Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Jim Richards: Toronto Mike'd #70

Episode Date: February 27, 2014

Mike and Elvis talk about Canada's hockey dominance, Podcamp, whether Mike is really eating a pizza and veggies, Todd Shapiro, and welcome Jim Richards from NewsTalk 1010.

Welcome to the 70th episode of Toronto Mic'd, a weekly podcast about anything and everything, often with a distinctly Toronto flavour. I'm Mike from torontomic.com. Joining me is my brother from another mother, Elvis. And hosting this audio file are the good people at Core Fusion. Elvis, this has been a shitty winter. It's freezing again. It's brutal. I hate it. No relief in sight.

You know, this is proof that evolution doesn't exist. I don't need proof for that. I see it on the comments of the open mic. The creationists are correct. Because if there was such a thing as evolution, early man would have moved away from this fucking disaster a long time ago. We'd all live in Hawaii. Well, we probably wouldn't have been able to get there easily.

We would probably live closer to the equator is what I'm suggesting. Ecuador. No, the equator. Ecuador is a place. The equator is a line. Hence the name. It's true, though. Why the fuck are we living here?

It doesn't make any sense. It is minus like a million degrees outside. There is no hope for any summer whatsoever. But it just keeps getting worse and worse. We have ice storms. We have everything that could possibly happen from a cold weather perspective has happened for a long time this winter. Why are we still here? It doesn't make any sense. But Elvis, this cold weather is what has enabled us to become the dominant hockey nation on the planet.

Gold for men and women in Vancouver. You took a ridiculous, ridiculous argument and made it even more ridiculous. And in, where the hell were we just now? Oh, Sochi. Yeah, Sochi, Russia. Did we talk about this already? It's the first ever hosting city that I didn't know existed until they got the Olympics. Every time I've heard the hosting city, I've actually heard of it.

I'm not sure it was a city before. Maybe that's why. Resort town, maybe. But isn't the story about Sochi that it was pretty much a dilapidated place? It was very outdated. And the Olympics, they injected $51 billion into the town and created basically a whole new place from scratch. $1 billion into the infrastructure and $50 billion into Putin's pockets. Right.

Well, at least people he knew. But did you watch, that's a silly question, but did you watch the gold medal game? So here's the deal with the gold medal game. I was in Florida with the family at Disney World. And watching the Olympics in the U.S. is very, very difficult for one. You can't watch anything live unless you have, what is it, NBC Sports Nation channel? So you're telling me the gold medal men's hockey game was not live on NBC? Hold on, hold on.

All right. I got excited. On the website, so I didn't watch the semifinal game because that was not live on NBC. And on the website, it was listed to be on NBC Sports Nation. So I was freaking out because it was going to be Sunday morning. It's not like as if bars are open bars were open here but i i doubted severely that they were going to be open in orlando so i was doing some of the google magic to try and find something that was going to be available um i didn't trust the streaming in the hotel and so i woke up a little bit early and when i checked the website i realized

that they had decided to move the game to be live on nbc so i was able to see every single second of that game um and was nervous right to the very end because we can never forget toronto boston if toronto had defense like this team canada it would have been different. If any team had defense like this, it's this super defense. I mean, it was unbelievable. It was a clinic. It was a clinic. It was an absolute clinic.

Yeah, it's a case study. In six games, we allowed three goals. One to Latvia. I watched the replay many times because it was a trick play because the guy goes off right away to one end of the boards and then the guy jumps off at the other end

so he loses the coverage and then he gets the breakaway pass right away like it was a set play that fooled us and then he did a great great shot to beat price but that was a defensive clinic and it was amazing and we're dominant and the woman's game was like the most exciting game i've ever seen i don't know if you caught the woman's game in florida probably i didn't see it live but i was able to see the replay when we were having dinner that night. Insanity, because I'm like, okay, I said what every Canadian said with like three and a half minutes left, which is, okay, we need one now. We need one now, like the obvious.

I was following the game live on Twitter and Facebook. Admittedly, I was kind of like, oh man, this sucks. Like this really sucks to not, not just lose, but to get shut out. And then all of a sudden my kids were napping as well at the time and I'm in the hotel room. So I can't cheer because otherwise I'm going to wake up my kids. And then that's, you know, if for those of you who have kids, waking kids up from a nap is, is, is really shitty. Uh, so I'm like doing the like massive air pumping and fists and everything and my wife is lying down with the kids in the bed too but she wants to know what's happening and it was just a

ridiculous ridiculous scene but i was able to see it and here's my deal with the women's game yeah i had a a friend of mine on on social media who was i think he was just trying to be a dick, but he was suggesting that it was, he was taking Peter Forsberg's side that it was unfair that all four referees for the men's final game were going to be Canadian. And I called him out on it and I said, look, if you want a game officiated like the women's final game, fine.

But referees are professionals as well. I want the best players and I want the best officials on the ice for that game and a good good referee is not going to jeopardize their integrity correct no way because they want to work again this is the world state this is the olympics once every four years i mean they're just as excited and proud to be playing and and and working that game as the players are um and so it was quite obvious that that game was very well called whereas the women's game it was that was a disaster well i gotta say

when we were down 2-1 with the goalie pulled and that referee body checked our player at the blue line to take her away like i've never seen i've never seen that ever it was just bad positioning by the and that's uh you you've got a extra man to get the tying goal with like less than two minutes left and to throw the body and basically so that's terrible first of all because now the puck's out of the zone but the fact that that puck hits the post if that puck goes in oh man we can't a we can't win that gold medal and b that referee is at fault i couldn't believe what i just saw how great is it that within seconds of that post saving the the the game for canada that there was a twitter account set up for the sochi of course so right next to like pharrell's hat or whatever amazing now i got a question for you about the officials

because you i didn't even hear audio in the replay um were the official who are the officials for the women's game are they men are they women that was a woman it was a were they all four of them are women so where do they where do they where do they get their uh like because there isn't really a women's professional isn't it now i'm gonna sound stupid here but isn't there a woman's league like where all these players play like there has been different incarnations but i'm not sure like it still exists oh because there's they play for some team somewhere play for who was the governor general that donated her name to the is the adrian clarkson clarkson cup so they play for the clarkson cup but i'm not sure where

this actually yeah i don't know i just know that that definitely was a woman so okay so that that was i didn't know if it was like junior refs or like no i don't maybe like maybe university i actually don't know i gotta play yeah i don't know the woman's game is funny because i will only watch well i watched all the canada games actually this olympics but uh typically i only watch olympic games featuring canada or if it's a world championship canada versus usa and that's always the matchup i will actually if it's at a good time slot and the world championship is canada usa i'll tune in did you not watch did you not watch russia usa no i did not watch you did not no no wow see i watched that i will watch that i will i won't

