Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll: Toronto Mike'd #1407

Episode Date: January 8, 2024

In this 1407th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with actor / musician Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll about his roles in Blackberry, Pricilla, Kim's Convenience, Little Italy and more. They also play some Fog and Lasers, his musical collaboration that features musicians and comedians. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Ridley Funeral Home, The Advantaged Investor podcast from Raymond James Canada and Electronic Products Recycling Association.

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And Ridley Funeral Home. Pillars of the community since 1921. Today, making his toronto mic debut and he brought me a black coffee so already i like this guy it's rodrigo fernandez stall yellow welcome rodrigo i want to roll my r's with that you know what i can sometimes roll them sometimes i can't i'm having trouble here but thank you for the coffee oh no problem i was i was having a blast trying to drive around this area, but also remembering, because I went to Humber College right here. You know, Mono Whales went there. Did you know that, Mono Whales? No.

Okay, well, that's a modern rock band you hear on like Indie 88. I've heard of them, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And Rick Emmett was a teacher there. This is the stories I've been told. But you know the hood then. Okay, you know that Police Academy was filmed on that campus. Yeah, they told us that on the first day.

I think that was part of the curriculum. Yeah, listen, every time I walk there with my kids, which is pretty often, I have to tell them that boring story. Common Dot Lessard, he lived or worked there, and this is where they filmed it. But it's part of Toronto history. I always wanted to be Hightower. Yeah.

Well, he was a football player, wasn't he? Yeah, yeah. He was like an NFL guy. And I remember he was driving that really, like, way too small car along Lakeshore, like, right in this neighborhood, if you watch the first Police Academy. I wish cops were that funny now.

That's right. Mahoney, right. That was when cops were funny. Absolutely. Hey, my friend. So I was introduced to you by a good FOTM named Brian Dunn. Yeah. Thanks so much, Brian. That was really nice. So how do you know Brian? I know Brian through I mean, I make a lot of my relationships through Instagram because I do a lot of, I do a lot of like social media, a lot of comedy on there. I mean, I do live stuff. I act, but, you know, I interact with people through there. And Brian was kind of nice enough to, you know, start chatting with me. And then he let me know about this and he hooked us up and yeah thanks so much and you got booked that's exciting for you now uh he left he has a note

a nice note that will give people a little context so you're an actor you're also a musician you do a lot of cool stuff but uh some big like big names off the top but first quick question like like so i think of brian dunn as an extrovert right i think brian dunn's like a people person he's very outgoing and everything like do you consider yourself an extrovert i'm half and half sometimes i'm i'm i can talk to anybody at a party i can walk around i love chatting with people that i have no idea about um especially during christmas actually i did that a couple of times and a few people walked up to me being like hey like so you know you're chatting it up with everybody thank you so much for working the room and i was working the room and i can do that but i do have the odd day where i'm like i'm gonna stay

home and watch uh i'm gonna stay home and watch salt burn so you can you know that's i uh i watched a bit of this golden globes yesterday and i actually had never heard of salt burn like i'm way out of the loop on all this stuff but there's a few movies i am very familiar with there's a great movie i want you to see if you can it's called blackberry this thing is great okay so let me read brian dunn's note for you rodrigo fernandez stall i like that you got the the hyphen in there too like uh ryan nugent hopkins yeah spanish german okay yes stall is yeah okay fernandez okay so is this a like a mixture of your parents last Ryan Nugent Hopkins. Yeah, Spanish-German. Okay. Yeah, Stahl is, yeah, okay. Fernandez, okay. So is this like a mixture of your parents' last names?

Great-grandparents. You know, most of my dad's side was from Spain, and they were coming over from, well, it was Spain, and then the other half of my dad's side was coming from Germany. Okay. Too many Fern from Germany. Okay. Too many Fernandeses. Right. And they thought we better hyphenate. And hyphenating is like a normal thing in Hispanic culture.

Right. Right. So like you get a lot of hyphenated names. Like Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. Right. Like I don't even know. Does that name mean anything to you? Arantxa Sanchez Vicario.

So you can say that name, right? Yeah. Okay okay I said your name right no yeah you did you said you actually before I press record I want the uh the FOTMs to know you did compliment me and said I was I got it I nailed it right but you were asking you were saying it like you were like oh I mess up names well I do no I do mess up names all the time but Arantia Sanchez Vicario was a tennis phenom back when i used to pay attention to tennis which is like late 80s early 90s and i remember uh the story was like like she took her mom's name like and this was part of the this is when i learned that okay that's commonplace in hispanic culture like i learned all this from tennis see tennis can teach

you things yeah like my mom's side is Ambrosiani Collas. Okay, I can't do that one. All right, that's good. So it's like Italian, Peruvian. Both my parents are Peruvian, so they were born in Peru. By the way, Basement Dweller wants me to know on the live chat, we have a live chat,

live.tronemeg.com, that Salt Burn was great. And I do have it on my list. I just learned about it last night, so that's where I was going there, okay, because I went off on a tangent. But I only learned about Salt Burn yesterday, but I also learned that I wanted to about it last night. So that's where I was going there. Okay, because I went off on a tangent. But I only learned about Salt Burn yesterday. But I also learned that I wanted to see it.

But a movie that I have seen and quite enjoyed is Blackberry. And I'm just going to read a note from Brian Dunn so we can find out why you're saying thank you. Upcoming FOTM Rodrigo is in Blackberry. Yes. I'm going to pause for applause here and then I'm going to finish it. But that's amazing. We're going to talk about applause here, and then I'm going to finish it. But that's amazing. We're going to talk about that off the top, actually.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. And Obama, Barack Obama put it on his list of movies you have to see. Very cool. First time a president has ever said anything about anything I've done. I heard W was a big Kim's Convenience fan, but we'll get back to that later. He was. I sent him a sweater. So Brian Dunn says you're in Blackberry. We're going to learn about that.

But also he points out, he says also his co-star in Priscilla was nominated for a Golden Globe. That's a big year for you. Yeah, I got to watch Kaylee Spaney on TV last night. She was nominated. That was really cool. I got to hang out with her for like a month while we were filming Priscilla. Where did you film Priscilla? We filmed it in a studio in Mississauga.

We filmed it there for about three weeks and then we were on location in there. I mean, you'd be surprised at how many places look like Graceland here in Ontario. But we filmed most of the gate stuff was in a house in Ancaster and then the exterior from the house, there's a place in Coburg that looks like it.

I'll bet, I'll bet. Yeah, that time was crazy too because we shot that right like it so i'll bet i'll bet yeah that that time was crazy too because we shot that right when it was getting very cold in november and i don't know how it happened but we lucked out with the warm weather but like you're in my basement right now rodrigo and you're in two critically acclaimed films from the 2023 like this is massive yeah that was really because it's it's soaked in yet like the praise that you see a movie like let's talk about blackberry like who are you in blackberry how did you get that gig what do you think about the uh the critical acclaim that seems to be following blackberry and it's not just you know toronto mic of course i'm going to be into blackberry it's

like in my backyard here but you know barack obama almost as impressive as a toronto mic endorsement barack obama like like give me the 411 on the BlackBerry experience. Well, BlackBerry was made by Matt Johnson and Jay McCarroll, who everybody who, I mean, I've known about Nirvana, the band, the show for a long time, but they really do have just this incredible following. long time but they really do have just this incredible following and um uh they came up with i guess i don't know how long they had you know managed to have the rights to write it or anything but they wrote this script based on the book um and blackberry basically just was them

being able to do what they do on nirvana the band the show with glenn howerton and jay baruchel wow it was really cool he's a toronto guy now right jay yeah yeah i'm pretty sure i think yeah yeah he's great um no but uh i mean making that movie was the the comedy community here well the film comedy community here is pretty tight so we we all know each other. We know what we've done. You know, everybody kind of has this like, it's a very tight community. So when they started auditioning for that, I think I really did push for auditioning, but I, you know, you don't really get to pick what you audition for. But luckily I ended up getting to read for that role. And Matt was in the audition.

I think Jay was there, too, but casting, too. And yeah, just it was a really, really good audition. And also, actually, it happened a year before we even actually made the film, because I know there was a little bit of delays in there. made the film because I know there was a little bit of delays in there. But as soon as we were able to do it, I think I got a phone call from, from Jay McCarroll. I got a phone call or I got an Instagram message. I don't really remember, but I remember him saying. It's a communique.

Yeah. I remember him saying, Hey, great job. We loved it. You're going to play Jack. And then, uh, yeah. And then when it, when it started happening, i found out i was gonna do it with glenn howerton who's you know just the coolest guy uh i'm a big always sunny fan so when i walked into it i thought um don't ask him any questions about it always sunny and uh just get off black cars already? That's what you were saying.

Just be cool. Don't mention the Dennis method. No, yeah, he was super nice. We got to do some really, really great stuff together. They let me improvise a tiny bit, but really Matt kind of knows what he wants, and Jay too. So they really just kind of lead you along the way, and I got to look cool.

So for those who haven't seen Blackberry yet, even though now that it's on Obama's list, I feel there's a number of film lovers out there just checking it off, like it's on their list. Like I just have that list for, what's it called again? Saltburn? That's what's on my list, right? Okay, I got to see Saltburn.

