Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Chantal Kreviazuk: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1573
Episode Date: October 31, 2024In this 1573rd episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike is joined by Chantal Kreviazuk as they discuss her career in music, her relationship with Our Lady Peace's Raine Maida, her amazing memories of Colour ...Moving and Still, and her son Rowan's new music and her upcoming 10th album. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Ridley Funeral Home, The Advantaged Investor podcast from Raymond James Canada, The Yes We Are Open podcast from Moneris and RecycleMyElectronics.ca. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at mike@torontomike.com
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Today, making her Toronto mic debut is Chantel Krivizak. Chantel Kravizak.
Chantel Kravizak.
I'll fix it in post.
Welcome Chantel.
Oh, please.
There's no post, you liar.
You told me.
No, I did warn you.
And Chantel, I won't make that mistake twice.
My grandmother called me Shan, but other than that, I'm Chantel.
And you hated your grandmother.
I loved my grandmother and no one else can call me that.
Okay.
Chantel. I know I appreciate that. It's surprising to me that. Okay. Chantel. I know. I appreciate that.
Okay.
It's surprising to me that I butchered the first name because I was nervous about the second name.
You can call me that. I just don't enjoy it.
You always spawn.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, no. It's not my favorite.
I'm going to try to keep you on side here because I was promised 60 minutes with Chantel.
Oh, Chantel, no. Actually, one of my best girlfriends from back home,
she calls me Chantel.
Well, am I allowed to call you that?
Which is cute.
Because I don't know how to pronounce words.
Okay, CK, do you respond to CK?
I think that's cute, yeah.
Okay, CK.
I have friends who call me CK.
Happy Halloween to you.
Happy Halloween.
Growing up in Winnipeg,
did you think you'd be trick or treating,
not that you're trick or treating tonight,
but did you think there'd ever be trick or treating in this country where we could wear shorts? Because I'm wearing shorts, and I think I'd be trick-or-treating, not that you're trick-or-treating tonight, but did you think there'd ever be trick-or-treating in this country where we could wear shorts?
Because I'm wearing shorts and I think I'll be wearing shorts when I take the kids around
tonight.
No.
In fact, I recall October 31st was often our first blizzard as luck would have it.
And we would be out with our costumes and you get to the door and oh man, I could crack up now
and the parents would be like, well, what's your costume?
Let's see and you gotta open your parka.
It was the worst, right?
Cause you'd take such care in your costume
and you'd be wearing a snow suit.
Pop that fricking thing over it, yeah.
But today, I don't know,
we shouldn't get used to this, right?
20 degree Halloween.
No, we really shouldn't.
And the nice thing about climate change is that humans
did it so humans can undo it.
Well, you know what?
It has its perks, right?
There's a lot of downside to climate change,
but one of the perks is you get to wear shorts on Halloween.
Go with it, go with it.
I am enjoying the balmy day.
Now I butchered your first name.
By the way, by the way, by the way, Mike, I love this.
So you're holding up a measuring tape from Ridley funeral home, a Ridley funeral home
sponsored measuring tape.
Now I'm a knitter.
Yes.
Okay.
And this is a fantastic.
In fact, if you have another one or another one, I did a stitch and bitch last night with
some friends and I love the record show I gave, I'm so scared to say your name now.
Chantel? Chantel. Seriously. Okay, say Shawn Mendes. Shawn Mendes. Chantel.
Chantel. There you go. Okay, so I just gave Chantel a second Ridley Funeral
Home measuring tape. That's unprecedented. I don't think I've done that. Am I a
special guest? Well you asked for it. That's unprecedented. I don't think I've done that in the history of this podcast. Am I a special guest? Well, you asked for it.
That was your secret.
Right, so that's a closed mouth, don't get fed vibe.
Can I give you the gifts off the top?
Because we're gonna-
Yes, and I have a gift for you.
Okay, I love this, gift exchange.
And I have for you, and I don't know, do you drink alcohol?
Yeah.
You never know anymore, right?
Like sometimes I just assume, okay.
Especially you rock stars who are all like
drinking Perrier now and in exercise. And okay. So I have fresh craft beer for you from
Great Lakes. Okay. Great. That's yours. Like you're taking that home with you. No way. Yeah. I love
that. Where's home these days? Toronto and Los Angeles, Los Angeles. Like what you go 50 50 split.
Like do you wait? It depends. Just depends on what's going on going on but you know my dogs are in LA and I don't I don't truck them that's not a nice name for your husband
okay my husband and my three sons are my dogs
you know I know we're similar vintage we're on the same page we have a similar
pace no one else can keep up with me. Well, that's not true. You have met your match.
I have lasagna for you. Oh, wow. Where's that from? I married an Italian, so yes, I
do. Okay. So Palma pasta sent over a large meat lasagna for you. It's in my freezer.
Shut the front door. Shut the front door. It's yours. They're in Mississauga in Oakville
and they're hosting us November 30th at TML like17 noon to three. This is BS. This is empty.
Well, it's in my freezer. Like no joke. Look at me. Do you think I'm going to send you home with an
empty box?
No, but there's a box here and the box is empty. But okay. No, it's really, really exciting.
I don't want it to thaw on the table. So it's in my freezer. But that's for real. And one last
gift before we proceed. Then you give me a gift and then we're going to get into it.
Okay.
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I don't understand how that works, but maybe you can.
I'm going to help you later.
But you got a great speaker and you're going to.
It's a speaker?
Yeah.
Oh, I thought you said a mic.
Okay, cool.
No, no.
Wonderful.
I'm a mic.
I thought you said a wireless mic.
It's a wireless speaker.
It's a wireless speaker.
Okay.
Great.
Canada Kev says, what's the funniest pronunciation ever of your last name?
Your last name though. I butcher the first name. You know, what I find really funny is my name
is, uh, and thank you for the question. Canada, Canada, Kev in Canada with a K. That's cool.
I like that. Canada, maybe, maybe near Ottawa. Right. All right. I have to say that my name, my last name is like quite, I guess,
phonetically spelled.
Craviagiac.
Yes, like it's not, there's no secret whys and, you know.
Pronounce like it's spelled.
It's literally just how it reads.
So I find it really funny when people say,
Ms, and then they try to, and they just,
like, I mean, the butcher is like,
they're using letters that aren't even in it.
Like bazooka, you know?
So sometimes I'm annoyed and I say,
ah, you know, it's okay, it's okay,
just call me Chantelle, or, you know.
But did you ever think of doing the Madonna share thing
or you're just Chantelle?
Yeah, there was a moment I had a song with Kendrick Lamar
and it was called pay for it.
And it was, we performed it on Saturday Night Live
and we were, it was on the Beats commercial
and it was a long minute long commercial
with LeBron James and Serena Williams.
It was kind of a big, big deal.
And they asked me how they,
my name was gonna appear on it.
And I was like, whoa, okay.
Well, let's not confuse the people.
So I just said, just push Chantel.
And then if you go to try to find the song now
and you look for Chantel, it's some other lady.
And she is like not even from our hemisphere.
She's from another planet.
And so some other woman is actually getting my royalty.
My story.
I swear to God, my lawyer is literally like off and on the project to figure
that out.
Your lawyer's pissed off.
Your accountant is pissed off.
This is not paid for it.
This is Kendra.
You're playing my Drake song.
There's a question.
Okay.
Couple of questions.
You're going my Drake song. There's a question. Okay. Couple of questions. Oh, I'm sure now you're gonna do this.
Woo!
Let it brew a bit. How I'm feeling
It doesn't matter
Good song, good song.
Excellent song.
Tyler wants to know Drake or Kendrick.
Let's hear it from you, Chantel.
Drake or Kendrick.
Okay, well, are you serious right now?
You've collaborated with both.
Yeah, but it's not so obvious to me.
Are you serious right now?
You're an LA girl now.
No, no.
Are you serious right now?
I'm from Winnipeg.
Come on.
It's Drake.
It's this jam.
So The Was also, The Was covers the Raptors
for the Toronto Sun.
Good guy.
He says, ask her about the Drake collaboration.
One of my favorite Drake tracks.
Yeah, it is a favorite. I
am listen I I
Think that I actually I actually I texted Drake to tell him I was just coming on here and I had a feeling
I was gonna he's gonna join us. Is that door ajar?
Adam open the door now because I want to say things and I really respect him and his privacy and so so I just think that it's, you know,
when he, when he put me on that song, um,
he didn't give me the feature and it's been this slow, cool reveal.
He did a leak or someone leaked. I don't know who the flip leaked,
all this stuff. And there I was, you know,
tracking the song and I'm like, what's happening?
Oh my God, what was I doing?
You know, me like 12 years ago, I freaked out.
Anyway, he was very sweet about it and I don't know,
I just feel like everybody's growing and changing
and growing up and having all their, you know, experiences.
And I think what's really neat is it's like this thing,
I think, you know, wait, everybody wait for it,
like wait for it.
You can be so in the moment,
frustrated or want something now, your way.
And it's like, wait for it,
because I have to say that going back and looking at like,
first of all, that was one of my favorite collabs.
And I've had some incredible collaborations in my career,
not just as Chantel the artist,
but as Chantel the writer and collaborator with other people.
And that collaboration was just like,
I can't even describe the amount of like fun and anticipation and just joy and
just like, I loved it every second of it. I would, you know,
but I thought to myself,
why am I not featured on like what?
You know, and, but if I could go-
Because Rihanna gets a feature.
Well, Rihanna gets it.
She's not Rihanna, Mike, she's Rihanna.
What is your deal with the ad?
Don't you think it could be my Perkdale accent?
It's my Perkdale accent.
You're very Perkdale, okay.
