Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Festivus with Elvis: Toronto Mike'd #1397

Episode Date: December 22, 2023

In this 1397th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike celebrates Festivus with Elvis. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Ridley Funeral Home, Electronic Products Recycling Association, Raymond James Canada and Moneris. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at [e-mail]

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Valuable perspective for Canadian investors who want to remain knowledgeable, informed, and focused on long-term success. Season 5 of Yes, We Are Open, an award-winning podcast for Moneris, hosted by FOTM, Al Grego, and Ridley Funeral Home, pillars of the community since 1921. Today, to celebrate Festivusus is my friend Elvis. Did my dad start the Ridley Funeral Home shout out? Yeah, that's what, yes, yes.

So Midtown Gourd confirmed the first ever was, we talked about your dad had passed and I said, shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. And then you bust a gut laugh and then it stuck. Because I was probably like close to,, it was an emotional segment, right? Because it just happened, I think. I'm surprised I did it. Yeah, it was fucking awesome. I did it.

Okay, do you like the Canuck Pale Ale or a lager or an IPA? It doesn't matter to me. Whatever is the closest. Well, you gotta choose one. Give me the Canuck Pale Ale. The Canuck, okay. That's the oldie but a goodie.

That is the staple. Okay, so here's what I thought. Now, every year you come by to celebrate Festivus, and people did hear your voice at TMLX14, which I'll touch on in a moment. But there are so many new listeners in 2023 who have no idea what is an Elvis. And I get this.

Like, every year I talk to you like I... I get angry. Well, they get angry because they're like, who's his voice? You don't tell us who he is. You talk to him like he's somebody, but he's nobody. So I'm going to go get you a beer a beer okay but can you do a little reset like tell the listenership the new listeners who the fuck are you sure all right wow uh freestyling here as soon as i got in

all right so um i guess the relationship between mike and i uh goes, way back to probably, I'm going to guess, 06 or 07. I was in a different life at that point in time from an employment perspective, as was Mike. And we met professionally and that evolved into a friendship. And then Mike decided to do this podcasting thing way back in the day. And I was a co-host of his on the first incarnation of this with Rosie way back. And then we also hosted our own podcast for, I think, 10 episodes called Your Blog Sucks. And yeah, we've been friends for forever and ever. And I live far away.

So I probably wasn't very good anyway. But just wasn't able to be as regular of a contributor to the show as some other people have been. And so I try and make it once a quarter. That hasn't happened at all this what's a quarter okay everything that hasn't happened this year um but we were there was a couple years where i was coming in once a quarter and then uh but what has always been consistent for i don't know how many years now is i will show up on festivus and we will rant and rave for a couple of hours about why i haven't listened to the podcast why the world

sucks um all sorts of different things like that and we have uh thematic jams we're gonna kick out correct which is funny because i've never i can't remember what it is that i sent you so so on the mic thank you great lakes beer for sending over that canuck Pale. I'm actually going to, they have an open house this afternoon. I'm going to make an appearance at GLB. What is an open house at GLB? I guess free drinks and food, I guess. You can buy, happy holidays, whatever.

Okay, so good to see you, Elvis. I didn't hear your whole spiel there. I just gave you a quick overview. It wasn't exciting. Okay, come on. Do better next time. This is a podcast. We need to entertain people.

Okay, so we're going to kick out jams. The theme is songs we enjoy that are sung by someone who's not typically the lead singer of the band, right? Oh, yeah. That's what it was. Yeah. I don't remember any of my songs. All right, you're going to love this. Okay.

This will be good. Okay, so right off the top. If you fucking play what I think you're going to play, I Okay. This will be good. Okay, so right off the top. If you fucking play what I think you're going to play, I'm going to be very angry. What do you mean? Already. This isn't part of the theme, is it?

No, no, not yet. This is so great. This is the ceremonial opening to the best of this episode. Okay. You know, do you think there's snow in Africa? Because if there isn't, you know, they're in a good spot, apparently. Or not apparently, I mean.

A couple quick notes before we get back to Do They Know It's Christmas, your favorite Christmas song. One is that this is not Festivus today. Today is December 22nd. Yeah, and I would have totally played along and done the live to tape thing, but clearly you're not. I don't do that. Okay, so we're recording the day before Festivus.

I think the greatest radio show in my life that I ever did was a live to tape show where I did the New Year's Eve show for the station I was working at. It was a live to tape show where I did the new year's eve show for the station I was working at it was a three in london it was a three or four hour extravaganza and it was entirely pre-recorded two weeks before and the engineer or producer whoever was that actually had to be in the station over new year's said that the phone was ringing off the hook because I kept calling in for like

saying hey you should call in for requests. And then I would say like, oh, Mike just made this request for such and such. Totally fake. He said the phones were ringing off the hook. Like most action that we've ever got at the station. It's fun. There's Bono saying,

thank God it's them instead of you. Did I talk right over it? Shit. That's okay. People know this. They've probably heard it a few times this season. It's such a Christian thing to say. What do you think of that line by Bono?

It's such a Christian thing to say. Is it Bono or Bono? Why do I not remember? Well, in this, he probably is Bono. Bono with the boner. Okay. Bono. How did this even pass the muster test?

I don't understand. It doesn't make any sense. It was a different time, Elvis. Was it really? The mid-80s. Yeah. You had to be there. It was a different brand of trying to be better people by saying it was a land of uh a land of white saviors uh

thank god thank god it's them and not you like how is that even that doesn't align to any written book that i have learned about in grade 11 religion class. You are, of course, of Italian descent. Therefore, you went to Catholic school? I did. I did. All the way through high school. When did you renounce your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? Or denounce, which is the either or.

When did that happen for you? When did I denounce? Renounce? Denounce. My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, huh? I don't know what the year was. I can't remember. Thank you for making the drive all the way from North Oshawa.

You appeared at TMLX 14, even though you only had like, I think you had a half an hour, but I took 15 minutes to set up. So you were amazing, but you did get to share the mic with the legend that is Cam Gordon. No, I'm just kidding. I was going to make a joke and say Cam Gordon. Stephen Brunt. How was that? That was awesome. Stephen was one of, is a legend. He's one of the best broadcasters and journalists that this country has ever produced. It was pretty surreal to

not just meet him, but then also kind of have dialogue with him. We talked about the Otani. We talked about the Otani fiasco. I know you're not on Twitter, but on Twitter Mike in Boston was openly remarking the voice he most wanted to hear from in the wake of the

Otani flight that never was is he wanted to hear from Stephen Br wake of the Otani flight that never was, is he wanted to hear from Stephen Brunt. And I saw a couple of people, including Steve Cole, who was at TMLX14, are like, if you knew where to be on Saturday, you could have been hanging out with Stephen Brunt. Like, literally, TMLX14 is where you had to be to hear from Stephen Brunt, literally the day that Otani announced he was going to be an LA Dodger. Were you guys

still talking when that happened? Yeah, somebody, maybe Tyler, somebody came and put their smartphone in front of me where it was his Instagram post that he was a Dodger and I broke the news on the mic. Oh, look at you. I was at my son's hockey game when it came out. It was, I mean, that Friday was

a ride, man. I know. You were all in, right? I was all in that friday was a ride man that was you were all in right now i was all in my son was yeah i was i was all in the story i told was uh or the inappropriate story i told was that when that video came out of him walking through the supposed doors of the private right terminal at pearson i ran downstairs to my son who's playing xbox at the time i'm like charlie you gotta fucking look at this video. And of course my son is nine. And of course a very prominent former morning show host verified

that that was in fact YYZ. But who's following that guy? He must have followers. I don't know. Somebody who was the right age when he was the morning show host. Did we ever get confirmation as to where that video was taken from? Because clearly it was him.

