Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - 90s Eurodance Jamz #TOAST: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1938

Episode Date: July 26, 2026

On this 1938th episode of Toronto Mike'd, and 55th episode of TOAST, Mike is joined by Rob Preuss and Bob Willette as they kick out their favourite 1990s Eurodance jams.A version of this podcast without programmatic ads is available to all Toronto Mike'd Patrons at patreon.com/torontomike.Toronto Mike'd, an award-winning podcast, is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball, Ridley Funeral Home, Nick Ainis, and RecycleMyElectronics.ca.If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at [e-mail]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Just temporarily. And honeymoon sweets, Rob Proust. Rob, your hair looks amazing. You are growing it out, right? I mean, it's an ongoing experiment. I haven't shaved it since November. So I haven't done anything to it. Nothing, like no, not a trim, nothing.

Not a trim, not of nothing. That's a beautiful way. Every once in a while. Every once in a while I do a little around the ears. But why did you ever color your hair when you have this wonderful color now? Were you coloring it? No.

No, it was. You were coloring it. Well, like, I bleached it. Yeah, yeah. In the early days, I was bleaching it for a little while because I was bored. Oh. But then I realized my hair was already sort of like.

Like you were bleaching it since we've been doing toast? A couple in the earlier years. There was a sometimes... Go back to the photos. I will. I will. I had dumb bleach. And then I was like, there was no roots anymore

because it was cool when I was young. You'd have dark roots coming in. Sure, of course. And then I always like Mike's hair and I like your hairs. I inspired you. You did. Wow.

Bleach, also a great Nirvana album. That's right. And it gets out stains. It gets out stains in the wash, too. Yeah. Bleach does? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's true.

Not the album. The album doesn't get stains out. And bleach, it cleans you out, but it leaves you empty inside. That's right. Is this what it's like if you had a morning show with two other people? I have no idea.

Because you alone. They let me do it alone. Yeah, you alone are the best. Rob, I have audio for you, but I want to start with Bob Willett because it's kind of exciting. I introduced Bob Willett as the Indy 88 morning man, and he chimed in appropriately to say temporary only. But it is exciting that right now, right now Bob Willett is hosting Morning Solo on Indy 88. That's exciting. Thank you.

I think so. It is very exciting. I'm enjoying it. I love it. I like it. Call me Stu Jeffries Jr. Yeah. So you ban your own board and everything.

I do everything myself. So you're so, you're exactly like... 100% solo. There's no operator. There's no producer. It's all me. That's exciting, right?

Like, that's what I would want to do. Not that Indies called me, but that sounds like, even though I bike by Grossman's place all the time. Yeah, the owner. That's exciting, right? You know what?

It is exciting. I offered to do mornings when I first got there. And the guy who was run on the joint at the time, Ian, uh, a good guy. He's now the operations manager for the company. He never took me up on it.

He's like, no, no, it's okay. We'll just do best ofs. I was like, cool, all right. And then now the, Mike Religa is now the program director and Chris Grossman, I think, is the reason why I'm doing more. I think he's a big Willett fan. I think so in a weird way because he did fire me last year for three months. Oh, right. Remember?

Yeah, but things come around. But yeah, I think he, in the fact that I bring it up to him, he gets angry. He hates it. Well, they fired Aaron Davis, too. who fired Aaron Davis? What's her name? Julie Adam did. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, exactly. I'm saying some of the great morning hosts have been fired and then brought back. Yeah, so anyways, I, you know what? I said I'd do it and I will say it's been very, you know, it's interesting to get up at 4 a.m. again. I haven't done that for a long time. And, but I will say it's been great.

I can say without a doubt any radio station I've ever worked at, the N88 listenership, as Scruff Connors used to say, is absolutely the kind of. people I've ever dealt with and 99.9% of the feedback has been good. There's one person who hates me. Really? One day and they will every time I come on they're like nope

I'm out they text right away and I'm just like thanks for the support. Just don't listen. You don't have to advertise that you're not listening. So if there's one there's more than one. Yeah yeah yeah. And that's fine. You can't please everybody but generally speaking people are kind and I'm having a really good time doing it. Okay, I have a bigger question about Indy. So last time we were on

we talked about changes to the morning show. Right? Went from like a trio to a duo. Since you were last on toast, there was a swap of shifts, okay? So Adam and Lana switched. Both former edge people back in the day, yeah. One of whom's been in the basement

and one of whom said nope. Yeah, she doesn't, she doesn't want to talk about herself. She's one of my best friends, I will say, because she helped me pick out my wedding ring for my wife, right? She helped me pick up my engagement ring for my wife. That's how long I've known Lana. Because my wife and I've been married, you know, since 2005.

so Lana is just she's so not about herself in so many ways and just didn't don't take it personal is what I'm saying that she won't come into the basement I haven't thought about it a long time except that you bring it up every time she's mentioned her name so it's like a natural tag so so Adam is now afternoon drive so they've changed the hours a little bit as well so we now go Lana yeah so Lana now goes 10 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. and Adam Ricard comes on at 10 at 2.30 and goes till 7 p.m. And then in the fall, there's some things that are going to be happening as well. Well, this is where I'm going.

So how long do you have left on this substitution morning? So I have a this week. I do morning drive. Next week I do afternoon drive. Oh, wow. Then I take a week off and I go see Mr. Pruth in New York City. Enemy territory. Yeah, it's been a tough decision to go to New York.

I'll be honest. I've talked about it a lot on the air. And then the week I come back, I'm supposed to be doing a week with Jackie on the morning show. Wow. From Carlin and Jackie on the morning show. Right, because Carlin, maybe he's on vacation. He's got extra, he's been with the company for so long. He has more vacation days than she does.

So he's taking another week. Okay. But in the fault, what can you say? Because your old shift was what? Well, I was doing evenings. I was doing Sunday afternoons, basically. Like six to ten. Yeah, like noon to six.

Oh, I thought there was evenings you were doing. Yeah, so I was doing Sundays through Thursday. It's like, so Sunday afternoon into the evening and then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, evening, Thursday evenings, and having Friday, Saturday off. And I was on it from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. That's right. So they put now, now afternoon drive goes to 7. Right.

So like, how does this affect you? Okay. So how this affects me is, I'll be honest. I saw, I was like, what, like less hours of me on the air? How is that good for the radio station? I literally said that to the owner. I was like, if you think I'm good, why are you taking me off the air? What did the owner say to you?

He said, I didn't think of it that way. No, I didn't. I didn't think of it that way. But I said, what do you want? He goes, I want you on the air as much as possible on the weekends. He goes, the weekends are very important. So I think I'm going to be doing Saturday and Sundays. This is not written in stone yet, but I think I'll be doing 11 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Plus the electric ballroom. Yes, too. happens at 8 o'clock on Sunday nights. That's, I'll be, you know, radio, that's pre-recorded. And then I will be, I think I might only be doing two evenings a week from seven to 10. Wow.

Because I said, if you want me to do two six-hour shifts, I don't think I can work five days a week. Yeah. Because six hours is a long, long time. Yeah. So we're working that out. I literally meet with him next week to talk about it. I'm, you know, I just said, look, I'm a utility guy.

I can, I can do any shift and I'm happy to do it. I'm happy to be in radio. I'm very lucky. people are getting, you know, their jobs are disappearing in the industry. I think I'm good at it. It's one of the few things I think I'm good at and I love doing it. I said, I'll do whatever you want. Well, that's the best way to approach anything in life too, right?

It's like, if you're willing to do it, they're going to be willing to work with you there as well. So, he's, you know, here's the thing. Weekends, although, you know, you're not getting the, the QM, we call it, right? You don't get the Qum of a drive show, say. So the accumulated listenership of the week. But you can really own share on the weekends. and we sell share. So when I'm on the air, my share is good,

generally speaking. So not that, and the station actually has a Q, we have a low QM compared to other, like we don't have CHFI as a Q. Yeah. But we do have higher TSL, which is time spent listening.

And that's, and the radio station is rated on a combination of QM and TSL. Okay. We're getting right into this. That's an inside baseball talk here. So our, yeah,

so our, our QM, it's your QM. and your TSL together comes up with what your share of the audience is. And we sell the overall share of the radio station. We don't sell day parts. We can, but we don't. And again, when I say we, they do that.

I don't have anything to do with that. So anyways, I think the idea is if we can increase share on the weekends in which it just, it looks good for the station overall. And I'm not looking at as an insult that they want me on the air on the weekends. Because weekends, we found out when PPM came in. versus diary. Way more people listen to the radio

on the weekends than we thought. We want you on the air all the time. Thank you. That's very nice. Rob Pruce. He's asleep. Rob Bruce has been listening from New York City

to me in the morning. And I have to use a VPN, right? Yeah, it could be as we were blocked in the States now. Now I did tune in to hear Bob. I wanted to hear how he sounded. He sounded great. And that's when I learned about that free Hamilton show.

Yeah. I learned it from Bob. Yeah, me too. He started name checking all these FIS is not an FOTM, but almost everyone else on that Dan Lollon. Almost everybody on that lineup. Yeah, that's happening festival of friends

next weekend at Gage Park in Hamilton. That's like the 50th anniversary, right? It's the 50th anniversary. You would know about it. You're going on. I'm going to go on the Sunday for sure. I don't know yet.

Why, do you want to come? Yeah, because the two little ones and my wife are flying to Edmonton on Wednesday morning. So, like, I've got like a couple of weeks where I'm going to be like solo mic roaming the earth. Oh, well, I'll tell you,

I'll pick you up on the way out. I'll meet you there on my bike. You're going to bike all the way there? That's a bit of a bike. It's a long one. I got to come back. I have a listener, a regular, like a hardcore listener who's offered me his parking, his driveway, which is near the park.

Wow. Okay, you're all hooked up there. Okay, we'll talk about this. Yeah, we'll talk about. Yeah, it's a great show. On electric ballroom, yes. Do you ever play any 1990s Euro dance? I have dabbled, yes.

It is not my favorite type of music, but I like, that's not about me when I'm DJing. It's about the audience. And I, I lean heavily on nostalgia. in on the ballroom. So, and there's a lot of nostalgia with the music we're talking about.

And did you feel nostalgia when you heard the, the Venga boys and the Venga bus is coming off the top? I'm gonna, my feeling,

that was that was. I didn't know what it was. My feeling was not nostalgia. It was more some sort of queasiness. So again, we choose some genres that might not be your,

like that. We're doing a, we're doing this episode a 90s year old dance. And I just wondered, what was the process like picking your gems? Like, are these all new to you, Rob Pruss?

Like, you're too sophisticated to listen to 90s of Euro dance? No, but I did have to do a little bit of research because I had to know who was Euro. Well, yeah, based on the name of the genre, I had to like go back. And then I started like triggering memories because I realized it like listening to top 40 through the 90s. It was everywhere. It was everywhere, but it was also mixed in with a lot of other genres. In the 90s, are you in like, are you playing keys in rent or something? No, no.

In the earth. So in this area. era that we are speaking of. I was on tour with Phantom of the Opera. That's it. Phantom, right, right. You were early 90s. Early 90s. Yeah. I was parked in Vancouver for six months doing and I was in Montreal and I was in Ottawa and Regina Saskatchewan and Kitchener. So yeah,

for those first two years like 91, early 91 through the end of 92, I was on the road. I just want a Broadway nerd out a little bit here on this. You're like in an honest way, the traveling, the touring companies. Like how, obviously they're not Broadway people, but they are Broadway people. Like, what's the quality level of these touring shows that come around?

High quality. It is, yeah. I mean, it has changed. That's 30, over 30 years ago. Sure, of course. So the numbers have changed, and they cheap out a lot more these days, and they have tours that are necessary. They would call them like non-union tours.

Right. Of course. Where they can get the licensing for the shows, but they can, like, hire casts that are less expensive to hire and stuff. Okay. So the quality definitely is variable now, but they try to keep it high anyways. Right. But when we were doing it in 91, we were a high quality tour.

We were the first Canadian production. So, Gregs Drabinski put all the money in the tour. And we had... All right. I heard these legal battles. Yeah, he went through a lot of shit. But we had Jeff Hisslop was our Phantom.

Nice. Today's special. Yes. And our Christine... He was a touring? Yeah, he was our Phantom. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's cool.

He did it for a couple years. And it was a high... And you still can't get him on Toronto Mike. I could try. I don't know. I think he lives in Vancouver. Give it a go. I dropped...

I have a... Later on, if we want, I have a Toronto Argonaut story. with Garth Grubinsky. I've auditioned for him. Really? Yeah. Oh, I think you've told you that.

But I also, I dropped his name in an email to the Argos the other day because I was getting pissed off at the Argos. Okay, well, now they're wholly owned by Rogers. Yes, which is not a good thing. They're going to sell them. They're going to, if they can find a seller,

they're going to get rid of them. Oh, for sure. It's not a revenue generator. It's not a revenue generator. It's TV is all Bell. Like, they have no interest in owning the Argos. I can tell you that. But I think this, this whole Eurodance genre thing,

Yeah. What's interesting is that in the early 90s, when this was all like pretty hot. Yep. I don't necessarily know that I call it Eurodance. I just called it dance music. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's true.

