Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Toronto Mike'd #49

Episode Date: August 26, 2013

Mike and Rosie celebrate a year of podcasting and stroll down memory lane.

Welcome to the 49th 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. Happy anniversary, Rose. Hello, my friend. Happy pod-versary.

What date last year did we record the first episode? I think you said it was August 28th, which sounds right. And I thought it was maybe September, but that sounds right. Yep, sounds right. And I thought it was maybe September, but that sounds right. Yep, sounds right. And today's August 26. So it's almost exactly one year since we started recording. How time flies to celebrate our pod-iversary. I visited an Etobicoke bakery

and I brought some delicious treats from Dimplemeyer's. I actually wanted to go to... Say that name again. Dimplemeyer's. I actually wanted to go to... Say that name again. Dimplemeyer's. Aren't you missing the F? The F is silent. What? Because it's a German word.

So the F is silent. I've never said that name correctly in my life. And I've been to it so many times. Have you been to Dimplemeyer's? Many times. I used to live at Norrisbyn in Islington. Right, of course. So it's like right there.

So actually, I wrote about it. If you go to my website, mytorontoscoop.com, I wrote about Dimplemeyer's. Wicked bakery in Etobicoke. It's awesome. So good. The stuff is fresh. Their thing is they bake everything with spring water.

And you know, you really can taste the difference. It's so good. The stuff is amazing. It's so cheap. It's fantastic. I wolfed down that chocolate croissant. Initially, I wanted to go to San Remo, which is a Mimico bakery I go to all the time. I wolfed down that chocolate croissant. I didn't realize New Toronto starts so east. I actually thought it was more west. You know the easiest way to remember this is once you get to First Street, Second Street,

the numbers start at New Toronto. Mimico's got none of the number streets. See, I didn't know that. And then I was interested. So I read some stuff about Mimico and New Toronto. And apparently they had wanted to amalgamate them years ago, make them both New Toronto, have New Toronto swallow up Mimico. But they didn't. I think you should be the them both New Toronto, have New Toronto swallow up Mimico, but they didn't.

I think you should be the mayor of New Toronto. You know, I didn't know dick about New Toronto versus Mimico until this summer when I quickly became an expert. And yeah, now I'm like, I find myself territorial. Like when thegrid.to tweeted that there was a Mimico chocolateria or something. Sweet Olenka's, which is amazing. They have a salted caramel brownie I actually wanted to buy for today, but it's closed. Normally, we don't tape on Mondays, and everything's freaking closed on Mondays. That's why I didn't go there, except for Temple Myers.

The article's like, oh, it's in Mimico at 2nd Street and Lakeshore. And I got my backup, and I'm writing them, and I'm like, that's not Mimico. That's New Toronto. Did they reply? No, nothing. And then you them and I'm like that's not Mimico that's New Toronto and then you reply no nothing and then you replied to say actually it's Mimico and I was like Rosie I shook my head and I went because I go I know what I'm talking about well I didn't realize it started so easy you are correct Dwight is the magic street but it is it is funny how it's true you won't know anything about a neighborhood and then once it becomes your neighborhood you become extremely territorial about it. And then all the businesses and everything about it, the parks, you get really into it.

So you become an expert when you have a vested interest in the area. That's for sure. Rose, not only is this the one-year anniversary of Toronto Mic'd, the podcast, but it's the last episode we'll ever record at this location. I know. It's crazy. You know, Andrew so lovingly built this studio for you. I'm not sure how lovingly. Okay, he built the studio for you. You know what, he's been threatening to come back

and give me my fader for four or five months now. Well, you know what, as I think a rolling stone gathers no moss. So when we move to the new studio, it'll just be, it'll have a whole new energy. And we'll rename it New Toronto Mic'd. Oh my God, that's hilarious. I've been working on that all week. New Toronto Mic'd. It's like the new Coke.

