Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Toronto Mike'd #42

Episode Date: June 12, 2013

Mike and Rosie discuss Mike's wedding, Rinse's comment and the TIFF Lightbox.

Welcome to the 42nd 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. What up, Rosie? Hello, my friend. I just realized something.

I need a fader for this music still. Stokely, are you listening? Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. What you're doing, you never know that you're down a fader. You're doing very well. I'm turning a knob, but like some kind of amateur hack. Mike's really become quite the radio producer here.

He's very, very, very confident with all these buttons and knobs. All we need is a spot on the radio. Mike, this is your last podcast before you are a married man. podcast before you are a married man that's assuming my brother uh doesn't show up for his uh what's his podcast calling him he's actually bailed four or five weeks in a row i forgot fantasy sports i have it on my calendar uh repeating meeting every uh wednesday at five o'clock he's supposed to come over and record Fantasy Sports Hookup. He's canceled five weeks in a row. So now he's scheduled for today, but it's one of those things where I'm going to go pick up my tuxedo.

I hope he doesn't show up today. Brothers. Okay, so I have a question. You said you two have it in your calendar. And I put Toronto Mic'd podcast in my Gmail calendar. And today I went to check my calendar and I looked into that particular event and you declined it.

I did not. You know what? I already put it in my calendar. So I declined yours because I had two entries every week at the same time. So I think I declined yours so we didn't write to my entry because I already had it in my calendar.

Like you sent me an invitation to something that was already in my calendar. I assure you, I have it in my calendar. Well, it was funny because I was looking at it and there's a line through your email and I don't do it very often. That means you've been replaced. And I was like, WTF?

He declined his own podcast. But did you say WTF? Or did you say the real thing? No, it wasn't. I didn't warrant the F-bomb out loud. Because this podcast remains non-explicit content in iTunes, but my other podcast, I do, has explicit content. So I have to turn a switch in my head. But we've said some bad words.

I said asshole. The iTunes and the Apple police are looking into it. Is that for real? Like, do they really actually look for bad words? I don't know if the Apple police are monitoring, but I know Obama's listening, so I just want to say hi to President Obama. He's the whistleblower dude is in a safe house, apparently.

Yeah, it's very, very crazy. Honestly, sometimes life is stranger than fiction. You can make this stuff up. Speaking of life being stranger than fiction, something exciting happened on Monday night and you were there to witness it. Should we tell the good people what you witnessed and how you documented it, et cetera?

It was pretty exciting. So Mike's mentioned a few times, obviously, that he's letting his hair grow in anticipation of his wedding. And it was getting longer and longer and longer, starting to resemble something perhaps like a Brillo pad. Someone said it was Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber. I can't remember his character name, but Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber. Corey posted a picture. Corey posted a picture on your website and I laughed out loud. It was so funny. It was, I was like, oh my God, it looks like him. Anyways,

my best friend is a hairstylist. She's like one of the, your other best friend. Well, it's actually true. You and Chrissy are my two oldest friends. I don't know which one of you I met first, but it's pretty close because it was grade 10. I might have even met you first. Anyways, she's a top hairstylist. She's a brilliant stylist, amazing. And she doesn't really take people on anymore in her home salon.

She's so busy. But I said to her, Chris, this is a big day. This is wedding day. Can you take on Toronto Mike's head of hair? So my friend Chrissy, Monday night, gave Mike a haircut. And I took some pictures of it because the before and after is very dramatic. And I think she did an awesome job. It looks really good.

I just need to look good Saturday. And I look good so far. I'm just worried that sometime, what is it? Wednesday? What is it? Wednesday, right? So sometime between now and Saturday, it's going to like mushroom and explode. I just got to keep an eye on it. Well, she didn't want to cut it down too short because she wanted it to look trendy. Probably the longest haircut I've ever had. Yeah. It was funny because I was thinking that I'm like, he's probably used to getting shorter cuts, but. And probably now a week, like I'll be fine for Saturday. And then the week after, I'll need another haircut.

You will. But the thing is, in the pictures, it's going to look so good. Because sometimes if you get, when you just get a haircut, it looks like you just got a haircut. You know, you don't want to look like that. It's a bit nerdy. So this is good. This is good.

She did a good job. I'm pleased. I knew she would. I'm pleased as well. She's awesome. And you documented it. And you put it in the comments of the open mic on Tuesday. Is that right?

No, I put it in the comments where you talked about your wedding. Oh, Monica's organization skills. Yes. Entry. Yeah, and there's such a nice picture. There's actually lots of good pictures in there because you posted a picture. Was it your engagement photo? You and Monica's engagement photo?

