Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - #TMLX21: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1809

Episode Date: November 29, 2025

In this 1809th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike records live from Palma's Kitchen at #TMLX21. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Ridley Funeral Home, Nick Ainis, Blue Sky Agency, Kindling, RetroFestive.ca and RecycleMyElectronics.ca. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at [e-mail].

Hi, I'm Morgan, and welcome to TMLX-21, live from Palms' Kitchen. Well done, Morgan. I'm in Toronto, we want to get the city love. I'm in Toronto, I want to get the city love. I'm in Toronto like I want to get the city love. So my city love me back, put my city love. Welcome to episode 1,809 of Toronto Miked, proudly brought to you by Retrofestive.C.A. Canada's pop culture and Christmas store.

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Nick Aini's. He's the host of Building Toronto Skyline and Building Success. Two podcasts you ought to listen to. Kindling. Go to shopkindling.ca for free one-hour cannabis delivery. I think Canada Kev is doing that right now. Recycle MyElectronics.com. Committing to our planet's future

means properly recycling our electronics of the past and Ridley Funeral Home Pillars of the community since 1921 Welcome everybody to TMLX-21 Woo! Elvis, how are you doing, buddy? I'm good. I've had my canoli, I've had a double espresso

and I'm already into the Great Lakes Brewery beer. It's good stuff. How was Morgan with her cold open? Fantastic. Yeah. She's one of a kind. Everybody, a round of applause for Morgan. I have an announcement from Morgan.

Morgan, do you still have any more scrunchies or earrings for sale? She's nodding. Okay. I bought a scrunchy. Right here. So let me hold it up for the audience. Morgan has made Blue Jays scrunchies and other scrunchies and earrings and she's selling everything.

I think it's like five bucks a pop. Cash only. Morgan's at this table to my left. Support a good cause. Support a good cause. Elvis, we're back. It's an honor to have you here. Tell everybody about how much better this room looks today.

I can't believe it's been a year, first of all, since we've done this. And this is unbelievable. This place here is just a treasure for, Mississauga, GTA West. This is an amazing place up here. What about Oakville? Can Oakville come here? Yeah, it's GTA West. Burlington?

This is GTA West. What about the Hamilton? You're the guy who knows all the fucking places in Toronto, the neighborhoods. You know it's GTA West. So I want to paint a picture and then we're going to get into it. This is a new Mississauga, I think. This is a skyline behind me. It's beautiful.

It's a saga coat. So I want to thank Palma Pasta for hosting us today. And not only hosting us, everybody's eating for free. If I find out one of you, except for the guy in the headphones, if I find out any of you paid for your meal, I'm going to be angry. So make sure you get the voucher for the free meal. Also, I just want to say, I see a bunch of first-timers here. Isn't it awesome that the 21st TMLX event, and there's so many first-timers here?

You're my co-host Elvis. This is my 22nd one, so. Okay, what a segue? I wanted to open... I thought, do I open this episode with one of the many celebrities in the room? There are celebrities in the room? There are celebrities in the room.

Mark Hebshire, who we're going to talk to, so it's signing books. For the record, he's pointing at an empty chair. There's books over there. But we'll let Hebsie talk about that, okay? It's an empty chair. What if I told you, Elvis, that somebody in attendance today is at their 21st TMLX event.

I would not believe it. You'd call me a liar. Yeah, absolutely. You're a fucking liar. Whoa. There you go. Working blue today. There's some children in the crowd here.

It's fine. Welcome to the program, Langer. 21 for 21. Thank you, Tyler. I appreciate that. So on your name to Egg Langer, you have number 97. Yes, I have 97. What is that, what does that mean?

So that, that, We were supposed to put on our name tag the episode number of our favorite episode. Episode 97 was the first appearance of Colleen Rushholm. I love Colleen Rushholm. I know, and she loves you, and that's why I picked that one. I won't go into too much detail because Monica is here, but let's say there was some frustration and chemistry. Speaking of book signings, Langer's got some fan fiction about you and Colleen that he's going to be selling out of his trunk.

Was that the risque photo? Isn't there a risk a... Yeah, that's the one? No, that's not the risk of a photo. No, isn't that, or is that the children's group? That is splashing boots. Right, right, the children's group, right? Oh, it was cool to excite that day.

Yeah. So there's another voice we've all heard. I want to introduce somebody else, okay? I wanted to have the show open with Langer to say, thank you for coming to every single TMLX event. Thank you. 21 for 21. Wow.

But also on the mic, I sometimes refer to him as the VP of, of sales. Sometimes I refer to him as the VP of no sales. More accurate, yes. He's also known as Tyler Campbell. Hello. Tyler, you're the real MVP. Oh, please. Please. Please. What number is he have on his name tag? Tyler drove me today to this event. And you did a heck of a job on the what is it, Hodge 100.com. Hodge 100.com. What did you think of the Dave Hodge 100? He always brings it. The man cares about music, and it's always great to hear his list.

Frank Turner, always good to hear what he's been up to, and Dave has his finger on the pulse. But, yeah, always great to see Dave and hear Dave. How many bands did you know? I knew probably half. What about this Rustin guy? He keeps dominating these lists. Who is this guy? Yeah, I don't know.

He's a country guy. Country guy. All right. Is he here today? Rustin Kelly, yeah, he's here. Rustin Kelly. What's the number you have on your name tag? I don't remember what number, but Gino Vanelli is my favorite episode of Toronto Live.

It's the only episode I've ever listened to. It's so great. This is an important, yeah, we did a recap episode. That was so great. I loved it. So much. So this year, the lovely Stephanie Wilkinson, everybody, applaud for, applause for Stephanie.

She's responsible for the name tags. And in addition to getting your name on the name tag, You have to shout out your favorite episode of Toronto Mike. Me. Your colleague, what is yours, Elvis? It's 1809. 1809. So we're going to do something we should have done a long time ago, Elvis.

We're going to cycle through guests quickly this year. Right. But let's do a little housekeeping off the top. Sure. So I mentioned to everybody that Palma Pasta is feeding you. But they always forget to feed you and I, Elvis. We're going to record for three hours. But Tyler and I just lugged four cases.

of fresh craft beer from Great Lakes Brewery. I sure did. In the back of this room, you'll find a blue bucket there, and it is full of fresh craft beer from Great Lakes Brewery. Help yourself. Right? Go nuts.

Free beer. If you're over 19. Stuff them in your pockets. Morgan, Morgan, you've got to drink the hop-pop, okay? You're not 19 yet. Okay, so thank you to Great Lakes Brewery for that. But also, I see people have gifts. We can now reveal, because I can see them.

They're like leg lamps from a Christmas story. courtesy of retrofestive.ca is Ty the Christmas guy here? Okay, thank you, Ty the Christmas guy, for giving, did everybody get one? Everybody got a leg lamp? Oh my God, he's here. If you didn't get a leg lamp, tie the Christmas guy is in the back, to my left, in the back corner. He also sent over a T-shirt for me to wear. I'm wearing a shirt from Retro Festive.

Oh, very nice. It's a Weezer Christmas shirt. Very nice. Don't get jealous Elvis. You look just like Buddy Holly. I look just like Buddy Holly. So those are the gifts. I wanted to make sure we shouted them out.

We're going to open the show before I get to others. Again, did I thank you enough, Tyler? You sure did, and I feel thanked. But you're an FOTM Hall of Famer. I feel thanked. I am a Hall of Famer. How many Hall of Famers are here today? Three.

How many people are in the Hall of Fame? Seven. So four less Hall of Famers after. today. I have a recording from one of them. I'm going to play in a moment. In fact, let me play the recording that Stu Stone made for this special event. And then I want the quick

update on the Neil Young incident with the cannabis I could only assume was purchased from shopkindling. ca. The Andrew Ward, Canada Kev, Tyler, I want to just have this discussion because I have some thoughts on that.

Oh, right. Yeah, we haven't heard from Langer on the record. We're going to give a minute to Stu Stone and then Langer Tyler on Neil Younggate and then Hebsy and others and this is going to be a great day. The room's filling up quick. It's a packed house. Yeah, you get to paint a picture for the listenership.

Beautiful room, beautiful crowd. I got a leg lamp, everybody. Let's applaud me, everybody. I got a leg lamp. It's a major award. Seriously, Ty the Christmas guy is giving the first 75 people here a leg lamp and I was joking with him. We might

not have seven people here. But we're I don't know why you're always worried. I mean, there's never been less than 500 people here. Come on, you didn't take an improv class? Come on. Yes, end. Okay. This, everybody.

This is FOTM Hall of Famer, Stu Stone. TMLX 21. There have been 21 TMLX events, and this might be the biggest one yet. To all the people who are listening right now, you are in for a real treat. For those attending in person, you are. are getting complimentary pasta beverages, you are getting complimentary entertainment, you are getting an opportunity to get a signature from Mark Hempshire on his brand new book, which features stories about his Zeta being a bookie. There is going to be holiday cheer, there is going to be

Blue Jays, sad, bittersweet hugs, there's going to be reunions with friends that you've only heard on the show, and other friends you've only made through the show. What a wonderful experience to bring everybody together for this TMLX event. I wish I was there to be a part of it. But I'm here. I'm here to bless this. And I ask the podcast gods to bless all of the people in attendance, all of the people who are listening, all of the people who believe in Toronto, Mike, and his mission of goodwill. Happy holiday season. May you have nothing but happiness, health, and maybe some laughter along the way ahead of you.

And it all starts right now. He was so trying to like be on the next episode of Dark Side of the Ring with that promo. He's totally trying to cut a promo there. If we play our cards right, we might be in the next episode. Okay, so everybody, I'm going to crack open

my fighting weight octopus wants to fight. I got the fighting weight because if I have a couple of these, I want to remember people's names. If I have the regular octopus, I'll start slurry me. Oxfuss is a good one. I love the octopus wine. It's a lower alcohol. Is that new?

That's new. Yeah, it's pretty new. You can grab one, Elvis. You'll love it. But let me just pass the mic to Tyler and Langer. Just give us the update on what you remember from that day at Neil Young. Okay, so if you listen to the FOTM cast in October, you would have heard the details of my adventures at Neil Young. So two people heard that.

Exactly. That's too, too many as far as I'm coming. I know. So if, really, I mean, let's be honest, Tyler Campbell told a great story. He doesn't have much, really, so I'll let him have that. What I can add to it is this. When I walked into the freshwater stage that day,

I thought, how can I get my friends free water? And my plan was hatched from that moment. That's good. That's good. How long have you been working on that line? not workshopping it. Since October 19, or August 19. Tyler,

I want to just say once again, I witness the love you have for Langer. We do this gimmicky bit here where you guys hate each other, but you were there for my man Langer, 21 for 21. You were there in his time of need. He was down for the count. He wasn't down. He was in a wheelchair from what I remember, from what

I saw in the pictures. No, they were dragging me around. I threw him over my shoulder and I carried him. I was so great. In the wheelchair. Everyone, much love to my driver, the great BPS sales. Langer, 21 for 21. We're going to cycle quickly through the guests today. Thank you.

Could I please get on my left? Could I get a Dave Charles? Dave, are you stuffing your face full of Palma over there? Okay, Dave, you're on this, Mike. Is Mark Hebscher in the room? Oh, he's in, okay, well, his handler, Serena. You want to go on and warm it up for him? His handler.

When you're as big as Hebsie, you get a handler here. So, does that mean he's not coming on the mic right now? Okay, so, Dave, how are you doing, buddy? I'm really great. This is a fantastic venue. How'd you pull this one out? Tell us again how much your wife loves palm pasta. Oh, she's Italian.

Rita Cugini. So she knows a good veal sandwich and a good chicken sandwich. We're going to do a shopping after, by the way, after we do the interview. Leave a Fumka while I listen and chat with my dear FOTM friend here, Dave Charles. Come on this mic to say hi. you can be the opening act for Hebsy. So how is life, man? You look great.

I feel great. I'm still hurting from the Blue Jays. That really hurt. See, I'm going to check in of Levee Fumka, an FOTM Hall of Famer because then when Hebsy takes this seat, you can ask Hebsie, you and Hebsy can do the Blue J chat here. We were commiserating about the loss, but, you know. Get right on that, Mike, leave a Fumka, and say hello to the FOTMs listening at TMLX21.

Hello, FOTMs. Yay. Can I say something? Well, I'm going to ask you a question, then you can say anything. Okay. Ready? Yeah. How are you feeling?

I'm doing okay. I'm just really tired. Okay, yeah, we want a thorough health update because we've all been, some of us have been praying for you, some of us have been thinking about you. Okay, so my chemo pill got, regimen got changed to see if that would help. if it would work with my fatigue and my side effects. And my side effects are gone, but my fatigue is not. So low energy?

Yes. Can you give some of that to Elvis? I like how you have to define fatigue for everyone in the process. But last, I think it was last, TMLX at Palmer's Kitchen. Yeah. You made the exciting pronouncement that you're in remission. Yes, and I'm still in remission. Okay.

as long as I take my chemo pill. Okay. Okay, I take a pill every day too. Yes, but it hasn't helped you. You know what? If Elvis, if you can, I don't know, prick me here. No, I'm not touching your prick at all. I will just spill out onto the floor. Like, my blood is like water.

Just going to spill onto the Palmer's kitchen floor. I want to tell you how, because you're kind of speaking for the broad squad because the other members don't want to speak right now. But on their behalf, I just want to say, It takes a village to do this. I couldn't do this about the Broad Squad. I love you guys, and I want to say thank you. And let's all applaud the Broad Squad.

That's Moose Grumpy. That's Stephanie Wilkinson. That's Lebe Fumka and FOTM Hall of Famer. Thank you. Now, may I say something? Yes. Okay, quick story. I was with my other podcast family.

You're cheating on me. Yes. Last night. And this woman had said, oh, I met Toronto, Mike, and I met Leslie and cousin Janow at Al Grego's birthday party. Right. And she had said she was amazed at what nice people are in the FOTMs. And I said, yes, because we have a great community. and Al Grego

with his produce stand also has a great community so I have to be equal love for both. First of all you know Al's going to get on the mic and I'm going to give him so much love so much love we love Al Grego on this program. Yes. I was going to share this of Al

I'll just tell you quickly. I was downtown to see FOTM Ron James last night. Monica and I were downtown so I was meeting Monica there because she works near there but I biked there and we were going to go train back. So I'm at Union Station to get my ass to Mimico. I'm giving you great detail here, but this is all the way to say, I saw so many people in 69 Shore hockey jerseys, and I said, that's Shore Z.

Yes. And that's Al Grego's podcast. That's right. Okay, shout out to the podcast, the Produce Stand. The Protestant, yeah. Amazing. All right. So shout out to the produce, Dan.

I'm going to do a lot of shoutouts today. Al Grego has two podcasts? He's got like a corporate one. Multiple. And he's award winning. Are we allowed to talk about the corporate one? They're not sponsoring us right now. We can talk about it, can we?

I don't know. He didn't cut a check. Oh, it's that kind of, this is that kind of show? I'm just messing with you. Thank you so much. We're going to get Hebsy in here. Hey, you know that guy with the headphones at Sol O'L Lunch? He just, like, left.

Well, now everybody, I can say this now. Everybody in this room right now is here for TMLX-21. Everybody. Yeah, except for that, yeah, now that guy's gone. So, that was amazing. Dave Charles, Hebsy can now hear you. what were you going to say about the Blue Jays of Hebsy and then I want to just make sure

Hebsy knows we're going to talk about his book for a moment Two outs away from the World Series I mean that I'm still hurting on that The play with Izzy Everybody's questioning that But I really think the play that pissed me off the most Was when the ball lodged at the bottom

Of the fence That ball was able to be taken out and thrown back That was a bad call And I called the umpires on that one And so I think we got screwed out of a World Series, really. What's say you, Hebsey, man? He's absolutely right. 100% correct.

It's the only time that that's ever happened. At the dome. Right. He could have easily gone to the ball and picked it up, okay? It wasn't lodged in there. I didn't need like a crowbar to get it out. You just reach down, pick the ball up. But they influenced the umpires, and the umpires went, oh, it's the Dodgers.

and, of course, there was, I'm sure the gambling companies had something going on there, and there's always suspicion when you see something like that happen. Is this game on the level? Or are they trying to screw the Blue Jays? And, well, leave it up to your own vices, I guess. And you're still hurting, Dave. Very much so. Yeah, damn right, he should be.

I mean, the whole country, it's not just the Toronto team. This is Canada's team. And there's a lot of fans right across coast to coast who love these guys. You know, people say, oh, the no-name Blue Jays, who have you got, you know? That was a great team. Team, I used the word team because that's what we were this year, and we're going to be that next year. Just like the Raptors are playing team basketball, that's going to win every time.

It's the best. The best ambassador for Toronto Sports is Dave Charles. Dave Charles, everybody. Give it a pause to Dave Charles. You got your poma pasta? I ate it already. It was delicious. And you're a regular customer of Poma Pasta.

Oh, yeah, my wife would I shop here all the time. Does your wife want to jump on the mic? I don't know. She's waving her head. She says, no, no way, she says. No way. She can translate into Italian, though. She can do the whole show in Italian.

Dave, as a radio guy, a radio veteran, you'll appreciate. We learned from our mistakes, Elvis and I, then. We get comfy with a guest, and we go 21 minutes off the top. Well, who is that guy back? The guy told the story. First of all, that man has a name. His name is F-O-T-M Kevin Shea. Right, okay.

So, is he here? We know Kevin. And Kevin Shea's got to have a story. He's not here because his partner's son is moving to Prince Edward County. I got the whole story. He's not here. But I'm glad I gave FOTM, Kevin Shea, 21 minutes off the top of that episode because it was an amazing story.

It was fantastic. We have the attention span. We have the attention span for 21 minutes stories, right, everybody? If it's a good story, I want to hear it. So, Dave, I hate to kick you out, but we're going to cycle crazy because I want to say hi to Rob Delmundo because don't you have to get to the PWHL? Okay, we're going to say hi to Rob Delmundo.

Hebsy, tell everybody about the book and what you're willing to do today. Oh, what am I willing to do today? The fact that you'll sign books. I can do headstands. I can do yoga poses. Prove it. I can have a trivia contest right now.

I'll beat anybody in trivia. Let's go. Any questions you've got, I can answer. And of course, I'm here to promote the book, madness, the rise and ruin of sports media because nobody in legacy media wants to interview me and hear me tell them that they're going to lose their job. Is that right?

Right? Like, so CP-24. Yeah, no, they don't want to interview because it's like, wait a second, the ruin of sports media, are you saying that our business is going down the tubes? Well, not exactly. So, but in the meantime, yeah, if you want, I have that. And my first book, the greatest athlete you've never heard of.

What about CBC? I'll be over there and I'll be selling books. And, you know, I'll pretty much do anything to sell a book, right? Take pictures. personal autographs, you know. Yeah. I may have to pay out. I have an observation to make Hebsey before you disappear.

Yeah. We have standing room only. Are you seeing this? This is insane. Don't we need chairs? Well, you got a couple. But we don't know who these people are. Do we know that these people are actually here for the show?

100%. No, no. They're all here for the TMO. I think it's the guy in the headphones. He's sending people up. He's sending his family out. Isn't this by invitation only, Mike? I was told invitation only.

That was just for you. Oh. but this is an important message for anybody who can do this maybe this is a VP of sales job remember that room where they had all these foldable chairs what if we brought out some chairs I don't want people to have to stand could you get chairs

Langer would you help your BFF Tyler get some chairs because this is a bigger crowd than we are used to make it like the TTC like you know let the elderly or the those who you know maybe might have trouble standing of course Langer's way to give up your jersey. Oh, yeah, so.

Langer's wearing a dick jersey. Did someone say, do you need a bigger room, Mike? You know what? In Jaws, you need a bigger boat? You're going to need a bigger boat. You're going to need a bigger room. Love that line, Hebsy. That's a great line.

Hebsy, I'm surprised. Like, CBC won't even talk to you about this. Oh, God, no. What a great book? No. Well, I ought to say no. I'm just, I think that, you know, they're kind of like, well, what's he going to say during the interview that's going to know?

You know who's listening right now? Ian Handsome Man Thing is listening right now. I can send him a personal note and say the national needs Hebsie on to talk about this madness. He's a traitor. I can see that now. Before we get to our top story in the Middle East, let's talk to the author of a new book about sports media and how it's going down the tubes. Wait, Elvis made an interesting comment since Ian is listening. Yeah, does he have his American passport yet?

So tell us, remind us, why do you think Ian Hanel Mancing is a traitor? Because he's a traitor. But just remind us why. I can't even remember why I don't like him. I just know that I don't like him because he's pro-America. Because of that episode he did where they discussed what it might look like of Canada.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like giving creed. He was giving like space to the whole idea that Canada was going to be a 51st state or could be a 51st state. And it's just ridiculous. It wasn't journalistic at all. It was him trying to get into people's

headlines or whatever. And it clearly worked because I'm still pissed off about it except for he, you know, didn't think of the. consequences of doing that. Oh, there's one less listener to this podcast. Ian, Elvis speaks for Elvis. Love you, buddy.

