Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Toronto Mike'd #8

Episode Date: October 22, 2012

Elvis joins Toronto Mike, Rosie and Wix to chat about couriers, smart phones, Google and more

Welcome everybody to episode number eight. Number eight for the late, great Walt Padubney. Rest in peace, Walt. Hey Mike, hey guys. How you doing, Rosie? Very good, how are you? Good. How you doing, Wixson?

Nice, thank you. Wixson was just rapping for us. Yo, yo. Let's forget that. Back by popular demand for episode eight is episode seven's hero, Elvis. How you doing, Elvis? Pretty good. I'm really enjoying my Ford jacket and my free Cadillac rental. Thank you very much, GM and Ford.

F-U-C-Q. Thank you. Well done. That was a little shout outC-Q. Thank you. Well done. That was a little shout-out to CQ. I would like to do a little shout-out to a couple of long-time commenters. I'd like to say hi to Rick C. in Oakville, who he's always been great with TorontoMic.com, as well as with the Humble and Fred podcast.

And I'd also like to give a special shout out to Lorne, who every week he listens to these podcasts and he shares exceptional feedback that I take very seriously and I share with Rosie. What do you think of Lorne's feedback? Lorne's feedback is amazing. Lorne's feedback is better than some people's feedback I've got working in broadcasting.

He's more thoughtful and constructive. So the Weather Network would benefit from his... I think anyone in any kind of broadcasting would. It's just how nice, how thoughtful and constructive it is. That's nice because a lot of people make things that are subjective, nasty feedback, right? You guys suck bones. Yeah, usually that's Elvis.

I do not say that. I think I can quote his most recent comment was, this pod, worst episode ever, or this podcast sucks. And that's the one that he was in. That's right. That's the one that he was just in. He's commenting right now. But my brother once said my blog was starting to suck,

and I think I wrote about that, and Elvis always references this, so it'd be like, your brother's right. Your podcast sucks now. It's fantastic. I just love the fact that when you comment on these, your stupid blog, that people actually believe that you're for real. Like the people can't read through the sarcasm.

And you've mentioned many times that we know each other. So why would I continually go to my supposed friend's blog and tell them how much it sucks? But it really does suck. Well, Elvis is to the real you as Il Duce is to Palma Pasta's Anthony Petrucci.

You seem to have this asshole persona. I wouldn't say I'm not an asshole, I don't think. You were the hero last episode. Now you're an asshole. What have you done for me lately? Nice. I'm not coming asshole, I don't think. You were the hero last episode. Now you're an asshole. What have you done for me lately? Nice. I'm not coming back in again.

Yeah. But Lauren's great. He also will give nice, Lauren is great because he also gives good cooking tips here and there. I noticed just before Thanksgiving, someone had asked about for some tips on stuffing and he put a link to one and I checked it out and I completely want to make it. It was great. I have to ask him about my scrambled eggs next time I'm on. You use my commenters for cooking advice because last time you used Mississauga Phil.

I don't use them. I ask for input and they offer it. They're wonderful. Blind Dave, who I want to give a shout out to, if that's okay. Sure, Blind Dave. Gave me the greatest. Blind Dave, who I want to give a shout out to, if that's okay. Sure, Blind Dave.

Gave me the greatest, hopefully it's still going to be timely, but I want to dress my little guy up for Halloween as a locked out NHL player. I think this is going to be very cute. But I want him to carry a little picket sign, and I wanted something funny to write on it. So Blind Dave suggested I put on it, can't feed my family for five million a year. I think that's hilarious. But now I'm thinking I might have to change the costume.

That was Blind Dave who suggested that? Yeah. It was awesome. Thank you. I was thinking this year I'm not going to use my kids as a political statement at Halloween. I thought maybe it would be all right because they were like, I want to be a Power Ranger. I'm like, okay, did he cry? I want to be a Power Ranger.

