TPS252: An Interview With K Trevor Wilson II
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The gang at The Produce Stand are joined by K Trevor Wilson (Squirrely Dan) for a second visit to chat about the end of Letterkenny (don't miss this!) and his upcoming Canadian tour.
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That fresh produce stand there, that's a beauty. Speaker 1
What do you listen to? Speaker 2
My favorite murder podcast. Speaker 0
Jagger and Torrance podcast. The produce stand. Speaker 1
Fucking sexy. Speaker 3
It's Thursday Thursday, and that means we are once again hanging out the produce stand, podcast paying tribute to everything and die universe. Speaker 2
Now I Speaker 3
know what you're thinking there are many other Letterkenny podcasts out there, but this one is about to get squirrelly. I'm Al, your host. And joining me in the room as always is lovely, Tanya. And online, we have squirrely Matt. Unfortunately, Victor is under the weather today, so he will not be joining us. But joining us this week, making his second visit, he is an award winning Canadian stand up comedian and actor. He's a self proclaimed man mountain of comedy. You've seen him on Just for Laughs, Last One Laughing Canada, Roast Battles Canada, What Would Sal do Sal Do? But, of course, we all know and love him as professor Trisha's best student and one of the main care Hicks on sorry. Here we go. Speaker 0
We all know Brother Kenny? Speaker 3
I will not edit this. I and I messed this up the last time you were on. K, Trevor. Here we go. But, of course, we all know and love him as professor Trisha's best student and one of the main hicks squirrely down on Letterkenny. Please join me making some noise for Kate Trevor Wilson. Wondrous. Speaker 0
Oh my gourd. Speaker 2
I regret nothing. Speaker 3
Does that bring back any memories? Speaker 2
You have no idea how embarrassed Michelle was recording the yes yes yeses. Speaker 3
You know, and she had to sit there and listen to that sound clip when we we had her on just like you just did, so you can imagine. Speaker 2
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no. It was it was the four of us out on a hot day in front of the produce stand with the crew and, you know, a lot of guys and a handful of girls and Michelle having to do her yes, yes, yes. And Speaker 3
Oh, man. Speaker 2
That's amazing. She was so embarrassed, and it was like, we're all doing it, hon. We're all Speaker 0
We're all on the same boat here. Speaker 2
We're all making the exact same noise and Speaker 4
looking stupid. In fact, I guarantee you, we all Speaker 2
look stupider than you do, dear. Speaker 3
I love that you're you're, oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. This is perfect. Speaker 2
Oh, yeah. I know. They put that in the script, and they're like, how are you gonna play this one? And I dropped the I think I'll try it this way. Oh, fuck. He said I was like, yep. That's how I want you to do that. Perfect. Speaker 3
Well, again, thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for for coming back. I mean, you Well, thanks Speaker 2
for having me. Speaker 3
You were one of our earliest so we were talking about this, before you joined. When we started this, you know, in twenty twenty, actually, we're we're about to hit four years since in on Saturday. We Congratulations. Thank you. Speaker 2
Thank you. Speaker 3
This is a pandemic project. We were just having some fun, you know, getting together when we couldn't physically get together. And first, we had plywood on, and that kind of made us think, oh, we never really considered doing interviews with cast members. And then you were literally the second person we had on from the cast. And at the time, we're like, oh my god. We got we got Kate Trevor Will. I mean, he's one of the three hicks. I mean, the four hicks. What a amazing. So I credit you for, you know, making us believe that we could do you know, we can continue doing this because we could have quit, you know, ten episodes in. So thank you so much for doing that back then. Speaker 0
Thank you for the yes. Speaker 2
Yeah. Hey. You're welcome. I had a lot of free time during the pandemic. Speaker 4
Didn't we all? Speaker 0
I'll take it. Speaker 3
So in that first episode, we covered kind of your background and how you got to where you got to. So let's, you know, let's just do an update. Like, what have you because it's been three years. What have you been up to the last three years? Speaker 2
Well, as you know, we stopped doing Letterkenny. Speaker 3
Yes. We will get to that. Yeah. Speaker 2
It came to came to an end. Mhmm. So it was a a hell of a ride. Twelve seasons in eight years. We did far better than anyone could ever have perceived we were going to do. Took the show further than, just about any Canadian show has gone before and did the live tours, traveled around, saw North America, got to meet a lot of interesting people, and discover some insanely famous fans and, come home and wrap it all up. And now it's, now, you know, gone on to do other things. Had a nice four season run with, roast Battles Canada. Speaker 3
Yes. Excellent. We're gonna talk about that too because, Speaker 2
And, and hoping that there's, more of a future with that down the road. Mhmm. And, working on, some new projects. And then, personally, just been spending a lot of time, doing stand up, hitting the road, pretty regularly. Just, was in, just in Indianapolis for fourth of July weekend doing stand up there. And in a couple weeks, I'll be heading out to Austin, Texas and Tacoma, Washington. And then, in the fall, we'll be launching, my first, headlining theater tour in Canada, k, Trevor Wilson and Friends. Speaker 3
That's amazing. And and so, yeah, we're definitely gonna talk about all of that because, you know, that's why you're on today. First of all, congratulations on your on on getting married during it's during that time because that happened after after you you joined us. You know, how are things going? How's married life? Speaker 2
Married life is great. Mhmm. Married life's terrific. You know, the the wife and I, we got hitched, it was about three years ago now. Speaker 0
Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2
And, it'll be three years in in August and, moved out of the moved out of Toronto to a nice little small town, started living my gimmick, as they say. And, it's been nice. We got, got a couple dogs, got a couple rabbits. Wow. I joke next year, I'm building an ark. With everything. And, it has been great. I I'm way better at being married than I was at being single. Speaker 3
Nice. That's Speaker 0
good. Has and I and I found this in an article, not too long ago. Has she gotten accustomed to being known, for stalking you in the early days? Because I I heard how you guys met was a bit interesting. And Speaker 2
Oh, she still doesn't like it when I call it that. No. She still she still doesn't like it when I call it stalking me on the Internet even though that is technically what she did. Speaker 3
Well, I call it research. I mean, I'm I'm with her. Like, I'm you know? Speaker 2
But, but, yeah, it was, I mean, she's she's definitely, not squarely Dan's wife. She is she is, very much her own person and a strong woman with her own accomplishments. So, She has there's no worry of her being overshadowed by me. She is, she's a tremendous gal who's going to be known for far better things than who she married. Amazing. Well, you Speaker 3
mentioned I'm Speaker 0
so glad it's working out, man. It's amazing. Speaker 3
You mentioned you moved out of the city without doxing yourself. Where where what part of, you know, where where did you move to? Speaker 2
We're in Durham County. Speaker 0
Okay. Oh. Speaker 2
Yeah. We're about an hour northeast of the city. Speaker 3
Very nice. Speaker 2
Not a small town. We were sort of in the thick of a pandemic. We were in a one bedroom condo in by the lake in Toronto, which was great. You know? A great spot to be, one of the prettier locations you can find in in the downtown core. But, it was just, it was great while we were busy. But when we were at home for two years straight, we were starting to go crazy. Speaker 1
A little swirly. Speaker 4
Yes. I mean, we Speaker 2
