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the best of the city's best morning show in a small package. This is the Andrew Carter podcast. You ever wondered what it would be like to dress up for a ball in the 19th century? There's a new exhibit at the McCord Museum called Costume Balls Dressing Up History 1870 to 1927. You'll find 40 outfits on display and some date back 150 years. Cynthia Cooper is curator at the Montreal McCord Museum.

Good morning, Cynthia. Good morning, Andrew. Do you get some sort of an idea of just how wonderful it was to be rich in Montreal at that time? Yeah, definitely this exhibition conveys an idea of that. These are outfits that were worn specifically at costume balls where people were dressing as something other than themselves.

But that, and we know that all strata of society enjoyed that pastime in the 19th century, but those who were able to invest significant energy and resources into creating an alter ego for themselves are the people who had their portraits taken and who tucked their outfits away to be safe for generations. So, indeed,

The garments that you see are outfits that belong to a very privileged slice of Montreal society. So in some of these cases, were you able to get the outfits and maybe the knotment photograph of the person in it as well? Yes, in almost every case, Andrew, and it's very rare, often in an exhibition or a book, one will see one or two examples of that.

but we have dozens and dozens of examples of that, of portraits of people wearing the outfit and the outfit, or suites of photographs where the person was taken in the same outfit several times over a number of years. So where did you get these costumes? Well, most of them are in our collection.

And a large number of them have been in the collection for quite some time. But what we encountered was that we didn't always know that that's what they were. So many of them were, they were in the collection, they were here, but they were something puzzling. They looked like they were from an earlier period, but they somehow didn't seem quite authentic. There were features that

identified them as from being a later period. For instance, garments that look like they're supposed to be from the 18th century, but they really show, you know, they're made with the sewing machine, which didn't exist then. So it was really over a number of years, three decades, in fact, of just being here and being in the collections that we would encounter these puzzles occasionally and occasionally solve them. And so it's really the result of

of many years of not just building the collection, but studying it in depth, that led us to understand that, in fact, these outfits were worn for dress-up and not regular balls. So, Cynthia, give me some of the names of the families that this would have come from. I assume these were the who's who of Montreal's golden square mile? They were. So, the Van Horn family, for instance.

There were lots of, we have things that survived surprisingly from members of the medical community, doctors like Frank Shepherd and Herbert Burkitt. We also have clothing worn by children from very privileged households like the Reiford family or the Hugh Graham, Baron Athleston's daughter. We have three of her outfits. There are a variety of families, some of great means, some of

lesser means. But everything that's here is somehow an accident of survival because it was really only intended to be worn for one night. So some people spent a great deal of money having their costumes made and then probably couldn't bear to move on from them. And in other cases, people were more resourceful recycling secondhand things. But that may also explain why.

why they didn't move on from them and why they survived. Yeah, fascinating Cynthia. So how can, how and when can we see this exhibit at the Montreal McCord Museum? The exhibition is on until August 17th. So we have a good long time to see it. Do we have to buy tickets in advance or how does it work? You can either buy them online in advance or at the museum. Okay, wonderful. Hey, thanks very much for your time. Very interesting.

Thank you, Andrew. That is the Cynthia Cooper curator at the Montreal McCord Museum. The exhibit is called Costume Balls, Dressing Up History, 1870 to 1927. Your full service morning show with Andrew Carter, CJAD 800. And the almost catalyst quiz coming up before 7 o'clock, Ovo tickets. Yeah, that's a real Montreal.

Prizes isn't it Cirque du Soleil tickets coming up end of December Bell Center? It's great. Trudy Mason is filling in for Aaron Rand between two and six on Montreal now this afternoon. So we've got to Tom Whalen and for Trudy this morning with the Trudy Steakaways. Let's start off with the Cheryl now, the Moriel and Josie Legault. Santa in Ottawa, Scrooge in Quebec City. She's talking about budgets, is she?

That's right. She's talking about the $250 checks that will be sent out by Mr. Trudeau along with the two month GST holiday. She asks, how will citizens avoid succumbing to an acute crisis of cynicism? And she's basically, she goes after Mr. Trudeau saying this is, you know,

not transparent at all, or untransparent in all, in that it's obviously a political move on his part. Then she spends more time actually going after Mr. Girard, the CAQ Finance Minister,

and his update yesterday on the state of Quebec's finances. She says Quebecers would have forgiven the CAQ more easily for its historic deficit, had it at least been used to improve things like health services, social services, education,

and to counter the housing crisis. She says, however, that Quebec is essentially worse off and we still have an $11 billion deficit. The government is asking departments now to cut more spending and that she quotes another journalist, Aaron Durful from the Gazette, that health cuts could even climb up to $1.5 billion.