And it was Sherway Gardens, I think. But it was at Christmas because there was a fucking Christmas tree there. So like it looked legit. And people were like, oh, that's him. That's him. The guys who are filming it. So I don't know. That was a pretty good ruse.

Yeah. It was all good. Especially the tweet. Was it John Heyman? Whose tweet was it that said that Otani was en route to Toronto, Ontario, Canada? I don't know if it was Heyman. Oh, Joe Morosi. It was Morosi that broke the news in the morning.

I don't know if he said he was on the way or not. Yeah, Morosi said he was en route. And then there was another guy who writes for Dodgers Nation. But he also, the thing that really, like when he tweeted what he tweeted, or he actually wrote a small little piece for Dodger Nation, he's got a Hall of Fame vote himself. So I'm like, this guy's got to be legit, right?

Yeah, he really, and that was really messed up. But it sounds like Otani's team leaked the news to them to drive up the price with the dog. That's wild. Okay. Yeah. And then there's a guy I met at a Twitter event,

uh, named Adam Seaborn and he's not a journalist or anything, but he seems to have a bit of a rep as knowing what's going on. And Adam Seaborn tweeted that there was like a six o'clock press conference. Rogers was hosting. That's right. Like,

so basically all of these things pile up and then Adam Seaborn is like, there's a six o'clock press conference and it's like it has there's only one thing this can be well shout out to Ridley Funeral Home for Adam Seaborn's career because what he did yeah he brutal yeah like he's done that he was never a journalist though like but now he never will be right right because he could have just totally made that up. I mean. But why? Like what's he doing? So he tweets about the six o'clock and we're already like so we trust the guy and then I wonder what it's like for him like when it's 610, 620, 630

this doesn't happen. And just before I don't know what the timeline was but then Blair and Barker come on the like the thing. Just to add like some gas to the fire. So they do an hour show and their employer, of course, is Rogers. So you're like, they started the show

saying, we don't know anything about this. And then I'm like, okay, they're going to say that for 55 minutes. And then at the end of the show they're going to be like, and guess what? We're going to throw it over to the Skydome and here's Otani to sign his contract live on TV. It was perfectly set up,

but hook, line, and sinker over here. What a day. Okay, so we're going to get to jams we love by bands, but the songs are not sung by the lead singer, essentially. So you have a typical lead singer, but someone else is singing the song. This topic was actually suggested by Mimico Joe. So I want to shout out Mimico Joe. I drove through Mimico on the way here.

Yes, great place to visit. I came from Lakeshore this time. Okay, so maybe you rolled right by Mimico Joe. Probably did. Maybe he was strolling on Lakeshore. Probably did. Song's not sung by the lead singer, but how are you, Elvis?

Let's get a wellness update on you. Well, for the first time in a long time, I would say that I listened to new music. Well, I thought you were going to say for the first time you listened to Toronto Mic'd. Nope. I did listen to an episode. I can't remember what it is.

You told me to listen to an episode. Because I'm not going to waste people's time. I used to go through the episodes. But now I'll just do that with Cam Gordon who actually listens. What did you listen to? I can't remember. Because you told me to listen to one.

And when you tell me to listen to them, I do. Who was it? Mike Stafford? Which one? There's a few. Fergie Oliver? No.

I don't understand the whole concept about some of the controversies that happen on your show. I don't get it. Do you have any questions? No questions. I did, but I listened to it on,

I was, yeah, I can't remember which one. Fergie Oliver, obviously the controversy was obvious and Harold Hussain came over and he hasn't. Oh yeah. I heard that he said some stuff. I don't know what he said, but no, no, no controversy really.

Like he just, he was just a guy who's never had an interview about his media career until now. And because he's like 83 years old, he might not ever have. Harold Hussain is 83. Yeah. Holy shit. I know. He looks good too.

He looks good too. But Rick Emmett was my guest yesterday. Here is Rick Emmett's memoir for you, Elvis. Oh, wow. You're a Triumph fan, right? I love Triumph. There you go. I heard that Triumph and,

oh shit. Rush? Yeah, Triumph and Rush are having a, are they having a, No, no. I think I started thaton and Rush are having a... Are they having a... No, no. I think I started that rumor, but that's absolutely not happening. How do you know?

Because I talked to Rick Emmett yesterday. Well, is he in Rush? No, he's not in Rush. Okay. Rush, there's... I mean, what have you heard? I've heard that... I don't know.

I know that Geddy Lee's got the book, right? So he's doing the media rounds to sell his book. so there's lots of rush talk i haven't heard anything about i think he was open to a reunion or something he has to they need a new drummer who's gonna fill in those there's tons of people what's his name could be a drummer he's always the fill-in drummer jeremy tagger no jason bonham okay he fills in for everybody he's always the what about dave grohl dave grohl sure he doesn't really play drums anymore, though. But yeah, he does. Can I give you the three albums that I...

I'm kind of excited about this because I actually don't listen to music. You do that and then we'll roll right into your first jam. I'll just be quick. The three albums that I have listened to this year that are new music, although kind of not really new music, is the new Blink-182 album. Really like their new song. song okay like fell in love with them all over again i have i've forgotten how much i love them and how much they were listening to new music by legacy artists oh yeah wait till you hear the other two okay wait till you hear the

other two uh dolly parton's rock star album i heard her on howard stern oh she was on howard stern i don't listen to oh when Oh, when did you quit Howard Stern? Just as soon as COVID started because he was insufferable. So I don't actually have SiriusXM, but that was the weekend I borrowed a car to go to Montreal to visit Michelle. So I actually had the car for this trip to Montreal and I heard the Dolly Parton interview of Howard Stern. He's gone off the deep end as far as I'm concerned.ph died i did yes we talked were you sad yes i was not really i mean it's sad that someone died but he's kind of an asshole you don't care when people die okay no i'm an asshole what's the dolly parton dolly parton the rockstar album blink 182 and then um

trans canada highwayman yeah great All covers. Really good stuff. Yeah, all covers. Well, the Dolly Parton one is almost all covers too. That's true. And she does a bunch of duets. Now, Dolly, it's hit and miss

with the Dolly Parton one, I find, but it was still good. I mean, she's legendary, right? She did Wrecking Ball with her goddaughter. She did. She did.

I was actually just listening to it on the way over here. Yeah, okay. You know, I find the Dolly Parton voice, I don't love it. It's really unique. It's the Dolly Parton voice, I don't love it. It's really unique. It's kind of a different voice.

I can't even really. She has this like whisper thing too that she does at the end. I like Jolene. That's I like Jolene. That's what I take from the Dolly Parton career. But I root for her because she seems like a lovely woman.

