Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Jeremy Hotz: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1625

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

In this 1625th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with comedian Jeremy Hotz about Canada vs. USA, how prescient he was on this subject, The Newsroom, Speed 2 and why he moved to the US in the first place. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Ridley Funeral Home, and RecycleMyElectronics.ca. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at [e-mail]

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Joining me today making his in-person debut is Jeremy Hots. Welcome Jeremy. In person. You have no, let me guess. You have no memory of making your Toronto mic debut. No. See, we did a zoom. Yeah. I wrote down the description. I should have got the, the episode number, but I chatted with you about working at yuck yucks. Oh boy. Your role in the newsroom. Wow. Just for laughs. Yeah. Your move to the United States of America to be discussed. Yes. Speed two. Wow. Did you get an Oscar nom for

speed? I did not. I do. You were snubbed. That's when we used the word snubbed and more. And we talked for an hour and 16 minutes. So we have had an hour, 16 minute conversation via Zoom. But I'm kind of with you or I don't remember Zooms either.

Like I want an in-person conversation. And here you are. Yeah, I came, we came in and we got up your, we got up your driveway somehow and you know, Mike, you gotta, you gotta shovel it. Oh, is this slippery? Is it slippery out there? I gotta salt that thing. I'll get one of my lackeys to do it, but can you tell us who is in the room with us today? Like maybe start with the woman on your left. And then I want to know about what's in your arms here. Because the woman on your left is not in your arms now. No, that's my road manager, Sophia, whom without it, there would be no show.

Because all I do is the show. She just points and goes, I go, what do I do? She goes points and I walk that way. And then there's the stage. That's how or else without her. No, no, I know you know you're Mike I mean I might you don't have to talk in the mic but I did unmuted if you wanted to how is it working with Jeremy Han very entertaining like wink if you're being held against your will there's no winking here no we have a good time get along. And there's a lot of humor along the way.

Because it's a real thing. I'm not, I'm not, it's this, I'm this way off stage. This is, you're, no shtick with you. Like Jeremy Hots is Jeremy Hots. Yep. Ask me the right questions and you'll get the right answers. It's like that line in, what is that, that show with Matthew McConaughey and geez it'll come to me if I start asking the right questions and I'm gonna try to do that what's in

your arms Jeremy that's Shackleton the wonder dog right here is it like a comfort thing like I'm happy you brought Shackleton but does this make you relax during you know that's not what it is it's more about him because if I don't hold him then he has anxiety so you see the two of us go back and forth with anxiety We just give it and take it from each other and that works. So you brought Shackleton from California Yeah, cuz the fans like I showed him online and then he became a star So then that's what happened see when you said it was Shaq My initial thought was Eddie Shaq like clear, clear the track, here comes Shaq.

And I was thinking Eddie Shaq. But Shackleton sounds like very formal. You know, the explorer, what he did was he led a group of people into the Antarctic. And then he got lost. And he led them out. And they lived. So somehow he's a hero. Not responsible. He's a hero. Not responsible.

He's a hero. Okay? I have, I pulled some choice clips and I, a lot of ground I want to cover here, but I got a nice note when I said you were coming by to make your in-person debut. Yeah. And as far as you're concerned, it's your like Toronto Mike debut because you have no memory of the zoom we had. Neither do you.

Why? So there you go. What year was it? You know what? I know answers to all of this is at my fingertips. I'm going to search it here. Jeremy Hottes, Toronto miked. You do a lot of interviews, but it was episode 980. Okay. That's a long time ago. That's before a thousand. January 6th. Oh, Jan six 2022.

Okay. Not that bad. No, not that bad. I'm looking at the screen cap. You're wearing a, how many shows have you done? 1649? How many? Yeah, something like that.

Wow. Wow. But I got a nice note from, uh, John wing. John wing. He's a comic. I knew him from when I started He writes I used to take Jeremy Hott's drops What's he talking about? Like did you used to take Jeremy Hott's drops? I have no idea what he's talking about Do you ever like hang out with John isn't he in California? No, he's here, but he was in California. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah

Yeah, John lives here. I think so. I think he lives in Halifax, he's here, but he was in California. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. John lives here, I think. So I think he lives in Halifax or something. Oh, okay. Or maybe Toronto. I don't know. Well, I got to follow up with John. If he's in Toronto, he's got to make his Toronto Mike in-person debut.

But I know I had a conversation with Wing also via Zoom. So I remember very little, but he was telling me he's able to perform Ralph Ben-Murgy's standup from whatever, early eighties or whatever. That's hilarious. Like, do you remember any Ben-Murgy's standup from whatever, early 80s or whatever. That's hilarious. Like, do you remember any Ben-Murgy standup? Ralph?

Yes. No, Ralph, I don't recall Ralph ever telling a joke. Ah! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Wings says he's gonna come on and do the entire set. That's incredible, cause I would laugh, cause I would probably remember some of it. I probably would.

Ralph Ben-Murphy was the host of Fridays or Saturday nights at Yuck Yucks at the Downtown Club years ago. And their stuff went down there. We saw Mike McDonald in a fist fight one night with someone in the crowd in front of the club after the show. What kind of comic was Mike McDonald? I hear such glowing reviews from fellow comics. Yeah, when he when I first started, he was the man. You know what I mean?

Like he just was funnier than everybody. And he was getting all the stuff. And then I don't know. Things go weird in show business, you know. I do know. And another note, so I got this on Blue Sky. Are you on Blue Sky yet? No, I'm not on Blue Sky. I must prefer cloudier weather. Well maybe Sophia can create a proxy account on Blue Sky just so I can tag it, but the Dolly Lama says, I said, oh Jeremy's coming over tomorrow,

and he writes, what a coincidence. I just watched Dark Side of Comedy about Norm MacDonald last night. I'm sure he'll come up can you tell me what what kind of comic was Norm as if I don't know what kind of comic was Norm MacDonald so Mike MacDonald Norm MacDonald unrelated they were unrelated and Tracy McDonald's the third one there's a lot of McDonald's that are comedians for some reason from Canada. Anyway, Norm, we did a gig together in Ottawa because we both started in Ottawa, it's a bit ahead of me,

and we had a gig at the Shadow Laurier and it was the worst gig that either of us did. So we always loved to see each other. And then one guy would go, remember that gig at the Shadow, I'll tell you what happened. We went in there and it was set up by the owner of the comedy club.

