Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Brian Gerstein KOTJ: Toronto Mike'd #304

Episode Date: February 1, 2018

Mike chats with Property in the Six's Brian Gerstein about Milos, the Expos and TMI before they play and discuss his ten favourite songs.

Hey, I'm not a famous sportscaster like Dave Hodge or a musician like Andy Mays who rocks really cool glasses. The closest contact I've even had with any of Mike's guests is having lunch with Nelson Millman and taking Howard Berger to a Leafs game. I don't even live in the 6th, Thornhill actually, but I know how to sell Toronto real estate. I don't know Steven or Damien from Hamilton, although I'm sure they're both real nice. Well, I know Steven is. When I say the word Mary and the name Mary, they sound different, because I came here from Montreal. The Raptors are my favourite Toronto sports team. Thanks to Mighty Mouse, Air Canada and Oak. I am ready to see

Kyle and Damar lead us to the NBA Finals and I'm okay to get whipped by the Warriors. My name is Brian and I am here to kick out the jams. Thank you. Welcome I'm from Toronto where you wanna get city love I'm a Toronto Mike, you wanna get city love My city love me back, for my city love Welcome to episode 304 of Toronto Mike'd A weekly podcast about anything and everything

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spot. Download the app today from paytm.ca. I'm Mike from torontomike.com and joining me this week to kick out the jams is propertyinthSix.com's Brian Gerstein. Welcome, Brian. Thanks for having me in, Mike. My pleasure. That opening, that O Canada, is so timely because I noticed as I listened, it was gender neutral. Correct. So it's like you knew that was coming. Yeah, very excited about the change. My wife was very happy to make the

announcement to me last night, and we're all in accord with two daughters at home that it was the right way to go. Hey, it makes sense. Make it gender neutral. To me, it's a no-brainer. But thanks for doing this. You are in a tough spot because the last person who kicked out the jams

is a guy named Dave Hodge. Who's that? Never heard of him. And as you might know, you listened, right? I did, the whole episode. A lot of people listened to that episode. He actually listed his 100 favorite songs, and we kicked out the top 10. And the man has been to approximately

one trillion live concert events in his lifetime. And I was thinking, okay, who's going to follow that? Who goes next? You know what I mean? It's like, who's going to replace Bob McCowen on Primetime Sports? And I'm like, I got to throw somebody to the wolves here. I'm going to get Brian in here. Yeah, I definitely... Interesting to follow Mr. Hodge,

because it's literally the point where you're dumbing it down to such a low basic level that it's almost like the exact opposite. We're in a total Star Trek reverse galaxy here situation. Listen, another sponsor kicked out

the jams once, owner of Great Lakes Brewery, and his first jam was Pitbull. So I think you're fine. I think you're going to do just fine. By the way, I had a quick chat with Paulie Morris. He was a long time, Hits

97.7 from St. Catharines. He was there forever. I always listen to that station, great station. Yeah, and he helped build that station, and sadly he's no longer there, but I was chatting with him because he's going to come on this show. And it's funny because as I DM'd him,

he goes, what a coincidence, he goes, I'm right now listening to Dave Hodge kick out the jam. So that's how popular the Dave Hodge jam kick, and I'm sure yours will be just as popular. What did you think when Brian Williams was here? Brian Williams, sadly, won't be in South Korea,

should be. When he was here, he saw your picture in your popular pint glass and he said you look like Donald Trump. Yeah, I have to say that was a very, very, not quite the start I was looking for. I've gotten Stephen Harper in the past, as far as I look like. I've gotten, who's the guy from Independence Day?

The main character there. Oh, Goldblum? Not Goldblum, no, the other guy. Oh, Bill, is it Bill? Bill Pullman. Pullman. Yeah, I used to get Bill Pullman a lot. You know, it's mainly my hairstyle, which, you know, it's still holding up pretty well, you know, showing a few cracks in the foundation.

And that's exactly how you wore it when the Expos had the best record in baseball prior to the lockout. That was 94, yes. You had the same hairstyle. Probably, yes. Because I need to tell everybody, you're rocking, no pun intended, actually the pun is totally intended, you're rocking a Tim Raines jersey, Montreal Expos jersey. I am. And I'm actually wearing a T-shirt underneath it, which is from the Hall of Fame

when I went to see Raines get inducted. And it has all the past and present Montreal Expos Hall of Famers. So when we take our selfie after this, I got to make sure... My arm's only so long, but I got to get back enough that we can get in at least the Expos logo for sure.

That's very cool. That's great that you went. You're such a big fan. You traveled to Cooperstown to watch the induction. I did, and I really enjoyed it. And Vlad Guerrero, who's going to be coming in next year, this summer, he's coming in wearing an Angels cap, which was a bit of a bone of contention for me personally. But at the same time, I get it.

They actually have a team, unlike the Montreal. But why does the Hall leave it up to the athlete? To me, they're only going to choose what's best for maybe them financially. To me, that decision should not rest with the player. It should be up to the Hall. Yeah, actually, the way it works, they actually updated their rules not too long ago. I think I'm correct on this.

If it is kind of a borderline arrangement, you can make a case either way, either Expos cap or Angels cap, then they leave it to the player and they take that into consideration. If it's something that's beyond, like, Wade Boggs, he was the reason why he went in as a Tampa Bay cap, you know, back then. That kind of was a wake-up call for Major League Baseball saying, this is ridiculous, this guy's cashing in, he was bought out for that. So, you know, they kind of give a little latitude, but for Major League Baseball, saying, this is ridiculous. This guy's cashing in. He was bought out for that.

So they kind of give a little latitude, but it's not all the way. Like Gary Carter and Andre Dawson both wanted to go in, respectively, as a Met and a Cub. And they said, no, you're going in as an Expo. Good. No, good, good, good. By the way, I'm only familiar with Junior when you talk about Vlad. Oh.

Sorry. I don't know the senior. Number three prospect and top hitting prospect. He's going to be unbelievable. I'm glad that you mentioned Guerrero because the next guest is Keegan Matheson who covers the Blue Jays for Sportsnet.

And I'm going to just, basically, I'm going to make him talk about those top two prospects that the Jays have come in. The sons of former major leaguers. Both of them. And that Guerrero, for example,

I mean, I don't want to get, you know, you get your hopes up, like, yeah, this blue chip is coming and sometimes, you know, what happened, things happen, injuries, life, whatever. But I can, I'm okay. Like, I think that this season, which I don't think the Jays will contend

for a playoff spot, I don't think. I am sort of okay with that because I can't wait the Jays will contend for a playoff spot, I don't think. I am sort of okay with that because I can't wait till Vladi Jr. shows up. Yeah, I agree. And he may come up as a call-up late in the year. Who knows what's going to happen? The main thing is, like, let the kid develop naturally. Let's not put too much pressure on him.

You know, he's got the skills. He's got the tutelage, the background, the athletic genes. He will make it happen. But let's just give the kid a break. Well, these scouting reports are off the charts. They're just there to just get you going crazy. Oh, it's insane, man. And the funny thing is, just a little story about his dad.

His dad was a famous hitter who could literally hit a ball like bouncing and then make contact with it. He was a bad ball hitter, but not just a bad ball hitter, but he would hit it for power and hit it incredibly well. Okay. So he rarely even straightened a strike out much, even with that. But his son is literally a patient hitter. He's a power hitter. He's kind of like the Joey Votto type in a way I can see him developing into. And that's quite, you know, a compliment to pay him at this stage of his young career. No, I absolutely cannot wait. Cannot wait.

By the way, not only did Brian Williams say you look like Donald Trump, and for the record, and people will see in the selfie, you don't look like Donald Trump at all. Thank you. Far more Bill Paxton. Pullman. Oh my God, Bill's passed away too. The Paxton's passed away, that's right.

By the way, I'm not the first one to confuse the Bills. I think that's a common confusion. Bill Pullman, yes, far more Bill Pullman than Donald Trump. Elvis, my buddy, thought it was Gerstein, not Gerstein. And then he got me thinking, how come? Please, for the record, I need to know. Why is it sometimes like Albert Einstein and then sometimes it's Brian Gerstein? Like, is there a rule of thumb for when it's Stein versus Steen? I don't think there really is. My actual name going back by grandparents where it came from originally,

it wasn't even Gerstein, it was Gerstein-Onovich or some elongated name that was cut down to a more reasonable facsimile. So I don't know the reason why. I mean, I just know that Shapiro, Shapiro, that still drives me nuts. Well, that's because this is the first time we've heard Shapiro. Like, we've only heard Shapiro forever. From OG's lawyer to Todd Shapiro, we've only heard Shapiro. And all of a sudden, he threw this, dare I say, he threw a curveball with the Shapiro.

Oh, well. So it's Gerstein, not Gerstein, and I told Elvis so. Yeah, in Montreal, I have to say, growing up, it never once was I called Gerstein, and it's only recently in Toronto it's come up a few times. You just blame Albert Einstein. That's who you blame for that one. By the way, I have to say props to you.