I want to say hi to Rob Delmundo. Before he goes to, what is there, a Scepter's game today? Tell us on the mic. Get right in on there. Yeah, thanks, Mike. Today is the Toronto Scepter's home opener. Heading straight from here to Coca-Cola Coliseum. They won their opening against Minnesota last week, so here we go.

Okay, so why do they keep scheduling the PWHL opener the same day we do TML This is the second year in a row, and I keep texting Jaina Hefford. I love her, but it's like, what are you doing? And she says, don't see me this stuff anymore, Robbie. For exaggeration, may or may not have happened. Love you, Hebsy, what do you think of the Scepters? The what? Mike, you have to understand something, all right?

There's only so many leagues, so many teams, so many players, so many color schemes, so many nicknames that I can remember, that I think the human mind can only take in so much. Right. You can't possibly know the starting lineup or who the players are for the Toronto Scepters and also know about the WNBA and the PWHL and the NWSL and the American Hockey League and the OHL and tennis and golf. It's like ridiculous. So I give Rob a lot of credit for being able to follow the sport and talk about it, you know, as an observer because I don't really know anything about the league. There's a lot going on. Or the players. I know that Sarah Nurse plays, right?

But I don't know where she plays, and I don't know enough about the league or the nicknames or the color schemes, but I'd like to know more. Okay, well, Rob, you're covering this event, right? Where do we read your writings and such? So you can go to hockeyhotstove.com. It's a hockey website that's owned and operated by former NHL player Chris Tarian. So that's, I'm the PWHL contributor for that one, myself, and another American colleague, Rachel, are writing for that one. So, yeah. Rob, you know, I love seeing at these events.

We're cycling quick this year. Everybody, give it up for Rob Delmundo. Thanks, Mike. Thanks, guys. Enjoy the Scepters. Rob, thanks for buying my book, too. Really, I owe you, okay? Did you sign Rob's book? Of course. As soon as I got in, man. Of course he signed it.

Rob and Dale were waiting for me. For the new arrivals. They were lined up at 7.30 this morning. They thought I was going to be here early. Joe Louis. Joe Louis, would you mind taking the Rob Delmundo spot for a moment here, please? So, reminder to the newcomers, Mark Hebscher brought copies of his fantastic new book,

Fist bump, but don't just connect me. Madness. Okay, Madness, great book about sports media, the rise and ruin of sports media. Hebsy can sign your copy. Is it 20 bucks a selfie? No, it's, wait, wait, just a second, Mike. Don't undercut me.

The books, it's a $30 book, and now it's $20, no, it's $30. The selfies are free, and they've got a beautiful gift bag. Serena's got a gift bag, a bookmarker for you. So you're not walking out just holding the book, right? or it's in a shopping bag. You've got a nice gift bag. It's a nicely presented.

It's $30. I'll take pictures. We'll sign autographs. We'll schmooze. So go meet Hepsey. Go ahead, Elvis. How much is the other book? The other book's $20.

They're the greatest half of you've never heard of. Yeah. That's a good one. That's $20, right? That's the first book. Because normally, I don't know, that's a collector's edition, though. There's only 11 copies left that I know of in the world. Wow.

Unless I reorder it from the publisher. Give it up, everybody. Hempshire. Thank you, everyone. Thanks, Mike. You're the best, Hebsie. You know what I think about you. Now, I'm going to say hello to a gentleman we know in the TMU. That's the Toronto Mike's Universe. We know him as Joe Louis. Joe Louis, how you doing, buddy?

I'm feeling kind of weird right now. I'm normally up here after a bit of a shit show has taken place where I get to opine on what's gone down. You know, like the rushing the stage incident from last year was wide going mental. Now, he's right there, so be nice. You think I have opinions.

This guy's got opinions. But, you know, opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one. Did you buy a scrunchy from my daughter? That's what I want to know. She's selling scrunchies, everybody. Morgan's selling scrunchies. Hebsies selling books.

This is like Lollapalooza. I can't believe how many people are here, Mike. I know. This is insane. Did we get more chairs? That's what I want to know here. There's people stand, like, sunglasses, people in sunglasses at the back.

You know what? Sir Jerry, come on this mic right now. Sir Jerry's here. Okay. So, Joe Louis, thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. And thank you to Palma Pasta for feeding everybody. Everybody, a round of applause for Palma Pasta again. I'm going to do that all day.

Remind me, what's your favorite episode? Let me see. Molly Johnson, everybody. Oh, that was a good one. That was a good one. Who else put Molly Johnson on their name tag? Classic. No.

I like it when aggressive guests make you uncomfortable. Jim Sheddon put Alan Zweig on his. One of my favorite episodes as well is Alan's Weig. But we need to give credit to Carlo. I don't think he'll come on the mic. He's very shy. But the reason you discover the wonder that is the TMU, the Toronto Mike universe,

is because of your friend Carlo. Who was a fan long before me, and through a connection with where I live and some movies that Stu Stone has made, he introduced me to the TMU and Toronto Mike. Can you remind us really quickly, because Stu will be listening. Tell me quickly the story of how you came to hate FOTM Hall of Famer Stu Stone.

I despise Stu Stone for making the movie The Haunted House on Kirby Road. It continues to haunt me as someone who lives on Kirby Road with people wandering onto my property in the middle of the night looking for a haunted house when there is clearly not a haunted house. And, Mike, do ghosts exist? No. They do not exist. We rest our case, Your Honor. But you like Stu now?

I love Stu now. Yeah, yeah. See, I still don't like Ian. I don't like Ian. But I like Stu. I've always liked Stu. Ian, will you take the spot of Joe Louis here, please? I'd like to welcome back to Toronto Mike.

One of my favorite FOTMs. Can I say that? Sir Jerry Levitan. Sir Jerry, how you doing, buddy? Get right on that mic. I'm good. Thank you. How are you?

That's low-key, Sir Jerry. What's going on? You took some Kinling. I'm going to rev up. Did you see McCartney in Hamilton? I did. I went with two of my kids, and it was quite stupendous. It was quite stupendous. So I saw maybe because I follow you on the Facebook, as we used to call it,

but I saw footage of your daughter reacting to, was it Blackbird? What was it yesterday? What was it? Yeah, my youngest daughter is 14, and he played Blackbird just on the guitar. And she welled up with emotion, like just the... It was beautiful to see. It's a great song. The Beatles are good, eh? Top three, top three, I'd say, of all time.

Who are the other two? Can I guess from you? Aerosmith and Kiss. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Top three Beatles songs. I thought you were doing top three bands. Top three Beatles songs. I thought you were going to say Shania Twain.

No, no, no, no, no. I just heard a podcast about Mutt Lang. Very interesting. Mutang, you ever heard of this guy? That you know. Yeah. Not Langer, different Lange. Yeah, different Lange.

Okay, I want to remind the listenership that when you were a teenager, Jerry, were you 14? How old were you when you met John Lennon? 14. It was 1969. I snuck into the Toronto Hotel Room that I thought he'd be in. And he let me hang with him for the day and into the evening and taped a little interview. And many years later, I turned it into a short animated film. and was nominated for an Oscar. I think it was a year ago that you told that full story here.

Yeah. Such a great story. That was absolutely amazing. And I'm still in touch with Yoko and Sean Lennon. Really? I've done stuff with them. Oh, yeah. Wow.

I've been to the Dakota. Yoko invited me for lunch a few years ago. What is in their world today? What are they doing? Well, Yoko's 92, 93, and she's not doing it. Is she that old? Oh, yeah. She was old.

older than John. Wow, but she's not that, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Sean is... And Paul, Paul is like 80-something, right? Yeah, 80-3. The fact that he's still touring this... It's crazy. Crazy. Three-hour show. He might show up today. That's unbelievable.

He's there, right? Is Paul McCartney here? Right there. By the way. Hey, Paul. Sir Jerry, you're smarter than us. Can I say that? Well, if you want. Okay. It's a stupid thing to say, but if you...

See? That's more evidence he's smarter than us. He's very... smart. I was, do you remember the John Lennon's story that he told here? First of all, he's been over for his own episode you should listen to it. But last year, like, there was multiple stories that were just amazing. That was...

I think Sir Jerry is amazing. I do want to cycle through guests quickly, but I do want Sir Jerry, before I say hello to Ian's service, can you just describe the room here? I feel like you're the kind of articulate, smart guy. Like, what do you see here? I see

happy people getting ready for Christmas and in other non-denominational holidays. Well, yeah, exactly. Thank you. Thank you for that correction. In a great Italian supermarket. And this is like legit. This is the fullest room we've had here, right, Elvis?

This is, yeah, it's standing room only to save the least. This is Elvis? Yes. This is Elvis. Holy, get out of, it's true, you didn't die. No, not at all. I've been alive this whole time. And there's more people coming.

So I'm going to shout out some faces I see in the crowd, and then we're going to cycle fast. Mike Richards is, Kate. Mike Richards is in the room. Reschmi Neer is in the... Really? Can you get Anthony here? Okay, so we have an issue here. This is insane.

She's... Moose Grumpy, who's helping us immensely, has run out of lunch tickets. Yeah. But that's unacceptable. I'm going to talk to the owner on the mic and tell them everybody at TMO, it's 21 gets a free lunch.

You know what's also interesting is that There's a bald man convention at the back of the room. There's three bald men. The only three bald men in the room are actually, oh, you got to go to the back. That's in the Bible. Three bald men. There's, yeah, three bald men. They come see Jesus.

I think you should make the bald men who aren't at the back room go to the back room. They have frankincense and mer. Well, the baldies go to the back. Now, remember, we're cycling quick, Elvis, so we're going to kick Sir Jerry off. Yep, no problem. Sir Jerry, thank you. Is Resch me near here? Reshmi. I'm looking around the room.

Is Reshmi Neyer here? I literally got a note that Reschmi is here. Ian Service, say hello to everybody while I see where Reschmi is. Hello, everybody. How are you, Ian? I'm slightly offended. I don't know what I did to Perry. When you started talking about Ian, come on up, I was like, oh, shit, he's here. Well, that's fun. I'd say to his face, but I like this Ian.

This Ian, we go way back. All right, right. Yeah, yeah. Me and you go way back. I like this guy. I made friends of friends because I knew you. Oh, that's right. Yes. Tell us.

I remember that. So a bunch of startup nerds in March this year. We're doing something called tech skis. And we take over one of the elitist ski resorts along Collingwood there. And I met a friend of Elvis's. And I was like, hey, how do you know Elvis? So, yeah, open doors to know people. Hilarious.

Small world. Definitely. Small world. I want to thank you, Ian, for your technical support in making sure Toronto-miked episodes are... How many episodes in did he join the universe, the TMU, as you call it? Do you remember? Around 1,000 maybe, ish? No, probably less than that.

And what were you doing? How did you serve up your... podcast before that. Mike, he's, Mike, he's in, he's in guest mode right now. Yeah, he's, he's busy. He's trying to, so you figure a thousand episodes in, I thought it would have been sooner than that. Well, actually, kind of was sooner, but like, we didn't formalize our relationship until, uh, gotcha. Yeah, yeah. Gotcha. So you have the secret codes to all of the episodes in the back end. Definitely. But Mike also has a backup copy. So if everything blows up, we're all covered. And where do the, are we allowed to say where the data center is? Yeah, sure, the data

centers in Milton. Oh. I didn't know that. What? Pull the plug. No. Do you want to say hot? Redundant air conditioners, redundant power, redundant generators.

You got to go around. Some guy, Marv. He's also bald. Marv, you got to go to the back when you're done. Okay. Ian Service. I want everybody to give a round of applause to Ian Service. He is in service to the podcast.

I'm hoping Jim Sheddon will take your seat. All right. Would you? Okay. So Jim Shedden is going to be on my left. I now see where Reshmi was. She's back here. So, yes, thank you for being here, Reschmi Neer. She's got her meal.

We're going to get Reschmi on in a moment. But please, we're going to cycle super fast. You remember who I am, right? You keep telling you this, but like, okay. Introduce yourself and remind us, of course I know who you are, but remind the audience who you are. I have no idea who you are.

Okay. You probably all don't know me, but you've heard me on the air. I run something called the Ultimate Radio of Toronto. Oh, this guy. I know you. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we do the top 1,000 artists in their songs of all time. And we play Toronto Mike episodes every Sunday night.

Bless your heart. That's what we do. Where does this, where do I not listen to this on Sunday night? So if you Google the ultimate radio of Toronto. How do you, Elvis. He brought stuff before, too. I have three things I'm going to tell you. I have.

Okay. Okay. Number three. This is the top 1,000 artists in their songs of all time. And you can get that. I'll actually give you a copy, Mike. I'll give you a copy. All right, thank you very much. I brought three copies.

I don't know. All right. The essential guide to the best 1,000 artists and their songs of all time. The ultimate countdown. I know number one is going to be ACDC. I don't even need to open it up. I put number 15 is the one you like, though.

Pro Jam. Tragically hip. Rusty. Do you remember what you told me? Lowest of the low. The band, actually, is what you told. The band. Yeah.

I like the bit. So, anyway, actually, my background on radio I saw. Mike Richards here, right? Yeah, Mike Richards will be on the like in a moment. I used to kind of be a shadow for both Russ McLeod and Roger Ashby. FOTM, Roger Ashby. How dare you? That's how I know Mike Richards.

Oh, my God. I know him. Mike, I'm glad to see you, buddy. We're going to get you on a minute. That was a long time ago, though. It was the 80s. 1989. I remember the 80s.

So there you go. But that was my background. I was at the World Series, by the way. I was at Game 7? It was at Game 7. It's your fault. It's my fault. Everyone can blame me.

Okay, is that number two? Okay, so number two is I do on our station, the top ten news stories of the year. Actually, we do the top ten news stories of the week every time, but I did this fresh last week. The top ten news stories of the years. Do you want to hear it? If it's under 30 seconds, yes.

Okay, and I have a song that I wanted to say too, so I'll do that. I'll do that really quickly. Usually it does take a minute. Okay, this is the top ten news stories of the year for year ending 2025. Okay, number 10. The wars continue in the world

in Russia and Ukraine and number nine. The Canada Post Strike occurs and disrupts mail service. Do you find this interesting all this? I'm curious. I do. I love lists. Number nine. Number eight, in Entertainment News, Oasis reunites and the Coldplay

plays at the new Rogers Stadium and Barry Matalo is in concert and Superman comes back to the theaters. And number seven, In weather news, Toronto experiences record snow falls in February and early snow in November. Okay, number six, Doug Ford and the PC Party wins a majority in the Ontario provincial election. Number five, the Finch LRT opened hopefully in December of 2025 while we still wait for the Anglington LRT subway. Number four, Pope Francis passes away and Pope Leo the 14th is elected.

Number three. Number three. It's Canada's elected. Canada elects a liberal minority government and Mark Carney elected Prime Minister of Canada. It could be bigger than that. Number two? Number two.

The sports news. Blue Jays have an amazing run and losing the world series to the LA Dodgers. This is the best. And number one, Donald Trump introduces tariffs around the world, including Canada. We have to negotiate. So there you go.

Okay. Thank you. You're awesome. Anyway, I have a song, but I'll sing it later. if you want. Is it sure and tough for time? Is Larry Fedorick in the room?

All right. Thanks very much, guys. Happy holidays. Thank you, everybody. It's Marr. I still need to know how it is and I'm going to listen to this. Yeah, you got to go around because there's a cable.

Watch out here. You have to go this way. Oh, you got to go that way. I know. Okay, so a little housekeeping before I say a load of Jim Jen and did we get more lunch vouchers? Does anybody know? Thank you, man.

Thank you for doing that. Did we get more lunch vouchers? Who am I talking to? Nobody in specific. is Moose Grumpy here. Anyone in the Petrucci family? Okay, Moose, what's the word? So he'll be here in five minutes with more lunch vouchers.

If he doesn't give us more lunch, we're going to riot. Tell him we're going to riot. Leslie's here. Thank you, Leslie. Oh, thank you. Oh, thank you, Leslie. Okay, so we're going to say hello. We're going to get you on the mic and Cousin' Jan.

I friggin. Okay. Moose Grumpy is looking very serious, giving Mike a lowdown here. Hi, Larry. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Very good. Nice sweater. You always have a lovely sweater.

A festive sweater. I always have the same sweater. But it's a year later, so I can never remember which one is which. It's the run-DMC Christmas sweater, and I wear it. It's tradition now. I've warned it every year that I come here to this thing. I've warned it about four or five times. And it's, I don't know what happens to it.

It shrinks in the closet. That's so strange. I don't know how it. That's my fault. It just gets a little bit snugger every year, but it does. Larry, I love seeing you. I want to ask you a specific question, but I'm going to just bring into this conversation.

FOTM Jim Shedin. How you doing, Jim? Great. I managed to get my lunch before the vouchers ran out. We're going to get more vouchers. As God is my witness, no one's going to leave here hungry. All right. How are you doing, Jim?

Great. I've had an easy ride here. It's good. Your name tag tells me your favorite episode of Toronto Mike is the Allen's Wyke episode. Is it his first episode? Actually, the last one. You know what? I think his best episode was the last one.

I think he sort of got more of understanding of how, you know, what to do. do with your format and it was moving because it was he was talking about his new film which is about the survivors of suicide the people who yeah people who lost a loved one to suicide yeah yeah and i think i think we kind of hit our stride like i think all future allan's wide visits will be like that one because we have a comfortable rapport and we can just roll right and i'm saying this knowing he's sitting right there he's sitting right there so did you uh come here with alan or You came here on your own. No, I came here on my own.

And I'm going to bring back Larry, because I think you can contribute to this. But Larry, what I'm looking for is the story, because I listen to your fine podcast, later that same life. Who here listens to later that same life with Larry Fedorik? Good people. Oh, thank you. Good people. Thank you very much. Marv does too.

Marv does too. Would you share quickly for us the story of your vinyl collection? I love hearing the story of what happened to your vinyl collection. But to do it right on that, Mike. I just got rid of my CDs, and it's the last format that I got rid of. Cossettes, DVDs, books even have been purged. But years ago, I decided to get rid of my vinyl.

It's the 90s, and I decide it's finally time to get rid of 1,500 albums, which is, by the way, about 1,000 pounds of music and artwork and everything. And I see a sign that says, we buy used vinyl and I'm so excited and I'm like yeah man I got first editions I got Beatles

I got like he's like yeah we pay 10 cents a pound 10 cents a pound 10 cents a pound in the 90s and I'm like I'm so insulted I was like no way and I stay insulted for about six months and then finally I decide

you know what I'm throwing these out rather than sell them for 10 cents a pound you did not yeah so well so stay tuned This is a Tobacco in the 90s, so you can just put stuff at the curb and the next morning it's gone. So I hold everything out to the curb save for 100 of the special albums that I'll never part with. And I put them out on the curb and I'm lying in bed and I'm going, this is the worst thing I've ever done. I can't do this. I can't sleep. This is ridiculous. These are

my children. So I decided to set the alarm early before. the garbage truck comes and I'm going to run out there and haul them all back in the house and think of something else to do with these. And about three in the morning I'm awakened in this quiet little suburban street by a big truck idling outside my house

and I run out to the window and there's red lights and it's a fire truck and cops and another fire truck. Quick story is somebody was walking by with a cigarette butt flicked it the garbage, they all

burned. Oh, no! Yeah, at three in the morning, they all caught fire. Oh, no! It was a black pool of slime. I was going to say to you, like, I will take them. If you still had them. No, it was completely destroyed.

Oh, no. And I'm looking at this, the next day, it formed into this black, hardened, disgusting-looking sculpture of Petroleum-based music. Oh, no. And I'm looking at it going, in there is like Abby Road and Sergeant Pepper's

and Van Morrison and Carol King, and it's just gone. Did you cry? I was devastated. Yeah. Yeah, I could, yeah. And I was thinking of how all those albums used to go on on my turntable with this little

phonograph needle making all the music, and now I'm chopping away. it with a big sharp spade. Oh, my goodness. Trying to break it into chunks, and that's how it went to the landfill. So I think it's great to hear that story. That's how the vinals went.

That's how the vinals went. Is that a wild story? But Jim Sheddon, do you still have a vast vinyl collection? No, I have a very select vinyl selection. Okay. And do I regret it? I'm not really sure. So much stuff, you know,

it's liberating and it's devastating. And your favorite episode of Toronto Mike happens to be Alan Zweig, who directed the great documentary vinyl. And the sequel-ish called Records. Yeah. We should talk. Okay. Have you seen vinyl? I have not, but I want to now.