And he said, it's at the Shadow Laurier, room 1246. So we're going, we're knocking the door, there's a guy there and he goes, okay, we're gonna do the show in this room. And it's just like, there was a bedroom and then there was like another room. And then he goes, they're gonna come in, hide behind the curtains. Yeah, he did.

And then we were there and then he pulls, opens the curtains. He goes, surprise everybody. It's yuck yucks, comedians and nobody clapped. Well, that was a surprise. They just all looked at him and thought, and the look on their face was, what have you done? That's true. So then we did that show and they were sitting on the floor.

I remember there weren't even in chairs. They were just on the floor looking up at us like, you know, like camp. So we've already just, just in our early conversation here here we've had chats about Mike McDonald, Norm McDonald, both gone too soon. Yeah, that's the thing. When you get older and you're... But they weren't old enough. No, but comedy, you know, it's just, it's a different kind of life.

So you never know. How are you holding up? I'm okay. I got the dog. You got the dog and you got Sophia. So I'll be okay. You know, I get lasagna for doing this, right? Yeah. You want a Palma Pasta lasagna?

I'll tell you, the owner of Palma Pasta, it's the Pachucci family. But Anthony Pachucci is the biggest Jeremy Hart's fan. He goes and sees you live all the time. See, there you go. So if he if he knows you're eating some Pal Palma pasta lasagna, you'll make his day. See how easy it is? All right, you get the Palma pasta lasagna for sure. Absolutely here.

Now Angus, I don't know who Angus is, but he just says, you Jeremy Hodts are a wonderful person to your fans. I am actually. I'm good to them because- Is that your burner account? Are you on Blue Sky as Angus? I'm not on blue sky

What is blue sky? It's like Twitter about the Nazis. Oh Like if you took Twitter and remove the Nazi what if you got a picture you want to show can you do that? Yeah, okay, please. We're after this chat this wonderful chat I'm gonna take a picture with you by Toronto tree. So Dave Thomas calls it Toronto tree. SCTV is Dave Thomas, not the guy, Wendy's guy, you died. But I know that picture is going to, yeah, I'm going to put it all over the place. Okay. Blue skies. It will be up in the blue sky. So I'll be able to see it. 100% 100% speaking of blue sky. So, so by the way, Norm, I'll just say

Mike McDonald, I would see him on TV and I would, I would respect his talents, but Norm McDonald, man, that guy was a legend to me. I consumed as much Norm McDonald as I possibly could. That was your guy? That was one of my guys, that guy and Jeremy Hott. That guy, so great loss. I'm bouncing around now, but I'm thinking about you at Yuck Yucks. Did you see Jim Carrey at Yuck Yucks?

No, he was before me. I never did, but he did host something that I was on once. That's it. I didn't really see him much and I never saw him. It's not like he played the comedy clubs in Los Angeles. He didn't. I got a source telling me that they almost,

apparently young Jim Carrey was going to host Just Like Mom. Do you remember Just Like Mom? No, what is that? It was like a game show and they filmed it in aging court. Fergie Oliver hosted this thing. Kids would bake something and the parents had to guess which one their kid baked. It's kind of a kind of a ridiculous thing.

You know, he would have been good with kids though, honestly speaking. He would have been great because he was really he was a great actor that way. He could move and pull faces and so he would have been great because he was really he was a great actor that way he could move and and pull faces And so he would have been fantastic Speaking of fantastic Andrew Stokely audio guru who helped me out when I was originally setting up this studio like 12 years ago He worked on the newsroom. Oh I was on that show apparently so yeah, I watched the newsroom and so Andrew writes and please tell Jeremy I say hi. I worked on the newsroom and so Andrew Wright said please tell Jeremy I say hi

I worked on the newsroom with him many many years ago. Yeah, we were young and stuff and we still got dates That was no longer no, well, no you try but they say no now Before they gave you a chance, you know, not anymore. Boy, the newsroom, those were the days, cause no, we just, it was the CBC and there was no other show. And we just ran around the halls and it was all like, like, you know, people who work at the CBC, they're like, you know, government people

and they would open their door and yell, shut up! And then shut up. I had a guy over here named Colin Brunton. Do you know this name? Well, he was like a producer of the newsroom, apparently. But anyway, I had him over because of his relationship with the Gary is Gary Top and Gary Cormier. Yeah, but he was we so I brought up the newsroom because he worked on it and I enjoyed the newsroom very much actually. And you were great on the newsroom. But he told me this story about Ken Finkelman going flying to New York or something to have an interview to become a writer on the Simpsons like in this story basically the story is that Ken's in this interview and there you know he's gonna be right with the freaking Simpsons and at some point he excuses himself and he

leaves the room and he goes straight to the airport and flies home man can can didn't want to write on the Simpsons so how how I'm going to look in the eyes here, Jeremy. Yeah. You got beautiful eyes. Yeah. You know this? Yes. I've been told this.

Ken Finkelman, I would like to talk to him for a variety of reasons. And every time I go on, whether it be Blue Sky or elsewhere and just say, does anyone is anyone friendly with Ken? I like to reach out. Basically the responses I get make me think he has no friends. Like what was Ken like? Ken was a great guy and he's a strange dude, but you know, sometimes he gets freaked out

by things that aren't real. Okay, I'll tell you the story. I'm ready. So he calls me into the bathroom of his dressing room and he goes, Hots, look at the toilet. And there's a tiny black feather on the toilet. It's just landed there. And he goes, I can't use this.

And I'm like, how come? And he goes, it's obviously some kind of voodoo thing. And I said, Ken, you hung your jacket over there and the feather came out of the jacket and fell on the toilet. And he goes, how do you know? Are you a detective? And then I just turned around and walked out of the jacket and fell on the toilet. And he goes, how do you know, are you a detective? And then I just turned around and walked out of the dressing room. You know, come on.

That's a great story. Come on. Have you had any contact of Ken Finkelman since the newsroom? I think he called, but I didn't pick up because I remembered the feather thing. Well, maybe he's out there listening right now. So Ken, I do want to talk to you, if you could write me, Mike at Toronto Mike dot com.

