Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Brother Jams: Toronto Mike'd #867

Episode Date: June 17, 2021

This 66th Pandemic Friday, Mike kicks out brother jams with Brother Bill and Stu Stone. But first, a special appearance by Pete Fowler.

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dabba dabba doo I like it nice to see you guys nice to see you guys great to be seen let me just tell the listenership that Cam Gordon is cottaging at some undisclosed location. Ah, thoughts and prayers. Tough life.

That's code for Cam is rolling around in the mud somewhere. Hey, you know what I just noticed? And I've got to take care of this right away. Otherwise, I'm in big trouble. Okay, what? There's an article of clothing hanging off the door behind me here and it's not mine wow i know what that is hello don't worry that's the girl that's the girlfriend don't worry bill we don't. We don't record these videos. Oh, thank goodness for that. Okay. So thank you, Brother Bill, for joining us once again, man.

We're so blessed that we have this. It's like having Tom Henke in the bullpen. We should never take that for granted. Well, thanks, man. I appreciate that. And Tom Henke would be about the same age as me now, about 69, 70 years old, right? You both wear glasses? We both wear glasses.

He had a bit of his fastball probably a little bit better than mine. Was he known for the fastball? What was his pitch? No, he had a great fastball. Terminator. Yeah. But he was also known because he wore the Aqua Velva. Really?

Well, he was the Aqua Velva man. And there's something about an aqua velva man is that what you know when you say the word aqua velva and i can just smell it you know what i mean i'm thinking uh stew i'm thinking that duane ward must have been allergic to it because remember duane ward the setup man one of the spice guy he'd come out and just start sweating like you've never seen a human being sweat before. Unbelievable.

Must have been the Aqua Velva. That's right. And Dwayne Ward, of course, got to be the closer for the 93 because Tom Henke's only there for the first World Series. Dwayne the Rock Ward. Right. Dwayne Ward's your closer for the second World Ward. Right. Dwayne Ward's your closer for the Second World

Series. Yes. It's crazy when you think about it. I'm not a massive baseball guy, but you look back to those teams of the early 90s and just the pitching staff alone that the Toronto Blue Jays had in 92 and 93.

Unbelievable. Crazy stuff. Yeah. Unbelievable. and a fun fact for you guys again i'm not a major baseball fan so for those who are like you mike stew i'm not sure i know you're a wrestling guy but mr sluggers oh baseball guy okay all right uh then you'll be unhappy or happy to know that i was actually at the one and only Blue Jays no hitter in Cleveland, Ohio. Wow. In 1989, would it have been 88? That was Dave Steen finally. No, it was not 88 because I was working at the X that night. So it must, I mean, that day, it must have been so many close calls and then he finally did it. Yeah. Yeah. It was a Sunday

afternoon. I think in total, it was that old municipal stadium in Cleveland. The mistake by the lake. The mistake by the lake. Right. And there was about 3000 people in a place that held 80,000. Yeah. Yeah.

And the beer was a dollar 50. Wow. And that was for tall boys. Even with inflation, that's a good deal. I just, yeah, right. I just remember it was the eighth inning and looking at the board going wait a minute zero zero zero we got a no hitter here

it's amazing that we haven't had another one in franchise history like that's still the only no hitter in franchise history is that the pause for effect there yes okay that was like that was so like it hits us. Like there's so many things. Like the Maple Leafs haven't won a playoff series in years. I'm glad you brought that up. So, Stu, just before you joined us, I was informing Brother Bill about your dad's shop Sluggers and all the memorabilia there.

Maybe you can pick it up from here, Brother, before I give a little vaccination update. Do you have some item that you'd like me to find out if it's worth something? before I give a little vaccination update. Do you have some item that you'd like me to find out if it's worth something? Well, no, I've got a couple of Toronto Maple Leafs paraphernalia that I want to get rid of because I've given up. That loss to the Habs for a guy who's been around for 54 years

was two months old when the Leafs last won the Stanley Cup. I'm 54. It was the last draw for me, and I tossed my stuff. But I actually thought maybe it could go to somewhere that would be more appreciative than I am. Like the salary cap? Yeah, exactly. I have a couple of things.

I have a Shane Corson. Get ready for it. I have a Shane Corson. Don't get ready for it. Autographed Shane Corson Jersey. Okay. But I also have a late seventies, early eighties game worn trainers jacket for the Toronto Maple Leafs. That's fun. Here's what I suggest. Yeah.

You know, being a marketing guru that I am. Okay. To get the most bang for your Shane Corson signed sweater and your late seventies trainers jacket. I think that what we could do now, hear me out here. Okay. When we do our pandemic Friday finale, we could auction those items off for some sort of charitable. Maybe the listeners of this show are the only people that would pay good money

for these items that you're speaking of. And like maybe you come on zoom or record some sort of a thing. And then we auction off those items and raise the money for whatever you want to use it for man i i'm down with that i've got them in the other room i can grab them for sure i mean you're a marketing genius dude i think like we can make something really entertaining and you know maybe moose grumpy bids on the course in jersey you know leave a famca leaves with the jacket i think that's great but may I just say in all seriousness, anybody who's still a fan of that shitty team after that fucking choke.

I mean, what are you thinking? Anybody? I got a friend who's had his grandparents or his parents had seasons tickets on the glass to, to the Leafs. He's got seasons tickets on the glass. And you know what?

I just can't believe he's willing to kind of drop the kind of money to watch that team lose year after year after year. And I'm not trying to turn into a hebsey here, but my God, like how many times can this team fucking choke before people realize they're just in it for the paycheck these guys don't give a fuck about winning a stanley cup they they're collecting paychecks and the only one who's not funnily enough in my opinion is the guy they signed what yesterday or the day before jason spezza signs a one-year deal for the minimum you can be paid. $750,000.

He's the only one in that playoff against the Habs who even tried. Everybody else just like fucking, I mean, I've been waiting to say this, so pardon my venting here, but just fucking the worst. I mean, it was just, it was insulting, that team. And guys like me have had enough. And if they don't care, I don't care. And I don't care. So fuck it.

Well, I mean, I think that this is good for charity right now because I think the passion that you just exuded right there, plus the Shane Corson jersey and the trainer's jacket, it all sort of culminates into some sort of really cool purchase for somebody because you clearly hate and you're giving up your Maple Leaf fandom. These are your items. These are your tchotchkes that you have to love the Maple Leafs, and you're going to get rid of them.

That's how angry you are. That's how angry I am, Stu. If you made it to the Stanley Cup in the next few years, I mean, I hope it happens. You're still welcome to be a Leafs fan at that point. Stu, thank you. But you know what'll you're still welcome to be a Leafs fan at that point Stu thank you but you know what they're not they're not fucking gonna make the Stanley Cup final I can't even get by the first fucking round come on yeah it's terrible can't not 2004 2004 is the last time we got out of the first round the year I moved out to British Columbia, 17 years ago, was the last time they made the Stanley Cup.

They made it pass the round. It's embarrassing. It's sad. Brother, there's already like a bidding war in the chat here. So I'm going to suggest that we give the proceeds to the human fund. Absolutely. I'm down with that. I'm down with whatever you think.

Stu, is that a good idea? I mean, I think that some of the proceeds have to go to brother to brother. He's got to get the money back for his course and the jacket and then whatever's on like the pros, like the profits go to, I met Shane Corson on bluer street West, like near, uh,

near run a mead, uh, seemed like a nice guy. I have a photo somewhere of a backstage at Nickelback. That's when Nickelback play a couple sold-out shows at the Opera House when really they could have been playing the Air Canada Center or whatever, Scotiabank Place, whatever it's called now.

And it's a picture of me, the guitarist of Nickelback, whose name all of a sudden is escaping me, Shane Corson, his brother-in-law. Darcy Tucker. Darcy Tucker and the Vancouver Canucks current coach, Travis Green. Wow. Wow. That's funny.

Bizarre. And Shane was a really good guy. I know that they owned a bar up in the Berry area. He likes to put a couple. He likes brewskis. Who doesn't? Yeah. Who doesn't?

But he had a play or a sister ran a bar up in barry she was uh apparently the manager owner and and door staff and she threw him out on a regular basis that's the rumor i heard that's so funny oh leave a fumka makes a good point dale cadeau from delta bc is actually making his way in i don't know in a couple of weeks or something he's going to make a trip to Streetsville, which is not too... That's in Mississauga. But if we could somehow get this gear from Brother Bill...

I think Bill should also autograph something for both of the items that's signed by him, like, fuck the Leafs or whatever he wants to write. Fuck the Leafs. That should be part of the package. This is his stuff you're getting. We could save the shipping costs. I think this is a fantastic idea. Go ahead. That'll work. I could do that. That's not he's not far from.

I mean, there's at least enough media members that listen to this program that someone can write a story, a cool story about this. If we pull out this auction and all this happens, that that's an article somewhere. Yeah, let's let's do it because i mean i'm i'm i'm just i i'm fed up i've had enough so i'm i'm again i'm out i mean i don't i don't care the good stuff happens when cam is not here oh here's speaking of good stuff that happened i just want to give a little update to everybody that on cam on yeah i wonder if cam's listening right now oh god i forgot to tell you what, did you speak to Sunshine and Broccoli's dad by any chance? I postponed it because it was scheduled for Wednesday,

and on Tuesday I got my Pfizer vaccination. That's right, that's right. So I said, let's go do it next week. I wanted to congratulate them on their big Juno win again. That's a great story, but it will come up. That was funny. When I have Broccoli's dad in the backyard. It's a true story. We will come up when uh when i have broccoli's dad in the backyard story we're gonna talk about that you know what though in all seriousness to your to your defense

stew and no disrespect to alan and everybody else who runs the junos over there if it was a grammy big deal but it's a fucking jun. I can understand why you made the mistake. Do you know what I mean? I will be calling you to the deposition. All right. Okay. Brother Bill's on fire. I love it. So we are kicking out Brother Jams today.

Yeah. Weird how you made this topic, by the way, in my opinion. Brother, what do you think of this? And I know you're, by the way, Brother Bill is a Neil Morrison, but I call him Brother Bill. He said that's okay. So, Brother, what did you think of the topic, Brother Jams? Well, it wasn't my idea is what I was going to say first, just in case anybody thinks I'm being like a fucking arrogant schmuck or something.

My idea was artists going solo, which maybe you'll use down the road. Who knows? That would have been great. Yeah, who was in bands that have gone solo and had some success. We can call a mulligan and do that right now i know yeah i love that i love the idea problem with like listen calling doing brother jams because brothers on the show that's great listen marketing stew loves that idea but the fact that you limited it to bands that have the word brother in the name instead of bands that have brothers or songs that have brother no you know why just bands that have the so that limits you to this list of guys that each of us

has to pull forth from everybody's gonna get played i trust me when i tell you that uh i thought long and hard on this it was on a bike ride and i i thought brother jams for brother bill and having it be like something brothers, like the song from something brothers, to me, this is a winner. I think it's going to be a lot of fun, a lot of great jams. I guess we'll find out. So let me get the quick update here before a special guest kicks out. Yes, I thought this was crazy. It's like double surprise day.

I got brother, I got, this is great. Yeah, well, Brother Bill was advertised. So you guys don't even know who this guest is going to be, but I can't wait to have this person kick out the first brother jam. Is it going to be Dana Levinson? You never know, but she's already done it, actually. She won't be here. I like, she's nice.

Well, I can make arrangements here. I can see, I give you a private Zoom of Dana here. Okay. The update is I got my vaccination on Tuesday afternoon. I went from AstraZeneca and then I got a Pfizer. So my Pfizer I got Tuesday. I know, I'm mixing and matching like a sleep country Canada. Do you have to go for a third shot now?

No, that's it. I'm done. I'm done. But like I will say like I've been hit hard by this side effects because uh last night was like fevers and uh chills pretty much and then all day today which is now we're two days removed now because i got these i got this tuesday afternoon and now we're talking on a thursday afternoon i still feel uh a little like. Like I feel a little sleepy. I can explain that. Okay, go ahead. My brother-in-law, same thing with his second shot.

He was sick for a few days. Listen, when you drink Diet Coke, Mike, you can still gain weight from drinking Diet Coke because your brain is tricked that that thing that's pretending to be sugar is actually sugar. And it's making you it's just doing what sugar does. Right. When you're getting this vaccine, your second shot, you don't really have COVID. But the thing that's being you're putting your body is like tricking your body. And I think something like COVID is happening. And so it just means that it's working. So yeah, you're going to be sick for a few days, pop a couple of Tylenols and what are you going to do?

When I logged Mike, I was going to say, when I logged on, I saw your face and yeah, I thought you looked a little, the video portion, I thought you looked a little bit pale. I mean, I would, I was thinking for a second that we were talking, I was talking to that soccer player from the Euro Cup from Denmark who collapsed, and then they had to have the compressions to bring him back to life. I'm just being honest here.

That's such a dark joke. As soon as he shaved his mustache, he burned all of the energy. Do you know why I shaved it? It was getting fuller like it's supposed to do. You could have just kept it at that length it got it was feeling itchy and then i thought why am i doing this i don't need like you only last for like a few days and then it's gone then you're just used to it i had a full remember last year i had a full beard for half of pandemic friday and if you go back to like pandemic friday six I'm like a rabbi.