All is forgiven, because you said Rihanna.
No, no, and I was just gonna say that like,
if I could go and play it all out over again,
I wouldn't change a thing.
I wouldn't change a thing because I love my life as it is.
And I actually really believe
that if Drake had given me the feature then,
that things would have been really different for me
as an artist and in my career, right? And it's sort of
like, it's a huge buzz now that that's me, like around the world, it's different. And
I like it. I like it. I feel like I can handle it better now.
You have no choice, right? Like you are-
That's how it is.
You know, you can't change that, but had things been a little different, your accountant might
be happier. Does that matter to you? Like, do do care if you're compensated appropriately in the financial sense. I mean, would it have? I don't know. I mean,
I've had some big records. I've had, you know, I've number ones with, you know, with Kelly.
You know, I sold, I don't know, 20 million records with Avril. I've done fine. Would I have that much
more money in the bank? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if I would. And you do live in LA and Toronto. I feel like stop right there. Stop right there.
Well, I have a landing pad in Toronto. Let's be real. I got rid of my bigger space.
Is it the couch around the corner?
Exactly. It's the bus bench out there.
Are you concerned about Tuesday? We're going to get into the music. There's a 25th anniversary.
We're going to talk about your upcoming performance. We're gonna get into the music. There's a 25th anniversary.
We're gonna talk about your upcoming performance.
We're gonna cover all of this, but I'm legit wondering,
how concerned are you about what's gonna happen
in the United States of America on Tuesday?
What I'm concerned about is the narrative
that the right has been, there's a lot of momentum,
that the election results
are not going to be true.
And that's real, you know?
So that's concerning and the way that the Supreme Court works
is concerning the way it's been stacked is concerning
the way that there has been a sort of a safety net created
for many years surrounding election results that leads right to the Supreme Court in John Roberts. I mean
there's some very real concerns there and it's like look you can say all you
want. Oh conspiracy, you know, you can say it all you want but if it's if it hits
the Supreme Court justice and they're right there with it, there's really not a lot that the left is going to be able to do. I mean, it is what
it is. And I'd like to say I'll just plug my nose and turn the TV off for four years
or not go to the states for four. I'd like to say that.
Your dogs are there.
But my dogs are there. But thank God my dogs are there. Maybe that's the thing that will
get me through. But I do think that the ramifications
will resonate for many years.
And that is really worrying.
I find it unsettling.
Like just the fact that on Tuesday,
and yeah, there's the mail-in ballot,
so we won't go to bed Tuesday night
necessarily know who was elected.
Unless there's a sweep.
Right.
Which 2022 taught us that polls don't really mean much.
2016?
2022.
Okay, I'm listening.
It was our, what you call it, our midterm elections.
Okay, midterms.
Yeah, sorry, you speak in American.
Okay, I'm listening.
I'm with you now.
And yeah, I talk about both countries, our, they're both mine.
It's our.
But yeah, the midterm elections taught us that polls are not accurate.
And then of course, the new language around that is, oh, well, we figured it out.
And so now we've got straight on the polls now.
And it's like, do you?
I don't know. I mean, I think that the issue, you know,
when you've pissed off Bad Bunny
and you've pissed off, you know, Nick Jam PR,
you know, you've really, really,
you've really, really shit the bed at that point.
Because let me tell you something,
what I've noticed about, you know,
there's certain things about like Latinas
and African-Americans, like,
you're not moving the needle a lot.
You know what I'm saying?
Like there's a real strong cultural jam going on
and to be able to piss those people off that way,
to move the needle that much,
you're really a special kind of special.
So, you know, stay tuned. Okay. Uh, we'll do some post-election coverage. I'll get a Chantelle back
in the basement to talk about whatever the hell happens. I want to shout out your Massey hall
appearance on November 8th. Whoa. November 8th. That's in the past tense. Okay. I have a, this is
an old note here. How was Massey hall in November 8th? And why wasn't I there? No, November 8th. Oh my gosh, Chantel. You've got me so turned around now. I thought I was in, uh, that was October 8th.
Okay. This is in the future, right? I will fix this in post for sure. So November 8th, you're at Massey Hall.
Yes. And, uh, are tickets still available? There are a few tickets still available. So listeners, because what an amazing venue and you're looking forward to that?
Yes, I really am.
And my son is opening.
And that's really exciting to me.
Wait, tell me more about that.
What do you mean your son is opening?
What's going on here?
You should play some Rowan Maeda music.
Row, I don't know if he's back up on Spotify.
It's okay, I don't even use Spotify.
Or Apple or whatever you use.
I don't know.
Yeah, try.
Yeah, maybe YouTube. Yeah,
his name is Rowan Maeda. He's a great artist. What's that like having your son? You got three
boys, right? And having your son open for you that's at Massey hall. Like this sounds like,
is this really happening? You know, one time I was in Brussels, Belgium, and I saw a sign on a
building like that. Ricky Lee Jones was playing somewhere.
So I was like, are you serious right now?
Are you serious right now, bro?
And I went in to that building
and I watched Ricky Lee Jones play
and like she brought her little kid out on stage to play.
And I was like, she's insane.
Oh my gosh, this is crazy.
And now I'm, I mean, I've always brought my kids out
to do what they wanna do if they wanna do it.
But now my son's like real, like proper artist
and he's really good.
So-
Rowan Mehta.
Yeah, yeah.
So I'm really excited for him.
Do you remember the orb fluffy white clouds,
I think was the name of the song.
Do you remember this song at all?
Like in the, maybe the early nineties,
little fluffy clouds or something by the orb.
Anyway, the Ricky Lee Jones was sampled on this.
Anyway, this is what I'm thinking of with Ricky Lee Jones.
I can't believe I saw the date in my notes, November 8th, Massey Hall.
And I swear to you, I thought we were in late November.
Like, did I miss a month here?
This is Halloween. That's in October.
So you did say that you're in Halloween.
Yeah. You know what? I screwed that up completely. Yep.
I'm going to go back with you because I want to talk about the 25th anniversary of color moving and still
there's a deluxe edition release and I want to get into that deep dive, but I want to
go back to the beginning. So you got your headphones on. This is like a time machine.
Okay. That's okay. Yeah, we're going back. Oh, you're going before color. Right. So we
got to go back. Yeah. Do you know what you're doing, Mike Oh, you're going before color. Right. So we got to go back
Do you know what you're doing Mike? We're in the beginning now
In the first words in the beginning was the word and the word was God
So let's start with your origin story and the first album and I thought I was only gonna be here an hour
Yeah, we're gonna burn through this. Okay, look at the clock and you're're watching the clock there. Your bodyguard's watching the clock. Cause I actually don't
even know when we started here because you guys were late. But under these rocks and
stones, like just give me a little taste of when did you realize you could do this? Like
when did you realize, Hey, I can do this professionally and be a musician. Oh, I don't know. I don't
know. I mean, I just, I think I was, I think I came out of, I think I was born with like a little mini piano
like attached to me.
That was painful for your mother.
My poor mother, yeah.
But kind of like Charlie Brown's buddy there
that has the line-
Schroeder.
Who is it that has-
Schroeder?
Yeah, he has the piano.
I think that was me.
So I was always doing that, you know?
I was playing and singing and writing
and I was mimicking and learning.
So I kind of had it coming from all ends
because it was the classical me being nurtured
and the rock and roll me with brothers and neighbors,
all boys listening to Black Sabbath
and Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and The Beatles
and my dad with the Elvis Presley
and my mom with the Barber Streisand.
I just had so much music.
I was really into John Lennon and Yoko
and then some weird stuff that no one's heard of.
And then I bumped into Chris Bergafne one day
and he was in a Manitoba act called
Orphan, which had this song called, uh,
Miracle, which I thought was the biggest song ever.
It was on my mix tape next to you too and the fix and I,
I was so nervous and I asked him, I was like, Hey, you know,
I'm a really big fan. I just saw him at a restaurant. I was like,
my name is Chantal and I'm a really big fan. He was like, cool, what do you do? And I was like, well, I'm a singer and I'm a writer and he was like, oh, and you're your stuff.
So I ended up making a meeting, a proper meeting with him and I showed him I could play and sing and I was this little virtuoso and he was like, yo, let's do this.
So I had a song called Surrounded I'd written about the passing of someone I adored and
to suicide and I showed it to him and anyway we sent that
song when it was recorded we sent it off to Sony and they basically you know they gave a record
deal and a publishing deal to me based on that song and me being able to perform it and others
and they felt that they had you know something to perform it and others. And they felt that
they had, you know, something they could work with. Now I've heard that demo tape since
then. And let me tell you something, Mike. Not so good. Like I thought I was going to
release that to everybody and show it to everybody. It's not releasable. I don't know what they
are. I got to get my mitts on those, those demo tapes. But I will say this version of
this song, stunning.
It's beautiful.
Oh, thanks.
Thank you.
It's a little tamed.
Yeah, thank you.
Very good.
So what's it like?
I mean, when it starts to break for you, okay?
So under these rocks and stones, we're going back, I guess, 96.
But you had commercial success right out of the gate,
it seemed, and I'm wondering, what's that like
when you're tuning into your local radio station there
in Winnipeg and you're hearing yourself?
Like, what's that like?
I don't know if you can ever wrap your head around it
proper, can you?
I don't know.
Well, you're talking to guys who never heard himself
on the radio, but I can imagine the first time you-
Wait, what did you say about, what about hearing yourselves on the radio?
What? Like the first time that you tune in and I,
well, you turn it up. That's what you do.
You're in your car and you come on the radio. You, you forget, turn that shit up.
Turn that shit up. Turn it to 11. You know, shout out to spinal tap.
