The best of the city's best morning show in a small package. This is the Andrew Carter podcast. Andrew's home for the holidays. Ken sitting in this morning on CJAD 800. Uh-huh. That's my brother, Ryle. The first official customer. We all have an idea what love can be. I want to see you again. Now you see me.
You know what I mean. What? That special connection you feel. That first kiss. But 15 seconds. That's all it takes. To completely change everything. I'm so sorry. Time to talk to John Moore, John. That's a clip of Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in a movie called It Ends With Us. And those two are involved in a real mess, a real legal war is only beginning with those two. What's going on there?
well that's the question i found myself wondering this week i'm sure you have seen is i have all these accounts of these two people being in dispute all kinds of lawsuits and i keep thinking i don't even know what this is about uh... but blank lively uh... says that just in balladoni sexually abused her while she was shooting while they were shooting it ends with us
he says that he's been slandered and uh... he's actually suing the new york times for get this two hundred and fifty million dollars he says it was a total slime job put together against him at a bunch of publicists but the allegation is that when he was caught
you know, in a compromising position, he got a whole bunch of publicists to gang up on Blake Lively. And all of this I find really bizarre because I don't know why anybody would pick a fight with Blake Lively in the first place. She's married to one of the most powerful guys in show business these days, Ryan Reynolds. Yeah, absolutely. Keeping her on that. You know what my wife Lorena is keeping her eye on, John, when I go to bed early because I've been doing the morning show for the last couple of weeks, she's been watching one episode a night of the second season of Squid Game and she says she's loving it.
he's looking at so everybody is loving it apparently squid game season two is a smash for netflix for those not familiar with the show it's uh... korean show where it's about a show actually all and competitors are actually killed as part of it and they're all in this huge bid to be the last person standing and win the money uh... the show was released on boxing day can it's number one in ninety
two countries, and they've already greenlit a season three. Well, not surprised. Yeah, hugely popular. What's the latest on Meghan Markle? She back online? Well, she posted a video of herself prancing on the beach and writing 2025 or 2025 in the sand. And now it looks like she's finally going ahead with a TV show for Netflix. It's going to be a lifestyle show. And apparently it will, quote, blend practical how-tos with candid conversation.
In the pilot, she harvests honey and ice is a cake. She says, we're not in the pursuit of perfection. We're in the pursuit of joy. It's very much in the Martha Stewart and maybe a slight bit into the Gwyneth-Paultro pocket. I'm not sure if it's going to work. I find it remarkable how Meghan Markle
And Prince Harry were like the glamour couple and they were the future of Netflix and the future of American British entertainment. And then everybody just turned on them and threw in with the royals. All right. One last one before I let you go. Apparently there's this guy who put together a thread of predictions that were made about 2025, but he did this back in 1925.
well he didn't it's he got went through newspapers and did image captures from nineteen twenty five but yes name is paul frarry and uh... he's at the university of calgary so they said in nineteen twenty five by twenty twenty five we would live wirelessly mmm uh... humans would live two hundred fifty years okay maybe not
I love this one. Giant airplanes will fly 50 people at a time between London and Paris in a matter of hours. Smoking will be a thing in the past, which is kind of an interesting prediction, because back in the 20s, smoking was sophisticated. And how about this? Books will be printed on nickel leaves that are capable of holding 30,000 pages. So I guess if you want to be sort of a futurist, you could say that's a computer chip. All right. I'm looking into the future, and you're coming back Monday morning. How's that?
I am. John, have a great weekend. You too. You too. A power packed version of the number one morning show in Montreal. If you're on the fly, this is the Andrew Carter podcast. Well, good morning. And we're learning some new details about the New Year's Day terror attack in New Orleans and a little more on that right now with NBC News Radio correspondent Rory O'Neill. Rory, good morning. And by the way, happy New Year.
Well, thank you, Ken, and happy new year to you as well. Thank you very much. So, Roy, we'll start here. I guess police are confirming now that they confirmed yesterday that the killer acted alone.
