Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Toronto Mike'd #77

Episode Date: May 23, 2014

Mike and Elvis shoot the shit and hilarity ensues.

Welcome to the 77th episode of Toronto Mic'd, a weekly podcast about anything and everything, often with a distinctly Toronto flavour. I'm Mike from torontomic.com, and joining me is my brother from another mother, Elvis. What's up, Elvis? what's up Elvis oh you know same old just got off a plane thought I'd come and do a podcast do you think that opening theme was loud enough

it was quieter than it normally is yeah okay I'm just looking at my settings because you know now I've done this 77 times you'd think I'd have it like the back of my hand, but what the hell is that? Sounded quiet, but I'll worry about this. Stokely will call you out on it. Stokely called us out on the last episode.

What? He didn't like the audio of the Greg Brady episode. What audio was off? Me or him or all of us or what? He said we were, I'm trying to remember, we were fuzzy maybe? I can't remember the terminology. But something he didn't like about the audio from episode 76. Did he put it in the comments? I should check that out. No, Twitter.

Oh, Twitter. Yeah, he likes to put his dirty laundry in public. When he doesn't like something, the world will know. So, I'm just glancing at my settings, and that was my music knob. Play with your knob a little more, Mikey. Hey, I'm going to play this again. Hold on. Hold on. okay the mute button works okay i'll worry about this another day that's cool

i'm off turn me on put me up my level's down there you go fuck this jesus christ like he's this is new it What is this, episode 77? This is because we did our first three-man show in this new studio last week, and I had to open up the third mic. And I thought you were the second mic because you've always been the second mic. I threw you right off. Now you're the third mic, and I'm like, I'm off. I like this better. I can look at you as I'm chatting with you as opposed to chatting to the wall.

So what did you think of the Greg Brady episode? I thought it was good. I thought that he had some interesting stuff to say. I think I agree with a lot of the commenters that the Jim Lang conversation was really insightful. I thought he was extremely honest. I told you in the hallway after we were done that uh as i was getting ready to ask him the question about or or suggesting to him that i thought he was a little hard or unfair with jim sometimes i got this feeling that oh shit i'm gonna you know call

this guy out to his face um and and yeah i don't necessarily mind calling somebody out but it was because we were talking about somebody who wasn't actually here in the room to defend himself. And that's what made me feel uneasy about that. But, you know, obviously the question got asked and, and I thought that Greg handled it well in the sense that he gave an honest answer, but also, you know, owned up to the fact that he could see that how that could be you know he i think he suggested that he agreed you know and and i think that's uh that was pretty honest of him and uh and made for a a good interview i felt that it started off a little slow but we uh we picked up towards the end at the 48 minute mark it was before that but it was good. What's that website you always refer to that covers Toronto sports media? Toronto sports media. Okay, that's a good name for it. So I saw that they had a commenter say that you should really check out this episode with Toronto Mike, with Jim.

Oh, really? With Greg Brady. And I saw it in the comments, and people were commenting about our discussion and what he said about Jim Lang. Oh, wow. I didn't see that. Yeah. I don't usually read comments outside of your own site, to be honest. And I'm not saying that to you.

See, I only find out this stuff because I see visits come to my site from. Right. So you're wondering where they come from. So it's reverse engineered. Yeah. And I go and I say, oh, who's linking to my podcast episode? And then i read okay that's what they're saying that's interesting so you know like for me i know that you also

commented in the hallway afterwards um that uh the first part of the interview you didn't find overly exciting you sort of tuned out because it was all i actually got bored by part of the but only because it was so uh local and it wasn't local. But that's the kind of – I mean that was – yeah, that's my local or was my local and his local and something that obviously I was interested about. And I think a good interview is when both the interviewer and the interviewee are talking about stuff that they're interested about and hopefully the audience is interested about that as well don't get me wrong uh i think it was a good episode but uh i think that's how people must feel during regular episodes when i start talking about hyper local stuff with jeff merrick about like you know right like the actual hockey rink that you guys like play like we start talking about george bell arena i'm yeah hopefully you find that interesting we're having a good time talking about it uh so you know'm yeah hopefully you find that interesting we're having a good time

talking about it uh so you know i understand that only appeals to like one percent of the it was um it was it was it was uh i i i uh i wanted to say thanks again for him taking the time i mean he's a guy who he he did a morning show that that morning right i mean and then he took time out of his day to come out here and and do that and so um i think more so than some of the other quote-unquote celebrities you've had here that aren't necessarily in a nine to five like and he's not in a nine to five but he has a regular gig um you know i thought that was pretty cool for him to come out and do that so um yeah hopefully you can do more than that more of that i know that you've got a pretty sweet guest lined up for next week, and you're doing that one solo, but I had fun doing it with you.

Well, I got some update on the Brady situation here. So, nothing bad, but interesting. I think you'll be particularly interested in this. So, yeah, Greg Brady was very honest about why Jim Lang was fired from the Fan 590. And I have subsequently heard from Jim Lang himself. And is Jimmer coming? Jim is coming on the podcast. Yes! So he wants to come on.

And he was very nice. He did a lot of retweets of he tweeted a positive comment about the episode. And then he retweeted, I wrote like, here's where you find the Greg Brady episode. He retweeted that. We DM'd a bit.

Then he gave me his personal email address and we went back and forth and he wants to come on. He's got to just tell me what day he can get here because he lives very far away. Yeah, he lives way up north, right?

Yeah, he lives, I don't know, Markham or something? I have no idea. But he lives far from here. And he, yeah, he wants to come on. So I'm literally going to play that clip of what Greg Brady said about him and then ask him for his reply.

It'll be a riveting, riveting video. Yeah, no kidding. That's pretty cool. As I said in the podcast, and we have commented many times before, I love Jim. I think it's been interesting to see Jim evolve as a broadcaster over time, too, because I remember when he was just started out on Sportsnet and he was kind of goofy and maybe it was a shtick. Maybe maybe what we're seeing now is the same Jim Lang, but it's the real Jim Lang in the sense that he he wasn't you know, he was a little raw because he was trying to figure out who he was on the air. And I think a lot of broadcasters go through that. And, and Greg talked about that too. He was

Michael Brady for one newscast. And, you know, a lot of people, you listen to old Howard Stern tapes and he talks way up here because he's trying, you know, NBC. Yeah. He just has this weird voice cause he didn't figure out how to amplify his headphones properly. And yeah. So, um, that would be really, uh, that'd be a really fun episode. I think. I think it'd be very cool. Now, I always, I'm a little fearful that I've gone to sports radio because, okay, so I did the, not sports radio, but I did the Down Goes Brown episode because I'm fascinated by Down Goes Brown. He is, he is a sharp motherfucker. Yeah, I mean, I really like the guy.