It's a subgen. So that Vanga Boys, I play off the top. Just because I do like the name check where the heck they're from. Yeah. They're from the Netherlands. So that's a Dutch outfit. And one of my, one of my selections is not from Euro. Yeah.

Well, yeah. Oh, you'll have to explain yourself. From Europe. From Europe. Okay. A quick, a 30 second pause for station identification. Yeah. Yeah.

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So join me, Master T, and his crazy cousins. For your weekly dance fix on Extend the Mix. See you. Okay, quick fun fact about Master T. Master T, F-O-T-M Master T, who was hosting Extendomix. I feel like they would have played some 90s Eurodance. But Roxy, the keyboard, who was his co-host, was voiced by his wife. Oh, really?

You guys know that? So the voice of Roxy, yeah, yeah. Well, because Master T is Tony Young. That's right. And he was a camera guy because his brother Basil was a camera guy. Well, Basil, I think is still there. Yeah. Basil used to come.

We used to, anytime we go there to do interviews and stuff, he was always a cameraman. This is the segue of the year here. I did poll some audio I want to ask Rob Pruse about here before we get into Eurodance. CFNYFM, 102.1. The Spirit of Radio presents Cooking with Guests with Jim Reed. Good evening, and welcome to Cooking with Guests

from CFNYFM, 102.1. I'm Jim Reed, and tonight we are cooking along with the spoons and their brand-new debut LP stick figure neighborhood. Dave and Bob and Gordon are here. from the band and gentlemen welcome to CFNY. Great to be here. That was me. Great to be here.

You spoke first. First interview they've ever done since Spieg's Spoonz? I know we're veterans. You've done lots of them, eh? You've done four. Four biggies. I remember getting a single from the Spoons, I guess. So it must have been at least a year ago anyway here at the station.

I'm glad somebody knew about it. You had a little independent job. Did you run it off yourself? How did that all happen? Well. Well, you had a single out. Did you do it yourself independently? Yeah, it was all a...

Is everybody high? We told people... They're shy. They're shy. Early days. I'm talking about... It's like Pohanty. Talking the host, too, then.

Okay, I'll say this. It is fun to hear Jim Reed, the late grade, on C. Y, because he's so low-key. Different. You know, can you imagine Bob going on Indy 88 and talking in that monotone kind of calm, you know? That was the CFNY era. I mean, I'm telling you, that... Too cool for school.

Not too cool for school, but just, like, nothing... It didn't need to rise up above. But John Byrne doing the voiceover, he'll do it, but I guess that's different. Sure. So they let the imaging do the hype. Yeah, Don and Marsden would do the voiceovers for the intros and stuff, but everybody was low-key. Low-key as heck, but even you and Gord. So tell me how many interviews had you done for either radio or television or whatever before this one?

Apparently, we've done four. That's what they said. Is that right? It was really true, yeah. And how old are you during this CF and Y debut? I was 15. You are not. Yeah, yeah, this was the summer of 81.

It was this, so this, we recorded like a week before this. I have the cassette because this is my, my upload. Yeah, I saw it on Facebook. August 16th, 1981. Wow. It was a Sunday afternoon, and I sat on our front porch with my little boombox to record it. What, 35 years ago? Yeah, 45 years ago this month.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Yeah. So they basically played the whole album. I mean, it was our first station to really give us airplay, right? So that was our first foray into the world. And you found this on cassette just recently? No, I, well, I've, I've, I knew where it was.

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Are you an archivist? See, I wish I was. I wish I was. I'm so stupid. I've given,

I have so much stuff that I've done. I've been part of. It's not a lot of stuff, but it's like, it's like packed banker boxes. Amazing, good for you. Okay, quick, uh,

shout out to, uh, people in the live stream here. Real quick. Oh yeah, crack. I got you an ab sacker. I love it.

Okay. So Bob, let's go to an absacker. Rob and I are doing sunny side. So three, Ellis Lager. Two, one.

Cheers, boy. Good to see you guys. Nice to see you. This is a rare Sunday morning recording. Because I guess we were going to do it. I was camping. I normally work Sundays. But I'm off because of the morning show.

Right. So Chris Ward, speaking of much music, Chris Ward, not the VJ, says, Vengabus isn't my typical jam, but hearing it takes me right back to a tour of Ireland. I made in 1999 my first Euro trip, no, he calls it a wedding trip. And it was with an old girlfriend.

Wow. And the, the Lancaster was flying by Dundas and Coxwell while Leslie was walking in the sheer part. I love seeing that. It flies at Hamilton. I heard it yesterday. My mom and I were sitting on the front porch

and I was like, what the fuck is that loud? When I was at K-Light, there was an opportunity, but I wasn't there long enough because the pandemics happened. And then my contract ended. But there was not,

I could have gone up in it. Really? Yeah, because we had not, we had, uh, K-Light at the time had a relationship with the aviation. the, what do they call? What's the name? Where is it? It's somewhere in Hamilton. Yeah, somewhere in Hamilton.

Anyways, and it flew, did tons of flyovers for the Thai cats. And TSN Radio, bell owned at the time. Yeah, amazing. And the opportunity never happened. Brother Bill's dad flew a Lancaster in the war. Wow. That's a fun fact. Tying it back to CF and Y. Okay, VP of No Sales says he went to high school of the son of the founder of the festival of friends. That's cool. There's a tie right there. Jeremy Hopkins says, I loved chatting with Bob Willett in his cool family yesterday at DreamW Wheels on Egglington. Yeah.

I had a busy day. I was very Toronto yesterday. I said this weekend on the air, I came up with the term. I was like, Toronto is festival maxing this weekend, you know, because there's so many festivals this weekend. The Beach is Jazz Festival. Oz Fest. Wow.

Pan American cuisine and music thing. Mix T.O. Fest. All these things. And Dream Wheels on Eglington. And my brother-in-law's got a 54 Chevy 210 and he had it in the show. And I know that Jeremy Hopkins has gone to it before. We did run into each other. You can't miss him because he's wearing the hat.

That's true. He's wearing the hat. He's wearing the full thing. My 11 year old was like, who is that dapper man? She literally said, and then, but then afterwards, I went home, had a little rest, and then went to Scratch Bastid's barbecue down at Harborfront. And Mishi Me, F-O-T-M was performing. She's amazing.

She was performing with Scratch Bastid. Wow. And she was also at, I believe, there was a promotion for her making an appearance at Ozfest. Oh, I think you're right. I think she was. I saw her, because I took note, her and I think Chauclair. Yeah. That's right. Chalklair was there too. Yeah, so they were

mad around. I spent hours at Ozfest. Amazing vibes. Did you see Carol Pope and Tim Welch? No, because that was 8 o'clock. But I know official correspondent Cam Gordon was there. He'll report back on the next FOTM cast. I'm sure he creamed his jeans. I'm sure. Absolutely. When she walked his way.

Without it. But I did bump into Rudy Blair, who was the host. He was the host. Wow. Yeah. for the whole day. That's all he's doing. It's funny. He hosts so many things now. He was hosting like, I mean, he's so funny. Good for him. He must have a great. He's hustling. He must have a great, uh, roller decks because of all the things he's done throughout the years when he was 680 and whatnot. But he's hosting things all the time. Shout out to Peter Gross, uh, who spent many years at 680 news with Rudy Blair. Yeah. Good to see. Rudy. Rudy actually thanked me for a particular post I wrote on Toronto Mike.com.

Nice. But I actually might do Rudy a favor and tell you guys offline which specific post. he was appreciative. I might do my favor here. By the way, it's a Canadian War Plain Heritage Museum. Thank you. Thank you. That's from Jeremy Hopkins.

Of course, it's from Jeremy Hopkins. He knows exactly what it. I actually educated Jeremy Hopkins on a history piece. Believe it or not. Elaborate, which piece. I asked him if he knew about the White House of Rock in St. Catherine.

I know about the White House. He's like, no, Paulie Morris. I said it is a historic house where the radio station, 610 CKTB is, which is one of the oldest radio stations in Canada, in St. Catharines.

Really? where 977 hits FM is and it is said to be haunted. I worked there for a year. I worked there for 15 months. I did afternoon drive on 977 and I was the program director for Easy Rock. With Freddie P's best buddy's wife. Darren Wazlick's wife whose name is. She was on with Rick Hodge.

Rick Hodge was gone by the time I was there. I booked her on Humble and Fred because she's a dear friend of Fred there. and I still because we didn't know this name because it wasn't a Toronto show. She was not a Toronto but she's huge in St. Catharines but anyways. It's funny how we can't remember. This house is, was a major part of the Underground Railroad. Oh, I've heard of that.

And it's got, I've gone, you can go to the tunnels. Wow. Yeah, I've been in the tunnels in that. And that's where the radio station is to this day. And Jeremy Hopkins did not know about it. The aforementioned, Scruff Connors spent many, many, good years there. Bingo Bob, can I tell you something?

I still listen to 977. It's a great radio station. Soper and Brown, the morning show is hilarious. I think they're very, very good. They're owned by White Oaks now, right? Yeah, White Oaks and White Oaks broadcasting who own the biggest Christian station in Ontario. I listen to that one too.

I think it's Life FM. I think it's called or something. 977 plays good music, though. They play a lot of creed. They are what you could call an active rock radio station. I had this conversation with somebody. I was like, there's two kinds of rock music in radio. Active rock and modern rock or alternative, but active and modern. You get more trues on the active rock.

You get a lot more truths. And I actually, I'm surprised by that. I think, and Gloria's Sun. I think the, yeah, so it's funny. The Glorious Sun's made the crossover to more of a modern rock stations. The Edge plays them. Not that we're a rock station, but indie plays them.

But we don't touch the truths. Really. And that frustrates me because I love the truths. I think they should be on that. I am tired of waiting. That's their first song. For 90s, Eurodance. I like 977 when they play the old school Canadian rock.

Like when I turned in and all of a sudden they're playing like Street Heart or Helix or the heart like heart just 70s. Okay. What about this old school Canadian rock song? Yeah. He just happens to have this lined up. Oh, I want to talk about this. What goes up? Only one Canadian person in the band, though.

Let's be honest. Well, you could have this chat about Steppenwolf too. Cowbell, man. I wouldn't, but. I couldn't go deep on Stephen Wolfe. I can go a little deep on these guys. Okay, so let's hear from Bob Willett on his thoughts. Oh, I feel like I've been talking too much.

David Clayton Thomas. Yes, David Clayton Thomas passed away. Yeah. I iconic voice, I really, here's where I remember listening to this, 1050 chum. My dad used to listen 1050 chum all the time. It was either that or 104.5 Chum. That was my dad.

And we had, and I remember hearing spinning, wheel and then he played for me and when I die. That's the song. That's the song for me and when I die. And my wife, God bless her, absolutely despises blood, sweat and tears. Even this song? All of them. Cannot stand it.

And I was like, she played the trumpet. She played the trumpet in high school. Can't stand them. She goes, I just, they played woodstock. They're like nails on a chalkboard for my wife. Yeah, it's so strange. Wow. Because I think, like, there's a handful of songs that are just,

I did, I have to admit, I did try to listen after he passed away, I went deep in the catalog, I was like, okay, I know why some of these are just hits. I know why some of them are hits, because the other stuff was like, oh, all right? It was a very specific era of music, right? Yeah, I'm also, I want to talk. You want to do it? Call me do a quick thing, and then we'll

go to the mic, of course. No, no, no, no, it's okay. I didn't ask why. I got to say, hi. Ask me no, bless wet and tears. I'm about to, but I just want to say hello to Midtown Gord, who's on the live stream, because I didn't shout him out earlier. There's a bunch of others. I'll get to in a minute.

But Rob Pruss. Yeah. What do you think? We lost a legend. The sound of his voice reminds me of childhood. Like, like, I go, because I was like three years old and when I died, I was on the radio. Three or four.

And I feel like when I hear that song, it sounds to me, my connections with Blood So Anteer's and Ontario Place are like intertwined. Did they play the forum? No. No? But it's just something about the sound of his voice and the music. I must have played the forum. They probably did.

Or something? David David Thomas but for, yeah, he used to do a, but he played like the Woodbine Beach

like, he was in the Toronto mic calendar to visit the baseball. Oh yeah, you said that, that's right. Wow.

The sound of, they used through Eric Alper. The sound of their music is just like early, early Toronto to me. It's just something about it, you know.

I love it. They were New York based, right? I don't even know where they're because he's there from New York the band and he was from here. He was definitely from here. And then,

yeah, they might be New York based. Sort of a Steppenwolf thing. Yeah, totally. Canadians that went Yeah, right. But okay, so when I hear this, of course, it's a song I've always known on Spinning Wheel.

You listen to radio in Canada in the 80s. You heard this jam on classic rock or whatever. But here is a song. So Bob, we talked about Digital Underground. We both have a love for Digital Underground. But I've never asked you if you ever had an affinity for third bass. Not part of my world. Okay, so I had the Cactus album, which I love so much.

They put out this Cactus album Revisited, which was like remit to things. act. And I also love that. I was a big third base guy. Cool. And here's a jam I loved from third base. You ready? Sample coming up here. Here's my advice to all amateurs planning to give a performance. Speak up and keep the act movie. Nice.

