Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Toronto Mike'd #10

Episode Date: October 29, 2012

This is the miracle show that never should have been, but there's a Toronto Mike wedding update and talk of City-TV when it was cool.

hey rosie hey mike Welcome to episode 10. 10. Number 10 is for Pat Borders, World Series MVP. That is right over my head. Feel free to share your Pat Borders memories. You should have many of them. I feel bad I don't like baseball more because that's such a you could probably have a lot of great chatter about it but but you know you're

i gotta say this you know you're uh that boyfriend in high school you alluded to last episode uh who played for the michael power trojans yep he was drafted was he not he was drafted by the kansas city royals when we were in grade 13 and he's, that's why you don't like baseball. Well, that's why, because I then spent the next two years in all sorts of small, tiny towns all over America watching a lot of, is it AAA? No. Well, he didn't get that high. Is he single A, double A?

Double A. That's a pretty good level of baseball. It was first a lot of A, and then some double A, and then it was long and boring. And now you don't like baseball. And then he was released. And that was really actually quite crushing for him when he was released. It was actually tough because he was drafted in grade 13.

So we had a choice to whether to go play for the Kansas City Royals or to take a scholarship to an American university. And he decided to go play because he really wasn't much for school and he was passionate about baseball. He wasn't very smart. Is that fair to say? No, he wasn't smart. He just wasn't scholarly. You know, he wasn't really into school per se. So this opportunity presented itself. And I think that it would have served him better to have taken the scholarship and gone to school because after he was released, it was like, bye, thanks. And, you know, two days later, he's back in Toronto with no, you know, education, having played for two years in minor league baseball. And you dumped him because he got cut.

Is that correct? I did eventually break up with him. Not because of that. It's just, you know, you usually don't end up with the person you're with when you're 18 years old. Some people might. Whoa, you just offended half the table. No, just kidding. We just didn't have a lot in common he didn't read really read books okay so your your ex uh made it to double a baseball and my raging storm slow pitch team we consider ourselves double a slow pitch quality and we're joined here again in episode number 10 by colleen the momfessional what's up

that's the bomb that is the bomb the bomb i'm so glad colleen stayed for the next episode she came back again and uh it's really um this is the miracle episode this is the episode that shouldn't be because our producer mike wixon, told me he couldn't stay for episode 10. You weren't taking the fucking hint, though. It was a little tough to get the hint through. It was weak. Do you let your... No, but I mean, Rosie, were you getting the hint? Like, I got... It was a weak

note. Rosie, seriously. I got off the phone, I'm like, oh, storm is brewing. Storm is brewing at home. Yeah, the hints were there. Okay, let's go. I've never taken hints very well. No. No, really? Colleen was throwing herself at me that first season.

It's true. You played and I didn't even understand what I was supposed to do. No, that didn't happen at all. Not a thing. Ever. Maybe. In your dream. Okay, but now you're recording this, so I'm breaking up.

It is recording. I am ruining your family. Is that fair to say? Oh, well, no. It'll be fine. Don't have to worry. Okay, good. I'm going to do a guest post on my blog later.

Yeah. The momfessional will help you out. What can I do to calm the mom down? Because if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. That's right. That's right. I just want to say thanks to Down Goes Brown. Down Goes Brown is not that easy to say.

Say it quickly. Go, Rosie, say it. No, because it sounds sort of dirty to me. Down Goes Brown. Down Goes Brown is not that easy to say. Say it quickly. Go, Rosie, say it. No, because it sounds sort of dirty to me. Down Goes Brown. Colleen? Down Goes Brown. I don't like it. Yeah.

I don't like it. I think it sounds better this way. Go down on brown. That's the wrong. Hey, Rickson, this isn't Turd Pants, okay? That's the wrong podcast. Oh, yeah yeah Please tune in I have to go

Okay So Down Goes Brown Is not dirty at all Not at all It is Joe Bowen made that call When there's a fight

Between I don't know There's a fight back It's Maple Leaf Hockey Sylvain Lefebvre I believe Punched out Brown from Chicago

Anyway I thought I did A pretty good impersonation out of the gate there. That was pretty good. Down Goes Brown published a book. He's a very funny blogger. If you like humor and hockey, who doesn't? You need to go to downgoesbrown.com. That's all there is left in hockey now, blogging.

Yeah, not a topic I want to cover. The lockout stuff really bores me. I think you really nailed it on your site when you wrote, what was the title of your last open mic? Five Things I Don't Care About. It wasn't an open mic. No, the open mic you did last week. Something about apathy. Oh, yeah.

