Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Your Blog Sucks #8

Episode Date: October 22, 2013

Mike and Elvis discuss what sucks this 8th week....

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Starting point is 00:00:00 And now, it's time for Your Blog Sucks. Welcome to Your Blog Sucks. I'm Mike from torontomike.com and joining me is my brother from another mother, Elvis. Episode 8 begins... now. Episode 8 begins now. Episode 8 begins now. Mike is shot out of a cannon today, people.
Starting point is 00:01:00 He is just on fire. I am suffering from jet lag, and I think it's fucked up my uh my brain waves wow look at that usually i'm the first one to drop an f-bomb no this is my uh explicit lyrics podcast i'm allowed to fucking swear he is on fire wow well he's on fire because he's jet lagged he's back mike welcome back from your belated honeymoon thank you uh. Did I miss anything in the GTA during the last couple of weeks? No, a couple of Leaf wins, a couple of Leaf losses. No biggie. No David Clarkson yet, right? Thankfully.
Starting point is 00:01:33 So I just want to make sure I'm home and ready for his debut. Is it tonight? Who cares? Because I got a game at 7 tonight. I really don't care. He's dead to me. Wendell Clarkson. David Clarkson. Don't. He can't even say it properly. Wendell Clarkson. No, don't don't care. He's dead to me. Wendell, David, David,
Starting point is 00:01:45 don't, don't, he can't even say it. Wendell Clarkson. No, it don't even say it. He's dead to me. I hate him.
Starting point is 00:01:51 Bob, if you're listening to this, I hate you and I hate David Clarkson. And I also hate Toronto Mike. And, uh, you have a fan on Twitter who I know he doesn't know you and he's defending you for defending David Clarkson. Who?
Starting point is 00:02:04 You know him. He's tweeted you a couple of times, Bob, Bob, Bob, if you're listening, I don't know you, and he's defending you for defending David Clarkson. Who? You know him. He's tweeted you a couple of times, Bob. Bob? So Bob, if you're listening, I don't know if Bob listens. So you know Bob. I know Bob very well. And Bob, fuck off. Why does Bob spell his name backwards?
Starting point is 00:02:15 He doesn't spell his name backwards at all. Bob, be okay. Yeah, but he's spelling it backwards. You're right. Elvis, thank you. We do talk about things that suck what did not suck was my honeymoon I spent two great weeks with
Starting point is 00:02:29 Monica in Amsterdam and then we spent a weekend we went to Italy and had a great time in Italy and then we went to Iceland before we came home and in Italy you are of Italian descent yes I am and you've been to Italy
Starting point is 00:02:44 I have a couple of times. Then you know how fucking amazing the gelatos are. That is, I mean, sure, the gelato's nice, but it's not something that, it wouldn't be the lead story for me, but it is for you. No, the pizza's lead, and then gelato's second, because that pizza was fucking,
Starting point is 00:03:01 a margarita pizza, six euros, please. Six euros, massive margarita pizza six euros please six euros margarita massive margarita pizza always beautiful you're insane i had one a day i think i think i had one a day i know i think i saw monica's post on facebook that she said she had a pizza every day we had pizza every day we did also have pasta uh and gelato every day except for the one stop so i'm gonna i know this is boring like remember on the simpsons when patty and selma went to like egypt and they had the homer and marge and the kids over to watch the slideshow of photos they took in egypt like that's super fucking boring when your aunt would make you kind of
Starting point is 00:03:35 watch these slides back in the day so really quickly i'm just gonna say rome was awesome you've been to rome i have been to r a few times. Every turn, there's another photogenic piece of history to blow your mind. The combo of ancient buildings with modern buildings is just breathtaking. But it isn't ruins. They need to do something about that. What, you want them to rebuild something? Just a lot of ruins. It looks like Detroit.
Starting point is 00:04:01 Wow. Sure. And then, so Rome was amazing. Loved it. Don't cross at the crosswalk. And then, so Rome was amazing. Loved it. Don't cross at the crosswalks, though, unless you want to. How did you even find crosswalks? I don't understand this. They're painted on, they're like Abbey Road.
