Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Toronto Mike'd #19

Episode Date: December 12, 2012

Monkeys, prank calls, Bookie, coffee, the Christmas goose and the rarest of Hallelujahs

What up, Rosie? Hello, my friend! How's it going today? It's going great, how are you? Good. Blind Dave will be happy. I'm keeping the start starting song really short. Otherwise, he's got to keep it low,

volume low. Yeah, he's already visually impaired. We don't want to be hearing impaired as well. I feel like I'm going to be hearing impaired after this hour. That's some really loud audio in my ears. I think, I do believe Humble and Fred, because this is the Humble and Fred radio network, I do believe that they have hearing difficulties. Okay. Well, you know what? I'm already getting used to it. This is the Humble and Friend Radio Network. My goodness.

I have contractually obligated to play that stinger once an episode. I think I forgot last week. Very official. I like it. Yep. Dan Duran. I'm following on Twitter somebody Dan Duran's wang or Dan Duran's dick or Dan's dick says or something. Of course. Oh, I think I'm following that too.

I don't know who's behind it. And it's actually a little penis. Yeah. A little picture of a penis. It's a picture of a penis. And I don't know who's behind that, but it's kind of a funny novelty account. NHL Podium was the novelty account that made me laugh last week it was so funny it just made me i didn't bite like i didn't even care to be interested for one second

sorry i didn't mean to bring up the nhl situation speaking of the nhl uh let's talk about number 19 because this is episode 19 and i want to just quickly talk about tom fergus okay so in the late 80s we traded builder lego to boston for tom fergus and i always liked fergus we didn't have much going on it was a bad team but fergus was a kind of a fun player to watch and he was could score goals but he had this a mysterious virus and i remember he missed a big chunk of one season and then a big chunk of the... He missed the playoffs and he was out for a long time with this mysterious virus.

Interesting. I know. I have to tell you, the number of the podcast, it's a big discussion in my house. Scott last night was like, podcast number 19. Who did he guess?

Bill DeLego. He what? He was like, oh my God. He was like, what podcast are you doing tomorrow, 19? He's like, oh, it's obvious. It's obvious to me. Builder Lego. No, Tom Fergus.

Yeah. I think it was 89, 88, 89 season. Some season he started gangbusters. Like the first few games he had like, I don't know, 11 points or something. He was on fire. And yeah, this virus hit. And I don't know, 11 points or something. He was on fire. And yeah, this virus hit. And I don't know what the virus was. They never told us.

But I remember at the time they called it this mysterious virus. And my brothers and I found it so strange and mysterious, this virus. He was on some island recovering from the virus. That's very odd. He's still with us. Like this virus didn't take his life or anything. I wonder if it was mono or something like that. That could take you out for a really long it's gotta be a mono thing and you know then we were like maybe it's the hiv like what's this mysterious immunity deficiency

but it's clearly well i mean although you know there's there's people with hiv that you know now with the medication like magic john exactly it's like It's incredible to me, you know, how well he looks when you see him. He looks so well. He's doing great. It's amazing what all the modern medicine can do. And a shout out.

So let's get this done. There's two shout outs today. This, the handle of this commenter is AnonAnon, which is harder to say. It looks cool. AnonAnon is a cool handle.

It's clever. Very clever. Because by default, if you leave the name field blank when you leave a comment, it's going to show up as anonymous. That's a default setting. But he put a nice little spin on it,

AnonAnon. And a shout out to Dueno. Dueno, he has revealed, was at the Humble and Fred party that we went to and he did not say hi. And that left me thinking maybe we're more intimidating than we think we are. I highly doubt that. I wish he'd said hi.

I wonder if there's a picture, if I took a picture of him because I realize in the pictures I took that night, some of our gang is, I have Rick C in the pictures and there was a couple of others I wonder if he's in in in the pictures you have bingo Bob in the picture I don't know I can't I'm not sure we have to look at them beside me between us remember we had Bob Willett was between Bob and I have an ongoing gag we're like we're mirror we have the same interests and passions the same life we're the same age and he's the east of young version of me that's hilarious so my life was west of young and his was east of young and he's uncomfortable when he goes west of young and i'm uncomfortable when i go east of young and yeah we always joke we always talk

about that's that's funny it's like seinfeld the bizarro bizarro bike um well dueno he's was the first person to enter my second contest i'm so excited rosie hold on hold hold on so you gave away the liter of milk this liter of milk that does not need to be refrigerated has gone to uh how many entries did you have? Okay, so my very first contest, I had 11 entries. Is there any family members in there? There was one family member in there. But I think overall, 50% of my entries were from the Toronto Mike family.

So guys, for my second contest, your odds are very good so you really should you really should enter and lauren was the grand prize winner of the shelf safe milk which he will be around he's the one who gives the best critiques yeah he's awesome he would he totally won that he would totally won the milk so that's getting shipped shipped off to him i sent uh sent his and you can ship it because it does not need to be refrigerated. It does not. No, so the milk, and then Scholastic Canada contacted me. Okay, so this is

the second contest. I have another contest. So they contacted you and they're like, we saw the success of the milk giveaway. They were like, we want in on that.

We want in on My Toronto Scoop franchise. Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's very cool. What is it, books? It's two books. The first one is a Star Wars pop-up

galactic adventure book i love star i know it's actually an amazing book and it's by matthew matthew reinhardt and he's they call him the paper engineer he's just masterful at um pop-ups it's absolutely gorgeous it comes with a working lightsaber i know hello amazing and then the second book is um 30 folded flyers so you make paper airplanes out of the paper and the instructions are there. And Scott made one and it was, oh my God, it was hilarious. Even Scott was able to follow these instructions. This book is Scott-proof. Well, you know what? It wasn't quick. It took a while and you need sketch tape. All right. So the listeners to Toronto Mic'd can go to My Toronto Scoop and enter this Star Wars book contest. And there's a real lightsaber.

Yes, it's cool. Very cool. Your odds are good. Have you noticed the Toronto Mic'd female listeners don't go over to your site? I don't know. This ties into an entry I wrote today. Did you see the love letter I wrote to you on torontomike.com? It was so sweet. I completely forgot that you made me pick your classes one year. Completely forgot.

That was such a, oh, so annoying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I remember parts of it, but I remember I didn't take university very seriously. Like I never took school

seriously at all. I just needed a piece of paper from U of T and I got, I don't know, what was that, first year? I think that was our second year. I just needed a piece of paper from U of T and I got, I don't know, what was that first year? I think that was our second year. Yeah. I guess second year. I just handed you, yeah,

I handed you my, my life basically. And I said, book, book my classes. I didn't care what you picked. I know. And because it was your life and I did care, I actually took a really, I labored over that because it's not like Mike was just you didn't care but at the same time you were like well you know I play softball this night and I work like you gave me actually quite a complicated schedule I wanted to get some days off and I don't want to I want to sleep in he didn't he didn't make it that easy easy for me it actually took me a really long time and then because I did care I was labor I labored over it more I'm like okay so he needs this

you know he's going to do this as a major and blah blah blah that's why you ended up with that we ended up in that awful Chaucer class because we needed it it was either that or um um the drop I trust you I mean you did what you had to do but I needed this Chaucer you needed it unfortunately I think I think we talked about this at a previous podcast, but that book, the Riverside Chaucer was a, it was super expensive. So expensive. All the books were though. Everything was expensive.