And the quick post script, by the way, you know those 100 albums that I saved? Yeah, I was going to ask you about those. You still have them? So we moved a few months later, and they went into a cardboard box in the basement, and the basement flooded. Oh, my God. So, you're breaking my heart. So fire and flood, and I don't know, if I had any now, they'd be eaten by locusts. Because it was just, so they're gone.

They're gone. It's, my parents were right. It was the devil's music. And the devil by fire and flood destroyed the vinyl. Oh, my goodness. They'd be going to get locust next. I know. Oh, my goodness.

That is heartbreaking. Heartbreaking. That is absolutely heartbreaking. These are the kinds of stories you get on later that same life with Larry Fedorick. Yeah. And prior to that podcast, which I love. Now, that's a podcast I would listen to. Well, why aren't you listening?

It's there. It's free. It's free. It serves up every week. Of course, it's free. But it's this, he had another podcast, which was great called When I Was 8, which you should also go. It's like the Wonder Years in, like, Saskatchewan or something like that.

Yeah, it's like Wonder Years, Stand By Me. Yeah. A mix of all of that. Very cool. But we love later that same life. And again, Larry, we got to get you back in the basement, to be quite honest with you, because I'm cycling quick. I see with this room, we got to cycle quick.

But we love you. Larry Fedorick, everybody. Thank you, everybody. Thanks, Larry. Larry Klophot. Larry. Other Larry, not you. There's another Larry.

Would you mind going on that mic now? Are you okay to go on this mic now? Larry's looking at me. He's pensie. He's pensive. Okay. And I'm wondering, Larry, as I say goodbye, to the great Jim Sheddon.

Jim, thank you for your book. Can people buy your book? At the spacing bookstore. Okay, well, I'm pro-spacing here. So that, on 401 Richmond. Shout out to Sean McAlla. That's the only place I'm selling it. This is a memoir, zine that I did.

So I don't know if everybody has heard the awesome Jim Sheddon episodes, but this man, like, you're an inspiration to me because your zines and everything, man, you're cut from the same cloth. I love what you've been doing. doing. I love it when I get to see your work at the Art Gallery of Ontario. And I love you

man. I love you too. I'm going to hug him, okay, Elvis. You're hugging. There's a hug happening. Hug. All right. Hey, Marv. Oh, Marv. He's deep in thought. Mark, Marv's had his a lot of time, I want Marv to come back on. I have another question for Marv.

What are you going to ask him? No, no, no. It's fine. Okay. I'm going to ask my friend Larry, who also has a great episode, Toronto Mike. You've got to get right on the mic. Is there any chance Do you think Rita would join us? You'd have to ask Rita. She's right here. Rita's holding a beautiful child. Rita.

Lovely Rita, meeter, mate. Would you sit here to my left? What? You don't like my singing? Jesus. Come on. Jack likes it. Is it Jack? Jacko.

Jack's a Habs fan. Get out of here. Jacob. Jacob, get out of here. And he's sitting beside a Leaf fan. The guy has got a leaf hat on. Get the hell out of here, Jacob. He's got a lot of nerve this guy.

But you know what? There's a Habs fan to your right. We'll get to that. Yeah. Yeah, there's definitely a Habs fan here. That's too bad. That's real too bad. Okay, Ellis, we're going to get serious for a moment.

Can you do that? Let's see, yeah. The reason you're co-hosting is you're good at tonal changes. Am I? Okay. Tonal. I was about to ask you if you heard Larry's episode of Toronto mic, and then I remembered who I'm talking to. Oh, yeah, that was the one I listened to.

This would be easier if you listen to the podcast. Yeah, I would. I think that's part of the charm. Larry, this is a, how do I do this, Larry? How are you doing, Larry? I'm doing okay. We're doing great. How are the HABs doing?

Please. As a Toronto fan, did you see the last Toronto Montreal game? No, but you're going to just get right in front of the mic. Don't even look at my viewpoint. Five-nothing, I believe. Five-nothing? Five-one? Yeah.

Wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It made me happy for many days. Larry, would you introduce me to the lovely young lady to my left? Absolutely. Beside you is Rita.

Rita Halls, who is the mother of our beautiful granddaughter who's there, who is the daughter of my late son. So hello to Addie. I don't know if Addy knows who's talking right. Addie, nice to meet you. Beautiful. We should give Addie a scrunchy. Do you want to give her a Blue J. scrunchy, like a little one? Do you have any more?

I'm talking to my daughter Morgan right now. Oh, she's running low. Okay, we need another. That's another sale right there. sale right there. Okay. So thank you so much, Rita, for coming here today. I have a very heavy question for you. Sure. Go ahead. Did you listen to Larry's podcast? I did. It took me a few tries. The first time I told them this, I tried listening to it while I was alone. It was much harder, but when I was at the office, I was able to put in my headphones and listen to it and

kind of tune out while I was working, and that helped because I get overly emotional sometimes listening to it, obviously. I can imagine. I think everyone in this room who has heard Larry's podcast can only imagine how it must have been for you to hear. And I mean, his series, what's, Larry, what is the proper name of your podcast series? Why am I here and he's not?

So everybody listening should know this podcast, why am I here and he's not? Elvis, literally Larry journaled his grieving process, losing his only child. far too soon, as you can imagine. None of us want to outlive our kids. But Larry read his journal entries on this podcast series. I'm telling you, man.

It's heavy stuff. I can't imagine the mother, to my left. I can't imagine Rita, the mother of Addy, listening to that podcast. But what did you think of Larry's show and how he did? Excellent. He sent me pages from what he had written since Alex passed away.

So I knew what the content was going to be ahead of time. But just the delivery of it, I think it was pretty amazing to listen to. And it'll be great for Addy to have as well to understand the time, the situation of what happened as she gets older. That's an interesting point. When Addie's older, she can listen to her grandfather reading his journal entries about the passing of her father. There is a top secret Toronto mic listener group.

and when your episode aired, the people in the group comment about many of the episodes, but your episode in particular really touched. How many people are in that group, a few dozen? It really touched the group. And as someone who doesn't listen to his episodes, which is kind of ironic, that I'm co-hosting, it was really clear as to how, powerful it was and how much you touched the people who had listened to it. Look, it took me a long time to do it, and it took Mike to get me to do it.

Like, I talked to him, and he really kicked my ass to get in and do it. But I will say, tell Mike, because of that podcast, I've been approached by a publisher, and I'm almost finished. A book will be out based on the podcast and the story. And the story of Alex and Rita and my wife, Arlene. Yeah, hello to Arlene. Obviously, Addy. That's amazing.

Yeah, and hopefully early in the new year we'll have the book out. And the publisher approached me after listening to the podcast. That's fantastic. He changed my life. I've told him like that before. Well, we have time to revisit that. We have 10 minutes or so for Larry to tell everybody how I changed his life. I just did.

That's fantastic. Larry, I got to say, love you, man. It must have been, no, I know I was sitting beside you when you were reading these journal entries. I know how tough it was. You have to have extra Kleenex on hand. It was tough. And Rita, how long has it been since we lost Alex? I'm losing track of time, I think, just because I'd say about two years, almost, no?

Almost two years? Two years, May. Is that right, Larry? No, a year and a half. You're a half. 575 days. He knows a day. But who's counting?

Larry's counting. How are you holding up, Rita? Good days and bad days. We put up our Christmas tree last Friday, and it was kind of emotional, and I was texting Larry and Arlene and my parents, because the tree, Alex had brought it to us, so we set it up. We at least had our first Christmas tree decorating together in the Santa photos that year, but it is a little, it's hard around the holidays, and now she's questioning it more, she asks where her daddy is. Oh my goodness.

Yeah. How is Addie doing otherwise? She looks happy over there with... I'm going to listen to this episode on the way home. So, yeah, there's an episode of Toronto Mike of Larry, and then there's a series that Larry did, his own podcast, and I recommend all of it. How many episodes, Larry? Six.

Six episodes as of now. Will there be more? I hope so. I mean, you and I can chat about it, but hopefully when the book comes out, we'll put out some more. I just want to say thank you both. Larry, I've got to thank the VP of Sales for bringing you into my life. Absolutely.

And this is an important detail. for the listenership here. No Arlene, no Scott Thompson on Toronto Mike. That's very true. I don't know. I'm looking at Elvis, like he'll be impressed by that. Yeah, that's great. Rita, great to meet you.

Thank you for doing this. You guys are awesome. I have to cycle guests. I got a producer in my ear telling me to hurry up and cycle guests. But that's awesome. There's something here for Mike. Okay. Hey, Al Grego.

Al Grego. See, who is Al Grego talking to? Because that guy looks like John Torrey. Does he not? The guy who Al Grego is talking to is John Tori. Is John Tori here? Al Grego. He can't hear anything.

You know who that is? That's Tim Harren. Hey, you got some mic. That's Tim. Oh, it's Pearl Jams, Kraft. Cream Liquor. Thank you, Larry. Thank you, Arlene.

Thank you, Rita. Thank you, everybody. I'm going to ask to come to the microphone two people. There's going to be a reason for this. This is going to blow your mind. All right. I'm ready to be blown. Is Gabriel here?

Okay, I need Gabriel, but it's Steve. Steve, is your Steve here? Steve, yeah. Okay, so Steve on my left, this is, you're going to blow your mind. I'm ready to be blown. You're going to come around and come on that mic, yeah. Get on this mic there. Yeah, be careful there, Gabe.

Holy smokes. This guy's limber. Oh, there's more. Wait a minute. See, there's, I know this chocolate from Langell. Larry and Arlene. I know it's meant for Morgan and Jarvis, but it's not going to even make its way home. This is going to go down today. Okay. So, Steve, put on the headphones on my left. This is going to go down today and I'm getting ready to be blown? What kind of episode is this?

This is awesome. All right, we're going to get, the headphones are on you, Gabe, right? Yep. Right on the mic and Steve on the mic. You ready for the mind blow? I'm going to start with Steve, though. Steve, where did you come from today to be at TML X-21 at Palmis Kitchen in Mississauga. Wellsville, New York. It's about 300, or 200 miles away. Did he say New York? Like, USA?

Unfortunately, yes. We have an enemy. An enemy to my left, everybody. Where's security? Where's he in Anna Manson? He's, this is buddies here. So, Ian, that's Elvis talking, okay? Steve, I want to tell the listenership something that's going to blow their minds.

So, firstly, that's a long distance. It took you three hours to drive here? Yes. Is it what you expected? Yes. It's not even what I expected. This is insane. Any astute listener of Toronto Mike heard my episode about seeing Bruce Springsteen.

I had a religious experience because a listener gifted me four tickets to see Bruce at the Scotia Bank Arena. I took my brother, Steve, his wife, and of course Monica, who I think had to go to Jarvis' robotic. tournament. He's at a robotics competition. That's happening right now. But I told the listenership about this listener who gave me four tickets to Springsteen. It blew my mind. I recorded an episode about it.

Do you know who that listener was, Steve? Me. This guy gifted me four tickets to Springsteen. That's crazy. Everybody, round of applause for Steve. Seriously. My pleasure. My pleasure.

Have you ever met him before? No, this is the first time I met him. All right. Peter Gross, don't leave. He's charging the table. Peter Gross is charging the table. Charging the table. See that man in the beard that's got a 30 on his shirt?

Hubbub. Talk to him right now and see if he can fix it quickly. Peter Gross is upset with the hubbub. He's upset. There's a lot of chatter in here. He can't hear us. Oh, it's not good. Should I be recording this? No, it's not good.

There's nothing to hear. I'm about to blow more minds. That's what I said blow, right? when I get to Gabriel. But I am so freaking honored that you drove three hours to come to TMLX-21. Dude, I can't believe you gave me four tickets to Springsteen. Do you often gift, like, podcast hosts, amazing concert tickets? No, just the ones that entertain me every single day.

So you're entertained by Toronto Mike. Absolutely. And your wife is here today? Yes, yes. She does not listen. She does not listen. What was wrong with her? I have Peter Gross, by the way, talking to Al Grego about the audio concerns Peter Gross has.

Can John Torrey do something about it? It's not John Torrey. You know, Bradford will show up. Pardon me? Brad Bradford is coming? We'll be here today. Oh, that's good. Be ready. Great.

We'll talk about bike lanes. Thank you to Steve three hours from New York. Gabriel, where did you come from today to attend TMLX21? We came quite a ways. I flew in from Whitefish, Montana. What the hell is going on? To Denver. Denver to Y Y YZ. Z. Z. Y Y YZ. Z. Y Y Z. Z. Y Y Z. Z. You came from Montana? Heck yeah. People live in Montana for real. Are you from Montana? Yeah. legit. There's a lot of fake cowboys that have moved in. But there's still enough authenticity.

So what are you doing here from Montana? TML. For the show? For the show. Get out of here. Yeah. Wow. Round of applause. I was impressed by Steve. Montana showed up. His two flights, not even direct. Yeah, Jayho, Jayho messaged me and was like, are you going to make TMLX? Jeremy Hopkins.

Yeah, Jeremy Hopkins. Jayho? Well, we call him, Jayho. If you're in the community, which you're not, you would know that. Okay, I'm speechless here, and I got to get more voices on. What's more surprising that he came from Montana

or that he lives in Montana? You want the mind blow of the day? Yeah, I thought that. I'm getting blown all over the plate here today. I'm going to blow you again, Elvis. It's not the first time this gentleman came from Montana for a TMLX event. Yeah. He was at the brewery with snow.

Yeah. Lake Shore. Yeah, Great Lakes Brewery. Great Lakes brewery. Oh, with Snow, the rapper. Yeah, he was there. Oh, yeah. Right.

He's in Florida right now or he'd be here today. Wow. Times have changed, Elvis. Montana? Wow. It's worth it. Wow. It's worth free lunch. Yeah, the pasta.

Like, that is a mountain. That is a mountain of pasta. So I'm a very happy person. Gabriel, I'm so glad you came to an event where I do a live recording so I could capture this. I'm so honored. And you brought the most beautiful woman in the world here. I feel like I'm Pee-E-Herman, the most beautiful woman in the world. Who is she?

This is Kristen. Don't say she's your sister. No, it's Kristen. How long have you dated this Montana man? Do we know that they're dating? Are you dating? She's Kristen. She's Kristen.

We were dating. I'd say we're definitely in deep communication again. Oh, you were deep communication. Deep exploration of our relationship. What can I do to get you guys back together? That's not a cycle of, oh, it's up to him. Look at her. It's up to me.

It's up to me. What do you do it? You're not doing better than that, my friend. That's like 10 out of 10 over here. Okay, we got a cycle. Oh, my God. Do we get Kristen on here? Do you want to say something, Kristen?

Is Reschmi Neier here? Reschmi, would you take? take over for the great steve but steve before you go is gabriel going to gift me any concert tickets i don't have any concert tickets he spent all his money on flights how what's the time to get here the total travel time okay so steve you're going to give up your seat for rush me there 3 30 in the morning madeline so you flew in today madeline oh my gosh madeline thursday thursday thanksgiving Gotcha. 6.10 a.m. 3.44 p.m.

And you came all the way from Montana with this guy? And you don't listen. Hold on. Hold on. I hate to interrupt that. Well, I don't listen either, and I'm up here. So, like, you don't have to listen. It's fine. Gentlemen, I just want, before Steve vacates a seat, he's going to tell us the gifts he just gave me. More gifts.

This is what we're going to do from now on. If you come to TMLX for the free Palma Pasta and the delicious Great Lakes beer and the gift from Retro Festive, you got to bring me something what did you just give me Steve I got I wait I do have I don't have tickets Gabriel's pulling out something from his pants

Steve what did you give me I brought you some shears that's what I make every single day so I brought you a pair and palm pasta a pair and some cycling pants because I have many pairs cycling pants I need cycling pants so bad I'm still wearing Wands old cycling pants

thank you Steve Steve, honestly, I might use these scissors to, do you got any hair to cut? No, I just got a haircut yesterday. Oh, you want another one? For this one. So, Steve, thank you. We're going to put Reschmi on this mic, but thank you, Steve. Everybody, Steve.

Even though you're a member, your enemy as far as I'm concerned. Give it up for Steve! We still love you. Steve from USA. You're the best. Reschmi's got big shoes to fill there. So, Gabriel, I have to decide quickly who gets your spot. There's so many people here.

Is Mike Eppel? available? Is Mike Epple in this room? He was hanging out with the bald guys in the back. Apple is here. Would you go there? Okay. So, take great photos. Gabriel's seat will go to Mike Epple from Breakfast Television. He has something.

He has something. You're going to give me something? He has something. I do a volunteer ice rink in Whitefish Montana. It's been a completely out-of-pocket expense that was actually inspired by being in Toronto from Nathan Phillips Square, and I couldn't get out of my brain. And so I kind of recreated an ice

shrink like Nathan Phillips Square on a lake. And I've got a little, it's like a drawing pad and a notebook, like a journal, on like a little pin. Amazing. I'm overwhelmed. So you can write everything. You can just write down. It's like any drawings or like a little notebook that you can keep on you to write anything

down. No, I love it. I'm always thinking. Yeah. I'll pull over on the bike trail and I'll write a note down here. Oh yeah. Heck yeah. You're sad now.

Thank you, Gabriel, everybody. Give it up to Montana, Gabe. And Kristen You can draw You can be like Jonah Hill and Superbad and draw Dix in there If we have time at the end I have questions for Kristen

I have lots of questions for Kristen I could do an in-depth interview with her So they're just friends now? No I'd say it pretty accurately They're in deep communication You gotta find your way into love Like you really got to find it And you got to work through it

And you got to work with each other And deep communication Is what's happening right now Okay we'll discuss later Mike Eppel is taking Gabriel's seat. Get that gentleman on your neck. Watch out,

watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out for the wire. Oh, I love the wire. Have you ever seen the wire? Is that a show? Yes. Rush me nearer. Oh, he kissed her. He kissed her.

There was a kiss. On the lips? I couldn't see. I was looking for a ring, actually. He is so smitten. I thought, is there a ring on her hand? So that's the next step if he's listening. Rush me near.

I am so honored you came out to TMLX-21 at Palmis. kitchen. This is your first one. Can you tell us, since you're such a broadcast journalist expert, like, what do you see here in this room today? It is an incredible turnout. It's an incredible turnout, Mike. I am so happy to be here. The pasta is delicious. I was downstairs waiting in line a little bit for the meat lasagna. There are dozens of people here. Can we say hundreds? Well, I have a, H.A. Ho, can you do a count? So when I get you on the mic, you give us the count? An incredible crowd, full of joy and fandom of Toronto Mike, lots of big smiles, full bellies, the beer is flowing. He's going to get, it's going to be really hard to get him out of this room, the way you're pumping his tires.

Why do you think she's here? Okay, someone's got to pump my tires. Rush me, so you had a recent return to Toronto Mike. That was only what, it feels like a couple of months ago. Yeah, just recently. I finished the pasta already. Can we get Rashmi Nair another voucher. Get this woman another voucher.

Are you familiar with the legend that is Mike Eppel? Only by reputation. Hi, Reschmi. Nice to meet you. You too. In real life. What a moment. I don't know if we ever knew what we look like.

Well, you don't watch breakfast television then. Come on. So Mike Eppel, and don't go anywhere, Reschmi, thank you for being here. That's a long drive for you. I do my annual pilgrimage from Whitby, Toronto Mike and Whitby Mike. All that just to see Peter Gross. Exactly.

That is also true. But no, I do the drive because I always fill up with the Palma Pasta on my way out. That's an annual tradition. Wow. You know? What is Peter? And I have to say, I think this is your biggest crowd? This is the biggest Palma's kitchen.

This is by far. Yeah, I'd say so. It's been standing room only since 1215. Yeah. Yeah, congratulations. Well, listen. And they've really, I make no money on this event. I think I'm doing it on.

They've done up the upstairs here as well. They've done up the upstairs very much so. The elevator works out. Oh, good. Speaking of Peter Gross. So, quick question for you, Mike. Somebody came on the program recently and suggested you had moved to the country. No.

Tell us what they said and then set the record straight. The rumors of our exit from the GTA have been greatly exaggerated. It was something that my wife and I were. considering and have been talking about for future retirement planning, but nothing that is imminent. Nothing that is imminent. But at some point you'll move. Yes, I think we all will. Have you considered North Oshawa? Have you considered North Oshawa? Have you looked, hey, listen, listen, there is, there is value to be had further away from the GTA that you go. And North Oshua is lovely. As our Bowmanville, Newcastle, Nessleton,

all the way out to... Cortice? We even considered Coburg at one point, but it's a little bit of a hike Desperate times. No, Coburg's lovely. That's a joke. As is Port Hope. Lovely beach. As is Port Hope. But the fact of the matter is,

you know, return to office and all these other things are in the works now, so you have to, you know, do the commute on a more regular basis. I was going to ask you that. How often are you doing the show from your home studio versus in the studio? Very irregularly now. Oh, really? Yes.