Okay, I just learned about it. But Blackberry. So who's Jack? learned about it but blackberry so i played who's jack i played jack manish in this uh uh this guy who works in uh in the marketing department basically uh jack manish in um introduces jim balsillie to the uh to the numbers that the iphone is is is racking up and uh he's just he's alarmed by it and he's trying to warn them but nobody's listening to him and in the film uh i mean go see it please but i'm gonna give you a little spoiler so i give him this news at one of the peaks in the film one of the peak times in the film so when i do that i'm pretty stressed out about it um when i was kind of reading up about this film or about this story i mean everybody kind of

already knows this story i mean at least anybody who like lives in toronto yeah we lived in we lived this story yeah so like he's kind of like jim balsillie's kind of like a rock star here um also my brother worked there during right before that time so as soon as i started auditioning for this i messaged my brother i told him hey i'm auditioning for this you have any stories any sort of information and he gave me a little bit nothing too crazy but he was definitely telling me how you know how what the vibe was there when uh right before everything went down right yeah man so it gave me a little bit of a inside inside look at that which was really really cool but he even saw the movie and he was like dude this was this was bang on well here let me ask you this. So there's two movies I saw in like relatively close to each other

that kind of reminded me of each other. Although one, which is yours, I thought was much better. But I saw the movie Air. Oh, I saw Air too, which was really cool. Yeah, Matt Damon and who are these guys? But yeah, you know who's in those movies. But then Ben Affleck, ben affleck of course yeah so those two and then last night i mentioned i was peeking at this uh this uh golden globe award

ceremony and i saw there they are right so those two hollywood stars are right there matt damon ben affleck but you know i saw air and i saw blackberry and they kind of reminded me of each other only that we kind of went back to like the 80s and then there's like so there's a little bit of like a biopic flashback kind of a vibe in both of them but i thought blackberry was much better but when you see you know the golden globes uh like how many awards did blackberry get nominated for uh at the golden globes last night oh i don't know zero is the answer okay it's here right i actually don't look over the place i know air was all over the place was that just because of the hollywood power of like matt and Ben and they're just beloved?

Because Blackberry is the better film. I'm trying to stir up some shit here with you, Rodrigo. I mean, I know what you're doing and I love it,

but I keep thinking too that Blackberry, I mean, Blackberry has been accepted into the, into like the US cycle with everything. So, I mean,

Barack Obama. You're on Obamaama's list i know obama doing it putting it on his list basically gives us this like green light for people to okay so what's that moment like so is that sort of like when people talk about you they get the phone call uh and they're in california they get the call early in the morning that they're nominated for best actor at the oscars or something Like, so when you find out that Obama has tweeted this list of movies that you should see and Blackberry is on it, like,

are you guys in some WhatsApp group chat or something? Like, can you believe this? This is fucking amazing. This is going to create such awareness. There are a couple of, there are a couple of threads. So yeah,

there were a couple of threads. I did have some people sending me the link, sending me the photo. I thought it was really cool i mean the the rush usually lasts for like a couple of days because you're like okay cool who do i tell i told you know i tell my mom and dad i i told you gotta post that on the social right i posted it being like hey this is you know this is pretty cool. But, I mean, really, in the end, I do feel like I can only live off that rush for a little bit and then kind of be like, okay, well, on to the next. On to the next. But you can ride that wave a little bit.

Oh, I can ride it for sure. I definitely screamed in my pillow. It was great. definitely that list only came out like last week screamed in my pillow it was great i will say there so since you're not gonna get i since i don't think blackberry is gonna get oscar nominations and it didn't get golden globe nominations i feel like being on obama's list that's your awareness high here like this is the moment where the great unwashed are like oh let's find this move where is this movie like let me google how to stream blackberry like that's when the google uh hits first how to stream blackberry goes sky high oh this movie's gonna just live on

for a while i have i have a feeling i mean you get enough people who are always sunny fans you get enough people who just want to like know about this story um remember the 90s i mean oh it was so cool going through that wardrobe too i got to keep i could have lent you some stuff i still have all my stuff i got to keep one of the suits which was really cool um but no people are going to be watching this i i feel like it'll just i i do hope that it comes out on vhs at some point i can purchase it on vhs remember when mcdonald's you know what i'm realizing when i'm talking to you that I've got, I probably got 15 years on you.

I don't know, maybe more, but like at McDonald's. You're right. I'm 22 years old. You'd be older than that if I had 15 years on you. I'll do some math with you later.

But I mean, I remember when McDonald's would have certain VHS tapes like that they would sell you for like something like $6.99. I remember Field of Dreams was one of these. But like you would buy these cheap these cheap vas the good movies that were inexpensive on vhs at mcdonald's just a little nostalgia for you there oh i remember that for sure okay i i actually

remember all the old the mcdonald's like mugs that they used to have for like batman forever and all those movies okay well the original batman from 1989 i can tell you was burger king because i used to i used to go to have memories of going to burger king there was a location at jane and bluer and i was going to primary school there's like in grade eight or something i guess i was in grade eight in 1989 when batman was coming out so i was old enough that i could leave the school premises do you remember this moment in your life when you're old enough to leave the primary school oh yeah it's exciting right And it's a short window, right? Because then you're off to high school.

But okay, I do remember going to this Burger King, which is no longer, which is long gone. It became a coffee time, I think. But I remember buying like this, when I think back at how big this cup was of like sugar soda, like you'd buy like a Coke or something. And it was Batman mugs. So the Batman promotion was heavy at this Burger King in the summer of 89. I wonder when they switched over to McDonald's. I don't know.

They got outbid there. But okay, there's some memories for you. I was all about the McDonald's pizza. Yeah, okay. I worked at McDonald's during the McPizza era. And I used to make the pizza and serve it. And I loved the McDonald's pizza too. Oh, yeah.

Do you know why it's gone? Because a lot of people speculate, like, who killed McPizza? What's your thought on that? Because I was there and I know what we were told by the guy who owned this franchise. Oh. I mean,

don't they just switch, don't they have to switch it up every once in a while? Isn't that just the simple reason? Well, you know, like a lot of stuff stuck around. Like I don't think that was the reason. I believe the problem was

it took an enormous time to cook for McDonald's food. Like, so it might be a large pizza might take nine minutes. I think this was the time. Like, these super duper ovens, you put it in, it was nine minutes, you know. And nine minutes was simply too long for a food item at McDonald's where it was all about speed.

And we were told it just takes too long and they strategically, it didn't make sense because they needed things ready and like we literally had those patties were cooked and we put them in the thing which is like a microwave and 30 seconds later it was served up to the the customer with their their custom grill order i wonder who still does i know that there's a couple of places that still do the mcdonald's pizza really yeah but not in in toronto No. Not in Toronto. The zoo used to have hot dogs. Did you know that a long time

ago that the zoo had hot dogs? McDonald's hot dogs? McDonald's hot dogs, yeah. The zoo back in the monorail days. Alright. Alright, we're going to go bounce around and we're going to come back. But Jeremy wrote in when he heard you were coming on and he said, cool. Cool is good, by the way. Cool. He's been hosting

Dwayne Gretzky's New Year's Eve party for the past couple years. Oh, cool. We're not skipping by. Blackberry's amazing. We'll revisit it later. Priscilla, that's also impressive. Who do you play in Priscilla? In Priscilla, I play Alan Hoggiers, which is one of Elvis's buds in the Memphis Mafia.

And I smoke a lot in the film. When you smoke, is it a herbal cigarette like what are you smoking uh yeah they give you herbal cigarettes which are still gross um they're not as good as real cigarettes but you can't smoke real cigarettes do you smoke do you smoke i used to smoke i smoked for a long time i smoked for about 10 years okay and then i quit right and you know, on and off, you have one every now and then, but then,

uh, I was, you know, I smoked for a couple of roles, but this one was like day one. They told me, Hey, so your guy,

he smoked in real life. In fact, he smoked so much, he gave himself cancer. Um, and his nickname changed from hog years to hacker. So Sophia Coppola was like you feel fine smoking and i went give me a goddamn pack a day that's fine i know how to inhale yeah it was

fine yeah but it was um you know i smoked a good amount i think i smoked so i was smoking so much that uh i think one of the dinner scenes, I was smoking a cigarette. And one of the actresses turned to me and said, you need to stop now. You're smoking too, like, it's too much. And I was like, not until Sophia tells me to stop. And then she came over and she was like, Rod, you don't need to smoke that much. It's amazing that you worked with her because, you know, she was actually in in the godfather she played the baby that's at the christening in the godfather yeah she's amazing i don't know if she has any memories of playing the baby but that's a great

scene in the godfather and uh you know some say just brian dunn that priscilla might be the next godfather so it's big year for you no she's uh she was great she um She makes everybody on set feel important, as you should. She makes everybody feel like a family, and she makes you give a shit about the project. Do you know she's related to Nicolas Cage? Yes. Yes, I knew that. I'm a big Nic Cage fan. I'm a big, big Nic Cage fan.

I went to his 60th birthday at the Review last night. They played Adaptation. Oh, I thought you went to his birthday party, like where he would be to be said it. Okay, okay. No, that would be unreal. Because my mind was blown until you added that little caveat that Nicholas wasn't there.

No, they played Adaptation last night at the Review Cinema, one of my favorite spots in the city. Sure. And yeah, they had a birthday cake for them and a bunch of people. We just watched it. One of my favorite movies. One of my favorite Nick Cage movies. And Meryl Streep, actually.

Chris Cooper is really good in that, too. That is a great film. I'm going to just shout out Raising Arizona because it's like... They're going to play that in March. The first Coen Brothers movie. And I recorded I recorded VHS because we had a free preview of Super Channel. I think it was First Choice

Super Channel. I can't remember. There was a free preview and I used to record movies during the free preview and I recorded Raising Arizona. So I watched it like a hundred times. Back then we only had whatever we had on VHS lying around. So I saw the movie an awful lot and I just adore that film.

Shout out to Nick Cage. Who is in Fast Times at Ridgemont High? had on VHS lying around. But so I saw the movie an awful lot and I, I just adore that film. I love, yeah. Shout out to Nick Cage, who is in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I don't even think he has a talking role in that, but he is credited in that film as Nicholas Coppola. Oh, I didn't actually know that. Yeah.