Starting point is 00:04:12 So they're all over the place. They're like Abbey Road. Yeah. Every time I crossed one, I did the John Lennon walk. I can't wait until we get to the topic about this, where I can bring this up. And then we went to beautiful Venice, which is a crazy met labyrinth. We got lost like crazy.
Starting point is 00:04:29 There's dead ends. You don't know they're dead ends. And you can't really map your roots because the street names are all fucked up. Those are in Italian. Is that? No, I love the Italian. Come on. I came from Amsterdam.
Starting point is 00:04:40 I was so happy to see these Italian street signs. Like I understood these names and street and strut, like quote in the strut, uh, Amsterdam, I was so happy to see these Italian street signs. I understood these names. Streetenstraat. Kootenstraat. Amsterdam, forget it. But it was great in Italy. And then after Venice, we went to the cultural capital of Italy, which is Florence.
Starting point is 00:04:57 Which I can't say that because then I'm like a pretentious asshole. So I have to call it Florence. Don't they say Barack Obama is pretentious asshole. So I have to call it Florence. You're like, uh, they, don't they say Barack Obama's, uh, pretentious because he says Pakistan instead of Pakistan. And he says, uh,
Starting point is 00:05:10 he says something else. I can't remember what else, but he says it the way that the natives, I guess, say it or the way in which you're supposed to linguistically say it. Right. Right. Not so,
Starting point is 00:05:19 uh, yeah, I was in that forensic and then, uh, that was gorgeous. You've been there. I have been there. I love it.
Starting point is 00:05:24 Did you go see david i saw the replica of david in the square i saw the real carved penis i really yeah you know what the replica looked a lot like that real one except it was free which is why they say it's called a lineup for 100 hours to pay whatever 50 euros or whatever to go see that that much well i didn't bother to line up and do it pain part isn't the isn't the isn't the worst it's waiting in line i don't wait in line so when i was there i was actually able to bypass the line because we had advanced tickets but um you know for for those of you who are going don't bother it's uh you could go see it in the city center i loved walking up to the michelangelo piazza which overlooks the entire city uh piazza like mike piazza right uh it's just you get to
Starting point is 00:06:07 quite a uh ascent and then you uh oversee the city and it was just gorgeous i had a beautiful prosciutto sandwich up there it's uh second to pizza maybe between pizza and gelato it's tough to say so what i uh want to say about italy though is every city has these massive fucking cathedrals man and that's like the big thing this city of florence has this duomo they call it which i thought meant dome because it looks like a fucking dome but it actually means big fucking cathedral do you go to saint peter's oh yeah of course uh i went to all the major tours pictures i made it on the map right if we got a picture i fucking went there man st peter's basilica walk through the no did not right but i went there went into the it's fucking small this vatican it's like a little it's like are you insane fucking small you got to go inside that's
Starting point is 00:06:54 why oh shit that's where it's i meant in terms of space not in terms of uh well it's europe yeah they've been living there for i know but it's a independent state it's a fascinating uh geographical instance so uh the big cathedral in florence is like the big thing going on and then we went to uh chincaterra which was very different because it was very natural there was no signs of like modernization and no one trying to like con euros out of our pockets it was just beautiful nature and this old style these towns along the italian riviera we walk these paths it was gorgeous most beautiful place i've been to second place might be banth you're mental chinkatera is first you're mental you've been
Starting point is 00:07:36 to banth yes i have you you opened your eyes you're insane come on and then uh where did we go after that we went to Milan, which was not my, if you were a shopper, you might like Milan. I mean, they had this big Gothic cathedral, which was beautiful and it was a nice city, but it was nothing compared to those previous Italian cities. But then I went to Iceland and then home. Iceland was really funky.
Starting point is 00:07:58 Reminds me of Canada, actually, Iceland. They have a Canadian sense. They've talked a lot about adopting our currency as well. They should adopt something because those ISKs, I was in the Euro for Amsterdam and Italy are in the Euro, and then I get to Iceland and I'm in this ISK. I can't wait to rip into you during one of these. I had a converter.