yet that the new theory you know the concern was that when they went to the scene they found that there were two i e d those improvised explosive devices to coolers filled with things that could explode and uh... they work their initial thought was well he couldn't have done both he couldn't have driven the truck and planted the bombs but then when they review the security footage now they found it was him leaving behind these coolers in the french court so they were able to do so the first thought was multiple
uh... issues multiple people but then after reviewing the footage they realize that the one that was behind us all i heard this a great line from one of the investigators yesterday he he compared the past twenty four hours to assembling a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle they had their work cut out for them
They really did and this digital fingerprint that we leave behind that they're really trying to recreate because there are a lot of digital fingerprints here. He rented this truck on that online app for vehicle sharing. He stayed in an Airbnb in New Orleans. There's a lot to put together when you
and look at the the videos that he was posting online on facebook while driving from texas new new orland so there is an awful lot of data that's out there and they can compile it now rather quickly what are the uh... f u s saying about this uh... possible potential link between what happened in the orleans and the uh... that cyber truck exploding in vegas
Well, right, because look, it's two guys who are in the army. They both choose the same day for these attacks or whatever we want to call them. And then they both use that same vehicle sharing app. And apparently they serve with the same military base here in the States. Maybe not the same time, though. That's still being investigated.
That seems to be the only link that there isn't any conspiracy going on here. It looks like it's more of a coincidence. And there are also very different actions. We now know that in the New Orleans case, the man had an ISIS flag and said this was ISIS inspired. Whereas in Las Vegas, the perpetrator there shot and killed himself inside the cyber truck before the explosion. So that was more of a suicide. So very different.
Very different instance when you look at it more closely. They went ahead with the sugar bowl, right? I think they postponed it by a day, but then with increased security, they got the game off.
right now a lot more security obviously uh... across the area now that you're trying to make some uh... is security enhancements uh... head of the super bowl that will be in new wallens in february so there's a lot of work to do in that next month to review the current security plans find out where there are other shortcomings and try to address them in the next month or so but uh... yet the sugar bowl enough of uh... without a hitch uh... emotional time a moment of silence to start things
and the Irish one which, as an audio, is always good news. Hey, hey, hey, you're preaching to the choir here. Yeah, you mentioned the Super Bowl plus, that's February, and then in March, they've got the Mardi Gras too, so I think that's... And Mardi Gras, and it's an event town, and they always have large conventions of 75, 100,000 people. It's an event town. Rory, I always appreciate having you on the show, and thanks for your time this morning. Thanks, Dan. Talk to you soon.
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Well, good morning. 2024 was, by all accounts, an incredible year for science. Most notably, it was marked by the solar eclipse. Remember that? This year is set to mark some more exploration in space. Some experts are calling this the year of Jupiter, and we might be getting a new sky map. Here to tell us more is Trevor Truline, urban astronomer and founder of Plateau-Astro, and he's on the line. Trevor, good morning. Hey, happy new year. Happy new year.
So what are some of the things that we can, uh, that you have on your list on your checklist of, uh, of things to look forward to in 2025. There are all kinds of different missions, I think are in store. Yeah. Yeah. You mentioned a few of them. Uh, you mentioned about Jupiter there. Uh, we've had a mission going around Jupiter for a few years now since about 2016. It's called Juno. It's going to be its final year. Uh, the, the, the mission, the, the satellite is going to, uh, burn up in Jupiter's atmosphere. But before it does that, it's going to,
loop back around Jupiter and look at the moons of Jupiter for Ganymed, Europa and EO. And these moons are really fast and they're each really, really unique. And so it's going to take some great photographs of it before it finishes off its mission in about nine months or so. Is there a eclipse, a lunar eclipse on the calendar in 2025? Yeah. So this is different than solar eclipse. Solar eclipse we had last year. That's where the moon blocks out the sun. This one, this one happened at night.
during a full moon and the moon will appear red in the sky. And this is basically the earth getting in the way of the sun. And so the light from the sun goes through Earth's atmosphere and that causes the moon to appear red for a couple hours. What can you tell me in terms of a status update on this on this space rifle right between the US and China? Yeah, it's kind of interesting. I, you know, I grew up
watching a lot of documentaries about NASA and so you hear about like the US Russia rivalry and like basically all of my lifetime I haven't been around to witness a rivalry before. It's all been sort of, you know, peaceful coexistence between space agencies. It is kind of interesting now. Yeah, the China is aiming to go back or to go to the moon for the first time. Obviously the US has been there before. US has their
program and this is going for a more privatized route, sending humans around the moon and trying to set up an economy around the moon. China going out of a difference, they are putting a lot of robotic missions on the moon in the last few years. They are also planning to go to the lunar south pole and they're
trying to start up a base there. It'll probably be a while before that base actually starts kind of get going. Some people are saying probably around 2035 is when they would get operational for the United States and other partners. They would be hopefully starting to land there probably around 2027, 2028. But yeah, there is a bit of a rivalry going between these countries. This whole trend, I guess, what do they call it? The privatization of space. Are we going to see more and more of this in 2025?