You know, you, you, uh, you blow the speakers is what you do.
It's pretty exciting.
Honestly.
It's still exciting.
I mean, I'm just a little girl from Winnipeg.
Like, what?
What is happening?
What?
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
And I remember, because I was watching a lot of much music at the time.
And there was a string of hits from this album.
Like you were, I mean, still excellent,
but it was such a breakthrough and critical praise,
commercial success right out of the gate.
I have a question about the name of the next album.
I'm going to ask you about the spelling
of a certain word here.
But no, you nailed it, I think.
Thank you.
So let's get to the 25th anniversary of an album No, you nailed it, I think. Thank you.
So let's get to the 25th anniversary of an album where you spelled color correctly.
So color moving and still, was there anyone in the record label that said, hey, you're
spelling color wrong?
Like this should be C-O-L-O-R.
Nope.
Like what kind of control did you have over the spelling of color?
That, my name, keeping my name.
Nobody said anything to me. I've never had problems with boys. I don't have any of those things
I've never had any of them problems. No one said spell it the American way
Nobody said nothing about nothing. Okay. Well, I'm telling you I'm impressed that you you kept it spelled
I've been surrounded by really cool people like my whole career
I have not had even Don Iner who I was like Donnie are you sure
I should not be changing my name and he was like nope it's good I was like really it's not gonna
make things easier for your radio guy and you know Philly and he's like no that's good that's fine
okay yeah now as you can imagine I have more color moving and still questions, but I have questions from the listenership. So, Juan wrote in.
Hi Juan.
The one and only.
Yes.
Okay.
Where can we find a decent audio file
of the song, Can't Make It Good,
which was included in the soundtrack of Century Hotel.
Oh yeah, I like that.
Yeah, I love that song.
The song is a collaboration between her
and husband, Rain Maida.
You're married to Rain Ma a from our lady peace mind blow
It's a long shot, but I have to ask so talk to one about can't make it good
I'm singing it to him right now. If you do it again, I'll make it clean
I don't know the words, but I know it's something like
it's like Oh, just can't make it go. But if I could show you my world and the way
I think it should turn, oh no.
Oh no, I just can't make it go.
Oh, but if I showed you my world and the way
I think it should turn.
Just one use that, do what you want with it.
Okay, one, that's the best answer to that question ever.
So you have no insight into why he can't find
a decent audio file.
I feel like the verse of that song is super cool too.
It's like,
the wind blows.
Gosh, there's a really cool part to it. The wind blows. The wind blows. The wind blows. The wind blows. The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows.
The wind blows. The wind blows. The wind blows. The wind blows. The wind blows. this amazing producer named Dave. What the heck is Dave's last name he produced? Or is, yeah, he's either in or he's the producer
of the Flaming Lips.
You know the Flaming Lips?
Of course.
Yeah, so Dave, he's-
Dave Friedman.
Yes, Dave Friedman, I love him.
Oh my gosh, I have to text Dave later today.
I haven't talked to him in years, but he produced the song
and we just had the best little time.
And I remember my dog came with us at the time. We had a dog called Chanty and she lived till she was 17.
She was my little wing woman, our first pet.
And he had this cabin, this house in the middle of the woods.
And we let Chanty out and she was smart and we knew she'd come back.
She was that kind of a dog, a little water, water, a Marshfowl hunting dog.
Anyway, she, she took off and I was like,
oh, she'll come back.
We were calling her and calling her and like later
in the day she came back and she was soaking wet
and just like a shell of herself.
And Dave was like, I don't,
I don't know where she found water.
She was gone for so long.
But anyway, we had a really nice time with Dave
and he did a great job on that.
Yeah, let's find that.
Let's find that song.
But so is that soundtrack, I guess it's not available.
Juan's done his search.
Was that for Century Hotel?
That's what Juan remembers.
I feel like, wasn't it for the,
wasn't there a hockey movie from Canada that
I also was- Goon?
Wasn't tonight a song in Goon 2? I can name all the hockey- well-
God, I got a- I don't know, but I do have questions for you. So obviously, color moving
and still, we're going to get back to that. We have to keep defaulting to color moving
and still. Well, you have a bodyguard with you and he
keeps glaring at me and I'm very intimidated by him, okay? But Massey Hall's November 8th, I'm told that's the future that hasn't happened yet.
So if I was there, it means I'm a time traveler, which is pretty fucking cool
actually, but I do want to ask, wait, can you swear on this show?
Well, it's a podcast.
Who's going to stop me?
You is Adam going to stop me lifting up his finger here?
Okay.
I have soundtrack questions for you.
Okay.
And you're, I learned I have you for 60 minutes
No matter what I do or say so you're kind of a prisoner here. Okay, we're gonna do this
You have a nice voice hey, anyone told you that before thanks, man
Well, you haven't given me my gift yet. Oh, I have to give you your gift
Okay, when we get back into color if you want to talk about color-moving and still, or my work with my husband, then I give you your gift.
No, I'm not talking.
All of you both.
Okay.
You had me at hello.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
So, if you're living under a rock.
I crack myself up.
Okay. Okay. This is the Armaged a rock. I crack myself up.
Okay, this is the Armageddon soundtrack. Armageddon was a big fucking movie.
It was, I think, the biggest selling soundtrack of all time.
Adam just said, wow.
Are you sure?
Even more than what's that Whitney Houston thing
for the bodyguard?
Maybe that's bigger.
Maybe.
That's a big one too.
Maybe Titanic.
But this is a big soundtrack.
But this was like-
No matter how you slice it.
I think for a while at least,
it was the biggest selling soundtrack.
Why didn't they just train astronauts on how to drill into rock instead of finding these
rock guys and trying to make them astronauts?
I don't remember the plot of Armageddon.
Wouldn't that make more sense?
I think it's easier to train someone to drill rocks and to make somebody an astronaut.
What do I know?
Okay, Armageddon, big movie, big soundtrack. How did you end up on the
Armageddon soundtrack? I need to know. I think Columbia did it and I think this A&R guy there was
was the coordinator of it and you know he he was very thoughtful kind of kind
of eccentric guy called John Klaudner look up, and he's a bit of a legend.
Check the liner notes.
Yep, and yeah, I guess he, you know, they were probably looking at, okay, well, who's on the roster right now?
And you know, who are they connected with? At Columbia Records, they had a nice relationship with the satellite company here in Toronto,
and I know those guys were really, really passionate about getting, you know, because OLP's on it too.
My husband's band's on it. I think Starseed might be on it.
Love Starseed.
When's your husband gonna make his Toronto Mike debut?
I can tell him to come on the show.
Can you just tell him?
Yeah, for sure.
I'm a big, I mean, that's my,
I was a big CFNY guy in the 90s.
Do I get another box of lasagna
if I get rain on the show?
More beer from Great Lakes and more lasagna
if rain comes over. Rain's hat.
He did his beer, he had a beer season and it's over.
So you have to get something else for him than beer,
but I'll take your beer.
Well, he can bring the beer to you.
Don't worry.
Lots of people.
It's delicious.
Okay.
So is this good?
And again, none of my freaking business here,
but does your accountant say way to go?
Like do you get checks from the Armageddon sound?
You know what?
I have my first business manager ever.
I love him. His name. I shouldn't say his name.
I'm not going to say my business manager's name.
Why not? No, I'm not.
He might get a kick out of it.
Yeah, he's, well, hey out there, Samer.
But anyway, Samer is the first business manager
that I've ever had or accountant that says things to me like,
hey, way to go. You did really good in points last night.
And I'll be like, what is happening to me right now?
Like no one has ever high fived me.
Like I work so hard, it's never enough.
And it's just really nice to have someone
who actually champions my successes.
And accomplishments.
Yeah, really sweet.
So you get on, the label does this,
you cover this song and. Yeah, I thought I was hoping I would cover
you fill up my senses like a walk in the forest like the mountains in springtime because they told
me I was doing a John Denver song and then I got there and they were like it's jet plane and I'm
like oh my god we used to sing that at camp and was like, what am I gonna do with that thing?
It just felt like it would be hokey,
but I had really fallen in love with Run DMC and hip hop.
And I thought this needs to feel like
a really sultry, sexy hip hop song.
That's what I thought.
And that's what we got.
And that's why in the future,
you'd collaborate with both Kendrick and Drake.
Why are you rubbing this in?
We don't need people to be-
I'm just tying everything together here.
I'm one of them rare, rare people.
Do you remember, did you watch The Muppets?
Were you a Muppets fan?
I loved The Muppets.
That's where I discovered John Denver.
Okay.
And not to be confused with Gilligan, who's Bob Denver.
No, don't do that.
And shout out to Riley Funeral Home, they're both gone.
Wow.
All the Denvers are gone.
How about, let's take it a step further.
John Denver wrote this smash called
Leaving on a Jet Plane.
And dude, bro, dies on a jet plane,
like literally left.
He literally built that plane himself.
And this is the lesson for everyone,
all the rich people listening who are bored,
don't build your own plane.
You know, I was even thinking the other day about Keanu,
who I kind of know him a little bit, like from the day. When I was when he was here? Like as a
teenager? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. When he was recording with Dog Star, I was recording under
these rocks and stones. That's where we made friends. Wow. But where did you record under
these rocks and stones? That was at A&M, the old A&M in LA. But like what city? That was in LA. I recorded Color Moving and Still in Toronto at Faze,
but I recorded Under These Rocks and Stones at Conway,
Ocean Way, A&M, like the, like,
I think the album must've cost like $2 million, so stupid.
Oh, just don't even, but anyway.
So yeah, so that's where I met Keanu,
and nicest guy always was.
And anyway, I just think like now he's out there racing.