No, you're going to be a hockey player. You're going to make this statement. He doesn't care. I want candy. Let's just hope that the NHLPA rejects this offer from the NHL so your son can still be a lockdown. We do pray. We'll see.

We'll see. We pray to the spaghetti monster. Oh, that's another podcast. We'll save that for another show. You stalked Oscar Wilde? Yeah. I started by going to his grave in Paris. He was buried in Paris.

He died penniless in Paris, but he was born and raised in Dublin. So from Paris, I went to Amsterdam and then I went to Dublin and I went to his house where he was raised.

I went to his monument in the park there, Merriman. I can't remember the name of the park right now. Pierre Lachey Cemetery. That's in Paris.

And then I went to, they have a whole bunch of monuments in Dublin for the guys. So basically I stalked them last month. Okay, Morrissey, nice work. Thank you. Yeah, Jim Morrison is buried in the same cemetery as Oscar Wilde. It's very, very cool to see people make their pilgrimages there. There's a lot of people going to Morrison's grave.

It's pretty intense. Yeah, that's a wild thing, actually. This is very cool, Mike. You had a good journey, obviously. Thank you. I had a great time. And I did get a nice cardigan. I don't know if I've mentioned this on the podcast,

but I got a great cardigan in Dublin. A great cardigan for burning. Hey, now. Okay, great. So there's been a bit of fallout since our last episode seven with that flu shot controversy. RG now thinks we do have differing opinions and we can kind of mix it up. He's been pleased with what he heard.

Have we mentioned he's a douchebag? You have, yes. Right. I'm okay with him. He's a DB. You don't like him? I hate him. And he probably likes that, but I really do hate him.

Well, because he's so right wing and bigoted. Because he believes in ghosts. I think he's an idiot. He believes in what? But a lot of people believe in ghosts. Rosie believes in ghosts. Yeah, well, she doesn't tell everybody

that they're wrong for not believing in ghosts. That's true. My fiance believes in ghosts and we... But I've seen them on the farm. He's just so... Did you say ghost or goat?

Ghost. Oh my God, I'm sorry in my mind. I don't believe in goats either. No, they're imaginary. They totally are. They're like unicorns. That's right.

Men who stare at goats. They're sheep that have just been shamed. We need to have you back for a religion chat if you want. I was just thinking that. We need to save the religion chat. If RG thinks we don't disagree, we have to save the religion chat for a whole other podcast. Religion totally ruined God for me. I'm going to bring it.

I'm going to have to bring in my horns. But yeah, so we'll save the religion chat I want to can I just tell a quick story I have a quick little like it's really quick complain about asserting couriers so I work from home and I also get lots of packages delivered

for various reasons sometimes to Toronto Mike probably all his stuff so many freebies I work from home yeah I don't sell pot but I do work for her business there uh I have a friend who does have a herb business and everyone always thinks that she's but she actually does sell herbs and spices including me now get her number from you later even today I uh this morning I received a

package from Fedex and they have my cell i don't have a little backstory here is i live in an apartment and i don't have a landline so the only phone i have is my uh my android device once again drug dealer thank you because i don't have a landline they won't put my number on the board you know when you go into lobby of an apartment and you punch in a code so that you can get beeped in? Rosie, you've never been to an apartment? No, I'm just trying to picture it. Okay. Why won't they allow you?

Why won't they allow you? Because everyone that I know that does that then includes the number in their cell phone as intruder. So whenever someone buzzes up, it comes up on their phone, it's intruder. Because they only can connect this code in my apartment to a landline and I don't have a landline.

Can't they just put your landline number besides your name? You mean my cell number? Sorry, your cell number. Oh, I don't want that. Because it's a code, right? It would be 565, and then it would ring in my apartment. Or like 666. I would press number 9 or something, and it would beep.

They could get in the complex. To go to your apartment, do you need to get into a DeLorean first and go back to 95? What is happening here? This really sounds like a YP. It and go back to Nike. What is happening here? It's your kids. Marty. Marty. Marty.

