Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Boat Jams: Toronto Mike'd #792

Episode Date: January 28, 2021

This 46th Pandemic Friday, Mike kicks out boat jams with Cam Gordon and Stu Stone.

Oh shit! Get your towels ready, it's about to go down! Everybody in the place hit the fucking deck! But stay on your motherfucking toes! We running this, let's go! I'm on a boat! I'm on a boat! Everybody look at me, cause I'm sailing on a boat! I'm on a boat! I'm on a boat. Take a good hard look at the motherfucking boat. It's time now for Pandemic Fridays, starring Toronto Mike, Stu Stone,

and Cam Gordon. Toronto VK on the beat I'm in Toronto where you wanna get the city love I'm from Toronto where you wanna get the city love I'm a Toronto Mike, you wanna get the city love My city love me back for my city love Welcome to episode 792 of Toronto Miked A weekly podcast about anything and everything. Proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, a fiercely independent craft brewery who believes in supporting communities,

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Pillars of the community since 1921. And patrons like you. Visit patreon.com slash torontomike to become one today. I'm Mike. From torontomike.com and joining me for this 46th pandemic Friday is Stu Stone. And Cam Gordon. Hey, six,

six more episodes. And we're at a full fucking year of pandemic Fridays. That's incredible. This is awesome. Awesome. Love it. What's with that low-rent horn we got from Stu Stone today?

Yeah, I'm not at my home studio today, so I'm unable to... It's in the shop. You couldn't bring that with you? You couldn't put it on your phone or something? No. It's too much effort. Can you put it on your phone? Is no it's too much effort yeah i can't can you put it on your phone is that an option just go down to the it store and uh pick out

one of those like yeah fart buttons or whatever fart box yeah so stew where are you in the world uh today i'm currently it was in uh tampa bay florida whoa um and it is warm uh it is not snowing and uh it is uh you know it's pretty pretty scary outside but uh the quarters that i'm in are quite nice and uh i'm enjoying being away from the cold, that's for sure. This is the home of the Toronto Raptors. That's where you are. Exactly. So I'm covering the Raptors for the next couple of games. And I'll let you know.

Hopefully they can pick up a win. Cam, maybe Stu is that center we're looking for, someone to replace Ibaka. Sure, yeah. I got to say, I'm not big on the new guy, but Baines or Byron the New Zealand seems like a good guy

like nice guy but yeah I don't see what he brings and Chris Boucher I feel like is always just gonna get snapped in half one of these days. He's just so slender He's had some moments but I don't know. I hope that doesn't happen can we shout out off the top

shout out Ian Service sure aka Tim as Stu has lovingly anointed him because he's put in a lot of work with the live stream that's happening right now now of course you can only hear us right now if you're there so the people who

are there know about it already. So I'm sort of talking to people for the future. But live.toronomike.com, it's working. I can see people actively commenting and I'm reading the comments in real time. For example, David D has chimed in to say, are we finally having Yacht Rock second serving? Because of course I've been teasing this episode all week with boat emojis.

You've been teasing me as well. So it's kind of cruel punishment, literally teasing like schoolyard teasing. I wish that I was happy to announce that this is going to be the second, second journey out to sea for the Yacht Rock team. But, you know, Mike is a bit of a troll. So I guess you'll find out what today's episode is shortly. Shortly, we'll reveal.

But let's just say the opening you heard, we're on a boat. So stay tuned. Maybe it is the sequel to the Yacht Rock episode. I'll reveal all in... Spoiler, spoiler, it isn't. It's like Ron Howard, the voiceover in Arrested Development. It's not.

David Alter last week passionately pled the case for Discotheque by U2 being one of the greatest songs of all time. He says it's his personal favorite song of all time. And I guess during the episode, I probably came across as your favorite song sucks asshole. I think I probably came across as a your favorite song

sucks asshole I think I did anyway because uh and then afterwards I saw quite a bit of support on Twitter like maybe it's just the five people who are also like crazy but I saw a lot of support for David Alter and people saying discotheque is actually a like a great song did I miss the boat a lot of people think that the earth is flat. You know, it's a very similar type of thing. A lot of people bought Leonard Part 6 on DVD. No, it can't for taste. It's fine.

No, I liked Leonard Part 5. It was much, much better. Wink, wink. Well, it's funny because it was the first movie, but they said it was Part 6. Isn't that great? Is there an ostrich in that? Like, does Bill Cosby ride an ostrich

or am I like conflating different things? Yes, he does. Because I don't want to confuse it with Ghost Dad. You remember Ghost Dad? That was a good one. Ghost Dad, sure. I feel like Bob Newhart was in that. Oh, possibly.

What am I thinking of? I think I'm thinking of... I don't watch Ghost Dad. It's a little too close to home. Oh. Yeah. Good point. I got to pause for the listeners to catch that one.

Okay. Fantastic. So I just want to say thank you to David Alter because I do think I was a bit of an asshole because I basically screamed like, your favorite song sucks and that's an asshole move. And he got a lot of support on Twitter. So maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Discotheque is the

greatest song. No, no, no. Mike, I hate to say it. It really pains me to say this, but you are right. It is not the best song of all time. It doesn't matter how many people say it. It doesn't make it true. You know? Yeah. It does not make it true. Him yeah you know it does not make it

true i him saying it was a bit ahead of its time and experimental um you know i i threw up in my purse i'm not i'm not gonna lie i didn't didn't enjoy that and you discovered something because you shared it with me on twitter that you just like you discovered you googled the lyrics to it and uh you uh pointed out that these are like really like awful lyrics like they're just really like yeah i i call them inane inane lyrics but you know it's one thing if it's you know you're a new band starting out or you're a bunch of kids messing around high school but this is pretty much the biggest fucking band in the world and it's like love a lovey-dovey type ooh baby discotheque right are we still talking

about this okay we'll move on here stew you're uh you're in tampa bay not just because you're a big raptor fan but uh are you able to disclose like are you you tell me i don't know you'll say what you want to say but can you tell us why you're there well you know all these jobs opening up at sports net the jays are coming to play in Clearwater, not too far from here, hoping to, you know, impress some of the higher ups. You know, it has been well documented that I am good friends with Ross Atkins. So you never know. You never know.

It's going to be Tim and Stu, like we predicted last week. As it should be. As it should be. Super Bowl's coming up uh maybe maybe i'm oh yeah the super bowl is content maybe i'm shooting super bowl content wwe's thunderdome is here royal rumbles on sunday oh right i didn't know that you never know it is i'm gonna i'm gonna watch that i need to get caught up so two things about the super bowl just i think are wild one is that uh it's it's amazing to me that this is the very first time

that a team will play in their home stadium. Like this is the first time. Is it the first time? Yep. Like even back in the day they were played on neutral sites? Always neutral site. Remember the Super Bowl is not really that old. Like it's only a little older than I am.

So like Super Bowl I was like played at a neutral site? Right. Correct. Correct. Do you know that for sure or are you just guessing? Yes. It's only a little older than I am. Right, so like Super Bowl I was played at a neutral site? Right, correct, correct. Do you know that for sure, or are you just guessing? Yes, you know how I know it's for fucking sure, Stu? Because I know this is the first time ever in Super Bowl history that an NFL team is playing at their home stadium in the Super Bowl.

I thought Arizona did or something. I mean, I got a good source on this one. We'll have to double, you know, I think it's true. Cam, can you figure I think it's true. Cam, can you figure out whether he's full of it or what? No, but that was the first thing I think is mind-blowing. There's a lot of mind-blowing things. But the other thing that's kind of interesting is that, like,

for Tom Brady and the Buccaneers to get to the Super Bowl, they had to play three road games. Like, this is actually in itself very unusual. Like, I think it's only the third team to do that maybe. But so they win three road games, and now they're the home team. Plus he's 41. 43. 43, even older.

He's somewhere between you guys and me, I think. It's pretty remarkable that Tom Brady is going to the Super Bowl. It's remarkable. Confirmed by the brother on our new live.torontomic.com chat. The brother has checked it out. I am correct. This is the first

time. I see the difference between the brother and you. I trust the brother. The brother also says Lemon is the worst U2 song of all time. I don't even know that song. Lemon. That's the falsetto. I think The Edge might sing that song.

I feel like that's like a Zoropa song. God, I'm just looking at the Super Bowl. Miami so many times. I mean, it's New Orleans so many times, too. Right, but not the years they made it there. Okay, so thank you, David Alter. I think I said that right. I like David Alter, and I can't wait for him to come back on the show.

Well, on that note, on that note, Stu, you're going to let us know. You'll give us a bit of heads up, but there will be one or two or three. You'll tell me weeks where you're not able to participate in Pandemic Friday. Is that still correct? As of now, it's still, yeah, looking like there could be a couple of missed classes, yes. Well. I'm going to do my best to not miss class. Obviously, I'm a good student. Right.

But we'll do our best. But, like, should that happen, there is a substitute waiting in the rings, like, just excitedly ready to come on out. Is that David Alter? No, actually. Alter served his time. But this is Neil Morrison,

who listeners of this program will know better as Brother Bill. Not to be confused with the brother on the chat right now. But Brother Bill, not only is he excited to substitute Stu when you cannot make it, but he's already been pitching topic ideas to Cam and I.

Wow, you're already replacing me. I leave town and you're already banging someone else. I mean, the body's not even cold yet. The trunk hasn't even been shut. Unbelievable. Now we roll. We're merciless. Yeah, I mean, that sounds exciting.

As long as, you know, I'm sure the brother can... Did you say his brother, Neil? Well, his name... We know him here in Toronto as Brother Bill, but his real name is Neil Morrison. Right. Brother Bill. Of course, Brother Bill. Well, this might be your L.A. years that he was a popular.

No, no, no, no, no. I know Brother Bill. That's a big radio personality. I was going to say, he's also famous for authoring the ongoing gag, Alan Cross Wasn't There. Right. Amazing. He was the one who coined it.

So then he can totally appreciate the style that I bring to the table here. The fabric. The problem is, would it be so great, then you don't want me back. No, I'd rather get rid of Cam than you, to be quite honest. Fair.

Because me and brother Bill, that would be a pretty, that would be good radio. Right. I think next time that Cam's at some cottage or something, whenever that becomes legal. Next time Cam gets laid. Oh, okay. Shout out to James.

I don't know how to segue out of that comment to what I was about to ask you about, but I'll just do it anyway. In fact, maybe I'll just, instead of segueing out, I'll just crack open a Canuck Pale Ale. Canuck Pale Ale. Canuck Pale Ale. This is like the most popular of the Great Lakes beers, and I actually

rarely crack one open, but I'm in the mood for one today, so here we go. While you do, R.E.P. Cloris Leachman. Pour one out. There she is. Oh, I got some notes on that too. So here, we'll go here. We'll go positive and then we'll go there. Stu, can we get an Aunt Sandy update? Is there an Aunt Sandy update?

Auntie Sandy has, like, Rocky Balboa'd the COVID virus. She has become, she's victorious. I've said it last week, but, you know, a week removed from that even. She's sounding a lot better. You know, she's still really anxious and in bed a lot, but I think she's gotten past it. She's gotten past it.

