Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Toronto Mike'd #73

Episode Date: March 28, 2014

Mike and Elvis chat about Toronto's sports teams, Arthur Chu, Mike's drinking, Elvis' taste in music and much, much more.

Welcome to the 73rd 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. Welcome back, Elvis. Is this live? Fuck it, we're doing it live. So great. So great.

What's going on, Mike? What do you think of the new space? It's nice. There's a big fucking echo in here. I don't know what Soakley's talking about, but this's like i'm in an echo chamber so so-called audio guru you know what guys it's fine don't worry about it you know like whatever you can take care of it later oh yeah he keeps saying oh my god he keeps saying i have other things to worry about i don't even know what he's talking about like content for one content would be the first thing you need to worry

well we'll talk about that but um i think he that. I think he thinks Monica's in labor now. I've left the birthing room. I forget the terminology. Birthing suite, actually, they call it. I left the birthing suite to come record this. Yeah, well, you should have stayed in the birthing suite

because the sound fucking sucks. Sorry, Stokely. Did you listen to that episode? Of course not. Then how do you know? How the hell do you know? Because I'm in the studio right now and I can hear the echo. I was told by Audio Guru that these microphones are so good that it sounds a little echoey live, but it's actually recording fine.

Well, it is really annoying, actually. And I know I'm busting Stokely's balls here but i do hear an echo in my headphone so maybe it won't come out in the recording i won't ever know because i won't listen but do you think i fucked with the knobs he fucked with my knob that's for sure hey now how about those motherfucking leaves eh yeah you can i got a i got a beef to to just one just one because you know when i haven't recorded in a while i got a few things lined up for you every single fucking year you do the same thing tell me you call you you make prolifications you you use your blog as a way to to be a prophet

and just tell people sermon on the people what is going to happen. And it's so ridiculous. I've been right a couple of times. You have guaranteed, you guaranteed, like, what was it, three weeks ago, that the Leafs were going to be in the playoffs. I never did such a thing. You did. I have no recollection of this guarantee.

You said, I will pull it up, motherfucker. You put in your blog, the Leafs will be in the playoffs. Wasn't it like an 85% chance? And here we are, here we are here we are a mere few weeks later and they've shit the bed literally and figuratively and uh the chances of them making the playoffs now are pretty pretty bleak i stand by my if i said that then i stand by it we're not out yet we just have to win some games we're not out but we're not in no well we're like right on dancing i saw detroit lost in regulation last night.

For the first time in a while, I rooted for the Montreal Canadiens. So I was watching March Madness, of all things, and then I flipped over for the end of that Montreal-Detroit game and found myself rooting for the Habs. I think we've got a pretty rough ride. I mean, there is a conspiracy theory out there by our good friends who are Leaf fans who suggest that the leafs have tanked on purpose because they want to play Boston in the first round.

Stupid to enact. Can I ask you, where does this come? Tell me, where are you? Uh, so they can, you know,

where this is actually like, seriously, who are these people? And where did you hear that? It's on Facebook. You have friends on Facebook that think we're tanking on purpose, much like I'm doing now. And unfortunately,

most of the the fucking audience doesn't realize when someone is being sarcastic um but that that's that's the only way to really explain and hopefully you know have some comfort in the fact that the leafs know what the fuck they're doing which they don't there's a okay first of all we have a jesus bernier back which everybody thinks is our lord and savior and not sure how that is well if he can stop like 70 pucks a night we might have a chance right okay so i will say it's all the goaltending's fault that we're in this situation right i will say this is a in my opinion atrocious defense that leaves play and they basically hang their goalies out to dry and you're required to make several brilliant saves

a game just to have a shot before that though before you even get down to players, I'll go back to what I initially said way, way, way, way back. Our problem is with the general manager. And then our problem is with the coach, who is shit. Never been a good coach. I don't care if he's won a fucking Stanley Cup. Look at his team. He had Niedermeyer and Pronger on the blue line when he won that Cup. Look at his team stacked.

If Ron Wilson, I can't remember who it was. I think it was Damienx brought up a good point if ron wilson had suggested that his goaltender didn't play well the media and the fans would have ripped him a new asshole yet last week what does randy carlisle say he says that uh james reimer played all right i think didn't we rip him a new asshole? I did. We did not. We did not. We did, but the media did not. I don't think Carlisle is a like coach. He gets such a big fucking pass, and I don't get it why.

He's not a good coach. He's not a good coach. I don't know anyone who thinks he's a good coach. The media fucking loves him. All you hear is he's a great coach. He won a Stanley Cup. Blah, blah, blah blah i don't fucking care oh fuck the media i don't i don't care what the media says how many bad players and bad coaches

have won the follow toronto mic on twitter he's been telling it like it is okay glenn healy has a fucking stanley cup for christ sakes come on that's true have you looked at his kiprios as a cop there you go they have the same ring right uh yeah they do they do they They have the same ring, right? Yeah, they do. They do have the same ring. Look at Healy's fucking career save percentage. It is below nine. It is unbelievably bad. But he played in an era where he was a useful tool and was able to maintain a spot on the roster. Okay, let's do this. So Leafs suck right now.

Horribly. They're going to miss the playoffs. Okay. I don't know if they're going to miss the playoffs so much but uh i think that in their first round fodder i think at the in the summertime you will see a brand new coach i hope even even if they make the playoffs these are all burks guys it's time to move on unless they get to the second round there which they won't uh you're gonna see a brand new he's a shitty coach i mean i watched that 24 7 forget the fact he couldn't figure out the toaster the guys the, old school, just go out there and play better.

You guys don't play good enough. There's no coaching. There's no modern approach. He's horrible. He's horrible. He's definitely a Berkey guy, right? But it's time for changes. And I've been saying that even when they were winning.

Have you seen Berkey lately? He looks like a porcupine. Oh, my goodness. Because he's got the long hair and he's gelling it back. And He looks like a porcupine. Oh my goodness. Because he's got the long hair and he's gelling it back and he looks like a porcupine. Apparently his son was quoted as saying that he's bugged his dad about it and Berkey's response is, because you hate it, that's why I'm going to grow it longer. And that's Berk in a nutshell. That is Berk in a nutshell.

Just for fucking spiting everybody else. Fuck him and his cease and desist. By the way, that's going to go on the wall. It's going to help with the acoustics. Beautiful. Beautiful. I'm going to have it on parchment. So, okay, that's Leafs. I want to bang this off because you are the TFC season ticket holder in the supporters

section, and you were there for the home opener. So tell me, because I'm following lightly, but I did listen to that game on the radio on my way to the Leafs game, but we're 2-0 with three goals from this bloody big deal. I always want to call him Byron Defoe. What's his

name? Jermaine Defoe? Talk to me. Is this really happening? Is this a competitive team that's going to make the playoffs? Okay, well, let's check ourselves here first. You said they're 2-0, which also means that this is the greatest start in Toronto FC history. Which is pretty

ridiculous. That's all you need to know about this franchise pretty ridiculous but uh yeah quality quality matches is what we're seeing here for the first time we're seeing a game plan being executed we're seeing mid a strong midfield presence we're seeing actual defense and i actually know some names for the first time like i know michael bradley's in there and he's playing well he's a he's a fucking horse this guy and gibralte or gibralte there's a brazilian guy what's his name gilberto that guy yeah and the canadian is back d-ro not de rosen but de rosario de rosario yes. Yes. It really is. Toronto FC certainly is, you know, in your upper echelon of MLS this year, favorited to, in some polls, to win the championship.