Shout out to Ralph and Marie. Hey, let's say hi to some people on the live chat here before our special guest arrives. So, Marcus R. Congratulations on your vaccine, Mike. No, thank you. It's ahead of schedule. Like, they decided to make it

only eight weeks between like your AZ and your next shot. So, I literally got this second shot eight weeks to the day after I got the first AZ. So like, I'm a little ahead of schedule. I know Stu, you've been vaccinated forever now, but you had to leave the country to do that.

Like this is. I didn't have to. I mean, I just happened to be there. Right. But so, so now that you and I are fully vaccinated, brother, what's your

vaccination status? Uh, I am only one still. Um, and I'm expecting to get my second in, uh, within the month. Um, so yeah, so it's coming, but you know, it's funny watching a little bit of the news and you know, when I, when I didn't take the online break which I have um just keeping an eye on what's going on in in places like southern Ontario I mean where I am here in White Rock BC you know the amount of cases has been minute there really hasn't there's been maybe I in the entire year and a half or whatever we've been under this I think there's been a total of three or four breakouts where I am of just a couple of people. Like there hasn't been any, you know, if I walk out the door and someone coughs on me, I better go get a test. Otherwise, I'm going to, you know, potentially get this.

Like it has been in southern Ontario. And I know, Stu, you spent a lot of time in Los Angeles. I don't know what it's like down there. And I know, Stu, you spent a lot of time in Los Angeles. I don't know what it's like down there. But, boy, being in Ontario for the past year and a half or, you know, the period of time you guys lived there, and especially during this pandemic, it must have been a little trying for you guys. I mean, the fact that we're almost, I guess you could say, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel, shall we say.

It must feel really good. It must be like a compression just lifting like just all the all the stress just kind of coming off you and especially when you get that second shot and i'm looking forward to that but i wonder how you guys feel about that you do uh it's instant i mean the feeling that you had when you got your first shot is already like you feel like something is like oh man like i'm so good like you know yeah oh right the second one it's like no more condoms i'm sorry no no but you know what i'm saying it's like you feel like that you have this like really exciting it's like wow this is like i'm done i'm done yeah and. And just watch television. I mean, I know you're taking a break from stuff.

Just turn on the television and watch any sporting event. The world is back. I mean, it's back. It sure seems to be in the U.S., that's for sure. Indeed. God bless them. Indeed. Indeed. Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home.

I just want to pay tribute to somebody who just passed away because the television show WKRP in Cincinnati comes up often on this program. I loved it. It's sort of like a Yacht Rock kind of jam. Like Brother Bill, did you ever watch WKRP in Cincinnati? Wait, before he answers that, ah.

Oh, sorry. What does he do for a living? There's no way he didn't watch that show. Well, I have to ask the tough questions, but you did watch. I love that show. Was that show your jam? It was, and I wasn't even in the business at the time it came out. It was just a very popular show in the late 1970s.

I'm saying watching that show growing up, didn't that influence how cool you thought maybe that business is? You know what, Stu? It didn't. I never really thought about it. I just liked the show. But later when I was working in radio, I realized how absolutely bang on the characters are in WKRP. Like the salesperson, that's what salespeople are like.

I can name you the guy. His name was Cliff Cohen. I think he still works at Chorus. I got an email from him today herb tarlik he's herb tarlik okay he emailed me today on a different matter but he's herb tarlik okay he's a wonderful human being too by the way um he's been there forever carlson was was our general manager hal black at our um andy travis was stewart Stuart Myers our program director like bang on not the same hair though uh definitely not the same hair um you know it just and and and so on and down the down the road but to answer your question I actually have that entire series

on DVD now because they just made it with the music included because for years there was a big copyright lawsuit going on between WKRP producers and the music industry. And they wouldn't let them use all the music. And you can't have that show without the music, man. You know, is that good DVD collection going to be auctioned off as well? Or no, that's staying with me. There's no, nothing that says Toronto Maple Leafs on it. So if I find anything else though i got my whole hockey bag i might have an old leafs like i don't know jock or something

or something sign that that would be yeah oh perfect yeah just sending a note because the special guest was in the waiting room and then i guess got antsy and disappeared so i'm just texting this special guest for them to get their butt back in the, uh, the zoom room here. Well, that's a good clue. That's a good clue.

It's somebody that Mike texts with that eliminates a lot of people. So it's not Howard Glassman because he was on last week, right? Right. He was on, he was our special guest. Here comes our, okay.

So just to wrap that up, uh, Herb Tarlek, that's Frank Bonner passed away today. Great character. Great show. Yeah... Okay, so just to wrap that up, Herb Tarlick, that's Frank Bonner, passed away today. Great character, great show. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that.

How old was he? 79. Now, I'm going to let in our special guest. So this is Zoom now, so you guys will see this, which is cool. Here is our special guest to kick out the first jam.

I'm excited. Oh, no. out the first jam i'm excited oh no i i oh wow with mask same old face i thought i was gonna say i think that's it's his original look special guest wow hey Brother Brampton, Tom from Mike, and what is that stripper guy name? Stu Stone. That's the stripper name from 1989. Please welcome

Stu Stone, ladies. Yes. Stu's at a great disadvantage here. Does the horse head come off or is it staying on? It's a unicorn, Mike. Get it right. Oh, it's a unicorn. Oh, yeah. Okay, my daughter would

like that very much. He hasn't worn that since last night. Fantasy night at his house. So, all right. Hey, buddy. For the listenership, this is Pete Fowler, everybody. Pete Fowler.

Standing ovation. Stu's like, who the hell's Pete Fowler? So this, let me explain before we hear from Pete. When I was thinking of special guests for this episode, being Brother Bill as a special guest, I really wanted Pete Fowler because Pete Fowler, when I email him, I'm emailing feet powder.

And Pete, tell us why, where does feet powder come from? He's pointed, man. Billy, Billy can say it. Sorry, Neil. That's fine. No, we call him brother Bill in this program.

So feet powder came from, well, it's sort of like i got it from martin streak he didn't come up with that but martin streak always had the names for people different names and so pete's name is pete fowler and for some reason i always called you feet powder or foot powder and i i don't remember the exact reason why i brought it up maybe you do pete yeah i do you used to mispronounce my name a lot because you were either tired or intoxicated. That could be correct. Because when I was doing the overnights, I think you would go coming up, feed powder, and you would do it by accident. Then it started to happen on purpose. Wow. Yeah. I mean mean broadcasting wasn't about the actual communication itself

it was about the entertainment value that you brought night in and night out so brother bill why don't you explain to stew no i i get that these guys both worked at the 102.1 together but were you the lead-in for each other like how did that was or how did you guys cross paths on the airwaves yeah we're the lead and i was uh billy was leading for me on overnights and i was a lead-in for him uh for afternoons that's a little fun yeah did you guys go ahead sorry yeah i'd love to because i was going to say that uh pete had and i had it too before pete did probably the worst shift in radio. And that is you do like three overnights and then you had a day to flip it over

to doing mornings from 6 a.m. to noon on the weekends. It's a brutal shift. And Pete, I remember you were, you did it after me, I think. I think I moved up and Neil Mann was before me. And that shift was just, it was a mind-numbing shift because you just, you never knew if you were coming or going, what time of day it was.

It was brutal. Yeah, it was really brutal. Wait, so you work the overnight and that ends at 6 a.m. and then you just roll right into the Saturday morning shift? Well, when I started there, I started doing six overnights in a row. I get one day off. And then when I moved up and was able to do the all-request breakfast and then the Thursday 30 with Martin Streak, I only had two overnights.

So you would get a day off, but it was like a Wednesday and that's it wow what a life yeah so yeah but you went to work and you played music I mean it wasn't like and the music you guys were the number one station at that point it's like that was that was the station to be on great great job to have in your 20s yeah absolutely but then pete how long how long before you realize that because now here i am at 54 years old and i envy what you did and that is you realize the writings on the wall and realize that yeah working in your 20s for a radio station rock radio station is a great thing but eventually as alan cross so succinctly put it there is a best before date on your forehead and once you get to that best before date um you want to probably retrain and

do something else otherwise you could be out on your ass like i was at the age of 46 so like everybody was uh uh billy you know i looked at all the people that worked before me, even some of the people that quit as opposed to got let go. And the people after me that got moved around or let go or resigned. And more people got let go than resigned. Right. So when I was approaching 30, it's like, well, if I'm going to change careers and go into policing, I better do it now. like well if i'm going to change careers and go into policing i better do it now so wait how much of it is that like the the the station like sort of having to turn over you know talent like you're saying is does that have to do also with like the genre popularity because like all of a sudden

popular music shifted off of all alternative rock and maybe the ratings go down not because of you just because people's tastes are changing is that sort of what it is or am i crazy that's about right yeah that that's part yeah that's partly right the target audience for the edge usually is has always been 18 to 32 right so if you start getting into your 30s and you have kids and we're still targeting a station we're still charging uh targeting listeners that have a disposable income that maybe don't have kids or finish university or getting their first big-person job, then slowly you do not have that much in common with them.

Your references will start to not make sense to them. You know, for instance, like Brother Bill, he loved watching Baywatch a lot while on the air. Like we had a TV in the studio. Baywatch was always on. If that wasn't it, it was the Leaf. Or Beverly Hills 90210. But after like 97, like who cared about those shows or the Leafs?

Wait, now hear me out on this. isn't everything that's old is new again kind of like I mean now the people that grew up in their high school years in their college years listening to you two guys and listening to that music aren't they all now have a target they're a nice target demo and they're driving their kids to school and aren't they listening don't they want to hear you guys like is there not a thing that could be done here there's an audience for it for sure i don't think it's mainstream terrestrial radio which is the radio you listen to in your car when you turn on your radio and like isn't classic rock the way q107 was when we were in the 90s isn't classic classic rock, if you rebranded something else, isn't that just 90s rock music?

If I may, if I may. Hopefully, Pete, you'll speak to this before I kick out your first brother jam. But the Lost Indie City is, the whole spirit is intact there. Like, tell us a bit about, you know, the Lost Indie City, which I think is a fantastic brand. And I can't believe i forgot

to wear a lost indie city t-shirt like i feel great shame but i'm gonna wear one when you know when these that's a great that's a great shirt that you have on uh mike uh lost city i started like five years ago there's just a whole bunch of music that doesn't get represented on the radio uh that's the word lost right so you could be talking about the replacements or sugar. Basically, we cover over 40, 50 years of alternative music, right? And the station that I do the show on is a community radio station, but has advertising, and it's Adult Alternative, Monday through Friday, and plays all music if to target all the people

that loved alternative music in the 80s and 90s and early 2000s right so there's just so much music out there that people would love to hear because when you think about bands that if they came back to budweiser stage would they fill would they fill the stage would oasis would blur would suede would any of those bands fill the state and it's like yeah they would probably yes to all three of those they absolutely would pack that place so they're still relevant and they still have careers blur still released his records jarvis cocker still does you know so i just think there is a market for it but like what like what the, it's, it's very specific. What was going on in the 1990s on CF and Y and Stu,

you were in LA. So K rock, the kind of music that was being played then was the music of the time indeed. But unfortunately time wasn't too kind to many of the artists. I mean, the big boys are still, you know, played occasionally. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, the Seattle bands, obviously. And the British bands that Pete just mentioned don't get a lot of airplay, with the exception of probably Oasis. And to an extent, Blur, when someone's got a timeout to the top of the hour

by playing song two, which is one minute and 59 seconds long, by the way. But, you know, a lot of the bands that Pete also mentioned, like Sugar and The Replacements and things, they never really, Replacements never really had a place to hear their music other than what was called college radio. Right. 1980s and 90s, which is now basically co-op radio, Pete, if I can say that.

80s and 90s which is now basically co-op radio pete if i can say that um and but for the most part you know radio just kind of kept shifting and because um there wasn't a lot of chance taking going on in radio they wouldn't take the chance uh formatically continuing to play that kind of music now i i say that, but I, when I was sent out to Vancouver to work at Seafox, which was a station very similar to Q107, the PD at the time, a guy named Chris Duncombe, Dunner, came into me one day and he said, I want to do a noon hour, one hour show exclusively on the 1990s.

And I want you to build the show. And so I did from 2004 to 2014. It was called the 90s at noon. I could program whatever I'd like the way Pete, you can do your show, Lost Indie City, which is lost as well. Nobody gets to play their own music on terrestrial radio anymore. Nobody guaranteed. and he let me do that and we had quite a run and it still runs now i listen to it occasionally but you have somebody that grew up in the 2000s and and 2010s and they yeah they're trying to tell you that they know about the 90s but they don't right you know and it's like it's like, I listened to, you know, for instance, a major faux pas to me is when you're talking about the nineties at noon, and then you go and play a U2 song from 1987.

I'm like, that's not the fucking 1990s. You should know this. If you're doing a show, you shouldn't be playing U2 at all. Well, U2 had its moments in the nineties, but for the most part,

just, you got to do your homework and that's what radio doesn't do anymore. They don't do their homework because they're too fucking busy programming five stations or working multiple markets, and you just can't speak to people this way. And unfortunately, it's the demise of radio, the way it's continuing to go unless someone comes along and realizes that personality, music, sound, flow,

they all matter. And we have to get rid of the traditional commercials that are 30 seconds long, 15 seconds long. And it has to go more in the direction of podcasting with the live mentions and things like that. Running 15, 30 second commercials back to back to back to back to back does not work anymore. Yeah, and using the same 300-song library

that you share amongst your corporate stations right across Canada, whether your station's in Vancouver or Hamilton, is not the way to do it either. And I remember when Stu Myers was our program director for a long time. Randy Travis. Yeah.