Yeah, I got 500. If you ever want to see some pictures, I have 500 engagement photos on my Flickr account. But that one you put is so nice. I like wanted to print it out and frame it and put it in my house. It's like the nicest. I just assumed you did. It's the nicest picture.

So yeah, so there's a blog entry on my site about Monica being an awesome organizer. And I put the pictures in there. So check it out. Well, she's taking notes. I see her. I I put the pictures in there. So check it out. Well, she's taking notes. I see her. I'm looking at her right now and she's making notes. That's how organized she is.

You see this? She's making notes. She's going to give me a list of things I have to do Saturday morning. I have a list of things I have to do tomorrow and today and Friday. Crazy. This is crazy. I can't wait. I mean, I'm going to have a good time at the wedding, but I can't wait for it to come so it could end and I can go back to normal it's really funny because I actually

remember feeling um I have to admit as as you know it's wonderful the day it's so much fun but it feels so good when it's all done especially when you're having you know we had a similar thing like a hundred people and you know a formal kind of affair and um you know we had a similar thing, like 100 people and, you know, a formal kind of affair. And, you know, we had a nuptial wedding. So, you know, we had the church portion of it. I actually remember that being after the church part, being in the limo and being like, OK, we're married. It's good. You know, I feel like once you're married, once it's done, then the rest is just a party. And it's nice because you guys are having your ceremony pretty close to the reception.

Yeah, there's like a 70-minute gap or something. Yeah, it's perfect. It's perfect. And it feels good when it's nice because you guys are having your ceremony pretty close to the reception. Yeah, there's like a 70-minute gap or something. Yeah, it's perfect. But it feels good when it's all done. Yeah, and don't get me wrong, but we have little tasks that I think some people like to delegate to planners and stuff. But we were at LCBO yesterday, and I dropped $1,000 on booze. And then tomorrow we're off to the beer store to drop another few hundred bucks on beer. And I got to get it all to the venue and all these different logistical things. I don't, I mean, I know people do it and some people may not agree with me,

but I feel like wedding planner is like a made up job or like a job for, you know, something for rich people to hire. Because if you are a smart, organized person. Did you organize your own wedding yeah of course there's really no reason to spend that money is exceptional we are an average person but what are you paying the plan i don't understand what you're playing the planner for you're paying them to be the person who has to herd the cats like if you have 20 different parts that don't talk to each other you have that one part that coordinates all 20 parts but coordinates

for what like i don't understand i don't know but have that one part that coordinates all 20 parts. But coordinates for what? Like, I don't understand. Like, I don't know. But in that same entry that you left, the haircut pictures, I wrote some of the stuff, but you got stuff like, you have servers,

and you have food, and you have a cake coming, and you have security, and you have, there's like, You see, you have, okay, so you have, we have,

we have to put tables down. You're responsible for everything. So I guess that's the difference. That's the venue. We did a banquet hall? Yes. So they do a la carte venue. You have tables down. So you're responsible for everything. So I guess that's the difference. That's the venue. We did a banquet hall. Yes. So they do a lot of it. You know what?

They do. They actually pretty much do all that stuff. We had to rent chairs. Yeah. Okay. So tables have to be reassembled while we have that 70 minute break. So you know what? That's a good point.

As you explain that, I guess a wedding planner would take care of all the stuff that a banquet It's because we built it on. We bought a box basically, this art gallery. We bought the box for the day and now we have to the stuff. It's because we built it on. We bought a box, basically, this art gallery. We bought the box for the day, and now we have to build it. It's going to be gorgeous. I love Distillery District. The pictures are going to be amazing. Well, after the ceremony, there's like 70 minutes where we kick you out of the gallery to put the tables down,

and you'll have a great chance to walk the distillery district maybe go to ball's axe i love balls but we're getting coffee shipped from there good in the evening coffee's important you gotta have okay so you're at the table uh you're at the humble and fred table with elvis they're at the rosy table yeah well that's what i told them that thank you so everyone's at the rosy table and i i know that we had this chat during the haircut, but Humble Howard on his podcast said that, this was back on Monday, I think, he said, didn't want to wear a suit because he had an old-fashioned Hugo Boss suit.

So he was going to buy a new sports jacket and wear spiffy pants and no tie. And you thought he should wear a tie and a suit. So you still feel, I just wanted, I felt it was fine if a guy wants to come to my wedding in a sports jacket and spiffy pants.

