Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Toronto Mike'd #35

Episode Date: April 23, 2013

Mike and Rosie chat about Freddie P, Mike's hair, Craigslist, Portage La Prairie, Rita MacNeil, the Computer Man, the Jays, Leafs, hockey pool, Sevenly, jeans and shrinking chocolate bars.

Welcome to the 35th episode of Toronto Mic'd, a weekly podcast about anything and everything, often with a distinctly Toronto flavour. I'm Mike from torontomic.com. Joining me as always is Rosie from mytorontoscoop.com and hosting this audio file are the good people at Core Fusion. Welcome back, Rosie. Hello, my friend. How are you? Good. How are you doing?

I'm very good. I have been noticing the last little while that more and more of our Toronto Mic listeners are popping up on Twitter. It's so much fun. And who's the latest? The latest one, Blind Dave, our friend Blind Dave. He's popped up on Twitter. We had such a fun conversation the other night and his handle is, I love it, it's Blind Deaf Dave because Blind Dave was already taken and he's also a little bit deaf. So it

works. So we were having a fun chat. So hi to Blind Dave on Twitter and Liz popped up. She's at Liz Calm and Is Sammy with an I on Twitter yet? I haven't seen Sammy yet but hopefully she pops up. Let me know when she gets there. Also we've

so that joins obviously our friends Roshan and Kevin and Mark and Elvis and Il Duce is on there too. I'm just noticing

And there's a Rob 519 Rob Oh yeah of course. Yeah he's got Sound in My Memory Sound in My Memory he's got his music blog. It's really too. I'm just noticing a... And there's a Rob, a 519 Rob. Oh yeah, of course. Yeah, he's got Sound in My Memory. Yeah, Sound in My Memory. He's got his music blog. It's really cool. It's just fun.

It's a fun thing. Hey, that's great. And speaking of Toronto Mike listeners, Freddie P, who's probably never listened to an episode until last week, but Freddie P was on episode 34 while you were gone.

Did you listen to episode 34 i haven't listened yet i'm slowly making my way through all my all the you're so prolific with all the podcasts you produce i'm trying to catch up so i'd listen to michelle's um and i hadn't listened to monica's yet so i listened to two episodes of monica's freddie p is next i'll have to get around to your brothers when scott's around because he's into the fantasy sports so he wants wants to listen to your brother's podcast. It's so disappointing. It's so hard to get people to actually listen to a podcast. I can't even get my own co-host. No, that's not, you know, I love listening to them. It's just, it's the time. And because my car is, we talked about this before, my car is not set up. You know, like I said, I still make CDs. If I could

listen to them in my car, I would be able to burn through them a lot faster. You can make CDs of Toronto Mic'd episodes. Well, let's not go crazy. But how was Freddie P? Did you wish him congratulations for me on being a grandpa? No, I actually did not. I never referenced... For Freddie P, we talked about his radio career,

and some of the stuff that's happened to him, where they're at now. We had a little chat about Leafs and Rob Ford at the end. But I thought it was a pretty good hour. Oh, that's great. If you like inside radio, like Toronto radio, then I think you'd dig. Remember you had alluded to the fact that there was going to be some sort of surprise. I haven't found.

What is the surprise? Oh, yeah, I know. I mean, I don't know. Anyone with little brains and attention would know by now, but Freddie P did not make the official announcement, and I'm not going to do it because they might beat me up or something. Okay, so we're still waiting in suspense. It's a seriously interesting discussion.

Is it something related to their content, or is it something personal? Are they... No, it's a content distribution extension of some sorts. So right now they're a podcast and they're on some astral stations and they'll be somewhere else, but I'll let them make this announcement. Very cool. So did you have fun having Freddie P on the show? Yeah, he's a good guy.

I always got along good with Freddie P. We used to do the Canadian Thinker together and we did a bunch of podcasts before they started doing it daily, and I would do those with him at Dan Duran's house and Pride FM and things like that. I noticed on your site someone was asking if he was going to keep it up. I guess he's let it lapse. Is he considering just putting a few more blog entries in?

Yeah, he would like to get back to that, but I think for him it's some kind of a muscle he's got to use it all the time or it goes away and it's hard for him to get back into it because he doesn't want to put up anything that isn't like a certain quality and it's just one of those things he's got to start doing one one a week one a week i saw someone on your site mentioned that and i actually think that's one a week is you know doable and then you're not letting your there's nothing worse than going to a blog and it's old. No, and there hasn't been an update in a while.