So, you're here for the first time. And thank you, by the way. Thank you for being a sponsor of this program. You stepped up, like, what is it, the Hair Club for Men? Who's the guy who bought the company is it actually yeah gillette the owner of the um victor kayam back then the former owner of the patriots right uh so he he believed in the product so much he bought the company and you're right

there so thank you for that if i please don't let me forget to thank you for sponsoring my pleasure look this this is really it was born out of love, passion. We had basically DM'd and Twitter'd each other to death, you know, for the years. And it just felt like such a natural fit for me. It was very organic. It always has been. Everything has come together, all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. And I just want to give a little shout out to Scott, who's, you know, listening, he told me. And I'm going to be helping him out with a Midtown rental.

So he's one of the guys who I met for your show. So thank you for that. No, that's great. And Scott, good for you. Everyone else, I mean, your plug hasn't come yet, but I'm going to tell everybody listening anyways

that if you're in the market to buy or sell in the GTA in the next six months, you go to propertyinthesix.com, you reach out to Brian. He'll tell you about Vlad Sr. And then you can listen to the next episode

of Toronto Mike to hear about Vlad Sr. And I do have a big announcement that was announced at my sales meeting this morning on a new development project in Queen West. So hang in there for that. Yeah, Queen West.

Cool. Lots of development. I'm telling you, they're going to close this Campbell's Soup factory that you might be able to smell when you go to your car after this episode.

You can smell the tomato soup. And I don't know what the plans are when they vacate, when Campbell's vacates. But I don't know what the plans are when they vacate, when Campbell's vacates, but I don't know. I just envision they'll probably rezone it or something.

You know what would be fun, Mike? If we can go on a bike ride, not in this winter weather, which I commend you for, and go through a smell ride. Tell me, take me to all the places that have great smells. I wish you were here a few years ago

when the Christie, Mr. Christie, at Parkland, you know, that was the smells. I wish you were here a few years ago when the Christy, Mr. Christy, Parkland. That'd be amazing. That was the, when I was a kid growing up, that was the smell. Well, excluding the terrible stockyard smell at St. Clair and Keogh. The pigs. It's funny because my son, I say it a lot, but he plays at George Bell Arena, which is right there where it stunk so bad when I was a kid.

You had to hold your nose when you were going by the stockyards. But Mr. Christie plant, what a great smell. We will do that bike tour because the rail path takes you to Sterling and Dundas where the Nestle Chocolate Factory is. And the smell of chocolate is so strong when you come out of there. But glad you mentioned bike riding. And I'm all over the place here. So I was going to say, you're making your first appearance,

but we have heard your voice on so many episodes of Toronto Mic'd. And I just want to say how much better you got because I remember you debuted with Jill Deacon from the CBC. And it was... That's an embarrassment about the spelling of her name.

I'm still living that one down. No, it was a great question about like the Paris Accord. But I realized as I asked the, as you asked the question and I saw her face that it was way too early to have such a hard hitting question, such a heavy question. And then we had,

you adapted and your questions since then have become better and better for that. That Diana Swain question about the, her son playing a house league and her watching for the last time sparked the most fast, just such a great conversation. Like you've become so much better at that. If you notice on that one, I actually gave you two options. You know, one was light completely.

The other one was a little bit more serious, an Olympian kind of question. So that's maybe an angle to come through. It takes me literally two minutes to come up with, so I happy to do it no it's great it's great by the way uh you mentioned biking and i want to just tell everyone listening that this past summer because you live in thornhill as you said off the top uh you you drove not road but you drove here and we went on a one of my regular routes this was not a snowy day this was a nice summer day and we did i think it was like 32 kilometers but it was like humber trail and waterfront trail it was like just a great ride amazing and i just want to say uh i realized as

i was sort of like telling you things on the tour like here's this here's that this is where this happened and hurricane hazel this whatever I realized like how much fun it is to give somebody like a bike tour. You literally could be working your own side business. This is a passion project. I say you can get like six or 10 riders with you each time.

You have a little like set destination, you know, in mind, a few breaks along the way. You can charge like 20 bucks a pop. 20, can I? This is a great idea. And you can tell people, I mean, I think

we averaged something like I want to say 23 kilometers an hour maybe or something like that. Like it was, I don't think it's an intimidating speed, but whenever there was a moment we took a St. Mark's Hill, which is a very steep hill, and I noticed you walked up it, which is no shame in that. But I am

happy to wait. Like I can reduce the speed. But it was a lot of fun. So thanks for... And just a shout out to Mike. If you ever need your bike repaired, he handled that no problem. Oh, yeah.

I'm good at minor repairs too. That's right. You did have a bike repair. So let's talk briefly about this guy. Listen to this clip I brought. Another game for Milos! So that Milos guy. So I should tell people

you're a big Raptors fan, but you're also a big tennis fan. Huge. Massive. In fact, Davis Cup right now, I'm incredibly pumped for it. I like Canada's chances because Marin Cilic is not going to be playing the first singles match. So anyone that follows tennis, very exciting. Canada has a chance to upset Croatia

and advance to the next round. I like the Davis Cup and the whole idea of upsetting, but I don't understand the Davis Cup. I don't understand. You play a country, and then what? Where's this March Madness grid

I can look at to see? You know what I mean? And then when does it ever end? Does it just keep going? Eventually, do two countries play for the championship? They do. They do annually. And the interesting part is that you have to basically play and win a certain match to get into the, like, stay in the world group zone, which is like the top 16 nations.

And Canada has survived that a few times, very close calls. and it's very important because you don't want to get relegated and end up playing on the clay service in South America where the people basically throw batteries

at you and piss water and you whatever the hell they want. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah. So we're, okay, so thanks to Daniel Nestor's

illustrious doubles career or whatever, we've managed to stay in the top 16 most of the time, right? He's retiring, by the way. This is last.

Well, he is 66 years old. I watched him upset Stefan Edberg. I'm pretty sure... I don't even... I was a kid when I was watching that. Like, that's a long time ago that Nestor's been playing. Yeah, he's 45,

so you can count these years. Jogger's age. Now he can go play in the Czech Republic, like Jarmer. So I played the Milos clip because am I allowed to tell the Milos story

or is this all through it? Yeah, you can tell the connection. I mean, I can tell how I met the family and friends of the family. And, you know, with Milos, I'm actually going to the U.S. Open. Very excited about. And his dad will hook me up with tickets. So, you know, that, you know, fantastic situation. Very excited. Am I allowed to say that you had a discussion with Milos' father about Milos kicking out the jams?

Yes. Like, I don't have to censor this. No, no, no, not at all. No, no. I forward him everything that's involved in doing it. Now, Milos, he's at the point now

where he needs to stay healthy. And I think a very good 2018 year, which I fully expect to happen once he gets his fitness up, and he comes back at the end of the season, so we're looking at, you know, November, like December period,

that would be a perfect time to get him to come in here. My fear, of course, is the low ceilings. Milos, how tall is he? Six-five and a bit. He's got to stay healthy, right? He does. He's going to concuss himself down here,

and it's going to just totally... By the way, is he ever going to win a major? Is he taking a step back? His dad's not listening. Yeah, no, it's okay. His dad's not listening for sure. I believe he will, and the reason why is because just by his age,

because the young guys that are coming up haven't proven themselves in their early 20s yet in majors, and Roger Federer can't keep going forever. And Miloš is only turning 28, and he's entering his prime. He's got the power game to do it, and I think he will pull at least one major. It's going to be likely either the

Australian Open, the U.S. Open, or Wimbledon. He won't be able to win on clay, unfortunately. Not his surface. But that Roger Federer, speaking of Jager and Nestor, he's going to play until he's 45. You know, I go sometimes with the little ones, particularly

actually, although I did it last weekend with my two daughters, we'll just like on a cold morning, like Saturday or Sunday, we'll go to Sherway Gardens just to walk. It's like a figure eight, and we'll just do a walk because it's summer to walk, it's warm. And there's a coffee shop in the Sherway Gardens with a giant life-size cutout of Roger Federer at the door.

And so it's been there for a long time too, years I'd say. And if you ask my daughters, the one that will actually know what you said, she'll tell you that I say hi to Roger every time we loop by him. I wave and say hi, Roger. So Roger's at Sherway Gardens if anyone wants to see. Interesting.

Yeah. Okay. So Expos Jersey, are the Expos ever coming back to Montreal? I know you had Elia Preysan and you had a little... My question was about that very topic as well. I believe it will happen once behind the scenes, and it's all happening, when the ownership kind of gets settled

and they get the ability to announce the new downtown park. That's going to happen. And I do expect that to happen within the next, I would say, five to ten years. I think that's a reasonable time frame. That's exciting. Yeah. I think I'll be alive in ten years. That's my plan anyways.

That's exciting. That's exciting. I want to play a teaser here. So since my last episode was recorded with Diana Swain, by the way, I made the decision. I couldn't get out of my head. I don't have OCD, but I don't know what this was. But I told her I have to play Dirty Diana off the top. And I played the decision. I couldn't get out of my head. It was almost, I don't have OCD, but this is like, I don't know what this was, but I told her I have to play Dirty Diana off the top. And I played Michael Jackson.

