This episodes features podcaster, blogger and one of Toronto’s most unheralded boosters, Mike Boon. aka Toronto Mike.
Welcome! Episode #11: Toronto Mike by Welcome! By Karim Kanji on Mixcloud
This episodes features podcaster, blogger and one of Toronto’s most unheralded boosters, Mike Boon. aka Toronto Mike.
Welcome! Episode #11: Toronto Mike by Welcome! By Karim Kanji on Mixcloud
Last week Amber Gero was the guest on the Toronto Mike’d podcast. In my opinion, Toronto Mike (real name Mike Boon – or is it?!) has the top amateur podcast in Toronto. And I use the term amateur to only state that Mike records his podcast from his home and not from a studio. And I’ve also yet to hear a sponsor being mentioned on the show.
Traditionally, one can hear Toronto-centric celebrities on Mike’s show: Mike Hebscher, Humble and Fred, Damain Cox, Elliotte Friedman, and David Marsden to name a few. The conversations are mostly around Toronto Radio and Sports history. It’s like a walk down memory lane from Gen X-ers. I always look forward to Mike’s show and have rarely walked away disappointed. Of the 100+ shows he’s recorded I can only remember Cox and Barb DiGiulio as guests who seemed too guarded.
The Amber Gero show, in my opinion, took Mike’s podcast to a whole new level. If you’re unaware, Amber Gero was fired last year from CFRB in Toronto. She self identifies as a black woman. She also had a few things to get off her chest:
Here are a few reasons why the Amber Gero show is important:
I hope we are challenging the status quo in Toronto. Toronto (and Canada) is home to immigrants. Everywhere we live, work and play there are people of different ethnic backgrounds, people from different parts of the world and people of different faiths and sexual orientations. We need to embrace this beautiful fact. We need to force the institutions that serve us (government, media, public companies and others) to not just provide products and services we desire but to be a reflection of the society in which they all operate.
Congrats Mike on an awesome show. I am a proud listener and supporter.
This is the third article in my Toronto Is Awesome series. I would love your comments, thoughts and future suggestions for this series.
Mike Boon, otherwise known as Toronto Mike, is undoubtedly the number one fan of Toronto. His blog, Toronto Mike, is one of the oldest and most read personal blogs in Toronto. And his podcast, Toronto Mike’d regularly features stories about his life in the city and the city itself.