So, not too impressed, but I'm going to go with Mr. Girardi. In Ludevoir, Mariano A. Schuinaire talks about language. Yes, she does. She's saying that basically what has to be done here is it's up to the province.

to make sure that French is better taught in schools, and that it's more prevalent in English institutions, so that English should become the language of instruction for many courses in English sasheps and universities. So you said English should become the language? Excuse me, I'm sorry. French should be the language of instruction, excuse me.

And she's saying that French is in decline, and she quotes a bunch of different percentages here of how much it's in decline, but she says mainly it's pointing to the younger generation so that these measures should be taken to ensure that the younger generation is speaking more French, especially when they get into the workplace.

Starve your children, save the planet. National Post, Terry Newman. This is Terry Newman saying that she's going after Mr. Trudeau in this one and some of the comments that he made in Rio at the Global Citizen Now event at the G20 Leaders Summit

He says he opened by insisting it was morally selfish to put food and lodging concerns above contributions to the carbon tax and basically what is what her

Thesis is in all of this is that it shouldn't be Mr. Trudeau lecturing us on trying to keep our families fed and having to make the choice between putting gas in the car, keeping your family fed, and what bill you're going to pay this month.

So, she goes through all that, and she says her final statement here is, while a noble thought, Canada and its taxpayers are not personally responsible for saving the planet, and its citizens know full well that many countries will never give up fossil fuels, Trudeau, she says, knows this as well, and he's trying to deceive Canadians.

A power-packed version of the number one morning show in Montreal. If you're on the fly, this is the Andrew Carter podcast. 100% of groceries. All groceries. We're going to remove the GST from restaurant meals, takeouts, fast food. We're moving the GST from beer and wine.

We're moving the GST. Okay, here to break down the announcements for you is Robert Rake, tax lawyer from the firm of Rake Legal and he's on the line. Hey, Robbie, how you doing? Very good, Andrew. So I was listening to this and I'm the yesterday I'm going, why stop, stop it. No, stop. There's like, that's too much. We're, you know, is it just me? We've got a deficit of $48.5 billion.

What's another six billion? I mean, you're into the hole for 48 and another six makes it 55. So what kind of a difference? Let's start off with the GST holiday for two months on a lot of things. What kind of a difference is this going to make for people? Well, first of all, you'll probably only buy your Christmas tree after December 14, which is the funniest part of the thing.

Really, first of all, I read the thing last night when I came back from Sebastian Maniscalco. So if I sound a little incoherent, it's because I haven't slept. But it's only 5%. I mean, we think of GST and QST is 15%, but this is only 5% for Quebecers because Quebec is not giving their 10% rebate on these things. So first of all, let's limit it to 5%. It's only for goods purchase between December 14th and February 15th.

which if I've spoken of a few retailers and I saw them last night, I was with a few people, they said the cost for them to change their POS systems for two months back and forth and not sure what items are involved is gonna be a nightmare. But think about it, I mean the implementation and if you think about the government bureaucracy cost going up to police this and then send out those checks which we'll talk about of $250 a person,

It's clearly just a way to buy votes. Yeah, and in terms of you know if you do I didn't realize it didn't start till December 14th I mean most of people have done their Christmas shopping by then already anyway, but well imagine buying a Christmas tree on December 14 and it's for toys and clothing for kids and Well, the good news is for beer and wine for that period I suppose after you think about this you're gonna need some beer and wine so

make sure you delay your purchases till December 14th. And it's for anybody. Let's talk about the $250. Hi, I'm Jennifer Reed, host of a Woman Like You podcast. Big thanks to our partners, CTV News, Shopping Trends, and Amazon Canada for making this show possible.