And I listened back. And then somebody told me it was cringy. And then I now regret it. But I couldn't help myself. I just felt like if you have Diana coming in, you got to play Dirty Diana. She didn't seem to mind. But anyway, in the same vein,

I had this idea that every weekday morning, since I have all this equipment in my home, maybe as I sip my morning coffee, I should go and do like one take, like three to five minutes of sort of information people, I think people need to know as they start their day. And then I said, I need to call this TMI, Toronto Mic Insider. And I couldn't get this idea out of my head. So I'm now like, I've now set up the feeds. This is happening. People can subscribe now. The first episode, according to my plan, will drop on Valentine's Day, which is coming up in a couple of weeks.

But let me play for everybody the TMI teaser. I'm Mike, host of Toronto Mic'd, and I'm here to share some exciting news. I'll be launching a weekday morning podcast called TMI. TMI stands for Toronto Mic'd Insider. And each episode will be approximately five minutes. This daily collection of timely news you should know will debut in February 2018. So visit torontomic.com slash TMI to subscribe today peace and love my friends peace and love why couldn't i just do a live read why am i playing

a clip of myself brian what's going on here i'm not going to play a clip from you although we did do the okan in a bit i urge people listening listening to Toronto Mic right now to subscribe to this new project at torontomic.com slash TMI. Get on the ground floor. If you hate it, just unsubscribe. I have no idea how this is going to turn out, but it's in my head and I can't get it out. So it's happening Valentine's Day. Question for you. TMI.

TMI. I think TMI, too much information. Correct. Obviously, you thought about that over before you went with for you. TMI. TMI. I think TMI, too much information. Correct. Obviously, you know, you thought about that over before you went with that, the TMI.

Is that because it is a three to five minute brief podcast that you did that? It's not TMI. No, it's not TMI. It's Toronto Mic'd Insider. But TMI,

I kind of like the duality of it. Yeah, it's not TMI at all. No. That's the stuff I'm going to be telling you. And these items, it'll be like,

it could be an international thing. It could be a local thing. It is definitely curated by me for a Toronto audience. But these five items, which will be different every day, are going to be a variety. But I even have thought that it'll be like

five items and there'll be a celebrity voice saying the five and the four and the three before i say the news item and share it and i you'll have to tune in to find out who the celebrity voice will be yeah question as well on cfrb they do a morning when they come on the air i think five or five thirty or so and i see clips of it and they do their top five things you need to know in the news i'm sure a million people is that i had no idea they do john moore does that in the morning uh very early in the morning when i they honestly? I'm sure a million people do that. I had no idea. They do. John Moore does that in the morning, very early in the morning when I sometimes catch it,

if I'm up that early, or if I see it on a Twitter feed or anything like that. Yeah. So I actually will just say this is not because of that, because I actually am learning about that for the first time. But the whole, I was inspired by, I think it's the New York Times has this morning podcast that it's like very short and it's every morning and it's become quite popular.

And that's what inspired this idea. I'm like, what if I try to Toronto Mike spin on that and see how it goes? So we're wired to have attention deficit disorder now. So I think that fits right in, Mike. So we're good. That's right. So that was Sesame Street's fault. That's why we have that.

Real estate, really briefly, my friend, is there anything you want to share in terms of the real estate market? Because I keep reading that, you know, it's cooling down and then I'll read in the next page, it'll say prices have gone up. I don't know what's true. Is it just the inventory is lower? Yeah. OK. Rule number one, the media is out there always. They want to get clicks, and it's clickbait, and they take sensationalist headlines that are so far from reality. If you want to check with myself, who's a professional in the industry, has access to all the latest Toronto Real Estate Board statistics, I can back it up from a numeric, factual basis.

Just don't waste your time because you're always going to get, don't fall for that trap, Mike, really. I fell for the trap, but I'm glad you're here, but I'm not in the market. Should I be in the market? You're my first call at 416-588-3286.

That's my office number. They'll be happy to page me for that. No, the way the market is shaping up right now, just let everyone know, if you are looking to rent right now, and I do have, you know, thank you, Scott, looking in Midtown area, and I've already briefed him on the pricing. If you are looking to get into downtown, studios are starting at this point at $1,700 for a micro studio condo. So that's the starting rate. And we're seeing even on those one bedrooms, multiple offer situations on rentals. Okay,

people are putting $2, $300 over the asking price and putting these incredible bios together. What an amazing tenant they'll be and all that. So there's a super shortage of rentals. And even the resale market for condos is insane as well. Crap is going for well over asking what it really should go. And that's why, and I'm going to promote a little bit now the new development, I can get you in on that project without any competition because I have access because our brokerage is selling it, you know, and firsthand. I can have you take a look at the floor plans, come in early, and it launches February 27th, I believe. That's going to come out to the public, you know, and the agents, you know, outside of our office, but you can get in

first with me and, you know, casually and leisurely go through everything. That's, you know, going to be ready in three years from now. It's 1181 Queen Street West. Fantastic area, boutique building. It's 112 suites. It's very limited. 80, you know, unique floor plans as well. I can walk you through it. And now I'm going to correct myself. I'm actually going to be calling you at 416-873-0292 because I don't want that pager nonsense. You don't need that. Speak to me directly. I read the black font, not the red one. That's cool. All right, good. You are here to kick out the jams. They're going to be your jams. And I hope you have a little time here because I, like an idiot, I decided if I have a real estate guy coming on, I need to run through some great home jams.

These are home jams, okay? I'll do this really briefly, but there's this classic right here. Canadian classic that university students, guys our age, know and love. Let's give it a little bit of a listen here. You have to excuse me. I am not at my best. I've been gone for a month.

I've been drunk since I left. These so-called vacations will soon be my death I'm so sick from the drink I need home for a rest Brian how could this not be one of your jams here home for a rest

spirit of the west and here's another one this Rest. Spirit of the West. And here's another one. This was one of the better Blind Melon songs, and we won't play too much of it, but this is Tones of Home. The late, great Shannon Hoon.

Tones of Home. I won't even let shannon get to the lyrics they're fantastic let's hear a classic classic i'm telling you get the lighters going brian and let's just uh sing along together you don't want to hear that, Mike. Trust me. You know I'm a dreamer But my heart's of gold I had to run away high So I wouldn't come home low Just when things went right Doesn't mean they were always wrong

Just take this song And you'll never be left right it doesn't mean they're all we want just take this song and you'll never be left all alone take me to your

heart are you ready Brian? I'm all set I'm pumped just one more night and I'm

coming on this dark white neighborhood I'm on my way I'm on my way Home sweet home

That should be your voicemail when people call you. That's it. Home sweet home. Holy shit, that's a good jam. I can't believe it. We're just warming up here. And I thought we'd be,

this is Toronto, The Six, propertyinthesix.com. How could we not put on this Killer Drake track? Hold on, we're going home. Wait for it, wait for it. One of my favorites, actually. I like it when he sings and raps. This is one of his singing rap songs. Are you a Drake fan?

It's funny. I do like some of his songs kind of thing, but it would be my first choice. Not winning your jam. No, no. Just to clarify. Hold on, we're going home. And in the vein of the genre.

Actually, I like Drake more because of his affiliation with the Raptors and his support as an ambassador. You don't think sometimes maybe he riles up the opposition and kind of inspires them? It's all good. Puts us on the map. It's all right. I love it too. There's a good jam for you.

Coming Home, I think P. Diddy called this project Dirty Money. And for the rock guys, there's another classic sing-along. I hope your vocal cords are warmed up. We sang out loud to the Motley Crue. How about a little Ozzy? Mama, I'm coming home. And one more jam because this is a personal favorite. I know you're kicking out the jam, so Mike, why are you playing these home games?

But beautiful song. Always loved it. Crowded House. Somewhere deep inside Something's got a hold on you Better be home soon And it's pushing me aside Better Be Home Soon. Also, Crowded House has house in the name.

That's right. This one's twice. That's why I tell you You'd better be home soon All right, I'll bring down Crowded House while I present you with a new pint glass. Yes! I want you to... So you've redesigned the pint glasses,

so there's one more left. So Keegan's going to get the last, I think, of the original Property in the Six.com pint glasses. Just don't let him see the new one because they're color, they kick ass, and he will want to trade up. Okay. So the big difference, and you're right, you had great pint glasses. They were great. Yeah. These are just better.

You've got the Six in Property in the Six.com, and it's red. So you great. These are just better. You've got the six and property and the six dot com and it's red. So you've got some color in there and you've added the tagline Toronto Real Estate

Done Right. Absolutely. When you dropped that the first time, Mike, I'm telling you, I was pissed in my pants to be honest. Really?

I was. I was. It was because that really typifies who I am. I do everything right. I follow the bases. I do my homework. I'm never caught off guard.

I go to the point where it's almost like over, you know, a little bit anal, I have to admit. But I think that's a good thing, you know, because that's what I got to do for my clients. You know, I was playing Crowded House and I realized I should be playing this. and I realized I should be playing this. PropertyInTheSix.com.

