Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Tony Nappo: Toronto Mike'd #1143

Episode Date: November 3, 2022

In this 1143rd episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with actor Tony Nappo about his prolific career, recent work on Strays and Zombies, and being Stu Stone's muse in Faking a Murderer and Vandits. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Yes, We Are Open, The Advantaged Investor, Canna Cabana, StickerYou, Ridley Funeral Home and Electronic Products Recycling Association.

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One, one, four, three. Tony, shot out of a cannon. Love it, buddy. And you brought a dog here. Introduce us to your friend. This is Alfie. Alf. Alf.

Alien life form. Yep. Named after alien life form. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. He looks just like a fucking elf, yeah. I love it.

I love it. Can you swear on this? You can swear like a sailor, if you will. I've got nothing else to fucking say. I can't. You were painting a boat today. I got so many questions for you. I was painting a house.

Oh, painting a house. Yeah, I'm a Canadian actor, so. So that's how you supplement your income. No, actually, I make a living, but I ran into a bunch of, let's just get into it right away. I had a bunch of drug problems over the years, and I find it's best to keep myself busy.

Idle hands will find trouble. And that's why you don't drink. My trouble comes in powdered form, yeah. I don't drink either. So you don't drink. I do weed. Actually, I want to get that can of cannabis number off you. Canofcabana.com.

Listen, over 140 locations across the country. They're great people there. They won't be undersold on cannabis or cannabis accessories. Okay, so let me get this out of the way. Okay, so you're not taking any beer home with you? Nope. Is it okay if I drink or is that rude? You can drink all you want.

You can get drunk if you want. Okay, I'm going to get hammered with you. Okay, so I'm just going to let the listenership know I'm cracking open a Burst. This is an IPA, a New England IPA from Great Lakes Brewery. Tony's not allowed to have any. I'm drinking a Monster Energy drink. A keg of it. A keg of it. Cheers. Sal's not allowed to have any. I'm drinking a Monster Energy drink. A keg of it.

Cheers. Salud. Good to meet you. I love the Stanley Kubrick Clockwork Orange t-shirt you got on there. Stanley gave it to me himself. During the filming of Eyes Wide Shut when you were an extra. I worked my balls off on that film

literally. I recognized you from those orgy scenes. Thank you so much. What's an orgy? That's a famous Stu Stone line, by the way. We'll get to him later. He knows. With Cynthia Dale, did you ever see this film?

Anyway, we'll get to that later. How was the traffic? Awful, awful. I don't know why you're in Etobicoke. You deserve a... Where are you coming from? Actually, today I was coming from Bayview and Merton, where I've spent the last month

painting a gigantic fucking house with 20-foot ceilings on the top floor across the board. And it was all dark colors, and now it's all white. So three coats everywhere. So instead of coming at it with that attitude like what are you doing in south etobicoke what are you doing up there like you know what i mean by the lake

is where it's at yeah well fair enough it's really nice out here actually do you have any fog up there like like here it's like right now it's like it dissipates by the time it gets here it's wild this waterfront fog we got right now it's wild okay so you weren't painting a boat so i don't know what the fuck I was thinking. But here I have a question. So I offered you some craft beer and you said, no, now I know why. Because you're in recovery essentially. Yeah.

I mean, I've been in, I went to rehab in 2000. So that's 22 years ago. And I've had stretches of sobriety, stretches of not, you know. How long is this current stretch? I'm going on two years now. And when I say sobriety, I still do weed and I still do mushrooms and edibles and whatever. Okay, so you'll still go to Canna Cabana. Yeah.

Okay, good to know. Shit that debilitates me or gets in the way of doing my job or my life or whatever else, I stay away from. Good for you. But you put a note in the text, no water. Like, was that a joke? I don't drink water. So tell me, like, you don't ever just have a glass of water?

Rarely. I know you're supposed to drink eight glasses a day. I think I drink maybe eight glasses a year. And every time I do, I'm like, this stuff is fucking good,

you know? Yeah. But then I forget. And it's plentiful and it's good for you and it comes out of the tap. You can get it anywhere. Yeah.

But you'd rather have Monster Energy. Monster, Red Bull, Coca-Cola. I'm going through a big root beer float stage right now, which feels like a health drink to me. Okay, man, I got so many questions, but I'm going to just read a note I got from another FOTM.

So, Tony, I know you don't know what FOTM means. I'm going to tell you. Friend of Toronto Mike. Okay. You're now an FOTM. Nice. Welcome to the club. I really like you already from the first moment I met you.

Is that right? Yeah. Okay. I think it could change in a heartbeat. Well, let me know at the end of the show how you feel because we got to take our photo together outside and people can see the fog and shit. But I got to know right away from another FOTM, Jeff Merrick. Oh, I love Jeff.

He says best, this is about you, by the way. He's not talking about himself. Okay. Best guy in the world. Wow. this is about you by the way he's not talking about himself okay best guy in the world wow nobody has made me laugh harder than tony ever how do you know jeff we played on the same hockey team sergeant rock uh for years i don't know how many and uh george bell arena george bell arena well a lot of arenas mccormick uh i refereed kids hockey, too, for a few years. So I know all the rinks.

But, you know, I made him laugh a lot. But, you know, I had the advantage of being naked with him before the games and after the games. How does he measure up? Naked? I mean, if I went that way, I'd go that way. Wow. Wow. Okay. That's a big. And there's tattoos all around it. I wouldn't if I went that way I'd go that way wow wow okay

that's a big and there's tattoos all around it so if you get bored you get stuff to look at like a target alright so I have another guy

you probably played hockey with and he's a good friend of mine now we've become pretty tight but he sent in a recorded message are you ready yeah okay here we go

high tech Tony Napo it's Dean McDermott. Hey, Dino. Beautiful hunk of Italian love you. Nice. I just want to send you my love, man. I can't wait to see Vandits.

I'm sure you're fucking amazing in it, as you are in everything. Have fun with Mr. Mike there. And Stu the Jew. Better put me in your next movie, man, because they look fucking great. I don't think you can call him Stu the Jew anymore, can you? So I want to come along for a ride. It's very fucking Kanye.

Anyway, hey, I love you guys. Have a great show with Mike. And I love you guys. Be well. And that's it. Go fuck yourselves. Okay, so... Stu the Jew? Who is that, Kanye? I got to give that a little, Stu the Jew. Okay. So I got to, who is that? Kanye? I got to give that a little context.

Okay. Cause if you hear it like that, you're, I know what you're saying. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Dean goes back like before the Jamie Kennedy.

Yeah. So I know, I know. Yeah. Before the Jamie Kennedy stuff. Yeah. Dean knew Stu from LA when his handle as a rapper was Stu the Jew.

I know, I know. I'm just breaking balls. I'll tell you a great Dean story. Tell me, I love the Dean story. Dean, when his dad died, he decided he was going to have a skate wake for his father. Dean loves hockey. He's on the ice still

eight fucking days a week. He has this skate like a pickup game in honor of his dad. So I figure I'm going to make him laugh. I hadn't seen him for a while at this point. I think, I think, no, this, that wasn't, it might've been for his reality show too, but I forget. So I walk into the dressing room. I decide to put my hockey bag over one shoulder, my stick in my hand, and I take my dick out of my jeans and let it hang, like, down

and walk into the dressing room. And I go, hey, is this Dean's skate? And I look down the fucking row, and there's nobody I know there. Not a single guy. And then I'm like, oh, fuck. don't tell me i go in the wrong room and then i keep looking around and i finally catch dean in the corner laughing his ass off at how fucking embarrassed i am because i'm standing there with my dick literally hanging out of my pants uh so that's that's uh that's one of many dean's stories i love the dean's

dean's actually on Toronto Mike next Monday. Oh, great. I see him every time I go to LA. He sees me every time he comes here. So he's going to come on with his ex-wife. Do you know his ex-wife? I met her. Yeah.

So Mary Jo Eustace is joining. I don't know her, but I met her. Okay. They're going to come on together, which should be kind of interesting. I didn't know that. I saw recently that they were speaking. I mean, I don't know anything about their relationship. Dude, I know so much about this, but I don't know how much to disclose

because I've been working on this secret project that's going to drop soon. I won't speak to it or about her because I don't really know her at all. Well, they've patched things up, and they're putting together a podcast about exes getting along after the divorce. I could be a guest like 12 times. How many times have you been married? I've only been married officially once. One time legally.

I'm a great ex. I'm a shitty partner. Everybody knows that. How long were you married for? About six and a half, just shy of seven years. We're together already. We're still good friends. I have the key to her house.

Her kid knows my kid. I always tell them if I wasn't such a shitty husband, neither you'd be born. Did your, uh, substance abuse get in the way of, uh, being a good husband?

