Toronto Travel Vlog - The Gentlemen's Expo

Gentleman's Expo: A Journey Through Canada

As I stepped into the Gentlemen's Expo, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and curiosity. The expo was a vast space filled with stalls showcasing various products and services catering to men's interests. One of the first things that caught my eye was the Dove Men+Care stall, which seemed to be doing exceptionally well. I also noticed the new Egg Pavilion, which had quite a few signs and banners, indicating its importance in the expo.

As we made our way through the venue, we came across a booth belonging to New Era Canada. The line outside the booth was quite long, and it soon became clear that the reason for this was none other than Jon Jones, the lightweight championship title holder of the UFC. I had heard of Steve's interview with him earlier, and now he was about to meet Mr. Bones Jones in person. It was an opportunity not to be missed.

As we waited for the interview to begin, a conversation started between two people, one of whom mentioned a Bloody Mary mix that they were going to try. They decided to take turns trying it out, with each sip being met with a mixture of curiosity and skepticism. The person taking a sip noted that the drink tasted like it had clam juice in it, but also acknowledged that you could hardly taste the clam itself.

After taking a break from the Bloody Mary mix, we headed over to a grocery store called No Frills, which was a part of our Canadian adventure. At this humble store, we came across an impressive array of chips, and I couldn't help but notice that there were no frills to be found anywhere in the store. The vendors had cleverly avoided using the term "frill" at all, opting instead for more practical names like "chips." As a gesture of appreciation, the owners decided to treat us with some drinks.

As our Canadian journey came to an end, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the experiences we had. We met some fascinating people, including Tiffany Marta and Casey, who proved to be great companions throughout our travels. Their generosity in buying us drinks was truly appreciated, and it left a lasting impression on all of us.

In conclusion, Gentlemen's Expo in Canada turned out to be an unforgettable experience for me. From the Dove Men+Care stall to the New Era Canada booth, we encountered some amazing products and services that catered to men's interests. The Bloody Mary mix and the No Frills grocery store visit added a fun twist to our adventure. As I reflect on my time in Canada, I am reminded of the importance of trying new things and being open to new experiences.

The gentlemen who came before me had a better first attempt at taking photos, but their second one was still pretty good. Mr. Lan has created a Twitter account, which is a great resource for keeping up with his YouTube channel featuring unboxing reviews and overviews of action figures. He's got an impressive collection of over 3,400 figurines – it's crazy! Steve had his first attempt at taking photos, but they were better than expected.

