Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Toronto Mike'd #56

Episode Date: November 25, 2013

Mike and Rosie talk diapers, peppermint mochas and the latest Toronto news....

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the 56th 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 thank you rosie for this uh mint mocha you're welcome my friend is that what it's called mint mocha this is a peppermint mocha so if i go to mcdonald's and say give me a peppermint mocha
Starting point is 00:01:03 this is what they give me yes i started having started having, I'm a bit addicted. It's my new addiction. I started having them at Starbucks because I was drinking so much coffee and then I thought, okay, I'm going to try something a little different. The mocha being, I mean, it still has a shot of espresso in it, but it's got some hot chocolate and whipped cream. It's like all delicious. And then I was at McDonald's and I saw they had a peppermint mocha and I tried it. And you know what? I like it even better. It's a little bit less rich. It's really, really good.
Starting point is 00:01:34 So I thought I'll bring one and see if I can get Toronto Mike hooked. Is it a seasonal beverage? Yes, it is. So I was wondering, could I drink this in like, I don't know, April? No, my friend. Now. This is your chance. Drink it now.
Starting point is 00:01:49 I think after Christmas. It's very good. It's sweet and kind of not unlike Rosie from My Toronto Scoop. It is also delicious. And I won't tell you, not unlike Rosie from MyTorontoScoop.com. Where is this going? It is very good. I have no idea. It's getting into awkward territory. But yeah, thank unlike Rosie from mychronoscoup.com. Where is this going? I have no idea.
Starting point is 00:02:05 It's getting into awkward territory. But yeah, thank you very much. You're very welcome. Are you getting in the spirit? Like, are you feeling Christmassy? Here's the thing. Rosie doesn't do Christmas until December the 1st. I'm like Nordstrom's.
Starting point is 00:02:20 I don't know if you've heard about Nordstrom's. Love this. They said they like to do one season at a time. So as you know, American Thanksgiving, late November, all the other stores, you know, going crazy with the Christmas decorations, even though Thanksgiving hasn't happened yet. Nordstrom's put out this whole thing and said, after Thanksgiving, we will do Christmas in December as it should be. It's too soon.
Starting point is 00:02:43 But if they come to Canada, you know what, they will be able to bump up that date. There is no Thanksgiving in late November. You know, the retailers that, one thing I'm finding right now, American retailers in Canada with the whole Black Friday, we don't have Black Friday in Canada. I find it so annoying. We have Boxing Day. Exactly. It's just, leave Black Friday to the States.
Starting point is 00:03:05 It's seeping in here. It's not, the deals aren't any. It's just another way to get you to part with your hard-earned cash. Have you ever got together with the girls and made a road trip to Buffalo for sales? Actually, I have. I've done it. That's why they have Black Friday in Canada. But you know what?
Starting point is 00:03:22 It's a fun thing to do, but it doesn't save anybody any money. I have experienced the Black Friday phenomenon in the States. The whole go out at midnight in the stores. It's maybe fun to do once, but I had no desire to ever do it again. And you don't save any money.
Starting point is 00:03:40 You really don't. You might get the odd thing, but it's not worth the throng of insane shoppers to like go for it people can really get into it though you're preaching to the choir i have uh i couldn't have what's the opposite of being up your alley like what is the uh opposite i don't know it is the opposite of being up my alley it is exactly sounds like uh hell on earth that's not at all appetizing i don't want to buy things anyways it's not even a price thing i just don't want to buy things anyways. It's not even a price thing. I just don't want to consume stuff. Although with a new addition to the family,
Starting point is 00:04:10 you're going to have to buy some things. Diapers. Oh, yes. By the way, thank you very much. You gave Monica her very first baby gift. A box of big, huge, a big, huge-ass box of of pampers swaddlers they're so little and cute but they don't fit me rose so if you can get me a larger size but seriously i know okay so my my little guy's three so this is still a more recent memory for me your kids are older do you remember
Starting point is 00:04:38 how much they poop no uh my youngest uh is turning 10. Not till the summer. So she's nine and a half. So it's been a good decade. When this kid pops out, it'll be a decade since I had a newbie, a newborn. And yeah, the memories fade. The memory you see. Yeah, your kid's three.
