crazy chicken's club

For those of you who have not seen the show this header is a quote from Kevin, one of the dragon's. He rarely likes an idea, it totally preoccupied on making money and if you are out there far enough he refers to you as a crazy chicken.

The couple in the black and red are inventors of a toe nail polish removal system. He is a podiatrist and had painted his toe nails for his pitch.
These thumbs up photoguys were actually returning from season 2 with another invention. They were clearly here for the free advertising and had no interested in getting a deal with the dragon's.

The people in the above photo may be familiar to some as these guys were returning from last year. This is Chris and Emmanuel the inventors of the fruit picker and owners of the hippie fruit picking company. This season they are back pitching van go TV. (www.vangotv.ca)

I never did find out how this guys toilet was different. We will see if he is on the show.

I did some calculations and figured that approximately 50 % of the pitches will end up on TV.

These gals in blue invented a type of game. I am thinking they might face the fire of the dragon's as they usually are not too keen on games.

Go

Here Noah is practicing his pitch for the final time.




Hanging out in the "green room"




CBC studios is just down the street from the CN centre

set

Here the set director and the props director are deciding if they can allow me to come out of the box.


Molly our producer is explaining our pitching plan to the floor director.




Pictures from the den
Jim's pile of money. Apparently it is real
The floor director


Some people just want to have fun or get into trouble
The idea is for the director to tell all the pitchers were they are going to stand and work out final placement for props.

Ready

Putting the box together with my new friend Ben. Ben is 3 years old. I stayed with Ben and his family Craig and Esther. Craig was my treeplanting boss over 20 years ago. Boy do I sound old

Noah helping put the shelves in the unit.

The finished box with Noah as my Vanna White.

CBC

We thought we would stop by the studio a day early to ensure a drop off time for the box.

Arriving in TO

We shipped the box flat. It ended up weighing in at 93 lbs. A little ackward carrying through Union station when we arrived in TO. We had to shuttle our stuff back and forth to the street.
Our stuff was too much for a regular taxi so we had to wait for a van taxi

The long and winding train

As you can see Noah and I went a little nuts on the train. Actually it was really a cool way to see the country. Everyone was laid back and we had lots of interesting conversations.

I think we counted 19 cars in our train. Each viewing car contains a kitchen and dining room. First class passengers were behind our car where they had more room and sleeping bunks.

Friends on the train

The dining car was small, so we had the opportunity of joining with other people and sharing conversation.
We got to hang out with some young "tree planter" type people. None of them were actually tree planters but I think you know what I mean
Chris and I had an interesting discussion. He just came back from visiting his grandchildren and he lives just outside of TO.
Here Paul is helping Noah with some of his math homework. In a lot of ways commuting by train is kind of like living in a village.

... & water

Trees and Rocks

Once we hit this sign we thought we were close. In reality we were less than 1/2 way there.