Ice Ice Baby

This feels really weird. I don't know if you have the exact same feeling Sebastian, but I kind of feel like when I was a kid. When I was like 11, 12 years old and you knew there's going to be like a huge no storm and all the adults freaking out, but all the kids were so happy.

Because it meant no school, it meant a day off and it just meant that it was just going to be a special day and I feel like today is one of those absolutely welcome to a brand new episode of Men of the Alley.

It's Patrick and Sebastian on Idobi Radio for a brand new episode of Men of the Alley. Let's give the people some context here.

Yes, because it's pretty important. The show airs at 8 p.m. on Idobi Radio and we try to stay as close to that as possible, right?

Often times we're alive at 8 p.m. and sometimes well because of Sebastian's travels with simple plan, we need to change the schedule a little bit and yesterday we kind of had an emergency meeting because right now in Montreal on the east coast of Canada, everyone is freaking out.

Literally, you cannot open the newspapers, open the radio. Everyone is talking about this ginormous ice storm that is coming and looming with this ice storm is the very real possibility of a bunch of power outages.

That's the thing. So that's why we had to get on Mike this morning. So Wednesday morning and it started. There's ice outside. The cars are already covered. The trees are starting to get there. It's slippery.

And we're kind of just like bacon sure we get through this episode without the lights turning off.

And already it's been a weird morning because you know, I was talking about that excitement when you're a kid when you know that you're going to have a day off.

So yesterday all the schools announced preemptively that they're all going to be closed, right?

Buses aren't going out on the road. We're not going to risk everyone's safety.

I think that's the main thing, right? That's the main reason why schools would close is because of the buses, the kids that take the bus to school.

Because I think I think like most of the private school that don't offer bus services might be open. And there's going to be they're just they're just they're just good.

Are they all close today? What's going on? Do you know this? I from from when I know everything's closed. So both my kids at school.

My wife is a teacher. So everyone's off. And so in this kind of like excitement of like, yo, storm Wednesday.

My daughter last night was like, can I have a sleepover? And I was like, sure. And now you see this thing behind me.

Well, most of you can't, but Sebastian can. Yeah. What is that? What does that look like to you? That looks like a big, big dresser.

But I believe it's one of your nifty crafty Murphy beds. That's right. And so there's a bed in my studio. But it usually looks like a dresser.

And once in a while, if we have guests, well, it turns into a little bit of a guest room. It's not the best guest room in the world, but that's how we like it.

You know, don't get too comfortable. You can stay over, but you're not sticking around all that long.

And so it woke up and and juju and her girlfriend. They were in here and I was like, hey, no, no, no, no, get the mozion out of here.

And so I had to kick them out very quickly so that we could. So we you're going with this. And it's funny.

I did as most people do at woke up. And first thing I did is go scroll the Instagram.

And it's funny because it's a weird feeling of like everyone being home. And because of the power outages, my wife last night was like, you should probably go buy some food, just like things that we can do without power.

Just in case. Yeah. And I was like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah. That's a good point. And so it felt a little bit like like pre-dooms day.

And then I wake up and I see that literally exactly six years ago, March 11th, 2020 is when we declared the pandemic.

Oh, no way. Yeah. Like to the tea, right? And I was like, yeah, it's funny. I mean, obviously completely different contacts, but it kind of feels the same thing.

Like having the kids in the morning and just like everyone, I don't know, there's something, right? There's something in the air when you get these storms.

And contrary to like a snowstorm where you would get a snow, they were everybody would be outside playing, sledding, building forts and snowmen.

And now it's like it kind of like don't go outside, stay in your house, type of deal. And I remember it was at this point, I think three years ago, because the last ice storm that we got was 23.

And we were out of power and we came over to your house for a sleepover.

And if it happens again, you're more than welcome.

You see that thing behind me? Yeah. Well, you guys can't see it, but Sebastian can. What does that look like to you?

And in a twisted turn of events, in a twisted turn of events, as soon as we're done with this show, this had nothing to do with this specific ice storm.

We're just like the general concept of that.

There's a team of a very specialized electricians that are coming over to install batteries at my house for that specific purpose.

For power out of purposes. So like these people are coming over about an hour.

Like a generator?

Yeah, but like it's basically a battery. So your house is connected to battery and you manage it as you would your phone battery.

So if I turn everything on, it'll last a day. If I don't turn anything on, it can last many days.

So I'm getting that installed like basically, yeah, in the next hour.

So hopefully those batteries come slightly charged.

Just like when you get a new phone, it's like might be at 60%.

So I'm kind of hoping for that.

And they haven't canceled on you yet. They have not.

So everything's been canceled. Like everything that's been in my life on this Wednesday is canceled.

It's like, no, we're not doing, not doing anything.

Ice storm, ice storm, ice storm.

Yeah, so they have not canceled.

Now mind you, I'm talking to you right now. My phone's on silent.

They might be calling me repeatedly right now as we speak.

Try and cancel.

But and if they do, what am I going to do?

Tell them to come away.

It's like riddle me this. There's a difference then between a generator and this like battery that you're installing.

Yes, generator generates power.

Yeah.

Am I right?

Yes.

Okay.

So basically these batteries are just, they're, let's say that they're an empty battery.

You plug them to your house system.

Yes.