Starting point is 00:05:01 When your kid's 10, wait till he's 10 years old and try to remember that. I remember changing diapers. Don't get me wrong. I just don't remember the quantity. Lots. It's like non-stop that first little while. It's basically all you're doing is feeding and cleaning poop. So we can unveil to the vast Toronto Mic audience that... And the elephant.
Starting point is 00:05:19 Yeah, the elephant goes toot. We learned on Friday. We had an ultrasound Friday and there's a penis. You saw a penis? I saw. There's a penis growing in Monica? There's a penis. It's like something out of the David Cronenberg exhibit.
Starting point is 00:05:35 Well, there's too many jokes. This is not my explicit podcast. I can't talk about there being a penis in Monica. But there is a penis in Monica right now. Technically there is. Technically. A little teeny tiny one. We actually even have a name. I don't think I'll put it on this podcast, but maybe closer to the date. But we actually have a name. A first name and a middle name.
Starting point is 00:05:57 Well done. He's going to need a name. Now we just need a last name. Yeah. So it's exciting times. And I don't have, i just know they poop a lot and you know whatever like i got through it twice i'll get through it a third time i can't wait i love babies because you're gonna be babysitting a lot rose oh no auntie rose you'll be babysitting i will visit and cuddle hey do you do that like do you give like friends aunts and uncle titles uh i do i do not everybody does, but I do. My best friends, like our dear friends
Starting point is 00:06:30 Jen and Jeff, when they come over, it's Auntie Jen and Uncle Jeff. I don't think it was premeditated. I did it when I was little, so it's just nice. I don't have any big, oh, that's terrible, you should never do that. It just so happened with my two kids,
Starting point is 00:06:45 the only people that got the titles uncle and aunts were my siblings. Well, I mean, I think it's... And there are significant others. I think it just happens naturally, right? Like, obviously, you know, you have the siblings, you know, he's got his uncle, his uncle Rob and uncle Joey, and those are special, obviously. But then there's like some people that are super dear to you.
Starting point is 00:07:02 And I think that's just a nice way of, you know, making them a little bit special. But I do love babies. Like in the Filipino culture, I think they give it to everyone. Anyone who's ever had a conversation with you got the title.
Starting point is 00:07:17 I think it's Uncle Tito. So it's like, oh, it's Tito Bob and Bob works at the McDonald's or whatever. So they just hand them out like like they're nothing i see you want to say hello to some of our dear friends i have to say i was so appreciating a couple of our toronto mic friends a couple weeks ago when i was on your site because they really made it fun and interesting. Tron and Ben. And you know what? I was thinking a lot about Tron and Ben. Ben actually had this hilarious, got this hilarious conversation going about the grocery store baton, which I didn't
Starting point is 00:07:56 know was called a baton. The thing that separates the separator. Yeah, I didn't know either actually. Oh my God. So funny because everybody was putting in their two cents about what happens if you don't put the baton when you're getting your groceries. Okay. Why wouldn't you use it though? Like is there just no good reason not to accept I'm going to be an asshole today? Sometimes. No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:08:12 Sometimes it's not there. Sometimes it's dirty. Sometimes it's not there. Sometimes it's dirty. If it's not there, if it's not there. Sometimes it's just not like if there's a big space, like what? But how much effort is that to just put the baton there so that it takes the guesswork out of the play for the poor lady working. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:08:26 Sometimes it looks gross. Poor man working. It's dirty, right? I forgot men also work as a... I once did it for a food city. Yeah, I know. I remember. But anyway, so Ben had it going and then it made me think of...
Starting point is 00:08:40 So I was at No Frills and I was like, okay, I'm not going to put it and see what happens. Oh my God. It's like in a civilized society, you put that separator down. It was not appreciated whatsoever. It's like signaling. It's just signal. Well, signaling is you should always signal your intentions. And you should always use a baton to separate your groceries.
Starting point is 00:08:57 And then Tron totally cracked me up too about something. And it was funny. I was thinking of the both of them. And in my mind, I just started watching Six Feet Under. Beautiful show. Oh my God, so good. And in my mind, Tron looks like Peter Krause.