Big fan of hers. Canada Kev is on the live stream. He says, happy Festivus. Moose Grumpy's on the live stream and He says, happy Festivus. Moose Grumpy's on the live stream and she says, Dodgers signing Yamamoto too, cornering the Japan market. They are going to be a powerhouse. Well, they're always a powerhouse.

Spend a ton of money. Well, they can't win anything though. They're not a powerhouse. 1236 is here as well. And so is Basement Dweller. And when you have both of them together, you know you're going to be fact-checked in real time so be prepared oh i can't wait if you miss uh state canada kev says fuck the dodgers okay happy festivus to everybody happy festivus now these are songs

sung by someone who is not typically the lead singer of the band i'm just gonna jump right into your first jam elvis and we'll just chat between songs. You ready? Yeah. Of course, this is yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. The stage clears.

He walks on by himself. That's how it works. Okay. himself. That's how it works. Saw them live in Oshawa. Wow. The Dirty Schwab. Just a few more hours and I'll be right home to you I think I hear them calling

Oh Beth, what can I do? Beth, what can I do? How is this a kiss song? So talk to me. Spoiler alert. Who's lead vocalist here? You have to bring that kind of one-on-one information it's peter chris so peter chris and what does he do honestly i know very little about he's a drummer

he's the drummer yes he is the drummer and this is the only song that i know of that he does sing he could sing other songs like if you were to dive deep into the kiss catalog so normally is it uh stanley and simmons are your lead singers stanley is your lead singer and then uh gene simmons does i mean i guess he sings some songs too but he's more of a okay this is a very appropriate jam for this title but it's like so crazy because you have it's a slow song which obviously kiss doesn't do and it's like by the drummer like what drummers sing you know in in most bands i would shout out to dave grohl but you want to name them i can name a couple um phil collins the guy from the band uh the late great um

leave on helm yeah yeah yeah uh. Phil Collins, you mentioned. The guy from Triumph, Gil Moore, sings a lot of the songs, and he's a drummer. There you go. So there's a few right there. Yeah, but there's not a lot. It's very rare. Yeah, but there are also... Chris Murphy sings from back there.

There are also lead singers of the band, though, too, right? Like, Peter Criss is not the lead singer of the band. Yeah, yeah, Gil Moore shares leads with Rick Emmett because a lot of the bigmett because this is like this is like giving ringo a song yeah and they did but then also like ringo doing i don't know something like really off the wall you know which okay so i don't know a lot about kiss but i would think this is one of their absolute most popular songs yeah people love it people love it but it's all it's just so like yeah it's weird so it's kind of like that that not kind of yeah i was gonna say it's like that aerosmith song that went to number one that's not an aerosmith song but yeah yeah from armageddon soundtrack yeah yeah which

is it's a horrible song but it's like you know clearly i don't know sorry my phone is going off do you know how to mute your phone or maybe put on vibrate or something it is on vibrate okay rob pruse by the way who is the keyboardist from spoons okay you ever heard of spoons yeah yeah okay rob pruse says peter chris because you're absolutely right this is this is a song sung by somebody who's not typically the lead singer very appropriate song for this category but he points out he sings a few other songs black diamond hard luck woman hooligan but but absolutely Beth is the big hit. But in the catalog of Kiss. You're right.

You're right. Like he mentioned four songs of which this would be. Oh, Don Henley sings two. Okay, good one. This would be the most popular. And Kiss has how many songs? 400, 300? A lot of songs.

Okay. Yes. So there are, as I understand it, because I read the memoir by Rick Emmett, a lot of the hits are sung by Rick Emmett, but there are a lot of Gilmore songs. For example, they had a hit version of Rocky Mountain Way. It might have been their first hit. And that was drummer Gilmore.

So, thank you to Rob Pruce. He says, hi, Mike and Elvis. What's up, Rob? Rob's a good guy. Rob's back next week with Bob Ouellette for an episode of Toast. Have you heard any episodes of Toast, Elvis? No, I didn't even know what Toast was when he told me. We had a conversation about something.

What are you doing here? Isn't that the new version of the cam and stew? You are absolutely right. John Fishman from Fish steps out from behind the kit to sing and play on Electrolux vacuum. So thank you to Canada Care for that.

So lots of real-time data coming our way. So Kiss, Beth. Sweet. Great choice. You knew I had to pick that. Yeah, well, you like that. You make fun of me all the time for making, for like. I don't make fun of you.

You're a big, I think of you, I think of ACDC. I think of Kiss. I listen to Mistress for Christmas on the way in, too. You know? Tis the season. One of the best. You ready for mine? Okay, so now, you ready?

Here's my first. If you play these guys, I am going to get angry. Which guys? Well, we'll see. You have five of them. We start bringing five jams, by the way, to everybody. Five each. And this I know, his teeth as white as snow What a gas it was to see him

Walk her every day into a shady place The lips she said, she said It's hard, it's hard, calling, calling, it's out of ball He's calling, calling, calling, it's out of ball He's calling, calling, calling, it's out of ball Gianting, gianting, gianting A sleeping love Gianting, gianting, gianting Gigantic. I'm sleeping love. Gigantic.

Gigantic. Gigantic. I'm sleeping love. Gigantic. Penis. The Pixies. Mm-hmm. Typically, your lead singer would be Black Francis.

This is, of course, Kim Deal. And this appeared on Surfer Rosa, which came out in 1988. One of those albums, when you listen to it, you can hear what grunge will be. It's like the forefront. A very inspirational album to artists like Nirvana and the rest of the grunge bands. But Gigantic was the... Shout out to the funeral of the grunge bands. But Gigantic was the...

Show the tour of the funeral home in grunge. Not in this house, Elvis. Not on my radio. The spirit of grunge lives on in the Toronto Mike household. Absolutely. But Gigantic, I love this song. And Kim Deal,

not typically the lead singer. I think this irked Black Francis because it was the band. Because it was well-received? Well-received. And it was like the first single from Surfer Rosa, which is their first. That would kind of piss me off though, right? Yeah. Like you're the lead singer and your first fucking single is not by you?

Right. Yeah, I know. And he's already got, like, I don't think they're getting along at all. I think Black Francis already is kind of an egomaniac kind of control guy like he needs to control right it's his band the pixies this is what it's like um what's his name from uh smashing pumpkins bob corrigan yeah billy corrigan absolutely like that or even dave grohl and the food fighters like that's his band okay uh he might be a nicer guy but who knows but i will say that um i have top of mind is triumph from this long chat with rick emmett yesterday and without a doubt that's one of the things you got to remember with rick emmett and

triumph is that rick was was never his band rick was they picked rick at the hollywood tavern they said you'd be a good guitarist and uh we'd like you in the band for our trio, but it was never his band. It was Gilmore's band and Mike Levine was there well before Rick. By the way, Rick, R-I-K. There's no C in Rick. Yeah, yeah, look. Because they did a typo on an early release

and then instead of correcting it, they just changed his name. Some of these pictures are epic in this book. What do you think of the Pixies? What do you think of Gigantic? What do you think of that song? I like that song. It's a good song.

I haven't heard that song in 100 years, though. I didn't really recognize it at first. I think there was a big ad campaign for that song that had that song on it in the last three or four years. But I can't play that song. It was good. It's good. Without playing this song, okay?

