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-Listen up.
I'm calling this Recap Talks Canada Day Edition
to order.
Role call!
-Hey, it's Preeya.
-What's up?
It's Ethan.
-Hey, it's Veena.
-Hey, yo, it's Sean Tran.
-Okay, are we ready for some Canada Day vibes?
[all in agreement]
Alright, let's start with a round of Born and Raised.
Where were you all born and raised?
-Born and raised in Vaughan.
-I was born and raised in Brampton, Ontario.
-I was born and raised in Toronto.
-Okay, I was born in Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam.
And then I moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick,
when I was 8, and then I moved again
to Mississauga, Ontario, when I was 9.
And officially became a Canadian citizen last year.
[all cheering]
-So, what's been your biggest Canadian moment so far?
-I would say my most memorable Canadian moment
was probably my first time to Canada's Wonderland.
It was so fun and so Canadian,
like, overly Canadian.
-Okay, here's what I want to know.
According to you, who gets the best
Canadian Musician award and why?
-My top pick Avril Lavigne!
She is so amazing.
At a certain point, everybody wanted to be her.
Her music like Complicated and Girlfriend.
Oh, my god!
It touched right here in my heart.
-Yeah, I don't know if everyone was like her
at one point in their life.
I mean, she's okay.
She's alright.
-Um, hello, Ethan, no.
Preeya, I 100 percent agree with you.
Oh, my goodness.
I loved Avril Lavigne.
7-year-old me wanted to be her.
I mean, her fashion and her style
was so iconic.
Her songwriting is just amazing as well.
And, she's been through so much
from battling Lyme disease and all the weird
conspiracy theories of her being cloned.
She's been through a lot.
-I'm just going to back my boy Ethan up.
Where has she been lately?
Non-existent, not in the mainstream media.
Y'all, she's in the past.
-Hello, no, no, no, no.
Her Lyme disease really affected her career.
-She just released a new album.
-Exactly.
-But have you heard about it on trending pages?
No.
-Yes!
-Show me the receipts.
Pull them up.
-I'd like to hear your pick.
-Sean, go off.
Go off with your pick.
-Okay, my pick for the Canadian musician award
is hip and current: Shawn Mendes.
Mr. Shawn Mendes.
He's new.
He's always and constantly making
chart topping hits, like Señorita, you know?
And not adding to the fact that he also started out
that he also started out as a viner.
So, he has this comedic energy to him.
And his name is also Shawn,
so we're basically twins.
[laughing]
-I mean, did he lie?
Did he lie?
He spoke straight facts.
-Don't even tell me you don't listen to Señorita, okay?
Like.
♪ I love it when you call me señorita ♪
♪ I wish that -- ♪
No.
-Okay, Ethan, what's your pick?
-For my pick I went with a more classic choice.
David Foster.
[crickets]
There's no one --
those reactions mean that y'all don't know
who he is.
-No.
-David Foster is so iconic.
He's worked with people like Céline Dion,
he's worked with Whitney Houston.
He has so much music that you probably have heard,
but don't know it's by him.
-Okay, hold on a minute.
You're telling me that not one of you
has picked Drake or the Weekend?
Excuse me?
-Well, I mean...
-Explanation, please.
-Everybody expects you to pick them.
That's why nobody picks them.
-Yea, I mean --
-They're iconic.
-Of course they're iconic.
-I mean, who can beat iconic?
Avril Lavigne is more iconic than anyone else, so...
I don't know what you guys are all talking about.
[all talking over each other]
-Drake is way more iconic than Avril Lavigne.
-Let it go.
-No!
-The way he said Avril Lavigne.
-It's just fact.
Drake is everywhere.
The Raptors?
Like...
-Alright, I asked you all to bring some noise makers.
Do you have them?
-Yep, you bet.
You know it.
-Let's see some variety in here.
Let's get in to it.
Alright, and before you ask me,
there are no prizes.
The only thing you get is pride.
Alright?
So, don't ask for any prizes.
-Bragging rights are all I need.
-Alright, okay, then here's the first question:
who was the first Canadian ever to win the Grammy
for Best New Artist?
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[noise squeaks]
Alright Veena, let's hear it.
-I'm gonna go with Avril Lavigne.
[buzzer sounds]
[laughter]
-Unfortunately, you are incorrect.
[rattling noise makers]
Alright, Preeya?
-Was it Justin Bieber?
[buzzer sounds]
-No, incorrect.
Sean?
-I'm saying it's gonna be Drake.
[buzzer sounds]
-No, sorry about that.
That's incorrect as well.
Ethan, you have any answers?
Just a guess?
-Oh.
I genuinely don't know.
I genuinely just don't know.
-Can I guess again?
-Sure, yeah, go ahead.
-Céline Dion?
[buzzer sounds]
-Unh, incorrect.
I'll give you a hint.
This person won in 2018.
