country Entertainer of the Year for like the sixth time last night at the CMAs. Super talented. Is he still active, like producing new music?

I think he's doing new stuff. You think he just feasts off these gems? He has such a big catalog, like it's insane. Got to crack open a Great Lakes beer when you listen to this jam. Holy smokes. Definitely a drinking song. Well, that's great. Yeah, it just makes me happy. You can't help but feel happy hearing that song.

My final question for you, Blake. Okay. First of all, did you have a good time? Yeah, of course. It's not too cold because I'm having furnace issues. Like I said, I'm always cold. So I'm in like a knit and a leather jacket and high socks. I'm good.

What is, so you're still very young. You barely 30. Thank you. Just like just reached 30, if you will. And then you're, so you're still in the early part of your career. What's your dream gig? Like, do you, are you now living your dream or is there another, uh, step? No, I think there's always, I have so many things. Um, I want to

continue to do morning radio and I hopefully to have, I hope to have a very successful show. Um, I still would love to do TV at some point. I would love to like host an HGTV show. I love home reno shows and like interior design. That's one of my goals. Um, I would also love to like host an HGTV show. I love home reno shows and like interior design. That's one of my goals. I would also love to have like a dirty late night show like Chelsea Handler used to have with Chelsea Lately. That's like, that was my most favorite thing. I love Chelsea Handler.

And then I would also like to have a dog sanctuary and maybe like a clothing store. I love, I love a lot of things. So I don't think I'll ever, I'm like the laziest person with like so many ambitions. So the dirty late show, have you considered doing like an independent podcast where you let that persona shine?

I've thought about those things. Yeah, it's just where do you find the time? I also have a very busy schedule of reality TV and cuddling with my dogs. So I try to fit that in as well. Is there like a, you, you, you mentioned fiance, the big F word, like, is there a date for this wedding or is this like a perpetual state? We'll see. Um, I think, you know, once you get engaged, everyone wants to know when

the wedding's coming and we didn't really think about that part. But isn't that what engagement is? Like, what is the point of an engagement? Um, a lot of things happen. And once we got engaged, I started a new job. We bought our first place. So we're kind of like just settling into that life and working on our careers and it'll come. Well, thanks for doing this.

Thank you for having me. This was fun. Thank you for the coffee. Anytime. And thank you for coming back to kick out the jams at a later date.

I'll be back. And that brings us to the end of our 280th show. You can follow me on Twitter. I'm at Toronto Mike. Blake is at Blake show, but it's actually Blake's show.

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