Because you were doing it quite often from there. As we all were. But, yeah, things have changed a little bit. Some more back in the office now than I was. Gotcha. I miss the tractors. They are still there. They are still there. It is certainly my claim to fame, I think.

People find that more interesting than anything I actually talk about. Is it easier to do your hits from the studio or just the same to do it from home? It really doesn't make that much difference. Right. I do enjoy the camaraderie of my family. my co-workers on the Rogers campus, but yeah, there's certainly the convenience factor of one going into the basement and broadcasting.

Are there any assholes at Rogers, like any jerks you work with? That is a completely loaded question, Mike. Come on, now. Are they in the room? Yeah, are they in the room? That's why you're here. No, no, no.

I have actually a very good group. Very good group. Like, I really, like, for example, you know, Rudy Blair, awesome. You know, I really enjoyed that episode with him, you know, kind of a trip down memory lane as well. And he worked with some really great people over the course of time. I have a question for you that you're probably very unqualified dancer. What's up with Sid? What is he doing?

Oh, that's a tough one. Do we have a Sid up there? Also, no, Sid seems to be living his best life. I talked to him on occasion. Not on the regular, but, yeah, seems to be doing fine. Because he, other than Twitter, we don't see him anywhere, right? is still churning up reactions on social media, both positive and negative.

He's quite active on that still, so I think he will at some point return to the fray that is sports media. That landscape is changing. There's all sorts of different outlets, and there's going to be... Heads he wrote a book about how it sucks, and that's another reason why I wanted to come here

because I knew that Hebsy was selling the book, and even though I've asked my wife for it for Christmas, I don't think she's listening right now. Because he'll sign it. I've signed, I know. But you know who I think is buying a book from Hebsy right now? Brad Brad Brad. Bradford, you're going to buy one of Hebsy's books?

Possible. Look at the future mayor of Toronto, right? Is that what they're saying at Rogers? I don't know if Rogers is saying that, but I'm just... I don't want to be speaking out of turn. Wow. So Mike Richard, don't leave. You're on next, okay?

Mike Richards is up next. Yeah, you're going to take over for Mike Eppel. The voice is the voice that is. I have a question for you. Yes. How familiar are you with the broadcaster known as Rushme Nair? Barry, I used to listen to her all the time. I saw her on the CP 24.

Your episode is awesome for the insight that goes on behind the scenes in broadcast media, Rushme. I am blushing in front of this large, the largest crowd. It was really awesome. That was the real talk. Yeah. Well, Mike brings it out of us, doesn't he? Well, joining us live from Halifax.

Are you there, Scotty Mac? Just kidding. He's not on the mind. Oh, that was, wow. I thought, I was going, I thought for sure. That would be great. Yes. Did he ever, have you spoken to him? Bring us back together, Mike.

Scotty Mac hasn't been on since you're on, but he will be back, and I will absolutely do my best to bring you back. And we could have a real show again, like we never did. So how are things since your last visit to the basement, Rushme? And I'm going to put Mike Richards there. Because I think from now on, only Mike's on the mic. Fair enough. What do you think?

Fair enough, yes. Listen, Mike, before I leave, just a happy holidays and Merry Christmas to everybody and love the Toronto Mike universe and all of the content. By the way, you always go on about FOTM cast. That's probably my new favorite thing. I was going to ask this audience, although I've been told by Peter Gross, I can't be heard in the back, apparently. It is a little, because of the crowd size, yes.

They're all chatting, right? Everybody's talking. You've got to listen to recording. I should have recorded this. Remind me next time to record these episodes. I want to ask if anybody can still hear me, who in this room listens to FOTM cast? Yes, yes, absolutely.

I thought we're not supposed to. No, we are. I think it's a great compendium of the quarter to go back and listen to what you may have missed and what I want to get caught up on. I think it's a great index. But you're... But Euler tells me I'm not supposed to listen to it.

Yeah, because Mike Eppel's a real head, and you're not. That's fair. I love that you listen to FOTM cast. I know Rushmi is wondering what the hell we're talking about. It is, as you say, it is very meta. I understand that. I know. I think even for casual listeners, it's an opportunity to go back and say, oh, I missed that.

January 2nd is the next FOTM cast. And the fact that... And Rushme Nair better be on it. Rushmi will definitely be on that episode. So I know exactly what y'all are talking about. All the best episodes are talked about. So thank you, Mike Eppel. Everybody, give it up.

to Mike Epple. Thank you. Mike Richards is taking that seat. Mike Richards, so Mike Eppel, you tap Mike Richards on the shoulder and get him on that mic. Yeah, Mike Richards is ready to come on. He's born ready. She's far more attractive than Mike Eppel. I'm going to turn around now. Reshmi. Oh, hi. I now remember you gave me Guff for not putting you in that FOTM cast, even though you didn't qualify. Well, I've also learned now that there's another episode I want to try to push to get on, because one of your biggest fans here was telling me that you bring your guests back

after we've been on once to talk about their favorite music like top 10 songs. Kick out the jams. Kick out the jams. When was the last time there was a kick out the jams episode? I'm going to bring you back.

Resch me nehr, this is a pledge to the listenership. Reschmi Nair will come back and kick out the jams on Toronto mic. But can we tease? I was waiting for somebody else to show up, but I don't know if she's here. I don't think she's here. But you are in the calendar

to come back with a special guest that will join us. Who's going to join us on the next Resch Me Nair episode of Toronto Mike? I've already been mistaken for Supriya DeVetti once at this event. I've been here for half an hour.

With the name tag? You're wearing a name tag. So, like, what is happening? I'm talking about being mistaken for Supriya. Let me be clear, though. I am going to put Supriya DeVetti and Reschmi Nair on the same episode of Toronto Miked in January

and it's got nothing to do with what you're alluding to there. Would they cancel each other out? Would it just be like... It's not because they're both... There's room for two! There's room for more than two. Your stories are similar, and I think it'll be fascinating. I listened to her debut on your show, so episode 1696.

I just listened to it on the way here because it was something that I was trying to catch up on, and I thought I would run into Supriya today. But also, it was a fascinating conversation. She went through so much worse. So it's a different experience for everyone She got the threats to her Oh my gosh

And the police just not doing anything about it Yeah So someone calls and tells her That they are going to do terrible things to her And she has their phone number And the police say What do you want us to do about it? Well can you call them?

What do you? We don't know what we're going to say This is a great teaser Because you will be back on Toronto Mike in the new year And I have a question Will you come to a future What are these called?

a future TMLX event. Always, yes. I'm here as much as I can. You're not going to be able to get rid of me. One of my favorite FOTMs. Rush me there. Now, we got a cycle. I have Mike Richards on the mic.

How are you doing FOTM, Mike Richards? Well, fantastic. The beer's free, and I'm just loading up on it. I know there's free food, so I put tinfoil on my pants today, so Anthony Petrucci is here, and he's missing some lasagnas and nowhere it went. No, I'm doing fun. I'm doing great.

pal we're given Mike 20 minutes right that's what we talked about 21 I want him to match Kevin Shea all right okay I have a question for you Mike Richards I listen to your episode with Hebsy the Mike Richards raw what do we call

raw Mike Richards so I listened and I had to wade through some flames talk but it was worth it to get to Hebsy he was fantastic I mean a lot of the things that we talked about you know issues that he also would have had hey look an Italian Wait a minute

Elvis is he allowed to say it like that Yes he is He's wearing an Ireland That's a problem with you people You know First of all I'll say everything like that You have a brown girl on

Before I come on and everything And then you're surprised That they got people out here Got confused Have you seen how many white guys are out here And everything like that Hey I mean The KKK doesn't have this many white people

So come on That's what happened there I'm an eyed Indian How do you say Indian with an iron Indian? You can say it, I can't. Is that fair? I don't know what just happened. By the way, does Rush Me Neer know who Mike Richards is? I'm getting to know him.

Yes, she's really enjoying this. So I said it's been a wonderful, warm reflection of broadcast and stories until I get on and wrecked. I just remembered where I was going 10 minutes ago, but I listened to Hebsy on your show because he's God's gift to podcasters. He knows it, too. Everybody, let's say goodbye to Larry. Oh, my God. Bye, Rita.

Hi, Rita. Arlene. You're like family. Didn't Hepzzi write a book? You wrote a book, right? But here's... Oh, I love it. I love it.

I love it. Mike's going to get together. Yeah, we're going to get together. With our you guys. We're going to get together about you guys. But Mike Richards, here's a question. At the end of the episode, you said, that's the conclusion of this season.

Yeah, so I go in 13 weeks increments, right? So because I'm not an employee of Rogers or Sportsnet, because I own that time, I buy in 13 weeks. So I'll be back January the 11th for another 13 weeks. Well, that was my big question. When do you return? Yeah, January the 11th is the start of that show on Sportsnet. And then there's something else that will be very bizarre at this point in my career.

Wait, is this a Mike Richards announcement? No, not yet. Is this a major announcement? One in January. This is an announcement of the announcement. You know, I'm great at the announcements that aren't quite announcements. Well, let me ask you the big question that Tyler Campbell and I had. Did you listen to the Mikeumentary about the many announcements of Mike Richards?

Well, I made them. It's true. You don't need to listen to you. I kind of know all the stuff that. But see, you know, getting back to the conversation Hepzzi and I had, this is what happens. You get onto something, you think it's good, it looks potentially good, and then the trap door in this industry falls open and everyone goes into the crocodiles. There's nothing more disappointing, I think, than, and this room certainly would experience,

that the idea that we had and what we created in our careers, Some people going back to probably even the 70s is that there was a time where there were creative minds in the business where they would see someone like a Mark Hebtshire, they'd see someone like myself or a Larry Fedorick or you go through it Peter Gross and then someone says,

you know what would be a great show or you know what would be a great shift. I miss those days because they're completely gone. They are vacuous people, those that are in charge mostly of what gets, they're panic for their job. I mean, they're happy to, and they hear someone walking down the hallway in any of the major companies, they turn the lights off, locked their door, and hide under the desk for the thought of the door opens up and you've lost your job.

So when I'm trying to deal with these people and give them these ideas of what I'm going to do, they're horrified. What do you mean? Are you just going to talk about anything you want? Yeah. You can't. We don't like that. We're afraid. And so the only way you get around, that is to buy the time. It's the only way to do it. I was... How did you do this? He cut a check. Yeah. Only, okay, I'm getting it. Only Mike Richards can do that.

Like, okay, so Rush me. This is a Mike Richard special, though. I mean, nobody else can do this. Well, you can do it if you cut a check. Like, this is it. There's weekend time on all these sports radio stations where they'll be happy to give you the hour if you buy it. And then you can say whatever you want. Well, within

reason. So you're essentially like buying advertising. To a degree. So most of the weekend advertising, their fishing shows or their DIY shows, and they're basically using it. But what I... Or like a lawyer will buy an hour to talk about employment law or something. Same thing, except they're usually selling a product.

Right. I'm not selling a product. So it's kind of a hybrid, which is why I've had to do it this way. I went to a sports net in Calgary because I knew that would be the safest place to start. If I did it in Toronto, most of the stuff I attempted would have been shut down in the first couple of weeks.

Can I ask a question? Yeah. You have advertisers and sponsors. Like, do you make more money than you shell out for the time? No, no, I do okay. I do okay. Well, no, that's what, so you don't have to give me, you can give me a specific later. But the fact that you pull in more money than you spit out to Rogers. Correct.

Means you're doing it right. You're doing it right on the wrong side of town. The thing is, and when most people find out that, you know, I bought time, they're like, oh, God. that's what the losers used to do. You know, that you somehow are less than because you're not an employee. But they're not hiring. They're not going to hire. But the interesting thing is, because I'm not selling a product, the only thing I want is ratings.

The other ones don't care about ratings. They're just trying to sell a pocket knife or real estate or a lawyer's gold, silver. Yeah. Oh, no, the ratings have been, you know. So in Calgary, it's 960, right? Correct. So you'll be back in January. You're off for the holidays.

Yes. You're getting good ratings on the Calgary, the fan Calgary? Yeah. So on a Sunday, you're not really competing against the whole bunch. Let's not kid ourselves. You're not, I wish I was in a time where I could compete. So what has happened and what is happening is that because it's put pressure, because of the success of the numbers,

now they have to rethink what they want to do. For instance, you know, when you have Porsche and you have CIBC and you have you know Nile and all these other ones that are coming on board I'm trying to get the most

nationals I can to turn around to them and say well what about now so if I have ratings and I have numbers stop being afraid stop hiding underneath your desk

start hiring some people including a lot of these people in this room right now who have something to say because people still want to hear it I have a question why don't you just start just podcast

I hate digital stuff I can't tell you I can't I can't stand you people hear me out hear me out hear me out you're already a podcast it just airs on 960

correct what if you didn't cut the check for Rogers they have enough money you don't cut the check for Rogers you just dropped the episode wouldn't you have the same set of ears and you don't have to do so much

fucking flames talk no no but but then but then you're giving up at this point well okay to your point if you go

into an area that would be considered niche so a given specific market and you do well there to expand which is what's going to happen you just do more than one show like would it really be that hard because generally in my shows

you're going to find that one segment is Calgary specific so then you at some point take out that part of the show because Pierre McGuire for instance is national Clark Judge from CBS Sports

That's international. So I literally have to take one of the segments and make it either specific to a market or just another sort of national presence, which isn't quite honestly at some point it's not that hard. But here's the trick. The trick is to take something like this and expand it. Now, the one thing that I can tell you in January, it wouldn't be this show per se, but for some reason it might become gross. easier to do it south of the border and that's really disappointing it's it's it's great for me

but just stunning that what I want to do in this country I can't because they're afraid hebson should write a book about this yeah Mike Richards so to answer the question though when you listened to the micumentary about the many announcements of Mike Richards because we didn't hear from you we thought you were pissed at us like were you ever mad at me for how having fun with your many announcements. How could someone be mad at Mike Boone? Do people hate soup? Hold on.

Who's in the room here? Do people want to kick cats? I, uh, no. No, it got very busy from, like seriously, very busy. Oh, but you listened and you enjoyed it. Well, I, I think I listened. You didn't listen. Some of it I did.

You know, the part where I say, I'm Mike Richards, that part. So you should listen to that mickey mentory about your many announcements. We root for you. you. Everybody in this room is rooting for Mike Richards. I have to cycle through some more guests here. Sure. Yeah. Is Alan Swig in the room? Would Alan take the microphone from Mike Richards if he's in the room? Can I just say, because I know, I know your, I know everybody's wondering, but ever since Gabriel got off the mic, him and Kristen have been canoodling in front of us. I've sent some canoodling. There was so much canoodling in front of, and now they're leaving.

They're in deep communication. By the way, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. They're coming back. Anthony Petrucci, can you hear my voice? Anthony Petrucci, can you hear my voice? Anthony Petrucci. John Tori is approaching the table.

Okay, you want to come on? Well, just say hi for two seconds. I just want Robert Lawson to say hi because, oh, you have to go around. It's not Christmas unless Robert Lawson is fact-checking you. Okay? So let's just check in because he was driven by two. Tim Harron. Have we had people canoodle at the show before, though? I feel like this is a big thing. I've seen canoodling, but it was Tyler and Langer.

Yeah, that's true. That's true. Robert Lawson. Hey, Mike. Get right on that mic and tell us, have we said anything that was non-factual so far this episode? I don't think so, but it's pretty tough to hear in the corners of the one there. Peter Gross said that. It's a lot of noise in this room, and we got to fix that for next year. That's what happens when there's so many people. Maybe people in the back of the room should go to live.

Maybe we should tell people to go home. Like, get the fuck out of here so we can do a goddamn podcast. Right? It's too popular. No, that's not what we're saying. I know you got to go. Who drove you to this event, Robert? Driver Tim.

So I want to say Tim also drives me to the Joe Carter Classic every summer. This is John Torrey. You know this guy? Tim, has anyone ever told you you look like John Torrey? You look like John Tori. See? Yeah, he does. He's very handsome.

Just like the guy over here is the lead singer of Sponge and John Torrey. I just saw John Torrey at the new Terry Fox documentary by Sean Minard called Run Terry Run. And he was with the woman. He had the relationship with the relationship with the relationship woman. They were a couple at this event. They were canoodling. Are you allowed to have Brad Bradford and John Tori in the same room? Of course.

You can. I'm going to have Brad Bradford on the mic in a moment. He's here, right? Yeah. Yes. I just want to tell Robert Lawson that I value. his fact checking and I love bumping into him and his beautiful wife Vanessa at Christy Pitts for those Maple Leafs games. I think Vanessa is doing all the heavy lifting in that

infatuation. I'm along for the ride. Well, you're a lucky man. Can I say that? Absolutely. And it was fun having a beer with you at the Imperial Pub because we can never do that again. That's right. What do you think about the Imperial Pub going selling out there to Ryart? Was it at TMU? It's like a death in the family. Brutal, heartbreaking. Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. Would Mr. Zweig take the mic, if you don't, just say hello from Robert Lawson, but you're going to have to go around this cable.

He said no, but then he got up. Well, because he knows I'm making him. He's rushing the table. Oh, you know what? You had to go, right, Robert? Because he felt you were too hard on Randy Backman. So I want to see some love between you before you go. And thank you, Tim, for driving you.

He's going to be a fight. He's rushing the table, whoa. This is going to be a fight. Rush me. Rush in the table. PTSD over here. Did I tell you, I'm so happy you're here? I'm so happy to be here.

Thank you. Well, I see you at the end. We do three hours, and then will you still be here? Yes, absolutely. Oh, my God. Rush me near, everybody. What a great guest.

So we're going to get Alan in the Robert seat. You have to leave now, Robert. That's how that works. He doesn't want to leave. Thanks, Mike. Is Brad Bradford here? I saw him. Oh, there he is.

Okay. Now, I don't know if you remember this. This is going to be. fantastic. We're not going to speak to the incident. This is going to be fantastic. Tell them to put the headphones on. You need to put the headphones on. We're not going to discuss the app. Can I just say something? That is going to be fantastic.

Alan's Wig, everybody. I'd like to thank Brad Bradford for its service to our community. And I hope, I wish him luck in all further elections. Oh, that's really nice. That wasn't, that wasn't what I was expecting. Well, whatever. You know what, this is a new and improved Alan's Wig. This is, yes.

No, whatever. Mike, you know. As long as we don't talk about bike lanes, it'll be all right. Yeah, I'm not a monster, despite what some people think. I can't hear anything. Okay, I may have to turn up your headphone volume, but it'll be five minutes to, you know, because yellow is his mic, it's not his headphones. Oh, right. So it'll take me a moment.

Just turn up all the mics. I guess so. Okay, so we're all going up now. We're all going up together. Oh, yeah. Is that better? Yeah. Okay.

So, Alan. Number one, if there's anybody here from Palmer Kitchen, the bathroom is... We need a plunger in the washroom. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Also, I just want to say, there at the Lavaza, I ordered a Misto, but it says Mistro, with an R. Anyway, I don't know. I had to look it up.

Is it called a Misto? Well, that's an Anthony Petrucci question. Louis might know he doesn't know anyway I love how Joe Louis speaks for all Italians in this place Alan B I want to just say two things Alan's why yeah well he's it he's Italian right okay look at this some love here he's the only Italian here well you're here in bomb a boss what about you I think Alan is part Italian I'm not sure Alan two things here one is thank you for being here you're welcome because I was worried I was worried after last year you might not come back but you're here

Why? What happened last year that I wouldn't come back? Well, we'll get to Brad at a moment here. Also, can I just say... Of course. As soon as I knew that Brad was here, I knew you'd have a... You're so fucking obvious. I knew you would have us together, but I have nothing but I have nothing but love for Brad. It's really nice.

It's a mutual feeling, but I agree with you, Alan. I think Mike's telegraphed that. for about 365 days now that we were going to be on the panel. You could have had me with Peter Gross and then be bookended by Jews for the first time. So it was either Brad Bradford

or Peter Gross. Anyway, whatever. I'm thrilled you're here and I told you this when you were over recently which Jim Sheddon and I agree is your best appearance yet on Toronto Mike. But your new film is beautiful. I make beautiful things.

What can I say? Just because I'm an asshole, according to some people here, doesn't mean I don't make beautiful art. That's the same thing about Brad Bradford. Just because whatever. The beautiful part or the asshole part? No, no. Just because he has policies that I disagree with

doesn't mean that I, you know, wish ill on him. That's right. We want everybody to be okay. I think I'm becoming too obvious that everybody knew I was going to pair these two. I've got to start mixing it up a little bit, become a little less predictable. But tell me this, Mike. Yeah. When your friend here was reading the top 10 news items, didn't you want me to come up and interrupt like last year?

Honestly, that's when you should rush the stage. You know, Marv, I know Elvis seemed into it, so I let it roll, but we have a guy coming on doing top 10 news items of the year, we don't got time for that. We have lots of time for that. Lots of time for bike lanes for 15 minutes, but no time for actual news that might nourish us as a people here.