It's going to be a nice, fun season, provided we stay injury-free. They're the real deal. They really are. They've got the talent. And, you know, Jermaine Defoe, two games, three goals. His first two touches he scores this guy is he's he's brilliant and he's just going to eat mls alive because he still has that

sort of quality that a lot of guys who come over from overseas don't have anymore in their career and i read an article that he's auditioning for the year the uh england world cup team well this is the this is the question mark now is that he was never sort of in the conversation. If anything, he was a periphery. He's kind of like a – I guess the equivalent would be like a Dion Phaneuf kind of guy. Like he was playing well. He was, you know, played for one of the bigger teams in the league. And so maybe people thought that he had a chance, but in reality he didn't. I think that's sort of where we are with the foe.

But you never know. I mean they have, you know, a large roster that could be injuries you never know you could see him playing for england based on how he's been playing at the end of his season with tottenham and then obviously coming over here exciting exciting uh raptors do you follow the raptors we don't i don't think we ever talked raptors do you follow the raptors you know i'll follow them you know on the i kind of like how you follow tfc i know who the players are i know when they win and lose but you know watching an entire basketball game to me is just mind-numbing it's it's i'd rather watch an nba game though than i watch a college basketball game like the last thing i want to do is watch

an entire basketball game and the score is 35 33 like give me a fucking break that's the half that was the halftime score yesterday you go like you go like five minutes and no one scores anything like i i you know it's a long shot clock but defense doesn't sell tickets people i i watch a lot of raptors and i watch entire games but you're right if you just came in for the fourth quarter you're fine like just come for the fourth quarter they're a fun team to watch they are a fun team to watch and certainly having uh success in toronto from a sporting perspective is unique obviously so i think the raptors and the and the and the tfc have the ability to sort of steal the show here without a doubt this is the best rap and i follow them since day one this is the best raptor team and the most fun to watch since that uh antonio davis vince carter charles

oakley like 2000 so great this is the best so i say this is right now i'd put it the second best and people are saying that this team is better because that team, they said, just outscored everybody. This team is actually playing good basketball, all-around good basketball. It's really entertaining. And, yeah, they're in the playoffs, which is going to – they might have that playoff spotlight to themselves. Isn't it – they've locked the playoff spot up, right? Well, I remember when they won last game, they said something – I saw some tweet about how Rudy Gay, if he had somehow, would play a role in whether we clinched that night.

So I think it depended on the game. I think we've clinched. I think we've clinched. Awesome. So Raptors are doing well. TFC is doing well. Leafs are going in the other direction. And let's talk quickly Blue Jays because last year at this time. You're not going to talk Toronto Rock?

No. You know what? I got to get a flag for this. You're a big fan of Toronto Rock. You know, we're very close to Mimico, which I'm told is like the lacrosse capital of canada or something lacrosse is big in mimico and uh also in um well durham region i'm trying to remember if it's pickering or whitby but one of those teams oh okay like we're uh we're the the Whitby, maybe. The NHL players, like Shanahan and all them are...

But that's Mimico. Okay, not Shanahan then. One of those, Gary Roberts and all those fucking guys. Whitby. They came out from there. I think it's Whitby. So, okay.

So Whitby and Mimico. So the championship every year is Whitby versus Mimico. Right, sure. So we won't do rock. I don't have a clue what's going on there. But the Blue Jays. Okay, so last year at this time,

I was really excited because my brother told me we were going to win the World Series. And I was back when I used to trust my brother because he follows sports so closely. How could he not know what's going on? I keep forgetting. Sorry to interrupt you again. All right. Is this the brother who predicted the World Series win? Is this the same brother who loves Andrea Bargnani?

Yeah, that's the same brother. Which is still one of the greatest action shot photos on your blog. Every time we call him out, though, he says he didn't love Andrea. He said, in fantasy sports, Andrea Bargnani was a producer, I think is what he said. He's garbage. Remember, at some point, didn't this guy average 20 points a game? No. I think he had a little tiny run where he actually averaged like 20 points a game.

Well, I think he would hit threes, right? that's what he could do is hit three yeah he's the tallest guy you can only hit he didn't have any inside tallest guy who never went underneath the basket i'll take an amir johnson over a andrea berniani every day of the week he's the tallest perimeter player known to he's like dirk nowitzki without the drive and talent. Without driving, talent, no under-the-basket vision one time. So Blue Jays, it looks like exactly the same team. We got rid of Aaron Sibia,

and that's the only thing that's kind of different. This is pretty much the exact same team as last year, and last year's team sucked. So, you know, maybe we'll be better, because maybe that shortstop will be healthier, and maybe Dickey will pitch better. But we're not a playoff team, so it's already done. The best case scenario is to finish third. I think we'll finish fourth at the best in this division. The Jays are done. I heard this particular analysis, and I think it was by your boyfriend, Elliot Friedman.

You know, I had brunch once at Avenue Road in Bloor, and he was in the stall behind me. And I was like, a colleague and I were having brunch, and I was listening closely because Elliot Fried he was in the stall behind me. And I was like, a colleague and I were having brunch, and I was listening closely because Elliot Friedman was in the booth behind me. I've had lunch with Elliot Friedman. That's even better than being in the booth beside him. He's a nice guy. He's a nice guy. Would he come on the podcast?

I could ask him. Because Jeff Merrick, every week I get an email, the nicest email from Jeff Merrick telling me, he's so sorry, his schedule is jammed this week, we've got to do it next week. I really want to come in. Every week, I think he's just copying and pasting you know what there's two guys that i that i know that i that i should ask one of them i've already talked to you about and elliot's another good one that i should ask so i'll ask him uh and both of them have uh the reason why i know them is we have

the same radio roots and david clarkson can you get me him fuck him i want him in here no fuck him so what are you gonna say about uh about Elliott Friedman and the Blue Jays? So I think his analysis was, and I agree, is the Jays season lives and dies by how well Brendan Morrow pitches. Right? If Brendan Morrow pitches like he's supposed to pitch, which is a pretty big long shot, then the Jays have the opportunity to actually win and get a wild card spot. Because then you've got three number one starters, right?

