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Lew Later

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4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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0:00.0

You let's go down before you go up. Turn the music all the way down. Yeah, yeah, you got to start fresh. It was all on and down.

0:14.0

I wanted to fade it up. You just got it. It's a whole process, you know what I mean? I know what you mean. On the dot. On the dot.

0:29.0

Finally. On the dot. Like years. Like to live on the dot. Right on the dot. Show me the dot. Do people call Toronto T dot anymore?

0:43.0

You want to know what's funny? I don't know if they ever did. I don't recall an actual Toronto exchange in which that occurred. Well, there was a song, right?

0:52.0

The song was as close as I ever got to being around people that called it the dot. That's the closest I got to the dot.

1:02.0

Do you never said it yourself? I don't think so. And then the dot turned into the six will. Did you know why it's called the six?

1:14.0

Something about six territories or something? Six areas. I know there's six of something. You're right, man.

1:26.0

You're right. Some people originally thought that it had something to do with the area code. But they were wrong. Yeah. Of course you got to come to Drake over here. Of course.

1:40.0

You're looking like a rubber ducky. Right yellow. The identity of Toronto remains very unsettled. And I think that's good part of the creative tension of Toronto is that it's such a mixture of various cultural influences.

1:56.0

Yeah, that's fair. These are the different nicknames that have existed for Toronto, apparently T dot.

2:04.0

An abbreviation of T-O, which is Toronto, Ontario. T-O, which is the precursor to T dot T-O.

2:14.0

The big smoke going back to the early 1900s. I like that one. Australian writer Alan Rayburn called Toronto the big smoke.

2:26.0

From there, the name was popularized by Canadian journalist. He called it this because Toronto had a giant reputation and nothing to show for it.

2:34.0

Like smoke and mirrors. Yeah. I like that. That's pretty cool. Big smoke. I thought it was pollution or something initially. A lot of good names kind of have more than one way that you could interpret it.

2:52.0

Or that like, because then it can kind of create a sort of lore around it.

2:58.0

Hogtown, which is obvious hogs. Name hogs actual hogs. We'll bring you to a lot of park.

3:08.0

Hogs will bring you to hog town and baby New York. I've never heard that one before. I think I've heard like Canada's New York.

3:18.0

I feel like I've heard people say that before about baby New York. Anyway, six came in, six municipalities making up Metro Toronto as all the people who say that they live in Toronto.

3:30.0

If somebody were to ask you from outside of Toronto and you lived in one of these areas, you say I live in Toronto.

3:36.0

But to the people in Toronto, you don't live in Toronto. Like you would never say you live in Toronto to somebody from Toronto.

3:43.0

Where do they like convert it as like burrows or something? Yeah, they call it in New York. They call them burrows.

3:51.0

But then you get people that will just be like, Oh, in the city. Oh, do you live in the city?

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