I felt like that was cool because I could see myself doing that. I mean, it's fine. It's just better to wear a suit. That's all. I mean, of course it's fine

as long as you don't show up naked. He's not going to show up naked and he's going to wear a suit. I can understand, I mean, I can understand if he's, you know, he's feeling like his suit

is older and he felt like wearing something new and if you're going to buy new clothes, sure, it makes more sense to buy something you're going to wear more often. But you're of the belief that if you're going to a wedding and it's not like a beach wedding or whatever, you've got to wear a suit. Well, here's the thing. People don't get married all the time. Every 17 years, Rosie. Except for you.

You get married every 17 years. No, this is it this is you're done this is your this is your happily ever after but you said that last time Rose every 17 years

you're the only person that gets invited to all of my weddings here's the thing you don't get married all the time somebody has invited you

to share in a really special important day at a beautiful venue come on wear a suit suit up as Barney would beautiful venue. Come on, wear a suit. Suit up, as Barney would say. You know what?

You can wear spiffy pants to the bar, out to dinner. Well, Fred's wearing a suit, and I'm sure El Duce and Elvis are wearing suits. El Duce and Elvis, I'd be very surprised to not see them in the suit because they are... Elvis and Twitter need to wear suits. Yeah, they strike me as like, you know... Okay, say it. It's the I word. Say it. No, I was going to say just old school gentleman. Not Italian.

No, because Scott's not Italian. Scott's not Italian, but he would always wear a suit to a wedding. So, I mean, it's nothing wrong if you don't. I mean, it's fine. It's just if you have a suit, you should probably wear it. Okay, I'm excited. So, we'll discuss how the wedding went on the next episode of Toronto Mike. I know, it's so exciting.

Did you listen to any of episode 41 with Juliana where she talked about her child with Rett syndrome and moving to Calgary? I didn't. I'm kind of saving that for when I can listen to it uninterrupted. But I did go to Juliana's blog because sort of blew me away. Rett syndrome, that's challenging. That's a challenging. Well, she described it with four things rolled into one, and I'm trying to remember them

all, but like if you took epilepsy and autism and, oh, cerebral palsy and a fourth one, and you rolled it into one. Oh, cerebral palsy and a fourth one, and you rolled it into one. Yeah, Rett syndrome is a tough one because you've got, not only do you have developmental delays, but there's physical challenges as well. So you've kind of got the whole bag of challenges to deal with. Yeah, nonverbal, which is hard enough, but then they're in pain and stuff physically.

Oh, yeah, it's heartbreaking. But they can't express what is hurting. You have to read their cries. Yeah, you have to know. You have to be able to try to read their little minds, know what's hurting them. And as a parent, I mean, as you know, you don't ever want to see your child in pain.

So it's tough. But her blog, I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but her blog is awesome. It's really, really cool. Now I should warn you, though, that might be, that's by far the heaviest episode of Toronto Mic'd. Toronto Mic'd has a tone. We have a good time on these things, but when you don't show up, look what happens.

It gets pretty damn heavy, Rose. That was a heavy episode. Okay, now, away from the wedding chatter and episode 41 chatter, I just want to quickly make a comment about the rinseince comment, because we've never actually discussed this on our podcast. But since we recorded last, I guess,

the timelines are all fuzzy to me, but we found out that the comment left by Rince, which I've read before, on the March entry about Rob Ford and his substance abuse allegations that a lot of things said in this comment line up with what we now know as fact. Like, he

nailed this old Italian woman has a house where Rob Ford smokes crack, and there's a granddaughter named Jasmine, and the granddaughter's mom is a crack addict. All of a sudden, all this makes sense. There's a Jasmine, the old Italian lady, the mom being arrested for the crack stuff. I'm just chatting with you about the fact

that this comment we all thought was a ridiculous comment in March and then suddenly wondered if it could possibly be true when we found out about the video. Now it looks like this Rince guy was telling truths. Mm-hmm. It's bananas. Bananas that he left that amount of detail.

He or she, Rose, we don't know. I know, it's funny how you say he. I've been saying he and I get called out by journalists. Well, for sure. It's just sort of like a default. No, it is bananas that he left those details on your site. And I mean, obviously, it's, I mean, I check I I check Gawker and before even knowing like I had known about the rinse comment but um I was reading Gawker one morning and I read the

article and there's a link to Toronto Mike's I was like oh my god this is bananas I think I did say what the fuck like not WTF sorry iTunes sorry Apple oh Apple's coming after you now Rose I was like oh my god Mike's to have like a billion hits. Like everyone's reading this. It was the, uh, it was crazy. That day that Gawker linked to me and then, you know, all the regular folks would link to you like Torontoist and BlogTO and now Toronto and The Grid. Those guys all link.