Actually, in the next few weeks, it's actually going to be really interesting. You might have heard about SpaceX's Starship program. It's really, really huge, huge rocket. The booster lens back on Earth and the craft at the top. That is also planning to land back on Earth. So that's, they're going to do another launch in the next few weeks. The other thing that doesn't really get much attention is Blue Origin. Blue Origin is Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos, his company. And they're going to do their first rocket launch
in the next few weeks. And this rocket, too, is also going to do with the booster lands back on Earth. That sort of feels like that's been only the domain of SpaceX that they've been doing that. So we're going to have a second company that's actually going to start launching rockets and then landing them back on Earth. And that mission should happen the next few weeks, a week or two. I got to check the exact date, but yeah, exciting time for private space companies.
or the just wrapping up with Trevor Turlin, Urban Astronomer, founder of Plateau-Astro. What are you most excited about in the year 2025 in terms of what we're talking about? I think the SpaceX Starship, that's going to be interesting, especially getting Blue Origin's rocket. I don't want too too much about this mission, but I was reading about the last three days, this Virus E. Rubin telescope. This is big, big, big telescope.
based in Chile. And normally telescopes look at just like a tiny, tiny, tiny part of the sky. And so you don't really get an overall look of the sky. This telescope, the mirrors so huge that what they do is rather than look at a tiny portion of the sky, they're going to open it up and look at the entire sky and get a view of it every three days, the entire southern part of the sky. And so with this, you can actually track changes in the sky much, much, much better than you can with a tiny, tiny
point of view of the sky using typical telescopes. I don't want to do much about that mission. I'm excited to learn more about that and how that's going to work and how that's going to change our perspective of the sky. It's all fascinating, quite staggering, actually, when he's thinking about it. Trevor, thanks for this and keep up the great work at Planet Astro. Sorry, Plateau Astro, and all the best in 2025. Thanks so much.
This is the Andrew Carter Podcast. Like what you hear, catch the show live Monday to Friday 5.30 to 9. At 6.22, let's bring in Arnie's wag for a look at Morning Money and Portfolio Manager, Senior Wealth Advisor with Scotia McCloud. Good morning, Arnie.
Good morning, Ken. Were you out at all yesterday in that nasty wind? Yes, yes, absolutely. I was out and about and just had to keep my head down. My wife was going over to a friend's house for a little afternoon and get together with some sweets and some coffee and they got out of the car when they parked at her home with like a huge platter that had like a little plastic covering on it. Within seconds that plastic covering just left because of the wind.
But the good news is the sweet state on the plot. They did. They did. Okay. That's all ended well. Loaded down with lots of calories, kept them on the tray. Perfect. All right. All right. Let's get to the markets and what you can tell us over there. Yesterday was a choppy day, Ken, again, on low volume as we're really wrapping up the holiday week.
North American markets all started well in the green, but all ended lower, except for the TSX, which ended about 170 points higher. There was mixed economic news. Yesterday, we briefly spoke about Tesla. Tesla shares the news around Tesla's delivery of vehicles last year, disappointed, so the stock fell just over 8%.
The Dow was 150 points lower, NASDAQ was lower, and as I said, the TSX was higher today. We still believe they'll be low volumes, but futures are pointing higher. Dow futures are up 65 points right now. NASDAQ are a bit higher, so are TSX futures. Alright. Arnie, every now and then, it seems that Blackberry pops up in the news headlines, the business news headlines, and they did again, right?
They did. They said they're changing the name of its Internet of Things business, which was previously called Blackberry IoT. It's now going to be known as QNX. The company plans to unveil a new refreshed look to the brand in time for the consumer electronics show, which gets underway in
In Vegas next week, this year, Blackberry did quite well. It was up, I believe it was 22%. In the year that just finished, stock's trading around $5.5. It was lowest $2.90 at one point in the last 52 weeks. Story of the financial post, they claim that they have these four factors that will determine if mortgage rates will keep drifting lower.
You know, it's interesting because a lot of people don't realize that fixed mortgage rates are really based on the five-year government of Canada bond.
You have to understand what moves the bond market is to what will move the mortgage rate. So if you consider that we have President-elect Trump coming into power in less than three weeks' time, what implications that is going to have on our trade policies, on fiscal policies, what's the benefit of the people who have variable rate mortgages?
