Montréal: Voyage Voyage

mirror than the one I have in my house. And I'll hit up a hotel and I'll turn on the magnified mirror and be like, oh, there's the forest of hairs, and I'll shave them all. This is the unvarnished travel show. I haven't wear makeup, but I will shave a chin here. This is not Lost Look Amazing only wears overalls and jumpsuits. Now the travel show about going places, define yourself. Each week, a friend and I go to a new place and try to get invited to someone's house for dinner. I

feel like you were the turtle back on part. That's been my signature mood. I'm Brendan Francis Newnham are somehow and that's my friend Daniel Henderson as there's no boots. Man. We've just met up at Trudeau Airport. Staring at the people coming out of the plane. They look Canadian. I think they would just look like us, but they don't. They look better. They look like they have healthcare. Episode one Montreal, we're gonna I think calves are this way?

See that? Oh my god, freezing. Why did we come to Montreal in the dead of winter. Well, because most travel shows would come here in Springer's fall. Yeah, I mean you're talking to someone who flew in from Los Angeles. I have a bag with my Burgenstocks handles in it because that's what I was wearing this morning. But I wanted like authentic Montreal man, Like I think, like this

what separates the Canadian wheat from the Canadian chap. So we need to establish on this ride that your TV writer, I am a like audio journalist person and we're both single. We're on the wrong set of thirty five. We're looking for connection, creative meaning a hand to hold in this mad, mad world. My only plan was to get on a plane and show up. It's rad to see you, and I think we're gonna have fun. So basically I need

to do this travel pod thing. We also have some people were going to meet, very excited, and I would like to hopefully insinuate herself into someone's home to have dinner, because I feel like that's the real way to meet them. When you say it like that, I can't imagine anyone else turning, anyone turning us down. I'd like to insinuate myself into your hole. Um, I'm gonna switch Mike's, so don't say anything interesting. Where are you all from? Okay? I'm from New York. Okay. So that there is the

Olympic Stadium. Yeah, and you will see we are actually on an island, which is uh, you know, butch all is cool because we you know, we we are like Americans without the baggage. We can watch and look kind of laugh because we're across the border, but we're the same. Like you might even think I'm from Jersey. I thought you were from Jersey. What I mean, that's what an anglophone Quebecer sounds like. Can you say quintessential Quebecer anglophone sentence?

All right, let's go get some put in Oh you try or smoked meat? All right? Did you get some bagels yet? Yeah? What about what about of you're just talking to your family or friends on a Sunday. Well, since I have three teenagers, I don't talk much to them because they're they're teenagers. But here you'll notice all the signs that we have around. They're all French. But if you notice, there will be some participate in English. But they have to be. This is a law. A

third of the size. We've got the office d lallon fan the French police. Yeah, go around and go into your establishment and measure your sign and make sure you're comfort Oh yeah, we've we've tried to seceed from Canada. What time it was real close? I was like, I think forty nine fifty one. It was like every all the the head offices and companies just up and left, and the wealth left, and so what remained was nice, beautiful, easy to live, lovable Montreal. This is it. My tour

has had the car. I don't, but I'm uber, Daryl, I thank you. Watch yourself in the eyes. You're welcome to grab my arm here for these icy regions. Here's where it gets treacherous, though, because now it's snow on top of ice. I think you just have to walk like an old person your entire walk. I just want to point out that a small child ran past us like she was just walking on grass, just fully ran past us while we take our old bones down this street.

In my high school yearbook caption, I wrote a message to my unrequited crush. It said, dear E, our artists loft in Canada waits. I'd never even been to Canada or a loft, but somehow I'd gotten this idea that it was a place for culture, romance, an affordable real estate, three things I still long for. He's married now with two kids, but at least I made it to Canada. I'll be it in the dead of winter with my friend. Oh my gosh, there's a cat cafe ten feet from

our door. That's insane. Danielle and I drop off our bags and head to the Museum of Fine Arts. As good a place as I need to learn about Montreal's creative roots. So it was a city where it was like much more important to be a sculptor than a doctor. That is really cool, whatever that is. They saw it last time I was here. My name is Heather O'Neill, and I'm a local Montreal author. These look kind of like Jacometti's a little bit right, yeah, like with the

