52. Things to do in MONTREAL - Chinatown, Old Town and the Waterfront

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This week, it's back to Montreal. If that's a subject that interests you,

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I'll encourage you to also check out
episode ten. This time, I

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headed up I eighty seven to auto
route to fifteen to downtown Montreal for the

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Montreal Comedy Festival. One of the
many things I do in my life as

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I host a daily podcast called Daily
Comedy News, and I went up to

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see the New Faces Show. That's
a show where some up and comers get

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to showcase their comedic stylings for the
industry. So I went to that with

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my son. What you're going to
hear in these next few episodes is us

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bouncing around Montreal. In this episode, we arrived and we sat down at

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a restaurant, had some poutine,
which was delicious, So I'll dumb that

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down, and it's gravy fries,
but there's a cheese element to it,

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asked the Canadian zel, explain it
to you. But it's very tasty and

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very filling. So I had a
beverage and so putine and a wonderful chicken

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sandwich with my son and then we
started walking around. So what you're about

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to hear is us skilling time before
the comedy show. And we have made

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our way to Chinatown. I have
st across Chinatown. Let's see what we

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see here, mister fish. This
is a nice closed off streets something the

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areas I live in need more of. It's a nice big souvenir shop.

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Get Canadian flag, Quebec flag,
rainbow flag, a chili, but it

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is Chinese food. I like these
kites. Is it amazing? So I

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found some sort of storefront with a
typical Chinese architecture and they're selling kites out

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front and some T shirts with Chinese
lettering and caught my attention. No idea

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what they say. It is cool
dragon kite. I like the music.

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I don't know where it's coming from. This guy, he's Curtis Thorpe on

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Twitter. I love it. Now
tap your phone to zipp the four dollars,

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it's automatically. Would you do it? That seems dangerous and Chinatown has

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come to an abrupt end. So
I made my way down to the waterfront,

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and I'd forgotten there's this cool urban
beach. I mean, it's just

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saying that they stuck next to a
parking lot on the St. Lawrence,

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but it totally does the job.
And now we've made our way to a

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carnival like scenario. And I'm gonna
check out this giant ferris wheel. And

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I'm not gonna check out the zip
line. I said, the zip line

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is probably about six stories high because
I used to live in a six story

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building and elex about right. Oh
here, got somebody out plays they're over

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water. Now the Montreal Waterfront has
stepped up its game since I was last

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here. Here are some boutique shops. This was not here. This has

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really stepped it up. Zip Line's
got the business going. It's somebody else

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going. Now you're gonna do it. Giant ferris wheel. Check out the

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Shappo store. You want a hat? You rock some pretty cool hats.

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Back home Mary's popcorn shop. I
want to see what the deal is with

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the ferris wheel. The ferris wheel
is definitely not here. I would have

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noticed the ferris wheel. Yeah,
I let's see if there's a sign or

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something it says how old it is. Paddle Boats is kind of new.

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I think Hipline is new. It's
not like I haven't been here in July.

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The ferris wheel promises a panoramic view. I agree, sixty meters high,

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food and beverage. A lable looks
pretty big. It's pretty pretty busy

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for a Wednesday evening. Well,
this is definitely improves. That's the last

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time I was at the waterfront.
If you're in tourists mode, this is

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definitely worth a trip for you.
Oh wait, guided tourists, guided segue

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tourists. And I see somebody with
a kayak. I would do a kayak

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tour. It would be amazing.
You see it's on the out wor calendars.

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The Montreal Street Food Festival July eight. Head missed it. Fireworks obviously

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they're in six some sort of festival
of the Orient. I might be translating

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my French. Some sort of Afro
World festival also in August. Yeah,

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this is new because the sign even
says a new outdoor event space. So

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I'm not crazy. Here's the food
trucks. I'm thirsty. At first step,

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we've got some sort of cook event, grilled cheese, the Putine truck.