Where we're going, we don't need roads. This is a callback to something that didn't air. So FedEx, they called my cell number, and then I came down to the lobby and I grabbed this package. When UPS and FedEx, they always find a way, because I give them my cell number, they find a way to get into my building and to get the package to me. They always do. Twice in the past two weeks. Purrolator.

Purrolator? Is that how you say it? Purrolator. Purrolator. Y'all got Purrolator up there? Canada? Purrolator. Wow.

They basically, because they don't see my name on the board to punch in a code, every single time they end up sending the package to some depot at Finch and 400 or something. Because it's a crown corporation, that's why. But it's not. If Puro Leader is a crown corporation. But Mike, it's not unreasonable to me. If they don't see your name, why would they assume you live there? All I'm saying is FedEx and UPS are able to get me the package every single time. Free enterprise?

Because they sell phone. Okay, so you're saying because Purolator is a crown corporation. They're owned by Canada Post in Canada. How come I don't know this? I thought they were like a competitor to FedEx, like a private company. They are a competitor, yes. But that's why when you go to Canada Post and you want to ship something fast, it's Purolator. I didn't know this.

That's true. How come we don't have Elvis on every episode something fast, it's Purolator. I didn't know this. That's true. How come we don't have Elvis on every episode? He's the smartest one in the room. Elvis is so smart. Okay. I was going to complain. That's actually not a sound effect. That's generally music that I just walk around with.

Does that just happen every time you come up with some brilliance? Oh, okay. So Purolator can't get me a package. Lucky bastard. Bottom line, I'm sick. Don't send me anything by Purolator because they can't get it to me. They can't seem to figure out how to sneak in of somebody else. Don't send him anything.

I think we all know we've established what it is he's shipping around. Works from home, Purolator, cell phone, come on. Rosie? Yes? What kind of phone do you, like mobile phone, I mean, do you use? It's a Samsung phone. So is it a smartphone? Yes, it's very smart.

It can call all the people. No, is this the phone i want to call that doesn't have a smartphone that's not a smartphone right like be serious this is we don't lie on this podcast it's i'm telling you it's a samsung okay what's it called it's called the samsung phone okay is that new? It's called phone. Last June. Last July. Of the year. Not last. The penultimate. So it doesn't have a name. Obviously it's not a Galaxy S.

No. Can you watch a YouTube video on that? Right. Well, I can access Twitter on it. Answer that question. Can you watch a YouTube video on that? I've never tried. Holy crap.

What kind of phone is that? Now Mike's going to try to make me sound like I'm not technologically savvy because I don't have an Android. By the way, anyone that refers to their mobile device as an Android is a hipster. What's the OS of that? Isn't it running Android? Did you go to Pakistan to buy that phone? No, Rosie, serious question.

I'm not trying to be mean. Why do you think that's a smartphone? Because in the store on the wall, it was under the smartphone section. But is it running Android as your operating system? It can go on the internet. I don't know what that means, running Android. Can you look at it and tell me if it's Android? Do you mind if I look at your phone?

Yeah. Okay. I'm trying to... I'm actually curious about what OSes our phones are running. Because if you're running Android, it's a smartphone. I suspect it's... How do you open this thing? I just dropped it on the ground.

Wixson, what mobile device do you... Oh, no, no, I don't want to see the battery. I want you to open it up for me, please. Does it open? Does it flip? Oh, wow. He didn't want me to take the back of it off. This is where the double D batteries...

Is that Android, or is it... The D-sized batteries go? Do you sell? It's not that old. No, I'm just curious. It's AAA, actually. I'm not a snob. It's fine.

I don't... This looks like it might be Android. Well, it has to be curious. It's AAA, actually. I'm not a snob. It's fine. I don't... This looks like it might be Android. Well, it has to be Android. It's Samsung. But I would not suggest that this is a smartphone. That's my Palm Pilot. I actually had a Palm Pilot for a really long time, and it was awesome. It did the job.