And so, you know, here we have Hydro Quebec.

And so the power company powers it like it would, you know, power your laptop.

And then you just have like X amount of hours of juice.

It's exactly the laptop is the perfect analogy.

When your laptop's plugged in, it's plugged in.

As soon as you unplug it, it doesn't turn off.

It keeps going until the battery dies.

And that's it.

Yeah.

So basically I would, I'm connecting little less than half of my house to it because you don't need your water heater.

I don't need my oven to keep going.

I'm not going to do a lot of laundry while the power is out.

So I'm sort of, I'm going to have to manage my own battery my own way.

But that's sort of what it is.

So as soon as the, as soon as the power goes out, like there's no glitch, it just keeps running on the battery.

And then this is cheaper than a generator I take it.

Probably not.

But if, let's say you're on vacation, you would have to get your, nope, sorry.

My cat keeps playing with my phone.

Yeah.

So that's, you know what?

That's great radio for you.

Specifically said, I specifically said there should be a no cat episode.

There's, there's not that I can do.

They go where the fun is.

And obviously this episode is already super fun.

So basically, basically, you kind of just have to manage your own thing.

So no, probably no, no drawing, no oven going as the power.

Like you kind of do it the right way to make sure that your battery lasts as long as you can.

As you would, if you, if you're on vacation and you're like, oh man, my phone is dying.

You're not suddenly going to start editing movies on your phone.

Right.

Yeah.

Sure.

You're going to put it on battery saver mode.

Interesting.

Are you, this was done like preemptively, right?

Like you know that there was a nice storm coming.

This was just already planned.

Are you someone who gets into a bit of like freaking out mode?

Like this week, I almost bought a generator.

Okay.

Because everyone was talking about this ice storm.

And my logic was this, I started like shopping them around.

And I was like, how about how about I do this?

If there's a nice storm or there is, but if the ice storm has a bunch of power outages left

and right, people are going to be jumping at these generators.

Yes.

So I looked at the like hardware store by my house.

And there was one on sale.

And there's like one left in stock.

And I was like, why don't I just go buy it?

And if I don't need it, I'll return it.

And if I do need it, then I'll have it.

And then my wife called me like a Doomsday Crazy Man.

Yeah, it's the prepper instinct, right?

Yeah.

And so I was like, yeah, okay, maybe not.

And then actually the reason I didn't go the real reason is that there's a pretty hefty ice storm over the holidays here where we live.

Yes.

And so some of the experts were saying we just got a nice storm.

A lot of the more fragile branches and trees have already been like broken and cut off.

Like the December ice storm kind of like cleaned out a lot of a lot of the crap that causes power outages, right?

Yes.

Because most often it's a branch falling on a circuit.

Yeah.

Power line, thank you.

And he's like, and plus at this time of year, there's no leaves yet in the trees.

There's no snow on the trees.

And so, you know, sure, you know, icy rain is heavy.

But not as heavy as if they're released, for example, right?

Like you can get a nice storm in November.

And there's still a bunch of leaves on the trees.

And it always makes it a lot heavier.

And I was like, okay, you know what?

I'm not going to go crazy.

I'm not going to go by a generator.

But are you one that kind of goes like Kuku?

Like we need to prep for this.

Like I've got ramen in the basement for three weeks.

Not at all.

So the freezers, because there's a downstairs freezer and the regular freezers at my house, they're kind of always full.

So there is food to be eaten.

I will.

I got back from Disney last night, but riddle me this.

This is freezer food, and you're in a house with no electricity.

How do you barbecue?

No, no, no.

Okay.

So my stove top is gas powered.

So that's like see that's a click away from just warming everything up here.

Yeah.

Lifestyles.

Yeah, that's it.

Yeah.

I'm so sorry.

But I got back from Disney last night.

People are so stupid.

People are like, oh, there's a power outage.

What do I do?

Seb's like, just use your gas.

Gas too.

Or go to your second house.

I still have that cottage.

Obviously it's going to be very dangerous to get on the roads.

But I could go to the cottage if the power outage lasted my battery is empty.

But all that to say that I did get back from Disney last night.

Yes.

We were away for four days.

So there's like no like people would say there's no food in the fridge.

Like there's no veggies.

There's no leftover fruit.

Like we're kind of out of that stuff.

And you didn't go yesterday in preparation for the.

I did not.

But I'm going to have to go.

I think it's open.

Yeah.

It's open.

Everything's canceled.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, we'll just see what happens.

Listen, you touched on it.

And obviously this was going to be an episode where I wanted you to do a little bit of a recap on this Disney adventure of yours.

And so let's get into some music.

And after I want to hear everything.

How is Mickey?

It was Donald Naughty again.

I want to hear the whole shabang.

Beautiful.

Okay.

So this one is Royals.

Talk about it.

And it's right here on Man of the Hour.

And I don't be radio.

You say you want to talk about it.

Yes, we'll go another round.

You're the reason.

All we do is scream and shout.

I miss the warning signs.

Thought that it felt right there.

Oh.

Oh.

You won't talk about it now.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

I kind of felt like yesterday you were blowing up my phone.

You won't admit that you were wrong.

I've heard it all before.

Keep going on and on.

You never let things go.

The last word is all you want.

You're the first to let me know.

I'm always wrong.

You say you want to talk about it.