-Oh, so it's recent, ohhh.
-Very recent.
She's also a pretty recent --
-Yay.
-Yes, Sean?
-Actually, I take this back.
Oh, you know what?
Alessia Cara?
[harp sounds]
-Yes.
[cheering]
-Alessia; how did I not know that?
I'm peeved.
-Sean, I am proud of you.
-We are actually best friends.
Alessia Cara and I are neighbours.
We talk a lot.
I obviously know this.
I was just --
-You know what's actually funny?
You guessed from elimination, you know.
-This proves that I am superior now.
Because I have the bragging rights.
Don't come at me.
-You won one point.
Let's continue with the game.
-This is the first question.
Sean, no.
-This is the first question.
Exactly how Veena said.
And here's a little fun fact.
She was supposed to host the Juno's this year,
until, unfortunately it got cancelled.
So that kind of sucks.
-She would have made a great host.
I hope she does it next year.
-Let's move on from music to celebrities.
Which actor do you think deserves
the Best Actor Award?
They must be born here.
-Okay, you already know my pick.
The best Canadian Actor Award
goes to Ryan Reynolds, okay.
Iconic man.
Deadpool: iconic.
Soap Operas: iconic.
Everything about Ryan is just iconic.
Period.
-And you know what?
Fun fact.
He actually got over his fear of flying
when filming Green Lantern.
-I didn't even know he had a fear of flying.
-I know, right?
-Well, y'all know that I'm going to say Ryan Reynolds
because I named my dog after him.
Like, that's how much my love for him is.
Anyway...
-Veena wins.
Veena wins the Ryan Reynolds stand, yes.
Dedication award.
-He's such a good actor.
His sense of humour is amazing.
His relationship with Blake Lively
and his kids, just goals.
I feel like he just embodies that polite,
Canadian stereotype, if you know what I'm saying.
-Not in Deadpool, though.
-Not in Deadpool, no.
Well, Ethan, are you also on the Ryan Reynolds' train?
-No, I would have to say best Canadian actor
is the one and only Jim Carrey.
Come on, the classic The Grinch?
I watch it every single year with my family.
-I don't think I've ever watched it.
-Um, you both need to jump on that
because you're missing out on an amazing movie!
-You're lacking --
Thank you, Preeya.
You're lacking.
-He's like a tall green dude,
and he looked terrifying to me as a kid.
So, I was like, no.
-It's supposed to be that contrast between
the really cute WhoVilles and then the Grinch.
-Alright, guys.
It's time to redeem yourselves from the first question.
Who was the first Canadian to win an Oscar
for Best Director?
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Yes, Sean?
-I think it's Seth Rogen.
[buzzer sounds]
-Hmm, incorrect.
[laughing]
[toy squeaks]
-The guy who made the Titanic.
James Cameron?
[harp sounds]
-Correct!
-Ohhhh!
-How would you know that?
That's such a random fact to have in your head.
-They both could have fit on that door, okay?
Jack could have been saved.
What the heck?
-You know what --?
She was being selfish.
She's like, "there's only room for me and me alone."
Just like, no, girl.
-And now, for a Canadian category
we all know and love, what is the best
Canadian snack food?
-Oh, the best Canadian snack food?
All dressed Ruffles.
Of course, the perfect combination
of BBQ, salt and vinegar.
Ketchup.
Amazing altogether.
It reminds me when I was younger and
I was trying to be healthy and my dad
would buy the chips and it would be gone by tomorrow.
So, memories.
-The Lay's ketchup chips are phenomenal.
You can eat them when you're sad,
when you're happy, watching a movie.
You can do anything while eating
Lay's ketchup chips.
It's the best.
-What I love most are California rolls.
And I eat them like snacks.
Don't come at me.
Like, not snacks.
No, they are.
When I went to Vancouver, I learned that
a Japanese chef there had actually invented them.
He actually invented the inside-out sushi roll
because people who went there at first
were kind of afraid to try seaweed.
So, he tried to hide it by making the rice
on the outside.
How cool is that?
-Okay.
-Fantastic.
-Mission impossible, that.
-My top pick for sure would have to be Coffee Crisp,
because all my friends in the U.S.
are so envious of us for having it.
And it combines my two favourite things:
coffee and chocolate.
How could you go wrong?
Literally, how could you go wrong?
-And Coffee Crisps are everywhere,
especially Halloween, trick or treating.
-Oh, yeah.
-They always come in that package.
They come in that package with KitKats.
-Only here in Canada, at least.
-Oh, definitely.
-Okay, hold -- I need to interrupt for a second.
You guys are gonna tell me that none of you
said Timbits or beaver tails?
-I didn't even think about that, to be honest.
-Beaver tails!
-Shame.
-I forgot about beaver tails.
-Okay, let me throw something out there.
Do you think that Kraft Dinner should be
Canada's national food?
