Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Toronto Mike'd #6
Episode Date: October 11, 2012Toronto Mike goes off on the NHL and the gang talks about Humble and Fred and TV...
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                                         don't touch the bell, Wix.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         This is episode number six.
                                         
                                         Hey, everyone.
                                         
                                         Thanks for spending some time with us.
                                         
                                         That's Rosie, my amazing co-host.
                                         
                                         Hey, guys.
                                         
                                         And hitting that bell is Mike Wixson, producer extraordinaire,
                                         
    
                                         who, by the way, it turns out when we concluded episode five, instead of hitting the Toronto Mike theme song on the outro, you played a previous episode.
                                         
                                         Proof that I listened to the show.
                                         
                                         It was still on my desktop.
                                         
                                         He was multitasking.
                                         
                                         He was performing and producing.
                                         
                                         If you do that again, we're going to have a new producer for episode seven.
                                         
                                         I'll try my best.
                                         
                                         I don't touch buttons, so you're on your own.
                                         
    
                                         I'm thinking now when I tell you what episode number it is,
                                         
                                         I'm going to tell you the Toronto sports player that I enjoyed that wore the number.
                                         
                                         So this is Ace Bailey, number six.
                                         
                                         That's great. Thank you. I just is Ace Bailey, number six. That's great.
                                         
                                         Thank you.
                                         
                                         I just thought of that.
                                         
                                         All right.
                                         
                                         Toronto sports is very sad right now, though.
                                         
    
                                         Oh, yeah.
                                         
                                         I want to, if you don't mind, since you said the S word, sports,
                                         
                                         I got a very quick rant, I'd say, a real quick spiel I want to say
                                         
                                         regarding a certain sport we know and love in this city, hockey.
                                         
                                         There is none.
                                         
                                         There's hockey.
                                         
                                         There's no NHL hockey.
                                         
                                         And I just want to say to Gary Bettman and the owners
                                         
    
                                         and Don Feer and the NHLPA.
                                         
                                         They seem to be settling in for this piss, I don't know,
                                         
                                         this staring pissing contest thing where they see who will blink first.
                                         
                                         And seven years ago we went through this and I was upset.
                                         
                                         Like I remember writing entries and and i was pissed
                                         
                                         like get it get it together guys don't lose the season i don't want to lose the stanley cup i
                                         
                                         really cared i how old was i seven years like 31 years old i had a you know a young son and i
                                         
                                         really gave a i gave i really cared and this time like screw them like we'll see who blinks first i
                                         
    
                                         can go as i can go years you know i haven't seen the Leafs play a playoff game
                                         
                                         since before that last lockout.
                                         
                                         I can wait.
                                         
                                         Honestly, you have no idea what you're messing with this time.
                                         
                                         I don't care.
                                         
                                         I'm not going to write about it.
                                         
                                         I'm not going to worry about it.
                                         
                                         On Saturday night, I do something else.
                                         
    
                                         You billionaires can go fight over the pie
                                         
                                         and how you divvy up all that cash.
                                         
                                         And I'll go watch something else.
                                         
                                         I'll watch the Raptors.
                                         
                                         I'll do something else.
                                         
                                         I'll go to George Bell Arena and watch my son play house league.
                                         
                                         I'm glad you said there's no NHL, but there's still hockey.
                                         
                                         There's still hockey.
                                         
    
                                         But you know what's interesting is on my website, I'll put deals.
                                         
                                         You know, the Groupon deal.
                                         
                                         Which site is this, Rosie?
                                         
                                         MyTorontoScoop.com
                                         
                                         MyTorontoScoop.com
                                         
                                         So I find all the deals and check them out.
                                         
                                         And I've noticed since this has been happening, there's been a lot of deals for Marley games,
                                         
                                         which I find really interesting because typically deals get put up when your businesses are trying to get more business.
                                         
    
                                         So I find it interesting that there's all these deals for Marley games.
                                         
                                         Clearly they need to sell more tickets.
                                         
                                         But I just wonder if we're in Toronto, we love hockey or we just love the Leafs.
                                         
                                         No, we're a big league city.
                                         
                                         We don't really support, in my opinion, the Marlies are a tough sell because it's not
                                         
                                         top-notch professional league.
                                         
                                         My buddy's having a rally this weekend that revolves around this.
                                         
                                         If you want to check it out, you can go to wewantacup.com.
                                         
    
                                         You know what?
                                         
                                         That requires passion.
                                         
                                         It requires me to care.
                                         
                                         To care.
                                         
                                         I refuse to protest this.
                                         
                                         I see the listlessness.
                                         
                                         With all due respect to your friend, that's a good idea, but I refuse to participate. Don't you get that
                                         
                                         I really feel it. He does not care.
                                         
    
                                         He's listless. And I love the Leafs.
                                         
                                         Guys, read my blog, okay? I love
                                         
                                         the Leafs. I know. No, I love the
                                         
                                         Leafs too. My husband is a huge
                                         
                                         sports fan and in the last
                                         
                                         lockout, he
                                         
                                         just went to something else. He
                                         
                                         discovered soccer, Premier League soccer
                                         
    
                                         and he kept that. I thought she was going to say masturb else. He discovered soccer, Premier League soccer, and he kept that. I swear to God, I thought
                                         