It's a good song, too. Yeah. We have something in common. Is this yours or mine? No, this is a bonus jam, everybody. Oh, it's a bonus. Because this is a... I oh it's because this is uh i just thought okay so we heard gigantic which is kim deal uh singing on a pixie song singing on for the pixies and then kim had a side project you might remember and this is from the uh this is the breeders and this was the massive alt rock hit from from the Breeders, Cannonball,

which was everywhere, and I absolutely loved. It was. I love Gigantic. I love Cannonball. I think I love Kim. Yeah. She's the teenager of the year. Right, Elvis?

All right. So this is bonus content here. We're going to get to Elvis' second jam. Boner content, did you say? Boner content. Boner content, did you say? Boner content. Boner content. Hey, speaking of boners, okay, I want to give you a gift.

Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. Your boners are dead. That's what your wife told me. Rest in peace. Hey-o! Alright, I'm giving you a Christmas gift because I know you celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, your savior. Elvis, because you're a good Italian Catholic. I do. Like Cynthia because you're a good Italian Catholic. I do.

Like Cynthia Dale. She's an Italian Catholic. Oh, good. Good for her. Went to Michael Power High School. Okay. Good Italian last name there. Well, she changed it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Ciccarelli? Well, I'm trying to remember her real name. Ciccarelli? Well, don't give it away. Well, she said it on the show. Oh, did she? She changed it for like acting purposes. You know, actors did that.

Like Stu Stone. Did you know he's not a stone? Oh, really she? She changed it for like acting purposes. You know, actors did that. Like Stu Stone. Did you know he's not a stone? Oh, really? He's not. He's an Eisenstein. Is he really? Right. Good for him.

So Stuart Eisenstein. I could see why someone would change that. Why? You think it's too dewy? No. I knew that's what was going to. That's. It's a mouthful.

Do you remember Sarah Silverman's Saturday Night Debut and she was talking on the Weekend Update desk and she said her name was Sarah Silverman, but she could change it to Sarah Jew, I think she made. She made a joke about how Jewish her last name was. Listen, okay, this is from Minaris. It's a wireless speaker for you, Elvis. Is this from Al?

It's from Al Grego because he hosts Yes we are open An award Has this show Elvis Has this show Toronto Mike extremely popular Never won an award Has it ever won an award And you fucking post podcast rankings

All day long and you're always at the top I'm always at the top And Al Grego has won an award. Well, maybe it's because you keep fucking telling that you've been nominated for award and it's past the whatever. Or you say it during the embargo time.

First of all, yes, I do violate all the rules. But I was nominated for two awards but I have no idea. Did you win? I don't know. I have to ask Al when we get to find out who won. I might have won two awards. I have no idea. I didn't get an email about it? I don't know. I have to ask Al when we get to find out who won. I might have won two awards. I have no idea. I didn't get an email about it, but I don't know if it's been announced yet. But you did get an email saying, shut the fuck up.

If you send me an email to say I'm nominated for two awards, you can't put in there, oh, by the way, don't tell anyone until 5 p.m. That's how the media works. I'm not a member of the media. I don't want to play these games. So once you tell me I'm nominated, I'm going to tell everybody I'm nominated. So that's what happened here. So you're going to listen to season five of Yes, We Are Open, which has inspiring stories.

It's great, right? Is it worthy of the awards that Al keeps winning? Absolutely. He does a good job. He does a great job. You know who doesn't do a great job? This guy. Here we go.

This guy right here. Is this mine now or yours? It's yours. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I'll pick that one. An appropriate choice. Even though I think it's a terrible song.

But art is subjective, Elvis. But your beard looks good. Well, I didn't pick it because I love the song. Well, you're supposed to pick songs you like. I like the song, but it's not like, you know, I think it's the best U2 song ever. Imagine you thought this was the best U2 song ever. I remember when this came out, though. This was like, it was a big deal when it came out.

Because I don't know if any of the other band members appear in the video. I think it's just him. He's got a woman's hands on someone's hands? Yeah, yeah. It certainly starts with his face. I have the full Sarah Silverman quote from her debut. Oh, here we go. My sister Susie got married and they took each other's names.

You know? So now she's Sarah Silverman Abramovitz. But they're thinking of shortening it to just Jews. So I really, so this is, I only saw it once when it was live. It's in the head. You got it close enough. It's like broken telephone. It was close enough.

That's many, many decades, by the way. Okay. And VP of sales is here. He says, good day, fellow FOTMs and happy Festivus. I really butchered that quote by Sarah Silverman, but I got the gist of it. You got the gist of it. I got the gist of it.

I just remember it was funny. Tell me about this song. I'm not sure that I want to listen to the whole thing. It's a big, much music song. Yeah, it was a big, much music song, and it was a big deal when it came out. It definitely was a big deal. And of course,

Bono doesn't really give up the microphone at all. U2 is known because of Bono. In that sense, a lot of other bands have multiple singers or you have that rotating chair or the voice

is not the most prominent aspect of the band. if you know what i mean in u2 it's it's bono right and then so to have the edge sing i don't know is this bono now doing he might be doing some i think that's him but absolutely the the the edge is not the edge is not the typical lead singer of the no not at all he never i don't even really well i guess he does kind of backup stuff, but Yeah, they all do harmony or whatever. Except for What's his name? The

drummer guy. Larry Mullen? Yeah, Larry He rarely has a microphone. Oh, no, no, it's not him. He does. It's the bassist guy Who's the bassist guy? The weird looking guy with the glasses, funky glasses? You don't know the members of U2. I can't remember. It's Larry Larry, The Edge Bono, and who's the other guy?

Adam. Adam, that's it. Adam Clayton. Clayton. I was going to say Copeland, but that's The Edge. The wrestler. Did you know this is an Irish band? And they still have a home in Dublin.

I think this band's older than you. What's the year of your birth? Oh, really? No. I think so. Well, tell me when you were born. They're not that much older than you. What's the year of your birth? Oh, really? No. I think so. Well, tell me when you were born. They're not that much older than we are, are they? I was 76.

I was born in 76. You were born in 75. This band was formed in 1976. Wow, look at that. They're as old as I am. You were born in 75, right? 74. 74.

I am much older than you two. I'm older than you two. Yes, they are from Dublin. The Edge is the lead guitarist. Went bald early and so always wears a, like, toque, skull cap, whatever you want to call it. What are you going to do? Let me see. You're holding on, right?

You're holding on. I can't believe it. Did you get any treatment? No. If you were to look down on me, you can see, like, it's bald. There's gaps, yeah. But I'm holding on, man. Like, head on. Because you were to look down on me, you can see like it's gaps, but I'm holding on, man, like head on. You were balder 10 years ago.

I feel like it. Yeah, dude. Right. So you lost the boners, but you got the hair. I don't know what's going on. Wow. It's amazing. It's the fastest miracle.