skinny elongated limbs. This is Louis Arschambau. He has sculptures and parks too. I believe this is like such a style. I always liked it, but my dad would try and show me like this is crap. I love the idea of been bringing you to all these works of public art just to point out how horrible they are, terrible phony fony. So we're making our way into the Quebec Arts Pavilion. You're not a historian. You're not responsible to explain all this to us. If you read anything you

encounter the Quiet Revolution? Is there a way to summarize that pretty quickly? The kind of what that was? All? Right? Here, I go, okay, we'll just go to the sixties when it started all the sort of good jobs in Montreal, and all the executive jobs were held by English speaking people, and a lot of the companies were they were all owned by anglophones and they would only give English speaking

citizens the jobs. And then what happened was there began to be a cultural movement where they decided we're just going to overthrow this predicament we're in so French class. Yeah, the lower class Francophones were like, this is just enough. One of the big movements was they made education all the universities free, So you ended up with this like massive class of young people who came from working class backgrounds but were incredibly educated and so obviously that created

like radical thinking. So we're in this permanent exhibit called the Age of the Manifesto. Do you recognize any of these Oh, yeah, this is real pal who Yeah, is sort of our Jackson Pollock. He's incredibly well regarded in Quebec. Even someone myself came from as lower class as you get in the city, I still went to McGill University and had like a top rate education and then was, you know, kind of thrown back on the street corner. I was like, what do I do? I've just read

a lot of Henry James. So there's this kind of irony and there's a humor when you're able to suddenly talk about your odd, down and out predicament, but in the language of m and so then it becomes everything kind of becomes like tongue in cheek an absurd and you kind of have this like Beckett, like feeling well, thanks so much for meeting us today. That's what's what's going on tonight? What are you up to? Oh um?

I have like a deadline. I'm asking because we're kind of trying to get invited to a dinner party, because it's a place where you can genuinely get to know people instead of just being tourists. You know, I would love that, but I have like a Chihuahua who is aggressive towards the stranger dogs, but it would just over overwhelm him. I think, Okay, I'm sorry, like it seems rude.

I know everyone Canadians are nice, but apparently they're no. But if you bring people by dogs going to bite someone, okay, that would not be a good outcome. But you have healthcare for those people. What is your dog's name, Hamlet. I don't spend as much time thinking about how I'm going to die alone when I'm traveling, but I get to travel with someone I love. Oh see, I love you too, and also we get to eat as much everything there. I love you too. Mine's a lot of

therapy bills behind that you're so white. I love it. It's nice. It's nice to kind of it is nice to travel with. Buddy. This is Arion Saint Laurent. Thank you. When my last radio show ended fairly abruptly, I was a little concerned about your mental health. Yeah I was. I was a little bit lost. You know. I went from having this rad show where I spoke with Nilde Grass Tyson and Scarlett Johansson to my Deli guy being

the only person I spoke to on any given day. Yeah, but now at this show, trying to get myself back out there, Dude, isn't exciting. Let's play a game, like, let's just name what comes to mind when we think of Montreal. I definitely think of poutine, of course, Letter Cohen, I think you guys, they're everywhere. There is just that kind of French like undercount where you're like, la la, What is this like an eighties perfume commercial? Please never say that to a woman here. I want her to

say it to me. I can never remember who founded Montreal, whether it was Samuel de Champlain or Jacquet, but what a fucking idiot like I mean, we're only a six hour drive from New York that's comedian writer actress Trana Winter. We're at a restaurant called Lawrence, which is a fitting name. If this place was a human, it'd be that fancy kid who dresses like a carefree hemian Lawrence. I try and fail to tuck a napkin into my cashmere turtleneck.