Three starters who are actually capable of carrying that heavy 150 to 200 inning workload. You're not counting Rico Romero, are you? No. So you've got those three starters. You've got at least the American League's best bullpen. You've got a better defense, I think, than last year. And you don't have as much power, but you still got,

you know, you're going to score. I think that that game where they were losing 6-0 and then came back to win 9-6, that's going to be the J season. You add in Morrow there that can actually pitch. I think you have the opportunity

to at least have some fun baseball in July, August, September. Okay, and I think if Morrow wins 30 games, we still miss the playoffs. Really? You think so? Yeah, that's what I think. And I also think that last year I thought we were going to win the freaking World Series and we were shit. This year, I think we're going to be shit and you watch. We're going to win the

World Series. I'm all over this. I'm going to go to the show. So, Jays, we'll see. But I'm not very optimistic. I had, I was like. Don't get me wrong. I'm not, I'm not optimistic. At this time last year, I was physically aroused. You were. It was unbelievable.

I couldn't hide it. I couldn't get it. Again, with your... You couldn't get it. The media, again, the same media that praises your Andy Carlyle. I told you. Not to listen to them?

I told you on your fucking blog. A lot of people last year at this time were pretty excited. Very excited. Very excited. Very excited. I got it. I was anxious, excited as well, but not to the point where I was saying they're going to fucking win the World Series.

Okay, so that's it for Toronto sports. Real quick, I know you don't give a shit about this, but we're going to do one minute on the mayoral, mayoral, mayoral, mayoral. Mayoral. Say it. Mayoral. Are you sure? Mayoral.

So it's like mayoral. Mayoral say it mayoral are you sure mayoral so it's like mayoral mayoral mayoral race a i o u a i o u and sometimes why remember i'm not uh professionally trained do you remember who said that where was that from tony danza said that and who's the boss he's practicing for some sort of speech he's looking in the mirror samantha was like my. Yeah, I think she was a lot of people our age's first crush. I used to see her in Teen Beat. Right beside Corey Fellman? Yeah, pretty much. The Corys were all there. That's right.

Was it Corey Hart, Corey Fellman, and who's the dead guy? Really? Corey Haim? He's the Toronto guy. All I want to say is two things. One is this. It's March still, still right and this election is in october this is way too early for this kind of intensity where we're analyzing responses in one of the the hundred debates that are going to happen before it's way too early it's like

it's like you said only watch the fourth quarter of the raptor game honestly tune into this mer merrill tune in who's that that? Is Merrill a candidate? Merrill Hemingway. Tune in Labor Day. Labor Day. This is ridiculous. And I actually have a keen interest in municipal politics, as you know. And I can't stomach it.

I can't do it. You know, so my predictions are at some point before Labor Day, the mayor will be arrested. It won't. Not a single supporter of ford will actually leave his side because he was arrested and the winner will be either olivia chow or rob ford um i hope it's olivia chow but i no longer i can't make these grandiose statements anymore because i i just don't know what this guy so one of those two guys will win and hopefully uh the people who don't want ford all unite on the same team instead of splitting the vote.

It's American-style politics at its worst, absolutely. I'm not sure why they— Ford's fault because he campaigns 100% of the time. No, no, no. So he starts campaigning. The other guys have to join in. I'm just talking about municipal politics. It's not just about that.

They're campaigning in Oshawa for Reagan. The mayor hasn't even said whether or not he's going to run again. So it's happening across—Mississauga,uga too it's happening because hazel stepped down it's american style politics at its worst there's no reason why we need to have the the nominations open on january 1st there we could easily have them open on july 1st and uh and off you go and even then it's longer we have federal and provincial elections that are like three months not not even right. Some of them are like 25 days. They could right now call a provincial election for like they could call it for like May 1st or something.

And then have the new premier in place before they even have all the candidates registered. It's unbelievable. So, yeah, I agree with you. I think it's just nuts. And certainly, you know, all of the other stuff that goes around is is uh is really just you know ridiculous but you also have the the two candidates that you mentioned uh there really is no sort of surprise out of any any of them at all whatsoever rob ford is rob ford i don't if anyone surprised us anything that has happened you're give your head we know exactly what he's gonna say we know exactly what he is and we also know that he will he's the kind of guy like let's say you uh let's say you went to buy a new car and it was on sale for 20 grand less okay and you buy it you would then say you would then say that you uh you saved you saved 20 000 right

so you might have paid 20 000 for the car it was regular price 40 you now paid 20 000 so you saved 20 000 right correct right so this. So this what Ford does is he presents what I call he presents savings as as taxpayer savings as opposed to like budgetary savings. Like he's essentially doing he's doing math that says he saved a billion dollars. But the exact same math applied to David Miller's term says David Miller saved two billion dollars. So my point is, is that both of your candidates that you've mentioned they are not surprising in any in any way whatsoever nothing that's happened here with rob ford to me has surprised me really he is what he is we knew that and nothing is surprising about olivia chow i mean she within weeks within a week

of of announcing that she's going to run she's already talked about spending more money which is exactly the type of when did she talk about that she says going to run. She's already talked about spending more money, which is exactly the type of platform. But when did she talk about that? She said she wants to raise the property tax in line with inflation. There's two things that she's talked about that will raise the amount of money required from taxpayers.

One of them isn't necessarily any new money, but it's the whole transit thing. She wants to cancel basically what the increased tax is supposed to pay for but still keep the tax increase she never said that that was misquoted and then redirect it to they misquoted that that got reported but they and then and then the other thing is is uh where she wants to increase bus service and that's going to cost what is it 15 million dollars and it might very well be a noble and needed thing i i'm not suggesting that any of

this is bad or wrong or good or bad. All I'm just saying is that she's talking about spending more money. Rob Ford is talking about all the things that he talks about. And that's exactly, you know, there's no surprises so far in my mind. The only surprising thing is Sarah Thompson's new campaign logo. Have you seen it? It looks like the Kansas City. What was the hockey team? The Kansas City Scouts. It was. I've seen it. You know what?

She's an interesting character. Yeah. But it took literally seconds for someone to take a red line and make it. I saw that on Reddit, right? Do not vote. I saw it. It's all over Facebook. On her own page.

If I may say about, yeah, I saw that too. But one thing about Sarah Thompson, she she enters in she's a distant six like already sock nacky who might have great ideas and stints who might be fine herself they're both uh irrelevant in the sense that they carry like one or two percent of the votes right now and it's gonna fall do we know why she wasn't invited to the to the uh there's too many too too soon or like did she i think there's too many. Last time she ran, there weren't that many serious candidates. This time there are five serious candidates, and she's just sixth in line. That's what I think. Yeah, I would agree.

I mean, the dominatrix doesn't get invited either. At some point, I'm just saying. Okay, I get that. We have five primary candidates, and I think there's really three. And then when you start to, you know, and we'll see, cause John Tory is your third place guy. You have to think that John Tory's learned something about politics. No, something about him is not in something about him leaves people cold.

And I don't have, I sorry, Corey, but I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, but there's something about him. That's not, he might be smart. He might be a good businessman.