All these things, including inflation and employment reports, and specifically, or more importantly, what the Trump, you know, implications are going to be, will all move the bond market and therefore move the five-year mortgage rate. If the bond market, if the five-year bond increases, mortgage rates will likely increase. The banks calculate mortgage rates based on the bond yield plus a risk premium.
And that's sort of the nickels. The nickels worth of bond pricing this time of day. Yeah. All right. Anything you're keeping your eye on today? Really? I'd like to see the weekend. Keeping an eye on the clock. Look, the bottom line is that I expect to see more volatility today.
The low volumes, people are still in holiday mood. And, you know, I expect more economic news starting to come out again next week. It will move the markets I expect. I just had a flashback to it. You know, when you're in school and in a class, you weren't really enjoying it. You always be staring at the clock. When is this thing going to end? But see, that's why I don't look at the clock when I talk to you. I just can never.
I love it. Too kind. Arnie, thanks and have a great weekend. You as well. A power packed version of the number one morning show in Montreal. If you're on the fly, this is the Andrew Carter podcast.
Ken Conner is filling in for Andrew who's back after a nice holiday break. I'll be back here on Monday morning at 6.53. Well, it's been an industrial and industrial highway and of course an attractive destination and location for developers and it's celebrating. It's 200 years.
Montreal's Le Chincanelle turning 200 years old this year. So what makes it such a staple in Montreal and such a source of pride for many? Stephen High is a history professor and founding member for the Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia. And he joins me for a chat. Stephen, good morning.
Good morning. Nice to have you on the show. Thanks for joining me. When I think of the Lushine Canal today, I think of all the development around it. Especially in the summertime, it's such a great destination and that great walk you can take from Griffin Town down to the Atwater Market. You've probably heard a lot of stories over the years about the Lushine Canal. Yeah, I sure have. It's a big part of Montreal's history, Canadian history.
Like when I was first built in 1825, it was shortly after the war of 1812 when the United States invaded Canada. And the British felt that we needed to shore up the defense of Canada. And so they invested a lot of money into building canals, right, in order to be able to get British naval vessels into the heart of North America. And so then, of course, it was like the really ground zero of Canada's industrial revolution at one point.
The whole canal was lined by factories. And behind those factories were these neighborhoods. And these is where the stories come, right? And we interviewed them, you know, a lot of former residents and people who worked in those factories. And they had a strong connection to, you know, to, to the canal. Like one of my favorite stories that we heard over and over and over again was, was New Year's. You know, we just had New Year's and the tradition in, in Southwest Montreal was to,
uh... open all the doors and windows at midnight on january first and all the trains and all the factories and all the ships would sound their horns and to their whistles it's like an urban company i i i i i love the stuff yeah uh... steven i think and when you when it comes to those factories i saw i saw a bit of you last night on the c3 montreal newscast separate i'm newscast at those factories at one point they they employed a staggering amount of people didn't
10,000, like 15% of all the factory workers in Canada worked a lot in the canal, right? And so it was a hugely important, like the beating heart of the industrial economy. And of course, all those factories closed the 1970s and 80s. And you can imagine the impact, right? So we often think of like the US rust belt, like Detroit and Cleveland and how those cities were devastated during the 1970s and 80s. It was the same thing in this part of Montreal
you know neighborhood like point in charles are they not read uh... half the people were unemployed you know over the nineteen seventy eighties early nineties so you can just imagine that impact you know it's a source of pride for many but there's also a lot of debate a lot about the canal and how it's transformed and transition in the current state uh... what do you think it was whose control is it under actually
Well, it's federal land or federal infrastructure. And so when the government built the St. Lawrence Seaway and it opened in 1959, it allowed some of the other side of the river, right? And so it allowed larger vessels to get into Detroit or Cleveland or my hometown of Thunder Bay.
And so what are you going to do with this old canal, right? Like it no longer has its main purpose. And so from 1959 to 1970, it starts to phase out because you're still using a little bit to, you know, there's still factories that need ships. You still need the waterway in order to, you know, bring in water into these factories. It's also a place where they dump all their garbage, all their effluent. And so it finally closes in 1970,
And so people are debating, what are we going to do? You could imagine the kind of indecitiveness that politicians have. And it was actually the election of the party Quebecois and Rene Levesque in 1976 that really forced the hand of the federal government to decide to make it a park, can it a park, to build those beautiful bike lanes and so on.
you know the uh... one of one of its history is still that's still there is the the five roses building yeah yeah well it it yeah it's a it's an icon of of the city of montreal and and uh... it's one of the few active industrial sites left the only other one that i can think of on like on a canal proper is uh... is robin hood flower right it's still going it's been it's on for the little burgundy side
And so there's very few sort of active industrial sites left, right? And so what we started seeing in the 1980s, like 85, 86, we started to see conversions of former factories into condos. And when that first began, it was totally new. Like, government had no idea, like, what do you do? What do you have to do in order to convert a factory into a residential building? Like, how clean is clean in terms of decontamination?