Yeah. Like coming home and shit. You'd go and you just disappear. I just wouldn't come home. I mean, it's, it's, it's,

I can laugh at it now, but it was, it was terrible. You know, my wife never knew what it was. There were no cell phones then, so I just didn't show up. She didn't know where I was. Did that too many times, and rightfully, she left.

But you have a kid. I got a kid not with her, though. I got a kid with someone else. Okay, okay. Okay, how old's your kid? Almost 18. 18 on November 19, I think. Okay, I got an 18-year-old too.

Okay. A girl or boy? A girl. Yeah, it's pretty great. So that means grade, like first year university? Ella Ray, no, she's a badass like her dad. So she dropped out of two different schools in grade nine. Okay.

But she's doing great now. Okay. She had puberty early. but she's doing great now you know she's sort of she had puberty early like she was you know developed physically beyond her years early on and uh and so with those hormones came all the rebellion and shit and she got that out of the way pretty early is she gonna follow in her dad's footsteps and try this acting thing no i don't know i don't know where she'll land i keep telling her don't fucking worry about it like Like, just enjoy your age now, because life gets fucking harder and harder and harder.

Yeah, 18's so young. Okay, so, I mean, we got to talk stew in a minute here, and the FOTMs are waiting to talk a little stew, but, like, when did you realize you wanted to be an actor? When does that bug you? It's a great little story, and I'll try to make it brief. I was at U of T. Oh, take your time, man.

You're here all night. Okay. How long is this fucking thing? As long as you want. Like, there's no rules. if i feel it's an hour it's an hour but if we go longer i don't care okay i can go longer than an hour um so uh so i'm at university of toronto in scarborough i'm going to be an english teacher because my english teacher at winston churchill collegiate in high school don trice was fucking great. He opened the world up to me, taught me how to appreciate reading and literature

and understand it. And so I'm doing that. I'm an English major, but I'm taking drama as a minor because I figure it'll be easy and I'll meet a lot of women. And it was, and I did. But while I was there,

I've told the story a couple of times. Kathy Smith was a TA there and she called me into her office one day. She says, what are you going to do with your life? I said, I'm going to be a teacher. She said, what about acting? I said, I really like it. It's fun. She said, I'm going to tell you something.

I've only ever told one other person. If you study this properly and she recommended to go to a school in New York because of my sensibilities, quote unquote, uh, I think you could make a living doing this for the rest of your life. She said, I only ever told one other guy. So I called that one other guy. I had a conversation with him and I decided, okay, I'm going to drop out of university, which, you know, for somebody who grew up below the poverty line,

education is your way out. So I told my parents, you know what, I'm going to skip that. I'm going to become an actor, which is what every set of parents wants to hear. So I do. And the guy, the interesting part of that story. I was going to ask, who is this guy? Enrico Colantoni, who's actually also in this film.

Wow, bandits. So that's the long and short of it. Those two conversations changed the path of my life. Probably would have come to it some other way. I think it was a thing I secretly always wanted to do. But growing up where I grew up and who I am, it was like, who the fuck are you to be an actor? And you went to New York.

I dropped everything. I never had flown on a plane even. That's my dog's tail making that noise. Get the fuck out of there. It's Alfie. I put all my stuff in a hockey bag. I got on a train and i went to new york wow i stayed at the ymca for a couple weeks found some friends found a place and the rest is a rest

it's like i was checking out your imdb page lengthy like lots of uh credits closing on 200 credits wow yeah okay prolific prolific yeah well but you know when I book a job you know if Dean books a job it lasts three seasons if I book a job it lasts three fucking days

he's on a bit of a losing streak because I I get updates but you book you book a lot of jobs every actor complains you know

no matter Hugh Dillon says you want to hear an actor complain give him a job but everybody complains you you know, no matter, Hugh Dillon says you want to hear an actor complain, give him a job. But everybody complains. You always want to be doing more, but Dean's a hell of an actor, and, you know, it'll come back around for him. Who's the better, we'll get back to acting,

but who's the better hockey player, Dean McDermott or Jeff Merrick? Oh, that's, you know, you're going to start a war there. Well, they're both good. You know, Jeff's solid and Dean's solid. They're comparable. Are there any other, like, famous people that play in these leagues or whatever that you want to name check right now? Well, I mean, this whole league was mostly actors and comedians

and musicians and stuff. Dave Bedini. Okay, Dave Bedini. He'll hack the shit out of you in front of the net. I talked to Jim Cuddy. Yeah. At the woodshed. And we talked about Bedini and he said just as much.

Everyone will say the same thing. But the best fucking guy, like the nicest guy on the planet, Dave Bedini. Okay, yeah. But in front of the net, he will fucking destroy you. He'll destroy you. You know, he did write the Ballad of Wendell Clark,

parts one and two. Yeah, yeah, sure. Who else was there? I mean, there's a lot of people there. I love hearing this stuff. Like, you know, so you got, like, think about it. What, Jeff Merrick? He's on Hockey Night in Canada now.

There's Tony Nappos and fucking bandits. Okay, we'll get to that. We got, you just name dropped. Who else? Jim Cuddy. Gord Downie. I'm seeing your Tragically Hip thing there. Gord Downie.

I never played with Gord, but I- Goaltender, right? He was a goaltender. I had the, what is it? The long end of the rink or the far end of the rink? The lonely end of the rink. The lonely end of the rink. I met him once and he told me a great story,

which was when they were on Saturday Night Live I tried to think of I only met him at a We were reading a script He was a pretty good actor too I have to say if you ever saw One week he was quite good Joshua Jackson

That's right Joshua whatever I think that sounds right A bunch of people I knew Gabe Hogan was in that M. Griner's in that. Okay. I don't know who that person is. She's a singer.

I know. I mean, I don't know. Joel Plaskett's in that maybe? I don't know him personally. Joel Plaskett? You know this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Experience, right?

Yeah. The Joel Plaskett. Emergency. Oh, Emergency. Yeah, Joel Plaskett. Who's the Experience? Somebody else. Jimi Hendrix.

Fuck. Anyway, what the fuck was I saying? Oh, so Gord Downie says, they're on Saturday Night Live, and I remember they didn't play their hits. They played two songs from their new album at the time. Right, right. And one was Grace 2.

Right. It was the first one they sang. And he said his nephew at the time had said, could you somehow say happy birthday to me? And he said, no, i don't think i can but what i'll do is because he was turning 11 he would hold up his two fingers to make the 11th and when he did that he sang the first line of the song going instead of they say you're fabulously rich or whatever yeah he said you say we're tragically hip so he fucked up the line and

you see his face go the fuck the fuck did I just say? And he said, I spent the whole time trying to recover from that moment. And you can see that on YouTube and see the look on his face. I had Jake Gold here who managed the hip at that time,

manages them now. And I played that clip and we talked about it. Yeah, it was just nerves, I guess. He fudged the first line of Grace 2. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was still amazing and it's a great story amazing and it's a great story

and it's a great story and that is one of the great like debates like why aren't they doing I don't know New Orleans is sinking at the time I would have thought

they would have went with go with the hits because you're talking to the states now for the first time we already love you yeah right

okay but that's an artist right he's like fuck that I'm gonna do I'm gonna do what I'm doing now and do you know the the host who introduced them?

Dan Aykroyd, of course. Kingston boy. Have you ever worked with Dan? I've never worked with him or met him. Never met Dan. He held the door for me once at a restaurant. That's my Dan Aykroyd story. Thanks for coming out, everybody.

Yeah, good story. Okay, man, I'm going to do this now, and then we're going to go back. So it's gonna be like A Tarantino film Okay We're gonna jump around But

Okay I promise my dear friend Stu Stone Okay We do this right So Okay You're in Bandits

Yes I got questions about Bandits But before I ask them I need to tell the universe That there's a premiere Like are you going to the Premiere of Bandits Tomorrow night

Tomorrow night, yeah. Okay, that's at Scotiabank Theater. Eight o'clock. Tony Nappo's going to be there tomorrow at eight o'clock. Rob Wells, too. Nobody gives a fuck that I'm going to be there.

Well, you're in my basement right now. Yeah. So I give a fuck that you're going to be there, okay? Are you going to be there? I'm going to be there, yes. Oh, get out of here. So you do give a fuck.

I'll give you a big kiss there. I do give a fuck. For a week, I think it gets a week in theaters and we want people to buy tickets. So go to cineplex.com slash movie slash bandits or Google fucking bandits tickets.

You'll find it. But go to, so at cineplex.com slash movie slash bandits. That box, by the way, will be full before you leave. You are not, and that's for you too.