It's not a smartphone. This would not be classified as a smartphone. I got you. Wixen, what phone do you carry around with you? I'm currently using an iPhone. So which iPhone? Is it the iPhone 4? Okay, cool.

I don't even have the Siri on here. I just, ugh. I don't know. I used the 5 this weekend. I had a chance to use it. Yeah, cool. Nothing special? I love the Android.

If you've got a brain in your head and you can hear the sound of my voice. Didn't you used to have an Android? Yes. Go and get the new Android. Samsung is the only. Is that a Samsung phone brain in your head and you can hear the sound of my voice. Didn't you used to have an Android? Yes. Go and get the new Android. Samsung is the only. Is that a Samsung phone? I don't want to talk about it anymore. Or is it RCA?

It's a Samsung phone. It's Citizen. From Consumers Distributing. It's on ClearNet, actually. Elvis. Hey, welcome to Public Mobility. I'm proroguing myself. Elvis.

Elvis. Very timely. What kind of mobile device do you carry around? I am carrying around an iPhone 5. An iPhone? That's pretty recent. That is very recent. Did you expense it, or is this your own?

No, I own the device myself. I thought you were going to say you own Apple. No, I do not. He owns the Chiefs. So a couple of iPhones and a couple of Samsung phones, because I use a Samsung Galaxy S1. Yeah, there's no number. It's just a Samsung Galaxy S. The reason I bring this up is that Virgin Mobile has sent me via Purulator.

I can't say that freaking word. What a crown corporation. Purulator has sent me a Samsung Galaxy S3 to play around with, and I've been playing around with it. Without a doubt, if I were to pick any phone available today as my phone, I would pick this Samsung Galaxy S3 to play around with and I've been playing around with it. Without a doubt if I were to pick any phone available today as my phone, I would pick the Samsung Galaxy S3. I love that phone. They didn't give it to me. They lent it to me to play around. You mean you have to give it

back? Well, they haven't given it to me so I'm hoping they forget about it. My plan, they've shipped it over. I have it now. I've been playing with it. At some point They shipped it pure later. Right. That's true.

So how did you get it? I had to go to 400. When you really want it. When you really want it, you'll get it. Did they ship it? Yeah. They shipped it to the Crown Corporation. I had to drive to Finch and the 400, some big depot.

I had to. It's a long way. Yeah. Long way from my 99 protege. How upset is CQ right now? Did you call them back and say, you send me that goddamn phone again because it did not come to my door. Give me my free phone.

Anyways, I was wondering if we're all using phones we like or if there's another phone we, if money was no object, what phone we'd all use. So Elvis, obviously you just bought yourself an iPhone 5. So I'm going to guess that's the phone you want to use. Yeah, I had a 4S, and the whole purpose of we decided to go all in on Apple. So the 4S, when the 5 came out, the 4S went to my wife, I got the 5, so I've got my Apple TV. We've got the whole Apple stuff going on at home. So for me, I really don't care what you use, but it seems to make sense to me that if you're going to use something, that you should probably go all in with one particular OS or not.

And you're happy, obviously. Because then everything works. You're a happy guy. Yeah, I am. In my family, everybody's got a different device. It's so frustrating. It's so stupid. Like trying to message my wife, you know, when she was on Blackberry was just a pain in the butt.

Because you either had to use texting, which is so 2005, or had use whatsapp and whatsapp on the iphone you got to pay for like that's just ridiculous and uh okay so you love your iphone 5 i can tell you just don't use the maps is that the deal no the maps work fine oh i don't know i just read what reddit tells me and i reddit said they were shitty so i figured they must be pretty shitty i like it i like it when people i i commented on your blog a couple of weeks ago that I got the iPhone 5, and someone's like, how do you like the new maps? And they really don't realize that the maps do not come with the phone. It comes with the OS, you moron.