And then he, I guess he changed it because he had some famous relatives. He didn't want to ride the coattails. Okay. So Jeremy's asking about Dwayne Gretzky. Tell me, cause Dwayne Gretzky, they're FOTms and you're now rodrigo you're now an fotm that means friend of toronto mike all right on thank you you're joining the two there's many people in duane gretzky but the two main guys who are the two main guys from duane gretzky um two main guys

you got nick rose and uh tyler kite Okay. So they're both FOTMs. How do you know them? I know them through, I mean, like I said, the, the comedy community is pretty tight in Toronto. I'm joking on your coffee.

You keep talking. I'll mute my phone. No, no, it's okay. Cough away. Do you know the, I'm like,

when you, I, are you okay for real? That's never happened before. So I'm drinking your coffee and then uh I'm gonna come and go and then it went down the wrong pipe and I'm like I'm gonna choke to death recording this episode I'm like I don't want to fix this in post it's like you coughed at the at the exact time when I said the names and it makes it seem like one of those guys owes you money I like them both I like them both but please continue i apologize no uh nick rose tyler kite uh two awesome buds they're the best um they have uh they've actually done so much for me because they introduced me to a whole new part of the community where

i was uh i started out as a fan of duanene Gretzky. Like I was going to their shows. Right. And I was in the audience. I was dancing away. I would be like, look at these guys. And then gradually one of my friends, like I knew a bunch of the people who were starting to play in the band.

And one of my friends at the time, she was playing keyboard for them, Robin Hatch. Also a good friend. She's the coolest. She was actually, I think one of the i think she was the one who introduced me where she they were looking i think they were uh they were looking for someone to sing ricky martin live in la vida loca and she had said uh why not rod to sing it so i get i got introduced to the band that way and then i started singing and kind of we hit it

off and they've been nice enough to be like uh rod would you mind you know hosting would you mind singing this other song that annual event the new year's eve party yeah they really is a big deal yeah so that's bigger than being in blackberry okay i would lead with that i'm like i host the duane gretzky new year's eve party it really is my favorite way to to bring in the new year because i get to just be around a bunch of like good friends i get to you know i i invite some some some folks to the show i get to have my parents watch the show online which is really good relatives from all over the place but you know i guess i just get to be a goof off for for the night and i love it it's really really fun and then on top of that they let me do a song with

them which it always ends up being the most stressful part of the night for me because you're on stage with all these incredible musicians incredible singers who are just killing it all night and then you have this goofy comedian dude come on stage and try to do a song and uh there's just so welcoming with it no matter how like i mean i i do think i do a pretty good job but it is stressful and then i always look around and then they're always giving me the thumbs up telling me you know you're doing great we're here for you and i'm like god damn what song are you doing like is it a springsteen song what are you doing there no no springsteen for me um in the years i've done um well this year i did ymca uh i i've done hero enrique iglesias I've done

one year I did Mighty Mighty Boss Tones these are different shows not just New Years but I did one time I did Counting Crows

Mr. Jones and I dressed up like Adam Duritz Adam Duritz this was a while ago so the dreads yes did he date

Courtney Cox yes he did he dated everybody overreach that's great um i did i did uh that was actually one year where i in my in my act i was doing uh adam dirt's impression because i can sing like him and i can do i can do it pretty well so i was i was doing it and then they had asked me do you want to to do Mr. Jones? I did it. I walked out on stage like him. Wow. And I sang the song, and it was so funny because people had raised their phones, and people thought it was him.

Wow. I thought it was. You're talking about rocking the dreads, right? I did rock the dreads at the time. Okay, like a wig? Yes, I did a wig just like him. So I was doing an impression of a guy who was wearing dreads. the time. Like a wig? Yes, I did. A wig just like him. So I was doing an impression of a guy who was wearing dreads. What do you think of the guy?

Which is now culturally insensitive. And I know. So please, anybody who's going to tell me that, I know that already. I don't know. Maybe you have. No, there was no. At the time, it seemed like a fun impression. But now, yes, I do understand

that I don't do it anymore. Do you remember the Doughboys? Do you have any memory of Doughboys, a Montreal band, alt rock, 90s band? Oh yeah, yeah. Okay. So John Castor was rocking the dreads too. Like I look back now and it's like, there was a period of time. Absolutely.

I remember guys from high school, shout out to Cynthia Dale who went to my high school, but I remember guys from high school who I just want to shout out an actress who went to my school so I can feel like I'm in this acting community that you've got going on here but okay so I remember like a guy he listened to a lot of Doors

he was totally a stoner and he had the dreads but he was a white dude right and we didn't think too much about it there's Adam Duritz he's doing it we just mentioned

John Kastner from Doughboys but there was definitely this period of time like in the 90s when white dudes thought it was okay to rock the dread there was definitely this period of time, like in the 90s, when white dudes thought it was okay to rock the dreads. I mean, I don't think it was just the 90s, I think early 2000s, I think. See, I did that right.

I think there's still people doing it. But it's, yeah, you got to just realize that, you know, there's no point in doing it. Don't do that, right? It's insensitive, it's fine. You can do German jokes and you can do Hispanic material because you have license. I mean, I don't even think I have that license.

I don't know, but who knows? Because this guy hosted the Golden Globes. I want to ask you about this guy. Yeah. John Poy or Coy? Do you remember? Joe Coy. Joe Coy, yeah, yeah.

So he has a Netflix special. So my wife is of Filipino descent. Oh, nice. So she's definitely put on the Joe Coy stand-up stuff. His big go-to thing is to do his mom's Filipino accent and kind of make fun of being raised by it. Oh, yeah, he does that a lot in his act. He leans on that.

I actually don't find it... He did it last night. He did it last night in his monologue. So his mom is, yes, he's got license because his mom is Filipino, and he mimics her and uh kind of make kind of laughs at like you know we were raised like we were in manila or something whatever but uh that's his shtick and uh i don't think he did very well last night uh i

even my wife uh thought he did terribly last night i mean you're for the type of crowd he's probably you know and he got asked 10 days ago he's- Did you hear his line where he kind of goes, I didn't write all these jokes, but the ones you're laughing at are the ones I wrote. He very quickly threw the writing, whoever's writing on this program, he threw them under the bus very, very early. Like I think he sensed that there wasn't a lot of laughs

coming from that crowd. Yeah, I know. I mean, realistically, like if you get hired for something 10 days before the event, he sensed that there wasn't a lot of laughs coming from that crowd yeah i know i mean realistically like if you get hired for something 10 days before the event it's it's gonna be a shit show well can you explain that to me why i don't even i didn't even dig into it but what did somebody drop out like did they have somebody else and they oh i have no idea maybe nobody wanted to do it they didn't know uh yeah it's hard man it's really really hard i don't doubt that at all but uh okay so i mean yeah like for a guy like him too he's probably doing his said act

that like you just said he's doing it towards like a large group of filipinos also so they probably are loving it sure i have immigrant parents so I do an impression of them all the time. I did their voice when I was on Kim's Convenience. That's my mom's voice that I was doing on Kim's Convenience. So I was doing an impression of both my parents.

I was just hoping you'd say Kim's Convenience so I could play a little of this. And we are bouncing around because I'm actually going to bring you back to the beginning of the origin story. So we are bouncing around. Oh, not at all. I'm kind of digging it. It's like a Tarantino movie.

This is great. So Kim's Convenience. I watched Kim's Convenience. It's funny how Simu Liu was all over these Golden Globes yesterday because he was in Barbie. Simu's killing it. Yeah. What a guy. How much did Barbie gross?

I mean, that's Blackberry type numbers right there. I kid, I kid. Okay. So tell me about how you got the role in Kim's Convenience. Who did you play on Kim's Convenience? And what was that experience like? And then we'll see how honest you are about how done dirty. I feel that show was done dirty

because they didn't get the proper send off the proper exit that that show but no not at all you know i had uh who did i have on uh shugith uh very easy yeah he was on the program the day that the finale was airing he was on this program the day that the kim's convenience finale was airing and you could sense that uh the the cast was not happy with how this exit was occurring. But please, tell me how you got the gig, who did you play, and how was the Kim's Convenience experience? I play Enrique in

Kim's Convenience, who was the Latin man in the neighborhood. So when Sugeth wasn't dropping by, you were dropping by. There were these regulars that would drop by Kim's Convenience to talk appa very eccentric fellow um i was a nurse a latin nurse in the neighborhood um who i actually was only supposed to be in one episode but uh they kept writing me in which was you know i was uh i was not really i mean you know every actor wants to keep working. So as soon as I

got the call saying, they're writing you in for another thing, they're writing you in for another one. They're right. And I was, you know, I was loving it. It was great. Um, when I first went in for the audition, it was, it was pretty simple. All it was, was just that one scene, the gay discount scene. And, uh, and I remember being in the waiting room with a bunch of other latin actors a couple of comics and uh i think we were all kind of looking at each other being like is anybody gonna do an accent like all this stuff and then uh i said yeah i'm gonna do mine i'm gonna do and that's what i said i'm doing my parents but that's's all Paul's son, young Lee, is doing is his dad, right? Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I love doing an impression of my parents. I do it all the time. Can you give me a little bit of it just to remind us of Kim's Convenience and Enrique? Okay. Well, hi. How are you? This is Enrique.

I go into the store all the time. You know, I like buying the ravioli in the can because it is, you know, it's preserved. I like the taste. It's a little cold, but, you know, you don't have to warm it up. Amazing. Yeah, I do that voice all the time. I mean's my it's my mom and dad it's what I grew up on I uh I I like I I enjoy doing it it's really funny I mean it's not even necessarily I think sure you can say the sound of it is funny but there is substance there for a lot of the

people who grew up with immigrant parents um um i think it's uh i think it's a pretty sensitive thing when it comes to trying to like dissect why it's funny because you know things are funny it reminds me of like when mike myers would break into like a scottish character or something yeah and it would be like this was his uh yeah like i can't remember it was his mom or his parents but uh he's the one that was kind of sketchy. He used to do his mother-in-law. They're no longer together, but... Oh, yeah, that one, yeah. The Jewish accent.