B, it was super heavy. Cause I had my canvas green knapsack, which I still use by the way. It's still my, it's the only knapsack I've owned since I was like 15 or something. Because you bike so much. So you're lugging that book around in your mind.

Yeah. I bike to school and I had this huge nap thing and see, this is the sad part, I think I brought it to impress the teachers so the teachers saw I had this big

Riverside Chaucer on my desk. I don't remember using it. Like, I don't have any memories of actually reading this textbook. No, we were meant to. I think we were meant, we read the, you know,

the Canterbury Tales, obviously, and it was just, it was the old English. It was so, oh my gosh, it was so hard. I mean, it was pretty like, there was a lot of good sex in there and stuff, but it was like an old English.

But it's old English sex, so. Yeah, so thank you for that. And do you remember giving me the bed I slept in at the time? Of course I remember that. My mom bought, we bought my brother his new bed, and I'm so glad you still use it because it was a solid. Well, James uses it. It's a solid wood bed.

I got her a single bed. I'm a queen now. I'll never forget you and your brothers showing up to haul it away. You guys were so cute. Oh, my God. And Joe Sini's station wagon. Oh, that's so funny. Oh, my gosh.

He was in a station wagon because we could fit it in a station wagon. Yeah, I remember doing that. Yeah, we have lots of, it's funny because when I think of grade 10, you know, it's funny because Mike says he doesn't care about school, but Mike was a very, very, very good student. I'm editing this part out, Rose. No, I'm telling everybody. He was actually quite, one of the reasons why I decided to keep him

as a friend was when we were when we met in in grade 10 we had to write essays and I believe it was something to do with Romeo and Juliet and you don't know the story I'm gonna tell I could tell by your face you don't know what I'm gonna say no I'm scared keep going I'm glad I control the editing process so you know this is really early we're really young like what we're like 15 years old we're writing these essays and I was you know really you know I spent a lot of time writing my essays. I typed them so perfectly. And I showed up and I have it in a duo tang.

And Mike shows up, you know, with his bat, with his knapsack. And he's coming from his bicycle and he's clutching his essay in his hand. And it's all sort of kind of, it's a little sweaty. It's a bit mangled. It's not, it doesn't, not it doesn't it doesn't it doesn't look pretty and i think you had a staple together anyways i sort of i think you saw me looking at it like oh my gosh how can you hand that in um but the worst part was there was a giant purple kool-aid i think it was popsicle maybe no it was kool-aid i remember this very

clearly and i looked at you and i said there's a kool-aid i'm like well there's a stain on your and you're like yeah it's kool-aid and i'm like you didn't print it out again you're just gonna hand it in like that you're like yep and he did and i never forgot that because we got those essays back and i got an a minus and he got an a plus and i thought to me it's always been a symbol over my life. Oh, that says it all, doesn't it? I'm serious. It's always been a symbol of... Substance over style.

Thank you. That's me. Thank you. And it's, I always think about that purple stained Kool-Aid essay, Romeo and Juliet. What was this class?

I got an A plus in. It was the English class, Mr. Doherty's. Oh, I was smart in grade 11. Yeah, you were smart. And he always did really, really well. And I'll tell you something else you might not appreciate me sharing,'s. Oh, I was smart in grade 11. Yeah, you were smart. And he always did really, really well. And I'll tell you something else. You might not appreciate me sharing, but he never, ever skipped a class in university.

Ever. You never did. You never skipped one. No, that's true. I did. I'm like a responsible guy. I still can't phone in sick unless I'm sick. Really?

I just can't do it. And I never have. I've never actually ever phoned in sick when I wasn't sick. It's like Scott. He's the same? Like I just can't do it. And I never have. I've never actually ever like say phoned in sick when I wasn't sick. It's like Scott. He's the same way too. He won't do it. Yeah. It's like a switch or something.

I don't know how to override it. You wouldn't, you just wouldn't feel good, good about doing it. No, Scott is the same. It's just I can't, I don't know why. I can't say I'm sick if I'm not sick and I'm pretty healthy guy. It takes a lot to knock me down so I've never I've gone years I worked the job for seven years I never took a sick day once in that seven years I used to have my god I used to schedule people where they use their sick days as

vacation days I'd be able to some people were so I mean we won't get into talking about you know sick days and entitlements and all that but um i would know when somebody was going to call in sick based on when they were using up their when their vacation days were going to expire i i knew it was coming because they were going to lose them and sure enough i'm sick and i like it made me lots of people like that rose oh it just made me they don't make them like me anymore so rosie i started started by talking about the entry I wrote about you with the pictures of you. And the first comment, almost right away, somebody commented. I don't have it in front of me, but I think it was, I'd let her touch it.

It was Jamie. His name is Jamie. I'm assuming that the dude, I don't know, maybe it's better to think of it as a chick. His heart. He didn't mean his whistle. Well, yeah, that's right. He did follow it up later and said he was talking about his heart not his whistle but um then somebody was upset at his rudeness towards you it might have been heads up uh who felt that he was uh being disrespectful to a lady and that's cool and all so the question

to you is were you offended by the comment i really i really wasn't but i must say i wasn't offended by the the the comment but i must say it was i thought it was really sweet all the the lovely defense but you have pretty thick skin like you were on tv and you told me once that you had a promo shot that showed a bit of cleavage and you had complaints from across can Canada about the cleavage. One of the funniest things when I first started on air, you so want to do a good job and you're so focused on, at least I was, on the content. And yes, you have to look nice. Obviously, that's important.

They don't really put ugly people on TV, especially, you know, doing weather. There has to be an element of looking nice. But I was so focused because, you know, Canadians take their weather seriously. Canadians take their geography seriously. With the Weather Network, it isn't just weather. You have to really know your geography. So my head was just so full of information. And I had on this suit and it was a little busty.

Are we allowed to say that you're a well-endowed woman sure you can say that right of course and um this was a busty it was a busty top and one of the viewer comments came in from a woman in saskatchewan and she said you know she's she seems like a very lovely capable girl but i feel like she's showing too much um cleavage to be delivering public information and they you know all the producers and directors they just my boss they thought it was the most hilarious thing ever they died they died and they actually took a screen grab of me in that suit and hung it so they'd be like public information rosie keep it uh pull the shirt up but you know secretly so you can handle a little uh you know vava voom call like cat calls

from the construction workers or whatnot. Absolutely. Hey, you know what? Someday I'll be 80 and, you know, I won't. And you're going to look back fondly at the comments when that guy. Absolutely. Steve, except he spelled Steve with a three instead of an E, which I think is very clever.

Called it a hot piece of ass or something. So hilarious. But I must say, I appreciate all the defense because I think Mrs. Augerfeld is so sweet fell so sweet he wrote hey she's someone's mom and i'm like thanks mississauga so so so very nice oh your gang is great they're also they're also lovely one ball one strike to brown the pitch is swing and a fly ball right field junior felix is there he's done it he's done it dave steve has his no hitter dave steve has his no hitter finally he has done it here in cleveland he is being mobbed by his teammates dave steve has pitched the first no-hitter in Blue Jays history.