Best show I was ever on in my life, honestly speaking though. Oh yeah, no, he was ahead of his time in Canada. Like the Canadian television industry, if there is one, they should really embrace him and they should give him an award or something because he made a show, he was way ahead of his time. He made a very he was way ahead of his time, he made a very cool show way ahead of its time. No argument from me. And again, you were great on it.

I don't know what you were better in though, The Newsroom or Speed 2. Well, you know, I'll tell you the story of that. So the reason why I did Speed 2 was because I did the first six episodes of The Newsroom at the CBC and they didn't renew my contract. So I went and auditioned for Speed 2 and I got it. And then they tried to renew my contract.

Too late. Why didn't they renew your contract? CBC, man. But that's fucked up, because that is as big a hit as CBC is going to get. Yeah. So then what happened was... And you were critically acclaimed in that role.

Doesn't matter. We're doing it. We, you know, because if that's an HBO show, they lock you up for five years or whatever they do down there. Right. This is why Scott Thompson went on Larry Sanders show. That's right. You know, see how that works. CBC. Well, you know, there's a possible. Whenever I tell things like that, they just look at me and go, well, how come? And then I just, yeah, but I know the home for that real talk. Like we need to understand that I always say we eat our young in this country.

Oh, it's worse than that. And this all kind of ties together where I wanted to go with you before we talk about your upcoming three miserable. Nice. Did I say that right? Richmond Hills Center for the Performing Arts. You are gonna be, that's why you're here and not on Zoom because you're actually in the GTA

because you're gonna be there February 7th. And I'm dropping this episode today, which is February 4. When you say February, do you nail that R? Like some people say February. Yeah, you do. What is so, you say- No, stop putting the R in and just it's February. Yeah, you do. What is so you say? No, stop putting the R in and just it's. No, but I think the R belong.

It's February. Say it again. February. No, it's February. No, you don't put the R in. That's you're saying Feb. I'm looking at it right now. There's clearly an R in there.

There's clearly an R. They are silent. And it is silent. Right. Like that's he in Toronto. You're not supposed to say I get it now. OK, but this is Richmond Hills Center for the Performing Arts. You're there February 7th. I'm saying it the way I like to say it if you don't mind. And that's, we're going to talk more about that later, but I

wanted to talk about your living in the United States. So how long now have you been living in the USA? Most of my life, it looks like 20 some odd years. And what was the impetus for going there in the first place? Is it because CBC wouldn't renew you after 60? You're like, if I want to do anything, I got to do it in the US of A. No, it's because they never, you know, I tried to get shows here and they were, they just were not net didn't want me around at all. At all. After the newsroom, they said said thank you for your service essentially

and you've already done your thing for the country and now we're gonna give it to someone else. So you leave, you go, you leave because they don't really have a legitimate industry. You leave, you go, you leave. Because there's no opportunity for you to have your livelihood here as a funny guy. Absolutely none. The government already said stand-up comedian stand-up comic is not they're not legitimate performers they're not legitimate entertainers they already said that would you stay in the country that feels that no and I will say look at successful Canadian comics like

yourself you think how we Mandel and you think like Jim Carrey we just talked about they all left well you have to here? Nobody. Howard Glassman is here. Cowey, but he's a good guy. Well, he's a great guy. And just before I press record, and we'll get back to this American thing, because I do have some clips I wanna play, and I wanna talk to you about this,

but you do, I mean, this is your opportunity. You'll be on their show later this month, but you and Glassy, which you call them, you guys have a yuck, yuck standup history. Yeah, we're all friends. So, yeah, he stayed at my house. He got drunk. I've got that on video. Can I see that video?

I'll post it to the I actually have the admin log in for the humble and Fred Facebook page. I will drop that video today if you could get it to me. It's a thousand dollars. And Howard, you might know this because I have a sponsor. Not that kind of sponsor, but I have a sponsor, not that kind of sponsor, but I have one Great Lakes Brewery. I don't know if you drink beer. I do. I have beer for you too. Is it light beer? I have a lager, I

have a very popular pale ale, and I have an IPA. The lager would be the best for me. I'll get you a lager. But you know who's not taking my Great Lakes lager is Howard Glassman because he's being Stone sober at least when it comes to alcohol for many years now, I think nine years really Yeah, so that video of yours. I think we could share it and be like this was Howard before he would be so mad if I Did I don't think so because he embraces the sobriety, right? I think he should be very proud of his sobriety because he clearly had it had a problem But we sort of we don't see like he kept it from us, if you will.

I knew him very well, but I had no idea he had a drinking problem. Oh boy, he drools all over his shirt and then I move in for the close up and the whole thing. Well quick aside is that when I married my wife, I don't know, almost 12 years ago, he was at the wedding and he did get hammered at my wedding and he made an unscheduled speech I defended the entire country or Philippines course. I think he's on a do not fly thing I don't think he's allowed it offended the entire country of the Philippines no joke Howard So he definitely didn't hide it as well as I think he hit it because I saw it that day See oh boy didn't hide it as well as I think he hid it because I saw it that day. Oh boy. I wish I could have seen that, that really, because you invite your friend to the wedding

and then he screws up the whole thing. Well, it was like, you know, I had certain people were scheduled to make speeches and I guess Howard felt like a pressure because he's a performer. Yeah. Like when you go to a wedding, do you feel you have to be funny? Yeah, you should be. I've seen it happen. They're like, Jeremy, be funny. I had a friend, Brian Hart and Boyd Banks did the exact same thing at his wedding. I saw that. I saw that. He said the most inappropriate thing in front of five young children.

So this is similar where because Howard's a performer, I think he felt a pressure to perform, but he was hammered. So he didn't really you know consider the the audience and the content of it She's you know in this video that I have of him know he's got a lot of hair You've never seen him with so much hair because he's so young right tons of hair. You know, we're gonna get this video everybody Absolutely here. So I'm gonna play a little clip you you look comfortable there. You got your beer your lasagna I will give you a measuring tape from Ridley Funeral Home. Really? Yeah. That's creepy. Because Sophia's here. Is that what they measure you before they put you in the coffin to make sure they cut the right length?