Which didn't do very well. Or did it, Rose? I'll leave you with that. So I have a few memories. Like if I had more time, like I'm super busy right now. Yeah, woe is me. Get me the little violin or whatever. But I'm so busy.

If I had more time, I would have put together like audio clips of these tender moments I'm about to mention. Can you imagine like good music, like memory music a montage of these moments can you imagine if i had the time to put that together how amazing that would sound right now maybe for the the 20 year anniversary maybe for the 50th episode because this is 49 we got another milestone next time we record montage things take time no one has that kind of time boon yeah and that's true and at the uh oscars uh you get that that great music behind all the dead people that's my favorite montage of the year the dead people at the oscars yep we could do this okay so remember rose early in the days of toronto miked when when Elvis opened up to us about his battle with cancer.

I do. Insert clip of Elvis talking about thyroid cancer here. Well, it was, the thing is, he spoke so honestly about it, about what was such a difficult time. And I remember when he was telling us his story, just being struck because I believe at the time he had, his daughter was I think only two and I can imagine just going through something so difficult when you have such a

young child. I mean it's obviously hard at any time but to have like a two year old and trying to cope with that it's tough. And now he's in Thailand. I know. I see his tweets. He's very glamorous. He's a world traveler. Do you remember last week you probably listened from home to the episode 48 with Mike Muzzin He's very glamorous. listen to that so mike muzzin opened up about how he gave his father the gift of life by donating a

kidney to dear dad true story he told it here go back and listen rose it was tender well i i he i knew i think you had told me that he had um done that it's cool i would give my dad a kidney rose you should do it and then come back and tell us the story and it would be a tender moment. Except you've already been there, done that. Rose, on a serious tip, I have to pick up the kids in Canada in a minute. The momfessional, you know, she was very candid

as she spoke about marrying a man with a very young child whose mother had passed away. So I thought she spoke very honestly. So she became like a, yeah, like a,

like a, I won't even use the word stepmom because of course stepmom, but just, he calls her mom. Of course. Only mom he remembers and knows. And she steps into the situation

and handles it to the best of her abilities. And I thought that was a, a nice conversation about something very sad and tender. This is, okay, we gotta, this is okay we gotta we gotta i'm

this is getting modeling remember no remember what about when you got the letter from brian burke that was so funny you were so upset rose almost done just be glad i don't have the actual clips you'd be bawling right now remember when uh andrew stokely and mike wickson each opened up their memories about martin streak the late great martak, who took his own life in 2009. Okay. I need a happy memory. Juliana, did you ever listen to this one? This was the special needs child.

So when she spoke about dealing with a special needs child, a must listen for anyone raising a special needs child. Juliana, that was one of my favorite. The one you did with Juliana was actually one of my favorite interviews actually might be my favorite one that you did and she was very brave and cool and she's in Calgary right now

she has a really cool blog too, you should check it out I do Rose, I subscribe to the RSS feed like I do for my Toronto speak Mike this week, Mike taught me about thanks to Rick C our friend Rick C. Who's in Oakville. Who's in Oakville.

But he travels a lot for work, so I don't know if he's in Oakville right now. Sometimes Burlington. But he, thanks to him, he inspired My Toronto Scoop's RSS feed and email subscription feed, things of which I knew nothing of until my technical advisor, Toronto Mike, sorted me out. Let me know if Rick C. subscribes to that email. Because if he doesn't, I'm disabling it. So, Rosemary, you're right. It's a little maudlin.