I don't know, but nothing about him inspires me at all there's something about him i've listened to him speak in a non-political format in a charity format and the guy he's very engaging he's inspiring he's a talk show host now he has command of the language he you know he's a he's a good order but i think you're right i mean there seems to be something missing here in terms of the inspiration and and the generation of votes um but you have to figure that after being the leader of the opposition at Queen's Park and after running for mayor, that the guy's learned some lessons and that he's surrounded himself with people that are going to be able to take him to the next level. You've got to – I would completely agree with you, though, that he has been – his campaigns thus far has been lackluster. I see him as right now – he's a distant third is what I see.

He's the fourth and fifth are off the charts, but he's a distant third. I mean, if you can't take vote, if you can't be Rob Ford without the circus antics and you can't take a good chunk of his votes, there's a problem. Like, there's a problem. Yeah, you're right. I mean, if anything, him being in the race certainly does help Olivia Chow. Absolutely. Because then you get vote splitting on the right. I don't want to split the same vote.

So there's a big, there's a, I call it the sanity vote, which are the people who would, would not vote for Rob Ford. I don't want to split those guys. Like that's why I talk about strategic voting. My fear is let's say Tory gets 30%.

I don't know. It could be 30. It could be one of those 30, 30, 31. And then Ford slips in with the 31. I just want to make sure we don't split the same vote that's all well lots of time to go here yeah you're right a fiscally conservative uh uh

voter is going to vote for tory generally speaking right all other things being equal and then the the super fiscally you know tax minded taxpayer minded all the guy the guy who believes the guys who think you shouldn't have to pay for anything. The guy who believes that, that Rob, all the stuff that Rob Ford says, they're going to vote for him. So that's going to split your conservative vote. And there's only so many of those. And then everyone else is going to vote for Chow.

So let's see. I think you're right. So last Toronto thing, and then we'll move on to more fun fair, but this is the weather. I just want to quickly say that, uh, what is it?

Spring? It's almost April, right? Fucking bullshit. You know, hell is supposed to be hot. We're actually is it spring bullshit it's almost april right fucking bullshit you know hell is supposed to be hot we're actually living in hell and it's fucking freezing it's fucking bullshit man i was in florida i was in florida like three weeks ago four weeks ago it was 35 degrees with the humidity and i said to my wife i'm like you know what you know what mrs elvis i'm so happy right now that my balls are sweating this is the greatest

fucking feeling ever i love the feeling of moisture on my nuts because i haven't felt that in forever i can't believe this is fucking bullshit i hate it my voice is fucking echoing too no you sound great uh okay so since we last talked i've been to germany believe it or i was in germany man okay i there was a saturday i was walking the streets of mines i thought it was mains but the people there call it mines and i'm walking the street it was 14 degrees and sunny and did you not want to take off your fucking shirt and just be like i did it was amazing and uh i remember and i had left at that point toronto was like minus 15 or something stupid. You forget basically how

crushing this long, cold, relentless winter is. I looked outside of my window last night as I was closing my daughter's drapes. It was snowing. I was putting her to bed and it was fucking snowing. But you're really north, man. How north are you? That's north, man. I remember. I'm not that fucking north.

It was pretty north. I didn't even know oshawa went that north that's the truth i honestly didn't i'm not at the north end of oshawa no it was more way it was huge it goes way i had no idea what she said seriously i can't say the f word enough fucking times i hate this fucking weather and it is so much there's so much evidence to prove right now that people like Argi are right. Evolution can't possibly exist. It can't possibly exist when human beings are living in this bullshit still after 2,000 years for the amount of time we've been on this earth and we're still living here right now. We like winter sports. It's unbelievable.

Do you watch Cosmos? Cosmo Kramer? No, I don't. The ass man? The Neil deGrasse Tyson. I feel spent. On winter? I'm just yelling.

I just don't want to yell. Okay. But it just makes me so angry. So you don't watch Cosmos? What are you talking about? Cosmos upsets you? It's just science, man. Calm down.

No, I don't watch Cosmos. All right, just kidding. I don't believe in this science shit. Fuck that. We've been here for 2014 years, right that's it speaking here yeah uh speaking of germany when did i did i did speak i'm trying to work on my segways i did speak of mains right minds so uh just think about germans and drinking okay so the way it works is so i had a dinner to go to this is like the friday night so the of course, a key part of the dinner is lots of booze.

But that's not a German thing. I think that's just... Is it beer or wine? It was wine. Okay. It was wine. Red or white? It was white.

It was sweet, actually. I remember it being very sweet. Oh, wow. Yeah. But before we get to the dinner place, where you get a big hunk of meat, basically, at these plane areas, before we get to the Breverian restaurant get a big hunk of meat basically at these plane areas before we get to the brevarian restaurant or whatever we have a stop at a this is we have we stop at a wine bar and we try different wines so there's a stop it's like your pre-dinner visit to the wine bar to have to sample some uh it was greek i remember some greek wines okay i'm not a connoisseur

i don't i drink oh it's good i don't know what I'm talking about. I drink the wine. I say it's good. I have no idea if it's good or not. It seems okay. I'm not a big wine guy. Then we go to the dinner, and then, of course, there's lots of wine at dinner. But then I think we're done.

I'm going to stumble home to my apartment and mine's. And nope, there's a post-dinner visit to a pub where we drink beer. Like, these are three different stops. Maybe I'm just not hanging around the right people. That seems to me like these are three different stops i maybe i'm just not hanging around the right people uh that seems to me like there's three different spots with a bunch of booze at each one one of which is enough to sort of make me tipsy um i think it's a german thing they just drink all the time it's like water i think you're hanging out with the wrong people

because they're german you haven't described an unusual situation to me. So that's normal? I'm serious. I'm curious. I am. You're right. So it's normal to do the drinking stop before the dinner, which has drink, and then have a post-drinking stop. This is normal to have three different stops in one evening. Is this normal? Absolutely.

Yes. I've done this many times. So here's the rationale. You go to cocktails before dinner. And it's usually – depending on the mood, you're going to go to someplace that's a little bit maybe fun or cool or chic or whatever. And because your dinner reservation in a normal world when you don't have kids, your reservation is probably 8 or 8.30. So you get together and you have some drinks and then you go to dinner. And you have drinks at the dinner. Of course you have drinks at the dinner.

And then there might be a post. And then when you're – at that point, you're lit up and you're like, I don't want you go to dinner and you have drinks at the dinner of course you have drinks and then there might be a point and then and then when you're at that point you're lit up and you're like i don't want to go to fucking bed let's go out and party now motherfuckers and so you so tell me though what's your tolerance like help me out here now be honest with me how many drinks can you have a before you start to feel a little tipsy and then before you're like drunk uh you know what it i'm sure that there's a number out there if I were to think about it, but it really just depends on the mood or the day and how much food you've had. Because there's times where, you know, like I'll go for lunch and it's a Friday and maybe I'll have a beer or two. I'll

have two beers and I'll go back to the office and i'll be like whoa i'm feeling you know kind of buzzed and then there's other nights where you know you're at home and you're watching a leaf game and next thing you know it's like you know you've you've had four or five beers and you're like i feel like i could drive my car right yeah which you know you don't but you know you're kind of like i feel but you're in northern oshawa you have to no come on you don't do that that you don't only the merit of that bullshit of course so you know uh designated driver services by the way are fucking that's that's mint that's that's you know no one has have a pregnant wife no one has although she wasn't in germany but i didn't have

a car in germany no one has an excuse to uh to drink and drive anyway but so you know there's there you know you go on a you go on a hardcore bender and stuff and it also depends on what you're drinking too for me because you have have beer, it gets you bloated. You tend to slow down a little bit. But you're having straight liquor, you can go pretty hard, pretty fast. Wine, same type of thing. You get bloated a little bit, so you slow down.