Rose. Whoa. That's Tom Cheek calling the first and only no-hitter in Blue Jay history, Dave Steeb. Tom Cheek won the 2012 Ford C. Frick Award, which is kind of funny. It puts you in Cooperstown. You're not in the Hall of Fame, but you have a plaque in the Hall of Fame. It's like the highest achievement for broadcasters. So he posthumously won this award. And I just want to say that it's well-deserved.

I mean, I'm super biased on this one because every summer, him and Jerry Howarth called my summers. summer that him and uh jerry howarth called my summers and um i don't know it was a bit emotional for me because uh i loved baseball and i loved it on the radio and i would listen at night before i fell asleep every single there was a game every night that's what i loved about baseball and tom and jerry called it on cjcl which is now the fan and uh i almost want you to play that sounded so you know when something just sounds right i want you to play it. That sounded so... You know when something just sounds right? I almost want you to play it again.

It just sounds so good. Because I was working at the X. I was managing a game booth at the C&E the day that call was made. I missed that freaking call. That's a shame. And I missed this call from Tom Cheek because I was watching the game on TV.

But you might remember this moment. Joe has had his moments. Trying to lay off that ball low to the outside part of the plate, and he just went after one. Two balls and two strikes on it. Here's the pitch on the way, a swing and a belt! Left field! Way back! Blue Jays win it! The Blue Jays are World Series Touch them all, Rose. Try not to bang the table. Oh my God, that's amazing. That's the Magnus Opus. If Tom Cheek has a Magnus Opus, that's amazing that's the magnus opus if tom cheek has a magnus opus that's it no one heard that freaking call i'm telling you no one heard it live because if you were a fan

you were in front of the tv and that's a good point you know we didn't hear that call i'm telling you it's the most famous blue j call nobody heard. But holy smokes. I don't know what to say except that moment, my brothers and I had a pile on after that moment. And that was 93. And there hasn't been a Toronto sports moment to come close since. And it's almost like that. Not even close.

It's like not even like. That's almost 20 years ago. The bar is so high because of that moment that I don't know how we can get there again like i don't i think we're gonna die we're gonna die of old age saying that that was it when how old were we in 93 19 right we were in grade 13 it all peaked at 19 so that's so bleak oh it's so depressing blame joe blame joe but anyway this tom sheik good congrats, Tom Cheek. I got a very, very nice email from, I think it was a nephew or something, who said, don't post this on your blog.

But he wanted to say, apparently when you Google Tom Cheek calls and stuff, I'm highly ranked. And the family was listening. I have a bunch of Tom Cheek calls on my site, like the no-hitter and the first AL East title in 85 and, in 85 and the first World Series and different calls. And they were just telling me a story about how amazing Tom Cheek was as a person. Oh, and they probably appreciate the way you have it organized on your site

so they probably can easily access it. Click and play? Yeah, it's very simple. All respectful. I had nothing but mass respect for Tom Cheek. So I'm just glad he's won this award. And what a voice. Great voice.

Just great delivery. He didn't have a... Jerry Howarth had the more gimmicky stuff. I remember hooking, hooking, hooking, and all that. And there she goes. And some people like that. I mean, that's... Oh, sure.

It's attention-grabbing, but... But Tom didn't need any of that. He didn't have that. It was just straight-up calls of what he saw, and it was just amazing. What a nice to get a note from his nephew. That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's really nice.

Speaking of old radio, I used to listen to a program on Chum FM on Sunday nights called the Sunday Funnies. And when I listened to it, Rick Hodge, I got a huge, long, wonderful, all these Rick Hodge stories, but that's another episode. Take a note for me to tell Rick Hodge stories another episode. But Rick Hodge hosted Sunday Night Funnies and Jay Hickey, who was Googling Sunday Funnies, found my site. And he wrote me a note to say, hey, I used to love the Christmas specials that they used to air on the sunday

funnies he goes i found a cassette deck i recorded the 86 the 1986 sunday funnies christmas episode when he was 11 years old and he converted it to mp3 and then he got he sent me the mp3 files and i said okay and i put them on my server, the Core Fusion server. And I shared them like last week. The entire 1986 Sunday Funnies Christmas episode, which has all these great comedic bits, Bob and Doug's 12 Days of Christmas and all this. So it's just funny Christmas material. But it's just interesting to hear some ads and news updates slipped in.

His recording. He told me he was trying to edit out ads and news updates slipped in his recording. He told me he was trying to edit out all the ads and stuff in the news. And he says he wouldn't, in hindsight, the best parts are the ads. Absolutely. Because they're so dated. We all try to get rid of the ads and that's all we want now is the ads and the news updates. That's really interesting. And even hearing the news, I mean, you forget about things.

Then you hear, to hear them again, I could see how that would be. Mayor Art Eggleton has declared, you know, all that kind of stuff, you know. That's really cool. You have those all on your site as well. You just click, click right on them and play. You got it, Rosie. That's good. That's so good. So he's now a workshop furniture guy. I think he remakes furniture in his workshop. And on my site, I have the link. I don't have it in front of me, but he's... So that's what Jay Hickey does. Not Rick Hodge, who's on the air, like Easy Rock Niagara or something. So he's a furniture

maker. That's really cool. So there you go. If you want to hear the 1986 Sunday Funnies Christmas episode, it's on torontomike.com. Love it. That's great. It was nice. The tidbits you put on your site about the fairy tale of New York.

Oh, yeah. My favorite Christmas song. That was really enjoyable. We were chatting about it last episode and then you asked me my favorite and I said, yeah, fairy tale of New York. And then Alan Cross, because there's something kind of neat going on

with Alan Cross and... This is the Humble and Fred Radio Network. So we're working on adding him to the network. Wow. Yeah. And I'm a big Alan Cross fan. That's exciting. So we'll, I'm going to be the, I'm going to work with Alan Cross on that potentially on this network.

And that would be cool. So we're working on that uh but he linked to a new music express article that i was i thought was really cool about that song oh that was it was so great the um mike just listed some some really neat facts about that song and um that i didn't realize chrissy hind was one of the ones considered to sing it. I mean, I love her. Just neat little tidbits, but I can't imagine anyone else singing. She would have been good too, probably.

But yeah. Her voice is gorgeous. It was just nice to be able to click it and play. I like that how you set that all up on your set. You can make it so easy just to listen to things. It's good. Thank you, Rosie. I like how Shane McGowan was born on Christmas Day.

I know. You know what's a really popular Christmas song with old people? Remember this from their youth? Okay, I'm not going to play this entire thing here. It's a little tiny bit dated maybe. But we'll let it start up and then we'll talk about it. Honky, hon honky the Christmas goose Got so fat that he was no use

Till he learned how to blow his nose Honk the way a goose nose blows So I'll bring it down a bit just to tell you that This is Johnny Bauer The China Wall, do you know who that is? Bring it down a bit just to tell you that this is Johnny Bauer. All right. The China Wall. Do you know who that is? No.