                                         she was going to say masturbation.
                                         
                                         He discovered...
                                         
                                         No, soccer.
                                         
                                         And I said to him when we got married,
                                         
                                         because he watches everything, I said, I'll give you
                                         
                                         one sport that I will genuinely
                                         
                                         care about. So pick it.
                                         
    
                                         And I will watch it and care about it
                                         
                                         and love it. And he picked
                                         
                                         hockey. So I watched it, And I will watch it and care about it and love it. And he picked hockey.
                                         
                                         So I watched it.
                                         
                                         And I genuinely like watching it now a lot.
                                         
                                         And it's just too bad that it's not on because I'm not going to watch soccer. It's too bad.
                                         
                                         Like you said, that was seven years ago.
                                         
                                         And they did it again.
                                         
    
                                         You lost the entire season.
                                         
                                         They canceled the Stanley Cup final for the first time since some Spanish influenza outbreak in like 1918 or something.
                                         
                                         Give me a break.
                                         
                                         Well, then you see this.
                                         
                                         Again, no, thank you.
                                         
                                         It's true.
                                         
                                         Not interested.
                                         
                                         It's very, I think people are definitely more apathetic about it now.
                                         
    
                                         Definitely.
                                         
                                         When you see the players, all the big players going off to play in the Russian leagues, they're fine.
                                         
                                         They're going to make lots and lots of money.
                                         
                                         And there's no hockey question to watch.
                                         
                                         When they do have an agreement, just let me know.
                                         
                                         I will.
                                         
                                         Remember, I was excited.
                                         
                                         Somebody send Mike an email.
                                         
    
                                         Send me a, yeah, tweet me or something.
                                         
                                         I'll tweet you.
                                         
                                         Just to let me know.
                                         
                                         Because remember, this was the year the Leafs got the outdoor game,
                                         
                                         whatever they call it, the Winter Classic or whatever.
                                         
                                         My husband and his brother had, however it works to get tickets,
                                         
                                         I think it's some sort of lottery or something.
                                         
                                         Did they buy tickets?
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         I read an article, somebody,
                                         
                                         I think it was Pension Plan Puppets or something,
                                         
                                         where they tried to get out of the deal.
                                         
                                         You basically cannot get your money back
                                         
                                         until they cancel the season,
                                         
                                         but they don't have to cancel until the day of the game.
                                         
                                         It could be January 1st when they cancel this thing.
                                         
    
                                         They were really looking forward to that too
                                         
                                         because there's such a different dynamic
                                         
                                         to the winter classic and being inside.
                                         
                                         Screw them all.
                                         
                                         It's poor.
                                         
                                         I'm on mytorontoscoop.com.
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         I love your site, by the way.
                                         
    
                                         This is Prego on Queensway.
                                         
                                         Good restaurant?
                                         
                                         It's really good.
                                         
                                         Look at this food.
                                         
                                         I know.
                                         
                                         I didn't...
                                         
                                         Can you take me there for dinner?
                                         
                                         I would happily take you there to dinner.
                                         
    
                                         I'll bring you both.
                                         
                                         I'll bring you both.
                                         
                                         You can bring dates. It's so
                                         
                                         good. I don't know if you
                                         
                                         remember, there used to be a restaurant on Bloor,
                                         
                                         Angelo D's, and it was just a really,
                                         
                                         really popular restaurant in the West End for
                                         
                                         years. And it's the same
                                         
    
                                         chef.
                                         
                                         Wixson never heard of Angelo D's.
                                         
                                         These two have not. Have you ever been to Angelo D's?
                                         
                                         I have no idea what we're talking about.
                                         
                                         I'm looking at the photos here saying.
                                         
                                         I took really nice pictures of the food.
                                         
                                         I always like to.
                                         
                                         I always like to.
                                         
    
                                         We like to eat out.
                                         
                                         And I always like to take photographs of it.
                                         
                                         It's kind of dinner time.
                                         
                                         Everybody's hungry.
                                         
                                         Have you ever eaten rabbit?
                                         
                                         No.
                                         
                                         Coniglio.
                                         
                                         Coniglio.
                                         
    
                                         I was excited about trying the restaurant.
                                         
                                         Because I always love when new local restaurants open up in the neighborhood.
                                         
                                         But what really got me was they put a big sign that said Rabbit Wednesday nights.
                                         
                                         And it's actually funny.
                                         
                                         I'm Italian descent, but I don't actually love rabbit.
                                         
                                         It's my husband.
                                         
                                         What part of Italy?
                                         
                                         Southern Italy.
                                         
    
                                         Calabria.
                                         
                                         Managgia di miseria.
                                         
                                         Testadura. Very nice.
                                         
                                         Wow. It's very good.
                                         
                                         I grew up on Woodbridge.
                                         
                                         I can tell.
                                         
                                         So, yeah, the rabbit was really good.
                                         
                                         But I didn't take a picture of the rabbit because I have a friend
                                         
    
                                         who actually loves bunnies as
                                         
                                         pets not to consume. So I didn't
                                         
                                         want to offend her
                                         
                                         too badly.
                                         