Oh, that's cool. Is that robbing over it? Oh, yeah. Of course. Nice. I like it. Yeah, I don't know it. Got your show last night. Serving a wall of soul step. Child talk. I see. See you. I can sleep.

So 90s. Of its era. but I would love this fucking era. So, Spokens of playing Like the lottery Your lyrics are incorrect So you step to me Looking for the key to release

That first piece Three times to a six I have known So sons of third base On the cactus album I mean there's more There's a lot more And more rapping

And they just It's all over a spinning wheel Now Would that be properly credited? Yeah like they got money for that Yeah they had to have Had some songwriters or whatever Yeah they would have had to have had some

writing credits on that. They also had the later, a later album had to hit Pop Goes the Weasel. That I know, yeah. Which was Peter Gabriel's sledgehammer. Oh, really? Yeah. I'm sure I remember that.

You did you. I don't know this. I like this. So I was a big fan of third base. And the distinction third base had is pre-M-N-M. This was the best white rap group in the world. What's name of this song? Sons of third base.

But it's bass. Is it B-A-S-E? It is B-A-S-E? It is B-A-S-E. Yeah, that's right. No, actually, no, sorry. You're right, it is BASS. Right.

But I feel like they have a song with BASE in it. Bass is the... Rob bass and DJ's in. Also, R-I-P. Not a lake right there. Okay, so we're going to get to the 90s year old dance. Yeah, we got to go. You got to go here.

But I just want to do a quick mind-blow because I just learned this on a podcast. I didn't know which one. Quickly just checking the live stream. BP knows his third base, larger than Jim Backus. He knows his third base. I saw that reference. I was like, I don't know. I love me some Jim back.

Everybody's homework is to listen to the cactus album and get back to me. There's a whole bunch of 3 a.m. There's a lot of... So yesterday I just want to get, like, this Scratch Bastid show had a DJ Newmark who's an L.A. based scratch DJ world winning like Red Bull Scratch things. And the headliner was DJ

Jazzy Jeff. Oh wow. Yes. Drums, please. Yeah. It was amazing. Yeah. And do you know, is Glenn Lewis an FOTM? No, but I know this name. He was there. and I called him. I knew him from Proud FM.

He's not going to remember me, but we played some of his stuff. He's R&B, Canadian R&B singer, Glenn Lewis. And I called him off the stage and I got a picture with him, sides of the show. That's cool.

It was the vibe of this show is so good. The sun is setting. It's at the new heart. Like, they take the harbor front of the amphitheater there. Yeah, yeah. They take all the seats out now. And it was like a, it was like a dance party. And it was these DJs.

And I was saying, watching Scratch Bastid, who's actually from the East Coast. I think he's from Halifax. and he's one of the best scratch DJs in the world. I mean, he's friends with DJ Jazzy Jeff, who practically invented some of the best types of scratching. And I watched him how much fun he was having.

And I'm not a musician, but I do like playing music for people. And I was watching how he felt. And it was the closest thing that I feel when I'm DJing. I was just like so happy for him and thinking about how happy I am when I'm DJing. And I play the, I'm nowhere. I'm not a scratch DJ, but I want to be now. Watching this again, this is the third scratch show I've been to.

There were a lot at Oz Fest. Like there were so many DJ stations Scratch in a way. It was just so cool. It was just like, the vibe was so great. Mike, can I give you a side tangent from one of your recent guests? Yeah. Mysterion. Yeah.

Oh. So it was pretty fun. It was pretty amazing. Bob's a big fan. Yeah. Guys are fucking fraud. Do you know what? It's magic.

Listen, I did. I did a podcast. But he doesn't pretend he's reading mine. It's parlor tricks. Four years ago I did a podcast with his wife. She had a, she had a show like in 2022, like a like a zoomy kind of thing. And so I met him. online, like on the Zoom, when we were like

prepping for the show. Yeah, how did you treat you? He did a trick for me that blew my mind just like the way he blew your mind. We did a sequence of them, and I record the video, and a couple of them I figured out, but I'm still working on a couple. It's unbelievable. But like my mind was, because I remembered when you were talking to him, and I thought back, and he blew my mind. See, Bob, he's,

he is just a sleight-of-hand magician. It's so impressive. But he did get to the semifinals of America's Got Talent. Yeah. Sure. So, I mean, so he's not just the guy on Oz Fest at the stage. No, no, look, here's the thing. Look, here's the thing. I knew him 20 years ago when I was at Proud FM. He came in and he was friends with one of our hosts.

And I'll be honest, he was an arrogant prick. Like, I didn't, he wasn't a nice guy. He, uh, the, the, I think he's maybe improved his, uh, his, his, his, his persona. But even off air, I didn't get it. I didn't get a good vibe with him. He was a dink to me and he was a dink to people. And he was also like into things like shrunken heads. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I fucking hate that. He's got a whole, like, yeah. And you know what? That's appropriation. Like, stop stealing stuff from. people in Africa. Maybe he was regarding beetle juice. No, it's not.

He's got real stuff that he shouldn't have. I feel it's wrong. These are things that shouldn't even be in museums. They should be returned. They're everywhere. And he's got a bunch. Yeah, I hate it. And I just don't like his vibe.

So I can't even watch his. So fuck that guy. So I just, I just, he won't even remember, but he was a prick to me. So you remember it. So I remember because I don't like it when people are pricks to me. You don't forget the assholes. No. I don't.

Okay. This song was a big hit. Is this bump? So we played a bit of pink last toast Because the glorious sun's pink thing I did That you guys didn't respond to But okay So you did that with me?

I don't remember Yeah we played Oh, because you were wrong It didn't sound like Oh, that's right Because you were wrong I still think it's the musician He knows

This song This is Trouble Which is called Trouble by Pink Are you gonna play Trouble With a capital T from the music man next? No But this song wins Pink Her only Grammy

Really? She only has one Grammy That's insane It's for this song called Trouble. Big hit, right? Are you ready for the mind blow? Here we go. This song Trouble that Pink had a big hit with

and got her only Grammy was written for a different band. Can I play a song from the band that song was written for? Play it. Is it Hanson? Ah. Mighty, Mighty Bostow.

No, it's not. Sorry. It's not the Mighty Bostole. His reference is Rancid. They're canceling the morning show. It's rancid. This is Rancid. They're great. I've seen both those bands.

Skoshos are made. So Tim Armstrong wrote Trouble for Rancid. That's a Tim Armstrong jam. Oh, that's cool. And then Armstrong actually ended up producing it for Pink. Cool. And it's their only Grammy.

It was a big hit. And I couldn't believe Trouble by Pink was a Tim Armstrong song for Rancid. Weird. I have I think I have the utmost time for Pink. Have you ever seen her live? Oh yeah. She climbs on the silks or whatever.

But she doesn't need to do that. No. But she does it because she loves it. But her voice, like from the first album, Misunderstood came out and like, oh my God. Try the song Try by her. Try by. Actually, Nelly Fittal is a good try.

Try by Blue Rodeo is a good one too. But don't tell me I'm wrong. That's, I did not know that this was a, that jam. Why did that come up with you? I heard it on a podcast. It blew my mind, and I took a note. So here we are. I'm just playing Monica's favorite Eurodance.

This kind of was inspired because Monica is playing a lot of 90s Euro dance. She's younger than us. And this really hit her, this 90s Euro dance scene. She'd go to clubs and dance to things like this. This is Wigfield. Have you guys heard of Wigfield? Of course. I know you have.

Sure. No. Rob, you got to be honest with us. Do you know Rancid? I know the name. I would have never guessed what they sound like. Rancid got a, I mean, Rancid was all over, alternative rock radio.

Massive in the 90s, yeah. They were big. They were big. They're up there. Not offspring big, but up there. So I'm going to name check. So no one kicked this one out, but I'm just playing it because Monica likes it a lot.

And I'm just here to shout out, where are these artists from? So Eurodance has to be from the 90s, and it has to be European artists. And this band is Danish. Oh, that's yours. She's Danish, okay? By the way, when Norway,

Norway advanced very first. far in the World Cup, as you might know, if you follow the World Cup. And I decided who are the Norwegian bands, who are the Norwegian musicians that I know? And literally, I only do one. Yeah, they don't have that Swedish thing, or they. Or even Denmark has a bunch. Finland has Aqua. Is that it? Farby. From one of those countries, but they could be Danish. I got to check them out. I didn't know what's kick them out. Would that count as Euro? Yeah, I think that's definitely Euro. Like Euro dance? I think so. I think so. So, the only

can you name the only Norwegian musician that we would know I'm gonna guess only one aha aha is correct yeah

that's it aha and a bunch of bands I don't know an artist I don't know it's how can that how can that be I don't know you know

my wife was just there she was in Oslo for a museum thing because that's what she does and it's very expensive there but it's also very

affluent like you know what music comes from a place of, of like, music often comes from strife. Yes. Maybe there's not enough strife

to make good music. Maybe it's too, maybe Midtown Gord will educate us and there's a lot of like Norwegian death metal coming out of there. I bet there is. Oh, yeah, they like that. And then the Finns like that too.

That's because it's dark there a lot. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. Yep. Like when Nirvana came out and they were saying, oh, this grunge scene's coming out of Seattle because it rains all the time. Yeah. And all these guys just go into their garage and play music because it's raining all the time.

nothing else to do. There's some truth to that. Got to make music. Yeah. Makes you feel better. You know, boredom creates art. I still say, FOTM, Chantel Craveeisick's first album under these rocks and stones is amazing. She doesn't like it. She hates it. I know. But I think it's amazing because she was angry and sad in it.

And then she meets Rain and all her music is happy afterwards. And it's just not as good. And you know what? You know what? Her first encounter with Rain, what concert it was at? I do not. Pearl Jam. I do know that because you talked about it. Yes, I did know that.

And that's just one question here before we get to Rob Proust's first 90s' So we're doing it now. 45 minute intro. Friend of the Toronto. Friend of FOTM. Elvis. Elvis will probably co-host the live recording at Palmis Kitchen, which will be in like late November or early December, whatever we decide or whatever.

But Elvis, friend of the show. Was on quite a bit back in the day. Thank you. Elvis. Big buildup to say Elvis tells me He thinks Bon Jovi is a better band than Pearl Jam And I'm just curious what you two think of

I mean subjective Art is subjective Better in what way But he's like our age And he's from Mississauga So he speaks to him more So he's GTH and Xer Okay

He far prefers listening to Bon Jovi than Pearl Jam And I just like reason That's a different statement Than is a better band You say two different things Okay well better band What is better No but what's better is a very

big difference. Okay. He prefers, he prefers, he prefers, he prefers, he prefers, he prefers,

he prefers to be wrong. Yeah. That says it all. There you go. I respect his right to be wrong. Enjoy them all you want.

You can like shit music. That's okay. I find that in mind blow to prefer, to, to be a, a, a, uh, a, a,

a gen Xer from the GTA. Oh, I got friends like that. And to say Bon Jovi's a better. I prefer John, Bon Jovi to Pearl Jam. My Pearl Jam buddy, whose brother is Mike Wilmot, stand-up comedian was in,

it's all gone, it's all gone Pete Tong. He's my, he's, him and I have gone, he's gone to over, I think he's gone over 60 Pearl Jam shows.

I've done over 40, almost all of them with him. I've done over 10. I'm, I almost all with him. He's my guy. His wife has seen Bon Jovi 50 plus times.

She loves Bon Jovi. Remember Iver Hamilton put that banner at the Air Canada Center. Iver Hamilton put that up? Yeah, well, he was responsible for it. For Bon Jovi?

Yeah. Oh, because he was with Universal at the time. He was a, I was like, what the hell? I know. How did that happen?

I know, and I called him out on it a few times, and he's, you know, I know, but anyway. That's funny. A little more. Did you know I've seen the CF and Y doc? I've heard of it. All right. Rob Proust, let's get this going, man.

I picked up by PBS, apparently. I heard that. Oh, yeah, yeah, they're going to air the hour version. I just wanted to say, yeah, I'm a guy. I'm going to wear jewelry now. Do it. That's my thing. I just decided.

My daughter made me, Mysterion wears a lot of jewelry. Yeah. Yeah, I'm inspired by him. No, no, my daughter, actually, my 11-year-old finger knit this little. this little like bracelet. And then she was like

I was like you know what I'll be honest I watched Brian Williams has a new show on Netflix where he's interviewing people it's really good but he's like super chill he's wearing jeans

and he's trying to be like all and he's wearing like a bunch of like a bling jewelry yeah like but not even blame but like what you're wearing like beads and shit and I was like fuck if Brian Williams

can wear shit like that and I look at and I look at Strombo and he's always wearing shit all over himself and I'm just Yeah, it's all different things. And I'm like, I have all this stuff.

These are my grandfather's rings. They look great. And this is the classic Sears catalog N with a diamond on it. You know, you get it. Like, do you remember these seeing these in like Sears catalogs? You could order them.

I think I skipped the ring page. Oh, see, I didn't. I don't like anything. You don't. Although I have started wearing the Garmin watch to. I've been wearing my grandpa's. Look, I even put, I even put crystal, like fake diamond studs in my ears now.