And so they brought in the laws from the Netherlands, because they had to do something quick, because there was so much demand for converting some of these sites, like Stelko, like the old steel company, Canada, which is at the Charlotte Web Ridge. It was an early conversion, building Coracelli, which is at the Desugneur Bridge, was an early conversion.
And of course, these are, you know, this is prime real estate now. We've got to wrap up. I'm out of time. But, you know, just a quick thought here about how changed its look even further if those plans to build that baseball stadium down there along the canal would have materialized it. Oh, yeah. And there's still, of course, debates. You know, there was actually, at one point, they wanted to build an airport in, like, that little space by the... Oh, really? Victoria, Victoria, Victoria, Victoria. They had all kinds of plans, yeah.
Steven, it's been a pleasure having you on the show and thanks for the insight into the history of the canal. Oh, thanks so much for inviting me. All the best. You too. It brings us to a news time. Tom's ready to go. I'll just quickly mention sports wise that the Canadians are back in action, still on the road in Chicago tonight and a heartbreaking loss for our world junior team in Ottawa, losing in the final minute of play to check you and now out of the tournament, losing a loss night by a score of four to three.
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Let me ask you a question. Have you tried pickleball yet? Do you have the pickleball bug? Very popular sport, kind of really surged in the last several years, right across North America. And even right here in the city of Montreal, there's such a demand, by the way, for the sport, that a new court opened in the city and is seeing people of all ages, ages coming out to play. Valerie LaPointe is the co-founder of Santra Pickle in Montreal's Mercier Ochilagamez in Edinburgh. And she joins me on the line for a chat. Valerie, good morning.
Hi, good morning. Happy new year. Yeah, you too. Valerie, did I have this right when I was talking just before the break that, you know, pickleball, I think it's been around for decades, but it really took off, didn't it, during the pandemic? I mean, people were looking for something to do, you know, physical activity and it was, you know, you could be socially distanced. So it really picked up during the pandemic, didn't it?
Yeah, it's about five years that it's getting crazy in the US. Of course, Canada and Quebec were kind of late in the way, but now it's starting to pick up really quickly. Yeah, why do you think it's so popular?
First of all, it's easy to learn. So after like 30 minutes of like a small class, you can have fun and have like a nice exchange with players. And it's very social. So you come with friends, with your wife, with the family, you can have grandpa playing with there is a great song. So it's very open to everyone. And it's because it's easy to learn, everyone can play.
You know what else I think is is helping the popularity and maybe you'll agree with this is that it's it's not very expensive. I mean, maybe this is not the right example, but you compare it to the how expensive it is to play hockey or golf, for example, pickleball is very inexpensive. If you compare to any other sport is very inexpensive. First of all, during the summer, you can play pretty much everywhere in the city right now or free.
because they are either adding some tickle bar course or transforming some tennis court to pickle bar course, which is a big debate, but we won't go there. And even indoor, I mean, you just need a pair of shoes and a paddle and that's about it. So you can go play engines or you can go play
in the real pickleball facility that are now opening like something called in the slider. Yeah, it's so popular in the States. Recently, I came across a couple of stories about how popular and the demand to play and places to play pickleball that some cruise lines in their brochures were on their websites were saying, and we have pickleball courts for the on these cruises. And I was reading an interesting story about some shopping malls in the US where, you know, the some stores are closing.
And so what the owners of the mall are doing are taking a place where there used to be a store and using that space and opening a pickleball court. So some malls now are the destination to play pickleball. It's everywhere on cruise, all inclusive. We also just include Ned doing a special event like a month ago with urging him to shock in Montreal, showcasing her their pickleball court and their equipment. So it's basically adding value in
so many industry right now, camping, any vacation type of activity you need to have a pickleball court now. With Valerie the point, co-founder of Santra Pickle, tell me about the Santra Pickle. So basically we're the biggest facility right now in Montreal, so it's 14 court indoor, we're 100% pickleball, so sometimes other facilities will mix it with other sports,
For us, it was our vision to be 100% pickle ball. And we have one of the nicest surface, how do you call it, like the quartz fabric is basically the same quality as the US Open. So it's very like a top quality experience. And the location?