Yes, we'll go another round.

You're the reason.

All we do is scream and shout.

I miss the warning signs.

Thought that it felt right there.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

You won't talk about it now.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

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Oh.

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TheAlmodes Advisor,

Oh.

I want to go give another day at each other's throat.

But walking on excels are you give me a monetize.

If this goes on and on.

The cracks will start to show.

I've got a choice.

The name is it's time to let this go.

You're always wrong.

You say you want to talk about it.

Yes, we'll go a round.

You're the reason.

You scream and shout, I miss the warning signs

Like that in self, right in the open world

You won't talk about it, so you will have to say

Put you in hell, but I'll bring it into town now

I don't know how long I can keep up with this

If you keep going on and on and on

Don't fall in, fall in, fall in love

It goes on, fall in, fall in, fall in love

It goes on, fall in, fall in love

Listen to this and suffer

But it's a complaint? You say you wanna

I talk about it, guess we're going on around

You're the reason, oh we do you scream and shout

I miss the world inside

I thought that it felt right

But now, oh, oh, oh, oh

But you take the water

And talk about it inside

Just to go in there

You're the reason

All you do is scream and shout

I miss the world inside

I thought that it felt right

But now, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

You won't talk about it

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Dude, stop staring Sebastian

You can just ask

Yes, this is Kashmir

Yes, it's super comfortable

And yes, it's elevating my style

Quite a bit

I don't know why you're just not

We're friends

You can, these are questions

We can ask each other

Don't worry about it

I saw you did the 90s thing

That is pretty sweet

You know what?

It's funny

You probably saw this trend this week

It was like all these 90s TV stars

Doing like

This trend called

Hey, dad, how were you in the 90s

And then you would see that text on the screen

And then you would see

Them from back in the day

And it was all these 90s stars

People from Full House

And people from

Home Improvement

And people from 90210

And I was like

Well, I'm not a

I'm not a

I'm a 90s star

But you were alive in the 90s

Yes, that's a good point

But I just didn't want to jump on a trend

Like imagine if it's like

All professional hockey players

They're gonna trend

And I'm like

Yep, I'm in

What up

Who is this guy?

But then I started seeing

Just normal people do it

And I was like

Oh, you know what?

It just, honestly

It peaked my curiosity

As to like which 90s pictures

I had in my phone

Right?

I didn't go on a scavenger hunt

Like going back into old albums

And I had a fair amount

And I was like

Okay, I could do this

This is kind of cool

And so these trends are always like a fun little exercise

I find

And so I did it

It was awesome

You know, it's very, very weird

Because I have such a documented life starting

When you joined the crew

And the band

And all of that

When you joined our outourage

And I don't know if it's because

I may have a little

Something to do with that

Of course

But like prior to that

And I don't know if it's because

Myself included

And all my friends

Nobody had money, nobody had

Money to buy cameras

Or if our parents

Because were divorced

Like everybody kind of lived in the moment

But unless we were on vacation

There's like hardly any pictures of me

And this was sort of a

Not an issue

But it was kind of like a weird thing

When we were making the simple plan documentary

And when we were making the simple plan book

Many years ago

Like, okay, can you find pictures of you as a teenager?

I'm like

I can't

Like I've got these like four

Maybe four pictures of me

Like holding a guitar

That have been circling

You know

And then the rest

The rest is like

Family pictures

I'm not just going to throw that in there

Like they're kind of irrelevant to the story

But yeah, so I don't have that many

And then obviously in contrast

Arkids

Oh my god

So documented

You know, we walk around with cameras in our pockets

And it's a

It's a good thing

You know, my daughter feels like

She remembers being 18 months old

Which makes no sense

You know, because she's seen the images in the videos

But I still can't remember that

Yeah, exactly

I do want to ask you

Before we get into the whole Disney thing

Because last we spoke was like kind of like in the middle of spring break

It was right before I left

And I think the weather was quite, quite nice

Quite gorgeous, it was still cold, but we got some

I did some of my best snowboarding ever

We got one of those beautiful day

Where like just like

You know, like a couple inches of powder

Maybe 10 centimeters that just fall in

And the packing underneath was hard and nice and perfect

And I got some beautiful snowboarding done

Like minus five degrees, which is ideal

And then obviously we did Disney

But how did your spring break finish?

My spring break was actually really, really good

We have like, there's a family cottage

That we went to, but it's pretty far from any skiing hills

And so our plan was like

We're going to go to the cottage for like a long weekend

Like Friday, Saturdays, Sunday, whatever

Right

And then we're like, let's come back down to the city

Yeah

And then go skiing in a couple of days

And then we'll go back up to the cottage and we got there

And we weren't with Ben

And I'll tell you why in a minute

But and so we were alone with Juju

And she's the first one who said like

Hey guys, why don't we just stay here

It's so nice, it's calm, it's chill

And we were like

Yeah, yeah

If you're not bored

And but she said this like pretty early onset

And so we're like, look, let's see what's what on Monday

If we want to go down and go skiing, we can

And if we don't, we didn't pack for for a full week

But I mean, there's a washer dryer

Like yeah

You like the sweater?