That's from StickerU. StickerU.com. I love it. You're taking home the Toronto Mike sticker. And this box. Is this book too or no? No, I wanted to show that to you

because, well, Mark Weisblatt, but I gotta, yeah, it's okay. It's not a TV show. I'll fix that camera in a minute. All right, let me do the Vandis thing first, which is that FOTMs in Toronto, and there's other cities

that have this too, but let's just focus on Toronto. This is Toronto Mike. Scotiabank Theatre is airing a Stu Stone movie for a week and you can buy tickets, support Stu Stone, who's been on this program

approximately 90 times. No joke. And he comes on once a month for Toast. He was here every week during the pandemic for Pandemic Fridays. We love Stu. Let's support him.

Buy a ticket to Vandits. First question for you, Tony. Yeah. Is that a true story about the van getting stolen? Yeah, it is. Because Stu does gimmicks and shtick. He's a bullshitter, yeah. So when it happened,

me and Cam Gordon had a little private chat and we said, is it real? We weren't sure, but come here. I trust you, man. No, it was real. It absolutely was real. And they did recover the stuff eventually but we shot the film on completely borrowed or donated equipment it was stolen the night before we started yeah that's the story and they got a lot of coverage that story but nobody ever did any real fact checking you know they just kind of trusted the police did for fuck's sake well yeah i always like who's your research department nobody

like well when i saw the cbc i think did they talk to the cops or they just took these two uh two guys but i trust you so this happened and uh you got it done anyway like what did you do you just like uh borrowed i know he said there's a low budget film to begin with. So how much fucking equipment do you have? Yeah, basically, you know, we needed a, we got a couple of lights and we got a couple of whatever the fuck. You got it done. You got it done. So, okay.

So I'm going to come back to Vandits, but it's to set up Vandits. I actually need to talk about another movie and I pulled a clip here. So let's listen. I got to make sure I play the right fucking one. Here we go. Jesus Christ! What the fuck did you do that for? That fucking hurt!

You've been stabbed in the fucking back before! That fucking hurt! Yeah. Oscar, Oscar! You saying you need a victim? Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. What do we got here?

What's this then? Need a moment of truth, is it? Okay. Kiss my grits. Oh. Oh. You cry again, little fucking baby. I'm gonna go home.

What are you going to do? Okay? What are you going to do? Huh? What are you going to do? Huh? Huh? Okay.

That's Faking a Murderer. Right. That's the movie that Adam Rodness and Stu Stone put together before Bandits. Like the most recent. And is that the first movie of Stu's you ever appeared in? Yes. I actually met Stu and he sort of had to vet me before he cast me. And I was like, just fucking cast me.

What's your problem? And he did. Like, okay, so did he pull you out of a catalog? Like, how the hell did he? No, no, no. Adam and I had done a film years ago. And, you know, I'm kind of like City Pulse. I'm just everywhere.

Like, if you're paying attention, if you watch Canadian TV or movies, you're going to fucking see me. See, that's it. Once I saw Faking a Murderer, and I learned you play the killer guy. Like, you have a big juicy fucking role in that thing and then i start seeing you pop up everywhere i'm gonna get to a story about my six-year-old and my six-year-old i know where that's going yeah my six-year-old daughter is watching the show and i'll get to

in a minute but let's finish this up with the stew stone adam rondes universe what's you remember what's the name of the thing where you met yeah shark city shark city not a great film but uh but a but a great experience and what did adam do on that uh we were we were actors i think uh i shot him i think i shot him in the leg or some fucking thing i don't know adam that well okay okay adam's a good guy okay uh you just gotta get past his matching track suits i did i'll tell you. Let me say this before I forget. Yeah. You know, for years, I'm a good actor.

I'm a really good actor now. Yeah. I started out, I was okay, but I've gotten better and better over the years. Sure. Do a lot of stage, do a lot of everything. And all, my whole career, I've been saying, fuck, where's my Scorsese, you know?

Because I got a De Niro hero worship thing. Yeah. Who doesn't? And I kept thinking, oh, maybe it's this guy, maybe it's that guy. But it's these two guys. These two guys are my Scorsese. They don't fucking audition me. They just say, we're doing this.

We want you to do that. We want an apple. Figure it out. And I do. Because you were so good in thinking of murder. With them. I don't mean to rob them of any credit. But it's very collaborative.

And there's a real trust between us, all three of us. And these guys make good films and they write good scripts and I'm a fan of theirs. So you were great in Faking a Murderer. Yeah. I actually didn't,

like I was intimidated by your fame, so I saw you at the premiere for Faking a Murderer, but I didn't want to bug you. Were you there in LA? No, no, no, the Toronto one. Oh, recently, yeah. No, yeah, the one that was recently, yeah, done recently. So I was there, I saw you there, and it was great to see you there.

Fake and a Murderer was fun. That was on Hollywood Suites, everybody. Yep. And Bandits will be on Hollywood Suites too, but we got this limited theatrical run, so buy your tickets. I think they have to run it in a week to qualify for awards, I believe. So Bandits is going to be up for some Canadian

screen awards. Yeah, potentially. I mean, it'll qualify. Okay. This is all very exciting to me, Tony. I'm very happy you're here. Me too. So you do Faking a Murderer, and you got paid

money for that? Like they had a budget and everything they said hey tony here's some money it was like 20 bucks but still um okay there's you know the scene of the beer i drank in that movie i wasn't sober then no it was all beer okay because you know what you were drinking great lakes beer oh it was really good stew up with the beer okay so all those cans were like uh i drank a lot of it does this bring back any memories tony that's the canuck pale ale so yeah it's all the cans of beer and f drank a lot of does this bring back any memories tony that's the canuck pale ale so yeah it's all the cans of beer and faking a murder were great lakes beer that's no

joke and you know what else for that movie i don't know if i should say it but i'll say it anyway when we shot uh you know the stuff for the youtube channel in that movie yeah of course the crazy fucking sunglasses yeah psycho stuff uh We just shot that in, I think it was Adam's garage. Like we faked it. We shot it ahead of time. And I was like, just have a full bottle of vodka there.

And I went there and drank like half the bottle of vodka and then said, just turn the cameras on. We just fucking went. Okay. Well, why did you hesitate to tell that story?

Because I might have left some shit out. After we stop recording, will you give me that stuff? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay,

so Faking a Murderer, you're in that and then when the guys are going to make their next movie again, Hollywood Sweets helps to finance this and then I don't know,

they get financing from wherever and then they're like, you know, Tony, we have another 20 bucks. Yeah. They just, you know, no audition required. They're like, required they're like we want nappo for this one i mean god

love these guys and god love hollywood sweden whoever else said he can play the lead of this film sight unseen like that's that doesn't happen we got 200 credits on the uh imdb and they just know but i've never i've never been a number one i one. I've never proven that I can carry a movie. I've done a lot of recurring stuff on TV, and I'm even playing my first regular role on a TV show. I recurred in probably 10, 12 shows, including Bad Blood. But I've never been a number one, so it's a bit of a risk they're taking.

They could have offered that to a name uh and i'm i might be a semi name in the industry but nobody should have got that role you're thinking well that's a name that's the name people know he did say it i think we were talking over but uh he he told me before he recorded that which is obviously on the record because he knows i'm going to play it tonight but he was telling me he was legit Like, he wants to be in these Stu Stone movies. Sure. Like, where is his role in fucking bandits? I don't fucking know.

I mean, you know, they were, with the money that they had left, I don't know if he told you this, Stu, but fuck him, I'll tell you. Tell me. They were chasing some other bigger names to play some of those parts, but they wanted like $80,000,, 100,000, like crazy money. So I said, you know, let me make a couple of calls. And I called Enrico. Enrico and I were just doing a short film, and I mentioned it to him.

And when it came down to it, I was like, and I told Stu and these guys, I don't even care if you pay these people more than me, just get them in the movie. I don't know how that worked out, but, uh, but Enrico had the time in his schedule. So he came and joined us.

In Winnipeg, right? In Winnipeg. Rob Wells, I had worked with on a film called Beatdown, maybe 15 ish years ago, maybe 10, 12 and had a good time with him.

But, you know, and Rob, you know, you know, he's a shy and pretty private guy. And the trailer park boys is 97% of what he's done. And that's his comfort zone. So when he steps outside of it, I don't think he sees himself as an actor, actor, you know, but I do. And I was like, Rob, you should come out and play with these guys and and and rico too i was like these guys are going to make a lot more movies they're really fucking up-and-comers and uh i think it's a good idea to get in with them here and uh and they both they both came in and i also had said i had read for jan arden's tv show for two different parts

it was down to me and one other guy and I didn't get either. But I spent some time with her then. I had met her one time previously. She didn't know who the fuck I was, but I was like, I think Jan would be fucking killer in this role if you can get her. So I helped, even though I'm not of name, like, you know, for the publicity I'm doing you and I think Breakfast TV, everyone else wants to interview those guys. And I'm like, you know, for the publicity, I'm doing you and I think Breakfast TV.