Montreal winters are not glamorous. It's really hard to be glamorous. Sorry to be glamorous, like crampons on your boots. Yeah, oh, here we go, let's cheers. What do you say, salteea? But I love living here. Yeah. Here. It's the last remaining affordable North American metropolis. Um. I live in a one bedroom apartment like smack in the middle of everything, and it's six hundred dollars a month six hundred Canadian

so that's like four eighty Americans. Yeah. The other thing that I love about it is just there's just this sexy vibe and Montreal this pulse, this energy. But I don't fully know how to articulate, but it's here. I've been hornys it's the minute I live. There is this sensuality to it, There is this kind of verve, and I don't I just think like, oh, it's European, which is my catchall term for any kind of these. That's part of it. I think part of it too is just it is a diverse city, you know, but I

don't think that's special anymore. That's sort of seems to is that when I travel alone as a black woman, I feel like that's something that I notice right away if I feel comfortable or not right, and there are still some places where I just don't right for sure at all. Thank you on top you have a little salad of fresh hurricane Billy gals and coins. That's my

renated enjoying thank you just looks so good. Well, the things that I like about it, though, I feel like you're trying here, Like there's a cultural identity that people are not willing to just roll over and let things happen. Yeah, that's true, especially on the French side. French side is very much about protecting their culture. Actually just started to do comedy in French because I am bilingual. Is there different things that French people find funny? In Quebec Actually

there's something called Le Calm, which is comedy school. Basically. Okay, like nine percent of French or Francophone comedians in Quebec have gone through this school class one is like did you ever notice, right, yeah, freshman year, and so there is kind of like this uniformity in terms of comedy style. So also out of necessity, there is this Quebec star system, like Quebec has its own Hollywood that doesn't exist anywhere else because it can't exist anywhere else, it doesn't translate.

But now that I've started performing in French, it's like, that's become my new dream. You're gonna be a part of, like the Quebec Star system. I'm like that. My dream has always been to make it just so I can be a hasban. What's it called if you never did anything to be washed up? I never was, like I never Yeah, you're not as you're never gu So I got divorced five years ago and I met my ex

husband on an internet comic book forum in the late nineties. Wow, and he was like my best friend and he was part of my memory and my heart and I lost that and I lost all of my confidence. I have not been on a date or been in a relationship since then. I've had sex once, no, twice twice in the past four years. Oh really, Yeah, it's been very difficult to admit to myself that, like I'm interested now in being with someone in a real way again, like sharing my life with them. You're afraid to be We

think we all are vulnerable. Yeah, I don't have too vulnerability. I've known you for a while and we've pooped around and traveled a lot, like you do have an appetite for just like some freewheel and love through. I was sad a lot whatever Jim Hudson in the seventies. Why do you want to get laid? But also you're such a I don't know, you have such a nurturing instinct and you're you're I hear you're one. I don't know. I'm not there now of that instinct because I don't

want to take care of man. And it sucks that the result of that is that I might have to be alone because that bob is the thought of being alone bother you though, no me either. It doesn't bother me. It's only like when I want to get late and I can't. I don't know how people do it. It bothers me. It bothers me, it does yeah, um super in the cuddling, I like I like I like cooking breakfast half naked like that, I would really take care of my like, nah, huddling affection. No, how's your drink.

That's great, got some gin and some lime and some booze. It's good. It looks like I got colder outside in the time we were eating. I'm a little scared. Yeah, but you know Montreal, like even in like the most insane winter weather, you can always count on one asshole to be on their bike, still going. I'm telling you, in a blizzard, in a blizzard in the weather, let's be career street sweepers here, Like there's so much snow

so long. Absolutely, and as a warning before the plows come, they have these toe chucks driving around blaring this insane siren. Oh it's not a cop siren, it's not a fire truck, it's its own unit. It's a plows Far the fuck out of your siren. So what are you doing this weekend? What are the plans? Um? I mean, my weekends are always kind of up in the air. I'm as you know, I'm very noncommittal a party to go to. You're looking for a dinner party? I mean, I like you guys,

Let's play it by ear. Is that the name of your next comedy album? Maybe? Maybe? Yeah? Oh for two in our dinner party search, or rather point five for two since China did say maybe. Back at our lodgings, we brush our teeth, tuck ourselves in, and uploads like photos to Instagram. Eventually I drift off to sleep with dreams of six hundred dollars rent going through my head. Oh my god, let's get coffee. Whoa that is a style.