No, I did talk to a couple of like the bigger boys. Like I talked to Global News. I talked to The Globe and Mail and I talked to the National Post, but none were willing to actually write about it. They just wanted to find out more and they all wanted to know if they could talk to Rince. I was going to say, they probably all wanted him or her. Yeah, and I told

the truth, which I'd already done, which is that I have no idea who Rince is. No, and I think the reason why it probably won't move the story forward any further is the fact that it is, at the end of the day, even though it is correct, the details are as correct as we can believe them to be. At the end of the day, it's an anonymous comment on your site. True, but I think that maybe we need to talk to Jasmine. Where's Jasmine?

Poor girl. I don't know. My heart breaks for Jasmine. Someone need to talk to Jasmine. Where's Jasmine? Poor girl. I don't know. My heart breaks for anyone related to that family. Because remember, the comment said Jasmine wanted to outford, but her grandma would basically kill her. Oh, is that what it said? That she wanted to? It did say that she wanted to?

It said that she wanted to, but her grandmother said it would bring shame upon the family. And then the final words that were written by Rince said something to the effect of, do the right thing, Jasmine. No, I remember. It said, shame on you, Jasmine. Oh, yeah. She wouldn't out him because her grandmother said it would bring shame upon the family.

Yikes. So the Rince comment, very interesting to see what happens now. I don't know. I do have a good source that tells me that there's more investigation happening by Kevin Donovan and the crew. So we'll see what happens next in the Rob Ford scandal. It's never boring. But, you know, it's funny. Everyone sort of said he's going to have to address it.

He's going to have to say something. He's sticking to it. Well, you know what? He doesn't have to address it. He's going to have to say something. He's sticking to it. He doesn't have to address it. It is fading a little bit. He's going to get stomped in the next election. You can isolate this audio and then remind me of it the day after. He's going to get stomped in the next election.

That's the only power we have is that we can vote for someone else in 2014. No, exactly. Meanwhile, every time I see him, my blood boils. I can't believe this asshole thinks he can get away with it by not acknowledging it and pretending like it's business as usual. It's like we're living in some kind of bizarro world. It's crazy.

Half his staff is gone. And they all left on principle. They all made comments off the record to big publications that he needs to get help. And even the guy who ran his campaign in 2010 said he's not coming back unless Rob Ford gets help. He needs help. And that one's not an unnamed source. That guy put his name to it.

So there you go. Now, what I did discover during the ford stuff that's been going on the last two weeks is that i've been going to all the big newspaper websites like star sun globe and i've never hit a paywall but you mentioned that if you link from twitter you can avoid paywall yeah um if you are on twitter or um you know often media sites will put links on, you know, Facebook. Any, basically, from what I understand, any social media link that, if you use a social media link to get to an article on a newspaper site, it doesn't count towards your quota that you have per month. That's a massive loophole, right?

It's a huge loophole. I read, I read the Globe, you know, I read the Globe every day and I link to the articles through Twitter links. But it's not something they really I don't think. It's not something they really advertise. The only reason I even knew about it was because I was reading way back this little article about, because the Star eventually is going

to a paywall as well, and they had written a little... Aren't they there already or no? No. No, they're not. No wonder I never hit their paywall. Yeah, they have announced They have announced that they definitely are, but when they haven't really announced a date. And it said, except for content that you link to through social media.

So I know it's the case for The Globe because I read The Globe all the time and I've never hit a paywall. I think they're all like that. The Sun, and I don't read The Globe all the time and I've never hit a paywall. I think they're all like that. I think The Sun's like that too. The Sun, and I don't read The Sun, but I will, like of Don Pete,

the reporter Don Pete on Twitter, he writes for The Sun. So he'll tweet something and I'll go click through. And I've never, I've always wondered, like, what does it take? How many articles do I have to read? And then I realized the Twitter loophole. Yeah, but it's, again, it's like, they don't really,

I don't, it's so it's, it's in a way it's kind of contradictory, right? It's like, well, you think they close that loophole? Like,

well, I think it's intentional. I think they must be a gateway to, uh, pull out paywall stuff. I don't know. I don't know. But you know,

for now it's funny. It's hard to say. I mean, I, I actually subscribed to the star, just the Saturday Star. And I do it because this is so hilarious. Comics.