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Love it. Charlie's is selling Philly
cheese steaks. Bad Coffer in Montreal

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is a pizza truck. Oldport is
bringing it. Yeah, if we had

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more time, we could walk down
there. Let's gonna look at Old town,

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and that's the street I was looking
for. There you go, So

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I have found the street I was
looking for Jacques Cartier place as tons of

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bars and restaurants. I still can't
tell what we're doing here with pedestrians,

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if the cars are stopping for us, or if they're running you over.

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There's a car stop at the stop
sign. I started walk and then he

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almost ran me over, So who
knows. Now this is another closed off

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street, always a good idea of
pedestrian way. Now bars, restaurants,

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lots of people. It's about five
thirty on a Wednesday. It's hopping.

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Nice place to sit and have a
couple of drinks if you're not about to

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five hours of comedy shows. Sign
here telling me this is the historic quarter.

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Here in my left the historic dairy
Queen Dairy Queen Seals Patine, who

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knew some nice looking places with outdoor
setups. I eight here one night a

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couple of years ago. Grill Wine
cocktails, mister Puffs ice cream. I

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might double back and walk through the
old town. Yeah, let's double back.

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We'll go down that street taking the
Zampier band. An alley has caught

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our eye. The alley's next to
the historic dairy Queen. It's not a

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stork at all. It's a bit
definitely a European field of the street flowers

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Lyne on an archway. Brick Street
probably was never opened to the traffic.

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You know, made a self way
to Saint Vincent. It's a cool era

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Vanna club advertising routine. I'm poutined
out. It was really good like two

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hours ago. But I'm like poutined
out now. All right, old Town

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Street probably has a name, but
I've definitely hung out here. Can you

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name the Tune Hotel California. Oh, I've definitely eaten here at the restaurant.

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But for young One takeaway from the
last time I was here is Montreal

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has gotten a lot nicer, including
the Old Town, the equality of restaurants,

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least, the eye has gotten better. It looked like a really cool

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place to hang out. I remember
this sporting goods store here on my left

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that I'm passing because we went in
to look for obscure things you can't get

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in New Jersey. Everything definitely took
a step up. The chase, Suzette

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creeps and fon dudes. I guess
we can go. I thought, don't

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know what to do with these crosswalks. I think the system is figured out.

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Good luck found nice charming. I
don't want to call it peat latte

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something. Got myself a honey brown
beer, which I thought was a sod

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off. I'm not complaining. It's
all ice cream, milkshakes, smoothies.

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I guess ostensibly this is a coffee
shop. I could buy honey candy,

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just brue s guy music. It's
not bad, very charming place. This

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is uh maybe two blocks west of
the whole town call Swamp from the Basilica.

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The six pm belis you're hearing there's
a line to get in. In

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the past, it was not aligned
in the past. It was not COVID

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sight seeing nine to four thirty in
a show six to eight pm, fifteen

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bucks to get in. The Basilica
is in a cool catstrophan malaza. Although

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cars can't drive, you're here,
and as we've learned what the rules are,

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believe the rules are. Figure it
out. Now Here in the plaza

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is a fountain and a really cute
puppy. We're totally going to see this

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puppy. Puppy was awesome, Like
this fountain fears to be explorers and the

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data on the Fountain of sixteen forty
two and its faces, the Basilica It's

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cool Square. So my big takeaway
from this trip was that Montreal has gotten

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a lot cleaner. I mean both
in terms of dirty streets and porn related

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things. I used to feel I
could walk down the street and right next

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to a nice restaurant there'd be a
place that was selling pornographic materials and it

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would have a vulgar name and didn't
care at all. I saw a lot

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less of the seediness that I have
in the past. The comedy festival itself

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totally awesome. I try and go
most years for my day job. I

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would highly encourage you next July to
hit the Montreal Comedy Festival. If you'd

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like to hear more about that,
listen to other podcast, Daily Comedy News.

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Go back to the episodes in July. I talked about the Montreal Comedy

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Festival a lot. Now next week
something a little different. We're going to

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climb Mount Royal and then we're gonna
run down Mount Royal, So a lot

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of me doing heavy breathing next week. If you want to hear more at

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Montreal, check out the two episodes
on the feed after this one, or

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go back to episode ten and I'll
see you next week on Mount Royal.

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