                                         Well, that's an awesome website you got there.
                                         
                                         Everybody should go to MyTorontoScoop.com.
                                         
                                         Everybody's thinking about food. Thanks.
                                         
                                         Sorry.
                                         
    
                                         Right after they visit TorontoMike.com
                                         
                                         if you want to hear my thoughts
                                         
                                         on why I don't care about the NHL lockout this time.
                                         
                                         Sorry.
                                         
                                         I just got distracted by the food.
                                         
                                         I'm so hungry.
                                         
                                         Everyone's hungry.
                                         
                                         I got some
                                         
    
                                         good feedback
                                         
                                         since episode 5 about the CFNY
                                         
                                         reminiscing.
                                         
                                         Yeah?
                                         
                                         People like that?
                                         
                                         So they said, can this be like
                                         
                                         the CFNY reminiscing show?
                                         
                                         But I don't think that would
                                         
    
                                         keep their attention. I'm surprised there isn't a spirit of radio fan show
                                         
                                         actually. They got that website. I don't think they maintain it very well actually I'm surprised there isn't a spirit of radio fan show, actually.
                                         
                                         They got that website.
                                         
                                         I don't think they maintain it very well, actually.
                                         
                                         I think it's a bit out of date now,
                                         
                                         but there's a spirit of radio website, I noticed.
                                         
                                         It's funny when you guys were talking about Martin Streak,
                                         
                                         it totally brought me back to university days every single Sunday night.
                                         
    
                                         Keep it locked, keep it loaded, yeah?
                                         
                                         Oh my gosh, my girlfriend and I would get all turned up
                                         
                                         down to Whiskey Saigon for Martin Streak.
                                         
                                         Live to air.
                                         
                                         It was amazing, and he just put on the best show.
                                         
                                         And I just don't feel there's anyone that inspires that much.
                                         
                                         Yeah, who's the Martin Streak today?
                                         
                                         Exactly.
                                         
    
                                         Who is your...
                                         
                                         Deadmau5.
                                         
                                         It's a little different.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         These guys are big stars, though. Deadmau5? They are, exactly. Yeah, it's a little different okay these guys are big stars though dead most yeah it's a whole different thing he creates music that's different shepherd too he
                                         
                                         was he was we we loved we we loved him but martin's but martin streak there was just something it was
                                         
                                         the whole night he loved the music and you could tell and you could tell he loved it it was like
                                         
                                         he was in my head he knew what songs i was gonna he had the ability in the room and so did chris to be able to just read the room and give them
                                         
    
                                         exactly what they want you're absolutely right and and chris and chris shepherd too it was like
                                         
                                         he knew what i i needed to hear it was so good we used to go crazy there's two chris shepherds like
                                         
                                         there was a chris shepherd i used to like like i think it was like the really early 90s and then
                                         
                                         he became this i don't know this techno trip trip pop creator guy,
                                         
                                         which is a very different Chris Shepard.
                                         
                                         It's almost like, I want to say he maybe sold out or something,
                                         
                                         or maybe he discovered a way to greener pastures.
                                         
                                         Yes, and why Chris Shepard.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, he used to do late nights.
                                         
                                         I remember him doing really late night cool hip hop mixes and stuff,
                                         
                                         and I really used to record it to cassette and listen.
                                         
                                         But then he became something else,
                                         
                                         and he moved over to energy radio, right?
                                         
                                         Like 107.9?
                                         
                                         Yeah, that's right.
                                         
                                         Which I actually like.
                                         
    
                                         Scott Turner, I forgot to mention him last time.
                                         
                                         Scott, S-K-O-T, right?
                                         
                                         You know, somebody told me he used to be a fat guy.
                                         
                                         Freddie P told me a story
                                         
                                         how they lost weight together
                                         
                                         and they used to eat seaweed and stuff used to eat like seaweed and stuff.
                                         
                                         Didn't they do a morning show together?
                                         
                                         When Humble left to go to 99.9,
                                         
    
                                         didn't Scott Turner do the morning show
                                         
                                         with Freddie P?
                                         
                                         And they ate like seaweed and stuff.
                                         
                                         They lost a lot of weight.
                                         
                                         He's a real.
                                         
                                         It's good if you're trying to lose weight
                                         
                                         with people you work with
                                         
                                         because you spend so much time with them.
                                         
    
                                         That's why I work alone.
                                         
                                         That's how i'm like
                                         
                                         so that's a lot of good feedback from that but um i gotta i gotta just say something about the
                                         
                                         newsroom this is a radical change of topic here but a few episodes ago we talked about tv shows
                                         
                                         we were digging and i mentioned i was like halfway through the newsroom and I liked Sorkin and I was enjoying the newsroom.
                                         
                                         I just want to update everybody that I finished the newsroom
                                         
                                         and I just want to make sure that my reputation remains intact,
                                         
                                         that I'm not actually officially recommending this show.
                                         
    
                                         I don't think it's a good show.
                                         
                                         I think it's a little silly and ridiculous.
                                         