I know. You never know. So Sophia's got anyone too. Wow. You never know if you have to measure something. Don't worry. I'll measure you Jeremy. How come this only goes to seven inches? You don't need that much. Come on. What do I know? What do I know? What you're packing over there? Okay.

So I'm going to play some, I just think this timing is interesting because of course you're here for the Richmond Hill show, which is going to be fantastic. That's the 7th of February. Are tickets still available? Yeah, there are some. Okay. So now like literally, if you're hearing this jump on this, there are, yeah, Jeremy H now, like literally, if you're hearing this, jump on this. There are. Yeah.

Jeremy Hott's Richmond Hill. Jump on it now. But you're here. Like we're practically, I'm practically enlisting in armed forces, like ready to go to war against the United States where you now live. I'm just going to play some clips from you back in the day, and then we're going to talk about this. Okay.

That we coexist together because we're all Canadian. We're part of Canada and we're bonding together against the common enemy, the United States. What a horrible country. I live there now, they're the most un-Canadian people you will ever meet in your life. They look like us, that's the end of it right there. They're not like us at all. They're morons. Very prescient. Like that plays differently today than it did back then.

That's a lot of, you know, I'm the miserable guy and I talk about things that are miserable and now the world is. So I've really come into fashion right now. Yeah, it's really good. I love when this happens. We caught up to you finally. Yeah, I've been saying this for years, and now I just walk down the street going, see?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Fucking remember, I still, one more here, just because we're in the role. You can't call an American on anything, because they're violent. They'll get mad at you, they'll tell you right to your face, screw you. Canadians don't do that. That's why the rest of the world loves us.

We know how to hate strategically. Somebody bumps into us, we don't yell, screw you! We go, oh, excuse me, I didn't see you there. And then as we're walking away, we think, what a fucking asshole. Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! That's pretty much the difference

between the two countries right there. So. One last clip and then I'm going to explore that with you here. Canada and America, we live right next to each other and we kind of get along or they think we get along with them, but we really don't. We're vitally afraid of them, aren't we? Because they have guns and we reason. have guns and we reason. The guy who reasons with the crazy guy? Fucking losers. That's the problem. So talk to me here like you used to have these you

know these this is a bits from, you know, decades ago, I think. But today I'm listening and you know, I'm I don't know what your thoughts are. I'm booing the Star Spangled Banner on at sporting events. Any thoughts on that? Yes. And here's the thing today. He went he spoke to and he said that he's postponing the yesterday.

Yeah. So that's because I think his people said, wait a minute, they're gonna turn off our power. And we're gonna do it on Super Bowl Sunday. Yeah, so there you go, right? But then it feels like that sword of Damocles just hangs there, right? Like it's like you get a 30 day reprieve,

but I don't trust this guy. Like I'm just- He's not, there's gonna be no, there's gonna be no, he's done this to make a point and he's said 30 days to maintain some sort of stupid control in his P-sized brain. Okay, that's what's happened there It's childish stuff and if you just it's easy to figure out what he's doing Think of the most childish thing and you'll get it. Okay

But Jeremy he gets four years. We're in like month one. We should have got a lot more years, but that didn't happen. Come again. You know, in prison. So you live in America, you are a Canadian. Uh, are you, are you in favor of Canada becoming the 51st state like Trump wants? Well, that would help me and the dollar. So there's that. But other than that, no, of course not. Of course not.

You know, first of all, it would be by far the biggest state because it's the entire country. How stupid is that? But this guy is going to talk 51st state and then then he's going to make us like Puerto Rico. Oh, that's a commonwealth, isn't it? Well, they don't get the federal they don't get to vote federally. They don't get to vote. Well, they get to vote locally, like their own representation or whatever, but they don't get a vote for president, for example, because they know that they would never vote for him. That's the thing when they do that. That's obvious. God, I hate that you can't do this and you can't do that. Are you getting like when you I don't know about your friend circle in the United States, but

is this coming up a lot? Like are Americans even aware of what you know Trump is threatening to their greatest ally forever? I love your bits because you talk about how they think we're friendly but we don't you know they're violent and we don't really trust them. Somebody wrote under one of my videos about being, I said I wanted to be a Marine and they go, someone wrote, he's not a Marine because he's an effing Canadian, is what she wrote right there because of what's been going on in the news.

That's what she wrote. Isn't that wild though, like the Trumpers of which we know there are many. Now Canada's an enemy because of him. That's ridiculous. The Canada who sent planes to help with the LA fires, which is more than that man who is the president has done. What do you want me to say? And you voted for him. Come on. Smarten up. Smarten up. I mean, this guise of fentanyl leaking over the border, I was reading today, it's 0.2% of the fentanyl making its way into the United States is coming from Canada.

Well, again, it's just to show power in Canada you can easily pick on because we don't really fight. We just don't do it. We're passive aggressive. We'll pull out the rug from under you so you fall down and bang your head on the floor. That's what we do. And then we go, sorry. Before you showed up at my door,

you were at Zoomer, right? Yes, we were at the Zoomer radio. Talking to Andy Wilson. And again, we talked earlier, but Andy Wilson has a tie in with Humble and Fred because he was an intern for Humble and Fred back in there. And we'll tell the listenership that Andy Wilson is in the calendar to make his Toronto Mike debut in early March, I think.

But was there any talk about Canada versus USA on Zoomer? Like with you? Yeah. Yeah. They you know, everybody's talking about the you know, why he's picking on Canada. And it's just like, I don't really get it. I really, it's not, the fentanyl thing is a weak argument. Come on, you know.

Oh, it's bullshit. But I think that he can use that and say, I'm acting for the security of my country, which means I can act unilaterally, like as like a dictator. Like I don't need to go through Congress to tariff this country. Cause it's in our best interest security-wise. Like I think that's the root, Rube.

Yeah, but the bottom line is, at the end of the day, he's a moron. So, you know, just if you wait long enough, nothing will happen. I know this. So we just gotta wait him out. Or turn off the electricity. So that's, you know, one of the two, come on, you know when they roll the tanks you're gonna you're gonna come back home and enlist and be by my side as we defend

This country against the Americans there won't be a war with our plastic Kentucky Fried Chicken knives. I'll call my friend Putin. He'll help us Let's call them now let's's call him right right now. One thing I want to ask you before we move on. I have one more clip I want to play too. Okay. Is is so this came up in the FOTM community. Friends of Toronto Mike.

