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Don Cherry is back with a new show, a podcast called the Grapevine, which aired its first episodeTuesday morning on streaming platforms such as Spotify.

The show comes after Cherry was fired by Sportsnet for addressing what was interpreted to be new immigrants on Nov. 9 as “you people” and criticizing them for not buying and wearing Remembrance Day poppies.

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Sportsnetsaidit was “the right time for him to immediately step down.” And with Cherry’s firing, his former Hockey Night in Canada sidekick Ron MacLean announced on Saturday that Coach’s Corner is “no more”.

On Cherry’s new podcast, he got into his dismissal from Sportsnet.

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“Evidently I said something and everybody knows what I said, and I offered to explain … not an apology, but I was going to smooth it over. They made conditions that made it impossible for me to do it. I just couldn’t do it. And I guess I bite the bill, bite the bullet, and I don’t know what else to say,” said Cherry on his podcast.