Rex Goudie
Simply known as "Sexy Rexy", the
Canadian Idol runner-up is currently
touring with Melissa O'Neil.  SpeakFree
correspondent Troy Scott chats with Rex.
Troy Scott
With JB sick and out of the action for much of February, his good friend and radio host Troy Scott stepped up for this edition of SpeakFree Celebrity Sightings.
Troy Scott-  I have Mr. Rex Goudie with me here.  Now, Rex we met at (last year's charity event) Christmas Miracle briefly.  I asked you for a piece of gum, which you didn't have.  So nothing personal there…
Rex Goudie-  (laughing)
Troy-  Rex, are you glad to be back here?
RG-  Yeah, I like Winnipeg because it's a city but it's still got like a small town feel to it.
Troy- The biggest smallest town in the entire world, my friend.  I can't go anywhere without… well, OK, nobody knows me in town.

Troy- Rex, first of all, congratulations on the two Juno nominations there.
RG-  Thank you.
Troy-  Artist of the Year.  How does that feel?
RG-  That's nuts.  I didn't think I was eligible to be nominated for Junos and to be nominated for those two things, I mean Good Lord.
Troy-  You come from a smaller town than I do.  Burlington (in Newfoundland) has, got, 350?
RG-  350.  That's probably when everybody is home from Alberta in the summertime.
Troy-  So you know what I'm talking about when the new streetlamp gets up, that's a big deal.
RG- We don't have a streetlamp.  We're lucky if we gets [sic] the stop sign put back up where somebody ran into it on a Ski-Doo or something.
Troy-  You miss the Ski-Dooing.  You're a big Ski-Doo fan, right?
RG-  Oh man, I'm going nuts.  (On tour) up in Sudbury seeing all the Ski-Doo tracks going across the lake and that, I'm like "Awww…"

Troy-  Rex, (your former musical group) Purple Monkey Bomb Squad - reunion coming up?
RG-  Purple Monkey Bomb Squad, I got ideas that there's going to be a reunion coming up.  It's good to remember that anyway.  It's always usually a reunion every time that all of us are home together we just get together and have a jam session.
Troy-  That's cool.  And you wrote four of the tunes on this album.
RG- Yeah.
Troy-  OK.  What did you put of yourself into it?
RG-  Just experiences from home, you know what I mean.  "Call Your Name" is written about my uncle who died and a good buddy of mine who got killed in a car accident (last) summer, so it's kind of like a tribute to those guys.  And just basically telling people at home that if I can do it then anybody can do it.
Troy-  Do you play any games?  Are you a gamer at all?  Do you have a video game system on the bus?
RG-  Oh man, Medal of Honor games are the best.
Troy-  Medal of Honor… very nice!  That's cool.  So which version of Medal of Honor?
RG-  I like the first one because it's actual D-Day, you go up on the beach.  I got into European Assault but it's not as good as the first one. 

Troy-  Rex, I know you like the Bruce Springsteen. 
RG-  Oh yeah.
Troy-  You said he's like a hero of yours.  What other Canadian artists are you listening to right now?  What's in your CD player?
RG-  Jim Cuddy, man.  Blue Rodeo… been listening to a lot of that. 

NOTABLE QUOTABLES

'(The song) "Call Your Name" is written about my uncle who died and a good buddy of mine who got killed in a car accident (last) summer, so it's kind of like a tribute to those guys.'
-Rex Goudie
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