Then, of course, the two-hour acclaimed Jeff Merrick interview. Yeah, that was great. And that was pretty recent. That was 74. Didn't you win a Gemini for that? I'm up for a Gemini. Oh, you're up for another one. To repeat, because I won my first Gemini for my in-depth Freddie P interview.

I think it's been a while since you've posted that picture on your blog. And then I posted it recently, fairly recently. And thenie calls me out to tell me the gemini's don't exist anymore as if as if that matters like i'm yeah it doesn't go away it's still it's actually funnier you still want it yeah it's funnier to win the gemini the gemini went away so yeah is it just called something different now okay so they totally gone this is what i was explained to me because she's like um no one really fucking i think she's like because of her she had affiliation with like the tiff stuff right okay but isn't gemini tv yeah but but but the tv awards gemini's merged with the canadian i think

they're called i don't know what they're called the canadian movie awards oh what is it the jono's jono no the junos is music. Junos? And that one's still around. Gemini? But they merge. So whatever the screen, now they're called the Canadian Screen Awards or something. So they basically took TV. It's like Golden Globe style.

They took TV and movies and merged it and they do it all at the same time. And it's not called the Gemini anymore. Right. Okay. So yeah, when I went to Gemini now, it's twice as funny as it used to be. It's even better. So, okay.

So yeah. Do you still know that guy? Are you still in contact with that guy? Once in a blue moon, I hear from him. Yeah. He used to, okay.

He, he blogged at Mississauga blogger. That's right. Yes. Yes. And that's gone now, but he's still around once in a while. I'll hear from him.

Right. Yeah, absolutely. Once in a while, but not as much as I used to. That's for sure. Hey, I got a question for you. And I know you have some topics.

But I wanted to ask you this. And I'm springing this on you. Okay, but wait. Are you saying we aren't overdoing the sports radio? Because the only reason I say this is because we did the Jeff Merrick. Yeah. 74. And then 76 was Greg Brady.

Yeah. 78 is going to be Barb DiGiulio. Yeah! Love Barb. So let me know all your questions for Barb, because that's next week. So here's... But then Jim Lang, isn't that too much? Well, I mean, you're going in sort of like, you know...

So Storm and Norman is next, right? You've got like some sort of theme happening. We've got, you know, there's different themes that go along with how you're feeling. And right now it just happens that it's a big sporting type of season this spring, you got the finals on both the nba and nhl okay fine cops coming out what do i care i'd interview like the janitor i don't care i think but they're all radio people i think that's the theme right is that you're sort of diving deeper into toronto radio okay past and present sold okay what was your question my question was um and uh i think um it i'm not sure what kind of action you're getting on this particular post that you did uh the other day maybe it was yesterday

about target and you posed the question to your readers uh you know do you shop at target and if you are why yeah and i guess that was your your way of suggesting that you had been there for the first time since they opened in toronto and you or in Canada, and you couldn't figure out why anyone would ever go to that store. No, no, that's not, first of all, I don't, I don't even go to Walmart. So I'm the wrong guy to talk to. I don't like to consume anything. So this is my, but that's, that's a ridiculous statement because you do. Whether you like to or not is not the question. I was at No Frills yesterday. You have to consume. Yeah, I went to No Frills yesterday. So this is, I read it, and it was really, it was an interesting and there was a lot of interesting comments, especially from somebody who—

There was somebody named Anonymous. I actually know who it is. Of course you do. Someone who— Yeah, regular commenter. Who has a business relationship with Target and offered some insight, which is nice. It was amazing. This is—and I have nothing—I'm not for Target.

I'm not against Target. Amazing. This is – and I have nothing – I'm not for Target. I'm not against Target. If anything, I'm against them because they're an American retailer, and I think Canadian retailers need to be strong in this country. But my comment would be this, or my question to you is where do you buy laundry detergent? No frills. Okay, so you buy it at no frills. Frills.

Okay, so you buy it at no frills. For me, buying laundry detergent at a grocery store typically I have found to be a little bit more expensive than elsewhere. I got to confess. I don't even know where she buys it. And also, grocery stores to me are just really busy. I hate going to grocery stores. So a lot of people then migrate to another store to buy them. And for me, I'd rather go to Target than a Walmart because Target, and this is what that anonymous commenter said at the very end of his comment. If you want to go to a place where

you want to buy the basic stuff at a discounted price, then go to Target because there's no one there. and once it becomes busy then i'm not going to go back so given the choice if i ever need to think about buying something and i'm going to migrate towards walmart to buy that i'm going to go to target nine because it's a cleaner and emptier cleaner and emptier it's very clean i remember i did it was very there and they have some clean floor policy but it is okay i should i didn't mean to actually bash target because i don't i don't go to i try to avoid all those kind of places but i don't do that you're right i don't do the uh i'm not the

primary shopper of the uh detergent right for example since the baby arrived i've been doing all the grocery shopping i did the big trip yesterday with the kids. Where do you buy your diapers? We have reusable diapers. We don't buy diapers. Where do you buy your wipes? She has a gift card from Babies R Us. Well, what are you going to do when that runs out? Because that's probably inexpensive. Yeah, I'm sure that's like a Walmart type thing.

You're either going to be Walmart, Target, or if you don't have a Costco membership. You're the guy with the Costco room, right? You have a room, right or if you have you have you're the guy with the uh the costco room right you have a room right do i remember that correctly we have a way we have areas in our house that that contain costco merchandise yes because but it's but it's it's like stuff again i'm i'm all for if i can buy 24 rolls of paper towel at one time at a discounted price i'll do it because i have the space i just uh i think that story has been told a few times uh by people i think did you tell that to humble howard at the wedding i don't know i've heard him tell this story on his podcast about he ripped me off he no he doesn't take

credit for he says a friend of his oh so you've been elevated yeah that would be a friend of mine has a costco room and i hear the story told occasionally on the podcast and then i always think to myself he's talking about elvis there elvis has got the car he could i mean he could be talking about kramer too because there was that classic episode you know where they had the the the groceries in the car in the trunk and in the hood under the hood right they had like the sausage and the pickles in the in the engine right but yeah again yeah we've i think we've talked about it on this podcast okay so, so maybe he's stealing it. Maybe he's a secret listener.

Okay, so, by the way, I don't have a membership to Costco, but for a brief period, Monica did have a membership and there were some things I did enjoy buying at Costco. Sure.