No, the TV. My mom likes the TV Guide. Oh, that's still got like TV Talkback in it. It's called Star Week. It's called Star Week. No, but they had like a section in Star Week. I used to get the Star delivered too. And my favorite was in Star Week, there was a section called TV Talkback

where people would write in, I think Mike Wilner's brother used to write this. Like, you know Mike Wilner from Blue Jays? No. Okay. So Mike Wilner's brother,

I think Norm Wilner, I think he wrote, used to write it. I don't know. It's all coming back to me now. But I guess TV Talkback is gone. Was that the thing

that was questions? Yes. Oh my God, I totally remember that. I loved that. Because you know why we didn't have Google so people would say, me now but i guess tv talkback is gone was that the thing it was questions yes oh my god i totally remember that i loved that because you know why we didn't have google so people say uh is this is the guy who played fonzie's brother ralph did he is he the guy who showed up in uh i used to remember wishing it was longer like why didn't they make it longer that's so funny the things you forget about that's crazy well my mom loves her star week. So, you know, and she's over all the time. That's cute.

That's like a relic from a, that's going to be, eventually they'll stop Star Week. That's inevitable because everyone's going to be saying, they'll just put it on the online, on a tablet or most people have it on their TV. I guess, you know, I think though right now there is a still a large demographic that uses it. I guess once that demographic passes on, they will no longer need Star Wars. And we're talking a lot older than your mom here. Well, you know what's funny? My mom actually has got quite savvy

with the PVR. She knows how to look, but for some reason, she still likes to have the physical TV guide, even though she does use her PVR. She's finally moved on to that. I couldn't live without it. I love it now, too, as well. Now, you wanted to make a comment about a i don't know if it's a hidden treasure i walked by it the other day uh but the tiff light box oh my gosh okay so um every year so toronto uh film fest

toronto national film fest you know it's huge every september we'll we're really into it we've been into it for years i'll buy tickets in advance we'll go um see the films and then you know recently obviously they built the tiff light box at king and john to house the film fest um in the fall because you know before it was at theaters all over the city so now it's got its own place but i what i think people don't realize is that or you know i'm sure some people do but i don't think i actually fully realized it it's like it's year-round you can see movies there it's a movie theater and it's you know first run movies you know there'll be a lot of like obviously smaller artsy stuff yeah foreign films exactly and you know but if you're into you know

cinema there's you know great stuff there and it's not any more expensive. I actually think it's cheaper. A regular screening for an adult is $12. So I don't know. I think it was $13, I think, when I saw Star Trek. I know. And that's the thing. Well, new releases are $13. But a movie that's been out for a couple of weeks, I forget the name of that.

The Retro Theaters or whatever they call those? I'm not sure. Review? Well well that's like really really old but there's a name for when a movie's been out for like you know a few weeks anyways um you know those are 12 but that's the same as you know a typical theater and it's an amazing it's an amazing um place to see it to see a movie and it's just really cool. You're right downtown. Obviously, you have to pay for parking. Some people balk at that because a lot of the movie theaters have free parking. But the thing is that you're downtown.

So you can make the whole night of it. That's right across from Roy Thompson Hall. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it's gorgeous. It's so beautiful. So I had not actually been to the Lightbox because the movies we saw last year weren't at the Lightbox. They were at another venue. And it was amazing.

And the Luma restaurant is like right in there. And there's like a really cool place to like have a drink and you overlook the city. So I just thought it's such, it's just one of those things that you might not, you might think that it's only associated with the Film Fest. And I feel like maybe their marketing is not really, like they should be putting it out there a bit more. Doesn't Bell sponsor this? Oh, yeah, yeah. Bell is, well, I mean, it's right in the name,

the TIFF Bell Lightbox. But you don't have to buy tickets. I think when people think Film Fest stuff, you have to buy tickets in advance. You don't if there's a movie playing. Like we saw The East, which is, you know, in theaters now. You can just walk in, buy a ticket, like any other movie theater, and go.

And it's pretty cool. So everyone should try it. It's neat. The TIFF light box. Yes. King and John. Yes. Great.

I walked by it on Saturday because I... Wait, isn't Ill Vibe supposed to get me a remix of this tune? He said he was going to. He was all pumped about it. Follow up because I just want that opening part like looped into some kind of a rap song. It'd be perfect. It'd be perfect.

It's very catchy, this song. So I went to the game on Saturday with my brothers and my son. The four of us had amazing seats. And it was the longest game in Blue Jay history. Oh, my God. I would have died. A lot of people made that joke to me.

I would have died. I'm so sorry. I do that. This blog sucks with Elvis. And we each bring like four things that suck. And then he said that would have been one of his things. He went to a baseball game and it was 18 innings. Yeah.

But I enjoyed it. I wanted to go 30 innings. I had a good time. But I just think that's amazing that I've been to the longest Blue Jay game in the history of since 1977. No game has gone longer. It's always cool when you, you know, you take part in something that's history, right? Historic. You are now part of something historic. Now I have to root against all

games. Make sure no game goes longer. You know what? I wrote about it. I think I wrote about it with the subject the title was like Longest Jays Game Ever. And one or two people one guy who comments as Toronto Sea. I guess why at the end. And then there's another one I can't remember.