We'll cheer up here and just say that there's been lots of good times, too. Lots of giggling. Lots of interesting debates. We always have passionate debates over topics. Rob Ford. We don't especially that much about rob ford no no not at all it was more like uh when is a okay to talk about a tv show like when when is a spoiler set in like i've been watching breaking bad and i would not dare say

a word about the first three episodes because somebody out there loves that show and just hasn't caught up with maybe they're waiting for all eight to pile up and do it in a band but yet you have no problem tweeting during a hockey game which is different not at all people pbr things hockey games are meant to be enjoyed live not like a program that could be retro but you just arbitrarily decide that like you everyone tweets it's like that's news yeah but just because everybody does it doesn't mean it's it's it's right i don't have time for this except that i 100 disagree with this that i 100 disagree with you you're gonna of course you can tweet about a sporting event because that's news happening live you but you cannot dispute the fact that if you choose to

do that you might be spoiling it for someone yeah but the code says that that's their problem whose code your code if you're if you're watching a game on... You shouldn't be on Twitter or in the public realm. You should watch it on PPR. And if you're watching a show that happens to be very popular at the moment in pop culture, you shouldn't be tweeting about that either. Disagree, but we must move on. There's a six-month timeline in which it's respectful to...

The code says you should avoid spoilers. Yeah, your code in the land of mike i don't play by your rules and of course the revealing chats with humble howard and freddie p and ill vibe and all the four drama you can stomach so it's been a good year rose happy anniversary anniversary have you ever been to edmonton no i have an uncle did i ask you this last episode okay no i'm i have an uncle that lived in Edmonton. Did I ask you this last episode? No. No. Okay.

No, I have an uncle that lived in Edmonton for years. He actually just moved to Vancouver. Because he couldn't wait to get out of Edmonton? Well, he was there. He actually, he grew up in Thunder Bay and he went to Edmonton for work. He works in the mining industry. He's actually, it's really fascinating. He travels all over the world.

So he was in Edmonton for work. He was there for years and years and years. fascinating. He travels all over the world. So he was in Edmonton for work. He was there for years and years and years. And then a new and better opportunity came up in Vancouver and he liked Edmonton, but yeah, I think he was ready to move on.

So you've never been to Edmonton. There goes this entire segment in which you tell me what the hell I'm supposed to do in Edmonton because I'm going for a wedding next weekend. Well, you're close. You should probably, this is kind of bad to say, but maybe go to Banff or something. Yeah, no, that's, Rose, you nailed that nail on the head.

That's what I would do if I was going to Edmonton. We're going to fly into Calgary, rent a car, and go to Banff. And that'll be like... That's perfect. Yeah, and then the wedding's on Saturday, so we got to get, we'll sleep in Edmonton Friday night, do the wedding Saturday, and then i don't know we'll do something maybe before we fly back sunday like it's a really short trip are you

staying with monica's family her uh uncle or a cousin or something ken has offered us a room and we have accepted perfect uh yeah it's uh very cool and are you flying west jet i don't know actually i'm a quigrant but i'm flying out friday and then i'm coming back sunday i'll uh let you know how it went on the 50th episode yeah definitely i'm excited to hear what it's like in uh what's like in edmonton do you follow okay i know a lot of like regular toronto mic readers are have grown are they're afraid of the open mics can you shed some light on this? The open mics have become ugly cesspools of political infighting.

And maybe people like Blind Dave and yourself will read anything but the open mics now. Is this something I've heard? Well, no. How it works for me is I read all of your site. I just drop in when I have time, right? So whenever I happen to be reading your site, I'll read whatever's the most current. Like whatever you've got, whatever the most recent entries are.

If it's an open mic, I will read them. But you read the comments? You will? I will. Well, the open mic, it's just comments right correct yeah um i will read the comments up to like if so here's how it goes for me with the open mic if the comments start right away with um yeah two people fighting or going back and forth about you know something ridiculous i i won't i I'll probably check out. But if it starts

off with something fun, like Lauren talking about his audition tape or, um. Or Ryan G will tell you, he always has interesting stories. Sure, exactly. Like, well, everybody does. Or somebody talks about something neat that they did or, you know, Al, um, he has the cover band. He talks about his shows coming up. Like I always like hearing. The Royal Pains. The Royal Pains. It's cool. Um, or, you know, or if Blind Dave talks about something nice that he did or Liz talks about something nice. If somebody's talking about something nice that they did at industry, then I will read.