I could go into the teens. Yeah, I could never. I could never get to double digits. How about shots? Can you do shots? I'll have a sex on the beach, please? No. Or how about like tequila?

When I'm at a place where I order a drink, I always order a beer. Heineken? Not in Germany. No Heineken. I didn't do Germany. So I was at, okay, so St. Patrick's Day, I went out with colleagues. We were actually at Young and Dundas. We were at a Jack Astor's, okay?

Oh, God. So I ordered, and people are going to like, this is sacri Jack Astor's okay so I ordered and people are gonna like this is sacrilegious but I ordered a green Heineken so I had you did the green thing I had a few of these

but they brought Guinness smaller I call them half glasses but they were complimentary like a half pint yeah and they were complimentary

and they didn't die at Guinness so it would have to be it'd have to be like smaller than half pint can't give away that much booze. No one can see this on the podcast.

It's a little bit taller than a shot glass is what he's... It was a... You know, it was... So they would come to the table and then people...

I would drink them on the table. Those would come and then I had the green Heinekens I would order. How many green Heinekens do you have?

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it was like saint patrick's i didn't care and what time was this big ass Guinness hat. I just don't care. Like, I don't care. It's amazing. It was like St. Patrick's Day. I didn't care. And what time was this though? Like eight o'clock at night or? Well, yeah, I don't, it wasn't that late. It was like maybe 10, I wouldn't say 10. I'm coming home at 10. Okay.

So that's all right. But in terms of my drinking, I can tell you two beers, two of those tall glasses of beer, and I will start to feel tipsy after the second beer. And then after the third beer, I become ultra, I don beer, I become ultra aware of what I'm saying and doing. It's almost like I see myself and I'm always with colleagues or something. And I'm overly sensitive to sounding like I've had too many. Because I'm always with people who can do 12 drinks and be fine. This German guy, he can keep going.

And I try to keep pace and I can't keep pace. Okay, so when I've been in the the sort of the custom is is that um it's like we're kind of we're kind of bullshit over here when it comes to paying for liquor because it's like oh i want a separate bill blah blah blah blah yeah over there it's kind of like you know you go out with a group of three people you go out with a group of eight people everyone's just buying around and you sort of go around the table and everybody springs for a round and then at the end of the night everybody's fair right that's sort of you make your way around the table and everybody springs for a round. And then at the end of the night, everybody's fair, right? That's sort of, you make your way around the circle once if it's a larger group.

And then everybody's sort of on their own after that. I think someone was expensing this, but yeah. So is that a tradition that happens over there as well? Because that's the way I like to do it. If I'm out with, you know, like if it's just me and you. Yeah, you take turns buying around. And so that's a difficult way for someone like yourself to get out of that sort of like that sort of expectation.

Like to know I shouldn't have another, but this guy could do like six more. Because if you're with four guys, right? So there's five of you. That's five rounds that are being consumed. And then all of a sudden now you've got to eject yourself from that cycle. Here's my thing. Okay. Do you feel like a, like a.

First of all, I don't want to feel like a loser. Your bruised vagina a little bit like well pretty much so in january 2012 i think i went to berlin when i first visit the germany i'm in berlin and they i honestly tried to keep pace i just wanted this is gonna sound terrible i didn't have a car okay but i i had whole good hosts and they drinking everywhere like a lunch dinner after dinner it was just constant drinking and i tried to keep pace and i came back from that trip and i all i did was eat big hunks of meat and drink beer the whole week and i came back and that was when i came back 100 and like 185 pounds i came back and that was actually the day i came back i said to monica i said i'm gonna lose some weight like i just hated myself i felt slow i felt

bloated i was so i and then i lost i lost 40 pounds over the next six months after that that was the impetus so i in europe uh and same i go to amsterdam a lot and it's heineken and amsterdam constantly but it's constant flow of booze i don't know how to compete with these people that have like trained their body to consume double digit drinks without even appearing to be tipsy well that's what that's where i mean that the key where you said right there is train your body it's the tolerance that they've built up right and it's it's it's i don't want to build up the time it is a psychological thing though because no matter whether you have one beer you know like when you're not used to any or you have one beer and you're used to having 12 the effects on your body physiologically are the same thing right um but the the feeling that you have to be able to control that is is

what is different and so you're just experiencing do you think i'm a pussy yeah well fuck if i would say you're a pussy if we were in university together sure because i'd be like let's go fucking funnel right now but dude we're old world guys right now i don't fucking care you just what i would care about though is if we did go it would just be a little bit of a pain in the ass if we went out with like five guys and all of a sudden you eject yourself from the rounds but i wouldn't you know what really i don't care whatever i you know it's fine i actually when i'm out in north america when i bust your balls about it okay because in north america i actually uh i have a i was just at a Leaf game where we had a Ford Canada

not a Rob Ford, but a Ford Canada expense card and I capped myself at two Heinekens. Typically when I go out, I'll have two drinks. If it's a big night or whatever, I'll go to three, but I will almost never go beyond three drinks. You can buy me two beers

and your two beers at the tfc game how about we do rounds at the tfc game i buy around and then you buy around fine and then you'll have your two i'll have two and then i'll just take out a little alone that's fine um they are expensive i'll give you that they're expensive the um the worst though is going to a tfc game and you're like, okay, I'm going to buy you a beer. And then you literally buy a beer. And then I'm sitting there drinking my beer. Why is that so bad?

And you're sitting there not. But I went through a non-drinking period. Yeah, it's fine. So I'm now out of that. But I've been out of it. Basically, I'm out of it since Berlin, basically. I went to Berlin and I came back like, all right, the non-drinking streak is over. I'll just drink. In moderation moderation it's fine of course if you're doing every night you're doing double

digits then you probably should go to a meeting no i don't i honestly could never do double digits you could i would i could never consume double digits have you ever have you do you know what the century club is is that a hundred that's a hundred how good i am wow a hundred and what no it's a hundred shots in a hundred minutes no i get water and you usually do it with beer because a hundred shot of liquor i would die yeah it's insane i've done it twice and it is uh it's a it's a fucking marathon i've attempted it three times completed it twice and uh wow no no interest but that is uh that you're face down after that no interest do you watch jeopardy a geo party i i uh not as often as you but i do yes uh yeah i love it so can we talk about uh arthur chew can we no i wanted to talk about arthur q but that's

how old my notes are uh no something that just happened i think it was this week or last week oh magic johnson yeah i saw it fuck that guy must have just misheard the question right like the question he didn't mishear the question at all this la i don't even do they mention la in the question no they didn't they said this player has has has scored 100 100 plus assists oh no no there has 100 plus assists has only been recorded 11 times or something 13 times this player has done it 11 times and did it mention hockey in the no nothing but that's to me if you don it mention hockey in the question? Nothing. But that's, to me, if you don't mention hockey in the question.