Lockout apathy. Lockout apathy. I think that you really nailed it. I think that's how everyone feels. It's over. Oh, Colleen's a Habs fan. I am a Habs fan. Just like Cheryl.

Go Habs. Hi, Cheryl. Cheryl doesn't listen. Does Cheryl listen? She might. Fake Cheryl might listen. And maybe not fake Cheryl listens. But all right.

A little too inside there. You know, the thing is, there's like thousands more listening. Yeah. You know, if she's not. That's right. There's a thousand Cheryl's out there. And they're all Habs fans. They're all Habs fans. That's right. A lot of thousand Sheryls out there and they're all Habs fans.

That's a lot of Habs fans. You cannot be a Habs fan. Shout outs. I want to do the real shout outs. I want to do a shout out to Irvine who people love to hate. I think he's probably the most polarizing commenter on the site. I bet he's a buttercup in person. I don't think so.

I think he's a buttercup. Him and Argy. I bet you Argy. I bet you they're buttercups. I think Argy's a buttercup. I don't know. I don't know about Irvine. you they're Buttercups. I think Argy's a Buttercup. I don't know about Irvine. I've never met the man. How do you know he says Argy, by the way?

Because he once corrected me. It's like initials, R-G. Oh, okay. But Irvine is in Alberta, and he likes to tell us how amazing Alberta is and how much Toronto sucks. So this is to Irvine. And it's to Corey. Corey and Irvine, I think there should be some kind of pay-per-view event where we pit them against each other.

I think Corey hates Irvine the most, and Irvine hates Corey in return. And it's always entertaining in the comments. So shout-outs to Irvine and Corey. Yay! Shout-out. I didn't know if there was something we were supposed to do there. Oh, shout-out to Douglas for reminding me of my very favorite NXS song That I hadn't thought about in so long

But there was this awesome conversation going on right now Never Tear Us Apart No, Mystify But Never Tear Us Apart is better You know what, that is also Okay, I'll be the judge You say Never Tear Us Apart I need the violins

So good Anyways, Douglas reminded me of it In the conversation going on about the songs for Mike's playlist for his wedding, which I have to admit, I'm a tad concerned. A lot of them are very mid tempo. You know that there has to be dancing, right? This is not that stuff. Forget that. I'll put on 90s hip hop or something when it comes time to dance or whatever. It's just like, yeah, it's just sweet, romantic, cool tunes,

but not the cheesy ones, but the cool ones. They're cool. I'm not saying the playlist isn't cool. You're going to play the whole soundtrack from Pretty in Pink. You have to remember, you need to dance. Yeah, there's a lot of psychedelic furs on that. Oh, you like psychedelic furs.

Oh my God. It's hot. You're one of them, aren't you? I just recognized you. You're from the psychedelic furs. I am. I'm Richard Butler. Are you amazed that I know his name, actually? you? I just recognized you. You're from the Psychedelic First. I am. I'm Richard Butler. Are you amazed that I know

his name, actually? I am. That's cool. I'm just concerned. A lot of the songs are really mid... They're kind of like for awkward dancing. Do you want to know what I think I'm going with? And also depressing. They're a little mopey. There's going to be a lot of awkward dancing. I mean, how are we supposed to dance to Hallelujah? We're supposed to be...

It's a wedding. We're not supposed to be... Is your wedding going to be a black celebration? It's a black only, yeah. The one I'm loving the most right now is Band of Horses, No One's Gonna Love You. It's a great song for a wedding. That's romantic. No one's gonna love you more than I do. Oh, I see.

That's the worst thing you've ever heard. It was good. Never mind. Karaoke at your wedding by any chance. Well, Mobile Mike is going to be my DJ. All right. worst singing ever. It was good. Never mind. Karaoke at your wedding by any chance. Well, mobile mic is going to be my DJ. All right. First time ever. Colleen.

Yes. What song, what wedding song did you contribute to that wonderful discussion? I don't remember seeing your wedding. Oh, I did actually. I did actually. Well, I contributed the one that I walked down the aisle to. I missed that part. Oh, I forgot to write that

part but no i missed your wedding oh that's right he literally missed it jungle love yes i just read it yeah no it was um cold play uh what's the name of that song shiver no no uh no it was yeah fix you'd be perfect uh till Kingdom Come is the name of the song. Not Trouble. No, and then we danced back down the aisle to Harry Connick Jr.'s We Are In Love. Oh, that's good news. That was Mike's choice. That's a good tempo.