Okay, so you're holding on top. Yeah. And you got a thick, beautiful beard that I can't grow i'm very jealous it's it's big and long yeah just like my johnson you know what another big thing is that's happening for festivus your penis it's a festivus miracle today that netflix is adding top gun maverick i can't fucking go home and watch it. It's, ah, talk about. You love that American military stuff,

right? Like it really gets your blood flowing. I love Top Gun and I don't care who the fuck knows it. No, no, never. That, no,

no, you've never thought that. Okay. No. Um, okay. By the way, why?

Cause I like Rocky four as well. You know, he was not, uh, he's not Russian. He's Swedish. He is Swedish. Yes. And there was a great well. Well, yes, with Jagger. You know, he's not Russian. He's Swedish. He is Swedish. Yes.

And there was a great clip of him doing like song and dance stuff in a tuxedo when he was hosting like an award show in Sweden. So I think you and I agree with Canada Kev on this note. He points out that that song is a video driven song. Sometimes you have songs that are mediocre, but the video is on such high rotation that it becomes like a hit. And that's old school, right? That doesn't happen anymore oh no yeah it can't happen now right uh i don't know what happens on tiktok and stuff are you on tiktok no are you on any social

media other than the uh brand on your jacket just linkedin okay so if you want to follow all things elvis just search for elvis on linkedin that's it's right and i'm there i'm there you can watch me on you'll find there okay that's another good choice. I can't even argue with that because you've picked two songs that are known songs by bands but not sung by the typical lead singer. There you go. All right, you ready for my second jam?

Yeah, I'm ready to be angry. Okay, I'm angry. Save that anger. I can't wait. How you gonna come? Put your hands on your head On the trigger of your gun When the law break in How you gonna go? Shut down on the pavement Or waiting in death pool

You can crush us, you can bruise us But you'll have to answer too Oh, that's a good time The money feels good The Clash is the only band that matters. Did you know that, Elvis? I did not know that. Somebody told me that. Who said that? It was said by many people many times.

I grew up hearing that. Okay. The Guns of Brixton is this song by The Clash. And this is on their, probably their most popular album, London Calling, which came out in 79. Yep. It sounds like them. Yeah, it's them.

You know, sometimes it, like, Beth doesn't sound like Kiss. Yeah, because they always have a little, like, reggae influence in there. Yeah. And it's cool. Okay, so typically the lead vocalist would be Joe Strummer. Or maybe Mick Jones, right? But this is actually the bassist singing this song. I hope I don't fuck up his name there.

Paul Simonin. Simonin? I'm going to say Simonin. I should know this. is actually the bassist singing this song i hope i don't fuck up his name there paul simonin simonin i'm gonna say simonin i should know this but anyway the bassist we'll call him paul okay they weren't a first name basis paul me and the bassist let's call him paul mccartney let's call paul mccartney paul mccartney not the typical lead singer of the beatles wow okay so this paul the bassist not only only co-wrote, well, he wrote this song and he sings it. And it's a great song from London Calling. He's not typically the lead singer for The Clash. It sounds like The Clash, like I said.

It's not often that that can happen. It's like when Keith Richards does songs. It doesn't sound like the wrong songs. Can you believe he's 80 years old? That's insane. It's not often that that can happen. It's like when Keith Richards does songs. It doesn't sound like we're on the stones. Can you believe he's 80 years old? That's insane. It's craziness. And I saw that Dick Van Dyke is like 80, no, 98 or something like that. He's got some sort of TV special to celebrate his birthday.

But he takes care of himself. Keith had a rougher life. I don't know. I feel like I've heard him talk when he was only a young man of like 90, and he talked about the secret to his success in longevity was he's always moving. He's got a younger wife,

which helps, but he's always moving. Like he never just sits on the couch. He's always got kinetic, you know, motion. See what I'm doing here? And his first name is Dick.

What did Mary Tyler Moore call him? Penis Von Lesbian is what she called Dick Van Dyke. All right, Dick Van Dyke. Oh, he did the bad Cockney accent, right? What's that Disney thing called? No idea.

Was it Mary Poppins? Oh, yeah, he was in Mary Poppins, wasn't he? But which one did he do the terrible Cockney accent in? Come on, you got to know these things. That's why you're here. Cock. Sorry, dog. Because I think it was Mary Poppins now that I think about it. Yeah, it was Mary Poppins. So he did

a terrible Cockney accent. Because he was the chimney sweeper guy. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, he'd get to. Whatever that was. Yeah. Chimney sweeper. It's been a while since I've said chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney, chimney it's been a while since i've said chimney chimney chimney chimney true right you got it look at you you got me okay so we've kicked out some big bands so far so we've kicked out kiss we've kicked out the pixies big we've kicked out you too big we've picked out the clash big okay i don't know how humongous it gets it gets a little gigantic because actually what it is how does it get any bigger it's a good song good fucking song

if you say so. Figures of a head moving in the trees White skin in linen, perfume on my wrist And the full moon that hangs over These dreams in the mist Darkness on the edge Shadows where I stand I search for the time On a watch with no hands I want to see you clearly Come closer than this

But all I remember Are the dreams in the past. Are you going to sing this part coming up? These dreams go on when I close my eyes. Is this your karaoke jam? Heart goes high. I can't. I can't go high.

And at the night, I live another life. This is not their best song. No. No. However. Dreamboat Annie is one of their best songs. However, this is the first heart song to ever go to number one. No. No. However. Dreamboat Annie is one of their best songs. However, this is the first Heart song to

ever go to number one. Really? Yes. So like you were talking about with that other guy, kind of, sort of, like with the Pixies.

Oh, Pixies, yeah. But that didn't actually... They had like, you know, Heart has had numerous hits, but the first one to go to number one is when

it's sung by the second sister. So who's singing this song? This is Nancy Wilson. Okay, and Ann Wilson is the lead singer. Ann Wilson is the lead singer. Nancy is the lead guitarist of Heart. And this is one

of the songs that she sings on her own. And of course, became Heart's first number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. Wow. And they have like amazing songs like Magic Man. Magic Man is also... Ann Wilson does a great duet with Dolly Parton on Rockstar of Magic Man. That is actually a really, really good song on that Dolly Parton album.

Wow. Crazy on You, Barracuda, of course. All of these amazing legendary Heart songs. And Heart, to me me represents one of the first rock bands along with Fleetwood Mac I don't know would you consider Fleetwood Mac rock? Those two bands are sort of iconic

in the sense that they're one of the few bands at that time that had female vocalists and they're just like you can distinctly know when it's a heart song or when it's a Fleetwood Mac song because of those women. But here is Nancy. Kind of like April Wine.

They have, like, a sneaky, deep catalog of radio hits. Yeah. And one of Heart's best songs ever is when they did the Stairway to Heaven song when Led Zeppelin. Never heard of it. I thought you were going to say Crazy on You. No, Led Zeppelin was given the Kennedy Center Honors. Okay. And Hart did Stairway to Heaven.

And Jason Bonham came out and did drums. And it was a big surprise to the remaining members of Led Zeppelin. And of course, that's when Robert Plant cries in the audience infamously. And they asked him why he was crying. And he said because he would have loved to have seen John there to watch his son play his song. You know what hard song sucks, Elvis? This song? No, this song's fine.