we started we started sleeping in shifts, and it wasn't even something we discussed. We would just we would, like, meet up twice a day, and then one of us would go to bed. And it's like we'd meet up for breakfast and dinner, and then, one of us would have the house to themselves. We'd hang out for a few hours, and then someone would go to bed, and the other one would have the apartment to themselves for a bit. And I was trying to get work done. She was trying to get work done. You know? She was taking online courses. I was, you know, doing podcasts and cameos and whatever I could. And Right. You know, whenever one of us was doing something, the other one had to sit quietly in the other part of the Oh, man. Condo. So I was like, you know what? Maybe we should speed up the the life plan a little bit and start looking for that, next place. And we were, you know, looking all over, and, you you know, she'd always wanted to live up around Durham where she used to ride horses when she was a girl, and her folks are up here. So it kinda just made sense to go where Perfect. Go where we have family and where we, you know, can have people, nearby. And, after a lot of house shopping, we found the right place that the right couple was selling. It was, like, very much a a seller's market, and we lucked out and found the one couple that didn't wanna put up with a bidding war. They were just looking for a nice young family to sell their house to. So Speaker 4
Nice. Speaker 2
They told me what they wanted for it. I wrote them the check, and, Bob's your uncle. That was that. Speaker 3
I mean, Tanya and I are in a similar situation. We're just north of, Newmarket. So in a in a small kind of neighborhood, when you moved in, did you any of your neighbors go, holy shit. Squirrely Dan's my neighbor. Speaker 2
The the first day Oh my god. When we were when we were unloading you know, while while the movers were unloading the truck, Marissa and I drove up to the house and we're getting out of the car, And, a guy was riding his bike with his kids past us and spun around so fast, he almost fell off his own bike. And he was just like, holy shit. Are you? And I was like, yeah. And he was like, what are you doing here? He's like, we're your neighbors. Wow. We just moved in. Speaker 3
Can't imagine. Speaker 2
Yeah. Blew his mind. And, it's funny because, like, some people knew right away. Like, it definitely you know, it's a small town. Right. So, you know, bad gas travels fast. So does good gas as it turns out. So, I mean, rumors were going quick. When I went to service Ontario to change over my driver's license, the ladies there were like, we've been waiting for you. Speaker 4
Oh, jeez. Speaker 2
I hope you were in town. We've been waiting for you. That's amazing. Speaker 3
Have they given you the the key to the town yet? Has the mayor visited you yet? Speaker 2
I've gone for beers with the mayor. Speaker 0
Of course. Yes. And then Speaker 2
the mayor. And, it was funny. One of the guys across the street after a couple times of chatting while walking the dogs, he finally admitted that he'd been scared to death because he was a huge fan, and Right. His family actually threw him a super soft birthday party. So he'd been Speaker 0
Oh, he's a full on fan. Speaker 2
Some people just had no idea. I was I was out walking my dog one day, and my neighbor Bert stuck his head out and was just went, hey. Are you on my TV? So they're saying that to me, Bert. He's like, how come he didn't say nothing? Like, yeah. Speaker 4
You know, I don't like to brag, Bert. Yeah. Speaker 1
That's awesome. Do you ever throw on a few, a few s's onto, the words just to see whether or not somebody will figure it out? Speaker 2
I only do that if someone, you know, subtly says something to me because I don't feel like outing myself Speaker 4
at all. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2
I like the anonymity of just being a regular person most of the time. But, you know, if someone comes up and says, you know, how are you now? I'll greet him with a good new. And Speaker 0
That's awesome. Well, it's funny. My so and I won't where exactly I am either, but my my youngest goes to school with kids, in Toronto here. So and and he and I have talked a few times, and and there was a a school event, and he was on microphone. And I chatted him before, and he asked about the pod and this and that. And then he got up on the microphone and made a reference to dancing, and he goes, or some call a boogie. And I knew and I and I knew deep down that was a quick nod to me because he knew what a fan I was, and I kinda laughed and gave him a thumbs up, but it was you know, it's just those subtle nods. Right? Speaker 2
Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. It, you you let you let out the let out the things to the people who appreciate it, but you don't wanna do it too much that people think you're flaunting it. Speaker 0
Yeah. Of Speaker 3
course. So before we No. Speaker 2
I'm actually not even the most famous guy up around here. Oh. Hayden Hayden Christensen's family has a farm just outside of town. So Yeah. Oh, wow. Everyone up here talks about that period when no one talked to you you didn't approach him at the grocery store because he was still sore from all the Star Wars heat he'd taken. Speaker 3
Yeah. It's funny. I feel like that's coming back around, and people are now kind of getting a new appreciation for those movies, because, yeah, they they got a lot of heat the when they were first released. Speaker 2
There was nothing wrong with the performances in this film. Yeah. It was the writing. Mhmm. Correct. It was there's actually a brilliant thing on YouTube where a guy breaks down why they were bad movies and not just from, like, a personal preference, but from, like, if you understand film, like, the first one, Attack of the Clones Yeah. Or was that the first Speaker 0
one? Phantom Menace. Speaker 2
Phantom Menace. Yeah. There was no protagonist in the entire film. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Oh, Speaker 2
yeah. There was there was no because it couldn't be Qui Gon's story. He died before the end of the he died before the third act. Speaker 0
Yep. You Speaker 2
know, it wasn't, Obi Wan's story because he was on a ship for the entire second act. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
He wasn't even involved. Campi Anakin's story because they didn't you don't meet him till the second act, and he's, completely oblivious to everything he's doing throughout. He's he has no comprehension of what's going on. There's literally no hero in that movie. Speaker 3
And so Speaker 2
no one to root Speaker 0
for, no one to follow. It's just a bit of partial stories going on. Speaker 2
It's just a bunch of story. It was, like, literally, the it was that's all All three of those movies were first drafts that some no one had the guts to say to George Lucas Right. You need an editor. Yeah. But you need someone to go through this and take another stab at it because you got you got good bones here, but, structurally, this makes no sense as a film. Yeah. And and he knows he doesn't know how to write dialogue. Yeah. That's good. If you go back and watch all the documentaries on the first movies, because he was a less experienced director, all the actors were like, no one talks like this, Speaker 3
and Speaker 2
this is how we're going to say these lines. But in those second three movies, he wrote out all the subtext as dialogue. Speaker 3
Okay. Speaker 2
He doesn't trust actors to portray subtext, so he puts it in the speech. Oh, wow. You've turned evil. Well, I think that the Jedi are evil. You don't need to say that. Speaker 3
Just show it. Speaker 2
Subtext of the scene. Speaker 3
Our buddy, Chad, is gonna is in for a surprise. When he listens to this and he and he hears all the Star Wars talk, he's the biggest Star Wars fan we know. Speaker 2
But the performances were great. It was just it was it was or it was just bad writing. Yeah. Speaker 0
They took a lot of flack, and, it's so unfortunate because they could have done some but how do you I mean, don't wanna spend too much time, but how do you feel about the the the last few that they've done? Have they caught up to themselves, or they still fall into the same same problem? The rise of Skywalker Speaker 2
or all. Tried to do too much. Like, they tried to appease the longtime fans while trying to tell a new story, and I, yeah, it was one of those things where I think they needed to spend a little bit more time on what they wanted that story to be Yeah. And who the the heroes were going to be and flesh it out a bit more. Because it in the end, it was like trying to do too much, and it it ended up like, they were good. They were better than the prequel, like, far better than the prequels, and you're never gonna be as good as the originals because that's the benchmark. Like, that's always gonna be what it's compared to. But if you try to you you can't do an homage and move the story forward. Speaker 0