You didn't know you were an FOTM because you don't remember our zoom, but you were already a friend of Toronto Mike. FOTM, huh? You won't forget this. Okay. In my basement, right? Yes. Promise?

No, but is there a shirt that has FOTM on it? I'll make one for you. Yeah, OK. And I'll send it at what size? All right. Me? Yeah. Large.

Look at me. I don't know. You could be a medium. No, I'm not. In some shirts, I'm a medium, but they're made for much larger men. Gotcha. So one of the topics of discussion

is since Trump started this rhetoric, you know, we play national anthem. If an American team comes to play the Raptors or the Leafs, we play the Star Spangled Banner before the game. This is also elsewhere in the country. The senators had this happen, Canucks, etc, etc. But Canadians have been booing the Star Spangled Banner. What are your thoughts on that?

Okay. Are you okay with that? You're not booing the United States. They're booing the decision their president has made. So yeah, you go ahead and do that. You go ahead and do that. Okay. Glad you said that. You bet. Gere Joyce is a sports writer who had a substack I read today who thinks it's his word lowbrow and he hates it. And I'm just here to say to you, Jeremy, hook it to my veins. The louder the boos, the better I feel. Yeah.

Just boo like it's your job to boo that Star Spangled Banner. Let me tell you something. You know where there's no more pennies in Canada? People were throwing them on the ice. Okay? That's why they got rid of them. Okay? So don't say that's classless when way worse things have been done.

But we can throw the nickels now. Nickels. You can see the nickels better than the pennies. That's all I'm saying. Give me a good loony, man. It's bright, it's gold. You're not going to throw it. You're not going to waste a dollar on the leafs. You're wearing a leaf, so you still root for the leafs.

Of course I do. I'm still waiting for them to finally win the cup in my lifetime. So you don't remember 67. No, of course not. Good lord. I've lost track of time here. My god. I don't even think they had television then, did they? I don't think so. It was black and white, I think. No, they just had newsreels.

They'd show it before movies at the cinema. Like there's a little newsreel and oh, the Leafs won the cup. The Leafs won the cup against the... they're better than the other five teams. That's all it was. There were six teams in the league the last time the Leafs won the cup. It's embarrassing. Do you watch from California? Of course I watch as long as I can last. Sometimes I fast forward a lot when it comes to the Leafs. They're so fast. When you fast forward, they play much better. That's not, you know, I always watch sports live, but now you've got me thinking I should

be watching sports at like two times, 2.5 times the speed. Listen, I don't ever watch it live. I watch it taped at about 1 o'clock in the morning for my neighbours so they can hear. Yeah. Yeah. So, they play those three back to back to back, those clips of you kind of talking about Americans, which I enjoyed.

And here's a little bit of a fun reversal here. From Canada. Not a very tough country, Canada. They got an army, they just didn't give them guns or anything. Here comes the Canadian army with plastic knives and forks. Flee the village. Somebody hide the cake. Look at the Canadian flag. It's not a symbol of power.

It's a leaf. Don't screw with Canada. We'll dry up and blow away. Yet somehow they're the peacekeepers of the world. Big war breaks out, Canada shows up, stands right in the middle. Break it up, fellas. We brought maple syrup for... Oh yeah.

I knew that. Canada should just attack another country. Man, no one would see that coming. Greatest coup in military history. lay low for 275 years. Suddenly attack Turkey. Just show up. To hell with you. We're taking it.

We're calling it chicken, you assholes. What's that from? You were in Australia. Oh. I cut it, but at some point you start talking about Australian things. Did I? Yeah, yeah. Because I do that, you know? Canada attacked the four major food groups, did I?

So there you go. And I do remember, I don't know if it's global or whatever some comedy special I recorded the VHS back in the 90s where you talked about Mr. Christie you make good cookies just don't mail them you asshole. Yeah if you had that still some of my fans would be thrilled because they've been asking for that and I don't have a copy of that thing. That was a CTV. CTV. Only in Canada. I don't remember what it was called. I don't remember but it was a CTV comedy special. Well you know who we put on the case here. There's a gentleman named Retro Ontario

who basically just rips old VHS and archives it online. I will put out a note and see if he has come across this. Wow. Like I'll do it. And his name's Ed Conroy, and this is what he does. He's called Retro Ontario? Retro Ontario. And what, he finds old stuff?

He basically, he's like a natural born archivist, much like myself, but he gets people send them their old, oh, my grandfather died, he had a hundred VHS cassettes, you take them and he digitizes them and he shares clips, not only on this podcast, but on his YouTube channel. Really, eh? That's a great idea. Yeah.

It's a lot of research because you got to go through all those tapes, right? You got to look at them. It's a lot of research, but as he rightly said, he says that there's no one really caring about the archival. Like, you know, companies are bought by Bell or Rogers and they don't care about the old stuff.

Like there was a much music documentary called 299 Queen Street, which might be coming to crave, who knows? It's been a couple of years sitting on the shelf trying to get out. But bottom line is like the Bell Media doesn't have this old footage in their library but Ed Conroy, Retro Ontario does and he does he's got a credit in this movie because they use his archival footage when they're showing much music in 1984. Wow he should start a channel and start showing those shows. Well he does show a lot of stuff if you go to Retro Ontario on YouTube

you can see a lot but I will ask him if he has that because it's kind of tattooed in my brain and I still remember that because it's kind of tattooed in my brain and I still remember that. Because Mr. Christie has this like, it's like a water tower thing and park lawn in South Etobicoke and I bike by it all the time. And I still hear your line about,

Mr. Christie, you make good cookies, just don't mail them, you asshole. Yeah, you know what? I know the thing you're talking about. You see it from the freeway there. And I remember driving by there when I was young and I see that and I- You used to be able to, there and I remember driving by there when I was young and I See that and I you can see you used to be able to back when Chris. Mr Christie was there you could smell the cookies being baked

I don't think it I think the company still exists, right? I think the company exists. I think it's American though Well, then fuck them. Yeah, I think it is American done with them. I'm done. I know you live there bless your heart Jeremy Hots, but Fuck this rhetoric from Trump. That's making me uncomfortable I'm done with them. I'm done. I know you live there. Bless your heart Jeremy Hots, but fuck this rhetoric from Trump that's making me uncomfortable. My kids pick, you know, my kids read the news. They're legit worried about our sovereignty. Okay. We don't want to be 51st day. Talk to me Jeremy. It's not, again, I go back to it's Donald Trump. It is not all the people. So you can't

go, I hate America. You can't because most of the people- Well, they elected this guy. It's not like they didn't know what he was you know look at they you know okay Trudeau's not very popular what are your choices just saying he's already announced his resignation so like he's out in March and then who's coming in Mark Carney or Christia Freeland they're having a vote okay and and who's to win the next election? The guy who wants to defund the CBC. And how do you feel about that?