I'm just concerned the tempo of a lot of the songs are... Don't worry your pretty little head about it. I'm all over it. I'm worried. I'm surrounded by former CFNY DJs who are begging me to have a role in the music. None of them could ever put a mix together

as I recall either. It's closer by Nine Inch Nails. That's your first dance? Yeah, that's the first dance. Awkward. Okay. I noticed you had a Watchmen song on there too.

All Uncovered. Which made Scott very happy because it's his favorite band. Oh, Winnipeg Band. Oh my God. i saw them open for the hip one year and they were amazing it was outdoors at uh molson amphitheater back in the day he saw every i really really liked the watchman yeah no i was i when i told him that there was a watchman song he was pretty pretty pumped they broke up and i think they might be getting back

together i think i saw rumors of such what's that face for you don't believe me i don't want them to get together i don't want to go to a concert oh and you had a song on there that i hadn't thought about in a billion years um but i used to love it the flies got you where i want you that's the only fly song that song is so name another can anyone at this table name another fly completely one hit wonder but but great tune great tunes i was just okay i'm not gonna bring it up again but I just am a bit concerned about the tempo of the songs for the party. It's a party.

It's a wedding. It's not a wedding. It's a dark goth dance party. It's Empire Sunday nights. You want a quick update? Just today we finalized the venue. So it's like a cool art gallery in the distillery district. Oh my gosh. That's awesome. That's a great place to get married. It's just so picturesque. Do you think that's a little too cool for you? venue so it's like a cool art gallery in the distillery district oh my gosh i love it that's a great place to get married it's just so do you think that's a little too cool for

you yeah it's too cool that's why i'm gonna wear my irish sweater just so i can bring my cool little bit mr rogers sweater it's not a mr i'm so upset at that it's my uh cool what bro she told me it was cool. But now that Colleen said that. What does Colleen know? Fred Rogers. I'm sorry. I liked it. Thank you.

It made me feel comfortable like you were one of my grade four teachers. Does it have elbow patches? Hmm, I'm sad. It's your cool Kurt Cobain sweater. I like that sweater. I saw it on the couch over there. I'm going to model it for you later. It's really early. I'm going to model it for you later. It's really early.

I'm not kidding. So, okay, and also I have the food. The food is done. So I have the food done and I have the venue done. I need like a serving company, you know, the people who will like act like as waiters and serve the food and all that jazz. I need some tables. I have the chairs figured out.

What are we all chipping in here? What the hell is going on here? I've been an expert at cups. Hey, listen. I've got a suggestion. I've some tables. I have the chairs figured out. What are we all chipping in here? What the hell is going on here? I got a suggestion. I'll look it up right now. Wedding planner. That's the problem with these cool venues. The cooler the venue, the less stuff there actually is. You get the exposed red walls.

I know. That's right. I don't care. I'm doing it. Monica's doing most of it. All the parts are... I don't want a wedding planner. No interest. Sorry, sir. It's right. But that's right. But I don't care. That's okay. I'm doing it. I'm doing all the parts. Monica's doing most of it. But all the parts are, I don't want a wedding planner. No interest. Sorry, sir. I'm passing on that. Nice thing about the distillery is your pictures will be great because it's so picturesque there.

And the cobblestone. And it's lovely. It's a really nice central place to get married. It is a good place for pictures, yeah. It's good. Good. And you can still get the city in the background, which I know is probably, being that you are Toronto Mike, you want to get that. Never mind. It's good. Good. And you can still get the city in the background, which I know is, you know, probably being that you are Toronto Mike, you want to get that.

Nevermind. It's okay. Oh, by the way, if anyone wants to bake a cake, I need a cake. So I also need. Are you seriously? Is this a fucking pot luck? Hey, come on down. Pot luck.

Food? In the distillery district. By the way, bring your own booze. Oh, yeah. No, I got to get the booze, but I'm taking care of that myself. So booze. When you say taking care of that, you mean, oh, by the way, if your own booze. Oh, yeah. No, I got to get the booze, but I'm taking care of that myself. So booze is done. When you say taking care of that, do you mean, oh, by the way, if Steam Whistle's listening? No, actually, Steam Whistle, good people.