Yeah. Yeah. I get you. Speaker 2
They had to decide what they were going to do and do it, and they they didn't know what they wanted to do. Speaker 0
Totally fair. Speaker 2
And that's why I think the new series are way better because they're just Speaker 0
More focused. Speaker 2
They're like, we don't have to pay we don't have to to, like, make another New Hope. Yeah. We can just tell stories in this world. And, you know, Mandalorian's just like a good good cowboy movie in space. Speaker 3
Well, and they take their time telling it. Right? They don't have to do it in a ninety or ninety minute or two hour film. They can do it in a a mini series. Right? So, definitely. Speaker 2
And the serial when when you have a serial, it it's always way easier to Speaker 4
do it. Speaker 3
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So back to you. Yep. Let's talk about nerd Speaker 2
hat off. Speaker 3
No. I mean, we keep it on for for comedy anyway because we'd love to talk about, laugh out loud Canada. Tanya and I watched that series. I think, Matt, you did too. Speaker 0
I watched it too. Speaker 3
No. Loved it. So much fun. I mean, my only complaint about that series is that you didn't last very long in it. Speaker 2
I mean, I I, you know, I I made it I wasn't the first one out. Speaker 3
No. You weren't. No. Speaker 2
And, so, I mean, I was right around the middle. Yeah. I think I went out at a respectable point. Speaker 0
And you were solid until you weren't. Yeah. Like like, solid. Like, I had no reaction to almost anything, and then just gotcha. Speaker 2
Tom Green snuck that one up on me. Speaker 3
Those damn grilled cheese sandwiches. Speaker 0
Oh my god. That bitch just kept going. Speaker 3
So for our American listeners, well, this is a reality show where, what was it, about twelve comedians? Speaker 2
Oh, they've got it in the States. Speaker 3
Oh, do they? Okay. Yeah. So basically Speaker 2
It's on Amazon. It's in the States. Alright. A lot of Americans have watched it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the last one laughing franchise, I think they've been in, like, twelve, thirteen countries. They've done and and the laugh out loud Canada was only the second English language version of it. Speaker 3
Oh, really? Speaker 0
Oh, tell. Speaker 2
It started in Japan. Speaker 3
Mhmm. Speaker 2
Oh. There's a a Japanese Yeah. Speaker 0
That that feels very Japanese. Yeah. Speaker 2
And, but, yeah, the the first English language version was, Australia, which was hosted by Rebel Wilson. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
And, and then, yes, they they decided to do it in Canada. I got contacted for it. And, it was funny because, like, I remember when it got announced and, they were like, you know, they think the prize was a hundred thousand dollars for charity. Speaker 0
Mhmm. Speaker 2
And every Speaker 3
What about us? We're comedians. Speaker 2
Open mic comic in Canada was like, well, what about charity? We need money and Yeah. You're not who they're going for. Yet Johnny three sets under your belt, don't worry. This show isn't for you. This show is for people who've done something before. Yeah. And, that was, like, when I got asked to do it, all all I knew is that Jay was hosting it, and Jay's been, a buddy of mine. I've I've, gone to his Canada Day parties at his house. You know? Amazing. He he's I've known him since, I think we met when we were nineteen doing a pizza pots ad. So Speaker 4
Love that. Speaker 2
I've known Jay for a long, long time, so I knew he was hosting. And he was like, cool. If anything, I get to hang out with with my buddy for a couple days and, and, and, you know, just so everyone knows, we all got paid for it, but we didn't do it for free. Yeah. But on top of getting our, you know, ACTRA fees for being on set, there was a a potential to win a great deal of money for a charity of each of our choosings. All the performers got to choose what charity they would donate the money to if they won. And, I mean, it was such a surreal experience. Speaker 4
I bet. Speaker 0
I bet. Speaker 3
How long was the shoot? Because it's six episodes. One day. Sorry? Speaker 2
One day. One day. Speaker 3
Okay. The whole thing happened over one day. Speaker 2
Ten hours. Right. Speaker 0
Yeah. And and had you did you know most of the the cast for that when you went into it, or were there some real surprises to you? Speaker 2
We we did not know the only person that, we were all kept in the dark of who the other cast members were. All we knew is that Jay was hosting it and that we were on it and that everyone else was a Canadian comedian. Speaker 0
Okay. Speaker 2
But, they separated all of us. We all had meetings. They were, like, very careful that we, like, never accidentally bumped into each other. Even on the day of shooting, like, we were moved through the hallways in secrecy. So I didn't I didn't know who else was on the show until I walked into the room or they walked into the room. Right. And, yeah. So it was a huge surprise. Speaker 3
And Was there anybody you saw going, holy shit? Like, because I mean, I'm looking at the cast and There's some big names there. Deb Di Giovanni. I mean, Tanya and I used to see her when she was, you know, years ago, and she's still, like, doing it, like, working hard. But Dave Foley, Tom Green. Like, there's some heavy mockers here. Call him Mark mockery. Any of them go, like, take you back going, oh, this is gonna be tough. Speaker 2
You know what I mean? Like, immediately, when you see, like, those guys walk in, they're like, there's some heavy hitters here. Like, oh, fuck. Speaker 0
Oh, fuck. Speaker 2
These are guys these are guys and gals I've been fans of for a long, long, long, long time. Mhmm. And, I mean, there's a handful of people that, you know, I already knew. I've known. I I knew May before she moved off to, or before they moved off to Britain. Sorry. Pardon me for that. Yeah. My apologies. So I knew May before they moved away. I knew Deborah. I've known Deborah for many years. I'd I'd worked on festivals with Tom and Colin and, Dave before. Speaker 4
Okay. Speaker 2
So we'd all met. I didn't know, Brandon that well when we is it Brendan? Speaker 3
Yeah. Brand Brandon. Brandon, Ash Mohammed. Yeah. Speaker 2
Ash Mohammed. Yeah. Speaker 3
Yeah. He was a newer one that I'd never, heard of. Yeah. Speaker 2
Yeah. Brandon, I knew him by Excuse me. Reputation, but we hadn't really met Speaker 4
or Speaker 2
hung out before that. Andrew and I had, again, we hadn't met in person, but we'd been interviewed on the same, like, podcasts and stuff at the same time before. So Speaker 3
I can't remember the timing of that. I guess, Kim's convenience was already a big deal when he was on that. Right? Speaker 2
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So he'd he'd already won awards for Kim's convenience at that point. Yeah. That's actually how we first met as he beat me out for best supporting actor, and I congratulated him, and he thanked me. And that's how that's how we became buddies. Yeah, Caroline, I hadn't met before, but, obviously, I had, you know, watched Yeah. Yeah. Forever, not, you know, not just her stand up, but Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Right. Speaker 0
Yeah. Speaker 2
Yeah. You know, her many, many and she took over for Rosie and That's right. Hosted her her talk show for a few years. So that was really cool to meet Caroline. She was tremendous. And, John and I had been Facebook friends for a million years but had never met in person. So, I'd I was a big fan of of John when his, all of his raps came out on YouTube. Yeah. And so and, you know, watching him on, Speaker 0
The league? Speaker 2