That was like the coffee talk, right? I mean, that was pretty fun on SNL. Yeah, but I don't know today. Like, my question today is, can Mike Myers do a Jewish accent today? Well, not today, today. Are you kidding me? Why not?

It's early in the West Coast. No, I mean... But you know, now Apu is gone from The Simpsons. We have a completely different mindset when it comes to... You 100% can do that accent because that's your parents' accent and that's your ancestry and you have license to do that. Just like when Dr. Watley converted for the jokes on Seinfeld, right? He converted to Judaism so he could tell Jewish jokes. that just like when watley dr watley converted for the jokes on seinfeld right like he converted

to judaism so he could tell uh jewish jokes like this was the uh the whole bit there but i mean i still watch seinfeld all the time and a lot of those jokes they're so so funny but they wouldn't fly in anything on television today it's crazy to see just how far we've come i mean seinfeld's like almost going to be 20 what 25 years old right 20 yeah almost 30 years old yeah i'm sure 89 maybe um but i i yeah just times change and really i don't think there's any we shouldn't to debate about why certain things are funny at certain moments it's like there's so it's so subjective sometimes with certain things where there's different crowds at different moments but i do think that if it comes

across where you're hurting more people than making uh than making them laugh then it's wrong right it depends on what where's the joke like is the joke oh look look you sound funny like is that the joke so like i have a mother-in-law who sounds like joe coy's mother okay yeah like i would never do a filipino accent because mother-in-law is like one step removed if you will like if it was my mother and i were half filipino uh i i would feel comfortable doing that but i'm not so i don't but i do like the character enrique on kim's convenience and a quick fun fact you, and then I want to find out more about Kim's Convenience. But one of the, I mentioned these, like these regular customers would pop into Kim's Convenience

if people haven't seen the show. And you're one of them, Enrique. And I mentioned FOTM. Shugith Varese is another one. He would come in. But Derek McGrath played a guy named Frank. So Derek McGrath would pop in. So did you guys ever all come in at the same time or no?

That's just too much good content to have all three of you there at the same time. No, I don't even we, no customers ever cross paths. So Mr. Meta never crossed paths with Enrique and Frank. No, I remember going in all the time and I was by myself in a waiting room to go in and then some PA or

AD would come in and grab me and go, okay, we're ready for you. I would go do my scene probably two or three takes um that's how good they were actually which i really loved they'd let me kind of fool around they let me improvise they you know if something wasn't working they would let me know all the directors were really good um paul was just the coolest sweetest guy he's just so funny i've seen him at jay's games like yeah he's just the best he justest guy. He's just so funny. I've seen him at Jay's games. Yeah, he's just the best.

He just, you know, and the first thing he does when you get there is like, you know, he lets you know, like, so good to see you and let's have fun. And then we would go and do it. And he was so good in that role. He was really good. Like we would had chemistry, you know, and once you have that stuff in scenes, you just, I'm not saying it's not work, but it just doesn't feel like you're you have to work that hard you're kind of just like oh that's right like this is this is fun like this is funny so let's just do it and you add your little stuff to it which is really good but

yeah it was it was really really cool and i only went in twice i'd go for two days in a season you know like i would go in and work two days out of the whole season that they would shoot. So a lot of people are always like, yeah, you're part of the show. Like how many, you know, how many episodes are like, you must've had a great time shooting. And I'd be like, I was there for a day.

Right. That's right. Good point. I left before lunch. Quick fun fact about Derek McGrath which I think is a fun fact so Derek McGrath

is the reason Andrea Martin was a part of SCTV because they were dating and then so Derek is the reason

Andrea found herself in Toronto and there was a show going on called Godspell there's a whole like cool yeah yeah and then

SCTV was casting and so if I ever get and i've had conversations with derrick to get him on because he was in a sitcom i used to watch with jerry o'connell uh my secret identity did you ever see this show oh yeah flying with with spray cans okay good so if i ever get derrick mcgrath on i'm gonna dive into the andrea martin uh origin story he's a big part of it, but I digress here. How did you feel about the way things ended

on Kim's Convenience? It didn't feel like we had a proper finale, a proper goodbye. Oh, I don't think anybody was happy about it. I got a phone call while I was driving around. And yeah, I just remember getting that phone call and it was very quick. It was just one of the producers called me and yeah, I just remember getting that phone call and it was very quick. It was just one of the producers called me and said,

hey, you're going to hear about this news, but the show's done. Sorry. And yeah, it was really fun to work with you. And then that was about it. I thought something horrible had happened, but no, turns out it was just you know uh differences in whatever you want to call it creative differences or um maybe uh production

wise but i think uh yeah it sucks that it got that it got that sent off but like i said i was only there for like a day out of the whole season. So I didn't really know the real drama or whatever you want to call it. I just had a good time when I was there. Everybody seemed like they were having a really good time when they were shooting. I didn't know about everything else that was happening. So when I heard that stuff, I was like, oh, shit, sorry. Okay, well, I'm happy that I got to be part of it. So that was about it.

Was it five seasons? In a nutshell, the creator of the characters, this is based on a stage play, I guess. Yeah, Inns was the nicest guy to me. So whatever he was feeling, I just... He owned the intellectual property that were the characters from the play. And he simply was done with that project. So he owned the rights to the, he owned the intellectual property that were the characters from the play

and he simply was done with that project. So CBC didn't own these characters. That's why CBC can't do it without his whatever consent or involvement. But there are characters added in the show that weren't part of the stage production, including Shannon Ross, for example.

So CBC could take those characters and spin them off. So this was the attempt. Nicole Power played Shannon Ross. Yeah. So CBC could take those characters and spin them off. So this was the attempt. Nicole Power played Shannon Ross. I remember catching a couple of episodes. Tony Nappo, who's in FO2. Yeah, she did. Strays. And I don't think Strays is being made anymore.

But that's why the only spinoff of Kim's Convenience could be the white girl. Because that's all CBC owned. That's not true. They could have made an Enrique spinoff. He's not in the stage play. To owned uh that's not true they could have made an enrique to this day i still think they could have done that you could have dropped into strays and but hey i was just there for one day out of the summer whatever no um yeah they could have done something with enrique but whatever like you said pick the white girl. It's fine. It did, the optics were bad

but I did, when you dig in, you realize why it's happening that way but it's like, oh, this is a great show. Korean, Canadians

and this wonderful diversity and there's this white girl that works at this like rental place, car rental place. She gets the spinoff. Like it did look bad but then you find out, oh,

CBC owns her. Nicole's awesome. Sure. I was very, very happy for her so that's great and you know she wasn't the only one who got another show out of it andrew fung you got yeah yeah the new character new character right oh new character yeah you're right now a quick uh interesting point on the live stream and i'm gonna ask you about it real quick

so the the exterior of kim's convenience is an actual storefront at queen and sherbourne in moss park area of toronto but you kept so you but you filmed in a like on a set they had the the in the studio off of lakeshore yeah really okay so it is uh some people might not know that you didn't film at queen and sherbourne that's just exterior and then you did the interiors at a like a studio and yeah the exterior one on queen street uh the actual store um is a little scary uh someone lost park is a tough tough neighborhood yeah someone got like stabbed there like uh i think i can just bike in it a week into one of the years we were filming someone did but

i mean everybody in toronto knows how scary that area is like you don't walk around that area by yourself at night you know know that, right? So... No, it's very sad because there's a lot of addiction and... I mean, all over the city. I'm going to say all over the city there is, but I mean, yeah, that's why we... I'm saying that's why we didn't film there.

Right. They're wondering aloud in the live stream that with the development going on in Moss Park at Queen and Sherbourne, what will happen to Kim's convenience uh the store the actual store you could actually go there today and see it it's actually there so we'll see what happens with uh yeah let's see what happens let's see if maybe uh all the people on the live stream if you can uh email cbc and say hey uh we want to see an enrique spinoff. There you go. Here's a quote from the live stream.

By the way, I'm going to make that happen, okay? My first time seeing Rodrigo was on the show Ghosts plays an obsessive podcaster. Okay, that's a role I can relate to. So let's go to your origin here. We've talked already, we've already talked about these two big movies you're in in 2023, Priscilla and Blackberry. And then we talked about Kim's Conven movies you're in in 2023 priscilla and blackberry and then we talked about kim's convenience which most i think everyone listening knows kim's

convenience and it's caught a minute or an episode or two probably just the ones with enrique but tell me about like your origin story you said you went to humber but is ghosts one of your early roles or is that no ghost was actually right before the pandemic. Oh, so Kim's is before Ghost. Actually, not right before the pandemic. During the pandemic, I ended up... When was that? I ended up... 2020 to the present day.

Yeah, during the pandemic. Isn't it funny how the pandemic... I still think it's like six years. No, during the pandemic, I like i i still think it's like six years um no uh during the pandemic i ended up um getting a phone call because i was i had just done i think i had just done because i do i do son of a critch also on on cbc so i do that show and i was filming that's a big show yeah that's that's a great show mark critch is the best he's so so cool i ended up uh and malcolm mcdowell like what a guy he's yeah that's uh that's the the import to the big

the big name great great actor i ended up uh i was doing that show and then on my way back home to toronto i got a i got an email from casting uh for that show ghosts uh on cbs they're they're like the nicest people ever they sent an email saying hey we're looking for a replacement for this character because the actor that was supposed to do that character todd is sick so we need like an emergency casting right now right i guess my name was dropped in there and they said can you be in montreal in the next like 10 i forget like 20 hours or something can you make it here now and uh i said yeah let's do it so i i had just gotten to the airport toronto i was on my way home and then they said can you go back so I went went to Montreal did like

a fitting uh I don't remember if there was like any sort of test or anything but I remember just um I was waiting on approval from the producers and everything and then they had said hey you're you got the part you're gonna be playing Todd and then the next day I was shooting for like two days. And that was, you know, it was, it was super cool. Yeah, it was really cool. CBS was. That's wild. Yeah, yeah. They were very, very nice.