You can get your news anywhere, but you come here for the bike lane. I get all my news from Toronto, Mike. Can I say hello? Shout out possibly. I know I do a lot of these, but Moose Grumpy, who is right in front of me right now, and you won't come on the mic, right? I just want to say, you're doing an amazing job.

She's been working hard for her money today. Yeah, she makes sure everybody gets their vouchers and everything. But because we've got to cycle through guests here, because I want to talk to Brad for a moment, and we won't talk about bike lanes. And I think you were right in what you said last year. You just can't interrupt the show like that, because it's my fucking show, and I'm trying to do something here.

Okay. I think he can. Yeah, that's bullshit. Yeah. Interrupt to whatever one. It's your show. Fuck that. I mean, we just.

drive out here for an hour, and then it's like, ooh, it's my show. Don't interrupt when I'm letting a guy go on for 20 minutes about bike lanes. No, I don't care. Anybody who thinks I'm an asshole because I did that, fuck you. Okay. Everybody here

who loves Alan's wagg as much as I do. I want to hear a round of applause. Hamilton, Mike, everybody, I don't think anyone in this room thinks you're an asshole. You should have them on your show. Does that disappoint you that we actually like you? No. No. I wasn't asshole 20 years ago, but

Not anymore. Not since you met me. I have, what's the word? Bits of asshole left on me, but I never got rid of all of it, but yeah. Anyway, it doesn't bother me. I don't feel bad about that. That's why I came back. Thank you, Alan's Wig. We're psyched.

I realize there's so many people who want to get on mic, but I want to get, are you a saga fan by any chance? No. No, okay. On that note, so we're going to bring Cousin Jano on the mic I'm glad there are saga fans though Brad Bradford

saga fans that's what makes the world go around something for everybody Brad Brad Bradford I'm honored you've come to yet another TMLX event you've been to several now it's always good to see you

how are you doing Brad Bradford well I'm just cracking a fresh GLB here for our friends that brew here in the city so I'm doing pretty good and that's a that's a super refreshment is heather here by any chance i was chatting with her the other day heather's not here we've got luna here with us today okay you got luna here yeah i told heather i don't know if she shared this with you i said tell brad it's b y o b not bring

your own beer i'm bringing the beer from gray legs bring your own bat oh bring your own bat yeah well you know i actually i have the bat in the car again it's it's we're on the shoulder season of softball. I guess that's done. That's the softball bat that rolls around with the gear in the car. I got the hockey stick in there too. But yeah, I like that episode with Ed Keenan, the Batman moniker.

There was another episode with the bat. Alan Zweig, when he was on the program, he held a bat in the photo. Oh, I saw that. That was for you. Yeah, and that was a vintage piece. That was a nice piece of lumber. It looked very old and well-aged. I don't know how that would hold up either on the diamond in the batter's

box or in combat, but it was a nice looking piece. How, like, here's a beef I have with you, okay? Because, you know, this is the home of real talk. Which one? I got several, but one big one, because we're going to skip all the bike lane stuff. But I have to say, I heard through the social media grapevine that you were going to go on a podcast to make a big announcement. Shout out to Mike Richards.

I heard that. I heard that. And I think this podcast might have been South Etobico. Maybe. Bottom line is, you were going to make an announcement on the podcast. podcast. You ended up doing so. You announced you're running for mayor. You're the first person to officially state they're running for mayor in 2026. Mayor of Toronto, Elvis, not Oshawa. Has Olivia Chavez and said she's running for mayor? Not officially. Oh, okay. Not officially. So just Bradford. Why did you not make that announcement

on Toronto, Mike? You son of a bitch! Yeah, and you know, you got the name Toronto right in the podcast, right? So you know what? Sometimes I'm not as quick connecting the dots like you. But we're going to come on the show. We're going to have a big conversation about the city if you'll have me back. Because I love coming out to South of Tobacco hanging out with you in the basement. And I'm keen to do that. Maybe we can get that on the books in the new year.

I will 100% do that. I've met Brad Bradford twice. This is the second time. Brad Bradford, the mayoral candidate, is different than Brad Bradford. How so? The sweater wearing Brad that he was last year. He's just more polished. He's more like, you know.

You know what? I take feedback. I like polisher. He didn't engage, which I'm very upset about. I was really hoping that there would be engagement because there were some hooks that he, some bait that was thrown out there. My wife describes me as a work in progress and a lot of people do, and so just trying to get better every day.

I love a good Alan and Brad conversation. I was hoping for more. Cousin Janow. Yes. What do you think of Brad Bradford? Not to put you on the spot. My God. And now I'm next to me.

I'm next. I think my thoughts about Brad Bradford are well known. That's what I'll say, but my thoughts about Bradford. Go take a look at Twitter. Okay, because he's right here, you know. I'm fully aware. I just have a quick question of you. So you're running for mayor, and everything's so polarized politically, right?

So there are people in this room right now who just wish you'd go away. Yeah, I think because I look around the room and then we make eye contact and they look away. and that's just generally a signal like, hey, not interested. That's okay. Like, you know, I think actually the challenge is when you try and be all things to all people all the time, you know, you're not necessarily always going to be in a position where you can drive the things that we need to see. And I think leadership is difficult. It always comes from a place of like trying to do the right thing, trying to do what's best for the city or your community. But not everybody's going to like everything.

And as you go through it and as you grow as a person in any profession, you sort of, you sort of. you start to be a piece with that. It's okay. So you're okay at the fact that some people will just hate you because they don't agree with your policies? Yeah, like it's, you know, the disproportionate reactions out there sometimes to a particular statement or a position

sometimes kind of blow my mind. But, you know, everybody's entitled to opinion. Everybody's got one. They say that's sort of like something else, but maybe we'll have Alan, Alan was talking about that. But it's all good. Like, people are passionate because people love this city. They love their name.

their communities, their main streets, all that stuff, and I love it too. And we just, sometimes we see a different way on how we make them better. How do you like your chances in the 2026, you know, municipal election here in Toronto? How do you like your chances? I got like 329 days to go. So we're chipping away out of it every day. And I honestly think this is going to be an election about the future. I think it's going to be about the direction of the city.

I think it's time for a new era of leadership. And, you know, people want change. Like if you're, if you're satisfied with the staff, If you're satisfied with where Toronto is today, you're going to have some? Oh, yeah, he's cut me off. All right. He wants to rush the table. I actually, here's what I'll say.

We'll talk about this on a different episode. We'll talk about this 101. But it is tricky with a politician to get them off the rehearsed. It's like I saw Ron James last night. I would say the same thing. I know. But I think we're going to have a change election, so you better give people change. That's my view.

Okay. Alan's getting his bat out of the trunk right now. Greg looks pretty annoyed too. I appreciate you being here. Hey, I do also, okay, just a quick note for my daughter. Is Morgan here? Does Morgan know Winnie's here?

Maybe, does Morgan know what's going on back here? So a couple of Morgan's friends have shown up and I gotta make sure. That's fantastic. I know, isn't that lovely? Yeah. So Cousin'Anneau, we're about to get to you.

I got to say, Brad, you know, I like you as a person. Ed Sousa, you're next, by the way. Ed, I got to ask you a question about Saga. Oh, because I need Ed Sousa on with you. And then I need Leslie on to replace Ed, because I want Leslie to critique your co-hosting, debut, Cousin' Jano.

But, Brad, did you get yourself a gift from retrofestive.ca? Tie the Christmas guy is here. Did you get yourself a gift? A five-inch leg lamp nightlight. No, I haven't grabbed one of those yet. Okay, okay. Showing some light.

This is a big moment here. Just in case he wins, I need to be in the good books. I have favors I need. Look at him. Okay, so this is Ty the Christmas guy. Everybody, give it up to Tie the Christmas guy. That was well played, Mike. Well played. Look at that.

Beautiful. And Ty, thank you for the T-shirt. How does it look? It looks awesome. Okay. Fabulous. You've got so many Christmas T-shirts. Well, do you want to do two minutes right now before you sure?

Okay, so Ty the Christmas guy is shy all of a sudden here. I'm getting the hook, and, you know, I don't want to get Alan all worked up. But what I would say is, like, kudos to everyone for showing up this year. This is quite a bit bigger than it was last year. Huge. Huge. Yeah, it's like the standing remote year. It's because I've been on CNN since you were last year.

Well, that's right. Oh, yes. Fly in the flag internationally. It's fabulous. But the reorientation of the table, it's a great space. Anthony, friends at Palma, everybody having us here. This is great. Thanks for having me back.

Okay, thank you to Brad Bradford. I can tell you, Anthony's a big Bradford fan. You know what's good to do here, too, is canoodling. King Canoodle. Dude, thank you for being here, man. And give my love to Heather. And I'm sorry she didn't tell you to bring your own back. 640 alum.

Ed Sousa, because we're going to talk about Saga for a moment here, okay? Michael Sadler. I'm going to ask Elvis some real question here. Okay, but hold on. If there's someone at the... See you, Brad. We'll see you next year. If there's anyone at the back

who can bring a beer for me, that would be great if there is. It doesn't matter. You want a fighting weight? Something that's cold. Is there any more fighting weight? No, that's a light beer. I don't want a light beer.

Come on. You've got to drive back to Oshoi, Elvis. Come on. There's plenty of time. He's from Oz. Sorry, you want to ask me a question? I want to ask you what you think of the Prague rock band that is known as Saga.

I love Saga. Is that Susan coming on his mic? I'll have that one, please. Thanks, Leslie. Really appreciate it. For real. 100%. I love it as much as I love the podcast.

So I'm going to set this up this way. Cousin Jano's really... Are you being serious about Saga? Yeah, yeah. Name three songs. I said I love Saga as much as I love the podcast. Okay. That's a bullshit answer, Elvis.

Okay. Or is the Gen Alpha calls it AI, which is that's bullshit. It's AI. Everybody, this gentleman in the hat is if he needs an introduction about that. Let me put it on. Hold on. That way you can recognize that. This is Ed Sousa, and Ed Sousa is bringing a guy, and this is all going to tie back to Cousin Jano,

and then we're going to get Leslie here. I have a plan, Elvis. That's why I get nominated for podcast awards. Don't get jealous. But you never win. You and El Grigo never win. No, Al Grego does win. I got to talk to him in a minute.

Ed Sousa. Michael Sadler, lead singer and singer. founder of Saga. Is he coming to Classic Bowl in Mississauga? What's going on? Yes. Next Sunday. Actually, two weeks from this upcoming Sunday. December 14th.

So it's his only appearance in Canada. For some of you that don't know Michael's situation, he's had some health issues over the last little while. But he wants to thank his fans for all the support that they provided him in Saga. So he's going to do a one-off. So a Classic Bowl on the Heineken

stage. Sunday, December 14th. Doors open at 630. Show starts at 7. There'll be a meet and greet. So if you ever wanted to meet Michael, this is your opportunity. Did you by any chance? I'm putting you on the spot. I kind of can guess the answer, actually. But did you hear Michael Sadler make his Toronto mic to debut this past week? Yes, I did. Holy moly.

Yes, I did. Get out of here. Ed, did I do you proud? Yes, you did. So you know, that's Cousin Janow. Yes, yes, I do. And she, I don't know. I think she's angling. for your position. I don't know.

There's something there. Toronto Janod? What are we doing here? Toronto Janow, yeah. Toronto Janos. So, yeah, I wanted an honest critique. You're a bit biased here because you're a friend of Michael Sadler. You're bringing him to the bowling alley. Did he phone you after and go, God, damn?

Did you find she made any factual mistakes or any errors about saga that you want to? No, I mean, some of Cousin Janow's songpicks weren't necessarily my face. for its mind you she no i mean she went fairly deep i mean and when you don't like when you don't like or you don't mention wind them up as your first choice then there's issues right ed neophyte and then but you did mention on the loose so i'll give you credit for that one you mentioned scratching the surface you know you scratched it for a bit that wasn't too bad so here's the thing i love michael sadler he's obviously been in the band the whole time jim gilmore i had Jim, as you know, Jim also performs in the band, Toronto.

So I just had Jim this past April. Yeah. Jim's in the band Toronto, and he performs scratching the surface when Toronto's playing. Okay, so your cousin, Leslie, is going to come on in a moment. But I have a question for Ed. And, by the way, I was at your 60th birthday bash at the Elma combo. 60, you must be mistaken. Yeah, you must be missing.

I think it was my 40. Oh, your 40th. Sorry, my mistake. Where's Robert Lawson when I need him here? But here, I want to pitch this. I pitched this to you before, but I don't think it's happening. When a band is playing your venue, you have to get them on Toronto mic'd. Like, we need to get married here.

We can. There's been issues of some artists don't particular like you. Burn. But that's not from a lack of effort. It's just some of them, you know, they're not big fan of yours. but I'm trying. Ask mid-year what he thinks of John. Exactly, yeah.

But in saying that, there will be more coming. We have a major announcement coming up this Thursday, December 4th. Just make it now. He's going to make it on January 11th on Mike Richard Show. So we have six massive artists coming for our two-day Royal McDonald-house fundraiser called MacBowell, which is the largest indoor music festival in North America. A lot of UK artists are coming. U.K.

The Beatles. You want to guess? The Beatles. UK. It's the Rolling Stones. Yeah. And so keep a lookout for that. We're unveiling it on Thursday, December 4th, at 10 a.m., to be exact. But I'll give Mike the heads up.

What? Sorry, what venue? At Classic Bowl. Oh, Classic Bowl. Okay. Okay. And Cousin Janel, I don't think she's available due to work reasons, right? But if she had been available for the Michael Sadler, I would hope that she would

would be, like, invited for, like, a backstage pass, a meet-and-greet. Maybe she gets to sing a song with Michael. She, as you know, by sitting next to her during the interview process, she hesitated a bit about attending. Now, are you coming? It is up in the air. But what's not because I don't, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not something I will take lightly in terms of not being able to go. It's not like, yeah, it must be serious. Well, I'll tell you what, Cousin Jano.

If you come, I'll guarantee you can have a one-on-one with Michael. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. We'll see where I land. You can can noodle with Michael. No, I do not want to canoodle. Mr. Merrick, I actually need you. Okay, so everybody, give it up for Ed Susa.

I saw you brought your wife here. Yes. Way too beautiful for you. I know, I know. By the way, where's the food, Michael? I'm waiting for the food. I haven't ate anything yet. I starve myself for two days.

Moose grumpy. See, they don't hear us. She can't hear. No. She can't hear. Tye, the Christmas guy's leaving. That woman in the green shirt will give you a voucher and you'll get a free meal. Take care.

Get one for your wife. And thank you for dropping by. I love talking to you. And I'm glad I got you on with Cousin Jan. Thank you. I don't. We haven't met, but I think we will. Yeah.

We'll have a chat after. But my question is, is this how this whole thing happened where I ended up in the basement? Did you have a confat? I'm trying to sort it out. Yes. I wrote an email to Ed. Susa, the man to my left, and I said, oh, I see Michael Sadler's coming to your venue. Right.

Could I have him on Toronto Mike? And then he introduced me to Michael Sadler's PR person or whatever. Right. We cooked it up. And then I went to you, Cousin Janow, and said, I'm not doing this without you. Right. So thank you. I mean...

You did a great job. It was overwhelming. My next interview will be with Cousin Janow. Okay. Thanks, Mike. Okay. Thank you so much. I'm going to do a...

So you're, Ed, we have to say goodbye because I'm going to cycle quick here. I'm going to get Mr. Merrick. It's funny, I'm calling him that. You were going to put Leslie on. This will be, no, I'm going to get Leslie on. But you're going to come on. Josh, that's your name? I had no idea.

This is a two minute. You're the best, Ed. Thanks, Ed. Two minutes with this guy, because this is a fun little story, because I don't want to lose them. And then Leslie on, and then we wrap up with, okay, you know what? My feed gone. Time out. Come on, Jayho.

We just, Ed Sousa just tripped over the video. It's all good. It's part of the show. We're live. Fuck it. We'll do it live. We'll do it live. Okay, but you're going to have to go to Live.Trona mic

and see how crooked that is right now. Okay. Oh. Yeah, you spelled Arlene wrong. Okay. Wow. You should have seen the desk there you just got from Moose. Well deserved.

I love Moose Grumpy. Thank you for fixing that. I don't know. I can't look right now. So this is a quick, fun story. Oh, my God. I just saw Professor Pricklethorne is here. I didn't.

Professor Pricklethorne is here. Oh, my God. I have no idea what that is. This gentleman to my left once, he taught my thirdborn child, Jarvis, and I learned he liked Toronto-Miked. Maybe introduce yourself, Mystery Man, to my left. Do it right on the mic.

Well, I'm happy to be here. Thank you very much, Toronto-Miked. Yeah, I've taught Jarvis and Morgan at Second Street Junior Middle School. You're teaching them gym now, right? Yeah, Biz-Ed right now. I'm a biz-ed teacher. We're having a great time in the gym

and just happy to be here. Toronto Mike introduced me to Palma Pasta and I've been a great customer for them for a few years now and we just love it. Okay, so let me rewind the tape here. This is an important detail before you'll see. I'm listening, I'm listening. So prior to Toronto Miked,

you did not know about Palma Pasta. Did not know, no. Then you listened to Toronto Miked and you learned about Palma Pasta. And now, essentially, every penny you earn as a teacher, Goes to Palma Pasta. We love the Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners that they provide. And it's a big help for us, actually, just picking it up and enjoying it with the family.

Will you tell this to Anthony Petrucci before you leave? How long are you here for? I'm going to hear probably about a half an hour. Did you get your voucher for the free meal? Not yet. They actually sold out, so, yeah. But there's no sellout. We make it here, right?

Like, we make the food here. It's gone. Anthony's going to go out of business if he'd get all the food away for free. I literally, for the last month, every episode of Toronto Mike, I said, everybody who comes to TMLX-21 gets a free meal. No one's listening. No one's listening. So somebody's got to deliver me, Anthony Petrucci.

Find me this gentleman and bring him to me. Can anyone who can do that hear me right now? I feel, so Ian, you look like a responsible young man. Ian's service, find me Anthony. I want him on the mic. This man needs his meal for attending TMLX-21. You're going to put Anthony out of business. We're not coming back to this.

Look at me. Do I look like a good shit? We've probably all grown this. Like, it's the dome next. It really is a sky. Do you know anyone at Rogers? No. It's a good thing I have some connections here.

So I thought you were just Mr. Merrick. And by the way, I can't believe it. The top 40 countdown, the tragically hip top 40 countdown dynamic duo is in this room right now. Sarah J. from Buffalo. Oh, yeah. And J.D. Yep. Do you know this name?

Jamie Dew? Yeah. I'm going to talk to them in a moment. We got a cook of gas. Can't wait. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. So, we're kicking Mr. Merrick out, who I just learned as a Josh.

Make sure you don't leave to tell Anthony Petrucci what you do of the Palma Pasta. Absolutely. Someone got some food. Morgan, do you see your gym teacher here? Someone's excited. We got two girls here at the front. They got food. Amazing.

Winnie, do you see Mr. Merrick's here? Oh, my God. Do you want on the mic later? Maybe at the end. We close up the girls. Sure. That'll be fun. Thank you, Mr. Merrick.

I need to give your seat to so many people still to get on. Leslie's coming on. You already said Leslie's coming on. Leslie Taylor with Cousin Janow. Leslie is Cousin Jano's cousin. That's how this came to be. Is that how your cousin Jano? Yeah.

Yeah, she said come one day. You're not leaving it, are you? I'm feeling a bit low, and she said, come to this event. And I came, and the rest is history. How long ago was that? A couple years? Three years ago? You know, we've never met, have we?

Yeah, we have. We have? But you've always been on the mic, to be fair. Gotcha. I've always thought that, because you're in the, app group. Yeah. I've always thought for some reason that you're a man. I never put two and two together. Right now you're blowing my mind. That cousin Janow is a woman. Like Michael Sadler. Not that I would want to. Yeah. Yeah. And it turns and it says, oh, it's a woman who listens to

Frog Rock. Now I know, now I'm going to know who cousin Janu is when, you know, we've been in the people are fighting in the group. Yeah. There's a lot of fighting in the group. No, I was actually saying earlier. There's fighting. Maybe it's coded. I don't, I don't see a lot of There's fighting. Joe Louis is usually fighting with people. Well, there's that. Elvis, you're never in the group. So what are you talking about?

I'm in the group. Hardly ever see you in there, though. I'm in there. I took my headphones off for the last five minutes. Did I miss anything? Cousin Geno and I were chatting. Okay. So I have a specific question and we got to cycle through these last.

I'm seeing faces here. I didn't know we're here. My goodness gracious. And I'm going to close up the girls, if possible. These girls are like a winning and a maze and a Morgan, but this is happening closer to three. So don't go anywhere. Yes, but closer to three, so you've got a bit of time here.