So it's pretty much, I don't think anybody's going there right now. Oh, I just, just back to the Twitter people. Yes. I think our friend Lauren is on Twitter. I followed someone. But who's Lauren? Lauren, who comments on your site. How come I don't know Lauren? I think I followed, Lauren, if you're listening, I think I followed site. How come I don't know Lauren?

I think I followed... Lauren, if you're listening, I think I followed you, but then I don't think it was you. But if it was you, it was me trying to follow you. Are you sure you're talking about the right blog? Because I know you cheat on my blog of other blogs. Oh, are we going to talk about that now? But Lauren does not ring a bell at all. I've been cheating on TorontoMike.com, but I don't know.

Let's save that for later. Oh, quick note, housekeeping note, is when I referred to that lever that you call the lever, Andrew Stoke... The feeder. He says it's called a fader. Fader, fader.

So what I'm missing with the audio is a fader. Fader, okay. I need a fader. It's funny, when we were talking about that in the last podcast, I realized after i have no idea what any of those things are called i'm the wrong person to ask but fader andrew stokely king of all audio he would definitely know hi andrew if you're listening i

hope you're having fun with all the mlb games i know you're busy now do you think if i uh dyed my hair to its natural chestnut brown state i I could have Justin Trudeau's hair. Don't do it. I won't do it. I've never dyed my hair. Don't do it. But if I did, you have to admit, I could do just...

Because I got the thick hair, a good head of hair, but it's gone awfully white on me. Eventually, you have gone... You were salt and pepper a couple of years ago. Now you are mostly... It's Monica's fault. It's mostly gray.

That's all I can think of because you're right. I had this like nice salt and pepper thing going and now it's super white. No, it's not super white but you're more gray than brown. Well, I'm not like your husband

but I'm getting there. No, you're pretty... Am I? Am I catching up? You're catching up but the thing is Scott went gray really, really young. We were at Ryerson

and he was already going gray. And I never wanted him to dye. Even when he was doing on-air stuff, because everybody dyes their hair to look younger. Except Anderson Cooper. That's exactly. I love it.

I love gray hair on men. I think it looks, as long as you have the right hairstyle for your head, love the gray. But you got to keep it, I think with my white hair know, as long as you have the right hairstyle for your head, love the gray. But you got to keep it. I think with my white hair, I need to keep it short because it's got a different texture. So the longer it is, the crazier it gets.

And I don't know if you read my blog recently, but I think Katie Lang right now. I saw her Sunday night on the Junos waiting for Mad Men to start. I love her. Love her, love her, love her. I like her too. And she made a great speech about letting your freak flag fly. And she had hair. And Monica said it first.

She said, that's your hair. She has the same style I have now. Mine's a bit whiter than hers. But she's wearing the exact same style that I'm wearing. Your hair looks fine. I'm not worried about it. You're going to need to groom it a bit for the wedding. But the color is working.

Oh, I will. I'll get a haircut for the wedding and I'll groom it a bit for the wedding. But I like gray. And then I also like when men start to go bald when they do the nice close cropped thing. You like it when men like... Oh, you mean better than going bald? Yeah. Like I like it when...

You know, if you start to get the receding. I don't plan to go bald. And then you don't even seem to have any receding. But I like when you just shave. The Bruce Willis, what he used to do, you know, just shave it, shave it all off. That looks good. Yeah. I hope I never have to find out what I look like when I do that.

I hear that it happens fast. Uh-oh. It's like you just wake up in the morning, there's a little hole in the top of your head. And then. Rose, you're scaring me. Old and bald. Get married fast. You were telling me that you've been selling random things in your house on Craigslist.

Well, it's really funny because you know how you live in a house for a long time and stuff starts to accumulate. And we're going to be doing some renovations and I really needed to make up some room, clear some stuff out. And I had never really done the Craigslist thing before, but I thought what a, it's, I really appealed to me that you could find, you know, a home for your stuff that you don't want anymore, um, with, with someone out there. So I put a couple of things on now, Scott, not really down with it. He would just prefer strangers did not come to our house to, you know, buy things. But I just, I loved the idea of, of not come to our house to buy things. But I just,

I loved the idea of not having anything go to waste, right? And I know you can put stuff out to the garbage and people will pick it up. Can't you donate stuff? Absolutely. You can donate stuff. But there was just something that I liked about after I did the first couple of times, people, you know, they come to the door and they have a reason. Like this girl came and bought my fondue set because she was having this sort of like a swinger party and she like wanted a fondue like there's all these great little stories so i kind of have gotten addicted to i don't even care about the money i just love the interesting people that you meet so my latest one and with this last sale i bring i have a present for you mike whoa i know it's in my bag my bag is i have a big bag of tricks but i noticed there was no there was no, there was no coffee in that bag. I know because I was running so late today. When I'm running late,

I have to sacrifice the, sacrifice the coffee. Um, so I had a little Cousinart, um, food processor, which I don't use anymore because, um, I just haven't been processing anything. So I put it up and within a few minutes of me putting it up, this guy emails me, and he's like, oh, he's like, do you still have it? It's such a cheap price, but I'm all the way in the East End, and I can be there by 9 o'clock. Is that too late?