When does she get her second installment of the vaccination? I think in a few weeks. Maybe two weeks or one week. I'll let you know. Let us know because I'm actually monitoring how much gap there is between one and two. And I forget,

did she get the Pfizer or the Moderna? I think she got the Moderna. Okay. Oh yeah. They have trouble with the minus 70 degree requirement in these long-term care facilities. And I think that those ones get the Moderna. Okay.

So great news about Aunt Sandy. Thank you. Cam, you mentioned Cloris Leachman. I was going to ask you this cause we're all like, we're all in our forties. Now Cloris is by, she's most famous for being on the Mary Tyler Moore show.

Like this is her big, you know, character. She played Phyllis, the landlady, I believe. And she won all these Emmys and everybody loves her. But I will tell you both right now that my first introduction to Cloris

Leachman was the fact she took over for Edna Garrett on Facts of Life. I'm curious if you guys, what's your first Cloris Leachman memories? She's got other credits in the 80s and 90s that are from famous movies. I'm telling you, my personal story, Mr. Stone, is my personal story is I first saw her. That's a great story. That's great. So I'm curious now. I'm asking, how about you go first, Cam? When's the first time you remember seeing Cloris Leachman?

I might say that's the first and only time. As you guys know, I haven't watched any new TV shows since about 1994. So I assume she's done stuff because she seems like in a lot of gifs and memes sometimes. Malcolm in the Middle, I think she did that for a bit. I think she might be the crazy cat lady on The Simpsons.

Okay. Which people will know. Okay, so I used to watch a lot of Facts of Life. I don't know if we've ever talked about that. She was definitely on the Facts of Life. I don't know if we've ever talked about that. She was definitely on the Facts of Life. She was definitely on the Love Boat. She was definitely on the Facts of Life, though,

including the Facts of Life when they went to Vegas. One of those very special Facts of Life. Oh, Facts of Life Down Under. That's when they went to Australia. You guys remember that one? Special appearance by Paul Hogan. She is the cat lady in The Simpsons. That's when they went to Australia. You guys remember that one? Special appearance by Paul Hogan. She is the cat lady

in The Simpsons. That is true. Sorry to bring up the It store for the second time. Okay, hold on. Breaking news. Come down and say it quick. Sorry, this is breaking news here. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Come over here, actually. Come say it on the air. I think I caught wind of it. Come here and tell us

what happened. My sister lost a tooth. Whoa. Oh, my God. Where was it? Tell Morgan to get down here. Hold on. This is happening live. This is her... Her older brother, who's two years older, just lost his first tooth a few weeks ago.

I was going to say, that was... This is so profoundly fitting, and I'll tell you why in just a second. Hold on. Come in here. Oh, my God. It's so small. Can you go on there and tell everybody what happened?

When I was eating an apple, my tooth fell off. Oh, my goodness. Okay, don't lose this, okay? You know who's coming tonight? Don't lose it. What did I get in the bag? Okay. The rape old man. Sorry, this was some breaking

breaking news Morgan lost her tooth I track like when each she's my fourth of four so like I track when they lost their first tooth she's actually my youngest child to lose her first tooth because she's only four years old everyone else like James was second youngest and he was a month

into his fifth year so anyway it's exciting to us I guess I'll tell you what and it's quite profound and it's just quite i uh you know you know i'm i'm one to you know try to draw comparisons and create like these you know wild metaphors but this just shows you how fast the news cycle is in the world you know chloris leachman's news uh for passing and breaking news. Your kid lost her tooth. That's the end. See you. That's the end of that story.

Now we're on to the tooth loss. Like the news cycle moves so fast. Rest in peace, Cloris Leachman. But obviously, how much money are you going to get? Before you answer, Cam, let's guess. What does he pay for a tooth over there? They could be watching this live. So let's just point out.

Yeah, hypothetically speaking. Well, The Tooth Fairy will do this. Dwayne Johnson. I was going to say he puts a 10-pound meat lasagna, like no cash, but he just puts a frozen palma pasta under the pillow. That's actually not a bad guess. I'm going to go with...

If it was me and I was buying... I was the Tooth Fairy and it was in my i was the tooth fairy and it was my kids first tooth that's at least like a 20 dollar okay because i know the answer because it just happened a few weeks ago with jarvis and this will be the same amount so i actually know what the tooth fairy is going to put under hopefully it's not like a toonie or something lame no but it's a lot lower than your number the fact is i can tell you go ahead i heard you say 20 it's five bucks five bucks a tooth it's five20. It's $5. $5 a tooth? It's $5 and it's not even...

The tooth fairy is very strategic in that it's like a Toonie, a Loonie, and eight quarters. So the four-year-old Morgan will think it's a lot more than $5. Okay, yeah. Oh, wow. It has some weight to it. Like lots of different units. There's lots of different

cases. So thank you. That's who we got. The good news on Aunt Sandy. Sad news about Cloris Leachman, but on the

bright side, she was 94 years old, which is a good run. And the tooth loss by Morgan,

that's very exciting in this household. I did see news this afternoon that FOTM, Chris Murphy

of Sloan, has Bell's palsy. Oh no. So now Bell's palsy, for those who don't know, it's like my boss had it once and he just woke up one morning with one side of his face was like paralyzed and drooping.

Like, and I don't, as I recall, he said it wasn't painful, but, you know, there was a vanity component because you don't, you feel self-conscious for a bit but once he adapted to that i think i think after a few months if i remember correctly my his name is steve steve did uh it did come back so i hope that uh this is just a temporary measure for chris murphy yeah well i mean chris murphy's still you know a young man too and uh obviously you know one of our all-time favorites probably everyone listening today is is

the big sloan booster so uh yeah we're thinking of you chris i'm a big fan too but first first musician i ever interviewed by the way oh wow i was at mcmaster university for a campus radio show um you never forget your first he didn't seem that into it that's okay that's okay it was probably a shitty interview well that's pretty cool man that into it. That's okay. That's okay. It was probably a shitty interview. Well, that's pretty cool, man. That's pretty cool. He's fantastic and he's a good FOTM. I'm going to let the

listenership know that we're changing the format a bit. So historically, we'd each bring five jams to the table and we'd kick them out. And I've decided, so this is on me if you hate this, so send your hate mail to mike at tron.link.com.

I've decided we should kick out four songs each to reign it in a bit lengthwise and to create more room here at the beginning for the banter we've been enjoying. Speaking of banter, do you guys remember watching Blue Jays Banter? Yeah, sure.

Yeah. How about you, Stu? Sounds familiar. It sounds familiar. Is that like back in the day with like Fergie Oliver or something? Yeah, I think so. It was definitely like a CFTO thing. It was like a baton broadcasting or whatever.

Yeah, BBS. Yeah, baton broadcasting system. Totally. Do you know when Sunil Joshi came over, he was like a bat in broadcasting or whatever. Yeah, BBS. Yeah, bat in broadcasting system. Right. Totally. Do you know when Sunil Joshi came over, he was wearing a BBS sweater. Like, he did that just for me because. Vintage. Love it.

But, yeah, Blue Jays banter. I would catch it on. I feel like Sunil Joshi was on that show, too, wasn't he? Didn't Sunil like that in the parents? Probably would have been, yeah, if he was like CTV family. Maybe a little Jerry Dobson or something. And maybe a little coming up. I don't know if we get a little Joe Tilly in there.

Joe Tilly, yeah, who's a boxer too, is he not? Yes, and his son is a boxer now, actually. I just had Joe Tilly on the DL, which means he was on Dana Levinson's podcast. We were chatting pretty recently. He became a grandpa too. So FOTM Joe Tilly is now a grandpa. Sorry, go ahead. No, no, please. You go ahead. I was just about to ask something selfish.

You go first. Yeah, just the final Joe Tilly thought. I get him and Lance Brown mixed up. Well, Lance never said, coming up! Yeah, I feel like Lance has fallen off the face of the earth. He's not really around. Okay, I think he and has fallen off the face of the earth. He's not really around. Okay, I think he is.

And what I got out of that conversation was that Mike is booking for the Dana Levinson show and hasn't asked Cam or myself to be a guest yet. No, she's very specific. This is like the Al Grego treatment. Yeah, but you had my colleague Amy Kiernan over. But Cam, let's be clear. Correct me if I'm wrong, but i believe she approached you and asked you who you recommended you could have recommended yourself you know you know how it is

so yeah and uh i'll recommend i'll ask her if she wants to stone i think he'd be a great addition to the on the dl roster um what did she what did she talk about on the show? Today, we recorded two episodes today. And one was about body positivity, like basically loving your body regardless of what you perceive to be flaws in your body, like being turned on by belly rolls. I would have been a good guest for that. And the other one was about having sex while sober, like a recovering alcoholic discusses...

I mean, and Cam wasn't booked on that. So this is the kind of content on the DL. It's quite something, actually. Okay, so... I'm going to let the listenership know the sad news. Let me know if she's doing a show

on Jews who eat bagels. Well, she'd totally do that show. Absolutely. You know who has a guest recently? This one hasn't dropped yet, but Dan Schulman was on the DL recently. He's the best. Love that. Yeah.

Yeah. Fucking right. He's the best. He's fantastic. Very, very high approval rating. Like one of those, I can't imagine anyone disliking Dan Schulman. Good point. Like there's some polarizing figures out there and he's not one of those i can't imagine anyone disliking dan shulman good point like there's some polarizing figures out there and uh he's not one of them i think everybody loves dan shulman

absolutely one of the greats one of the greats i shared the uh i'm on a boat gif with you guys i think we twitter dm'd i twitter dm'd you the uh lonely island, I'm on a Boat. And then Stu, you replied with this. Jamie Kennedy, me and Jamie Kennedy did it first or something like that. Can you explain what do you mean you and Jamie Kennedy did the I'm on a Boat first? What do you mean? I never tweeted that to you. What the hell are you talking about? Why are you reading?

Was that sent in a private DM? Is that what we're doing now? We're reading off private DMms on the deal is there something uh personal uh about that dm i thought that was a fairly innocuous tweet there uh you don't want to talk about that are you sure cam didn't send i'm happy to speculate on what cam could have meant well who wrote i'm going in there now hold on here i think it was cam Cam that sent that tweet to you, but I'm happy to... Uh-uh. It says...

I'm reading it now. It says, Me and Jamie Kennedy did it first. Yeah, I may have been hacked. Okay, I thought you had a story. I thought we were going to find out that you... Jamie and I, we did that comedy rap thing. We did it so well.

And a few years later, Lonely Island came out, and they profited off of it. Okay, there is a story here. What are you talking about? Andy Samberg used to open for Jamie Kennedy, and he used to come to us with his demo tapes asking us to listen to him rap. He wanted to get on board with it. And obviously he pitched it to SNL, and they did that.

And so they did what we do, but they had made money doing it. So I don't, I'm not bitter about that. I'm happy for their success, but it's just funny because like we, when we were pitching this, people were scratching their heads. Like, what is this boogie in your butt? You know, it's like, what, what is this? And then, you know, if they had SNL and Justin Tim timberlake you know we used bob saget they did michael bolton um but anyway that's the story i wish them well and i like andy sandberg he's

hilarious he's a nice guy and he's a very talented guy so all the power to him and i'm just a little jealous that it worked so well for them and it didn't work out as well for us. So there's an alternate universe where Brooklyn Nine-Nine stars Stu Stone. No, Andy's probably having a good career regardless of whether he can rap or not. You know, he's really funny and he's a likable dude.