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check this for anybody, individuals who were in less than $150,000 in 2023 in 2023. Now, you know, maybe I'm not up to date with salaries these days, but you know, anything over about 140. Like, that's a lot of money, isn't it? Yeah, but

I mean, Ford is giving $200 to everyone, including billionaires and billionaires. So I suppose Trudeau said, OK, I want to buy votes, but I want to look at least somewhat responsible. But 150 is probably the top 2% of income earners in Canada.

so yeah so it's it's a six point three billion i would would you consider something like this to be uh... to be inflationary to do sort of the opposite of what we've been trying to do in the last year the pundits are saying it's probably gonna

Instead of the Bank of Canada reducing interest rates by a half the point in December, they'll do it by a quarter and definitely it'd be inflationary. Do the math for me because you're the better accountant than I am, obviously. Say I just happened to buy $2,000 worth of this stuff with a GST holiday over the two-month period. How much then would I save? A hundred bucks. A hundred bucks. I don't know if that seems like it's worth it to me.

No, I mean, some people have really benefited from this at the very lower level. So, yes, if children's clothing good, good shoes, yes, restaurants, I suppose, are slow after Christmas, but so between December 14th and February 15th, they may benefit. So, and it's weird, but the bad news, Andrew, is eggnog is not covered, but pure annoying. I already bought my eggnog anyway.

wouldn't yeah but you paid you an extra five percent i owe well it's worth it honestly that's why you put the rum in it that there's no GST on that anyway it's really i'm going to go she started getting

beer and wine. And good news, Coca-Cola and all the other pop is also, I don't get it because they're trying to say it's not healthy, but whatever. And popcorn is included. It's a little puzzling, some of the stuff. So how was Sebastian Maniscalco last night? I was great. Yeah. It was great. The only problem was I was in a box with some of your friends with free booze and wine. I don't know.

And then I had to go up and study this stuff so I would sound intelligent this morning, intelligent this morning. You're doing pretty well, Rob. And this is going to all seem like a happy dream to you. A little bit later on. You have a good day. A different look at the world of entertainment with John Moore. Week day mornings at 720. So they're calling it Glickett. So Glickett?

You know, just glick for some reason. But yeah, they're trying to recreate the phenomenon when Barbie and Oppenheimer came out at the same time and everybody was calling it Barbenheimer. And it did seem kind of odd that a dark black and white movie about the guy who made the atomic bomb and then a very pink riotously funny movie about a doll that the people were going to both of those movies. But now they're apparently going to go to Wicked and Gladiator 2, or this just could be a

Okay, now you've seen Wicked twice, four times. Three times? Three times? Yeah. Now you know they've asked you not to sing during the show. Yeah. The movie house has asked you not to sing.

Okay, so I wonder there's you just know eventually there'll be a sing along wicked, but yeah it opens today and All of the songs apparently all the vocals were captured live normally what they do is you go in studio They get to take they like they play it over a speaker you mouth to it, but the director said he wanted it to be more Like the show the director also explaining that when they sat down to make this movie they kept on ripping out songs and ripping out scenes and

to make it shorter and bring it in on time. And they realized that every time they did that, there was something missing from the movie, obviously. So that's why they've decided to cut the play in two and make two movies. And I hope it's not going to feel, I always remember back to the future too, which ended on a cliffhanger. And it sort of felt that they just wasted two hours of your time setting up for number three. I don't remember feeling that way. I disagree.

Okay, how are you feeling this morning after sleeping outside last night?

I'm pretty tired. Yeah. And yeah, because the way it works, I don't know if they do an event like this in Montreal, but first of all, you go to Covenant House and you have a dinner made by people who've been in the food program. And then kids, well, they're not kids anymore, but they're the result of Covenant House. Three of them got up on stage and told their story. One of them was a refugee who now owns her own company. Another was a victim of the sex trade and now she owns her own company.

And a guy who got kicked out of an abusive home when he was 17 is now studying to be a doctor. But the sleeping outside business, I mean, let's admit, this is like a taste of what it would be like to be homeless. It's more, it's kind of like back in the day when we did star anathons and you wouldn't eat for 24 hours to raise money for world hunger. And in this case, you know, we had nice warm sleeping bags. We had a dry place because it was pouring rain, but we had a roof over our heads.

with security guards okay so you know it's nothing like it's a homeless but still it's an experience yeah yes it's nothing like being homeless Taylor Swift is back in Toronto

She is. And so it's another three nights. Everyone's losing their stuff. And it's funny because the grumps are starting to surface. Like, why is there all this hysteria? You should, though, seek out if you can video of her motorcade because she got a police escort. And I'd never seen this maneuver.

But there is a police car, like they're all in one lane, and then there's three live lanes of traffic beside them. And this police car needs to block anybody who's behind the motorcade from pulling up next to it. So the car just does this slalom that keeps going across the three lanes so that nobody can get into them. And it looks highly dangerous to me, but I'm told it's a very standard maneuver.