Like why? No, no, no.
Same thing with them.
I feel like, you know,
I feel like when Kobe went up in that helicopter that day,
you know, we were on a hike, just underwear,
like not far from where the accident happened.
And it was a very, very, very, very, very foggy day.
Like we were talking about,
like I almost couldn't see the person next to me.
And I remember thinking to myself like,
oh yeah, that's just the pilot wanted to please
the famous guy who said, get us there, get us there relate and he was like, yep
I got you. I just feel like out forced outcomes happen from fame and fortune and
I don't know. I just have a warning about fame and fortune
No, please the people are better off for that warning. So thank you. Keep the warnings coming because the world's on fire. Yeah
Dangerous if you have too much I have well, I don't have that problem. I do have another soundtrack question.
You didn't know. I just want 60 minutes to talk about soundtracks. Okay.
But yeah, you're my prisoner here.
Oh, this is kind of soundtracky too. Yeah. Well, listen to it. Yeah.
This is a soundtrack question. Of course. Bigly. Yeah.
There's something in your eyes makes me wanna lose myself
Makes me wanna lose myself
In Mike's eyes
There's something in your voice Makes my heart beat fast
Hope this feeling lasts
The rest of my life in the room is like, is that? I'm like, it's me! I feel like that's cheating. You don't get to do your own songs at karaoke.
Yeah, you do! That's a paddling.
That is the privilege of, that I get.
Right, you have the right. You reserve the right.
This is from the soundtrack, late 99 actually, songs from Dawson's Creek.
Originally, yeah, but then...
Yes?
It was in...
A movie called...
Paddle is a Guy in Dandy. Wow. But I... Yeah, okay. Go ahead. No, a movie called paddle is a guy intended Wow
Yeah, okay. No, I mean, it's a Randy Newman song. It is it is
Yeah, do people think this is a Chantel Kravyašek song? Yeah. Yeah, cuz no one knows the Randy Newman version
No, he didn't even put his out until long after I'd done mine
But you know what this I am like the fourth or fifth,
like diva girl woman singer that recorded it.
And I remember-
But you're the most famous recording.
Yeah.
Well, Diana Krall did one with Brian.
She's nothing compared to you.
Thank you.
Put that on the record there.
Write that down.
Let that be noted.
Elvis is not in the building.
It's not a better than less than game.
I like my version better than Brian's and Diana's
and I'll say that out loud,
even though you can't edit it out later.
But Brian's my friend and it's okay
and Diana's my friend, it's okay.
Randy Newman has penned and this song did,
unfortunately it's a great song, everybody loves it.
Didn't hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
That's no slight to you.
But just to say that there is one song
in the history of the Billboard Hot 100
that Randy Newman wrote that went to number one. Can you name it? No, never went to number one.
Shit. And you know what? Your bodyguard can answer too, if he knows the answer. No, he doesn't know
anything. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, is it? You can keep your head on. That's not a, I don't think that's
Is that Joe Cocker? Yes, Joe Cocker. I have a Joe Cocker song.
Hello, I have a Joe Cocker song.
Which one?
I can't remember the name of it, but I wrote a Joe Cocker song.
What good are you?
Come on.
Randy Newman wrote a song that was covered
by Three Dog Night and went to number one.
Oh yeah, what's the number one?
It's in Boogie Nights.
I don't know if you like movies.
Do you enjoy movies, Shanta?
I do know this.
Boogie Nights is still great. I just want to shout out Boogie Nights.
Which song is it?
Mama told me not to come.
And that's a Randy Newman song.
He always has to get sexual, Randy. He's such a person.
And he doesn't like short people. I find that offensive.
Do you know what? I was joking when I said Randy always has to get sexual. He writes
kind of these really classic, unoffensive songs actually.
Very easy. You know, he's... I love LA was the Dodgers theme song and they won the World Series
yesterday. Oh, he's probably so happy. That's so nice. Are you happy? Do you care? Yeah, that's nice.
You're a LA lady. I'm not a big baseball person. I'm a basketball, hockey and football girl. American
football. I don't like Canadian football. Can I say, yeah, I'm just not. Blue Bomber fan you are not.
No, well, it's not that I don't like it. It's just that I think I'm traumatized from all
the times I sat in the cold watching Canadian football games. So, but no, what I want to
say is one of my favorite Randy Newman songs is called Living Without You. I think it's
one of the most beautiful songs ever written. It's extraordinary.
Have you covered that song?
No, it's like, I think it's
almost I don't think I'm recording. Sing it now and I'll, I'll put it on Spotify later.
Go. No. Um, but you know, um, Kate Hudson put, I think Kate Hudson had a hand in putting
both of my songs in how to lose a guy. Um, she's a friend and a huge, like she, well well she's now doing has a singing career now
Yeah, I've heard her cover Stone Temple Pilots
Anyway, she is a huge like music person I would describe her
She's just like when I think of her, I mean, I know she's an actress
But when I think of her I think of, I know she's an actress, but when I think of her, I think of music, Kate.
She is such a music person.
I remember enjoying her covers,
and she was at some point, she was married to a rock star.
A couple of times she's been married to a rock star.
A couple of times.
Okay, who's the second one?
I should be. Matt Bellamy.
Yeah, okay, so this is what you, Diana Krall,
and her, have all married rock stars.
I guess, I mean.
No, it's fact.
Right, right? Sure. Okay, I didn't think it, well, it's fact. Right. Right. Sure.
OK, I didn't think it.
Well, I think so.
I think that's a fact.
I'm now going to start recording.
You ready?
You're funny. You got to give me a gift. So I got a segue over here.
Here we go. I only have an hour, you know,
maybe before you see I'm singing along with myself.
I love it. You can come over every day and do this.
It's like my sense of humor on crack.
I like it.
Because you sound like the person on the recording, like it's eerie.
I do sound like her.
I think I can get through.
All right. Now I want to talk color, moving and still.
It is 25 years old.
That's amazing because you're only 25 years old.
That math is difficult to... Yeah, I did is difficult when I was one and a half when you had that
Schroeder piano in the womb okay Rob Bruce do you know this name
Rob Bruce Oh bail you out he's he was the keyboardist for the spoons do you
remember the spoons yeah okay so he wrote me and said, before you, he goes, I like this song because it is so very 1999.
It fits the musical Zeitgeist in the air with Alanis...
Wait, he wrote in?
Yeah.
Today?
Yeah, this morning.
Wow, hi Rob.
Rob, this is Rob.
I wouldn't put words in his mouth.
He's going to hear this.
Okay.
Music, so he says, with Alanis, Jewel, Natalie and Bruglia and Shania Twain, I was on tour in
the United States with the musical Cats at that time.
And I remember hearing it on the radio and thinking, who is this Canadian?
And wow, she has the modern pop sound.
Rob's a big Chantelle head.
Oh, that's like kind of going to make me cry right now.
That's what you're here for.
You know, we live in bubbles, we artists, and we don't really necessarily know
what other people think and feel about, you know, our music.
And that's very meaningful to hear that from Rob.
And he co-wrote Romantic Traffic, so this man knows a thing or two.
Romantic traffic.
There you go.
I love it.
He's going to love hearing this.
We're making his day here.
That is a great freaking song.
What can I say?
I might play it next.
OK.
So you're a Winnipeg gal.
When do you end up in Toronto?
And how does that relate to this relationship
with Our Lady Pieces, Frontman, Rain, Meta, and this album
that's 25 years old now,
color moving and still. And then please give me a gift. Holy. Okay. Well, yeah, that's a lot. You
need to turn the music down. I can't function with music in the background. So yeah, I had made my
first album and I guess I was in Toronto to shoot the video for the first single called God Made Me
and I went to a Pearl Jam concert that night after the video shoot.
Which one is this? 98? No, where are we? 96.
96, okay. I think or 95.
Maybe Pete Gardner said it. Something like that. Anyway, and yeah, it was September 21st 1996.
And I sat down in my seat, totally lucky
that I had those seats
because they had actually given me
a couple of pairs of tickets,
couple of pair of tickets, couple of pairs of tickets.
And I said to the makeup artist, you know,
which ones are good?
And she said, these ones.
So I said, do you wanna come with me?
I don't know anybody in Toronto.
And she said, sure.
So off we went to the concert together.
When we sat down, there was this guy sitting right behind us
and he just seemed so incredibly otherworldly to me.
Otherworldly.
And next to me was the president of the label.
And I said, you know, like I was polite for a while
and patient and then I said, who's the guy behind us?
And he said, oh, that's Rain from Our Lady Peace.
And I suddenly felt like he was talking another language.
Like I was like, what did he just say?
I didn't know what he said.
And he was like, hang on.
And he just like, turned around and he said,
Rain, this is Chantel.
And he didn't say Chantel, like he said Chantel.
Okay, keep rubbing it in.
And yeah, he said Chantel. Okay, keep rubbing it in. And yeah, he just said, you know, she's new to our label and your label mate.
And he was like, well, now she's my mate.
Was it Love at First Sight?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it was.
No, you and I, I mean.
No.
Like right now.
No, no.
I just want to add a little bit.
I got canceled in 1996.
So you and Rain meet at this Pearl Jam concert
and Love at First Sight.
And like how shortly thereafter
are you guys writing music together?
Gosh.
You guys are on this album,
we're talking about the 25th anniversary
of Color, Movie and Still.
I think I have at least one like collaboration.
His name is on at least one song, Far Away, I think.
I think two songs, I think.
Is it two?
Okay.
You know, he became a sounding board for me
really early on, and that's how I describe it
more than anything.
Like I pretty much write my songs.