So I'm sure he's got people in his corner rooting for him and he deserves all that. I'm just saying me and Jamie did this like comedic rap thing and people were scratching their head over it and we had some really high level type of humor like the rolling with bob saget song and then they do i'm on a boat and it's like oh my god look at this they're on a boat and we were like why weren't we on a boat you know we could have been on a boat yeah there go. I totally get what you're saying there.

Yeah, you guys circle, circle, dot, dot. This shit was... This is good stuff. Same time period. Why are they blowing up? Tom Green had a rap album around this. Tom has been rapping. He's from Organized Rhyme.

Of course. Tom was a rapper that became an actor. Yeah, of course. Tom was a rapper that became an actor, you know? Yeah, of course. Check the OR, Cam. Come on. You like it so fast. But also Tom Green's raps were... Check the OR.

That was a real rap song. That's not like him being funny. That's not like I'm on a... Won the Junior Award for Best Hip Hop Track of 94 or something, I believe. And it's got a nice cameo from King Lou and Capital Q of Dream Warriors. And that's the food city at Jane and Finch, for you Torontonians listening. That's right. And I'm going to guess, I don't even know this,

but I'm going to guess it's a Fresh Co. now because it seems like that's... I feel like that video was the first time I ever became aware of Western University because there was a guy wearing a Western jacket. Wow. See? I'm remembering it right. I believe it was a Western jacket. See, now you guys realize... But also 90% of Thornley graduates

go to Western. Well, York has a lot, in fairness. One or the other. One or t'other. FOTM Barb Palusko, which wrote a book. I don't know if either of you guys have written a book. Stu, would you write a book? I would, yeah, if Barb wants to finance it.

I think you've got a great book in you, actually. Like, your life, it never, like, when I discover new things about you, it blows my mind. I think there's definitely, like, a Stu Stone book there. Maybe Greg Oliver can write it Greg Oliver

who is that he's a writer he writes wrestling books and books about athletes slam wrestling Greg Oliver did you do the Pat Patterson

book probably I can get him for you if you want to have him on as a guest if you co-host it with me I'll do it sure

I love Greg yeah I'll totally do it if you co-host it with me, I'll do it. Sure. I love Greg. Yeah, I'll totally do it if you co-host it. You guys remember on YTV, the Ron Oliver show? Does that ring a bell at all, Ron Oliver? Yeah, yes, yes. I thought he was fucking funny. Is he that Canadian guy? Who's that Canadian guy?

Yeah, that's him, I think. That's him. Now he's in LA. I don't know if he writes screenplays or what he does, but I thought Ron Oliver's show was super fucking funny. I like John Oliver. Ron Oliver greater than John Oliver. I like Murray Oliver.

I like Al Oliver. Oh, Scoop. Yeah, jinx on you. Scoop, I love that. Was that 85, I guess, down the stretch in 85? Two game-winning hits in the ALCS. Right, right. The worst Oliver, of course, is Cousin Oliver from The Baby Bunch.

That's right. That's like the trope was invented there, I think. Hey, Stu, here's the wrestling corner. Stu, you know Rip Oliver? Of course. Here's a trivia question for you. What music video was Rip Oliver in? You're not going to get this.

This is very random. I don't know why I know this. Okay, what is it? Human Wheels by John Cougar Mellencamp. Or I guess John Mellencamp. Rip Oliver is in. I remember Human Wheels by John Cougar Mellencamp. Or I guess John Mellencamp. Rip Oliver is it. Johnny Cougar? Yes. Wow, Rip Oliver.

Rip Oliver. There you go. I love it. I love it. So, Barb Paluskiewicz. I have to say that before I start the Is that Barb in the photo there on the wall? Yeah, there's Barb. So, Barb Paluskiewicz. She wrote a book called IT Scams. And any FOTM listening right now can get a free copy

if they write her an email. She's barb at cdntechnologies.com. Is shipping and handling included or do we have to pay that? It's going to come to you via email, which is a really... Oh, it's an e-book. Right. So you get a copy of the book. And thank you, Barb, for your support. Thank you, ebook. Right. So you get a copy of the book and thank you,

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I tweeted emojis, boat emojis,jis because this episode i wanted to troll people i wanted people to think this was the sequel the highly anticipated sequel to the yacht rock episode and that will probably happen at some point i'm sure but this episode is our favorite songs about boats. Yeah. Boats. Wap, wap, wap.

Well, Cam, Cam, this is a, this is a fine topic. I'm so into it. Okay. So let's talk about that.

I pitched this topic because it came to me on a bike ride. I'm on a bike ride and I'm thinking, Oh, everyone wants that yacht rock. I don't, I'm out of yacht rock songs. I'm sure we'll do it eventually, but I'm like, Oh,

what if we just did boat songs? not yacht rock but boat songs and then my brain starts thinking of all these great boat songs and then i'm like i pitch it to you guys and i get like polar opposite reactions like cam was like i love it we're doing it right now and we abandoned the topic we were gonna do which i also love and then stew is like what a shitty topic so stew why don't you like this topic because it's stupid um songs about songs about boats like who the fuck cares um you know uh i'd rather do yacht rock i think we're disappointing a large segment of the fosss's that listen and you're not really looking out for our needs. I kind of feel like we have a movement that's growing and we

want Yacht Rock too and you're trolling us with songs about boats. I'll say this. I'll say this. You know what's one of the few people slash items that have a higher approval rating than Dan Shulman?

Stu Stone. No, boats. Boats. I was going to say Tom Hanks. People like being out on the water. Who wouldn't want to be out on the water? Also, it's physical distancing. You're away from all the people. I think it's very much up to time. I think it's a brilliant topic.

Andrew Ward loves the topic. He just says... No, no, no. Andrew Ward is agreeing with me saying that exactly this is a terrible topic. Andrew Ward is the topic. He just says... No, no, no. Andrew Ward is agreeing with me, saying that exactly this is a terrible topic. Andrew Ward is his own man. No, I think he's agreeing with Cam, I think. This is the other Andy Pandy, just to make things confusing.

That's Andrew Ward. So thank you, Andrew Ward. And James, hello to James Edgar, who has popped on the live.torontomic.com feed. What's up? What's up, Jimmy? So I'm excited to kick out the first jam here, and it belongs to Cam Gordon.

Cam, you want me to just click play here? I do. So, everybody, just to be clear, boat jams, that's the only rule. Your favorite songs about a boat, not yacht rock, but boat jams. Here's the first jam from Cam Gordon. Cam! by Boat Jams. Here's the first jam from Cam Gordon. Here we go.

Daylight come and me one go Daylight come and me wan go home. home stock banana till the morning come daylight come and me one go home all right cam explain this great selection here harry belafonte absolutely what is a boat when does he even say the word boat what's the name of the song Absolutely. How is this a boat song? What is a boat? When does he even say the word boat? What's the name of the song?

Deo? Deo? No. Daylight coming, we want to go home? Try again. One more guess. Deo boat song? You're getting there. Closer.

The name of the song is Banana Boat. In brackets, Deo. I think it's the opposite. Is it the opposite? Is that what it is, Cam? Yeah. Banana Boat is the official name of the song. Is that what it is, Cam? Yeah. Banana Boat is the official name of the song. Okay.

You ever been on a banana boat, Mike? Never. I have eaten a banana on a boat when I was doing the BC Ferries. I ate a banana on that boat. That's close enough. That's in the vicinity. Harry Belafonte. Very topical because Harry Belafonte, he turns that boat okay that's close enough that's in the in the vicinity uh harry belafonte um very very

topical because uh harry belafonte he turns 94 still uh hanging tough his birthday is march 1st 2021 wow 94 so in just a few weeks so uh happy early 94th uh to Belafonte. Hopefully you didn't just jinx him. We'll see. We're almost there. This version of the song. Good looking man, that Harry Belafonte. And historically, oh, it's Beetlejuice is what you're thinking of. Beetlejuice.

No, I was going to say, I feel like he was in a movie called White Man's Burden with John Travolta. I don't remember. If that's possible uh he's a historically uh important figure with the uh civil rights movement no i i mean like a yeah like a legend like a big fucking deal yeah now this song um this is one of those songs there's many many versions that this version i didn't realize how old this song is this this version that we're hearing by harry bill if onto is from 1956 wow you know i'm getting real-time reaction at live dot toronto mic.com which really adds a nice element here so quebec irish boy cam off to a slow start once again oh come on i'm on fucking banana boat like give me a break like stew stop polluting the ecosystem with your he's stew stone writes weak topic weak first jam okay whatever why

why can't i see i can't see the comment section anymore you gotta like narrow your video it's yeah i'll take a look at that in a second um so this song was actually adapted from a song that was originally originally this was not a boat song originally the song was called dayda light which was a song by trinidadian singer edrick connor trinidadian is it trinidadian sorry it's a senior moment um edric connor and the caribbeans this is a caribbeans edric connor and the caribbeans from 1952 an album called songs from jamaica so you got a bit of everything there you know a bit of that about jamaica um the the wikipedia for this has the most literal literal explanation of a song's lyrics i perhaps ever read it said it's a work song from the point of view of dock workers

working on a night shift loading bananas onto ships ships are a type of boat the lyrics describe how daylight has come their shift is over and they want their work to be counted up so they can go home it's like no shit like that's literally what the lyrics are um okay this is interesting also in 1956 folk singer bob gibson who had traveled to jamaica heard the song and taught his version to his folk band the terriers now this is not Bob Gibson, the baseball player. This is in 1956. Robert Gibson of the Rock and Roll Express? Robert Gibson?

Not him. No, not Ricky Morton either. Do you know who was in The Terriers playing guitar? Oh, Paige. No. Yeah. No, it was actually Alan Arkin wow great actor wow that's pretty awesome i love him yeah that's a real fun fact uh but i when i first read that i was seeing uh alan alda

and i saw alan arkin i'm like oh yeah different different guy both great yeah they are both they are both great actually i like them both yeah, do you guys remember the band Trio? I mean, what does this have to do with Deo? These are fun facts. Okay. I'm a bit all over the place, but this is fun. Trio, do you remember what Trio sang? No, no.

Remind us. Not like Danny Trio. Trio sang the song Da Da Da. Da Da Da. Da Da Da. Kind of a novelty song. They had a version of the song called Boomerlander, which

is actually a German schnapps. Wow. Fun fact. I'm now siding with Quebec Irish Boy. Have any of your other kids lost any teeth? Andrew Ward thought that song, I hope I'm reading this comment right, he thought that song

was called Sunscreen. Anyway, I don't know. I think the elephant in the room and the elephant in the country, perhaps for a lot of Canadians, this song may, has sort of a new, might be most remembered as one of the songs that

Justin Trudeau wore blackface to. Oh, that's the mind blow well that's i'm a month that's just an unfortunate fact i'll just say that right and i i still remember what i think it was because he was i don't remember like when he was first confronted by that he was on not a boat but he's on an airplane and you know a bunch of uh at his face. He had talked about how he'd wore blackface, dressed up as Aladdin. I remember the question. I forgot who it was. Saying, okay, this is your chance.