Guy's got like a slicked back, moosed ponytail. I mean it is morning, and I'm surprisingly still horny for a rontreal mosaba suble years. All right, you show me up. You speak French, I don't May I have one of these with the feta. Yeah, Rusty and I will have a latte in your largest to go cup. So today we're gonna go to the Jean to Lawn market, this food market with this woman Massam who's a food blogger, because you know, we gotta get our food for one

one gotta get it some snacks. But I was thinking to get started, we should go to Leonard Cohen's home because he's this city's like favorite son. Is it a museum now or that he's dead or is it just his house. It's not a museum, and it's kind of I'm not even one hundred percent positive where it is. It's like, I know it's on this park to Portugal. I don't know. I just think there might be a clue for me up there. Yeah. I mean, you have to go with your heart, go where your heart leads you.

My heart is leading me to get a massage on a boat, really, because I think it gets you into the spirit of well, I don't know. I was gonna bullshit something about how it gets you into the spirit of the city, but it's just entirely selfish and I like feeling good. All right, Well, I'm just gonna take off. I guess I feel weird abandoning you at this stage

of the game. Look, we're both adults. I'm gonna let you go stand outside, let her Cohen's house like a creep, and I'm gonna go get a massage, all right, Helena, how goes? And if you get arrested, I'll bail you out. Thank you. Excuse me, I'm looking for Leonard Cohen's house. A Cohen I'm looking for. Excuse me? Is it your first time here? Wonderful, well, welcome, very excited to see what a spa on a river has to offer. And it's so wonderful. I think it's like parked to Portugal

or something. Oh yeah, you just have to like keep walking a little bit, turned right and up a few blocks and me get all right. But there's not like a sign or anything that says that's where I used to live. No, no, no, okay, it's fucking freezing out here. This is one of our saunas Lord of ceiling windows. Looking over the port. This is unreal jacouzy hot tubs we call them ba. I cannot get over this. And this is filled with eucalyptus. Normally I want to live

in this. You're gonna head down to the first stack, can go for your musage. I'm ready. You're in the bathtub. Ah fuck, Oh my goodness. You're a very gentle touch. I'm going through the scar tissue, because we have scar

tissue that builds up in muscles that are oversolicited. You use your body in different ways in such a treme tempers and so I'm wondering if that contributes to you seeing certain types of ailments are over and over again, or what I see a lot of is definitely low back and more low back tension which crawls up front because we're huddled, you know, we're trying to keep ourselves warm, We're trying to keep centered so that we can navigate the ice and the snow and the slush and the

puddles and the roads. It's really the march of the penguins in the winter here, I mean, and you you're going to see that today, and your guys are going to giggle to yourselves and you say, yeah, there's the penguins. Yeah, I see them, you know. And it's because we're so afraid to fall like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in the mid night choir. I have tried in my way to be free. Thank you. Well, this

is it? Just a gray Stone one two three triplex, pretty non the script, you know, he's sang about religion and sex and poets and history, and it's weird just to see a gray house on a little park with a Honda Civic parked out front of it. I'm not really sure why I thought it was so important to come here. All right, it's icy, it's cold, and I think that's the bigel place he would go to. It's kind of strange to realize how powerful and healing touch can be because I don't I don't date, I don't

kind of like engage in that way anymore. And so I was alone for thirteen years after my divorce and I met I met someone. What I came to understand about myself is what stops me from dating is how well can I hide my wounds? Right? So, my you know, current partner and I we decided are the philosophy of our relationship is no masks, full disclosure. So I think it's about really deciding to have to have that level of honesty within yourself and the trusting. But when you've

had trauma, trust is so fragile. Yeah. So, so one of my my big trauma is that my mom left. She she dropped us off at my grandparents' house for a weekend and then never came back. And the person who's supposed to love you and conditionally leaves, and that will mess you up well because you're gonna always asking yourself what did I do wrong? Right? And will I do something wrong again? But what will I do to make someone leave? Because the assumption is that somebody will

always leave a lot of tension in your calves. Yeah, but you spoke of your herniated disks so often warm that up for you. So when you go out and do the March of the Penguins, you feel a little more ease in your body. Thank you, Lujenie. What are you up to this weekend? Because you know Brendon and I are in town and we're kind of looking for dinner parties. He's making me ask everyone if we can eat at their house. Basically, Oh, well, that's unfortunate. I