As soon as it starts to get, you know, if somebody starts talking about abortion or whatever, then I'm done. Oh, that's Archie. Who else is going to check out? There's only a couple. Speaking of people who want to make abortion illegal in this country, there was a guy named Dave Williams. Right, it's the guy you banned, right? Yeah, he's the only guy currently banned. And he's been popping up under different names,

and very quickly you can recognize as Dave Williams, and then he'll ban the new persona. What a pain in the butt that you have to do that. I know, it is a pain in the ass. So how does he do this? Does he have different computers? Normally it's really easy to detect, but here's my my point there's a new commenter who just showed up and he he's called y c a g w y w which stands for you can't always get what you want okay i'm not

seeing him yet so okay well he just showed up in the last maybe one or two open mics and he writes he has the same opinions as dave william. And a couple of people have written me to say, this is Dave Williams. And I watched it for a while and I became convinced it was Dave Williams. Okay. But then he puts in an email address and I actually wrote this email address

and then I got a reply. And then I, this guy, I won't give his name, but he had a name, a real name. He wrote you back? So he wrote me back. Okay. So then I said, okay, maybe I'm wrong here. I'm sorry thought you were dave williams continue commenting and i just said okay he's unbanned this guy can now this wide guy was this in the last open yeah i think it's the last one

all right actually elvis wrote me this morning from uh thailand to say he quite enjoyed the banning and unbanning and banning and unbanning this guy because so he's unbanned now and then irvine of all people wrote me an email to say he did a little back and work and had deciphered that yes this guy was Dave Williams and then I'm like oh maybe he had me sold he was very compelling so I banned him again convinced you that it was him him so I banned him again so now the second time right then this guy connects with me on LinkedIn okay and he's got LinkedIn so I'm now I'm now I connect him on LinkedIn and He connected you on LinkedIn? Oh my God. I connect him on LinkedIn.

This is hilarious. So now I unban him again. But are you ready for this? After conversing briefly with Elvis this morning, and right now he's unbanned, and I'm now convinced again that it's Dave Williams. And he's just being more diligent creating fake LinkedIn and fake Outlook.com email addresses

in order to comment on the site. So I'm watching this guy like a hawk. I have another open mic tomorrow. But this guy right now, he's not banned. But I actually went back and forth. I've never had this happen. I was convinced he was Dave Williams and I was convinced he was not. Then I was convinced he was.

Then I was convinced he's not. Now I'm convinced he's Dave Williams again. So, okay. So what are you going to do? Will you just let let him comment and then if something egregious if you write something egregious you just ask i'm gonna watch him i'm gonna watch him with my good eye and i'm gonna watch i'm gonna watch the way he writes and the messaging of his writing because he's he's aligned with dave williams and his ridiculous stuff like you can't smoke a doobie you should be locked up for life and all this ridiculous stuff,

which is as ridiculous as the abortion thing. He's got that stuff I don't have a lot of time for, so I'm watching him closely. If he's Dave Williams, he's gone. We'll see. That reminds me. I think I saw... Oh, I just lost it.

You saw Dave Williams? At the C&E. No, I didn't. You've been to the c cne i didn't this year i was deprived this year yes no oh you haven't gone this year i've not gone this year oh i thought you oh my gosh i thought you went i wrote an entry the day before it opened to say that i you know used to work there maybe that's what i had memories of it but i have not actually been in 2013 that's um that's so funny uh did you see me there no i told i don't know i feel like we had this conversation that we went this year

I don't know time flies anyways I didn't we go every year and I love it and my little guy loves it and this year

was the first time he went on he ran into the Midway and he actually really wanted to go on the rides and we took him on the Ferris wheel and he loved it it was so cute

but part of the fun is I love going to the food building and having whatever is like the Franken food of the year, right? Oh, the cronut. That's become like a thing. And I really wanted to have a cronut burger. Although I do think I probably

at the end of the day probably would not have been able to go there. I kind of just wanted the option. So that appealed to you. You wanted to do it like it was like an event. Exactly. Yeah, absolutely. But I feel really bad

because the bakery that actually makes the cronut that was makes the cronut for, that was making the cronut for Epic Burger and Waffles, it's this beautiful bakery on Dundas called La Dolce. And when the whole cronut phenomenon started, she very wisely created her own thing. She called it the crow dough because cronut is actually trademarked by Dominique and Sal in Manhattan. Yeah, I heard that he's got a cease and desist on that. Yeah, as he should because it's by Dominique and Sal in Manhattan. Ceasing to assist on that.