Two people jumped on me. Toronto Sea called me a liar. he said i was lying because another why would you lie about that first of all because in 2005 another jay's game went 18 innings okay and he called me a liar and then two things so one thing is i had a chat with monica like if i state this is the longest game but another game went as long but no game has gone longer is my statement a lie and she says no my statement is true that is the longest game totally agree yeah okay thank you it's like so i knew my statement was correct and i was like so offended because in like 11 000 entries one thing i never do is lie in an entry like why would i lie about this he wrote you're a liar like

is this someone that comments regularly he came around around with the Rob Ford stuff. Oh, you inherited him with Rob Ford. Yeah. And he said that I was putting a Rob Ford spin on it. And then I told him, no, it's true, whatever, whatever. And then finally, somebody, I think it was a guy who came. His name is Tron. He actually writes a lot. Yeah, good comment.

Yeah, totally. Tron said, actually, when we won that game in 2005, there was only one out when we had the walk-off win. In this game, there were two outs. So there is no tie. The game I was at was the de facto longest game in Blue Jay history. So F-U Toronto C. You sound like a straight-up crazy person.

I was like, you should go revisit those comments. I was like, why would you call me a liar? Well, that's the thing. What was he hoping for you to do to say? Like I was burying the fact that this. You're right. I told him I'm not denying the existence of the 2005 game. I acknowledge a game in 2005 went 18 innings.

No game, I'm stating no game has ever gone longer. But as Tron said, my game went longer. Two outs before the walk-off. There's some people when they comment. It's so funny, there's some people when they comment on your site, I actually look forward, when I see their name, I look forward to what they have to say. Who are those people, Rose?

Who do I like? I like Lauren, I like Liz. Actually, I like a lot. Rick C. I like Anon. He always writes good, interesting stuff. I like a lot. Rick C. I like Anon. He always writes good, interesting. Anon, Anon. Yeah, he always writes interesting stuff. I like Corey's stuff. There's lots.

There's a lot of commenters that I enjoy what they write. And then there's some that are, there was one recently. I couldn't figure it out. It was CQ, and he has a blog as well. Yeah. And I couldn't wrap my head around it recently, um, I couldn't figure it out. It was CQ and he has a blog as well. Yeah. And I couldn't wrap my head around it because, okay, so on my website I have ads and,

you know, you know, they, yes, they make like a little bit of money and they also, you know, they look, they look nice,

right? Coffee money. Exactly. Like barely, but you know, it's, it's, they're there,

but I also think they have, yeah, exactly. Not Starbucks, McDonald's, but I also like the aesthetic i have to admit i like the aesthetics of them and then there's certain um there's certain ads that i have because i like the cause like the sevenly i love that it goes to charity so i have that ad and i mean that one i don't think it's maybe any money but i just like it because it's a charity right so he had written

something about how he puts ads on his site but they don't so anyways i looked at his site and he has at the top all these little cutout logos and i was like what is he doing i don't understand i don't understand okay first of all when he that was an open mic and he was asked no i can't remember what we oh yeah in that open mic we were talking about that day that gawker linked to me and it was the second most traffic right second highest number of unique visitors in a day in my site's history. And I was explaining how the money works. Like I don't get paid when people come.

I get paid when people click ads. Click on the ads, yeah. Because you have the Google AdSense. So if someone clicks on that, you get some money. Exactly. And CQ had questions and things to say about this. And I honestly read his comment three times. And I didn't understand the comment.

Three different times. I read it slowly. And then I actually said, Elvis, can you read this comment and tell me what CQ is saying? And he said he had no idea. My mom, I had dinner with her that night. And my mom said she was trying to understand what it was saying. Nobody could figure out what CQ was saying. I asked him to clarify. It turns out, I think he was saying to understand what it was saying. Nobody could figure out what CQ was saying. I asked him to clarify.

It turns out, I think he was saying, I think he was saying, I still don't know, but ads should be put in the banner? And then he said, and I went to his site like you did. And he's got. It got me there. I actually went to his site because I didn't understand what he was doing. He'll put like a little. No, GM doesn't ask him to do this. He makes a little GM logo and puts it in the corner and links it to gm.ca.