And I thought, wow, this guy really wants to get his chop on if he's willing to come from, like, Wood and Danforth. He was like, Coxwell, all the way to the West End on the subway. But I was like, sure, I'll hold it for you. No problem. So he makes his way. You know, actually, it wasn't too bad. It didn't take too long.

And he gets to me. And I open the door. And he's like this young guy. And he's got all this like world wildlife paraphernalia with him. And he's a canvasser. And he sells, he tries to get people to donate to this organization called the Wilderness Committee. And I brought you, I actually didn't take any money from him. I swapped my Cuisinart mini prep for his wilderness calendars that go to work.

You got robbed, Rose. You know what? I'm so, he's so funny because he didn't, he was truly lovely. Like he was going to give me the 10 bucks and I saw that he had the calendars. And because it's April, the calendars have gone. They're half price now because you know I'm selling these now for like $5. I got a news flash for you. No one uses paper calendars anymore.

Do you know that? Have I like really laid freaking you a calendar? I can't believe it. Don't you have a Google calendar? I do. I love Google calendar. What do you do with the paper one? I don't know.

I just like it. Anyways, this is for you because I know you like camping. Thanks for this. I know you like camping. I know you like camping. So this has all the areas of Canada each month that this wilderness committee has saved. And it's really, really neat. I thought you could show your kids different parts of the country, beautiful pictures. I kept the one with the endangered animals because my little guy likes animals. And I just want to mention the charity on the back. It's the wildernesscommittee.org. And it's really on the back. It's the Wilderness Committee, wildernesscommittee.org.

And it's really, really cool. Basically, they are the only, they're preserving Canada's wild heritage, and they've got over 60,000 people. Check it out online. Thanks, Rosalie. And this is all just because I like to sell my shit on Craigslist. I just found out it was something good. This is the greatest gift ever. Thank you.

You're welcome. I can't wait to recycle this. Thank you. You're welcome. I can't wait to recycle this. Just kidding. I love it. Within five minutes of me leaving, that will be in your blue box. I'll let Michelle make a montage out of it or whatever. She'll enjoy the pictures. I actually thought more of your kids just because the pictures were nice. And I know you guys

like to go camping. Thank you. That's very sweet. This is what I mean. This is another thing. I just love the internet. You learn new things. You meet new people just by putting yourself out there sometimes. You become obsessed with our good friend Blind Dave because I see you want to

talk more about Blind Dave. Is that the same note? Oh, well, it was funny because I saw that Blind Dave was on Twitter and so I clicked on his profile and I saw that he was following one of my good friends that I used to work with

at the Weather Network, Anne-Marie Sweeney. And again, just another neat thing, right? And him and his wife are big fans of Anne-Marie. And I was telling him, we were chatting, I was telling him how

she's one of those people that you see her on TV and she's stunningly beautiful. But she's also one of those people that's beautiful on the inside too. Oh, like you and I. She's just a genuinely lovely person. And then it made me think of a funny story because Blind Dave was saying,

you know, when Westerners, the particular about if news is coming out of southern Ontario and you mispronounce something, they kind of get up in arms. And one of my first early shifts on air, I was working with Anne-Marie Sweeney and she was so lovely and supportive. And then I was doing one of my shifts on air alone and it was, thinking back now, so mortifying. And I was so focused on trying, I was talking about a city in central Manitoba and there was some active weather there and the city is Portage La Prairie. But even though I knew how to pronounce it, I was saying it Portage La Prairie and I kept saying it over and over and it's wrong. It's

like so wrong. That is not the correct pronunciation. I can't believe you did that. Mortifying, embarrassing is terrible. And Anne-Marie Sweeney was the only one kind enough, the only one paying attention because you know, my director, my producer is so not paying attention, to call in and be like, Rosie, no. Stop. Portage La Prairie. So she's just a really, really, really cool lady. That's very nice,

because she could have let you fry in it. Hell yeah. I mean, most people, if they even notice, just don't care. And ironically, when you start off at the Weather Network, it's live 24-7, they put you, you know, overnight, right?