I'm like, you know what? Why am I not wearing these? Like what? I have. this stuff. So I was like, good to wear. These are both my grandfathers. This is my grandpa's His Masonic ring. Oh. And I would just think it's a mason? Apparently, like

with a club in Burlington. But aren't you like are you never in, you didn't inherit it? Oh, I've always been interested in this shit. No, I mean, I know you. Oh, I know you. I'm not an official. You're not a member. But you don't have the shan, the shake. I don't know the woo-waw-woo shake, no. But I like there you go. You got your hair. Put on my toe steering here. There you go. Rob, any words before your first

Euro dance? No, just kick it. Kick it! Whenever you want. The ubiquitous piano comes in. It'll be interesting to get a real musician's take. Oh, who's this? Hold on. They really had a template, eh?

They all fit the template here. Okay. Talk to us, Rob Proust, about another night. This was a big hit in 1994. It's a German group called Real McCoy. And apparently, so... The Germans. The Germans love it.

They love speaking English. It went to number one on the Canadian charts in 94. I believe it. And it was released in Europe and kind of going up the charts. But then apparently Clive Davis like saw it going up in Canada.

He's like, let's put some more muscle behind this thing. And then it ended up going the charts in the U.S. as well. Oh, wow. Which is super interesting. I believe they went number one here first. Yeah, yeah.

We love our Euro. McCoy would be one of those definitive Euro dance artists. And it gets on all these lists for like top 100 dance songs and all that stuff. And what do you think? think of the song. I think it's pretty good. I mean, I have to take my mind back to that genre in that

era. And I think, well, there's definitely a simpler structure behind it all, but it's fun and it's good for a dance floor. That's what you need. You need something simple and repetitive. It feels a little ace of bassy. Yes, exactly. Which was all the rage at the time, right? And they're Swedish. Yes, exactly. The Swedes to make pop music great. There was this band Abba. Yeah, you've heard of them? Yeah. They made some really good. We're in Eurodance. Are you excited? Yeah.

Is that what it's called? No, what is it called? I got the, what's the Euro, what's the contest in Eurovision. Eurovision. Canada's in Eurodance. I've been saying Eurodance too many times.

Canada's in Eurovision next time. Is that exciting to anybody? It's very exciting. We're not really European. I've never really paid attention to it. Australia's in it too. Yeah, that's right. Commonwealth countries.

Israel, I think, might be in it. Well, they're not common. Oh, are they allowed to be in it? First of all, nothing to do you have to commonwealth. CBC joined some European media consortium of some sorts and then now we're eligible but obviously you don't have to be in Europe anymore. It's worldwide. Canada is not

part of Europe as far as I know. Canada is very close to, closer to being part of Europe than it is. It's closer to being part of Europe right now than it is North America? Yeah, strengthening ties with North America. Canada is closer to being part of China. Yes, absolutely.

And it is the United States right now. We embrace the whole world. That's what Canadians do well. We are the world. They wrote it. We are the children. Yeah. Lionel Richie, I saw him since we, I don't think I've seen it. I saw Earth Wind and Fire a couple weeks ago. Is it good? Oh my God.

It's amazing. Hit after hit after hit. Earth Wind and Fire is insane. I'm watching, I'm in the middle of the great documentary about Earth Wind. I need to watch that dog. I've never seen it. I'll have to watch it now that I've seen them. Philip Bailey is still there.

His son's in the band. I actually, so do this. I want to know Robb. Last toast, I chastised you that you're not doing any like homework. I gave you a little extra than this time. I know. Are you going to tell us anything about real McCoy? Yeah, yeah.

I need to learn about real fucking McCoy. They're from Germany, they're singers. They're from Germany, they're from Germany. They're from the top of the charts. That's all you need to know. But they're not really, they're not singers, right? No. This is always like a DJ group or DJs or whatever.

And then they get somebody to sing the hook and they get somebody to do the rap. This is the template. We're going to hear a lot of it today. You've explained it all. Okay, you want me to play this kicker? Yeah. So wait, so my second jam. You kind of started it.

Because I was looking for fun, fun sort of like alternative things to play and I realize dance music doesn't really have that kind of stuff. There's a thousand remixes, but this is like a guy just playing like a busker. I thought it's interesting to hear it. Yeah, acoustic versions. I like these. I know what people do this too.

I know what you're saying. Another night, another dream, but always you. It's like a vision of love seems to be true. Another night another dream, but always. And it shows you it's like a real song. Yeah. If you're at a bar and some guys doing his stuff and he bust this out. Yeah.

I like it. Not a mind blow, but it's good. Not all. So you know nothing more than they're German? The band? Oh, yeah. Who's singing on Rio McCoy, do you? Oh, I don't know.

Could you take that? How? Okay, I'm going to yell at him for a minute. Okay. Like, how much time would it take? Yeah. To learn who's singing. What else did they sing?

Who's rapping? You don't really want to know. Nobody cares. But what's the point of this then? I don't know. We're just playing songs. No, we're not. Yeah, but...

I feel like we've long. lost our way. No. You really think that? Yeah, because it was never to me about the music. Well, it is. It was about giving, like, what Bucky would do

or Strabo would do or giving context to the music beyond the fact they're German. But what? I feel like genre to genre, it has a different level of importance. Because unfortunately for the Eurodance bands, they are one hit wonders.

They are two hit wonders, three out wonders. And if we find connections to other music that they've done, that's sort of interesting. But on my research for these people, I'm like, they didn't really do other hits. So this, I appreciate them for this. But I don't really give shit.

Unfortunately. I don't, here's the thing. That's me as a musician, though. I'm like, I like who they are. Yeah, but what about you as co-host toast? Well, that's why I'm playing you another song. I'm giving you. This is just a guy doing a music cover of it.

I know. It's true. I'm really, um, disappointed. No, I'm sorry. I'm, uh, I don't like it when mom and dad fight. They were not fighting. No, I gave them the warning last toast. I got stew fucking stone on speed dial.

I was going to say, are you going to write him up? Is that what this is happening? A guy who drives from the fucking United States of America to do this show and see you? To visit his mom. You're going to give him a hard time? Did you see mom this weekend? Of course.

I woke up with him. I just want to make sure people know. But I'm obviously I'm not going to ever mess with Brock. You're going to fire a lot? No. But I'm making a nice request. I know. I want to learn something about the context of this German.

But then what's the fucking point at all? It's true. Send people to Wikipedia. Well, no, that's where you get all your stuff from. That's what we all get it from. I do a lot of connecting dots. You'll see when you get to my first jam here. I do like connecting dots.

You like connecting dots. You're not always right, but you like doing it. But definitely with this music, I feel like it's a little more generic. I have to see where the dots take us. Yeah. Well, this is pop. Yeah. Like, so it's got a template.

True. And we'll hear it a lot. We're just getting going here. And you got the beat. The DJ's got this beat. It's an infectious groove or whatever that you could dance to. And then you're going to get a bit. big voice is going to sing some hook.

And then you're going to have some kind of rapper, do a verse, a rap verse. Right? Right. And then you got the woman singer is going to come back, but this beat's going to be preeminent. Like there is a template here, and we'll talk about some songs that kind of set the template here. But I mean, all I know about Real McCoy, which is a big player in this space, is that they're German. Yeah. Olaf Yiglitsa.

Yeah, so who's Olaf? He's the frontman of Real McCoy. Okay. Is he the wrong. rapper? He's the rapper. Rapping in English. Is he wrapped anything else? No. Nothing else. Okay. Well, let's go on to the case. So, Rio McCoy. See how interesting it is to me? like, we can all go to Wikipedia. I don't really.

And I'm like, it's interesting because you like to know a little fact about a person. But we've had this argument before about whether or not finding something on Wikipedia is a mind blow. Exactly. Because it's not. But no, but who's listening is the king of mind blows from Wikipedia? Who listening has ever gone to the Real McCoy Wiki page to absorb it.

Nobody. This is for like the Midtown Gord. Midtown Gord hates 90s 90s dance. But he's going to learn everything he's going to learn about 90s zero dance. He's going to learn in this two hour package we're putting together.

That's true. So I picked three jams. I actually had you picked one of my jams, Rob. I didn't even tell you. Thank you. But funnily enough, Bob also picked it. Oh, really? So Bob changed it.

I obviously changed it because you have it. You picked your three. You got your three. We'll get to it. Jam number three. But meanwhile, I picked three different jams, but I'm drilling in this producer. What else has the producer done?

Where did that, you know, what does that a woman sing? Because a lot of times they don't put the woman who really sings in the video. That's right. This is what came up in the last episode. The Martha Wash, for example, would be singing the hook. And some model would be in the video. A thin, fit model would be singing away. But she's lip-sinking because Martha Wash,

maybe they felt she wasn't the look they were going for. There's a lot of that going. on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think that. No, but if I, but if I may, that's how you do this on toast. He's a musician.

He does it his way. Well, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, no, no, but I'm just saying, like, you like to do it that way. Do you want us to just do what you do? No, I want, I want, no, I'm not as you do. That's ridiculous. I don't want you to just, hey, this is a Euro dance song. This is the artist.

They're from Germany. No one cares about anything more. Move on. Like, I don't see the point of that. Why not just link him to a, Spotify playlist. They want to hear you. Oh, we should do that.

We should put a spoiler on my playlist. We should make a playlist. Okay. So every episode, we should have a playlist. There needs to be some texture to it all. More texture. Some texture. You'd write,

all you say was German. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I feel like, but I feel like over three songs, we can build it up. I think,

well, we probably won't mention Rio McCoy again in this episode. No. Like, what is real McCoy? Okay. Anyway, I'm really disappointed in Toronto,

over to John of Mike, treating you like this. This is inappropriate. Oh, I don't mind. No, I don't mind. You got the warning last time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because he's just, here's my three jams.

And I know he's got this. You shouldn't be giving this guy a warning about anything. He's a great part of the show. No, no, no, no. But there's no warnings to be had. No, he likes facts, though. There's got to be more than just I'm Rob Pruss from Spoons and Broadway. He doesn't say that.

We say that. That's who he is. Yeah. But there's got to be something about the songs he chooses. Sometimes it's, he did. Oh, I googled the song and this. I found this one. I never heard it before, but here's the song and that's it.

like he's there's got to be some there's got to be some meat on the bones sometimes there's no meat on the bones there's no meat to be had yeah there's no meat to be had but then pick a different fucking jam well pick a different fucking subject you're picking you're picking three songs yeah and there's no meat on the bone pick a different song no but I think the song speaks for themselves pick aqua there's going to be a lot of meat on that bone no all right over to bob we'll get back to rob all right I broke a rule right at the beginning hit it uh oh it's not it's not it's not European that means yep how dare you wait Now you're just trolling me.

No. Me? The only rule was 90s in Euro. No, this is a Euro dance track. I don't care what anybody says. I don't care where it's fucking from. I don't even recognize it yet. Oh, yeah, it sounds Euro.

It sounds Eurodance. Oh, yeah. That's the beat. No, that's absolutely the beat. This is... So Joey's not European? No, he's from fucking Toronto. Joey is Joey D. Simone.

Okay. And he is a staple of Z103.5. Really? Oh, they love... Euro! Tony Monaco, DJ Danny D. Right. This is my radio.

See, now we're cooking. Now, so... Even though it's in a Lingerbom. So this is... It is not at all. Like, if you want... This is a... I don't care where it's from.

This is a Euro dance track. This is a Euro dance track. This is... Joey came out in 98 and he is from Toronto. I think he's from Woodbridge. Go figure. He's Italian descent, Joey Di Simone.

You don't say. And I thought he's Maltese. He is... Tomato tomato. How dare you? I know. Joe Sini on line 2. So this came out, like I said, so, you know, he's our age. He's like born in 73.

This came out in, like I said, in 98, he had an album. He was nominated for Best Juno Award for Dance. He got the So Can Award for Best Dance Music in 2001. He's a universal music guy. It was at least distributed by them. It was a different album.

Was I for Hamilton distributing that? I bet you he was, actually. The thing about this is this is Toronto Eurodance. This is if you... Real Toronto. If you... Yeah, so Wednesdays is way back play Wednesdays on Z-103. And they have a club night.

I think it's Sugar Daddy's in Mississauga, and they have a Euro night. And if you listen to the Z 103 and you hear these guys going, Euro! Joey will come and play these houses, these parties. Still, he'll come sing it. Joey is a massive, he's up there with like Ricky, I can't remember his name, not. He is a...

Ricky Nelson. Yeah, Ricky Nelson. Rick Ears. No, Rick Dees. Ricky the Dragon Steamboat. Yes, Ricky the Dragon Steamboat loves Euro dance. With his Gila monster that he brought out with him. So he also did...

Camodo Drake. So I actually should have included this as a mind blow. But do you remember a dance cover of I just died in your arms tonight? Yes. By intonation, that's Joey. Okay, I didn't know that. See, I had no idea. And Joey's spelled J-O-E-E.