Have you ever worn blackface any other time? And he said, well, once at a talent show. Back in the 90s. And I may have sang Deo. Wow. talent show and he was you know back in the 90s um and i may have sang deo so wow so i think that the the question that question was asked by a cbc reporter i know her initials were mf i believe no is that true no that is that is not true that is a fun lie that's a fun lie i just you know i know she loves her haze mama and shout out to mf stew stone uh by the way i i thought that was a good start because that's an iconic song by somebody now still with us it's not even harry belafonte's best boat song if you even call

that a boat song we'll get to that later is that right right? Oh, wow. Is that a threat? That's a threat. That's not a threat. That's a promise. Set up your first jam, Stuart. I want to let you know that despite this being a horrible topic and despite this being a horrible episode, I still give it my 100% for the FOSSs out there. I give it 120%. Even on a shit topic like this, i'm still planning on winning and you know

that's all we do in the foss universe we're tired of winning because that's all we do is win and this is an example of how you win a topic that you don't even like this is how you do it by playing songs like this I'm sailing away Set an open course for the virgin sea. Cause I've got to be free. Free to face the life that's ahead of me. On board I'm the captain So climb aboard

We'll search for tomorrow On every shore And I'll try Oh Lord I'll try Oh Lord, I'll try To carry on Stu, I'll turn it up for the you-know-what part, because this song is a fucking banger. Good job.

Yes, thank you very much. We're listening to Styx, Come Sail Away. Of course, those of you who only know Styx from Domo Harigato, Mr. Roboto, good for you. But there is a classic rock Styx act that is fantastic that was killed by Kilroy. But maybe their time was coming anyway. But quite an underappreciated band, if you ask me.

Styx has lots of big, powerful rock ballads. But this is a song that's deceiving. It comes out during an era where Queen sort of owned the space in songs that moved in other directions, where Meatloaf was finding a lot of success with his Steinman jams that move in different directions. Styx was a classic rock, a little prog rock in there too, but this was sort of their answer to that Queen-Meatloaf popularity that was going on, and it's very successfully pulled off here. You want to hear it loud for a bit? Yes, yes, yes. A bit above my head They sang to me this song of hope

And this is what they said They said Come sail away Come sail away Come sail away with me I mean, it goes in many directions. Come sail away Come sail away

Come sail away Of course, Dennis DeYoung, the lead singer and writer of this song, one of the great rock vocalists of the era, underappreciated. Of course, he's got that big, powerful voice. Of course, we know that CFNY's Lawrence Gowan is now filling the void singing. But listen, when you listen to Dennis DeYoung sing, it sounds like Gowan. So it's like Gowan is the perfect guy to do it because it already sounds like gowan how did that happen like do we know because as far as i know i don't think gowan was popular internationally or was he am i am i wrong was he still is he were they

listening to criminal mind in the usa uh yeah that was played on that was played on mtv you're a strange animal that crossed over i didn't know that. Yeah, for sure. For sure. I mean, it wasn't huge, but it crossed over. It's in the mix. Anyway, in rock music back then, bands had to really crank out albums. And if you think about when Styx really hit the scene, this is probably their biggest song. I know they had, you know, I think Lady was their sort of big power ballad before this but

right this is the big one this is the big fucking sticks this is the epic i was to tell you that this fun fact this is from their seventh album wow they're already seven albums deep when they release this song and it becomes you know so, so there you go. If you first don't succeed, try again. Don't give up. And again and again and again and again and again and again. On their seventh go around is when they stumbled upon this song, which is their signature song, other than, of course, like Mr. Roboto or maybe the aforementioned Lady. What year is this song from? This song actually came out in 1977.

It peaked in January 78 on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 8. And platinum sales for the album and one of the biggest hits of Stick's career. See, Stu, you say this is a bad topic, but it gave you an opportunity to lead off with Come Sail Away. That's just because I'm so great at what I do. What I do is I can have a great match with Come Sail Away. I'm telling you. What a great topic. What I do is I can have a great match with a broomstick. I am the consummate performer when it comes to Pandemic Fridays. You can throw me a shit topic.

I can pull a five-star match out of a broom. Real-time reaction, Stu. Ian says, gonna have to crank this one up. And then... That's like a stalled comment from Deo. stew ian says gonna have to crank up crank this one up and then uh he knows what's up that's like a stalled comment from the day i want to say that uh dennis de young tommy shaw

james young and the panazo brothers chuck and john panazo that makes up the core of uh sticks wow uh if you want to do some deep digging there's lots of dennis de young like shoot interviews on youtube talking about like mr roboto and how it ruined their career, but he still loves it. And it was like a rock opera that didn't work, but it worked. And now people love it and they didn't then. But I remember the music video for Mr. Roboto right around the same time as Billie Jean. Those two videos were the first two videos that like really caught my attention. Like Mr. Roboto was like, holy shit, this is amazing.

And then, of course, Billie Jean, even though I'm not even talking about Thriller, I'm talking about Billie Jean. I'm not even beat it. Just Billie Jean walking on the sidewalk and those lights going up. You know, maybe a Duran Duran video thrown into the mix. Styx was one of the MTV music video superstars of the early days. My introduction to Styx is Mr. Roboto. Just like my introduction to Cloris Leachman

was Facts of Life. Yes. Alright, well there you go. Styx, Sail Away, One Point for Stu. David D. just says, Cartman killed it for sure. I guess Cartman did a cover. He sure did. Yeah, he did a cover of it.

I'm surprised that wasn't one of your... It was also on your show, Rested Development, did a Come Sail Away gag on one of their shows. Okay, well, great show and great song. And I will tell you,

when I was on this bike ride in which I thought of this great idea for the boat jams, this is the first song that popped into my head oh that's a good one is it only because like the music video or is the song actually referenced being on the boat

well big time about a boat. In this dream where I relished the fray And the screaming filled my head all day Oh, was that New Orleans' zingin' I'd been spit here That's not New Orleans' zingin' That's a good song, New Orleans' zingin' No, this is Nautical Disaster Nautical Disaster And then there's Giftshop

There's so many songs that they're hits that could have been I like this song Off the coast of France, dear An afternoon for a thousand men Tied in the water, here And five hundred more are crashing madly As parasites mine In your blood You know what? I'm tipping my

Canuck Pale Ale to Gord fucking Downey. What a great fucking song this is. Canada Kev on the live.torontomic.com. He's kind of singing along here. Fingernails scratching on the hull. So this song, Nautical Disaster. The producer of this album, by the way, is an FOTM, Mark Howard. So there's your first fun fact here. But this song, also the song is one fotm mark howard so there's your your first fun fact here but this song

also the song is one of the songs they i believe this is one of the songs they played when they played saturday night live i believe that's i believe that's true i don't even remember that when was that dan akroyd introduced them um he lobbied the show uh get his fellow Kingston boys on the program and they did Grace 2 and Nautical Disaster and there's a little bit of like I know Gore does a little shout out to the Sky Diggers in one of the songs

FOTM I kind of have a vague memory of that but I don't you're just reminding me of it right now that's pretty awesome he did a few lines sorry a few lines of coke a few lines from a penny more yes that's the sky digger song that's exactly right and he was so nervous you know the first line is um of great grace to uh she said i'm fabulously rich but he was so nervous and dan ackroyd had just said tragically hip he actually sang the wrong lyrics andckroyd had just said tragically hip he actually sang the

wrong lyrics and he said she said i'm tragically hip like gourd says that was an accident because of his nerves when he was oh really this is what i've heard this is what i've heard now everybody of course chiming in uh with their stories i've seen the hip i if anybody listening did not see the hip then uh come on what what's wrong with you? But this song is, of course, about a boat. It's about a boat. And off the coast of France, as you know, in the lyrics. We're on a boat. What was that, Cam?

What did you say? Deer. Deer. Because that's the lyrics. Off the coast of France. Deer. Right. Right, right, right, right, right.

And actually, there's a great resource of any hip fan. I just want to point people to hipmuseum.com. His name is Stephen Dame, I believe. We've exchanged the odd email and tweet throughout the years because he's been meticulously archiving all the hip songs

and what they mean and stuff. And there's such a tremendously deeply researched piece on all the different, you know, shipwrecks that were kind of, that inspired Nautical Disaster from the Bismarck, for example. And, like, he does a great job. So go to hipmuseum.com if you're ever curious about, like,

what's Gord singing about in this song. But this song is without a doubt a nautical disaster. It's without a doubt. about in this song but this song is without a doubt a nautical disaster it's without a doubt it's about a uh a ship in the ocean and uh fucking great song and it's one of those songs that doesn't really have that typical structure of like verse chorus verse or whatever this song just kind of spills out and every time i hear it i get chills because i think of gordon's playing it live and i think of the band playing it live and it was a really, really strong live track. It actually evolved

out of the jam they would do in the middle of New Orleans is Sinking. If you ever saw Hip Live, they go into New Orleans is Sinking and they do this big jam in the middle and this song one day on stage evolved out of that jam and next thing you know, we have Nautical Disaster.

I remember the, remember the killer whale tank version of New Orleans is thinking a big, the breakfast, all of our quest breakfast request. I remember. Oh my God. When I had, who's the guy from the,

who built the white house in hits FM, father of Siobhan Morris, Paul Morris, right. Pobhan Morris, Paul Morris. Right. Paulie Morris came on. We talked at length about that. They played the shit out of that version. Totally.

And it was great. Yeah. You know what's another song? It was just another live version of a song. Okay. Highway Girl. Highway Girl. Oh, yeah.

That too. I was going to say, no, a different band, but Bare Naked Ladies, I'm in Love with a McDonald's Girl. And if you listen to the Tyler Stewart episode, we go in great details about that too. Absolutely.

CFNY played the shit out of Fell in Love with a McDonald's Girl. Absolutely. Big hit. Oh, I love it. Okay. Checking on the board here. I used to do the Killer Whale Tank monologue with my friend's band. That's Ian.

So he loves the Killer Whale Tank monologue with my friend's band. That's Ian, so he loves the Killer Whale version. Strangely, he did in the middle of Nat King Cole's Unforgettable, which was a little out of place. I've seen that version. Okay, guys, we're cooking with gas now, and Cam's got a great second jam. Cam, anything to say, or can I just press play? I'm going to say that this... I'm going to go back

to Stu taking a swing at this topic. The listeners should know he literally flew to Tampa Bay because he wanted to be closer to boats. He was so into it. I didn't want to say it,

but he's full of shit, basically. I'll cue your fucking song. Didn't like that. didn't like that. Didn't like that. All right. That's a good one. Sam! This is how I show my love I made it in my mind because

I'm aiming up my ADD, baby This is how an angel dies Aiming at my own surprise Aiming at my ADD, baby We are listening to Sail by AWOL Nation. Before I go into a few fun facts, I don't have too many about this song. One thing I love about this song is you know especially for like older fellas like us where you

think you know I've heard every style of music and there's never anything new then every once in a while a song like this comes and this song is so hard to categorize I just find it really really unique like I don't even know what style of music this would be.