She is very important person, very vital to our very existence on this planet, as you know. Well, I was called small town for complaining about the motorcade. I mean, they closed the Gardener Expressway eastbound so that she could get to her show. And I thought, why can't she suffer like the rest of us? No kidding. That is so wrong. You have a great day. John Moore, CJAD Entertainment. Catch Tom Mulcair live Monday to Friday at 7.35 a.m. and 5.05 p.m.

I think it's fantastic that we're bursting at the seams with money and we can just hand it out to Jackson. Give us a GSD vacation. So your thoughts, please. Don't let me color whatever you're going to say. Just use your own words.

We're pretty much on the same page here, Andrew, from what I just understood. This is a price tag of over $6 billion, this little announcement yesterday, and I'll divide it into two parts. I don't think that there's a family that's going to turn up their nose at the $250 that Trudeau says are going to be sent out in the spring. Everybody could use a break, fair enough.

But you have to look at the bigger picture. So this money that's going to be shoveled out the door, the $250 per family, if you're earning less than $150,000, that comes with a huge price tag of over $4.5 billion. The other one, the cut on the taxes of groceries for eight weeks. What's that going to do? OK, as of December 14th. So what do you do this weekend? You were planning on starting some of your Christmas shopping. What do you do? Do you hold off on it?

and, you know, to save a few bucks, what does it mean that he's taking the federal tax off wine and beer? Here in Quebec, what does that mean? Like, look at the SAQ. I asked them at the SAQ and they said, obviously it doesn't apply to us because taxes are already incorporated and we're not going to start changing all their pricing. So that's the next question. What does this mean in terms of pure sheer bureaucracy for the average small business? Again,

People aren't opposed to getting a break on taxes. But it's a break for eight weeks. So that means that every single item in your store has to be reviewed. You have to redo your caches. And then eight weeks later, you've got to put everything back. And then you've got to try to make sure that you've got the dates, right? And you determined everything so you don't get hit, you know, bonked over the head by revenue Canada because you've got some part of it wrong. So it's a massive bureaucratic effort. This type of thing is written on the edge of a napkin.

by political staffers in the Prime Minister's office saying, what can we announce to start getting out of trouble? Because this is not a thoughtful announcement. The same breathy tone, when he's talking like this, and Trudeau says, we're taking the tax off groceries, all groceries. This was a major announcement. And the other thing is,

You know this, an immediate effect, we were expecting a 0.5. So a full half of percentage point drop in the Bank of Canada rate. Every economist in the country right now is saying that's not going to happen. Maximum 0.25. Maximum 1.25. Why? Because this is inflationary. Because you're just, you know, after Christmas, you're going to be pumping. A lot of you are going to be pumping 4.5 billion of cash into the economy that's going to get spent right away. A lot of people also point out the people at the lowest run of the latter.

and are not going to be getting this help and it's you know it's it's tied to people who have filed the taxes and paid taxes and that sort of thing so it does leave out a lot of people who are the mediums yeah and it is it's a hundred if it's it's two fifty per person at number household

So, yeah. For a person who filed their taxes. For a person who filed their taxes. Yeah, exactly. So it's actually a lot of money. Yeah. But the level, 150,000, that seems like somebody who makes $150,000 probably doesn't need the 250 bucks.

No, fair enough. But what happens is whenever you draw that line, and I remember when Lago drew his line, I was talking to two people who had good jobs, you know, they weren't senior executives, but their household income put them as one person put it to me.

Because my wife and I earned just over the limit to get the, it was 500 bucks the first time in between four and six under the second time from ago, we're actually, we know we are subsidizing our two neighbors. You know, so there's always a problem with trying to draw that line, but nobody's going to feel sorry for anybody earning over 150 grand. We agree on that.

Yeah, it's just, I don't know. Do you think people will fall for this? I mean, before I say it, I don't know. Not a leading question, not a leading question. I'm sorry. I think it's a vote buyer. I want to know what you think.

It's a verit, it's the oldest trick in the book, trying to buy people's votes with their own money. And it's exactly what Lavo did. And that's why it's so funny that it happened on the same day. Because yesterday we find out that the province really, really is in deep economic trouble. We're sloshing government departments. I talked to a business person last night who's got an engineering firm.