Often there's a producer who has a,
I collaborate a bit, but it's usually my words,
my, you know what I mean?
Like I, it's mostly me.
And so, but sometimes I go to Rain
because he's got a perspective,
like he's objective to something I'm doing.
And he can just like click into something real fast
and give me an answer and yeah.
But you weren't like, you didn't own Navid.
You weren't a big Our Lady Peace fan at the time.
At that time I hadn't known Our Lady Peace yet.
But what were your jams then?
So you weren't into like Canadian alt rock
or whatever in the mid 90s.
Well, like I said, like being from Winnipeg,
it was like, you know.
Guess who all the time?
There was some definitely some guess who in there,
but I didn't know that they were from Winnipeg.
Oh wow.
What we had in Winnipeg was a rock station called 92 City.
Yes. Yeah.
And like, I feel like we didn't get a lot
of what I would call more like, uh, deep tracks,
second and third singles, because it was classic. You know what I mean? Like they played,
you know, standards more and ETO taking care of business every hour. It was, it was a lot of
rough, like there would be some rush and some Van Halen. Right. Did you hear any watchmen when you were in Winnipeg
before you moved to Toronto?
I did.
Danny Graves paid attention to me
after I got my record deal.
And he sat down at my table in a restaurant.
I thought I was gonna pee myself.
You know, he owns a bar in Berkley.
And he said to me,
hey, I heard about your record deal.
And I was like,
I don't even think I could look him in the eye.
I was just freaking out.
And he goes,
remember record deals don't get songs on the radio him in the eye. I was just freaking out. And he goes, remember, record deals
don't get songs on the radio.
And he got up and walked away.
And I was like, wow.
Danny Graves knows a thing or two.
And he was right.
It was harsh, but he was right.
And you gotta work hard.
But I have had 18 songs on the radio.
And that's not including the ones I wrote for other people.
So how you doing, Danny?
Danny, Danny, who has performed at one of my events. I love this guy,
this picture of Brian line. I saw like who the hell's that? No, I saw the watchman thing. Yeah,
they're big watchman fans, but I just, I'm just thinking of Winnipeg right now, but you moved to
Toronto is rain the reason or is it because Toronto is the capital of the country? Musically
speaking, like what brought you to it was sort of strange. In fact, I can remember having moments
when I was first here of like, wow, I did that.
Yeah, it just, it became easier.
I was flying to Europe a lot for stuff with Sony
and I think, you know, probably the broad stroke answer
is that I started a life with Ray and you know,
we were both actually dating other people when we met.
So we were just being friends at first.
But once we knew that, you know, like we were each other's
baby parents, then we were going to probably have a life together.
It was I just came to Toronto. I don't know.
It just yeah. Many, many good.
And I love Toronto. I mean, Toronto is great.
Like, it's it's incredible.
So why wouldn't you?
Once you discover Toronto, it's kind of like discovering LA or London, England. It's like
very hard to dial it, to peddle it back.
Now can you give me a gift before I ask Neil's important question? He's been waiting a long
time for you to have one.
Hang on Neil.
I'm now begging for a gift here.
So this is a tote bag from mine and my husband's project.
When Rain and I got engaged,
a priest was sitting near us
and saw us basking in the glow of our engagement
at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Rome.
And he said, may I bless your ring?
And we said, sure.
And then he said, may I give you a piece of advice that I
give to the couples in my congregation that are getting married? And we said, sure. And he said,
leave each other a note that says D Y K H M I. Can I guess what these letters mean? Yeah, you can.
Do you know how much I love you? Yeah. And so it's on our tote bag and other items. And there's
another- I'm honored. And there's something special inside the bag, Mike. I hope it's on our tote bag and other items. And there's something special inside the bag, Mike.
I hope it's Halloween chocolate.
Hold on here.
Yeah, so Rain and I, we try to leave each other that note.
Oh.
Okay.
And I love it because you spelled color C-O-L-O-U-R.
And I don't like it when Canadian artists
do American spelling just because they're trying
to move a few units.
So I'm not really into the movie and it's.
You're a Winnipeg girl.
You might spend a lot of time in LA.
Your dogs are there,
but you're a Winnipeg girl through and through.
And funny, funnily enough, where I live in LA
is the country.
Like it could be Manitoba,
but with an ocean not that far away.
Okay.
I'm going to ask Neil's question.
Okay. Yeah.
I'm going to take off my headphones because I want to stick on this.
I want to wear this t-shirt for a photo.
Okay. Okay.
This is Neil talking.
So although my wife is also a big fan of your music,
but this is Neil's wife we're talking about.
Neil says, my wife is a big fan of her music.
One of her all time favorite songs is time.
Don't make me sing. Don't make me sing.
Time.
Got, got, got, got no time. No time.
Oh, sorry. That's the guess who.
Right.
What can Chantel tell us about the song, the inspiration,
and can she add it to the set list next Friday
at Massey Hall?
We'll be there. Thank you.
Oh, wow.
That's Neil. Neil, wow.
Time is his wife's favorite song.
This is really cool.
Okay.
My friend passed away. is his wife's favorite song. This is really cool. Okay.
My friend passed away.
His name is, his name was John. I was told to go to his house.
He was gonna help me with some pre-production on my album.
What if it all means something?
I think it was, yeah.
And I got to his house and he lived in this craftsman house
that he'd restored and like really the bowels of Hollywood,
like Romaine, Vine, like Hollywood Vine area.
And I'm that person that like,
as soon as I see a piano in a house,
I go straight to the piano.
Like I love to check out like,
what does that piano sound like and feel like?
And I sit down at this little upright,
it was a low upright.
And he told me like, oh yeah, that's Stevie Nicks piano.
He was storing it for somebody or something.
And I kind of like peed my pants a little
because like I'm kind of a massive Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac fan.
And anyway, I put my fingers on the keys and I can just remember thinking, well, this
is Stevie Nicks piano, so like, give me some, like, give me, give me some juju here, Stevie.
And also I wanted to give something to the piano that, you know, Stevie would be proud
of. Anyway, it was just this feeling I had that it should be special. And I just put my fingers on the piano and I went
and that's the theme of the song, you know, and then yeah, and that was it. And then I feel like
I can't remember who the co-writers are. I can't remember if John's a co-writer on it or just Rain. I feel like, can't remember. But yeah, it took a little time to finish the song,
but that was how it was inspired.
And it just was really cool to write a song
on Steven Dink's piano.
So that's a great story.
You never know what you're gonna get with that.
Not when you sit down in studios in Hollywood, no.
Amazing. Yeah.
I'm gonna play you my favorite Chantel song.
Aw. Okay. Oh boy. And then I know, he says, what am I gonna play you my favorite Chantel song. Aw.
Okay.
Oh boy.
And then I know, what am I gonna play here?
But no, no joke.
And I also, I feel like I suffer from a syndrome
where like I often gravitate towards like one,
the first song that draws me to an artist.
So there might be great material following
and even better material potentially,
but my favorites are often,
like my favorite tragically hip song
is probably Blow It High Doe,
because it's the first song I heard.
When you blowin' high dough.
I love that song.
Yeah, and it's the first song I heard
by the Tragically Hip and on Q107 in 1989.
There you go.
And one of the first,
I saw this video on Much Music one day and I said,
who is this woman and how do I meet her at a Pearl Jam show?
That's what I was thinking.
Big Pearl Jam fan here. Okay, so here's the song.
So classic.
Like could we be more classic about things, people?
That's why I don't like this album, but whatever.
Oh my god.
You don't like this album? cross-legged and quite filled with death.
Oh my god.
You don't like this album?
No, I don't. I just, I, the guitarist, I had a terrible dynamic with him. He scared me.
Um, and every day I would cry. I was too young. It was too overwhelming. It was too much of money spend.
I'm from Winnipeg. I,g. I feel like on Color Moving and Still, I had begun to match where I was in that spend, if you will.
Like it all started to feel more real and more... I don't know.
Like I just... Maybe it was part, like,
too fast, I have imposter syndrome,
and also, like, too fast, I haven't even been able to say
how I want this to sound, nobody's listening to me,
it was all men, I was the only little girl there,
it was lonely, I was stuck in a frickin' Oakwoods
in Burbank, I was pretty sad, but you know what?
Actually, what's funny is Keanu was in the studio next to me I was pretty sad, but you know what?
Actually what's funny is Keanu was in the studio next to me with Dogstar and Adam Sandler was down the road
as well and those guys, they were such nice guys
and we hung out and it was just,
and my girlfriend's from Winnipeg and like Keanu
would hang, and he would leave the room
and they would like fall on the floor and I'd be like what is
your deal like it was all kind of this weird mishmash of loneliness and
Hollywood and youth and you know self-realization and growth and learning
it was a wild wild time. Well I'm glad you're sharing because I think sometimes
we don't hear about the, you know,
the negative aspect. Oh, it's only because, oh no, because, because listen, I took note, okay? Yeah.
Because there's a 25th anniversary deluxe edition re-release. See, I'm reading the press release now
of color moving and still, I don't remember, did I miss the 25th anniversary deluxe edition re-release
of under these rocks and stones? We missed it. Yeah, because you don't want. Did I miss the 25th anniversary deluxe edition re-release of Under These Rocks and Stones?
We missed it.
Yeah, because you don't want to celebrate it.
Well, it was in COVID.
But you also didn't want to celebrate it.
Like you don't get warm and fuzzy.
Why would you want to revisit something you don't love?
It's really weird, you know.