But now, you're right. I'm not anti, I've never been anti-Target. I went in, the one at Cloverdale Mall is what sparked this entry. You should be anti cloverdale mall no my dentist my dentist is in there oh my god go to a dentist at a mall like i don't i'm

not a i'm not a consumer at all but when i walked that mall because i have a dentist in there uh they got a nice kitchen stuff thing going on there and they got a nice winners like it seems like a reason like they cleaned it up moron there's a nice winners and there's a nice kitchen stuff and now you got the new target that's a store with an anti-clean policies winners there's a tim hortons in there i think it's come a long way but uh okay so uh target by the way the anonymous comments from target were amazing i actually um they're very long there's two of them at least two of them now and they're very long and very interesting and very detailed. And if anyone's curious what went wrong with Target Canada's launch, to me, it was fascinating.

When Target hires their new Canadian president, you should tweet them those comments so that he or she can make sure that they don't replicate the same mistakes that the previous guy did. Yeah, I hear. He just got canned. Coincidentally, there's a similar comment from the inside on gawker that's getting believe it or not a little more attention than mine on this comment and this same thing happened with the rob ford shit i had the rinse comment and then gawker comes in with some crack video and they steal the thunder so strange but uh yeah

there's uh have you found rob ford's license plates sorry i'm old enough to remember when rob ford's license plates said rob ford i don'm old enough to remember when rob ford's license plates said rob ford i don't mean to i shouldn't have opened that pandora's box maybe everything they he's like king midas in reverse everything he touches turns to shit good one i've been saving that in case you asked me about rob ford i'm not taking the bait uh do you have an update for us on your uh your training for a marathon yeah um i don't have that sounded really just wow yeah hey everybody hey it's a rainy morning uh friday it's raining friday it's raining outside but it's sunny inside um uh what's my update uh yeah things have been

going well so i've been uh i've changed made some drastic changes to my lifestyle in the sense that whoa not just about uh training for the marathon because of that but just overall in terms of trying to be better to myself my family and uh my planet by the stuff that i put into my body and so i have been let's say, between 90% and 95% vegan over the last month and a half. Whoa. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I've dropped about 30% of my goal to my weight goal. So I've dropped – Yeah, finally.

So I've dropped a bunch of pounds and uh the mileage is getting up there so i'm taking it really really slow right now um the actual official marathon training program doesn't start until july in terms of you know writing down when's the marathon again november 2nd okay yeah slowly so uh right now it's just about building up my strength at the same time as trying to get a little bit leaner so uh the other big milestone, though, and I didn't really plan on talking about this, but the other big milestone, and this is always a time of year where I really start to remember and feel like there's that heavy weight on my shoulders. up my annual checkup with my doctor on Tuesday. And they're going to review all of the tests that I've done over the last couple of weeks to prepare for this and sort of prescribe what the next year is going to look like in terms of my cancer treatment. So it's definitely a time of year where I noticed that things weigh a little heavy and perhaps, you know,

have to work a little extra harder to stay, you know, positive and bearable, frankly. But I'm feeling really good today. I'm feeling excited about seeing her on Tuesday because it's always a good, generally good appointment. She's a nice doctor and she generally cares, it seems like. So the next podcast after Barb, I should be able to give you an update as to how that went in case anyone cares.

Everyone cares. You're the biggest. I think the reason people listen is for an Elvis laugh. Sure. Well, at least one guy does anyway. India has like made it a thing. I am big in India. You are big in India. Now that you're vegan you'll be even bigger that's right yeah so wait a minute you're not like uh there's no barbecue for illness no i haven't had that's amazing it's hard when i

travel obviously because you realize unless you're in california um you know vegetarians slash vegans aren't really uh catered to um so a lot of uh six inch veggie subs uh which is a little bit breaking my rule because i also try and eat as much raw food as i possibly can have i have this crazy change man this is heavy duty change just been doing a lot of research and there's a lot of shit that goes into your body that doesn't uh it's not good for you and good for the planet and all that stuff so i'm maybe I'm maybe I'm getting a little crazy like you with the whole fucking biking shit. Well,

I bike, I don't, I, I, I, uh, you know, those blue menus,

speaking of no frills, the kids and I want, we made, we bought these, uh, blue menu meatballs. They're, uh,

Angus. They're amazing. And, uh, and I had, uh, some yet last night. See,

I'm, I'm, uh, I will not eat something that has generally more than six ingredients or ingredients definitely that I can't understand. If there's any added sugar, I generally don't eat it. Well, that's a good rule if it has to have like English things. I generally don't eat things that have added sugar, if at all, and no dairy. So I had accidentally had cheese or if i had not accidentally i i knew i was eating cheese but there was nothing else to eat so i had this like um uh tomato and cheese sandwich and my stomach that night was just it was on fire

wow it was just turning but yeah so far so good but no eggs no eggs either that's hard in the morning when you're on the road and you want some breakfast. This is intense to me, like only because I'm trying to make myself healthier, but I'm nowhere close to this. It is intense. I'm going to go crack an egg right now. Yeah, no more. Like Rocky training is not happening for me. There's no standing at the fridge, cracking eggs into a glass and drinking them.

So what are your – so I know you're not into real training, but like what's your long run right now? Because we'll do that and then we'll talk about my bike. I generally go for at least, I'm not counting kilometers so much yet. It's more about time. It's about time on the trail. So it's usually anywhere between 30 minutes

and 60 minutes. I haven't gone much longer than that yet, but I'm just trying to, within that 60 minute period, I'm trying to go longer. So I'm trying to incorporate a little bit of speed too. So you're doing a time. Okay.

Cause, um, my brain only works with distance. Right. You're into distance. So, cause I don't care. From a distance perspective, it's usually between five and six. It's usually between five and six and about 35 to 45 minutes. It's five and six kilometers. Five and six kilometers.

Yes. Okay. I was afraid. Cause you would go. If it was miles, I'd be, I'd be. Well, be well i don't yeah i don't even understand the miles okay yeah me neither so five and six okay so uh and i never ever had a good i used to well now we're going back to 2007 when i used to run which is a long way ago so i don't understand like i i my buddy always posts his runs every day and i i don't know how to like compare biking to running.

I don't know if there's a rule of thumb or something. No. Okay. You can't. So I am only like two weeks and a bit away from this. I'm excited. And you crested 60 kilometers. You were kind of, I think last podcast you were maybe a little bit nervous about that.