Well, I don't know what the category was. Oh, that's right. I don't know either, because I didn't see that one. I just saw it on the social media. But I didn't think it was so crazy if they don't mention hockey in the question or the answer. Magic Johnson. Yeah. But Americans don't know.

I've seen often obvious hockey stuff on Jeopardy that the Americans are just... Well, that's where, I mean, one of the comments on the blogs that posted this was that this is evidence that, you know, the NHL still has not penetrated the U.S. market. To the casual fan, right? They're not getting casual fans to watch their games yet. No. Still, after all these years... There's Hot Pockets and outside of that there's no... And they're going to expand to fucking Seattle.

Like, give me a fucking break. Quebec City, man. Okay, so back to Jeopardy real quick. There was a guy on there named Arthur Chu who caused a lot of controversy because of the way he played the game. Okay, now he's long gone now, but these notes, I think these notes are like three weeks old. So Arthur Chu, everybody was mad at Arthur Chu because they said he was ruining the game. Arthur Chu was playing the game wisely, and I don't know why more players don't do this.

When I play Jeopardy, if you go in order, they'll start 200 clue, and then the 400, and they go down the category. You now are basically anticipating what the category is. It gives you a huge advantage. Like, I know I'm in, let's say the category is hockey, for example. I'm in hockey, we're going to run down the five clues in hockey.

My brain's turned to switch to hockey and i'm faster with my replies because i'm anticipating what the category is arthur chu bounces around like so he'll start at the bottom and work his way up but he'll change categories this gives arthur chu a huge advantage because arthur chu knows where he's going but his competitors don't know where he's going and they need to turn that channel instantly but he has the advantage because he knows the category before he says it. So Arthur Chu had a great advantage by employing this strategy. I don't know why more players don't do this. The other advantage to playing that, though, is that he was able to find double

jeopardies quicker and faster than any of his teammates or his competitors. And even if he had no money, right, even if you have zero dollars and you find a double jeopardy you can bid up to a two thousand dollars right but if you get rid of those double jeopardies right at the very beginning you miss out on sort of doubling your money towards the end of the game but what you also do is eliminate the opportunity you give it you take it away from them of course of course of course so that's the other advantage what was the so the controversy is that he was a smart player the car was effective for him and i thought it was very smart i think it just threw me off it made people with ocd get

really out of sorts like you because uh it threw me off because uh the categories kept changing and it would take me a couple of seconds to turn my brain and by the time i had kind of gone into the new category the question's been answered like it did it did lower my scores because i play my wife in jeopardy we have a tap we have a scoreboard and a tablet and we play it. And scores were down during the Earth or Chew era. I have no problem with it. He's not breaking any fucking rules. Get over it.

It's Geoparty. Get over it. Frig. How many questions do you... How many... What is there? Five times five? Is there 25 questions on the board?

Is it five categories? Yeah, five times five. Yeah, I think it's six maybe at the top. So 30. So of the 30 questions on a board, what do you normally get right out of those 30? I don't know. I can easily get like...

10? 10 to 15, yeah, 10 to 15. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. I'm pretty good, but of course I don't have to click in. I just have to yell. I can start my answer

before he finishes reading the question, which is my advantage over the players. Sure, right, right, right. But yeah, and I never lose. I mean, I only play Monica, but she's won once, actually. I don't know how that happened in hindsight, but we played like 100. And so do you play with real money then, too? Like, not real money, but money on the board?

Or is it just the number of questions you get right? A point is a point is a point. It's just 7.30. And is Final Jeopardy worth more money? Nope, it's worth more. I got the Final Jeopardy question the other week. It's not that hard, Final Jeopardy. I find it harder.

Do you? I find it harder. Because they always pick bullshit categories I don't care about. Like poetry or American literature. I love poetry. I can't even fucking read. Here's a trick. 50% of the time, if the category is poetry, the answer is WB Yeats.

That's a little bit. You have an interesting taste in music. So I'm your Facebook friend. So real quick, you will bash bands. I have a list of the bands you bash. Okay. And then I just want to ask you.

So one of them is Pearl Jam. Hate Pearl Jam. Always have never liked them. Even as when they first came out and it was like big nineties, you know, like we're in the, we're in the grunge era you and I grew up in and hate them. Hate them, can't stand them.

I find that un... This is how impactful Pearl Jam is on the world music stage. They have their own Sirius XM radio station and it's not like a temporary thing. Billy fucking Joel, the piano man, is going to have his own channel on Sirius for three months. These guys have a permanent channel. Fuck them. I love them. I really love them.

And I've seen them double digits, so at least ten times I've seen them. And I think they're so amazing live. And I think this is like one of the greatest bands of our generation. Shitty. You think they're shitty. I hate them. You know, that blows my mind. This does nothing for me.

You're defective. You wouldn't You know, that blows my mind. This does nothing for me. That's, uh, you're defective, but, uh. You wouldn't be the first person to say that. Okay, so in the CanCon world, another band that you seem to dislike a lot is Arcade Fire. See, now, okay, Arcade Fire, I'm all right with some of their songs, but I don't have a big fucking boner for these guys like a lot of people do. And the fact that they tell me what I need to wear to go to one of their concerts, you know what? That's true.

Fuck you. Fuck you. I'm not dressing in a costume. Well, that was stupid. Arrogant motherfuckers. Let's leave that out of it. Let's talk about the music. No.

It's all right. Yeah, fine. It's all right. It's not better than all right? This is pound for pound some pretty awesome stuff over the last decade. I wouldn't i wouldn't uh i wouldn't not turn the channel i wouldn't not turn the channel okay so that's not

bad uh one more band uh there's a couple more but i'm just gonna do one more here that means that i would turn the channel there's only two others oh my god this one okay because i i once i've seen these guys live and i had tickets to see them a second time. You're better than everyone else in the world. You're funny. That's exactly, you know what? Yeah. You know, most top, most lists of greatest albums of the 90s will be topped with OK Computer.

Right. Most of them. I think when we left the 90s, it was like Nevermind by Nirvana. But today it would be OK Computer. What is your issue with Radiohead? It's exactly that. I mean, in order to listen to Radiohead... People think they're...

Critics think they're really good? Is that what's pissing you off? No, no, no, no. In order to listen to Radiohead, you have to be better than everybody else. That's... It's just an arrogance thing again. It's... The music...