Did you say Randy Travis? Andy Travis, WKRP. Your references are terrible. No, so Stu, I remember he came to me and the All Requests Nooner and the All Requests Breakfast the edge uh throughout the 90s and early 2000s and stuff they were hand picked right and you know and uh we could play whatever we wanted for the first four or five years uh so if you want to hear that obscure song from zodiac mind where we could actually play it because it was in the library right it was in the library we could play it and back, the library was big.

And I just remember Stu coming to me and going, Pete, the ratings came in. And it had nothing to do with me and everything to do with people wanting to listen to that show because they could hear music they didn't normally hear Monday through Friday at all. And some lost classics and even some newer stuff. And the ratings were actually really high like it was humble and fred were number one the breakfast was number two yeah um and that's just because the music and so there wasn't there was a a huge uh back then there was

a huge want for for that type of music and that type of free-form radio and that time of day two was perfect for it because you had listeners tuning in to listen to the radio not that it was background music in the car no it was it was important to turn it on sure pete did pete was a very very good broadcaster in the sense of being able to really sound personal and like it was like sitting in the same room with your buddy and you're shooting the shit about music and that's the way pete did the show and and it was and it resonated with people as well so pete you can talk about the music but you got to give yourself a little bit of credit too man because you know i don't think engaging yeah engagement it was great and they don't it just doesn't exist anymore the

type of engagement that guys like pete and i'd like to believe myself did back in those days dave but i think you two guys had completely different styles like you guys were both uniquely different from one another i don't see any competition there because you guys are two different animals yeah we were all pretty different like we're different than alan cross mark street howard made pots like we're all very different from each other but all have something in common the love for the music right in the scene right and that's why we all worked there when i came i mean this is a whole other ted talk i I guess, Mike. We just canceled the brother. We got jams to kick out tonight.

But we had, I mean, listen, you're talking about the height of alternative rock grunge, whatever you want to call it. Like that nineties, even Canadian acts were like, cool. Like you can calm. Wasn't forced. People wanted to hear it. And that's because of guys like you that were wasn't forced people wanted to hear it and that's because of guys like you that were like pushing it to us as if it was as important as the other stuff you know like listening getting hearing a head song was just as exciting to us as hearing a screaming

tree song you know what i mean yeah it was pretty cool and i think that the going to the shows because what a scene that was there was a scene in toronto for rock because of 102.1 you guys obviously know that but as a end users i was on the other side of the radio we would go to these shows you guys would be hosting and throwing out t-shirts and it was like every there was it was such a scene and then it just shifted and then drake happened even even if you know exactly but still even, even if you didn't like the music, you wanted to be at the party. Right.

That's what I'm saying. Like the shows were like people were body surfing. It was like a scene. It was like Toronto had a really good thing going. Well, everywhere it did. And the thing with music is it's constantly in a state of flux. And, you know, something something goes out something comes in right it just seems to be that rock just seems to not have come back like this i'm i keep thinking we

get so close there's a band that's i'm like okay rock could be back here and then it just doesn't happen am i is it gonna come back pete yeah not not not the way that we think of rock, right? Because you think about the music in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s, rock has been defined by different means, right? And it's evolved. So are we going to have a band that sounds like Rage Against the Machine again? Probably not. Or Tool.

But we'll have something else that is considered rock, like the Arkells. Right. Yeah. Stu, it's a really tough question. I think that the majority of guys that are around our age, Pete and myself, would say what Pete just said, yes, but not in the traditional sense. But I think what needs to happen, and obviously this is like lightning in a bottle, but you need that nirvana.

You need that young 18, 19, 20-year-old garage band, three-piece that has something that changes, that becomes the cool thing. People want to be like Billie Eilish. People want to be like, there needs to be some fucking. Yeah. Well, I'm going to say funny you mentioned Billie Eilish though, because really it's easy for a guy my age to criticize her music because I don't understand it. But when it comes down to it, Nirvana were big in the non-social media world.

Billie Eilish came on about as gangbusters as Nirvana did in the social media world. So both sort of were in the same lane of like, we are different. Same lane. Used to hearing different types. That's right. Like just different types of promote. Rock music was poison at the time. Like, and I don't mean like poison, like drink it and you'll die.

I mean, like poison the hairband. It's like rock music was poison. And then Nirvana came and was like, fuck all that. And everything changed. There needs to be an act like that again. And I know that's asking for a lot. it's like rock music was poison and then nirvana came and was like fuck all that and everything changed there needs to be an act like that again and i know that's asking for a lot because that does obviously doesn't come around every day but there needs to be a rock act like that and maybe it could come back well you had this in the 1970s you had the sex pistols and then in 1991 you had nirvana so looking at a positive light there to be, it would make sense that eventually another band would come along with that

kind of, I don't know, piss and vinegar and kind of will have the crowd turn again, but it's, you know, it's just, it's all relative. It all just keeps, you know, pop music's big right now. And then rock music was big 20 years ago. So what's next, you know, does disco come back? Does EDM come back disco come back does edm come back i don't know yeah i don't know but it's fun to kind of just play along and see what's happening but as far as the radio goes i mean radio isn't even trying to do that anymore the big argument i mean the big argument out here there's a station called the peak here in vancouver which is the equivalent of

indy 88 um who are pulling okay ratings, but compared to CFOX where I came from, they're getting absolutely pummeled. But their program director who came over from CFOX claims that they're not competing against each other, which is total bullshit. And yet the big argument that the peak is having right now or the internal struggle they're having is do we play Billy Eilish and call that independent rock? And so they're having that argument internally within themselves.

Well, that's not independent rock. Well, it's not, but let's face it. What is indie rock? I mean, what is it? Well, you know, Billy, in 2007, was Guns N' Roses considered indie alternative rock when

The Edge started playing Guns N' Roses for the first time? I wasn't there, so. Yeah, so you missed it. Yeah. I didn't know they played Guns N' Roses. Guns N' Roses were a cool rock band. Several times. The Edge started playing some Lawrence Gowan, I attestoses. We're a cool rock band. Several times. They started playing some Lawrence Gowan, I attest to.

Everyone denies it, but I heard it. Well, I remember we started playing Metallica in 96, right? Not when Metallica was good. And I'm a Metallica fan, but 96 Metallica wasn't the greatest band in the world. But it was, you know, trying to take listeners from Q, right? Yeah. All right, Pete. And sacrifices had to be made.

We're an hour deep here. We got to kick out a brother jam. But Stu wanted to know if Pete ever played any Lawrence Gowan. Yeah, did he? Okay, Pete Fowler, did you ever play a Lawrence Gowan song on 102.1? No. Even though his gold record was in the hallway in Brampton,

I never played it. No, even though his gold record was in the hallway in Brampton, I never played it. No offense to Larry Gowen. So in the 1980s, to answer your question, Stu, CFNY did play Gowen. Okay, good. But in the 1990s, Gowen was, he was Hanson. He was persona

non grata. Now, I'm going to play the first Brother Jam for tonight's episode. I'm going to play the first Brother Jam for tonight's episode. I'm going to play some of it, then I'll bring it down, and then we'll hear from Pete on why he chose this song. So here we go. guitar solo Just forget I ever said That it's true love enough

I got a diamond in my heel And a universal bluff Gotta find a better glue To hold this picture of the sun Gotta find a way to you Before all this is done Once you strip the paint You find it everywhere you go You and I should know

Love is enough, love is enough, love is enough Love is enough, love is enough, love is enough The Barr Brothers. Yeah, out of Montreal, Quebec, yeah. So tell us why this jam. This is Love Ain't Enough. I like that song. Someone requested it on one of the... I still do an all-request brunch every stat holiday.

Someone requested it on last July 1st, and it's like, I haven't even heard of them before. And I thought it was a nice song, and when you were looking for songs that had brothers in it, all I could think of was that and Chemical Brothers because you listed all the other ones. So the Barr brothers, are they really brothers? I'm always curious when you have the Barr brothers, are they really brothers? I'm always curious when you have the something brothers,

are they actually brothers? The band contains two Americans and two Canadians. Was Jason Barr in the band? Yeah, he played Triangle. I'm sure he did. Pete, thanks for doing this. This is now now the choice is now yours

it's like choose your own adventure you can stick around or you can go do something else no offense is taken it's 100% up to you buddy I think he's got some art to hang on the wall behind you don't you Pete

one piece one piece is that a Tori Amos and this is Leonard on the wall behind you, don't you, Pete? One piece. Is that a Tori Amos? And this is Leonard Cohn. Oh, okay. And there's a noose right there. Is that a noose? You visiting soon? We'll try it out. See, this is the one great thing about Pete. No matter what I said, he always had a better comeback, except for one time at Molson park and Barry backstage at edge fest.

I don't know if you know where I'm going with this Pete, but Pete had just arrived and you know, he had done the six to noon shift and I was doing noon to six live from the park. So Pete drove all the way up with literally no sleep. And so caught a couple hours nap and then i had him on the air with me and we're rapping about you know uh molson park and canada day i think it was canada day or i just one of the two talking about how great it is uh you know and there's and pete's

like yeah there's lots of things to do here blah blah blah and i said to him i said yeah like sleep because that's all he had done so anyway if i should have played back the clip instead it would have been a lot fun i didn't know i didn't know i forgot about that building you don't remember that so pete was the best at the comebacks but that was the only day i ever got him and that's why i never forgot it so funny well you guys, it was a lot of fun. I do have to go do some work. Are you still a police officer, Pete? I am. I am.

I'm actually working right now. You're like on the street, like a police, like a uniformed police officer? Yes, I'm a uniformed police officer. I'm a sergeant. Holy shit. That's amazing. Do the people in your unit know that you're like like they're bruce wayne batman kind of thing like they know about your radio life a couple of

know but i don't i don't share it they just sort of find out wow that's yeah like man stew like like we said you know there's some of us that there we go there's some of us that realized at a young age that rock and roll is for young people, and eventually you're not going to be young and you've got to find something else to do. And that was Pete, and became a paramedic first, and then joined the Ontario provincial police. And, uh, you know, we can't thank him enough for everything he's done.

That's great, man. Yeah. He was great on the air, but you know, he's doing what he was born to do and that is, you know, making sure we're safe. Yeah. Thanks guys. I really appreciate this buddy. You were perfect. And, uh, I think, uh, Stu, nice meeting you.

Stay safe out there and really, uh, look forward to speaking to you again sometime. Yeah, me too, Billy. Love you. Hopefully you don't pull me over. Now you can say you're a fellow FOTM. Can I drop your name to get out of the speaking ticket? What are you trying to get out of, Stu?

I have nothing right now. I'll let you know. I got a $400 ticket driving through Pete's old jurisdiction up in, uh, not Guelph, but it was up that way. Pete rural area. What's it called? You were there for a while. Oh, Fergus, Laura, Laura. Yeah. And I was going down a side road and a Laura going about a hundred K on a dirt road. And I came over this Hill and all four of my tires went off the road. And the first thing I saw when I got over the hill was a police officer pointing at me, told me to pull over.

And it was a guy that worked with Pete at the time. But I did not drop Pete's name because I was making radio money. That's really funny. All right. Thank you, Pete Fowler. Thanks so much, buddy. You guys, we're going to cook. Okay.

Awesome. Can't wait to see you again. We're going to cook with gas, okay? We're going to start. Legend, man. Yeah, well, that's what I envisioned, man. I didn't know that he was a police officer now. That's so crazy.

What a juxtaposition. You need to go back and listen to the fantastic Pete Fowler episodes of Toronto Mike. You'll love them. I'm going to kick out my... This is the order today. I'll go first, then Brother Bill, and then Stu Stone. That'll be the order today.

Let me kick out my first jam. You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips. jam. You're trying hard not to show it But baby, baby, I know it You lost that love and feeling Oh, that love and feeling You lost that love and feeling All right, so I'm starting things off with some blue-eyed soul. This is the Righteous Brothers. You've lost that loving feeling.

Some fun facts I'll throw at you and then uh we'll hear your uh your feedback here but firstly i will just point out they're not actually brothers this is bill medley of course and bobby hatfield they're not they're not brothers bill medley bobby hatfield Bobby Hadfield. Are either of their last names righteous? Neither of their last name is righteous either. Wow, this is a big fucking wrestling work. This was their first big hit. This went all the way to...

Next thing you're going to tell me, Brandon and Brenda aren't brother and sister either? Oh, there's a question about that. Brother, somebody in the chat, it looks like it's wants to know if you listen to the Beverly Hills OMG podcast.

Actually, I did not. When was that? I don't know. I think it's a podcast about Beverly Hills. You should check it out apparently. All I remember is Brenda and Brandon were originally from Minnesota. Yeah, of course. They moved to Los Angeles in the first year of high school. For sure.

To the 90210 postal code, or sorry, zip code. And the rest, as they say, is history. And remember, that first season, they had a different theme song. Oh, I don't remember that. They did. We covered that on a Friday episode.

Nat from the Peach Pit. Boy, he was a real entrepreneur. He had the Peach Pit, then he had Peach Pit After Dark. Right. And that's where the Barenaked Ladies played, Peach Pit After Dark. So, okay, some all-hate-yokes. What song did they play? Like Enid?