For everybody who's searching Joey. Yeah, and he would have played all of those summer hit festivals up at Canada's Wonderland that, oh yeah, Rihanna played there before she played anywhere else. Like, Z103s to do these huge concerts. And, yeah, this to me... And you worked for that company.

I did work for that company for almost nine years. Wow. I worked for that company. That's Evanoff Group. Yeah, Evanov Radio Group, who owned a Proud FM. On Dunnest, so we can drive over and see them. They're not far from here at all. Yeah, 427 in Dundas right there.

But, like, yeah, DJ Danny. Shut up at the Tobacco. Yeah. DJ Danny D is like the main stage. DJ there. Actually, I should do a little shout out to my friends there. I talked to them. One of those staff members passed away there. Very young, unexpectedly

Drew Soriano, DJ Drew passed away. Jeez. He was like our age. And he got sick and then got an infection and died. So, our, you know, Ridley funeral home. He was a really good. He was a really good guy and he would have played this music. DJ Drew's there. Yeah, he was

a great DJ. I ain't hearing this. Like, because my buddy very young guy, got meningitis. Yeah. And I died. And I I don't like that you could just get an infection. Yeah, that's staff infection or something. You don't come out. Yeah.

It was like a three-day thing. This guy was like, and he's got a little girl and a wife and, um, but he, I'm sorry for yelling at you, Rob. Life is short.

Life is short and I'm feeling okay though. Yeah. Rob fucking Proust. I'm feeling okay. Do you do whatever you want. Yeah. I'll be because I want something. Doesn't mean.

I'm not, I forgot. I am the boss around here. How old was he when he died though? Like who, Drew like, like, like 50.

He's got 20 years. Honestly, I don't even think he was 50. Really? Yeah, I think he was a little bit younger than me. I think he was like 48 or something. He just died a couple of... And Tony Monaco, that's, I think of him when I think of this music. Have you had Tony Monaco in here?

I invited him on. He politely declined. Okay, yeah. But I would love to have Atlanta gay in that seat. Lonagay. Tony Monaco in this seat. That would be a clash of worlds. And more a gurson.

Downtown Jane Brown is in the calendar. He's currently hosting Andy Wilson. He's the program director at 740 now. And he's also got the Humble and Fred tie. Well, he's got the Humble Ties. He didn't do Humble. He did. It was Humble Howard.

He produced Humble Howard on like boom and easy rock. Andy Wilson was, I think Andy Wilson. No, I know Andy Wilson was Fred Patterson student at Seneca College. And he came in as an intern. So he did work with Fred. Right. He was an intern with us. And you were the producer.

I was the producer of the show. And he's now the program director and the morning show host at 740. Curtis Bray, who. was my student at Seneca. He's now the co-hoy he's now the host with Melanie Martin on the oak, white oaks owned 97, 97, the

105.7 formerly Easy Rock. Right. Two former. And that's the one with the woman we can't remember her name. And Rick Hodge. Who I heard is unwell. Oh, Rick is? Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. See, now let's all get serious. And I'm sorry, Rob. Look at me

eyes. What? I feel I was too harsh. Leslie's happy to hear Bob to you. I just expect so much more for you because I know what you're capable of and I don't want to be left disappointed by you. But I think you should trust my level of, uh, trust you that there's nothing interesting with Rio McCoys. Yeah, really. And we're moving on. Okay. I mean, that's the level of interest. Well, you want me to kick out what I think is a staple of the 90s. Yeah. 3-1.5-7 is now. It used to be Easy Rock now. Gotcha. Okay. I love Easy Rock. All right. That's excellent. Joey. I learned I didn't even know what Joey was a

But I'm automatically disqualified. Well, he's not Euro. It's a good song. It's a good song. All right. Well, here's a Euro dance you can't argue with. Here we go. This is the rhythm of the night.

This is the ride. Lori Love. Lori Love. What a fake name. Fake is pink. Alicia is a real name. Alicia Pink. Alicia Pink.

She's married to a surfer, right? I thought you were single digit piano play. That's all it is. Okay, everybody. This is Corona. Yeah. Not the virus. And not the beer.

We only drink gray legs. Thank you, Gray Lakes, for sending over fresh crap beer for the toast crew on a Sunday morning. I love it. Corona. They're from Italy. This is a Italian group, Corona. Nice. Italy is in Europe.

I was just in Italy. I checked it. Oh, tell us about your trip. I was there two weeks ago. Were you? Yeah, for a week. It was unbelievable. Where in Italy did you go?

In Tuscany. Where in Tuscany? It was a little town called Palaia, which is sort of in between Pisa and it's like an hour from Florence. You're near the Chinquitara. Yes, I am. I don't know what that means. It's the five towns. It's amazing.

It's the touristy part of the... Well, when I show you a photo, you'll know it. Yeah, okay. Five towns, yeah. I was in Marina del Cantonone. Oh, wow. Well, that's actually south of the Chinquitara. But I stayed in Tuscany as well.

Did you? It's amazing. Right near where you're talking about. I love that tone. I actually know a little tone called Zamboca. No way. Wow. Zambuca.

So this is the Rhythm of the Night. It's the title track from their debut studio album, which is also called The Rhythm of the Night. Here is a bit of a mind blow for you. Okay, the singer you hear here. This voice, she's Italian singer Giovanna Bursola. And she goes by the stage name, Jenny B. Not Giovanna Bersola.

I would have kept that name, actually. But Giovanna Bursola, if you've seen the music video for the rhythm of the night, as it aired on Extendomix, you won't see her in the video. But not because they said, oh, you're not the look we're going for, like Martha Wash or whatever, we're going to hire a model. They put Olga Sousa as the front woman in the video because Giovanna Bersola suffered from extreme stage fright. She could not, she would not do this.

music video because of extreme stage fright. Okay? So, we're going back to 1994. This is a big hit everywhere. I won't bore you, but it went to number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. This is a huge hit. And here's a little bit of a fun mind blow for you. So I'm going to bring this down and play another Euro dance song.

So this song is called The Summer is Magic by Play a Hiddy. Okay, literally. That's the name of the band. Play-A-Hitty. Love that. And once again, the singer they hired for Play-A-Hitty is Giovanna Bursola. So this song is Jenny B. Jenny B, as she's known.

Okay? Well, here's where the controversy sets in, okay? So we'll bring down Play-A-Hitty, which is fun to say. Play-A-Hitty, okay? We're going to play a band called J-K, okay? Just kidding. An artist called J-K. This is called You and I.

Justin Kimberlake. Drink it in for a moment And I'll blow your mind This is on Much Music's Dance Mix 95 If it sounds familiar To me really? So J.K. is a woman named Marta Simlatte.

I believe she's Polish, okay? Marta Simlatte. It's all European here. Not a lot of pop music. You'll see her on the video. She's singing this. And then a huge milly-vanilly type controversy arose in 1996

where she was accused of not singing her own songs, okay? So Marta Simlat, they said, Oh, she's lip-sinking in live performances, and she's lip-sinking in the music videos. In fact, she doesn't even speak English, okay? And then it was revealed, the actual singer of this song was not JK.

Slash Marta Simlatte. It is the aforementioned. Jenny B. Jenny B. Giovanna Versola singing this song here. Millie Vanilli type controversy on JK single. You and I, which climbed to the top position on Canadian dance charts.

Okay. Got big airplane Europe as well. But I mentioned the Much Music connection. So a lot of us heard this song on Dance Mix 95, which was a very popular iteration of the Much Music franchise. Did you own any dance mixes, Bob Willett? Yes. Extendamix 92, I think, the very first one.

Yeah, that's a great one. I had, and then, yeah. Did that have walking in Memphis on it? Oh, I should find a dance remix of that. I should make me. Is this? I actually, I was actually just researching remixes of songs like a thousand miles by Vanessa Carlton and Stay by Lisa Loeb. Like those 90s, early 2000s female hit that people, that people love.

Like those songs, people, what inspired me was Drake was at a club and somebody was DJing. And they dropped a thousand miles, not even a remix. and Drake is out in front of the audience singing it with everybody. Yeah, and I was like, I think I need to play some of these on the electric ballroom. Anyhow. They're 25 years old.

They're great. I mean, I love Lisa Loeb. Her first album, her first two albums. Firecracker was the second one. The first one is Tales. Phenomenal albums. I find she's a wonderful musician. She's got a bunch of kids' music too.

Yeah, yeah. Her kids' music is great. Yeah, it is. Yeah. But yeah, I had a bunch of extended mixes. The problem is, as a DJ, they were hard to use because the other song would start to play.

100% right. As a DJ. Sort of like those Frosh mixes. Do you remember how the, because earlier you said Home for a rest. I remember, like, Home for Rest would leak into the next song. Like there'd be a moment.

Not on the Frosh CDs. Only because I don't only argue with you because I know I use them a lot. There was a fraud, you know what? There was a later Frosh one that was mixed. Okay. But the first Frosh one, Frosh two, and three had the beer cap on it,

I think. Yeah. But Frosh one and Frosh two. Yeah. Frosh 1 had girls and dancing queen and laid by James was track 17. You really? Lade comes when she's on top. Yeah. Laid by James was track 17.

Because I played that song so much. I remember it. I had that CD too because it was a bunch of bangers. Oh, Froshes were amazing who put those together. Right. Oh, the SPG guys here in Toronto, they did a bunch of remix stuff that actually would fall into this category. They have a bunch of Euro stuff.

But SPG did a bunch of things with like, Real to Real and other Euro bands. I like to move it, move it. That's a big one. Okay. So last line, last word before we pass the baton back to the legendary Rob Pruse, FOTM Hall of Famer, Rob Pruse, who hopefully is an upset. We need to get like a trophy. You need a trophy person on board.

No, so you can put the names of people like on it. Like you should have it in here. Like a wall of excellence. Yeah, like a wall of excellence. You know, Roberto Alamar goes right here. That's right. that wall of excellence. Wall of spitting.

Do you know the name Roberto Alamar, Rob Proust? He's a baseball player. But do you know anything more than that? Like, do you know what team he played for? Not one thing. That's the taste. George Carlin used to make a joke about Roberto Alamar. No, that was Roberto Plemente.

He's got two balls on him. He's got two balls on him. He's got two balls on him. Really? Which was a big number in baseball world. I'm glad you knew. On the last day of his... I think he heard his balls on that play, Tony.

He's got two balls. I have Carlin's album memorized. That's right. The last game of the season, he hit his 3,000th hit. And then that offseason, he was flying supplies back to, I think to Puerto Rico, but to his homeland. And the plane went down. And he was flying the plane? No, but he was in a plane.

I don't think he was flying in a plane to deliver some food and stuff to his homeland. And that plane crashed. Roberto Clemente died that off season. So he was still an active player, but he had just hit his 3,000th hit. Roberto Clemente has two balls on him. That's okay, but you can't say, I think he heard his balls on that play, Tony. Right. Last line, and then, Rob, you're taking us with another Euro dance track. Giovanna Bursola is no longer suffering from stage fright, and she now lives in New Zealand.

Over to you, Rob Prud. Oh. Jenny B. This is the rhythm of the night. My next jam, I'll need a judge's call on it because maybe it's not Eurodance, but it's dance and it's Euro. And it's 90s? Oh, yeah. Okay. Let's listen.

What judge, by the way, Bob kicked out a Toronto jam. See, it's a little off center. Yeah, I know. It's true. It is actually way too cool. I need a little break, though, from like trying to pick songs. I was like, fuck it, I love this song. You were just told you didn't try hard enough. Yeah.

Oh, I didn't because I love the song. Well, we'll hear what he has to say about that punk. The robots. They're playing at my house. This was the song that inspired LCD sound system. What's his name, James? Yeah, which is a song. That whole strokes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Exactly. Even metric tries to get in on that action. Who I'm seeing next week? Where? Oh, they're playing. Oh, that's a Star show. Stars metric, broken social scene. Great lineup.

I have a lawn ticket in my position. Amazing. All right, Daph Punk. I'll get on the guest list. This is 1997, so it's sort of post-year-Gas. They'll sell my ticket. What? Bob's getting on the guest list with this concert.

I have a ticket for it. And I'm saying, put me on. He'll sell it. And I'll sell my ticket. Apparently, they say this phrase 144 times in the song. Oh, cool. Because it's the only thing they say. I don't think this is Eurodance.

I don't think it's like, it's like, Electoral. Yeah, I know. After I submitted it, I was like, I don't think it's really Eurodance. But it's European and it's dance. So it is sort of... And what country are they from?

They're from France. I come from France. I come from France. And Michelle Gondry directed the video, and I'm sure you remembered the video. Because it was super cool at the time. The dog. With the dogs and the skeletons and all the things.

And it was like, why do I think that's a different video? Oh, sorry. Oh, no, the dog. You're right. The dog is defunct. Sorry. But that is a great video. That is a great video.

That video is find the book. My bad. He gets on the bus. And at that time, like in the late 90s, I had this DVD of their like four videos or or whatever. And I just thought they were so cool. It was like they were like sort of marketing this dance genre that was sort of, it wasn't new, but it was unique for them because it was this French sound coming in,

right? Which I thought was pretty cool. And they did that song stronger, faster or faster. Exactly. That went that Kanye sample. Yeah. And to me, like, they had such a resurgence in 2013, right? With, what was the song?