would love to normally have to meet at my house. However, I am going on from back. Um, could I just get a what would you order? Bagel? Bagel with locks? Ye? Mercy visiting town? How do you know? I'm visiting? Guidebooks? Kind of a giveaway? Let me guess. Larry Cohen's house. It doesn't even have a plaque. I just feel like if that was in America, there would be there would be an amusement park around, like a Suzanne roller coaster, like a Leonard Wood. Yeah, they would be selling like

my blue raincoats or something for toddler's right. Maybe that's a good idea an get out on that. Yeah, I'm Brendon. By the way, Brendan Francis knew, and I'm doing a travel podcast thing here. Oh okay, I'm Tim Kingsbury and I live in the neighborhood cool. I used to have this podcast you might have heard of called The Dinner Party Download. Well, I don't know that one, okay, yeah, I mean it was mostly America. Are you a fan of Cohen? Yeah, definitely, Like I moved here just to

play music myself. Actually, so you're a musician, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah right. Uh, what kind of hole does he have on? Kind of Montreal? Like some imagination, he's everywhere. There's like a big mural downtown since he since he passed away, and everyone's got a Leonard Cohen story or he's he's he's everywhere. Do you do you have a Leonard Cohen story? Uh? I used to work at a grocery store just down the road called Warshaw and I was like a bag boy there and he came in one time and bought

some bananas, just bananas. I think there were bagels too. That sounds very freudy, and actually that's what I imagined. Leonard Cohen. Yeah, no, he remember, he was he thought they were overpriced, and he was right. They were nice. Nice talking to you. I gotta get going. Oh, by the way, what what's the name of the band you're in? Arcade Fire? H is? Is there anything going on tonight? Uh? I think I'm actually getting out of town and I'm

gonna go up north. Um. Maybe are your friends doing it? Like? Are your friends doing anything like they out? Uh? Yeah, they're probably doing something there. We all thank you, thanks, thank you so much for driving us here. We're getting dropped off at the city's biggest food markets. So what should we eat there? Everything? You can't taste everything for free, in fact, and if you like it, you could buy it. Thank you. Maybe buying provisions for a dinner party will

deuce a dinner party. Maybe. So nice to meet you. Hey, I'm Danielle. Nice to meet you, may so. Welcome to the jan Talent Market. A lot of markets in North America these days have become sort of a tourist attraction. They sell a lot of stuff that's not really food. They sell T shirts and souvenirs and caps. Where's this market? It's just food, Although we might want to come up with the T shirt idea while we're here. And we can make some money. You can't ruin the spirit of

this place. That's so American. Jean Talon, No, no paved sound delicious. I'm addicted to it. Three of these. Yeah. MBA is most famous chocolate makers in Montreas. Get a jar of chocolate sauce. We're going to make friends. The four generations of Forgers. So his mother, his grandmother, and her mother before that organic honey. And actually we're standing right in front of one of my favorite stores, Vice Store. That's for you and your white people. Vice it up,

white folks, Let's do it. My Caron's with Foi gras inside. That seems like a French Stonor food. It's really really good. All right, take the whole trey with me. How about we buy something instead of you taking the sample tray? Can I do both? You have such a distinguished mark commenting on the gentleman's eye brow. Yeah, it's got a beautiful face. What are you doing later tonight? My friend is visiting. Then you have the tortier, which is a

typical meatpie in Quebecca. What is the quintessential food Montreal besides poutine, bagels, besides big maple anything? All right here, we go trying she's trying a maple tart. Oh yeah, that is incredible. Are you kidding me? What I need here? The pets, which literally translated is nun's farts? Why did I ask? Retract exact amos? See uh hi dough with butter and brown sugar and they put um some cream on the on top before cooking it. What does that have to do with nuns? I don't know. Why do

they call it? It was it was invented. It was created by nuns, like they were trying to find something to do with the leftovers. Nuns farts. That's so upsetting, but I appreciate it. I know I'm very sensitive. So Mazame, thank you so much for joining us the market. It's been fun hanging out with you. Now we've got all these snacks. Do you want to hang out with us? To name? We throw Donna party in our honor um.