And what's funny about it is like there were some really important,
like significant, whether they're here or they're gone,
like relationships about that album that are also really important to me, precious to me. Like there's not a more
lovely human being on the planet than Matt Wallace. Peter Asher is of course
this like legend and his cousin ended up managing me and for a long time
and she's like you know one of my best best girlfriends. Like I have all these
amazing cool things that came of under these rocks and stones and you know, lest we forget, I was on Columbia Records and I ended up having
you know, Jet Plane because of it and you know, just enough great things happened from
the album. I met my husband because of it, you know, I got a platform for my song Surrounded
to be heard by people and I think it's a healing, important song in my life, my career. To this day, I think it resonates with people. I've had
incredible experiences up until literally today with that song. There's so much to be grateful
for and also I was just a kid. I was 20. I was 21. What if you took back these songs,
these great songs, what if you re-record these,
re-imagine them now that you're a few decades older and like take back ownership?
Cause this song, Wayne, which I'm playing right now,
like I'm still loving it in my headphones, but it's like,
you need to sort of re possess this song because you're having some negative
feelings about that time.
Yeah, it was hard. It was like, the other thing that I found really challenging at the beginning and it kind of
transcends recording an album.
It's the whole experience of, okay, now sing.
Because before there was no schedule to singing.
And all of a sudden I had to sing for an hour straight, three hours straight, beyond.
How do you do that?
How do you walk up to the microphone
and sing something that will be recorded forever
right this second?
I found that, I still do,
I think it's a crazy ass thing to ask somebody to do.
So at the time, I didn't know how to find my forever voice
at any given moment. And now it's here. You need it right now, Mike, I didn't know how to find my forever voice
at any given moment. And now it's here.
Like you need it right now, Mike, I got it.
You know?
No, I've been hearing it all for the last hour.
I've been hearing it.
It's here when I wake up, whether I like it or not,
I find it.
And that is something that takes a second for some people.
It took me a minute.
On our way out.
No, I promised you a henchman here.
Yeah, go ahead.
60 minutes?
Yeah, but I'm at 55 right now. Yeah, but if you have more, you promised you a henchmen here. Yeah, go ahead. 60 minutes? Yeah, but I'm at 50, 55 right now.
Yeah, you know, but if you have more,
you said you have until 1.30?
Well, at 1.30, I have, yeah.
I'm liking Mike, I can hang with you.
You're not invasive.
Can I open up just for a second here?
I just, can you just say, can you say hi, Adam?
It's weird that you're like here.
Just, just, okay, so get in there, just say hello.
Hello, how is everyone?
So Adam, how long have we been dealing with each other?
It sounded weird in my head when I was gonna say digitally,
but that sounds strange.
I mean, we've been talking, but never in person.
Like how many years, many years?
Guys, is it wonderful to put a face to the voice?
Is this just-
Well, I was shocked that we hadn't met
until I saw you at the door
and I went, this handsome son of a bitch,
where has he been all my life?
Yeah, well, I'm a big listener,
so I feel like I know you, but yeah, we haven't actually-
What's that like to be a big Toronto Mike fanatic here. You want me to autograph anything for
you on the way out? I would love that CJCL Mike, but I didn't bring anything to get signed
maybe next time. Oh yeah, you're checking out that you had some time. So thank you for
bringing Chantel. That's how you say your first name. That's like Shawn Mendes. That's
the trick I'm doing in my head. Never forget now. How was it? Because we're right.
I know we're going to go a little longer.
But how was it?
How was this? Like, how was this?
Yeah, because I screwed up.
I'm still mad at myself.
I thought November 8th was in the future and I said, oh, I fucked it up.
I almost shut it down and I was stormed off in a rage.
I don't co-sign his cursing language, everyone.
Just because I'm here doesn't mean I I you're not working blue today.
How so, Adam? how was a wonderful chat?
I've been working with Chantel for a little bit over a decade or just about a
decade, and I feel like I know everything.
But in the interviews in this interview, I'm learning.
Do you have a question for Chantel now of something you've always wanted to know
the answer to? But maybe, you know, you can put it in the public.
Is there something you're curious about?
Because we heard it's Drake over Kendrick.
That was big. Yeah, that was big.
Yeah, that was a big one. That's a big one, right?
But she is a proud Canadian.
You're gonna get back to him.
He's not good on the spot, is he?
He's not good at this.
But also I feel like Drake's my friend.
Like Kendrick like-
When was the last time he invited you over?
Does he invite you over?
I just saw him a few days ago.
Really?
I did.
Tell me about that.
I bumped into him.
What do you mean? Where'd you bump into him? At the restaurant, yeah. What restaurant is Really? I did. Tell me about that. I bumped into him. What do you mean?
Where'd you bump into him?
At the restaurant.
What restaurant is it?
I'm not telling what restaurant.
One of those restaurants, they don't let me in
because they scan my bank account
and they say you can't come in.
No, I respect people's privacy.
Yeah, but yeah, he's lovely.
Did he buy you a dinner or no?
You just bumped into him.
I believe that I paid for my dinner.
I believe that I paid for my dinner.
Okay, so. No, too funny here. November 8th. I'm going to pump your tires in a minute
just before we sign up. But November 8th at Massey Hall tickets still available.
Adam, am I going to be on a list or something? Or do I? Because I got four kids.
Like I don't tell has a good answer for that.
My 20 comps are gone. Oh, they're gone. But who do I have to kill? But I heard
that it's a very it's not a Taylor Swift ticket. I can tell you that. So it's not going to
set me back 10 grand. No, I don't think so. And I don't need a hotel. I had a mom friend
call me and say, can you help me out? Like I have a lot of people ask me to help them
out with tickets here and there. But Taylor thing, man, people call me, I'm like, yo,
I have no connection there.
But she told me, she blurted out a number
at the top of the conversation.
And I thought that she was talking about like all the tickets
that she was trying to buy, right?
She was talking about one ticket.
What number did she throw at you?
It was 2800 freaking American dollars per ticket.
And this was so that they could go to, I'm not kidding you,
one of the last shows in like Iowa.
And I was like, let me get this straight.
You're gonna get gouged for a motel in Iowa.
A place that is not on my bucket list to go to.
It's not Paris, France.
It's not.
And then you're gonna pay and flying and then you're gonna pay 2,800, wow. You're talking to go to. It's not Paris, France. It's not. And then you're going to pay and flying and then you're going to pay 2800.
Wow.
You're talking to a guy.
I don't even, I'm, I'm a guy.
I'm going to go see lowest of the low at the Rivoli.
Okay.
Those are, that's my ticket price range.
I love lowest of the low.
We're going to, I play, I end every episode of a song from Shakespeare, my butt from the
low here, but, uh, I don't, yeah, those numbers are just like, I will, they're just stupid. That's like a taxation. Someone has too much money. I don't even understand it. I don't, yeah, those numbers are just like, they're just stupid.
That's like a taxation.
Someone has too much money.
I don't even understand it.
I don't understand it.
Like I get that everybody blames Ticketmaster.
I hear that part.
But somebody somewhere is making a lot of cabbage.
Hey ref, who I believe is an accountant.
So he's been listening closely.
He wants to know
how much you made. No, he, this is not his question. That's my question. How much did you
make from Armageddon soundtrack? He says your voice, Chantelle, one of the best voices ever to
grace the Toronto mic airwaves. People on the live stream have been listening to you sing into that
microphone for the past hour. They're loving it. Okay. And Rob Bruce is live. I was going to say,
he's going to listen later. I love, I can't remember what song you'll tell me. I love Chantel's version. I think it was first
sung by Bonnie Rayett. Good company. So I don't even know what he was talking about.
I heard Linda Ronstadt did it as well, but I don't, I have to look it up who did it,
but yeah, she does the background vocals on a heart of gold by Neil Young. Yeah. And then
again on a harvest moon. She does. She's on that much love to her. Young. And then again on Harvest Moon, she's on that.
Much love to her.
Okay, and Canada Kev is gonna hook up one
with that song he can't find.
So that's a black market situation there.
I love that.
Can they hook me up too?
Send me a DM.
Yeah, I'll also email.
Apparently I have to email to Adam and maybe.
No, no, DM me.
Just DM me.
On what?
Where?
Instagram?
Yeah, maybe I'll.
You check your DMs?
I do my very best.
And one, okay, one question from Canada Kev
on the live stream.
I'm curious how you'll answer it.
He wants to know,
what was it like working with Jennifer Lopez?
Did you work with JLo?
Okay, this is where the, you know I'm not editing this.
So I just want to hear it from the heart.
Real talk.
Look, look at that look, look at that look.
No wonder Rain made a fell in love with you.
Oh my God.
What do you mean?
What was my look just now?
It's a good look, okay.
I don't know, what was my look?
It was like a Mike, I'm not going there look.
You know what?
I am really impressed that she used her voice
with that Kamala this week
and that she's going to be supporting her
at her rally today.
That's not even an answer to the question I asked, but like, you can say no comment.
You know what?
I just feel like she's a really, really great actress.
Actually, like I really do think that she's an amazing performer.
And I don't know.
If you say so, I'm not a fan actually.
Selena was fine, but that was a hundred years ago.
I don't think she's good.
She does these romantic, so my wife-
Well, maybe not those, but like U-turn was good.
U-turn was good.
Okay, you've gone back about 25 years.
Oh, but that was good.
She could do some heady shit like that.
That's as old as color moving and still, okay?
That's an old nugget.
I hear this new music coming from you.
I don't wanna say goodbye until I find out what's,
like there's the 10th album coming in the new year.
Why don't I send you something you can play it?
Yeah.
Okay, so, okay, mike at torontomike.com.
Can you do that?
Mike at torontomike.com.
I'll send you one because it's about my husband.
It's exciting, we're gonna do this.
Oh, really?
Yeah, and this is just the demo.