Yeah. All I want to do is make love to you is a terrible hard song. You don't like This song? No, this song's fine. Yeah. All I want to do is make love to you is a terrible hard song. You don't like this song? No. That's not a good hard song. Like, if you listen to the,

because I've seen Heart Live. Did you know that? You did. They're a band I would want to see live. I saw them. I think they're coming with, I don't know,

Def Leppard or something. I saw them open for Def Leppard at the Molson Amphitheater. Now it's the Budweiser stage, but I saw them open for, yeah. Is anybody out there listening? Yeah, for Def Leppard. Is anyone out there listening?

Or maybe you can tell me too, Mike. I don't know how long it is that you saw them. Can they still sing? Are they still good? Why not? Yeah, why not? Yeah, I think they can still sing. Dude, they're coming to the Rogers Center.

Yeah, there's a couple of bigger artists on it. Def Leppard and Journey. There you go. Okay, Journey without even the regular lead singer. Yeah, with that Filipino guy, one of Monica's. One of Monica's cousins. Yeah. I don't know why I can't get tickets left for me at the Will Call window.

I am a friend of the Filipino. See, now I would go see that show, but not at the Skydome. And Blink-182 is coming back. I'm not going to the Skydome to see them as would go see that show but not at the skydome and blink 182 is coming back i i'm not going to the skydome to see them as much as i would like to see them i'm not going to the skydome for any more concerts hearts come back what about love was originally by the band toronto and i got that fact from 1236 on the uh live stream okay and uh did you know All I Want to Do is Make Love to You was a cover? But who sang it originally?

Dobie Gray. He was over for dinner last night, actually. So Heart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. And they've sold over 35 million albums.

So it's crazy, even crazier then, to think that this was their first number one hit. And it's crazy, even crazier then to think that this was their first number one hit. And you said crazy and I think of Crazy on You, which I think is one of my favorite hard songs. I think that Dreamboat Annie album is kind of my go-to, but there's a lot because Magic Man is on there

and there's a lot of good stuff on there. But yeah, this was a big fucking band. And remember I wrote about this on TorontoMic.com, so I'm going to fuck up the details. I won't even share the details. Go there to find. But they had Draft Dodger Boyfriends who moved to Vancouver. So they came to Vancouver to record to be with their Draft Dodger Boyfriends. And this then got them, at the time, they were somehow qualifying as CanCon.

So a lot of Canadian stations played a lot of heart because it was qualified as CanCon because it was recorded in Canada. Look at you. In residence of Canada, we're co-writing. So, there you go. That's a fun fact. It took them eight studio albums to get to their first number one. Crazy. Yeah, but they're not a hit. But you think about those other songs.

Like Led Zeppelin never went to number one, did they? No. No, because they're not a singles band. And the Beatles never won a Grammy, right? Or whatever it is. Like a real Grammy. They're not a singles band. And the Beatles never won a Grammy, right? Or whatever it is. Like a real Grammy. They won honorable, like honorable

mention. Sure. Okay. Legendary. As a public enemy once said, who gives a fuck about a goddamn Grammy?

Right. Okay. And Elvis. He made shit to me. Because straight up racist the sucker was simple and plain. I ought to fuck him

and John Wayne. Okay. All right. That was a great one. These dreams by John Wayne. Oh God, I can't imagine he'd ever be Wayne. Okay. All right. That was a great one. These dreams by John Wayne. Oh God, I can't imagine he'd ever be racist. Okay.

So Ridley Funeral Home wants you to measure everything all of the time and they're giving you a measuring tape. Elvis, what will you measure first with your Ridley Funeral Home? Probably. Do it quickly and then report back. Are you going to do it flaccid or engorged? Engorged. What?

Jeez. Isn't that the proper term for a boulder? Do they have a suggestion as to what I should measure? Like how tall I am so we know what size... Just for the record, are you flaccid or engorged right now? Which one? Right now. That's embarrassing.

No, it's not. It's embarrassing. You're one or the other. Which one are you right now? Are you semi? Whenever I come on the show, I'm at least semi, for sure. Okay, so measure yourself semi, and then I'll engorge you, and then see what the difference is. What is it that I'm measuring?

The time that I have left on this earth before I get a shout out from Ridley Funeral Home? You can't measure that with centimeters. Come on, you know better than that. But yeah, that's courtesy of Ridley Funeral Home. It's 1921. Good for them. Yeah, you didn't know Brad was that old, did you? I did not.

So Brad was here yesterday, and we recorded an episode of Life's Undertaking, his fine podcast. And the subject was his 15 favorite Christmas movies or specials of all time. Oh, wow. And I pulled a bunch of clips and everything. Did he pick traditional Christmas movies or good ones like Die Hard? Well, his favorite. Die Hard's on his list.

Okay. Good. You know, the typical... You're going to get your white... Home Alone? Home Alone's on his list okay good you know the typical you're gonna get your uh home alone home alone's on his list yeah you get one more guess and if you get it right i will give you another gift so one more guess uh christmas vacation did not make his list not in his top 15 get out of here neither is your favorite christmas movie of all time for christmases that didn't make it either i don't know what you know But you know what? I like you. I like you. How's your wife? Is she good?

Does she still like you? She does. She does. Because I haven't seen her in a long time. I don't get invitations to Northern Oshawa. Okay.

No. And the kids are good. All three of those kids. You want to come to Northern Oshawa? You can come to Northern Oshawa. In the summer. I don't go there in the winter. Okay.

I have in my free... Oh, are you a vegetarian still? No. No. I don't... Were you ever a vegetarian? Yes, I was. Okay. So you kicked that habit. I remember you telling were you ever a vegetarian yes i was okay so you kick that habit i remember you telling me you were vegetarian then we went to see tfc and

you got that porchetta like that's like literally like pig right yeah but i was i was at a tfc game so you had an exception okay well here i have in my freezer right now for you a delicious meat lasagna it's frozen in my freezer you You're taking that home for the Elvis family to enjoy this holiday season. Beautiful. Thank you to you, Mike, and thank you to Anthony. Did you pick up? Anthony was a great host at TMLX 14. I didn't see him at all and I wasn't able to show him

because I had to leave. But yeah, he's usually busy. He's a hardworking man. I was trying to close the show with him and I couldn't find him. Oh, no. That's how busy he was. Who did you end up closing with? I can't remember. How long close the show with him, and I couldn't find him. Oh, no. That's how busy he was. Who did you end up closing with? I can't remember. How long was the show? Three hours.

Wow. That's actually not bad. They've been longer before, haven't they? Or maybe they fell. I try to cap it at three hours for those events. I mean that in a good way. Mike Richards took a half an hour. Yeah, I heard that he was apparently a topic of conversation.

I don't think he's in a good place. I think he's had too many curveballs, and I think this new world, he finds it a topic of conversation. I don't think he's in a good place. I think he's had too many curveballs, and I think this new world, he finds it a little bit difficult. Didn't we interview him way back in the day over the phone? Wasn't that your first phone interview? Oh, that was Jim Richards. And Jim Richards won't come on, so it's funny we got that, because that's the only Jim Richards. Why won't he come on?