Jane? I actually can't remember what they played. It might have been Old Apartment. Pete wasn't lying, though. I mean, 90210 was one of my favorite shows and I would definitely watch it if you could actually see it on TV these days. Yeah, I would be lying if I told you that I wasn't on that show before.

Oh, you were on it. You told me this before. We did this. Yeah. You were in a scene. I was in a scene with David. With David. At the Gap.

Yes, you were. Yes, you were. Yes, you were. I remember this, and I remember being mind-blown because that's how much I love this show. Stu, why they didn't bring... If I ever find the call sheet of the script, it's yours, baby. Oh. I'll trade you for the Corson.

It's done. It's a done deal if we don't get rid of it at the end of the show. But anyway... I got some fun facts, though. Oh, sorry. I'm not quite done yet. This went all the way to number one in 1964. Pop Gun. Number one.

At the time, it was the longest recording to actually top the chart. It's not that long a song. It's like three and a half minutes, but it was the longest song to hit number one when it did so in 1964. This is a great example of the wall of sound. This is a Phil Spector produced song.

Right. Phil Spector's all over this thing. He actually commissioned with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weld to write the song. And this is kind of an amazing fun fact. I think that until the record was broken in 1999 by Every Breath You Take by The Police, this song we just heard, You've Lost That Loving Feeling by the Righteous Brothers,

was the most played song on American radio. That was it. The most played song on American radio until 1999 when Every Breath You Take took that spot. That's quite the feat given all the songs that have been released. No, it's unbelievable. And I always liked that song. A lot of people know it from Cheers

because it was Rebecca Howe's favorite song. And I personally first heard that song on an episode of Facts of Life. So there was an episode of Facts of Life where like Blair was singing that song into like a brush, a hairbrush. And I loved it the first time I heard it. There's something about the way Medley's got the deep,

you know, baritone bass, and then Hatfield's got that, like that tenor, that higher register, and just the way they kind of dance together. Just amazing. I think it's a great jam. That era, just that era of music is really undiscovered by many people. The sort ofifornia sound of the early 1960s with the likes of bill bill medley and the other gentleman in the righteous brothers and and even the producer i mean despite the absolute horror of a human being that he was um he did produce some pretty good shit um indeed that wall of sound that he had i I love that because nobody did it. I mean, you listen to the early Beatles stuff,

and it's just like just really tinny and kind of a lot of empty spaces there. But the wall of sound is just, it worked really well for a long time. And you could tell, definitely tell uh it was his work and um until you know everybody realized that he was a total narcissistic murdering prick um you know he did some good work you watch his documentary yeah i didn't see it yet is it good yeah it's uh paints a very disturbing picture of a very disturbed band phil specter was was a was a guy that was not living in reality um sort of in the harvey weinstein kind of not the sexual harassment or or worse than talking about but just one of these people that never lived the way the common the average human being lived he was you know a guy that's removed from reality so far

removed he was howard hughes you know those names you hear just just a weird weird guy who took it too far brother bill you have any words you want to say before i kick out your first jam or do you want me to just kick it and then you can chat with us well uh just say that england is playing scotland tomorrow at the euro uh euro cup um and i know that anyone who's from scotland is excited because like usual they think they're going to beat beat England. Not going to be the case. Has nothing to do with this song. Go ahead, Mike. Go ahead, Mike. The Brothers Gonna Work It Out

This is like, there you go. Should have been. It's funny you say that because I always did kind of want to use that. I never got around to doing it. But yeah, that's the Chemical Brothers and a song called Leave Home from their debut album from 1995. And that's back in the day, Stu, you'll remember these days when you could sample something without getting sued. Right. So that's an actual sample from a 1992 album

by a guy I've never heard of named Blake Baxter and a song called The Brothers Gonna Work It Out. Wow. And the Chemical Brothers used it on that song. That's the first song on the Chemical Brothers debut album from 1995. Wow. And the Chemical Brothers sold their two guys out of Manchester, two DJs. Frank and Steve Chemical?

No, Tim Rollins and Ed Simons, I believe, from Manchester. And they were really the EDM, electronic dance music pioneers from the 1990s. They originally called themselves the Dust Brothers, but as you probably know, Stu, the Dust Brothers were already in the United States, two guys, I believe. So they had to change their names.

So they went to the Chemical Brothers instead. After selling a million copies of their debut, they signed with Virgin. And the rest, I mean, is really, you know, history. I mean, they just, they were massive for a long time there. They met at the University of Manchester in 1989. Mike, you'll love to know that their influences included Public Enemy.

Well, I was going to say Brothers Gonna Work It Out is a big jam off of Fear of a Black Planet. There you go. know that their influences included um public enemy i was gonna say brother's gonna work it out is a big jam off of fear of a black planet there you go yeah they're big fans of public enemy uh along with new order and a lot of the electronic bands from the 1980s the new wave bands bands like uh cabaret voltaire um and a list ultravox the list goes on. And because our dear friend Cam isn't here today, I thought I would just throw this out there because this is something Cam likes to do. He likes to tell you, I mentioned they both went to the University of Manchester.

I have some alumni. What's that? Geography Corner. Oh, I don't have Geography Corner, but I do have some alumni that went to the university of manchester which includes and this is in tribute to tam cam tip of the hat hope he's enjoying the cottage uh actress jennifer saunders went to the university of manchester if you remember who she is university of melissa Manchester. Yeah, she was in a popular television show out of the UK.

What was that? Absolutely fabulous. Absolutely fabulous. You got it. Anthony Burgess, who wrote A Clockwork Orange, went to the University of Manchester. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch. Wow.

And an actor by the name of Toby James, who was I got it written down because I didn't know. Dobby, the fire elf in Harry Potter. Does this ring a bell? Yeah, there's a Dobby in there. Yes. OK, so there you go. So in 1995, the Chemical Brothers met Noel Gallagher at Glastonbury, which ironically is where I met Noel Gallagher. Noel Gallagher at Glastonbury, which ironically is where I met Noel Gallagher. How did that work out? Well, the story goes, 1995, I was in England, and my friend who was the UK reporter for CFNY for a show called Live in Toronto,

his name was Graham Bell. He lived in London. And he said, I've got media passes for Glastonbury. Do you want to go? And I'm like, well, the biggest musical festival in the world. Who was that? Is that a radio head one? Headliners were on the Friday night, the prodigy on the Saturday night, Oasis and on the Sunday night, the cure. So anyway,

so we went and I ended up in the media area and I saw this guy at the beer tent sitting in the corner by himself with dark hair, bright blue eyes and a light blue shirt on with the words brother written across it. So Manchester City, the soccer team at the time, their sponsor was brother, which I guess is an electronic. Yeah, like word processors processors i don't know yeah something like that so i i went over to the guy and i said you know you look like a gallagher and he said well that's because i am a gallagher oh boy and i said which gallagher are you because you're not an oasis and he goes i'm the other one i'm paul the oldest brother and i ended up hanging out with him for the entire weekend. Paul Gallagher.

Paul Gallagher, yeah. Like Oliver Brady, the Brady Bunch's cousin. Right. Yes, the guy with the glasses and the blonde hair. I remember that, dude. Of course. So, yeah. So this guy, Paul Gallagher, showed me the ropes of Glastonbury,

basically got me everywhere introduced me to everybody including his brothers fun and it was a lot of fun yeah it was a lot of fun and anyway the Chemical Brothers Noel Gallagher talked and they did a number one their first number one UK hit was in 1999

and it was a song called Let Forever Be which I love that song I love Let Forever Be yeah and that's with song. I love Let Forever Be. Yeah. And that's with with Noel Gallagher on vocals and the Chemical Brothers still making music today. Awesome. Stu, give us your preamble before I kick out your first. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.

Brothers band. There actually is brothers in this band. I think there is brothers in this band. And this goes out to if you want to hear I'm going to we're going to make this quick, Mike. We're going to in this band. I think there is brothers in this band. And this goes out to, if you want to hear, I'm going to, we're going to make this quick, Mike, we're going to put this on and then I'm going to drop some knowledge on you and then we'll move on. Okay. So this is a song called Jessica by the Almond Brothers. Oh! Surprisingly for me, I think of the Almond Brothers,

and this is the song that I can think of. Like, whenever I hear, like, someone like Jam Band or, you know, I went to see Phish one time, and I just, like, there's this certain sort of, like, noodle, like, that just makes me think of the Allman Brothers and ironically to me this is their most famous song even though it isn't but to me it is because it's the one I associate with them it's this is an instrumental song um there's no words to in this song and it's just is that what instrumental means? Yeah. So the guys are just jamming, much like myself, like the professionals,

myself and brother and Pete were jamming for the first hour of this show, and we were in the zone and creating great content here for you, Mike. I think Moose Grumpy went to bed. The Allman brothers were sitting around and jamming. And I'm not going to waste people's time here. They know who the Allman Brothers are because they listen to Hebsey on sports. And Hebsey, I'm going to give you,

if you want to learn more about the Allman Brothers, Mike is going to give us at the end of the show Mark Hebsey's phone number, and you can just call Mark and just talk Allman Brothers with him because he fucking loves the Allman Brothers. He was the surprise zoom-in guest who kicked out

Girl Jams, I think we called it, and he kicked out Melissa by the Allman Brothers. Yeah. And this is another Girl Jam. He could have kicked out Jessica, which is my preference, too. Canada Kev is watching us live. He's the only one who didn't go to bed during the hour CFNY retrospective.

And he says, try Dreams or Mountain Jam. Those are a couple of Allman Brothers jams. But I think the most famous Allman Brothers jam is, Lord, I was born a ramblin' man. Yeah, like that's the big one, right? Some other stuff is that this song actually won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, but not when it came out.

It won it in 1996. Soundtrack? No, just like a live recording that they did in 95. They actually ended up winning. It's kind of a cool, fun fact that they won a Grammy Award for this song like 20 years later, which that doesn't happen all that often uh the song didn't chart particularly well uh mainstream wise it's number 65 on the billboard hot 100 number 29 on the easy listening chart and i you would think this would

be a much higher ranking on the easy listening chart because you hear this song and it's easy to listen to. Alt rock. There may have been an alt rock version played by brother back in the day. They might be giants did a cover of this tune. And I think, I feel like they may have had a song played on your show. For sure. For sure.

And it was, the song was also in the movie field of dreams. So shout out to the almond brothers formed in Jacksonville, Florida. They ended up in Georgia doing the Southern rock thing. And the Allmans, Greg Allman, very famous. His sexploits are very famous. Everybody wanted to see who he was dating. He was like a big to-do.

Yeah, he was married to Cher. Yeah. So he did pretty well for himself. For like five minutes. God bless the Allman brothers. I'm going to move on. Mark Hebger's phone number will be given at the end of the show. If you wait, it's an Easter egg at the end.

Here's a fun fact that people might enjoy. Does anybody on this Zoom call remember Mojo Radio? Yeah, sounds familiar. Is that 640? Yeah, that was 640. By the way, guess who's my guest next week? You might know this gentleman, brother, but Ripken. Oh, my God.

He's on the program next week. So, yeah, let me just tell you about Ripken for a second here. So when Mojo launched, he was the midday guy. And by far, no disrespect to humble and fred because they did their own thing but he was my favorite on mojo he was just so good no shit guy uh didn't take any shit from anyone that's why he ended up quitting moving back to i guess winnipeg yeah andg. Does he own a restaurant now or something? I'm going to find out next week, buddy.

Please give him my best. I don't think he really knows me or remembers who I am, but I was a big Ripken fan back in the day. He's one in a million, that's for sure. People are handing Mike phones out of nowhere. I think it's like a code for like, wrap it up. Do you want to come and say hello?

She asked me if I want A&W. Oh, hello. That's code. That's a euphemism. Okay, so why did I bring up Mojo Radio? Because there was a woman doing traffic on Mojo Radio named Jessica Baker. I know Jessica Baker. So Jessica Baker. they know her they would play they would play this song for her traffic updates like so you would hear her on the show

i've never had her on the show but she used to do traffic i can hook that up oh yeah i think she's got like i got a married name now i don't think she's a... She's fantastic. Was her real name Baker? It wasn't Baker, was it? It was, eh? She's MOT, right? Oh, yeah. I know what that means. We worked with another MOT around the same time named Marla West. Okay. Remember that name?

I remember Marla West. In fact, I had a Facebook chat with her fairly recently. Yes, I remember Marla West with her fairly recently. Yes. I remember Marla West. But I do remember hearing this song on Mojo traffic updates if Jessica Baker did them. She's great. All right, well, let's do it, man.

I'm in the mood. I'm going to do a whole Mojo thing. That makes sense why they would play this song for her because it's called Jessica. Right. See, you're on the ball. That's exactly right. No, that's for the people listening that didn't put it together.

See what happens when you get two shots, kids? You get smart like these guys. YYZGord says yes. I don't know what... Yes, is that yes because you remember Jessica Baker, or is it because you like Jessica? Yes, Stu takes the first round. Are you ready for my second jam, everybody? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

I'll tell you in a minute. I bet I can guess. Take a guess. Is it Old Brother Where Art Thou? Nope. Oh. I think it's Pulp Fiction. First of all, that's not even a Tarantino movie. Oh, you said Tarantino. Sorry.

