This is a headgum podcast. Oh, In 2008, the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup.

Oh, it happened. In the film The Love Guru.

Written by and starring Toronto native Mike Myers in a Justin Trudeau-esque performance as

Guru Pitka. The much-anticipated follow-up to the Austin Powers franchise was a

commercial and critical disaster.

Given the decades long futility of the Toronto Maple Leaf franchise,

it's perhaps fitting that their only Stanley Cup championship since 1967 took place in a movie that nobody saw or liked.

But despite the team's real life struggles, it's a testament to the delusional power of

fandom that the Leafs remain in the top five in

attendance in the National Hockey League. And it's a team it's a testament to the

team's imprint on the national psyche that the country's biggest fast food chain was founded by and named for a Hall of Fame Leif's Defenceman.

The business savvy enforcer opened his first donut and coffee shop in 1964 in Canada's

Hamilton. No, not a hip-hop musical about first Prime Minister Sir John McDonald.

But a city in southern Ontario, within 10 years, the chain had 40 stores.

By the 90s, that number was 500 500 and today it's over 5,000. Its sales alone account

for over 20% of the nation's food service industry. I report you decide. You decide. Tragically, addiction cut its namesake's life short at the age of 44, but his legacy still towers like the CN Tower.

According to the company, quote,

80% of Canadians visited Tim's in Canada

at least once a month."

If you were born the year the Maple Leafs last appeared in the Stanley Cup finals,

you celebrated your 57th birthday this year.

Since then, teams from the U.S. 7th birthday this year.

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