Oh, with Farrell William. Oh, they... Like, lucky. With my friend now. Memories is that album, I think. It's like, oh, no, yeah. Random memories. Random access memories.

Yeah. Yeah, that was a big hit. But to me... I had the vinyl and I've lost it. Really? I think I gave it to somebody. Oh, it's right here in my studio. Yeah.

No, like in a drunken stage. It's like, yeah, here have it. Now it's worth like $150 bucks. Crazy. So, yeah, this, this was the number one dance hit around the world. Around the world, around the world. Yeah, catchy A.F. It is, you know, so technically, speaking, it is a dance track that is from Europe and it's from the 90s.

But it's not that. But it is not the genre in which Mike was looking for. No. But you, I know. But your next jam does, because that's why all three of us put it in. We're going to have a big finale. We're cooking. I'm looking at the future jams coming up.

All these staples are coming up. Yeah, yeah. So play my second track. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So, again, it was like I liked to try to find an acoustic version and just sort of like show you with, like, technical music kind of sounds cool when it's real people playing it too. Oh yeah.

Now you know what it sounds just like? Now it sounds more like Get Lucky, doesn't it? With real people playing? Sounds like something else too. Yeah, this is some band called... It sounds like Sheik. We all sounds like Sheik, which also sounds like Nile playing on Get Lucky. Yeah, yeah.

We're up on that to get lucky. We're up on that to get lucky. I keep sending Rob Proust's Instagram videos of Nile and different things. I'm like, I can't believe you worked with this guy. I know. It's crazy. This is something called Tucan. I couldn't find any information on them.

I just like the fact that they're like string bass and acoustic guitars. Sounds almost like a flamingo band. I know, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. But it's neat to hear dance music done in a different style. I agree with you 100%. I like that a lot.

You need to shake it up. No lyrics in this one. Not any. Not even one. We could write lyrics for it. There's an absolute arena rock banger coming up from Bob Walette here. Like, I don't think you could even, even in 2026. I don't think you can go to a hockey arena without this one.

This is huge. Really? Like this is huge Do you want me to just go into it? Just hit it Yeah yeah We'll talk about it after My notes

I've lost of my notes You didn't memorize your notes Bob Hey Okay so yeah We've moved my last one up Okay so no I did my mind blow here

For this too right Yeah Although now that I think about it Two other songs by this band Are played in arenas more than this one Yeah but this is the best one I think That's three hits

They have three hits Yeah for sure Three big hits Who is it? They're called Too Unlimited. Oh, this is too unlimited. And here's the template. We got a rapper there.

Yeah, for sure. So this is, you know, when you think of, you know, little differences between Europe and here. They put mayonnaise on our ketchup? I see them, man. They fucking drown them in that shit. Belgian. It's a Belgian Dutch duo.

Yes. Yes. You know, in Amsterdam, you can buy a beer at McDonald's. You can now do that here, though. No, I know. Yes. It's true. I don't talk about no paper cup of beer.

I'm talking about a glass of beer. Literally yesterday. No, yesterday there was some non-tangent. Somebody asked me something. I had no idea. I definitely said yesterday, maybe to Monica, maybe to one of the kids, I can't remember. I said, I don't know.

I didn't go to Burger King. I don't know. That's a major part of my lexicon. When somebody asked me something, I have no idea. I don't know. I didn't go to Burger King. This is Pulp Fiction Lines. Yes.

It's like, I don't know. I got the metric system, man. They don't know what the fuck a quarter pounder is. Royale with cheese. Royal cheese. I have that whole scene memories. The whole foot rub talk comes in that. I just watched it.

I just watched Pulpfish in the other day. I needed some comfort food and I watched... The posters around the corner. I have the same poster. I have it framed. It's my favorite movie ever. Mia Wallace. So, this is Mia Wallace.

Who young Jarvis thought Mia Wallace looked like Mommy. Oh. Same haircut? Yeah. They just thought that was Mommy. Speaking of Ethan Hawke. We talked about how he directed the video for Lisa. Hello. That's right. And he is married to

Uma Thurman and they have their daughter, Maya Hawk. Who seems really cool. Yeah. I saw her on I was on Amy Poller's podcast. She seems super cool. I met her when she was like four years old. Who? Uh, uh, Maya. Maya. Yeah. I was in a Tibetan restaurant downtown in New York and Ethan Hawk was in the next room

like with his family. And they were leaving. Yeah. And she came and sat with me. His kids were like, like, I was sitting at a table and like, just randomly. Yeah, just randomly. They like started talking and I was like, oh. And they were like, and they like, and they were like, and they like, Brush of greatness. It was a brush of greatness. It was for them. But it was Ethan,

and of course all these years later, they thought that was Maya because she was a little fucking old. Yeah. Oh, that's so cool. So this is a Dutch rapper, Ray Slingingard. And the vocalist is Anita Doth.

And it was, the producers, though, are, so it's four people, really, because the producers are Jean-Bald de Costa and Phil Wilde. And they're from Belgium. But the singers are Dutch. They have, get,

y'all ready for this? I actually pulled it Just because Oh did you Okay yeah Yeah Because it's really the Like there is no

Twilight zone But I wanted you to do Yeah so he's gonna play You're gonna play that one now I'll play it Oh I can play it now sure Yeah play it now Yeah so that's their biggest

I know this one I know yeah sure Even as you say it I know it Ladies and gentlemen Please Welcome the Toronto Maple Leafs I hit the post

And this song was everywhere Oh yeah Now, as a keys guy, how do you create that sound? Like, is that built into the thing you bought? Oh, yeah, that's just the sin. That's just the sin. They're not doing anything else to it. That's just a straight ahead sin.

Yeah. That is on like a, what, like a... It's called like dance. Like, it's such generic. Yeah. And it's worth noting, I think the song you hear the most at arenas isn't even this one anymore. It's no limits.

Which is, yeah, another third one. Also too unlimited. Yes, all three of them. Jeez. That's crazy. That's three. Yeah, you're scoring at home. Oh yeah, you want to do your bonus?

So then another, so, well, yeah, just play this next one. Test your mind. Test your mind. So this is a song called Techno Syndrome by the Immortals, which is Oliver Adams. But he got sued by two Unlimited. Wow. Because this is actually from the Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack.

And he says, no, no, it's just coincidental. What do you think as a musician? Too similar? Is it too similar, or is it just part of the sound? It's part of the sound. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They didn't win. Really?

Yeah, they didn't win. He got away with it. Good. Yeah, because it's not that similar. Not got away with it, yeah. Well, that template doesn't leave a lot. Well, this is not a template. But there's no rap on this one.

No, there's no rap. And there's no vocals, really. It's the Just the sample. Mortal Kombat sample. Yeah. Anyhow. So, yeah, that was my mind blow.

Did you guys play Mortal Kombat? I love Mortal Kombat 2 on the Sega Genesis. Okay. Oh. Finish him. No, it's finish him. And Toasty. Baraka, the guy who would cut your head off was the finisher.

Oh, yeah. Raiden, the guy who could go, oh, I played a lot of Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat 2, specifically. Then I got to Mortal Kombat 3. It was too hard for me. That wasn't very good. Are you ready for an absolute banger?

Let's do it. Pop that on the mic there. I love this. Okay, here is a maybe one of the great Euro dance tracks from the 1990s here. Pretend you're on the dance floor right now.

What would they have been taking then? Was it? E? Would have been E? Not an MDMA. It was called it. Let me ask Scott Turner what they were taking. Yeah, there you go.

Culture Beat is the name of this group. Nice. German. German. No one who speaks German could be bad. Nine. Oh, here's the rapper. Hold on me. The song that Rob Proust is going to kick out next is essentially sets the template.

Does it really? Oh, yeah, absolutely. That's why we all three picked it. It really does set up the template. And this group fits right into that template, like paint by numbers here. Oh, yeah. So the rapper, the rapper is American for what it's worth. They had to go get an American to do that.

And this light keeps changing. Yeah, really funny. I know. It's on autopilot. Everything's fucked up down here. Okay. Jay Supreme is this rapper, but the singer is British. She was recruited by this German DJ group.

And her name is Tanya Evans. Okay, remember that name. Tanya Evans. She was a backup singer for Nina Cherry. Oh, wow. Absolutely. Okay. So it's all German.

Even the lyrics are written by a German songwriter, and you got your DJ putting these beats together. Band's called Culture Beat. Here's another culture beat while we're doing Culture Beat. One more Culture Beat. There you go. Got to Get It, another hit by Culture Beat. Yeah.

That was a hit. Like Top 40, Canada? Well, I've heard it, and I'm not a deep Euro dance guy. I just curious. I don't know. I don't know it. I heard this on Electric Circus. Monica Diol.

Yeah. They all sound the same. That's why they're all good. If you like it, you love it. If you like, that's true, that's a good point. No, you're 100% right.

They all have a similarity with that temp, because they all fall at this template. So there's only so many, you know, you get your beat. Yeah. You got your woman singer, that's Tanya Evans, who also just quickly one more culture beat. Hold on here. Now see, this is.

Now you're watching electric circus. Oh, this is Robin S. That sound. Yeah. You're right. Yeah, that's different. Let's let it cook of it. Oh, yeah.

I could mix this together with Robin S. Really? Oh, yeah. Well, this song is called Take Me Away. Oh, I know this. Yeah. Culture beat. I'm excited for our last jam.

I'm in here. Rob Proust is now dancing in the basement. There you go. I can't control it. I can't conceal it. I can't conceal it. Okay. So you're going to, I don't know if you have any words before I kick out, but this is a significant.

I think this is a very significant jam. You're about to kick out here, Rob Proust. Well, it is significant, but I'm actually interested also that they had a hit before this one that was also. Oh, yeah, but don't go too deep on that. I won't. Because we've got some things to talk about with that. Yeah, I know. We've been working behind the scenes here.

Because we all picked it. Okay. I picked last. We had to pivot. So we pivoted. So we pivoted and we've got some things. Okay, good. Hit it then.

Not quite Chuck D, is it? Do you know public enemy is opening for guns and roses? Yeah, I do know that. No way. Here in Toronto. There you go. Two of my key bands in the late 80s. All right.

Any words before I kick out the banger to end all 90s Euro dance banger? It's got the other one better. Yeah. I do too. But hit it. Wait, which one do you like better? The one that you're going to do? I know the words to that one.

That is. But let's do this one. We have to talk about this band. You ready? Yeah, yeah. You ready? I can't hear you. Raw proofs.

Are you ready? I'm ready. Hit it. Is that the same song? It's literally. No, I know. As I hear them all back to back to back. Where the other one's not in that.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Right, right, right. That's why I didn't make it. To be discussed. But there is no culture. Call him, Mr. Vane. There is no mystery.

Call him insane. Call him insane. Am I wrong? You're 100% of it. right. There is no culture beats Mr. Vane without... Rhythm is a dancer. It's from 1992. Like, it's the earliest era.

I actually, I'm going to close my argument for the origin. Okay. Which is not this band. Give it. Yeah, yeah. Oh, really? But I'm not up yet. You think you have the OG? I think so. Really? I like it. I have spent hours in the Eurodance universe.

Oh, my God. Oh, I don't know. That's why you're so angry. I know. You worked hard. Only angry at Rob Proust, like everybody else. Really? Yeah. Rob, you're ready to hit us with the fun facts in the mindlaws? The BPM's a little slower on this.

I don't know what it is, but it's like, is it 120? It's, yeah, it's about, yeah, where the other ones are probably a buck 25. Really? Even faster. Oh, yeah, I think, I think Corona's like, this is a ballad. I think rhythm of the night is probably about 123, 124, and this is probably 120. This is the rhythm of the night. I think, yeah, this is great. I mean, this song is amazing, really.

It's a band called Snap. Is there an exclamation? There's an exclamation. Without the exclamation, it's a different band. It's true. Just snap. Or a question mark. That's the band I hope.

Snap. Snap. Rhythm is a nation. Rhythm is a dance. Rhythm is a nation. That's a Janet Jackson. Here's the rap. Hold on.

Here's the rap. Did they have to bring an American in for the rap or did they have a European to it? He's an American. It's funny how they have to import that rap. Yeah, you get that voice. That was not the rapper, though, right? I found this on the wiki that that's the, engineer doing the little speech.

Oh, that's not the rapper. That's a fun fact. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, he did his research. See, Rob, you're redeeming yourself. So fucking mean. I open Wikipedia. So mean.

I'm a benevolent dictator. Oh, not the rap yet. No, I'll bring it up for the rap. But tell us what you know about Snap. Like, what country are we from? So they're from Germany. Germany. Yeah.

That's in Europe. Again. But apparently the label of what didn't want this to be a single and then they tested it in a club and they freaked out and they like loved it so much that then the rapper of the band whose name was Turbo B. Yeah. Right. And he's like,

okay, I'll do a wrap on this. He was American, actually, though. Yeah. Are you Arnold Schwarzenegger there? Yeah, Austrian, same thing.

So is Hitler. It's a fun fact. She was an artist, that's a fun fact. You just said that they tested it in a club. Yeah. I just, I was listening to Questlove's podcast.