watch fucking ice dancing see i'm gonna actually watch good hockey i will know what the fuck uh no i missed it but i probably was busy i don't know if i was around i would watch great game it was a really good game and it was the only time one of the the very few times that i actually was cheering for team usa it is easier i found it a lot easier this time around to cheer for team because of castle jbr i agree i agree yeah so good good for canada good olympics third place overall and we won all four the medals that we care most about and are considered to be beer sports oh yeah hockey and curling correct and that's that's running the gamut man that's the uh it's beautiful that's the grand slam uh just a quick update for everybody and you on future guests so merrick was supposed jeff merrick was supposed to be in today

and he had to get fitted for a suit and then he had something he had to do for rogers sports net he had a really good excuse so he wanted to come in next week but i'm gonna tell you more on that in a minute but he's coming in next week uh we have uh down goes brown oh nice is coming on but he's gonna do it via skype okay because he's in ottawa he's in ottawa right and but yeah he's in two weeks uh the program director at 88.1 adam thompson is coming on to answer all my questions that were skirted by our friend alan cross so for people like sammy and andrew stokely and all these people who want to know why how they get the playlist and why it's narrow and repetitive when it shouldn't be because it was so glorious and it's soft launch when there were no ads and what happened to the throne of glory and when am i going to be on the throne of glory all this stuff i'm going to

ask adam about in a like a few weeks question for you if your wife was 34 weeks pregnant would you make a would you go on a short trip trip to Germany or is that like a no-go because my wife is 34, 34 months, no 34. 34 months. Was she an elephant? She's an elephant. Jesus. How does pregnancy work? What is that? If your wife was 34 weeks pregnant, would you go overseas? That's a good question. Depends on, uh, I'm guessing it's for business. Absolutely for business. Yeah, it's for pleasure. I need some time alone. Well, see, I guess the question would be, if you don't go now, how soon after the baby comes can you actually go?

If it's a routine pregnancy, I know you're a doctor, so I can ask you this, but if it's a routine pregnancy and, you know, everything's okay with whatever, placenta and what's that thing, the cervix and everything's okay. See, I know these terms because I go to the ultrasound. You don't know anything. I do, I do. You do not know anything. Yeah, I do. If everything is okay with the cervix. Yeah, because if the placenta is too close to the cervix,

there could be complications that cause an early C-section or something. Now, hear me out. If it's a routine pregnancy and it's your first pregnancy, so I wouldn't know for what that's worth, but it's a routine pregnancy, 34 weeks to leave the continent for like less than a week. That's a fair calculated risk. I'm not going to miss the birth of my son. Tell me. You could very well miss the birth of your son. Absolutely.

Wrong answer. But would you, if you was for work. You could. I'm not saying you will. Is it okay that I am going to Germany next week? You are going to Germany. Yes.

So this isn't a question. This is not a question. So I am going to Germany next week. Hey, you got to do what you got to do. I know. If you don't go to Germany,

then maybe you don't get to pay the mortgage. I got to go to Germany for work. I'd rather go now while I don't think she's going to give birth to my son, then push it, or I have to go right after the mortgage. I got to go to Germany for work. Uh, I'd rather go now while I don't think she's going to give birth to my son, then push it. And then, or I have to go right after the birth. I'm going to go. It's not going long, less than a week. And then I'm going to come back

and then it's March break. And I got the kids all week cause they're not in school and life returns to normal. But just so you know, and I got to talk to Jeff Mayer. I would like to know what a lady would think about this. Cause my opinion is, is my opinion is if you got to talk to Jeff Merritt. I would like to know what a lady would think about this. Because my opinion is, my opinion is if you got to do it for work, do it for work. But if you can push it off, push it off. But then the problem is, is how long do you push it off for? Yeah, I mean, I feel- What's the time where you then feel okay

to leave your wife with your brand new baby who she has never experienced being alone with a baby before? At what point in time do you experienced being alone with a baby before, you know, at what point in time do you leave her alone with that situation? Right. That might also, that might be even worse than leaving her now at 34 weeks and causing her some anxiety by you not being here. Good answer. That's what I'm thinking too.

So I will be gone next week. We'll talk about when we record next and I got to talk to Jeff Merrick. How long are you going for? Just like I'll be back Sunday night. So when do you leave though? Wednesday morning. So you leave Wednesday morning, come back Sunday night, right?

Well, so basically by the time I've like acclimatized to being six hours ahead and the all-nighter flight, I will be returning home. Going to Europe is easy. It's coming back. No, I'm actually opposite. And I've like, I've done six times in the last few years and I can tell you it's the exact opposite

because you leave in Toronto time, you leave to go to Europe, and then you have the, well, whatever, like nine hours of flight, but you're also going six hours in the future. So you land the next morning. Oh, you do the red eye. Oh, screw that.

Well, you always land the next morning because of that eight, nine plus six. I leave at eight o'clock in the morning. I have never, all my flights to Europe have always landed early german or whatever europe time and then uh unless you had a good sleep on the plane which i've yet to do unless you had a good sleep on the plane you basically just pulled an all-nighter and now you got a day in yeah the way to do it is to leave eight o'clock in the morning which is how i usually go and then you land in the evening have dinner uh have a late dinner and then go to bed i'm doing it wrong uh yeah then you're in the evening, have dinner, have a late dinner, and then go to bed. I'm doing it wrong.

Yeah, then you're good. That's the way to do it. Mike, trust me. I was lucky enough to be invited to present at something called PodCamp Toronto. Have you ever heard of PodCamp? Have you? You ever seen this hashtag?

Do they let gay people in? Well, yes. I'm pretty sure they do. I'm pretty sure they do. I'm pretty sure they do. I was thinking it was a Boy Scouts thing. PodCamp. I have never heard of PodCamp. So this is at Ryerson, and there's a bunch of interesting presentations on things like

podcasting or social media or different things of this nature. So I presented. Actually, just shortly after the gold medal game, I went down to Ryerson, did like a 45-minute presentation. I had my PowerPoint. I think I was kind of funny and charming, and I had lots of good questions. It was a full room, standing room only, there to see Toronto Mike talk about podcasting.

So I want to thank Kareem for inviting me. What was your theme? Podcasting 101. Right, so what you've done to be able to become number three. Like how to start your own podcast. I did have a screen cap of me number three. Was there a picture of me in this at all? No.