Worst case scenario, you and me at our Airbnb. If we don't find a dinner party, I'm going to go out to a restaurant. I mean you hit on the cheese boy, you mean he hit on them. I said, I had an interesting face, and then you're like, what do you do on tonight he was into it La la. Though It's almost four pm and Montreal's winter sun is already beginning to set, and our prospects for a dinner party are dimming as well. Back at our place, things go from labad to the worse. Daniel's back seizes up

and she might have to abandon our mission altogether. As I sit at the kitchen table, nibbling on a nunfart, it strikes me it's going to take a miracle to turn things around. And where do miracles reside? Well, Mark Twain said when he visited Montreal, you couldn't throw a brick in this town without breaking a church window. I'm with Mark Elsworthy, an architecture buff who works with the local Ministry of Heritage. So right now we're in the

not Cadam the Bonsacle Chapel. It's the oldest in one of the oldest churches in Montreal looked dates to the nineteenth they called the Sailors Church. And my eye is going immediately to these wonderful boats that are hanging with candles. Yeah, there's even a cargo ship with containers on it. Oh, yeah, that is a cargo ship. And so they have two candles in each of them, green candles, like I kind of want to. I'm not going to steal them, but

I would hope not. But they feel like someone can't we instagram it and then start a shop that sells them. I don't know. I feel even bad taking pictures and churches. No, okay, you know a harbor town, it's considered usually a honky punk like red light district and certainly in the Prohibition. Montreal serve that role to this day, maybe with Americans. But there's so many churches. It's interesting that there's this.

Caebecers are interesting. On the census, they all still fell out that they're Roman Catholic and Quebeca has the lowest church attendants in Canada. Church is really tied into identity but not practice. Yeah, don't come to the church. They may have been for grandma's funeral a while back or maybe not, or you know, but no one does baptisms.

People don't get married in the church. M Are there any other facets of this chapel or that really that you're that you like or do you want to point out, well, we have to light a candle for someone, Oh my god, actually it should Okay, we could light a candle for back pain to go away. Yeah, for Danielle who's suffering a little bit. Okay, good thought. There we are. There, we are a moment. I usually only light candles a romantic dinners, but here it could lead to a romantic dinner.

Nobody knows they could. I just felt a pang of Catholic guilt I when I lit that candle. I did not light the candle for Danielle's back. I lit the candle because we need to find a place to eat tonight. Because the whole point of this show was for us to learn about the town, but then then get into someone's home to kind of have a true authentic experience. And so far, um, we've had a lot of people

are very friendly. But when I've asked him that question, they've you know, been like, oh, well, maybe contact us later. And I promised the company paying for this, then I'm going to get into someone's home. What do you think it's Saturday night? Even if you just let us in for ten minutes, could we just after lying in church? You want to come to my house, I'll confessing to you. And that's what I wished for when I let the candle. So if there is a god, you got me on

that one. Okay, Well, can I brought your phone and then I'll just call my husband? Okay, Um, I think I don't think. I love that you're paying roaming just a second. This is Penance. Hello, Um the GISTI eskirt bounskabis opa my meth playing vain. Let's okay, okay, bye? So you have to do the dishes and bring wine? Are you serious? Yeah? He's down. Well I didn't really give him much choice. Yes, thank you so much. This is amazing. Hello, come on in? Are you Mark? I

am welcome? Hello? Are you should I just throw this? He thanks so much for showing you. I am trying. Have you met Louis whose beautiful house half of a couple of his? Hello, she's the place I really didn't think any one we talked to today was gonna come. I love a surprise. We're doing someone sure, triple Gemini like Highlie Minogue sculptor who who was also dating the