I'll be wearing it a lot

Thank God, it's cashmere

And so you come feet

I'm going to be plugging that a lot

I've never had a nice cashmere sweater

And here I am, 45 years old

Beautiful

I don't know why I waited so long, by the way

And so we ended up just staying at the cottage

We went sledding, we went skating

We went snowshoeing

We did a whole lot of nothing

We played a lot of games

And so it was super, super chill

And we did a lot of missing Ben

Because he wasn't there

Because he had the probably one of the best weeks of his life

Thanks to my parents

Who decided to take him on vacation

And take him to London

Whoa

A week

Yeah

And so he, you know, Ben

Turning 15 in a couple of days

Such a nice age to go spend a week with his grandparents

Look, my parents aren't getting any younger

They're in great shape

But my dad is 83, right?

And so, you know, it's

Sooner or later

Traveling with a 15 year old

Is like not the best thing, right?

He's still

He's still in good enough shape

And I think he will be for a long time

Honestly, he takes such good care of his health

But still, like at one point, it's like

You know, you don't want to be in charge of a kid

You take those opportunities when they come

If he says I want to travel with your son, you said

Yes, dad, take him

100%

Yep

And it's funny, my stepmom yesterday

Was she was saying it's funny with Benjamin

We don't need to take a single picture

Because he takes so many

And we have so many good shots from her vacation

And I was like, yep, that's the one

He takes a bunch of pictures

And so he absolutely loved it

London was one of his like dream destinations

Really? Why?

Yeah

Well, I think it stems from him listening to a lot of UK rap

Amazing, okay, of course, make sense

And then just through that

You know, being a bit more in tune with the culture

And the spots and just everything

It's a great city, right?

Obviously

Of all the major cities in the world

Why?

It's more like how it has London peaked the interest of a 15 year old

You know

Yeah

I mean, it's probably just like in popular culture

Like if you had to name the five cities that like must go

You would name Paris

You would name Paris London

Probably LA, maybe Tokyo

Yeah

Right, like there's these cities that just have that aura

To them that are usually like the first destinations

And once you've crossed off that list

You kind of go to like, okay, well now I would love to go to Singapore

Right

Like Singapore is not first

Usually, although Singapore is super nice

Singapore is amazing, but yeah, I understand what you're saying

Yeah

And so, no, they had a really really really cool week

And it's funny, they came back and I was like, oh, so cool for Ben

But then part of me was also like, so cool for my parents

So cool for my parents

It has to have been like a mutually beneficial trip

And I was looking at the stats funny enough

It is mutually beneficial for grandkids to spend time with their grandparents

It apparently like calms kids a lot because I guess grandparents aren't as high strong

Right, like they're not in the rat race

And it's not like, let's go go go back your bag, get your lunch box

Like it's not as stressful life with grandparents

Yeah, well anything's different kid

Anything that anybody that's not your parent will have a much different dynamic of course

So the familiarity of a grandparent is and the fact that it's not your parent

And they trust them completely obviously, so that's that's beautiful

And there's a bunch of studies also on grandparents taking care of their grandkids

Now, I'm not going to qualify this as them like taking care of Ben

Right, it's not like they pick him up after school every day

But grandparents who take care of their grandkids a whole lot

Are a lot sharper in a bunch of different tests because basically like your cognitive skills

Don't go down as quickly because you're still using them

Right, of course, yeah, that makes sense

So mutually beneficial and so a great trip

And I forced them all to go to Wimbledon because they offer like tours

When the tournament isn't on

And I was like, if you guys are in London, you guys need to go to Wimbledon

You guys need to go

And they went on a beautiful sunny day, 17 degrees Celsius

And they make you tour the space

And there's like a guide talking about the tournament and the history

And they're like, honestly, what a cool suggestion, it was really, really fun

And I was like, yeah, you should try to go when there's some tennis now

No, that's your thing

Yeah, exactly

That is your thing

Okay, I'll be there

Yeah, of course you will

You'll be there this summer at Wimbledon

No, I'm going to the other way

The other way

I'm going to both, I'm going to Renan Garras, the French Open

Yeah, of course

Where you play on Red Clay

Yeah

And I got this Red Clay-colored

Beautiful

And then I'm going to Wimbledon, I'll swing July

It's just stupid

I have a horseshoe at my ass

And it's a ballot, right?

You need to win the ballot

And I've won the ballot again

And so people wait 20 years to win the ballot once

I have won it two years in a row

And so I'm going with my mom

It's going to be the trip of a lifetime for her

And that's beautiful, man

After that, I'm going to keep joining the ballot

But I really can't see myself winning three years in a row

That makes no sense

You're the second person in the span of a couple days

That has planned trips with their parents

People are aged that are traveling with their parents

And obviously, okay, so now that we're on the Disney thing

We've been extremely fortunate to have passed

Yeah, should we talk about the Disney thing after the song?