Starting point is 00:08:16 It's going to be amazing. 90,000 ISKs. I'm like, what is that? Oh, it's six bucks or whatever. Okay, so I had a great time. I'm glad to be back. And you know what sucks? What sucks, Mike?
Starting point is 00:08:27 Buying a new home in Toronto with the perfect number of rooms for my beautiful wife and my beautiful two children. And this room we're in right now, which has a podcast studio in my home office, everything being ideal, and then fucking it up by knocking up your wife. Let me just say this. I don't think you bought a house with a perfect number of rooms if within weeks of moving in, you've run out of a room for your podcast. Is it a big surprise that she got pregnant? No, this is generally what happens when you get married.
Starting point is 00:09:04 It was planned. And so you didn't buy a house with the perfect number of rooms. It was perfect when I bought it. Before we moved in, it became unperfect. Your forecasting sucks. It's really what this should be. I honestly felt like it might take a year or two. I don't know why.
Starting point is 00:09:20 I've read about women with fertility issues. I forget about my powerful super sperm. I forget about it. It was very fast. I got married like a week ago. I don't remember. I just had my honeymoon. I can't even remember when your honeymoon was. July? June 15th.
Starting point is 00:09:37 June 15th, right. I can honestly say she was not pregnant when we got married, but she's pregnant now. Beautiful baby on the way this April. And I think we might give birth live during a podcast recording in this podcast studio. That would be amazing. I can't wait to have the live mic and do the sideline reporting.
Starting point is 00:09:56 She'd be into it. We have three mics. It'll be perfect. And a good news for everybody who can't see this right now because it's a podcast, the hippopotamus, the elephant, the giraffe and the giraffe,
Starting point is 00:10:07 and the monkey are going to stay because I'm going to give my podcast studio to the newborn. Mike, other than your forecasting skills, you know what else sucks? What sucks, Elvis? Cursing. So I'm not one to hold back or to not say a foul word, so to speak.
Starting point is 00:10:24 First of all, I think the whole idea that there's bad words is insane. But our biggest fan, her feedback from the previous podcast was that I cursed too much, that it took away from the actual content and her enjoyment of the podcast because I was saying the F word too much. She's a prude. I got fired up because of this whole David Clarkson fiasco.
Starting point is 00:10:50 Oh, right, right, right. How much of an idiot he is. And apparently I just – my argument and the entire podcast was dragged down by my cursing. So in honor of our – the great, the legendary Jackie Martling, who famously went on the air one day and apologized for something he had done previously on the show, I want to take this opportunity to apologize to Mrs. Elvis for the cursing I had on last podcast.
Starting point is 00:11:21 Will Mrs. Elvis hear this episode? Absolutely. I want to address her. I'm speaking to Mrs. Elvis right now episode? Absolutely. I want to address her. She listens. I'm speaking to Mrs. Elvis right now. She listens in its entirety every week. Firstly, this podcast, unlike the highly successful sister podcast, Toronto Mic'd, this podcast is marked as explicit in iTunes, giving us the right, the natural right to curse firstly secondly your passion against
Starting point is 00:11:47 david clarkson the passion uh correlates directly with the salty language it is a expression of passion and and and thirdly mrs elvis let's let's let us not be prudish. These are just words. These sticks and stones, you know. We talked about it. She's not a prude. I swear at home. She knew that what she was getting when she got into this whole. Well, she liked that I called them big fucking cathedrals.
Starting point is 00:12:17 You know, sometimes you go out with an animal, you're going to get bit. But she said it was just excessive. Or as McNultyulty said you play in the dirt you get dirty whatever mcnulty yeah fucking mcnulty how wait before you even ask that question i've been out of the country for two weeks how is my fucking hero david clerkson doing i have no idea it's still not playing thankfully and hopefully we'll never play again i think it might be tonight i hope it is, I'm not watching. Fucking hat trick.