Yeah. Well, that was my thing. My brain, it's like the four minute mile I needed to hit the 60 to know i could do the the 110 and the 110 the 220 so 60 was a magic number in my head and you know my biggest obstacle is actual time speaking of time yep because it takes a long time to bike 60k i hear you man and with the little baby here that's it's i don't yeah and if i want to do it like let's say i want let's say i want to go to an 80k or something right and let's say i consider everything in there let's say that's it, like, let's say I want to go do an 80K or something, right? And let's say I consider everything in there. Let's say that's a four-hour ride, let's say.

I essentially need a block of four hours where I can disappear. Which is hard. Where is this four-hour block? Exactly. And I hear you. Because, I mean, running marathons is the same thing. And then you get a family and you have obligations. You have a job, for fuck's sakes.

Yeah. And it's like, okay, see you later. And then you feel guilty. Like, imagine, hi, I'll see you in five hours and went for a run meanwhile right you know she's got the six week old and it's like what an asshole that's right he went off and did a bike ride for six hours and i got this crying kid on my which is quote-unquote fun yeah it's quote-unquote fun and you work all week too unless it's voluntary yeah it's right it's not work you're not getting paid for it you definitely have to get buy-in from your spouse to be able to do any of these stupid ridiculous well that's why i did my sick i'm not gonna be i'm not gonna go too far beyond 60 but i'm uh i'm very very happy with my training i posted that very detailed entry yesterday with everything

but basically last summer all my rides were 10k pretty much all of them 10k 10k 10k and then very quickly because i did it all even all through the winter whenever i could get out it was like 10 to 13k and you're doing this without a road bike right it's a it's a it's a hybrid actually and you don't clip in which i find so ridiculous don't clip in you would get so much more action but you gotta define clips see i think what greg brady was referring to are these clipless, which means you have a special pedal and special shoes. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, yeah, I know. Clip in. Yeah, but I have the old school clips. They're like... That's not a clip. That's like a sleeve. Those are sleeves, yes. It's like a sleeve that you put your foot in, right?

They're like a sleeve you put your foot in. But you still get some traction on the upstroke. Is it like leather straps too, like old school leather? No, no, no. I wish. I wish you could afford those, Elvis. Listen. They don't make those anymore they're actually leather straps too like old school no no i wish i wish you could afford those elvis listen they don't make those anymore leather straps those clips are the ident the clips i had as a 16 year old when i mountain biked through the city all the time to work and everything into school i had the same clips and i just transferred them from the pedals of my old bike which the beater bike now to my new bike it's the

same clips crazy story anyway the training is going well um good uh are you psyched though like training mentally is really what greg brady promised uh his buddy was gonna tent tent bunk with me is that i didn't i think he promised to make an introduction where's the intro yeah i've i've received i'm two weeks away from this camping experience, and I'm still waiting for Merrick to get Strombo on this show. I think the great Todd Shapiro promised to pledge my ride, and now Greg Brady has promised to hook me up with somebody who might bunk with me.

None of those have happened. I've learned people say anything during the podcast. The follow-up is non-existent is mrs toronto mike going to be out on the course at all to uh you know they're almost going by the house because they're going along lake shore they're literally you could you could stand at the corner there so are they doing that um the plan is that when i finish right they i think uh all three kids and monica will be at the finish line nice are you going to be um are you going to have your phone with you while you're right i'm gonna have it with me but

you know what they have a rule oh yeah it's a tweet uh oh i guess you know you can get off a bike and tweet for sure right you're not allowed to have headphones on that was the rule okay that makes sense i guess it makes good sense because it's all safety. But I do enjoy my tunes when I bike. Get like a little speaker for your handlebars. Done. A little Bluetooth speaker. That'd be hilarious. I definitely will have my phone.

That's why I asked Greg if I could keep a charge going for the two days. I want to use my GPS thing to track it myself, and then I will tweet. And that's probably going to be if you have i think you use map my ride or something yeah i'm at my ride that'll be the longest you'll set so many personal uh goals personal achievements on that thing that'll be longest because uh yeah it'll break my six century rides uh that's a that's a big accomplishment in the in the world of a cycler and i'm gonna take his tip because there are these stops where you, there's lunch on the way. Like at some point on this ride of 110K. You're going to eat.

Sure. I will stop and get off and eat. So I'm in my head now. It's like, it's really like I've done a 60. It's like four of those. This ride is like four of those. Do they provide lunch for you or are you like walking into McDonald's? No, they provide lunch.

Timmy's. I mean, lots of calories for you. That's what you need. Your body needs the calories body needs no they provide lunch i mean come on you forget you know i yeah you have to raise uh 2500 is it or 3500 i forget now but you have to there's a minimum you gotta raise which is a big time cash but i also had to put up money just to enter this ride that didn't count towards my pledge there was like a registration so right and i don't know if that covers the tent or I don't know. I guess it's a tent.

Well, I'm pretty sure the company who runs this is a for-profit company. Enbridge. Is it Enbridge? No, you're talking about a sponsor. Okay, yeah. Similar to the Weekend 10 Breast Cancer, that's actually a for-profit company that runs that thing. And they deliver proceeds. You're not doing that 100% for charity.

They're making a profit off of that run. Some website tells you how much gets to the yeah so terry fox a lot gets there i remember well because that's run by the terry fox foundation and that's they have like it's like two pennies for every dollar is administration they're one of the best yeah um but this is actually run by the like basically what happens is that the hospital contracts this out to a company that does it for them takes a cut and then give delivers a check back to them at the end of the day uh i'm not saying that that's bad i'm just saying that that's the reality so but good on you for doing that all right so good on you for the run and good on me for the

bike we're amazing people how amazing are we everybody should be healthy like us look at us look at us we're like look at us. We're like specimens. I can't find clothes that fit. Jesus. Actually, this shirt, my 98. I got this at the Pearl Jam show in 98. It's a little big on me now. It's fucking bullshit.

98. It's a bullshit shirt. Take it off. And I'm wearing my Michael Power track suit that I used when I was on the wrestling team. I don't even have this anymore. I'll go put it on. What are you, a hoarder? No.

It's like the only... I kept it for some reason. I don't know have this anymore. I kept it for some reason. I don't know why. It was my school uniform. Quick story. Then we have some important business to get to. I'm at my mom's house on the weekend because she wants to see Sweet Baby Jervis.

How's that fire alarm working? It's not beeping. My mom is fascinated with his eyes look like this and the nose looks like Monica's and the chin. And she's into like dissecting the parts and, oh, you know, James looks like James here and Michelle there and Nate here and whatever. And it's her big hobby or whatever. And I don't care. It looks like Jarvis. Like, I don't know, whatever.