We'll never get another newsroom. That's right. Poor Ken Finkelman. That's right. Poor Jeremy, who wasn't going to get another one anyway because of the CBC. Well, now, Kate, that's actually because I, of course, we're going to talk at the end of what we can expect in Richmond Hill

I'm very excited Richmond Hills very close to Toronto. Just right there. It's right there. It's right there. It's right over there They share a border much like Canada in the USA. That's right. No fentanyl in Richmond Hills, but you're Now decades in the United States and I was reading in your bio. is like the Jeremy Hots approved bio yes so you know this is oh I didn't have anything to do with that okay because it says here but you this must be true and I'm just curious because Jeremy was offered major development deals from CBS Disney and Comedy Central it's the truth so can you tell me a little bit like I'm wondering why is why don't I see Jeremy Hots on the latest HBO comedy or on the Netflix series? Yeah, you know, there's a lot of reasons for that, you know, politics, mostly, this very political situation there that came on the guy that runs Netflix right now or makes

those decisions used to come from just for laughs. There's no more just for laughs. No. But there's a comedy festival in LA. So it's political. Very much so. That's who it is. You know, no big deal because I still travel around the world doing my shows. I don't care. What do you think? Your fans come out to see you because you're fucking funny. Yeah, well, there it is. But there's other things that you have to be when you're a comedian now, not just funny. See how wrong that is.

Like, what do you have to be beautiful? That's part of it. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Yeah. Talk friendly. Yeah. Tick tock friendly, beautiful. Let's just say anatomy is destiny. Reading between the lines here. My goodness gracious.

Can you give me any further detail about these development deals? Like why were they just like, They gave me a bunch of money and said, stand over there in case we need you. They didn't. So I took the money and just moved. Wouldn't you? Especially because we've already told you we don't want you here.

Your industry doesn't thrive in this country. But it's not just my industry. It's a lot of industries in Canada do this. This is like a lot of, okay thanks, get out of here. It's like, I don't know what that is. Look at England. They develop their own shows and they're really good.

Yeah. You know, I watched the British detective shows more than the American ones, cause they're way better. The American ones are like the same as like the guiding light or something. They're soap operas. Right. Who cares?

Right. You know? The other thing that tells you about crime and stuff and you learn, it's a you learn it's a better, it's a better shows. They are. It's television for smarter people. Sorry.

We had a good show. Okay. I had Jason Priestley on the show. Nice guy. I did his show. I did his series. That's exactly where I'm going. So we talked about call me fits.

Yeah. I did a season on that. Yeah. With Michael Grose. There should have been more seasons. Well, yeah, and everybody liked doing the show and the lady that created it was fantastic and I don't know what to say about that. I don't know why stuff goes away in Canada even if it's popular.

I have no idea because in America that doesn't happen. If something's popular, it's on for years you know can't Canada man the cbc didn't even hang on to the hawk united in canada theme they didn't even hang on to the famous theme that was vintage and had been there since the beginning delores clayman what that's the woman who uh owned that. Wow. And what did they say when that went was bought by another network? Oops. Yeah, Bell Media bought it and they aired on TSN games.

Duh. Duh is in the name of our country. Canada. Duh. Wow, huh? Oh, man. I know I'm right. It's sad really, because it would be so much better if they just did the great stuff and

they don't at all. It's the real talk, you know, in the same. So I'm trying to, you know, take back this Canadian flag because you know, the convoy took it from us and then now we're trying to get it back. You know this, right? And I feel this great patriotism as we face this threat, like we're all unified because there's a there's an existential threat in this country. Our sovereignty, I feel like our sovereignty is in jeopardy here. And your sovereignty. Yeah, you don't think so? I don't know. Is

Charles on the money in Canada yet? I don't know if they printed those yet because no one uses money anymore. Like I feel like what's the point of cash nowadays? I mean, I know it needs to exist, but why print new cash? We're all tapping. It's true, but you still need cash. Have you seen his ears? You're gonna have to stick two bills together to see the whole face. That's all I'm saying. So I want to dive into this tour because it's more than just, I mean, I'm looking at the tour dates here.

We're talking on February 4th. Look at them all. Like Guelph and London people are listening to as is Hamilton and Sarnia people. Cause you're Toronto Mike and you go to like tons of areas, right? There's people who can't afford to live in Toronto and have moved to Guelph, London,

Ben Marighi's in Hamilton now because he got priced out of Toronto. No, he didn't. In fact, this is a fun fact. I got a note from Ralph the other day to basically say we should have a double date. So he's his second wife, a beautiful, talented Courtney and him. And then my wife and I are going to meet somewhere in West Toronto for dinner, like in the next couple of weeks, and I'll come back and report every detail of this thing. But this is like being planned right now, but he is in Hamilton in the mount on the mountain. I don't know where he is. You know, the mountain, it's more of a hill. They call it a mountain, but it's like Dave and Ian Thomas are from. This is a Dundas. I don't I call Dundas. I don't

know. I don't know. Okay, so we're going to get to these tour dates, especially the one that's closest to us, which is February 7th. I want to give some love very quickly to a gentleman named Nick. I Ene's who is the CEO and founder of fusion corp developments. And I'm going to chat with him Friday because literally Jeremy, I, I put out a plea, like we need a new partner of Toronto Mike and he puts up his hand and he's helping to make this happen Like I have Jeremy Hots in my basement right now Because of people like Nick Aini's so I'm gonna chat with him and tell you more about what he's up to with building