That's a Coen Brothers movie. I heard Coen Brothers. Yes, of course. Of course. Oh, you said Tarantino. Sorry. That's a Coen Brothers movie. I heard Coen Brothers. Yes, of course. Of course. Of course, Stu got it right. This is of the... Bruce Willis is singing along to this song

in the car in Pulp Fiction. By the way, here's a... Go ahead. I was going to say, is it just before he runs into Ving Rhames crossing the street? Yes, and you're ready for a was going to say, is it just before he runs into Ving Rhames crossing the street? Yes.

And you're ready for a fun fact. So this is... Marcellus Wallace. Yeah, Marcellus Wallace. So fun fact, that's 1994 is when Pulp Fiction comes out. That's crazy. I remember seeing it in the theater

and just being like... In the same way that I was like, Nirvana is so different, I thought that Pulp Fiction was so different than everything I had seen. You know it's still my favorite movie of all time. I'm excited about movies. It was like this is fucking a movie right here.

Well 1994 let's look at 1994 for films. Pulp Fiction. Shawshank. Swingers maybe. Shawshank Redemption. Did it come out that year? 21. Shawshank Redemption and Forrest Gump.

Yeah. All came out in 1994. Big year. Now here's the fun fact. The very next year, 1995, there's the Die Hard sequel, Die Hard with a Vengeance and Bruce Willis' character,

John McClane, is describing his suspension from the police force and he says he was smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo. So clearly a nod to his character in Pulp Fiction. Okay, this is the Statler Brothers.

Oh, yes, of course, who also now do furniture and mattress sales. Do they? I think the Statler Brothers come on down and buy your mattress, get your box spring for half price or something. Sleep country Canada. There are brothers in this band, by the way, Don and Harold Reed. There's brothers in here.

It's a quartet formed in 1955, and they were the opening act and backup singers for Johnny Cash. Oh, wow. From 64 to 72. They named themselves after a brand of facial tissue that they saw in a hotel room. That's where the Statler brothers. They're themselves after a brand of facial tissue that they saw in a hotel room. That's where the...

They're brothers, but they're... Stadler Brothers is like the name of a pharmacy, I think. Like a chain of... It sounds like a car dealership. Stu, it sounds to me like a furniture shop in Uxbridge. Doesn't it sound like that? The Stadler Brothers? I'm going to look it up.

Stadler Brothers is free free this is the song it's called flowers on the wall and it was their first big hit it reached number two on the country charts and number four on the billboard hot 100 uh here's a bit of a fun fact uh the song won the 1966 grammy for best contemporary um r and r performance i don't know like what r and r means actually for Best Contemporary R&R Performance. I don't know what R&R means, actually. I have to look it up. Rock and roll? You think so? I feel like that song's not winning any rock and roll awards,

but what do I know? But this is the 1975 version. That's the version that you hear in Pulp Fiction. I guess they have a 1960... Statler Brothers Hot Dogs? Statler Brothers? I can't find it. All right.

So I always liked that song because of Pulp Fiction. So I had the soundtrack, which I spun many times, and I fell in love with Flowers on the Wall by the Statler Brothers. Sometimes a candidate kind of says Smothers Brothers. Mom always liked you best, I think think is the smothers brothers here how come it doesn't seem to no matter where you go if you mention the word brothers someone's got to bring up the smothers brothers i don't know why they were like famous for 15 minutes in 1973 weren't they they know like brother wasn't super? I feel like Super Dave and Wayne and

Schuster were writers for them. Oh, that could be true. I'll just say Smothers Brothers were still famous when I was growing up in the 80s. I feel like Super Dave or Bob Einstein was a writer. Yeah, there might be a connection there. We got to dig into that.

Brother, do you want to set up your second jam? Yeah, a little bit. When know when you said hey let's do brother jams at first i was like well does that sound kind of pretentious or whatever but again i didn't come up with the idea you did but i i went to spotify because i i off the top of my head i only could come up with the the same you know brother bands or the name the, the same, you know, brother bands or the name brother in it that probably you guys could. So I went to Spotify and just typed in brothers just to see who I would come by. And I discovered this band that not only has the word brothers in it, but also has my name in it. Oh boy. So here's a little taste of angel gone a little wild. Got a bottle she stole from the Santa fold of a Playboy magazine.

A 10-spot can't stop saving, cause she's wearing no skin, sadly by jeans. Little Miss Whiskey, keepin' me tipsy. I'ma need a chaser all night long. Little bit of crazy, little bit of Tennessee. Sing the worst ever country song. Coming to the stage. Welcome Tiffany to the stage. I had never heard that in my life.

And I heard this song and I thought, this is kind of catchy in a Saturday night. That's like a Nashville strip club anthem. Yeah, it's like Nickelback if they were a country band. Kind of, yeah. They were called the Morrison Brothers Band. That was the name of the band. That's interesting. Is it you and your brother moon landing as country rockers? I'd like to say I had that much talent, Stu,

but unlike your little pinky, I don't have that. So, you know, I just found this band and I thought, well, it's a pretty good song. Let's talk a little bit about them. They're based in Nashville, Tennessee, although. They really are. Yeah, they were based in Nashville, but they were originally from Washington, D.C. And there was a country star.

There were two brothers in the band, as a matter of fact, whose last name also happens to be Morrison. A guy named Willie, he was the singer, and a guy named Truman was the guitar player. And it was a couple other guys. The drummer and guitarist were the Nolan brothers. So there were two. It's like the Fleetwood Mac of brothers, right? Sets of brothers in the band.

They were discovered playing the clubs by a fellow DC native by the name of Maggie Rose. I don't know who Maggie is. Does that ring a bell? No. Is Maggie who they're singing about in that song? Is she the one with legs for days? Little Miss Whiskey?

I don't know if it's Maggie specifically. Brother Bill, you only discovered this band when you went to Spotify to research Brothers bands. That's the first encounter you had with this band. That just goes to show you, Mike, how terrible of a topic you picked. You guys suck. Do you know how many...

No, the topic sucks. You guys suck. There are so many great acts, something Brothers. Yeah, the Morrison Brothers is one of those acts. That's amazing. I love this song. I love country.

I think this song is great. It's been established, Mike, that I love country music. This is a work or a shoot. Which one is this one? I get them confused. Little Miss's whiskey. So they released their debut in 2016.

That's what that's from. Actually, sorry, an album called State of the Union from 2013. It came out on. Then they released an EP in 2016. And in 2015, here's a fun fact for you. The Morrison Brothers band co-wrote do you have the clip of this mike yeah i'm all set can can you fire a little bit of this song and i'll tell you what they used it in okay so it goes on we just fade this down mike so in 2015 the morrison brothers band co-wrote

the opening music for the washington capitals and a song called Ice on Fire. And if you want to bring it up just for a second, Mike, this is that song here. Do they sing about it? Better stop your feet Get out of your seats Game time, baby, you say Rush and roll, it's time to play

Game time, down to the wire Go light it up, set the ice on fire Ice on fire, ice on fire To me, that's pretty standard, kind of upbeat music. Get the crowd going when the team's coming on the ice. So, yeah, the Washington Capitals use that for a year or two. And then I tried to find some more information on these guys and it's like they dropped off the plate face oh really after you get that capitals placement but where else is there to go when i listen to uh just take the money and run

when i listen to ice on fire ice on fire it actually sounds to me like ass on fire ass on fire well i'm sure the local proctologists that are listening right now are thrilled by potential sponsor mike i mean that's your demo is people that need to get their asses checked that's right um so anyway yeah they just disappeared there's been nothing about them it's like they lost their deal and everybody went home or something i've had if anybody out there maybe someone who knows Maggie or the brothers, get in touch and do a wellness check. Make sure everybody's good.

Here's hoping the Morrison brothers are A-OK. Absolutely. Thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers. Stu Stone, set up your second jam. The crazy thing is, I also have a Morrison brothers song. Come on. I crazy thing is, I also have a Morrison Brothers song. Come on. I'm just kidding.

I should have. I'm happy that Pete is no longer here and he's protecting us on the streets because if he would have stuck around, this is probably the song that would have made him leave. Oh, yeah. I'm going to play this one. I'm going to dedicate it to Cam Gordon. We love you, Cam.

Hopefully, if you're listening to this, you turn this up while you're rolling to dedicate it to Cam Gordon. We love you, Cam. And hopefully if you listen to this, you turn this up while you're rolling around and it'll give you a little extra oomph. So this one goes out to you. Viagra of music. Yes, this goes to Cam. It's like they're shooting a t-shirt gun. I'm thinking bubbles. Bubbles in the club.

They're just releasing all the bubbles and people are dancing through it. So I hope you can stand the vibration. Because we're about to rock the entire nation. Oh yeah, here we go. Here we go. You're listening to the Out There Brothers. You know, if you put a gun to my head and said, Mike, that song. The Out Here Brothers?

The Out There Brothers. It's Out Here. The Out Here Brothers. But I could never. Out Here together looks like Oh There. Oh There. Does anyone on the planet know that the out here brothers is responsible for this jam? I had no idea.

I mean, they do now because this is their fucking mega hit. Boom, boom, boom. Wow. 1995. You probably would have heard this on 107.9. Energy? Energy 108? Yeah.

1995. This is the Out Here Brothers, an American hip house duo. Hip house. Hip house. Hip house. Song went all the way to number 65 on the billboard 100 i'm bringing the hits this week that's so funny stew that that song had i been walking say in the club district midnight 1 a.m saturday night in the city of love and heard that coming from a club, I'm going to be honest.

I would have kept on walking. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I never owned this song, but I'll tell you there's some funny stuff here about the out here brothers. They had another song. Okay.

So the actual like quote from the review for this song, a gentleman from music week said this song, a boom, boom, boom is near is neither as blatantly filthy nor as good as their other offering don't stop bracket wiggle wiggle bracket describe describing it as similarly catchy i say boom boom boom now let me hear you say way oh chanter i don't know what they mean but don Don't Stop Wiggle Wiggle is their other song. And that's a parenthetical jam. That's a parenthetical jam.

Now here's something very interesting, a very fun fact. The Out Here Brothers, are you ready for this? Their most successful song is a song that they wrote and produced for another artist. Oh, I like to move it. Oh. I'm making that up only because it sounds a lot like this. I think so because it sounds very similar. It sounds like it could be played in the same ice cream shop.

I get it. But the answer is actually Summertime by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Get out of here. What? Yeah. These are the guys that wrote and the Fresh Prince. Get out of here. What? Yeah. These are the guys that wrote and produced that song, which blows my mind. And they wrote and produced that in 1991.

And these are dance producers that made one of the most famous Will Smith songs ever. Wow. Interestingly enough, there are other songs in pop culture. Maybe you guys can fill in some as well. But I made a little list of boom boom songs so there's uh this is boom boom boom let me hear you say hey oh there's also of course boom boom boom let's go back to my room my room yeah sounded a lot like uh you spin me right round baby like

the back there was a guy from toronto with a song that said, boom, boom, out go the lights. Do you remember that? Out go the lights. Pat Travers, his name was. There's click, click, boom. There was a Will Smith song called Boom, Boom, Shake the Room. Yeah. There's Black Eyed Peas, Boom, Boom, Pow. Boom, Boom, Pow. It was a big hit.

Rock and roll song. Here comes the boom. Ready or not. Yeah. That was a big hit. Rock and roll song. Here comes the boom. Ready or not. Yeah, that was a metal band. Yeah. There's, of course, the boom shakalaka. Here come the chief rocker from the underground. Wow.

Totally. Of course, let's not leave out the boomtown rats. Right. And of course, the last one I'll say is all I want to do is zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom and a boom, boom. You know, I got it. I mentioned the Pat Travers song. Boom, boom, boom. I'll go the lights.

That's not the name of the song. Maybe if someone's watching us on the feed, they can let me know. But Pat Travers was from Toronto originally. I know that. But do you guys don't remember that live song? No. Boom, boom, boom. I'll go the lights.

I think he used to say or he got the audience to sing that part i don't remember this at all but i know who would know uh classic rock song yyz gourd would know because yyz gourd just typed that that's the first time he's ever heard that song boom boom boom me too is that right so it wasn't even like something you just picked up through osmosis it's okay are you talking about the song i just played you'd never heard it before i'd never heard it before because it was like a big song yeah again man again there was i had so much hatred towards that kind of music in the 1990s that we all did i just instantly tuned out and and clubs I wouldn't even stick around in clubs.

Moose Grumpy is awake. Everybody. She remembers Pat Travers, uh, Travers. Is that how you say it? Yeah. And,

uh, Canada Kev remembers it as well. Uh, brother bill. Okay. So it's not just me and the medication I'm on, but it's not in a YYZ Gord's universe. Uh,

unless he's talking about boom, boom, boom. I don't know. Uh, more people have heard the song Boom Boom Boom or know who James B is? Well, I know who James B is.

That's not fair. Because you'd have to say in the city of Toronto. You need a qualifier. In Toronto. Because Boom Boom Boom is a big hit. Probably a global hit, I would think. Mike, is there a plan to talk to James B.? Like again?

He's been on the show. Oh, he's been on already. Oh, yeah. He's been in the basement here. Oh, okay. All right. Because, I mean, you guys mentioned him quite a bit, and I wondered if he'd been on or not. He's sort of like Mike's Ray Coombs.