And so she wants to show me a picture. She's got a picture framed of, she tells me, look, this is a picture of Michelle when she was a baby. My daughter, Michelle. This is a picture of your daughter when she was a baby. Look at how similar the, I don't remember what it is, the chin is or something. Jarvis and Michelle have the same chin or something.

And I go, I look at the picture. I looked at the picture for one second and I looked at my mom, who I quite like, and I said to her, that's not Michelle. Okay? The whole picture is a Michelle? It's a framed picture that you know, she believes Michelle

is a baby. And my mom's actually, you know, she's pretty young and she can see. I thought you meant the chin. No, no. The picture is not... Remember, I have to point out, we're talking about my daughter, okay?

Her granddaughter. Yeah, but my daughter, who... She looks at me like I'm an idiot, and she tells me, that's Michelle. Of course that's michelle i guess since this picture showed up in her house she's because she believes it's michelle she has told everyone including nate that this is pictures michelle nate is my nephew who she watches all the

time so okay so clarify so basically to clarify is this picture michelle well let me get in there in two seconds but um i look at it again just to humor her i decided to look at this picture again because it is a cute looking white baby with blue eyes and a little blonde hair and michelle had the same features and i look at it again and i say mom i said i don't know a lot like i sometimes forget to close the cupboard doors and things like that. But I said, I, one thing I know is what my kids look like as babies. Cause not just do I remember raising them, but I, I have a Flickr account and I occasionally, especially when Jarvis showed up, I dove back in and I'll go through and look at my James

and Michelle's babies. Like, so it's, I'm not just, my brain's not just remembering them in real time, like seven years ago or whatever, or 10 years ago. My brain is remembering all the Flickr pictures I have looked at in the past month. So I mean, I can basically pick my kids out of a lineup, believe it or not. Could you do that?

Or you could probably do that, right? I don't know much, but I know. And I said to her again, I said, Mom, I said, that's not Michelle. I said, I don't know who that is. I said, it's not Michelle. Then said, I don't know who that is. I said, it's not Michelle. Then she goes and tells me a big story. She got it from my ex.

Michelle's mom gave it to her. Of course it's Michelle. And she furiously can't wait to prove to me that that's Michelle. And she starts breaking the picture out of the frame. So she's opening the back of the frame. She's taking out the picture because she's going to prove to me because written on the back of this picture is some detail like michelle whatever date or whatever and i'm like when like okay i'm letting her do this thing and she's doing it like i'm 100 sure

this is not my daughter because it's just not her face it's close but it's not her face it's off a little bit the back of it says uh something like nate, Nate 2011 or something like that. It was a boy? It was a boy. In fact, earlier, I didn't tell the story right, but earlier I said, when she was telling me this, before she said that was Michelle, I said, who's he? Because it looked like a boy to me. And it was Nate, who I didn't recognize. But you know, when your nephew's different than your kid,

it's a whole different time. So it was a grandchild. It was a grandchild. Just the wrong one. Yeah, but it wasn't Michelle. So she's been, even, I guess, forever, she's believed this was Michelle. She was certain this was Michelle.

She was willing to, basically, she was challenging Michelle's father. She was going to fight you. She thought it was, oh my God, Mike. Of course that's Michelle. And then she's gonna fight me she thought it was any oh my god mike of course that's michelle um and then uh she's been telling nate himself that that was michelle so forever nate they name the people it's like a game they play and nate's got in his head that's michelle it's actually nate and it's not michelle and it's never been michelle did she cry my mom yeah we had a it was like a laugh cry like it was pretty funny because the the evidence

thank goodness um this was written on the back of the picture or to this moment she would be certain i was wrong so was she embarrassed by this i told her i'd probably tell the story of the podcast she's gonna listen to this now yeah i don't know. She might. But that's the story of the picture in my mom's house. What happens to moms, man? What happens to moms? They go like, I don't know. And it's what happens to mom's eyes because Michelle has very pretty features. And Nate's a handsome man, but he looks like a boy.

Sure. Like they're just different faces. Oh, yeah. The eyes are a similar color and the hair. At but he looks like a boy. Sure. Like they're just different faces. Oh, yeah, the eyes are a similar color and the hair. At least it's still a relative. I thought you were going to say that it was like the picture that came with the frame. No, that would be a far better story, but that was not true. No, it was a grandchild.

Your poor mom. It was not Michelle. Does your mom still work or no? No. No? Her work is, I guess, taking care of Nate. Nate slash Michelle. yeah that's right that's right oh my between your mom's your mom's getting some good stories out on you okay one quick thing just before i want to talk about the blue jays in a second uh because there's some positive stuff happening there but um we haven't talked about

the raptors so we i guess the timing was that you canceled on me when we were going to do our Raptors, when they were in the playoffs. And then Greg Brady, we didn't have time to talk about him then and they were toast by then. And of course, they're long gone, distant memory. But the Raptors were in the playoffs

and it resulted in my mom watching a few basketball games. And I think they were the first basketball game she's ever watched. Like she's seen hockey a lot and she's seen the odd baseball game, I think through the years, but she's never watched basketball. Interesting. What was her take?

So she doesn't get basketball and it made the games very interesting. And I took these notes during the playoffs. Okay. Cause I thought we were going to talk about them during the playoffs, but a few things like she doesn't know when play stops because of a foul call. So she doesn't, I don't know if she doesn't hear the whistle or if she doesn't know when play stops because of a foul call so she doesn't i don't know if she doesn't hear the whistle or if she doesn't tie the whistle to the game stopping

so she will basically uh subsequent plays that happen after a whistle she thinks counts right so what do you and it's like she'll react to them as if it's game time even though like the foul whistle so now we know of course the and then the guy still takes the shot yeah he'll still take the shot or do something like that my mom reacts to that as if it counts and then i try to explain her so much oh well that doesn't count because they caught they blew a whistle on the foul so the whole concept of the time stopping due to the foul so i never ever caught on with her and it was it was funny she wouldn't really enjoy soccer then because i mean you know it's i'll bet you she's never seen a soccer game that

i can tell you for sure um oh and she the one thing i said so every basketball game ends especially these raptor games that were all close they all ended the same way they all end with we need to foul to stop the clock and put the opposition on the line that was that's how they all kind of ended okay that's how most basketball games seem to end sure and this entire concept where you foul to put them on the line because it stops the clock and then you hope to get the they don't get both shots and then you can also get a three-point shot this whole concept of how to kind of come back at the end when there's not much clock left like eight seconds left takes takes like 25 minutes because of this concept of time outs completely could never grasp this concept and this happened every game and at the end of

every game it's almost like now she's watching like white noise and it's like i'm trying to i actually try to explain her like i would explain to my daughter for example um maybe not quite i've been told i'm much more patient with my kids so With my mom, I guess when I'm teaching her or telling her something, apparently I expect she should pick it up quicker. Come on. Sure. She's an adult. Because I have a different tone with my daughter

and it's much more nurturing. Correct. With my mom, it's a little snarkier. I'm with you on that one. In your mom's defense, if there is one... Is it complicated? I would say that that concept is like understanding icing in hockey, right? It is counterintuitive to say, you know what?