So this is sort of an ad on an ad, so I guess there's no point, but I did want to tell people the new pint glasses are here. You've delivered them today, and after Keegan, all guests will get the brand new Toronto Real Estate Done Right PropertyInTheSix.com pint glasses. You got five boxes.

You got 60 glasses. So you got good supply now. I'm trying. I'm really trying because I'm very busy right now. I'm trying to do one episode a week. I've always had this plan to do one episode a week, and I always fail. I think I did 40-something episodes in 20. No, sorry. That's way wrong I did like almost twice

as many as I set out to do so what is that there's 52 weeks doing some quick math so I don't know like 80 episodes in 2017 or something and I'm trying to do one a week but already I see I've got a I've failed like Alan Cross is coming in the same week as I think Colleen Rusholm is coming in this is coming up late anyways I am trying to do one a week. But as always, the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray. But you got a pint glass. Brian, we know why you're here. You've got a six-pack of Great Lakes beer right in front of you.

Yes! You pour that in your own pint glass and you're set, buddy. Yeah, the Great Lakes beer guys are great. You and I have met there for a pint on more than one occasion. We have. Troy's taking good care of us, giving us free fresh meat. Street meat, as you call it. Yeah, that's the Fridays in the summer. That's right. They bring the meat

trucks. Actually, we pay for the dogs. He gives us the free beer. Yeah, he takes care of the beer. I don't think he's taking care of the dogs. Actually, I take care of you for the dogs, right? Yeah, you know, I've been pretty good. You've been very good. I don't think he's taking care of the dogs. Actually, I take care of you for the dogs, right, usually? Yeah, you know, I don't like that. You've been very good. I don't think we should take turns or whatever or whatnot, but it's always a good time to bike over and meet you

for a pint of Great Lakes beer in the summer, especially with that patio open. It's just a fantastic place to enjoy a fresh pint of GLB. So true story. I get my, you know a bit about real estate, don't you? So I have property taxes, do you know that? They come, I guess, three months in a row and then I get three months off and then three months in a row or whatever. So I actually paid a property taxes today using Paytm, putting it on my credit card, on my President's Choice MasterCard. And then I saw right away it gave me $11 in what they call Paytm cash.

And I already had $20 in Paytm cash I built up from paying just bills I have to pay anyways. So what's happening here is what they've done and what's got me all super into the app is that they've gamified bill payment so that I'm not paying, I don't pay anything extra to Paytm to do all this, but it's super convenient. And like I said, things I couldn't normally put on my credit card, I now stick it all on my credit card. The only one I don't put on my credit card is the credit card itself, which I pay through my bank account. But every time I do these transactions, I get Paytm cash, which I put towards future bills. It's just free money.

It's amazing. I have to look into that because everything I have is kind of set up automatically, just taken out of my bank account or I get it on my Visa statement that comes monthly. But if I can get these cashback dollars with really... Yeah, like I'm not... Why not? Why wouldn't you do it? I mean, really, I'm an idiot for not even doing it today. And there's another reason too. Yes, of course, all that.

Like, for example, I think they had a promotion. I noticed it's still in effect because I got it today. But 2% cashback on any bill payment, any amount in any payment method. But here's the thing. When you make your first bill payment, you have a, it says promo code,

question mark. You press that or you press that and then you put in Toronto Mike and it gives you 10 bucks in Paytm cash right away. So like not only do you, you know,

using it, you build up the cash back but you get 10 bucks off just for using the promo code Toronto Mike. It's really cool. It's done. It's on my to-do list, Mike.

And another thing since I'm talking about Paytm is I was talking to a gentleman there. It's really cool. It's done. It's on my to-do list, Mike. And another thing, since I'm talking about Paytm, is I was talking to a gentleman there. He's like, we have a great facility on Adelaide in Toronto. He's like, you should do a live podcast recording here. And it's got, now it's, you know, it's bouncing

around my cranium. Like, it's percolating up there. And I'm thinking, maybe I do something like that. I already promised to do some kind of a meet and greet at Great Lakes Brewery'm thinking maybe I do something like that. I already promised to do some kind of a meet and greet at Great Lakes Brewery, but maybe I go mobile for an episode and do it downtown Toronto, maybe at the Paytm facilities. Great idea.

Great idea. Thank you. Brian, I got a question for you. What's up, Mike? Are you ready to kick out the jams? Oh man, am I ever. Bring it on. Bring it on. Popping in the country Fishing in the stream Looking for an answer Trying to find a sign Until I saw your city lights Honey, I was blind

They said, get back, honky-tonk Better get back to the woods Well, I quit in those days And my redneck ways and I... Oh, change is gonna do me good. Honky Kat. Elton John.

This was a tough one, Mike, because I was alternating. I even told you my dilemma going back and forth. It was Rocketman. It was Honky Kat. Mike, because I was alternating. I even told you my dilemma going back and forth. It was Rocketman. It was Honky Kat. It was literally flip a coin. And in the end, this is my choice. Tell us why you love Honky Kat.

I love Honky Kat because this is when I literally first discovered the art of music. My parents in the basement had you know typical phonograph kind of system set up and I had these big massive headphones similar to what I'm kind of wearing now. Right. And they had the album and I had we only had two albums that I like to listen to. It was this one and it was Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Baby. Okay that's the album. Love that album. Yeah and those were the two that I exhausted and I listened over and over and over. And Elton John was really my first musical influence, and that's really why we're listening to it right now. Have you ever seen Elton live?

I have not, and it's funny because, you know, he's just announced a tour, and I actually have a list of everyone who I've seen on my list in front of me for my songs who I haven't seen, and Elton is someone who I have not. You have this one last chance. I do, I do. And, you know, it's something that I have not. You have this one last chance. I do, I do. And it's something that I would definitely think I may have to look into. I don't know how much tickets would cost,

if I could even get them, but it would be an arm and a leg, I'm sure. I saw him in 89 at the Dome, and everybody tells me, and I was so young, I didn't really understand bad acoustics or whatever. I didn't have an understanding that that was bad acoustics

compared to a normal concert because all my concert experience up to then was the Ontario Place Forum and then I subsequently learned that Elton was ashamed of the acoustics in the Dome for that performance but I was ignorant to it all

There's just one Elton and the funny thing about the lyrics in this, he's, there's just one Elton, and, you know, the funny thing about the lyrics in this song, I mean, he's the first thing removed from a redneck, and, you know, how the hell did he come up with this to begin with? But, you know, it's quite an incredible song, and it's always resonated

with me as this is the kickoff of my musical appreciation. Yeah, yeah, it's always, you can always point to something that sort of kicks it all off and that song or that artist will stick with you forever. Absolutely.

You mentioned Billion Dollar Babies, okay? The Alice Cooper's greatest hits. As an early teen, I spent countless hours listening to that greatest hits by Alice Cooper and I just thought he was the greatest. Totally get that.

And did you know the band was named Alice? And then I guess he stole it from the band? Like the band was Alice Cooper. I've not known that. I think so. He's a good golfer. You might know that too. My buddy Joe, who introduced me to Alice Cooper,

he's my first best friend. I was best friends with him in junior kindergarten, and I'm trying to get, he's my first best friend. I was best friends with him in junior kindergarten, and I'm trying to get him to kick out the jam. I thought that might be fun. But the day I bought Up to Here, so I heard The Tragically Hip on Q107, and it was love at first listen, and I had to go downtown and get Up to Here,

which is the first hip album I ever bought. And that day I went to buy Up to Here by the Tragically Hip. I remember Joe bought Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper. And the album cover was like, it was green. It was so colorful. I think of myself as a kid who's like, you know, like, I don't know, nine, ten years old at the time. I went over to eight, nine. And it just like, it was the coolest album cover.

I just loved it. Oh, for sure. But Elton, Honky Kat. So I could see a kid particularly sort of totally digging this jam. Yeah, side A. And I made a list here of like side A blows away side B. So this is what I would listen to over and over and over. Honky Kat, Mellow, Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself, Suzy, and Rocketman.

That was born to death. Those five songs. Do you remember when Sports Illustrated was selling, like if you subscribe to Sports Illustrated they would send you a cassette of like sports montages set to music and Rocketman, like you would see, I think it was

Joe Montana, like releasing or was it Steve Young? Was it either Joe Montana or Steve Young releasing the football to Rocketman and it was like this montage is stuck in my head. When I hear Rocket Man, I think of a San Francisco 49er. I don't remember. I do remember subscribing to SI

and getting like a Buffalo Bills cap one time. So that I got. Or do you remember the phone? That was a big thing. The phone was, yeah, the phone was huge. Was it a football phone? That was a football phone, yeah. I'm telling you, those good old days.

Like, yeah, you get the football phone when you subscribe to SI. But did you ever subscribe to SI? Many, many years. Yeah, I have lots of covers. All my old Expos covers with anyone affiliated with them, I still have them in my basement.

So, yes. You're taking me back. I don't subscribe to any magazines right now, but there was a time where, like, when my Rolling Stone would arrive, I remember Spy Magazine.