Actually, I don't. And I'm not familiar with this song. Rosie. I know. I don't know how old Johnny Bauer is today, but I'm going to guess he's like 88 years old. Okay. He's an old goalie. He's a former Maple Leaf goalie. And the last time he won the Stanley Cup, he was,

I think he and Turk Broda used to platoon in net, but Johnny Bauer was in net, I think in 67 when we last met. Oh, so he was, you know what? What? That does sound familiar. Okay.

Well, anyways, ask your like, you know, ask people who know who are older than you about their former Leaf goalies and they all love Johnny Bauer. He's a real great guy

and he's, like I said, he's still with us. And he's like 88 years old. But he recorded that song with Little John and the Rinky Dinks. Wait a second. That was him singing it? Yeah.

Oh, my gosh. Johnny Bauer performed that song with Little John and the Rinky Dinks. That song was called Honky the Christmas Goose. And they released it in 1965. And it got lots of airplay. So basically, you'd hear it on like 1050 Chum and all this stuff back in 65. So it was, you know, a big hit in Toronto in the Christmas season in 1965. So he went to Stanley Cup and then he recorded a Christmas song.

Correct, Rose. So interesting. The old days were so interesting. It would be like, you know, remember when the Leafs are the best? Better than all the rest. That's good. It's good. Sounds good.

Mike's cell phone is drinking. I'm turning it off, folks. My Android device. So, yeah. So that was like number 29 on the Canadian music charts back in 1965. He has a nice voice. I can play more later. He sounds adorable.

You know what? My point of all this is to say today I shared the MP3 on torontomic.com so you can pull that down today. Look at all this free audio that you can find on torontomic.com. I know, all this great, all these songs,

they put me in the Christmas spirit. Well, I'm trying to post things that you can't get anywhere. That's why that version from 60 Degrees of Sunset Strippers, is that the show, rightrees of Sunset Strippers. Is that the show, right? Six Sunset Strippers. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

Yeah, the Tipitino's Foundations that I shared last week. And then this one, Johnny Bauer's Honky the Christmas Goose. Although there's one that you'd like to share, but you can't find it. But we're not there yet. Hold on. Who's calling me? You know, Mike, one hour a week. Holy smokes.

When they call twice, it means like somebody's dead. It's an emergency. It's an emergency. So if it breaks a third time, I'm answering. All right. Very good. And so, Bookie. Dave Bookman.

My goodness. So Dave Bookman, any torontonian likely knows this but he's been on uh 102.1 for 21 years and he's been the last couple years he's been uh late nights uh he used to do the afternoon show and then they brought in Fearless Fred Martin Streak Barry Taylor I think had the afternoon show and then Bookie took over but then they brought in Fearless Fred Fearless Fred

I hear that name I'm shaking my fist at Fearless Fred then I think they kicked him to late nights or early evenings or whatnot. Yeah, I feel like I heard him. I would hear him in the evenings quite a bit in the later years. I think the best way to describe Bookie is he's the last of the old guard.

He's like your last link to the 90s. It's funny. When I read it on your site about him being fired, I read it out loud to Scott, who was like you, you massive CFNY fan and his face I actually his fit like I could see it in his face like like it was exactly what you said the last it was the last thing was gone Alan Cross was fired a couple years ago then Bookie was all that was left because I actually couldn't believe when Alan Cross was fired that was that just didn't feel right but well you know I think it's just uh they had nothing for him to do he wasn't on the air anymore no no it's it's true but watching scott's face you know

when i read i was like oh mike's mike's uh written that he's been fucking bookman's been fired and his face just went like oh that's it like it's over it's really over now you know so i think i can say things on this podcast i wouldn't write like i feel a little bit safer it's probably false security but you can't like google can't index the words i'm saying and people can't find these words by googling and that to me is like a significant detail so i i find that on i'll say things on the podcast i wouldn't actually write in an entry so i can say that uh bookie was fired like i posted he was fired you know i was the only one who had it because i had impeccable inside sources as they say very reliable right i'm not going to post

something based on you know someone who just emailed me or whatever rumor whatever but this was somebody i trusted telling me what somebody who would know told him blah blah blah so and when you say fired we said you mean he no he was asked to leave it wasn't yeah you're either pushed or you jump and he was pushed yeah yeah what does fired mean to you well yeah no no okay so everyone who leaves a job either they're pushed or they jump exactly no yes all right yeah sometimes they're threatened we're gonna push you and they say wait no i'm gonna jump or sometimes well laid off is a whole like legal thing where like we are uh legally we don't have to pay you for a number of x number of weeks and then your job's waiting for you and then you can come back to it no you're right you're fired you're fired

or you quit it's one or the other all right it. You're terminated and, you know, either you're told to leave or you say, I'm going to leave. One or the other. Okay. Yeah. So, Bookie was told to leave. And like I said, this is an excellent source who I trust, who would know. And I got, literally got an email. I literally got an email.

I got an email from Bookie saying, you know, hey, Mike, just to clarify, I wasn't fired. I quit. So Bookie's telling me that I quit. He emailed you? Yeah. Oh. Because, you know, yeah, so the spin from Chorus is that bookie quit. It's very, that's so at this point,

it's his life. Like I'm not trying to, like, you know, if he says he quit, he quit, uh, whatever.

But apparently I got more details. So chorus has this thing. They sometimes extend to people who have been with the company a long time or out of respect. They'll give you this, you know, this, you're losing your job. We're severing you fairly this way

if you would like we can spin this as you moving on to other opportunities the way sesame street did with kevin clash maybe i don't i don't my sources on that aren't as good i can't i can't say well it's the same thing you know he had all these sex the sex uh allegations and you know it's a safe dignity like exactly bookie years, respected and liked by the city. And then instead of saying you're fired, which happened with Barry Taylor and Martin the Streak, and we all know how that went, or Alan Cross, you know, it's, you know, you can position it that you are moving on

to pursue other opportunities. And, you know, Bookie has lots of different things going on. So it's not going to be hard for him to come back next week or whatever and say, hey, guys, I'm going to be doing whatever, some new music thing of the horseshoe and this and that or whatever. And maybe he'll end up at the news station possibly or somewhere. You know what? I've seen people be fired. It doesn't feel good to be fired. No one wants to be fired. No one wants to be let go.

No one wants to be told anymore that, you know, their services are no longer needed. That doesn't feel good. And I don't blame anyone for one second for taking that option. You know, it doesn't feel good, especially when you've been somewhere and you've given your service for so long. Right. Exactly. Exactly. So to say, whatever. you've been somewhere and you've given your service for for so long right and exactly exactly so so to say whatever so basically i'm here to say that um i believe he was pushed and he's gonna say he he jumped and chorus is gonna say he jumped and who you know just but we're sorry to see bookie

off the airwaves uh hopefully it's not for long. He's a good broadcaster. There was lots of interesting discussion on your site after you posted that. And I, you know, a few people were talking about, you know, now, you know, for a long time, CFNY served a purpose of introducing them to new music. I mean, all of us, you know, grew up hearing things we never heard before on that station. And then obviously that that changed. And it was really interesting reading, you know, where people are getting their music from now. And one commenter, and I can't remember his name, but he wrote that he thought, you know, he would never pay for satellite radio. And I have to say, you know, me and Scott, it's the same thing. You know, we never thought that we'd pay, but that's where, for Scott especially, that's where he hears his new music.