Everyone else wants to interview those guys and I'm like, whatever gets people to the fucking movie. Can I tell you a fun story about that? So, Stu, you know, he's here once a month

so we're talking about how... He's like your period. Yeah, that's, you know, in Faking a Murderer he's got that bloody slugger shirt so it all fits in there.

Remember when I licked inside his mouth? I remember all of it. I saw it on Hollywood Sweetsites and then i went then i saw it again on the big screen when they had that that premiere uh whatever that was a couple months ago okay so uh was like what can you do and i said well we need we need somebody local who can come over and i said get me tony nappo and he gave me your number. We texted. I said, let's get Tony on before the premiere. Great. So you're here like the night before the premiere.

What great timing. And then Stu said, I'll get the PR person for the movie in touch with you. We'll get Jan Arden on before the On Demand. I guess it goes On Demand in December. So like late November, Jan Arden comes on Toronto Mike. So I'm like, oh, that's great,

because I want to talk to Jan about other shit too. Right. She's awesome. She's fucking awesome. I heard she's such a cool down to earth grounded. But so I chat up the PR person. It's like, okay, we're going to get Jan on the show. It's going to be late November. And I'm like psyched about it.

I'm like, that's great. Here's some possible dates, times. Let's do it. And then I tweeted coming soon to Toronto Mike, Jan Arden. Because after this conversation with the PR person, it sounded like it was a done deal. And then I tweeted, coming soon to Toronto Mike, Jan Arden, because after this conversation with the PR person, it sounded like it was a done deal. And then a lot of people excited about this, by the way,

a lot of nice comments like, oh, I can't wait for this. It's going to be great. And then Jan replies, what? I can't remember what she wrote. Something like, what is this? What is this? Or something. And I realized, like, okay, she's got no fucking clue what i'm talking about for all she knows i made this shit up like i just

invented this like that's my move or whatever and i clearly she doesn't know who toronto mic is even though i'm like look chuck d's been on the fucking program is that right yeah that's fucking chuck d chuck d and tony nappo it's quite a quite a list good company and jeff merrick okay uh and next week d mc McDermott. Okay, so anyway, she seems to not know and then I wrote the lady back and she's like, yeah, we're going to shore this up when she's back from vacation.

So Jan's probably still oblivious, but as far as I know, Jan is coming on Toronto Mike in late November. I can't wait. And she won't be there tomorrow because she's doing a private concert or something.

She's Calgary-based, right? I think so, yeah. She's out there. She's at West. Okay, so you got in good with what I call the Canada's Coen brothers, the Adam Rodness and Stu Stone. And if they make a movie after Bandits,

which they will, I hope it stars Tony Nappo. Oh, I say, you know, I'm with those guys for life. I don't know if I'll star in everything, but I'll be, anytime they call my name, or anytime they tap my shoulder, I'll jump on the ice. And that name, Napo, Italian, right? Fucking cool, eh? Yeah, Napo, like Napoli.

My father's from a town near Naples, and my mom just passed, actually. Listen, my condolences. Thank you so much. It was sudden and quick and the best death it could have been. And so I'm half Italian, half British on my mom's side, actually.

Okay. Which an actress, the woman whose house I just painted, Kara Pifko and her brother Andrew are both actors in LA. And their father's home is what I just painted for them. And Kara Pifko years ago said to me, I said, you know, I'm only half Italian, half English.

And she goes, oh, that makes complete sense because you're a perfect gentleman and a fucking pig at the exact same time. That's great. She said it nicely. She said nicely. The reason I wanted to know if you're of Italian descent is because you're going to know

when you sink your teeth into the palm of pasta lasagna. I'm looking at this. So that box, I got it in my freezer. It's a frozen large lasagna from palm of pasta. The Petrucci family

is going to be dying to know what Tony Nappo thought of their lasagna, man. So you got to report back. How do you say that name again? Petrucci. Petrucci family. Okay, great.

I spoke to Anthony today. You're fucking great at slipping the sponsors in. I'll tell you that. It's seamless. We're just warming up here, bro. Anthony Petrucci phoned me today because he just finished. You a sports fan? I guess you play hockey.

You a sports fan? You know what? Honestly, I never watch fucking any sports anymore. Well, just let the FOTMs know that Anthony Picucci loved the Steve Simmons episode, so he wanted to phone me up and say I did a great job with Steve Simmons. Well, I love Anthony. I don't care what anyone says. Four locations, three in Mississauga, one in Oakville.

Okay, I got to play the trailer. What's wrong with Toronto, Anthony? I know. Anthony, get a location in Toronto here. Put one on my corner. Put one on my corner Put one on my corner downtown I forgot the playlist Okay this is actually the bandits trailer

But let's listen to it Are people only listening No they can hear us Unless you want me to mute you What's that They see you They're not seeing a clip though Listen to a fucking clip. $25,000? Here we come. And then we get the Lambos? Then we get those Lambos.

How do you even know the money's here? Where's the money's here? They keep it in the money room in the back. It's a great trailer. It's a great trailer. Officer, I love your mustache. Oh, shoot. I gotta touch it.

Okay! Duck! Very visual trailer. Perfect for a podcast tony yeah just two lines of dialogue for fuck's sake i know imagine the fun and frivolity let me say this about this movie too before i forget go ahead um so the so the script as, as it was written originally, is I'm kind of a dirtbag shithead who owes 25 grand to somebody. And you're also an actor. In the movie, Mike. In the movie.

But it's never named why I owe money. Okay. I had just got, that was I think the second film I'd done with these new teeth. These are all implants. Look. Okay, because they look perfect. The bottom is one piece. Okay.

Top is one piece. It was worth every penny. It was, actually. My buddy Alex Trias in New Jersey did it. I forget. Montclair Dental something something. I'm not so good with the sponsors. Anyway, so I still had trouble speaking.

And so I said to Stu and Adam, also, I was thinking, this guy's kind of a piece of shit and pathetic. But I want the audience to like him a bit too, right? So at the time, because I couldn't really speak that well, I said, you know, why don't I just lean into this? And so all my dialogue is like a tough guy saying, we're going to fucking go there. The money's in the back.

We're going to get it. But then it comes out. I forgot the dog was here. I forgot the fucking dog was here. I almost jumped out of my skin. I taught him how to lick my balls, so I apologize. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I'm listening to your story. I completely forgot this dog was here.

And this big brown furry head pops up between my legs and my crotch. You're welcome. I almost had a fucking heart attack. I completely forgot. Are you okay? Do you need mouth to mouth or anything to mouth? Don't lick the inside of my mouth. Okay, sorry. You got the, yeah. So I said Don't lick the inside of my mouth. Okay, sorry.

You got the, yeah. So I said, why don't we do this? And so it really works without giving anything away. I think that this guy doesn't come off as a piece of shit so much as sort of an endearingly pathetic loser. Nice. Who's just, you know, he fixed his teeth in an attempt to be less of a loser. And now he's got to get himself out of that hole. And so the whole movie, I'm sort of speaking like this.

So it's a bit of a trick and a bit of a cheat and a bit of an accurate thing. But I think it really works. I'll let you know tomorrow night if it worked. Oh, you haven't seen it yet? I'm seeing it tomorrow night. so I'll let you know. Great. Quick fun fact, because we're on the Pirate Stream,

live.torontomic.com, and VP of Sales is there, and he points out Cara Pifko, that's the name of the, okay, she was on Better Call Saul. That's right, that's right. She's great on that show. Wow. I met her on a show called This Is Wonderland. George F. Walker wrote it.

A lot of Toronto talent it's on fucking Tubi or some fucking thing there's so many how do you keep track of where the hell you are how do you tell loved ones I honestly don't and most of the time I don't even watch myself anymore it's so easy to get shit now

before you had to wait by the TV now it's just like I'll see it when I fucking see it. You'll pull it down somewhere. Okay. Oh, man. I got lots. Stay here. Get out of the way.

What's Alfie doing? As long as Alfie doesn't unplug us, we're good to go here. Okay. So I wanted to play this actually because I just think it's cool you're in this. So this is just for shits and giggles. Here we go.

Well, I'm a lawyer and I assure you that it's in there. You're a lawyer? Then might I ask what you're doing here? I'm a prosecutor, and when you're putting away the types of guys that I do... Oh, gals. No, never women. It's always safest to keep a low profile,

so part of that involved paying Benny and Benny in cash. Oh, okay. Well, that explains what that big old bag was for. How do you know I have a big old bag? I didn't know. I didn't know anything about a bag. You guys have been in my room, haven't you? You know, I keep a lot of very highly classified documents in here.

Schitt's Creek. I got to tell you, first of all, the night before I die, I'd love to do this podcast because you're fucking great already. Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. They'll be on standby. They'll literally take your body. This fucking guy is good. Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home.

