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 disagree.
  
• Public grocery stores in Toronto: Think LCBO but make it food? Smart policy or bureaucratic fever dream?
  
• Tipping at fast food counters: Do Canadians feel emotionally blackmailed by an iPad?
  
• The Leafs and Raptors were catching heat for not standing up for their own. So. is it a lack of toughness or an outdated idea of what sports should be?
  
  AI announcing is here. Val Kilmer is back (sort of), but a sportscaster beat him to the zombie era of revival. Are we about to hear ghost voices calling games forever?

And we finish it all off, with our Appreciation Parade:

Vince delivers a birthday message, Meagan leans into the absolute whimsy of minor league weirdness, and Dan celebrates a rare Toronto trend: actually celebrating our own history for once.

Pull up a chair and join Dan Speerin, Vince Kesavamoorthy and Meagan Dingman, for our weekly group chat about Toronto's memes, teams and past scenes.