Starting point is 00:12:48 Gordie Howe hat trick and not a real hat trick. I hate him. I hate him so much. You know what sucks, Elvis? What sucks, Mike? Lacy woman's underwear being found in your home when this sexy lacy underwear does not belong to your wife hey now is this something that we should be talking about bro yeah this is all true and it's all first of all don't call me bro i fucking hate that i don't even know why i called you bro but
Starting point is 00:13:16 i call you brother from another mother this is short that's why that's why right bro like don't call me bro or boss or chief or champ any Any of that fucking shit. I hate it. So you found a thong in the house? Can I call you boss? No. I said I was in the list. Oh, sorry. Okay, so I didn't find it.
Starting point is 00:13:36 Monica found it. So we've been here about a month and a half. I mean, we've been here a while now. Six weeks. You've overstayed your welcome, though. This is before we left for Amsterdam, okay? So go back a while now. You've overstayed your welcome, though. This is before we left for Amsterdam. So go back a couple weeks. Monica was in the basement and she found this. It's very sexy.
Starting point is 00:13:51 It was like a small woman's underwear. Lacy, pink, thong, see-throughs. Very sexy underwear. Did you smell it? Of course. Oh, my God. No, come on.
Starting point is 00:14:03 Monica finds this underwear. Bless her heart, because a lesser woman might assume bad things are happening when she's when i work from home and probably rightfully so right but she did not uh she just said it's like she found this underwear like do i know who's it who it belongs to now your son lives in the basement. Yeah, because the basement has a laundry part and then his room. He's 11 and a half. But that's not his thing.
Starting point is 00:14:34 No, it's not his. So, my mind starts running like, okay, who could this be? Because I will be honest with you, I have not just been caught. I did not have a tryst in the basement and she flung her underwear and we forgot to pick it up afterwards.
Starting point is 00:14:50 I would tell you. Monica doesn't listen to this podcast. I would just tell you. So I'm trying to think, whose could this be? My best guess here, and the only scenario that makes sense is the previous owners of this home,
Starting point is 00:15:02 there was a 26-year italian woman hey now hey now i bring an italian because sexy underwear milano it all comes together so i it i'm i'm gonna assume this was her underwear that was maybe i left in the basement when they they left a lot of shit in the house do we still have this this underwear? No, Monica threw it out. But it was like, I think it was licenza or something. We could have inspected it. We could have done some DNA analysis on it and seen if maybe it's yours. But I had that moment of like... I'm not willing to accept the possibility that this is not yours.
Starting point is 00:15:39 It is not mine. I would have, I think, a medium. But I will say this. It was a weird moment where I knew I was innocent, but I knew how bad it looked. And I had this feeling of like guilty until proven innocent feeling. Like it didn't matter that I was actually innocent, but this lacy underwear, there's no other explanation.
Starting point is 00:15:56 It's awkward. Except another woman is having sexy time with me in the home. It's awkward. It was awkward, and that sucked. Mike, you know what sucks? What sucks, Elvis? Missing television. So I don't comment nearly as often as I used to on your site
Starting point is 00:16:13 just because I don't really want to talk about Rob Ford. And your blog sucks. But I did comment on one of the open mics while you were away that I have been traveling a lot as well recently i've been to uh new jersey i've been to ancient rome i've been to the uh east coast of the united states i've been to a number of different places however i've been able to do this in such a short period of time i've rediscovered television i I've been to Baltimore. And I've gone through a massive sort of marathon of television shows that I have never seen before that have been critically acclaimed,
Starting point is 00:16:54 that have been recommended by you and some other friends. And I'm having a great time. I love some of the things that are on TV that I've been on in the past decade that I've missed. And I've really enjoyed catching up. I started it off with The Wire. Well, hold on. I like this game. Can you name the city, and I try to guess the show? Yeah, sure. Well, Baltimore is obviously The Wire.
Starting point is 00:17:14 New Jersey? The Sopranos. Well, I'll choose the city, but it's been, I'll say Atlanta, Georgia. Holy shit, I don't know. The Walking Dead. Don't watch it. Fuck. Great show. I don't know. The Walking Dead. Don't watch it.
Starting point is 00:17:26 Fuck. Great show. I love zombies. I can't believe I didn't watch it before, but I know why I didn't watch it is because people just talked about it too much on Facebook, so I would just go off and say how much it sucked, even though I've never seen it before. Ancient Rome.