Jesus Christ. So I get the call sheet the night before. It has three names on it. Tony Napo, Eugene Levy, Chris Elliott. Wow. And I got to tell you,

I'm 54 years old. SCTV and Chris Elliott slash Letterman slash Get a Life, all the shit he was doing in that period. Get a Life was great, by the way. I loved Get a Life. My sister Louisa and I

used to watch it religiously. And that was Bill Murray's dad. No, sorry. Bill Murray's brother who's playing that old guy. Remember? Brian Doyle. Yes, Brian Doyle Murray. He's great in Groundhog Day.

Yeah. Oh, he's great. Popsitani Phil. All those Murrays are good. Okay. So the night before, I get the call sheet, and it's those three names. That's it. Wow. So I get the call sheet and it's those three names. That's it.

Wow. You know, so I get to go to set. It's one of the only times I've ever looked at the script before I went to work. Like I usually, I don't, I'm not, I don't give a fuck. I just have a different process. Right. And I wanted to show up and know the lines. And first thing I said to those two in the morning was, listen, I'm going to be a pro

here. And, but I just got to say, you two guys taught me what funny is. You know, the guy under the stairs, Marlon Brando, bananas. Everything Chris Elliott did, Eugene Levy, every fucking thing he did. Even Cabin Boy? Look, you can break my balls about half my credits too.

But so it was a thrill, you know? And after I said that, Eugene Levy's like, I like this guy. And he sat down and had lunch with me. They both had conversations. You know, I'm pretty good at leaving people alone. But I want, I expressed that I was a fan. And I guess they both recognized that. And I let them lead and, and they were both fantastic guys.

And, and I, and I'm so grateful that that, you know, that one single day is going to go down as, as an all time great memory in my career. And you can tell everybody you were on a show that won the fucking Emmy for best comedy, like Schitt's Creek won them all.

You know, a lot of people even hadn't even heard of Schitt's Creek until I was on it. I'm surprised you didn't get like a guest star Emmy for that. I'm just kidding. It's a wonderful show and I was really proud just to be part of it. It did really good stuff for Noah

who was on there and Karen and you know it's a great vehicle for a lot of Canadian talent to be showcased. How come Dean McDermott, this is a tough question for you, Tony, how come, this all comes back to Dean, how come Dean McDermott didn't get asked back

for season two of Pretty Hard Cases? Oh, fuck, you know, I can't even, I can't even begin to know that for sure. But I can say that he was cast as the partner of Meredith's originally and as soon as the

Meredith's character and and and Adrian's character got together there wasn't a whole lot left for him to do like even in the first season I'd see he'd be in a lot of scenes but

but they didn't give him a ton of shit to do so even in the first season i'd see he'd be in a lot of scenes but but they didn't give him a ton of shit to do so i i don't know exactly what went down you know even if i did i'd be fucking stupid to say it i have a feeling you'd say it though like i just have a sense that if you might say you know i'm trying to get smarter about shit but i've still got a big fucking mouth and what's your character's name on pretty hurt uh pretty hard uh what is it uh who the fuck was i but but you enjoy your are you you're still on that show no i'm they put me in jail i i don't i don't know that they you know what i like about that show that i didn't like as an actor to some extent is, and I respect the show for it immensely,

is that they really only write for the women, which every other show really only writes for the men. You know, the men to whatever degree are, I mean, I'm not talking about the leads specifically, but they're sort of eye candy or the bad, they're just there to further the story. Right. But the character development is focused around the women and and and i even

even you're not one of them no even when i'm not on the show i have to say i really enjoy watching it like it's uh i think it's a good show i think it's a good show i think uh i like i love the two leads i was over the moon to play with adrian because i was a fan of you know the orange is new black and my daughter was blown away. You know, all that shit. I mean, I'm not a star fucker at all. But I like, you know, I just did a film with Richard Gere. Get out of here.

My mom had the biggest crush on Richard. Maybe still does. He's fucking awesome. And it's not that he's fucking famous. Like, there's a lot of famous people I couldn't give a fuck less about. But somebody whose work I respect and I get to play with like same as eugene and chris or yeah uh you know kim coates and you know anthony pia and rico like i've got to work for the stone i've got to work with a lot of famous people but i didn't give a fuck that they were famous i gave a fuck that they were really good

and that you know you want to skate with gretzky you want to see can i play at that level yes and when i see that i can and you know like joey panch joe pandoliano he recommended me after a film we did for an episode of chucky that that just aired like he actually said to the director, this is a guy you should get for this. Like that's... And he was in Memento. He was in Memento. And just loved that movie. Everything.

He was in The Sopranos. Yeah, of course. He's in a bowling bag. I think right now, a bowling ball bag. That's right. Risky business. Matrix.

Bad Boys. Okay. On and on and on. I have a couple of like current projects I want to talk to you about. One that my, well, one that my daughter's

madly in love with and then another one which is really awesome that you're on it. I think one of the FOTM, Lieve Fumke, was going to join the live stream after she

watched the latest episode of this, which you're on. All that's coming, but I'm going to take us back here. But before I take us back, because you

know, you mentioned your daughter, this ties into her. How, you know, you talked about you want to be like, can I skate with Wayne G because you mentioned your daughter, this ties into her. You talked about you want to be like, can I skate with Wayne Gretzky? How come you live in Toronto and not LA? Well, honestly,

there was a year, I think it was 2006. I was in Four Brothers, Saw II, and Land of the Dead. If you know what the IMDB is, it's the dead. Okay. And if you know what the IMDB is, it's the Internet Movie Database. And they have a rating.

You have a star rating on that. I think I'm in the around 15,000s to 20,000s generally. But during that period, I was in the top 1,000. Wow. I was like number 900 and something, meaning I was the 900 and something's most recognizable face on the planet. Wow. At that time.

And that would have been when I should have went to LA. But what I did was go see a cocaine dealer every couple of days. And I just kind of missed it. You know, that whole period of time just went by. I was doing my thing. It's a hell of a drug though i was doing my thing it's a hell of a drug though right tony that's a hell of a drug i mean shout out to john gallagher and stew stone a couple of my good friends who tell me you might don't don't start don't ever do it don't ever fucking do it if i could go back and tell young me something yeah i'd have six fucking houses in

a cottage in a rolls royce i know you can go crazy with playing that game, but... No, no, and it's pointless. Good on you for getting sober, man. That's awesome. Listen, if you can't do your job, you're fucking dead. And all I haven't fucked up in my life is my job. And I've gotten really close a bunch of times. So, you know, knock wood. I'll say this, man. When I said, you know, Tony Nappos coming on Toronto Mike,

finally after 1143... They said, he probably won't show up. Well, When I said, you know, Tony Nappo's coming on Toronto Mike, finally after 1143. They said he probably won't show up. Well, most people said, who's that? And then, just kidding, of course. No, that's valid. I know. But everybody knows Tony Nappo. They all to a T said, you're going to love this guy.

This is a sweetheart. This is a good guy. Like everybody was just like, just lit up when they talked to you. Not just the Jeff Merricks and the Dean McDermott. People are cheering for me and I appreciate that and people have been kind to me and supportive and cut me some slack. I'm also

pretty good at what I do. Yeah. But I think I'm a really good guy until you fuck with me and then I'm the worst person you've ever met. Don't fuck with Tony. I'm a fucking nightmare. If I don't like you... What happened to the last person who fucked with you,

and why are they now at Ridley Funeral Home? Nobody knows where they are. Nobody's seen them in a while. Buried under BMO Field, maybe. What, am I going to fucking comment? No. Call my lawyer. Okay, call your lawyer.

Hey, man, I will just let you know... What neighborhood do you live in? Because you were painting that house when you came from like whereabouts do you live give me an idea i live downtown in the east end downtown in the east end okay so i'm not far from you know i take my dog to uh no what somebody wants to kill me they'll show up and find me they're gonna find you tomorrow at fucking scotia bank theater like that's right. If anybody wants to kill Tony Napoli, he's at Scotiabank Theatre tomorrow. I'm always in a dog park at Power Street and Richmond and I live not far from there.

Okay, listen. If anybody has questions about that neighbourhood or any Toronto real estate questions, I just want to shout out the drummer for The Watchmen. Are you a rock and roll fan? You like The Watchmen?

You mentioned the tragic clip. Yeah, I know who they are. So the drummer for The Watchmen is a guy named Sammy Cohn. He's a great real estate agent and you can write him right now and ask him any questions about real estate.

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You, my friend, your daughter's name is Ella. Ella Ray. Ella Ray Lewis-Nappo is her name. Can you tell me about the video, the Rob Ford video? I want to hear this story. I almost brought it up before. I have a friend named Ron Murphy who directs a lot of Trailer Park Boys and a lot of comedy, I think to Jan Arden's show as well, I believe.