Because no one's watching. Less people are watching. It's funny. There's always someone watching because of time zones, but less people are watching. However, that being said, as your shift goes on, what the director will do is something called caching. So they'll take little bits of your broadcast

that are good and not dated and put them together and then show them later overnight so that way people can get a break um and so on so you know my if you mispronounce something that could actually end up playing all night long so ann marie saved that for you yeah she's pretty cool she's no longer at the weather network she's a producer at sun news now um so oh my condolences to Anne-Marie Sweeney. I know, it's an interesting thing. Well, she wanted to start doing more behind-the-scenes work, so she's there now.

But very cool lady. And Dave being on Twitter reminded me of that story, so it's kind of fun. Well, speaking of cool ladies, we lost Canadian icon Rita McNeil. Yes. And I've been Canadian icon Rita McNeil. Yes. And I've been hearing about Rita McNeil and seeing her on CBC and things for decades.

But I could not name a Rita McNeil song to save my life. Me neither. But I still can. Even after all the obits I watched and read, I still could not name a Rita McNeil song to save my life. I would have to agree. You too, Rose. If you had a gun to my head, I would be dead right now. And I'm sure it's all lovely.

She seems lovely and all, but I don't know what to say. Maybe it's an East Coast thing. I'm not sure, but there's no hits there, and I'm not saying you need a hit, but there's nothing, you know, like, I like Tom Waits stuff that could never be a hit. The Rita McNeil, none of it's made me want to like download it or stream it or seek it tom waits is the craziest scott really likes tom waits that is some crazy sounding music you too and your mopey

music actually um tom waits is super freaking cool like i'm telling you that's cool music but it's stuff kids hate it and then as you get older you start to appreciate it and then you love it. I mean, I don't know, just maybe me and Scott need to hook up. I told you he rejected my offer to join in my pool.

Well, he has to work. I know, I'm goofing. He has to work. Alright, so Rita McNeil, rest in peace or enjoy your summer. I'm very sad you're gone. I just don't know your songs.

That reminds me, when you mentioned Rita McNeil, of another funny comment i saw on your site from our from our lovely cheryl one of the reasons i actually started i've always read your site did you say lovely cheryl lovely cheryl you're talking about the same cheryl yes cheryl our cheryl cheryl on your on your broken record cheryl well i just i just want to say what i um i've always read your site but i never really started to read the comments until the last couple of years.

And I have to admit, one of the things that sucked me in was Cheryl's comments because they're frigging hilarious. And every once in a while, I mean, she has her usual thing, you know, the haves and so on. But every once in a while, this is a commenter on Mike's site that she's been comments all the time. And a lot of the times the comments are the same. But once in a while there'll be a comment and it just makes me laugh out loud and recently in reference to rita mcneil yeah i think she likes country music yeah she does for sure she wrote yes this is very sad something to this effect rita mcneil's past i had some of her cds but i lent them to someone

i think i know how to get them back. Oh. Yeah. And that probably doesn't seem so funny. Who else do you know who listens to CDs? I only know two people. Me. Cheryl and you. And I just, for some reason, it just made me laugh because her train of thought, it was

like, Rita McNeil died. I liked her music. I gave her CDs back. Oh, she does? I know how to get them back. You could tell her, like, I don't know, Tom Waits dies, I'd say, and you go, oh, Tom Waits is dead, I don't know. And then she'll be like who cares john mellencamp is the best i'm gonna go listen to john mellencamp anyways all i know in my you know my boring afternoon of taking a break from my work

and cheryl cheryl cracked me up hey rose you were uh you were born you were born and raised in toronto like me and you're like my age yes yes I think you're like six months older than me I'm gonna play something for 30 seconds tell me if it rings a bell you ready yep developers developers developers developers okay Rose I actually that's not what I wanted to play at all I don't know that's something completely different are you using your feeder your food it's called I don't have a feeder for this. Oh, right. That's what I need.

This is the one, Rose. Get ready for the flashback and tell me if it rings a bell. I love this. Where did you find this? I don't even know can I love this. Where did you find this? I don't even know how I know this. I can do anything you can The story is forthcoming, Roy. Computer man, he is your friend

He gonna help you again and again So if you have a question or two He's got the answer just for you Okay, Rose, that's... I am the computer man And I am ready for questions now, thank you So that's from a show that aired in 1985, 86, and 87. It's called Kid Vids or Vid Kids.