So it was really cool to to finally meet those guys. Such a crazy social experiment and ridiculous time. And, you know, you never know know what's gonna happen. And, like, it's funny what because watching it back, so much stuff got cut out. Right. Like, so I had worked out a bit with the writers, and the the producers. Like, we all had bits set up Okay. So that we could try to break people and, like, pop and stuff. So, as a diabetic, my bit was I was gonna come in and announce that I'm a diabetic, so I've gotta get rid of the candy. And I was just gonna start throwing out candy that that we had placed specifically for me to throw out, and I started dumping candy everywhere. And they got the Deborah and some of the other comics got so mad at me. Like, no one thought this was a bid or anything. Right. And so I ended up, like, covering the floor in candy, and then I felt bad, so I had to clean it up by hand. And and, yeah, so they cut that whole sequence. Oh, man. They they got so what are you doing? Throwing out the candy. Speaker 0
They almost had the opposite effect. Speaker 4
Because it's only here for me to Speaker 2
throw it in the garbage. Speaker 3
That's too much. But, Speaker 2
but yeah. So there's a lot of stuff that got cut out. I was actually, at the CSAs a couple months ago, talking about, LOL with, with Andrew Mhmm. And, about how so when when I got my my warning card, John had asked me what Andrew was going off about, and I said, oh, he's he's doing a bit where he pretends we're all racist. And, John goes, oh, yeah. Pretending. And I was walking away, and that throwaway made me chuckle. And that's when I got my warning card. Speaker 3
Alright. Speaker 2
Andrew actually was doing that, but they cut it out Yeah. Of the broadcast. He kept declaring things racist. Like, something would happen. It'd be like, oh, that's racist, and he'd start screaming about how racist, like, an innocuous thing was. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And so but they cut that out, so I just seemed like kind of an asshole. I'm like, oh, Andrew's calling things racist. And it's like, no. You really need to show him calling something Speaker 4
racist. Thing. Speaker 0
You need the context. Speaker 3
Yeah. It's shocking that that was all done in one day. I mean, I guess that's where editing. Right? Editing is is is Yeah. Speaker 2
You know? It's a it was a ten hour day. Speaker 3
Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2
And they just kept like, anytime, they'd have to, like there was a couple times where they'd have to come in because something happened, and they'd have to pause it to reset it. Or anytime one of us was about to get a warning for our elimination, they'd they'd stop it. And those were the times where we were allowed to laugh. Speaker 0
Yeah. Speaker 2
Okay. Get all of our laughs out. Speaker 3
Would that work against you, though? Because once you get it, sometimes when you get the giggles in you yeah. It's like Yeah. Speaker 2
But sometimes it's just nice that you get a release, and then you can reset. Speaker 3
Right. Speaker 4
But it Speaker 2
was like yes. It was, like, ten hours of filming, and then, Wow. And then they just edit it together into, you know, one hour episodes. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy. And, Speaker 0
It was a lot of fun. Speaker 3
Any chance? Speaker 2
The first day was, like, our first day there was doing a lot of interviews. Speaker 0
Mhmm. Speaker 2
Then we filmed it, like, our our pre match interviews Speaker 3
Right. Speaker 2
When we filmed. And then the next day, we did our our, like, after show interviews and filmed what became the opening sequence for the show. Mhmm. And so it was, like, pretty much three days for the whole thing. Wow. Speaker 3
Amazing. Any chance that there'll there'll be another season? Speaker 2
Could be. I don't know if they've ever repeated, a season yet with any of the other countries. Right. Speaker 3
Oh, okay. Speaker 2
You know, they seemed very happy with it, but it has happened yet. Speaker 3
And it's I mean, Canada, for some reason, has, like, a a huge number of, I mean, you could do it again because there's so many comics out of this country. Speaker 2
Oh, yeah. They've only had one kid in the hall. Speaker 3
Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Great point. Yeah. Speaker 2
You know, there there's so many other you know, there's there's Trailer Park Boys Speaker 4
Right. Speaker 2
And other Hunter Pennies who haven't done it. Speaker 3
And at least three other iterations. Speaker 2
Have made it. Speaker 3
That's right. Speaker 2
You know? Speaker 3
At least three other iterations of Tom Green too. Right? Like I had Speaker 0
a hundred percent watch it. Speaker 3
We only saw one. The other one that we really enjoyed watching was the roast battles, and, that's where we kinda get introduced to, Olivia Stadler and and, Ally Pierce. Ally Pierce. So talk about that. I mean, because you're a judge on that show, and, along with Russell Peters, a a a comedian we love and we've seen many, many times, Yuck Yucks. Like, talk about that show for a bit. Speaker 2
Yeah. I mean, that was that for me was just like the one of those perfect things to to come together. I you know, I was in the first season of the original roast battles. Speaker 3
As a roaster? Speaker 2
As one of the yeah. I made it to the semifinals. Speaker 3
Oh, okay. See, I didn't get Speaker 2
I guess I didn't get much. Which was recorded at, Just for Laughs. Mhmm. Nice. I was there representing Canada. So I'm originally so the roast battles format, I think, was created by Brian Moses and Res Battle in LA, and then they sort of split. And Brian teamed up with Jeff Ross Mhmm. And continued doing it in The Comedy Store. And I think Rez took his version of it and, and and, I think, went to New York with it. And now there's, like, officially licensed roast battles all over North America. Speaker 3
Right. Speaker 2
I believe Dinesh Anwar runs the Toronto, official roast battles Uh-huh. At a comedy bar with, Sebastian, I believe. So it's like it's like now now, like, the live version is officially licensed, but the success of the show in at the store in LA led them to really think about turning it into a TV show. Yeah. And so they created sort of a tournament format for it. And the year before the original American season aired, they did sort of a test run tournament at Just for Laughs that was called the Jeff Ross Roastmasters Invitational Tournament. And, they just grabbed comics who were at the festival. You know, we were all representing our country, so they had Brits and Aussies and Canadians and, you know, anyone else who was there. So I got asked to be one of the Canadians on it, and I hadn't really done too much. I'd I'd done a a couple of roasts of buddies here and there Speaker 4
Right. Speaker 2
For things, but, hadn't really done a lot of it. But was always, you know, a a believer that you gotta try new stuff as a comedian to be the most well rounded comedian you can be. And if something seems like it's gonna be hard, you probably should do it. So I I took the invitation and signed up for it, and that turned out to be the hot ticket of the festival. We did, like, late night shows, and everyone wanted to be there for it. And, that original tournament was won by Jimmy Carr. Speaker 3
Oh, of course. That makes sense. Speaker 2
We made it to the semis in that one also. Good for you. I lost to an American comic, and, he went on to lose to Jimmy in the finals. And then they were like, okay. That works. Speaker 3
Mhmm. Speaker 2
The tournament style works. Like, so let's do it again. And then they came back the next year with the roast battles official TV show. And, I got asked to do it again because I'd had a good run the previous year and, came back with, like, you know, televised, bigger budget, bigger set, some bigger names involved in the show. Ralphie May was in it. Jimmy Carr came back, and did it as well. You know, and then some of the I mean, mind you, like, when we did the live version the the year before, my very first roast battle, the judges were Jeff Ross, Wanda Sykes, Jason Reitman, and Dave Chappelle. Speaker 4
Oh, boy. Wow. Speaker 2
So, you know That's a panel. Doesn't get much bigger than that as as well who the judges were. But when we did the televised version, you know, the judges were I think I had Anthony Jeselnik and Whoopi Goldberg one night. I had Jimmy Kimmel. Do you Speaker 3
ever get Speaker 2
do you Speaker 3
ever get, like, awed by by somebody, like like a Dave Chappelle or or or, Wanda Sykes Speaker 2
or, like I mean, it's there's always that thing when you see these people there that's like, oh my god. They're about to watch me do this. Speaker 3
Right. Yeah. Speaker 2
But then you're a performer, so everything else melts away, and you just go do your job. Speaker 0
Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2