Yeah. He had Barry Manilow on. Oh, I have to watch. And, yeah. And he said that Copacana wasn't supposed to be a hit. They didn't think it was going to be a hit, but they played it in the club.

And people went, nuts to it. And then they said, we got to put some money behind this. And it became his biggest song. I think Questlove is behind the Earthwind and Fire document. He is. He directed it. I believe that. Yeah. Yep. There you go. This is the rap? Or is this the engineer again? I think it's the engineer.

Oh, it is. Yes. He's speechifying. This is downright slow compared to like the other ones. But it's, I mean, it's one of the OGs, right? But not the OG. You have a bonus jam. It's just another acoustic one. It's not so interesting. I like that. You do that, though.

This one, I like it. I'm not saying don't do that. Okay. Yeah, you can play it if you want. I feel like I got a... Getting a bad rep from this... Being mean to Rob Proust is not good for your... No, no, no, no.

Good for your vibe. Yeah, dig it. It's not good for your name. So this is just a band playing it, but to me it almost sounds like simple minds or something. Like, it's just cool to hear real people playing the music game. This is a live version? No, it's just a band.

Some other band. Oh, covering it. Yeah, yeah. But you're saying it sounds bigger. Yeah. And they're Scottish. So there are Eurodance. Simple Minds.

That's true. That's right. Now it just sounds like a wedding band. Who sings this hook in the... Remind me. Her name is Thea Austin. And she was not the singer on their first hit, which was their first big hit.

We'll talk about later. Later in like two minutes. So you can tell listening to this woman how good Sia is. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. I have one mind blow for this track.

For his track. For the real one? Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, well, play it. And because the mind blow doesn't make any sense. Oh, yeah. Yes, yes. Okay. Yeah. It doesn't make any sense, but it's a bit of a, it's a bit of a stretch, but so here's a mind blow.

I heard this acoustic yesterday on CF and Y. Oh, really? Yeah. This is Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. And do you know how these two songs are related? Just wait. Well, okay. They are related in a way. Yeah. They're both songs. They're both songs and both the videos are directed by the same guy. Oh, no way. And that's a wild video for Black. Yeah. So Howard Greenlaw, Green, a Green, huh? Yeah. He's British. This guy has directed some amazing videos. I love this song.

So, yeah, you kidding me? He actually, Canadian, he directed Devil on My Shoulder, Billy Talent. He has directed Iron Maiden. He's directed AHA, Analog from 2006, which nobody knows. Other videos and people that would respond to stuff here because of who this show is. Placebo. He did Lisa Stansfield.

Around the world? Not around the world. world, no, he did the other hit, which not necessarily a hit. Yeah. I was a hit. I would say, hang on, where is it? I have it right here. Oh, no, sorry, not Lisa. He did do Lisa Stansfield, not all around the world. No, he did, that's the way of the world.

Kathy Dennis. And placebo was it pure morning? Yes. That's the big one. He did So Alive by Love and Rockets. I love that video. He directed that video. Holy shit. Yeah, this guy's done a lot. What else did he do that we would like? Rush by Big Audio Dynamite. That's a great one too.

Yeah. This guy's done some amazing videos, right? What else is The rhythm is a dancer The video, this. That's amazing. Yeah, this guy's directed a ton Oh, go west by the Petschop Boys. Really?

Yes, in 1993. Wow. Yeah, so, I mean, it's a bit of a stretch for a mind blow, but. No, I like that. The video connection. Yeah.

Made in England by Elton John. That video. Really? Yeah. It's a good video. Is it a good video? Yeah. Jesus to a child, George Michael.

Wow. Oh, my God. This guy's directed a ton of stuff. Yeah. Crazy, eh? Yeah. Anyways, he's from, he's English. Wow.

He's from Halifax, England. Halifax West Riding of Yorkshire, England. His name is Howard Greenhall. Wow. Yeah. There you go. That mop up on the live stream,

that VP points out that, that remix of Walking in Memphis that I remember from a dance mix or something, was called Walking in Memphis, I'm raving, I'm raving, and it was used as the theme of FOTM cast earlier this year. Wow.

So there's an FOTM cast for that version that we were trained to. I haven't heard it. And just to fact check myself, So I mentioned Roberto Comente was delivering aid to his homeland. It wasn't his homeland, I don't think. It was Nicaragua. Oh, why? But then, because there was an earthquake in Nicaragua.

So he gets his 3,000th hit. I think it's last that bad at the season. But he was going to play another season. There wasn't a lot of pressure to get to 3,000 there. But he got to 3,000, and then he died that off season in a plane crash. That's crazy. Jeremy Hopkins says, well, Mike's going all Mysterion on. We started that off.

That's right. That's right. Geez, okay. And yeah, just yesterday I was in the car, and I heard a acoustic version by Chris Cornell of this very Soundgarden song. Wow. On the radio.

He also directed New York City Boy by the Pet Shop Boys that direct that video. This guy's pretty great. Sorry. He's the next biggest director to Spike Jones and all his great videos. What about, is it Master X or something? X is a Toronto-based video director who's amazing.

Right. And then there's a woman who did What's her name? She's Canadian too. I think she did Marilyn Manson's Beautiful People. Oh, yes. Yes.

Is she Canadian? I know. And she also did temptation by the Tea Party. Yeah, she is. I can't remember really. She's phenomenal as well. Or she was.

I don't know if she does it anymore. Any of it. All right. I'm going to roll right into. The other one. This is tied into your jam. So, yeah. So I had yours picked as well.

I much prefer this song by that band. I think we all do. I agree. So we'll sing along to it. It doesn't actually fit in. I forgot it was the same band, actually. Yeah. Yeah, because I can see it.

I think I know what you're going to pick for your OG one. Really? I do. Hold that fire. I'm going to guess. Write it down like Mysterion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you can say.

But listen, you can trace the sound of the genre because this is still a little milly-vanilly with that beat, right? Oh, this is new jack swing sound. Yeah. Yeah. This is that like Jimmy Jam, Terry Todd, that. But this. Yeah.

And it's worth noting, like, we're talking 90s. This is January in 1990. Yeah. Yeah. It was very early. So on the edge. Yeah. Was it?

But it's actually, I got stuff on this. Oh yeah. I'm excited. This is a big one for me. So this is actually, this was I originally put together in 88. I'm sure. Because I remember in 88 a lot of this kind of new jacks up.

The producers, I got to, there's a whole, you could do a whole show on, we could do an entire show on this song. Yeah. Let's do it. There's a,

what are you guys doing tomorrow? Deep dive. You, there's a, there's a medium article on it. Yeah. It's amazing. Wow. Love me some Turbo B.

Yes. That's the guy who's doing me. How can we had a Jenny B? I know. And now we have Turbo B. They should go together. Yeah. I'm the lyric.

You're Mike B. You're Mike B. Mike B on the mic. And I'm Bingo B. That's right. I'm Rob B. Of the mic, Rofone that I am holding.

Copywritten lyrics so they can't be stolen that they all snap. So good. So peace. Stay off my back. Or I will attack and you don't want that. Yeah, absolutely.

So good. Yeah. Yeah, this is the best song we've listened to today. I think. No mine. What's that? They're still yours. I'm teasing.

Eurodance group Snap! Featuring rapper TurboB and American singer Penny Ford. Penny Ford. So this comes out that day. It's from World Power is the album. However, this song is not without its controversy. Okay.

There's tons of controversy because they sampled, well, they stole a bunch of, of stuff from this guy named Chill Rob G. And Chill Rob G is the guy who goes, it's getting, it's getting, it's getting, it's getting, it's getting, it's getting, it's getting, and he's like a well-known New York City rapper, and he takes them to court because they're basically, so he, so what he does, they take it from another song. And what he does is he releases their song with him rapping on it.

And so there's two versions out there. You can get the Snap version or the Chill Rob G, the power version. Yes. I'll send you the link to the Medium article. It's, I remember this happening. I do too. Yes. I remember this happening.

The two versions. Yes. And you're like, sort of like, whoop there it is and whoop there it is. Yeah, that's right. Weird. Two versions.

Yeah. So the album, or the, uh, there's an article on Medium. com called, it's a B-Side called King of the Beats. The Hook is the A A A Acapell is the Acapelle. version of Jocelyn Brown's 1985 single Love's gonna get you. Wow. And the entire Acapella Rap is Chill Rob G's

let the words flow. Wow. So they actually just mash, they didn't call them mashups then. It was just like a mega mix or whatever they did. And they put some guitars, some ambient keyboard, a Russian advertisement for a computer system that was designed for the visually impaired was a horn they stole from it.

Like, it's crazy what they did to make it. which is so creative, I think. But that's the way all rap stuff was made in those days, right? Yes, it was. You were just thinking stuff. You were looping things, yeah. But these are German guys doing it. They're not, like, doing it in the corner of Harlem or anything.

Yeah. So, yeah, New Jersey's Chill Rob G who released Let the Words Flow as a B-side to his second single. Wow. The court is now in session. And they stole it. And so he got, so what he did was, he goes, I don't even, what did he say? I don't even want to use that police record. Hang on, I'm going to read this one more time.

I just want to make sure I have this right. When I rhymed, these two guys in Germany working in a basement got a hold of my record. I told Mark, hey, if we keep putting acopalas on these records, somebody's going to steal them. Because when you would buy a 12-inch, you'd get an instrumental, you'd get an acapella.

So the DJs could do stuff with it. But people started stealing it. And that's what happened to this guy. Your phone, dead a, M. Holden. Anyhow, it's amazing. Okay, well, listen, I also did that same deep dive. So I pulled the OG jams if you want to hear. Oh, yeah, let's hear them for sure.

Yeah, yeah. Did you find this article, the medium thing? It's really good. So this is Chill Rob G. Oh, wow. And the song here is called Let the Words Flow. Sounds familiar? It's kidding.

But he stole that, too. Like that, that's... Oh, show it, free base it, pour it in a class, drink it, chase it, then. Chill, flex. feel the full effect. The impact is similar to a train wrecked with me when the beat is more high than the MC.

Because what he's saying is empty. No, boy, without substance of content, you need to slow your speech, stop the nonsense. These are the words of the rise and some, surprising, some, who thought I was just another humdrum. Average size non-MC, who found the mic and thought you were tight, nah, that's not me. I'll take a page, write a phrase and rephrase it.

Treat it like a national flag and upraise it. So a nation of people can feel proud. So what year did this come out? I'm not 100% sure I have to Google it, but let the words flow. Let's find out what to know. And also that the guitar is from the police. Yeah, it's the police. Yeah, right?

1989. Yeah. Okay, here's another one, though. This is the other one here. Hold on here. I found this interesting. This is good mix. This song is called Let It Roll.

This is Jocelyn. Oh, no, that's Love's gonna get you. Yeah, right. This is called Let It's Red It Roll. I've written down what I think his final song will be. Really? Yeah. Put it on the table.

We'll do a mystery. Your favorite magician. You think? Just given what, and it's like three years before things. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but. Here's a more interesting one. This is Love's going to get you by Jocelyn Brown. I might have to skip ahead a bit.

She can probably guess what. from the power by snap. Oh, he's got two. I got two. They're basically the same title. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Okay, once we get to this hook, I'll wrap us up here.

Who's picking the category this week? Is it you, Bob? I think I am. And I have an idea. For August? Yeah. It's 85, right? So 85.

This is? Yeah. Right? Yeah. 1985. Yeah. Bob is correct. The drive of 85.

Okay. Thank you, Jocelyn. You're amazing. You got to look up that art. It gives you the whole breakdown of this thing. It's so cool. I will. I will, absolutely.

Chill Rob G. There you go. Chill Robb. Did you find the Chill Rob G version of it? Oh. You didn't play that yet. It's okay. Don't worry about it.

It's fine. Yeah, well, we played that first one, which was Chill Rob G. It's like those breakdowns. No, the first one was Snap. No, like we played. We played the rap version. But you didn't play the Chill Rob G version of the power.

I'm going to... There is a chill Rob G version of the power. Oh, this is the original. Snap? This is Snap. I want to rock the mic. I want to rock right now. I'm our bass and I came to get down.

So this is 90s Euro dance. I'm going to close with a song that doesn't quite qualify. 1987's pump up the volume by Mars. No? No. Pump up the jam by Technotronic. Ah! Snap!

Second guess. It was. Second guess, but still. I knew it. Wow. 1989. I think this is where it all, I think this is the O-Gieger.

We're going to get into it. You're going to get into it. See, I think you could, I think you could draw it all the way back to pump, because they're British. Yeah, I like the, Max. So this is Belgium.

Belgian Act, Technotronic. This is a good song, too. I agree. It's a good song. Okay, so this is Technotronic. They are Belgian. This is their first album, and this is from 1989, so it was released in August 89. Not quite the 90s, but a lot of these things kind of percolate before the actual decade begins.

But huge hit, we all heard Pump Up the Jam Everywhere. The voice you hear right now belongs to Ya Kid K. But there was a little controversy because when the popular video for this song hit MTV and much music, you saw a model named Felli Kalimji. They do it again to them? Jesus Christ. She's lip-sinking in this video.