Which one is it? Vid Kids. Vid Kids vid kids okay i do not know how i remember no i mean either i don't remember watching vid kids and i i remember that to a point where three nights ago i was i think it was saturday night i'm lying in bed like it's pretty late i don't know one in the morning or something ready to fall asleep and monica's beside me and i said i am the computer man. I can do it. And she says, oh my God,

what is that? Like I remember that. And I'm like, all of a sudden we're on Google and we're finding out like, first of all, I don't know how she remembers it. She was born in the 80s,

but she remembers this. What year was she born? How old is she? 81. So she's 31. So you would remember. Yeah, well,

maybe. Anyway, she remembers it. I remember it. And then I do some Googling, and I find it, and I rip that MP3 from the YouTube clip. And yeah, that was a crazy flashback. I haven't thought of that song in like 30 years.

And I remember that song like it was yesterday, that song. I don't know where it came from in my subconscious or whatever. It just came out three nights ago. That is going to be in my head now all day long. Oh, I've been playing it. I've been singing it a lot, yeah. It's pretty. And a lot've been saying it a lot. A lot of people, not a lot of people, a few people of our age group

seem to, all of a sudden, oh my god, I remember that. Totally. It's just stuck in some... Vid kids. It's in the layers of your... deep in the layers of your subconscious. It's very catchy. That guy, I watched... What he did is, that would play and then he would answer kids' questions.

Like, they would have to ask as a robot, like... About computers? Like, what do you eat? And then he'd go, I eat stars. That's like a real example. And it's not even that clever or funny, but you have to ask it like a robot. We should do the podcast like this.

This podcast is a real melange of topics today. I want to mention something about our Toronto Blue Jays. Rosie. I think when we listen back, we're going to wonder if we're high for this episode.

It's not 420. It's 423. Speaking of the Blue Jays, I don't know if you wanted to talk about this. I'm about to talk about this. That's what I20 it's 423 i was speaking of the blue jays i don't know if you wanted i'm about to talk about this that's what i'm doing right now rose okay so keep going keep going a few quick quick hits here okay we're 8 and 12 after 20 games right i've watched most of our games and have been uh consistently disappointed in our inconsistency one day day, maybe we get some decent starting pitching, but there's no bats, and then maybe we'll have our bats will wake up and Burley will let in six runs.

It's just inconsistent mediocrity. It's only 20 games. My brother Ryan passionately is disgusted at the notion that I would make it. I've decided this team looks nothing like a playoff team and will shock me if they put together a run and actually compete for a playoff spot. But I hope I'm shocked. Cause I love this freaking,

I love this franchise. Um, so Rose, we have a $50 bet, which I regard as $50. You wouldn't even bet $5 with me for the Oscars. Cause Oscars is like two. Yeah.

This, this, this is $50. This is more sports. Yeah Because Oscars is like too... $50? You guys are high rollers. So this is the way I'm looking at it now. If we don't make the playoffs, A, I'm right. Because this team looks

really awful. I'm going to ask you your thoughts in a minute. But I'm very disappointed so far. We were sold this fool's gold. And B, I get $50. And then we go on to next year and hopefully things are better but if by some chance we do make the playoffs rose i will be so happy to give my brother that 50 bucks because hell my jays are in the playoffs again for the first time since 93 this is a win-win for me there's no it's just all i can't wait for you yeah it's all positive for me

so rose uh have you watched any blue jays baseball do you have any opinion so far after 20 games i don't know i haven't watched any um baseball but i? Do you have any opinion so far after 20 games? I don't know. I haven't watched any baseball, but I think it's just, there's so, what? There's like 160. 162. 162 games. It's way too early for you to be freaking out. Way too early.

Well, first of all, define freaking out. I'm not freaking out. I've seen, I don't even go by numbers. I don't even go by numbers. There's no cohesion here. There's nothing here that, I've never seen this team win. That's the difference. That's the key difference, okay?

If we got off to a bad start in 93, I knew that the core was there in 92 and proved that they could win. Like, oh, they'll bounce back. I've seen them succeed before. This year, I look at this collective, and I've never seen them succeed. So it's all based on, oh, yeah, all these parts are good. I've never seen this team succeed. So I need to see to believe. And so far, I've seen mediocrity after 20 games.

Well, this is the thing. It's only been 20 games. There's so many games. That's the thing with baseball. But you know that's over 10% of the season, Rose? That's nothing. 10% is one-tenth? You just have to relax.

I feel that they're going to start to get into a groove. They're going to start to win. It's way too early. There's so many games. Baseball takes forever. It goes all summer long. I'm not saying we're going to finish last in the division where we are right now, but there's a far cry between that and actually making the postseason.

You love your Jays so much that you just, I think you really, really wanted to see a bit, I think you wanted to see something better because such big moves were made with these players. Of course, Rose. I wanted to see at least over 500 ball. For sure. I totally get that. But I think just be a little patient.