But, yeah, Dave Chappelle shook my hand and told me I was a very funny guy. Like, I'll never I'll never forget so fucking cool. Speaker 3
Wow, man. Speaker 2
You know, I left Dave Chappelle speechless after battles. Speaker 3
Yeah. Right. Yeah. We we heard your Kimmel story. Yeah. Speaker 2
So Jimmy Jimmy was the judge, and he we met in the bathroom Yeah. Afterwards. So, yeah, so I did the original American roast battles, and, I actually am still technically the world champion of roast battling. Right before the pandemic, at the last JFL before the pandemic, they did another Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
Jeff Ross roast masters invitational, and I beat Jimmy Carr in the finals to be world champion. Wow. Speaker 0
Did you demand a belt? Speaker 1
Congratulations. You're wrestling. Speaker 4
Trophy. I got the trophy in my record. Bye. Speaker 2
It's a very Speaker 4
tall company. Speaker 1
That's amazing. Speaker 2
And, yeah, and that was I and and, no, it was it wasn't televised. There's no tape of it. Although, Michael Rapaport was one of the judges. And on his podcast, he did, like, a recap of the of the tournament. And Speaker 0
In Michael Rapaport style? Speaker 2
I'm sure. Yeah. When when the American roast battles had a I think they did two, three seasons all in all, and then they franchised out the format. It's had a great run-in the UK. Jimmy, was one of the judges and hosts for a very successful British version. Actually, it it was running in French Canada before we did an English Canadian version. Speaker 0
Uh-huh. Yeah. Speaker 2
They got roast battles Quebec. They they ran that for several seasons, and then they decided to do the English version, and it just kinda made sense to bring me in as I was the only guy in the country that really was associated with the product and had the the any experience with the TV show and the the the original format. So it was match made in heaven for me and, you know, a great group. Russell, I we'd I I'm I've known him, but Yeah. Not I haven't we hadn't really, known each other, and I got to to work closely with him and and bend his ear and learn from that tree. And Sabrina Joliez, I've known for many years. And Mhmm. Anis Esmer, another guy. I I I mean, Anis and I were doing stand up at the same time when I started before he became more of an actor. Speaker 0
Right. Yeah. Speaker 2
He was, he was an active stand up and, it was a great group. And, it just made a lot of sense, and it was being a judge is way easier than being a contestant. I I bet. Yeah. Speaker 3
Yeah. So Speaker 2
My job to be the funniest person. It's my job to tell them why they are are or are not the funniest person. Yeah. Speaker 3
Well, At the risk of bringing the mood down just slightly before we bring it back up, you you mentioned JFL. And, I mean, it it you know, it's been an institution in this country forever and want and, now it's no longer. I mean, talk about that. Like, how how are you filling that void? Or how are comedians in Canada filling that void? It's a massive void. Speaker 2
I mean, it it's an incredible shame that that happened. And there've been a lot of things over the years. Like, it had hit a lot of roadblocks. Yeah. And, you know, there were some things that needed to happen. You know? There was definitely some housecleaning that needed to happen a few years ago. Yeah. You know, when people are behaving inappropriately, they need to be dealt with appropriately. And, I don't think I think, you know, they removed the right elements from it years ago. But, in those shakeups over the years, a lot of things have happened. I think they've lost a lot of their government funding. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
I think they'd strayed too far from sort of the original vision of the festival. And, you know, the I don't think I don't think people realize how much the French aspect of the festival, the grants and everything they got from the French, you know, Canadian government Right. That, really helped pay for everything. Sure. And and losing a lot of that, you know, affected the festival greatly, and then they they sold JFL a few years ago to sort of a conglomerate of owners. And, a couple times, JFL has has tried to expand a bit too far too fast. And, when you spread yourselves too thin and when every festival is just for laughs, it makes just for laughs a little less special. Speaker 3
Yeah. I was wondering about that because we we went to I mean, I guess it was after the the bankruptcy, so it was no longer a JFL show. But we saw Mark Mark Forward show this past summer that was originally, I think, a JFL show. And, like, but that's in Toronto. I thought JFL was only in Montreal. Speaker 4
Yeah. They Speaker 0
had JFL forty two in Toronto. Speaker 2
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they they had JFL I mean, they they did JFL Toronto, and then they took it away, and then they brought back JFL forty two in Toronto. Mhmm. And then there was, like there's a they had a JFL Australia, a JFL Vancouver, a JFL Speaker 3
Yeah. You're you're diluting the the the brand when you're doing that. Speaker 2
Yeah. They, like, they were they sort of took over the Moon Tower Festival and, like, the JFL Austin. Speaker 3
Wow. Okay. Speaker 2
I did JFL Bermuda one year. And Speaker 3
Yeah. At some point, like Speaker 2
festival if every festival is just for laughs, it makes just for laughs a little less Exactly. Speaker 3
Yeah. I mean, the point of the the Cannes fest film festival is for Yeah. People to go to cons and celebrate film. JFL was supposed to be people going to Montreal and and comedy. The greatest comedy on the planet, and now it's everywhere. Speaker 2
And, you know, they they, JFL radio. They took it serious for a bit there, and then that led to a whole different controversy where they were trying to only broadcast, JFL clips that they owned. Speaker 3
Mhmm. Speaker 2
So Speaker 0
Yeah. Speaker 2
That was that was screwing comedians out of royalties that they were making, and a lot of people were making really good money off of their Yeah. Airplay on satellite radio. And, yeah, there's a lot of mistakes they made, and it's too bad because there was a lot of great things that they did too. I mean, they were they produced roast battles Canada. Mhmm. They produced roast battles Quebec. They, now our show's in limbo because of that. Sort of when when your producers are in bankruptcy litigation Yeah. It's really hard to move forward with your product. But I know that they're they're not giving up yet and that, there's a sort of a miniature just for laughs style festival happening in Montreal this year Speaker 3
Oh, good. Speaker 2
That the remnants of JFL is still very involved in and helping to promote. And, hopefully, they hopefully, they right their ship, and and it's not done, you know, and this isn't the end. It's just, an interlude before a a rebirth, but only time where we can tell. But there's always been tremendous people working there. And, so I I I hope for all my friends who are employed by that company or were employed by that company that they're able to to right that ship so that they can all get back to work supporting their family Mhmm. And also so that, you know, they return to producing some solid comedy content here in Canada Speaker 0
Yeah. Speaker 2
Because there really is a void now. Yeah. Yeah. That's a huge void. No There's no stand up being produced in Canada. Mhmm. There's no showcase for Canadian stand up in any way, shape, or form in this country except for maybe Speaker 3
Well, there's the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. Speaker 2
Winnipeg Comedy Festival. Yeah. CBC. And that's Yeah. That's it. And Yeah. It's it's that that's that's, a theme show. So that's people writing for Speaker 3
Right. Speaker 2
Yeah. Theme. That's not an awesome showcase and not knocking the Winnipeg Fest, but it's it's a very different beast from what just for laughs brought the table for Speaker 0
Yeah. Put Canada at the world stage. Speaker 2
Two years. Speaker 3
Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Let's bring the mood back up. Off the top here, we credited credited you and and a bunch of your castmates. Because after you, we had a a Speaker 0
Tyler Johnson. Speaker 3
And Tyler Johnson on and and a bunch of others, and it just snowballed right up until we had the big man himself finally finally come on to a podcast and grace us with his presence. And he actually had some nice words to say about you. So let's listen to, his words right now. Speaker 4