                                         Having said that, I enjoyed it like a guilty pleasure
                                         
                                         because it was so ridiculous.
                                         
                                         The newsroom was ridiculous. I don't know if it like a guilty pleasure because it was so ridiculous.
                                         
                                         The newsroom was ridiculous.
                                         
                                         I don't know if it just started better than it finished.
                                         
                                         But that character Dev Patel plays, the guy from Slumdog Millionaires,
                                         
    
                                         everything to do with that character made me cringe.
                                         
                                         It's funny because I actually didn't... Sometimes on your site, you have a commenter and he's referred to as a troll.
                                         
                                         Is that Argy?
                                         
                                         No, not Argy. He writes tons and tons
                                         
                                         and tons of stuff. Actually,
                                         
                                         I think everyone also finds him entertaining, but I've seen a couple
                                         
                                         of times commenters refer to him as a troll.
                                         
                                         He's a shit disturber. I actually didn't know what a troll
                                         
    
                                         was until the newsroom
                                         
                                         when that whole
                                         
                                         storyline. Doesn't it make you cringe when everything talks
                                         
                                         whether it's about Bigfoot or about
                                         
                                         how he's gonna...
                                         
                                         He was gonna discover who's put the death threat
                                         
                                         on Will McAvoy because
                                         
                                         he was gonna get in some kind of a web
                                         
    
                                         club where he has to troll.
                                         
                                         It was sad. It's sad. That show
                                         
                                         is not a good show. I like
                                         
                                         the... Let me just... I know you're looking at me.
                                         
                                         The Will McAvoy character played by
                                         
                                         Jeff Daniels is fun and interesting
                                         
                                         and I like the whole spirit
                                         
                                         of that character
                                         
    
                                         and I liked a lot of the writing
                                         
                                         because I like already
                                         
                                         what's his name?
                                         
                                         But in terms of a show,
                                         
                                         it's not quality stuff.
                                         
                                         This is some silliness going on.
                                         
                                         The opening to the show
                                         
                                         is about two minutes long
                                         
    
                                         and it is so boring.
                                         
                                         You know why?
                                         
                                         Because it's HBO.
                                         
                                         They don't have to sell ads.
                                         
                                         They have long boring things.
                                         
                                         It's a bit old fashioned
                                         
                                         the beginning of the show
                                         
                                         I thought.
                                         
    
                                         It actually felt like
                                         
                                         a little bit like the West.
                                         
                                         It was a bit dated feeling.
                                         
                                         Yeah, it was like
                                         
                                         kind of 1991 that one.
                                         
                                         Yeah, but I did like it.
                                         
                                         But you know you're watching
                                         
                                         an HBO show
                                         
    
                                         when the opening credits
                                         
                                         goes long
                                         
                                         because they don't have
                                         
                                         to sell ad space.
                                         
                                         That's the big difference.
                                         
                                         Make the story longer.
                                         
                                         Speaking of HBO,
                                         
                                         I started watching
                                         
    
                                         Boardwalk Empire.
                                         
                                         Oh my gosh, it's really good.
                                         
                                         See, I bet you it's better than The Newsroom.
                                         
                                         Oh yeah.
                                         
                                         Well, it's different.
                                         
                                         It's in a different era.
                                         
                                         No, I love The Newsroom,
                                         
                                         right to the bitter end.
                                         
    
                                         I can't, I can't.
                                         
                                         So don't you have any more resistance?
                                         
                                         I'm telling you The Newsroom's not a good show.
                                         
                                         It's silly.
                                         
                                         No.
                                         
                                         You think it's good?
                                         
                                         It's not silly.
                                         
                                         I think it's really good.
                                         
    
                                         Wow.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I even found it.
                                         
                                         But you're talking to a guy who liked it
                                         
                                         and watched every episode.
                                         
                                         No, I know.
                                         
                                         I actually even found it
                                         
                                         I just thought it was
                                         
                                         Really entertaining
                                         
    
                                         And well written
                                         
                                         And sure the storyline
                                         
                                         With the
                                         
                                         With the
                                         
                                         You know the troll
                                         
                                         And
                                         
                                         It's all silly
                                         
                                         Like it's
                                         
    
                                         I feel like I'm a little
                                         
                                         Dumber for having watched it
                                         
                                         But the Will McAvoy
                                         
                                         Character is fun
                                         
                                         You know what I feel dumb
                                         
                                         After you know I watch
                                         
                                         If I happen to watch
                                         
                                         The Bachelor
                                         
    
                                         I feel dumb after that
                                         
                                         Which I actually don't watch
                                         
                                         I don't feel dumb
                                         
                                         After watching The Newsroom.
                                         
                                         All right.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         So I just wanted to,
                                         
                                         though I didn't want to make it sound like
                                         
    
                                         from that episode
                                         
                                         that I was officially endorsing The Newsroom.
                                         
                                         I think you should watch Breaking Bad and Mad Men
                                         
                                         and Girls was really good.
                                         
                                         Girls was amazing.
                                         
                                         Newsroom's a little silly.
                                         
                                         You might want to save your time.
                                         
                                         But the first 10 minutes of that first episode
                                         
    
                                         is epic.
                                         