Starting point is 00:17:40 I'm not sure if it... Oh, it's called Rome. No. No. Spartacus. Okay. Spartacus film. There was a show called rome wasn't there there was a show called rome yeah um and right now i am watching a show that is i'm i feel like i'm missing a show that i watch but um oh oh oh albuquerque oh uh breaking bad that's right and then the show I'm watching right now is in New York. Sex and the City. That's next on the list, but no.
Starting point is 00:18:11 Seinfeld. You know what? Almost every other show takes place in New York. Yeah, but this is a big show that I haven't mentioned yet. It's a big fucking show. It's a big show. It's in your top three, I believe. Oh, Six Feet Under.
Starting point is 00:18:22 Nope. That was in New York. Where was that? That was California or something. That's why I didn't say California.'re right uh still on tv curb your enthusiasm no no still on tv it's a drama uh it's still on oh of course madman i'm sorry i just started that a couple of nights i love madman yeah i fucking love that show it's it's pretty good i like it's a couple episodes in but i'm looking forward to it this is a game i know we don't time doing this i love this game name the city and then you gotta
Starting point is 00:18:47 name the show yeah what a great game yes yes uh so you've rediscovered these shows and which is your favorite of them all uh you know i really enjoyed the sopranos really enjoyed the you know what i've loved them all they've all been really good and i think i've had the benefit of being able to pick and choose what i watch because i i sort of take a look at a bunch of different lists and i listen to what other people have recommended to me so i haven't hit across come across any duds yet at all whatsoever um but certainly uh you know the big three to five are are on the list right the walking dead uh breaking bad mad men sopranos the wire i mean it's all fantastic on the flight back from iceland on iceland air the flight back from regkavik hope i'm saying that right recuvic
Starting point is 00:19:32 recuvic uh we didn't get yes monica and i watched uh this terrible well it was okay for a flight actually i laughed a few times but steve carell's in it with steve buscemi and it's called bert i can't remember what it's called, but they're magicians in Vegas. Burt Wonderstone. Yes, okay. The amazing Burt Wonderstone. James Gandolfini's in this thing. He is.
Starting point is 00:19:51 He is, and he's quite good. I'm a big fan of Magic. I thought it was all right. It wasn't the greatest movie, but it was all right. You know what? It was a good flight movie. Sure. I don't know if I'd want to watch it at home, but it was a good flight movie.
Starting point is 00:20:02 Oh, you know who was really good in that? Jim Carrey had a pretty good role in that roll and he did he did have a good yeah you know what i like magic i did watch uh now you see it or now you see me or whatever it is it's uh jesse eisenberg and a couple other people another magician movie wasn't i it was it was probably better critically but i didn't like it as much as burt wonderstone. Cool. You know what sucks Elvis? What sucks Mike? Feeling like a midget and paying to piss. Let me explain. So, uh, prior to my Italian adventure, I spent a week in Amsterdam where I've actually been twice before. So my third visit to Amsterdam, the Dutch people, I don't know what they're eating
Starting point is 00:20:45 or drinking there or what kind of a genetic uh code they've uh formulated but the dutch men are all giants like giants i have never felt so short than when i'm uh surrounded by dutch men they're they're all at least six3". They're humongous people. It's funny. I work with a guy in Amsterdam who's from Amsterdam and he's not tall at all. He was adopted.
Starting point is 00:21:16 He's not blonde either. There's a lot of brown hair Dutch guys. It's not like Scandinavia where they're all blonde. He does wear the big black cartoony glasses. That makes that's a big big european look and does he wear red pants uh he wears multi-colored pants yeah they do they like the red they pull it off because they're usually tall and lean i always think i wouldn't be able to pull up the red pants because i'm like a shorter guy i look like you yeah but um so i always feel like a midget in holland uh or netherlands
Starting point is 00:21:43 if you will because holland is like a province and Netherlands is the country. Um, I always feel like a midget there. I fucking loved Italy because I felt like normal size person again in Italy. And in a lot of places in Italy, you'd be tall. If you want to be tall, I like to feel tall. Uh, but in, in, in Holland, I felt very short. And then what else I hated about almost basically almost all of Europe, but particularly in Amsterdam is that there's no public toilet that's free. This was a problem in Italy too. Like if you're doing, we did long walks, each walk was like 10 to 15 kilometers.