I'm going to foul you purposely so you have the chance to score in the hopes that I'm going to be able to then take the ball back and score and somehow get more than you. I get that. But I think if she was watching a couple of games and you, you know, get more than you. I get that. But I think if she was watching a couple of games and you explain it was several, a few games, at least three or four. And by the end of the fourth game, she still wasn't any more advanced. Maybe it's indefensible, but still. All right. One more thing that escapes her completely is the 24 second clock.

What? Yeah. Like, um, I, um, what the clock, I think I showed her where it was on the screen remember there was one game where the clock broke yes okay which caused great discussions about the importance of the clock yes and uh so uh like here's the clock and then the whole idea that uh you basically what that clock means and what it represents and what and how it. And how it resets. Yeah. Did she get that way? The whole 24-second clock concept escaped her. Did you explain to her the concept of having to get over half court within three seconds

or five seconds? No, I didn't bother with that one. No, I didn't bother with that one. The last note I took here, since it's all a distant memory now when our Raptors were king of the city here, we'd be up, there's an example where we're up by 11 points,

and then the Nets would hit a three-point shot. And 10 seconds later, my mom would say this. This would be her exact quote. This all happens. We're all watching. We're watching. So we're up by 11. Nets hit a three-point shot.

Five or six seconds later, my mom will exasperately look at the... I guess she looks back at the scoreboard and she goes, we're only up by eight now? Like she's all, what do you mean? It was only eight now? It was just 11. I don't know. Did she miss the whole basket? So this is a 10 second period, I'd say, between being up by 11 and then being up by eight.

And there was a three point shot that was taken and hit. So we're all like, okay, well at 11 it's eight, you know, you can't react to everything in basketball. You'd be exhausted. It's like,

okay, you're watching the ebb and the flow. It's only eight now. It's so great. She dozed off during that three point. I don't know if she's doing taxes or what, like, but I noticed my dear wife watches a lot of sports of me and sometimes we'll be

we watch a lot of because she's very sweet and that i she'll say i'll say i want to watch the can we watch the rangers and habs it's a playoff game and of course it's an event she wants to watch and she's sitting there and her eyes are pointed towards the tv and sometimes i'll say did you see what lungfist just did set just did And she'll look at me and say, I missed it. But I'm telling you, I'm watching her watching the game. Like, she's staring at this TV. She's zoning out.

Yeah, she's zoning out. So this is a woman thing. They zone out? Like, if I was told to watch The Bachelor with her, I'd be like, babe, I wasn't paying attention. But I would have a device in my hand. That's the difference. Yeah, you totally would.

That's what I do. Yeah, well. Or I just leave the room. She's looking at the TV and it's happening in front of her and it's a major event. It's so amazing. And it didn't,

doesn't like, it didn't. But see, it's not a major event to other people. That's the thing, right? So your mom was, your mom was,

you know, a guest to the game. But CP24 kept showing the live shots of that Raptor, what do they call it, Jurassic Park, they called it. The Maple Leafs sports, whatever the square was. So my mom knew that this was a big event. Yeah, it was big.

And it would be interesting to see what that atmosphere will be like if the Raptors and the Leafs are in the playoffs at the same time. That square would just get destroyed, I think. And what happens if they play at the same time? Do square would just get destroyed i think it would just be and what happens if they play at the same time do they divvy up the square or well i don't think you divvy up the square but i would do you divvy up the tv screen do you suddenly do pitcher and pitcher right both though that'd be pretty crazy um because you can't have a way game you'd have like a blue side and a red side yeah then i think uh we'd all get along it's not like as if we're competing well first of all there's a venn diagram think uh we'd all get along it's not like as if we're competing

well first of all there's a venn diagram somewhere that shows the massive overlap but it's not the same circle that's i can do we're in this we're in the middle of this then but i know i don't i won't even describe them but certain people that are hockey only yes okay and there are a lot of uh especially young people now there's some cool young people well what do what do they say that the a lot of the raptor audience were you know very obviously um first generation canadians yeah uh members of visible minorities typically skewed a lot younger yeah and leaf fans especially in the square because old farts like us aren't going to the freaking square i'm either going to go to the bar or i'm going to go to just watch no i want when i watched the

raptor fans i was looking yeah it's for sure like teens and early 20s and yes there's a very nice uh mix of ethnicities in that crowd as opposed to a typical hockey crowd which is as white as the wall here sure and the other funny thing is is that they would bring their ethnic origin flag. Did you notice that? I did notice that. There was a couple of Indian flags out there. That's funny. Jamaican flags.

So you don't see that in Leaf Nation. No, you do not. I'm not saying it's bad or good. Sometimes, though, I notice. It's kind of interesting. Okay, what I do notice, though, is if you had a Ranger game game i noticed there'll be a big swedish flag out there sure because of of henrik king henrik king henry yeah who uh oh they lost yeah so that was uh overtime last night i did not no i it was early finish to the i flew in uh drove home went to my daughter's soccer

soccer practice and then went to bed i was in in bed by 8.30. Before we... No, we did basketball. We're going to do Jays in a second, but quick note on the hockey pool we both entered. I mean, you flamed out big time. You're going to finish last in this one. I did. I had five out of my 10 picks were Detroit Red Wings.

So I was in a similar boat, and that five of my 10 picks were St. Louis Blues. Yeah. So I wasn't going to finish last because I banked on those wonderful Montreal Canadiens. Asshole. Yeah. So you're going to finish last because I banked on those wonderful Montreal Canadians. Asshole. Yeah. But so you're going to finish last, and I'm going to finish in the middle.

Yep. I'm in the basement, and I think your brother, who started out very poorly, actually, has rocketed to the top. Mr. Poor Start, but he didn't lose a player. No. And he had – you didn't necessarily agree with me when i suggested this but uh he drafted last it gives him the benefit of drafting like two players in a row uh as we go through the snake but um generally guys who draft last don't win the pool and he looks like he's gonna run away with it he banked on the right teams he did so he's good and he's a smart i mean

he was giving us injury reports you know know? He's all over this stuff. He loves that shit. You know, it's his first win, I think, so you'd think he'd won before. Oh, is it really? I think so. I don't remember him winning before.