Starting point is 00:09:10 Handsome. And I know, right? And Ben looks like Michael C. Hall. You're going to be so disappointed if you ever find out what they look like. You're kind of raising the bar. But in my mind, I pictured Tron as Nate
Starting point is 00:09:22 and I picture Ben as his brother David on the show. So guys, I don't know what you look like, but if you don't, it's cool. It's just in my mind because that's what I'm watching right now. Tron probably looks like the guy from Goonies, the Fratelli guy. I don't know who that is, but if you're insulting him, that's not cool. Well, I don't know what he looks like. This is based on just being a contrarian. Tron, no pressure.
Starting point is 00:09:43 You don't have to put a picture up. It doesn't matter. In my mind, you look like Peter Criss. You've never seen Goonies? I've seen it like a million years ago, so I can't really remember. Oh. Oh.
Starting point is 00:09:52 When Mike goes, when Mike goes, Oh, he's like disappointed. I'm disappointed because I wanted to talk about Goonies, but I did revisit it recently, so maybe that's it. Also, I have to mention one other person. I totally need to thank Liz because last week, or sorry, it was two weeks ago when
Starting point is 00:10:05 all the Rob Ford and the P word stuff happened. I was, I can't tell you where it's private, but I was in a situation where I was not able to see the news. I had access to the internet, but I couldn't, I didn't, I wasn't, I didn't see all this happening. I didn't know what was happening. And, but I was on Twitter and Liz was the best because she alerted me to this Rob Ford scenario
Starting point is 00:10:28 and then I was able to look it up and I saw what happened. Oh my God, what a freak. Anyways, we won't go there. But love Liz for alerting me to that because I would have missed it and it was very entertaining, very entertaining. Who likes Rosie more, Liz or Roshan in India? Which of the two would be the bigger Rosie fan?
Starting point is 00:10:45 They're like, I'm fans of them. They're the best. They're 1A and 1B? They are the best. They're so much fun. And they're on Twitter. And any of you guys that are on Twitter, I see 519Rob just joined us on Twitter. Get on and follow us because we're there like all the time and it's totally fun and it's
Starting point is 00:11:01 all good. So if you're on Twitter, find us and follow us or we'll find you. Although I will repeat this at the end of the show because I wrote it down, but I can tell you now that Rosie is at Rosie in Toronto on Twitter. Yes. And accept no substitutes. There might be some Rosie imitators out there. I am at Toronto Mike.
Starting point is 00:11:20 All rights reserved. I like when people put a fake. You know when there's like that verified check mark that superstars have? I love when people put a fake, you know, when there's like that verified check mark, like superstars have them. I love when people have like a fake one. I'm going to do the fake one. I followed this account. It is so funny. And if you're Italian and you find Italian humor funny,
Starting point is 00:11:33 you should follow T.Italians. Oh my God. Hysterical. And for a little while he had the fake check mark. And it cracked me up. If you are not Italian, are you allowed to find Italian stereotypes funny? Well, I didn't say anything about stereotypes.
Starting point is 00:11:50 What else would be funny? There must be stereotypes. No, it's just funny stuff he tweets that you would probably only get if you grew up in an Italian culture. It's not stereotypes. So no soccer jokes or pasta jokes? Walker jokes or pasta jokes? Well, he tweets a lot about, he just tweets a lot about his no, no, and none, none, like really funny things that, again, you would kind of only get if you grew up in an Italian culture.
Starting point is 00:12:14 Now, if you're married, like, you know, if you, if you, if you would get those kind of references, you would find it funny. So, yeah, it doesn't, you know, you don't necessarily have to be Italian if you are married to someone Italian. I just assumed it was like spinning off of Italian stereotypes. Well, you should check it out and you'll see. You might find it funny.
Starting point is 00:12:31 I was in Italy recently if I mentioned that on this podcast. So maybe I will understand the humor. It's a riot. It's so funny. Yeah, so Twitter. Twitter's all good. Yeah, I wish everyone...
Starting point is 00:12:45 I would like anyone who listens to this show or comments on... or even just reads TorontoMic.com or the wonderful MyTorontoScoop.com if they would just let me know. Like, send me an email or tweet at me or leave a comment on an open mic or something just to tell me they're on Twitter.