But no, nothing so far is a freebie of any kind. All we're serving is five-hour energy drink. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. No, there's nothing free. It's all, yeah, but it's going to be great. And that was my update. I needed to do a mental list. Is it going to be a cash bar? No, I don't like. It's all, yeah, but it's going to be great. And that was my update.

I needed to do a mental list. Is it a cash bar? Is it going to be a cash bar? No, I don't like cash bar. I don't believe in cash bars. That's cheap. That is cheap. I'm not a fan. That was a test.

That was a test. No, but it will be all like Diet Cola, but not the Coca-Cola, but the no-name brand. Oh, yeah. Life Cola. No one has to know that, Mike. No one knows. Caught. It's all caught.

Mastercraft cola. They still make that stuff? Caught cola? Faygo. Faygo. That's for Wix. Only he knows what that means. We're serving purple drink.

Purple Faygo. Like that orange drink that we used to get when you were kids from McDonald's. Oh, yeah. So good. They don't have it anymore. They don't have it anymore. They also don't have the green shamrock shake. That's not true.

They have it here, too. Do they? Yeah, they brought it back. Oh, I must have missed it. I covered this extensively at TorontoMike.com. The shamrock shakes came back. What happened to the Hamburglar? Did he go to jail?

Guys, before it's old, I got to point out that when I went to school we had hot dog day and it was a big deal yeah really big fucking deal oh god yeah my kids have pizza day the hot dog day is gone it's pizza day now

what happened did the hot dog like the hot dog lobby board needs to get involved yeah the problem is I think hot dogs have just they're not

they've gone out of their mystery what if it's all B I think I'm sure they're fine nothing's better than a good hot dog i had a hot dog for lunch i swear to god i love hot dogs i don't eat them anymore because i'm such a trim uh fit specimen now it cannot be good for you yeah but

i used to the i don't care what part of the cow it is i have a problem with pizza day though like tell me this year my son he he switched schools and they the pizza day was like crazy expensive and then they tell me how much i don't even remember it's only every other week and we only My son, he switched schools and the pizza day was like crazy expensive. And then they said. Tell me how much. I don't even remember. It's only every other week. And we only paid for like five weeks or something like that. We only paid till the end of the year.

It was like 40 bucks. But for five meals? No, every other week, though, for like six weeks. So it's really only three weeks. So three meals for 40 bucks? What is it? It's Little Caesars. You get the champagne's allowed?

No, it's Little Caesars. And they said you get a jumbo cookie. You don't get a jumbo cookie. You get this little teeny tiny bag of cookies. This is outrageous. That's outrageous. So mean. Oh my God.

You know what? Kids are so expensive. I was just going to say, it's crazy expensive to have a kid. My kids go to private school. My daughter comes home the other day and she says, I have to buy this, this, this, and this for a project. I'm like, for real? Like they don't give you the project pieces?

Like I thought thought what are we paying for here it's ridiculous yeah I think when we were little we used I feel like we used to get like books booklets and paper and stuff and now they don't they don't seem to get anything they have to buy their textbooks at private school my daughter my daughter went to public school my other daughter goes to public school the Why does one go to public and one goes to private? We've got a good girl and a naughty girl. How does that work? You have a favorite.

No, one of them chose this year not to go to public. I'll tell you, just a couple days before school, my wife called me and said, there's something wrong with Emma. I said, what? She said, I don't know, but she won't stop crying. She can't stop throwing up. So I said, do you mind if I talk to her? She goes, this is not a good idea, which probably it wasn't. But I said to her, why don't you want to go to that school? And she stop crying. She can't stop throwing up. And so I said, do you mind if I talk to her? And she goes, this is not a good idea.

Which probably it wasn't. But I said to her, why don't you want to go to that school? And she started crying. And she goes, how did you know that? And I was like, I don't know. I remember that feeling just a couple days before school. And she didn't want to go back to private school. She wanted to go to public school.

I don't care. Where are you going to learn? Oh, for sure. So off she went. But the other one stayed behind in private school. She likes it? Yeah, she likes it there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do they have pizza day there?

Yeah, it's $18 a slice. Do you want a bottle of water with that? It's ridiculous. Pay more, go less school. Wow. Tough life Mike Wixon leads of his poor children at private school. They're all getting spanked tonight. Let's remember.

Corporal punishment. There's some disciplining going on. Yes. What's it called? Red butt? What's the term? Hot bum. Hot bum, not red butt.