Yes, okay, sure, yeah, let's do it, okay

We're sorry, we're sorry

You know what? Blame the ice storm

We completely veered off track

I really apologize, I believe it may be my fault

But it's a bad with simple plan

I forget how many years running now

Oh, man

After the song has been going to Walt Disney World

It's become this really cool band tradition

And he's going to tell us about it after the song

This is Lolo

It's a brand new song called 007

And it's right here on Man in the Hour

And I don't be radio

It's double as heaven

Got a license to kill

I bet you blow it all up

Just for the day

Your lips are a whipping

But I'm kissing and still

You say you won't break my heart

But I know that you will

I spy with my little eye

My tall dark and handsome demise

And you say you want to look good guys

Yeah, right

You like it

You're not scared

It tastes like I'm going to get hurt

It feels like I'm sleeping

You're too short

Till tonight

You'll write a match

Then walk away

Like you

Couldn't kill it

It's nothing as you may

So I bet

Kissing and smile

Right off your face

I know you're actually a group

But I'm on to you

Yeah, I'm on to you

Baby, double as heaven

Got a license to kill

I bet you blow it all up

Just for the day

Your lips are a whipping

But I'm kissing and still

You say you won't break my heart

But I know that you will

I'm on to you

I'm on to you

I'm on to you

Baby, I'm on to you

I'm on to you

I'm on to you

Baby, you're lonely as I distract

But I know you're inside

You'll take me out with no worries

Thinking it's so undercover

You're just like all the others

You'll play me like your favorite sport

You'll write a match

Then walk away

Like you

Couldn't kill it

It's nothing as you may

So I bet

Kissing and smile

Right off your face

I know you're actually a group

But I'm on to you

Yeah, I'm on to you

Baby, you're double or seven

Got a license to kill

I bet you blow it all up

Just for the day

Your lips are a whipping

But I'm kissing and still

You say you won't break my heart

But I know that you will

I'm on to you

I'm on to you

I'm on to you

Baby

I'm on to you

I'm on to you

I'm on to you

Baby

I'm on to you

I'm on to you

Baby

I'm on to you

I'm on to you

I'm on to you

I'm on to you

Baby

I'm on to you

I'm on to you

But I'm on to you

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Fresh Off

A pretty cool trip

That you may have seen on social media

Where him & his rock outfits

Simple plan

Pretty much every year

There's been going toSC

Walt Disney World

How many years is running

But but but seven years running maybe but not seven years total because I've been with you guys

Yeah, like and this was this was 18 years ago. Yeah, so

2004 I think yes 2004. I believe it was the first time we played grad night

Yeah, and we play that twice and then since then Disney decided that it might not be the best idea to have high school students

Stay out till 3 a.m. On park grounds, which I believe was a smart idea

So they kids get a little goofy. I thought

Sure do

But now they it's they there's a there's a stage in front of the American

Pavilion at upcott center and they have bands throughout their year that keep going going going

So we started doing this many years ago now

It turned into not only a tradition like you were saying but like kind of like a main event like every single performance

Has is I'm not gonna say sold out but it's full and there's people like outside the room watching

In and just walking by and stopping to watch the band like it's it's kind of really fun

And we are extremely spoiled and grateful for Disney for giving us this this opportunity and

We each get a guide. So we've got that VIP thing where they drive you around in a van

You can skip the line. You can do as many rises you want as many times as you want and

It's a it's it's that's I mean it's the next level luxury as far as theme parks go and it's something that by the way is

Is is something that anyone can purchase?

Of course, you can go you can go to Disney and say I want a guide takes you everywhere

He makes you cut every single line. Yeah, but it's just it's just pretty damn expensive and so it's it's a nice little perk as

As the headliner of the show to say like yes, you get a guide. I call it a dog personally because I don't know if you remember

He still comes to the shows. There's need out of town. We see him like we didn't see this year

We saw him last year. Disney Doug. Yeah, he's he's just saying out because Doug was one of of these VIP guides

20 years ago that that took us around a little bit. Wait wait wait. Hey, this is gonna be super useless for everyone else, but what does he do now?

I think he's not a guide still no, I believe for the longest time we still involved in the in the corporation

Now I believe he does events for a different company

So that that's that's where we're at with that

Sorry, these are the kinds of questions I need to have with Sebastian off air

I'm gonna bring it back to what we're talking about before and then we're gonna bring it back to the ice star

No, so traveling with your parents. So this year. Yeah, my sister

Came with us with her husband and son my nephew

And we were going around my sister as has been to Disney since we were kids

But we had not been to Disney at Disney together for the past 30 years

My parents had a trailer that that got pulled behind their minivan

And for about like five years in a row when we were young kids up until we were teenagers

Every other year I would say we would drive from Montreal to Florida during spring break and spend the week at Disney

Which is crazy it is crazy, especially if it's not a tour bus that you can hang out at we were in the minivan for 30 hours

30 hours that's what I was gonna say like people need to understand like how far those two

Yeah, and then so they would drive they would do it in two days usually sometimes the first day be in the longer day

Maybe like a 16 hour travel day or like a little bit more and then the remainder of like you know seven eight hours

And then we would get there and we would park at the campground so obviously you save you save all the money on flights

And you save all the money on hotels campgrounds were about I don't know 60 bucks a day back then anyways

And I think one of our one of our our crew person used to go to Disney as a kid and their parents found a ticket for Magic Kingdom

From the late 80s. That was like 37 dollars

Anyways, that's not the prices anymore. So so while we were there

Going around with my sister with this tour guide. I turn to her and I'm like do you think mom would like this?