It's obviously sort of like an alternative rock song that one might hear on Edge 102, but it's really hard to categorize. It seems sort of like an electronic song, but not really, and it's kind of heavy, but not really. Hugely successful song as far as commercials and television placements. Oh, yeah, all my facts are basically about that yeah i'm quite i'm i'm quite uh friendly with aaron bruno the singer from a wall nation yeah he used to be in another band before a wall nation and uh he recorded on my old

studio a bunch and he was just like an arm like sort of like a justin timberlake sort of vocalist yeah like really that really kind of changed gears and went in this sort of hard rock industrial modern post-industrial sort of rock vibe but this is a huge hit song and uh yeah i love it it's great yeah oh no that that that that's awesome because yeah like I don't know much about this guy but I mean you look at his bio and he was in

I feel like his old band was called They Might Be Giants yeah Stamboul not Constantinople Cam who's who? Bruno Kirby

oh the late great Bruno Kirby actually here's a bit of a teaser we're going to be talking about another Bruno later today so you can just oh bruce willis the return of the return of bruno yeah um yeah this one came in in 2011 i i'm kind of surprised this wasn't sort of a bigger charting

hit only went to number 17 in the u.s. Number 48 in Canada was the biggest in Austria, at least according to... I'm Alan Cross. Went to number four. You know what? His band was called Under the Influence of Giants. Okay, yeah, that makes more sense. I thought that was a bit you were doing.

Yeah, I thought you were just being silly. I was. I mean, I got the name wrong, obviously, but I knew there was giants in it. Cam, there's a great feedback here from Quebec Irish Boy on live.torontomike.com. He says, Cam is the Ricky Romero back in the day. Starts off slowly, but gets better as time goes on.

People are digging this second selection. I think that means I'm going to be gone within a few more episodes because Ricky Romero did not have much self-life um yeah i don't have a ton of fun facts but just to his point this song i feel like you just hear this in commercials a lot of like extreme sports yeah he was very involved in like red bull records which is um sort of how he got discovered right before he started uh a wall nation did stew did you know him like when he was putting this band yes uh i like shortly shortly before this but like i knew that he was like doing something with red bull records was he

was one of the first kind of guys to kind of poke around in the music space with with that company well and i remember and then i remember watching them i believe it was coachella i want to say but like they played like some crazy festival and it was just like wow these guys made it stew uh your super fan cam brio has entered the chat and he wants to know if aaron bruno ever played on a stew stone track no no no but i definitely was in the studio with him when he was making music and he's a very talented guy i can't name another song by the guy though i will say sale is sort of like that's is he a one-hit wonder do you need another song when you have sale it's like that's a timeless kind of song it sounds great it's always good to have a spare i was gonna say to show how like universal this

song is like you look at the different tv shows this has been used these are even tv shows i've heard of which shows just how like mainstream they are this has been used in every tv show from the good wife to fucking vikings wow maybe the episode with uh josh donaldson i feel like guessed it on that uh fleabag the vampire diaries and pretty little liars so a lot of ranges song i love this song my daughter loves pretty little liars. Hey, this is a great comment by somebody who is commenting as Steve on live. Toronto mic.com.

I don't know if that's my brother or not, but he goes, fun fact, cams headphones look like they came with my Sony Walkman. Okay. Thank you, Steve. Thank you.

Operators are standing by. I'll be, I'm, uh i'm on be on my twitch channel later but that's a great boat song sale so you're kicking some ass here better than day out the banana boat i liked banana boat as a starter you know start slowly and then we like ricky romero styles i like that analogy too now stew what would you like to say before i kick out your second jam? My next jam is a pretty racy song. It's quite sultry. So if you're planning on attempting to maybe make love to a loved one, this might be a song you might want to hear. Or self-love. And it doesn't come with fun facts, unfortunately.

But let's play the uh let's play the song You know you make me float You really get me high You're like my window Cause you You set me on a wave You set me on a wrecking ball Boy, you got this rope, before you drift in me deeper And I won't be close, let's take this overboard now I want you to rock the boat, baby.

Rock the boat, baby. Work the boat, baby. Work the boat, baby. Change positions, work the middle. Very sultry music from Aaliyah. The song Rock the Boat, one of the sexier music videos of that era. Aaliyah, I think she was one of the first people of that era. I don't know if you remember, Cam, but girls would wear these low-waisted pants

and their underwear would show above, like Lita. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, what do you say about that, Cam? You can't hear us? He's muted. I can't hear him. Maybe he's talking to someone else. Oh, sorry. I was eating some food. Cam's avoiding that question

about do you remember like the low rise pants and then like an underwear strap would like come up yeah no mike's that was one mike's uh signature styles back at the city days uh anyway the song is called rock the boat by alia uh very very sad song too uh As some of you may or may not know, Aaliyah actually died coming home from shooting this music video. She shot the music video with Hype Williams, a very famous director who famously directed almost every good music video from 1995 to 2005. All like the Puff Daddy, Biggie Smalls, you know, videos, Hype Williams. You know who that is, right? You do, okay.

But yeah, Leah, it's kind of interesting that after they had finished filming the music video a day early and she wanted to rush back. So the plane that she was supposed to fly home in the next day wasn't available so they took a smaller charter plane and they ended up having arguments with the captain about how much luggage and how many people could be on this plane setting he was saying it was too heavy and they made a big stink and put all their stuff on on the plane and uh shortly after take off the plane um it was a really violent and brutal crash that killed everybody um including Aaliyah uh and it really you know as far as R&B

goes uh R&B music was very popular in the mainstream at that point as well and Aaliyah was at the forefront of it all and you know really someone who died very young and somebody who is definitely loved by her fans and you know she's definitely become even larger than life in her death she's become even more iconic than maybe she would have been if she didn't die I don't know if that's up for discussion but But either way, Rock the Boat, a very sexy song by Aaliyah. Tragically, her final music video as she would perish in a plane crash coming home from the Bahamas. I believe it was the Bahamas where they were going to shoot this music video.

Well, I mean, I definitely remembered the sorrow in the morning when Aaliyah passed away. I was surprised because I was not tapped into the genre and I only knew one song by her, which is that song that goes if at first you don't succeed, pick yourself up and try again. That was all I knew. That's the only one I knew.

What's the one that's good? It's like... What was that? That was pretty good. I don't know that song, but I did learn... Are you talking about... That's like Timbaland or something. Yeah, that's Aaliyah.

Was it? Okay, maybe it is. Yeah, it might get... It's a song like in one of the Girl Talk songs. Okay, then I would know it. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention the fact that she's the woman who married R. Kelly when she was underage. This is sort of what people might know Aaliyah for. I think she was a teenager and she married R. Kelly. And anyway, there's a lot of stink on R. Kelly. That's for another episode.

But Aaliyah, great loss. A lot of people very, very sad when she left us far too soon. So good choice. Big deal. Big fucking deal. BFT. And Rock the Boat.

I didn't know that song, but yeah, Rock the Boat. It's not just a sexual position. It's also a nautical vessel. I can't wait to kick out this jam because when I was young, this song seemed to be everywhere. So here's my second jam.

Nice one. Oh, and by the way, if you haven't heard this song in a couple of decades, it fucking holds up. Well, Enya, Enya's awesome. Let me say, let me say, let me crush upon your shadow. Let me reach, let me be each part of the yellow sea. Sail away. Sail away. Yes, indeed. Orinoco Flow is the name of this song, and it is indeed about a boat, and the singer... Wait, it's not called Sail Away? No, it's called Orinoco Flow.

I know. I think they might have parentheses at the end there that say Sail Away, but not always. Like, sometimes it comes out as just orinoco flow and sometimes it's orinoco flow parentheses uh sail away but you know we all knew it as sail away but this uh i remember when i was in dublin i remember some we were asking about i think we were asking about dolores o'reardon or something me and monica and somebody was telling us about the castle that enya owned and uh told us we should check out Enya's castle.

So I don't know for what that's worth. She had a castle. Maybe she still has it in Dublin here. But big freaking jam, right? You guys remember this was everywhere in like mid, like late 80s, like 88? Do you guys, there must have been songs while you were younger that scared you and you weren't sure why yeah the doctor who theme song yeah like this this was one of those songs for me i think because it was so different than everything you because this was on much music i remember the video for

it i'm like what the fuck is it like i didn't know who like yanni was or like new age music and i'm not saying that's what this is but i mean it's like very but it is it is no it's got a new agey vibe to this for sure what's anya this is like uh you know massage you're getting a massage listening to some anya absolutely uh of course the fujis the fujis famously sampled anya for Ready or Not. That's right. Yeah. By the way, that reminds me,

Cam, you had a mind blow for for sale. Did you want me to pick it up after this? Like prior to. No. OK, because we I forgot about it, but you did send me a mind blow for sale.

I don't know if you remember doing Oh, right. Yes, I did. Sure. No, it's okay. Let's just keep it moving. It was only like a mini Mind Blow. People can tweet at me if they want the year of the Mind Blow.

I'll share a link. I see that Cambrio's asking if there's a Sammy Cohn remix of this song. I'm not sure if that's a joke or not. So I'm going to ignore it. I don't know what that means. I don't even know what that means. But I got some positive feedback in real time here,

especially from David, who says it was a good pick. So, hey, I feel good. 60% of our songs so far are about sailing. Like, sail, come sail away. Right. Sail away, sail away. Stu, have we played any songs that you would say is yacht rock yet

no okay uh cam i'm going to kick out in the fun the fun and interesting thing about changing it from five jams to four to kind of to make it so they're not three hour episodes and to have more banter off the top is that we're already at the penultimate jams so

cam gordon anything to say about your penultimate jam? How is that possible? We've already gone. This is only round three. Right. There's only four each. So penultimate means your second to last song? Yeah.

Ah, I didn't know that. Right. Sorry, Mike. This is more like a technical question. How do I see the comment section? I can't like squish the video. You know what? Ian, if you're listening, I noticed that halfway through this live stream, somehow the video was unable to squish. Does that make sense?

Okay, yes. I'm having the same issue. I actually had to do, on my Mac, it's command, then the minus symbol to actually reduce the size so that I could see it. So that was my little hack here. So Ian, we have a few, like this is still in beta without a doubt, but every week it's getting better and better. And I think it's going to be a great place

for FOTMs to assemble so we can listen in real time and react in real time without worrying about Facebook and Twitch and YouTube and their, you know know archaic uh music licensing daily motion right they're they're gonna i can tell you i uh did a kick out the jams of steve pakin which was really good by the way and of all songs we kicked out a lot of songs from you know sinatra and all these big artists and the song that got us uh muted on facebook was a blue rodeo song so you never know what's gonna trigger the uh really yeah i know of all he has like beatles stuff from what i recall correctamundo dude correctamundo he

not just a guest i'm also a listener stew have you heard the ste Paken jam kicking yet no I have not okay second last jam which I like to pedantically refer to as penultimate jam anything to say there Cam before I press play sorry a final comment on Steve Paken I don't know if I ever told you I once spent some time in his office at TV Ontario and his collection of sports memorabilia

in there is incredible I'll try to dig it up because we did like a Twitter Q&A with him. Oh, cool. From his office on like the Twitter mirror. But you got to see all this like Red Sox stuff. He loves his Red Sox. Yeah, it was awesome. Now, I will say.

A lot of CFL stuff. Much like yourself. Yeah, he's a big Ticats guy. So, Cam, much like yourself, he listens. He had already heard the Rick Vive episode. Like, I was really impressed. He listens to Toronto Mike,

so that was only like 24 hours earlier that I recorded with Rick Vive. By the way, Rick was great. Like, the stuff I learned

about, you know, Harold Ballard trying, asking, uh, Borge Salming to become captain

and Borge basically knowing that he could say no. why are you calling him Borge? Say it properly for me. Borge. All right, so Borge Salmin. I apologize. Borge? That's like, how did you...