Do you remember Spy Magazine? Oh, sure, sure. Sports Illustrated. Like, when they'd arrive, it was, like, so exciting. Like, those days are just gone. Are you ready to kick out another jam? All set.

You gotta crack up my volume a bit. I want to live I want to live I want to kill I've been a miner for a heart of gold It's these expressions I never give That keep me searching for a heart of gold

And I'm getting old Classic, Brian. That's Heart of Gold, Neil Young. That keep me searching for a heart of gold And I'm getting old As if this needs an explanation. Tell us why you've chosen Heart of Gold by Neil Young. I love harmonicas, and we're going to get to Bobby D a little bit later. And somehow, Neil Young plays it, I think, as well as anybody out there,

along with Dylan, and I think that's why I love those two artists so much. There's just something about the way they play it, and it's not just part it's part of their mouth. It's literally how they express themselves, and it's so close when you think about it. You put a harmonica to your mouth, and you're literally digesting and breathing it out and all that. It's the purest musical instrument that there is.

I love classic harmonica. It just gets my spine a-tingling, and this opening is, to me, one of the greatest openings of songs ever made, and it just gets my spine a tingling and that this opening is to me one of the greatest openings of songs like ever made and it holds up it just i can play it over and over and over again and still that spine tingling effect is always there and that's how it made my cut mic and it holds up incredibly well in hundreds of years from now this will still be played guaranteed i felt the uh jam kicking episodes have been lacking in Neil Young.

I know DeHodge put it at number 11, so it didn't quite stick in. And I think, I know that my buddy Tim Thompson had a Neil Young jam in his Ambulance Blues, but what an artist. Like, I can't get enough of Neil. Like, thank you for picking a Neil song. Did you ever receive a harmonica for Hanukkah?

I remember a few times trying it out and blowing it, and it was really cool in my mouth, but I had literally no musical talent at all. And the third thing, put it this way, piano lessons, grade three, and recorder, which was mandatory, grade four. So I never was in my peer group with my friends. I had no musician friends growing up.

We were all into sports. That's all we did from literally the time the bell rung at school till the time we went to bed. So into sports. Music just was there to be enjoyed, but never played, unfortunately. That's a great Canadian jam, and so is this next one. I'm excited to play this. Finally, someone's kicking out this jam.

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Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. I just need some place where I can lay my head Hey mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed? He just grinned and shook my hand, no was all he said Take a load off, Danny Take a load for free Take a load off, Fanny Take a load for free Take a load off, Fanny And you put the load right on me

The Wait by The Band I picked up my bag So sad, man. Like how many have gone from this group? The Wait by The Band. So sad, man. Like, how many have gone from this group? One of my favorites. Come on, let's go downtown. She said, I gotta go, but my friend can stick around. Take a load off Fanny. Take a load for free. Take a load off Fanny.

And you put the load right on me You kicked out an Elton John jam and I realized he had a song, Leave On, which must be about Leave On Helm, right? There's no other Leave On. It has to be, I would think so, yeah. Musicians, they're all a close-knit fraternity. They all know each other and they cross paths. I'm sure it is.

I'll be forever indebted to Martin Scorsese because The Last Waltz is literally... I watch it all the time. I listen to it all the time. If you haven't seen it, anyone out there, then what the hell, what do you, what the hell are you waiting for, man?

I second that motion. Absolutely incredible. And you've got, you know, you're going to kick out other artists that appear on that thing, but just amazing. The last Waltz. Yeah.

Crazy chest and follow me. And he cut me in the fall. Yeah. I said, that's okay, boy. Won't you feed him when you can? Yeah. Take a load off, Manny. Take a load for free. Take a load off, Manny. And you put the load right on me. And you put the load right on me Just listen to the mix of this music, Mike.

It's got everything. It's got some rock, it's got some hillbilly, it's got some R&B. It's got every element of music. And they pull it together. It's mind-blowing to think how this genre of music they have. And it's unique to the band. I challenge anybody to come up with anyone that sounds like the band. You can't. They are unique.

No argument here. I recently watched a documentary on Mavis Staples. Do you know Mavis Staples? She's a staples singer, right? Really good doc, but she visits Levon in his final months, I guess. Staplesingers are in that last waltz. That's right. Amazing.

Just Mavis Staples. There's somebody to see while you can, Mavis Staples. For sure. I actually saw them at an Ontario place you were talking about. Oh, the Forum. At the Forum, yeah. I miss the Forum, man. Rotating stage. Yeah, it I actually saw them at an Ontario place you were talking about. Oh, the Forum. At the Forum, yeah. I miss the Forum, man. Rotating stage.

Yeah, it was great. You're right on top of them. There's no bad seats. And they always had, I remember, you'd always get your Bird and Cummings

or guys like that. I saw my first ever concert was, oh, crap, who sings April Fool? Chalk Circle. Bringing you way back. But that jam, The Wait,

and of course Dave Hodge, he likes the first lines of songs and he would, and he told me, he said, I'm going to test you in a couple. And I had this moment of like, I'm actually really good at that. But live recording this

of Dave frickin' Hodge sitting there. Yeah, that's pressure. I'm going to blank on it and I'm not going to know. But thankfully, he gave such lines that, you know, everybody would be able

to get it right. If you want to get more band, the Basement Tapes is also very good with Dylan just jamming with them and just, you know, basically fucking around

and, you know, some really solid tunes there too. Awesome, man. You ready to kick out another jam? All set, too. Awesome, man. You ready to kick out another jam? All set, Mike. Cool. Thank you. guitar solo

Out here in the fields I fight for my meals I get my back into my living I don't need to fight To prove I'm right I don't need to be forgiven guitar solo Don't cry Don't raise your eye It's only teenage wasteland Baba O'Reilly, The Who.

It doesn't get any better than that, Mike. Especially with the headphones on. That was incredible. The Who, you got to wear headphones. Amazing. You can never turn it up loud enough either. And that intro, nice and long. Not long enough.

Give me a few more minutes. That's epic. Teenage Wasteland It's only Teenage Wasteland Also one of those songs where you never hear the title of the song in the song. Teenage Wasteland And everybody thinks it's called Teenage Wasteland. They're all wasted By the way, Mike is throwing his mic and waving it around like daltry does right now he's bringing

it around this is these episodes i need a camera in here because man yeah when you see them live in concert you just see like just the the tightness of that group and power i mean like it's too bad that keep moon went so early because what a drummer oh my god right just crazy yeah how are you that good like really you look at that and then you look at like Ringo and like I'm embarrassed as a Beatles fan you know that they both say the same profession and that's not insult to Ringo just it's just incredible what level you can drum it sounds like an insult to Ringo Brian I didn't mean it that way Mike so we're down to two right we've got two guys left you got your singer Roger and you got Pete yeah that's right.

And there are two original members of The Who. Thank you. That's fucking epic. Holy smokes, we're going to need a time out here. Do you, just like everybody else, you just heard the song and you fell in love? Do you have any... Yeah, I mean, the thing with the who is like just the i find the power the tightness like they just the four of them seamlessly you know at their peak you know they just operated as if they were one kind of thing and you know i mean they're just so the way that uh you know pete is able to you know pull the band together and you know doll tree you know yeah all he does is really sing he does some

other instruments i guess some plays but really he's there for his voice and all that. But it's just the four of them. I mean, it's just mind-boggling how a group can be that good. Like, and that's powerful. And just everything, like, they make a statement. There's only one band unique. You can't, like, again, the bands I think I've chosen are all, I mean, they're all famous bands. Everyone knows who they are.

But you can't copy that sound and the way that they come across and all that. You can't. So many incredible British bands of this era. Like, just incredible. And speaking of Ringo, are you ready to kick out another jam? Sorry, Ringo, I didn't mean it that way. I read the news today, oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade

And though the news was rather sad Well, I just had to laugh I saw the photograph He blew his mind out in a car He didn't notice that the lights had changed A crowd of people stood and stared They'd seen his face before Nobody was really sure

He was on the house of four I saw a film in the day Oh boy The English army had just won the war I honestly feel sacrilegious to speak over this song. I know, it's really, it's that kind of song, you're right, but that's okay.

We can do it. A day in the life, The Beatles. This song was an easy choice for me. It was always, it was just almost too obvious, like, should I, but you said, just go with it. You know, like, don't worry about it. Your jams are your jams. My jams are my jams, exactly. And why I love this song is, I get the best of Paul, the best of John.

It's literally I got two Beatles songs in one so I can cheat. This is really my 11 songs. I mean, it's just the way that they pull it together. And the way this song was put together is they literally had two components. This song, there was no collaboration at all. And then basically George Martin said, okay, why don't we have like this side and this side and you guys can collaborate and let's make one song out of it.

And they did. And it was just your fluke and brilliance. And thank you, Mr. Martin, for coming up with that. Think about the hundreds of Beatles songs and how great they are.

And you and I have the, we're not alone, the same favorite Beatles song. Oh, I didn't know that. That was yours as well. This is mine as well. I tried to comb across my head Found my way downstairs and drank a cup And looking up, I noticed I was late

Found my coat and grabbed my hat Made the bus in seconds flat Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream. I read the news today, old boy Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. Where were you when you learned John Lennon was shot? Oh my God, I was watching a football game. And I heard it from Howard Cosell.