And you're gonna, like, no joke,
like you're gonna say- No, I'm gonna send it to you.
But you're gonna say, Rain.
Do you call him Mike or Rain?
What is it you call him? Okay, now you're getting snippy with me. That's not snippy
That's a real question like cuz cuz cuz my wife does not call me Toronto Mike, right?
Unless I make a special request, but okay, so you're like rain. I
Was in this guy's basement in South Etobicoke
And he's a big our lady peace fan. Is he yeah, that's true. I can show you my CD collection.
Okay.
Okay.
Why don't you visit and chat him up for 90 minutes?
Just say 90 minutes.
Should I tell him the part where you said, do you call him Mike or Rain first?
Will that offend him?
Because I don't know if I want to talk to a guy who's offended by that.
I don't think he's easily offended.
I have high standards.
Actually, I think he's actually-
I'll test.
I'll be the judge of that.
He's such a pro.
I just got an email.
I'm checking my email and it says, Mike, happy Halloween from the hip.
It's like the tragically hip sent me a happy Halloween email.
Okay.
You're what?
What is your Mike at Toronto Mike.com Mike at Toronto Mike.com.
Yeah.
Take your time.
That's a lot of characters.
I know.
Okay.
Mike at Toronto Mike dot com Toronto Mike and while you're
doing that. Okay, here it comes. Rob Del Mundo was on the live stream and says you played
before you. And this is during the pandemic you played before you on a live stream and
you said six notes you can copy but seven notes and you're in trouble.
Yeah, I've heard that, yeah.
He's quoting you on that one, so.
And then he says, apparently he said,
has anyone from Rolling Stones,
oh yeah, this is a question for you.
Has anyone from the Rolling Stones lawyers
called you about Ruby Tuesday?
No, and do you know why that person is asking that?
So on the song Before You,
one of my all time favorite songs is Ruby Tuesday and on Ruby Tuesday,
they say, um, you know, um, uh, okay, Ruby Tuesday is,
yeah, but hold on before it is.
Don't question why she needs to be so free.
I'll tell you it's the only way to be lying all the time.
Lose your dreams, you will use your mind.
Yeah, so you're right.
It's goodbye Ruby Tuesday,
who could hang a name on you
when you change with every new day.
Now I think I'll get through the world.
I'm gonna call their lawyers and take a cut of this action.
That's amazing.
Now I think I'll get through six, six notes.
Okay. Did you send that yet?
I did.
Okay. So I'm going to check my inbox here, standby.
And it was Mike at Toronto Mike.
I love this cause I'm still not gonna edit.
This is all part of the, I like people to immerse.
This is the time we spent together, unedited in real time. I'm not going to tighten this
up like I'm chorus or something. Wait, um, Mike at Toronto Mike.com, Mike at Toronto
Mike.com. Maybe just tell me your phone number in like a, a way that's like people don't
hear it. Yeah, I can do that. Okay, so I'm gonna start. I'm gonna play a little bit of that song. ["Bad News"]
Baby, before you
I was bad news
You let me love you
I think I can get through Alright, there we go. Is that it?
Did I do it right?
Yes, you did.
Thank you.
Okay, now I'm going to check my text messages, the play-by-play.
Goodbye. You should do a mashup. That's pretty much what it was, isn't it?
What the song is. It's a mashup. I have a text message. Hold on, let me check my
text.
The problem is I'm actually not sure how do I forward this to my computer computer here so I can is it not a it's not an mp3 it is but it's on my phone, right? So then you should send it to your email click on it and send it to your email. Okay
Is that a thing? I think it is sounds reasonable back and see if I sent it to
Just email and I could just then I Yeah, but it's not going through
because I don't have your wifi.
Let me see if it's still in my outbox.
You don't have the gigabytes in that data planning.
You're a rock star.
No, it's because we're in the basement.
I do have the data.
It should be okay.
No, it didn't want it.
Mike at Toronto Mike dot com.
Right.
Right, but it's M-I-K-E, it's not M-I-C.
M-I-K-E.
Yeah, Toronto Mike M-I-K-E dot com. Yeah, no, it's M-I-K-E, it's not M-I-C. M-I-K-E. At Toronto Mike, M-I-K-E dot com.
Yeah, no, it's not.
I'm gonna try sending the attachment maybe.
Let's see if that works.
Riveting, this is a riveting audio, but I'm enjoying it.
Yeah.
I can't believe how much I love the band.
And now I think I'll get through the end of the world.
All right, so.
There you go.
We're gonna go.
No, you're not doing that.
Okay, I'm not doing that.
That's just awful.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
It didn't go through?
It didn't go through.
So while I figure this out, why don't you tell me.
Do you have wifi?
Yeah, I do.
Okay, so I'm gonna go back. Here, hold on here. Okay, I get that. Do you know your wifi? Do you have wifi? Yeah, I do. Okay, so I'm gonna go back here.
Hold on here.
Okay, I get that.
Do you know your wifi?
Do you bring it in my phone?
And then the email will go through
and then you can play the song.
And Bob's your uncle and Mike's your uncle.
Do you know it's a Canadian expression,
Bob's your uncle?
Oh my God, it's a wonder people look at me so funny
when I say it in the US.
Yeah, yeah, I know I only learned that recently
because I use it all the time.
You know what?
We have so many sayings. Like. in the US. Yeah, yeah, I know. I only learned that recently. Oh my gosh. Because I use it all the time. You know what?
We have so many sayings.
Like.
And crazy sayings and people don't have them
and they just love them.
I say things my father and my grandfather
and my grandfather had so many sayings,
my dad had so many sayings, oh my gosh.
And I say them.
You know what my grandfather say?
Oh, what's the defuglety?
What's all this defuglety about?
I never heard it anywhere else. Okay, so I've now signed you into my wifi. All right. Cool.
You can download all those movies now. That'll work now.
Let's see. And then we're going to get this. It's worth the wait, everybody. It's worth the wait.
Export. Here we go. And it's going to be. Oh, so I, I know we're similar vintage. Okay. So I just
turned 50. Yeah, similar. Okay. This is only in the last couple of months. Have I started when I need
to look at like a screen like that in smaller font, whatever, I got to throw on glasses.
So can you tell me do I look okay?
Yeah, you're doing okay. Right. Thank you.
Just keep those rims below the eyebrow. Whoa. Yeah. In general, when you buy glasses, I
don't I don't love it when they go above the eyebrow.
Do you need glasses?
Do you have contacts?
No, I kind of squint a little when I need to read something small.
You got better genes than me.
Okay.
I have pretty good eyes.
Okay, I have it now.
Oh, you got it.
Yeah. So click to download. Okay, this is happening, people. We're going to hear this.
This is important. This isn't an exclusive of any kind. Like can I say, hey, world exclusive?
Or what's the deal?
I mean, has it played in any public realm yet?
No, it's just a demo, but it's the song I wrote about.
I heard a Beyonce cover of Dolly Parton's Jolene
and she got kind of a little personal in it.
She changed the lyrics and she wrote about Jay Z in it a bit
and I was like, oh wow, she kind of exposed them
a little bit in there.
And I wanted to write something,
because Raina and I are super open about marriage
and the challenges of marriages, of being married.
I wanted to write something.
Were you gonna burp there?
Yeah, and I didn't.
But I wanted to write something. Were you gonna burp there? Yeah, and I didn't. But I wanted to write something a bit about my husband
in a way that I had never written about him.
And I realized that as much as he's my guy,
he's a rock star.
He is an actual, like I'm married to a rock star.
I agree with that.
And I don't really think of him like that, you know?
And what I did was I contemplated that concept that I
am married to someone who is a rock star. But to me, he's just my husband. So that's what this
song is about. Okay. Let's listen here. Is it called rock star J or is that joy? It's called Rockstar Joy. I didn't have my glasses on obviously here Rockstar Joy world premier
Here we go
Well the efforts to get this audio file, okay better be fucking good
That's the third F bomb in this it's okay CRTC has no jurisdiction When you go close my eyes, oh I look the other way
I know that you're different and I don't care what no one says You don't call me much when you're gone
And we have to acclimate
But I know what happens on the road
On and off the stage
Are you really a quiet boy?
And I give you what you need
You give him that rockstar joy
And you come home, you come home, you're really
a quiet boy And I give you what you need
You give him that rockstar joy And you come home, you come home to me
You come home to me I dig this, yeah.
Like a glimpse.
I imagine what they feel when you're looking out at them.
They don't stand a chance with you, but maybe you pretend.
It ain't a show unless you push the envelope
I said I'd drown
But I know the truth that your hate changing will never end
Yeah, you're really a quiet boy
And I give you what you need
You give them that rockstar joy
And you come home, you come home You're really a quiet boy
And I give you what you need You give them that rockstar joy
And you come home, you come home Save some joy for me.
Save some, save some,
save some joy for me.
Save some, save some.
You're really a quiet ball,
and I give you what you need. I love it. No bullshit. Love it. A little, like a titch of Tori Amos vibe going on there.
Massive crush for young Mike when he was in university. Holy shit. Okay. Love it. Honestly,
it's cool vibe.
It's funny. What you just said is hilarious. So I wrote that and I said it to an old, old
friend who was supposed to produce my first album.
His name is Eric Ross.
Do you know who Eric Ross is?
No, I should though, tell me.
He produced.
Tori Amos.
Little Earthquakes and End of the Pink.
Okay, you know it.
And so then he writes me back and he's like,
what's this?
And I go, I don't know.
I go, I just wrote this this morning
and Rain just demoed it and I just had to send it to you.
And he's like, wow, it's great.
And I was like, okay, what do you think then?
And he's like, well, you know what?
I live in Sweden now.
