Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day. Feel free to use this space to vent, rant, share a story and/or ask a question of the hivemind.
November 15, 2026
I'm writing this entry out of frustration. My pal Freddie P thinks I'm "a fool" because I told him TFC was more popular in Toronto than the Argos. In my humble opinion, TFC is more popular than the Argonauts in this city. Fred, obviously, strongly disagrees. Fred bases 100% of
In this 200th episode, Mike chats with broadcasters Humble Howard Glassman and Fred Patterson about their podcast, the state of radio today and how long they'll run. This episode is exactly 1:50:37. You can listen to this episode in a variety of ways: Subscribe in iTunesListen via Google
As a Toronto hockey fan born in the 70s, I idolized Wendel Clark. You'd be hard pressed to find a Toronto hockey fan born in the 70s who didn't. Here's something I wrote about Wendel almost 10 years ago. I will never forget the 1985-86 post season when we swept
Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day. Feel free to use this space to vent, rant, share a story and/or ask a question of the hivemind.
In this 199th episode, Mike chats with chats with broadcasters Christine Bentley and Kate Wheeler about their years in television news and their new show What She Said. When you listen, I might say it's episode 198, but it's really 199. This episode is exactly 1:32:15. You can
Way back in 2003, Humble and Fred were the morning show on AM 640, only then it was called Mojo Radio. Humble and Fred were seduced by Mix 99.9 and gave notice, so AM 640 recruited John Oakley form rival CFRB and Oakley worked mornings on 640 ever since.
In this 198th episode, Mike chats with Q107 deejay Joanne Wilder about her years at Q, her appearance in Playboy and how it feels getting to play Duran Duran. This episode is exactly 1:07:57. You can listen to this episode in a variety of ways: Subscribe in iTunesListen
Prior to yesterday's home opener against the Boston Bruins, the Toronto Maple Leafs had only retired two numbers: #5 for Bill Barilko#6 for Ace BaileyThe number of retired numbers has now bloomed to 13 with the following additions: #1 for Johnny Bower and Turk Broda#4 for Hap Day
Five years ago today, I was in the room while Humble and Fred recorded their first podcast. Well, it wasn't really their first podcast, simply their first with an actual commitment to record daily. They're moving their studio to The Queensway, just east of Islington. I biked over today to
Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day. Feel free to use this space to vent, rant, share a story and/or ask a question of the hivemind.
Auston Matthews made his regular season NHL debut last night in Ottawa and scored four goals. It's the first time in the history of the NHL that a player scored four goals in his first game. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you make an entrance.
In this 197th episode, Mike chats with Tim Thompson about his innate ability to marry music and sports, his time producing montages for Hockey Night in Canada, his abrupt end at Rogers Hockey, his work with Ron Hawkins from Lowest of the Low and Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip,
Cleveland swept the BoSox and will face our Jays in the ALCS. It all starts Friday night. I've been intentionally referring to their team as "Cleveland" and not by the nickname "Indians" because I'm not comfortable with it. I know the story of Louis Sockalexis and understand it's meant as
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1982 was the first calendar year in which I purchased music for myself. Prior to then, the only music in the house that didn't spill out of the radio belonged to my parents. But in 1982, I purchased one album on vinyl and one album on cassette tape. The vinyl
Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day. Feel free to use this space to vent, rant, share a story and/or ask a question of the hivemind.
In this 196th episode, Mike chats with Marc Weisblott from 12:36 about the beer can tosser and what's happening in Toronto radio, television, print and Twitter. This episode is exactly 1:56:34. You can listen to this episode in a variety of ways: Subscribe in iTunesListen via Google
Courtesy of bluejays-voices on Soundcloud, here's how Edwin Encarnacion's wild-card walk-off sounded in the dome and on ESPN Spanish, TBS, Baltimore radio, RDS and The Fan 590. Here's the fantastic video written by Stephen Brunt and read by Paul Beeston that aired prior to the game. Go Jays, Go!
I'm not referring to the original movie with Yul Brynner, although on its own it too is a classic. Just this week I watched the premiere episode of HBO's new series of the same name, and it absolutely blew me away. In fact I've already re watched it twice, it's