Starting point is 00:13:04 Because every time... I'll take someone randomly, but Lauren, for example. I didn't know, and then Lauren made it clear to me, hey, I'm on Twitter. I follow Lauren. Cool. You know, Lauren makes the gluten-free cake or cookies or something. Lauren is definitely an accomplished chef. He seriously knows what he's doing. Also, I wish I lived closer to his house because at Halloween, wow,
Starting point is 00:13:27 he really knows how to decorate a house. Where is his house? I think it was in the Newmarket area. But I remember on your site around Halloween, because I love Halloween and I love when people go crazy with their houses, and he posted a pic. And I assume it was his house.
Starting point is 00:13:41 It might not have been. It could have been a neighbor's house. But I believe it was Newmarket or Aurora. Too far north, Rose. I can't remember. I know it's too far for us but um on halloween with little guys but um this house looked crazy it was like a big haunted mansion i love that i absolutely love that do you want to know something yeah you mentioned last um week we were talking about pizza that you like to go to mama martino's which is i was there on uh friday it's a really really good restaurant so just down the street from them, the people who own that restaurant, they have like a house, you know, they live, they bought their house close to
Starting point is 00:14:12 the restaurant. And every year at Halloween, they do a massive crazy, that was the house I was talking about. It was the Mama Martino's family house. They really go all out. Like it's bananas. Bananas is what they do. It's so much fun. much fun it's actually it scares me like my little guy's not scared but i was like i was scared it's it's it's frightening like it's frightening there's like chainsaws there's like organs on the ground like it's not it's so timely of you to mention this to me dead babies like it's awesome yeah so next just keep it in mind next october yep excellent um we have a new segment on Toronto Mike. I just learned of this segment about 15 minutes ago. Surprise!
Starting point is 00:14:50 So what is this, episode 56? The over-under on this was like eight. When you do your bet, will it hit eight episodes? You know what? I stopped listening to you for like two seconds. I'm so sorry.
Starting point is 00:15:08 Rose, you can't do that in the middle of the show. started thinking about peppermint mocha that's crazy i know that when someone else co-hosts you never listen that's been well documented that's not true is not true no you'll listen if i do a show with uh michael muzzin for example i listened to the one you did with um amanda no not that one the one you did with howard i listened to the one you did with... Amanda? No, not that one. The one you did with Howard. I listened to that one. Yeah, but he's a solid B-list celebrity. What about like... You can laugh, Rose.
Starting point is 00:15:35 Come on, he knows. I'm a C-list, okay? I'm catching up. And give me five years, I'm going to surpass him. Sure, whatever you guys say. What about if I did it with Il Duce? It's not based on the personality it's just based on if i have if i'm able if i have the time all right i've listened
Starting point is 00:15:49 to them all i digress okay so 56 episodes in somebody uh pointed out that you know it's called toronto miked and the hosts are rosie from my toronto scoop and Mike from Toronto Mike. There should be a little more Toronto news. I don't want to run down city councils budget stuff. Who's this person that offered this insight? Who said this? Is he a B-list celebrity? He's a solid B-list celebrity.
Starting point is 00:16:21 I have a theme and everything. You ready for this new segment where we will very quickly, staccato style, touch upon Toronto news? but we're gonna i have a theme and everything already you're ready for this new segment where we will very quickly staccato style touch upon toronto sure we need a cleaner audio version of my toronto you know what this is the best i could find remember toronto rocks uh i went to it and i had a t-shirt and i got a free i got a free dire straits uh i think it was a cassette do you have okay that's awesome do you have um do you have a clean or a clean version of the theme song?
Starting point is 00:17:06 No. Okay, that's what I want. If anyone listening has one, that's pulled from a YouTube clip that somebody, I think Retro Ontario. That sounded not good. Yeah, but that's the best you can find. Okay, so I'm dying to have a cleaner version of the theme song. So let's talk about a few things.
Starting point is 00:17:20 Okay. First, and we won't go too long on this, Liz, so stay listening. Oh, no. Rob Ford has been effectively neutered. Okay. So they've removed, you know, Norm Kelly is your de facto mayor in principle.
Starting point is 00:17:35 He looks exhausted. That man looks exhausted. He's 70 something. He looks, and he's, he just, yeah, he looks really not equipped.