Is there a trophy? There's money. Oh, yeah. I forgot that I gave him $20 for this fucking shit. Yeah, so we sucked. Your last guy, you're lingering.

You had an Anaheim duck that gets laughed. And he was your only point producer for a very long time. Yeah, I think he had a Anaheim duck. I guess laugh. Guess laugh. And he was your only point producer for a very long time. Yeah. I think he was my top point producer as well. He's the only guy who played more than one round. So you're done. Oh,

I'm done. You suck. I was done. You know, the ill Duce has the record for lowest ties. I think he maybe beat him. I went lowest points. Yeah.

He finished one season with like 23 or 20. I think, what do I have? 36 or you're well above. Uh, um blue jays what do you want to say about the jays well i think uh it's surprising frankly to see the jays in first place after uh victoria day um and uh good good on them i think a lot of people would have suggested that this team was worse than last year's which uh obviously was a pretty pitiful season. So good on the Jays for sort of cobbling together somewhat of a starting pitching lineup. Mark Burley's having the season of his life with the most wins by any pitcher.

I don't know, man. How do you explain what happened last year? It just seems as though maybe the team needed a year to play together before they figured out how to play together. That's probably my biggest observation is that they survived the Reyes injury at the beginning of the season. Encarnacion is killing it right now. Bautista has been consistent all year round.

Lowry even much he's starting to hit a bit and his defense is amazing i'm not sure what the stat on bautista is but i know at one point in the season maybe two or three weeks ago he had not gone an entire game without making reaching base like unbelievable stats so um they're getting what they need from uh from their own team but they're also getting what they need from the rest of the American League East, which is a lot of injury problems and shitty play. And I think we'd be ridiculous to suggest that the Jays are good enough to win if all the other teams in the American League East were firing at all cylinders. That's playing a big part of the J's success. So, hey, let's live it up and see. You know, if we get to Canada Day and we're still in the hunt,

suddenly the summer is getting really, really interesting. This is a big test now between May and July. Admittedly, they've had somewhat of an easy schedule because they haven't up until, I think, this series right now. They've gone a long time without playing any team in the American League East which is generally a good thing right you sort of get to uh build up a bunch of wins which they have so good on them let's see what happens in a way better first of all they didn't do the whole uh love this team nonsense and all that uh the metric song and

there was just this season's organically progressed in a much more pleasant fashion. Well, because they knew that the team was going to suck ass that they did the whole stupid campaign because they knew that they were going to win, but then they didn't. And then the campaign looks stupid, right?

But now they, they went in a little bit tempered because it's like, Hey shit, we haven't got anybody. Yeah. Let's win some games first. We haven't got anybody new. So if we were shitty last year, we're going to be even shit although uh just losing mr aaron sibia would

be addition by subtraction do you see he's uh triple a he's he's been going off as well on his time in toronto and um criticizing them he said his all of his problems in the major leagues have been because of the media up here they had it it out for him, blah, blah, blah. I don't know. He dug his own grave as far as I'm concerned. I love JP. I thought he was really good. I really liked him and wanted to give him a chance, but he just sucked.

That's his problem. He's not a major league ball player. Couldn't hit. It's not his problem. It's not the media's problem, excuse me. It's his problem. So go Jays go. I think the bats have been great.

We just have to hope the pitching holds up. I don't know, man. What do you think? So let's do prediction time. Because Canada Day is usually another milestone, right, in the season. Or the All-Star break, which is essentially a couple weeks after that. What place are the Jays in come the Canada day all snow break third place in the AL East. And what is the Delta between first and third

five and a half game? Wow. Wow. Who's catching fire? What day is it? What is it? May 22nd. See,

it's about six weeks away. Uh, Yankees probably. We'll see anyone in this division. I'm going to say that they will be in second and they will be two and a half out. Two. I'm going to extract this audio. We'll play it back

in our famous Canada Day episode where we talk about Terry Fox and Don Cherry. We'll both look stupid. And Tommy Douglas. We have 10 minutes. Do I have time to talk about... Let me just do it. Why am I asking?

I'm going to... You're the host, not me. Fuck, I'll talk about anything you want to talk about. Oh, for fuck's sakes. I just need an excuse to fix my inline audio. That seems to be quieter. Let me... Huh. It's moving mike can you touch me can i touch you so i'm going to i think i tweeted i can't remember the origin

of the story okay i tweeted it this is going way back because again we canceled episodes and okay we haven't had a shoot the shit episode in a while. Okay. I was watching Titanic. I flipped around the stations and I never do that. I never watch movies on TV. I never do it. Really?

I never do it. Oh, keep it up, baby. Keep it up. Never watch movies. Turn it up. I came across Titanic on TV and I started watching it it again and again because I've seen it many times. And I don't know if I tweeted I was watching Titanic or that I liked Titanic. What did I tweet?

By the way, I don't like this song. I like Titanic. It's so ridiculous. I think Titanic is a great movie because I absolutely love, I love the amazing recreation of the wreck of the Titanic. And the Titanic, just the attention to detail by James Cameron and just the effects. The whole, just being on the ship, I buy in, man. This is an amazing effort by James Cameron to recreate the Titanic. So a couple of things. Yeah.

You're such an idiot. That's that the first thing? That's one. That's one. Two, the movie is good because of a couple of things. Wait, didn't you give me shit for liking it? Hold on. Victor Newman is in it.

Victor Newman is in it, yeah. I'll give you that. Visually, I'll give you that uh visually i'll give you that too and um boobies there's boobies in it okay yeah good good i does okay so i have three points here my first point is i've done the first point the second point is amazing wonderful breasts i wrote down here because yeah uh she loves getting naked too yeah definitely yeah and she's got that curvy kind of sexy body like it's not it's uh it's a delight so you got the really cool effects of the the recreation of this titanic and then the wreck and it that's i think it's amazing and then you got those wonderful breasts like embedded within this this movie and what's your what's your third shitty point and then i'm gonna fucking destroy this right now there's a they overlay this great disaster recreation movie they overlay it

with this uh cheesy love story okay this is the overlay this is what gets people in the seats over and over again and i'm not a fan of cheese typically, but I think in this movie that this layer of cheese works. Oh, my God. Yeah. That was my whole argument as to why this movie is shit. So that's what I'm going to say. Just do the fucking documentary on the movie, for fuck's sake. Jack and Rose is, yeah.