So I got to do that. Isn't that the home of Murder, She Wrote? I feel like this is a big deal, CBS. Murder, She Wrote. 60 Minutes and Murder, She Wrote. Yeah. Older demo, CBS, right? They're the ones watching TV.

What's the Dick Van Dyke one? Pro prognosis murder all these shows that i know about but i've never seen although i watched a lot of 60 minutes but i sure yeah matlock was matlock on cbs well that's uh abraham simpson's favorite show that's how i know that show i've never seen matlock i'm sure i would love it but uh but yeah anyway so i got i got that role and uh then they were nice enough to to write me into a few more episodes throughout those seasons and they just started shooting again in the last i want to say week two weeks um and they're that that whole show they're like the best people they're so supportive just a bunch of cool actors all getting together but very very, very nice people.

And I was so happy to get that because it was a really, really funny character. I'm sorry I'm laughing. I'm just, the live stream is entertaining me today because there's a comment. He's the kind of podcaster I would probably be, obsessed with a woman from the 1920s. All right. Okay, I'm obsessed with a woman from the 1920s. All right.

Okay, I'm obsessed with a woman from the 2020s. So, very good. Okay. Now, you know, you mentioned you were jumping on stage singing with Dwayne Gretzky, of course. Now, I'm going to just tease it right now because there's going to be a segment of this conversation which is going to be very heavy with music because I'll just tease it that you've got

at least a couple of full length comedy albums, musical comedy albums. Three, three comedy albums. Three, more than a couple. Okay, Fog and Lasers. So I'm just going to tease it right now that there will be a Fog and Lasers segment complete with some audio that I'm going to actually play and I'm very excited to learn about Fog and Lasers. I just have a few more

questions about the acting. What's the first big role? Like, what was the first role that you were really proud to tell your friends about? Like, hey, I landed a role in Murdoch Mysteries. I made that up. Okay, have you ever been on Murdoch Mysteries? I have. I was just on Murdoch Mysteries this year. Write a passage

for a Canadian actor. Right on. Yeah, you have to. What about Hudson and Rex? Hudson and Rex I did. Can I tell you quick? I played a chef. That's wild. I knew you were on Hudson and Rex. Okay, because yesterday

my wife is like, oh, the Golden Globes are on at 8 o'clock and she's like, it's on City TV. And then we were going to pause it because the kids, we have a couple of kids

that have to go to bed around that time. And then, so I go to City TV at like 7.50 p.m. or something so that i can have it on the station to pause it with this whatever that's a lot of detail there but anyway hudson i'm i actually saw and this is the first hudson and rex i've seen in my entire life i saw like the conclusion to this episode of hudson and rex they were like in a museum trying to like there was a

uh a snake a missing a lose there was a snake on the loose and this woman had a fear of snakes but she had to capture the snake i'm watching this last night for the dog just barks and then they talk like oh what's that is it hudson or rex who's the dog rex okay that makes sense okay so they're like the dog will just look off in the distance obviously looking at his trainer and go roof and then this woman will be like oh don't worry rex uh we've got it taking we've already we're way ahead of you rex we're like this guy rex he's just this barracks and they respond to it i'm like this was and then the snake was the worst cgi snake i've seen like

since the 90s i'm like it was really bad cgi i'm like that's not a snake this is like some cartoon snake thing i'm superimposed this is no criticism of hudson and rex except to say i had no idea really what it was until last night when I watched it. No, I think every Canadian actor needs to do Hudson and Rex once to know what they're getting into. Whenever a young actor is like, can you give me some advice? I say, you gotta

do Hudson and Rex. So do Murdoch Mysteries. Murdoch, Hudson and Rex. What else is on that list of must-dos for a Canadian actor? Well, that and then Degrassi was one for a while, but I never got on Degrassi, so... You missed your chance. Screw them.

Fuck Degrassi, right? Right where you go. I, by the way, I'm an OG Degrassi guy, okay? Shout out to Caitlin, you know, shout out to Joey, Jeremiah, and Snake. They're great. Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home because wheels gone far too soon, okay?

I'm just going to throw that out there. Port Hope. I can't. You talk about going to Montreal. I drive there. My daughter lives there. So I'm driving the 401 and I see the green sign on the 401

and it says Port Hope. And I can't see the sign without thinking, oh, Wheels' dad lives there. That's funny. Wheels' dad lives in Port Hope. Okay. So rest in peace. Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. By the way, Ridieland's dad lives in Port Hope. Rest in peace. Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. By the way, Ridley

Funeral Home did give me something to give to you, Rodrigo. Your friends call you Rod? Yeah, everybody just calls me Rod. So I have to call you Rodrigo. You can call me whatever you want. Don't call me late for dinner. This is a measuring tape for you, courtesy of Ridley Funeral Home. Oh, thank you.

Pillars of this community since 1921. You look healthy. So this is for measuring the corpses. We got to know what size casket to get you there. Oh, wow. That's crazy. So enjoy that responsibly. Do you enjoy,

speaking of enjoyment, do you enjoy Italian food? Oh God, yes. I love, I was just in Italy in May. What part of Italy? I love Italian food. Well, I went to Rome.

I went to Florence. I went to Piavlegure, Genoa. My mom's ancestors, my ancestors, are right outside of, in between Genoa and Milan. I've been to Milan. I'm trying to remember. It's in like a small town there i was supposed to go there when i went there but it just didn't work out timing wise because i was going to try to find a birth certificate of one of my great grandfathers but it was too much work and i was just in i was in beach mode

well italy is like it's i'd go there for the food. I mean, we have great Italian restaurants here, including Palma Pasta, but I love Italy, but the food is amazing, right? Oh, the food was unreal. The food was incredible. And you know what? It didn't hit me as hard here because you walk like 20,000 steps a day there. That's it. At the end of the day, my girlfriend and I were like, how many steps did we do today it was like 24 000 and i'm like we had a full lasagna today yeah that's the

trick man you gotta keep on moving like dick van dyke says keep on moving keep on moving okay but i have a large uh meat lasagna in my freezer for you rodrigo so that's an empty box but it will be full when you leave here today you're gonna love to love it. Palma Pasta sent that over for you. Wow. Thank you. They're taking care of you, man. Delicious Italian food. Go to palmapasta.com. Great friends of this program.

They're going to feed everybody at TMLX 15, which is going to be at 6 p.m. on June 27, 2024. And guess where TMLX, that means Toronto Mic Listener Experience. Guess where the 15th TMLX event is going to take place, Rodrigo? It's going to be tough for you. I'll give you a clue. I'm going to say.

There's a clue in my hand right now. At the top of, oh, Great Lakes Brewery. Great Lakes Brewery in Southern Etobicoke is going to host us. Great Lakes Brewery. Brewery. Can you say brewery? Brewery. So it's just one syllable.

Brewery. Brewery. I struggle with that word. That's why I was worried about saying Rodrigo Fernandez-Stahl. That's the most Canadian word, I think. Brewery? Brewery. So it's just one syllable. Brewery. Brewery. I struggle with that word. That's why I was worried about saying Rodrigo Fernandez-Stahl. That's the most Canadian word, I think. Brewery. Brewery. The brewery.

Yeah. It's tough. Brewery's brewery. Right. So they're delicious. It's delicious, fresh craft beer available throughout this fine province. And yeah, you're taking these fresh cans of Great Lakes home with you, buddy. That's very nice.

Thank you. You didn't know. Did Brian tell you you'd be leaving with lasagna and beer? I don't remember. But if he did, I totally just blanked out. But that's very sweet. Thank you. I never get to take anything home.

That's really cool. No, because you keep doing things of like the CBC. And when Tom Wilson came over, he's like, Mike. And I can't do a Tom Wilson. But again, he loved the lasagna like there was and he came back and he's like i do cbc does a bunch of cbc stuff and they're like they don't give you anything there's no lasagna for you and you do like a talk show on the cbc like this is where you come i don't think i've ever done a talk show on cbc i don't you didn't do ralph i know you were in diapers when ralph actually

you're probably like 10 or 11 or 12 years old when Ralph Benberg, he had Friday night. That was the last big CBC talk show I can think of. What about Strombo? Well, okay. Yeah, of course. Of course. That was like, yeah, he had red chairs and he would talk to somebody and get really close

to them. I feel like that was, yeah, I feel like that was like a talk show sort of thing. You're right. Now Tom Power, I guess, is the guy. Well, he's Q, but that's sort of, I think of it more as a radio show but uh okay good point so if you're on q you won't get lasagna but you get it here there rodrigo okay now i had on a very funny woman named carolyn taylor on the program oh yeah carolyn i love her why am i bringing up carolyn taylor because one of her more recent uh you know high profile projects projects was the Baroness Vaughn

Sketch Show. And you were a regular, right? Yeah. I owe a lot to those hilarious, hilarious ladies. Well, this is the place. Like, they're all listening now. And this is your chance. Like, tell us how you got that gig and what, like, when they needed a dude, you came in.