Starting point is 00:17:42 I don't know. I think he's okay. Like he seems, other than a few interesting things, like I learned he's a climate change denier, which means he's essentially saying like 95% of scientists don't know what they're talking about,
Starting point is 00:17:53 which I found interesting. I didn't know that. Yeah. But other than that, which doesn't matter, it's not like, you know, whatever. That's whatever. Still, we're making progress here. So he does seem to be a guy
Starting point is 00:18:03 who wants to work with others, even those on the other end of the political spectrum. And he wants to bridge the divide that we have right now. So it should be good for the city in terms of progressing ahead. So Rob Ford, one thing I want to say about Rob Ford in our Toronto Rock section is he wanted the Scarborough subway and he wanted to get rid of the land transfer tax, the Toronto one, which I just paid. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:27 It's very big. You would have just paid that one. I just paid it. It's massive. It's expensive. It adds thousands of dollars when you move, right? It's crazy. Oh, it adds.
Starting point is 00:18:35 It's almost 10 grand extra because of the second land transfer tax, which is an amazing amount of money. Yeah. Which is an amazing amount of money. Yeah. And when people move, typically they're moving because it's a first home or your family is expanding. No one ever has tons of extra money, but it tends to- Your closing costs go way up, essentially. And that's always got to be cash.
Starting point is 00:18:58 You can't go borrow it. No, and those are one of the things he campaigned on. I remember reading early on in his reign that it was completely unrealistic for him to... Oh, completely. ...to say that he would get rid of it. They can't even shave
Starting point is 00:19:09 10% of this thing. It makes too much money for the city. So I guess the only... So he's got limited... He's like a glorified counselor without a jurisdiction or whatever
Starting point is 00:19:17 and he's a figurehead right now. Wandering around elementary schools handing out his buttons. What a... Yeah, his magnet. What is... Who goes to an elementary school? It out his buttons. What is it? Who goes to an elementary school?
Starting point is 00:19:27 It's so inappropriate. Like the stuff he does now is just bananas. He does inappropriate things all the time. I know. It's bananas. Well, he doesn't listen to anyone. He has no one advising him. He just does whatever he wants. It's ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:19:41 It's absolutely ridiculous. But it is reassuring that it's... He's been neutered. Exactly. That's a good It's absolutely ridiculous. But it is reassuring that it's... He's been neutered. Exactly. That's a good way of putting it. Here is the situation. Right now, they're talking about the budget. Right.
Starting point is 00:19:52 There's no way... This is not me talking. What do I know? This is actually his appointed budget chief and the people who know are saying, essentially, you can't get rid of the land transfer tax and have the scarborough subway and only increase property taxes like by 1.75 they're saying you got to basically they're
Starting point is 00:20:13 saying the numbers don't add up you're gonna have to so basically this mr you know no tax even rob ford knows we have to raise property taxes to pay for the subway he's going he says 1.75 or whatever and then I think the budget chief says it has to be at least 2.5. I guess my point is, Rob Ford is very good at saying he doesn't approve a tax, but he's not very good at explaining
Starting point is 00:20:35 how we will pay for the things that we are committed to pay for without the tax increase. How are you supposed to have a subway without any money? It doesn't make sense. This is why the LRT, I never understood. And also remember, this is the same man who thought LRT was streetcar.
Starting point is 00:20:49 Like he never understood the LRT. And I don't want to go into an LRT versus subway thing, except the LRT would satisfy more customers at the end of the day and cost less money. But let's not go down that road. Let's just say the big news in the Rob Ford land is that he has been neutered. And I think it's good for the city. that road let's just say um the big news in the rob ford land is that he has been neutered and i think it's good for the city you know it's funny because um it's um it's it's it was it was just it was funny to watch the whole all you know all the american media just sort of um fall upon it
Starting point is 00:21:18 because it's content right it's just you know it's easy content right it's ridiculous it's super easy a small crack and a drunken stupor, the P word running over that counselor. Like he just, like, uh, he just has no sense of appropriateness. Like in the middle of camp, you, do you teach Nick, Nick, your son not to run in hallways of like, if he's like in a school or something, he's not allowed to run in the hallway. Oh, he acts far more appropriately. Oh, he thought his brother was getting into a fight. So he ran as fast as he could.