He said, it's awful what we're going through right now because we've got all these projects that have been approved and they're supposed to be flowing and that we've hired people as a consequence of that. And the Quebec government is just hitting the panic button and saying, stop the spending, stop the spending.

So their bottom line and their ability to pay everything that they've contracted for and they're supposed to be getting paid is completely affected by this. It's not just austerity we're going through and Quebec. It's panic hitting the stop button on just about everything, mostly in healthcare. So we're going to.

You think we're having problems with our healthcare sector now? Wait a minute. Remember when Pauline Manuel was putting people on buses and shipping them to Vermont? This is going to be of that caliber. This is how bad it was going on. So on the same day, when Quebec had this reckoning of the fact that you cannot print money and Quebec sent out tens of billions overall, and then at the same time reduced taxes because that's what Quebec did, and then it's a train wreck. So Trudeau's doing the exact same thing. Why? Because he's also facing an election.

So he wants to say, look, I'm thinking of you, but ask anybody in the business world, the papers today, I went through the whole shot across the country. And like every economist who's looking at this, and even people who work in the sector work, you know,

food banks and the like saying, this is not helping the people who need to help the most. So it's perhaps going to be popular with a certain tranche. Is it going to get them a single vote? Honestly, I don't think not one vote. People are just saying, OK, this is more proof. This guy doesn't know how to count. And we got to get. Hi, I'm Naomi Kyle, host of this week in gaming podcast. Big thanks to our partner CTV news shopping trends and Amazon Canada for making this show possible.

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Yeah, well, first of all, Canada Post. But no, no, the checks wouldn't go out for a while, more like late winter or at least in the early. April. Oh, April. OK, so Canada Post is not on strike. But they're on strike now. It's interesting. What are we doing about the Canada Post strike? Because we hear that the passport people are holding back on mailing out 85,000 passports. And that's when you need your passport. You need your passport. And also, I just got a note from someone I know who runs a charity.

And he says he has three and a half million dollars worth of checks to mail out to 150 charitable organizations, like homelessness, mental health, Christmas, food, baskets, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And you all apply this with hundreds of fundraising funds across the country. So, you know, people are going to suffer as a result of this. But again, this is bad management. No.

Canada Post is a standalone. It's no longer a ministry. That's fair enough. But at some point, it still is the government. It's in charge of keeping the thing afloat. And yes, there are tough times because people don't use the mail nearly as much anymore. Everything's done online, except doing things like securely mailing out passports. So why was no thought given to this prior to the strike? Why was nobody

saying, oh, well, we can use private delivery services, and we'll charge the extra 20 bucks to people to get their passports, which I'm sure they would gladly pay. But again, this is an indication of rotten management within the government. You'll forget the high-fat sounding stuff. Forget about the groceries. This is just, OK, do you guys know how to manage anything? The strikes are part of life when you've got a nice sector.

But the good news is we're getting indications that things are starting to progress. It was a mediator. They're not in the stage yet of compulsory binding arbitration. Looks like they might be able to actually come to a deal. So let's keep our fingers crossed for that. But it couldn't come at a worse time, which is, of course, why the unions are doing it now.

Oh, by the way, I just got a note here that Pierre Polyev is going to be on with Elias Macos at after 9.30 this morning. Oh, nice. Yeah, so I'm going to be sure to listen in because I'm going to be interested in seeing his take up. My guess is he's going to have a good critique of the overall portrait. He's going to be careful not to get cornered saying and don't send those checks. Yeah, because obviously that would play against him. Don't miss the two minute checkup with Dr. Mitch weekday mornings at 7.50. Good morning, Dr. Mitch.

Good morning, good morning, good morning. Cold and rainy day, but I hope it turns out better for everybody. Well, me too. Yeah. Yeah. So tell me something. Women sleep less than men. Why? And differently. And differently. That's really important. And I don't think it's something that's been appreciated. That's why this study in scientific reports is so important on so many different levels. One, women have a different pattern of sleep, sleep less deeply.

and are more responsive to their environment than men by-and-large remember whenever you're making generalizations like this they're always going to be exceptions but by-and-large as probably related to levels of estrogen and projection their system when those levels of the lowest or when they're sleeping patterns of their most off this has been studied this has been shown in a study in scientific reports looking at mice the important message for for for women is uh... don't stress out