You can warm up in the bullpen. They're leaving before then. They aren't allowed to go. Now, I'm just, oh, my God, Carla Collins is here. Carla Collins? Carla Collins here. What? Yes, okay.

Oh, my God, you're right. So, in a minute, don't go anywhere. Don't let Carla Collins leave Paul. This is fantastic. I've never met Carla Collins. Me neither. That's awesome. But I can't wait.

I feel like weak right now. You need to take over. Carla Collins is here. Leslie. Yes. I need real talk from you. How did Cousin Jano do on the Saga episode? She was fantastic.

But you're her cousin. Tell me the truth. No, she was so well prepared. She asked really good questions. She didn't just stare at a Wikipedia page and pull up questions from that. She wasn't a fanboy? Well, she was a fan boy, but she didn't say for three days. Listen, I've been listening to Jano talk about Saga for 45 years.

So, you know, there wasn't a lot that I didn't already know. What do you think of Saga? I did, they're fine, you know, not really, you know, I like the hits, that's about it. Oh, you wanted to know what my favorite episode is? Why are you staring at Leslie's chest? She has her favorite episode on that. My favorite episode was Chris Tate number one. The wrong Chris Tate.

The Lazarettes. Yes. That's bizarre. Yeah. But is it because I thought he was the other Chris Tate? Yes. It was a great episode. The most awkward episode ever.

Or the first ten minutes of the episode were the most awkward episode ever. I do you think I felt, okay? More awkward than Molly Johnson? I actually, I felt similar sensation to what I felt when I saw Carla Collins is here. I know. It blows my mind. I can't believe that. What's your favorite episode, cousin?

Can't be the one that you were on. No, the Father's Day one. Oh, yeah. You know, it's a bit of bias, though, but it was a beautiful episode. Well, I mean, come on. Oh, was that Larry's? Russ Taylor. Yeah.

Oh, right, right, right, right. Yeah, it's my uncle. Right, right. My cousins and my uncle are, you know, when I hear my uncle's voice and Dave who I've known since I was a kid didn't even know it was a wonderful episode and I remember your brother is on that episode and it was fantastic

how many other families have every member been on on Toronto Mike? Oh yeah that's true that's a good one not a lot all three Taylor Siddlers who's the guy that writes shit down and keeps the log I think that would be Tyler Campbell question that that guy should write down isn't there a guy

that keeps a log of all the guests? I'll mention it to Tyler Campbell yeah that's Tyler Campbell Tyler Campbell that's it we've had a whole family so cousin Janelle just to your relationship with Leslie Taylor. You're obviously her cousin. Yes. Our mothers are our sisters. How did she, Leslie Taylor, bring you into the TMU,

the Toronto Mic's Universe? Do you want your real talk? But right into the mic. Right. Oh, sorry. I know my spot's a bit off today. Sorry. So I literally ended my PhD two days before. Is this a long story? No. Was feeling really down? And Leslie said,

come to this event. It'll be really great. You'll have a good time. I met Rob Proust. We're chatting away, I met you, like, you know. And I was like, oh, my God, it's great. Done. Who's better? Me or Rob Pruss? Where is Rob?

No hesitation. He's working on Broadway. I know. He said it wasn't coming. So that's the answer. Sorry. So I want to say thank you for co-hosting the Michael Sadler episode of Chonamite. That was.

You were great. And we did a half an hour before he arrived. We did more after. Yeah. Got fact checked by Danish guy. Yeah. Yes. Because you got, you said this was the first album by Izaga and it wasn't.

No. I know. Even Denmark has their version of Robert Lawson. I know. I know. But you're incredible, and I'm glad you're here. Thank you. We're cycling.

Don't worry. I got the song loaded up for Lucas. Don't worry. But Leslie, you're a valuable FOTM who baked cookies. I would have eaten in the cookie. Yeah, right now I think some people are guarding the cookies at the back. So if you haven't had a cookie yet, there are a few left. So you know what I'm seeing here to my left here?

I see Mike Epple chatting with Mike Wilner. And Peter goes, okay, can I have to do this. I know he did it once before. Could I get, and Leslie, we're going to give your microphone to Peter Gross, because he's a FOTM Hall of Famer, and I have to tell him he's doing something next Sunday. Here we go. Or Saturday, next Saturday. So, Peter, you're going here, but I need Mike Wilner to take over for Cousin Janow,

but don't trip on this cable here, Mike Wilner, like somebody else did. Who did it again? I already forgot. I can't remember. Okay, somebody did that. Okay. So go around. Okay.

And it's good to see. is Joveni here? Bullshit. He's in the shit list here. Okay. He's in the shit list. Right on the microphone, Peter Gross. How much credit do you continue to take

for the career of Mike Wilner? I guess all of it. I mean, that's how I said hello to him when I wanted to do you. Every column that he writes for the star, he sends to me to proofread and correct all of the statistical errors. And I send him a nickel every time. I just had a flashback.

You were there, Elvis. Do you remember the first ever TMLX event at Palma's Kitchen? Yes. It was downstairs. Yes. My kids were there. So, smaller crowd, but I had on the mic that day together, Peter Gross and Mike Wilming. You did.

Do you know how they're connected? No. Well, he sends him a nickel every time he writes a column. Mike, would you succinctly share the story of how Peter Gross is involved in your media superstar origin story? Sure. See if it's the same as mine. Yeah, this is wild.

Yeah, it's interesting to see if Peter remembers it the same way. After there was a coup at the University of Toronto Radio Station in 1991, I started working with the Department of Athletics and Recreation at U of T. and in 1993, the then sports information director decided he didn't want to inform the media about the results of U of T games anymore, so that became my job. And I was, and the job way back then was you had to phone the final score to the wire services and the newspapers and the radio stations, and I phoned the fan 1430 at the time, and Tim Haffey answered the phone. FOTM, Tim Haffney. Of course. How could he not be an FOTM? And he had been the sports

director at C-I-U-T when I was at the radio station. So Haffey asked me if I would do a 30-second report on this university basketball game in 1993. And I said, sure, and I did, and felt a great sense of accomplishment afterwards. And then the next week, when I was sending in, when I was doing these phone calls, I also phoned 680 news, and I was emboldened. and I said, hey, do you want 30 seconds? And whoever answered the phone, and I don't know who she was, said, sure. So I left a 30-second report on this, again, meaningless Ontario-O-U-A basketball game. And two days later, Peter called Paul Carson at U of T and said, hey, who was that kid?

And I was in there at 680 auditioning for him the next weekend. Peter, is that accurate? Yeah, I recall that I listened to it, and I thought, this is better than I would have expected from someone calling in from a school. What a high bar. What a high bar. His expectations were so low. This man impressed him.

And if I may, and I'm sure Peter might not remember this. But when I came in to audition at 680, at the old Victoria Street upstairs, I never worked there. Yeah. He had me write a sportscast in, he gave me like 10 minutes, write a three-minute sportscast and then record it. And then I went into the booth with him and with an engineer and recorded it. And when I was done, Gross said to me, that sucks. No? He said to me, this guy has had his jaw on the floor for the last two minutes, talking about whoever was engineering the broadcast.

or engineering the audition tape. So that made me feel good too. And then he said, I don't have a job for you. But when I do, I'll call you, and he did. I'll tell you one experience I had with Mike. For whatever reason, I came down on a Saturday, noon or so, 1 o'clock, to drop into the station. And Mike was anchoring the sports.

And we just chatted and chatted, and suddenly it was quarter after one. And without a script, just with two or three, schedules on his monitor, he did a completely competent, excellent sports castle. Competent, eh? Excellent. I heard excellent. I don't know about you. I only heard competent. Again, this is

like unbelievable praise that's being offered. Okay, so it gets better. Competent. Broadcast. It gets better. I'm going to make a huge announcement regarding Peter Gross. Where's Mike Rogers? And then there's, did you watch DeGrassey? Yes. Of course.

Arlene Laude is here. Get out. He's going to come on this mic, and I'm going to blow, this guy has no idea. It's going to blow your mind that this beautiful queen of pies, I hope I get the right handle, she's going to remind me, the relationship she has. You want to talk canoodling. Yes. There will be canoodling at Palma's Kitchen today with the man on your right.

Your mind is blowing, right? I don't be no canoeing at Palma's Kitchen. There was canoodling earlier, though. Peter, this is an important announcement. By the way, is everybody having a good time here? Okay, if anyone here didn't get a free meal from Palma Posse, you come see me. Okay, I know the owner will make sure you did. I hope everybody, did you get one?

When we got here, they said we're out of coupon. I need to talk, get Anthony on this damn microphone right now. I'm going to fix that because, you know. I didn't come here for the food. I came here for all of you fabulous FOTM. Still, you're getting the food. There's another Perry here. Perry Lefko's in the building.

Okay, this is a horse racing. and make sure we tell the story of Peter the Gross, the horse. Owned by David Cassidy. Correct. That's a real story here. Is there still Great Lakes beer? Is it still cold? Well, Gord, yes or no?

You can't go like that. Is that right? You've got to get Carla here. Carla, 100%. I can't wait to talk to Carla. This is a dream come true to be quite on. This is an absolute dream. My wife is blowing on my phone.

So let me do the quick. Okay. And did everybody, the first 75 people got the leg, lamp. We're way past that now. Yeah. Okay. Peter Gross. This is November 28th. I'm checking.

No, 29th. I can't even believe it. I had too many beers. All day. November 29th, it's a Saturday. Next Saturday, we're going to be the Grand Marshal's of the Atobico Santa Claus Parade. This is how I find out? I'm not kidding.

We have to meet at Second Street School at 9 a.m. next Saturday, and we're going to go walk the route. It's 35 streets, 1st to 35th, in South Atobico. But I'm not kidding. They're printing a banner and everything. Are you up to this challenge? Are you game?

Nothing says Christmas like a Jew in a pickup truck. How can I say no now? I'll look like a prick. You're Jewish? Orthodox. Is there a joke? check? This guy, gets extra

bacon this guy. I've been a bunch of him. Nothing says Christmas like a Jew and a pickup truck on Shabbas and a Tobacco. Elvis, can you believe it, though? We're the Grand Marshal's. I can't believe it. That's generally reserved for... How many people turned it down?

So, okay, the true story is they invited me to be the Grand Marshal, okay? I went back, I had the same reaction. I said, we can do better. I pitched them, I gave them the contact info for people like a rash madani who lives in the hood and is an actual famous person? I would

choose you over him. Is that right? You don't like a rash? I would. What do you have against the rash? It's fine. What happened between you two? I've already trashed Ian and Hanamancey and I don't need to trash anyone else. I think unlike Ian who will listen. I don't think Arash is listening. Seriously,

you better run in with him? No, I'm just not a fan. Not a fan. Not a fan. So F him. I don't have, I don't, I dislike Ian more than I dislike that other guy. Arash, a wonderful, wonderful young man. I'm sure he is. Regardless, I suggested Arash Medanis should be the Grand Marshal.

I think Arash turned them down. I came back to me. I said, fine, but I have a condition. Peter Gross is my wingman for this important. And that's happening next Saturday, right, Peter? Yes. Are you actually going to be in a pickup, or are you watching? Are you marching?

I think we have to march. You're marching. I don't think there's a pickup. What do you wear? What are you wearing? We'll talk. I actually need to get the great Arlene Lott on this microphone. Let me just say, down the stretch, if anyone has even an inkling of interest in Ontario horse racing, or just likes the way Peter Gross tells a story, because he's a master storyteller.

You need to subscribe and listen to Down the Stretch. I think what you do there is amazing. Thank you. You're supposed to thank me for producing the damn thing for so many years. Remember, I did it for free for the first bunch of episodes. Come on, Peter. No, you never did it for free? Yeah, until we got the sponsor.

Oh, that was the seniors moment. Yeah, yeah. Senior moment. Another podcast. Okay. So, everybody, give it up to FOTM Hall of Famer, Peter Gross. Arlene Laude is coming here, and Carla, don't you dare leave. You're not going to leave, right?

Okay, you're up next then. But Arlene Lott first. Watch, yeah. Watch out. Watch out. Stop, stop, stop. Okay. Oh, my goodness.

We almost lost a headset there. It's better than the camera. I can't afford to replace it. I didn't, Nick Aini's told me to charge admission for this thing. Who did? Nick Aini's. Who? Nick Aini's, the host of building Toronto Skyline and building success.

Two podcasts you ought to listen to. Sure. And did I tell you about recycle my electronics.ca. Yes. Do you have old electronics, old devices? You don't throw that in the garbage. I know. You go to recycle my electronics.

I've been there. Do you want a privacy pod from CILIN? dynamic and creative work environments. Yes. Doug at blue sky agency. That's who you're right. Yes. Where do I go for my stickers?

That was a few years. I don't remember. Arlene. Hello. Right on the mic there. Yeah, gotcha. That's a free meal. Okay, you know what?

So let me be clear about this. We got some more free meals. Only three. Okay. Moose is out of breath. She's been working hard for our money. What did you have to do for Anthony? need to get those.

You see the way she said that? You won't believe what I did to get those free meals. Yeah, well, it's more than canoodling. It sounds like... Excuse me, Moose. Jesus. Come on. No one can hear that.

Oh, wow. No one's listening anyway, right? Disgusting. Okay. I do want to say thank you to Moose Grumpy, who, like, several times... Wilner needs one. Yeah, Wilner needs one. Oh, you got one.

Several times we ran out of vouchers and Moose Grumpy got new ones. Thank you. Honestly, thank you. I'm going to see you after. Moose is the best. We love Moose Grumpy. Okay. Carla needs one.

I want to tell Arlene something. I loved your pie. Does that sound dirty? Yeah, oh yeah. I thought this was a family show. I loved your pie. Thanks. She may have brought more for you.

I'm so glad. I brought you a little something I baked. Okay, Arlene law's giving me something here. I baked butter tarts this morning. Thank God. This is a question. I have a question. Do you prefer your butter tarts with raisins or without? Oh, boy.

This is a very polarizing question. Yeah. It's the hard. getting stuff. Um, I like mine actually, you know, plain. I hate to say plain because they're fantastic, but I, you know, I like them uninterrupted, let's say. This looks amazing, Arlene. It's like it's wide and it's like, it's like a flower, it's open, it's open. It's kind of erotic. Look at that thing. It's the Georgia O'Keefe of butter tarts. So, Mike gets in, he has enough to eat at home. Oh, Jesus. Oh, you didn't. Wow. I'm talking about butter tarts here. Is there a check?

Arlene, can you disclose? your relationship to the great Mike Wilner, what an FOTM he is. What is your relationship with Mike Wilner? Just tell us. Oh, my relationship with the great Mike Wilner is he is, he hates when I call him my partner, but that's what I call him.

Yeah, I hate that. He hates that. It sounds like we're in a law firm. He's too old to be a boyfriend. Wilner and Lot. Is that Lot in Wilner or Wilner and Law? Why not just say your lover? LLC. Is my lover? Sure. My lover. Okay. Speaking of Canoodle.

So I have a lot of decisions to make it real time. So Arlene, I loved your appearance on Toronto mic. Me too. Do you know who was there to co-host with me, similar to how we had a co-host for Saga, Cousin Janow. Do you know who was in the room co-hosting with us that day? I saw her when she walked in, or when I walked in, there was Andy. Andy?

Arlene Laude is here. I know. I know. It was the best. Did you want to say hi? Like, do you want to come on the mic and say hi? I'm reading her face. What is she saying there?

She's making her voice. She's coming. I'm getting to Carla Collins. I have a table here. Oh, my God. We have got to cook of gas because this has got to end at three. Yeah. Right? We're, yeah. We're going to, this is going to be great. Thank you for making Mike Wilner so happy. Aw. You make him very happy. He makes me very happy. We're even. Is that true? I hope so. This is Loveline. This is Loveline. He's so far away from me right now. We are going to get one of my favorite FOTMs. Andy, just say hi to Arlene. I know, but on the mic. On the mic.

Hi, Arlene. Hey, bestie. Nice to see you. Why aren't you wearing the Degrassi jacket? I considered it. But Arlene's already seen it, so it doesn't matter. Yeah, that's good. Did you consider getting a restraining order against the super fan, no one is Andy?

I was pleasantly surprised to see her walk over cautiously when I walked in. I just want to say, I love you, too, as a couple. You're like a power couple in this city. We got a Degrassy superstar making the most delicious baked goods and pies, queen of pies. Princess of Pies is the CBC, but I'll take the queen. Like, let's go, right? You are the Princess of Pies. I got to get that branding right.

And Mike Wilner, we continue to listen to your Deep Left Field podcast and read about the Blue Jays and the Toronto Star. But I'm excited you're here. So I know you've ruined my microphone. It's not your fault. Andy did it. See, all those, those, like, not wires, what are those strings have to go. We have to loop them in. Maybe fix that.

And then, because I got to get some people still in the thing. Yep. Professor Prickle Thorne, could you say hi to us on this mic? Would you say hi? Okay. So, Princess of Pyes to Professor Prickle Thorne. Say that five times fast. I love the alliteration.

Can't do it. I can't do it. So thank you, Arlene. Nice to see you. Glad to see you. We're going to get a quick high from Warren, as he's known. Just a quick high. And then we're going to get Carla Collins on the microphone.

The first time I've ever met this woman. and as I scan the room we're at the point in the show Jeremy Hopkin Jeremy Hopkins you're going to take over for Mike Wilner okay so now

so that means now I thought you said Carlos let's go okay hello there Professor for being on Mike all right good goodbye everybody thank you for having me Mike Wilner everybody Mike Wilner

Merry Christmas Mike hold my hand we're going to do this what a you know what I mentioned the guy who was the fire chief for the Toronto Island for a long time until they forced them to retire at 65, did they do that? Right, yes. I had a chat with him about you the other day.

Pete is his name? Yes, Pete Gutenberg. Yeah, Pete Guttenberg. He says hello. He says you're a good guy. He's a good guy, too. Yeah, we met a few times on the island, and I used to joke and call the island fire guys

of the Maytag repairmen. Because whenever it had business to do at the island fire hall, I'd always walk in there, and they were like, in the middle of cooking or a sports desk. So very busy guys. Yeah, he's a great guy. And thank you for the tour of Toronto Island. By the way, Anthony Petrucci, Anthony,

would you come on for one minute after I talk to Professor Pricklethorn? Okay. Thank you for the tour of Toronto Island. I learned so much and I loved it. And I'm going to do that all again next summer, Toronto Island Discovery Tours.ca. I'm going to have about 10. Say that URL again?

Toronto Island Discovery Tours.C.A. It's a three-hour tour of Toronto Island. Like Gilligan's Island. It's Gilligan's Island, and I am the professor. And, yeah, we do Ward's Island, Center Island, Hanlon's Point, all that stuff. Why did you not dress as Professor Pricklethorn, knowing that there might be children here? Why are you dressed as a normie? Well, I brought some books, you know.

My daughter and a couple of her friends. Mike Eppel is leaving everybody. say goodbye to Mike Epple. We love Mike Epple. We love Mike Wilner. What other mics do we meet today? Lots of Mike. Toronto, Mike is here.

I'll be back up with some books, and I'll deliver them to that table, right? Yeah. Oh, I got to get the Tragically Hip, Top 40 people on very soon, because Sarah J is here. And I'm nervous knowing she's here. Come back next summer for another tour. I will.

In heartbeat. One question for you about the island, though. The cormorants have stunk the join up. and they're killing the trees. What do we do about the cormorants on the island? I'm serious. What do we do? I speak for the trees.

I say we harass them until they leave. Do we play ACDC for them? Anonymous scurry, maybe. I don't know. What's wrong with ACDs? Just bugging you. I'm just bugging you. Come on.

How do we harass them? Water cannons. Seriously, like at the C&E. You have a little barge with a water pump with a highly pressurized hose. As soon as they touch the tree, tree, boom. Wouldn't that be a great summer job if you're a kid?

My son is actually looking for work, and I will send him to the island to fire water. Sorry, not fire. That's a bad idea. Water cannon, these cormorants that are messing up the island. All day. Love you, man. The Toronto Tree is still strong and thriving. Yes, that's good.

But at the end of his life. And everybody, I want everybody to give it up for Professor Pricklethorn. Great FOTM. You're going to, but you know, you should be on it. Any final words here before Carla Collins? Do you know Carla Collins? Of course, yes, a legend. Yeah, no.

Like, that's her. Yeah, I know. Beautiful as ever. Is that Michael Webb? So this is another legend, okay? Because I love the fact Web is like World Wide Web, and he's a web. I just find that very convenient. Okay.

Leave the jokes to her. What were you saying? Final word, come and see me on the island, Toronto Island Discovery Tour, next summer. Okay, everybody. Professor Prickle Thorne is going to give up his microphone to Carla Collins. I'm nervous, Elvis. This might be the biggest guest you've had. I'm a hard act to follow, so.