Wow. You don't see Ya Kid K in this first video, the big video you've seen. The video, by the way, if anybody watched Kunk on Life, does that mean anything to you?

Yeah, she's hilarious. Yeah. She would often, like, they'd break into the video for Pump Up the Jam. No, she's hilarious. Yeah, she's very good. She's very good.

I shot on some Ricky Jervais show. Yeah. before I saw Kunk on Life But yeah She's very good Yeah

We got to find out If Rob Proust has ever seen Kunk Oh I think he'd be right up his alley He likes that dry Kunk on Earth That dry Like Euro

English In Europe In English Oh yeah So the original one was called Kunk on Earth And then there was Kunk on life

There was 2020 was Kunk on Earth Okay Phileamina Kunk Is the name She went fine She played this here

Here So Ya K K who of course is Congolese Belgian Wow Of course you say

I know everybody knows that Replaced in the video by the And the rapper you hear is actually from Wales His name is M.C. Eric Which is Also known as Eric Martin He's from Wales But at least we're still in

Here he's sitting in a pub in Wales right now I was in Technotronic I wouldn't shut up about it No, I know. So another song that was from the 90s, people, well, there's a lot of big hits from Technotronic, but I did pull this one because I think is significant before we say goodbye. I think Technotronic, unsung heroes of the genre.

Like they're there at the onset. Yeah, and there's a number of big hits. No, Technotronics big. There's a whole bunch of big hits. Yep. This had to be on a much music, CD or two. Get up on your feet. Much dance.

Get up. Get up. Get down to the beat. Pump is jump and jam. Kid K. Yeah. Busy do it. Get up and do that body.

I remember this. Good one. Big Jam. Get up before that. This is a parentheses jam. So this is Yaw Kid K's first time in a music video with Dictatronic. So she got to be seen doing her part. Did she dress like a fly girl from?

Yeah. Like a TLC in the early days. I'm thinking like fly girl from in living color. You know, like big. Ain't too proud to beg. Big loose pants. And yeah. Really tight.

Really tight slick. back hair. 100%. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%. Another big hit by Technotronic, I won't play it, was called Move This.

Yes. Come on, move this. You know what? I think we've identified the top two bands. Yes. Maybe three. Snap and,

Oh no, yeah, I'm going to say Snap. Technotronic. And then the other one, although their songs is rhythm of the night people, the Corona or whatever. I think we skipped. I think if you're going to Hansen a band,

the Hanson band, I believe, is Aqua. Because Aqua had a whole bunch of I think they're poppier than Eurodance. For me, that's why I didn't think of them. I wouldn't have called, I think they had way too much mainstream, like all these guys did too, but. Just last fun fact on our way out here.

You two have been great rock. I'm sorry. Yacht Kid K was not just doing Technotronic stuff. Yacht Kid K stepped out on Technotronic and provided vocals for this jam that I quite enjoyed. It was attributed to a band called High Tech 3.

Any term is all right When your DJ plays the king You will listen to what the kid has to say Because you know it's too damn straight Can't wait Got to get on down before it's too late And even it's somewhere with your ear drum They can feel it

I'm talking about the real deal I'm gonna make you feel Yo DJ Spin that wheel This is from teenage mutant ninja turtles Oh god really Yeah I much prefer Go Ninja Go Ninja Go

Ninja Go Ninja Go Secret of views There you go this was the big song from the first teenage meaning TMNT movie and the band High Tech 3 only released one single ever and this is it. Spin that wheel.

So I think we've covered 90s Euro dance and I think it's fairly shallow as a pool. I don't think there will be a sequel episode. No, no. There's nowhere else to go with this, right? No, I think we're good. I think we got it. But it had its moment. It did. And it was in the atmosphere and once in a while we've got to pull these out of the atmosphere and dive into them.

I'm going to take your advice for our next, because I'm going to do something that I hate. Leave your comfort zone. I'm going to pick something that I hate. I love that. I love that. Yeah. No, no, do you want to know what it is? Are we ready to choose?

I also want to do a couple shoutouts. Okay. So Bob Olet. Morning's show host on Indy 88, following in the footsteps of his former mentors, Humble Howard Glassman and Fred Patterson from the Humble and Fred show

Give your shoutouts And also let us know What will be the topic for August? I want to show... First of all, thank you both, as always, always fun. I want to shout out Adidas for the new Terry Fox. I bought these, but the new Terry Fox Throwbacks.

Wow. I bought, I went to... The money goes to, if you can still get them, money goes to Canadian cancer research. No way. Yes, Terry Fox. It says Terry Fox on the side. Can I pick up on that to tell you

the new documentary Run Terry Run, which I've seen at Roy Thompson Hall, produced by 929, 299 Queen Street West director, Sean Minard. Oh, wow. And you said it's great. You can't see 299 Queen Street West. No, I know. But you can see you run Terry Run.

I saw it at, I got invited to a premiere. The TSO played the score live. Oh, amazing. It was actually, and it was a great doc. I believe, I think I read this, I hope I got this fucking fact, right? I believe you can see Run Terry Run at Tiff.

Oh, at the Bell Tiff Life Box? And I remember Sean really wanted 299 Queen Street West and Tiff declined. And then that's why he rented Roy Thompson Hall

to debut it. Right, wow. Because he was like, fuck you Tiff. But he's now got a doc in Tiff. Amazing. And it's great.

And it's about Terry Fox and you'll love it. These shoes, I don't know if I can get it on the screen or not. They're actually like they're reproses of what he wore. Everything.

It's the old school, the old school 80s style. Did you get them online or in a school? I got them online. Did you? You can go, you can Google Terry Fox Adidas. They're 150 bucks Canadian. And I had no problem spending it because of the portion of the money goes to cancer research in Canada. I'm told that's what they said. And actually it was funny. I learned about it from Adam Ricard. He he did a break on it and he goes, I feel like this is right up Bob's Alley. Right. Because I love Toronto. I love Canada. I talk about Canada and Toronto so much.

Right away. I did. And. I want them. I love them. Okay. Shout out to Adida. Adidas. From Germany. Yes.

Do you know what it stands for though? All day I dream about sport. The brothers. Adi something. The two brothers. No, it's the whole day I dream about sport is what they'll say. Okay.

It's two brothers names in Germany. You started it. Adida. And they had a huge fight. Yeah. And one of the brothers said, fuck you and started Puma. Puma.

Puma. Puma. Puma. Oh, I didn't know that. I didn't know that. That's Puma is born out of the ashes of the breakup of the brothers. Adida was their two names merged.

All day I dream about soccer. All day I dream about soccer. All day I dream both. This is a great song by Corrin. And well, actually, and the same. In the same way. That's right. My Adidas.

And I just saw DJ Jazzy Jeff last night, which would be like one step from run DMC, I would say. A little bit later, but yeah. Yeah. Not much. They were together in 86, man. They were doing stuff.

My parents just don't understand, which was on rap tracks. Yeah. But before that was Girls of the World ain't nothing but trouble. That was actually released first. But it didn't become a single. That was earlier.

The staples of the rap tracks. Yeah, they were. They were. You were saying they broke up, who created Adidas and Puma. Yeah. You could say the same thing about Hugo Boss and Tom Ford. Tom Ford left Hugo Boss.

Really? Yeah. I didn't know that. And Hugo Boss, you know, they were with the Nazis too. So that's not good. I wanted to shout out Palmer's Kitchen because I'm about to bring a lasagna

to my brother-in-law and sister-in-law as I meet my fourth nephew. Wow. She's my niece. She's my first niece. I don't have a niece, actually. Yeah, this is my first niece. Oh, you know, on my wife's side, there's a niece.

I don't forget my wife's. I think of my brother's kids. Well, I have no brothers and sisters. So my wife's one of four. And my brother-in-law, Daniel, and his wife, Leah, have had their second. They have Henry, their little boy who's four. And now they have Imogen Rose, who was just born a week ago today.

But your daughter's name is... I have Evangeline and Genevieve. Those are my girls. Similar vibes. Pretty epic names, yeah. Anyway, so I'm getting, I'm going to, but I'm bringing them a, I bet a lasagna. Because, you know, you always bring people who just had kids food, right? So I'm bringing them because of the lasagna is just so easy to throw in the oven and

I was going to get a full meal. I was going to get Paul a shout out as well because when I was in Italy, on the last night that we were there, we had this catering company come in to our villa where we were staying. There were seven of us. And they brought a lasagna, they made lasagna for us. And it was Anthony Petrucci. No, but everybody was freaking out how good it was. And I said, this is actually like a palma pasta lasagna.

Like, it's as good. That's the highest phrase. That's the high praise. I was in Tuscany. That's the palm of a recipe. I was so excited because I was eating this lasagna and it was fantastic. But I said to Laya, I said, this is like what. Amazing.

Yeah. So our. Is anyone going to give love to Nick Aienes or what? He's got a podcast we ought to listen to. This is two people or something? Two podcasts. Two podcasts. Come on.

There's Mike and Nick and there's building Toronto. guideline. That's right. All right. So I'm going to choose something to grow as a human being and as a person as a music person. I want to guess. Is it going to be like bluegrass? No, no, I like bluegrass. Prague rock. Oh, but wait.

You mean, okay, so you're talking about like yes. Seriously? Yeah. Because you know why? I just started, I started listening to King Crimson. Oh. And I have and I request that the one song by King. I hate early Genesis. I hate yes. Okay. Yes. Because I watched a VH1

behind the music of Genesis. It came up on my YouTube and it was all the old. So yes. Yeah, before it became really poppy. Early Genesis. Yeah. I can't dance. Even Rush.

Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Prog rock. Yeah. Like, yes. Yes.

Yeah. Now you're talking. I think we might only get one song. Leachin though because they're all fucking 12 minutes long. It's true. But I am glad you're doing this. I'm doing this because I hate Progoc. I do.

I don't get it. I don't get it. Can you kick out Tool? That's up for the car. That's up for the car. I love Tool. It's a bit prog-rocky. Yeah, well, so that's the conversation.

We're going to do fucking prog rock because I hate it. We're going to learn about progress. Okay, Bob, leaving our comfort zone. Yeah, that was like, you said that earlier. We did that. Yeah, I did. I don't know if you were recording yet, but the 90s year old dance came out of a genre my wife likes that I kind of, it was in the atmosphere, but I ignored it.

Although I did have a guilty pleasure for songs like that. Oh, I like you know limited. Yeah, yeah. Once you dig into it, you realize. Technotronic. Yeah. I want 20. I want one song.

by King Crimson, 21st century schizoid, like the first song off their first album. Well, let's hand in it so we can talk about it. No, I need to have that one

because it's got Kanye all over it as well, which is weird. I just started listening to it on vinyl. Yeah, sorry. And I'm like, and I don't hate it.

Spoiler alert. I will do that one song for sure. And then after that, fuck, I don't know, I have to listen to some rush or something. We got some homework to do. There you go.

Any idea when in August this might happen? Um, no. I am gone, I'm in, well, I'm gone to New York. That's right.

In the middle of August. In the middle of August. 11th to the 4. Can I ask a question of Rob? Yeah. Jerry the Garbage Man wrote me on Blue Sky to say, I saw the spoons come up on this key to ballot list. Oh yeah.

Any memories, Rob? Yeah, we played there, I mean, in the 80s. Yeah, we played there once, I think I remember. And I definitely remember playing there with Honeymoon Suite as well. Oh, for sure. But yeah, it was a fun, weird, cool place to play because the stage was up way high. I always think of Kim Mitchell. Yeah, I know.

Me too. But you know why it's popular now. I've told you this before. I know. Well, because like, the president. Live Nation has a cottage on Muscoca, on Lake Muscoca, and he brings all his rich friends. So if the Smashing Pumpkins come play Toronto, and it's the summer, they go play there as well. And it's only a thousand people there.

Yeah, yeah. It's a small place. It's a great small place. But it's because Live Nation owns it. Now they bought it. They bought the original owner. They bought it from the original, the owner who was friends with Josie Dye's husband. Right, from Dian Alone.

And he told me. Is that dine alone? Yeah. And he told me that story. Maybe I shouldn't be telling that story. If you ever talk to the president of Live Nation, let them know that Engels. No, let him know that Recycle My Electronics.C.A.

is where you go. If he's got old cables, old electronics, I don't want to throw them out. Go to Recycle My Electronics.com. And catch a Leafs game at Christy Pitts this summer. Why don't you? Subdivisions. And that! And that!

Brings us to the end of our 1,938th show. a very rare Sunday morning recording. Go to tronomelmike.com for all your Toronto mic needs. Listen to Bob on Indy 88. Yeah, all week long in the mornings. Get up with me. Mornings. He's a morning show guy now, just like John Derringer.

Oh yeah, I'm just like John Derringer. Without the fucking hate. Except for Mysterion. Yeah, right. Who I enjoyed my time with him. He's mellowed. He's mellowed. Okay. Much love to all who made this possible.

That is Great Lakes Brewery. Alma Pasta, Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball, Nick Aienies, Recycle My Electronics.C.A. And of course, Ridley Funeral Home. We have a new episode recording Wednesday. It's Life's Undertaking. See you all. Tomorrow. A 6 p.m.