It fills that need. And then, you know, for your local stuff, you get that in snippets here and there. But one thing, you know, Scott says to me, he goes, I thought I would miss that local voice more, but I don't because there's such... It's on Twitter, right? Well, yeah, and there's just such a variety Twitter right it's such a well yeah and there's

just such a variety like Satellite Radio just gives you that that you know ability just to hear new stuff not the same it's you know regular radio is just pretty unlistenable you know he just listens in the in the car a lot of people yeah he's just a car it's just that's the other thing too it's become, you know, his commute to work. It's really actually an enjoyable experience because he gets to spend time listening and exploring and finding new things. And, yeah, it was neat just to see all that conversation going on about what people listen to and they get their music from.

And, you know, you move on, right? I dropped the kids off at school this morning and I was driving back and I heard driving back, and I heard Navid from Our Lady Peace on 102.1, so I stopped to listen, because it brought back some nice memories, and then I heard, what's the gentleman's name, Todd Shapiro doing it on his own. There was no Dean Blundell.

It was just Todd Shapiro, because Dean was sick, they said. He took a sick day, and Todd Shapiro was doing the show. And I think Toronto Mike was a better... I think we were better. I was just really weak. I don't know.

I'm sorry. It's hard when you're by yourself because you don't have that energy to bounce. He had Adam with him. Oh. But it just was not very good. It was pretty sad, actually. Well, hopefully Dean gets well soon.

If he's really sick. Dean from Toronto Mike's get well soon. Unless he's faking. He wouldn't do that, Rose. Come on. Not Dean Blendel. I don't think so. I told you.

I told you he didn't want me on the show. He told Jason Barr that I wasn't a fan of the show and I couldn't come in. Oh, you boys. You'll get over it someday. I know. Sometimes I forget I never worked in radio. Jason Barr that I wasn't a fan of the show and I couldn't come in oh you boys you'll just you'll you'll get over it someday I know sometimes I forget I never worked in radio like I got all these like chorus feuds and I think I inherited the chorus feuds from Humble and Fred like I got spillover the chorus exactly a lot of people chorus seem to hate Humble and Fred for a variety of reasons and how can you hate Humble and Fred come on on humble for sure i could see that come on right i mean i could see that darringer and andy frost and now mike stafford and then blah blah blah

but i don't know what i did to anyone and uh fearless fred i just i don't even know what happened there but anyway and dean blundell too i just anyway mike you are very you just keep doing what you're doing you're an honest person you are real it's rare that's you just you just keep doing what you're doing. You're an honest person. You are real. It's rare. You just keep doing what you're doing. Can I tell you a story? Yes. Okay, so remember when Il Duce told us, Mike, tell more stories.

Yes. That was his advice. He said, I like your tales from the X. Tell more stories about the X. And I'm like, Il Duce, it's December. I can't talk about the CNE. I'd like to hear a story from the ex. No, this is the big piece, everybody. It has to be closer to CNE season for that.

All right, fair enough. It's December. But I wanted to tell my hallelujah story. All right, I'm ready. Many, many years ago, I watched a movie on TMN. This is back in the old days before I minimalized my life, before my minimalistic episode. And I had this thing called TMN.

Crazy, right? And then it aired a movie called St. Ralph. Canadian movie. Yeah, Canadian movie. And I watched St. Ralph and I very much enjoyed St. Ralph. And it was charming as all hell. As many most Canadian movies are. are some are and this is one of them it was really good the climatic scene uh is this the centerpiece of this climatic scene

is gore downey performing leonard cohen's hallelujah if you could just imagine this is leonard cohen's hallelujah performed by gore Downey in this climatic scene of this charming as all hell Canadian movie. It's insane. It's insane. Like all this Canadiana and wonder like just colliding. It was just crazy. It's almost like too much. Too much.

It's almost too much. Now, this is only a few years ago. So I'm going to guess five years ago, but I can't remember when this was. All right. I'm now going to hit maybe more than that, but I'm going to guess five years ago, but I can't remember when this was. All right. I'm now going to hit, maybe more than that, but I'm going to hit Google, and I'm going to,

I know there was a Google, so I'm going to find, I've got to find this song. Like, I don't care where it is. Maybe it's on some, when it's on, I've got to find this Gore Downey version of Hallelujah.

This is amazing. I wish I had seen this movie. You can still see it. It exists. Rosie. It's still somewhere. You'll find it. That can still see it. It exists. Rosie. It's still somewhere. You'll find it. That was a really dumb moment.

Yeah. So I'm like, okay. So my first instincts are, you know, first of all, I can't find it in the like illegal world. Like it's not on, what do we have? Kazaa or Napster or Kazaa or in all these places. LimeWire. Like I can't find it anywhere like that.

I used to use LimeWire when I did that, but I don't do that anymore. All right. So I can't find it. So now I'm going to Amazon.com and stuff, and I'm just trying to find the soundtrack to St. Ralph. There is no such soundtrack. It does not exist. There is no soundtrack to St. Ralph.

So now I'm like, okay, I'm a hip fan, so I'm looking in all the forums and stuff and discussion boards and stuff to find out like maybe Gord put it on a solo album like I have Gord Downie solo albums they're not on there maybe it's some b-side to some single I'm shocked

that they wouldn't release the soundtrack with him covering that song that's I'm shocked that's the situation I'm in now. This song doesn't exist anywhere. Okay. So two things.

One is I end up ripping it. We rip it from the DVD, which means you have the song ripped off the DVD, but in the background you can hear some stuff happening. So it's not clean or whatever. It's not full. And I blog about it because that's what I do. I just write, I can't find this song. Where's Gord Downie's Hallelujah?

Where the hell is it? There's no, where is it? So forever we're hunting. And it's not in his collection of music anywhere? No, it's nowhere. It's nowhere. So weird. It is weird.

It's strange because he's a big name and it's a big song. It's a fairly big movie. I'm watching on TMN. Well, it's both big things. The song is is big the artist that and then the artist performing it is huge the original artist is big the covering artist is big everything's big the song's big the movie is almost ken crazy ken con rose you know i'm talking about saint ralph not king ralph no i know that was a different movie no no i know king saint ralph was um it was a canadian it was a little is a canadian. Very good. Okay.