No one. Come on. I'm trying to keep them engaged. I noticed the – I like the photos. It was nice to see that. I'd like to take a look at your slide deck. In fact, I actually think I'm going to uh your slide deck i'd be in fact i actually think i'm gonna blog it is something i do for a living and i'll show you right after this might

have been a little busy that was my initial sort of reaction but uh you know i'm also an asshole oh yeah well okay well i'll show you after and you can tell me what's busy uh i i try to do it with like an image i like the way who was taking pictures who was there with you because it was obvious that you you weren't taking pictures of yourself no uh these are pictures i saw on twitter so people would like oh wow okay yeah so i pulled them down from twitter i've done conferences like that before and then when you're done you just look at your phone and you realize oh that was the best part actually was when i checked my phone when i got home and saw that i had so many mentions because like most of your cloud score goes through the roof it's great i i don't know what that is but i hope it's high well you got to sign up for it come on mike get with it the uh so

i just want to say yeah thanks to karim for inviting me to pod camp and if anyone here is listening because they saw me at pod camp how you doing do you know this person or yeah well i he was a humble and fred super fan who he tweeted once that it was his dream to appear on the Humble and Fred podcast. And then my friend, Johan Ackrey, tweeted that, you know, Toronto Mike can actually make that dream happen. And I'm like, that's like the lowest, that dream. No problem, man.

Like some people have big freaking dreams. Like I can't help you with that. What's the dream? Like I want to stick a finger in one of their buttholes or what? That I could probably make happen. So I actually like... That would be amazing. I could do that.

Fred, I got a question for you. Now sit down. Fred would be okay with that. I think Howard would be more okay with that than Fred. Yeah, well... I think Howard would be all for it. Howard's into some kinky shit. So I wrote him an email and I said,

hey, super fan, Karim wants on your show. Can you put him on? and i said hey superfan karim wants on your show can you put him on they said of course so he was on the show and then i actually uh what some company sent me to the miami heat versus toronto raptors i am ford no it wasn't ford i'd remember that it was something to do a baby changing dove maybe dove for men dove for men sent me all right yeah yeah but didn't you get something from old spice as well that big case or something did you see that yeah i have it downstairs stinky man uh it was the biggest suitcase of like why are we we're showering later aren't we that's what's happening yes we talked about this that's like a religious ritual we're gonna try out the the shampoo and the body the

body soap i want you to get right in you up i want you to get right in there my undercarriage is really stinky right now i didn't yeah well this will take care of that old spices guys i'm sure that my undercarriage now i totally forgot what i was talking about but basically crim and then i he was actually coincidentally monica and i are at this like heat versus raptors and then sitting beside me is carim oh wow coincidence he's there anyways and then he reached out and wanted me there and i was happy to do it so that was really really freaking cool awesome were people paid did people pay to go to this or was this like a there were sponsors so but no no one paid to go right okay cool but they're big name sponsor gm was there wow in fact gm was in the audience and i'm your gm people my gm people one of the gm people caitlin was there and then i'm like i was talking about how there's

this podcast is not sponsored and then i said in my presentation i see gms in the room uh nice general motors toronto mic has a nice ring to it and she wrote me an email say she was going to bring it up to her boss and our mutual friend natalie natalie love now so it's on some kind of agenda i don't think natalie's listening but i love natalie too she's nice she's filipino you know yeah so is carlos lazy yeah i just? I thought he was a Spanish guy. I believe he's Filipino. Carlos is my Starbucks boyfriend. Filipinos have Spanish names.

Do they really? Yeah. They were conquered or something and they got all these Spanish names. Maybe they were a Spanish colony at one point. Definitely. They belonged to everybody at some point. Now they're free. Now they're free.

And they had one Olympian because I saw the're free and they had one olympian because i saw the opening ceremonies and there's one lonely guy i love you know what i hate the opening ceremonies but i enjoy the the marching of the athletes into the stadium because it is it is neat to see see the different athletes and that mexican guy the mexican skier guy who's who's not mexican i think he's he's from uh some san mar or something, some very small place. And he skis in the Three Amigos outfit. It's pretty awesome. That's cool.

Yeah, it's pretty awesome. Did you see the Lego movie? I have not, but everybody has told me that it is amazing. It's great. It's fantastic. So I know my boy is getting big and stuff, but I use my kids as excuses to see these really good movies like that. I'd use them to see the last Muppet movie. I'll probably use them to see this next Muppet movie.

And this Lego movie, can you go to a Lego movie without a kid? I would. You would? I love Lego. I saw the police escorting a single man out. What were they doing? Were they masturb like with a huge bowl of lego this is amazing all right so i took my son to see it last saturday so just to say to anyone

who's got a nephew or a niece or a kid it's really good right it's amazing yeah what a great movie you know what i it's a it's it's a it's got to be a slam dunk because all of those lego sort of themes that they have they obviously can talk about like there's lego batman so batman can be in the lego movie there was batman cameos there was uh millennium falcon shows up with chew don't tell me one more stop shaquille o'neal that's all amazing i'm i'm i'm excited to see it. But it's not necessarily – so your kids are a lot older than mine. I don't necessarily have the ability to go – How old is your oldest? Four and a half.

So I don't necessarily have – You didn't close the Lego time. Yeah, I don't necessarily have the ability to go out to a movie with them. I've taken my oldest to a movie once. We saw Turbo, and she cried in the middle of it. I don't even know Turbo. Turbo was the one with Ryan Reynolds and Paul Giamatti. They're little snails and the snail wants to go really fast.

I missed that. My kids are too old for that one. So it was actually kind of cool because the Ryan Reynolds snail character, who's the main character, he gets infused with nitrogen or nitrous oxide from a car to go really fast but the whole process of him becoming super fast is very much a play on of the spider-man thing where you see all the dna and all that stuff that freaked my daughter right out and she was ready to freak me out right crying and thought we were gonna have to leave but put her on my lap and she was good so taking her to a movie or escaping to a movie is difficult. I wouldn't waste going to a movie theater right now on the Lego movie. I'd probably wait for it to come out on Blu-ray.

I really want to see Wolf of Wall Street. Excellent movie. My wife and I saw American Hustle in the theater, which was good. But I really want to see Wolf of Wall Street. Wolf of Wall Street is better. And yeah, I loved it. You'll like it. Quick question because you're of Italian descent, right you're still of italian descent so are your mom and dad

italian uh neither my father is neither my father's cecilian what's the difference that's like saying i'm not canadian i'm ontarian like sicily's part of italy it is but people from sicily very much identify themselves as sicilian well that's stupid that's. That's like the guys, I'm from Holland. You're from the Netherlands, and you're from Holland. Holland's a province. Holland's a province, yes. Okay, so you are Italian, as I suspected. And my wife tells me something, and I said I'd confirm it with you today.