And from, he just passed away recently. The other, Frank Gifford as well, he was on. Very, very, completely blown away and you know it's just like what we were robbed of of what Lennon would have produced in the years after it's just we're all losers

all of us you'll go nuts if you think about that you'll go nuts because yeah he was only 40 years old he was making a comeback that's right that's right he was so That clip of Howard Cosell telling people about the death of John Lennon, it's on YouTube, and if you haven't seen it, go get it, because I've seen it on YouTube, and it's... Yeah, you know what? It's the kind of thing I don't really want to relive again,

although ESPN did a wonderful piece. I think it was a 30-30. I'm not sure if that was brought into the equation or something along those lines. Maybe I'm off on that, but I thought they did the piece tied into all the events that happened around that time. Or maybe I'm thinking of the O.J. Simpson. You're thinking of the O.J. one, and it's the first season of 30 for 30, and it's excellent.

It's some 1994 day, but everything that particular day that was going on. That's right. It was really great. I think there's so many big sporting things happening that day from an NBA playoff game. That's right it was really great I think there was I mean there's so many big sporting things happening that day from an NBA playoff game

that's right Indiana played the Knicks that time yeah yes it was in New York yeah yeah and yeah

it's a great documentary and it's there's no what's great about that doc is there's no voiceover or narrator you're just hearing the clips of the

as it happened with Bob Costas and everything during the day now a quick shout out to a couple of bootlegs that really, really inspired me. I mean, I love the Beatles, like, passion. Like, I told Mike, I can

do one to ten Beatles songs. Like, I'm that much of a Beatles nut. It wouldn't even be, like, it would be simple for me to do. There are two titles, and I recommend everyone look them up. One is called Swinging Pig, and another one is called Ultra Rare Tracks. Now, if you could track those down, I used to go to a store in Montreal on Crescent

Street called Rock on Stock, and I would pay 50 bucks back in, like, this is a long time ago, 50 bucks is probably 200 bucks now, and I would buy these bootleg versions, and these were literally studio versions of outtakes and all outtakes of the songs of everything, Strawberry Fields, like, you could go through it, early, late, whatever. The most incredible Beatles music, way better than anything you will find commercially. So I recommend people look it up. I have it on my old iPod and I do listen to it. It's incredible.

Literally, the sound is exploding your ears like it from different, it bombards you. And there's no other Beatles experience like it. So ultra-rare tracks, Swinging Pigs, look it up. I think there are about five or six ultra-rare tracks, maybe one or two Swinging Pigs labels. I see now you did adhere to the rule, only one Beatles song, but there's a definite Beatles connection. I snuck some in later. Yeah, you know that. Let's go.

Let's go. We'll be right back. Love you found Handle me with care Reputation's changeable Situation's terrible But baby you're a dope girl Handle me with care I'm so tired of being lonely I still have some love to give Won't you show me that you really care Everybody's got somebody to lean on.

Put your body next to mine. And dream on. I've been popped up and I've been... Handle with care, the traveling Wilburys. I've been loved and ridiculed. What a super group this is. There are no words for what

a super group this group is. Bunch of buddies got together and is Roy Orbison not the voice of God? You know, hearing this now though, of course, because by the time the second single comes out, he's already dead. He's not in the video, end of the line. No, no. They actually never

really were going to do, they call it Traven Wilburys 1. The idea was they were never really going to do something else anyway. But you're right, Orbison died way too young, and he was having a comeback of his own. His solo album had hits coming off it, and these guys...

I mean, there's no egos here. These are just a bunch of buddies that just love each other's company, all that mutual respect all around. And just like the way that if you ever watch a documentary, which I've seen many times on Will Berries, look it up on YouTube.

It's incredible the way that like they're all amazed how Dylan writes music. He scribbles it on like literally, lyrically. You can't even read it. Like chicken scratch. And he writes up his music. His brain works on a completely... We'll get to Dylan later.

But it's a completely different level than a normal human being. Bob Dylan is... There's only one Bob Dylan that ever will be another poet in a laureate like him. Incredible. And speaking of docs, I recommend... I've mentioned it a few times, but the Tom Petty doc that's on Netflix. Yes, I've seen that.

Yeah, and there's a great Traveling Wilburys component, if you will, but it's Tom Petty. At the time the Traveling Wilburys formed, I believe, like we're all thinking

a bunch of old guys get together and make some great music, but I believe Tom Petty is like 35 years old. Yeah, he was done in 88, so yeah, that probably sounds about right.

But they weren't all... Now that seems young to me now. You know what I mean? But we've lost so many Wilburys because we just lost Tom Petty. Of course, George Harrison passed away and Roy Orbison died shortly after. Yeah, so we got basically Dylan

and Jeff Lynn. Lynn, yeah. Man, that's just too bad, but that's a. Man, that's just too bad. But that's a great jam. And it's funny. So you play a Beatles jam, then a Traveling Wilburys jam, and then this one.

I wonder what the common denominator is here. Let's hear it. guitar solo My sweet Lord My Lord My Lord I really want to see you Really want to be with you. Really want to see you, Lord, but it takes so long, my Lord. My sweet Lord.

My Lord. George Harrison, My Sweet Lord. George Harrison, My Sweet Lord. Yeah, I felt bad for George because, you know, George was given his allotment of two songs per album, you know, if he was lucky. And he was always the youngest one and, you know, frowned upon by the others. But he is very much as much, if not, you know,

better in certain levels than, you know, his confreres here. And, you know, to me, Post Beatles, this would be my favorite post-Beatles song. And there's some amazing Lennon, McCartney stuff, and I look through my enjoyment levels of all, and this was the one I chose. This was completely from the heart. Mike Stafford, did you hear him kick out the jam?

I did, yeah. He, I think it was a shot at John Lennon's Imagine, because he finds that to be a very overrated song. I find it almost a little bit too commercial in a way, kind of in some respects. Maybe a little cheesy? Yeah, yeah. Funny thing is,

he was very close with Freddie P when they worked at CFNY, and Freddie P kicked out Imagine by John Lennon as one of his jams. We talked about it with Stafford, but Stafford and Freddie P had a falling out, and Freddie P was fired as Stafford's best man at his wedding. There's a whole thing there.

You can go listen to that episode. But the shot at Imagine was basically Stafford to say that the greatest post-Beatles Beatle of the solo stuff, George Harrison. Without question. It's not even up to negotiation as far as I'm concerned. Yeah. George had so much music that he was never allowed

to produce it in the 60s. You have to realize the Beatles' creativity levels in the 60s was off the charts. George was completely undermined, and Paul was a control freak and all that, and it just wasn't right. He was jobbed. I mean, that's the reality. George was completely undermined and Paul was a control freak and all that. It just wasn't right. He was jobbed.

That's the reality. But the average person out there will go with Paul McCartney or John Lennon. Is that fair to say? You pick the dark horse. I'm like probably 1%. Yes, I would say so. And I'm sure there's somebody,

probably Ringo himself, would go with Ringo. Ringo star in the All-Star Band? That's right. Well, first of all, Ringo and George were kind of, the two of them were very tight. And Ringo played with George on a lot of his post-Beatles career work. So, you know, those two of them, it was really George and John collaborating. And it was always, you know, those two were the forefront.

And I just found that, you know, George Martin, you know, should have given George Harrison his due. And I don't think he... Look at the musical instruments that George brought in going to India, Ravi Shankar and all his influences and all that. I mean, George doesn't get anywhere near the credit that he deserves. No, but the man did give us a couple of jams, Beatles jams, that I think are right up there in the top ten or so. While My Guitar Gently.

I mean, but Here Comes the Sun. Yeah. While My Guitar Gently Weeps was really number 11. If I had a second Beatles song, that would have been it. Just so you know, and it almost made my top 10. So I love George. I just love George more than any other Beatle. What do you think of the, of course,

they said he subconsciously took this melody from He's So Fine by the Chapon. Yeah, I've heard that and it's probably a shred of truth to that. You hear it. You do hear it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's whatever. I mean, it's fine. It's yeah.

But it's George has his own style and imprint on it. So, I mean, that, you know, to me, I don't really give a shit about that stuff. I've got to put an asterisk on this jam, though, and give some partial credit to whoever wrote He's So Fine. Whoever the hell wrote that song. That's a great jam, man. George Harrison. That's great. We have a CanCon requirement. No, we don't.

But we played The Wait. The Wait is CanCon, because the band qualifies, right? There's enough Canadians. Yeah, I mean, you've got Robbie, of course,, and yeah, I mean, Levon came from the States, but yeah, mostly Canadian. But here's one that there's no doubt about it. Let's listen to another Brian jam. This is my real estate theme, mate, to get me going when I'm lazy and I'm not getting out there.