The old lady throwing the freaking... There's a great line on Seinfeld about Titanic, right? I'm going to get this right, and I did write this down. Okay. Jerry and George are talking about seeing Titanic, and then George says, that old lady, she's a liar, right? And then Jerry says,

and a bit of a tramp, if you ask me. And that was it. Right? It's true. She was a tramp. Anyway, the best synopsis of anything ever.

Horrible. It's such a bad movie. It really is. And it plays on all the cheese that you possibly can with the old people in the bed

with the water rising and oh, I love you. I'm going to stay here. I love you. But that scene of the water rising is thrilling and it's you're so brutal wow first of all i saw it in the theater when it was so did i okay i did as well and i loved it in the theater here it even makes me emotional because at the end of this movie i used i feel the sense of the reality of it all like i can feel the deaths of all these people. But Mike, wouldn't it have been a better movie

if it was an actual real story? I bet you that there's probably countless love stories that went along with this. I think a fake story in the backdrop of... It's almost like Mad Men does this a lot. In the backdrop, JFK is being assassinated, but they have a fictional story in the foreground or whatever. I think the fictional story overlaid over the reality of the situation i think i think it worked it wasn't a

documentary for goodness sakes it was a it was a movie i think the fictional story was what they used titanic as an opportunity to tell this stupid love story uh okay but the reason it made a billion dollars is because you have the love story yeah because of because of the love story uh i don't want to be like misogynist or whatever but females because i i like it so there's i'm obviously not but you know a young woman would like to see this many times they have a crush on leonardo dicaprio they love the love story it makes them cry it makes them feel like i'll give you that james cameron um has great attention to detail um and and and the the the the visuals were impressive um but it was horrible movie

and yeah and i saw okay so i saw in theaters that song i'll be happy man at some point i got my hand i didn't buy it but i borrowed uh the cassette the vhs and i remember being two cassettes like i distinctly remember it which is a big deal that's the big deal when you have two cassettes going on here okay that's like that's a long arabia stuff here okay now we got the two and that's something then i so i saw it again i think i might have yeah so i borrowed that and then as someone else owned it and i borrowed it again and then i saw it on tv and i've now downloaded it because i want to watch with the kids with the kids i want to throw my with the kids. Oh my God. With the kids. I want to throw it out there. Oh my God. The two kids who will know what's going on.

You know what is impressive though? What? Is that the Lord of the Rings, those three movies, if you were to get the extended version Blu-rays, they are two Blu-rays per film. Whoa. That's amazing. That is amazing. That's amazing.

Fucking Titanic. Jesus. Okay, so you don't like it and I like it. No, horrible. Wow. That is amazing. That's amazing. Fucking Titanic. Jesus. Okay, so you don't like it and I like it. No, horrible. Wow. First of all, you're not alone in dislike. Anything that big is disliked by lots of people. It's not because it's big.

It's not because it's big. Okay. Just to remind you, I can promise you I'm not the only guy out there who enjoyed Titanic. You are the only guy who is willing to record themselves about their enjoyment. That might be true. I don't care. Hey, uh, I'm not sure what that says off the top of your head, or do you want to do this later? Uh, do you have, what are your big questions for Barb DiGiulio? Who's coming on next week? I want to know what it is like to be a woman in as a woman myself. I want to know what it's like to be a woman in sports radio broadcasting. I mean, did she ever feel like she got preferential treatment or got put on to different events because she was a woman?

And the only woman for a long time? She was the only one, right? Yeah, for a long time. Who's there now who's a woman? Ooh. No one, right? I don't know if there is anyone there. I only listen to really the Bobcat thing and sometimes Sid and Kit.

Sid and Kit, I'm going to call them. Sid and Kit. I still want to interview them so bad. Tim and Sid. Well, get them on. Or just meet them anyway. You know what? Twitter worked well for Greg Brady.

I'm going to try it with them too. I'm still working on Maestro Fresh West and George Dromvalopoulos. They're pretty hardcore on Twitter. So they probably, seeing through all the craziness. Brady will vouch for us. Now, Brady, that's the way. Now you have guys on the inside. You can say, hey. And Merrick. And Merrick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brady will vouch for us. Now you have guys on the inside who can say, hey. And Merrick.

And Merrick, yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway. And Barb. And Barb. So guys like McCowan, right? I think McCowan, as much as I love him and I think he's a great broadcaster, he sometimes can be a little bit sexist. And Jennifer Jones, I think, is an example of that.

The curler, the championship curler. Every time she comes into the studio, oh my goodness, he fawns over her and talks about her hair and blah, blah, blah, like all this shit. Without a doubt, he is a little sexist. So did Barb ever get any of that? And how do you deal with that? Because I think some women are like, you know what? I'm going to use that to my advantage. I'm going to take advantage of the fact that the guys that are sexist out there are gonna give me opportunity and i'm

gonna take that opportunity and i'm gonna run with it and fucking kill it right i think aaron andrews might be a woman who might say that um who works at espn now is on dancing with the stars or do you get really upset about it and like fight it and like you know get really sort of militant about it how do you deal with that like what is her take on that and um you know, get really sort of militant about it. How do you deal with that? Like, what is her take on that? And, um, you know, how does that make you feel when you go home? You feel shitty or do you feel like, Hey, you know what, this is the opportunity that I've gotten. I'm going to take advantage of it. Okay. I'll ask her that. I also am very curious. Uh, why did she never parlay? Like, why did she never get up on television? Like, that's because, yeah, like you have a good, she sounds good.

She's got a great personality. She's in the sports. You know, maybe it was a scheduling thing. I mean, she's a, I know she's a mom. You know, she had that afternoon shift for a long time. I'd love to hear stories about Gord Stelic

because I find that her and Gord Stelic on the air together were just magical in the afternoon. This is a lunch bag letdown. Yeah, the big show. Brilliant together. I'd love to hear her take on Gord. And if they really seemed like they were friends, are they really friends in real life?

Or was that just part of the show? I tweeted at Andrew Walker, who's the new co-host of the Greg Brady show in the morning. who's the new co-host of the Greg Brady show in the morning. And I tweeted at him that I thought the co-host was actually Larry Walker. And then I was disappointed. And I used the hashtag lunchbagletdown. Nice. Did he respond to that?

No. I think it was yesterday. There's so many reasons why he wouldn't respond to it. One, you're calling him by the wrong name. And two, you're using a shtick from another show. And Greg's like, don't go on. They're going to call you Larry Walker. Like, they call me Greg Brady.

And that brings us to the end of our 77th show. You can follow me on Twitter, at Toronto Mike. Mike and Elvis at Oshawa Elvis. See you all next week. Peace.