Leonard Cohens. There are Francophone community elsewhere in Canada that we bought that the Quebec class store where Danielle hit on the cheese mon America very handsome. Everyone's handsome like you were drinking the Peanot noir right eye for me. Okay, just doesn't really get more montreal than like listening to Sleen after like a dinner party. Someone didn't pay their titles. Never leaving is what I'm learning to this podcast. Thank

you for letting us loud enough. Okay, the chorus is literally just by as play as so you can both stick along already hit it rale le bas By. This should be your theme song by Where's driving? But you can walk up as well. Oh yeah, I mean it's a bit cold, and yeah, you gotta be caught entering. I mean we're also we're also to be fair hungover right now that that doesn't help. But this street will wind us up to the top of the mountain. And do people actually come to Mount Royal who live here

love it it is? I guess would be like our central Park, but it's on a mountain. People are cross country ski yeah, show snowshoeing. We have a skating rink on the top. Now we're looking to the east side of the city, but a lookout is that way? Okay, okay, be careful on the ice. Oh look at that I've never seen a snowshoe in action. Oh yeah, what a weekend like that. We did a lot. We did a lot, but we were talking about coming as we're coming into the city, kind of like our love lives and romance

and all this stuff. And I think I'm much more likely to fall in love with a place than I am with a person. That's interesting there, it is, there's a city that you love. We're looking at the downtown, the Saint Lawrence River. Look at Letter Cohen down there. You see him. Yeah, there's literally a mural of letter going down there. Oh my god, I thought you saw an operation when I was at that Letter Cohne house, which I honestly did meet a member of Arcade Fire.

You have to believe me. I don't. But it's fine. I'll play you the tape later if you need that story to get through the weekend. That's fine being there, honestly, Like, I'm glad I saw the house, but actually the fact that it was really not that exciting an anticlimactic in

the sense that it was just someone's home. This is gonna sound corny, but obviously I've been thinking a lot about like being an artist or being more creative with my old show ending, and there's no magical properties to it, Like even Leonard Cohen just lived in a house and bought bananas, And it's more about just doing the work and getting it into the world, you know. But it's not like me living a certain way will make me Leonard Cohen or something that's always been the key though

you know that well. I mean, I'm just pretending to learn it now for the show. I think it is crazy that Leonard Cohen is staring directly at us. I think it's crazy that you thought I was talking about a ghost. Honestly, we didn't go over this, but marijuana is legal here now and last night did run pretty long, no comment. You know what I think about when I look in the skyline now, boyash Boy, you are not only cheating voyage boy, but you're singing it really poorly.

Boyash Boy, I'm gonna walk that way. I feel free here. No, I think we'll just fade that the real song into my singing and people won't notice it. Fun Boy thinks you're singing a totally different song. I think it's only going to try to find the lead producer on this. The pilot episode of Not Lost was the talented Crystal Duhaime. The show was also produced and written by Me Brendon Francis Newnham. Our associate producer was Jackson Musker. Special editorial

guidance came from Europert Wintock. The show was sound designed and mixed by Crystal Duhaime and mastered by Hannas Brown. A big thanks to my friend and this episode's travel partner, Daniel Henderson. I highly recommend you check out her memoir The Ugly Cry. Not Lost as a co production of Pushkin Industries, Topic Studios and iHeartMedia, and was developed at Topic Studios. The show's executive producers are me Christy Gressman,

Maria Zuckerman, Lisa Langang, and Latomullott. Production assistance on this episode also came from Jacob Smith, Amy Gaines and Julia Barton. Our theme song was created by Alexis Georgiopolis aka arp Voyage. Voyage appeared courtesy of Desireless. Note this show was recorded before the pandemic, so a big mercy to everyone we met up with in Montreal. Writer Heather O'Neill, whose new book When We Lost Our Heads is out now. Comedian

Tranto Winter the staff at Bota Bota Spa. Tim Kingsbury of Arcade Fire fact check that one and he wasn't lying. Also food blogger Maysam Samaha and our dinner party host Mark and Louie. If you want to peek at our tinerary or learn about any of our guests, head to not Lawshow dot com. And if anyone from the Canadian government is listening to this and they have the power to grammy citizenship being touched. Oh and here's a trip we'd like you to take from the comfort of your

own phone or computer. Please head to Apple Podcasts and rate and review us. I knew you hear it a lot, but it's a real thing. It would mean so much. Learn more about Topic Studios at topic studios dot com. To find more Pushkin podcasts, listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm Brendan Francis Nunham. Until next time, bon voyage.