I think it's going to be okay. Thanks, Rose. Okay. Quick Leaf update. This is a bit happier news. Exciting. I know. For the first time in nine years, Rose.

And as it stands right now, the Leafs would meet the Montreal Canadiens in the first round, which is bananas. That is so bananas. Scott said that to me the other night just randomly. He was like, it would be Leafs and Habs. Oh my God. My head almost exploded. Yep.

It's crazy. Bananas. And that's also a matchup I really, really like for the Leafs. There's a few teams I don't want to meet in the East, and the Habs are one of the teams I would like to meet because we match up well. We've blown them out a couple of times. And this Reimer kid, who you know, I've been wearing that Optimist Reim shirt since two seasons

ago. I've liked this kid from the beginning. He's the real deal. I love this guy. I feel that at the beginning of the season, someone must have listened to me because I said that they should do job sharing between Reimer and Scribbles. Oh, I remember this. Because Scribbles was starting the first game, I remember.

I was like, there's too much pressure. The pressure the media, everyone puts on the poor Leaf goalie. It is just brutal. A job share would be much better. Take some of the pressure off. And look how well Reimer is doing. It is amazing. Because it's not all completely on him.

There's somebody else. Yeah, but you know, Reimer, Scrivens never plays anymore. No, but that's okay. But, you know, he started off, there was, you know what I mean? Yeah, at the beginning

they took turns for a bit and then Rhymer took over. You know, and I'm sure now if for some reason, you know, Rhymer's having a bad day, I don't know if now

playoffs you're going to want to put him in, but at least there was somebody else. I just feel like up till now with Leaf goalies, it was always like, you know,

remember Grigere? It was like, he's going sebastian chigar he's gonna you know he's gonna solve he was a proven goalie because he had won stanley cup true and in the very couple first couple games he did so well and everybody was like oh my god this is i was at that first game oh really and i remember watching it thinking oh my god he's amazing you're so excited and you're so into him and then boom it was like he sucked So I just feel we put all our pressure on one guy, whereas with the job share, look at how... Well, Reimer's doing... All right, you're smarty pants.

Well, let's just say this is the first time we've had a clear one like this since Mr. Ed Belfour, who was our starting goalie nine years ago when we beat the Ottawa Senators in seven games and then lost to the Flyers in six, as I recall. And do you hate the Senators more than the Habs? No, no, no. Habs are the most hated.

Senators are a close second. And then whoever's third is a distant third. Sometimes it's Boston. Usually it's, sometimes it's, it depends. But one and two are clear, one and two. Habs, Sens, hate them, despise them. All right. I hope the Sens don't make the playoffs.

That's a possibility too. Good. F them. They have that player that I hate that hurt that guy. What's his name? Now I can't remember. Shoot. You know the one.

Neil? Or the. Is it Alfredson? Oh, Alfredson. Yeah, he's been there forever. Oh. F him. I hate him.

Speaking of hockey, I have a annual tradition that I, I guess now it's I, but I host a hockey pool every playoff season. And you have to be invited to this. And we all physically, we don't do it remotely. There's no Skype or MSN or Yahoo or Gmail, whatever. It's all done live in a room on a Monday night just before the playoffs start. room on a Monday night just before the playoffs start. And it's got an interesting history because it was started by Jason Agnew, who has actually become a pretty well-known media personality in Toronto. He was on Byte TV for a long time, and you hear him on CFRB, and he's got the conventioneers, I think it's called, and various programs that he hosts and game shows.

So it's funny that Jason Agnew started this pool and I used to make my way to Bishop Allen High School to draft. And this is way back now and my brother was there, my brother Steve. But over the years it's evolved and now I'm hosting it and I can't wait to have 12 to 15 drafters on next Monday night. And it's always a good time. That's fun. That's a nice tradition.

It is a nice thing. People you know, like Elvis will be there. Mike Muzzin will be there. Core Fusion's very own Pete McFedren is going to be there. He's on Twitter too. My buddy Mike Kick, who's bananas. And I tried to get your husband to come out. Monica's going to draft.

I'm ready to go. Love it. The regulars like MoFo and my two brothers. And your brothers too? Love it. And your little guys. Yeah, James drafts. Is he going to do it?

Yeah. Oh, that's good. He drafted last year and he's ready to go again. I saw on your site that he won his championship. Oh, yeah, they won. That's so great. And that was cool. He must have been so happy.

It was just I didn't see it coming because midway through the season, I thought they were a pretty mediocre team. And I think their goalie got hot. They got the select goalie and he got hot. And then everything came together. But James played a great finals game and they had overtime and then a shootout and then it was super dramatic and exciting. It was a shootout.