                                         And find it on YouTube and watch Will McAvoy's speech about why Americans are not great or whatever the topic was.
                                         
                                         Some of the criticism I've heard of the newsroom from women that work in broadcasting is that perhaps that Maggie, I think.
                                         
                                         Oh, Maggie's eyes are too close together.
                                         
                                         Is that what they're saying? She's a little, I think,
                                         
                                         I've heard a lot of criticism that her character is,
                                         
                                         maybe her character is silly and that a man would never act like that.
                                         
                                         Oh, she bumps into lots of things.
                                         
    
                                         The bumping into things is,
                                         
                                         it actually got on my nerves by the end.
                                         
                                         But the Dev Patel character is worse than her.
                                         
                                         Like, these are your woman characters.
                                         
                                         I mean, Dev Patel is not a woman
                                         
                                         character. Sorry, Dev.
                                         
                                         Well, I just thought the whole...
                                         
                                         I actually found... I think because I didn't really
                                         
    
                                         know what a troll was
                                         
                                         and what it actually did. I just thought a troll was somebody...
                                         
                                         You were educated by the newsroom. I have to say, it was
                                         
                                         an interesting little glimpse into a subculture
                                         
                                         that I knew nothing about. But this is no West Wing.
                                         
                                         This can't carry the West Wing's jockstrap.
                                         
                                         I am curious to see. I actually would recommend it.
                                         
                                         I think people will find it
                                         
    
                                         entertaining and
                                         
                                         a lot more intelligent
                                         
                                         than most of the
                                         
                                         horrible stuff that's on TV.
                                         
                                         But I am curious to see
                                         
                                         if they can continue it
                                         
                                         for season two.
                                         
                                         Well, they couldn't finish it
                                         
    
                                         season strong.
                                         
                                         They started the first few
                                         
                                         episodes I liked
                                         
                                         and then it tailed off for me
                                         
                                         and I tried and I finished it.
                                         
                                         When I finished it up,
                                         
                                         I was just a little embarrassed
                                         
                                         at some of the stuff that was going on.
                                         
    
                                         That character who's running the blog for Will McAvoy,
                                         
                                         everything that he touched just made me cringe.
                                         
                                         The storylines were horrible for that guy.
                                         
                                         I'm sorry, we had to get in the club,
                                         
                                         he had to troll somebody
                                         
                                         and he was going to have that pretty girl say that she,
                                         
                                         I can't even remember now.
                                         
                                         Ridiculous.
                                         
    
                                         Olivia Munn's character.
                                         
                                         She is so gorgeous.
                                         
                                         I love her.
                                         
                                         I actually just saw a movie with her in it, and she plays the exact same character.
                                         
                                         I don't know how she does it.
                                         
                                         It was Sarah Jessica Parker.
                                         
                                         And she basically plays that character in it.
                                         
                                         She's so good at that.
                                         
    
                                         Okay, enough of that.
                                         
                                         I found a new show I like.
                                         
                                         Okay, what?
                                         
                                         I'm the last guy to watch it
                                         
                                         Auction Hunters
                                         
                                         Never heard of it
                                         
                                         Really?
                                         
                                         Yeah
                                         
    
                                         Okay I think I could be an auction hunter
                                         
                                         That's all I'm going to say
                                         
                                         Do you guys
                                         
                                         Auction Hunters
                                         
                                         Do you guys know a show called
                                         
                                         Urban Suburban?
                                         
                                         I haven't heard of it up till now
                                         
                                         But I'm watching it tonight
                                         
    
                                         So it's a local reality show
                                         
                                         Just like Property Virgins and all that And my friend my two friends they both play my ball team mike and
                                         
                                         colleen they're a married couple and they're on this show now the way this works podcasting well
                                         
                                         the the show airs tonight but i won't throw this mp3 on the web server until like tomorrow or
                                         
                                         something or the next day or whatever so you're not gonna i can't say it's tonight it will have already aired by the time you hear this but i did talk to colleen today uh you
                                         
                                         were chatting with her as well via twitter and she's gonna jump on a podcast in a couple of
                                         
                                         weeks she's gonna come in and be on the microphone as a guest just to give us i want to find out like
                                         
                                         how scripted these reality shows are like How guided are they and what they do
                                         
    
                                         and say? How real are these shows?
                                         
                                         Oh, they're very real.
                                         
                                         Very, very real.
                                         
                                         It'll be cool to talk to her having
                                         
                                         had the experience of it.
                                         
                                         And she has a pretty cool mommy blog
                                         
                                         that you seem to enjoy. I do.
                                         
                                         Momfessional is Colleen's blog.
                                         
    
                                         And I have to say, I really, I liked it.
                                         
                                         I checked it out.
                                         
                                         And I tend to not really like mommy blogs because, I don't know, I just find that they're kind of saccharine.
                                         
                                         But Colleen's was so cool.
                                         
                                         She was so, it was, I loved it.
                                         
                                         It was so real.
                                         
                                         I immediately identified with an experience she had taking her little guy to a soccer event.
                                         
                                         But we'll save it to chat a bit.
                                         
    
                                         So she'll be on in a few episodes.
                                         