See how it all comes together with bandits tomorrow? It all does, actually. He had just shot a film. Rob Ford was up for re-election and uh he said i have this idea i want to make a little video sort of against rob ford basically and the idea was a dad and a kid but his original idea was there was actual crack involved somehow and but the kid only says words taken from rob for Ford press conferences. So I said, I'm not real comfortable with my kid being in anything to do with crack.

She was nine at the time. But how about if it's like a crack in a window? And he said, oh, that's brilliant. So we brought her in. We drilled the lines into her that morning. And are you going to play it? I'm not going to play it. But I do have the script here, but you keep going.

You can Google it. It's called Rob Ford's Words in the Mouth of a Child. She was fucking brilliant. And I was okay. Enrico's like, she really made you look bad. Like, you're really overacting and she's fucking. You know what? I'll play.

I'll play, Tony. I'm going to play it because. It's a minute. It's a minute long. You know what, I'll play. I'll play, Tony. I'm going to play it. It's a minute.

It's a minute long. Kiddo, were you playing with the ball in here yesterday? Yeah. Because there's a new crack in the door. Did you do that? I did not do the crack. Well, I have a video that says you did. I did not do the crack, and I am not in the habit of making cracks. As for the video, I will not comment on a video that I have never seen or doesn't exist.

Well, did you throw the ball? Yes, I did. And did the ball hit the window? Yes, it did. So, you did the crack. I didn't do the crack. But you threw the ball. Dad, you're not asking me the right question.

Go ahead. Ask me again. Okay. Did you do the crack? Exactly. No, I did not do the crack. The ball did the crack. Probably in one of my sleepy stupors.

You did the crack. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I answered you. Cut it. Good. She's crack. Probably in one of my sleepy stupors. You did the crack. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I answered you. She's good. I'm sorry. I'm not perfect. I'm only human. It's in the past now. There's nothing I can do about it. It is what it is. I've apologized and I think it's time to move on.

She's great. And you know what? She's like, she's a beautiful beautiful now she's like a beautiful 18 year old girl built like a brick shithouse you know she if she wanted to go that way i wouldn't get in her way but i'm not sure that she wants to honestly and i and i definitely wouldn't push her towards it because it's a hard industry and it's really fucking hard on women. We have, I'm going to save my, so I have the 18-year-old I told you about, but she's actually living in Montreal right now

because she goes to McGill. I'm going to be visiting her later this month, but I got a six-year-old daughter. We're going to get to her in a minute, but I want to start with this trailer. So this is the spinoff, the Kim's Convenience spinoff. So after hitting the big 3-0, I needed a change,

quit my gig, moved away, and started a meowsing new job in an animal shelter. Oh my god. There she is. Shannon. Ross. Ross. Yeah, I'm gonna go on break. And should Paco just finish brushing himself? Yeah, reach for the stars, Paco. I'm excited. A place to call my own. George,

what are you doing here? I live here. I'm so sorry, all the units look so much alike. Is that my mouth guard? It didn't fit. Strays, new series, September 14th on CBC and CBC Gem. All right, man, talk to me about Strays. I fucking love Strays. I'll tell you this.

Yeah. The first season was good. It was exactly the show we wanted to make, but it was a bit fluffy. It was a bit light. Each episode was self-contained. They were really going for laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh. This season, I think somewhere between the producers, the creators, the network, they decided, okay, let's go for something a little more.

So now there are threads that continue the whole season. You know, it's a little more, it's less self, each episode isn't self-contained. And so you need to watch it in order, which is why people make self-contained episodes, so they don't have to. And there's a couple of new characters, but the level of writing is fucking beautiful,

and they're showing different sides of every character. The episode that played last night, episode eight, it just, it breaks my heart, and I can't be objective at all, but I know when I'm on a shit show. Right. And I can't go on and talk, I can't bullshit.

I can bullshit if I'm trying to have sex with you or something, but I can't go on and talk. I can't bullshit. You know, I can bullshit if I'm trying to have sex with you or something. But I can't bullshit about acting. Right. So I love every single person I work with, from the crew to the creators to anyone I've met. There's just such a strong sense of family. And that really manifests itself in the relationships on the show and you know obviously strays is it's about the animals but also it's about all the people that work there and we're all strays and kind of fucked up and

we form a family and that really gelled uh last night in episode eight and i think we're gonna have a hit your stride i think we're having a pizza party at Nicole's place on Friday to watch. Where does Nicole live? I want to know. I'm going to come to that party. I'm going to fucking tell you. You're going to dox Nicole.

To watch, maybe watch the last two episodes or just hang out. Okay. But I miss those people. We've got a, you know, a text thread that we're always in touch. And, you know, we're supposed to get out and do a couple of events here and there.

But I hope it runs for five more years at least. I hope after two seasons you can get on Netflix. I think if that happens, we'll definitely find a bigger audience. Yeah. And that'll help us. Well, that's what happened for, basically that's what happened for Schitt's Creek, right?

That's right. They found its big American audience and then they said, hey, this is a good show. I think it's a really good show. And people who watched it in the first season didn't love it, I'd say watch it again in the second season and you will.

I'll guarantee that. If not, you can find me in a dog park and kick me. Well, part of these, I mean, the challenge you must have as a Canadian working in Canada is that we like to eat our young. I feel like there's a sense of like schitt's creek being an exception and that was only because americans recognized it was fucking good and we said oh well wait a minute here anything's only good if americans recognize it where would ryan gosling or ryan anybody be

without america they'd be doing what i'm fucking doing sitting here with you by the way there's not much worse than that. Stray's fucking great that you got a regular role on Stray's. Yeah, great. Nicole's a good person? They're all good people. Nicole is fucking beautiful. And I think

she's brilliant. She's funny and quirky and all that shit. But she's got chops for fucking days i i liken her to i think her on this show is quite comparable to mary tyler moore and the mary tyler wow that's single from the single kind of quirky wants everyone to be happy doesn't like conflict uh you know is is is is struggling with a lot of shit. Yeah. And succeeding just not as quickly as she'd like.

I'm feeling, I think my six-year-old went to bed. I'm like, I want to get her down here. Come on, get her down. Let's take a picture. But I'm going to give you something here real quick here. Then I'm going to get to that, which is this is a wireless speaker. You can take that home.

You can give it to your daughter. You can keep it yourself, Tony, but that is courtesy of Mineris. Mineris sent that over to give to you, Tony, because you're going to use that. Is that why Stu comes here? Does he just take shit off you? Yeah, he just wants lasagna.

That's beautiful. Thank you so much. Why the hell did Mineris give you that speaker? You're probably wondering, what does Mineris want you to do with that speaker? They want me to listen to music while I paint. Listen to, yes. You've got to listen to music while you paint, and you've got to listen to their podcast.

Yes, we are open. That's a Moneris podcast production. FOTM Al Grego is already in season three. They just launched season three, and he's been traveling the country interviewing, you know, small Canadian business owners and telling their story, the story of their perseverance in the face of overwhelming adversity.

So everybody go to YesWeAreOpenPodcast.com and subscribe to Yes We Are Open. That's what you're going to do, buddy. Boxing! Boxing! You don't have to stop the music tonight! That's what it says on the box. Boxing, right? Yeah, that's right. Now,

this is exciting, okay? Because I'm going to ask you about awards. Don't hurt yourself there. Don't break those new teeth. What would that cost us? A lot. I don't want to know. I can't imagine. I had a root canal and I had it fucked up just one tooth and I know what I paid to get a porcelain crown on one tooth.

I'll tell you straight out. To get this done here cost $100,000. Holy shit. And you know what? What Canadian actor could afford that? It's fucking crazy because essentially it's one long day in the chair and then four or five follow-ups. $100,000.

How much in New Jersey? I paid $25,000. Okay, that's a quarter of the price. Okay. No wonder you went to New Jersey. Yeah, but that. Okay, that's a quarter of the price. Okay. No wonder he went to New Jersey. Yeah, but, you know, that was a buddy,

a really good buddy, doing me a huge favor. Wow. And he's, if I ever get nominated for an Oscar, he's coming with me. Well, you've been

nominated for shit. I'm going to name drop what you've been nominated for, but I just want to tell people, Yes, We Are Open was nominated for Outstanding Business Series

and Outstanding Branded Series by the Canadian podcast awards. You, my friend, you, Tony Nappo have been nominated for a Canadian screen award, a Broadway world award, two actor awards, two Dora,

Mavermore, Mavermore awards. What does all this mean? What was the Canadian screen award for? Canadian screen award was, uh, award was for an episode of, uh, that steve demarco the late great steve demarco directed and uh it was a wonderful part that in fact was written for me uh uh

somebody knew me and somebody knew a bit of my history and i played a guy who had uh had a hit and run with uh one of the main characters played by uh oh fuck what's his name peter wonderful actor peter i want to say mooney but that's tom mooney peter rooney maybe google fucking okay you keep talking i'll get you the name i think it's peter rooney i think i might be right anyway whoever this young mooney peter mooney i was right uh Young actor, fantastic fucking actor. And, you know, one of those big handsome guys who don't always get credit for enough for the acting. That whole show, that whole cast was like supermodels.