As I left the Gentlemen's Expo, I couldn't help but feel that history was being made right before my eyes. The event has been a defining moment in our lives, and we will always cherish the memories of our time in Canada.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right we just got off the plane we are here in Toronto Canada we've made our landing at the what what's the name of this airport Toronto airport Canada airport but anyway we're going to baggage claim now we're here to cover the gentleman's Expo and if you think there are going to be strippers there you're totally right no probably not I I don't think so they're going to have the finest folks talking about whiskey and how to trim your beard and how to how to be a man and other sexist things that women find attractive and now Vu is about to get arrested so this is this is a good time to stop oh it's Mr lamb in a car and he's driving in Toronto and he's swearing like a sailor now cuz he knows he's on TV uh so you have to cut this out now nope this is going on my channel Vu I don't cut nothing out that's double negative that means I do cut stuff out but that's not what I meant to say I heard Toronto has a really nice chinat toown a discovery District they will welcome us with open arms if we tell them we're from New Egg yeah you'll get happy ending forever there's your happy ending Mr lamb there's even footsteps going up to the right there yep they even put your their fingers in your mouth for you what got to pay extra for that you like tongue the tongue W I put my tongue anywhere you want all right guys we made it to the hotel room it was about half an hour from the airport we're just settling in right now uh we each have our own rooms this time for this trip it's it's pretty cool me step Vu each uh get to have our own beds instead of sharing one big one like that one time it's actually a pretty nice hotel the the last hotel we were in when we were in Toronto for PAX East was a a pretty dinky little place it was cool and all and everyone was really nice but um this is this is like a 10 story building what room service room service is here who is that I'd like a pizza pie oh hello Steve let's have a steak let's go okay we're going to have steak now and it's freezing good thing you brought a hoodie freeezing good thing I brought a hoodie good thing Steve brought a hoodie Mr lamb didn't bring a hoodie and he's going to suffer for it that is nice that's okay because he bought Lobster on my credit card uh so I don't feel sorry for you oh look let's burn this place to the ground morning everyone it is Friday morning in Toronto Ontario Canada and uh we kind of just woke up it's about it's almost noon but um we're out here on the street about to get some food and right next to our hotel is this F place I don't know if you guys are very familiar with f but it's one of my favorite foods it's Vietnamese soup basically noodle soup and um I've obviously never been to this place so I'm not sure how good it is is but I was thinking maybe we'll do a little bit of a tutorial today and I'll teach you guys how to make a decent bowl of f or at least how to prep one so let's let's go in so these are uh bean sprouts um or as I like to call them Vietnamese french fries and uh instead of instead of ketchup you you're supposed to dip them in Sriracha that's you yeah Vietnamese people don't do that all right so here's a b and the first thing you want to do is grab some Vietnamese french fries and dump that in in there just like that they usually come with limes Citrus uh if you're allergic to limes doesn't matter squeeze it in anyway it'll be all right get some lime I I usually like to dump my lime in it afterwards let it soak in the juices and then uh there's there's this leafy stuff what is this basil something like that I just I just put some of it in mint it's definitely not mint cuz it doesn't smell minty at all some some kind of greeny greeny leafy crap I don't know what it is but it's good put it in and then uh hot sauce if you don't like hot sauce whoo all right first first squirt your your friend make sure that he has hot sauce on him and that you have hot sauce on your hand only then can you proceed to putting hot sauce in your soup uh if you don't like hot stuff doesn't matter put it in put in a lot uh take it from Mr lamb he's he's Bea me he's doing it and then there's a poison sauce I know it sounds like poison sauce and sometimes it even tastes like it it's it's basically fish sauce but uh it's uh it's really terrible by itself but it's really good with this stuff if you don't like fish I don't care put them in and there you go and you got to mix it up and uh I'll I'll be back in 3 seconds and there's the finished product and now you guys know how to prep a bowl of f all right guys so we've made it to the gentleman's expo here at the Metro Toronto Convention Center and there's a big giant bird on that stick it's not real don't worry it's time to go inside and see what what they have here should be pretty interesting okay we've got Dove menare excellent oh there's the new egg Pavilion see new egg signs everywhere and uh there that there will be all of our trusted Tech vendors that we'll be interviewing today and they've got a lot of other stuff here that doesn't necessarily relate to Tech but um it it has some way been deemed to be manly enough to be here today so um I guess we'll check out some of that as well probably do a little tour walk around and uh take some shots of all the things that I think are interesting that you guys might find interesting too all right so we just wrapped up day one of gentleman's Expo I believe it was as a was a was it all right so we just wrapped up day one it's been a long day your first attempt was way better than your second first attempt my my first it was like that all right so just an update uh this is history in the making right here uh Mr Lan has created a Twitter account so you can now follow the infamous incredulous Mr lamb on Twitter Mr lamb what's your Twitter handle so people can follow you at mean figurin mean figurines just