                                         She'll be a guest.
                                         
                                         But next week, we're going to have Elvis as a guest.
                                         
                                         The Elvis?
                                         
                                         The damn Elvis?
                                         
                                         I'm so excited.
                                         
                                         This is actually, I was thinking,
                                         
                                         this is going to be tough because Elvis is an online persona
                                         
    
                                         for a longtime friend of mine.
                                         
                                         And we have to figure out,
                                         
                                         I'm not going to have Elvis on the show.
                                         
                                         I need to have the real guy
                                         
                                         because there are some very cool stories
                                         
                                         and things I want to talk to him about.
                                         
                                         What's his name?
                                         
                                         Am I allowed?
                                         
    
                                         That's what I wasn't sure.
                                         
                                         I guess I can say that.
                                         
                                         Tell you what, man.
                                         
                                         You can say whatever you want.
                                         
                                         It's your podcast.
                                         
                                         So his name is...
                                         
                                         What's his first name?
                                         
                                         It's Perry.
                                         
    
                                         Perry will be on the podcast.
                                         
                                         He's going to have to change his name. My P's pop on this microphone. So Perry is on first name. It's Perry. Perry will be on the podcast. He's going to have to change his name.
                                         
                                         My peas pop on this microphone.
                                         
                                         So Perry is on the podcast.
                                         
                                         Your peas pop in person too.
                                         
                                         I know.
                                         
                                         I'm just kidding.
                                         
                                         They don't.
                                         
    
                                         Oh, thank you.
                                         
                                         So I have a lot of questions.
                                         
                                         He has a very interesting history and some things he did at Western as a DJ for Western Radio.
                                         
                                         And some health issues that he has conquered
                                         
                                         that are kind of
                                         
                                         a very inspiring story.
                                         
                                         Oh, wow.
                                         
                                         So he's got some cool stuff.
                                         
    
                                         He's going to come on,
                                         
                                         but as a commenter on the blog,
                                         
                                         he's known as Elvis
                                         
                                         and he's a shit on the blog.
                                         
                                         Like, he's a jerk.
                                         
                                         I'm assuming he's an Elvis fan,
                                         
                                         a huge Elvis fan.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         He's a huge Elvis fan.
                                         
                                         Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley?
                                         
                                         Presley. Elvis Stoico. Elvis Stoico. He's a huge Elvis fan. Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley? Presley.
                                         
                                         Elvis Stoico.
                                         
                                         Elvis Stoico.
                                         
                                         He's a huge Elvis Stoico fan.
                                         
                                         So Elvis will be on next week,
                                         
                                         and then Colleen will be on next week after that.
                                         
    
                                         Now, we're in the Humble and Fred studios.
                                         
                                         Humble and Fred,
                                         
                                         longtime morning radio hosts in this city
                                         
                                         on 102.1, and then a brief period none of the city on 102.1
                                         
                                         and then a brief period none of us heard on 99.9.
                                         
                                         Yeah, no one knows what we're talking about.
                                         
                                         But they've been podcasting.
                                         
                                         They're on AM640 together too.
                                         
    
                                         Oh, yeah, crap, yeah.
                                         
                                         Right.
                                         
                                         When Dean Blundell came to 102, they went to 640.
                                         
                                         When it was Mojo Radio.
                                         
                                         Is Dean Blundell a good show?
                                         
                                         Last time I asked that, we went way off.
                                         
                                         So I'm not even going to address that.
                                         
                                         That's interesting.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Well, he has good ratings.
                                         
                                         He has a lot of young male listeners, which is what matters.
                                         
                                         Advertisers love those.
                                         
                                         Right.
                                         
                                         Who doesn't?
                                         
                                         So that was Mojo Radio.
                                         
                                         And where I believe a guy named Mike Stafford was also on the air.
                                         
    
                                         Did we ever talk about him? I don't think so. I like that Mike Stafford, actually. He's good. He was good on Mojo Radio, and where I believe a guy named Mike Stafford was also on the air. Did we ever talk about him?
                                         
                                         I don't think so.
                                         
                                         I like that Mike Stafford, actually.
                                         
                                         He's good.
                                         
                                         He was good on Mojo Radio.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         So I was just telling Rosie that on November 22nd, in this very location, Redfish Studios,
                                         
    
                                         at Brown's Line and Horner on 30th Street, there will be a huge one-year anniversary party for the Humble
                                         
                                         and Fred podcast.
                                         
                                         So I just thought we'd spend a couple of minutes.
                                         
                                         Jesus Christ.
                                         
                                         One year and they're going to have a party?
                                         
                                         Guys, give me five years we'll party.
                                         
                                         Any excuse, right?
                                         
                                         Don't love this baby Jesus.
                                         
    
                                         We had a 100-episode party and a 200-episode party.
                                         
                                         It's like a kindergarten graduation.
                                         
                                         Oh, hey, okay, everybody in kindergarten, you're going to graduate.
                                         
                                         One year.
                                         
                                         No, it's like a high school couple that celebrates their one month, their six month anniversary.
                                         
                                         What's wrong with you guys?
                                         
                                         It's a party.
                                         