So you can have a 4S, and you still have the shitty maps. It has nothing to do with the phone. I picked it up, and I was just unimpressed. I was like, okay. Because it's lighter and longer. I got it because it was longer, and I need everything as long as possible. So, Wixson, if you could have any phone in the world, money is no object, what phone would you carry around?

I would probably go with the Star Wars hologram phone. Is that true? Yes, and then I would beam it out, and Princess Leia would come popping up and tell me an important message about how the Dark lord of the universe is coming to attack us. Is that your final answer? Yes. I think you'd want a Samsung Galaxy S3. You're right.

Thank you. And Rosie, I ask you because you once told me you would never use a camera that was part of your phone. You need your camera and your phone to be two separate devices i didn't understand because my camera on my phone right now is superior to the camera that is my canon camera only single uh purpose device so i know tell elvis you didn't ask me which phone i would like i noticed that you asked elvis and you Wixen. Yet, and I'm sitting in between them by the way. What phone would you like?

What phone would you like? Now that we fight more to appease Argy. What phone? And Argy, this is actually more like how we actually are. Argy.

What is Argy? No, no, I don't want to tell you. It's probably initials of his real name. I would get the iPhone 5 because I have an iPad and I love it.

Okay. What were you going to say? I was going to say, I don't know. Oh, what about the fact that, five because i have an ipad and i love it okay so what were you gonna say i was gonna say um i don't know you oh what about that's like the fact that what do you think about the fact that because when i went to europe to uh and i took many many photos every photo i took was using my samsung galaxy phone as i've known rosie now for what two weeks um and we go away it depends when i post these this comes from the woman who also said that she doesn't like games. Yeah.

Actually said I hate games. I certainly do not want a phone that I can play games on. I would never play a game. Is it offensive to you to have a camera on here? It's actually, I don't use it very much, but it does come in handy. It's not offensive to me. I like having it there, but I prefer my camera separate because I don't,

if I, if it rings, it actually rings a lot because I have friends and if I have to send a text. I don't understand. What happens if you're taking a picture

and it rings, what is that? Well, it's going to throw everything off. Wow. You are very popular. You use, well, that's right

because she has a smartphone so she has to talk on the phone. That's right. I actually don't. I don't have a smartphone. I just learned it's not a smartphone. I know. That's what what i said she doesn't have one so that's the only thing she can do on it this is like i hate to say this is a down syndrome phone i hate talking on the phone why does everything have to do why can't okay no this is my question why does everything have to

do more than one thing why can't one that's the whole idea is you one single device that does everything you don't what is so you don't have to carry around two devices what is so wrong i have an awesome purse that holds a lot of stuff why can't why don't this is this now supposed to make my dinner too so there's nothing wrong with having a camera if you didn't have the purse you'd agree with me is that correct if you don't have a awesome purse and i don't have a purse wickson sometimes he has a purse, usually not. Elvis is wearing a purse. That's a coincidence. I carry a purse.

But if you didn't have a purse, you would want everything in one device. Is that correct? Because you only have to worry about carrying one device in your pocket. I like the option to be able to take a picture with my phone. Yes. If my little guy is doing something cute and I want to capture it and I forgot my camera. But frankly, I like to take a lot of pictures. So did I in Europe.

I don't want... Hundreds of photos. I like it separate. Did you take them all with your camera? I took them all with my Samsung Galaxy. He was just dying

for someone to ask him that. He was just dying. I just discovered why Rosie doesn't like to take pictures with her phone. I'm trying desperately to. There's no lens. I don't know how you take the...

What do you push? You have to... Stop making fun of my phone. Oh my God, this phone. It's nice the way it flips out and it's got the nice hot metallic red interior keyboard. See, now for me, I travel a lot as you know, Mike. For me, my phone is everything to me. I do work from here.