They were so fucking gorgeous. He's from Winnipeg. Which always makes me laugh. I'm like, how can a whole fucking police force be that good looking? But it was a good show and a great episode for me. And he was a phenomenal fucking acting partner. So this plot was basically, I was part of the car accident that killed his parents and

crippled his brother, played by the guy who directed, Peter, Peter. Peter Mooney. No, no, another Peter, who directed and wrote Defendor that I was in. Peter, what's his fucking, I'm terrible with names. Google Defendor, Peter. Oh, shit, I'll remember it as you say it. Okay, it is Peter Navarro.

No, it's not. I don't know. Stebbings, is it Stebbings, Peter Stebbings? Wait, what's the name of this remote, what? Defendor, look? Defendor. Look up Defendor with Woody Harrelson. Okay, we're making some progress here. Stand by.

This is important. Okay, I'm looking at it now. Peter Stebbings. Stebbings. I got it. See? Good for you, buddy. Call yourself a fucking host.

Kat Dennings is in. She was. And Sandra Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of... Oh, and what's her name? Orphan Black. Katjana. Who's Katjana? Katjana. Okay, in. She was. And Sandra Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of, oh, and what's her name? Orphan Black. Katiana.

Who's old? Tatiana. Okay, good. Thank you. Thank you for the segue. So Katiana. Tatiana. Tatiana.

I knew that, by the way. Oh, there you are. Biker Cliff. Yeah. Biker Cliff. Okay. So Tatiana is She-Wolf. I'm She-Wolf.

Oh, my God. What am I talking about? She-Hulk. Tatiana is She-Hulk. She's Orphan Black. Yeah. She had like a tiny nothing part in this she hulk is uh the other show my daughter's digging these days and my wife went as she hulk for halloween and she did she looked amazing actually well

tatiana is a goddess and goddess and she was such a nice person and then i bumped into her at an audition sometime after this film and she's like oh I just got a series and me thinking like oh good for you like I'm Tony Neff oh you're some little that's Orphan Black and she like is the fucking greatest actor on the planet yeah um and her brother uh Maslany Daniel Daniel is on Murdoch and he's another phenomenal actor okay so my daughter this is all about Morgan now Morgan loves She-Hulk but Morgan is madly in love, and I didn't have a good clip here, but I pulled like a song just to warm us up here. Sure.

Long intro. long intro yeah okay this is called my year it's the very first it's the beginning of the very first zombie film

I know it I've seen those films like 10 10 20 times each tell me about fucking zombies because I didn't know much about zombies. I've never fucked a zombie. Morgan's loving zombies, okay?

Kids love those movies. They're phenomenal movies. Essentially, it's about zombies. The first one is about zombies and people live in this town. And there's a backstory, but it's whatever. Is it a high school musical with zombies?

It is, but it's also sort of about integration and segregation, right? The zombies all sort of lived in zombie town. They were never allowed to go to the high school. This was the first year zombies were going to go to the high school. My son, Zed, played by Milo Mann Manheim who's Cameron Manheim's son wow yeah fun fact

well Cameron and I you know anytime I go there now I go to dinner we hang out wow when I was getting my teeth fixed she let me stay at her spot

in New York she had a little pad Milo's a great kid every kid in those movies is a great kid and a super talented kid and I say kids because they were 16 when I met them but now they're mostly Every kid in those movies is a great kid and a super talented kid. And I say kids because they were 16 when I met them,

but now they're mostly 22 or 5. You know, Stu Stone was a child star. I know. He's still about as tall as a child star, too. So then we did a second one where there's werewolves come to town, and so now the zombies and the people are friends, the werewolves are a threat and they integrate. And there was a funny moment in the third one when aliens land in the town.

And the director's like, okay, so there's a spaceship in the air and you're all really scared. And I'm like, well, I'm a fucking zombie and he's a werewolf. Like, how scared can we be? He's like, shut up, Tony. Just be scared.

But I love this series. They're great. Kids love them. And I have to say, I'm on Cameo. I joined Cameo just to be accessible to kids. But I think I've done like six or seven Cameos in two years. But I've sent about 200 videos to parents whose kids are fans of the film. And I say, any parent who wants me to send a little video to your kid,

find me on Facebook, find me on Instagram, send me a note, and I'll always send it. Love it so much that I'm going to ask you, do you want to send the, I'm going to bring down the song, actually. You want to give a message to Morgan? Morgan, your daughter? Morgan, my six-year-old daughter. Where do I look, in the camera?

Yeah. Hey, Morgan. This is Tony Nappo. Do you know who I am? I play Zed's dad, Zeevon, in the zombie movies. And your dad, Mike, tells me that you're a fan of the movies. So I just wanted to say I love you. Thank you for're a fan of the movies. So I just wanted to say I love you. Thank you for being a

fan. I really hope I get to meet you even though you're literally upstairs right now. I can't believe I missed you. Be good for your dad because he's the one who told me that you're a fan. He's the one who told me to say hi and he's a really good guy. I'm really enjoying having spending some time with him and the next time I'm by this house which i will be i promise we'll uh we'll have a little hello and we'll take some pictures and all that love you how much do i owe you tony nothing nothing buddy you know that a lasagna that shit like to say hi to a kid and make them smile especially a kid who's like oh my god my dad knows this guy or whatever yeah that's a perk that money doesn't matter. I get to make a fucking kid smile by saying hi?

Get the fuck out of here. Love it, man. No, that was fantastic. And when you'd come on the screen, I would be saying, at the time I hadn't met you and I didn't know you, so I was like, yeah, my friend Stu, because she knows Stu,

because Stu was over here once a week during the fucking pandemic. It's like, oh, my friend Stu knows this guy. He's in my friend Stu's movies. knows Stu because Stu comes, is over here once a week during the fucking pandemic. It's like, oh, my friend Stu knows this guy. Like, he's in my friend Stu's movies and that was the big connect and now I can say,

oh yeah, this is an FOTM, Tony Nappo. So amazing. You know, if I've said any negative shit about Stu, I meant it.

But he's a solid guy and I'm going to be with that guy for life. Well, we're all going to be together tomorrow, man. That's right. We're all going to be together

tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it. We're going to take a bunch of pics and make a bunch of noise so people will sell out the whole week here. Okay. So you got the speaker. You're listening to that great Moneris podcast, but you're also going to listen to the Advantage

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Did you ever invest in RESPs for your daughter? I have. That's the one thing I did do right. I've done two or three things. Two or three things right along. Well, you seem like you're doing all right. So you pulled yourself up and you're doing all right now. But do subscribe, everybody, to The Advantaged Investor.

You'll be able to remain knowledgeable, informed, and focused on long-term success. Awesome, buddy. Okay, this has all been amazing. Success, success, success. Success, success, success. Okay, so I'm just going to drain the swamp here. Because we're live, I see Cam Brio is the gentleman's name. He had some questions for you.

What up, Cam? Cam says, he's asking questions we've already answered. So I'm going to tell Cam that we did record this, and it will drop in like a half an hour as an episode 1143. But he says, how did Stu sell the role of david stoner to you did he have to sell it to you or are you like you were you were all that i don't think he had to sell it to me uh they were like here was my here was like an idiot because you know they had they show that clip that we made the garage clip to a lot of people in the course of the film, including whoever the fuck they were, you know, the filmmaking people.

FOTM David Kynes. Is that who it was? Yeah. I don't know, Hollywood Sweets, yeah. Yeah, so those people are in a room. They got a red light, green light, sorry, so they can sign off. Yeah, that's right. They're in a room, and they're talking, and he's showing the clip,

and I'm like, it's right. They're in a room and they're talking. Right. And he's showing the clip. And I'm like, it's me. Anybody in the industry will know that's Tony Napp. Because anyone who hasn't seen Faking a Murderer. Saw. Saw is your most, your big franchise Saw. You were in a bunch of Saws. Listen, I'm in a lot of movies. But I'm a character player.

Like I'm in Saw. I get killed in Saw fucking 10 minutes in. I come back in a couple of flashbacks in other movies. Okay, because you're in a lot of Saw. That are like 20 seconds long. Four Brothers I'm in. But there's a lot of big stars in. You're not going to walk away thinking that was Tony's movie.

Right. Land of the Dead I'm in. George Romero's. John Leguizamo. Dennis Hopper. You know, there's a lot of other stars in that there's a lot of stars period sure other than me in the film so nobody knows who the fuck I am but me thinking in Canada they're gonna know it's me nobody knew nobody knew these guys are like no no just just play the part just play I'm like but you're going to fuck your movie up before it even comes out.