So for lunch, I have these Lebanese pitas, okay? They're like 100% whole wheat pita bread. Pitas, but Lebanese style or something. Some Middle Eastern Lebanese style. Like a kebab? It's like a pita. Okay. I will put on this pita, I will put on homemade tomato spaghetti sauce.

Homemade tomato sauce. How is it homemade? Do you make it? Well, Monica makes it in a slow cooker and it's very good. But she, well, you know, there's canned tomatoes and then stuff, but it's very good. It's very good. So the tomato sauce goes on the pita. Then I put on mozzarella cheese, okay, that I've grated and mozzarella cheese on top.

Who made the cheese? Kraft? No, it's not Kraft. It's Salani. S-A-L-A-N-I. It's from the cheese? Kraft? No, it's not Kraft. It's Salani. S-A-L-A-N-I. It's from the deli section. Sure, okay.

It's not Kraft. Come on, man. I'm not putting sliced mozzarella cheese on it. This is like, I grate it myself. It comes in a ball. Is that Black Diamond? It comes in a ball. No, Salani.

And it comes in a ball, and I grate it myself, and I put that on top. And if I have like pepperonis or whatever, I'll put that on top. But then it goes in the oven at 400 until it's got like a nice golden brown kind of crispiness. And then I take it out and I eat it. And I'll eat this. Good for you. Okay.

What's the question? Monica says that's not a pizza. Monica is a smart woman and is absolutely correct. That is a pizza-like product. Whoa, whoa, whoa. It's a pizza-like product, perhaps. Stop the clock. Okay, Ronnie.

Okay, I'm not Italian. I love it. The pita, it is a crust. It's round, it's flat. It's pizza crust. And I'm putting sauce and cheese on it and then I'm baking it. And it tastes and looks like pizza uh why is that not

tell me why that's not a pizza first of all you're using pita bread as your crust and that's so it's bread basically what it is is you're putting tomato sauce and cheese on bread and toasting it which is an open-faced tomato cheese sandwich which is fine i mean it's a pizza like product but pizza itself is you have to have dough preferably dough that you've made yourself you roll out the dough you put the tomato sauce on you put the cheese on you also then put other toppings on because you're you're eating like a pizza that's made for someone who's in grade one first of all cheese pizza and then you you know and then that's irrelevant whether it's made for grade one. My point is it's a pizza-like product.

At some point, that pita was dough. I'm not doing that part. It's like if you bought ready-made crust. No, it's not pizza. You agree with Monica it's not a pizza? I generally agree with Monica on almost everything.

But I don't trust her because she's not of italian descent like what does she know about pizza she's more spanish than you are so which is close to italy close enough yeah they're big on pizza it's not pizza crap like i'm gonna i want to hear okay you know what el duche is all italian right he's full-blooded italian correct so he tells me he's a full-blooded something he's a full-blooded italian correct so he tells me he's a full-blooded something full-blooded asshole sometimes which is great all the time when he's il duce he's like batman like he is bruce wayne and he's batman i'm connected to a bruce wayne on linkedin by the way there's a guy named bruce wayne on linkedin it's amazing anyway um i want to hear what el duche has to say i'll do it in the comments of this podcast if you're listening listening. Well, no, let me call the fuck is pizza.

Can you fucking pizza? Can you sing for a couple of seconds? I'm not singing Lionel Richie all night long. Riff, as they say in the business, I'm going to call him. I've never I just what the heck, right? You're going to call El Duce right now. Yeah. Wow.

Do you think he answers the phone El Duce or does he answer the phone with his real name? And also, this is good practice. We're going to call... Again, I didn't set it up at all. We're going to call Jim Richards in a minute. That's going to fail. He's like,

who the fuck is calling me at 8.30 in the morning? Do you think anyone will ever answer a call we make in his back home? That should be the thing. This is actually just a YouTube sound clip of a phone ringing. That's right. Have a nice day. Oh, and I love the idea of us calling Jim Richards every week and him just never answering.

Well, that's what we said last week. It would be a bit. Hello, you've reached the voicemail box of Anthony Petrucci from Palma Pasta. Please leave a message after the tone. The tone, please record your message. When you are finished recording, you may hang up or press pound for more options. Il Duce, it's Toronto Mic'd. I'm here on the Toronto Mic'd podcast with Elvis.

Hey, Paisano, how's it going? We have a question about what is a pizza. So don't call me back because I'm not actually going to answer the cell phone. The question isn't what is a pizza. So don't call me back because I'm not actually going to answer the cell phone. The question isn't what is a pizza. The question is, is the piece of shit that you're making a pizza? And it's not. He's putting fucking pita bread in an oven with cheese and tomato on it and saying that's pizza. Tomato sauce on a Lebanese style pita bread uh with mozzarella cheese on top of the tomato sauce

and the tomato sauce is made in a slow pepperoni or whatever and the tomato sauce was made in a slow kick cooker by uh the lovely monica anyway we'll try again another time he's out ciao there now i know like a pizza it's close enough he's a shit one last thing since we're talking about food before we called jim richards from the big 10 10 talk radio station which i can't remember how it's branded these days how's it branded right in a news talk 10 news talk 10 and that's the thing and we got things to talk to him about because uh john tory yeah who's taking over the show did they announce god we're gonna find out now maybe it's jim richards i'm gonna find out and then we get the exclusive and then you need that news that news sound exclusive like the

ticket exclusive oh speaking of my new sounds i have a new sound we gotta save it though we haven't for what are you gonna like touch your nose yeah right. My apologies. I'll put my finger in your ass. Elvis, how's your relationship with green vegetables? Normal, I think. But what's normal? So you enjoy green vegetables? Absolutely. Green beans, broccoli. What else have we got there?

Lettuce, cucumber. Sure. Okay, good. I like green vegetables. I wish I liked them more because i want to eat more green vegetables in my diet so uh my my lovely wife helped me out she doesn't think that's a pizza but she says we can get more greens in me if she adds them to a smoothie that we enjoy every evening so we uh she she has a blender called the. What's that sound effect you're doing there?

And in the blender, she throws in stuff like oranges and bananas and avocado and stuff, flaxseed and stuff like that. But she also throws in kale, chard, which I didn't even know existed. Kale, chard, and baby spinach. So why are you, what's that raspberry? I'm just imagining. Raspberries too. I'm just imagining that that's the noise that's happening in the Toronto Mike household after you drink that smoothie. No, come on.