Whatever. I don't get... The music for me is... But this was played on mainstream rock stations. It was. Pearl Jam, I don't like their music, and I don't like their fans, and I don't like the band. Arcade Fire, I'm alright with

the band. I'm alright with... Well, I don't like the band. I'm alright with the music. I hate their fans. Radiohead, again, I have no time for the band. The music is alright, and I certainly have no time for the fans. I got nothing. It does nothing for me, and the fans are just so arrogant and pretentious. So it's for the fans i got nothing it does nothing for me and and they

the fans are just so arrogant and pretentious so it's not the band you hate it's their fans isn't that a sloan lyric no no i said i don't know i said that i don't like the band right i don't like the band i hate it's the fan because i think i love the tragically hip immensely and i will see them as often as possible. And I actually dislike most of the fans that come to the Tragically Hip concert are like just asshole, just guys who get drunk. And they're like frat boys and they're obnoxious. And I hate the fans, but I love that band. So the fourth band that you didn't play. I didn't play yet.

I am. Is sort of the American version of Tragically Hip. Is sort of what they've been called. But another fantastic band. Like what a wonderful band. Horrible. Horrible. I got nothing.

They do nothing. It's so, it's just, it's blah. It has nothing. It's just crap. So I'm trying to understand how is it that

your ears would prefer to hear this band over those four great bands. Do you have the, is this the original version? Let's see here.

Well, I'm ever, ever close. Bon Scott is, has been, you know, those four great bands. Is this the original version? Let's see here. Bon Scott has been spoken of as on the Mount Rushmore of lead singers and front men for bands. So go beyond the, like Queen, go beyond the sort of we are the champions type of stuff. And they're a fun band. They're a of stuff. And they're a fun band. They're a great band.

They might be a fun band. I don't deny they're a fun band. But I say I like ACDC and KISS, and then all of a sudden you think that I think that they're the greatest bands of all time. That's not the case at all. But you do think ACDC is a better band than Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, and R.E.M.?

Yes. I'm not even judging. I don't judge people's musical tastes. I'm just surprised. I don't have to like those bands. I don't like those bands. I love a whole bunch of other bands. I just don't like those four bands.

They're not the fucking Beatles. Whatever. I'm just surprised. We are similar age. I'm just surprised. Name another band from the 90s. I bet you I, whatever. They, I know. I'm just surprised because we are similar age and I'm surprised. I'm just surprised. But name another band from the nineties though. And I bet you,

I like them. Nirvana. Of course. Yes. Smashing pumpkin. Yes. Absolutely. Soundgarden. Yes.

Alice in Chains. Yes. Bush. Bush X. Bush X. Who else? Fucking Blink 182. So,

okay. It just, it just makes your Pearl jam just taste more surprising i just don't like them at all guns and roses metallica yeah i just pearl jam pearl jam is probably at the top of the list in terms of my dislike you probably just um i just don't like them at all what i find is some people when a band is huge they will reject them like because everybody loves that band and they're you know they're all praised everywhere and it's like nah like that's too mainstream and

popular i'm not buying in like i find that happens that's an effect i will i will admit to that i don't know if you would but the reason i don't like julia roberts okay i hate julia roberts i can't stand her and i don't like her either it's she it's probably because she's universally beloved and praised well i don't understand why people think she's good looking because I don't think she's good looking at all. She was attractive in Pretty Woman. No, she wasn't. She had those long legs, though.

She had great legs. Great legs in Pretty Woman. I can't remember them. I don't like them. You were too busy looking at Richard Gere. I was, hoping I could see the hamster. Or was it a gerbil? It was one of the gerbils.

That's big. That reminds me of, what's her name uh from uh this is terrible who was the girl from halloween the daughter of jamie lee curtis yeah and the hot dog so okay no there was when i was in primary school there were certain urban legends that we by the way we took them as fact we didn't we couldn't google them we couldn't go to snopes we actually accepted them as fact and we spoke about them like it's common knowledge of course jamie lee no it wasn't a hot dog you're right that was born a man right so jamie lee curtis was born a man she was born with both chromosomes is that what it was yeah and uh richard was that because she cut her hair like what where i have no idea i have no idea but i until i think i mean you go back and look at the

like even in even in later years and in what's that movie with the tom arnold and yeah i know the one and she was hot in that movie too yeah and she was an older woman then freak she got a great great body she does so i i don't know but it's a haircut yeah it must it's got to be the hair she cut her hair and it was like oh my gosh yeah so funny okay so your taste in music is strange but i just it's not strange i've wanted to just discuss it with you four bands hey while i was on the airplane flying to frankfurt airport uh i was watching the butler okay so it's an air canada flight and i'm watching the butler and actually i'm it's it's a good movie for an airplane i was

kind of into it because i'm a pretty captive audience i had like nine hours i would watch that okay so i'm watching the butler oprah was good in it by the way okay surprising umma oprah that's right david letterman so beside me was a german-speaking fellow and i know this because we had some exchanges earlier he didn't speak any english but he was watching national lampoon's christmas vacation when was this just recently this was very recently yeah you know how you have the classic movie section yeah contemporary they call it i don't know why they call it contemporary he's in there watching he's watching a national but the thing about him he's right beside me he's watching in english by the way but he's a loud laugher okay

he's like you i fucking knew that i was you. It's amazing. It's only two seats. We're very close there. I'm watching my butler, and he's loud laughing right beside me throughout the entire movie. That movie is such a loud laughing movie, though. And I kind of glance over. What's he laughing at? It'll be like Chevy Chase will be falling off the roof or something because he's trying to put the Christmas lights up there. And this guy's splitting a gut.

They say Germans have no sense of humor. No. This guy was laughing his ass gut. Like they say Germans have no sense of humor. No, this guy was laughing his ass off. I don't know, Marco. It was, uh, Dita.

So. I fucking love it. So that's, uh, and by the way, the one thing about these long flights to and from Europe is the movie watching. I usually get in three movies on my flight. You know,

what's interesting about our Canada is that they do not edit nudity out of their you know you're right you're right i watched uh bad teacher for the first time on the plane this was like a couple years ago okay and uh there's boobs in it and boom out come these boobs okay it's like wow similar story yeah i was watching oh they they go in a fountain and they change okay i want to say it's like the guy, I hope we should date Jason Bateman maybe. Is it Jason Bateman or Paul Rudd? I can't tell them apart anymore. One of those two guys changes spots.

Like one guy's like a, he's married. Oh, it's Jason Bateman. Okay. Jason Bateman and what's his name? Paul Rudd maybe, no? But they switch places. Vince Vaughn? Yeah, maybe Vince Vaughn.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so i'm watching this movie and i guess uh when they split spot this guy has sex with the other guy's wife or something and she's like a vixen in bed or whatever it might be that uh chick who's in whose husband jed you know what this is leslie man leslie man that's her name there's super nudity i'm in this and there are kids right beside me super nudity like it was actually a lot and i was so shocked shocked at how much sex stuff is on my screen. And there was like a five-year-old on the next aisle watching.