Starting point is 00:21:47 And it doesn't matter about the fact he happens to be a man of large girth. Even if you're 120 pounds soaking wet, don't run on the council floor because you could bump into somebody. Well, there's also no respect for the professionalism of where he is and the office he holds.
Starting point is 00:22:02 Yeah, the parliamentary language and all that good stuff. So that's the Rob Ford news update. Okay. Rose, what do you think of the world's biggest bookstore? Is that a place you frequented in your travels? Yeah, I used to love the world's biggest bookstore. When I was in university, I used to wander around in there all the time.
Starting point is 00:22:26 It was interesting though because I always remember feeling for something that was called the world's biggest bookstore and it is not the world's biggest bookstore. It's a misnomer. It is. There is a Barnes and Noble in New York
Starting point is 00:22:36 that is actually twice the size of the world's biggest bookstore. But that being all being said, it doesn't matter. It was still a good name. It was a great, oh, I loved it. It was a great, oh, I loved it. It was a great name.
Starting point is 00:22:46 I love the location because it was a bookstore close to school for me that I could wander around. Oh, right. Your second one. When I went to Ryerson. That I didn't go to. Nope. That's right. And I loved it.
Starting point is 00:22:56 It was beautiful. Although it never felt that big because of the way, it's sort of like awkwardly, like a giant crash from downstairs. I'll worry about that later. It never felt huge. I don't like if you haven't, if you hadn't, if it wasn't called the world's biggest bookstore and you just walked in,
Starting point is 00:23:12 you certainly wouldn't feel because the way the architecture of it is, is it's actually kind of narrow and the ceilings were a little bit low. It was, but it was, it was cool. It was really cool. But this is what, this is,
Starting point is 00:23:22 you know, this is what happens. The way of the world. I know. So last week. That's a sign I would want to see saved perhaps. See, that one I don't care about. We never agree on signs.
Starting point is 00:23:30 I know. We don't. So last week we did talk about the closing of the chapters that's at the old Runnymede Theater at Runnymede and Bloor. And now they're closing early next year, I guess. They're closing the world's biggest bookstore. So our bookstores are disappearing. I was reading there's a, I forget the name of it now.
Starting point is 00:23:47 Shoot. Oh, it's annoying. Will this be condos too? World's biggest bookstore will become like the world's biggest condos or anything? Everything's condos. Everything is condos. It's true. Everything's condos.
Starting point is 00:23:57 There was a bookstore owner they interviewed about it downtown. And he was saying for him, so many bookstores have disappeared. His business is actually doing pretty well because if you don't happen to be near a Chapters or Chapters doesn't have the book you want, which I find is typically always the case. I'll go to look for a book and there's like candles and there is, you know, mitts. And once I wade through all the stupid things I don't need to actually find the books, the book I want is invariably not there. So his,
Starting point is 00:24:26 yeah, he said his business is booming because all the bookstores have closed. So people have been seeking him out. So the, we've talked about Bon Jovi in the past. It was like Christmas this morning. I woke up and I heard that Bon Jovi is bringing the Buffalo Bills to Toronto. It's the best news ever.
Starting point is 00:24:43 Have you ever been to a Buffalo Bills game when they had them in Toronto? Oh my God, it was so much fun. Bring it on. Bon Jovi, love him. NFL, Buffalo Bills, love them. I know, I'm less excited. Oh my God, you should be so excited. It's amazing for the city.
Starting point is 00:24:56 It's like fantastic. We need more stuff. We need big stuff. He can't do it. He doesn't have the cash to do that. So first of all, the guy's got to die. So let's talk dominoes, okay? The Bills owner is never going to move this team. He owns the team. He's got to die first, first of all the guy's gonna die so let's talk dominoes okay the bill's owner is never going to move this team he owns the team he's like he's gonna die first
Starting point is 00:25:07 first of all so the guys someone's gonna die what are you talking about the bill's owner is not selling he's like a thousand years old 95 but he's still yeah he's about to go well he's i know he's been about to go for 10 years now so he's gonna die then uh bon jovi needs a lot more cash so he needs a bunch of investors to go in with the mlsc has a billion they're not they're not gonna touch it like well they say they're not gonna sure they will and then they're gonna move the cfl to be more filled and that all will be all will be well this is a good thing don't be negative about it it's a good thing yeah no i'm just not as excited because uh next thing you know what they're going to want uh us to us taxpayers to cover the new
Starting point is 00:25:43 stadium that's going to be built and wherever they put it down we should have a new stadium we need new things like you want the city to grow you want big things i know i don't i don't think we have a professional football team i'm okay like i don't feel the need oh you it's totally different when i went you say that because it's two games a year it's like a event it's Michigan. Mike, do you know how much people love the NFL? Come on. If that were to be here, it would bring so much life to the city. We need things to do.
