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The Fords complained about the media appearing outside of the bar Wednesday and complained that a reporter’s questions were like a “mother’s.”

“I said, ‘Here, do you want to smell my water?'” Mayor Ford recalled saying to a television reporter.

Ford appeared on the radio station for about 30 minutes Thursday morning, where he was lobbed a number of questions that allowed him to speak uncontested on the gravy train, subways, the media and many of Ford’s other favourite subjects.

But Mayor Ford appeared to be making a concerted effort to promote himself to the youth of Toronto.

“[I] support the youth. I’m really out there, I can relate to the youth,” he said. “We’re going to have a ton of youth out for the campaign.”

Ford encouraged young people to campaign for him because it would “look good on their resume” and “they can get jobs.”

“Youth wanna work? Just give us a shout,” he said.

Ford’s office is considerably younger than it used to be after most of his experienced staff were either fired or quit following last year’s crack cocaine scandal.

The mayor also encouraged Torontonians to sign up to run in the 2014 election, acknowledging that he can’t get anything done with the current city council.

“I need 23 councillors to support me and right now, I don’t have them, so I encourage people if they want to run…we will guide and help them campaign,” Ford said. “Right now, realistically, I might have 10 votes.”

Both Mayor and Councillor Ford were supportive of a plan to open bars at 6 a.m. for the Olympics.

“You’re asking Rob Ford if the bar should be open at 6 a.m. Come on? It’s the old 7-11 24-7,” Councillor Ford said. “If they wanna go and if someone can handle having a drink in the morning — I don’t know who could — but all the best to ’em.”

Mayor Ford said it would be “good for business.”

Ford also announced his Valentine’s Day plans, saying he was taking his wife to the swanky Harbour Sixty Steakhouse (New York Strip Steak = $65) — along with NFL lineman Orlando Franklin.

“I don’t consider myself a celebrity, I’m just an average hard-working person that watches taxpayers’ money,” Ford said.