Yeah, as he should, because it's his own thing and, you know, good for him. But so she created the, but I don't think there's anything wrong with, you know, because food, you know, being inspired by something else. So she made the crow dough. Apparently I haven't had it, but apparently it's, it's wonderful. And I've, I've written about the dolce on my website because I, um, I would go to her for macarons and there's also these ice pops that she has that are really good. Anyways, yeah, so she made her crow dough. People were going in the morning, selling out and then Epic Burger wanted to do their

burger and they partnered with her and it would have been like such an amazing, you know, obviously business opportunity would have made her a ton of money and then the frigging burgers made everyone sick. Maybe your confusion came from the fact that the day that the hundred people got sick on the cronut, my son went to the X all day and actually had a donut burger, which was not a cronut. That's why I thought you went to the X. Yeah, I wasn't there.

Okay, got it. My son, James, he wanted the cronut and his buddy, Andreas, wanted a donut burger, which is different than a cronut. Well, it's on a Krispy Kreme, which I also would have wanted to try. And I ended up getting that instead. And then that was the same day that the 100 people got sick. Isn't that, well, and thank God they didn't get sick. But it's funny because you think, okay, well, it's obviously the meat.

Like you can't get sick from a pastry, you would think. Anyways, I certainly hope it's not her cronut that made everyone sick. I don't think so. I'm sure it was something in the meat. I don't know, Rose. But if no one had ever been sick, I would never even like, I would just go right by it. It has zero appeal to me. Like I know that you want to be there for the event and it's the big thing, but actually just the whole premise, I find I have zero interest. Well, it's funny because I do have to say the reason why I probably would not have had it is because I don't

really like sweet plus savory like i think i either want to have something really really sweet or something really savory the idea of mixing the scent like especially because there's cinnamon on the with the burger that i have to admit i don't think i probably would have gone for it that's two separate meals yeah exactly i would want to have a cronut i want to have like a big gross burger but not put them together. But I do like, I do like how this has kind of happened at the C&E where, you know, it is like this like event thing with whatever the Franken food is.

Like last year it was deep fried butter and, um, which I didn't try, but I think I probably would have. You know, anything to get, no, but anything to get,

uh, I'm not a big food. You're a bigger foodie. I go to my Toronto scoop and there's foodie action everywhere. How much foodie action do you see on torontomic.com? It true well we have different that's fine we have different you know hey guys look here's the i put extra chili peppers on my pepperoni pizza yesterday like what am i gonna say roshan he he posts a lot of uh food pictures and he's been posting some good pizza pizza pics he eats some uh he eats some good pizzas and i think pizza is a very and he's in india he's in india yeah which is a key detail there exactly yes that's what i love about the

internet it makes the world so small roshan and i can share our food pics and he's in india and i'm here rose i love the internet too i recently wrote on the internet uh you wrote on the internet some tips for biking in toronto because i rosie you'd be very impressed with me uh every single day i've done at least 10k that's amazing every day god that really is impressive it's it's been fun because i have i'm swimming less so i'm because i'm losing that pool in a week so i want anyways the biking's been going great but uh please i know you have some thoughts on biking and i am all ears well yes, you wrote your bike tips and I thought they were so, um, good because more and more people are biking as they should. It's a