We're getting shit done, Brian. That's right. You can get to work by nine And start your slave and job to get your pay If you ever get annoyed Look at me, I'm self-employed I love to work at nothing all day And I've been taking care of business Every day Taking care of business Every way

I've been taking care of business It's all mine Taking care of Business. Yeah, you know, it's funny. When you first asked me, you know, top 10 songs, you know, come on, you know, and support, you know, obviously, I love the show and support. I'm so happy to be here and all that. And this song immediately came to mind as it had to be in there. And just because it's a mood song,

and I listen to it so often just to get in the mood, to get my ass going in gear. And that's really why. When we see the montage of you punching the, whatever, was it the cow carcasses or whatever? The pig carcasses? This is the jam we hear over top that montage. Yeah, it just gets me a different mood,

a different space, and that's why I love this song. And, you know, it's just, it should be, it's the ultimate cool song. Do not listen to this in the car because you will get a speeding ticket, I guarantee you.

Oh, it's one of those jams. You know, it's funny, we said, okay, we got some CanCon coming and we said the band, but of course, you have a Neil Young jam. You are very Canadian friendly.

It's not intentional. it just worked out that way at least we know the can con regulations on our radio uh worked big time a little upset though i don't see any gino vanelli on your list coming from quebec or rock boys at least cory hart yeah oh god that i cringe worthy cory heart Coming from Quebec or Roquevoisin? At least Corey Hart. Yeah. Oh, God. I cringe-worthy Corey Hart. Sunglasses at night was a pretty good jam.

Really? Seriously? Yeah. I'm being serious right now. It's a great jam. Okay. We are on opposite ends of the spectrum. I prefer sunglasses at night to this jam.

Wow. Oh, my God. Brian just reached for his sponsorship. I'm out of here. He's taking his pint glasses. And he's taking his jingle. Have you ever referred to them as Bachman, Turner, Overdrive, or just PTO for you? No, it's just PTO.

I wrote my notes down. I wrote the full name here for the songs. I said, nah, that does not work. So I crossed it off and I wrote PTO. Have you ever listened to Randy Bachman's CBC show? I do. Vinyl Tap? Oh, I love it.

Yeah, I do. Yeah. Yeah, he's great, right? He's amazing. I love the way he tells stories. It's fantastic. You're on the inside. You're on a couch sitting, listening to him.

He's incredible. He's got the smoothest voice, conversational, likewise. Absolutely. I recently saw Neil Young, and Bachman came out and jammed with Neil early on in the show. It was pretty cool. Thank you. What about meet Sue? No, I never follow up much with meet Sue.

Although there's a singer called Patsy Gallant in Quebec. I don't know if you've ever heard of her. You can look her up. She's a musician. And my friend, my best friend at the time, his name is Brian Aza. At his bar mitzvah, he had her sing because it was a family friend and all that.

She was really big in Quebec at the time. And that was like the coolest thing for a 13-year-old girl to have this beautiful blonde singer named Patsy Galant sing at the bar mitzvah. That is amazing. Yeah. I'd rather have Mitsu. If I ever have a bar mitzvah, I want it to be Mitsu. I'm sorry, but maybe you grew up in Montreal, so you didn't have the much music airings of Dimois, Dimois. But it was one, that video was amazing,

but the Bye Bye Mon Cowboy was played all the time. And every guy my age has a crush on Mitsu. Oh, interesting. Okay, yeah. West of my cup of tea, I guess. And this is why I became insanely jealous, insanely jealous of former guest Steve Anthony

when I learned from John Gallagher that when they lived together one morning, meet Sue waltzed downstairs for pancakes. And I heard this story and I went, I took my fist as you see it, I went like this and I went, Steve Anthony. It's like Newman. Newman. Absolutely. Great jam there for you, buddy. And they're your jams, not mine. So sure, I'm going to have Corey Hart sunglasses at night. I have no problems with that.

Just, you know, you'll be on your own listening to it, Mike. Let's hear your second last, your penultimate jam. Yeah, and the one I've seen easily the most in concert as well. Many, many times. in your prime didn't you people call say beware doll you're bound to fall you thought they were all kidding you

you used to laugh about everybody that was hanging out Now you don't talk so loud Now you don't seem so proud About having to be scrounging Your next meal

How does it feel How does it feel To be without home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone There's your harmonica. Bob Dylan. I had a friend who is a huge Dylan fan.

He's actually the one in high school who introduced me. His name is Steve Piszczewski. And I used to be listening... Did you say Nikolai Borchewski? Steve. In relation. No you say Nikolai Borshevsky? Steve. In relation. No, not Nikolai.

He's the one that really got me into Dylan and all that. And we used to travel and see him, you know, go to the States whenever he was around, you know, catch him and all that. And I was never disappointed. I mean, regardless of his inebriated state and his disdain for the audience, the more snarly the better, I found. And he was just a real piece of shit on stage, and I loved him for that. He just couldn't give a crap about the audience, and he just played for himself.

And he was the coolest cat out there. Did he ever turn his back to you and do that move that Dylan's known to do? Do the whole performance with his back to you? I didn't have that, but it was just more the m performance with his back to you? I didn't have that, but it was just more the mumbling and, you know, I'm too lazy to even say the words.

You know, he would just, or he'd make them up as he went along because he was too wasted. He was like, yeah, the song, and he even said to your buddy, which song was that? And one thing about Dylan growing up and listening to him at home

is that my mother literally would scream at me, turn that goddamn racket off! And I would hear that over and over. And I think that kind of got me more into Dylan just to piss off my mother. That's just something you did. That is the rite of passage for a teenager. There you go.

That's why I feel like I've messed up my kids. What are they going to do? What are they going to listen to rebel against me? They'd have to go into new country. Dad, I love this new country. I'm like, turn that garbage off. And then they just turn it up. You know what I mean?

A country would do it for me. I'm literally the, I can't even take that for two seconds. But yeah, I have to tell you, it's like, just not so much I want to piss my mother off by listening to it. And believe me, I listen to plenty of Bobby Dylan and the band in the backyard. I have my old ports. I have my beer. You know, I just chill out.

And there's nothing better to me than listening to this genre of music over and over and over. And the depth of my music, as you can see, they're all like within. I put the years down here, Mike. And from 67 with A Day in the Life, we peak basically at 73, with the exception of the Traveling Wilburys from 88. So we're looking at a six-year period for 9 out of 10 of my teens. And correct, these are your teenage years, right? Yeah.

Is that math working at all? I actually was very slow discovering and listening to music. It was more my teenage years, but it was later on for my bad friend Steve. He's the one that really got me into great music. I was into sports all the time, and he was my influence for my, that friend Steve, he's the one that really got me into great music. Like I was into sports all the time and he was my influence for music at that point. So it wasn't actually in those years, but it was later on. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

Yeah, because for a lot of people, not everybody obviously, but those teenage years, what you loved in your teenage years, that's the stuff that's going to show up on your jam list. A hundred percent. And you know what? My brain can only take so much, you know?

It's not like new music will come in and bounce out the old. The old one's wired in too hard now. So it's really hard to bump it out. Dave Hodge introduced me to... Oh, what's his name? Turner. Frank Turner. Right, yeah, I was listening to right yeah and that jam by Frank Turner

which I have listened to several times since he kicked out the jams so I do like sometimes when I kick out jams and people do newer stuff I'm like I really like that

and I'll go to it but you're right it's really hard to make an imprint where you can push out push out the Pearl Jam you know what I mean

push out the and that's why there will always be demand for new music because all the kids growing up now, they want their new music, you know, what they're listening to, and they're not going to take their parents' grandparents' music. Oh, no, are you kidding me?

I tried very hard. How old is your oldest? You only have one, right? Two girls. Two girls. What ages? 16 and 14. My 16-year-old's more into the hard rock, and my 14-year-old's into pop music. You know, I have a 16-year-old as well. We have a son in common here.

Yeah, like, I'm... So that's good on you that you got your 16-year-old into some rock. She did it on her own. I didn't influence her at all. But she's probably listening to, like, new rock? Oh, she's... Is there new rock? She's, like, heavy metal, like heavy metal, like really like crazy shit like that

that I never really got into. Like I dabble in like ACDC and something like The Rush, like a little, but it's not really my cup of tea. You know, it's a limit. Like I'm hard rock, but like not like the next level up,

you know, like just the noise for the sake of noise. I like the rock and the music kind of at a certain level. Yeah, I like the melodies. Yeah, as well. That's a good way of putting it. Well, what about Zeppelin? Would you go that hard? I love Zeppelin. I kind of at a certain level. Yeah, I like the melodies as well. That's a good way of putting it. What about Zeppelin?

Would you go with that? I love Zeppelin. I have lots of Zeppelin. Yeah, absolutely. Zeppelin is definitely in my mix for sure. But no Black Sabbath for you? Nah, nah. That's probably cutting it.

Only Ozzy Osbourne's Mama, I'm Coming Home. Oh, man, this has been fun. That, by the way, as Dylan's songs go, it doesn't get much better than that. That's like a Rolling Stone. You could easily say, I've seen Rolling Stone magazine, name it the best song in the century.

Yeah, I don't think there's really, I wouldn't say there's much debate. There's debate, of course, but that would be definitely, I can see that being number one. Now, my last song I've seen in concert, Many, Many. I think it's the last one coming up?

