But the highlight for me was getting to talk with Mike Myers, he's someone I grew up with and whose array of classic characters are about to get expanded.

While I didn’t know this bit of info, it seems that Mike rarely does press and to get him in a roundtable is even rarer. Some of my other press friends who’ve been doing this for many more years said they’ve never interviewed Mike so I knew it was a special day.

Thankfully he was extremely nice and had no aura of celebrity. In fact I would recommend listening to the audio that way you can hear the way he answered the questions and his extremely friendly attitude.

Anyway, while I’m working on transcripts I wanted to get this bit up immediately. The reason is I hadn’t heard anything about this upcoming project and figured you hadn’t either.

His new movie is called "The Love Guru" and he talks all about it. And if you listen to the audio you’ll hear a lot more than what’s written below. The reason is we talked about this at the end of the interview and people were talking over each other so getting the exact wording would be impossible. Rather than misquote, I’d rather you just listen. The key info is below and I think you’ll dig reading about how Mike develops his characters and what he puts into them.

Look for much more later today.

Frosty: Are you currently writing anything right now and who do you think is going to win the cup?

Mike Myers: Oh, gosh. The problem is that hurts.  The hockey one.  We’ll, I’ll make a prediction the Leaf’s are not winning the Stanley Cup. Ah, the pain every year. Why do I put myself through it?  I get so emotionally involved.  Buffalo, I didn’t watch this last week, I just got too busy. Buffalo is still doing good? 

Frosty: They are tied.

MM: They’re tied?  They’ll win.  I predict Buffalo. Now, on the other thing.  On the average I take about three or four years between movies, because I create them, then I write them, then I produce them and then film them.  In two months I’m starting a movie called ‘The Love Guru’ which I spent the last two and a half years developing. I came up with this character and I would tour it in theaters in New York.  Just have little secret shows. The Marx Bros. used to tour their movies for a year before they filmed them. I did this same process with ‘Austin Powers.’  When I did ‘Wayne’s World’ I had ‘Saturday Night Live’ to tour it.  When I left ‘Saturday Night Live,’ I toured ‘Austin Powers.’  And the last three years I’ve been developing ‘The Love Guru.’ And now, it’s at Paramount and I’m shooting in August.  And after that there is a slot and I’ll probably do the Keith Moon movie.  That’s also been in development at that time.  You see, when you write stuff…I didn’t write Keith Moon, that’s Donald Margulies, a Pulitzer prize winning playwright. He wrote an amazing, brilliant script. But, he invited me into the process, like, ‘What did you think? What did you think?’ And I’m like, ‘Great.’ ‘The Love Guru’ -- the average movie takes 60 months from the first kind of ‘Hmm, could this be a movie on the screen?’ to it being on the screen. I tend to take about 36 months. But, I am there all 36 months.

Can you tell us about the character?

Yes, he is a Canadian who is raised in India, becomes a guru and helps the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.  (big Laughter) Yeah, I feel like I did hog, did you want to ask?

Where would you take it if you had the cup?

Where would I take it?  They are so propitious of the cup; they probably wouldn’t let me near it. But, I’d it to Lake Ontario and swim with it.