Borge? Borge? What? Borge. Okay. What are you... Borge? Yeah. Borge Salmin. Borge? Borge? Borge? I'll say this. We've talked about Harold Ballard.

I think I've mentioned that I randomly just read the book, Ballard, A Portrait of Canada's Most Controversial Sports Figure by William Houston, which is a book that came out in 1984. I feel like Harold Ballard at some point is almost going to get discovered by younger generations, and there'll be a five part like sports net. Cause some of this stuff is so outrageous in this. And I feel like this happens to a lot of things in culture.

Like right now, like Richard Ramirez, like the night stalkers having a moment. Cause he's on Netflix. Netflix. Like we saw with Ted Bundy. I'm not saying Carol Ballard is sort of on the level of those. But he's a notorious figure.

Like he's a notorious, he may not have been a serial killer, but he's a notorious figure. He may not have been a serial killer, but he was a notorious figure. Or like the O.J. Simpson made it a merit. I'm with you, Cam. All this stuff comes around where younger generations didn't live through this stuff. I doubt there's going to be a Harold Ballard docu-series.

Can we move on, please? Jesus Christ. Stu, have you never heard Borg-Solming? Have you never heard Toronto Mike? This is really the stuff we're all about. Cam, I agree with you 100%. Mute him. The Stewstone podcast

coming soon. Cam Gordon, I agree with you 100%. There's going to be I don't know if it'll be Netflix or it'll be a Canadian thing, but there's going to be some kind of a deep dive into the Harold Ballard era. And it's

coming soon. And when it fucking comes, I'm going to have the receipts. I'll have a lot of the source material. It's going to hit like an anvil. It's coming. I mean, the way he would even just like speak was so out of line how people communicate. The misogyny. I mean, Gord Stel even just like speak was so out of line how people communicate.

The misogyny. The misogyny. I mean, Gord Stelic's going to be in that fucking documentary just singing like a canary. It's going to be amazing. But like also like also an incredibly like charitable fella too. Like a really just kind of polarized dude. As most criminals are. I'm getting shit on the live chat about how I pronounce Borey.

So I apologize. As you should. As you should. You just had Rick Viavi on your show. That was good. Rick was great, by the way. Anyway, I was going to say Harold asked Borey to be captain. And Borey knew that he could say no and not get traded because he was a BFD.

Was it for Al Secord? Who did he get traded for? Was it Ed Olchek? No. Secord was for Olchek. Olchek was the ally of Freddie, I thought. How did we get Secord? Maybe it was Secord.

How did we get Secord? Steve Thomas went from the Leafs to the Blackhawks. Does Cam have another song? All right, here we go. L.A. Frady was for Peter Zezel and Bob Rouse. Oh, big one. That's a big one. Secord and Olchek for Vive and Thomas. That's a fucking blockbuster. Great.

This is in excess. You've got to see me around. In excess? You've got to see me around. Stu, I noticed with this song, you've got to wait for the chorus to remember it because I didn't know it at this point either, and then I heard the chorus, and I'm like, oh, that's that song. It's coming. It's coming.

It's coming. Bail away. That was nice, Cal. And that's the name of the song, Ship of Fools, by the band World Party. You know this one, Stu? No. I haven't heard this. Mike, you remember this, right? This band, I remember, I felt like they were kind of tragically and chronically

underappreciated, at least in this market, because they had a lot of great songs. I thought it was in excess. He sounds like Michael Hutchins. Yeah, he totally does. I never really thought about that, but that's pretty bang on.

I feel like they were one of those weird bands because they weren't quite, they weren't really an 80s band, but they sort of straddled like the 80s and the 90s because i mean this song's from 1987 um had some other hits i remember uh is it like today do you remember that song i mean yeah that this was by far their biggest song. It is a staple of like CFNY and like retro nights. But again, like sort of interesting because I don't think of this as like an 80s song necessarily just because it's I don't know. It's not like it's not like a new wave song. I don't know. But I always like this song. Do you like this song, Mike?

I like it, but I didn't I did not recognize it till the chorus. This is important. I need to get this on the record here you guys can react but it was september 3rd 1987 when the leafs sent ed sorry the leafs sent bob mcgill steve thomas and rick vive all three went to chicago in exchange for ed olchek and al Secord. And I guess of that package, Rick Vibe was the only one who did not come back to the Leafs at some point. So I feel like Bob McGill came back for like a cup of coffee a few years later. Steve Thomas for sure. I can't remember if McGill came back, if you say so. I do also...

Yeah, go ahead. You go ahead. Yeah, I actually had some good fun facts that are sort of less about World Party and more about some stuff around World Party. One thing I didn't realize, and I don't think you guys will care, Carl Wallinger, who's the singer from World Party, I didn't realize this band broke off from the Waterboys. Ah. You remember the Waterboys?

Of course. It was the Hole of the Moon. Of course. That's the hole. And their lead singer, Mike Scott, ah water boys are big it was the whole of the moon of course uh and there they were sleeting or mike scott not to be mistaken with the houston astro great when him and nolan ryan were the two guys there i remember kind of digging that uh digging that lethal also everyone always accused mike scott of cheating like he was scuffing the ball yeah but he was a big fucking deal for a while for sure

um mike i feel like you've featured this list on your website before the top 1002 songs of all time by cfny absolutely so when i was trying to do some research on this song ship of fools um and i googled it i don't know if it's your blog or somewhere came up where one of these top 1,002 songs came up. Now CFNY put out one of these lists in 1991 and they put out another one in 1999. Interestingly, this song in

1991 was 684. Eight years later, it was number 76. Oh my god. And I was trying to think, how did this song make that huge leap in the 90s, considering I don't think World Party was particularly popular in the 1990s? No, I do.

But there is a song by World Party I just want to shine a light on. She's the One. I won't sing it, but it's, you know, she's the one, she's the one. This song... You just said you weren't going to sing it. I know, I did say that. I couldn't help myself. But She's the One is a song I remember from World Party

being somewhat of a big hit. I think they had a song on the Reality Bites soundtrack alongside Stu's friend Lisa Loeb. Oh my god. Yes, dear friend of mine. Yeah. Now, the number one song on that CFNY chart in 1991. Oh, can I guess?

Any guesses? Yeah. How Soon Is Now. That's right. Very, very good. And then followed by Tainted Love, Bela Lugosi's Dead, Love Will Tear Us Apart, and Blue Monday. What do you think was the last song on that chart? Oh, I'm going to guess.

It's going to be something by Blue Peter. Good guess. It's actually something that's not that far from Enya. It was actually Angelo Badalamenti with the Twin Peaks theme. Oh, the Twin Peaks theme. That was a cool jam. Yeah, I guess the instrumental version. Because I think there was a version with like vocals by Julie Cruz

that I feel like actually hit the charts and was famously later sampled by Moby with the song Go. Fucking love it. See, more fun facts, less jams. Just stay with me here. Now we're going to just do another block of fun facts and then we'll be on our way. I love it.

Now, World Party, we've talked a lot about another roadside attraction yes i think yes we have the tragically a package tour world party actually appeared at the second ever concert of the initial another roadside attraction tour this was in van Vancouver. Very interesting lineup. It's at Seabird Stadium in Vancouver. I don't know where that is. Crash Vegas opens. I feel like Michael Barclay or something once kicked out some Crash Vegas. I think so.

He'd be the guy to do it. Crash Vegas, Pear Ubu, World Party, Hot House Flowers. Okay, Pear Ubu, by the way, if people don't know, that's the guy with Geffen, not Geffen, who's the I Don't Like Mondays guy, Bob Geldof. He's kind of the co-conspirator

with Geldof behind all the Live Aid stuff, and do they know it's Christmas and all that shit? No. No? Then who's that guy? Mitch Urie from Ultra... Oh, what name did you say? It's similar peru boo can i edit this is it live fuck this being live this is a bad idea i can see it looks the same

uh i heard it on flowers midnight oil tragically hip now that tour then moved over to the east coast played in markham in uh my and stew's backyard where the lineup totally switched up where I think World Party was still there, Pear Ubu was gone, Head House Flowers was gone, but the Headstones, the Reostatics, a band called Villain Pagane.

I don't know them. Mike and I were just discussing because he was just on the Marc Maron podcast, Daniel Lanois. Who got his Mr. Twitter? Did you know? Who was it? Who is the tragically hit member who lost his verification on Twitter this week and was being quite vocal about it? Paul Langlois.

Paul Langlois. Right. Right. And he's quite upset. He said he went to bed one night with a blue checkmark and he woke up and it was gone. Oh, wow. So do you know anyone who can look into that well okay no i i do because the we we announced this for certain verified accounts if you didn't have certain things in the back end of your account you actually

he would have received a notification saying hey hey verified account a couple things you just need to fix up like you know stew Stone is like a robust Twitter user, so he didn't get this. Mike, you're unverifiable. I'm unverifiable. No problem for you. But yeah, maybe I'll check in with... Okay, let me know what Jack says

or whoever's in charge over there. Okay. Yeah. Are you done your World Party fun facts? I enjoyed the Ship of Fools fun facts. That was good. I bet your brother Bill enjoyed it too. Now, Stu, are you still with us

or did you go for a nap? No, I'm still here. I should go for a nap with this snooze fest. Okay, set up your third and penultimate jam. My mother, Trudy, who is watching and listening right now. Oh, hello, Trudy. This is what she would have picked, this jam. So this is really for her.

So I think, you know, as I win this round, I want to dedicate this victory to my mother, Trudy, who first introduced me to this artist that is going to be my penultimate jam. Please don't you rock my boat Cause I don't want my boat to be rocking anyhow Please don't you rock my boat, no Cause I don't want my boat to be rocking I'm telling you that, oh, oh

I like it, the life of this Can you miss? All right, well, here we go. And you should know When I like it, the life of this Talk to us, Stuart. Well, this is by Bob Marley, of course. It's called Don't Rock My Boat

and I would have to say that of all of the boat artists that you are hearing today I think if you were actually on a boat you probably want to be listening to Bob Marley and just hit play and it doesn't matter which one of his songs come on this one happens to be called Don't Rock My Boat so it definitely

parks its boat on this dock. But I will say that Bob Marley, one of the most celebrated artists, he's one of those guys that literally every song is probably good. You know, it's like, does Bob Marley have a bad song? I can't think of one. And, you know, there's just sort of this mood and this aura that takes over the room and takes over your mind body and spirit when bob marley music is playing i mean it is a scientific fact

you are going to be happier uh just by having bob marley music play you know if you're having a down day bob marley's gonna make you happy uh you know just an incredible artist. And, of course, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Whaler, Bob Marley and the Whalers. Interestingly enough, when Peter Tosh and Bunny Whaler decided not to play with Bob Marley anymore, that's when he became Bob Marley and the Whalers. And, you know, Bunny Whaler wasn't even in the group. So that's kind of interesting. But the story of how he died is pretty crazy too. Do you know how Bob Marley died, Cam?