On the topic of Kaitrev, you guys have met him, but, you know, there are few things in life more gratifying than getting, like, a real good belly laugh at a k, Trev. Yes. It's just the best. Like, you you won't get it often. He doesn't spoil you with it. But when you get it, it's great. You know? I've done over a hundred live shows with him across North America, and and he's the guy who gets on stage, and people see him smile, and they wanna smile too. He just he has that rare thing. And he also might be the only guy who loves a dick or a fart joke as much as me and Rizky do. So Speaker 0
Oh, that's great. Speaker 4
Well, I I think we got that belly laugh out of him when he was telling us his bathroom story. Speaker 3
So Yeah. Speaker 4
Oh, boy. That all checked out? Experience. Yo. What what what what? He used the bathroom on set that wasn't the actual toilet? Speaker 2
No. No. Speaker 3
You didn't hear that one. Speaker 4
Clearly, he has many bathrooms. Speaker 0
Yes. He got Speaker 4
many. He Speaker 3
got many. Speaker 2
It's a Speaker 3
genre for him. So we're we need to hear that bathroom story. Speaker 1
Do we? Do we, though? Speaker 3
I think we do because the bathroom story Speaker 2
First off, Keeso is a beauty. Yes. I still still love that guy. Yeah. Just called him up or just messaged him the other day to wish him a happy birthday. Yeah. Because he's so Canadian. He was born on Canada. Yeah. Speaker 3
He's, of course, his birthday to remember. Speaker 2
And, but, yeah, that's still a good shit. And, miss miss going to summer camp with that guy. We had a lot of good times. You know, we didn't always agree on everything. I still I still don't think I still disagree with, Kiso's definition of a knuckle. That's a hundred percent real argument. It doesn't matter if you can't punch with it. It's if it bends. Speaker 3
For those of you just listening You Speaker 2
got three knuckles. That's all. Speaker 3
Can't Trevor counted three knuckles, not two. Speaker 2
And, but but, I I do agree with him in a lot of things. And, good guy. Good guy. Glad that guy. And, yeah, he likes a good, he likes a good shit story. I always know if I have a good pantshitting story, I'll float it to queso, and it'll give him a good chuckle. But But that story he's referring to where I used the toilet, there wasn't a real toilet. I actually wasn't a letter Kenny story, but that was one of my, back when I was working, when I was a teenager working on Goosebumps Mhmm. Yep. The second time, because I did two episodes of Goosebumps, but you only see me in one because I got cut out of my best friends and, no. I got cut out of, the haunted mask part two Yeah. Speaker 3
Okay. Speaker 2
For, for timing. The episode ran long. But I was in an episode that you can still find called my best friend's invisible. Speaker 3
I looked it up, and that was a hell of a bowl cut you had. Yes. It is Speaker 2
a Yeah. Oh, that was some that was some mid nineties lesbian hair. Speaker 4
Oh, boy. Speaker 2
All of us teenage boys in the nineties had sweet lesbian haircuts. Speaker 0
And we look good. Speaker 2
On top, shaved up the side. Oh, boy. Speaker 3
Amazing. Speaker 2
Oh, boy. Sporty uptown lesbian hair. But, so, we were filming that in the old, it was like I believe it was the old Molson plant down on, Front Street in Toronto Speaker 4
Yeah. Speaker 2
Which got converted into studio space. So they shot a lot of a lot of Canadian TV there. I think one of the other projects in there was Once a Thief, was shooting at the time. And, so we were shooting goosebumps in there, and they'd, they'd created a a school Mhmm. Inside of the the brewery. So we had our our school set set up, and I got brought into play a bully as I I tended to play a lot of those when I was a teenager because I was, you know, five eleven, you know, two hundred and thirty pounds with this voice at the age of fourteen. So I was a and big lad. So, and, we we were filming Best Friends Invisible. I I played the bully, so I pushed the hero into a bowl of tapioca pudding, and then blamed it on his invisible best friend, walked away chortling with my cohort, and then, the invisible best friend picked up a fistful of mashed potatoes and hit me in the back of the head. Course, I turn around. I don't see the invisible best friend, so I blame the hero. Sure. And, we the next scene is that kid cleaning himself off, cleaning he's covered head to toe in mashed potatoes, and he's cleaning himself off in the bathroom. So, you know, movie magic, in the show, it looks like, oh, this wad of mashed potatoes floats up in the air, and then I get hit in the head. In reality, that was a grown man hucking potatoes at my head for fourteen days, trying to get it just right. Speaker 3
Sorry. How many takes? Fourteen, you said? Speaker 0
Brooke, to half that. Speaker 2
Takes. Fourteen takes. Speaker 0
They felt necessary. Speaker 2
Hit me, but a bunch of them did. And then so we're hanging out on set all day, which is a lot of hurry up and wait. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
And, it's a lot of snacking on food and, you know, you're, you're a teenage actor, so you're smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. And, after a while, you know, you gotta use the can. Sure. So I, I went looking for the bathroom, followed the signs. There's a sign that said goosebumps bathroom. I go in. It's a bathroom. Speaker 3
Right. Speaker 2
I use you know, go into the stall, use the toilet, get up, turn around, and flush, and nothing happens. Uh-oh. And I try again, and nothing happens. And that's around the time I realized this isn't the this isn't the cast and crew bathroom. This is the bathroom set Speaker 3
Oh, boy. Speaker 2
Or the TV show. Speaker 3
Credit to the set department because it Speaker 2
Yeah. Yeah. Kudos to the art department, and to conserve for building one of the most realistic, But that meant none of this plumbing was hooked up to anything. Oh, no. Jesus. So I I had a choice to make. Speaker 3
Was this, like, your first or second role or whatever? Like, you I Speaker 2
mean, I was a few years into TV. Okay. Okay. Speaker 1
But you're a teenager. Speaker 2
But I was I was still I was still pretty Sure. Pretty green. Speaker 0
Mhmm. Speaker 2
You know? I think I had maybe just gotten my ACTRA membership or maybe. There still might have been a credit applied towards getting my full union. Speaker 0
Mhmm. Speaker 2
So, I washed my hands. I found a sink that worked, washed my hands, and, I just didn't tell anybody. Attaboy. Speaker 0
Because I was gonna say you still have a career going now, so Speaker 2
clearly no one's about it. Sheet, and I knew the next scene that they were filming was Hiro cleaning mashed potatoes off of himself in the bathroom. So they were going to be, shut sifting to the bathroom in just a little bit. So I came out of there, went back to set, and they were like, you're done. And so I said, great. And I left. And then, you know Oh, no. Never told anybody what Speaker 4
I did for years. Oh. Speaker 2
Well, I told my mom, but after that Sure. I I didn't mention it for a long time, and then, it just became a story I told on a pet a lot. And I've never met, the unfortunate person who definitely got the job at cleaning my Hershey bar out of the fake toilet. Speaker 4
Oh my god. Speaker 2
That was that was some intern's first day, Speaker 4
I guarantee you. Speaker 2
Yes. First and last, probably. Speaker 3
He's now an accountant too. Speaker 2
So in the second half of that story, you were someone working on goosebumps in the nineties and you had to clean a strange turd out of a soft toilet. I apologize for that. Amazing. Amazing. Speaker 0
That is amazing. Speaker 3
So when Speaker 2
What? Get Tanya. Speaker 0
Broke Tanya. Speaker 3
When did you find out that season twelve was gonna be the last season? Speaker 2
We found out in the summer before we went to shoot. Speaker 3
So that that, like, that close. Speaker 2
We'd come off the, the tour. Mhmm. Yeah. And, we were under contract for three more seasons Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