Mike loves him the way that I love Ray. So you guys maybe don't remember this. Oh you go i remember that album solid cardboard we had a cardboard presentation of that hanging uh hanging on the wall a cardboard record with that album um so in other words you know when they gold albums and platinum albums well james being look people gave us a a platter a cardboard that's a version of that and also james b was the guy and here's here's my memory i don't know why i remember this but i think either the first or second time the jays won the world series do you guys remember city tv speakers corner of course so James B. was in Speaker's Corner

when the Blue Jays won the World Series and he dropped his loony in and did a whole bit about, you know, look, people freaking out about all these, about the World Series. And I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was very, very funny. Yeah, because he's famous.

You know who else was in this band, by the way, other than James B.? Kevin Hearn was in look people and now he's now he's in the baronica ladies oh there you go played with many many people and that yeah so you wish in the chat james is more famous in that song so uh anyway, very good choice. And I enjoyed the guilty pleasure of hearing that jam. But it does sound a lot in my ears as I hear it because I Like to Move It was a bigger hit, I want to say. At least it has more.

And it's in movies because I know my little kids even know that song. So it's in cartoons and stuff. It sounds the same. I Like to Move It and Boom, Boom, Boom. It's almost the same song. For sure. I'm going to kick out my third jam. I just want you to know

if I felt better, I'd crack open a Great Lakes beer right now. Next week, Stu, you're back in the backyard next week. Is that a comment or a question? That's a question. I think so.

I mean, I don't see why not. Unless the weather's shitty. Well, I'm going to drink a cold one with you in the backyard next week. Can't wait. Thank you, Great Lakes Brewery. Much love to you. Thank you, Palma Pasta. Much love to you.

StickerU.com. They can make the kick-ass Toronto Mike stickers. Who else do I want to thank? Mimico Mike, of course, is ripping up the Mimico real estate scene. Go to realestatelove.ca. And Ridley Funeral Home. I know we spoke off the top about Frank Bonner

who played Herb Tarlek. Yeah, sad to learn he passed away today. Just sad because I love that show and I love the character Herb Tarlick. And I mean, as we discussed before Pete Fowler showed up, we all have great memories of Herb. And Herb was in a commercial for CHFI in the 1980s in Toronto.

97. With Don Daynard and Aaron Davis. Would you believe it was 97? Oh, was it really i actually tweeted the uh that commercial today yeah aaron davis don daynard and uh herb tarlik absolutely don who's still alive by the way uh he's cool he's still amongst the living and then aaron is out my way i hear in victoria or something like that aaron's out your way but she did do a flight to ottawa and she stopped here just to visit my

basement for the second time. I heard that. It was quite the episode that I believe that Steve Pakins favorite episode of Toronto Mike T was telling me is the return of Erin Davis. In which she made me cry. Okay. You guys ready for my, uh,

my third jam? Not really. Sure. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. guitar solo Time has come today Young hearts can go their way Can't put it off another day I don't care what others say

They think we don't listen anyway Time has come today Hey! Oh! The rules have changed today Time! I have no place to stay Time! Loving your 60s today. Time. I have no place to stay. Time.

Loving your 60s today, Mike. Yeah, it's true. I love this song, too. This is the Chambers Brothers. And these guys are real brothers, I just want to point out. They are actually bonafide brothers. They're from Mississippi. So shout out to the Chambers Brothers.

This is the only major hit in the illustrious career of the Chambers Brothers. Yeah, I was just going to ask you that because I don't recall any other song from these guys. But this song was and still is a staple on classic rock radio. You still hear it. Yes, indeed. It's been in a movie for sure. Like one of those like Good Morning Vietnam type things. Forrest Gump, indeed. Like it's been in a movie for sure. Like one of those, like good morning, Vietnam type things.

Forrest Gump, maybe. Yeah. Forrest Gump. Out there, Vietnam scene. Something in a Vietnam scene. Well,

yeah, this song was came, it came out in 1968. This is called time has come today. Again, the chambers brothers. Wasn't there actually like a time life, like nom rock was like an actual,

like record collection you could buy. And it's like, like called nom rock. nom rock was like an actual like record collection you could buy and it's like they called nom rock and it was like wow i think picking that up it would have like jefferson airplanes volunteers like all like vietnam sort of like theme or uh easy fortunate son by uh ccr uh sympathy for the devil by the rolling Rolling Stones Yeah You'd probably get some Jimi Hendrix in there Like maybe Now I'm thinking Apocalypse Now The entire movie is all classic Do you know how old Lawrence Fishburne was in that movie

When he was in that movie 16 I think he was 14 Unbelievable and he's really good in it too But that movie I used to see it on City TV Like great movies and it would just kind of fuck off my head like Apocalypse Now great movie but the documentary about

the filming of the movie is even better right the opening though of Apocalypse Now with the doors the end going phenomenal yep and Martin Sheen had a heart attack on the set of that movie like kind of nervous breakdown that's the opening scene

honestly great movie yeah there's like definitely a heart attack on the set of that movie. And a nervous breakdown. That's the opening scene. Honestly, great movie. Yeah, there's definitely a whole nom-rock is a category. Well, this song, I would hear it on classic rock radio or whatever, and it was always kind of trippy. It's got that psychedelic

feel, this song. Let's see here. And there's a version of this that's 11 minutes. It's like an 11-minute opus, if you will. And Joe and Willie Chambers wrote it. They did edit it for release as a single. So this is the version. This is the single I'm listening to.

It's like four and a half minutes. It had five consecutive weeks on the chart at number 11. It just missed the Billboard Hot 100 top 10, peaking at number 11. And this little fun fact is not that fun when you consider what happened to this gentleman, and I think we miss him very much. But Anthony Bourdain, sadly no longer with us,

but in 2010, he went on the record to say that this song, Time Has Come Today, saved his life. It's our loss that it wasn't able to keep him alive. That's another conversation that could go down a whole rabbit hole, that's for sure, about Anthony Bourdain. In my opinion, anyway. Well, this is what the show's for. What do you mean brother like uh are you a fan i don't think anthony bourdain i find it very difficult to believe given the history of anthony bourdain and again this is

an entire episode but i find it very hard to believe that a man who survived addiction to cocaine and heroin all of a sudden um has a lovely daughter that you know gave him reason to cocaine and heroin, all of a sudden has a lovely daughter that, you know, gave him reason to live. And then all of a sudden one day he's just dead. Why is it so difficult for you to, because the way mental illness works is it doesn't have that rationale logic you're applying. Like, oh, you have a beautiful daughter and you've cleaned yourself up.

Like you can't apply that like reason to somebody who's suffering from depression. Well, I didn't know Anthony Bourdain and I only knew him from what I saw on television, his show. I loved all his shows. Before he was on CNN, he was on the Travel Network or something like that. And I loved all of these shows. or something like that. And I loved all of these shows. And just, I just found it. And I'm not a conspiracy theorist by any means. And, and Mike, I think you could be correct. And you probably are correct. But I just found it very difficult to believe that a man who is loved by so many

and has so many people in his programs that could have stood up and said something, said nothing after his death. His French friends from Quebec, the chef from France, who was a very good friend of his, the Russian guy who was very good friends. No one's ever heard from these people regarding Anthony. And I find that strange i'll just i'll just put it that way but you're right i mean obviously mental illness can take its toll um as it has in in the case of our my old friend marty um no one saw that coming but um i still i'm just in the back of my head man just being honest with you something in the back of my head says that something ain't right there i don't know if i still had my mustache i'd be you know stroking

it right now john paragon also passed away john b the genie from peewee's playhouse does that today i guess and seeing it on twitter happens in threes yeah everything's in threes if you think about it because there's got to be three to get to the next three. Oh, that guy was also in UHF. He was like Mr. Fletcher's son. Come on.

That's the first time I saw Michael Richards was in UHF. Yeah, and Fran Drescher. Yeah. And I loved it. I love Spatula City. And Conan the Librarian.

Okay. I love UHF. How did Weird Al not get another movie? Like, it was so fucking great. And what? love UHF. How did Weird Al not get another movie? Like it was so fucking great. And what? There's no second movie for Weird Al? Should have been.

Damn right there should have been. George Stern never made a second movie either. That's true. But that seems more like. Just go one and done. His decision there. Brother Bill. Set up your third jam here, buddy.

We're going to go to Stu's Neck of the Woods. Uh-oh. For these guys who I didn't know too much about them before we started. I've started doing some research for this. But, I mean, this band has been around since 1967. Oh, boy. And originally from Richmond Hill, Ontario. Wow. Let, boy. And originally from Richmond Hill, Ontario. Wow.

Let's listen. You know, the next time you're PO'd at somebody, you look them square in the eye and tell them, honk on, Bobo. Everybody here, honk on, Bobo. Everybody there, honk on, Bobo. Everybody everywhere, honk on, Bobo. Before Bobo honk on Bobo. Everybody everywhere honk on Bobo. We put Bobo honks on you. Everybody here, they can honk on Bobo.

Everybody there, they can honk on Bobo. Everybody everywhere honk on Bobo. We put Bobo honks on you. I mean, you listen to these lyrics, Stu, and you must, it just must take you back. That definitely has like a Richmond Hill vibe to it. Now, are you from Richmond Hill or Thornhill? I'm from Thornhill, and Richmond was sort of our Shelbyville. Oh, okay.

Because I wanted to ask you if there really was a hill in Richmond Hill. I think there's not many hills. Like Toronto in the GTA is pretty flat, but it is a little bit of a hill technically i guess if you were to look at like maybe the map from some kind of weird angle but uh there's no like actual like oh we're on top of thorn hill right okay because i always wondered if there really was a hill there because in where i grew up in Brampton, there is a hill it's called Mount Chincoosey. Yeah.

And it's more of a speed bump than a hill. Yeah. So we, there is a couple of hills like that, but there's no, there's no, you know, ski resorts or anything like that.

Okay. So, so that was the good brothers and a song called honk on Bobo. And that was a band that released their... Hang on, my cat's starting to get angry. Their debut album came out in 1971, these guys. They were signed to Columbia Records, which at the time was one of the big record labels

in the United States. Honk on Bobo? Well, Honk on Bobo didn't come out until much later. But in the early days of the late 70s, or sorry, late 60s, early 70s, these guys who were all brothers, by the way, the good brothers, Brian, Bruce, Larry, no Matt Good in the band. But the core of the band lived in Los Angeles for a long time. And then they sort of realized that, you know, the likes of, I don't know if this name rings a bell. It barely does to me,

but a band called Poco and the Eagles were coming up and sort of Poco Poco. That's was a Poco. I don't know, but either way, like, I feel like there's like some legendary guys that played in that band in the band Paco that's a poco that rings a bell for me too but I can't remember who anyway the good brothers they came back to Canada settled in Toronto uh won eight consecutive Juno awards in a row like country group or duo, from 1977 to 1984, they won it every year.

Didn't you shit all over the Junos earlier this episode? No, I wasn't shitting on the Junos. I was just pointing out that some of it's crap. I can tell you Paco is like when Buffalo Springfield broke

up, the guitarist and Jim Messina formed Paco or Poco. Okay. There you go. Okay. So yeah, there were a little bit of a super group, I guess you can say. And Timothy B. Schmidt, who played with them, eventually ended up in the Eagles. Ah, so it all kind of ties in. So I guess the Good Brothers never really got into that scene, but they were getting all the...

I mean, they played a lot of shows. So in 1970 – have you guys ever heard about this? But in 1970, there was a cross-Canada tour, and the main cool factor about this tour was, rather than your traditional flying or taking a bus, they took a train from, I think, Montreal to vancouver right and it was called the festival express that's so fun yeah and the the good brothers were on this festival express train honking bobo and which which also did shows obviously in various cities but also on that

train were janice joplin wow jefferson airplane where's the documentary on this there is a film called festival express there i don't know where it is right now stew but you could find it i guarantee you'd be able to find it it feels like 12 36 can get that at the library yeah probably grateful dead and the band were there too so wow so the the good brothers really have been around they're still together today as far as i know but they've been around since 67 um i always heard their name in passing but i never heard any of their songs and then i came across honk on bobo which was released in 1989 um where really at that time they had kind of cut back their touring schedule from like playing every night to like taking a night off once in a while.

And they were inducted into the Canadian Country Hall of Fame in 2004. And as I mentioned, still around today, the Good Brothers. Brother, isn't the Good Brothers, I think I first learned of them, didn't Pat Burns perform with the Good brothers at some point in the early 90s does that ring a bell at all pat burns a little bit of a bell but i'm and yeah i think that's right uh although i can't confirm it but i remember pat burns getting up on stage and performing with the i think it was the good brothers and uh honk on bobo this is a fun fact that stew will appreciate honk on boo is actually all about Doodoo the Clown.

And you had Doodoo the Clown on last week, did you not? What? Like this song's about Doodoo the Clown? Yeah, like essentially Doodoo the Clown, he's honking on Bobo, right? Because Bobo's a famous clown and he's honking on him. All right. Beautiful.

No, it's not beautiful. It's unbelievable! Unbelievable, sorry. I blew that one. The Good Brothers also featured... Actually, one of the Good Brothers' sons was in a band called the Sadies. Yeah, I've seen the Sadies.

Travis is a good brother and a good son. Sadies did a lot of stuff with the Tragically Hip, as I recall, of Gord Downie, at least. Hong Kong Bobo. Hong Kong Bobo. It's a little autobiographical song about Doodoo the Clown. Much love to Pat Burns.