It was a shootout at George Bell. Literally, by the way, which is down the street from where that literal shootout happened. Was it two days ago? At the TD Bank? Yeah, that was crazy. Right down the street. So, yep.

That's the hockey update on Toronto Mic'd. And I'm going to do a great segue over to blue jeans, Rose. I want you to know, real quick, i only own one pair of blue jeans right now okay so my point is and it's really when it's not warm outside and i'm not wearing a robe it's really the only pants i wear this one pair of jeans it's all i wear i'm a big fan of the blue jean yeah i like but how many pairs do you own i have not not as many as uh you would think i have my no wash ones that i'm doing my no wash experiment with do we get an update on that going it's going well i think it's july where i have to wash them for

the first time so i actually have to get them hemmed because they're kind of long and now that it's summer it's actually feeling although it's still it's sunny but it's still not i feel like for this time of year it's not no it's hot enough it's cold yeah It's cold. And then I have this pair, which is just like an old pair that I do wash. And then I have my red jeans. So I've got three pairs. Oh, that's not bad at all. But I had a recent massive

closet purge. I have to ask you something. Have you ever had moths in your house? Never. Oh my gosh. So we went away, went to, uh, Florida and came back and opened my closet door and two flew out.

And there was just, I'd had some boxes and apparently they like carpet and this little corner, um, there they were. So, okay. You know, did some spring cleaning and I just started throwing stuff out and I thought

I had done that, but, um, this was like, I really got rid of stuff. And you know what? It feels good, right? It feels amazing. I did this very recently. It actually feels amazing. And then you really start to realize, what do I have? Like, why do I have all these clothes?

What do I need, you know, 10 pairs of jeans for? I don't. So it was, you know, lots of stuff. I? I, I, I don't. So it was, you know, lots of stuff, lots of stuff went to Goodwill and, um, I'm not going to accumulate as much stuff again.

So it's not necessary. That's where I'm at. Uh, I just did a big time minimalization. Oh, you did it too? Yep. Uh,

when I was about a year ago, like, so first of all, I, I left my house for an apartment. I feel like something sometimes has to get, give you kickstarted. So for you, it was probably moving year ago. So first of all, I left my house for an apartment. I feel like something sometimes has to give you kickstart. So for you, it was probably moving. So moving did it.

And then I did it a second time. Just anything I hadn't like worn in a year went. And it turns out I only wear like three things. I do find that I tend to just... I wear the same pair of shorts every day, the same pair of blue jeans and like one of like six t-shirts. That's it.

And I'm like that in the summer. I have like a couple of dresses and I wear them all the time. And then a couple of t-shirts and I just, I don't know. You don't need, uh, we, I think we buy stuff a lot of the time.

We have too much stuff, Rose, too much stuff, but it feels good. It felt good to just get rid of all sorts of stuff and then move it along to someone who needs it more. what is Sevenly? Oh my gosh.

Sevenly. Okay. So on the topic of, um, clothing, um, recently I do, uh, volunteer work for autism, um, uh, autism and autism initiatives. And, um, I'm on the, I got an email from Autism Ontario and they were selling, this company Sevenly was selling t this company, Sevenly, was selling t-shirts with Autism in support of autism. And I thought, well, that's cool.

I'm going to pick one up. So I checked out this website. And I fell in love with it. But you're minimalizing, Rose. I know. And I was just about to say, but Rose, you just said, you don't want to buy more clothes. Well, here's the thing.

Sevenly, basically, each week has a new t-shirt in support of a particular charity. So. Well, here's the thing. Sevenly, basically each week, has a new t-shirt in support of a particular charity. So every week they take a charity and they come up with limited edition t-shirts and each purchase, $7 goes to the charity. So if, you know, t-shirts you do... What does a t-shirt go for on this site? Anywhere between like,

I think the cheapest one I saw was $20 and then some of them are more like $ yeah they're really you know reasonably priced the quality is really good and it's based out of california um and if you buy a couple then there's no shipping charge which i think is really really cool but i just i liked it for so many reasons because um you know you learn about some some new stuff the one this week and it's actually on my on my website um the uh mytorontoScoop.com? Yes, this one. I love that site.

Oh, thank you. So you learn about new charities every week, which I think is amazing. So obviously I had an interest in the autism charity, but then in subsequent weeks, I've been learning about different ones. And the charity this week is in support of End7. And this organization is trying to,

there's tropical diseases in Africa that just kill children every year and they're not, it doesn't cost a lot to cure them. So that's N7 is the charity for this week. If you buy a t-shirt, it goes in support of it. And so I figure if you do have to buy something, why not buy something that supports someone, helps somebody out?