Starting point is 00:26:10 People are so into it. You should have seen that game. It was crazy. It was amazing. Downtown was alive. It was awesome. It was really, really cool. Okay, but you have to have eight of those a season.
Starting point is 00:26:21 Right. No problem. You don't think that eight would be... No, I don't deny it'll be supported. Yeah, that's a good thing. I think they'll fill the place. I'm just not as excited as you are. But you shouldn't be negative about it
Starting point is 00:26:31 just because it's good. I don't think MLSC will have any ownership. But I could be wrong. But I don't think they will. But I do think they will own the stadium that they play in. But they have to build it and they better use their own cash
Starting point is 00:26:43 because they print money over there and if they come asking for a handout, I'm going to be very mad. Yes. So they should pay for it themselves. Right, Roli? Sure, but you want things to happen. You want things to come to the city.
Starting point is 00:26:51 You want the city to grow. I want condos. You want big entertainment. You want stuff. Why build a stadium at Downsview when you could build more condos there? That's all I'm going to say. And Woodbine, I heard maybe Woodbine.
Starting point is 00:27:02 That's another place we could put more condos. This city needs more condos. We're going to get condos on King and... We're going to get condos. Oh, I heard the Kit Kat. I heard the Kit... Maybe. The Kit Kat guy. Who owns... The guy who owns... I heard him on the news yesterday. The guy who owns Kit Kat is adamantly against the
Starting point is 00:27:19 King Street condos. Loser. We need to have more condos. I can't wait for those condos okay so this uh is a work in progress this segment i'm gonna totally i want i would love to live in a frank jerry you know most of these condos are like investment properties that like foreign owners have empty a big part of it is but like there's not even there's not even like people if you're gonna have um build more condos at least make least make them be a living legend of our architecture. I know.
Starting point is 00:27:48 We can't do the... I told you I'm less excited about the... I know Frank Gehry, by the way, he said there's only two buildings he would save in this city. So do you agree with that? He said he'd save Old City Hall and Osgoode Hall. Old City Hall and Osgoode Hall. I said it twice just to make sure you heard me
Starting point is 00:28:02 because I know you doze off. That every other building could be torn down in Toronto. They're not worth keeping. So we're on like completely opposite sides because I like those old brownstones on King Street he wants to kill.
Starting point is 00:28:14 But okay, this segment is awesome. When we refine it, Rose, we're going to get a better theme song. That audio was shite. That hurt my ears. But it was the only audio in existence. I'm going to find a better theme song for
Starting point is 00:28:26 our Toronto news and we'll just keep it to a good quick five minute brush. Love it. Thank you. You have another shameful secret besides after our pizza conversation. You have a shameful secret you want to share? You know what? I think we're going to have to save it for the next
Starting point is 00:28:41 week because I don't I want to be able to really know really get into my dark dirty secret and i gotta have to have to drop it out and that's a good that's a good teaser too i like that teaser all right and that brings us to the end of our 56th show. You can follow me on Twitter at Toronto Mike and Rosie at Rosie in Toronto. Because was that Toronto Rosie taken? No, I...
Starting point is 00:29:15 Well, grab it before someone hears it. I don't want it. I like Rosie in Toronto. I'm good with Rosie in Toronto. I'm grabbing it then. I'm going to grab it and start like a Rosie imitation Twitter feed.
Starting point is 00:29:24 That would just be sad. In which I say everything it then. I'm going to grab it and start like a Rosie imitation Twitter feed. That would just be sad. In which I say everything is bananas. This is bananas. That is bananas. See you all next week. Bye for now. Bye for now. I want to take a streetcar downtown

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