Yeah. Okay. Let's kick it! ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ You know playing blind man's love is a little baby's game. You pick up a little dynamite. I'm going to pick up a little gun. And together we're going to go out tonight and make that highway run.

You don't have to call me Lieutenant Rosie and I don't want to be your son. The boss. Bruce Springsteen, Rosalita. Have to be there, Mike. Yeah, I've seen him probably about a half dozen times from Montreal all the way up to recent years. And I have a friend who's like a total nut and he flies around the world to see him. Not quite at that level.

Not Brad Fave level. Not Brad Fave, no. His name is, shout out to Andy Cherniak, by the way. But Bruce in concert, you know, you can't, like, how do you, man's like putting on like over three hour concert, three, three and a half. I mean, that's like, that's fucking nuts, okay, to have the stamina to do it. And the quality never drops off. He brings you into it.

It's like literally like 18,000 seat arena. It's like you're right in front, you know, right in front of it. And to see him live, as many of your guests have said, is a religious experience, and it truly is. There's no other way of describing it. You literally walk out, and it stays with you for days. It doesn't dissipate. Incredible. I've never had this religious experience.

Yeah, you've got to try it. It's absolutely incredible. I feel like I was born too late. I feel like, because I'm 10 years old when Born in the USA is a big deal. And I have the cassette and I actually love it. I love it. But I missed all of 70s Bruce. You know what I mean? I felt I'm born 10 years too late too, just for the 60s to live it in that time.

Growing up, I was always jealous. Once I really got an appreciation for that music, I can't even imagine just being in the Beatlemania era. I would have loved, if I could go back and be older and just live for that era and just be there and just waiting for the next album to come out or a single or whatever. The anticipation must have been fucking insane for that music.

And once drugs came into it and they actually got creative and you know you went from you know i saw you standing there and you got to like a completely different level of rubber i think the turning point might be like uh eleanor rigby maybe like it's like they turn from like pop songs like i want to hold your hand or whatever she loves you yeah yeah to like depth yeah to becoming musicians and understanding you know i mean the best thing that happened was the last technology back then i mean the fact that you know concerts couldn't be performed and it was like a shit show you know with you know shea stadium and performing you know where you're screaming girls you can't even hear a bloody thing and for them to go into the studio and just you know do it do what they can do man were incredible. Let me ask you about this Bruce jam, okay?

Rosalita. Which I've learned is like a staple for Bruce fans, but I was completely... You ready for this? Yeah. I don't know this song. How can you not know this song? It's like literally any sprinting dance.

It's like top three, top five. I mean... I know. I'm here to be very honest with you in that I have read Jungle Land I mean like there's only like this is up there man like I know Born to Run

like I know a lot of the big ones this is not a Bruce song I'm familiar with but I read about it yeah and I learned what do you think well

I don't think it's my thing like it sounds nice but like I'll take meatloaf over this you know what I mean oh wow okay you're gonna shoot me again yeah no no that's alright

that's right you have to realize like this song like part of it I really love is just Clarence playing the sax like there's certain segments but I'll take meatloaf over this. You know what I mean? Oh, wow, okay. You're going to shoot me again. No, that's all right. That's all right. You have to realize, this song, part of it I really love is just Clarence playing the sax. There are certain segments he comes in, unfortunately he's no longer with us.

His son plays with Bruce right now. There's just the way the song builds. What I read is that this was the closer. This was the Bruce live song. And at some point he like stopped, like for this for years, like, and at some point he stops playing it live

for a period of time. He just stops completely. I don't know if he got sick of it, but this was a big deal live and then he stopped playing it and then he brought it back again. But it sounds like this is a very important song to the legions of Bruce fans out there. Absolutely, yeah. No, I mean, it is to me. I mean, just like this is a very important song to the legions of Bruce fans out there.

Absolutely. It is to me. The whole song of it, of making it big and being discovered, and I got that big deal from the record company. It's so blue-collar, Bruce-like. It just builds. To me, it misses the hook that you would sing along. I don't like singing along songs. That's not my style, Mike.

I love listening and just taking it all in. You don't want to hear my voice. Bruce gets kicked out, as you know, other than probably next to the Beatles. We hear more Bruce on this show than any other artist. He's beloved. It's funny. Interesting question to me.

What if Bruce never actually performed a live concert? Would his music stand up without that? I've always wondered about that. Obviously not the same degree, but I wonder about that. Do I need to get myself to a Bruce show to experience the religious experience you described? Well, I think going in, you know, there's no hope for you, Mike. I hate to say it. I would say I like Bruce.

But I think 70s Bruce, I miss living it. So coming at it post, it's not quite the same, if you will. Yeah, it probably is. I don't think you can capture that. I think you're right about that. So I probably wouldn't bother if I were you were you but you're just curious to see what it's like but i like good music and i love good live music and the three hours of bruce kicking out his stuff i think would be amazing yeah i just got like just thinking how many decades of

material he has you know to bring on i mean a lot of bruce's stuff that i've really liked is a lot of his acoustic is slower stuff and all that because like he can play it like fast he can play it slow he's like that talented incredible and that's a seven-minute jam right there. Yeah. Actually, I said that was the live version I sent you, I think, or that was probably a studio.

Oh, you sent me stuff? I sent you a couple. That's okay. I sent you two links that were live versions for a couple. One was from The Wait and one was from Rosalita. But that's okay. I'm happy a studio is. Oh, I picked.

I didn't know. Sorry. I picked all studio. But Bruce Springsteen, beloved. And I think if you, and whether it be Steve Simmons or Damien Cox or Brad Fay, you name it. If you were listening to music in the 70s,

and let's face it, like if you're a white Canadian guy, a white North American guy, Bruce is right in your wheelhouse. Like he's right there. And he's so important. Yeah. Yeah.

You can't really make an argument otherwise. You know, he, I mean, more obviously in, you know, blue collar, you know, in the States, you know, Eastern,

obviously around Jersey, you know, no doubt, you know, that whole, you know, neighborhood. I mean, that's where literally when Bruce comes out of concerts, he can play like

three, four nights in a row at the same arena and sell them out, you know, before he even moves out of there. You know, it's that kind of thing. That's like Billy Joel. He's just going to play Madison Square Garden.

He'll just do that 20 nights in a row or whatever, just as long as he wants. But Brian, I freaking love kicking out the jams. And I love that your jams are your jams. These songs in the headphones with you sounded amazing. I loved it. Yeah, you know what?

It's the kind of thing that, you know, if I had only these 10 songs, like, life would still be sweet, Mike. I could live. I could manage. You would never get tired. If you just heard these 10 songs over and over again,

you would never get sick of it. That's enough for me. I want more, but, you know, I could manage with this list. See, that's keep life, keep it nice and simple. I like this.

That's great. But thanks for very much. Thanks for doing this. My pleasure. And again, honestly, podcasting in Canada as an independent, non-famous person is really tough like uh getting companies to buy in and sponsor and great lakes breweries stepped up and that's amazing and i've had a great relationship with them but you're you were right there and i can't tell you how much i appreciate it it's my

pleasure you know like this regardless of what happens from, you know, bringing in like your guests, if they ever want to contact me or your listeners and all that. I mean, it's always welcome. But this is really to keep your project going and to support it. And, you know, giving back is really not such a bad thing. I think people should do it. And I'm not looking for material gain necessarily. That'd be nice.

That's great. But I want to keep you going. I know I love your podcast. You just need me to become a charity and then you can write this off. I don't pay HST so that's okay. I appreciate that. And that brings us to the end of our

304th show. You can follow me on Twitter. I'm at Toronto Mike. Now Brian has can we share both accounts? Like the one for people who want to hear about Milos and the Raptors? Raptors Devotee, absolutely. That's where I post almost all the time, for sure. But you also want people to...

Will you post real estate stuff on Brian Gerstein? Yeah, it's pretty much only real estate stuff on Brian Gerstein. But if you want to get me, at Raptors Devotee is probably a better resource. And I heard your intro and you made the crack. I've been saying the same thing to my son who's a diehard Raptor fan. I said, this is the opportunity to get killed by the Warriors. Yeah, that's okay.

It can happen. But there's a case to be made that in the playoffs when they close in on DeRozan and Lowry inside and they force us to hit those outsides. I mean, our three-point shooting is awful. Yeah, we're fucked. Yeah, I know. Although we have played Golden State

tough this year, you know, during the regular season. Right, but the playoff, you know it changes in the playoffs. I know. So that's my only fear. And apparently it's not going to be easy for us to find another shooter out there by the deadline. No, we don't have the trade assets to do it, unfortunately. I wish we had some first-round picks to give

up, but we don't. But this is the most hope I've ever had to get out of the Eastern Conference. Absolutely. Cleveland sucks, okay? Believe me, they suck. We're going to do a cover version of that song. Cleveland sucks! See you all next week. I know it's true How about you? They're picking up trash

And they're putting down roads And they're brokering stocks The class struggle explodes And I'll play this guitar Just the best that I can Maybe I'm not And maybe I am But who gives a damn