There's going to be hot bums. That's Rosie's new name for you, Mike. Did you know that? Hot bum. I just couldn't believe it. You're going to get a hot bum for spanking. Wow. Someone going to get a hot bum.

Hey, Colleen, where did you grow up? It wasn't Toronto. No, I grew up in uh in the states i grew up just outside of albany new york albany is the capital of new york it is the capital of new york i knew that from w5h it's pretty uh there's probably more crime in albany than there is in all of toronto so wow it's pretty sad. You were the captain? I was the captain. That's not a joke. We used to tour of the W5H team.

Yeah. The St. Pius Panthers. St. Pius X. Wow. I gotta remember he's the 10th. Panthers and Trojans. And so,

Colleen, sorry, so for everyone else, though, we, and maybe you remember too, when did you move to Toronto,

Colleen? I moved to Toronto in 2004. That's recent. Yeah, not Colleen? I moved to Toronto in 2004. That's recent. Yeah, not too long ago. I was living in Montreal. You might not have much to say on this quick topic, but everyone else here is homegrown here.

So City TV, it's everywhere. It's also 40 years old. So they just had like a 40th birthday. Now, one thing that really bugged me is they were doing the best of city tv everywhere they put together these clips and they completely airbrushed ann roszkowski if i'm saying her name correctly they airbrushed her out of the history of city tv so i guess they fired her as i recall she got fired of laura de patista when you say the airbrush you mean they just like lost over

yeah like gordon's talking to like did peter gross come up peter gross i don't think so actually no because he's on rogers yeah i just never mind doesn't matter well yeah they basically were selective on what they remember but ann roszkowski the gourd was all over the place of course and ann was like she didn't exist i as i recall she hosted that show for like 25 years right anyway that Anyway, I digress. My point is I want to point out that when City TV was a Moses Namier... Is that how you say it? Say it again. Perlator.

Perlator. I still think it's Perlator. Say Moses Z. Moses Z. Zed. Moses Z. Do you mind if I call him Moses? Znamier.

Mo, call him Mo. Who the hell cares? He's not listening, I guarantee. So when Moses was the guy at City TV, and it was his vision, it was kind of a cool, different vibe over there. I grew up with a lot of City TV stuff, and it just seemed to have a bit of character.

Yeah. And then once, and I'm going to make my point, then go back and give some instances, and then, Rose, you can let out that. I see you've got some hot air that wants to escape. Rose, are you upset? I'm quiet. I'm playing on.

I'm breathing. No, not yet, Wicks. Sorry. Hold that thought. So Moses, you know, Rogers, at some point Rogers got control of City TV. And slowly but surely, all this cool Moses stuff left at the scene. So Speaker's corner was canceled. Uh,

you got like, Ed, the sock was gone and his fromage and Silverman helps watch it, buddy. He was out. I forgot about that. All that stuff had to go. Honestly,

the new music. Yeah. Bye. Uh, we had much music. We mentioned Ann Roszkowski, Jim McKinney she had to go amber mac you know ziggy all good decisions ziggy it sounds like a better honestly i would have

everything that you're saying you're wrong okay well me and rosie can have a quick chat so rosie the uh character and the awesomeness of ctv in my opinion was it's completely sanitized now it's just another ctv like station It's just glossy and boring. What do you think of what happened to City TV when Rogers took over? Well, I just think that, for me, I remember... Electric Circus. I remember Electric Circus. And I feel that Monica...

Remember Monica... Monica D'Olo. Loved her. When I was little, I used to watch Electric Circus. I loved her. I wanted to be her. I thought she had just... She just, she just to me like epitomized just you know like toronto cool it was when you watched electric circus you felt like it was the

center of the the universe and you know people people people love that and there was just like this energy to it and like and you were on it every saturday Well, I had been, but I just felt that she was awesome, right? And I can't really picture anything like that anymore. Well, Electric Circus is not a great example of its awesomeness. I'm really sorry I interrupted your conversation with Rosie there. But I'm not a fan of City TV. I'm sorry. I don't like what Rogers

has done to City TV but happy birthday nonetheless bring back Jim McKinney also I've been on City TV just to add to my highlights no I was on Breakfast Television

you too you and Anne huh that's amazing so but we gotta go because Wixson's gotta see you guys

thanks for being with us Colleen it's been so much fun you're welcome awesome thanks for listening everybody bye You got to go because Wixson's got to jet. Thanks for being with us, Colleen. It's been so much fun. You're welcome. Awesome. Thanks for listening, everybody. Bye.