And, got a call mid summer. Well, I got a message from my my agent saying they wanted, that the the letter Kenny wanted to do a a sit down with us. So I I think I was on a Zoom with Jacob and Michelle and, Keith, maybe one other person. They were telling us in groups and, just let us know. They were shifting focus. They were gonna, you know, Keeso wanted to turn his attention to Shorzy Right. And, didn't wanna spread himself too thin. You know, the for years and years, he talked about just wanting to do letter Kenny for the rest of his life. And then I think, in the last couple years, he started worrying about jumping the shark. Sure. And, which I honestly, I don't think we were anywhere close to doing. But, Speaker 3
I mean, we've reviewed every season, obviously, and the the last couple were some of the strongest that we like, some of our favorites were seasons ten and eleven. I mean, we we yeah. But I mean, yeah. I guess hockey is Gerald's Jared's, passion, and and that's probably the show he wanted to do all along. And and, yeah, it's it's too bad Speaker 2
because He, you know, he he he he's very hands on with it. Mhmm. He's very in control of that show. Yeah. He's always writing and rewriting it. And so I'm not surprised he wasn't willing to pass it on Mhmm. Yeah. To someone else either. Although, you know, that was always an option that was there. There were a lot of great people, that that could've stepped in and, you know, who'd who'd written on that show and knew the tone. But, you know, he didn't he didn't wanna do that, and, it sucked for us, you know, not gonna lie. We, we definitely wanted to write at least write out the contract. Speaker 3
Mhmm. Speaker 2
We've finally gotten you know, we were finally gonna get some of the Hulu money. So that was like we missed out on a a really big payday, all of the all of the actors on the show. Mhmm. Because they signed the Hulu deal after they, signed us up for a very big extension on the original contract. So we were we were getting broadcast around the world, but we were being paid for Canadian rates, which, you know, in the long run, are not the industry's strongest rates. Speaker 0
Yeah. Speaker 2
And not not that we did poorly, but we you know, there was a lot of money that, we we we were kept from. Sure. So that was not fun for us. And, yeah, it's you know, we we'd had a great time on the tour. We were all kinda really riding high on it, and it sorta took the air out, from that. And, that last season, I'll be very honest, was a hard one to shoot. Speaker 3
I bet. Speaker 2
Yeah. Was a lot of fun. You know, Kiso, for his own reasons, didn't really wanna do a victory lap like other shows had done on their last season, which, you know, I I get I get that, you know you know, he's a humble guy and you wanna stay humble. But, I think for for some of us, it would have been nice if there was a little bit more little bit more celebration of the work we've done for over twelve seasons. And working on that last season was also hard because our entire crew was moving on to Shorezy Yeah. With, with, you know, Jared and the producers. So there was a large number of people there who were very excited about their new job Mhmm. And, talking and talking and talking about, you know, Shorzy. And, I was like, well, that's great for you, but none none of us are on it. Like, this is this is the end of the road for us. So glad you guys have that to look forward to, but we're all, you know, we're all, going back out there, slugging it out at auditions again. So it was, it was a difficult season to do for a lot of different reasons. You know? It was bittersweet ending to the show and, an ending that, you know, wasn't the best situation for all of us to be in. And, you know, they they already have their they already have their replacement, set up. Speaker 3
Right. Speaker 2
So it's, you know, I'll be honest. I I I love trying to support Keesa, but I have a very hard time watching just because it's, you know, that's, it's, you know, it'd be like watching, you know A new girlfriend. Watch new wife Yeah. Speaker 3
Go off Speaker 2
with her new husband. Yeah. The new husband. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Well, we were we were a family for twelve seasons, and now there's a whole new family. And, it's, you know, we we had a a good group. There was a lightning in a Speaker 0
bottle kind Speaker 2
of a show. Yeah. I don't think that kinda success is very easy to to repeat, and, everyone was perfect for what they were doing on that show. That was, an amazing cast. And, you know, it's a wonderful crew, like, spoiled us for every other show we're gonna be on because I've never been on a show as efficiently run as that one. Should we Speaker 0
That's a consistent one. Yeah. Speaker 2
Which is unheard of for for television. And, so, yeah, it was it was a hard one to say goodbye to. And, I think it's Yeah. And it's a thing that it's gonna follow me around for the rest of my life Yeah. Or bad. And I have a lot of wonderful memories of, of doing that show. But, yeah, it's, and that was my first big show and, my first my first ending of a big show. Speaker 3
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, we feel we felt the same, you know, from from afar. And and we, like, we we understand or, you know, we we can empathize, maybe not sympathize. But, when we heard that that was the last season, yeah, it hit us hard too. So and and we have interviewed, as you, hopefully, you've seen, most of the cast and crew from Letterkenny, and and we can echo what you say. They've all been amazing people and solid people. And Yeah. To a man and woman, they say what a great group that was to work with. Speaker 0
Yeah. Are are have you maintained or do you maintain relationships with a lot of cast and their crew? Like, is that something that's that's gonna stay with you too, those friendships? Speaker 2
You know, I'm I'm one of those guys who I don't talk to people every day. Mhmm. Yeah. But, you know, whenever I see one of those guys, we pick up right where we left off. Like, I'll always have love for all of them on that show, and, we chat every now and again. You know, I I live out in the country now, and I live a pretty quiet life. And, so, you know, a lot of the times, those guys are getting together in the city and, hooping it up, and, that's just not the scene I do anymore. But, you know, we still get together every now and again. We were we all Belle took us all out to a a hockey game back in the wintertime. Yeah. And, actually, a bunch of us are doing a fan expo in Toronto together. Speaker 3
We will see you there. We can't Speaker 2
wait. We can't wait. Yeah. That'll be great to to see all those guys again. And, Yeah. I mean and and, like, we all live in such different places. I think Speaker 0
Yeah. Sure. Speaker 2
DP splitting his time between BC and and LA, and TJ has been out in, he he's he's had quite the year out there in in British Columbia, actually. And, sorry. I mean, he's he's been very busy with life. And, I think, you know, I think Evan's in Toronto, and, Erzee's in Toronto these days, but they're, I think Evan got married. So Yeah. Speaker 3
Yeah. He's keeping busy. We we had him, most recently, I think, from the well, actually, we had Michelle on as well a few months ago. But, yeah, everyone seems to be keeping busy. I we had a bunch of listener questions we're not gonna get to, and and that's fine. Maybe we can do a part three because we we should really talk about, you know, the the upcoming Canadian tour that you've got. Yeah. Now you you had mentioned, you know, Letterkenny Live, and we had tickets that last Letterkenny Live show in Kitchener, and, unfortunately, it got canceled. So we never got to see that, which Yeah. Like, it's one of our greatest regrets. We did, you know, check out, the, Letterkenny Presents with McHenry and, with, Mark Ford, and that was a great time, and and Ali and and and Olivia. So, really and and I've seen that you've been all over the place. I mean, you you've been keeping busy. Yeah. But with very few Canadian dates, so really happy to find out that you're finally gonna grace this country with with some, some k Trevor Wilson. Speaker 2
I mean, it's we're super excited doing k Trevor Wilson and Friends. Yeah. We got a ton of shows coming up. We're starting in the East Coast, working our way out to Alberta, and then coming back into Ontario. We got shows in Sydney, I think Summerside PEI, Halifax. We're in Thunder Bay, Sudbury, London, Ontario. We're in Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary. We got Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto. Yeah. And, yeah, that'll be running, from September to December. We'll be doing that, that run. And a great group of comics, all members of the comedy records roster Speaker 0