I don't know. Oh. He doesn't want to come on Toronto, Mike. Even though his BFF was on this program nine years ago today. His BFF George Strombolopoulos. Walt Stinn gave me all the time I needed. Canada's boyfriend. Canada's boyfriend and my

boyfriend as well. And it was a great episode of Toronto Mic'd nine years ago today. That episode will turn ten next Festivus. What an amazing photo that was. That was a legendary photo. Of him in your upstairs. Or before I used to take it, before I started doing it at the tree. And this one's out in front of the Christmas tree. I guess Monica snapped

this one. Okay. One more gift and then we're getting to my third gem. Great Lakes Brewery is giving you some beer. How is your Canuck Pale Ale? It's good. It's good. As always. I mean, you can't go wrong with Great Lakes. And they now deliver to Oshawa.

Oh, good. You're now part of the GTA. Because I say to my messaging, I'm like, are you free delivery or do you have to pay for that? I think it's free delivery. Okay, good. Yeah, yeah. Amazing. Delivery is one of those things where if it's not free, you feel like you're getting really ripped off. But it could only be like five bucks, but it's still like, I'm not going to do it.

Well, I'm glad that they're delivering to northern oshawa okay you ready for my third jam i'm not even waiting for the response it's a good one this is a song i would pick we're slowing it down here so i went from the pixies to the clash to cars i feel movement i feel like uh the semi is not gonna be semi for much longer who's gonna tell you things aren't so great You can't go on thinking nothing's wrong with us.

Who's gonna drive you home tonight? Who's gonna pick you up? Elvis. gonna pick you up. Elvis. The primary lead singer for Cars was a guy who also spelled Rick without a C.

So that's two people we know of. There's Rick Emmett, R-I-K Emmett, and Rick Okasik. He's R-I-K. How is that possible? Two Ricks Sans C

Is it because they thought Rick was too close to Dick With the C? Ricky Dicky? There's a show that my kids listen Watch to Ricky Dicky, Nicky and Don Or something like that Sounds made up

So, Rick Ocasek does not sing on this song. This is a big hit for cars. It's called Drive. You know it well, right? Yes. Great song. Who's singing? Do you know?

I don't know. My car's knowledge is... I'm going to help you. ...is not deep. I'm here. This is my jam, not yours. I will tell you. It's Benjamin Orr.

Oh, Benjamin. Now, both Rick and Benjamin are gone now. Shout out to Ridley Funeral Home. But here's kind of a fun fact. So during the filming of the music video for this song, Drive, that we're listening to right now, sung by Benjamin Orr, there was a 19-year-old Czech-born supermodel in the video named Polina Poroskova if you saw her you'd recognize her

you probably would say oh that's the lady from you might think I'm crazy because when we were coming up with Much Music you might think was a huge video on Much Music and you'd be like oh I recognize Polina Poroskova that's a beautiful woman.

Of course she's a supermodel. So she's in the video for Drive. That's when Rick Ocasek meets her for the first time. She's only 19. But that's legal age. She's 19. She's beautiful. 19 is legal.

Well, yes. He might have been married, but not for much longer because he divorced his wife, Suzanne, and then he married Paulina Porizkova in 1989. And they stayed together until they separated in 2018. I don't know if that's a fun fact or not but that is a fact this is all verified I've checked it out with my fact checker Robert Lawson he's gone through with a fine tooth comb he goes through all my facts

and makes sure that they are correct but Drive a great song sung by somebody in the band who is not typically the lead singer of the band so now with typically the lead singer of the band. So now with two out of the five members dead, can they do a reunion still, do you think?

I was told yesterday by Rick Emmett that Chicago has two different versions touring the country, he says. Like two different versions of Cars. Cars, did I say Cars? Chicago. Anyway, anything's possible. If the Guess Who can tour. Here we go. Here we go. There's not much link in the Guess Who to the

Guess Who, but they do present themselves to pockets of America less savvy with the knowledge of the Guess Who legacy. Is there anyone in the new Guess Who from the old Guess Who? The drummer, I believe.

The drummer. So he's holding on. Yeah. Well, it's because, again, it's going to be illegal. Somebody owns the rights to the name the Guess Who, and apparently it's the drummer, and that's why they can tour as the Guess Who. Like, they own the name.

Right. Randy Backman and Burton Cummings do not own the name, the guess who, which is kind of ironic that Randy and Burton have formed a super alliance here against the drummer. Cause they don't actually like each other, right? They formed the super lines because they realized that the power of this name,

the guess who is stronger than anything else. Like, like this is why Randy's trying to get BTO back together. Cause that's his second big brand. It's stronger than their hate for one another. Right. It's a very powerful force in the universe. Okay. I'm enjoying this topic so much. It's good.

We've had good songs. I could open this up to FOTMs, like for an FOTM KOTJ, your favorite song sung by somebody who's not the typical. Here's the problem with this category, however, is that you can go real deep with this and then you play start playing songs that nobody likes or nobody knows excuse me like you like it and but you went like you know way deep on the someone's catalog that's that's

the challenge i think with this is that i didn't want to pick songs that no one would know like some obscure no you know so far we've we've played nothing we've been good we've been good but i think We've been good. We've been good, but I think that this is ripe for people to go real deep and start to play some random song. What are we going to do? Arrest them? Yes. You went too deep, Canada Kev. Nobody knows that Grateful Dead song. Way to go, Canada Kev. Whatever that is. Stick to

Touch of Grey if you're going to do a Grateful Dead song. That's all anybody knows, right? I don't even know that. Yes, you do. No, I don't know any Grateful Dead and I don't know any Phish and I don't want to know any one of those jam bands. You know Touch of Grey.

You know the video anyways. Even the Allman Brothers. Fuck all of them. Even the Allman Brothers, they had hits. Yeah, but they're a jam band at heart. Lord, I was born a rambling man. Yeah, that's like the redneck rock.

And what about Jessica? Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. I can pass. I can pass. I'm not a big fan of, like, you know, the redneck rock. It's called Southern Rock. Okay. But there are some good Southern Rocks.

Oh, backwater, keep on moving, Mississippi. Early, early. Yeah, yeah, before it became Yacht Rock. Yeah. Okay, well, shout out to Stew Stone again. All right. Stew Stone. Oh, someone's calling. I do see someone calling, but then they hung up. Okay, I forgot shout out to Stewstone again. All right. Stewstone. Oh, someone's calling.

I do see someone calling, but then they hung up. Okay. I forgot to turn off my ringer because there's a new phone. And to turn off my ringer, I have to press that button. Lucky you with a new phone. I know. I got it from Costco. It's a Pixel 7, everybody.

Lucky you. You have a Costco membership now? Do you have a Costco room? Monica's, no, I don't. But I've had, Monica has had one for a long time because apparently we have like life, I don't know, mortgage insurance through Costco Monica has had one for a long time because apparently we have like life, I don't know, mortgage insurance through Costco or something. Like there's something there.

I get my, I get, you know, I take drugs now. I get my drugs from Costco because I don't have a health plan. And it's cheap. Yeah, that's why I get them there. All right.

Are you ready for your fourth jam, Elvis? Yeah. This is mine? Oh, yeah. Needs more cowbell. Come on. This is mine? Oh, yeah. Needs more cowbell. I know. All our times have come Fear for talent and gown Here for the town, I'm a leper count Seasons don't fear the reaper Not to the wind, the sun, or the rain

Don't fear the reaper Come on baby, don't fear the reaper Baby take my hand, don't fear the reaper We'll be able to fly, don't fear the re know if I'm cheating on this one because... That's okay. I cheated on my last one. Because I listened to this like multiple times. I do really, really like this song.