location is in a schlager so uh... five hundred six hundred uh... five thousand six hundred rue a schlager uh... and we open for the last two months so uh... it's uh... kind of new uh-oh it's very it's close to my work i was mentioning on the air that my wife wants us to play pickleball together in twenty twenty five so the first time perfectly i know maybe you're going to see us uh... coming through your doors uh... so uh... what's the response been like so far
It was amazing. So we had a big open house in the beginning of November. It was 600 people in two days, which was overwhelming, but it was awesome. And now we're welcoming new players, new members, every single day, every single week. So yeah, it has been great. Yeah. It's a great story because, like you said, people of all ages can play. It's very social. And do you play yourself?
Yeah, I'm not that good. People are expecting me to be a pro player, but yes, I click a ball at a certain level. Yeah, sure. I'm looking forward to it. And oh, by the way, I'm on what saw to pickle of people want more information. Do you have a website? Yeah, it sounds critical.com. So you can get all the information there. You can book everything online. So if you want to book a course,
Open clinic session. We do a lot of introduction class as well for new players. So it's a two-hour class with a coach. We rent as well the paddle for three. So that's a great way to start and discover the sport. Valerie, if you stay still, a bunnani. All right. Thanks for joining us this morning, Valerie. Thank you. It's exactly 745.
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Very fun. I hope everyone's having a great start to their year and staying tied down if they're going down. No, Wendy.
nasty wind today. It's incredible. Absolutely incredible. If you're a smaller person, it's easy to get swept away. And I don't mean in a good way. Hang on to those little dogs too. Mitch, we're going to talk about a serious matter here. And it's the impact that smoking has on our health. We know smoking is not not good for you at all. It can lead to all kinds of problems. But we're going to focus on the fact that what one single singer can do to impact your health.
Yes, something like taking away 17 minutes of your life, if you're a guy in 20 minutes of your life or 22 minutes of your life, if you're a woman. We do know, by the way, that smoking tends to affect women worse than men. It has to do with the anatomy, physiology, and the way different bodies, different genders handle cigarettes. And it's the tar, obviously, and all the other contaminants, the toxins in the cigarettes that do all this. People have known
that if you smoke is not good for you, duh. But the idea of being in this article in the Journal of Addiction, looking at huge numbers of men and women, they were able to quantify the actual cost. And a lot of people might think, okay, so instead of dying at 80, I'll die at 70, right? It costs me 10 years of life if I've been smoking 10 cigarettes a day for a long period of time. The truth of the matter, though, it actually diminishes the quality of your life as well.
So it's not just, God forbid that you'll die younger. It's also that you'll die thicker and be sicker for a longer period of time. And I think that's something people don't really appreciate. The other thing people don't appreciate is people were smoking tobacco for a very long period of time, right? It was only the surgeon general's report in the States in 64 that started to pull together the data and made us realize how bad it was for us. And that's something people don't understand about science.
So many things get thrown at us, vaping, for example, before the science has a chance to actually go through the steps that it takes to figure out what's going on. And so we're still finding out things about cigarettes. We're going to find out even more about vaping. Our whole view of alcohol has changed. And if people ever say, well, you can't trust science at flip-flops, what I say is think back to 64 in the type of phone that you used.
And think of the phone that I'm now talking to you on right now. Um, 60 odd years, um, in some cases, very odd years that won't go there, but 60 years and look at the dramatic difference in terms of the technology. And you'd never say, Oh, science. What do they know? Look what happened to the telephone. If it'd been proper back in 64, I wouldn't have the phone that I have had then. And you realize that things evolve. And that's unfortunately what has to happen with medicine.
And with the science and the technology around medicine, as we learn more, we understand more. But now the big concern is what's going to be the story with vaping. Yeah. Because the stuff that we're inhaling with the vapes was not stuff that was meant to be inhaled. And what difference or what changes will that cause? We have no way of predicting right now. A thought or two and a word of encouragement, maybe for those who are trying to quit, Dr. Mitch. First off, as soon as you stop, you'll see a benefit.
Um, if they take you the example of an individual who smoked tin cigarettes a day and if they stopped as of January the 1st, they could add a whole week of life by February the 5th, a whole month as of August the 5th and 50 days after only a year. So there's a benefit at any time you stop. You'll see a dramatic improvement over time and it will people often say, well, I've been smoking for so long. What difference does it make now if I stop? There's always a benefit.