Toronto skyline and a piece of advice for all the Canadians listening that live in Canada Not like Jeremy who abandoned us because we did we said we there's no business for you I was bulldozed out of this country Would you come back though? Have you would you come back? Yeah? Yeah, I want James came back What Ron James came back when did Ron James leave he did for he did leave for a little bit. Yeah I didn't know that It was a long time ago now, but oh, I mean he didn't call me. Yes He's he's back but I want to tell people that recycle my electronics dot CA is where you go if you have old devices

old laptops old cables you don't throw it in the garbage cuz don't flush your batteries down the toilet and don't flush the the feathers down the toilet because it could be a voodoo thing that's true with Ken Fink seriously voodoo let's get Ken on the way I don't even know what Voodoo is. I know the guy in the major league was doing Voodoo to his bat. That's the only time I've ever seen it too. To get more hits. That's the only time. Yeah. Yeah. Great fucking movie. Okay. So go to RecycleMyElectronics.ca. Okay. By the way, have you had any contact with Sandra Bullock since Speed 2? Oh yeah, I did actually.

Yes, I did. And you know, I danced with her on the beach during that movie. I have to pretend I watched it. No, you don't actually. Just say you did and then move on. I think I skipped it, but I was happy to see you. She was really nice to me and I've been really fortunate that way with that kind of thing. I did another one called My Favorite Martian with Elizabeth Hurley.

She was really nice to me because she thought it was funny. So I would sit next to her in the makeup thing and to look like Elizabeth Hurley, she had to sit there for two hours and 45 minutes. I sat there for about 36 seconds. My goodness, that's the patriarchy at play right there. But you are funny. Like I'm telling you now, I've always found your standup to be funny. And I don't know when you invented that thing you do. That's anxiety.

That happened. And I gotta say, it works for you, man. It did now, but you know, at first it was, hey, get your hand in front of your face, and get it out, you never go anywhere with that, and then yeah, I did, so shut up. You know, you can put your hand in front of your face, I turned my back on it.

If you do everything wrong, it works, I think. I gotta write that down. I've been doing everything right, no wonder nothing's fucking working over here. Is that the animal steel that old WWF character? Yeah, it is. I love that guy He used to eat popsicles before he went on right? Well, yeah, I make his mouth the color Yeah, eat the turnbuckles. Do you remember this and he tear the stuffing out of the turnbuckle? That's what he used to do Yeah, a captain Lou Albanoano I think was the was his manager I think maybe so I feel like it was captain Lue who had the the rubber bands on his face

Do you remember this like yeah, there's beard you would tie it with rubber bands for no reason I don't remember when Cindy Lauper that was her real manager, right? Wasn't it she had a state and she was going by Mona Flambe and she was on the wrestling album, this like 84, 85 or something. But in the video for like her biggest hit, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Captain Lou plays her dad in the video. Is that what it is? But they were definitely connected because there was a rock and wrestling era in the

mid 80s that I was really big on where Cyndi Lauper was key in this rockin' wrestling. She was one part of one of those WrestleMania's, a very important part of a very important WrestleMania once. And you know who else was a part of a WrestleMania once? Donald Trump. He was. He was. You big wrestling fan? That era, yes.

That's it. Not now or anything or before. But we happened to have the best era of wrestling. that's it. Not now or anything or before, but we happened to have the best era of wrestling. We got lucky. We had Andre. That's an Andre the giant mug. Andre was great. You know, my favorite was he's a fan of mine is Brett the Hitman Hart. He comes to my shows in Calgary when I'm there. Yeah. He's the only WWF wrestler I believe who has appeared on the Simpsons.

He did, he did actually do that. You're right, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, greatest guy and he's the hitman guy too. He's got a hockey team and everything so wow, just a great guy and they love him. And I remember when he came to see me once in Calgary and there was a guy in the bar afterwards just like, I guess trying to threaten him because he's a wrestler like and and then the hitman just glared at him and the guy ran away he just looked at him like it was really funny wow there's not many survivors from this era because wrestlers died too young much like stand-ups yeah because they get thrown but they get thrown on their head you know we just get kicked out of the country. But I got distinct memories of the heart foundation, Jimmy heart, mouth of the

South. Yeah. Of course it was Brett, the hit man, Brett, the anvil night. Yeah. Yeah. And that they were the heart foundation, but the crowd, just like we're going to boo the U S anthem when they played at leaf games here, they would boo Brett. They called him greaser, like grease ball greaser. Like he was a, like a heel in the beginning. He was a bad guy for a while. I like him as a bad guy. I always did I feel yeah, I like the bad guy So guys, well one of the best my favorite heels who no longer with us Toronto guy a rowdy Roddy Piper Oh Was he Canadian?

Wow Well, there was like a whole factory coming out of Calgary, the Stu Hart, Stu Hart? Yeah. Yeah, Stu. It was his dad. It was the hit man's dad was Stu Hart. Yeah, but he would be like training all the wrestlers that we love. We're all trained through this like Calgary Stu Hart factor.

Yeah. Yeah. And then they became like big famous wrestlers. And that was our era. There's a lot of Canadians, man. 100%. I didn't. Did you ever see them? and that was our era. There's a lot of Canadians, man. 100%. A lot of Canadians. Did you ever see Them?

It's the movie that Roddy Piper's in. Wasn't it called They Live? Oh, They Live. Them is like the Van Morrison. That's right. I got it wrong. They live half right. Yeah, Roddy's great in it.

Yeah, it's a great movie. I'm here to chew gum and kick ass and I'm almost out of gum or something like that. It sticks with me man. Just like that Mr. Christie line. He was really good as an actor. You know who's not a great actor? Hulk Hogan.

I was just going to say Hulk Hogan. When he doesn't wear the yellow tights, he's useless. Oh, listen to me, brother. Yeah, he's not the best actor. There's a big Trump or two, this Hulk Hogan character. Is he? He appeared at the Republican National Convention or whatever. Yeah, he's not the best actor. There's a big Trump-er too, this Hulk Hogan character. Is he? He appeared at the Republican National Convention or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, here to break it. But a lot of the greats, like I think about like a lot of my heroes like Wayne Gretzky. Gretzky was there, I heard that too. Doug Flutie, like all these guys I love just like, oh I find out, oh they're...