This is the biggest guest you've had. Bigger than Mike Eppel. Think about... Okay, second biggest guest. Okay, so, well, we're going to talk. So, Carla's going to get comfortable, but I want to say hello to the official historian of the Toronto Mike podcast, who I only met because one of these events at Palma's Kitchen, he showed up dressed like this. Yes.

And he came on the mic, and I said, I said, son, I like the cut of your jib. How about a quarterly episode of Toronto Mike? And that's what we've been doing. And for episode 1800, did anyone here listen to 1800? Okay, there are people here, listen to 1800. We, thanks to Jeremy Hopkins, we did it live from Casaloma. Oh, I heard about this one. That was a lot of fun.

Wasn't that a lot of fun? Yeah, man. And you brought out your A game with your stand-up there. Oh, you know what? Should I tell that story quick? You know what? I have a comedian to my left. Yes.

So don't go anywhere. I won't. This is so ridiculous. Get buckle up, Carla. This is ridiculous. I'm buckled. Welcome to your in-person debut because you zoomed in from L.A. or something.

But welcome to Toronto Mike. Carla Collins, everybody. Hey, everyone. Very excited to be here. And Toronto Mike said, if you show up, I will shut this down. Shut her down. I will shut the whole thing down. I did say that.

And I came and that guy at the end tried to sell me some snake oil. He looks like an old-timey piano player, and I dig that. What can I say? she's with these knees. I love it. You are, you're the cat's pajamas. You're swell, see?

Wow, thank you. What are you doing here? Because I think of you now as L.A. Carla. I'm here to do your hair because you and I are now collectively have the most hair of any broadcasters, I think. Combined, right? I'm here visiting my gay fiancé, Michael Webb, and I also have a show coming up. He is, ladies, get yourself a gay fiancé. I can't recommend it, hi.

enough. That's fantastic. Look at these boots, ladies. They are amazing. From my gay fiancé. This is from my gay fiance. The only thing I've gotten from a straight man has been a mild eating disorder in chlamydia. I'm kidding. I've never had chlamydia. Hi, kids. Are there children here? I'm doing this. I'm doing this. I'm back in Canada doing a bunch of things, but I'm going to be doing a show December 13th. You all like beer? Yes. Want to come to see me? in a brewery? Scarborough, it's the closest thing to Sue St. Marie, my hometown. These are not my original teeth, sir. If you want to come see me do live comedy, I'm working out all my new stuff at Goldenfield

Brewery with Jesse Reynolds hosting and Sabrina Douglas is featuring FOTM, Sabrina Douglas. That's right. I don't know what that means, but I will FOTM, Sabrina Douglas. There's no one way she knows what that is. I mean, it's time for me to do a lady. What? I don't know what that means.

Friend of Toronto Mike. She's been on Toronto Mike. Friend of Toronto Mike. Am I also an FOTM? You are. Even though you zoomed in, you're still technically an FOTM. I'd like to be an FOTM with benefits.

Oh. Well, we'll talk after. What kind of show is this? I don't know. I don't know what kind of show. This is no. So December 13th, Goldenfield Brewery, and then I'll be doing a Yuck Yuck Yuck's tour.

Okay, exciting. That's a rival brewery, of course. But we'll allow it, right, Elvis? Okay. Shed up to Great Lakes there. But it's in Scarborough. That's true. I mean, like, I didn't get shanked when I came in here.

And if you want, you're in a Tobacco now. I know it's fancy. Hey, I was born in Scarborough. Come on. I was born in the Sioux. I wish I was born in Scarborough. It's not all that bad. Look, she aspires to be in Scarborough.

Look at you trying to be in Scarborough, Mr. Piano Man. So this is Jay Ho, the guy, the fancy pants over there. Hi, Jay Ho. Hello. He was my co-host for the recording at Casaloma. Have you ever performed at Casaloma? No, but I'd love to. I think it's haunted.

Oh. Yeah, that's Midtown Gord, I think. Yeah, Midtown Gord's haunting that place. Yeah, Midtown Gord. Is he here today? No, he's not here. Oh. He's haunting a Casoloma.

I like that everybody has an old-timey nickname, you know. Smiling Jack was here earlier, Carla, but you missed him. What? Midtown Gord. Bang and Barbara. Jayho, we have contacts at Casaloma. Let's, I think so, if you don't know, I would love to perform at Castleloma.

She's funny as heck. Yes. I said, heck, because the kids are here. Watch your fucking mouth. I love you. No, I mean, because I think it's haunted, and you know how I am like sexual catnip to every man over 90, right? Seriously, I have a YouTube channel called A-S-Marthritis.

It's just me making sounds I think old guys would like. Like, it's just me blowing on soup and crinkling newspapers and stuff. So I assume, because all old guys like me, I think that ghost would really love me too. Let's do this Casoloma. I'm pumped. Let's do this.

How are the kids doing? Carla, did you get your complimentary meal from Palma Pasta? I did, but we're just going to split one because, you know, I haven't had a carb since 1988. I don't know if you've noticed this. The gay fiancé really likes her jokes. He's laughing, too. Well, because I'm thinner than the plot of hustlers. Oh, you wish you knew the deal.

I'll tell you what. I'm living on a farm with him, but where's the farm? Well, we can't disclose that little. location due to my one stalker. No, it's not a scarborough. Again, we're not that fancy. But the thing is, I've never been, even, I've never visited a farm, and now I'm living on one,

and it's rough, guys, because like kittens die, and it shaved six months off my life every time that happens. And then the other day, there was literally a mouse in the dog water bowl, and I was like, I don't like me's. I'm not trying to be racist. I just, I can't do mouse. And he said, well, that's just life

on the farm. That's his answer to everything. I'm like, Doug Ford is naked in the living room. That's just life on the farm. So it's toughening me up. It's just, I'm trying to be, anyway, I'm very happy to be here in Canada. You guys all look beautiful. Well, many

moons ago, you and I were on, I don't know if it was a Zoom or a phone call. I can't remember it. With your gay fiancé. It was a Zoom call during the Jean-Cloud Pandam. I was during the pandemic and I made my Toronto Mike debut, yes. You know, I'm getting hit on 75% less than I do

when I'm on Humble and Fred. FYI Because this beautiful gentleman Ian said I was the best guest that Humble and Fred has ever had so I thought that was very sweet made my whole week

Who keeps booking you on Humble and Fred? An FOTM A friend of Mike The TM The gangster himself Yes You are this And congratulations

I saw something on Facebook where you've got one of the biggest podcasts And we couldn't be happier for you So everybody let's give it up for Toronto Mike He's the king of podcasts

and he's got great hair. Can you, I ask this of a previous guest, but I feel like you as a weather network veteran, you're like a broadcaster. Not to brag. Not to brag. Could you paint a picture? Like, what do you see in here today? Just so the people listening on their podcast

feed, they know exactly what you're seeing here. Like, what do you see? Other than Brian Gerstein, chowing down on a sandwich, everybody. Brian Gerstein, everybody. Brian what's up? Property and the 6.com. I love that we brought up my... I was a weather girl. By the way, I was also near Canada flight attendant.

Had I become a nurse, guys. I would have been all three of the OG slutty Halloween costumes. Here's what I see. I see a lot of beautiful people. It's wider than the Winter Olympics, but that's all right. We're just taking a picture. Okay, throw on the wind machine, girl. Okay, I love it.

Moose crumpy is blind. I see a lot of happy people. There's a young guy here who's adorable. How are you doing? I got your nose. I got your nose. That's my play with young guys. Ian, my biggest fan, is here.

He's supposed to be at least a thousand feet away, but that's all right. We have a beautiful woman who's got Auburn hair. You're a hot ginger. How's it going? I always say this. Every time she comes out, way too hot for Brother Neil, right? Yeah, yeah. What?

That's mean. Just hot enough. And there's somebody in a jaunty chapeau over there who looks like he came in with the old-timey piano guy. That's Ed Susa. Hi, Ed. How are you? There's somebody in a Raptor's uniform. Scotty Barnes.

I don't know if he's going to do a three-pointer. And it says, It says Dick at the other side of it. I'm just going to leave that alone, because that's too easy, and I'm a professional. Exactly. See, I don't, Ian, you know I don't go

for those little hanging fruit. There's a lovely couple over there, and it's the white family from Get Out. So that's fine. Everybody's here. There's a lot of smiling people. Did you have a fun time? Oh, yeah.

I had a blast. this, what did you think? It sucked. We still have a few more guests, actually, before we wore it down. Good. Maybe we can get better. Maybe we can get better. I got to say, though, I'm tickled pink. Is that an expression we say, Jeremy Hopkins?

You allow it? Okay. I'm tickled pink, but you're here. Like, I thought maybe you did threaten to come, and I'm like, you know, I will shut it down of Harle Collins. You're here. Against everybody's will. That's what I like to show up.

It's just like I threatened him. He said, I will shut this down. I said, Michael, I said to my gay fiancé. say, I think this means a lot, Michael Webb. If anybody needs a good realtor, Michael Webb. I said, listen, what? I got to keep a roof over the farmhouse, guys. We've got chickens down.

You can't all be Gerstein selling the real estate. I said, you know, I think that was so sweetly you said. You said you'd shut the whole thing down. Honestly. I think the world of you. And so I was like, let's go to, remember when I was working on radio? I used to have to say Mixa Saga, so I still get, you know. So you do know, I mean, we're not going to.

mix it up too much here, pun intended, but Steve Anthony has been on the program and says there was a chemistry imbalance with you two that you just didn't die. Do you see chemistry or chemical imbalance? Because if it's Anthony. Like, is that a case? And again, we're going to, you know, I like to talk about the old Toronto stuff. This is real quick.

He's asked me this before, by the way. He likes the controversy because Steve was a match. Okay, here's the thing. They put us together. We had never met before and we were doing mixed mornings. I was still working full time at CTV. I do not like mornings. Ask Michael on the farm.

I don't like getting up early. I went to perform it just for laughs. Whilst I was in Montreal, I got a call from Biggie, our program director, and he said, we're going to move Steve to afternoons. I think it gels better with you and Griff. And for a while there, it seemed like I was the Black Widow of Broadcast. Like I was just getting people.

Like, I wield that kind of power. And I was like, are you sure you won't put me to afternoons? I would much rather do afternoons and sleep in. And when I came back, I don't know what he's saying behind my back, but Steve Anthony has always been a total mensch to me. He was lovely. He couldn't have been more lovely about it. And by the way, I got fired a couple years later,

so what's a big difference? I mean, it's scariest lady, hires and fires me. I've been hired and fired since I sat down here four times. And let me be clear about this, Carla. I cannot be more clear about this. No one's allowed on Toronto mic if they're going to say a disparaging word about you. If I hear, if Steve Anley dared say a negative word, he'd be out on his ass. You will cut a bitch.

I'll tell you that right now. We will leg wrestle. Anyone who says something. No, he's, again, he was always, I had nothing to do with that decision. Can you, I wish I did, yes, because as you know, ladies, we just are so powerful in the world of broadcast. So many morning women just wielding our power all over the place. So, no, I had nothing to do with that, but it was always all good. remind us where can we

this is, you're so fucking funny where can we see you live? You can see me live December 13th coming up at Goldenfield Brewery. I'm also going to be at Yux in London Ontario on Boxing Day or EFC Day. I don't know what you celebrate. The

26th and 27th will be in London then in February. I'll be around Yucks in February and March as well here in Ontario. But December 13. December 13th, see Carla Collins. A big round of applause. For Carla Collins. Thank you so much.

I love you guys. I'm honored you're here. Thank you so much. But I do need a JD. Would you go on the mic, JD? Yeah. So a JD and then Sarah Jay, you're like on deck

after the great Jeremy Hopkins wraps up here. But thank you again, Carla. Honestly, you're... I just got a kiss from Carla Collins. Did you see that? You made my fucking ear. That was fantastic. Carla's the best.

That was amazing. That's okay. Peter did the same thing. I've got to replace all the gear here today. Here. So, don't worry. Very nice baby. Thank you.

I'm worried. Don't worry. So. Carla's the best. We're going to say, so Jeho, I just want to say thank you for coming on four times this year. Hey, thank you, too. I've never thought I'd be doing this, and I'm just so happy I am. Well, I make dreams come true on this program.

You know that. You do make dreams come true, and I tried to make a dream come true by doing our remote with the Casaloma people. That was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. It was fantastic. we did that tour together after. We went down the tunnel in it, the tunnel of love, if you will. It was quite something.

I heard. I heard. And the towers, the towers of love, too. We went to the highest towers, said hello to the ghost of Midtown Gord. It was something else. So do we know where we're going to record live from in the first quarter of 2026? I do not know, but I would love to scope some places out. And the FOTMs have been given some great suggestions on future episodes. So we'll work it out. Horseshoe Tavern.

It sounded like a great idea. We'll see what we can do. He doesn't like it. No, I do. The only remotes you do other than these are with him. Is that the deal? I do the Joe Carter Classic. Oh, right.

By the way, you know who's not here, but told me he was 100% Joe Carter's not here. That's correct. He said 100% he'll be here and I haven't seen him. Yeah. Unless he's hiding in this room. Your neighbor, Rob Butler. Oh, yeah, he is my neighbor. But he said 100% him and Sherry Butler, 100% were going to be at Team Out.

I promoted it, Elvis. No one's listening. It's fine. I think Rob got locked in the Costco room, maybe. Well, yeah. Elvis invested into the Costco room. So, everybody, a big hand, oh, yeah, because Mrs. Ellison. I love how he knows about the Costco.

Because people listen to Toronto Mike. I do the only one missing out. Even Serena over here, I've been watching you. You're a big Toronto Mike fan, aren't you? That's the Hibsey partner. We're trying to make it as a matter as possible, right? Girlfriend. Girlfriend?

lady friend. Yeah. Partner. I'm with Wilner. Lover. No, will, does Wilner like partner or not like partner? No, I don't like partner either. No, Arlene likes that. Girlfriend, boyfriend. It's fine. Yeah. Girlfriend, no matter how old you are. Everybody, their girlfriend, boy, friends. Lovers? You want lovers? So, Jayho, thank you for being, uh, the official Toronto historian of the Toronto Mike podcast. Give it up for Jayho. Thank you so much. But Sarah Jay, you're going to go around this table and not trip on any cables.

Just get on that mic. To my left, everybody. Any tragically hip fans here? You know, there's a man here. You know, Hebsy, he's got a great relationship with the tragically hip. He does. Yeah. And part of it is probably because, not that this is the reason he loves the hip,

but he grew up as a buddy of Jake Gold. Do you know that? Yeah, really? Would I lie about that, Elvis? Yeah, I think so. Didn't we rehearse this? Yeah. You rehearsed three hours of the crew.

Yeah. We have a lot of time. Jamie Dew, now going by the proper handle, JD. Sure. Yeah? How the hell are you doing, man? I'm doing great. I feel really embarrassed to be sitting in this seat right now

after the great job that Carla just did. You know what? Carla warmed up that seat for you, J.B. Damn. I don't know why. I don't want to say anything, and I'm all punch lines. Piping high. Yeah, Mayor.

I love that. Okay, get right in front of that thing. We have another person who came from enemy territory. So it's not just Steve, who's still here. still here. Well, and Gabriel, too. Well, and Gabriel, too. Yeah, there you go.

So there's another person on this podcast today who came from enemy territory. Really? The woman to your right, who I know as Sarah Jay. Sarah Jay. She came from Buffalo, New York. We like Buffalo. Buffalo is practically Canada. It's 11 provinces.

Yeah. Am I the only one who fucking hates Buffalo here? Yeah, I think so. You started all those fires. Irv Weinstein. I did like Irv Weinstein. Too soon? What was that too soon? I like, do you know what I like?

Wow, is it groans? I just just shout this out and then I'll get it back to JD and back to you, Sarah Jay, and the podcast you guys do. But I did really enjoy Commander Tom because on Sundays there was no, it was religious programming, no cartoons anywhere, but Commander Tom would give us Davy and Goliath. Not religious at all. You know what? It just clued in.

That was religious. Davy. Oh, my God. So, J.D., I was a guest, I complained many times on Toronto, Mike, that I recorded it in, like, October. Oh, my God. Okay. And then it was, like, the next summer. And I'm like, is he going to fucking drop my episode?

You were, like, number nine or something, right? Number nine. Tell us about that podcast and what this next podcast is, and then tell us who the hell Sarah J. from Buffalo is, who I got to meet at your event. Yeah. Okay. Well, the Tragically Hip Top 40 Countdown is part of the Tragically Hip Podcast series. I've done four tragically at podcasts, and there's a fifth one coming in 2026. Get all the juice out of that lemon, JD.

That's right. You got to. It is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the Man Machine poem tour. If you attended any of those shows, reach out to me, please, because the show is based on your stories and what you experienced the night that you saw a show or the night that you saw the final show. And that's coming up in May of this year, and it's going to wrap up on August 20th, the 10-year anniversary of the final show in Kingston. So it should be a lot of fun.

Well, you do a great job. Thank you. I'm not the only one in this room who has had an episode. That sentence sounds funny. I had an episode. Tyler had an episode as well. Yes, he did. He did the Depression Suite.

And what song did I do? You did? Holy shit. It was so late. Holy shit. I love that hip song. That's good. Yeah.

Oh, you did a long-time running, didn't you? No, I didn't do Blow at High Doe. I did not do long-time running, even though that was the wedding song for Monica and I. That's why I was thinking of it. It was Fiddler's Green. Fiddlers Green. I knew it was a slow jam. So how did you meet Sarah Jay?

Sarah Jay and I met actually almost about a year ago at the hip. They were doing an event at Massey Hall. And they were releasing their book. And we connected shortly after that. She did an episode. She's got a media company called DATC based out of Buffalo, and we ended up working together, and she takes care of a lot of the nitty-gritty,

and I get to focus on the stuff that I love to focus on. The hipsteries and the meeting people and the broadcasting. So you're doing a great job, JD. You know, I root hard for you. Thank you, buddy. And I'm a big JD head. Oh, thanks. Thanks.

It's a good group to be a part of. And because I'm a big JD head, I've discovered this, even though enemy, okay, I, I, I, I'm from Buffalo, it's, it's practically Canada. It's practically Canada. It takes me 10 minutes to get to the border. Yeah, it's geography, but please, tell us, like, you made this trip to Toronto for this event, or were you going to go do other things with JD?

Well, I'm actually going to Richard Boulan's closing, closing. Oh, yeah, he's a photographer. Yeah, I'm going to that as well, but this was the main reason. I drove up to Toronto and got J.D.'s ass and brought him here. That's right. Okay, you're a lucky man, J.D., to have Sarah J. in your corner. And this new podcast, does it have a launch date? May 14.

May 14. So if someone recorded an episode today, they might hear it in two years. Well, sometime between May and August. Listen, we like to let things simmer, but when they're served, they're very delicious. Mmm. Palma pasta is delicious. So, J.D., I'm honored you're here, and I'm so. glad you brought Sarah, Jay. And if there's any hip fans here, you should be listening to all 12 of JD's hip podcasts. They're all good. And that top 40 countdown, which just

kind of wrapped up, there's an episode of Tyler Campbell and myself. I do want to thank somebody here who fed us all today. And I want to ask, what's this deal about running out of vouchers or something? The guy's got a business. Like, he's got to make some money here. Everybody here knows you have to spend at least $500 in the retail store. before you go. Who's turning out the lights here? Oh, because you didn't pay the hydro bill. Okay.

So, did you get some palm pasta, J.D? I'm about to get some. Okay, so you got a voucher? Yeah. I got one in here. Okay. Anthony's like, Jesus, there's still fucking vouchers out there? You're going to report back on how delicious the palm of pasta.

Okay, so I'm going to get, for two minutes here, I'm going to get Anthony Pacucci on. and then this this is all going to come full circle but shout out to J.D. and Sarah J tragically hip top 40 so.

Thank you so much. I messed up. Do you talk to Sarah? You know I'm a big fan. Do you talk to Sarah Jay about how big the hip is in Buffalo? Is that a thing that you... So is it because of 102.1?

I would guess, yeah. Like that's how you would get your hip because you would tune in Toronto's 102.1. The edge. Have you heard of the station? 102.1 the edge. Yeah. I know.

Is Pete Fowler here? You know, he told me he'd be here, too. I'm going to show you the list afterwards of all the people who said they'd be here today and show. So that's how you got introduced to the hip and Buffalo is through CFN. Yeah. Gotcha. Because even the lowest of the lowest in Tour Buffalo as well. And Sloan, and it's because of what a 2.1's reach.

It is. It makes sense. It makes complete sense. Okay. So to my left, everybody, is the man who's hosting us today and is feeding us today. And I have a couple of pointed questions for him. But everybody, welcome. Anthony Petrucci from Palma Pasta.

Well done, well done, Mike. What did you think of today's TMLX event? Fabulous. Great turnout today. Thank you for all for coming. Great turnout. I was told by my assistant Moose Grumpy that at some point we ran out of food vouchers. Oh boy, here we go. They recycled them. So is it fair to say everybody who came to TMLX 21, it was a big turnout, got a free meal from Palm up Boston?