                                         I love parties.
                                         
    
                                         Parties are awesome.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Parties are good.
                                         
                                         What are you complaining about?
                                         
                                         This one is being planned beautifully, too.
                                         
                                         It looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.
                                         
                                         Yeah, they got like an event planner looking after the details.
                                         
                                         And I'm going to pop some peas.
                                         
    
                                         Bear with me.
                                         
                                         But Palma Pasta, my very good friends at palma
                                         
                                         pasta are gonna cater this event so bring your appetite they make pasta to perfection
                                         
                                         pasta do you remember mother's pizza wasn't that a great place oh my gosh i've not thought about
                                         
                                         mother's pizza in pizza panzerotti made perfect oh my god shut your eyes you've ordered your pizza
                                         
                                         yes shut your eyes okay now we're in Mother's Pizza, all of us.
                                         
                                         What are we watching on the screens?
                                         
                                         Ponderosa.
                                         
    
                                         Okay, or?
                                         
                                         I don't know.
                                         
                                         I have no idea.
                                         
                                         Alvin Costello or Three Stages.
                                         
                                         It was the greatest.
                                         
                                         Are you thinking of that location on Dundas near the Ghetto Mall, their Honeydale Mall?
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         Right?
                                         
    
                                         We went there next to the bowling alley.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         There's nothing in honeydale
                                         
                                         mall anymore it's because the walmart left when the walmart when the walmart left that thing was
                                         
                                         downhill there's still no frills it's a big one and there's a kick-ass dollar store am i correct
                                         
                                         maybe i don't know okay i don't recall mother's pizza i loved it oh yeah i don't even know if
                                         
                                         the pizza was any good just exactly it was deep Where do you get good deep dish pizza in the city anymore?
                                         
                                         What about Frank Viteers?
                                         
    
                                         Well, that's a whole other podcast.
                                         
                                         Do you remember Frank Viteers?
                                         
                                         That was another one that was like kind of.
                                         
                                         I don't remember Frank.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Nevermind.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         So yeah.
                                         
    
                                         So Palmapasta is going to cater the one year anniversary party of Humble and Fred.
                                         
                                         Really briefly, I just want to give some TLC love to Humble and Fred because I'm only on this microphone right now recording this podcast
                                         
                                         because I was lucky enough to have this awesome sort of vantage point
                                         
                                         for the birth of Humble and Fred's podcasting experience.
                                         
                                         And I was going to share a little bit really briefly.
                                         
                                         I hope some people are interested,
                                         
                                         but I already mentioned last episode in the Venn diagram.
                                         
                                         A lot of people listening to me already like Humble and Fred, so I thought this might be
                                         
    
                                         interesting.
                                         
                                         That crossover stuff with the circles, right?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         And you get the eye in the middle.
                                         
                                         That's right.
                                         
                                         There's a big crossover in that Venn diagram.
                                         
                                         Cool.
                                         
                                         So, go ahead, Rosie.
                                         
    
                                         I wanted to ask how you met them in the first place, because I'm not sure I know how you
                                         
                                         became friends.
                                         
                                         I'll tell you.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         How much time do I have for my Humble and Fred spiel?
                                         
                                         Did you just give me the finger?
                                         
                                         I did.
                                         
                                         Or was that one minute?
                                         
    
                                         I gave you the British version.
                                         
                                         Okay, here.
                                         
                                         I'll try to be quick with this.
                                         
                                         I hope this is interesting to everybody.
                                         
                                         When Humble Howard got fired from the mix back in 2006,
                                         
                                         I had written a blog entry about it
                                         
                                         because I was a huge Humble & Fred fan
                                         
                                         throughout the 90s
                                         
    
                                         when they were on 102.1 The Edge.
                                         
                                         And I wrote about,
                                         
                                         oh, I haven't thought of Humble & Fred in a while.
                                         
                                         I used to listen every morning
                                         
                                         going to Michael Power and U of T.
                                         
                                         I would listen to that every single morning,
                                         
                                         woke up to these guys,
                                         
                                         loved it all, goo head, whatever.
                                         
    
                                         And I just heard Humble Howard
                                         
                                         get fired from
                                         
                                         his gig at the mix i hope he lands on his feet i hope he's okay whatever so what happened is when
                                         
                                         people googled humble howard i was number one for his name the first one of the main googlers of the
                                         
                                         name humble howard can you believe this is was humble howard can you believe can you believe
                                         
                                         he googled his own name wow oh everyone's googled yeah i'm
                                         
                                         just kidding so uh if something like that he used to comment on it to let everybody know he was okay
                                         
                                         and what was going on and then he wrote me an email and said here's my blackberry number that's
                                         
    
                                         how old the story is he had a blackberry and i would we basically struck up a convo and it turned
                                         
                                         out he wanted a podcast with freddie p because uh him and freddie
                                         
                                         p got fired like a year before humble howard and they wanted to do something together they said
                                         
                                         let's do another christmas special we've done 18 of these things uh we popular yeah let's do another
                                         
                                         christmas special we'll see if we can get bare naked ladies or whatever they had a big plan
                                         