Because we consume more boxed mac and cheese
than any other country in the world.
-No, absolutely not.
-No.
I do not want powdered cheese to be
our national dish.
-No, I don't like mac and cheese either.
-Ohhh.
-Fun fact.
-You have not tried gramma's mac and cheese.
I'll bring you some, don't worry.
[all talking at once]
-I will try your gramma's mac and cheese
and then I will make my decision
whether or not I like Kraft Dinner.
-Okay, what should be the national dish then?
-Poutine.
-It's already poutine.
-Poutine.
-You already know.
-We should stick with it.
-No.
There's no debate needed.
-There's no debate.
I feel like when you hear Canada
you think poutine.
-Exactly.
It's already our staple.
Just keep it that way.
-Poutine and hockey and Tim Hortons.
-That's Canada there for you.
-And Tim Hortons, yea, that's right.
-And Tim Hortons.
[laughing]
-Okay, are your noise makers ready?
Because we're jumping into the next question.
[making noise]
Let's get into it.
In which province was the Hawaiian pizza created in?
-Ohh.
-Ahhh!
-Sean?
-Okay, I'll take a wild guess.
This might be accurate, but it might not be.
Saskatchewan?
[buzzer sounds]
-Incorrect.
I'm sorry.
[strumming guitar]
Ethan, I heard you next.
-I'm gonna just go with Ontario.
-You are correct!
[harp sounds]
-No!
-Yes!
-That's such a generic answer.
-Go with your gut.
Go with your gut.
-I know.
-Go with what you know.
-It's generic but it's true.
-No, I thought it was Winnipeg or something,
like Yukon.
-Okay, but low key.
I have to say I'm not proud...
-Randomly like Prince Edward Island.
that Ontario invented this whole Hawaiian pizza thing.
-Why?
-Because Hawaiian pizza is disgusting.
-Excuse me?
Exsqueeze me, okay.
Cheese and pineapple on a pizza;
they're delicious.
-The worst thing.
-The sweet, the tangy, the sourness with the
creaminess of the cheese.
-No.
Just no.
-Okay, guys, before we sign off,
let's wrap up with one thing
we wish was different about Canada
and one thing we love about Canada.
Preeya, what's one thing you wish was different?
-Okay, I wish we had Grade 13 still.
I just with I had --
Okay, I'm in my last year, right?
I just finished.
And I'm not 100 percent sure exactly what
I want to do with the rest of my life.
I just wish I had that extra year
to figure it out.
-I feel like Grade 13 could be useful,
but maybe have it just optional.
At least at my school it's optional to do
a victory lap.
So, you can have that option of you need
that extra year.
But I don't think you should make it mandatory
for everybody.
Let's not go back in time.
-Speaking of schools, I wish schools
would teach us more about the current narrative
of our indigenous peoples.
For example, food insecurity.
Almost half of all First Nation households
struggle to put food on the tables.
And I want to learn about that.
And as Canadians, what can we do to help tell
this narrative and change what's happening currently.
Personally, I'd like to see us treat our environment better.
We have beautiful natural landscapes.
We've got some really cool wildlife,
and we hold 20 percent of the world's fresh water.
So I think it's really important for us to try harder
in order to preserve and protect
our natural environment.
-That's so true.
Talking a little bit more about the medical side of things.
I think we have a great health care system,
but we focus a little bit too much
on the medical side of things and not so much
on the mental health side of things.
I wish we'd pay a little bit more attention
so that the people who deal with these issues
had more resources.
-Well, guys, those were some very wholesome answers.
Now, I want to know, what do you love about Canada?
-Uh...
the free healthcare.
Not gonna lie.
Like, I have gotten sick so often.
I've been injured.
And the fact that my parents are not struggling so hard
to make sure I get the proper help I need
is relaxing.
And knowing that I could do that for my kids is good.
Like, I'm happy with that.
-Period.
For me as an immigrant, I love the Canadian spirit, y'all.
Meaning we tend to say "sorry" for everything.
We always try to be kind to each other.
And we love to wrap our national dishes,
#poutine.
-Even though it's a stereotype that Canadians are polite,
and we're overly nice, I do think it's kinda true.
Not everybody is super kind and friendly,
but I think a majority of us are.
-We're so cute and wholesome.
Oh, my god.
-We're so adorable.
[laughing]
-Personally I love that Canada was the first country
in the world to adopt multiculturalism
as a national policy.
And by 2036, we could have 30 percent of our population
made up by immigrants.
And I know there's a lot of challenges
and perspectives surrounding immigration,
but personally, I love our diversity
and I think we should be proud of it.
-I love you guys.
Should we end this with a group shoutout
to Canada?
-Yeah.
-Of course.
-Yes.
-Always.
-Let's do it.
-On three, Happy Canada Day.
One, two, three --
-Happy Canada Day!!
-And cut.
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