Do you think mom would enjoy doing Disney this way while she's can still walk my dad can't walk long distances anymore

So that's a no-no for him like a trip where you have to visit a lot of places doesn't work for him anymore

So now I got my mom left on my okay

Maybe mom would come down and enjoy Disney

But like she wouldn't do any of the thrill rides of course, which is what Clare enjoys

But she could do it's a small world after all over and over again absolutely and and and so like I was just thinking about you know kids traveling with a

Grandparents grandparents and I think that would be

I think that would be lovely if I if I if I managed to figure out a way to take my parents on one of these trips whether it's a Disney one

Whether it's a it's a future family one

But as you as you know and or might understand like our I'm away from home quite a bit

So whenever whenever we plan family trips

It's it's the three of us and we want to make sure we spend the time together

So it's very rare that we add on more people to these trips

So it's it's never occurred to me until recently's like I should have done this

But I still have some time to do this so traveling with grandparents. I'm I'm in I think it's cool. Yeah

It's a it's a good time to do it and

And you know on the flip side too like my my parents look obviously the they are the ones who invited Ben

And so they have they're at a place in their life where like you know they've planned accordingly

They can spend some money on a trip on a nice trip right? It's like you know once you're 83

There's unfortunately a little bit less in front than than behind you

And so just that part's been pretty cool. Yeah, okay

Back on the ice storm. So

We're we're we're assuming that we'll kind of stay in inside for the rest of the day

I'm lucky enough that I have a grocery store that's walking distance

That's supposed to be open today. It's oh so it's skating distance. Yeah, so he's

I think it's just about to be skating distance because there's already a little thin layer of ice everywhere

100% I just before this and look mind you it's like 8 a.m. Here on the east coast

I went outside to

It's funny. I had a bag of salt. Yeah, but it was like at the end of the driveway

And I was like I should probably put it by the door that way I can

I can put salt on my way to the car right exactly and so I went I went out and it was already like super slippery

Yeah, okay, so so my question to you is this and this is one of those like beautiful would you rather right?

Okay, yes, I love those okay, so right now, you know

It could be it could be different context but for this specific reason in my scenario

You are confined to your house and let's say to your house in backyard for the rest of your life

Yep, this is scenario when you are you have to stay in your house or your backyard for the rest of your life

And your your family can go go as they please work go to school do all that

But you Patrick have to stay in your house or your backyard for the rest of your life and the trade-off is

You're like you're good you won't have to you know you won't have to worry about money

Whatever situation you're in now like whatever your level of lifestyle is now you can keep that forever

You know you'll have food on the table forever

You know your bills are paid forever everybody is fulfilled in their job and order things from

Order things as much as you want you just cannot ever go anywhere. You're not the guy running errands

You can order you're not if you need some fix you call someone you know to come and fix it obviously and and all of that

Would you take would you take that deal if you knew it meant your family's fine forever financially

Security is fine. You know your house won't burn down in this scenario. Let's let's let's make it. Let's make it appealing

Yeah, you know like you won't get flooded. Yeah, they give me one

So it's only me who's confined to that I'm basically I'm basically okay. You're you're a prisoner in a scenario

You're drawn out a scenario where I was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and the judge was nice and said that I could do

I could do like house confinement instead of jail

Yes, but we're throwing a bone your way meaning like you know like they're

Yeah, but well, but either bunch of money or but a bunch of money you could spend it but then the scenario like

You won't run out is what I'm saying. You're fine. You're good. I don't change the houses. You're not you know, no

I love honestly. I love my house. I love my backyard. I like if you would told me like

Oh, you know, it's like a pandemic situation where I need to be stuck here

I'd be like yeah, honestly the house is fine and it's cool. Yeah, but I'd have a real hard time at 45 years old saying that I'm never gonna travel

You know like yeah case in point like I'm never gonna travel with my grandkids ever. I'm not gonna go to London with my my 15-year-old grandson

You would need to be throwing a substantial amount of generational wealth my way

For me to make that sacrifice where I'm like okay. I'm gonna say yes to this only because it means

You know lifelong security for multiple generations coming down and so I will put myself in in you know world jail

Yes, even though it's a nice. It's a nice one like you said

Um, but you give me a hundred million dollars and it's like I know that like things are fine

And I can bring the world to me like you know, if I want to see me talika in concert

Maybe I can book them in my backyard

Sure, if you give me if you give me like that's like a stupid amount of money

Then maybe I'd say yes, but otherwise I'm way too young to

Put myself in that situation, right like I feel like I can make money other ways and so you know

Um

Basically the question is he is is money, right? It's only that I might that that might be what it comes down to but but also

I think there's a little component of

Are you the type of person that

Will make do are you the type of person that's just like so happy when he's home that he's like yeah

Cuz there's a big side of me that's like that. So that's where the question comes from like I love being here

So but but but I'm with you

But you love being there only because you haven't been for so long right like obviously that place is really question of

Yeah, it's it's a grasses greener situation for you where you know

We have this conversation 12 years down the road and you haven't left your house in 12 years

You're wearing shoe boxes as shoes

You know, it might be a bit different where you're like yeah, I'm kind of getting

And see you so you're you're saying the fashion has evolved to a point where shoe boxers as shoes is now the new way to be cool

I can order shoes. It's a it's a very very deep and dark simpsons reference where mr. Burns becomes a bit crazy and he's

He's basically like a Howard Hughes

um

Like joke where he becomes a germaphobe crazy and he's wearing shoe boxes

Remember that

Oh my god, what a great episode

Yeah, so there's a very look

Um, yeah, that's why I said that but no, I think you go fucking crazy a bit like yeah

I want to go out running in the world sometimes like I want to do sports right like I can't do sports at my house

Yeah, that's right. I can I can get a gym and a treadmill. Okay cool, but I can never play tennis ever again

Uh, in the winter, I guess I could I could build an ice rink in my backyard

But it'll be tough sebi. I don't like this one. What do you want to stay home?