just how it's spelled no fancy tricks and the reason why the reason for that name is because he's also starting a YouTube channel pretty soon um where he actually does unboxings and reviews and overviews of action figures and he he's got like over three 400 figurines it's crazy it's pretty nuts so uh so yeah you guys should follow him so there's a bunch of white stuff falling from the sky I not sure what it is I'm from Southern California so this is foreign to me I think I think we're experiencing what's known as seasons H very peculiar people look cold I'm glad I'm in a car all right so I'm here at the gentleman's Expo day two and we're at the newa Canada booth and you can see there's a pretty extensive line uh emitting from the newa Canada booth and they're all waiting for Jon Jones or J's Bones Jones who is a uh professional UFC fighter he's actually the lightweight championship title holder I think that's right Steve's interviewing him you should know Steve he's the youngest World Champ in UFC history that's it I don't know I'm assuming he still it I'm just saying yeah I I don't I don't think the line would be this long If he if he wasn't a winner oh yeah so there's Jon Jones and Steve's going to go interview him right now go Steve in the middle so this is a Caesar oh wait video I didn't even realize you're hey you guys are on film you guys are on camera these our friend clato juice in here wearing our ju clato clato juice Jes like full oh I we my PL full can show me all the Canada about you all around so this basically a crappy Bloody Mary it's an unamerican IED of it on camera have a sip of it on all right I have this you say all right get the first sip yes take the first sip even though like I could judge it know there's clam juice in here apparently neure I pass it on next American it is a lot like a bloody mary except it's just got a little bit of a clam F you don't really taste though oh you use different straw well it's not going to be yeah that's true I taste the clam he represents all the Amer wow I'm thank you that was a great experience all right guys we are at the grocery store right now it's called No Frills they have pretty low prices for a grocery store in Canada and we're just getting bunch of chips as you can see and they have no frills and they got no frills here and we don't want no frills we're not looking for Frills we're looking for we don't want no frills a frill is the guy that sing it preach it testify there's no chapstick here no ChapStick and we're also looking for chapstick cuz Steve's lips are dry don't ask him don't ask me how they got so dry but um we have a lot of chips this is my outro for our Toronto Canada Trip it's been an awesome time with Steve and Vu we've met some awesome people and some some people we already knew Tiffany Marta and Casey have all been really awesome they bought us drinks and uh we're going to leave them here today and and we'll be back next time cheers guys any any closing words from Canada to all the Americans at home Canada's better we love Canada's better awesome smokes C and aren't they adorable all right my drink done all right guys thanks for watching I'll see youall next timeall right we just got off the plane we are here in Toronto Canada we've made our landing at the what what's the name of this airport Toronto airport Canada airport but anyway we're going to baggage claim now we're here to cover the gentleman's Expo and if you think there are going to be strippers there you're totally right no probably not I I don't think so they're going to have the finest folks talking about whiskey and how to trim your beard and how to how to be a man and other sexist things that women find attractive and now Vu is about to get arrested so this is this is a good time to stop oh it's Mr lamb in a car and he's driving in Toronto and he's swearing like a sailor now cuz he knows he's on TV uh so you have to cut this out now nope this is going on my channel Vu I don't cut nothing out that's double negative that means I do cut stuff out but that's not what I meant to say I heard Toronto has a really nice chinat toown a discovery District they will welcome us with open arms if we tell them we're from New Egg yeah you'll get happy ending forever there's your happy ending Mr lamb there's even footsteps going up to the right there yep they even put your their fingers in your mouth for you what got to pay extra for that you like tongue the tongue W I put my tongue anywhere you want all right guys we made it to the hotel room it was about half an hour from the airport we're just settling in right now uh we each have our own rooms this time for this trip it's it's pretty cool me step Vu each uh get to have our own beds instead of sharing one big one like that one time it's actually a pretty nice hotel the the last hotel we were in when we were in Toronto for PAX East was a a pretty dinky little place it was cool and all and everyone was really nice but um this is this is like a 10 story building what room service room service is here who is that I'd like a pizza pie oh hello Steve let's have a steak let's go okay we're going to have steak now and it's freezing good thing you brought a hoodie freeezing good thing I brought a hoodie good thing Steve brought a hoodie Mr lamb didn't bring a hoodie and he's going to suffer for it that is nice that's okay because he bought Lobster on my credit card uh so I don't feel sorry for you oh look let's burn this place to the ground morning everyone it is Friday morning in Toronto Ontario Canada and uh we kind of just woke up it's about it's almost noon but um we're out here on the street about to get some food and right next to our hotel is this F place I don't know if you guys are very familiar with f but it's one of my favorite foods it's Vietnamese soup basically noodle soup and um I've obviously never been to this place so I'm not sure how good it is is but I was thinking maybe we'll do a little bit of a tutorial today and I'll teach you guys how to make a decent bowl of f or at least how to prep one so let's let's go in so these are uh