And he had like no frills and like all these. No frills was there. Yeah. And Honda's there. So like, it's not like he's a, he's loyal to one car and these random logos are there and he doesn't know if they're being clicked. I know they're not being clicked. And they're, well, I know they're not being clicked. And they're... The brands he's advertising for free, first of all, why advertise for free if I didn't get paid for my

Google AdSense? I mean, I understand the exception is your example where it's like for charity or a PSA. Outside of that, yeah, philanthropic stuff. Sure. Why would you ever have a GM logo on your site unless maybe you worked for GM? Well, that's on your site unless maybe you worked for gm well that's the thing if maybe you worked for it or for some reason you had some you know you know

great affinity for it but i couldn't wrap my head around it because if you know or maybe then i thought okay well maybe he wants you know it to make his site look more professional but they don't look professional they don't look good gm will never he kept he was he seems to be really bothered by the free stuff i get he'll do a he's watching so closely he'll do a laundry list of like all the freebies i've got in the past two years and he'll say how come this blocks i gotta i'm picking up tomorrow i'm picking up a ford edge yeah for the wedding and i'm gonna pick it up from the media fleet at ford and he'll he something to say about that. Like, why is Ford giving me a car? He's had a Ford logo.

He'll say, why isn't he getting a car? But he doesn't deliver them anything. And he has no way of measuring what he delivers. Like you have, of course, I mean, they're giving it to you for a reason. I know, it's ridiculous, Rose. It's like so not logical. It's like mind bending. As somebody who has worked in a marketing department of some kind or another for over a decade,

GM's not happy with the way he's taken their logo. Like they're not going to be happy with the fact he's made their logo look really ugly and small. Like, so it's not even like a positive look, free exposure. People can click this logo and go to GM. It's more like, please remove our logo from your site. It's tarnishing our branding and image.

Because don't companies spend like millions of dollars on making sure that their marketing tools are... What new account does Don Draper's company have, Rose? Chevy. That's right, Chevy. I love Chevy. Even though when you watch Mad Men, all the ads are for Ford Lincoln. And for Johnny Walker Black.

Oh, with Christina Hendricks. Yeah, my husband loves that ad. Rose, it will shock you how much this never happened. I love that show. Okay, so that's the... I'm glad you brought this up. Anyways, you've got some really... You know, all that to say,

you've got some really interesting people and some comments I... And even Argo, I like, you know, he's... I don't agree with him. Argo? Argy. Argy. He won the great cup. Sorry, Argy. That pissed me off too. Rob Ford starts going on about Argo? Argy. Argy. He won the great cup.

Sorry, Argy. That pissed me off, too. Rob Ford starts going on about Argo stuff. It's like, answer one of the 20 good questions that we deserve to have answered, you idiot. Oh, and somebody posted a great picture in your, I think in the same comments I posted your haircut pictures. They posted a picture of Ford parked illegally in front of the Indian Ocean. He parks that Escalade anywhere. It's outrageous.

It's so outrageous. And if it's one block away, he'll drive and just leave it wherever he wants. No, they won't ticket him. He's basically above the law where he can drive that monster gas-guzzling Escalade anywhere he wants and just leave it wherever he wants, and then he's not held accountable at all. Come on. I can't believe the mayor of Toronto doesn't have a driver like that. I can't get it.

Remember Mel Lastman came out and said, you can't do this job without a driver. Well, if you think about it, it's actually not an efficient use of his time. He's trying to say he's saving money, but actually it's not efficient because if he was, somebody was driving him,

he could actually, you know, but this is the guy who, if you call him up and tell him that you got a hole in your wall, in some apartment and your landlord won't fix it, he will come to come and check it out. Like, talk about inefficient use of a mayor's time. Are you kidding me?

It's ridiculous. There's this part of me, though, that I almost want to call just to see what, like, I'm sort of curious. I understand he answers all his calls, I think. But that's so ridiculous. That's so ridiculous. He's in the wrong job. He probably would, that's a better counselor job, you know, as a counselor, maybe you have

to be for that, you know, represent your constituents or whatever. But as mayor of the city, I'll give me a break. I can't believe we're back on Ford. I was just about to say, how did this happen? It's so insidious. It just like creeps in without you even noticing it. Right. Now, do you have anything you want to, I have some items here that I think we'll move to the next episode. Uh, if you don't mind. Absolutely. Time sensitive stuff. Is there anything? I not time-sensitive stuff. I have to admit, I'm so excited for your wedding. I'm actually having trouble focusing.

I'm, like, so excited. It's, like, so soon. And, you know, you got your haircut, and Monica's making lists. It's exciting. Do you want me to walk through the itinerary? I love weddings. I love weddings. Because I've walked through it. I can tell you what's going to happen when.

And I won't ruin anything because there's some, like, the music choices I want to keep as a surprise or whatever. But this thing, like, it's going to be, let me do the math on this, like eight hours of awesome. Who's watching your son? Nana, my mom, is watching him. Oh, good. Good. And I'm excited, too, because Il Duce, Lasagna King, is that what you call him? Yeah, Lasagna King.