Okay, that's awesome. Feedback on the Doodoo episode? Yeah. In fact, the best feedback would be from somebody who says, and I think I tweeted a screen cap of this one, but I was going to take a pass on doo-doo. I'm glad I didn't. And then how it was far better than it ever should have been. Like that's sort of like your ultimate, the ultimate compliment. I knew it was going to be great.

I knew it would be great. it would be great i did tweet a photo that was on instagram due to the clown put out a picture of himself due to the clown uh doing magic for a very very young stew stone did you see that picture oh i did see that yes yes yes it's the cutest picture his little little craft dinner uh stew stone yeah it was adorable i would have loved to have been at one of his parties at the calgary stampede it sounded like they were a blast but he was very he wanted you to know there was no funny business going on it was just good time funny as in like hilarity clowns aren't on the clock all the time no except he is shout out to splashing boots okay um stew you want to set up your penultimate jam? Yeah. Now, it's a good thing that Pete is not on the show now because if he didn't log off on the last round

when I played boom, boom, boom, let me hear you say way-oh, then there's no way that he was going to make it through this next round. No way. Does that mean play the jam that means play the jam i'm hot you're cold you go around like you know who I am But you don't, you've got me on my toes I'm slipping and slipping under And I'm trying to keep from going under

Baby, you don't have to push me harder Cause I'm burning up, burning up for you, baby Of course. Because Mike picked a category of Brothers Bands, the most recent entry, other than the one that you found on Spotify, the band that did the Washington Capitals, I suppose.

Morrison Brothers Band. Morrison Brothers Band. This is the Jonas Brothers Band. Oh, yes. Now, here's something interesting I want to admit to everybody. I didn't know too much about the Jonas Brothers Band, or the

Jonas Brothers, I should say, other than the jokes that they were sort of, you know, in pop culture, people were making jokes. They had like virginity rings back in the day or whatever was the gimmick. And they were good boys, you know, Disney Channel, good boys. But I got to be honest, like I was pretty impressed that they wrote this song. It's like, it's pretty good, like, considering what it is. For what it is, yeah. It's pretty well produced and the melody's good. Yeah, but they're a good pop.

It has a very musical sort of bridge that's, like, way more sophisticated than I would have thought it would be for, like, this type of music. But I got gotta be honest. It was pretty good. It sort of reminds me or it's in the same genre as like Marianna's trench. Sure. Simple plan a little bit, you know,

but, but you know what, for what it is, it's, I think it's very good as well. We played Jonas brothers at the last radio station I worked at. And I thought, Hey, you know, it might not be my cup of tea, but for listening to the songs that they're writing,

it's pretty technical. It's pretty good. You know, I'm not mad at them. I mean, it is bubblegum music. Sure. Sometimes it's like you need a piece of bubblegum. So I'm going to say that Burning Up by the Jonas Brothers is actually, I'm going to say that it's a pretty good song

after listening to it. And they wrote it. So good for them. They've had other hits since then. They've gone solo, not solo. They're around, the Jonas Brothers. They've morphed into different groups and they came back together.

If you're paying attention to that, then I'll give you Mark Hebger's phone number. You can call him about that. Joe Jonas has done fairly well for himself he was in was it is it dnce or dance once they had the cake by the ocean cake by the ocean by the ocean that's a great song the other brother had some hits where he was doing sort of an r&b kind of vibe where he was had some some hits and now they all got back together there's a rap on this song here at the end of this song here yeah that is uncredited but when i did a little digging i was like who's this rapper on the jonas brothers is it pitbull because you remember like justin bieber came out with his

song and he had ludicrous you know on baby baby baby i was close so that's not ludicrous on this oh it's not ludicrous okay the jonas it's not ludicrous Jonas Brothers has a guy A gentleman named Robert Big Rob Feggins And I was trying to figure out Who's Big Rob Feggins And has he been in any other songs No he was their bodyguard And they let him come in the studio

That night and like lay down a couple bars So he's in one song In his career and it's this one Which happened to do pretty well the number one song on the chart in venezuela wow venezuela uh it did not chart number one anywhere else but big in venezuela uh and of course maroon 5 has a song called makes me wonder which people accuse the jonas brothers of copying to do this song but i don't really hear it i think they did a pretty good job so the jonas brothers i give you

a thumbs up no one would ever expect me to do that thank god everybody's probably stopped listening to the show by now so no one will even hear me say this but the jonas brothers burning up is a pretty good song here's a fun fact uh owner of Great Lakes Brewery, Peter Bullitt, he's the owner, he kicked out the jams one day. He came over and kicked out the jams. He kicked out Cake by the Ocean. Wow. So, not Jonas Brothers, but there's Jonas Brothers in it.

My daughter, who's turning 17 in July and is upstairs right now, I feel like grabbing her because very young Michelle was a huge, when they had the Disneyney show was a huge fan of the uh jonas brothers so i think she'll be happy to hear you kicking out some jonas brothers tonight and that would have probably been their their demographic back in those days it would have been kids probably between the age of like six and the hannah montana Yeah, now all of those kids are like 18 to 25. Right.

Good stuff. People have made money. Good for them. Yeah. I am dominating tonight. I can say that. Are you ready to hear my fourth jam? I mean, you picked a category that forced him to play the honk on my gabbo.

And it played in those SOBs. And formed me to play the Jonas Brothers. You guys didn't try very hard. There's a lot of good Brothers jams. Are you ready to hear one? Sure. Here we go.

The Beatles on some bands with buggies. Couple of bills, fans. Let me hear you. Come on down to Stafford Brothers for Google mattresses. On the road by Jim Kelly.

Whose brothers also sing this? Probably. Save that fun fact there. You mentioned the Bill. Save that for later. It might be a mind blow. That won't be such a mind blow. But this is the Isley Brothers.

Yes. Shout. Actually, it's part one and two. There's a part one and a two. And this is them together. It's our mitzvah staple. Well, okay. So where do I begin here?

Let's start by saying that. Everybody gets a little bit quieter now and everybody ducks down and then they jump up and then they give out prizes. Brian Master played this. Oh my God. I'm not at all surprised to hear that. Of course, this was

huge in Animal House. So Animal House is kind of where I first kind of fell in love with Shout because they do that again but they're real brothers from cincinnati speaking of wkrp in cincinnati uh i think it's a great jam uh here's what's interesting the isley brothers have a very interesting long career this is their first major hit this song went to number 47 in 1959 it was their first hit the fact is they were uh they were covered by the beatles because they're the guys who who who recorded no no i gotta get

this right sorry they weren't covered by the beatles because it's not their song but they covered twist and shout before the beatles covered twist and shout so when you hear a version of twist and shout that's not the beatles it's very likely you're going to hear the isley brothers version of twist and shout i'm alan cross they ended up doing like really profound sort of they switched up their style and went like did some amazing soul music right like well they they had a hit with r. Kelly, for God's sakes. Like, they're all over the place, these guys. Big Dog, like, sampled the hell out of their 70s stuff.

Indeed. Oh, man, I'm listening to this in the cans here. What a great song. So, I mentioned it's their... Oh, yeah, feels so good to me. So, yeah, if you've seen Animal House, you know Shout. It's fantastic. Of course, Aaron Neville and Robbie Neville.

Yeah, the Neville brothers, by the way, maybe I'm going to hear it coming up. What do I know? But so many great Neville brothers songs that could have been kicked out tonight. Wait, the Neville brothers got Hanson? We're down to you. No, I guess we're not down to you.

You are brother. We'll see. I'm a little surprised the Partland brothers got Hanson. The Partland brothers got Hanson. The Partland Brothers got it. Or the Hanson Brothers. Famous Ontarian band, I think. They were from Ontario. Soul City from the 1980s.

A Q107 staple on the radio. A little bit softer now. A little bit. So who wants to guess the Isley Brothers' biggest hit? Shout. Good guess. No. No.

When a Man Loves a Woman. That's not. It's Percy Sledge, I think. Isley Brothers. Big sign. You know, when it's on the tip of my tongue. It's your thing. Oh, do what you want to do.

Yeah. It's your thing is the biggest hit from the Isley Brothers. And I'm going to just interrupt this great jam. Millie Kelly covered that song. Here's the mind blow. Or somebody covered Millie Canella cover in that song. The bills make me want to shout. Kick your heels up and shout.

Throw your hands up and shout. Throw your head back and shout. Come on now. The bills are making it happen now. Come on down to the Winn-Dixie Mall and meet Chris Key. Say you will. Shout it right now. Come on down to the Winn-Dixie Mall and meet Dick Christie. So yeah, this is the obvious, not such a big mind blow here. But of course, the Buffalo Bills created a version of Shout in 1987 with modified lyrics sung by Scott Kemper.

And it's been their official fight song ever since. 1987. And you know who is a great Buffalo Bill for a lot of Super Bowl losses four of them in fact in a row do you know OJ Simpson right and do you know what this is this is the anniversary of the Bronco

chase is it really yeah yes on this day yesterday yesterday yesterday or the day before was the 10th anniversary of the stanley cup riots here in vancouver right which were almost as equally impressive right that's right that's a roberto luongo as i remember uh against Tim Thomas. He started it. Him and the Sedins started it. Let's burn this place down. Is that what he said? You know, I forgot about the Sedins.

Derek, can I just really quickly, as a Leaf fan who watched very little Canucks because they were on late and I just didn't give a fuck about that team. The Sedin brothers, that whole wonderful career they each had was so, I completely forgot it once it was over like i completely

forgot about these guys and they just racked up points for you know how many years over in vancouver they they're as a guy who watched them all the way through pretty much um they were the best at what they call cycling the puck nobody was better in the corners at cycling the puck and being able to find each other anywhere on the ice at one period point in time, 2001, when they were sorry, 2011, when they made the Stanley cup final, that whole season, they could find each other like the one guy could be in another province and he could fire the puck to his

brother and his brother would get the puck unbelievable if only they had a band unbelievable unbelievable no they were very good that that that 2011 caducks team on paper were fantastic and unfortunately they didn't win and um everybody did you sell your uh uh gino ojic jersey and my brendan morrison shirt you mean yeah brendan morrison um no i've i you know what i'm not a canucks fan i i i live in vancouver so i i watched the run and it was just it's really cool toronto maybe one day you'll you'll get the chance to taste this. A Stanley Cup run in Canada is unbelievable. It goes from... Listen, the Habs are three wins away from...

Don't even go there. Please. That doesn't count. Fuck the Montreal Canadian. Anyway, sorry to our Irish Quebec buddy. That's right. Quebec Irish boy and David Jolet. It's a lot of fun, though, to get on that,

to watch what's going on in a city when a team's going for a Stanley Cup. It's really, really fun. Well, we're only two years removed from something very similar in this city. So it's not like it's a... Oh, Raptors. Yeah, it was only two years ago.

And what was funny, too, Mike, is the Raptors were like, even out here, people were on that Raptor bandwagon. They truly were Canada's team, for sure. Oh, that was the best. I think the parade was two years ago today, which I attended with Hebsey. Okay, my friend, Brother Bill,

what would you like to say before I kick out your final jam here? Before we go any further, I got gotta backtrack just a little bit i mentioned the the good brothers in richmond hill i and we're talking about uh sports so i wanted just to to mention and pay tribute uh call this the geography corner if you'd like stew as we canada tribute to the geographical area of southern Ontario known as Richmond Hill. Again. And the athletes that came from Richmond Hill. I'm going to throw a couple names by you here.

Number one, you'll know this from the NHL, your St. Louis Blues, Jordan Binnington. Really? I did not know that. I did not know that. Born in Richmond Hill, the goaltender for the St. Louis Blues. Wow, that's pretty cool. For some of us older guys that remember the 90s, Luciano Borsato. Borsato, yes, yes.

Played from 90 to 95 for the Jets. He was from Richmond Hill. This is a name you'll know, but I think, like me, when you read it, you couldn't believe she wasn't from my hometown. But born in Richmond Hill, Cassie Campbell. Really? think like me when you read it you couldn't believe she wasn't from my hometown but born in richmond hill cassie campbell really i always associate her with brampton because there's a rec center in her name now and she played for the brampton canadets but um yep uh the 2002 olympic gold medalist cassie campbell from hockey night in canada born in the 1970s in Richmond Hill,

Mike Camilleri. Wow. Richmond Hill, Jeff O'Neill. Hey, I thought he was from King city. No, um, uh,

the, the information I had, okay. Reliable sources. Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. Uh,

but the, the one that blew my mind the most is a surprise considering i think most people think he's from another city in southern ontario but probably the best hockey player in the world today connor mcdavid was born in richmond hill really whoa yeah i did not know that who knew i thought he was from new market holy shit i thought he was from new market as well that's wild but uh apparently honor play like the richmond hill ice rink i'm surprised it's not but born born anyway in richmond hill i mean that he may have you know got out of the hospital and moved to new market right away who knows right you know as one

does there you go so there's that i wanted to get that out of the way. And before I forget, I just wanted to say I'm honored once again to be on with you guys. Fantastic to have me. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Stu, you are a living legend. I have yet to watch your wrestling specials on Vice, but I will. I will because you talk about a lot of the wrestling.