My plane tickets are on here. Everything is... You Skype with me from there. I do. Everything I do is... And I call my girls from Face with FaceTime

from here and your daughters as well I would definitely get the iPhone I would definitely get the iPhone over the

your Android phone I know because you're an Apple bigot no I didn't say that I'm not judging you for liking Apple I've chosen to go

a different path here's the thing for me the Apple stuff it just looks cooler to be honest it's sexy and it also just works. Not to suggest that the Android doesn't, but it works with a lot of different devices. Everything powering this show is Apple.

The same argument could be made for a Windows phone, though, too. Right? If you got a Windows phone. Windows makes a phone? Yes. If you had a Windows phone and a PC and all that and you had an Xbox, everything works together. Is that how that works? Like your Xbox connects in?

Yeah. Elvis. Yeah. Elvis, have you ever seen a Windows phone in the wild that didn't belong to a Microsoft employee or was given away at a Microsoft trade show? No, everybody that I know that has a Windows phone is a Microsoft employee. I've noticed this as well. I've never seen a Microsoft phone in the wild.

But you know what? I think Windows phone can supersede the BlackBerry because of that idea that everything does work together. Fair. The BlackBerry sucks. It's terrible. It's horrible. You know what?

I used to live and die by BBM. I love BBM. I'm used to being the operative word, though. I used to as well, and I don't miss it at all. I was forced out of it. It's too bad, though, with the BlackBerry because I kind of always am rooting for that. The home team.

We covered this. Absolutely, we root for BlackBerry. Yeah, but don't forget, they're like anybody else. They farmed all of the major manufacturing out to other parts around the world, and the same sweatshops that Apple built there. Fair enough, but there's a lot of people I know, even commenters and people I know around that do work for the head office there in Waterloo. My stupid phone is glass on both sides, right?

Yes. Okay, let's make a $700 device and give it to a dimwit like Wixson, and we'll make it glass. That'll be good. It's a special glass, though. I drop this phone all the time, and it still works. Yeah, mine too. This is the one you should get. That's TTL to that and the new iPhone as well. Yeah, but I have this like crazy

box. I could run over it in my car. It is that Otterbox, right? Yeah. Okay, so that's great. I wanted to get a vibe whether we were iPhone people, Android people, Windows people, Blackberry people or dumb phone users. Or like Rosie's smoke signal people.

Anyways, Rosie. I will say, I have to say, I love my iPad, though. The iPad is amazing. Just so you don't all think that I don't use stuff. I don't have one, but I've used one. It's amazing. It's one of those things where I didn't think I was going to love it as much as I did. It's incredible.

I've watched my wife totally put down her notebook in exchange for the iPad. It's pretty, because I do like lots of different stuff, but Apple, that's a winner there. I would definitely get an iPhone based on how much I like the iPad. It's a pretty good companion for watching TV too, right? Exactly. Rosie, buy me the Samsung and you can have my glass slipper. I don't need your penny. Oh, I have one at home I could give you.

Yeah, if they forget about it. If Virgin forgets about it. CQ's already emailed them. Oh shit, I don't know if he listens. Does he listen? BT dubs, Mike has your phone. To change gears, you mentioned, Elvis, that you travel a lot for work

and I noticed you're wearing the company jacket. Do you mind telling us the name of this company you work for? Sure. I work for a social media company, LinkedIn. LinkedIn. Yes. Or as our friends in Quebec say, LinkedIn. Hello there.

Now, I'm on LinkedIn. And I'm sure pretty much every office working professional person I know is on LinkedIn. It's like Facebook for corporate people. Over 6 million Canadians are on LinkedIn. I like card munch. Yeah I know is on LinkedIn. It's like Facebook for corporate people. Over 6 million Canadians are on LinkedIn. I like Card Munch. Yeah, that's a LinkedIn product as well. Damn right it is. Damn straight, Mr. Cockadoody.