Mhmm. Speaker 2
Coming out, guys like Nick Reynoldson, Paul Roblaskas, will be joining me on some shows. Great comics. Todd Graham, Claire Belford. I think Arthur Simeon's joining me on a couple of shows. Theo Nasios, Keith Pedro. Yeah. Just some a lot of really awesome people, almost too many to to name. I've got a huge list in my, emails. And, it's great to finally be doing some significant shows in Canada. It's hard. There's not a lot of, premium clubs in Canada. So Yeah. A lot of the clubs here don't wanna pay me my rate. So that's why I don't you haven't seen me too much. Yeah. You know, there's great clubs, Rumours in Winnipeg, Comic Strip, and House of Comedy, which are Rick Bronson's clubs. Speaker 3
Mhmm. Speaker 4
A Speaker 2
lot but a lot of those are out west. Laugh Shop Calgary are all great clubs that I've played over the years who bring in premium talent and and, you know, pay a good rate. I I I'd love to perform at more Canadian places, but, you know, I'm not doing it for the same money I did it for twenty years ago. Sure. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Well, that's totally fair. Speaker 3
What's the venue that you're doing in Toronto in December? Speaker 4
The the Royal Theatre. Speaker 2
We're doing the Royal Theatre Speaker 3
in Toronto. Nice. That's a nice place. Speaker 2
So be December eighth, and that's the that's the last show on sort of this tour. And, if it's successful, hopefully, we'll do more, like this. And, you know, people have been upset that we're not hitting the the West Coast in in BC. We had three shows set up there, but, the venues fell through. It's very difficult to coordinate, theater tours across the country because you put together your package of this is the product that we're selling. Yeah. You send it out there and see who's interested in it. And then from the theaters that are interested in bringing you in, you then have to coordinate, you know, the timing, and it's like some some cities want you when, you're not when it's just too difficult to be out there. It's just, you know, it doesn't make sense logistically to fly from one end to the other in a single weekend. And, I still also have American dates that I had, that I've already committed to mixed in with that. And, you know, the scheduling that I do, I don't I don't do the the tours. Like, the Letterkenny Live tours were three months straight of the form. Speaker 4
Yeah. Speaker 2
And that's not how I wanna do a tour. Speaker 3
You wanna spread it out. Yeah. Speaker 2
I don't wanna wait for three months. Sure. Speaker 3
Yeah. I Speaker 2
don't wanna be on the road in a bus. Like, I I like my wife. I like my dogs. I like my house. I like to come home every once in a while and recharge. And, so I don't wanna do three months straight on the road. So Yeah. The the dates all have to fit into, a schedule that makes sense for me and the other comics to do the other things we wanna do and have something that resembles a human existence. Of course. Yeah. And Speaker 0
long term, it sounds like you became a dog person. Yeah. Because when we spoke to you last, you said cats. Speaker 3
That's right. Speaker 2
Well, I grew up with cats. Now I have two dogs, two rabbits, two dogs. So There you go. Speaker 3
So we hope A Speaker 2
lot of people are upset because we're not coming to their neck of the woods. And, just because we're not coming there now doesn't mean we're not gonna make it there someday. Exactly. But, it also doesn't mean we hate your town or don't wanna go to your town. Didn't work out in your town. Yeah. Either your theater didn't think that the show would draw and didn't Speaker 4
Yeah. Speaker 2
Didn't ask us to come there, or scheduling wise, it just it just didn't work out the way we wanted it to. But, come out and support the shows if you can. Amazing live comedy. There's tickets are available on k trevor wilson dot com Mhmm. And also on comedy records dot c a. There's also VIP meet and greet packages, that you can buy for a good number of the shows. I don't know about all of them, but for a good number of those shows. And, yeah, I mean, there's gonna be a ton of amazing comics, Some, you know, some, you might have never seen before. And, I'm gonna be doing my thing, which, hopefully, people still wanna see in this country. Absolutely. Speaker 0
Will will every show be, sort of unique? Like, is there a different lineup of comics at each one or some carrying over into multiple shows? Speaker 2
There's some comics who will be doing I think besides myself, Nick Reynoldson is is done the most shows with me, but, it's it's, pretty much a different lineup from show to show. Basically, every weekend, it'll be, like, a a similar group. Yep. But not every show will be the exact same, I don't believe. Speaker 0
Awesome. Speaker 2
One or two shows will repeat. But, literally, if you wanna follow the tour, you'll almost see a different show. I was Speaker 0
gonna say lots of reason to follow you around. Speaker 3
Yeah. Exactly. So we're gonna definitely see you in August at Fan Expo in Toronto, and we're hoping to catch you then in December when you do your Toronto show. That would be a lot of Speaker 2
fun to see. Tickets are available now. Again, k trevor wilson dot com, comedy records dot c a, for all the shows. And, yeah, if you if you're close by and wanna see some comedy, this is definitely the show, and they're reasonably priced tickets. I'm gonna say that too. It's about thirty five bucks. Speaker 3
So before we let you go, Trev, Matt, did you wanna ask your final question? And then Speaker 0
Yeah. Yeah. Just one last I I asked everyone. I actually didn't get to ask you last time, but, I mean, we talked a lot about Letterkenny. You know the sort of cult following it has. I think it obviously, it goes out saying it had a pretty impact on your pretty big impact on your life and career. What did it all mean to you looking back at at Letterkenny? Speaker 2
You know, it, it was it was a good reminder that I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing. You know? As, you know, you slug it out in this business for a long time, and it's it's not a forgiving business. It's not a kind industry. Entertainment is not for not for the weak of heart. Mhmm. It's a business that, doesn't need you and doesn't frankly, doesn't want you. You really have to you really have to dig your heels and improve your worth time and time again. Yeah. And, after a lot of years in this business, to land on a show that was that good, that ran for that long and made that many people happy. It was definitely let me know that this was what I was supposed to be doing, and this is where I was supposed to be at. Speaker 0
Amazing. Thank you. Yeah. And thank you. And I applaud you, man. Like, we're obviously huge fans. We're so grateful and thankful you were to come back on and talk about this again tonight. I mean, I know Al's gonna wrap up, but wish you absolutely nothing but the best in the tour and and all your future endeavors, man. You deserve it. We're big fans. Speaker 2
Oh, thanks so much, man. Thank you so much. Did you have any? Speaker 1
I I just wanted to say thank you so much. It it was a pleasure seeing you again. I can't wait to see you at Fan Expo. Definitely wanna see you in December when you hit Toronto, and, looking forward to to all those great laughs that you have come into our way. Speaker 3
Thank you so much. Caitrat, we appreciate you joining us for a second time. Can we make it a third time? Because we have all these, you know, audience questions for you. I mean, it'd be I Speaker 2
think we're gonna have to. I think we're gonna have to figure out another time, do another one of these. Speaker 3
I mean, we're practically neighbors now. So if ever you wanna do a live one in person, we can do that for sure. Speaker 2
We can figure it out. Yeah. Great. There you go. Speaker 3
Thank you so much. Alright. I'm gonna play us off here with a song well, Tanya's favorite song. You already know it, Your Man by Joji. And that's all we have for this episode. If you'd like to support the podcast, please tell a friend. Also, follow us on most social media outlets at protosan pod. Thank you for joining us. Now we're gonna go hang out with our our new neighbor, Kate Trevor Wilson. On behalf of Kate Trevor, Tanya, Matt, and myself, thank you for listening, and have a great week. 
