No, they all evaporated, actually.
It was research, and I nosed them.
I did, I nose them I confess it,
but it did not involve drinking,
it's just a little fluid.
You know that evaporation just continues, and the bottles are all empty.
I think there's probably about 60.
There's only a few really special bottles actually.
Most of them are just standard entry level bottom
buy them at LCBO or whatever liquor store you want.
I think there's a 147 (single malts),
but I could really, correct me if I am wrong,
and someone will correct me,
but if you do send me the ones I don't have,
and I'll catch up.
Those ones are there are probably
more special, probably worth nothing these days, I don't know.
That's WAMCO, and you'd have to be a Toronto Blue Jay fan.
WAMCO is: Devon White,
Roberto Alomar,
Paul Molitor,
Joe Carter, and John Olerud,
who were the top of the lineup for the Blue Jays in 1993,
most of them in 1992 as well.
The first three: White, Alomar, and Molitor,
were also the three top hitters
in both of the major leagues in '93.
I don't think it ever happened before
that any team had the three best batters in baseball.
Oysters. You gotta love 'em.
I did, it became an eight-part series on oceans,
and I got a letter, and the letter said:
'How could you possibly make an eight-hour series on oceans,
and not once use the word oyster?'
And I said: 'Wow.'
The executive producer at the time had said to me:
'Don't think about going anywhere near an ocean for at least another five years.'
And I said: What, why?
and he said: 'Eight parts on oceans? No.' I said: 'OK, oysters.
This is a letter from a listener who says we should do a show on oysters.'
I couldn't pretend the oysters did not come from the ocean,
because that's where oysters come from.
I love them because they are, it's like taking liquid life.
It's a, oooh, the question I opened the show with it:
'Do you chew or do you swallow?'
And that's the eternal dilemma of a real oyster lover.
I actually chew a little bit, and then I swallow.
That's a photo of me running the Montreal Marathon,
which I ran four times I think.
I was running it actually preparing for London,
but that was the best marathon, my best time in that race.
What time?
Marathoners don't tell times.
Yes they do actually. My best time, you want?
3:40 something.
No. Middle of the pack.
Proud to be right in the middle of the pack.
In fact, almost exactly in the middle of the pack in many of the races.
So like if there were 40,000 runners, I'd be number 20,000.
Goes back to Jarvis Street, so back before the Broadcast Centre.
And actually I was at the time when the Broadcast Centre was built,
I was temporary host of a show,
temporary, fill-in host of a show for over a year and a half.
It was Stereo Morning, and Stereo Morning was the last show to leave Jarvis Street
to come to the Broadcast Centre.
So we were the last ones to move in, which actually meant that I was on Jarvis Street
the day that officially the place closed,
and we walked around, and we took things like that as a souvenir.
That was on the door of the studio that Ideas used to come out of from the beginning.
So, Studio D, which was the Ideas studio, which is sort of
sacred to me in strange ways,
was right beside another studio ― I think it was called Studio C.
We're sitting doing this interview, and there had been construction going on
in what was the Morningside offices on this side.
I'm sitting on this side, the author was there,
Morningside office was sort of right there.
Construction going on, so there was sort of noise.
Radio studio, noise huh?
Doesn't make a lot of sense, but we're doing it,
and suddenly in the middle of the interview, WHOOOOOH,
through the wall comes a saw, that long, with teeth on the bottom and everything.
It was like: 'Ahhhh.' And she was just horrified.
And I was a little surprised myself.
I mean, strange things have happened in the radio building, but that one was pretty weird.
And, you know, it was great radio building,
you could open the windows there,
you could walk the halls.
Anyway, it was a lot of good radio.