Starting point is 00:22:14 And we would do these long walks and you drink a lot of water because it was hot. And you got to piss. You don't want to piss in like a bush in the park, like some, some homeless guy, you want to piss in a toilet. You've got to donate some euros to some guy at the door who's got a bucket or whatever if you want to get in there and take a piss. This is where I'm going to rip into you. Go ahead. There's been a couple of times, both on the fake podcast we recorded before this real podcast and during this podcast, where you are sounding like an American who travels.
Starting point is 00:22:44 You know what? Who cares if you have to pay a euro to pee? First of all, I'm not sounding like an American who travels you know what who cares if you have to pay a euro to pay to first of all i'm not sounding american because i heard the americans when i traveled and they're totally off the ball you're sounding like an american so tell me how because i'm because i don't want to pay to piss yeah that's what happens over there just deal with it you can't you can't apply your north american standards to other places that you go to it's just even when i went into a mcdonald's in a McDonald's in Amsterdam, really had to go, and I went into a McDonald's and there was a man at the door who wouldn't let me in until I gave him a Euro.
Starting point is 00:23:11 Yeah. And this is so, I can't bitch about this in our wonderful podcast because it'll make me seem too ethnocentric. Correct. They should be like us. No. You should be like them when they're there and when they're here. When we're right and then they should be like us. No. When they're here, then they have to adopt to our things them when they're there and when except when we're right and
Starting point is 00:23:25 then they should be like us no when they're here then they have to adopt to our things and when we're there yeah okay so fine i did it i played by their game it still sucked it's now i mean there's certain limits i mean if they're like raping women and children then i think it's okay for you to complain about that sweden actually i think okay but if you're like pain like you know just sort of you know things that are are maybe inconvenient, you know, whatever. Stop being American. I'm still not happy about pain to piss. You know what sucks, Mike?
Starting point is 00:23:53 What sucks, Elvis? This is going to sound pretty obvious, but I've got a story to go behind it. The N-word. Okay. So there's only two words I don't say. The N-word and the C-bomb. Okay. You know, if you were the British, Ricky Gervais drops that c-bomb all the time fucking time and it started to lose its to me it's starting to lose
Starting point is 00:24:10 its uh taboo okay but will you say it i think i'd say it to you i don't think i'd say it to a woman but i might say it to a dude like you yeah see so i i will never say it and and so the reason why i won't ever say the c-bomb just as a quick uh digression um i remember uh when i was young i was probably 10-ish or so my mother overheard me saying the c-word and she sat me down very calmly at the kitchen table and asked me to provide a definition of what the c-word was uh provide synonyms of the c-word and basically i had to tell my mom to her face that I thought the C word was another word for vagina and listed off all of the other sort of inappropriate terms I had heard for that part of the woman's body.
Starting point is 00:24:55 Well handled by Mrs. Mrs. Elvis. So well handled that I've never said it again. Rarely, maybe once or twice. I, the word makes me cringe and it was the best way to embarrass me to the point where I would never, ever, ever want to say or hear the word again.
Starting point is 00:25:12 Okay, but your other word, much more obvious. So the other word is the N-word, and that word is – it's in the media a lot. It's in pop culture and whatnot, but it's just an inappropriate word for me. It's just not something that you should say anyway i was at and i i don't also talk about work here on this podcast but i was in las vegas last week for a work conference and not once but two times during the the week um a customer used the full-on edward in front of me. And I felt extremely, extremely awkward about the whole situation. Was your customer black?
Starting point is 00:25:50 It makes a difference. There's a certain license to use it if you are dark-skinned. Both customers were Caucasian. Does that mean white? They were very Caucasian, let's put it that way. Oh, Scandinavian. And it was just very very
Starting point is 00:26:06 one to one person i said um did you just say the n-word did you just drop that bomb right here right now and uh this person laughed it off and i sort of walked away give me a bit of context though the like are they saying oh john he's such an n-word so i guess the defense for this person that they would give if they were on this podcast is that they didn't call someone an N-word. They didn't say this person is an N-word. They just said the word, which to me is bad enough. There's no reason to say the word. Especially since they were actually describing a band.