I'm as regular as my coffee here. This is fucking methane, methane heated house. It's amazing. You didn't notice when you walked in the smoke? Well, it clears overnight, right? I mean. All right. So are you going to tell me now that's not

veggies because i'm drinking them well it's interesting that you would bring this subject up because we didn't actually even i we didn't talk about this we don't talk outside the podcast i've been introduced to a book that uh i've uh i purchased recently i haven't read it all yet what's it called it's called the short guide to Long Life. And it's written by a doctor, a real-life medical doctor, who gives – every chapter is basically – it's about the size of – imagine an iPad mini. My daughter owns one. It's a very small book. And every chapter is maybe two or three pages. And he lists out things to do every day to live a long life.

For instance, it's all backed up by pure data. So we know that people who cohabitate live longer than people who live by themselves. So one of the examples is you should cohabitate. You should own a pet. Studies have shown that people who have a pet live longer. Establish a routine in your life. Always eat at the same time every day. Go to bed at the same time every day.

Wake up at the same time every day. All of that leads to a longer life. One of the things that he talks about is multivitamins. You should throw them all away because there is absolutely zero data that he says exists that proves that multivitamins does anything do he said he says that they actually it's it's today's modern day um snake oil salesman and one of the things that he talks about is juicing okay but this is not just but continue but this is this is it's similar but but juicing is different because this is

everything's there the fibers everything but his his his his theory is that as soon as you put a raw vegetable or fruit in a blender, it immediately becomes oxidized and loses its nutritional value relative to what it was when you first put it in. So he's not saying it's necessarily bad. He's saying that you're not getting what you think you're getting when you put it in a blender so the better way to eat that kale and chard would be to eat it raw or steamed as opposed to putting it into a blender did you learn about this book from howard stern uh he has a similar book with similar rules i heard him telling robin this list one day yeah he was he interviewed the doctor this is the doctor that helped cure robin her cancer. Okay. Can I just, and I like, that's a very sensible good list there. There's another one that's, it's like change your bed sheets once a week. Whoa.

Like wash them once a week because it helps you have a better sleep when you're sleeping and clean. So it's not just crazy woo-woo shit. It's eat cold water fish three times a week. I'm not doing that. Stuff like that. So it seems like it's really easy practical stuff so i'm gonna have a short life as you're telling me i don't i don't

know about that but okay so that's interesting my uh and obviously don't smoke that's an easy one there's a lot of there's a lot of common sense things in the book too i just i recently uh heard a different list that was similar but they brought up the same stat which is that people who cohabitate live longer yeah like 11 years longer or something that's pretty crazy i never realized that but then if you step back because i actually heard this i think i heard it from humble i think humble howard yesterday i think anyway i stepped back and i thought about it and i realized the same traits that make you like undesirable to hook up with another human being are the traits that will kill you kind of deal so the same the people who are like drug addicts or alcoholics or just, just miserable

negative, just miserable, negative, like unhealthy people are the same people that can't get somebody to marry them. Sure. And there's always going to be exceptions. I mean, we could have people, we, we know people in our lives that are super uber negative and they have a family and they have kids and maybe they live to be a hundred years old. But I think the, the thing I like about this particular book, cause I know that there's a lot of things out there that tell you, you should do this, that. And the other thing is that it's all backed up by data and, and the data is, you know, you can't,

you can't argue with the data. But what I'm kind of, I just realized that I came into this podcast thinking like I'm having a pizza and vegetables and I'm now leaving this podcast realizing that it's not a pizza or vegetables. Well, I think that are, it's certainly not a pizza, but I think the thing about the vegetables and I have to, I have to read the book more. I haven't read all of it yet, but I think his argument is not so much that it's bad for you. Like, I don't think he's suggesting don't do it. I think like vitamins, uh, I think what he's suggesting is that you're not getting what you think you're getting by blending your vegetables and fruit as opposed to just eating it raw fair enough okay i'm going to dig up this uh number we called last week when we tried to

contact jim richards are you ready with your questions i am ready i've got some questions i'm gonna ask him if he fucking juices and if he watches fucking ice dancing that's my oh the ice dancing for sure that's my go-to question okay did you ask what's his name well jason agnew i asked and jason agnew he was the last guy uh yeah yeah it was good by the way did you hear it do you ever hear any of these no i told you i don't but not even the alan cross one or the todd shapiro? I do want to listen to them. I will. I got some stuff to say about Todd Shapiro in a minute. He's actually going to come over in a minute.

So does Jason Agnew... He doesn't watch any Olympics. He didn't watch any Olympics. What? None of it. Really? The best part is... Are you ready for this? This is my...

So I'm doing the Jason Agnew. Because he used to be the commissioner of our hockey pool. That's right. I think he even attended once. And I'm now the commissioner. And I said to him, I talked to him about how he once divided into two pools

so two people could get Crosby. And I refused to do it. I'm having one pool. I don't care if it's 20 people. And I said to him off the top, I said, I don't care how deep we go. If somebody has to draft Colton Orr,

so be it. That was my comment. Do you know what he said to me? What? Who's Colton Orr? Get out of here yeah that's what i took away from that interview what happened to him i because then i thought okay does he know like the third i didn't ask any follow-ups like once i heard who's colton or i

realized this guy has dropped out he's he's into wrestling and so he's still into wrestling yeah he still hosts live audio wrestling every week it's still on it's still on like it's on 10 50 i say that i feel bad it's still on yeah yeah he's still the host but and he knows his wrestling and he knows his uh mma uh he does not know his hockey because he asked me who's colton or mma yeah i don't see that they took the live audio wrestling i guess they call it the law so they don't think it's the wrestling and it's like wrestling and mma like they i guess that makes sense but um he should also do ice dancing because it's about as real as uh as wrestling all right we're gonna do this now i've um i know we practice some mma moves in the in the shower there when we try out the old spice do you think we can do that

of course we can do you think do you think jim's to be able to hear us? Do you think Jim? That would be amazing. If we get through it, he can't fucking hear us. That would be amazing. Hey, Jim Richards. How are you? Good. It's Mike from Toronto Miked.

I knew who it is. Hey, it's been a long time, man. I don't think we've seen each other in a few years now. How are you doing? Probably good. I'm good. Maybe three or long time, man. I don't think we've seen each other in a few years now. How are you doing? Probably good. I'm good. Maybe three or four years, yeah. I think I was visiting Howard when he was at Boom. Yeah. Yeah, and then I think I saw you in the hallway. And then when he was promoting that slime that men do... You were back in here as well, yeah.

Yeah, I was in there watching the recording and seeing how it works. But thanks for doing this. I'm here with my co-host, Elvis. Hey, what's going on, man? Hello, Elvis. How are you? Good. How are you doing?

Good, thank you very much. Big fan. I'm just walking into more of a secure area. Yeah, because we have a few hard-hitting questions for you. If you could spare a few minutes. Thank you. I want to apologize for last time when I was sick and I turned my phone off. Oh, dude, that made for a good bit, though.