really good point that you make that biking is good for you. It's free. It's good for the environment. It's, it's all a good thing. But the problem is, is that, um, I have a couple, I have, I have two like issues that issues that bug me. Go. I really think you made a good point in pointing out that if you are a biker and you're on the road, you can take up the lane. And in a way, I would prefer, I think when people bike on the street, and I don't bike very often, but I am guilty of this the few times I have biked not on a bike lane, on

a street. I think people are afraid, so they don't want to take the lane or they don't think they can. They feel bad for the drivers having to slow down behind them. Exactly, but it's actually worse because if you just own it,

if you are like, I am in this lane, I own it, then I'm not going to try to pass you. I'm going to stay behind you and treat you like a car, which is safer for everyone. But if you kind of, and what I find is like, you know, the wavering back and forth and kind of hugging the side and then waving back and then I'm afraid to pass you.

And it's, it just makes me nervous. Just own it. Either be on the side or own the lane and I will stay behind you or I will, I will move ahead of you. Um, but I think it's just, it's just confidence.

Like I think people. It is definitely confidence, but it goes without saying, it goes without saying that, uh, you map your route before you go and you pick as many streets as you can that have bike lanes. Royal York is a good one in this. It's amazing, yeah.

Eglinton's got a great one. Annette Street's got a great one. Yonge Street's got a bike. There's a lot of streets and there's a lot of paths. There's that West Dean thing and then along the Humber River and you can get all the way to the lake and then take the uh martin goodman trail up to whatever one young street whatever you want so if you're on a street you're right i think it's confidence like i had to i've been teaching my kids this young that they can take the lane but monica is kind of new to biking and she bought a new bike of me last june and we've been doing more road biking which makes

her less comfortable and it has i have noticed a change but at first she was really timid and didn't even like the road at all. I was like that too. So it's like one of those things, you just got to kind of know your rights, if you will, and just do it. Like take the damn lane. If you're stuck to a sliver on the side and you don't think it's sufficient space not to get, you know, sideswiped. Well, I just think it's safer for the biker too, because then you're not, it's like,'s like then you know the car just knows and you know what maybe you'll piss off the car but no one wants to hit a biker no one does so you're just going to be behind and if you're pissed off then that's the problem you're allowed to take the lane exactly my other thing is because i i um we go to humber bay park a lot and they have is that

a park lawn um yeah it's uh well it stretches from Humber Bay West Park. It stretches. There's like that garden or even that big white bridge. Yeah, of course. That's kind of close to those park lawn where Eden Trattoria is. Exactly. Yeah. So we are there like all the time.

And the lanes there are hybrid lanes. So it's pedestrian and bike, right? So you share them. And I don't have a problem at all with bikers on the lanes. I love it. I actually like it. It's so nice when you see people biking. But I do think that bikers in certain parts of the park where it's just common sense that there's going to be a lot of people with strollers and walking, they go too fast. They really do. There is no need to go as fast as they are going on hybrid lanes.

And some of them are good about hammering. You would hate me then because I have a test against myself to improve my speed each time. Okay, but if a child happens to stumble in front of you, are you willing to fall off your bike? No, but I'm always ready. Because a guy yesterday fell off his bike because he was going way too fast, came around the corner. We were on the path. He didn't honk his horn

and he fell. He fell off his bike. He should have honked his horn and he should have slowed down in the corners. Corners are different, Rose. I thought you meant a straightaway. I'm sorry. No, it was a corner.

And I felt bad for him. I don't want to see this poor guy meant a straightaway. I'm sorry. No, it was a corner. It was a corner. And I felt bad for him. I don't want to see this poor guy. He has every right to bike on the lane as we do to walk, but he wasn't being careful at all. Yeah, assume kids will jet in front of you. Get ready to go on the grass and save their lives. You know, and we're like watching for them too.