And what do you do there? Mr. Cockadoody. Mr. Smarty Pants. Mr. Cockadoody. I'm a consultant for them. So I go into our customers after they become customers and show them what they've got, how to use it, and how to get the best results. And what do you guys sell exactly?

Because my LinkedIn is all free, free, free. Yeah, yeah. For the average Joe, it's all free. But we have corporate solutions that provide hiring assistance, marketing tools, all sorts of different stuff. Oh, neat. So you guys have sort of built an empire on top of an audience that you made linked to one another.

We have, we're IPO, right? So we're publicly traded. We have to have revenue. Can I get some of those shares, by the way? Sure. I don't want to buy them, though. Yeah, that's why I was assuming. I was assuming that you wouldn't want to buy them.

Thanks, thanks. But that's pretty cool. Yeah, it is fun. LinkedIn's a progressive company. Yeah, it's a really cool job, and the company treats me well, treats all their employees well. We get catered lunches and fridges

full of food and drinks and stuff. So it's a good place to work. Yahoo handed out free iPhones to all their staff. Did you hear about that? Really? Yeah. 2,200 staff or something got free iPhones? Yeah, the new CEO.

And she just hired a top advertising executive from Google, I heard. Oh, yeah, that's the other group. Yeah, but they're doing an iPhone thing because it's sort of like your enemy's enemy is your friend. So I think that the hate-on for Google is driving the iPhone love. Well, to say one thing, though,

I was curious because I like Yahoo. I was curious about using it as a search engine instead of Google. I did this little experiment. I was like, okay, I'm going to use Yahoo

instead of Google just to see how... I made it my default search engine. I didn't last a day. Bing, same thing. Wow. But Bing is Yahoo, am I correct? Isn't it the same engine?

I thought it was Microsoft. Yeah, but there is no Yahoo search engine. It's just a marketing company. I think it's a Crown Corporation, actually. Oh, it's on my Perl order? Well, I mean Yahoo.ca. It's on my Perl order. My understanding is.

And I did not last a day. It was so. Wow. Google. Google's not backing. They know what they're doing. If you say perlator one more time. I can't even say it right myself.

I can't say it. Can you say it just one more time? I just. On that note. Perlator, guys. It's not that hard. Perlator. On that note.

Perlator. It's not new. It's been around forever. What? As I understand. As I understand. Perlator. And there's nothing good they can give us

like free shipping like really it's not like I can't even get paid shipping from them let's move on you can't even get paid shipping from them well that's because you have that's a YP

and who has a landline anymore am I the serious one in the room now Rosie as I understand it And who has a landline anymore? Rosie, come on. Am I the serious one in the room now? Come on. Rosie. As I understand it, Yahoo is no longer a search engine. It is a sort of a marketing interface, if you will. But the actual search engine is Bing. I understand it. That's how I understand it.

There is no Yahoo search. You can go to Yahoo.com and search. Sure. Well, that's what I did. I just plugged in Yahoo.ca as the default thing and it was terrible yeah the results on google in my opinion always are are superior to the bing results uh yahoo's all about content i was just curious i was like what would happen if i use the marketing arm for google i just wanted to see i was so curious and it was i couldn't believe i did not it was terrible it is very bad by comparison I've noticed that too But I still like Flickr

They own Flickr And I still use it daily Unbelievable It's the last Yahoo product I think I still like What's unbelievable Elvis? Flickr Well what do you use

Instead of Flickr? I use whatever's in my iPhone Instagram? God damn No no no I just use my Whatever the photo thing Oh the photo thing

Yeah Photo gallery Yeah but if you were Anti-Apple like me, what would you use? I like Photo Bucket. I put all my pictures on Photo Bucket. It's similar but different.

Okay, go ahead. No, that's not it. I put most of my photos on YouPorn. Yeah, well, I've seen those. Of course. Subscriber. So LinkedIn, LinkedIn's very cool. Yahoo search engine stinks.