bean sprouts um or as I like to call them Vietnamese french fries and uh instead of instead of ketchup you you're supposed to dip them in Sriracha that's you yeah Vietnamese people don't do that all right so here's a b and the first thing you want to do is grab some Vietnamese french fries and dump that in in there just like that they usually come with limes Citrus uh if you're allergic to limes doesn't matter squeeze it in anyway it'll be all right get some lime I I usually like to dump my lime in it afterwards let it soak in the juices and then uh there's there's this leafy stuff what is this basil something like that I just I just put some of it in mint it's definitely not mint cuz it doesn't smell minty at all some some kind of greeny greeny leafy crap I don't know what it is but it's good put it in and then uh hot sauce if you don't like hot sauce whoo all right first first squirt your your friend make sure that he has hot sauce on him and that you have hot sauce on your hand only then can you proceed to putting hot sauce in your soup uh if you don't like hot stuff doesn't matter put it in put in a lot uh take it from Mr lamb he's he's Bea me he's doing it and then there's a poison sauce I know it sounds like poison sauce and sometimes it even tastes like it it's it's basically fish sauce but uh it's uh it's really terrible by itself but it's really good with this stuff if you don't like fish I don't care put them in and there you go and you got to mix it up and uh I'll I'll be back in 3 seconds and there's the finished product and now you guys know how to prep a bowl of f all right guys so we've made it to the gentleman's expo here at the Metro Toronto Convention Center and there's a big giant bird on that stick it's not real don't worry it's time to go inside and see what what they have here should be pretty interesting okay we've got Dove menare excellent oh there's the new egg Pavilion see new egg signs everywhere and uh there that there will be all of our trusted Tech vendors that we'll be interviewing today and they've got a lot of other stuff here that doesn't necessarily relate to Tech but um it it has some way been deemed to be manly enough to be here today so um I guess we'll check out some of that as well probably do a little tour walk around and uh take some shots of all the things that I think are interesting that you guys might find interesting too all right so we just wrapped up day one of gentleman's Expo I believe it was as a was a was it all right so we just wrapped up day one it's been a long day your first attempt was way better than your second first attempt my my first it was like that all right so just an update uh this is history in the making right here uh Mr Lan has created a Twitter account so you can now follow the infamous incredulous Mr lamb on Twitter Mr lamb what's your Twitter handle so people can follow you at mean figurin mean figurines just just how it's spelled no fancy tricks and the reason why the reason for that name is because he's also starting a YouTube channel pretty soon um where he actually does unboxings and reviews and overviews of action figures and he he's got like over three 400 figurines it's crazy it's pretty nuts so uh so yeah you guys should follow him so there's a bunch of white stuff falling from the sky I not sure what it is I'm from Southern California so this is foreign to me I think I think we're experiencing what's known as seasons H very peculiar people look cold I'm glad I'm in a car all right so I'm here at the gentleman's Expo day two and we're at the newa Canada booth and you can see there's a pretty extensive line uh emitting from the newa Canada booth and they're all waiting for Jon Jones or J's Bones Jones who is a uh professional UFC fighter he's actually the lightweight championship title holder I think that's right Steve's interviewing him you should know Steve he's the youngest World Champ in UFC history that's it I don't know I'm assuming he still it I'm just saying yeah I I don't I don't think the line would be this long If he if he wasn't a winner oh yeah so there's Jon Jones and Steve's going to go interview him right now go Steve in the middle so this is a Caesar oh wait video I didn't even realize you're hey you guys are on film you guys are on camera these our friend clato juice in here wearing our ju clato clato juice Jes like full oh I we my PL full can show me all the Canada about you all around so this basically a crappy Bloody Mary it's an unamerican IED of it on camera have a sip of it on all right I have this you say all right get the first sip yes take the first sip even though like I could judge it know there's clam juice in here apparently neure I pass it on next American it is a lot like a bloody mary except it's just got a little bit of a clam F you don't really taste though oh you use different straw well it's not going to be yeah that's true I taste the clam he represents all the Amer wow I'm thank you that was a great experience all right guys we are at the grocery store right now it's called No Frills they have pretty low prices for a grocery store in Canada and we're just getting bunch of chips as you can see and they have no frills and they got no frills here and we don't want no frills we're not looking for Frills we're looking for we don't want no frills a frill is the guy that sing it preach it testify there's no chapstick here no ChapStick and we're also looking for chapstick cuz Steve's lips are dry don't ask him don't ask me how they got so dry but um we have a lot of chips this is my outro for our Toronto Canada Trip it's been an awesome time with Steve and Vu we've met some awesome people and some some people we already knew Tiffany Marta and Casey have all been really awesome they bought us drinks and uh we're going to leave them here today and and we'll be back next time cheers guys any any closing words from Canada to all the Americans at home Canada's better we love Canada's better awesome smokes C and aren't they adorable all right my drink done all right guys thanks for watching I'll see youall next time\n"