Well, I think you you love being home so much you give me $100 million and I'll let you stay home

I think it's one of those like 51% to 49, you know, because I I

I think that I could

But I still if in a would you rather situation? I'm like no, I'll leave my house, you know, yeah

Um, no, but but but I mean

Look, I do love my house and it's funny. I don't want to move in everyone's in a while my wife gets like this itch

Like I'd be nice to shop for a new house and I was like no, I'm

No, let's clean this one and rearrange furniture. Yeah, I love the location. I love the house

I love the way it's divided. I love how it's not too big. We talked about it. We don't need intercoms to talk to each other

That is true. Um, I love your house by the way. It's great about all the time think about that all the time

Rich people with huge houses. How do you talk to each other? Yeah, yeah, that's right

Benjamin. Where are you?

Yeah, also

I'm glad we settled that yeah same same

Um, I got a little bit of a health scare. I need to share with you. Okay.

Um, we're um, I'm super happy that that I'm here this evening because there's uh there's a pretty good chance that I wasn't gonna make it today

That's right

Had a had a bit of a of a health scare and uh look

We've been in this relationship with with uh, man of the hour for almost 20 years now. I think I can share it with the world

Yeah, absolutely, but after this song though, there's no way yeah, there's no way we can share before we listen to some music impossible

This is Rose colored world

This song's called too far gone and it's right here in a man of the hour and I know be radio

Maybe it's because you've got the best of me

And now I gotta let it be I gave it ill gave it all I got

You will be well, you know, it's not my fault

My stomach should have been a night

I know, I know, I know it's never getting better. I know, I know, I know

Don't want to wake your cause

I'm afraid of what it'll do to me

It's what I feel the most

If you stay, I'll be too far gone

Yeah, too far gone

I'm too far gone

We'll go around a time or two

You raise your voice till you're face to blue

There's only one more thing to do

It's what so far

It's in me your intention

It's my heart so bad

It's in my lover the kitchen

And I can't take this feeling anymore

Don't want to wake your cause

I'm afraid of what it'll do to me

It's what I feel the most

If you stay, I'll be too far gone

Yeah, too far gone

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It's Patrick and Sebastian right here on the man of the hour show

And for a quick minute yesterday

It felt like it may have been Sebastian

Solo on the man of the hour show tonight

Crazy situation

And I'm happy to open my medical files to all of you

Let's do it

And share because that's what we've been doing for 20 years

I don't know if you remember there's been a full episode

On my kidney stone situation

Where I went into details about my personal urethra

So you know it's right now it's your turn

So my personal urethra

Yeah, it's only yours

I agree

Okay, all right

Keep going

Not your shared urethra

That's a different story

So for the past five months

And Seb knows this because it first happened when I was with him

I've been getting these like

Huge crazy

Stemic pains but like not just stomach pain like 910 pain out of 10 right like

Girls I now know I think would it feels like to give birth right like that bad of a pain

Kidding obviously, but it just really really bad

But the crazy thing about this pain is that it shoots up to like really intense 10 on 10 pain

And then I get this episode and like I puke

Because it's so painful right like yeah

You know when you puke out of pain and not out of like bad lettuce

Yeah, and so just bad

But then after like four hours it just like on a dime

Oh, it's over

Right, I'm fine

Okay, I go I go from like I'm dying to like let's go play tennis

And it's not gold stones, it's not kidney stones

So well, I wasn't sure what it was right

But with kidney stones hits you in the back

And so there's a few things that just with with doctor internet you can kind of rule out

But then I started you know reaching out to my real doctor when it became

A pattern right like the first time

Honestly because I puked I was like oh food poisoning that sucks. Yeah

Second time I was like food poisoning again

Yeah, bizarre and then the third time I was like okay

Um, I haven't eaten 12 hours and I haven't puke like I've I'm puking bile

So it can't be food related and so by the third time you may you may think that I should have

Woken up a bit earlier, but by the third time I was like okay, this is worrisome now. This is something

Uh-huh, and so I started reaching out to my doctor and obviously the processes are are long

But it happened five months in real like September, October, November, December, January

And then February didn't happen, but then March 3rd dead and February is a short a short month

So it's basically basically once a month basically February 31st would have been my doctor

We finally kind of like get into fifth year on this and

Get all the tests possible and Monday night right like less than 48 hours ago

They go do a scan. Have you ever done this scan where they put um

They put this thing through your veins like iodine. Is that it? Yes. Yes. Yeah, I've done that once

And it's funny because yesterday when you called me you reminded me that your ears kind of burned

Yeah, and you get that sensation of wanting to pee

I've done it once and I forget why it feels like you have because it gets all warm right? Yeah

The feeling when you when you're a kid and you pee your bed and you wake up with like that warmth feeling

I'd so say

Have it chasing it ever since

And so I do this scan and they go

Your doctor should have these results within two weeks, right?

fine

I get a call yesterday morning, right like

12 hours after doing the scan and it's a doctor who like seems pretty concerned and he's like

I'm just looking at your scan now and

pretty worried about your um

What's it called appendicitis? Yes. Thank you. You're appendus

I'm glad I need to ask Sebastian

My health situation

And so he's like you really need to come to the ER now and like we need to to to to to operate like emergency operation

Yeah, and I was like

Are you sure and he goes well? I got to tell you I'm a bit surprised to be

To be talking to someone on the phone who seems like in tip-top shape, right?