The other thing is anything we can do to keep kids from starting. It turns out that the younger you start, the more devastating the effects on your body and on your health, which I suspect makes sense, doesn't it? And so anything we can do to keep kids away from smoking, as we've been doing by increasing the price of cigarettes, which seems to have been one of the most effective deterrents, unfortunately, for those who are addicted to it, I understand the cost.
But certainly that's worked very effectively as a deterrent for younger people starting. In terms of stopping, there's no one way that works better. We do find that a combination of medication and counseling works the best. And the government has chipped in to try and make it easier. Your pharmacist can help you. But whatever you can do, if you're smoking now, to reduce or to stop quilt turkey, whatever works for you. And most people find that they stay addicted to something
not because of the thing itself but because of the stuff it's associated with so i have a secret every morning with my cup of coffee well maybe have to change your morning routine so that you don't crave that cigarette but you crave something healthy instead uh... doctor mitch thanks for a great week have a terrific weekend you too all the very best and all the very best everybody listening right back at you
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well good morning to see twenty two always a pleasure to have chris bumbry on the show he is with joe blow dot com and uh... has a great eye and a nose for entertainment news on the line chris good morning good morning and how are you i'm very good you know what's on my to-do list now that i've uh... i'm gonna put it into this uh... or uh... i'm putting a close on the uh... the two weeks of mornings i'm going to go see the uh... bob dylan movie with all well yes it's great i really really liked it a complete unknown with tim with a shallomade so
It's kind of interesting because it's from the same director as Walk the Line, which I really like to the Johnny Cash movie. Yeah. And which one, which one all kinds of awards, didn't it? I think Walk the Line, yeah. And a complete unknown is up for a bunch, too, including at the Golden Globes this weekend. But Chalamet does all of his own singing in the movie, as does Monica Barbaro, who plays, you know, John Byers.
And, uh, and it's funny. Johnny Cash actually turns up in a complete unknown. It is not walking though this time. It's Boyd Holdbrook, but great movie. I really, really enjoyed it. It's one of my, one of my favorites of the year actually.
And something else that I find very interesting. Seven, the movie back in the day with Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt and with Gwyneth Paltter on the movie. Yeah, they're re-releasing it, right? They're re-releasing it on IMAX this weekend. And I honestly, I can't wait because I was just a little bit too young to see it in theaters when it came out. So I never got, I saw it on video, you know, of course, but I never, but I never got the chance to see it on a big screen and in IMAX and in 4K.
I feel like it's going to be so disturbing. And I was thinking about it. I haven't seen seven in quite a while, but yeah, it turns 30 this year. And I mean, they're not wasting any time. They waited like two days into this.
30th anniversary to finally release it, but I can't wait to see that. I'm definitely going to see this weekend. If you're looking for something to do, we were mentioning this a few times when we talked about the Habs being on their annual road trip over the holidays. They always clear out of the Bell Center to make room for a show of sorts. Sometimes it's with a Disney show, but this year they cleared house because Cirque de Soleil has been performing Ovo at the Bell Center.
They have and I mean, if you've never seen Cirque du Soleil before, you have to go. It's one of those classic Montreal things to do. It's always special when they come back to town. It's looking at it. The big top one in the old port is not open again until April this year. So if you want to see Cirque du Soleil, I think this is the last weekend to go see them and then there's nothing until April. I can't
The one I wish that they would really tour, but I don't think they can. The rights issues, the Beatles, love, and Vegas recently. And that's just an incredible show. But they're always great shows. Did you see that show? I did. I saw it just before it closed. I'd never seen it before. I saw it about two weeks before it finally wrapped up. It's running. Wow. What an amazing thing. Yeah. I was lucky enough to see it in Vegas as well. Absolutely a fantastic show.
Chris, I'm going to play a little audio here. It's something from the lady, a stand-up comic who has landed the hosting duties for the Sunday's Golden Globes. I've never wanted kids. Even when I was a kid, I would get baby dolls for Christmas and just be like, oh, God, this is going to be a lot of work. This is just... This is going to cut into nap time. I tried to abandon it in front of my brother's toy firehouse. Just anything. Get this away from me.
No wonder women rushed to have kids were being trained for it since we were kids. They're like, here's a baby doll. Here's an easy bake oven. I got one of those. I stuck my head in it. I was like, I want out of this narrative.