See, you're the perfect level of fame because those who know, know, but for most people, you put on these fake teeth, right? You know, like I just shaved this morning. I look like a homeless guy yesterday, you know? It's amazing what a beard or a goatee or a Wendell Clark mustache just changes my face entirely. It's like a...

It goes back to Bedini, man, the Ballad of Wendell Clark. That's right. It's all... This is the perfect evening. All right, rapid fire. I might die tomorrow, actually. Well, if you died, I told you. I can get you a deal.

Brad Jones was just here. I know, but I feel like this... We reviewed my whole life, and now I'm going to get in a car and crash into a fucking truck and it'll be your fault. At least this is recorded man. We have something

to remember you by. That's right. Okay so real rapid fire because Cambrio has got a lot of questions. Go go go. Have you ever

worked with Harlan Williams? No. Okay. Although I knew a guy who said he gave his girlfriend herpes or something.

Wow that's cool stuff. You know he worked with Ed the Sock when they were at Cable 10 doing Ed's night party. Okay. I think he's cool stuff. You know, he worked with Ed the Sock when they were at Cable 10 doing Ed's night parties. I think he's a very funny guy. I haven't seen him in a while, though.

Well, he was in... There's something about Mary, right? Chris Elliott. Chris Elliott is all over that movie, as I recall now. And we were talking about Chris Elliott and Schitt's Creek. Well, Chris Elliott is also in Groundhog Day,

which we have mentioned. We did mention the Murrays, yeah. Okay. You were a guest on Kim's. He's asking if you ever guested on Kim's Convenience. I did one episode. He says, were you the sketchy tenant? Yeah, that's right.

Ankle bracelet guy, yeah. What is your favorite movie of the last five years? That I've seen? I want to ask that you've been in, but he's just asking that. I don't know if he wants to know. Well, I got to say Bandits, I guess. Have you seen the final cut of Bandits? I have, yeah.

Okay. And if you weren't in it, would you still be recommending it? Yeah. I think it's really, really funny. You know, we watch it in a screening room, me, Stu, Adam, Enrico, Francesco and Jesse, Francesco Antonio and Jesse Camacho, who are both fucking brilliant, as is Victoria Turco. They're wonderful in the film.

They're probably getting the least light shone on them because of the other names, but I think they're so, you know, they're all accomplished and they're all fucking good. I'm so excited to see this movie tomorrow night, man. I think the way to see this movie, not to be too much of a jerk-off, is to see it in a theater with 400 people.

That's going to be a fucking great experience. I watch it in a screening room with five other guys and my daughter studying it to see if it worked or it didn't. Right. So there was not a lot of out loud laughing because we just came through a shitty pandemic you can go to a theater now so guys everybody get your tickets to the scotia bank theater starting we have the premiere tomorrow and then starting thursday there's like a week no starting friday there's like a week run

uh see bandits support stew but it's also a fun movie It's a bunch of It's a lot of fun Bunch of weed in that movie It's a Christmas movie too So It's gonna be on every year For the rest of your fucking life But You know

You could get hit by a car tomorrow So You wanna see it soon Man You're just warming my heart there Okay Now I wanna know if you

Became friendly with fellow Canadian Jason Priestley When you were on Private Eyes I really liked Jason Priestley I really liked him a lot. He's a great fucking guy, as is Cindy Sampson, or I think it's Cindy Sampson, as is, anyway, everyone I worked with on that cast and crew,

and everyone was great. I did three episodes of that over the years, playing Cindy's mom's, fuck, I can't remember. Well, I'll give you a mind blow here while you're struggling with all the details there. The show sadly got cancelled far too soon. It had people... I don't know why it got cancelled.

It was the number one drama in Canada for years. Canada, I don't know how... Anyways, we'll get into that. Private Eyes cancelled, but Jason Priestley was in it. Wonderful guy, and so good to me, and so kind to me.

I had said something on Instagram after it was over saying like, this is not the greatest show in the world, but what a fucking phenomenal cast. And I think the creator of the show saw it and got pissed off. And I was like, dude, I can't fucking say it's not great. It's not the worst. It's a you know it's a show get over yourself

I was talking about my experience on it which was fucking amazing because they're they're all wonderful actors and I really enjoyed it so I'm gonna shout out

the guy who wrote the book that that series was based on yeah that's the guy I think he was mad at me he's an FOTM well I think he's pissed off Gare Joyce is his name okay I don't even remember so G me. Gare Joyce is his name, okay?

I don't even remember. So Gare will be listening to this because Gare listens to all Toronto Mike episodes. So Gare, let me know, did you get upset with Tony Nappo for saying that Private Eyes was not the greatest show in the world? Yeah, he said something.

Or if it's the guy I'm thinking of. Okay, because this guy wrote the book. Yeah, this is the guy who wrote the book. Okay, that's Gare Joyce. What a small world. It number the number one show in canada and it was good enough for william shatner which i mean i'm sure they fucking paid william shatner more than me but i i have no issue with the show it's a good show it's a solid show uh i just i just you know i don't sell shit, listen to me talking now. Right.

I just talk. You sold me on strays, okay? I checked it out season one, and I thought it was okay. It was okay. But I'm going back to it, because you sold me on season two. Season two, and I bet you'll thank me. And Gare, is Gare? Gare Joyce. Yeah.

I apologize if I offended you. You know, I'm just a guy with a big fucking mouth. But, you know, I think I said a lot of nice things outside of that one awkward phrase. What's your favorite Stu Stone song? I don't have one. Although I have listened to it and I watched that whole documentary about,

you know, when he was doing it. And it's fucking brilliant. The guy's brilliant. Rolling with Saget, man. That was Stu. That's right. That's right. And the guy who did the beats for that is a guy named Decisive. He's been on brilliant. The guy's brilliant. Rolling with Saget, man. That was Stu. And the guy who did the beats for that is a guy named Decisive. He's been on the program. He's great too. Derek Kristoff.

I legitimately enjoyed all of it. I legitimately enjoyed every minute of this episode of Toronto Mike to Tony Napo. Unless you want to blow my mind or something else. Because we've got to take a photo in the fog and you've got to get some sleep. Let me just say you're fucking great at this and i look forward to coming back and i look forward to seeing you tomorrow night thank you for having me can i sit on your lap during the

bandits premiere tomorrow well why don't you get over here and let's practice and see how it works Good night, everybody. Oh, this song here, there's in a podcast, you know, Ron. Ron Hawkins. Ron Hawkins does that Tuesday nights with Tom. Yeah, he did during the pandemic. During the pandemic, I wrote in one time and he said, what's the line? I want to take a streetcar downtown. Yeah. Read Henry Miller and wander around.

Yeah, it says, I want... He sang to the camera. I want to take a streetcar downtown. I slap Tony Nappo and wander around. Okay, he performed at one of my events. I have my 11th event coming up at Palma's Kitchen on December 3rd at noon. Ron Hawkins and... I have a Ron Hawkins painting above my couch.

Yeah, he's got... You know what? I just saw him at the El Macombo one week ago. I see him all the time. I've never seen them live. I have tickets to see Lois and Lo for at Lee's Palace the night of TMLX 11, which is December 3rd. I'm going to be at Lee's Palace

seeing those guys. I love those fucking guys. Take me. Take me. I will take you. I'll let you sit on my lap for that show. But anyway, he's at my event, and he's singing Rosie and Greg, because I close every episode of Toronto Mic'd with this song.

It's awesome. And he goes, he sings it. I want to take a streetcar downtown, listen to Toronto Mic'd, and wander around. And then instead of drinking Guinness from a tin, he goes, drink some Great Lakes from a tin. He's just a mensch. He's a fucking awesome guy, I got to say.

some Great Lakes from a tin. He's just a fucking awesome guy. I got to say. And that brings us to the end of our 1143rd show. I'm never cutting your mic, Tony. You can follow me on Twitter. I'm at Toronto Mike. Hey, Tony, you don't tweet much.

I tag you like a mofo. There's nothing from you. I don't go on Twitter anymore. I hate it. Okay, well how do you want people to... Instagram, I'm Napo period Tony and Facebook, you know, whatever. Who cares? Our friends at

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are at Canna Cabana underscore see you all tomorrow when Mark Weisblot FH and Kana Cabana are at KanaCabana underscore. See you all tomorrow when Mark Weisblatt from 1236 returns. I'm not. Wants me today And your smile is fine And it's just like mine And it won't go away Cause everything is rosy and gray Well I've kissed you in France And I've kissed you in Spain And I've kissed you in places

I better not name And I've seen the sun go down on Chaclacour But I like it much better going down on you Yeah, you know that's true Because everything is coming up Rosy and green Yeah, the wind is cold but the smell of snow

warms us today and your smile is fine and it's just like mine and it won't go away cause everything is rosy now everything is rosy yeah everything is

rosy and Everything is rosy and gray