I thought that you were going to be like a

Like someone in deep pain like hello

Right, right. Yeah, so I explained to him the sitch

And and he goes okay. Well, this is really bizarre. I mean the scan is showing that you're basically going through like an appendicitis that needs to

To be removed now before it bursts right and you would not be talking to me on that tone if that was the case

Yes, so calls my doctor. They go back and forth and they go and when you call me yesterday

You're playing the guy that actually shows up at the hospital like hi excuse me

I don't want to I really don't want to know you but my appendix about the burst and I was wondering if you could squeeze me in today

Maybe exactly

You know the guy that like taps his heels as he walks in like

So happy to be here grateful for you by the way

Basically hospital in my doctor went back and forth talked and they all agreed that like okay. No, this is

Something that really needs to be dealt with maybe not go to the emergency room, but it needs to be

dealt with as an emergency and so they're like you need to be operated within a week

This was yesterday, right and I was like okay and goes so stand by your phone

we're gonna be calling you and

scheduling

scheduling you in and so I've been living with my phone. I usually have my phone on silent all the time right like I'm one of those guys that like

My phone's pretty often in my hands if I'm working like to

um

But I'll miss you know one call one call out of two but they call you right back, right?

Like I'll miss your call because of it non-silent

Yeah, and then I see it and then I call you right back

And so now my phone has not been on silent and I'm on doctor watch because they could be calling me any minute going like hey

Come on in bud, and so

Yeah, so next time next time we see each other

I might not be whole oh

I'll be missing a piece of me

Okay, well, hopefully the piece of you that's missing is the piece of you that needs to be gone

Currently, yeah, so I'm gonna be um posting the the hospital address if you want to send flowers cards

chocolates presents

Yeah, okay, well, I mean I mean we're all thinking about you obviously if you need to go yeah, it's look how it's sick

This is crazy

But you look amazing by the way, so I'm kind of the cashmere sweater. I'm kind of with you on that

I'm kind of with you in the sense that you look too good to be feeling bad. So take care of that buddy

I am

But yeah crazy episode crazy story, right? Yeah crazy crazy story and and and it's and unfortunately it has not resolved

So hopefully you have an ending for us next time we speak

And hopefully it's not my end. No, no

No, I was telling my wife so let's drive that from the record

Why would you say that? I have life insurance and so I was telling her

Hey, by the way, you know what the life insurance documents are and she's like nope

I'm like, yeah, I didn't think you did they're here

She's like, why are you telling me this and I'm like, I'm gonna go wonder. It's a really super easy operation, right?

Yeah, like my my level of worry is that 0%

Um, have you ever been under before?

Yeah, yeah, okay, I've never been under and even when I got my procedure done for my kidney stones

I asked them. I'm like, I am terrified of going under

But not only that when they put you under they have to you have to get intubated

Which is which can be horrible for your vocal cords

So they actually gave me an epidural last time I got a procedure junk as that the procedure was below the belt

So epidural was was completely fine with them and I was heavily sedated. So I don't remember the thing

Yeah, same I had a colonoscopy a year and a half ago. Yeah, that's epidural

No, I know they give you they give you that drug that's been killing everyone fentanyl. Oh, jeez. Okay. Yeah

What the hell they're like, yeah, we'll be getting you just a little bit of fentanyl. I'm like

Well, that's what it's for you know, it's made for

For exactly it's what hey, it was it was so good to see you it was so good to see you

And uh, well, I mean we were about to get into butt stuff

And I don't think we're allowed to say any of that on on on the radio here

So I we are but we don't have to okay

I feel like Sebastian just got something ubered to his house and he like uber eats is at the door and Sebastian is like hey good

It was nice seeing you back

Well, thanks for tuning in everybody and uh, hopefully you got some good coffee. We got some coffee you got uber eats

We got some good news for you. Hopefully next time we get together on mic again and looking forward to hearing from you

Wishing you all the best and to all of us you gotta go I can finish the show by myself if you need to leave

Yeah, well, you know, I'm about to get this battery and

That's what it is. Obviously the guys are the door and obviously the kids aren't in in in in school today

So we got to get back to our daddy duties

So gonna do some of that today. So it's funny in closing

I have a friend that I talked to on the phone pretty often when I'm dropping off the kids at school

And he's the exact same kind of guy will be talking and it's fun

We talk about hockey about life and it's usually that he's at work and he's probably getting like a call

Yeah, and so he always finishes our phone calls on such a like

You know like such a rushing screeching the brakes. We'll be talking like oh, yeah, Canadian's last night

I gotta go bike and he hangs up and my kids are always like this guy is so rude the way he hangs up

But I know that it's because of work and so yeah, of course. I'm used to this

Bye

See you later

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