Chris, that's the cleanest stuff I could find from Nikki Glaser to play on the radio. She's not a household name, but correct me if I'm wrong. I think she more or less landed this hosting gig for the Golden Globes based on the Tom Brady roast. Yeah, I mean, she was great on the Tom Brady roast, but I'm very curious to see how her monologue goes down. I was reading that apparently she's been testing it out at some of the nightclubs in LA.
Because I mean, do you remember last year, Joe Coy did a monologue and it was so mild, but he got attacked like crazy. I feel like people have gotten so sensitive about comedy in particular and any kind of put downs. I mean, I feel like it's a lose-lose situation. You know, they couldn't find any comedians to host the Oscars because nobody wants to do it, right? Because it's seen as one of the worst possible gigs that you can get because there's no way to win. I mean, I think she'll be hilarious. She's always really funny.
You know, she was quite provocative in the Tom Brady Rose. And I feel like the mood and the cold and glows auditorium for anything, even slightly edgy is not good these days. I think she'll be funny, but I feel like she'll get attacked no matter what she does. It's interesting you say that because she was on with Kimmel not too long ago, and Jimmy Kimmel has hosted his share of award shows. And she says she can't be too mean, even though people want her to be mean, you know, she can't be too mean because she's got to win over the room. She's got to get the laughs from the room as well, because it'll just be dead on her.
You know, and I feel like though, the thing is like last year, I thought that Joe Koy was incredibly clean and was really respectful and he was still attacked regardless. I feel like you always get bad reviews for that thing though. Like if you're too safe, you'll get bad reviews. If you're too funny, you'll get bad reviews. It feels like one of the worst possible gigs that you can get. But you know, then again, everybody's going to be watching. I mean, I know I'll be watching. So it definitely puts you out in a huge platform. You're right though. It's not. It's really a thankless job. You almost can't win when you host one of these award shows.
You can't, that's why Milani has never wanted to do the Oscars, even though he'd probably be hilarious. Oh, John Mulaney, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so it would be interesting. It's always good. I mean, it's live and they're serving alcohol and they're sitting right. That's right. Always a little more fun than the Oscars. At least they're having alcohol. What always amazes me is that they're able to do so many categories, and usually the show doesn't run over three hours. I'm curious to see
who went and i mean i remember the globe is a couple years ago people have kind of written them off but it seems like they've they've come back i feel like wicked can do really well that feels like a cold globe's movie i always roll my eyes in the most recent uh... golden globes because uh... they always have the bear in a comedy category that's the weirdest thing i don't know i i i i for the life of me i've never understood why the bear
is put it as put as a comedy show. I think it's only a half hour long. That's the way that they that's the way they categorize it. But I mean, there's a lot of drama in that kitchen in that restaurant. I mean, there's there's funny things in the bear, but it's not ha ha funny, you know, I mean, it's because it's gonna say every episode of the bear can be kind of summed up with havoc in the kitchen. I love it, but it feels a but it should definitely be up for drama.
Don't understand why it's so over comedy. It's the strangest thing. You know what I help really does well because I think it's nominated and I absolutely devoured this. It was the it was the Ripley mini series in black and white, which I thought was so well done. And beautifully shot. I mean, the fact that Netflix was able to green light, you know, a black and white, you know, eight hour mini series shot on film is pretty even pretty impressive to me. I mean, to me, that's the great thing about streaming, though, is that you can get these kind of niche programs
You know, the only thing about Ripley is that I hope that if they do a second season, they take another one of the books because I'm kind of getting tired of seeing the talent that Mr. Ripley done over and over and over again. And so many times, there are a lot of other really great Ripley books. And I feel like that guy, Andrew Scott's terrific. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So hopefully it comes back, but hopefully they tackle something a little more fresh in people's minds. Chris, one last thing. And I might be putting you on the spot with this. We have to head to the newsroom. But the Golden Globes has been on NBC for years and for this year, it's on CBS.
It is, and it's also going to be streaming on Hulu, which is kind of different. You know what I mean? The Globes, they went through all that turmoil a couple of years ago, and they lost a lot of their contracts. Remember, Tom Cruise returned to all these Golden Globes. But it's going to be streaming on Hulu and on Disney Plus, I think. That'll be interesting. I don't know what the audience is going to be for the Globes.
I'll be watching that for sure. Me too as well. Chris, thanks for this as always. Have a good weekend. Take care, Ken. My pleasure. All right. Let's head off to the CJAD 800 Newsroom. Get you up to date. Listen to the Andrew Carter Morning Show Live Monday to Friday, 5 30 to 9.