I mean, it's ridiculous. So a couple of recent things that I've experienced on the airplane with movies is that I have – so I watch movies on my iPad sometimes because I travel so much that I cycle through the movies on Air Canada pretty quickly. And I was watching Team America, the unrated version. Okay, with the shit. Oh, I'm fucking peeing my pants. I watched it with my son last weekend. I tried to maneuver my iPad so that no one could actually see the screen

because if they watched it, first of all, they're like, why is he watching a fucking puppet movie? And then two, why are they shitting on each other? Oh, it's great, right? Amazing, so great and then the other one was i was watching the uh louis ck newer special oh my god and i it's fucking funny and i'm laughing out loud i'm trying to like temper myself because i don't want to be a jerk i know enough people already think i'm a jerk listening to this but try not to be a jerk in public like that but it's just hard sometimes because he's so fucking funny.

It's brilliant. I love it. It's so great. Elvis, do you want to tell us anything? Now, this is a good song. Survivor. This isn't the song I requested, but I'll take it. This is going to fly now.

I should have been more specific. I should have been more specific. I should have been more specific. My bad. A lot of people, when somebody asks for the Rocky song, you're right. That was the Rocky 1, Going to Fly Now. And this is Rocky 3? This is Rocky 2 or 3? 3. But this is the one now, I think, that people think of.

Have you seen the video clip where it's from the it's got to be from the early 2000s, and it's a Spanish guy calling a soccer game. The guy scores, and then he sings the replay to this song. No. It's fucking brilliant. I'll show you the link afterwards.

Anyway, I wanted to tell you something. Talk to me. I got an announcement. Tell me. It's probably a little bit dramatic with the fucking music should i start it again because it's the opening chords you gotta talk over okay it's fine so as you know i have uh i have been through ups and downs in my life when it comes to life in general throw me a few curves as it does for all of us and uh you know i i i'm a different

person i've done things in in my life that I'm really proud of. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot of things. And things have also sort of gone awry in the past as well. And so I have had the ability to – I have the opportunity, not the ability. I have the ability as well. But I have the opportunity right in front of me to achieve a lifelong dream. And I'm going to do that on November 2nd. I have been accepted and committed to running the New York City Marathon through the five boroughs of New York City. boroughs of New York City. And I am also going to be raising money to help get rid of this thing called cancer. So I'm pretty excited. So I'm pretty excited because it's one of the world's most recognizable marathons. It's in the sort of the top three, you know, Boston, London, New York.

And so I'm really excited to be able to take up that challenge of running 42.2 kilometers again. And it'll be number nine for me, but it's going to be tough, but making my first public pronouncement here today. Two things. One, very noble, very impressive. I'm very proud of you. That's an awesome goal. It reminds me of something I'm doing, so that's number two.

of you. That's an awesome goal. It reminds me of something I'm doing. So that's number two. Is there any truth to the rumor you're trying to usurp on me that you knew I was doing something grandiose and big to fight cancer and you're like, I got to one-up this guy? No, not at all because I've been, as you may not

know, but to get into the New York City Marathon you actually have to apply via lottery and I just happened to win the lottery this year. So it's November. When does training start like are you uh training has already started i'm eating better i've lost some poundage is that training when you eat better don't you have to like do i what sorry like is that training to eat better don't you have to go out and run a bit no no that's happened too is what all right good i'm sorry because i mean i've stopped eating chips oh he's in training everyone the cookies are only eating one row of cookies now yeah i've got a story about that but no um no training started and uh doing a 10k in a few weeks and um yeah so it'll be it'll be fun

very good so you're accepting donations or something like how are you carrying i haven't figured out how i'm gonna do this yet but uh yeah i'll eventually come out with you and beg people for some change well yeah i do that all the time i'm going to do it right now because i am uh i'm not going to run the new york city marathon but i am going to bike 220 kilometers in early june and this is the ride to conquer cancer and i'm doing it uh i got a dear friend fighting the disease right now and I am turning 40 in June. So anybody who hasn't donated should get to torontomike.com and click the whatever, pledge my ride link

in the top left corner and give what you can because it's coming quick. So selfish of you to make your birthday all about yourself. And that's, I'm in training too, but the weather's been shit. But I did get out for 22 kilometers earlier this week, and I did 18 yesterday. I see it's raining

out there. I've got to see what's going on, but maybe today I'll get in another 15 to 20. The roads are a little slick, but you might be all right this afternoon. Cool. Good for you. Have I donated to that yet? No, actually, you and Rosie, okay? So, Rosie, dear friend, she's got a

baby gift she's going to drop off next week. Even though she hasn't been on the show since, even though she hasn't been on the show in 2014, believe it or not, even though she's a regular co-host. We should have her in here. She's in Markham all day. Oh, right. She's been crazy. And then she's got to bust her ass

from Markham to pick up her three-year-old. It's a whole thing, man. It's a whole thing. But she has not pledged my ride. Rosie, come on. Break in my heart. Rosie, we know you don't listen, but if anyone who knows you is listening and can contact you. Why don't you contact the radio station that you're not allowed to contact?

Because a twerp there owes me so much fucking money. Fuck that guy. So amazing. The Rick Hodge story was on my list to talk about it. Because a twerp there owes me so much fucking money. Fuck that guy. So amazing. The Rick Hodge story was on my list to talk about. I see now we're up against the hour here. So I'm going to tease it.

Let's talk about that next week. Next week, we'll talk about my friend Rick Hodge who's back on Twitter. So I helped him set up a Twitter account way back in the day,

a few years ago. I guess he didn't remember the password and didn't want to ask me for it or to help him out or whatever because he's created a brand new Twitter account. Oh. And because I'm amazing.

So what is he? He was our Hodge one? I think he was the Hodge blog and now he's like Hodgey something. But he's on Twitter somewhere. But yeah. I think maybe you should take over the original Twitter handle

and start and create a parody account. I might do that with my stories that we'll be talking about next week. And that brings us to the end of our 73rd show. They said it wouldn't last, Elvis. 73 episodes. I think I was one of those people. You know what? Your blog sucks when 10 episodes and I never got

a single email saying we miss it or I want it back. There was a couple of commenters. Yeah, a couple of commenters who said that they're satisfied by this

because they get their Elvis fix. That's right. It's not as often perhaps. Too much Elvis is too much for everybody. To be honest, when I cancel

a beloved podcast, I expect more outcry like bring back your blog sucks. I thought there'd be rallies. I want to test here. I want to give a shout out to Roshan. Roshan, see if he's actually listening. So if you are Roshan listening

all the way to the very end, this one's for you, brother. Oh, you think every week he just tweets that he's listening just so we like him but he doesn't actually listen? The music is on now, you know, and maybe he decided to turn it up. Probably. Good thing it wasn't Pearl Jam. So 72nd Epic, what is it,

73rd show, and you can follow me on Twitter at Toronto Mike and Elvis at Oshawa Elvis. See you all next week. Peace.