You should watch Faking a Murderer. And I'm not just saying that. I think you would really enjoy it. I think I would too because you had mentioned as well that a former police officer, the late Bancroft Wright, was in that. And Bunny and I went to college together. So I would watch that too. But I'm a big Stu Stone fan from this show first.

That's great. Because this is where I first heard you. And I'm a big stew stone fan from this show first. That's great. Because this is where I first heard you and I'm a big Toronto Mike fan. And I, and again, I'm honored to, to be, to be asked to do this. You'll be, you'll be here again. So, uh, well, there's not many left. So how many left? How many are there? There there's 10 left.

Nine after this, isn't there? Maybe you're right. Nine. Wow. Single digits. Wow. left nine after this isn't there maybe you're right nine wow single digits wow so with that said um my last pick i like to find a band that's from my neck of the woods where i reside now which is bc uh this is a band from victoria bc who didn't have any radio success, but they were big fans of a certain New York City four-piece from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s that all shared the same last name as well.

And I think when you hear this song, you'll kind of know where they got their influence from. Hit it, Mike. No look, no head, no time, just wait. No emotion, no motion, no motion, no motion, no joy. All right, so Stu, I know that's one of your favorites because you were such a big fan of the punk rock when you were growing up. That's the Hanson Brothers from Victoria, British Columbia. The actual Hanson Brothers?

Well, no. And that's the story. They're named after the fictional characters from the movie Slapshot, the three Hanson Brothers. Hey, coach. Just play with our trucks. Hey, don't give me no stinking root beer. Yeah, that's, I mean, if you've never seen

Slapshot, that's one of the greatest hockey movies of all time, if not the best. There isn't a better one. I don't think so. Mighty Ducks, close second, maybe. Young Blood. Young Blood featuring Rob Lowe and featuring a guy I went to high school with as the opposing goalkeeper.

Keanu Reeves. Didn't go to high school with Keanu. Was he in it? I feel like he might have shown up in that thing. You know who else was in it? Roadhouse. Jeff Healy. Patrick Swayze.

Do you know Stu Stone and Patrick Swayze were buds? Did not know that. Stu Stone. Is there a 30-second story? Well, he was in the movie Donnie Darko, he was in the movie Donnie Darko. I was in the movie Donnie Darko. Right. And our paths crossed on more than one occasion,

both on and off the set. So he was cool. Good guy? Very cool. Awesome. Very cool. Good to know. Good to know.

awesome very cool very good to know good to know very uh dark uh sort of uh under underneath all that there's like a lot of shit that went down with that guy but right he was pretty cool all things considered he was very very nice and uh died an untimely death as well yeah um so the hansen brothers were from victoria uh fictitious fictitious brothers named after the Hansons from Slapshot. They formed in 1984. They released their debut album in 1992. Am I still here or are you guys losing me? No, I can hear you perfectly. Okay, something just popped up on my screen.

They were Ramones tribute band who wrote their own Ramones-style songs. So that sound that you hear is very similar to what the Ramones sounded like on a lot of their stuff. And they were from Queens, New York, from the 1970s. M.O.T. Yeah, I think three out of the four were M.O.T. That's right.

Yeah, I think three out of the four were MOT. That's right. So the original members of a band called No Means No were the Hanson brothers. And No Means No were a Canadian hardcore band from the early 1980s. Very, very talented group of guys who obviously the name was great great as well and and i invite anybody who doesn't know that band to look them up as well um sort of you know kind of this was

like their side project and they were around for longer than they ever thought they ended up going breaking up in 2016 but um i mean they had quite a career as the hansen brothers did a few tours as well and again cam is not here so i wanted to pay a little bit of homage to cam gordon to cam gordon by saying uh or giving you a couple of victoria fun facts okay hansen brothers from victoria bc either one have you been to Victoria, BC? I have. I think I have. I think I have. I don't know. I think I have.

I've been to Vancouver. I've shot stuff in Vancouver. I'm pretty sure that I've been there. This is where the Terry Fox Mile One statue is, right? That's Victoria? Yes. Yeah. I was there three years ago.

Yes, you would have been when you came through White Rock on the Toronto Mike Goes West tour. I've got the tour shirt still at home. Victoria, fun facts, of course, Victoria is the capital of British Columbia. So for everybody who thinks Vancouver is, it is not. It is frequently named the most romantic city in Canada and top five or sorry, top 15 friendliest cities in the world. Wow.

I don't know why. Because you have that tea palace or whatever, where you go for tea, whatever that's called. High tea. High tea. That's what I'm thinking. That's at the Empress Hotel, which is the big hotel in Victoria. Right. Victoria's Chinatown is the oldest Chinatown in Canada.

Boy, I'm really having a tough time reading my own writing here. So I'm kind of looking with my glasses going. Flowers. Apparently, it's a flower town. They do a flower count every few years. And in 2018. It's like the flower census three, three point four billion flowers. Who counts that?

I don't know. Voted Canada's best city to live in for women. Really? Is that why you're there? Well, I'm in, I'm across the, he's in white rock.

He's in, I'm on the mainland. You got to go to ladies night. I'm already a taken guy, it's over for me but i can represent the brassiere send me a couple business cards too i might need them uh yeah i've seen the brassiere from the beginning of the show and um so the first time here's a story for you the first time i went to victoria was in the 1990s and I was there to see a little band called the lowest of the low wow they were playing in Victoria wow we got off the ferry and it's about a 20 minute drive from the ferry to Victoria and when we arrived in

Victoria downtown we were parked out back of a Holiday Inn or something and this really shady looking character came walking over to us with a huge duffel bag, and he opened it up, and we couldn't see what was in it. He put it on the ground. He said, hey, you guys, and he looks both ways, makes sure no one's looking at us, doesn't want to get busted by the cops or whatever.

He says, you guys want to buy some cheese? And he had big blocks of cheese in his duffel bag. And I thought, wow, first time in British Columbia in a big city. That's the last thing you expected. Honestly, I'm in Victoria in the 1990s. Of course, it's a big bag of marijuana, right? No, it was a big bag of cheese. And that man was Ron Hawkins.

That man could have been Ron Hawkins. I didn't see his face. So anyway, just some facts about victoria but uh yeah hey i for one i'm glad that uh the hansen brothers weren't hansen on this episode yeah hey there you go they were not but the neville brothers were oh well yeah maybe uh what is your final jam we're gonna find out in a moment brothers as well uh yeah set up that final jam i'm gonna set up a final jam and i'm so i'm gonna do a little story time here because this is gonna have a big payoff for all the fos's out there all the people who've been following pandemic friday

and know that stew has you know he's gonna bring it here somehow he's gonna bring it here somehow and he's gonna do it there is this band this band. There's a couple of guys. Okay. I'm going to leave sort of the names out for now. Okay. A couple of musicians. They are going, they're in California determined to meet a gentleman named skip

Spence from a band called Moby grape. To try to join Moby grape. And it didn't work out, but the two guys ended up meeting there and at this sort of tryout or whatever it was that was going on with Moby Grape and proceeded to perform their own band, right? Now, this band does pretty well.

I'll get to the name of them in a second. They do pretty well. They're doing the Southern rock kind of thing. They're doing pretty good for themselves. Very good. In 1974, there's a band called Steely Dan, and they decide they're going to retire from going on the road. Of course, that wouldn't be true because they ended up going on the road a lot.

But at that point, they had enough. Donald and Walter said, we're not going on the road anymore. We're just going to use studio musicians from now on. So their guitar player, a gentleman named Jeff Skunk Baxter, decides to join this band. Now, the lead singer of this band, who's very much the front man of the group, the starting quarterback of the group, the Joe montana of the group has a health issue and cannot go on one of the tours so skunk baxter calls his buddy who also was in steely dan crew with him to come and fill in and the rest is history ladies and gentlemen i present the kings

of yacht rock the do Doobie Brothers. I knew it. Let's do this. Why'd you tell me this? Why'd you look for my reaction? What do you need to know? Don't you know I'll always be the one You don't have to be to be You're beautiful to strangers I've got loving eyes

Of my own You belong to me I saw this one coming a mile away, Steve. Yeah, I mean, I think we all did. We all did. But that is the Doobie Brothers. Of course, the band, completely different band once Michael McDonald joins the fold. And, you know, it's a tale of two chapters. We've talked about this band before, so I won't go too crazy here.

But I mean, he literally is hard. And I think we've had this debate before, Mike. But for a band to change their sound so dramatically and still be successful, you don't see that every day. Of course, I was talking, of course, about Tom Johnston, who was the lead singer of Doobie Brothers for all their big Southern rock hits. He has since come back into the fold. And when Michael has left and come, and everybody sort of gets along now, and they were supposed to have their 50th anniversary tour

come through Toronto and Vancouver last year. And apparently it's going to happen, excuse me, next year. But it's going to be with all the original members that are left, including Michael McDonald joining the band. Of course, hits like Taking It to the Streets and, of course, the great What a Fool Believes, which is the Doobie Bounce, baby. Pardon my French there.

And if anybody was going to guess when the Doobie Brothers play their next show in Toronto, if they had to lay money on which of the three of us, who of the three of us was going to be front row, I think we know who that would be. Interestingly enough, this record, You Belong to Me, playing on the record is Ted Templeman, who was also

the producer of the Doobie Brothers, who ended up becoming the producer of Van Halen, as we've discussed in the past. All of those great Van Halen records, same producers of this and that. And a gentleman who's playing the keys on this song is none other than David Page,

who is the keyboard player and one of the founders of Toto, the great Toto. We love Toto. Anyway, this song, You Belong To You, is actually, it's interesting because we know, Mike, from this show, that What a Fool Believes was written by Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald, and that Kenny Loggins also recorded a version of it. The Doobie Brothers version is obviously the better version,

but, you know, Kenny did record a version of it that came out first. You Belong to Me was written by Michael McDonald and a lady named Carly Simon. Wow. Now, this song, You Belong to Me, was not really a smash hit for the Doobie Brothers. It's more of a yacht rock hit since people started listening to that music again. This song became popular.

But there was a hit version of You Belong to Me by none other than Carly Simon, which we're going to play for a second here and see if you remember it. Same keyboard. You got Dr. Clay here in the background. Carly Simon's version actually hit the charts, went to number six, was on the chart for 18 weeks, got nominated for a Grammy, and is like a big hit song for her. Funny enough, the backing vocals on this song, Mike, her version, James Taylor. Woo! Wow.

Which you can kind of hear if you really squint your ears. But now this could be a mistake. But according to my research, to quote a character from the Magic School bus that I did not voice, according to my research, the guy who played bass is a guy named Gordon Edwards. Now this could be a mistake. This could be a fuck up in the wormhole of the internet. But apparently, Gordon Edwards, if you click on his name on the entry, it comes

up that he's since become a Canadian scientist and nuclear consultant. A Canadian from the University of Toronto, a gold medal in mathematics and physics. Is it possible that that guy is playing bass on this song? Is it possible that that guy is playing bass on this song? Is it possible that a musician

is that smart? I doubt it. Or else he would have picked a different profession. That's crazy if it is, for sure. That's incredible. Carly Simon and Michael McDonald co-wrote, or she recorded another Doobie Brothers song, which is a song called It Keeps You Runnin', which I

suggest you check out. It's a fucking great song. But there you go. The Doobie brothers song which is a song called it keeps you running which i suggest you check out it's a fucking great song um but there you go the doobie brothers number one uh pick for me the doobie brothers and michael mcdonald it's just that one scene i remember with with was it paul rudd and the 40 year old virgin oh yeah or everything's michael mcdonald yeah he's like couldn't wait to turn off the Michael McDonald. See, that's the thing. These acts like Michael McDonald and Toto at first were like the laughing stock. Ha, ha, ha. Then people

started loving them. Sorry about that. For what they are, they're the best at it. Yes. They are. They really are. That yacht rock. I mean, Pablo Cruz, Doobie Brothers, George Benson, George Benson, the Eagles. That kind of stuff to me is not my favorite music at all.

But like on your porch, like it's summer. It's not bad. No, it's not. And speaking of things that aren't bad, it's always good to see you, man. And you said so many kind things about me, which I appreciate. But I want you to know, man, the pleasure is really mine because you are a real professional and me and Mike, we just pretend

we're the real deal and for you to come and step up and do these shows is really, really cool and it makes it really great. I wish Cam would go make love to his girlfriend more often. Yeah. Me too.

Thanks, Stu. And thanks, Mike. And thanks, Cam. And thanks to every FOTM listening right now. And that's... First, a question from the live chat, live.torontomic.com. Brother Bill, will you make the trek to Toronto for the Pandemic Friday finale on August 27th?

I am not saying at this point. And that... And that... And that... And that... Brings us to the end of our 867th show. You can follow me on Twitter. I'm at Toronto Mike.

Stu Stone is at Stu Stone. Brother Bill is at Neil Talks, although he's on social media vacation. Summer break. Summer break. What? He's smarter than the rest of us. Our friends at Great Lakes lakes brewery are at great

lakes beer palma pasta is at palma pasta sticker you is that sticker you ridley funeral home they're at ridley fh and mimico mike he's not on twitter he's on instagram at majeski group homes see you all next week. Well, you've been under my skin for more than eight years. It's been eight years of laughter and eight years of tears. And I don't know what's going on. This podcast has been produced by TMDS and accelerated by Roam Phone. Roam Phone brings you the most reliable virtual phone service to run your business

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