Gretzky was there because Trump said he should be Prime Minister of Canada. No, but he said you should be governor of the 51st state of Canada. Oh, what an idiot. Wow. Wow. We should boo him too, by the way. What can us Jeremy Hotsheads, that's what I'm going to call us from now on the Hotsheads, what should we expect from, and again, it's been going in the West Coast, but I ignore everything West of Winnipeg, you know that, but Jeremy Hots is called Tres Miserables. It's your 2025 tour. You've already been through BC and Alberta.

So when you went to the Bella Concert Hall in Calgary, the hit man was there? Not this time. No, he wasn't. Really disappointing. So wait a minute, like, so you're out west, but then you went east before you came here. Don't talk about scheduling.

Don't talk about scheduling. Don't talk about scheduling. Like I just see like Halifax and Moncton. Look at Sophia. She's shaking her head. Is she responsible for this? No. She's going through it with me and she's furious. She's saying why don't we just go west to east?

This is the way they did. The whole time, how come we're doing this and this and this? And I go, I don't know the country that well. They kicked me out of it. I don't remember. Well, you're welcome back anytime you know they might close the border you might have to stay here oh no so okay well then it gets more interesting because you're here in Ontario for a spell so again yeah your

next Ontario gig is Richmond Hill February 7 that's right but then the next day you're in Guelph and then London then all over the place they give you a little break. Maybe you and me and Ralph been murky and uh, I have some time off so I could come back and do another five hours on Toronto Mike. Oh, you think you're falling asleep. Okay. I'm wrapping up right after I promote your fucking show, Jeremy. I'm trying to sell you some fucking tickets.

Do I get a cut of this action? Oh, join the club. Everybody gets a cut. I give you a lasagna. Okay. I give you a beer and I promote your show. No money changes hands. Yeah. And you have the audacity. Audacity. American Jeremy Hott.

Yes. To sit here and tell me that you're falling asleep. It's been five hours. I didn't say I was falling asleep. You said that. You said falling asleep. Meanwhile, I was told by the great legend that is Eric Alper that I get an hour and I'm at 54 minutes and damn it I'm taking every fucking second. Wait a second, wait a second. Eric Alper, he's my publicist. He's famous.

On social media, yeah. Yeah. He knows everybody that guy. He knows everybody. If he called Trump, he probably got the 30day extension by calling Trump and going cut it out So let's talk how did you hook up with Eric Alper? My manager, okay, Adam Adam. Yeah, I'm connecting these dots here now. Yeah, you know, you know Grossman's Tavern gross No, okay. Never mind. Why why who's music that's oh Grossman?

Yeah was Alper's grandfather and he started this very famous Toronto musical Venue it's a tavern. Yeah, but musicians do play there still They still play there I don't believe the family owns it anymore like they might have sold it but Eric Alpert that I mean I've had him over a few times and he promoted some of those bands. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah Yeah, so he comes from it or whatever. Yeah. And his daughter's pretty talented too.

He's coming on. What is it? What? Richmond Hill. What night is that? The 7th. Wait a minute. The 7th.

Eric Alper is going to be at your Richmond Hill. How about that? Performing. That's what you should put the big font at the top. Meet Eric Alper and then the smaller font is your, what do you call it, the Le Misérable, the Tres Misérable. Okay. So what can we expect? Can I write meet Eric Alpert $5? No, I was going to say 10.

Okay, 10. Five works too. Okay. So here on our final minutes here, because I don't want to lose you. I don't want to lose you here. I don't want you to storm out. I'm not going to storm out of this show. I've never lost the guest yet. I'm not going anywhere You said it I didn't say it. I just said five hours. I now see you as American so I feel I'm not

American my god promise. I'm a Canadian. I still vacuum myself. I Do I don't even I do my own vacuuminging. Well I see you're wearing the Leafs hoodie. And I do it like in that movie, I do it topless. Now you have my attention here. What can we expect in this Tres Miserables tour date and are you doing any pivots to anti-American stuff because it's so hot right now? Of course. Of course I will.

But you know, you've seen me before. I'll hear, I'll be hearing about half of it for the first time too. And the other half I've prepared. So that's the way it is. And it's a back and forth that I love to do. And that's what's made me so popular for all these years. I'm really lucky that I lot, like you said, I'm old and a lot of my friends, they don't, they're gone

you understand that right so it's it's difficult when you're still there and they're not you feel sadness damn it you bum me out here but shout out to Ridley Funeral Home I I do know like I am thinking of like Robin Williams and stuff there is a correlation between the very funny and I'm going to say like a not a tortured soul but there's a yin and a yang at play here where there's a lot of darkness in these people that produce such funny for us. Yeah, it is. Is there darkness in you?

It's the clowns crying inside that crap. That crap. It's the truth. There's something to that, you know. Clowns die too, you know, and that's why there's funeral homes. And let me tell you, let me ask you a question. All right. Anything. Cause it's sponsored by a funeral thing. Why do they call them funeral directors? When they say action, nobody moves. I'm going to ask Brad Jones that. Jeremy Hotz, we'll have to arrange our dinner date with Ralph Ben-Murgy during that gap.

I loved him, you know. He had a great voice too. Ralph had a great voice and he worked at the CBC for years. He was the host of Friday night. With Ralph Ben-Murgy. Do we need a Canadian talk show? Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. And there wasn't one. Remember how popular the Mike Bullard show was? I'm trying to forget, but yes. Yeah, but it was.

Yeah. And there was never another one. How come? Gee, we don't want to make money here. Get out of here. That's why. You know what? Now I'm on the American side. You know, fuck this country of ours. Canada does in the name of our country. They're weak with the, they're weak in the, in the arts, I'm afraid. Build up your culture. We need to be better. Yeah. And while we have the greats like Jeremy Hots, we need to support them. So everybody buy, buy as many tickets as you can while you can because a funny guy, just ask

Palma Pastas Anthony Pachucci. Thanks for doing this, man. Seriously, thanks for doing this. You earned your lasagna today. Palma Pastas. You're going to love it. What do you do? Are you in a hotel room? Where are you going to cook this lasagna? Yeah, I can. I can. I just go in that room. I can.

I can. I know how to light things on fire. And that brings us to the end of our 1625th show. That's a lot of shows. Go to Toronto Mike and two of them featuring you. That's a lot. Not one. 1600?

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