We had a good time. Well, I'm sure it did. At my expense. Do you know, Jim, you know how, Jim, which one is it? Fallon? No, it's the other guy. Kimmel. Kimmel.

You know how Kimmel would always have Matt Damon on, but they would never get to him? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was thinking like every week we try to call Jim Richards. Well, let's call Jim Richards and you just never answer. Yeah, well, I could have done that this time, but I would have needed a bit of a heads up. I have so many friends in the area code you're calling from. See, I don't even know what I called from. I have no idea because I use Google and it just picks like a – it's probably a California number.

It's a random one. I don't know. Whatever 760 is. Oh, crap. I have no idea. So is now a good time for me to pepper you? Yeah, it's a great time, yeah. Okay, wicked.

First question because it's timely and we're always timely on this podcast. We're always timely on this podcast. John Tory, he was a fellow broadcaster on 1010, just announced he's dropping out. So my two questions. One is, do we know who's going to get John Tory's old time slot on 1010? Well, I think there are two. First, no. I think they're trying a couple of people out.

And second, I think John does pretty well in that time slot. You know, I don't want to curse him or anything, but if he does lose, I think they'd be happy to have him back. So I'm not going to say that the people who go in there and if they do a good job, they wouldn't be rewarded with some other opportunity. But I think that John, if he ever wanted to come back, they would love to have him back. But I think they're trying people out right now and that doesn't mean that they don't like the people that they have, but they're just going to be throwing in a bunch of different combinations of people. And some of the people that I think that they like have other jobs that they don't want to give up. And so there are a lot of conflicts. And you'll have one guy who can do three days and some other person who could do one day.

So it might be a hodgepodge for a while. So no truth to the rumor that Jim Richards is stepping up for the big time slot there? Not unless I knock a couple of people off. And then I wasn't planning on doing that. So, yeah, I don't know that that is going to happen. I would be open to the opportunity. But I'm also really happy with my shift. I mean, I don't know.

I get out of here by five and it's pretty good. What time do you arrive at the office? I'm here at about seven, seven in the morning. You know, I don't know if I don't know if I ever told you this, but you're actually the by far my favorite 1010 personality. I think you're I think you're freaking funny, man. I'm one of the top five people. I think you're freaking funny, man.

I'm one of the top five people. It's by far in a city of hundreds of radio people on one station. I am your favorite. Well, that's very nice. And yeah, well, you're one of my favorite of all, of all the, of all the hosts. But a quick question. So I used to listen to you. Thank you.

No, no problem. It's truth. I wouldn't blow smoke up your ass. Elvis hates it when I do that. So I used to listen to you. Thank you. No, no problem. It's truth. I wouldn't blow smoke up your ass. Elvis hates it when I do that. So thank you. I used to listen to you on 590. Funny, like an irreverent. I remember like late nights, like just I'd be listening to you and you'd be doing like just different shit that was just hilarious.

But I have. Yeah, I had so much fun there. And I'm not sure what happened to me. So it was, it was such a great time. And, uh, yeah, that was, you know, that's go ahead. So, no, I was going to say that was when you first, um, uh, you, you're, I mean, according to a lot of people's memory, um, a lot of people would suggest that you gave George Strombolopoulos his first sort of go at being on the air. Yeah, I think Spider says that he did, but I think, you know, at that point, at that point that, you know, we, if you were on from midnight until 3 a.m., you were just looking for a warm body sometimes if you weren't getting phone calls.

And I think George was reporting Raptor stuff. And yeah, come to think of it, I think it was me. I was doing a segment on weekend mornings where when people still use pay phones, where I would do like a trivia segment. One of the things was find George and he would call from the pay phone and give like a landmark.

And so the first person who could find him on a Saturday morning would get whatever the prize was. So he would drive around the city and stand there from the phone booth and just giving hints. And at that time he was, I think, a technical board op or a producer. Nice. The other thing I remember is, uh, from, uh,

I remember listening to the fan as, uh, when you, when you guys were on Holly street and way back when you were, I think it was a 1430 that you guys were on. Yeah. 1430. Yeah. Um, the other personality that, that sticks out in my mind as someone that I really, really enjoyed hearing. And maybe it was just because she had that female voice that none of you guys had was Barb DiGiulio.

Um, sorry, how was your, how was your time with, with Barb? Cause I know that you guys had worked together. How, how, how's that? I think it's funny. Barb is just down the hall right now because she's going to be on Jerry Agar's show on his panel. So it's funny. That's funny. It was a lot of fun working with Barb.

We probably were the two people who loved sports at that station but weren't geeky about it. So, you know, to throw us on in the middle of the day, and if you're, you know, just a stats maniac and, you know, just a fanatic to have Pete, two people on who, you know, did a fun show that was, you know, that was, you know, it was definitely sports, but it was, you know, you know, that was, you know, it was definitely sports, but it was, you know, wasn't necessarily the kind of really, you know,

hardcore sports stuff that maybe people wanted to hear. And we were still kind of rookies into the, into the talk thing at that time, but we, we had a lot of fun and Barb is, I think, you know, a great personality, not just a great female personality, but a great personality and a fantastic person. Did anyone ever, and do they? But it's funny. Yeah. It's funny.

When I was there, sorry. No, go ahead. Go ahead. The ratings came out once and, you know, we had this big meeting and the guy, oh yeah. The difficult thing then was not to make excuses, but I don't know if you remember, I think it was 94, the baseball strike. Of course.

Went right into a hockey strike. Yeah. So we were on the air in middays. And at that time in Toronto, just like I would say maybe this time in Toronto, maybe it's more the Raptors. But at that time in Toronto, there were two sports. And this time in Toronto, maybe it's more the Raptors, but at that time in Toronto, there were two sports, and it was hockey and baseball. They were just coming off the World Series thing. So those were the two big sports that people were talking about,

and we had nothing, absolutely nothing to talk about for two hours other than negotiations. And when you talk about for two hours other than negotiations. And when you talk about negotiations, that gets into the Rob Ford territory of people just getting sick and tired of hearing about it, no matter what it is. And that's when you pulled that fantastic April fool's day prank, right? The disco five 90. Oh yeah. Um, yeah, we went, I went all disco.

