Toronto Legends

Sportsnet anchor/host Jesse Fuchs talks about growing up in Scarborough, playing hockey for Birchmount Park Collegiate [Anthony Stewart made the team...Wayne Simmonds did NOT!], interning at TSN for Michael Landsberg, working on his penmanship & video tape editing skills at The Score with Tim Micallef/Sid Seixeiro/Steve Kouleas/Cabbie Richards/Simon Bennett, transitioning from the family-owned Score to the Rogers corporate mothership, getting distracted by Auston Matthews’ quads, explaining to Dion Phaneuf what a ‘Bronx Cheer’ was on live national TV, his infrequent in-person contact with CityNews anchor Pam Seatle despite years of their congenial on-air chemistry, his admiration for Kyle Bukauskas’ youthful good looks/good hair, and why in the media you learn to cheer for the team that wins the FASTEST!

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

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Gaming News Canada Editor/Parleh Media Group partner Steve McAllister delivers a primer on the past/present/future of sports gambling in Ontario, speculates on the gambling prospects for niche sports such as table tennis, cricket, jai-alai & pickleball, talks about moving from Prescott to Ryerson/Toronto to Kincardine, following in his Dad’s footsteps [skates?] as a hockey referee, interesting career stops at The Canadian Press, The Globe and Mail, Yahoo Canada, the NHL Players’ Association & Tennis Canada, great conversations about baseball & life with Cito Gaston while covering BOTH Blue Jays World Series championships, friendly US vs CAN media rivalries at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and why covering spring training baseball in Florida is the absolute BEST gig in sports journalism!

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Ex-NHL Goaltender Curtis McElhinney talks about playing in Toronto [lots of Instagram messages] and in Tampa Bay [scootered from the beach to the arena], his TWO Stanley Cup rings, his Save of the Season on Sid the Kid to get the Maple Leafs into the 2017 playoffs, meeting celebrity fans [like rapper Yung Gravy], packing up & moving 35 times over a 16 year professional career, arriving at the backup goalie's peaceful acceptance that there is only ONE net, and the biggest mind-blow of all time: an explanation of why the Calgary Flames’ AHL affiliate in Omaha were called the ‘Ak-Sar-Ben Knights’!

Curtis’ podcast ‘The Walls Within’ covers the mental hurdles on the way to elite performance and can be enjoyed wherever you listen to podcasts!

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

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Author/Journalist/Wrestling Historian Greg Oliver talks about his memoir on Blue Jays skipper John Gibbons [“tried to watch a video compilation of all his umpire ejections...couldn’t get through them all!”], his biography of Billy Van [Hilarious House of Frightenstein & Bizarre with John Byner...classics!], and his Sports Illustrated online piece about Canadian wrestling icon Rocky Johnson’s unacknowledged children [the half-siblings of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson]!

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Four-time Canadian Screen Award winning Producer Stuart Coxe talks about cutting his teeth at CBC’s The National & The Journal, Peter Mansbridge’s calm & consistent presence during 9/11, launching Dragons’ Den and Shark Tank, why Mark Burnett’s track record proves he is the ‘Wizard of Oz,’ working on the late Gord Downie’s ‘Secret Path’ project, first meeting Gord while giving a tour of Robert Scully’s VENTURE set, working with Kevin O’Leary [“your tears add no value”]/Evan Solomon/Robert Herjavec/Melissa Fung/Brett Wilson/Tanya Talaga, achieving breakout success in Bulgaria [!!!], and why Galen Weston would NOT have worked out as a Dragon!

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

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700+ NHL game enforcer The Grim Reaper Stu Grimson talks about catching a scout’s eye in a Kamloops street brawl, being ‘a player so NICE that I got drafted TWICE’ [first by Detroit and then by Calgary], the liberation he ironically felt after suffering a horrible beatdown at the hands of the Oilers’ Dave Brown, his appearance on The Simpsons as an Instructor at Top Goon Academy, the Disneyland benefits of playing for The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim [owned by Disney], post-NHL career being back on a college campus as a 37 year old freshman, his role of ‘providing a safe working environment for my teammates,’ and why his adopted hometown of Nashville Tennessee is such a great hockey town!

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

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Legendary heavy metal bassist Rudy Sarzo talks about rejoining Quiet Riot [his 3rd stint!], playing with Ozzy Osbourne/Whitesnake/Dio, and his friendships with the late Randy Rhodes/Kevin DuBrow/Frankie Banali. Rudy shares memories of the stellar ping pong table & overwhelming portrait of Queen Elizabeth at Maple Leaf Gardens, the controversy behind the scenes of the 1990 KISS/Whitesnake concert at the CNE Grandstand [KISS without pyro?!?!?], his admiration for Paul Stanley and KISS, his ‘sister’ Sass Jordan connecting him with Canada’s own The Guess Who, the source for his iconic bullseye-target tshirt, and he gives pointers on how to suss out the inevitable Rudy Sarzo imposters on social media!

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Comedy hypnotist/motivational speaker/author The Incredible Boris Cherniak talks about his journey from Moscow to Toronto, running out of material early in his first professional show [at age 17!], being Facebook Friends with The Amazing Kreskin, enjoying conversations with a surprisingly chatty Teller backstage after a Penn & Teller show in Las Vegas, appearing on The Howie Mandel Show on the exact same NBC Burbank studio stage as The Tonight Show’s Johnny Carson once did, working on people with ‘unusual’ phobias on The Maury Povich Show, and the wise words he learned directly from another Toronto Legend--Howie Mandel!

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

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Former Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Travis Snider joins the podcast from Kirkland WA [home of Costco!] to talk about the life of a [baseball] retiree at 35, learning perseverance over adversity, his love for Cito Gaston & Alex Anthopolous, literally being pulled off the field mid-game in Seattle and being traded to Pittsburgh [‘that was awkward!’], the difference between 4A vs Triple A ballplayers, maximizing his energy, fire & drive until the wheels came off, serving as the 'pacecar' for off-season training, explains his ‘Lunchbox Hero’ nickname [thanks AJ Burnett], and apologizes to all his Canadian Facebook friends for replying to their requests a decade late!

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

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Ed the Sock Creator Steven Kerzner remembers North York’s Newton Cable, shares Ed’s origin story [involves the Crafts Closet] and namesake [think Lou Grant/Carl from UP], talks about Ed’s Night Party transitioning from community cable to CityTV to a national MuchMusic audience, why he thinks Moses Znaimer is responsible for the greatest phase of creativity in Canadian TV history [people love to watch people], and presents the REAL STORY behind the conspicuously similar Robert Smigel/Conan O’Brien sock puppet Triumph the Insult Comic Dog [Triumph the Ripoff Dog?]. 

VERY SPECIAL APPEARANCE by Ed the Sock himself recalling his best interviews [Avril Lavigne before she broke big, Lenny Kravitz & Denzel Washington as they literally broke glassware] and worst interviews [Vanilla Ice, Snow, Mariah Carey] as well as the Woodstock ’99 live experience that ended in a full-scale RIOT [no thanks to Fred Durst].

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

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