And Bing is Yahoo. Bing's as bad as Yahoo Terrible But as good as the Google search is I still have no friends in Google Plus Where the hell are y'all? I'm your friend Only because you told me about it I didn't even know what it was

No one's there I make this joke because I still go in It's not on the internet yet That's the problem It's still in beta I think Once it gets on the't even know what it was. No one's there. I make this joke because I still go in. It's not on the internet yet. That's the problem. It's still in beta, I think. You know what they actually use? I have a couple of friends of mine that work at Google.

Wait, you have a couple of friends? No. I know a couple of people. Associates. Yes. I've been your friend for two weeks. Thank you. Appreciate that. And they like it because of the user data that they're able to collect from it and then put that back into their search engine. And they also use it, they drink their own

champagne. They use it extensively at work to have meetings and to gather in their hangouts and all that kind of stuff. We don't like it. No, I like it. I actually like it. I just don't have anyone else there. It's almost like I can hear the crickets. I actually really like the interface and how it works.

I just wish more of you were there. One day on Twitter, I posted that it was so noisy and crazy there, I just needed to get some peace and quiet, so I was going to go to my MySpace account for a while. I used to have one a billion years ago. But there's places out there that are lonely, like lonely in space right now, like MySpace. Mike's blog.

Zinger! Pow! Humble thread radio. Turd pants. I heard turd pants is changing their name because sponsors don't want to sponsor a show called turd pants. Shit pants. Outrageous rumors.

It's true. I heard it on the turd pants podcast. Oh good, that poster isn't in here. There's a poster that, it's just unfortunate, there's feces on a microphone. Yes, that was part of their tweet as well. I like how you call it feces. Fecal matter. I mean, I like that kind of humor. You like feces.

Well, I do a little bit, but it has to be a little more subtle than actually having the poop on the microphone in your logo. We thought it was so funny that we were getting away with the name of the show. And we were getting all this popularity. And there was people listening to it. And then the advertisers got interested. And then just at the moment we clicked the pen, they said, yeah, just one little thing. How married to the name are you?

Well, it is the name of the fucking show. Yeah, well, the advertisers are having a hard time just signing off because on the page it says turd pants and your logo. Did you know that it has a lumpy shit on it? It's the logo more than the name So yeah we have to change it And the new show actually if you're looking for it is called I don't know did you announce this yet

It's called The Fuzz Oh that's great You like The Fuzz I thought you said The Fuss Where were you when we were naming it The Fuzz I like The Fuzz I like Fluffy Stop futzing around'm like, that's, you know, cool. I like the fuzz. The fuzz. I like fluffy.

I like fluffy. What's the fuzz? Stop futzing around, you boys. No, that's good. That's good. I don't know. I don't know if that's good or not. It has to sleep on that one.

Okay, thank you. The fuzz on iTunes. Thank you. Turd Pants 2. Hey, you mentioned you have advertisers interested in the show formerly known as Turd Pants. Any advertisers interested in Toronto Mic'd? No. Actually, that is not true.

We have a very, very big company in Manhattan that handles all this sort of stuff. And they're, of course, very interested in Toronto Mic'd. Thank you. And the blog. And just quick promotion that we have. Colleen will be coming in next podcast. Colleen who? She runs a blog called The Momfessional,

and she also recently starred in a reality show, and I have a ton of questions about how they film these reality shows. And Wixen, as a guy who produces reality shows, I think you'll be interested in having, it'll be interesting having you in this discussion as well. It's Colleen, who? Colleen who? Gautier.

Oh, yeah, yeah, you mentioned her. Okay, gotcha. Yeaheen who? Gautier. Oh, yeah, yeah. You mentioned her. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, the momfessional. And thanks, Elvis, for your second appearance in the podcast. It was nice having you on. My pleasure. Thanks for having me, guys.

Hope to be back. Goodbye, everybody. Bye, everyone. Bye, everyone. I want to take a street car downtown Read Andrew Miller and wander around