What was the deal? No, like I said, the whole comedy community, we're all pretty tight. I mean, I think it's a very small community. I mean, there's small in the sense where we just all know each other. Like everybody just works together all the time. You do shows outside. So yeah, I ended up just getting the call cause, um, uh, I think at the time, which I forget which the first sketch was that I did with them. Um, but I remember,

uh, I mean, I remember one of the, one of the really fun ones was, uh, the, uh, the hydration one that I did with Aurora. and that one was really cool because i got to just improvise and i slipped on some piss it was really good and everybody liked it so and now you're in a movie that obama put on his list see how it happens put in some reps no but baroness was really really fun they were like the best uh but the one i think that i always get messages about to this day is dinks where i play a stripper um and it was a spoof on law and order okay but by the way you know they're making a law and order toronto have you booked a gig there yet um i will agents working on it i'll throw my name in there at some point i know that like filming

it right now like you can get the call tomorrow that's one of those shows that's just gonna have like 28 seasons so you know that they're gonna go through every single actor in this country i'm pulling that clip so when it's canceled after one season i can say well bad take by rodrigo what happened to long order i mean i could be completely wrong but i feel like it is one of those shows that you're just kind of like yeah i mean i mean i love long order yeah right but you're thinking of like briscoe and logan like you're thinking of like right in stone and uh that the glory days there he's watching on a and e every night i think at 11 p.m every night on a and e oh that's wicked back when a and e had thinking of good stuff and now who knows what's going on there okay so we're gonna find a little

more about your acting life before i get to fog and lasers cool it's such a fascinating aspect of your career you're more than just a pretty face uh acting in front of the camera thank you and some say you're not even that so i can say that because you're a buddy now okay so i gotta ask you about a movie i i'm trying to think of how to frame this. So it's a long trailer, but I feel like this is important. Like, you know, you're a guy who needs to work, right? Like, so you're not just looking at, you're not one of those guys like, who's the Irish guy from My Left Foot, Daniel Day-Lewis? Like, you're not sitting there and saying,

I only do scripts I know are great and amazing. Like, sometimes you just need to work, right? I'm a yes man. I say yes to everything. Would you ever say no? Is there right um i'm a yes man i say yes to everything would you ever say no is there anything that's like like a like a legal proper show like we're not talking anything in the dark web or anything that you would say no to or no so you need to work and then sometimes you'll get a blackberry and sometimes you'll get like this movie i'm gonna play well i feel i think uh i mean i will say like I did audition for those films, but, I mean, at the end of the day, I also got them, I feel,

because of that reason where I do work a good amount and I know how to come into a project and I have a reputation where, you know, I just feel like I can add to whatever I jump into, but I think that's what it is. Like I said before, trying to give advice to younger actors, you start off literally with nothing. You have nothing on your resume, nothing in your reel. Nobody wants to see you. Nobody cares at all if you call yourself an actor. You just got to do it. And that's what you do.

And then you develop a reputation for doing that thing and having a skill. And I feel like that's what you have to do. And it's just years and years of just constantly doing it, auditioning, going for it. And I feel like that's how i've been part of a community and you know that's why people like baroness are just you know so well known and hilarious and they're good at what they do and they got a show uh because they had this reputation of just being these like four hilarious women um but yeah i i think that's probably the best advice is yeah

say yes to everything in the beginning I mean obviously like say yes to fun stuff you don't have to but sometimes you gotta pay rent right like sometimes you gotta buy food you can't you know you wanna go shop at Palma Pasta oh when you're first starting you can't just do acting like there's no way you're just doing acting jobs

the whole way you have you're gonna have to have a part-time job it's not like waiting tables i did i did waiting i worked in construction i worked in i um i did data stuff i worked for film festivals was a big one i worked up for hot dogs film festival which they were super nice with me they were great but yeah i think i did construction for a long time. So I had a lot of buddies who have their own construction companies and they would give me the odd job. And you would have that one time where I'd be like, I have this audition at 1 p.m.

Can I leave right after lunch? And then my friends were nice enough to let me go. And then they would literally let me go and fire me because I just couldn't come back. This is like, isn't this the plot of Good Will Hunting? It's like, every time I come pick you up, I hope you won't be here. Is that the plot? Is that the plot? That's my life.

It all comes back to Matt and Ben Affleck, right? That is my life. So I could be like the foreman. I don't know what they call foremen. Who are these guys on the construction site? Yeah, foremans. Okay. Because I was a foreman for a don't know what they call foremen. Who are these guys on the construction site? Yeah, foremans. Okay, because I was a foreman for a jury once on a murder trial.

That's a great story. Okay, I don't even know if I'm allowed to tell that story actually, but I can say I was a foreman on the jury. I'll fix it in post. Okay, so I feel like there's that foreman. He's like, every day I hope Rodrigo doesn't show up because one day he's going to be in a movie

that'll be on Obama's list of films you need to see. And he'll also do Priscilla in the same year, which was probably like almost on Obama's list. Cause I hear good things about Priscilla. I haven't seen it yet. Priscilla is really good. I would recommend try to see it in a theater as soon as you can.

It's still probably in a couple of theaters in like some of those indie theaters, but right. The King's way maybe or something. I'm a big fan of seeing movies in theaters. I don't watch movies at home a lot. I like watching them on the big screen. Do you watch your own movies in theaters,

or is it just with the premiere? Oh, I took my parents to go see Priscilla for sure. I want to know about this one. I'm going to play a trailer, and it goes a couple of minutes, but enjoy your coffee. Listen, you can talk over it if you want I don't know how

cringy this will be but I want to know did you take your parents to the theatre to see this I want to know everything you can remember about the filming of this I want to know

what you thought of this I've got questions about this movie you ready please ask away about anything it's the calm before the storm

here we go Nicole I'm opening up a new place in mayfair if you want the job you're going to have to have your visa changed that means you're going to have to go back home i have to go home i know i feel your pain the last place i wanted to go back to was our little Italy where nothing changes you're so thin what happens to a wrist no one trusts a skinny cup get in there how's it taste just like home little Italy is not big enough for me and you when did all this go from crazy what'd you put in the pizza today always the same the best that's not oregano What'd you put in the pizza today?

Always the same, the best. That's not oregano. Tune insane. Bye-bye. It's not oregano. You play Danny Aiello in this, babe. Enough has been at work. Can I get you a drink?

So who's kicking your ass at soccer these days? Can we take this outside? It's raining. Afraid you might get wet? Oh my God, did I just say that out loud? Our sons, I think they're on to us. What are we, spies? This is a very movie trailer song. There's no Italian saying.

I learned from my nonna. Andrea Martin, right? I feel like it's going full circle here. What was your grandmother's name? Beyonce? No, Bianca. My father would consider this the highest form of treason. Was that the pizza or us being together?

Both. It's kind of complicated. No, no, no, no, no. My dad is gonna kill me. I mean, I slept with Vince's son. Oh, my God. Yeah, you were saying that a lot last night. No!

Everything's more special now that you're back. I'm sorry. I can't. No, no, no. I've worked too hard to come back to this. Best of! You know, there's a reason why they, I can't. No, no, no. I've worked too hard to come back to this. Best of! You know, there's a reason why they call it Little Italy. Because nothing ever changes here.

I actually don't get that line. Can you remember to come back to that? Do you love him? I don't get that line. Does it matter? There's a reason they call it Little Italy. Nothing changes here. Like a little town. What are we doing?

You gotta punch this up a bit. I'm not a kid anymore. Leo, you can take the girl out of Little Italy, but you can't take Little Italy out of the girl. Show her what she's missing. Come here, Miko. You and Nikki, you're like Romeo and Juliet, huh? Romeo and Juliet died.

That's a bad example. Good acting by Hayden Christensen. That guy was Anakin Skywalker. Andrew Fung is in there, too. Oh, yeah. He plays Luigi. Okay, shout out to Running the Birbs. Okay.

Please, this movie is, I think it's 2018, I want to say. It's called Little Italy. And you're in this film. Oh, yeah. I'm like an airport security guy. I'm pretty sure I'm like, I do a lot of accent in this, too. Oh, man. This was a shit show.

Tell me. Ask away, please. Okay. Just a little context here. So the male lead is Anakin Skywalker, Thornhill's own. I believe he went to Thornhill Collegiate. I think Cam Gordon. He went to UHS also.

Which is what? Unionville High School. He went to Unionville high school for arts york okay so hayden christiansen himself is the male lead and then the the emma roberts who has a famous last name yes uh and there's like you daniel yellow shows up in this i got to meet daniel yellow i was so that was like my i got to meet him and i got to meet andrea martin wow and i was like she's, I was starstruck. I walked outside one day.

I was having a coffee. Danny Aiello was petting his dog. I walked right up to him and then he had said, how you doing? I said, great. And then I just stood there being like, you are the coolest guy. And he went, let's take a photo. And then I got to take a photo with him and I was ecstatic. He's from Do the Right Thing, for goodness sakes.

Now, you know, he died in 2019. So that's like one of his final film appearances is you being in Little Italy with you. Yeah, yeah. We got to, I got chatting with him. He was the nicest dude ever. Okay, also making a kind of a cameo in this, I think, I haven't seen the whole thing.

Okay, I just know enough to be dangerous here. But Alyssa Milano is in this thing. Did you her oh yeah she's awesome she was first i think she might be my first it was daisy duke and then alissa milano like these are first crushes for me oh yeah she but she also gives off she's so smart she's very smart she loves talking politics she's very very uh involved she's gonna watch obama's list uh yeah she's i i would say um no she's really really cool uh and she also knows how to like you know um handle herself around everybody because she does have like you know a lot of like fans okay so they're just like all around all around her the whole time just staring at her and she was like yeah can i help you do you want to take a photo what's up okay that was just me she's cool she's tough

okay so uh linda cash is in this you know she was in that uh philadelphia campaign as the angel in the cloud she's the best linda's the coolest i did a i did a couple shows with her um i did uh the amazing gail pile with her also on CBC. She's great. And Linda was in Seinfeld, so you know that I was like, Linda, please give me any story about working on Seinfeld.

Okay, before we get back to Little Italy, I want to congratulate you because you were part of the production team that was nominated for The Amazing Gale Pile. International Emmy. International Emmy. So you're part of the team team that was nominated for the amazing gale pile and i when i say international emmy so you're part of the team that got nominated yeah it was nominated for an international emmy for web series uh for best like international web series and we all got to go to the award show in new york um i got to meet steve coogan which was really cool but yeah those are

probably some of the best and funnest filming days when it came to like filming a project like we did five seasons together amazing but enough about that happy go lucky memory

time let's go back to Little Italy for a moment here. So, Little Italy, just so I understand this, this is Toronto's Little Italy, right? Like, Toronto's playing itself here. Even though, from what I've seen, like, it's not Little Italy. Wait, was it? Or was it New York? I saw, like, I think in the trailer

I saw the CN Tower. Like, in that cameo, we forgot to take out the CN Tower. I have no idea. I think it's Toronto's Little Italy. I'm going to say, I have never actually seen them. You haven't taken your parents to the theater to see Little Italy? No, I did not go see Little Italy. And you know what?