Like we're not, it's not like we're just walking, you know, we're being careful. But the thing is, is that's going to happen with kids and it's a park and this is not a place for you to be trying to, you know don't know like like train for the whatever it is i don't even know they're training for a triathlon rose the tour the tour the tour yeah exactly so that's that's that's my thing but um good i get those are my thoughts but i think i thought those tips you pointed you posted were were quite we're quite good well they came honestly like i've spent so many kilometers i've spent so many kilometers it's like a it's like a measurement of time now okay and so many kilometers is summer biking and i love it and you see things like i've got it down pretty good now

but there's certain times i know i'm gonna die basically like on those eglinton bike paths and i know the guy turning right is not even he's looking to his left for cars and he's not thinking right that there's a bike path there and I know I keep looking at his eye and I ring my bell and I know I'm going to have to stop because I can't trust this guy's going to see me and then the problem with the bike versus car battle is the car gets a dent and the bikeiker could die. Totally. It's not a fair fight. No, not at all. Be aware. Rosie, Facebook. Quick question about Facebook.

I'm on Facebook. Yes, me too. Did you know that? Yes. Okay, so I decided since Toronto Mike is sort of a public persona, like anyone can follow him on Twitter, obviously, and anyone can read the blog, and there's this podcast where I hope everyone listens.

But on Facebook, I decided friends and family only. So it's really almost like the people I'd invite to my wedding and then one additional layer, which includes the great Mike Muzzin and people like that. So on Facebook, I share things and I discuss things as if I'm talking to my friends and family. So if I don't know you, like even a Rick C. Oakville, for example,

we've been talking about him for years or whatever. He's a regular commenter, but he doesn't get to be my facebook friend because i only know him as an online persona or whatever um but you can be my facebook friend right you're lucky we're facebook friends yes we are so what is what about you what's your what's your rule for becoming uh rosie's facebook friend like will you let roshan be your Facebook friend? I'll let anyone be my friend. Okay, that's my question. So you treat it like Twitter? Yeah. Okay.

That was my question. But that's just because for me, I've never really put a lot of personal stuff on Facebook. And the reason for that was I first started using Facebook. It was actually when I was working at the Skydome or Rogers Center. No, please call it Skydome. I know. It's Skydome in my heart.

My assistant. It was like 2006. And my assistant, she was the cutest girl. She came up to me. She's like, Rosie, you need to try this Facebook. It's so addictive. And I was like, okay. Signed up.

And within like, you know, 40 minutes, I had 800 people that I worked. It was all work colleagues. So my initial Facebook thing was all work people, right? So because it was work people, I never put anything very personal on. And then obviously, you know, all your friends come on and so on and so forth. But for me,

Facebook was very, very public. And, um, uh, I never, yeah, I,

I, I don't have my birthday on there. I don't have, I don't have a place for that. Or is that just email only? What do you mean? Like, like let's say there's in-laws and stuff and you want to share a picture of your kid's birthday

and these people are from out of town and they weren't able to come to the party. Where do you share that stuff? Like here's my child's birthday pictures. He just turned three. I email them. Email, that's my question. And now that I have my – it's kind of funny because I have – I mean I don't put like really personal family pictures

on my Toronto Scoop, but if we do something neat, like go to the CNE, I'll put those on the website and that's completely public, obviously like torontomic.com. I subscribe to the RSS feed. My new RSS feed, you made me, I love it.

I don't think you do. You don't actually update Facebook now that I think about it. I'm trying to think of a Rosie update. I really, and you know, it's... Roshan's disappointed. He wants to see an update. Well, no, I do put, you know, stuff on it, but I don't, and I shouldn't say, and that's

actually not fair. I shouldn't say I let anyone, if I don't know you, I'm not going to let you. Okay, so if you don't know the person, they can't be your friend. This is how it is. If you request my friend to be my friend on Facebook and I know you and like you, I will add you. So what if you don't like the person? I will not add you. What if they think you like them but you actually don't like them at

all? I don't know. That would just depend on my mood. If I'm feeling, you know, to be honest, I don't really like if I don't know you, I will not add you. No, because I do have obviously pictures and stuff on there.