If you're sleeping is different than your partners than the males. Don't stress out if you're a little bit more responsive. If you get up more often, if you wander around the house in the middle of the night from time to time, be more concerned about the quality of your sleep and whether it's restorative sleep and if it's enough for you. So a male might need, we'll say, seven or eight or nine hours of sleep and be totally out.

to wake up in the morning feeling refreshed and at their best. But a woman might not. And so don't stress out about the number of hours, stress out about the quality of the amount of sleep that you get. If you wake up in the morning, feeling refreshed, that's important. And that's what you want to aim for. That's number one. But number two, it means that a lot of the research we've been doing, if they haven't taken into account the sex of the person or that their drug is being targeted for or being used on,

They may be missing vitally important information. So it was only in 2016 that the authorities in the states required that, and especially in animal studies, if they were looking at sleeping pills, for example, that they included equal number of male and female, we'll say mice. And the study that in the site of the reports showed that if you didn't do that, and you had predominantly, we'll say, male mice in your study looking at a sleeping medication,

You might get a result that was only true for men or males or male mice and not true for women. So you're going to see it. Unfortunately, it takes a while for stuff like this to get into the pipeline in terms of scientific research. But you may find that there are certain sleeping pills, for example, that were supposedly effective in both males and females may actually not be as effective as we thought they were in females. So there's a lot to this. Expect to hear a lot about it as time evolves.

expect to hear that certain medications that we thought were equally good in men and women may not be. And I think the other key message is not to be too hard on yourself, not to set yourself a specific number for the number of hours that you sleep, but that the quality of sleep is good and that it's restorative sleep that you wake up in the morning feeling refreshed and able to greet your day, that should be your criteria for the amount of sleep you need.

Wake up in the morning feeling refreshed. What, what, what that mean? Honestly. People like you and me, we do not count with, with our schedule, but I mean normal people who have an horrible life.

and get up at a reasonable time and go to bed at a reasonable time. I think that applies. You know what I would like to do just once again? Yeah. Is have that kind of sleep? I did when I was a kid where you basically close your eyes and you open them. It seems like a second later and it's morning, 10 hours later. And you feel great because you slept so well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sleep does become more fragmented and more disrupted as we get older.

There are things that happen to our circadian rhythm the natural body rhythm that do change as we get older unfortunately But it's something to aim for and I think I think it's admirable the training for that You have a great day. Have a good weekend. Great week That's dr. Mitch Schulman. This is the Andrew Carter podcast like what you hear catch the show live Monday to Friday 5 30 to 9

habsa winger michael pennies on the line uh... and michael how are you do you have to go and do well good you remember if you remember that's uh... that's uh... that's uh... that goal that in the shoot out there you were you wrote you did the tiger williams right in the stick that was beautiful that's the uh... if you won't forget that one i was uh... i was a fun one shoot-out winner uh... didn't think i'd be uh... having one of those on uh... on my score sheet uh... i was done playing but uh... no that was awesome

Okay, so you were, uh, is that true? You're like a sixth round pick. Guys like you don't make it to the NHL. Yeah. I'm sick from pick. I'm kind of out in the minors for a few years, playing the East Coast League and just working my way to the NHL. I'm going to live my dream every day and it's been fun.

That's nice. So I was speaking with the Habsford Michael Pizetta. He's getting involved with the Movember campaign. It goes beyond raising money for prostate cancer awareness for men's health and mental health as well. And this week, he's teaming up with a local pizzeria Kujini's pizza in the Pierphone to host a fundraising event for Movember. So Michael, tell me about your connection to your passion for mental health.

Yeah, I think growing up and coming through junior, I think mental health was just something that was really important. I think as athletes sometimes people look upon us and you think they're always strong and then maybe they don't got things going on. But I think mental health and sports is something that a lot of guys struggle with. And I think for me being an athlete and having my platform, I think being able to speak up and talk about mental health, maybe it encourages someone else to have a conversation.

Because at the end of the day, a lot of times people don't know you're struggling unless you're you're able to speak up. So I think that's just something that spoke to me. And I think it's something that I just want to push men to be able to have these conversations with their friends or their family because it could save someone's life. Were you struggling as you were trying to come up through the ranks? I think I wasn't necessarily struggling, but I think it was something that some friends around me were struggling and

And even myself throughout times that if I didn't have a good support crew of people around me, my family, my friends, it would have got worse if I wasn't able to speak up. But I think through speaking up, it helped me and I realized that this is a problem that I think a lot of people have. And just November spoke to me. I usually grow my mustache out and it was a way for me to

kind of join forces with them and just raise money and awareness. Have you noticed that there is is there less of a stigma around professional hockey than there was for mental health? Are we are we are we getting somewhere on this? Yeah, I definitely think we're moving in the right direction. I think now more than ever players are able to speak up. You see guys taking some sometimes to themselves if they need be stepping away from the team and the sport for a little bit to really gather themselves and make sure they're in the right place.