You probably had over 100 people. Wow. Okay, everybody. Does a fire marshal know that? No. Yeah. And we're not serving alcohol here either. No alcohol is served here.

Well, that's okay. We're giving away the alcohol. That's different. He's dropping a hint here. Yeah, because he can't charge for the beer. I think you need a license or something. I think you're allowed to give away beer. There's no beer here.

You're over 19. No, you're not. There's no beer. There's no beer. There's no beer. There's no with you now. I'm a little slow here. I've had a few octopus.

Dude, your support of Toronto Mike means the world to me. I've heard from so many people today in the past week who got... Is that feedback? Okay. Who got, like, catering, and this gentleman, Mr. Josh Merrick, who was just here, talks about how he buys all of his delicious Italian food from Palma pasta because they hear about Palma pasta on Toronto Mike. I love this relationship we have.

It's been a great relationship. how long before oh wow they're hugging they're hugging they're hugging they're hugging man they're hugging that was a more intimate hug than the kiss with carla well we might have another one later you've got to tell them the funny story how we met go ahead okay so mike you had what was the website the blog that you had back but but aim it's pouring into the mic don't even look at me It was Toronto Mike.com. So Mike had this, a blog that he was doing way back on. I still have it, man.

Fifteen years? I still have it. Okay, so 15 years ago, and I used to antagonize him and follow. He got real upset one time, and then he had Elvis jump in on it as well. It's amazing. 100%. Two against one. I remember this.

Your IP address said it was coming from Palma Pasta, and he thought I said it tell pasta. No, it didn't. It came from somewhere. Anyways, Mike shows up here one time. I thought he was pulling my leg, so he shows up here one time. I knew how he looked because he had posted his picture on there, so I approached him and cornered and he got bug-eyed. He thought I was going to attack him.

Well, you come up to me in your white smock, and I think there was blood on it. And, you know, you're racist. That's racist. Just because he's Italian, doesn't mean he has fucking blood on his smock. Like, seriously. Polly Walnuts over here. Munger cake over here with the blood on the smock.

And that was the start of a beautiful relationship. It was a start of a beautiful relationship. And you catered my wedding. Absolutely. To the beautiful Monica. Anthony, we, Mike and I talked about you. Like, it was, you were right. It was deep.

Can I introduce one more element? The hate was deep at the beginning. It went deep and I was having a great time. I was laughing to myself because both of them went off, off the rails. Can I introduce this missing link that you haven't mentioned yet? Yes. I helped Humblehoward with Humblehoward.com. And you were commenting there as Mr. Lipschitz or something?

Yes. No. And I threatened... Your lawyer, Mr. Lipschitz, was going to come at Howard. And Howard phoned me up. I saw Howard last night at the Ron James stand-up. But Howard phoned me up and said he was legit, worried, and nervous

about this guy who was threatening the lawyer. And, like, sicked me on you to, like, find out what's going on here. So this is a big part of the story. It was Humble Howard paranoia that the lawyer, Mr. Lipschitz, was coming after him. Right.

And that was your lawyer, Lipschis. I said that I was going to contact my lawyer, Mr. Lipsch. See, I hope Carla Collins is taking notes, okay? This is all gold for her next stand-up here. Early Internet was wild days. Yeah, seriously. And then here we are, so many years later, every guest on Toronto Miked in the basement gets a lasagna,

and they all love it. So many people, like I mentioned, this Josh Merrick, he just came up to me the other day at my son's soccer practice and says, you know, we found out about Palma Pasta on Toronto Mike, and we spend so much money on Palma Pasta, and I'm like, that's how it works. You're the best. Thank you.

And thank you for making sure everybody got fed. I just want to say, it's amazing the turnout that you got, but the amount of people and the famous people that you have. Mark Hebscher being one, I grew up with Mark. Mark Hempshire, everybody. grew up with Mark. Carla Collins. Carla Collins.

Mike Epple. Mr. Wilner. I mean, there's a bunch of people here that I forget to mention. Peter Gross. Peter Gross was here? Peter Gross was here. Oh, my God. It continues.

Ed Sousa. He's going to be somewhere next weekend, I heard. It's amazing the amount of work that you do and the turnout that you get. And Mike Richards, as well. Larry Fedorick? Larry Fedorick. I mean, it's amazing.

A lot of big deals here. I feel like Larry Fedorick worked with Carla Collins. Am I right? Did you guys work together? You and Larry Fedorick? Yes, I didn't have them fired, by the way. So thank you, Anthony from Palma Pasa. We're in a bit of overtime, but we're going to wrap this in the next nine minutes.

I want to get somebody on this gentleman and pick somebody at this table to join you. Okay, I have a song. Can you believe I brought a song? So, I have to play this song right now. We're going to wrap, don't we? I have my contracts as I go until three. Well, we're going over. Cast the vibes.

The bag in the back time. Did you bring someone for the other mic? Somebody. Brother Neil? Fast. Somebody. Cast the vibes. Caste the vibes.

Cast a vibes. Brother Neil. Lucas Ionet everybody. Welcome back to Lucas. Hello. What about, Bobble, Robles Up. Roger's employee, Lucas. Well, let's get to the bottom of this. Your dream has been to work in radio.

Always, yeah. And I am. I currently am. So check to that dream for sure. Slow your role, brother. You came on this show, I think, was TMLX5. Yeah. I think.

Yeah. And you told us about the truth. He was in high school. He was a kid. Giovanni. Yeah. Brother Neil. this was a trifecta.

Yeah. I love the chat. And you said, you want to be in radio? And I said, son, get a real job, run the other direction, okay?

So tell us what you're doing in radio. So I work with Rogers and I'm in radio promotions. So I do contesting things and promo for the Toronto market and then London, Ontario as well because that's where the job was.

And, yeah. 680 News, CH, you see here on the liners. Yeah, the pipes. This guy could pipes this kid. It is ID8.1. And you came on, I mentioned Giovanni, who couldn't be here today, even though he wrote me a note to say I'll see you on Saturday. He was working until 4 a.m. this morning, because he's a bus driver with my way, and he

was exhausted. I think he's with Rob Butler. On that, I know, because I want to say hi to Al Grego before we depart. But Brother Neal, I remember you part of this trifecta, how is life Brother Neal? Oh yeah, if you guys are not following at Junk Food Junction on Instagram That's where all the fast food and junk food stuff goes down and also on YouTube So if you have an Instagram Don't forget to like and follow So you eat and then write about junk food

Yeah, yeah It's a great account I follow it here Yeah yeah post all the new stuff And I'm actually going to do stories for today for Anthony for Palma pasta Give him the plug of course No, listen, Brother Neil Like he needs me, he doesn't need me.

He needs you, trust me. So, thank you, Brother Neal, for your support. We love you. And Lucas, I'm so, I feel like a proud father right now. Thanks, right. You're working in radio, brother. You got the last job left. He did it.

He did it. Back in the day, we used to gossip about the radio. You know, the personality's coming and goings, and now Lucas is there. He's one of them. And the thing is, there's still gossip about it. It just never stopped. What's the latest gossip? Give us the inside.

Who's getting fired from... What do you know? Did you see Mike Eppel? I saw Mike. I see Mike a lot in the Toronto office when I'm in, so yeah. They let you in the Toronto office. Yep. Once a week, they let me in.

Sometimes twice, maybe three times. Let the record show. My headphones to my left have dropped on the floor three times. Yeah, depends. Whatever needs to happen. So stay there, Lucas. We're really, this is, we're winding me. I really need a picture with Carla before she goes, too.

Hey, Michael Webb gave, don't let Carl, I know, this is your key to Carla. Don't let her go. We all want selfies with her after we record Elvis and I. Don't let her go. You keep her here. That's cheaper than Hebsy. You said it was 20 bucks? I said it was 20 bucks.

Yeah. I said that. Hebsy's been making bank all day today. Are you kidding? He's like, he's like Paul. Wally Walnuts. A little light, guys. A little light. He's been more product than Palma Pasta today. I've been watching.

So, serious, since we're in the home stretch, it takes a village. Like, these things don't just happen. I need Elvis to drive from North Oshua to be my wingman. You're here. Thank you, Elvis. Pleasure. Always happy to be here. On a serious tip, I get serious once in a while, but I see there's like a

homage, like a shrine for Palma Petrucci. Because the namesake of Palma Pasta, Palma Petrucci recently passed away. That's Anthony's mother. Correct, yes. So, I was going to say shout out to Ridley Funeral Home, but that's not appropriate here.

Come on, no. We love Palma Petrucci, but I want to say sincerely, no shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. Our condolences on the loss of your mother, Elvis. I'm sorry, brother. Thank you. This might be your first time on the mic.

Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home for my mom. Yeah. I would never say such a thing. That's, well, my dad invented the saying, I believe. I have it in the sound, but I might dig it up here if you give me a moment. Mike invited me on the show to talk about passing my father

and that was the very first Oh, here it is, here it is. My sincere condolences, last time you were in my backyard, I was giving you sincere condolences shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. I was, because your father had passed away and you were very...

You're such a asshole. So your father had best... Who's laughing? Your dad died. Shout out to the funeral. So, And again, again, again, my sincere condolences, and you were... Can you really say sincere condolences after you just...

Well, that was a... I mean, come on, it's been over a year. Oh, that's fantastic. But... That'll listen. I'll listen to that over again. Yeah, so that was the birth of... Shut up to really...

That was the birth right there. I think Tyler... So I feel like I could say it to my mom. Right? Well, I'm sorry, man. She loved that episode. She listened. Was she an FOTM?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. For sure. Yeah. She listened. But seriously. I try to be serious. You're an orphan now. We can't be. I'm sorry, man. We'll talk about it more on Festivus. How about that? I'm sorry about it. But I appreciate that. Thank you, Mike. To my left, I said it takes a village. I just want to shout out a few people. So obviously, Elvis, you co-hosted with me. I want to thank Tyler for driving me. He's always helpful with the Hodge 100.com.

Everybody listen to Dave Hodge. The Broad Squad helps so much with getting these food vouchers to people so they could eat the Palma Pasta. And I love the fact Moose Grumpy ran straight to me to say, we're out of vouchers. It happened a couple of times. She was out of breath. And I promised the listenership. Everybody at TMLX21 gets Palma Pasta. Nobody

said capping it at 75 or 100. They said everybody. And if it was a thousand people, that's a thousand free meals. You also said Rob Butler would be here. I thought Rob Butler would be here as well. Thanks a lot. But I want to thank Al Grego, who not only is an award-winning podcaster, but he brought the

the speakers so we can be heard because when I go to Casoloma with Jeho, nobody needs to hear us, so we don't even need speakers. But here, you have a live audience. So thank you, Al Grego. Thank you for having me, and it's a pleasure to be here. What an amazing turnout tonight. And what did you do to get Leve Fumka

to be such an advocate that she made sure to plug your podcast when she was on the microphone? Her check's in the mail. Don't worry. We take good care of her. And it's the produce stand. The produce stand. Some people say produce. I say produce. Yes, you do. Pasta, not pasta.

No, whatever. I'm learning. I'm learning here. Why did Mineris not sponsor Toronto Mike this quarter? Wow. I've got some great news about Yes We Were Open podcast. Wait for the Mike Richards show. Season 10 of Yes We Were Open will feature Palma pasta.

Whoa. I just, I went to get a coffee over there, and I noticed it was a Menaris machine. I'm like, wait, this is new. Because there's no way in heck, I didn't know about this and didn't ask you to be on the podcast before. And I asked Anthony, he said, yeah, I switched a few months ago. Fantastic. And then I said, well, you come on the yes to you're open,

and he said yes. I love Maneris. We like that. I joke with you because it's a funny moment to put you on the spot. And that's what I do on Toronto, Mike, okay. But love the support I had for so many years from the wonderful organization that is Maneris. We love the fact you win all the podcast awards.

none left for Mike Wilner and I. None at all. Okay, and all the other podcasts. He's so upset. He's winning all the awards. There's none left for us here. I can help. Wilner winning an award.

But I love the fact that I can rely on you, even though I'm going to tell you quick story. Last night I saw Ron James downtown, and I was taking the go train with my wife, and I saw this crowd. I mentioned this a leave a fumka, but now you're on the mic. They were all wearing jerseys that said, Sure, 69, and I, because I'm pretty smart. I was gifted, okay? I said to Monica, there must have been a shore. You're definitely touched.

I said, there must have been a Shorzy event. And then I said to myself, I'll bet you Al Grego was at that Shorzy event. Were you at that event last night? Of course I was at the event. Come on. We're the unofficial podcast of Letterkenny and Shorzy. 2.30 p.m. on WhatsApp, I said, Al, what time will you be at Palma Pasta with the speakers? No reply.

10 p.m. last night, I get home from this event. Bumping this for Al. Then I texted you. No reply. I went to bed. anxious that I wasn't going to have the speakers. What the heck, man? What time did I actually finally text you? Like 2.30 in the morning. That's when I got home. I got home at 2 o'clock in the morning.

Okay. Well, this is to say thank you so much, honestly. I couldn't do it without you. I love doing it. I'm a big fan of the podcast and a big supporter of Toronto. Still a big fan. Yes, of course. Why didn't you sponsor Toronto Mike? Wow. A little inside baseball here, Mike. I don't sign the checks, personally. You're not going anywhere, Carla Collins. I'm watching. watching this woman like a hawk so we're now this is the moment so is there anyone in this room who wants to say hi i want a communication update from the cunuline couple well from gabriel and christian are they canoaline are they communicating so canada kev is there anybody here who honestly

if i don't know if a hay ref or y y z gourd oh sorry he wants me to call him y y z gourd what do you think what z i agree but he says he says y y z gourd z i feel we should respect people by call them the names they want to be called That's just how I roll out of this. Well, that's bullshit. Hello to Hamilton, Mike. Friend of the pod. You came all the way from the hammer

with your son who was named after Hugh Dillon. Correct. Good to see you, buddy. You too, man. It's great to be here. Fantastic of it. You're right. I've been coming here, what, last four?

Of course I'm right. Logistically is the only TMLX I can ever make it to. Yeah, you've been to a bunch at Palma's Kitchen. Yep. And, again, thanks to Anthony Petrucci, Pomma, fantastic. Mark Hebscher, everyone should buy his book. I'm not a sports guy and I bought.

By multiple copies. I'm not a sports guy and I bought his book because his storytelling, fantastic. But don't people have to buy Hanukkah gifts and Christmas gift? There you go. Exactly. Come on. So, I mean, come on. Did you buy a selfie from him? Yeah, it came with the book purchases.

I get the $20 for the Hebsie selfie. Okay. And come on. A free stand-up set by Carla Collins. How much better can it get? Oh, my gosh. That's fantastic. Lucas, do you know the legend that is Hamilton Mike?

Do you know who I'm talking to right here? I mean, I'm in a world of human wreckage. He's a lead singer of sponge. Often I have musicians on the show. Yeah. I know this. I often have questions from Hamilton, Mike. He's a big Canadian music fan like I am. I have one request.

What is it? You see my favorite episode? Strombo. You need to do an update with him. It's 11 years, man. Do you think I'm the one saying, no, Strombo, don't fucking visit me again, okay? There is one person that is saying that. What's his name?

name, Marky, George, whatever his name is? Who are you talking about? No, no, the guy that is in, that you know, he hates George. Marky. Mark. Oh, Mark Wiseblog. Yeah, he hates. He hates George.

What's his issue? See, Mark's not here today. He hates Erica M and George Stromboloff. Considering how nice a guy George Stromble is, that says more about Mark that's about George. Is he here? He's not here. Okay.

So, Chad, I won't still have a 10 seconds. All right. Monica's coming over, I think. Is Sponge getting back together? Are we going to see a reunion tour? It would be nice. I'd like to see that. Carlo's going to go talk to Hugh.

Oh, God. Oh. Last call. Carlos is making Hughes Day here. Put up your hand now. We're forever on your piece. Hugh's thoroughly embarrassed right now. It does not know what to do.

Before I shut this down, is anyone in this room we wanted on the mic who didn't get on the mic? Last call. Morgan. Morgan's coming over. Do you want to finish us off by saying goodbye? Because your friends were supposed to come on the mic, and I see they're not here. They're gone. Thanks, Mike.

Thanks, Elvis. You guys are awesome. Thank you, Lucas. Thank you for our hour. Thank you, Lucas. Yeah, we're wrapping up right now. Thank you to Hamilton, Mike. Thanks, Lucas.

You sure, Y, Y, Y, Z, Gourd, because I made some, uh... You want to come on? Okay, do a two minute, Brian Gersstein, but go that way because there's cables here. Go that way. This is it. Final stretch here. Brian Gerstein. By the way.

Here's a fun fact. Mike Stafford wrote me yesterday to say, I will be at TMLX 21. Oh, yeah. He said he was going to be here. It's the second TMLX in a row. He wrote me to say, I will be there, and he didn't show up at. He's with Rob Butler as well. I pulled a clip of Joe Warmington on one of the last shows from John Oakley on 640, in which they talked about Stafford. I pulled that clip. I took the time. I pulled it. I was going to play it for Stafford and get his reaction. No Stafford. I heard that show was so good that this is the only remaining recording of that show left. That's actually true.

So, hello to Y Y Y, Y, Z, Gord. Thanks for being here, buddy. Thank you. I had to come up to get you to pronounce it correctly another time. I was always pronouncing it correctly. Come on, I'm always saying Y, Y, Y, Z, Gord. But thank you for being here. Tom is here as well?

He is not. Why is Tom not here? He was so offended by episode 1800s that he's not listening to any more episodes. And I see J-Hol in the wings here. I made a crack that Sir Henry Pellett, who built Casilloma, I made a crack that he had as much money as Y, Y, Y, Z, Gord. Like, he had, fuck you money. Then I said, he could afford multiple tombs.

Yeah, that was where the problem started. Wow. But you're joking, right? He's not really mad at me. No, but he doesn't normally. listen to the podcast and we happen to be vacationing in Argentina which maybe was a bit on point for your comment but you travel the world like you're always somewhere exotic and and I think of you as a rich man I'm a comfortable person who puts all of his money to travel okay we got to talk after you can

sponsor Toronto Mike but here I want to say a man who did one sponsor Toronto Mike Brian Gerstein property in the 6.com Brian how are those new hips doing they're doing fantastic thanks for asking Mike are able to tie my shoot leases for the first time. Did you meet it? I mean, you met him before. Oh, yeah. You got a round of applause for that.

Look at that. Okay. In a long time. Did you buy a copy of Hebsy's book? Absolutely. Did he sign it for you? He did. Did he get a selfie?

He did not. Actually, that's when we got... Well, you got to pay $20 to that. That's for me, though. I take that guy. So I'm glad we're ending this way. A couple of guys who have been parts of the community for a very long time. Love this man.

And I'm so glad you stopped dyeing your hair. It looks better this way. I agree. Okay, see? I know hair. Shout out to Larissa, who's at D-squared salon, Young and Eglinton. Okay. I like it when we shout out our hairstylist.

Okay. And on our way out, Y, Y, Y, Z, Gord, you and Tom are welcome at every TMLX event. And often I'll ask you, are you traveling this day? Like, I'll clear it with you first. We appreciate that. Because you're traveling a lot. You did reschedule a few for us, and that's great. So let the record show.

I also rescheduled a recent TMLX event for Alan, who I'll just call Hey Ref. Are you here, Hare, yes, there he is, okay. I recently rescheduled. It was landing on a Jewish holiday, and I moved it. Good, good. That's the kind of guy I am. Good, good.

Thanks for being here, brother. Shalom. I knew you before the podcast. You did. Give it up to Elvis. Thank you, everybody, for coming to see you. There's no giving it up to Elvis. Stop.

Give it up to Elvis, everybody. We all love Elvis. TMLX21, big success. Dude, this is amazing. But enough about carbon. I'm going to remember this for at least two hours. Thank you, everybody, for coming. I'm going to make sure I recorded this,

and then I'm going to give you selfies for $15. $15 selfies on sale for the next hour. Thanks for being here. And that brings us to the air. end of our 1,809th show. Go to tronomomike.com for all your Toronto mic needs. Much love to all who made this possible.

That's retro festive. Thanks again to tie the Christmas guy who gave us all gifts. Great Lakes Brewery, we've got like four or five cases on our way here. Delicious fresh craft beer. I had a couple here. Palma pasta, thanks for hosting. Thanks for feeding us. Nikaitis, kinling.ca.

Recycle My Electronics.C.A. Blue Sky Agency and Ridley Funeral Home. See you all. Monday. I'm going to be the one of the I'm going to

I'm going to I'm going Thank you. Okay, we're here to, for Morgan to say the final words on TMLX-21, right on that microphone. Just thank everybody for coming and say, see you next time. Come right now. Thank you for coming. See you next time.