And I think I went all beautiful music on a couple of like for an hour and nobody said anything. So do people actually fall for that? Pardon me? Do people actually? I would have random phone call requests, but I got no serious complaints, which kind of gives you an indication of how many people might have been listening. That's funny. It was 1430. When you pull a stunt like that, you'd hope to light up the board with uh complaint phone calls but exactly i've got only got ones and twos of

them do people uh ever confuse you with mike richards um yeah all the time in fact i got into a conversation at a toronto rock game with Brian Williams of the CTV, Brian Williams. Oh my. And he was talking to me for about 45 minutes until I realized that he thought I was Mike Richards, but I, it's not that I didn't want to,

it's not that I didn't want to tell him to save my own ego. I just didn't want to tell him to make him feel bad. So I continue the conversation where. And I guess, you know, if you if you think me and Mike both had the same last name and we were both doing goofy stuff back at the fan, it might be easy to confuse them. back of the fan, it might be easy to confuse them. But I allowed, I talked to him for another 15 minutes without, it took me like a while to realize that he thought it was Mike Richards. And then at this point I thought, I can't disappoint this guy. I don't want him to think.

No, at that point you're invested. Yeah, you got to keep going with it at that point. You should have called him. Yeah, at that point I was real, I just didn't want to make him feel dumb or anything. But at that point I just considered continuing with the make him feel, you know, dumb or anything. But at that point, I just considered, you know, continue with the conversation. You should have called him Ron or something. Yeah, I should have. I should have said, don't you work at NBC? Ryan Williams, never heard of you.

Well, the reason I asked is because I remember when they announced Mike Richards was coming back to Toronto and and they were like, former 590 funny guy coming back, Mike Richards. And I distinctly remember having to explain to commenters on torontomike.com that they were remembering bits done by Jim Richards. And there was a lot of confusion, I think, over Mike Richards versus Jim Richards. Yeah, two funny guys at 590 at the same time, and now back in this big market. I could see Brian Williams making that mistake. Well, if somebody remembered my bits in the same kind of breath with Mike Richards' bits, that's pretty nice. But yeah, I had a lot of people asking if I was going over there, and I was like, nope, that's a different guy.

That's funny. over there and i was like nope that's a different guy that's funny uh do you get uh i like do you have reasonably free reign at 10 10 or do you ever get like a note like okay you were a little hard on robbie ford yesterday like is there any interference no there's never ever been any interference uh other than you know there's i think there's concern right now about, and it's concern, not a direction. It's that, okay, are we talking about Rob Ford too much? Even though this might be a serious development, does it really change the story that much? Are we just talking about the same thing from the same angle and we're wondering if we're burning it out.

We try every day to talk about what people want to talk about, but also the host has to be passionate about it. So Jerry Agar might not be passionate about the same things that I am, but I've never really been told what to talk about. I think, you know, we'll wait for the ratings to come out and, uh, and if they're good, uh, they'll say, okay, keep doing what you're doing. And if they're bad, they'll go, yeah, you're either out of here or what are you talking about that people, uh, don't like. So I've never really got any direction.

Sometimes I've been asked, uh, why did you talk about that? Do you think anybody cares? And then I'll explain why I thought that it was important. And they're like, okay, I see your point. Do you think you'll get any direction and not necessarily just you personally, but the entire station on how to handle a former colleague now running for mayor? Do you think that will be a concern? Yeah. I don't know. You know, we probably should. And I hope that I'm fair. I mean, I've always said that I'm a big fan of Rob's policies, but I'm not sure that, you know, the sideshow is the way to go about doing it. So listen, I hope I'm fair, but I, I guess a lot of people are going to come from the perception that,

you know, they know that he used to work here. And if we're bashing Rob Ford, that that's probably the reason why, but I think I just found $10 in this chair. I think that, yeah, I really hope that I am, but, you know, I think we're human beings, so it might leak out sometimes. But listen, I think there's a lot, too, that people will have in their head that, you know,

that guy knows that guy, so, you know, he's not going hard on them. And so no matter what you say, people might be predisposed to prejudge that kind of thing. And it's nothing new for 1010 because I mean, for a long time, the Ford brothers had a show on 1010, right? So Doug and Rob were, yeah. So I mean, sure. I mean, I mean,

and we were allowed to say whatever the hell we wanted then. And I think enough of us, I mean, I think, you know, Jerry and John and saying that that was rehab for him, reputation rehab. And then John Tory pops up in front of some TV cameras talking about something. It's like, these guys just need to get their face on TV. face on TV. And so I think that that might be something that you could, you know, poke fun at John for like talking about things that people don't really necessarily want to talk about just to get their face on TV.

If somebody else is getting too much TV time. Exactly. If you were buying a loved one, a special ring, would you go to Spencer Omni? Spence or Omni? I would go to Omni only because I would think that I could say where I worked and maybe I would get a deal about that. I guess Spence advertises here too.

Well, that's the thing. I've been told they both advertise on 1010. Yeah, they do. I'm going to have to say Omni just because I think Jack knows who I am and I'm not sure that the Omni guy, whatever his name is, or sorry, the expense guy does. Yeah, the annoying guy. I don't know his name either. Yeah, the annoying guy who out of the gate knows that he's annoying. He's annoying on purpose, right?

I guess that's what he was going for. I have a question for you. As a former amateur broadcaster myself, there was a few people that I looked up to as people that I really enjoyed listening to and people that I tried to emulate a little bit. Who are those people maybe early on in your career that you like to listen to and that you really looked up to as broadcasters? It's a good question because when I wanted to be in radio, I wanted to be a DJ.

And then I found when you're a DJ, unless you're doing a morning show and with respect to DJs, that it's just like you're working on an assembly line. You've got 30 seconds to talk. And at a certain point there, it didn't become about the music anymore. It just became about, you know, they didn't want smart people talking about the music. They wanted, you know, time and temperature and say the name of the band. So for a while growing up, I used to listen to the Six O'Clock Rock Report,

and it was a really, really fun show. And different incarnations of it, whether it was Bob Makowitz Sr. doing it by himself or Bob Makowitz and John Derringer or John Derringer and Steve Warden, I always thought it was a really smart, funny show and probably, I would think, maybe one of the best radio shows in Toronto in the past 30 years. So I would say it.

When I was a kid, maybe, you know, morning shows, Jesse and Gene, Jake and Jesse, those kind of things. I grew up more listening to Q107 than I did any other radio station. You remember The Champ? Yeah, for sure. That was a big deal at my high school. Like every day we'd come in and do The Champ we heard that morning. Yeah.

And they were always pretty clever, I thought. Pass the tea, bag. Yeah, but we were at an age where sometimes... My favorite one was, they went out to buy makeup for... Oh, blew your wife on your face. Yeah. Dude, that was one of my favorites, too.

He chipped. He spent a lot of money on makeup for your wife. Yeah, I blew a lot on her face. And then I hit him in the solar plexus, and he went for it. Yeah, so where is he now? Where is Brother Jake? Do we know? Vancouver.