Anthony Petrucci, his Palma Pasta, I believe, is catering your wedding, right? He had to go to, when I was at the Jays game, he had to meet Monica and the servers and stuff at this location for a meeting. And Monica introduced, my mom was there, because my mom and my nephew, Nate, am I getting this right? Yeah, no, Xander. So my mom and Xander had to go as well for some reason. My mom wanted to see how to get there or something.

And my mom introduced Anthony, no, sorry. Monica introduced Anthony to my mom as Il Duce. That's hilarious. Monica says, I don't think Anthony listens, Monica says Anthony did not like it. Oh, he didn't like it? No, he didn't like being introduced as Il Duce. Well, you know why? Because it was the context, right? He was meeting, you know, he was meeting your mom. Meeting my mom. It was probably, I mean,

I don't know. And also, Il Duce is a, we can call Il Duce an asshole. Can we say that? He's a jerk? Well, maybe that's the thing. It was that persona. Or maybe he just felt, you know, I don't know. Maybe he just didn't, who knows. But, you know, he's a classy guy, that Anthony. Oh, he's lovely.

He's so nice. And he's a very successful, you know, it's a very successful business. Four locations. Yeah, I mean, the restaurant industry, it's not easy, especially in Toronto. And he's been doing it for a long time. So it's pretty, it's pretty cool. Can you tell, can you tell us the menu? Or is that secret?

Monica, can you come on and tell us the menu? No. I know that I can tell you that there's a chicken option. Oh, I see. You did options. That's right. So you did like beef, chicken. What's the baby beef called? did options. That's right. That's right. So you did like beef, chicken.

What's the baby beef called? Veal. There's a veal. Got it. There's a chicken and a fish. Wow. Oh yeah. So we had a hundred and something people and it's all done.

And then some, her, Monica's cousin has a girlfriend who's a plus one and she, it comes out she's a vegetarian. The only person who's a vegetarian is this young lady

who's going with Monica's cousin. We had to scramble for some vegetarian option. Just find some parsley and put it on a plate. Just salad. Give me a break. Just salad. My friend Jen recently in December got married. Her second marriage.

Her first husband passed away. She married Jeff and Jeff is Chinese. So they had a regular, sort of just like a typical reception for everybody, all their friends. And then in January, they had a big sort of traditional Chinese ceremony that his family put together. So Jen has a small family, his family put together. So, you know, Jen had,

Jen has a small family, but a few of her, and she's, I think she's, you know, she's Canadian, you know, English and Scottish.

I've met her. She had said, yeah, you've met her. And her son. Yes, you met her and her son. You didn't meet,

you guys didn't meet Jeff because he had to work that night, the Christmas party. But she had said, you know, obviously for the menu, whatever, you know, the traditional things, but the only thing she didn't want was shark fin soup because she has, you know, obviously for the menu, whatever, you know, the traditional thing.

But the only thing she didn't want was shark fin soup because she has, you know, ethical, ethical feelings about it. And she just thinks it's gross, like the taste of it. But mostly that first reason. Exactly. So she said, so, you know, this is not something she was planning. This is something Jeff's parents, you know, took over. And, you know, they get there and, you know, big, you know, it's all, you know, tons of people. And it was, you know took over and uh you know they they get there and um you know big you know it's all you know tons of people and it was you know big and she sits down at the head table and the

first curse comes and it's a shark fin soup and she walked out on principle and her brother and her brother his brother's uh girlfriend i think they're vegetarians and nothing in the meal was conducive she said she looked over at one point and he was eating garnish. So there's just some types of cultures that just don't lend themselves well to vegetarianism. Yeah, but we found something.

I've never had shark fin soup, actually. I have to admit, I would like to try it. She said it tasted like dish water. It was really gross. I don't think you'd get me to try shark fin soup. She said it's a real symbol of, like to not have had it, apparently, would be,

it would almost look like, it would be looked down upon. It's like a symbol. See, I'm okay with that. Like, I think sometimes that's okay. Like, you know, you all can now look down on me. Yeah.

I will not have the shark fin soup. There's like a status thing that goes with it, with serving the shark fin soup. Anyways i thought it was was pretty funny that she was like no no no and everyone was like okay and no one listened to her like the shark fin soup came to the table rosie i can't wait to see you saturday i know i'm so excited for you guys the next time i see you you will be all dressed up in your wedding gear. I can't wait. I even rented shoes. Yay! I just don't know how to do the cufflinks.

You might have to help me. You'll get started out. It'll be good. 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. I want to take a streetcar downtown