                                         we don't they didn't know anything about how to make this digit this mp3 heard like what's a podcast there's xml involved and web hosting and there's html and
                                         
                                         dot dots and slash slash well that's where i come in that's what i do so i said guys i'll let me do
                                         
                                         this i'd love to do it so we basically me humble and fred worked on those podcasts and we'd get
                                         
    
                                         together at dan duran's house i walked over to Dan Duran's house and we recorded.
                                         
                                         Scary Pete showed up. Bingo
                                         
                                         Bob. These names. Andy.
                                         
                                         Andy Wilson. Andy.
                                         
                                         And we recorded these podcasts
                                         
                                         and a series of them.
                                         
                                         Maybe three or four a year. They were really good.
                                         
                                         They were fun. That was fun.
                                         
    
                                         And basically those are sort of what
                                         
                                         set the table that they did that.
                                         
                                         And then Humble got a job and Fred got a job.
                                         
                                         Did you know Fred was a program director in Peterborough?
                                         
                                         That's a true story.
                                         
                                         No idea.
                                         
                                         For Chorus Nations.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         The Wolf.
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Rosie didn't know.
                                         
                                         Oh.
                                         
                                         Now you know.
                                         
                                         You should be listening to Humble and Fred more often.
                                         
                                         They talk about that frequently.
                                         
    
                                         But so Humble's at Easy Rock, which became Boom.
                                         
                                         And he's on a show
                                         
                                         with Colleen Rusholm,
                                         
                                         and one day Howard is fired again,
                                         
                                         and then Freddie P is fired,
                                         
                                         and they're both out of work,
                                         
                                         and they're calling me up,
                                         
                                         and they're like,
                                         
    
                                         we want to do something different.
                                         
                                         Let's do a regular podcast
                                         
                                         every single day,
                                         
                                         and then of course
                                         
                                         they talk to you, I suppose,
                                         
                                         Mr. Wixon, about Redfish's space.
                                         
                                         Well, Howard was here because he's my partner in Redfish.
                                         
                                         So, yeah.
                                         
    
                                         So you were already working together.
                                         
                                         So they built this with their own hands?
                                         
                                         So they took my office.
                                         
                                         They took your office.
                                         
                                         This was your office.
                                         
                                         This is my office we're sitting in.
                                         
                                         And they painted this.
                                         
                                         I remember I came in before it was done up, and I came back after it was done up, and
                                         
    
                                         they spent a lot of time to make this room nice.
                                         
                                         And we built a website. Monica and I
                                         
                                         actually did the website.
                                         
                                         My fiance. And I
                                         
                                         helped with the XML and we
                                         
                                         basically, I would be coming in here
                                         
                                         to set them up and I whiteboarded
                                         
                                         how it would all work and
                                         
    
                                         I remember that first day
                                         
                                         it was a Saturday I think we recorded the
                                         
                                         first episode. In this room I'm sitting on that couch, the first episode, and I'm thinking, okay, they're going to do this five days a week, and we'll see where it goes.
                                         
                                         But I was here every day for the first two weeks.
                                         
                                         You were, that's right.
                                         
                                         Then I got a job.
                                         
                                         Ruined all that fun.
                                         
                                         But I've just been listening ever since.
                                         
    
                                         I'm working hard, Not here every day anymore.
                                         
                                         But I listen every day.
                                         
                                         And I still enjoy that show.
                                         
                                         That's great.
                                         
                                         Do you mind if I send a shout out to you on this one, Mike?
                                         
                                         Go ahead.
                                         
                                         You've always been the greatest guy.
                                         
                                         We're trying to build a lot of podcasts, as you know, Rosie.
                                         
    
                                         And every day I find myself on the phone saying to Mike, can you help me understand this?
                                         
                                         Can you do this?
                                         
                                         And without fail, every single time. I find myself on the phone saying to Mike, can you help me understand this? Can you do this?
                                         
                                         Without fail, every single time,
                                         
                                         well, once in a while,
                                         
                                         he'll graffiti a little message into iTunes for himself,
                                         
                                         which makes me laugh.
                                         
                                         Once in a while.
                                         
    
                                         But it makes me laugh.
                                         
                                         But anyway,
                                         
                                         we would not be doing this without you, Mike.
                                         
                                         Thank you.
                                         
                                         Thank you. That's pretty cool.
                                         
                                         That's pretty cool.
                                         
                                         So this is the Humble and Fred story?
                                         
                                         Well, there's more, but I don't want to go too long on it.
                                         
    
                                         But bottom line is I had a really interesting viewpoint of the birth of this podcast.
                                         
                                         So it's going to turn one.
                                         
                                         It's turning one next week, but we'll have the party on November 22nd.
                                         
                                         And I'm looking forward to it and want to say happy birthday to the Humble and Fred podcast.
                                         
                                         And you should be hearing, listening to it at humbleandfredradio.com.
                                         
                                         Thanks everybody.
                                         
                                         That was quick.
                                         
                                         Thanks guys for spending time with us.
                                         
    
                                         It was really fun.
                                         
                                         It was a pleasure
                                         
                                         and we'll be back. First like Geronimo. Talking for the whole city that I'm calling home.
                                         