I like King Ralph, though. Where are we now? Yeah, so basically many years go by, and we're all trying to find, we're all working together now to find Hallelujah. So finally, I get a note from Andrew Lockington, who is the gentleman who put together the music for King Ralph. I almost said King Ralph. For Saint Ralph. he wrote on your

site he's yeah he wrote me an email and then we exchanged emails because there's a long backstory here where gore did it for free and they couldn't do this the soundtrack it was too late to put out the soundtrack and then they were kept promising to put out the soundtrack and they never got that together but this is many years ago now where Andrew Lockington agreed to send me the most rarest of things. They had pressed a couple of copies of the soundtrack, wanting to release it, but they never got permission to release it. So they never did release a soundtrack,

but there are a couple of physical copies of what would have been the soundtrack. And Andrew Lockington ships me a copy, and then I have this copy of the soundtrack and andrew lockington ships me a copy and then i have this copy of the soundtrack to saint ralph which includes not one but two versions of gore downey in the recording studio performing hallelujah and rosie obviously you don't follow my blog because i've written about this many many times not lately i was gonna say i must have missed this this is insane i must have believed you you want to hear it so you have it so you're gonna play it i'm gonna play it i'm gonna play the short version there's a long version extended version which is my go-to

version but uh i'm gonna play some of the short version version by the way i get emails i've had hundreds of emails from people because i've disclosed that i had this this is not the first time i've revealed this but yeah so people must be freaking out. I always send them the ripped copy from the DVD because Andrew Lockington made me promise not to send it. In fact,

I couldn't even say I had it. So that's why I'm saying things on the podcast I won't write. But I have this. I've never ever said before that it was Andrew who sent me the album.

I just said somebody sent me the album. So wait a second. You're about to play Gord Downie covering All Hallelujah yep the studio version

that's effing ridiculous you ready yep you can feel free to cry over this well the song makes me cry it's ridiculous but for me

my favorite cover is KD that's the Rose do you know that song's labeled Hallelujah and that's like

I can't believe you just did that yeah Rosie I'm gonna play power fashions with the big april fools they joke and everyone gets excited i'm gonna play hallelujah and i play that and i play the wrong hallelujah are you ready yes you're gonna have to change your mood this is a solemn song now okay i'm ready i heard there was imagine i just performed it okay play it all right

i've heard there was a secret chord that david played and it pleased the lord but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this. The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift, the baffled king composing Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you. She tied you to a kitchen chair. She broke your throne and she cut your hair. And from your lips she drew the hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

You say I took the name in vain. I don't even know the name. But if I did, well, really, what's it to you? It's a blaze of light in every word. It doesn't matter which you heard, the holy or the broken. Hallelujah. heard the holy or the broken hallelujah rosie what did you think you don't have to give me a christmas present do you know how special a moment that was no one's ever heard that outside the studio that was insane yeah and andrew tells me that when

gourd is watching that scene the climatic scene i don't want to ruin that gourd's watching it and weeps openly no that was and it breaks into the same that was insane roses weeping open that was insane well that that was incredible I can't believe you have that. I got a longer one. How wonderful that you shared that. Thank you. That's my Christmas gift to all the Toronto Mike listeners. How truly wonderful that you shared that.

That is just truly, that is something special. His voice. Can we just talk about his voice? Gord's? Oh, my God. And that song. Big time fan, Rose. Oh, my God, that song. Big time fan, Rose. Oh my God, that song.

You know, it's funny. I always loved Katie Lang's version of it and the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics when she sang it. I couldn't erase it. I think I watched. So majestic. Because it's a majestic song.

It's majestic. But that song is so... Who's the gentleman who drowned? Jeff Buck so... Who's the gentleman who drowned? Jeff Buckley? Who's the guy who drowned? I think that's the name. Jeff Buckley. That's the name, right?

Why don't we have the internet to Google this? I don't know. But I believe it to be Jeff Buckley. I'm having a brain fart right now. I hope that's right. But his version is like the go-to... Oh, Jeff Buckley. Yeah, Jeff Buckley.

Yes. His version is like the go-to version in like movie soundtracks and television shows stunning it's it's stunning and rufus wainwright did the version from uh shrek but there's a lot of great versions of hallelujah but i'm a big gourd guy and that one does it for me well you know that one because it can be very i mean i mean the song is so it's so it's so heavy and there's just something. You really hear the words. For some reason, he just really is beautiful.

Wow, that was cool. That was really cool. I'm glad you loved it. What a nice thing. How nice of him to send you that. Yeah, I think that was like 07 or something when he sent that. He careered over the disc. And he sang it for free for the movie.

Yeah, the director might have been a friend or something there's a whole backstory i can't recall right now oh i love it that was um that was gorgeous so the um to switch gears did you want to tell me we were going to have a quick discussion about the suicide of the nurse in england uh everybody knows this story by now australian djs prank call the hospital saying that they're the queen and the prince philip and they want to find out how their you know granddaughter is doing or whatever so uh quickly my opinion on this is essentially that uh sometimes shit happens like i don't not to be be cold, but this woman clearly had other issues going on, and I'm sorry she decided to end her life.

I'm very sympathetic to depression and mental illness, and I hate hearing somebody has taken their own life. But this is not on, in just one guy's opinion, this is not on these two DJs from Australia. Before we found out she killed herself, it was the first nurse who forwarded it, In just one guy's opinion, this is not on these two DJs from Australia. Before we found out she killed herself, it was the first nurse who forwarded it. But even if it was the other nurse, before we found out there was a suicide here, I don't know about you, but I thought it was a clever, funny little bit.

I enjoyed the bit in the sense that it just felt really victimless and innocent and fun. And I enjoyed the bit. it was kind of cute it got no wonder i got lots of play and it ended tragically which really sucks sucks for the victim sucks for her family and it sucks for these djs in australia because this is not on them my two cents rosie i can hear your disagreement. So please succinctly and respectfully voice your opinion on this. All right. Well, I disagree. I never found it funny and I certainly never found it clever.

The reason why I found it so distasteful is because the only reason this prank even happened is because of our adulation of celebrity culture. We've elevated Kate Middleton to that of a celebrity being in the monarchy. No one would have cared if they prank called someone that wasn't... She's on the level of a Kim Kardashian or a Katie Holmes. So we only care about this. We only care about this

because it plays to this gross, sick obsession we have with, with celebrity. So that for me, you know, there's a monarch has a great following. Right. So that prank. Um, so to me, that's that, that has no appeal to me. Um, it's funny. Um, I think blind Dave on your site wrote, he really actually sums it up. You know, when, when it came on the news, I felt the exact same as him. I had no interest. And I'll tell you why. To hurt and humiliate someone doing their job, doing what they're paid to do. There's no humor in that. And I'm a little bit tired of hearing, oh, well, you know, she was depressed.

Oh, can we be better than that? Just because someone's in a dark place, do we have to take it to a darker place? Did they offer the world something so hilarious that someone maybe who wasn't in a good place, we don't know. And I think we're a little bit too quick as well just to throw that, oh, she's depressed. You don't know that. Life is hard. People have to work hard. Nurses work really hard. They aren't rich. They don't make a lot of money. To make your silly little stupid joke by calling a hospital that's taking care of sick people, I think we don't care because I think we think that the queen is there rosie look at me not funny you i can i'm all for you not finding it funny i don't find the horror purple thing funny from from phil but i don't

think any asian canadian is going to uh kill themselves because of that right so i can hear you what you're saying you don't find it funny that's fine you can find it distasteful and not funny but we're talking about is there any responsibility here like are these djs in australia at all responsible for this woman's death no i'm not i don't feel that they're responsible because in the end of the day we're all responsible for the you know our own our own actions um but i don't um i don't feel sorry for them i'm starting to hear stuff now like, oh, now their lives are ruined. It was their choice to make a living crank calling hospitals. Can you imagine if, God forbid,

your family, someone you love is in the hospital. Do you want them distracted for even five seconds by something so incredibly stupid? Rose stupid i know you're really stretching only because a this is this ridiculous monarch uh thing i'm not into it but a lot of people are has nothing to do with the monarchy has to do with our adoration our obsession with celebrity pretending to be the queen do you remember this bit maybe you never heard it i did hear it a bad impression of the queen. Oh, how is my granddaughter Katie doing?

