Toronto Legends

This is a feed drop from our friends at the Ted Woloshyn Podcast! Host Ted Woloshyn [a past Toronto Legends guest himself!] interviews Canadian Music and Broadcast Hall of Fame inductee Roger Ashby as he looks back on his 50+ year career in radio and the fascinating people he has met along the way!

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TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at [email protected]

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ReturnBear CEO Sylvia Ng talks about making product returns from e-commerce purchases better for all concerned parties [including our planet], the massive $60B returns market in Canada alone, how the consumer trends of ‘Try Before You Buy’ & ‘Bracket Buying’ are driving this growth in product returns, why the shipping/fulfillment process is so different from the returns process [isn’t it just the reverse?], how she has brought skills from her experiences at the University of Waterloo, Northwestern University, eBay, Google & Shopify to a nascent start-up in the ‘product returns efficiency’ space, and how productive one can be when you combine creativity with anxiety!

For more info on Sylvia Ng and ReturnBear, please visit https://www.returnbear.com/

TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at [email protected]

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Journalist/Author Jean-Jacques Taylor talks about his new book providing an all-access insider's look at Deion Sanders, how Deion went from PRIME TIME to COACH PRIME, how Deion meets his college athletes at THEIR level [dominating IG, a DJ in the locker room] while still keeping it Old School, Deion’s surprisingly calm & quiet favourite pastime of fishing, why Deion never pays attention to ‘they,’ why all Deion’s meetings start as soon as he shows up [and why even his sons are not exempt from punishment if they aren’t in their seats ready to go], why Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is a marketing genius, and how Deion contributes to his players’ mental health by holding weekly meetings where he implores them to Get Nekkid!

Jean-Jacques Taylor’s new book COACH PRIME: Deion Sanders and the Making of Men is available wherever you get your books or at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/coach-prime-jean-jacques-taylor?variant=41001195569186

TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at [email protected]

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Former Toronto Maple Leafs GM [and goalie!] Gerry McNamara talks about Brandon Walsh/Jason Priestley playing him in the upcoming Borje Salming bio-pic, Maple Leafs President Brendan Shanahan personally reaching out to bring him back into the Maple Leafs alumni family, the first time he hit that Maple Leaf Gardens ice [replacing Johnny Bower!], the day he got hired as a Maple Leafs Special Assignment Scout, the incredible story behind his Xmas 1972 trip to Sweden where he discovered Borje Salming/Inge Hammarstrom/Anders Hedberg/Ulf Nilsson, why owner Harold Ballard treated him great but was ultimately a Jekyll & Hyde personality, the deliberations behind selecting Wendel Clark #1 overall at the 1985 NHL entry draft [instead of Craig Simpson!], why he won’t reveal where he keeps his 1989 Stanley Cup championship ring earned as a scout with the Calgary Flames, the strange speculation that Bobby Orr could NOT skate backwards, and he clears the air on a few things he wanted to get off of his chest!

Thanks to Joe Tilley for sharing some great audio clips...JOE TILLEY’S GREAT CANADIAN SPORTS SHOW can be enjoyed at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJVqzgKh3yXVv5Z88UIgVBw

Thanks to Sean Mitton for arranging the interview with Gerry! Sean is a past TORONTO LEGEND, and his episode of this podcast can be enjoyed at https://www.torontolegends.ca/sean-mitton/

TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at [email protected]

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Order of Canada recipient Denise Donlon talks about moving from Whitesnake’s ‘Slide It In’ tour to The New Music, becoming an on-air personality/VJ at MuchMusic, launching MuchMoreMusic, her thoughts on Moses Znaimer/Christopher Ward/Rick Campanelli/Bill Welychka/George Stroumboulopoulos, going into labour while hosting a live television event with the Cowboy Junkies, taking over at Sony Music Canada precisely at the same moment the global recording industry began imploding, moving to our national broadcaster to run CBC Radio, producing Bill Clinton’s 60th birthday bash and raising $21MM in a single night, co-hosting TheZoomer tv show with Lord Conrad Black, and tells us from how far away she can identify if an approaching fan is making a bee-line for her or for her husband Murray McLauchlan!

Denise’s memoir ‘Fearless as Possible (Under the Circumstances)’ is available at https://houseofanansi.com/products/fearless-as-possible-under-the-circumstances

TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at [email protected]

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MLSE’s Bill Manning talks about his leadership of the Toronto Argonauts & Toronto FC, working alongside Brendan Shanahan [Maple Leafs] and Masai Ujiri [Raptors], growing up with 2 of the Baldwin brothers in Massapequa on Long Island [did you know Alec was actually called Xander as a child?], what culture change Pinball Clemons told him was needed with the Argos [‘too many silos, need more bridges’], sharing memories of Argo greats Condredge Holloway/Terry Greer/Rocket Ismail/Terry Metcalf, how he brought new TFC Head Coach John Herdman over to pursue his ‘bullseye’ career opportunity, an emotional 2017 MLS championship ring ceremony with Tim Leiweke, how Larry Tanenbaum convinced him to bring his family 'up north' to Toronto, and why authenticity is key if anointing a Drake-equivalent level celebrity fan for the Argos or TFC!

TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at [email protected]

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"We can dance if we want to/ We can leave your friends behind/ ’Cause your friends don’t dance/ And if they don’t dance/ Well, they’re no friends of mine!” --- Men Without Hats’ Ivan Doroschuk talks about The Safety Dance, Pop Goes The World, touring in 2023 [GPS] vs in 1983 [Rand McNally road maps], how Howard Jones taught him to enjoy the rigours of the road, the power of their videos on MTV and MuchMusic, jetting on the Concorde back & forth from NYC to the UK to film a video, the pride of being an answer on Jeopardy and the source for Weird Al Yankovic’s Brady Bunch-themed parody of The Safety Dance, retro touring [sometimes on 80s cruises] with The English Beat/Katrina & the Waves/Flock of Seagulls/The Box/Berlin/Human League/B52s/Eddie Money/Wang Chung/the GoGos, why his favourite cultural reference to The Safety Dance was on Beavis and Butt-Head, why Montreal was the Little Apple to NYC’s The Big Apple, and he shares the origin story of why he wrote The Safety Dance in the first place!

For everything Ivan, please visit https://www.safetydance.com/

TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at [email protected]

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TVO Superstar Steve Paikin talks about his 5 shows over 31 years [and counting] at Ontario’s public television channel, starting his broadcasting career alongside Michael Landsberg at UofT Radio, chasing ambulances at The Hamilton Spectator, why he agrees with the host that Boston is the City of Champions, why Mikhail Gorbachev [impactful!] & Mordecai Richler [prickly!] were notable interviewees, his interactions with Elwy Yost/Scotty Bowman/Ken Dryden/Hugh Heron/Kenny Stabler/Doug Ford, his Dad’s creative note explaining Steve’s school absence to attend the inaugural Toronto Blue Jays game in 1977, he provides an update on the currently ongoing labour dispute at TVO, and he sidesteps the mysterious question of why you NEVER see him AND Polkaroo in the same room at the same time!

For everything Steve Paikin, please go to https://www.tvo.org/theagenda

TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at [email protected]

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Opa!! Guitar virtuoso & 'Lord of the Strings' Pavlo Simtikidis talks about going from Pape & Danforth to selling CDs at the One of a Kind Craft Show to his PBS Special 'Live from Santorini,' swimming upstream against record label executives who told him he was ‘too ethnic’ and to ‘get rid of the bouzouki,’ successfully suing Jay-Z & R Kelly for copyright infringement [he is now a co-writer of FIESTA!], touring around the world consistently for over 25 years, his collaborations with Jose Feliciano/Gordon Lightfoot/Rik Emmett/Kim Mitchell [and his desired collaboration with Sting], playing for then-Prince now-King Charles [whose Dad Prince Philip was born in Greece!], how you can join his OPA [Official Pavlo Admirers] fanclub, why he gifts his guitar to a lucky fan after every show, and why he may take the path of least resistance and shoot his next PBS TV Special from his hometown ‘Live from Toronto’!

Saturday October 28th: Brampton On Stage presents Pavlo Live at The Rose Brampton! Please visit https://shorturl.at/pqtwI for full info & tickets

For everything Pavlo, please visit https://www.pavlo.com/

TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at [email protected]

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Go Get It! 1996 Olympic Gold Medallist Sprinter & Canada’s Chef de Mission for the Paris 2024 Olympics Bruny Surin talks about why ‘the me I see is the me I will be,’ coming to Quebec from Haiti as a 7 year old, his infatuation with Carl Lewis [and eventual visit to his Houston mansion], being linked together forever in Canadian sports history as brothers with Donovan Bailey/Robert Esmie/Glenroy Gilbert/Carlton Chambers, why he no longer accepts unsolicited sprinting challenges from the general public [nor from his daughters!], he shares inside information on the status of Andre De Grasse heading into the Paris 2024 Olympics [spoiler alert: Andre is going to be DANGEROUS!], his mixed results from applying his natural athletic abilities to canoeing, and he wonders whatever became of his Olympic Gold Medal-winning spikes??

For everything Bruny Surin, please go to https://www.surin.ca/

TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at [email protected]

All episodes available at https://www.torontolegends.ca/episodes/

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