Are you familiar? Do you need me to blow your mind? I feel like it was cancer. I think it was toe cancer and he treated it holistically instead of what we might do with a doctor and then it spread to his brain pretty pretty dead on there i mean this is a guy that had like a little like fungus under the nail type of toe thing and just sort of ignored it and uh it actually was cancer that was like under his toenail and it was melanoma and uh he refused to get um proper medicine medicine for it because

he's rastafarian and you're not allowed to uh necessarily do this modern medicine stuff you're not allowed to he could have amputated his toe and lived and he decided not to amputate it because they're not allowed to do that either um unfortunately by 1980 it was lights out and uh the world lost bob marley i still say legend by bob marley one of the columbia house 10 albums for one cent oh my god uh legend by bob marley uh the eagles greatest hits saturday night fever soundtrack those are probably the three biggest albums in the history of Columbia House. I got Legend. Maybe Steve Miller Band's

Greatest Hits is another one. I definitely got Legend via the Columbia House offer. Did you guys notice that the Eagles Greatest Hits that everybody was buying off Columbia House did not include, did not include.

What's the big song? Hotel California. Hotel California was not on that particular greatest hit. That's for the best. Yeah, but the teenager in me, we we teenagers really liked hotel california so uh dude all right so there you go bob marley let's move on to mics okay here's a band i think you really like stew i do I sail an ocean, unsettled ocean, through restful waters and deep commotion, often on, sail on.

I rest the waters, fight Neptune's waters, sail through the sorrows of life's parades, unrepenting, often empty. Sail on, sail on, sail on. Unrepentant Often empty Sail on, sail on, sail on The Beach Boys. Sail on, sail on.

That does not sound like the Beach Boys. You know why? Because the lead vocal is Blondie Chaplin. And we're not used to hearing Blondie Chaplin lead vocals. Also, just like the music just doesn't sound like a Beach Boys song. It's quite a departure. Yeah, you're right. It's 1973.

It's from the album Holland. Would you say, Stu, possibly that this is an example of the Beach Boys being a yacht rock innovator? Well, this is probably early for yacht rock, but this is definitely a yachtish song for sure. It's quite yachtish. But yeah, this sounds like a song that's not by the Beach Boys. Just bizarre.

Like, I would never in a million years guess that this is a Beach Boys song if I didn't know that it was one. I feel like it's lead vocals not being like a Wilson. Also the production and the music, the whole vibe of it, it just doesn't have a it was one. I think it's the, I feel like it's the lead vocals not being like a Wilson. Also the production and the music, the whole vibe of it. It just doesn't have a Beach Boys vibe.

Right, right, right, right, right, right. So this, uh,

again, yeah. So as I mentioned, this is, uh, by the way, you can hear this song in the departed, the,

uh, I think that's, I believe that's still Martin Scorsese's only Academy Award winning film, which is kind of surprising in its own right. But, uh, this song, Martin Scorsese is a Academy Award winning film, which is kind of surprising in its own right. But this song... Martin Scorsese's a film director. No, I've actually seen The Departed. Have you seen...

I'm curious, Cam Gordon. Yeah. How many Martin Scorsese films do you think you've seen in your life? If you had to guess. Well, I'll say this first of all. Like, Departed had another song in it that I considered for this episode.

Namely, I'm... Oh, I shouldn't say it in case someone... Was I saying I'm shipping up to Boston by the Dropkick Murphys? Hopefully we're not... Oh, I like Dropkick Murphys, but that has been Hanson.

Yeah. Martin's, of course, Sainz. The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald could Hanson. Just, we'll get to... I don't want to speak to that at this moment I'd rather not speak to that but I do want to speak to the go ahead

the godfather no that's Coppola Francis Ford Coppola goodfellas yes I've seen goodfellas no oh my god there's so many great Scorsese films even recently Goodfellas is a big... Goodfellas? Yes, I've seen Goodfellas. Raging Bull? No. Oh my god, there's so many great Scorsese films. Even recently...

Casino? Right. Casino, yeah. Saw Casino. The part you saw, that's three. Let's try to get to five. Yeah. Wolf of Wall Street? Yeah, I saw that. Didn't care for it. Taxi Driver? Yes, yeah.

There you go. Big Marty guy. Is Mean Streets? Mean Streets is a Martin Scorsese. He hasn't seen Mean Streets, no. Is he China? No. No, no.

No, no. Not China, no. But Scorsese's, I think, I mean, I'm a big Tarantino guy, but you can't argue with Scorsese. Fucking what a director Scorsese is. And even like, I just saw this Netflix special, Fran Lebowitz, Pretend It's a City.

I don't know if any of you have caught that, but it's just like just Marty chatting with Fran Lebowitz for like, I don't know, eight hours or something. And it's surprisingly compelling. Like it's just, she's a humorist and she's a little archaic in some of these ways a bit of a luddite actually but uh it is interesting to hear how she sees the world and how she turns a phrase so i recommend it okay cammy'd like it uh pretend it's a city you and

mf can cuddle yeah mf was watching it it's sort of not my cup of tea not your cup of tea sort of like the dean blendell of documentary series i understand that completely i kicked out this beach boy song which uh i knew it as a young man and then i forgot i knew it and then jim van horn kicked it out several years ago now he was one of the early jam kickers on Toronto Mike. And it kind of went back into my mind and I've been kind of digging it heavily ever since. So shout out to Jim Van Horn, who at some point very publicly announced he was quitting Twitter.

And unlike most people who announced they're quitting Twitter, Jim really did. Like he completely did. Like most people do that. And then in a couple of weeks, they're back on Twitter. I've noticed, okay. Do Charlie Angus

amongst other people. But Jim Van Horn quit Twitter and this was one of his favorite songs of all time, Sail on Sailor. And shout out to Sloop John B because that's a song that is definitely getting hands in tonight. It's a much, I think it's a more popular Beach Boys song.

First mate, he got drunk. Also on the first, on one of those uh we i think we talked about this recently one of the uh variety village blue j albums hang on blue jays blue jays hang on i think that my pre-date it was it was a problem one of the problematic songs oh no no i'm thinking of something else you're thinking of uh one of the homer yeah but who dat singer who dat singer correct that is because he goes into a south asian accent Oh, no, no. I'm thinking of something else. You're thinking of one of the Homer... Yeah, but... Who Dat Singer. Who Dat Singer, correct.

Because he goes into a South Asian accent and he's not South Asian. I was an age girl. Right, you can't do that. You can't do that, right, Stu? Also, help us, Mookie. Help, help us, Mookie. Help us, Mookie, yeah.

Yeah, I can't hit that note. And we're going off to Redmondton when red wings fly away. Red rubber ball. Chief cut. Oh my god. Cam, we're on your final jam, your ultimate jam.

Do you have anything to say before I press play? No, I don't know why I thought that was so... the Edmonton... Well, that's a deep cut and you're on the right show for that. It was like the second round

of the playoff. This is going to be incredible. Leafs were going to get out of the Norris division or the Snor snores division how they bore us in the norris we used to say yeah no i i have no thoughts although we did uh mike as you and i discussed we did hear this band last week but i'd say the song we heard last week and this song were probably my two favorite jams from this band so let let her rip so sorry it's over so sorry it's over

there's so much more that i wanted and there's so much more that I needed and Time keeps moving on and on and on So I'll be gone Let's take some time to talk this over You're out of line and really sober We can't depend on your excuses Cause in the end, it's useless Well, the name of this song is Man Overboard, which is something one says when they're on a boat

and a man or a woman, I guess, perhaps. But you don't say man overboard when a woman goes overboard. Probably not. But you might say it, and it would probably be inappropriate. But I got to just show you out, Cam, and I see on the chat here that uh ian agrees with you but i think this is one of the very best blink 182 songs yeah i love this song i feel like this and uh adam's song that we heard i kicked it out last week yeah we're sort of

consecutive and in sort of the release schedule in terms of singles um so yeah this song was actually from the greatest hits it's interesting this song i didn't realize this was a single from a live album even though this is not a live song i guess it was like a bonus track is that legal like can you put out a studio version for a bonus track on a live album oh they they fucking did it those renegades yeah now blink 182 from Poe California, which is part of San Diego. So here's our geography lesson. Other famous folks that are from this part of San Diego.

Here's a warning. So tune out if you're not a sports fan. A shitload of baseball players and some good ones here. But a couple of non-baseball players. We got Lorenzo Lamas, who I think was like soap opera. Yeah, he was a hunk that people were... Days of Our Lives or something?

Was it Falcon Crest? Maybe Falcon Crest? Gorgeous guy. He's hot, right? Stu, he's hot, right? Total Stu. Like this next guy, I believe Stu and I or sorry, Stu and this next gentleman are good pals.

Bobby Lee, the comedian. Bobby Lee, sure. Yeah, kicking it old school. Yeah, I feel like I've seen some photos of you and Bobby Lee. Wow. And then a litany of incredible baseball players. I'll just go through these really quickly. Dave Justice.

Wow. He's in the World Series. We got Phil Nevin. Oh, yeah. Phil Nevin. First number one overall pick. Another one of Cam's hyped prospects that never really turned into anything. Upper deck 95.

That was a hot card. Right. Do you remember the man named Bruno who destroyed the Jays season in 1990 when he made an infamous sliding catch to clinch the Red Sox, the American League's title. Tom Bernanski? Tom Bernanski, that's right. The twins, right? Yeah. We got Jeremy Burnett. You remember that guy?

Sure, yeah. Cleveland Indians for maybe a cup of coffee. Yeah, and a couple more. We got the manager of the San Francisco Giants, Bruce Bochy. The Bocher. Yeah. And then we got – this one's sad because I always forget this guy's no longer with us and left us quite a long time ago, Tony Gwynn. Yeah, he left us far too soon.

Cam Brito in the chat. Is John Allerud – Tony Gwynn was from San Diego and played in San Diego? That's pretty remarkable. Yeah, and I remember when he played, it was kind of a hometown hero thing. And he played there his whole career. That guy,

the batting average in his career is just mind-boggling to think of. I think the ball just slowed down for him. I don't know if you remember, not to like talk about like another man's body um he's a bit like a kirby pocket yeah like he really he he was like quite

like a speedster when he he showed and he's just you know as as we all do got sort of a bit more larger uh as well you haven't yet but some of us have yes i'm yeah yeah like right to the end his final season like he's a late 30s he's still hitting like 312 or something and it was unacceptable to him his standards were so high like 312 fuck that i'm retiring like i can't embarrass myself batting 312 i remember he had a brother who briefly played chris gwynn i remember his son played right didn't his son play or am i is there a gwynn jr right tony gwynn. I remember his son played, right? Didn't his son play? Or am I, is there a Gwynn? Yeah, Tony Gwynn Jr. Tony Gwynn Jr.

Right, Tony Gwynn Jr. Okay. There is a question from Cambrio on the chat. He wants to know, he says, wasn't John Allarude from there, but he didn't come up in your search, I take it. I think he was from the Pacific Northwest. Was he not?

Oh, like Portlandia? Well, I thought when he went to Seattle, he signed there as a free agent that was partially because he was from that area am i wrong oh and by the way we've discovered why we can't uh narrow down we can't reduce the size of the the live stream here is because somebody posted a very long url which is forcing well that was me when they were making fun of my headset so don't do that anymore okay it well just so everyone knows, if you had it in your mind,

I was saying this is the look I'm going for. It was like Madonna with the cone-shaped bra on the headset on the Blonde Ambition shirt. Or just get short in that URL. Maybe there's still some short URL. Bit.ly. Bit.ly is still out there. Or at least get hyphens in there

and it'll automatically wrap. Okay. So great choice, man overboard. And yes, absolutely, there must be a boat involved for a man to be overboard. Yeah. in there and it'll automatically wrap okay so uh great choice man overboard and yes absolutely there must be a boat involved for a man to be overboard yeah okay stew your final jam what would you say like to say about it before i kick it um i would like to say this has been a horrible topic but i've done a really great job with it. It's a great topic. I know that you played a Beach Boys song earlier. Did you not?

