Toronto Appreciation Nite

TORONTO! It's the kick off of the World Cup and apparently 70% of us don’t care?!? How Toronto. What if I had a cute story about a dog? 00:00:01 - HEY LOOK! IT’S A CUTE DOG STORY: THE DOG WHO SAVED THE WORLD CUP Tonight we begin with a canine caper! A stolen World Cup trophy. Monty Python named cops, a ransom plot run by people who may have learned crime from the Pink Panther and a story made for...

Toronto! We had a full week of nice weather, what doom awaits us? We begin with the oddest story that starts and ends with a Toronto twist. From meme of the decade Harambe, to barstool sports, and Toronto Tempo awkward timing, it all combines for a story, our local media didn't quite nail. 00:10:06 - Dan went to a bar Kiki Rice went to, then she GOT HURT - so can we blame him? A scary moment for t...

Another week hanging out with, the Teams, Memes and past scenes of Toronto! Take a listen. 00:00:03 - STORYTIME: MADONNA VS. TORONTO THE GOOD This week Dan Speerin takes us back to a time when Toronto's Morality Squad aimed their nonsense at the queer community and Madonna. But it also shaped Dan’s whole view of Canada being “not cool”. What shaped your view of Toronto? 00:17:45 - Vince Kesavamoor...

Welcome to the weekly show that talks about Toronto's memes, teams and past scenes. Pull up a chair and have a laugh with us! 00:00:01 Dan's Toronto Past Scenes: This week involves the raunchy history of the Toronto Blue Jays, and one Toronto Sun story from 2014 that gives a reaaaally outside the box take, on how we can turn a losing season around. Your story clue: “I guess you could say the story...

Welcome to another week of the past scenes, teams, and memes of Toronto! It’s Toronto Appreciation Nite for the Weekend of May 15th! This week we celebrate Craig Berube by talking about the times we’ve been fired. And then tell you, the completely normal story of a Toronto coach getting fired, rehired, and then publicly asked to wear a paper bag over his head because apparently the 1970s didn’t ha...

Are sports lotteries rigged? This week we get into the weeds on the origins of sports skepticism, talk about why Ed Rogers flirtation with AI evangelism is just the beginning, and remember the true ego of billionaires with one really absurd Ted Turner story. Plus, we’re stoked about the Tempo, and are helping ya join our new fan bandwagon to understand what’s ahead! So yeah, fans are asking are lo...

Are you a fan of Toronto? Complaining about Toronto? Congrats, you found your new weekend group chat. This week, we jump into the chaos behind one of the biggest events in Toronto sports history. Dan unpacks the weird tale of how the SkyDome nearly hosted a blackout mid Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior, why Canadian content rules shaped wrestling, and how VHS sales and Canada’s lack of PPV, got us...

It’s a new era of Basketball in Toronto, and we’re getting hyped about the Tempo launch, and the Toronto Raptors playoff run!  But first, Dan kicks things off with the surprisingly petty origin story of names on the back of jerseys. A story that includes the beatles, cancellable offenses of a previous era, and the Toronto Maple Leafs trying blue letter activism.   And then on “Under Appreciated/Ov...

This week on Toronto Appreciation Nite, Dan uncovers the surprisingly weird and entrepreneurial origin story of BJ Birdie. A mascot born out of creativity, and a little bit of 70s/80s "sure why not?" Then it’s a loaded edition of Over/Under Appreciated : Is Scottie Barnes getting enough love in the DPOY conversation, or are we watching a quiet robbery? Would you trust a media company to own your f...

It's the only sports podcast that could end up a condo! This week on the show we've got Tempo talk, MLSE panic, Jays updates and a debate over baseball's ABS. What if we told you the Toronto Maple Leafs won a Stanley Cup… thanks to a game that technically never happened? This week, Dan takes us back to a 1951 playoff game that vanished because of an old-school religious law while inspiring one of...

It's our first Blue Jays opening weekend episode hang, where we celebrate and appreciate 50 years of the Toronto Blue Jays! We've got childhood stories of sleeping on the World Series, sitting awkwardly with Premiers in the 200 level, and a story from 1977 that involves a tarp, rain and the weirdest win, in Blue Jays history. Plus, Meagan hit up opening night, and reports back on everything from h...

This week on Toronto Appreciation Nite, Dan digs up the bizarre story of the “Walking Man Contest". It's a Toronto tale of a CHUM promo so cursed, it went from hipster hype to historic downtown nightmare. Then it's time for Over Appreciated/Under Appreciated : Are we really doing the “bring Kawhi back to the Raptors” thing again, or is our mass nostalgia hitting delusional levels? Dan & Vince...

This week on Toronto Appreciation Nite , Meagan, Dan and Vince unravel a legendary Toronto “spider dream” saga, a story so unbelievable it survived 1990 tabloids, the entire internet listicle era, and eventually led to a minor-league stunt involving a very real tarantula in 2017. On this week’s Over-Appreciated/Under-Appreciated , we get into Toronto’s aggressively polite ferry-naming contest, the...

Toronto once lost the Olympics, because of a plane crash and naturally... a missing form? So, yeah. We start there. This week on Toronto Appreciation Nite, we dig into one of the most unbelievable “only in Toronto” stories ever, plus Mel Lastman’s all-time soundbite fail, that even made Jon Stewart's radar back in the day. Our weekly, Over-Appreciated / Under-Appreciated is where we put the city o...

Did Trump and Auston Matthews ruin our launch? If you have ever quietly muttered "SPORTS, why do you make it so hard to like you?" then we have a show for you. We spent the past month and half getting ready to launch a program that is a celebration of our city, called Toronto Appreciation Nite! It's a creative digital town square, that celebrates teams, memes and past scenes. A weekly friend hang,...