I think I got an email saying, I remember that I got an email saying, we're having a premiere at Scotiabank Theatre on this day, like cast and crew. And then I remember emailing them going, hey, so can I come? Can I get two tickets? And they emailed me back going, sorry, we're full. And that was the last interaction I had

with Little Italy. Well, Kate, you know, you kind of did a little chuckle when I introduced Little Italy. Like, so did you know you were in a shitty movie like was this a would you guys think you were making a good movie no i do i you kind of know you know you know but like even the trailer which you know like like did you did hayden christensen purposely he's like the nicest guy i know i understand i think i would like the guy no he's great's great. He's cool. Just like, but that's not a great performance.

Like in the trailer that you're, I find. I mean, I think you, I think you don't necessarily know you're in a shitty movie. And does he have Italian descent? Can he play that role? What's going on? Oh, I have no idea. I don't want to speak for anybody else. All right.

Well, I know Andrew. I do know that Andrew Fung has like a bunch of Italian incest. No, I know. What do I know? I, uh, no, I just know that you kind of know that it's a wreck while you're filming.

Um, but I feel like as the, yeah, I feel like as the actor, you're just like, man, I just need to work. I'm doing my thing.

But you know, you, you kind of like take a look around and you're like, what is everybody else thinking right now? Did you have any chance? Like, do you sit down with like Linda Cash and say, hey, Linda, what do you think of this movie we're making? Like any of those? Jane Seymour is in this thing. No, you don't. Oh, I saw Jane Seymour. That was cool.

She's stunning in real life. Like I was like, yo, she walks into a room everyone stops what they're doing it was crazy man and that movie was that movie was also nuts because it just felt like you ever you ever do i mean i i've never i don't really have these types of projects all the time but that was one of those times where like i sat there watching things happen where i was like is that legal like you know like there's a guy setting up electric cables in the rain outside for this are we really doing this right now oh wow um yeah i'm pretty sure someone got electrocuted outside while we were filming don't you think that and maybe

it's been done again i apologize if i'muted outside while we were filming. Don't you think that, and maybe it's been done, again, I apologize if I'm stealing an idea accidentally here, but don't you think a mini series, like a podcast just all about Little Italy, like don't you think there's enough meat on this bone to do like a series? That's a great idea. You want to do it with me? Oh, buddy. I need an insider. Do you know Christina Rosada?

I do know Christina. Yes, I do know Christina. adam ferreira um he was super nice that guy is the nicest dude ever so a bunch of nice people can make a piece of shit oh yeah yeah it's not the actors the actors are just going in there because they need that paycheck but adam he was walking into the trailer all the time when people were there and saying hello to every single person all the time you know that type of guy where you're like wow you're just you're super nice and you give off the most positive attitude no matter what is happening because he knew there was a shit show so he was

like i'm i'm gonna say hello to everyone here today because we're all gonna be in a bad mood by the end of the day but your check's clear and you live to fight another day. And then in the future, there'll be a Priscilla. Yeah. You kind of, I feel like a lot of people go in, but you never know really how something's going to come out. And I thought this one was just, you know, there were certain things happening where I was like, well, yeah, this is like, we would finish a take and the director would come up to me, say something. Donald Petrie. Yeah. He was,

he was interesting, but, um, I know what interesting means. Yeah. Yeah. He was interesting and he would say something to me and then I would just be like,

okay. And then I would not do what he said. And then I would just keep going. But yeah, you get, you get times like this. This is like a mom. What's an orgies film.

Okay. So, uh, that's a very inside reference. Shout out to stewstone here we speak our own language here we just did an episode where we explained to you the glossary of terms on toronto mic so you can catch up uh people should check that out the last episode before this one i just saw the clock i can't believe it i actually thought oh i'm gonna have a nice hour chat with my new friend rodrigo and i realize now i should have booked six hours with you i got more a little like so we'll leave it

literally but but you know we talked over the trailer but there's a line in the trailer like it's a big moment in the trailer where Emma Roberts' character says there's a reason

they call this place Little Italy. It's because nothing ever changes here. So that line is like they give it like almost a heartbeat of like silence.

Like this is supposed to be like a one of those thought-provoking lines like and you're supposed to think on it one of those thought-provoking lines like and you're supposed to think on it there's a reason they call this place little italy well she's nothing never changes here she's referencing uh fascist italy during a time where nobody it was illegal it was illegal to think differently no um okay uh that i was like let me entertain

this but i so i watched the trailer a few times. I pulled the clip, made sure it's on. I've heard the line many times. And I, you kind of explained it over the trailer. And then again, we got to move because I got to talk to you about fog and lasers. I have to. I have to, okay.

And I have a recording for a client because I got to pay my bills, right? That's my construction job. And every day I hope Rodrigo doesn't come to work because that's the day he landed himself blackberry okay so by the way did you ever own a blackberry i never owned one no but my family did my dad owned one you were blackberry adjacent my brother owned one yeah right i had a blackberry okay explain that joke to me not that you wrote the joke you don't need to explain it to me but i really think that we have a moment of like that's supposed to be a big line and i don't get it like there's a reason they call

this place little italy it's because nothing ever changes here what the fuck does that mean rodrigo i think the writer was trying to say something that just didn't come across the way i put it in the trailer like there's a lot of shitty lines and movies that just don't make the trailer like this is such a big moment in the trailer um I think if you're angry with you now. Yeah. I think if you're making a movie about dueling pizza places, you're not really thinking of the Romeo and Juliet, right?

They're remaking Romeo and Juliet. Remember that Simpsons line? It was like Romeo and Juliet, only it ended up in tragedy. It was. Yeah, it's, um um i would say it's it's not supposed you don't need to explain yourself no no no i'm gonna be thinking about this for a while tonight so okay because you thought maybe i mean you had a like a hypothesis there but if anyone listening if any fotm listening can explain to me the joke i just want to know what the joke is because

i don't need it to be funny, but I don't think there is a joke there. She says, there's a reason they call this place Little Italy. It's because nothing ever changes here, but I don't get what it's trying to... It doesn't make sense to me, that quote. I was in the gifted program, Rodrigo. I went to a special school

one day a week for special students who are gifted. Gifted. I want to point that out. That's important detail there. There's a reason they call this place Little Italy. Then I'm going to go to a fog and lasers because I want to make sure we get a photo and I got to give you a lasagna

and then I got to record this thing at three o'clock. There's a reason they call this place Little Italy. It's because nothing ever changes here. Does it make sense to you? No, it doesn't make sense at all. The movie doesn't make sense. And you know what? I'm going to go in favor of the movie and say i don't think the movie is supposed to make

sense and i think that's what they were setting out to do genius i think it's an art piece and it's it's meant to piss off podcasters like me reflecting the times and uh what type of world we're living in where, you know, pizza. Okay. I'm going to play you off now. Swin, swin, swin, swin, swin, swin, swin, swin, swin, swin, swin, swin, swin, swin. Read the news today. Saw that medical advice To stand six feet away, to save a bunch of lives

With all this information, I still choose to go Grab my sweats and get on with my workout schedule I think I'll go for a jog, really craving a run No one seems to be pissed about my distance from them Bye. So close to your face. I'm a piece of shit jogger. I keep on running by. I'm a piece of shit jogger. So close to your face. I'm a piece of shit jogger. Really, um...

Talk to me. I mean, really, the COVID aspect, I guess you could say, like, you know, it's a sign of the times. But I do have a hatred, full-on 100 i do have a hatred of joggers i hate them i really do but they run in packs right oh they run in packs there's like a toronto runners club here that's terrible they're terrible article in the i think ctb news uh my My buddy Mark Carey sent it to me a couple of days ago. There was an article about your turn in the corner

and there's a pack of runners and they just bully you over it. It was like a gang or something. Man, it's scary. And the people that like, it'll be the busiest time of the day and they pick that major road to go down. No, yeah. I mean, that's from the second album.

That whole album I made during the pandemic. Well, what is Fog and Lasers? Fog and Lasers is like a collab between musicians, comedians. It's if I ever have any jokes that I want to turn into songs. It originally turned into a project, a musical project, after we did the song. Oh, there you go. Ethereum. This was a song about the moment I bought into Bitcoin.

And then I just thought, you know what? This is a scam. But this chorus really hit it. How much money did you sink into Bitcoin? Ready? You're gambling, man. Yeah. No, I didn't drop.

I really didn't drop that much money into it it was i'm gonna say at most i think i put 300 bucks okay that's just playing yeah i just i just i just played around with it but it was only because i had a couple of people be like you gotta put them in i thought i've been talking i talked about this recently with mo hit who came by he's a runner by the way but he doesn't run the packs. Yeah, I never understood it so I didn't touch it but I had so many people tell me you gotta get in on Bitcoin. Crypto's the next big thing. You gotta get in.

He said, you got an extra thousand dollars that you won't miss? Throw it into Bitcoin. Like I'll be a multi-millionaire like Daddy Warbucks. Okay, so I like the sound of the music but it's comedic. So this is like your lonely island, am I right? Yeah, I wanted to do something that was considered musical comedy,

but I hated the term musical comedy, and I hated being put into a group where you thought, oh, this is what musical comedy sounds like. And I just started writing some music and i like i said before i was hanging out with my friends duane gretzky tyler kite who was a big part of this right he was helping me write stuff all the time nick rose is on a new uh is on one of the tracks wow on the new album called sad dad um but we were uh we were all just kind of recording a bunch of different songs and then the very first one that i recorded and it was kind of like oh is this a thing um i recorded a

song called whip your dick and tits out and uh we turned it into like yeah we turned it into a like a dance song and it was really fun so, hey, maybe we could do more of these. And it just kind of snowballed where I was messaging a different musician every day saying, hey, do you want to write a song together? I have this idea. Amazing. And then I would go over to their place. We would write something.