And I think as guys do things like that, for everyone else, you kind of see someone in the NHL doing that or some player that you look up to maybe taking time for his mental health. And I think it encourages everyone to kind of step up and put their mental health first. Because in the space between your ears isn't taking care of properly. You can't really take care of the rest of your life. Yeah, no kidding. Michael Pezzette, Montreal Canadiens, left winger. So you grew up in Toronto, is that correct?

Yeah, group in the city. And who did you want to play for? Like growing up as a kid and playing hockey and dreaming about being a pro. Who did you want to play for? I mean, that's when Dean was always my favorite player on the lease. And I think as a kid growing up in Montreal or as a kid growing up in Toronto myself, you got a cheer for the home team. So I think growing up.

I was definitely a Leafs fan, but just make all the batter to beat them now playing with Montreal. You know, I was just starting to like you, Michael. I do appreciate the diplomacy in your answer. You were really, really good. You prefaced it well. Of course, you're going to want to play for the Leafs when you're growing up. But how did you feel when you were signed by the Montreal Canadiens, when you were drafted and signed by the Montreal Canadiens? Oh, I mean, it was just probably one of the best things in my life.

So hard to kind of get to that moment. And it was just some things coming to fruition and really realizing some of that hard work is starting to pay off. And then you start playing a game at the Bell Center for the first time. And this is the most crazy arena you could play in. And I mean, just so grateful to be able to do that year after year now for the last few years. And it's just special playing in Montreal.

uh... so my producer anthony db asio master control your uh... his son victorious uh... favorite player and he wants to know when you're going to grow up your hair again when you get the big uh... mullet in the back you do it uh... it's it's been growing out i've been uh... kind of shaving aside to grow in the mullet for the most getting getting longer right now i don't know if at all get to its former glory i was uh... i was about three years of growing up to get to their kind of started as a as a joke during covid but uh... it's definitely grown back and is it big with the ladies

i don't know i think uh... uh... it's uh... it's a car so if you roll the dice on that one i can't say uh... you know what i wouldn't say i wouldn't use it as my opening line if i were you i think i think playing for the Montreal Canadiens probably works there probably a better option it probably is okay so tell me about this event at kujini's what's going on there yeah so on uh sunday um uh the twenty-fourth uh we're gonna have a signing event at uh kujini's a lot of um

The Habs, fans, the Habs Cave, Habs Fan TV, they help me organize the event with the owners of Kajini West Island. And so at five o'clock, there's going to be a signing. You come and get a slice of pizza, get an autograph, kind of hang out, and all the money's going to go towards my November campaign. So the great now,

just over $5,000. I've raised so far in hoping to get that over $10,000. So that's kind of the plan with the event. I'm just going to meet people and just raise money and awareness for men's health. I think it should be an awesome, awesome evening. I haven't been to kujinis, but I heard the pizza is awesome. It is. It is people. Yep. Lots of people love that. Hey, Michael, thanks so much for your time and good luck with this. Good. Nice to meet you. You take care.

I appreciate that, Angie. Thanks. Nice to meet you as well. Thanks for having us. A power packed version of the number one morning show in Montreal. If you're on the fly, this is the Andrew Carter podcast. Two movies out this weekend.

Gladiator and Wicked. Wicked is the origin story of the Wizard of Oz of the Green, the Wicked Witch of the West, right? Wicked Witch of the West, that's right. This is the one who gets melted at the end of... No, that's the Wicked Witch of the West. Yes, right. The East gets killed at the beginning with the House Falls. Yes. I don't want to ruin it for you if you haven't seen the Wizard of Oz.