It's kind of cool. Very cool. Yes. You know what's not cool? What? Mars Candy Corporation, makers of Snickers, Three Musketeers,

Milky Way Twix, and chocolate bars like that have cut the size of these bars by 11% and they're calling it calorie cutting, not size cutting, but they did not reduce the price of these chocolate bars. That's outrageous. They decreased the size and say they're doing you a

favor because they reduced the calories and then they did not reduce the price 11%, just the size. So that has nothing to do with trying to help people reduce calories. They're just trying to save money. Completely. It's fit for the pit. That's disgusting for the pit. Yeah, see, that's another flashback. Oh my god. Oh, completely. It's Fit for the Pit. That's disgusting.

Fit for the Pit. Yeah, see, that's another flashback. Oh my God. No, but that one's more recent though. Not that recent. It leaked into the 90s though. Yeah, but the 90s were a long time ago now. I am the computer man.

Fit for the Pit. That's... Jonathan Torrance. That's just being... I watched it from season one. I loved that show. Street Sense. Street Sense. That's on CBC. And Jonathan Torrance and I watched it from season one. I loved that show. Street Sense. Street Sense.

That's what I watched. On CBC. And Jonathan Torrance. One of my friends went out with him. I dated him for a little while. Oh, he was on Trailer Park Boys.

Yeah. And he had a talk show. John O'Vision. John O'Vision. I'm a big fan. Apparently you like Jonathan Torrance. What good Canadian boy

isn't a fan of John O'Vision? Yeah, yeah. He's pretty cool. Who dated? You dated John O'Vision. Yeah, yeah, he's pretty cool. Who dated? You dated John O'Vision. No, no, no. You got an exclusive? Well, one of my former classmates,

she dated him for a little while when she was freelancing at the CBC. Wow. She didn't really tell me any dirt on him, though. Okay, get some dirt on somebody. It didn't last. Get some dirt on that chubby guy who co-hosted in season one and then disappeared.

Remember this guy? Yeah, it's true anyway um real quick nerd note is that uh i'm excited because uh as you know i i work from my linux desktop behind me which runs ubuntu linux and then i do some work on my macbook pro that my work bought for me. Where's the Ubuntu? I am pointing to the Ubuntu. So that's my main. So I split between the two. My son actually prefers the Windows laptop

because he likes to play Minecraft, but that's neither here nor there. I just want to say Ubuntu 13.04 is coming out this week, and I'm pretty psyched. I hear it's a lot faster, and there's some nice tweaks. Congratulations. Thank you very,

very, very much. Rose, any final thoughts before we shut this down for episode 35? No, I'm, um, I'm glad your,

um, your podcast with Freddie P went well. I'll have to listen to it. Are you going to have Humble Howard on the show? Yep. Actually, we're discussing maybe next week. So sometime next week.

Cool. Uh, Humble, I got a lot of questions. One question, and he doesn't listen because he listened to episode 34 and he gave me some feedback on stuff. Oh, nice.

And I could tell it was the first episode he had ever listened to, episode 34. But I can say that he has announced that he's getting a vasectomy. So he's getting a vasectomy, but he's got a 29-year-old girlfriend who has no children so I want to talk

one of my questions for him because I have a younger girlfriend and I have children and I would be shot if I got a vasectomy right now she wants my sperm Rose and they got to have swimmers in there I don't know vasectomy I guess you don't produce sperm right

you're a doctor I'm going to guess you don't although. Vasectomy, I guess you don't produce sperm, right? You're a doctor. Vasectomy means you're not having any more kids. Although I have heard that it's not 100%. Well, they test you though. Like you don't do it. You protect for a month and then they do a test. They test your sperm, semen I guess, and see if there's any swimmers.

Why can't he just put a condom on? Forever? Who'd want to do that? Rose, come on. Let's not get in his bedroom here okay you brought it up i know you brought i'm not bringing up that i'm bringing no my my question is sure this 29 year old you love uh this beautiful 29 year old you're in love with tells you today i don't need to have children with you but chicks change their mind all the

freaking time on that thing if that 29 year old no, what happens when she's 32 and she says, I need to procreate? And then he has to get it reversed. Or she knocks on someone else's door. All right, so lots of exciting things. That would be interesting to hear. I got some good stuff for Humble. And that brings us to the end of our show.

You can follow me on Twitter at Toronto Mike and Rosie at Rosie in Toronto. Bye for now. See you all next week. Thank you.