It just kind of, you know, it blossomed into this thing. And I think that one has about 16 15 16 tracks and then after that uh that album the pandemic happened uh and then i made a pandemic album because i just did everything from fog and lasers too yeah i would send everything at different files to all my friends and they would send me back things and then this last one that just came out this uh last year 2023 um was kind of the serious one because like i said i hated the term musical comedy because i kept being told oh this isn't really musical comedy these are like real songs and i'm like right come on guys i'm like it's all music it's like it's it is real songs. And I'm like, right, come on guys. I'm like, it's all music. It's like, it's,

it is real songs, but it can still be funny. It's like Corky and the Juice Pigs for a modern era. Yeah, exactly. And then, uh, I decided to kind of say,

okay, let's not make this musical comedy. Let's just try to make real serious songs. It sounded good. Like the mute musically, it sounds good to me. Yeah. And then if you listen to the lyrics,

it's funny. Yeah. Yeah. So I dig it, man. So where does the name fog and lasers come from fog and lasers comes from um i did a show at comedy bar for three years uh called fog and lasers and it was a it was a uh

it was like uh every what was it it? It was like every second Wednesday or something, um, of the month for three years, a comedy bar. And it was a show I did with, uh, my old comedy partner, Jillian Bartolucci.

Um, and we would get Irish girl. Yeah. Yeah. We would, uh, I did the same joke of Gino Vanelli. That was my opening for Gino Vanelli came over here.

He sat down there. I go, Gino Vanelli. I go, it's Irish, right. That was my opening for Gino Vanelli came over here. He sat down and I go, Gino Vanelli. I go, it's Irish, right? That was my opening. That's good. I should be a comedy guy too. And yeah, no, we did that show once a month for about three years. And we would kind of change it up every month.

It would be like one show we would do musical acts. Another show we would do stand up. Another show we would do musical acts another show we would do stand-up another show we would do uh sketches and then uh more and more i turned it into a musical kind of performance and now like i would just do songs at the shows more and more and then i had songs lined up where i'd be like maybe i should record these so i went over to my friend chris renix he has a studio we started recording a little bit and then studio we started recording a little bit and then uh i started recording a little bit more with like tyler kite and all these guys and yeah dwayne gretzky kind of helped me out because they were recording a lot of stuff my friend joe

harris she uh and meg contini they are on a song called yarmir yager um which is about the hockey player yarmir yager oh my god. The originator of the mullet. Yeah. And they were amazing to record that song with me because they sound like the Andrew Sisters. Okay. Love it. I didn't get that reference.

Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, Mr. Sandman. Okay. I want everybody to go listen to some Fog and Lasers and just know the guy behind Fog and Lasers is an fotm man it's it's this very talented actor so you're a talented actor talented music guy you're funny i'm i'm obviously falling in love with you rodrigo this is unbelievable this is awesome i get to walk away with a lasagna i'm so excited you know what rapid fire conclusion before i play us out and just before i do that did you lose all 300 on the

bitcoin or did you get no there's still some in there there's still what's the value right now of that 300 investment oh i don't know i'm gonna say there's probably like 140 bucks or something you're hanging in there you never know okay so when you cash out and you uh realize you're a very rich man like daddy warbucks you're gonna go subscribe to the Advantage Investor Podcast from Raymond James Canada it features insights from leading professionals it'll provide valuable perspective for Canadian investors who want to remain knowledgeable informed and focused

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There's a reason they call this place Little Italy. It's because nothing ever changes here. That's gonna haunt me. I gotta figure that out. Okay. What's the best thing you've ever been in? Like TV or movie? What's the best quality production that you've ever been in rodrigo priscilla i got to work with one of the best directors ever she's the coolest sophia coppola

yeah easy for you now that now is is blackberry second yeah blackberry was you're having a good you are having a good year yeah you've been in the game for a long time and look at this 2023 i'm gonna say almost 20 years. So what's next? Now you've got to be a guy like Simu Liu, who is going to be invited to the Golden Globes and the Oscars. That's what's next for you, right? I don't think you... I mean, it would be cool, yeah,

but I don't think you set out for that. You're the next Paul Giamatti. I don't think that's what you aim for, right? I think it's more just, I just want to, I want to be, I want to have a job. So I think that's kind of the goal

is you want to work. Well, I'm going to get you in the next Stu Stone production. He just directed his most recent film, but I think he's got one a year he's going to knock out with his brother-in-law. I'm going to talk to Stu

about getting you in that. Right on. So the best thing you've ever been in is Priscilla. People should see that in the theater while they can. Would you share with me what you think might be the worst thing you were in and why is it Little Italy?

Probably Little Italy just because I felt like because I wasn't invited to the premiere. Really? Your role was too small. I thought, you know what? Give me and shoot me a comp, one comp ticket. I didn't even care about a red carpet or anything.

I just wanted to sit in the theater. I'm a big theater guy, like I said. They made you buy a ticket. Oh, they didn't even say that. They were like, we could put you on a waiting list. All they said was, sorry, we're full. We don't want this guy near Danny Aiello. Holy, okay.

Jane Seymour says to keep this guy 150 meters away from her, is what she said. By the way, Detention Adventure, you had a surprise. Oh, those guys are the best. I'm just throwing that out there. Yeah, they're the best. Go watch that show. Really cool.

What's the best thing that you didn't book, but you were close to? Is there anything that you were really close to, but you didn't land the gig and you think that was the best thing you almost were in? Um, actually one of the cool things I was also in, I just want to add is what we do in the shadows.

That's like, those are my comedy heroes. And I got to be, I got to do a tiny, tiny little role, but a good joke. It was a great joke in there. And that was more important.

But yeah, those were... Was the joke, there's a reason they call this place Little Italy. It's because nothing ever changes here. Was that the joke? No, but now I'm going to make t-shirts with that quote on it. And you can do that because you can't trademark these words. That's so funny. You can use the words and you can totally do that.

Okay, before we say goodbye, I'm probably going to see you again, hopefully at TMLX 15. Right on. June 27 from 6 to 9 PM. Everybody listening is invited. That's at Great Lakes Brewery in Southern. It's funny I'm promoting it now.

We just started January for goodness sakes. But is there anything that you were on your way here? By the way, thank you for the coffee. Anything you're like, I want to mention that this, or I want to tell this story. And oh,

never got, but like Mike didn't prompt for it like this is your moment um nothing much really i mean like what's next for you can you tease anything you're gonna like coming up that you think is pretty big deal actually i'm doing a show right now at comedy bar uh on blur um every sunday of this month in january i don't know when this is airing it's good i'm good dude before you get home this is in the feed I don't know when this is airing. It's good. I'm good, dude. Before you get home, this is in the feed. Oh,

this is great. Okay. So if you're in, if you're in for it, I called you dude, cause I was so like upset that you thought I might put this on a shelf or something. And it was like, Oh,

I'll drop this in February. Every Sunday of this month, January at 9 30 PM. I'm doing a show called in rod. We trust. I do some standup. I do some sketch. I do some stand-up. I do some sketch. I do some music.

And I have some special guests. Please come out. Comedy Bar. It's a bunch of goofy material. Stuff that I don't even think maybe is completely funny. But it might work. It might. But last night we did our first one.

And it's every Sunday of this month at 9.30 p.m. at Comedy Bar. Please come on down. You can get tickets at comedybar.ca everybody come check out this wonderful uh well now he's an fotm uh he's been hiding in plain sight and now we have him thank you brian dunn for the intro are you a sim i know you mentioned you're a seinfeld guy but are you a simpsons guy at all like did you ever watch the simpsons yeah Yeah, before season 10. Okay, well good, because before season 10, there was a great episode where Homer went to space. Yeah. Right? And at the end, remember the hero

was the inanimate carbon rod. Remember this? In rod we trust. In rod we trust. So when you're talking about in rod we trust, all I can picture is that inanimate carbon rod. I mean, that's kind of where it comes from, yeah. Yes, I know. We speak Simpsons on this program. All right, Rodrigo, thanks for doing this, buddy.

Oh, thank you so much. Don't leave without the lasagna. Make sure we take the photo. I want a nice photo of you in front of the TV. I almost said in front of the TV. In front of the tree. And I'm sorry that I almost choked to death on you. No, that was great.

We almost had to call Brad from Ridley Funeral Home to come pick me. You're like, Brad, come pick him up. He expired recording with Rodrigo. Who would, here, if I did die, if I did choke to death there, who would drop this episode? If you died, who would drop this episode? I'm going to say the entire 1992 dream team

for USA of the Olympics. Christian Laettner. The dream team, he's the guy I wanted to shout out Christian fucking Leitner what a handsome son of a bitch he is and that brings us to the end of our 1407th show

you can follow me on Twitter and blue sky metronomic please tell us Rodrigo how can we follow you or your fog and lasers project where would you like us to go on the world wide web to follow everything you're doing?

Follow me on Instagram at Rodrigo F. Stoll. That's where I update everybody on anything. And sometimes I post a sketch or a song. I'm going to tag you on the photo of us that I'm going to be sharing via Instagram in about 10 minutes. Much love to all who made this possible. That's Great Lakes Brewery. All that beer is yours. Palma Pasta.

I'm going to grab it from my freezer. Recycle My Electronics. Raymond James Canada. And Ridley Funeral Home. Don't forget your measuring tape. I put it in my pocket already. I'm dropping an FOTM KOTJ episode. Songs you loved that you didn't initially know was a cover.

That's dropping tomorrow morning. Don't you dare miss it. We'll see you next time.