Why don't you come record your record here?
So I went to Sweden and I did my whole album.
This is wild, okay.
Yeah, but you know, the reason I didn't end up,
I think recording my first album with Eric was,
among other reasons, it didn't come together,
like stuff happened, he was really supposed
to be the producer, but one of the reasons was,
I loved those albums so much that I was really worried
that I would sound like I was someone
who loved Tori Amos so much.
And I played the piano and sang so.
But now I'm like, it's been 30,
like I don't really care, you know?
Like that came from my heart
and that's what my heart sounds and looks like.
So whatever, I don't care, you know?
And so yeah, he's busy producing up some of our songs
that we did there.
Unbelievable.
Cause he definitely has the Tori Amos vibe there,
but that's just cause it's a hot chick at a piano singing
in that style, right?
And that's what I hear there.
And I actually dig it.
And now I'm thinking, no, I don't want Rain Maida on Toronto.
I want Rain and Chantel.
Let's dive into this thing.
We have stuff to talk about.
You two there, we have to do this.
Okay, let's talk about-
But don't just say that.
Lots of times people are like, yeah, we'll do that.
And I never hear from them again.
Although now I realize I can text you
every hour on the hour.
In the meantime, if you wanna come and hear
what Rain and I are up to a bit,
we have a sub stack where like a sub stack,
I guess it's like a podcast,
was a video podcast type of thing.
Like a-
Yeah, if you subscribe to your sub stack,
we can see like video content.
Well, what we do is we have a conversation together
that everybody like watches and we talk about,
you know, the mess and the good stuff and the tools
and the joy and the pain and the struggle and-
And sunshine and rain?
Yeah, yeah.
And it's really fun.
And believe it or not,
it helps me to connect with my partner sometimes.
But marriage ain't easy, right?
No, it's not.
Look, I know, I've been married a couple of times.
I know how this works.
You've been married, Toronto Mike has been married.
Toronto Mike leaves this basement and he gets around.
I got two kids with a wife and another wife, two kids.
No, shut the front door.
You have four children?
Yeah, 100%.
Yeah, and two will be trick or treating tonight
and one's in Montreal right now at McGill.
Wow, that is-
Who's call, is that Rain?
Take it on the speaker.
Let's talk about this.
Okay, so I did get more than an hour.
Wow.
Adam, you're not mad at me.
You're dropping bombs with the two kids
and one wife and two kids and one wife.
How could I be mad at you?
Oh my God, I love this guy. Keep working with this guy. He's great.
He's lovely.
Lovely human.
I'll keep going.
Good person.
You're a good person.
I gotta say, I wasn't sure.
I'm like, oh my God.
What weren't you sure about?
I wasn't sure.
I'm just, I'm never sure about anything.
No, no, I'm curious.
You weren't sure about what part.
I wasn't sure like how nice and warm and lovely you'd be.
What do you think?
I know some Winnipeg assholes.
Oh really?
Let me have their numbers.
You know, Fred Penner lives there now.
Haley's one of my best friends.
His daughter's one of my dearest friends.
And she's a great musician too.
Incredible.
She opened my show in Winnipeg.
I just played the Burt.
Haley did a beautiful set. H. Hayley did a beautiful set.
Hayley Penner did a beautiful set.
The crowd loved her.
She was amazing.
I actually feel like weak in the knees.
I don't know if I can get to that Toronto tree
for the photo.
Like that's unbelievable.
When Fred Penner kicked out the jams,
we played his 10 favorite songs of all time.
He played a song from Hayaley, a beautiful song.
And I remember thinking, this is haunting.
What a beautiful song.
He was so proud.
Yeah, as you should be.
And I have a special award.
I have a Fred Head t-shirt that I often don.
I can't believe we got through an entire hour together
and you didn't play one of my son's songs.
I'm really mad.
Oh, you know what?
Don't be mad.
Okay, look, I don't, first of all.
This is where the teeth come out, the Winnipeg teeth. Hold on, no, fuck that. I can't have you leave me mad. You know what? Don't be mad. Okay. Look, I don't, first of all, This is where the teeth come out.
The Winnipeg teeth.
Hold on.
No, no, fuck that.
I can't have you leave him mad.
Four.
Okay.
So hold on here.
Okay.
We're going to do this right now.
You know what I love though, Mike?
I love that I'm from Winnipeg,
you're not, and you've said the F word four times
and I haven't said it once.
I am, this is like, I'm going to eat all this.
He's a handsome guy. Am I looking at
the right? Yeah, he's gorgeous. Hold on. Let's get this right here. Hold on here. Am I? Give
me a second here. Yeah, sure. That's him. I don't know what song this is, but yeah.
Oh, this is Mountain. First react. First hit on Google is what I grabbed. Really cool. What do I want to do with my life, with my life?
Oh I found out last night.
Walk the world, take your turn, even if it's for the worst.
When it matters, gotta do what's right.
Don't end up on the other side.
I feel I'm validated, I'm doing the best I can
I wanna make it so badly I kill them
What am I doing? It's kinda out of my hands
What am I doing? It's that full part of the plan
And I've been talking to the mountains
Cause they can't run away from me now
They're confused and yet we know
What's been going on around us
And I don't run away from problems
The problems they're just trying to keep up
Imagine all the people
Walking together call it peaceful
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Wake up, wake up, wake up Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up.
Wake up.
That's not my favorite of his, but he's always-
What's your favorite?
Let's do that.
Probably, try Roller Coaster.
Rain produces all his songs,
and he and I collab a little bit.
But he's kind of like grown up and doing his own thing.
Honestly, I didn't know what to expect, but I dig what I'm hearing.
This is really good.
OK, so what we're going to do now is because I'm not letting Chantel leave.
You're fine. No, wait, we were we've got time.
It's OK. I mean, it's you know, OK, here we go.
I found it. It's called life as a roller coaster.
Is that right? Is it? No, no, that's not it.
It's called roller coaster.
There's a road. Oh,-O-W. I know.
R-O-W-L.
There's a Rowan out there trying to steal some thunder here.
Okay. It's okay.
Stand by here.
We're gonna find this guy.
Yeah, Rowan Keaton.
Keaton is trying to steal the thunder here.
Okay, so hold on.
Rowan, Meda,
roller,
coaster.
Hold on.
And,
okay, I can't have you leaving upset,
except I'm trying to find this thing here.
Sure it's, okay.
You sure it might not be on YouTube here?
Come on, Mike.
So, Mountains for sure has a great video.
When you put Rowan Mata, what else comes up?
How about that?
Then I can tell you what I like.
Because I don't know what he has on YouTube.
I have no idea.
So, Mountains, moon versus sun.
Well, that's our stuff. Mine and my husband's from our first album. Okay,
okay. I'm going to break your heart. Okay, that's all. Okay, it's just I'm just
doing a search here. Let me just do this real quick. Yeah, I know. I got the
right search here. I'm not. I'm not sure if he's back up on his Spotify or not.
I don't even have Spotify. So, okay. So, stand by and then,
because remember we have to take that photo.
Oh, okay, okay.
Lots going on here, but you gotta come back.
Okay, so, what do you got here?
All right, some-
If they're not on YouTube,
you know where you can hear them, next Friday.
Oh yes, you could come to Massey Hall.
This is a PR guy.
I really hope anybody out there feels like
they might wanna come and get their ticket because they're getting low. Get your ticket today. Just a PR guy. I really hope anybody out there feels like they might want to come. We'll get their ticket because they're getting low.
Get your ticket today.
Just a few left.
I told you to keep the mic off.
If you're going to put it on, I might try selling tickets to my show.
Mountains, I got a taste of your son.
He sounds amazing.
Yes, he's great.
Look like Richard Ashcroft a bit from the Verve.
He's got a bit like that.
He's really, really cute. My son Rowan, all my boys are gorge but they look very different
all of them and Rowan's he's really really cute. You're really cute. Thanks so
much. So are you. Everyone's so cute here. It's a kid fest. Adam you're cute buddy.
All right I really enjoyed this. Thoroughly enjoyed it and I really hope I
get you back here with rain, without Rain, all the above.
Oh, yeah.
You know what we should do?
I'll tell you what I can almost guarantee.
We're going to have a conversation, you mean Rain, for sure.
I can't tell you what he'll do with his band, but because I'm no Yoko.
Right.
Okay?
But I can tell you that as Rain's wife,
he and I can probably sit down and we would love,
cause we have a book coming out.
And I can ask anything and we can just talk.
Like no rules. Absolutely.
That's how I roll.
Okay, no edits. No rules.
Make sure Rain knows, no edits.
Did we give you rules?
Did you give him any rules?
No.
I'm concerned that you were worried
if I would be a cold biatch.
We'll talk afterwards.
And that.
That's a wrap. That brings us to the end of our 1573rd show.
No, it's not.
Yeah. It took you 12 years to get here.
You did the Feminine Warriors before you did Toronto Miked.
Well.
Well, I'm glad you're here now.
And I wouldn't do a remote with you.
That's part of the thing is that you had to be in the basement.
I can't do this remotely. It's not the same.
I don't enjoy this.
It was great, except you don't look me in the eye very often
and I'm concerned.
Yeah, because I did a lot of stuff here.
But I will stare in your eyes after this recording, I promise.
Okay.
I like it. Come on. We're all good here.
Okay.
All right.
You can follow me on social media.
I'm at Toronto Mike and Instagram is where you go
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I nailed it again.
Thank you very much.
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See you all then.
Bye everyone. Yeah, the wind is cold but the smell of snow warms me today
And your smile is fine and it's just like mine and it won't go away
Cause everything is rubbing great
Well I've kissed you in France and I've kissed you in Spain