I did, yes. I did. I actually want to tell you that of all the songs that I could have played, this one is specifically written for you, Mr. Toronto. This is specifically written for you, boone absolutely uh this is dedicated to you and this is what i think about your topic it's actually in the lyrics to the song okay what i think about your topic all right go ahead here we go Macarons Macarons, boat ashore, hallelujah

Macarons, boat ashore, hallelujah Hallelujah. Michael Rowe, the photo show. Hallelujah. Michael Rowe, the photo show. Hallelujah. Michael Rowe, the photo show. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Row your boat ashore Hallelujah Sister help the dream to sail

Michael, Michael, Michael please row your boat ashore and get off the fucking water hopefully we will have better topics in the future but this is the Beach Boys singing Michael Boone, Row Your Boat Ashore, Get Off the Water. An old Civil War song covered by many artists over the years, including the great boys from the beach. The Beach Boys.

Michael, Row the Boat Ashore. Not to be confused with Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore, which was covered by the great Raffi. I don't know if you're familiar with Raffi. Of course. I was raised on Raffi. Raffi did a hell of a version of this song. Let's just go

right into some mind blows. I've got two mind blows when it comes to Michael Row Your Boat Ashore, or Michael Row The Boat Ashore. Here's a nice one. This one's for Cam, the Cam version. I think that's gentle. Michael Rowe, the Bodashore.

Hallelujah. Michael Rowe, the Bod ashore Hallelujah Michael rode the boat ashore Hallelujah Sister Wow, this is hard-hitting stuff. Real edgy shit. Not only do we have Peter on this song, not only do we have Paul on this song, but Mary joined as well.

Right. Peter, Paul, and Mary doing Michael Rowe, The Boat Ashore. You familiar with Peter, Paul, and Mary? Oh, my God. Puff the Magic Dragon. Absolutely. Yeah. So they also charted with this song. Wow. Did you say this song was from the Civil War? Well, it's first noted during the American Civil War at St. Helena Island, one of the sea islands of South Carolina.

The best-known recording was released in 1960 by U.S. folk band The Highwaymen. Their version briefly reached number one in status as a single. I'm Alan Cross. I was there. Technical production by Rob Johnston. Number one, its status as a single. I'm Alan Cross. I was there. Technical production by Rob Johnston. It's a pretty fucking old song. Now Cam played a Harry Belafonte song to open up the show,

which you claimed was a boat song. I guess it is called Banana Boat. It's a boat song. That's not even Harry Belafonte's best boat song. Because do you hear how boring and mundane the Peter, Paul, and Mary version of this song is? And how boring and mundane the Beach Boys version? And how vanilla? And the water is very calm and smooth.

How about if we were to, like, turn up, get into a speedboat, and really pump things up? How about if Harry Belafonte himself... himself. Do you the boat ashore. Hallelujah. Can you hear me? Yeah. I'll be damned if Neil Diamond didn't listen to this song and create his whole sound of his vocals off of this. This sounds like Neil Diamond.

Who was kicked out yesterday by Steve Paikin. Here, turn it up. Is this Neil Diamond or what? What? Steve Paikin. Here, turn it up. Is this Neil Diamond or what? What? I can hear some similarities. Yeah, I mean, maybe not on that

second verse, but you've got Michael not Michael, Perry Belafonte Michael Rowe the boat of shore, hallelujah this fucking topic is over hallelujah you know, we'll just

accept your opinion you're entitled to it, but Cam and I I definitely just dunked on Cam's first pick with that market corrected right, now I'm I definitely just dunked on Cam's first pick with that. Like, market corrected, my pick. Right.

Now, I'm... Who doesn't like Banana Boat? Like, no, that song sucks. I think this is a strong topic because... Like, our fucking Prime Minister loved it so much. He donned blackface, he loved it so much. That's a lot of love in his heart right there. It's a man who leads this country.

This topic is great because it allowed me... I kicked out one of my favorite tragically hip songs nautical disaster i got to kick out enya's orinoco flow which has been like like lovingly haunting me for decades i got to kick out a great beach boy song and now my i have a mind blow too this is a twofer i could have kicked out either but i'm gonna start with this one and then i'm gonna mind blow too this is a twofer i could have kicked out either but i'm going to start with this one and then i'm going to mind blow with the other here we go oh good one fotm's in this one correct this is There is an FOTM in this jam. Correct. Let it just... Great album.

Yeah. Is it Melville? Melville, yeah. Yeah. Just let it just soak, just wash over you. The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy With a load of iron ore, 26,000 tons more Than the Edmund Fitzgerald we've kept

Sometimes more Than the Edmund Fitzgerald We've left to be That good ship and crew Was a bone to be chewed In the gales of November Come early The ship was the pride Of the American side

Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin as big freighters go it was bigger than most with a crew and a captain well seasoned all right here's what I'm going to do I'm going to come out of the real statics so this is the real statics of course

Dave Bedini's in FOTM and it's a great version. But here's the version you're all hoping for. The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down At the big lake they call Kitchagoolie Wow. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies are dark and the river clear

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. And there was no way I was going to let this song get Hanson. And of all the boat jams, we were going to play some Gordy here. Now, of course, this is a 1976 song. And it's about the sinking of the bulk carrier ss edmund fitzgerald it uh sunk on uh lake superior on november 10th 1975 uh he took his inspiration so the uh the great gordon lightfoot read a uh newsweek article about it called theelest Month. And that was what kind of inspired this epic song,

which was number one in Canada. I'm just going to see how it fared in the U.S. So, okay, it peaked at number... Who wants to guess? It was a good showing. It didn't hit number one. But who wants to guess? Six.

Six is a good guess. I'd say like 14. That's a good showing. It didn't hit number one. But who wants to guess? Six. Six is a good guess. Say like 14. That's a good guess too. It reached number two on the US Billboard Hot 100. It's a pretty fucking weird song to go to number one if you think about it. It kind of reminds me of nautical disaster in that it just sort of goes like waves against the rocks. It just sort of kind of comes at you in these waves. It's not structured

typically. I don't know what you guys think of this song, but I find it haunting. I actually don't get tired of it and I find it just something about the way he captures that historical event that I find hauntingly beautiful.

I mean, as big freighters go, it's bigger than most. Yeah, I don't know. I think if we've learned anything based on these, what, 12 jams we've heard today, is that boats are either fucking awesome, we're either sailing away and having a great time, or we're fucking dying at sea. Right. Or there's a nautical disaster, man overboard. Right. You know, the the wreck the boat wrecks no you're absolutely right was actually part of like the educational curriculum of public school i feel like i mean i remember i know in public school

even in like seventh or sixth or seventh grade i remember the teacher playing us this song and we had to write a report on it and we had to take it home and then we had to learn the song and it sort of was like Flanders Fields type shit. We had to learn about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald song and Gordon Lightfoot is no laughing matter. I mean, people maybe make fun of Gordon

Lightfoot, but fuck those people because he's the man. Who's fucking making fun of him? I want to know what names. Well, I can name names. Ian Service is one. Brother Neil. Al Grego. Andy Pandy.

Cam, did you know that Nash the Slash had a version of this song as well? No. And Nash the Slash, he was on. I tweeted it earlier this week because we had a snow storm a couple of days ago. Was that yesterday? Doug and the Slugs? I love Doug and the Slugs. Doug Bennett.

So yesterday we had snow and I tweeted Snow Removal Machine, which of course is Freddie P from the Humble and Fred show but pre-Humble and Fred, he did this cover version called the Snow Removal Machine and I believe i'm pretty sure uh on that song is nash the slash really i i actually i actually spoke to nash the slash before he passed away for something again that this is when i was starting my

freelance writing days uh yeah like a real a real character like really unique story that that's sort of another guy there's someone's trying to make a national slash documentary right now i keep seeing stuff about it on uh the social media similar to our raven girl friend and that's right in our wheelhouse too like national slash like can i can i share an anecdote of course my parents uh you know in non-covid times will spend a lot of time in florida and it's probably the last concert they ever saw was uh gordon lightfoot in like saint petersburg or something wow and i remember my dad was telling me about it and my dad's pretty blunt like i am he's like yeah it's a lot old fogies and stuff and it's like yeah it's like you're in your 70s so you're coming the demo but he said there was a lady in front of them who's really annoying who she said was dressed like a biker and the second gordon lightfoot this is

like two years ago the second gordon lightfoot came on stage she stood up and said daddy give me some of those sounds it's like a Gordon Lightfoot concert full of retirees, my dad was like, what the fuck is this all about? He said he thinks she was high on something. I bet she was. She was high on Gord. That's amazing. One of the sounds that 80-year-old Gordon Lightfoot provides,

who's not a master of the death hoax, too. Oh, famously, he heard about his own death when he was driving in the, what's that called? The bridal path. I think that's where he lives. But he was driving along and he heard about his own death. Can I just say that when the COVID's gone and they finally, they reopen Massey Hall, which has been undergoing this huge refurbishing renovation uh regeneration

whatever you call it uh the very first concert of course when it does come back and it's going to be fucking huge it's going to be Gordon Lightfoot yeah that's that seems like a no-brainer the only other person I could think of might be Neil Young and that's a no-brainer Gordon Lightfoot because he's played Massey Hall more than anyone else on the planet. So for sure. He was the final concert there too. Yes, he was the final

one there too. And besides, I think our FOTM Dave Hodge is on the committee so we're going to make this happen. But okay, so we heard Real Statics

who's a great Canadian band. Nash the Slash did a cover of Wreck of the Endman Fitzgerald. Another band, we should just shout them out. Not quite an FOTM, but maybe one day.

The Headstones did a cover of this very recently. Early 2019, you might have heard the Headstones version of Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. And on that note... Jesus Christ. Can this be over now?

This is like, what a nightmare This was a fine episode, I had fun I enjoyed it, the great boat jams If we missed any big boat jams, let us know I know that Falco had a big jam with Titanic and I considered putting it on, but when you're down to four jams, where's the room, right?

It's really tight I smell a part two Maybe a part three And remember guys the whole idea of doing four instead of five jams Where's the room, right? It's really tight. I smell a part two, maybe a part three. Oh, yeah, yeah. And remember, guys, the whole idea of doing four instead of five jams was, as I envisioned it,

being a tight two hours. It didn't work. Maybe we need to do three songs. Total. Send in your feedback. Did you like the four versus the three? Let me know.

Mike at TorontoMike.com. I'm always interested in your feedback. Thanks, guys, thanks guys though this was great i can't wait to do this again next week awesome awesome thank you as always and uh enjoy enjoy tampa and that and that that brings us to the end of our 790 second show you can you can follow me on twitter i'm at toronto mike oh the people in the live.torontomike.com chat are begging us to do three they say keep do three jams not four no i agree i agree by the way our uh stew you're at stew stone people should follow Stu definitely please do

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