And gladiator, this is like a remake of the Russell Crowe sequel, sequel. So it's Maximus. So if you remember the sequel, but he died at the end. Yes. Yes. I didn't. I ruined that for you too. I'm sorry. The 24 year old classic. So this is supposed to be who? So basically it's Paul Mascal. He plays if you remember the first gladiator, Russell Crowe had this kid that idolized him. That was the son of his of his like ex lover, who was the emperor's sister. It's about that kid growing up.

basically being a gladiator himself and he's played by Paul Mescal, who was really good in this TV show called Normal People and great in this movie called After Sun. Anyway, he plays the young Lucius, who becomes a gladiator working for, well, enslaved by Denzel Washington's character. Denzel Washington is basically the movie's villain and

Man, Denzel Washington choose the scenery in this movie brilliantly. I mean, I... So what does that mean exactly? I've heard that... Just he's having the time of his life playing a villain because he doesn't play those types of roles that often, right? He usually is this upstanding guy and I think he just relishes the fact that he's just being evil in the film, right? Just like kind of Joaquin Phoenix was in the first one. But, you know, as Paul Moscalga, I thought it was quite good. He's not Russell Crowe. He doesn't command the screen the way that Russell Crowe did.

It's action-packed two and a half hours long. I had a blast watching it. Very, very, very gory, but I like that. A lot of decapitation. There's probably at least half a dozen decapitations in the movie, to be honest. Yeah, yeah. So there you go. So if you want to see some decapitations, Gladiator 2 is the one for you. There's no decapitations in Wicked, though. No. No, a lot of songs, a lot of singing. Yeah, and apparently I understand that the movie houses in the States have told you not to sing along in the...

I don't, which I don't, which I don't get because part of the fun of going to see a musical is singing along with it. You know, I mean, it's not a serious movie. Like I liked it. I enjoyed it. I had a good time with it, but what's the harm in people singing along when you go see a musical? Would you have had to see the musical to get the movie? No, I've never seen a play and I and I enjoyed it. And you enjoyed the. I did, but it's only half the story because part two comes out.

What happens in this story? What part of the Wicked Witch of the West's life do they? Well, basically, the part that Wizard of Oz is about, which kind of shows how she's, in this story, she's misunderstood. She's like an anti-hero. And then the Good Witch is played by Ariana Grande, and it's their friendship. Cynthia Rivo is the Wicked Witch of the West. So they were once friends? In the Wicked lore, yes. Oh, dear. Okay.

But they're not friends anymore. But hey, I actually enjoyed it. I'm not one for Broadway stuff usually, but I actually had a really good time with it. Yeah, and with all of these kind of things, if you can get your hands on the soundtrack beforehand, if you haven't seen the play, it's probably a good idea, right? Yeah, I mean, you'll get the songs more, you'll like the songs. Yeah, I mean, they're going to release a sing-along version, apparently too, which I think will do well. But I don't see a problem with singing in the theater. I had a good time with it. It was tapping my toes along with the song, with the songs, what not.

Santa Claus coming to town tomorrow. I know Santa Claus is coming to town. I made my list. I hope he checked it twice. I hope he didn't mail it to him. No, no, exactly with a monster. I know canceling Christmas. Yeah. So when's the start around lunchtime? 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11 starting at Bishop. Okay. And in Dorchester Square from 9 a.m., there's going to be activities for the whole family. You playing Santa this year?

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're talking about. There's one Santa. I thought you were helping him. No, I'm not one of Santa's helpers. I do talk to Santa, though, on the air. Santa, in fact, when are we starting to take calls from Santa Claus? First week of December, we'll be taking calls from the North Pole, and it's never been more important than during a postal strike. Absolutely. But Santa, yeah, I love Santa. I can't wait to talk to Santa. I'm glad that you guys are friends. Yeah.

Well, I wouldn't call us friends. I don't want to cover state. No, not even. I just love them. That's what's not to love about Santa Claus. M for Montreal. What's this? So M for Montreal is basically a showcase of indie bands that are up and coming that haven't been signed yet. And it's a festival that's happening all weekend long that you can go to Fufu and Electric. You could see some of the shows. You can go to Putsi campus, which is where I used to hang out a lot back in the day. But this is interesting because

A lot of really big bands have come from this festival. So basically record producers and stuff are called in, are invited in to basically observe some of these bands. And I mean, Grimes came from there, Half Moon Run, a lot of these Charlotte Cardang, a lot of the biggest names in indie rock and, you know, Montreal.

If you go to a show like this, you never know who you're going to see. I mean, I remember seeing arcade fire long before they became arcade fire, you know, at one of these types of shows. So you never know, you might see like the next big, big, big act for very little money and a very intimate venue. So I think these shows are always really cool. Listen to the Andrew Carter morning show live Monday to Friday, five 30 to nine.