But if I like you and think you're a nice, interesting person, yeah, you get to be my Facebook friend. I do find annoying though. Tell me. How much people complain about Facebook. Oh, tell me about this because there was some discussion

in an open mic about this. Yes, and that's actually what got me. I was reading those and it kills me people oh complaining oh this person posted about you know too many pictures about their kids people facebook no one is mark zuckerberg is not putting a gun to your head and forcing you to use facebook it is a free computer program is not come out of your taxes you don't have to use facebook if you you don't like it, don't use it. I think what happens is that people are on Facebook and they've added people they don't like. These people are in their newsfeed and they're too much of a pussy to delete them. Or create a list like I do. And you can just put the people you like in the list and just

check the list. Don't check the wall or whatever that's called. You are not a hostage of Facebook. You do not have to use it. If you do not like it, stop using it or delete the people that annoy you. Because really, it's quite, it's just really, it's ridiculous. Here, here, Rose. Waste of energy to complain about Facebook. Here, here, Rose. That's all. Those are my thoughts.

I agree. Finally, we are aligned again in our agreement. Last point before we close this out. I took my daughter to her first ever concert on Saturday night. I saw your tweets. I was on the computer Saturday night. I saw your tweets because I was on the computer Saturday night and I saw all your tweets about Selena Gomez. Yeah, Selena Gomez at the Air Canada Center. And she had, my daughter had a fantastic time and I wasn't sure what to expect. I realized a couple of things. One is this is the first concert I've ever gone to that had dancers.

I've never been to a concert with dancers. Wasn't that interesting? Yeah. And the second thing I noticed is this is my first concert with actual costume changes. Selena would disappear for a few minutes and there'd be a video on the screen. She'd come back in a different outfit. So I've never ever been at a concert with costume changes or with dancers before in my life. Was she very provocative? Because I actually, I thought she was a little Disney thing. And then I saw, I happened to see a little Disney thing and then I saw,

I happened to see a video of the newest and I couldn't believe how... Well, you know what? She's still very safe. It's safe provocative. I mean, my nine-year-old was there

and the lyrics, there's no swear words and she's not doing any sexual... It's very, very PG. G-rated, okay. It's pretty Disney, actually. I get it, I get it. It's a bit above Disney

but the average age... She's a cutie. These are all girls seven to 17 in that crowd. We kind of were out there with our own code. We kind of look at each other, and we all knew what we were doing there. But how nice to take her to her first concert. That's really, really...

That's a nice memory you'll always have. Yeah, and I had a surprisingly good time. And then I realized... Even if I... Because there's nothing for me. Selena Gomez has some top 40 hits, which aren't too bad, actually. Some of the Come and Get It and some of this stuff. That's the Come and Get It is the one I saw the video for.

I was like, whoa. Love You Like a Love Song, Baby. Oh, that's a cute song. And there's a couple more. There's like four or five I recognize. And not my cup of tea, but when you're at a live venue, suddenly you dig it. Like I noticed I was digging it. Completely.

Because you're there live. You'd like anything live. Well, it's like my theory. you dig it like i noticed i was digging it and it's because you're there live you'd like anything live it's like my theory i yeah i could see any artist um even if it's not you know a cd or or music i would download just because a live event is is an event it's amazing it performed live performance is a whole other level so it's pretty cool and the act i saw before sel Gomez, the most recent live act I saw. The lowest of the low rows. Love them.

This song came on in D88 today. I love that station. They do need a better frequency. I think they applied to the CRTC. They did, they did. They'll get it, they'll get it. It's their old Ryerson channel. Yeah, CKLN.

Mike, you make a good cup of coffee on that note. Oh, you like the French press? Mike, Mike, he's a good barista. I do aim to please. Thanks, my friend. And that brings us to the end of our 49th show. You can follow me on Twitter at Toronto Mike and Rosie at Rosie in Toronto. See you all next week.

Bye for now. Bye for now.