Like that kind of nonsense. And she's explaining, you know, oh, she's better today, you know, whatever. It's silly. Yeah, you've wasted somebody's time that's actually doing really important work. Oh, come on. Crank call the queen. Crank call Buckingham Palace.

Crank call politicians. They're all wasting time. Now we're off topic. Now you're just anti-prank calls to hospitals, which is fair. I don't like prank calls generally. I don't Now you're just anti-prank calls to hospitals, which is fair. I don't like prank calls generally. I don't like prank calls. Maybe they shouldn't happen to hospitals.

Is that all we've got? Really? Like, come on. I was considering a prank call next. This is not a good segue. I'm going to have us call. But this is the thing. Who do we?

Prank calls, sure. I mean, they can be funny. I just don't feel to prank call somebody working especially a nurse you know rosie domano she wrote it you know a nurse because her name's rose no i do not no radar for trickery you know why because she's doing her job and she's not you know they work really really hard i just found the whole i just didn't find them picking on that nurse like uh i understand some prank calls make people stupid and then it's like that's not not nice. That's bullying. But you know what? When I heard... This wasn't that. But when I heard...

But it's more than that, right? It's just the fact that you've put somebody in a position where they have to waste time. If you heard the audio, this is someone thinking she's talking to the queen. You have a whole different issue now. That's not right. You just don't like them wasting a nurse's time.

Yeah, I don't. What does that have to do with the suicide? Well, the suicide, we don't... At the end of the day, nobody knows. I'm not even sure they know it's a suicide. No, I don't even think it's 100% suicide. Yeah, I don't think we know enough at all. No, I don't think they should be charged.

All I know is that these two guys are not responsible for her death. That's all I'm saying. They're not responsible for her death. They're responsible for bad comedy. But they're... Guilty of bad comedy. And you know what? It's funny because, you know, I think about what they have.

That's, to make mistakes on air, even tiny little mistakes to what they have to. They're going to have to live with. Whoa. How do I don't. I certainly don't. Don't envy them. I can't even imagine thinking that even if you had a kernel of something to do with someone that. Do you remember Shawshank Redemption when Tim Robbins is in the court and he's like how convenient for you that we never found the murder weapon and then Tim Robbins is like well considering the fact I didn't murder them I consider that rather inconvenient I love Tim Robbins yeah he's so good bull Durham yeah he's always good anyway this is uh this woman's death is rather inconvenient you thought that was funny. I thought it was kind of funny.

I didn't laugh out loud for hours, but when I heard it, I smiled and said, oh, that's kind of cute. I didn't find anything, nothing. It didn't trigger. I have a pretty sensitive trigger when it comes to inappropriate comedy. I know. That's why I'm surprised. And this one didn't hit the trigger.

I didn't. So I think this one's pretty light as far as it goes. You know, prank calls is just radio hosts are always making stupid prank calls and this is one of the more innocent, silly ones. I hate stuff though. I really do hate stuff where people are, I don't know, just made to feel, people that don't deserve it made to feel bad.

And I'm not saying at that time when she was talking to her. You do know though that the person who killed themselves is the lady who was hurt at the beginning just saying, like just passing the call over. It's not that lady who gives up all the info. But in that moment, she thought that she was speaking to the queen. So there was like, can you imagine?

You're treating. She got burned. But she wasn't disciplined by the hospital and they weren't. You don't know that, Mike. Come on, please. The hospital came out and said they never disciplined her. But you don't know the culture of what it is like to work where you are treating royals, people that are very highly revered

on a regular basis. You can't tell me that they aren't expected to hold things to a very, very high standard. I'm not saying they disciplined her, but I'm sure they were terrified to make a mistake. Terrified. I know, but if that's the layer for potential,

we're all going to be guilty of this. Like, I can't imagine we were earlier. For example, for example. So maybe we need to actually stop talking about it. So we stop raising people to such a high celebrity. Interesting. Discover point. Forget the celebrity.

Everything is too late. We can't put this genie back in the bottle. I don't talk about Lindsay Lowe. I don't talk about monarchy in my blog. I know. I like you. And I don't talk about freaking forum, but you can't put that genie back in the bottle.

I can't get honey boo boo back in the freaking bottle, even though I can't. It's too late. That's a different discussion. It's too late. That's a different discussion. It's too late. We don't have to add to it. We don't have to add to it. We shouldn't talk about it.

Let's not do the whole she was depressed so this could have put her over the edge. There's a lot going on here we don't know about. Possibly. Better be. Or you're not, you mentioned you have pretty thick skin, you know.

You can handle these comments about you on the blog. And you know, in life, you need a little thicker skin than that. There must be a lot more going on there. Okay, perhaps, but that's... Crossfire is over for this week. Rose, I can't remember. On iTunes, we're rated G for general admission, right? There's no explicit swearing.

So if your children are listening, please cover their ears for one moment. So let me ask you this. Is it impossible to get a cup of coffee, flavored coffee,

anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a fucking meeting with the coffee? You can get every other flavor except coffee flavored coffee. They got mochaccino, they got chocaccino,

frappuccino, cappuccino, rappuccino, alpaccino. What the fuck? All right, so that's Dennis Leary talking about coffee. Rose, you asked me a good question. You asked me if I would pay $7 for a cup of coffee. Rose, I won't pay $3 for a

cup of coffee. So does that help? Well, it's just, it's interesting because I read in the Globe that Starbucks in the States, and it's not all of them, but they have the $7 cup of coffee and it's, you know, extremely obviously premium, premium beans. And I started wondering, would I pay $7 for a cup of coffee? don't know I don't but you know I should say a couple years ago I wouldn't pay two bucks but then the Starbucks grande mild I think that's my grande the grande size uh went to 210 or something and then I'm screwed because I like that size and I but I like like Dennis Leary says I just like coffee coffee I don't know how to order it at Starbucks anymore, but Monica helps me with that. She's a big Starbucks fan.

She told me to get Grande Mild, and that's what I say, Grande Mild. And then they changed it on me. That's what I say. They changed it on me, yeah. They changed it on me, and now I don't remember what I say. I think she orders it for me all the time.

I don't, just like they changed the code. I don't know how to speak the language anymore. Starbucks is... But I just want a coffee. I know, I know. You know where I go for my coffee when I order, because I know how to do it? McDonald's. I go into McDonald's, and I get just want a coffee. I know, I know. You know where I go for my coffee when I order because I know how to do it? McDonald's.