Starting point is 00:26:40 They were saying the full name of the band. NWA. NWA. Yeah. They said the full name of the band, which is so not needed. But I feel like that might be the context where it is acceptable. That would be the only exception.
Starting point is 00:26:50 If they have named themselves NWA, you can now say, oh, I like NWA. Because you're not calling anyone that. That's what they've called themselves and you're merely referencing the name they've given themselves. That might be an exception, though. It's customer, not friend. The way in which it... It's customer, not friend.
Starting point is 00:27:06 The way in which the conversation was going, there was no need for her to use the full term. The second one was actually even more uncomfortable because I was there with a colleague who happens to be a black woman. And this Caucasian woman threw out the N-word and it got very uncomfortable very, very fast. And the unfortunate part of this whole story, of course, is about me.
Starting point is 00:27:30 I handled it poorly and just laughed. That's an awkward moment. I laughed out of nervousness. Yeah, I've done that. I uncontrollably laughed, and I felt horrible, horrible, horrible. And thankfully, my colleague doesn't hold anything against me but uh it is something that i'm not exactly proud of do i get the context why this woman this caucasian woman would say it in front of a she was just i can't remember the actual context but her defense immediately was
Starting point is 00:27:59 yeah but it's turning to my colleague yeah but i like your hair and I like your dress. Is she from Georgia? It's pretty awesome. Mississippi? She's Canadian. Wow. There now. Disappointing. Disappointing.
Starting point is 00:28:11 Disappointing. That made it even funnier when she tried to defend herself by saying that she liked her dress and this woman's hair. That's disappointing. This woman does have great hair. She's got an afro, which is fantastic. It's something that you can't help but notice when she walks into the room but that's not your defense it reminds me of that scene in uh uh what's the spike lee movie do the right thing when the guy says i think he says on he hates the end he uses the n word he hates him he says and then his heroes
Starting point is 00:28:38 happen to be black like he talks about how he's a big prince fan is this right or something or yeah or i can't remember mu Muhammad Ali or something. Anyway. Right. Wow. Magic Johnson, I think. You know what sucks, Elvis?
Starting point is 00:28:51 What sucks, Mike? Let's close with a, something that really sucks. Is it going to get heavy? It's going to get heavy. I'm going to keep it brief. Cancer.
Starting point is 00:29:02 Cancer sucks. It does. It does. I can't agree. I can't agree. cancer cancer sucks it does it does and you would know because you happen to be in this uh a cancer survivor correct so this gives you a unique perspective on this topic yes so i um my one of my favorite people in the world uh yeah i don, that's not even like hyperbole or not an expression, you'd say. Easily one of my top 10 human beings on the planet for a very long time has been diagnosed with a very serious form of cancer that has spread. And it's a stage four cancer. And I feel just sick about it.
Starting point is 00:29:43 And it's really hitting me because like this guy is younger than me. He's younger than you, full of life and energy and fucking love this guy. He was at the wedding with you, uh, in June and this news just like a punch to the gut. Uh, I can't imagine how him and his wife are dealing with it. And I just think enough is enough. This cancer sucks. There's only really one thing to say, and that's fuck cancer. There's a great charity out there that's called Fuck Cancer, actually. And they do a lot of good work to help people realize that cancer does suck.
Starting point is 00:30:18 And the worst part about the disease is that it just causes such a huge wake in people's lives. about the disease is that it just causes such a huge wake in people's lives. It's not just, you know, cancer affects the patient differently than it affects the spouse and the, and the children and the family and the friends and the colleagues. And it's just such a horrible, horrible, shitty fucking thing.
Starting point is 00:30:37 And, uh, you know, I don't know this guy personally, um, but it sucks. And, uh,
Starting point is 00:30:42 hopefully we can, um, you know, there'll be some good news right fucking right Elvis fucking a man now that's Canadian thanks for listening you know sucks Mike what your blog Your blog fucking sucks. Outro Music

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