I think he was in Vancouver up until about a couple of years ago doing mornings on Rock 101. Now I think, I don't know. Between gigs, maybe. I think they tried to throw him into a sports morning show the way they put Don Imus on the fan in New York. Right. But, listen, I'm not saying anything bad about Jake, although I guess it's going to come off as sounding bad.

You know, Imus was doing, you know, outside of the racist stuff, he was doing smart interviews with politicians and stuff like that. I'm not sure that Jake is doing that. I think he might be still fart jokes and stuff like that, which I'm not against. Nothing wrong with that. Hey, thanks. I think I asked you for five minutes

and I just stole 20 minutes from you. That's no problem. It was nice finally being able to connect with you guys and I hope you have a great show. No, thanks. We're going to call you every week, that's no problem. That's no problem. It was nice. Uh, finally, uh, being able to connect with you guys and I hope you have a great show. No, thanks. And, we're going to call you every week if that's okay.

Yeah, please. I just tell me that you, you're going to have to bump me. No, that's great. And thanks for doing this, Jim.

Thank you. No problem, man. Take, keep up the good work. Yeah. Take care. Thank you.

Bye. That was awesome, dude. That was awesome. That was, and he answered the phone. He answered the phone and he answered all our questions. Uh, I, dude. Bye. That was awesome. And he answered the phone. He answered the phone, and he answered all our questions. You know what?

I thought it was really classy of him, with my amazing question about who he enjoyed listening, that he picked Toronto-based individuals. I thought that was a real classy move. But he did kind of... Oh, you're right. I get confused by AM stations. The dude's on 640 now, right? Jim Carroll.

Bill Carroll's on 640 now. Because he was on 1010. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. But he didn't pick his colleague because that would be a little... It would be. But he's in... I can't...

He's in LA. I can't ever figure out where Bill Carroll is. He's in Los Angeles. But wasn't there time... He was here, though? Yeah, of course. At. But wasn't there time – he was here though? Of course. At the beginning of his thing and now he's back there? No, he got a gig in Los Angeles and he moved to LA.

Yes, I knew that. And then he got a gig on 640 and he – no, he never came back. He always did it. He does it from ISDN. All the time from there. All the time. All the time. That's got to be hard, man.

That's in – this is a different coast and it's got to be difficult to sort of have the pulse of of what's going on up here but i don't know he does he does a good job so he does a good job uh we didn't ask him about the ice dancing the most important question we're gonna have to call him but you know what um who who asked that question omni and and and spence because that's okay yeah so i read that in your comments. That's where I got it from. I don't know who advertised on 1010. That's so great.

I was going to ask about Boney M, but I didn't understand the context, so I didn't want to go there. I could tell that we were running out of time. He said five minutes, and he gave me 20. Somebody asked if he had ever been to a Boney M concert. I don't know if that's random or if that is something And I don't know if that's random or if that is something.

Do you ever listen? I don't know. It's almost as random as bringing up the champ. He brought up Brother Jake Edwards. That's not random. It's so great. Jim brought up Brother Jake because he listened to him. You know what?

We should try and interview the fucking champ. Yeah. I love that guy. Look, I'm still working on Maestro Fresh West. I'm trying to think of people that you're gonna invite you know what to interview uh well yeah i already promised when i have the guy from 88.1 uh andrew stokely wants to be in this on the third mic so he can just i think he just wants to beat up uh poor adam like this adam's gonna bike over playing commercials and trying to fucking make money at a radio station he's playing too much of that team come flawless. Come on, Stokely.

Come on. Stokely does not like 88.1. Stokely, come on. It's fine not to like it, but you can't like it because the guy's trying to make a fucking buck. Well, I mean like – Hey, he's running a radio station and there is a pretty clear sort of formula as to how you run a radio station and make money. Sure, you can run a radio station and play what you want to play and have this sort of utopia world where you get to actually run a radio station

and play music that you think should be played all the time. But fuck, they got to make money. They got sponsors. No, yeah, and I'm going to ask all those hard-hitting questions how they get their playlists. Of course they're going to have a shortened playlist. And of course they're going to play commercials. And of course they're going to have DJs

that talk up a song in ridiculous ways. But that's just the way that it is, right? Right. Todd Shapiro, former guest on Toronto Mic, episode 67, I think. He is starting his daily podcast. It's also going to air on Sirius XM. And he starts it Monday. Right on.

So really soon. And he's coming over. Good luck, Toddy. I'm building him his website, thetoddshapiroshow.com. Nice. So that's full disclosure. The Todd Shapiro Show.

He's got both domains, toddshapiroshow.com and thetoddshapiroshow.com. Both resolve at the same site. Which actually, I'm supposed to have it live tonight because he's going to have a party tonight which i was invited to but can't make because i'm taking my kids to high park to skate but i uh so it's going to be live for tonight is he sort of in that place where he's trying to figure out if it should be called the facebook or the star wars or yeah that's right he's in that space right now so i thought the or the? What do we say up here? Either works.

Is it? Either or either are acceptable. So, yeah. So if you're a Todd Shapiro fan, you can hear him. Do we know what channel? Is it? 168. It's the same channel. Canadian comedy or whatever.

Canada Laughs. Canada Laughs. That's what it is. So that should mean lots of laughs. Right on. Maybe we can go on his show and stick a finger in his butt. I'm coming on his show for sure, man. Right on. Well, stick a finger in his butt i'm coming on his show for sure man right well stick a finger in his butt then i'm gonna have to do it on howards i'm gonna do that

or fred sorry i'm gonna do that for sure i'm gonna do that bring the old spice i'm really looking forward to that shower big boy it's coming up in a couple minutes so she's oh everyone should promote uh promote everybody should pledge my ride to conquer cancer because I'm trying to hit 4,000. Did you get my donation? I know, actually. Oh, weird. You're a survivor, aren't you? That's so strange. Aren't you obligated to pledge? That's so strange. It's strange that you haven't received it yet.

Don't be an asshole. I'll give it to you in the shower. Why would anyone listening pledge in the shower? Now, you know what? Mike is a good guy and he's doing something really, really good for cancer survivors. And I encourage everyone to pledge. Mine is on the way. But please, pledge Mike. He's doing a great thing, and I can't think of a better way to celebrate 40 years. And if you go to torontomike.com, in the top left corner, there's a link to pledge my ride.

And that brings us to the end of our 70th show. You can follow me on Twitter at Toronto Mike and Elvis at Oshawa Elvis. See you all next week. from a tin Cause my UI check has just come in Ah, where you been? Because everything is kind of

rosy and green Yeah, the wind is blowing