I go into McDonald's and I get a large regular coffee. McDonald's, I get coffee from McDonald's all the time. But you know, now they're getting complicated too because they have their... But you can get it for a toonie. None of this $7 nonsense. And it's good. Do you know that I actually can't tell the difference

between McDonald's and Starbucks? I think they use the same... McDonald's is good. It's good. I've grown to not like Tim hortons which is disappointing to my mom who loves tim hortons i like it's got an aftertaste i don't like like a soapy weird aftertaste i don't like but mcdonald's doesn't have that for me so i actually will enjoy mcdonald's and if we're at shirway gardens and that food court my mom can go to tim hortons i'm at the

mcdonald's to get my coffee even when it's roll up the rim time, Rose. Do you know, I love roll up the rim. I'm always convinced every time I buy a coffee, I am winning the vehicle. I'm always convinced of it. And I never do. And do you know what happened to me the last time? You've never won the vehicle. Is that the revelation? Well, you know what happened? I was getting, I was actually in the, in the, in the drive-thru and I got a medium coffee and the um the girl handed it to me and I I don't know her hand opened or my hand opened anyways the cup dropped oh my gosh in between my door and the the um the window and we both like kind of looked at each other and it was a roll up the rim and my little guy was we were having a it was a terrible time he just wasn't

sleeping he was hollering and the girl was like and I was like oh my god do you want me to get out but i was really close and i could open the door and she's like don't worry i'll we'll get someone to get it later and she got me another coffee and i always wonder to this day if that was that probably rose can you imagine but so okay so you would order the seven dollar coffee i don't know you know i might get like i i i don't know i You know, I might get... Like, I... I don't know. I'd have to... This is not the coffee that the animal craps. Some animal craps out a bean and then... No, it's not that. That's the expensive coffee, right? I forget to...

What is the animal again? A monkey? It's a monkey, yeah. It's not that Ikea monkey, is it? Oh, he's so cute. Oh, my God. Rose, you know it's illegal to have that monkey in Toronto. Don't even get any ideas.

I got caught right up in the... He's in a nice sanctuary now. You're so adorable. But where's his jacket? Did he keep the jacket? It's like a sheepskin thing. And no diaper. He doesn't have to wear his diaper anymore.

That woman, I heard her on the radio. She sounds so devastated. Oh my goodness. She lost her little monkey. But he was... She should have read the bylaws. Yeah, and you know what? He looks so frightened.

It's not not you can't there's reasons they have these rules I don't want to go down the monkey path except to say that what the heck was she doing

going to Ikea leaving the monkey in the car when you could just escape like that I know if you're going to have an illegal monkey

keep it a better secret and what a strange place to go I mean nobody just pops into Ikea you go to Ikea you're there for like two hours

some people just pop into Ikea you gotta know your way around you don't get stuck in the maze you gotta have a map of the place i find it is so exhausting so okay so exhausting place the ikea monkey does not crap out the beans that make seven dollars coffee but you're not sure if you would pay i just decided i just decided i i i am no no no, no, no. The answer is yes. If sometimes, you know, if I was on vacation or sometimes, you know, when you're in a mood of wanting to treat yourself, I think I probably actually would. I have to admit, I'd be curious to try it.

Even if it was my last day on earth. Yeah. See, I know you wouldn't. But I would. I couldn't spend the $7 on the coffee. I would. Actually, I kind of wish I could do it right now. Now I'm sort of like, I really want to have it.

But you don't drink it. Rose, do you order coffees that aren't regular coffee? You'll order those flavored crappuccino, alpaccino things? No. I don't like the lattes or the flavored mocha. I don't really care for those. You just get coffee? I like coffee. But I like Americano. I like the espresso

with the hot diluted water. And once in a while at Second Cup, I like their flavored. They have like a maple I do like some of the flavored coffee sometimes but I don't I don't really like

the frappe the frothy stuff too too much because I like the coffee and I find the lattes it's too milky so oh my gosh

I want a coffee so badly right now well there is some five hour energy in the fridge will that do no okay rose we are both like coffee but you know we gotta have some limits we can't spend seven bucks no i don't think i don't i don't

i couldn't see myself doing it on a regular basis that would be extremely cost prohibitive you can buy a lot of a lot of coffee for seven bucks i make coffee at home all the time so yeah save your seven bucks or something uh on our way out i just just want to say that Chevrolet, that's a General Motors company, I believe, has, they're taking me to Ottawa. So tomorrow morning, Monica and I will fly to Ottawa. And we have these activities in Ottawa. And then we're given, not to keep, but we're given for the day or so, a new Chevy Trax. T-R-A-X. And we then are supposed to drive this.

Just Monica and I are going to drive this to Montebello, Quebec. And there's a chateau there. A Fairmont. A Fairmont. And we have a room there and activities there on Thursday, including like we shoot these, like we have activities where we shoot these clay discs or something in the air. And then there's like a hike.

And then I guess we're flowing back to Toronto like Thursday night. So I get like 14 or something of these pr offers like these free one liter of milks like no offense rosie but i would turn that one down okay it was my first i know you're gonna start somewhere i'm not judging you gotta start somewhere i love my leader and three single servings i love that idea so i get like 14 of these but i got a job and i got kids and i i'm now cherry picking the good ones. So we can go see Medieval Times. That's a good one. We can go to Snow White and you can give me a Dell laptop and a Samsung Galaxy S3.

And I'll go to Ottawa for a couple of days. So this is happening. You're doing that. And I'll report back what happens. It's kind of neat. It's great. I love the people at Ford, but the Ford people got to step up their game. Okay, Ford people.

They don't fly you anywhere. It's going to be one hell of the blue party here. Well, and especially because they're putting you up at a fair amount. It's going to be gorgeous. Obviously, you're going to have a gorgeous room. It should be interesting. The food will be great. I'm actually really looking forward to it.

So tomorrow morning we fly. I can't remember. This is going to make you laugh. I can't remember my last domestic flight. I think it's 98 when I went to Vancouver. I don't think I've been on a domestic flight since 1998. Anyway, because I haven't been. I drive to Ottawa and stuff and Montreal and stuff.

I don't fly. And I haven't been outside of those two provinces in a while. No, you've been jet-setting all over Europe. I only go to Amsterdam and Paris and Dublin and Berlin. You poor thing. I know. Anyway Amsterdam and Paris and Dublin and Berlin. You poor thing. I know. Anyway, so I was thinking,

oh, I don't have to get there like three hours early to go to Ottawa. No, the flight to Ottawa is... So what time do you have to get there? Can I get there like an hour or 45 minutes? An hour. Oh, I love this. This is great. Ottawa's nothing.

You're laughing. You'll drive us to Pearson tomorrow? Okay, good. We got a deal. We got a deal. We got a deal. Nope, you're on your own. Rosie, I had fun with you this week. That was fun.

Episode 19 is in the books. You're going to come back for number 20? Looking forward to 20. You're going to bake a cake? Yeah, we'll bake something. Chocolate chip cookies, okay? Mike likes chocolate. All right, stay tuned.

Bye, everybody. Thanks for hanging out with us, guys. guitar solo Well, I want to take a streetcar downtown Read Andrew Miller and wander around And drink some Guinness from a tin Cause my UI check has just come in Ah, where you been? Because everything is kind of rosy and green

Yeah, the wind is cold but the snow is cold