I think it's a great song. I do like Blue Oyster Cult. But clearly, the reason why I think that this might be a cheat song is when you listen to that first little bit of the song, there's clearly 17 people singing and I don't have a primary singer on, but I don't know what I don't know in my defense is, is that him just singing with himself or are there other members singing there? It's other members.

I think, you know, I don't know. It could very well be him singing with himself. Did you kick this out because you wanted to, uh, promote Ridley Funeral Home? Because this is kind of like the Ridley Funeral Home anthem. Oh, is it really?

Don't feel the reaper. Just die already. One of them is Howard Stern's cousin too, apparently. Is that true? Yeah. I need Robert Lawson to look into that. I don't know. Yeah.

I don't know. Anyway, I feel like these guys have had a major uh uh resurgence right in the last 10 years or so um so this song was written and sung by the lead guitarist, Donald Buckdharma Roser. But it's R-O-E-S-E-R. Roser? I'll go with that. So he's the one who wrote it and sang it. But this is their biggest hit.

Is it? Name, what would be their biggest hit? For you, would it be another one? No, this is their biggest hit. Probably. I don't think it's close. But again, even pre-SNL, like even before the,

gonna have more cowbell. And the other cheat about this is that Eric Bloom is also listed as a lead vocalist. So like, I don't know. They kind of, this is a little bit of a cheat. You know, none of this is really mad. Like we're just creating conversation pieces here. i know there are fact checking in the live stream there are songs that blue oyster cult that has has produced that has both donald and eric as the

lead singer so well let's put this way okay so like let's take a popular band like the beatle the beatles have two primary lead singers yes okay yeah so they're those two guys are your primary lead singers but if you were to kick out a song by George Harrison, you would be kicking out a song that's by somebody who's not the typical lead singer of the Beatles. Right. So there's a lot of bands with multiple, like I mentioned with Triumph, right? You got two guys who kind of sing on that, right? Right.

So comment that Robert Lawson would kick you out of the basement right now. But again, the spirit of this episode, look, okay. I'm not here to fact check Elvis. Because he doesn't like the song or because he doesn't think that this fits the criteria? He thinks maybe your facts are not in order, but you know what? Again, this is a conversation pieces. You can go to Wikipedia and you can do your own homework and decide if Elvis is right. But I love it because I couldn't have told you who the lead singer of the Blue Oyster. Well, that's the thing is that it says right here that,

so Don't Fear the Reaper came out in 76 and then Burning for You came out in 81. 76, the year U2 was born. They rarely experienced commercial success. That's the big jam because you hear it every Halloween. And again, the SNL skit is one of the most famous SNL skits I think you could argue. It's funny. It says that they rarely experience commercial success.

I guess that means from like a chart perspective, but they sold 25 million records. And Heart, I think I read, sold 35 million. So it's not that much difference but whatever did you know the yellow tape by bare naked ladies sold more units than any sloan album this is i had steven page and chris murphy here together but that yellow independent tape so i can't remember the number now 80 would you say that that's the biggest combined, the biggest named celebrities you've had in your basement? Like a duo? I don't think you can get bigger than that. Bigger than Gord Stelic and Damien Cox?

Way bigger. Of course. Wow. Clearly. Okay. Let me just think on this for a minute here. What about the entire band Rusty? They were all here.

No. No. Okay. Maybe. Sloan and Bernicke ladies. Come on. Yeah. I mean.

I feel like that's big. It is. I mean, that's come on. Yeah, I mean... I feel like that's big. It is. I mean, that's got to be up there on the... I would put that on the... It's a great episode, too. I would say that that's Mount Rushmore of guests. And you still didn't listen. I didn't realize they were together.

Yeah, they were together. And this is only a week old. It's not even dusty. In my defense, two things. I didn't realize they were together, and I thought Stephen Page was on the phone. Nope, he was in the basement. dusty like it's in my defense two things i didn't realize they were together and i did i thought steven page was on the phone nope he was in the basement steven page was sitting right there right there and a great shot and then there's a you know i know you're out i would be starstruck

by i love sloan but i would be starstruck by steven well remember chris had been here before like that was literally his second visit to the basement. But Stephen had only zoomed in a couple of times. So that was my first face-to-face with Stephen Page. Is he living in Toronto still? No, upstate New York. Oh, upstate New York. Yeah, he lives in like, maybe near Syracuse or something like that. Maybe Syracuse.

But he absolutely lives in the States. But he did come here for, he came here for the Horseshoe Show, which I was at, and TransCanada Highwaymen were fantastic. So I should go see them at Casino Rama? Yeah. Honestly, they're not going to Rama, are they? Yeah, they are.

I thought they were going to the Opera House. Maybe they're going to both. They could be going to both. Okay. I think Rama's- I've never seen a show at Rama. Neither have I. Okay.

Not at all. Report back. I think it's in March or something. Okay. I'm surprised by that. I know they're doing a show at the Opera House. I did not know about this Rama thing. I'm looking it up right now.

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March 6th at 8 PM. All right. And then they go on the road to Saskatoon, Edmonton, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Winnipeg, Calgary, and then they're back to Toronto at the Opera House on March the 30th and then over to Peterborough. Maybe I'll go to Peterborough. That's closer to me. That is close.

The Kawarthas, we call that. Okay. I want to tell you this. So you have your Costco room in northern Oshawa. Correct. Okay. You probably buy a lot. I can see you going to Costco and buying lots of electronics.

I just see you're buying new cabling. I bought seven TVs for Christmas. And then like when your TV breaks. Yeah. Throw it out. I can see you getting angry because the Leafs let in nine goals last night.

So you're like. Worst loss in this 14, I think. 2014. It's been a while. It's been a while. You know what? This is a true story.

Remember when Vince Carter missed the three point shot in game seven against the 76ers. This is back in like. Yeah, because he went to his graduation the day before.

Yeah. How could I forget? Was it the day before or was it that morning? Oh, it could have been. Yeah, I think it was that day. You're right. You're right graduation the day before. Yeah. How could I forget? Was it the day before or was it that morning? Oh, it could have been. I think it was that day. You're right. You're right.

The day of. Okay. I was, because that was the time of CRT. So I think I'm watching it on a 21 inch CRT and I think it was at my mom's house. And then when Vince misses the three, I had a water bottle. I sprayed it at the TV in anger and I killed the TV. Nice. That's no, I killed the TV. Nice. I learned my lesson since then.

I have said numerous times that I will never cheer for Vince Carter unless and until he makes it to the Hall of Fame. Which is inevitable. I got a notification on my phone that it was officially announced that Vince Carter was

nominated for the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. Or he's eligible for his first year. You know he's a slam dunk for the hall of fame in his first year of eligibility or he's eligible for his first year. You know, he's a slam dunk for the hall of fame. And I saw that on my phone. Of course I saw that on my phone and the whistle reaction I had tells me that I still won't cheer for him. Fuck Vince Carter is what you said.

Fuck Vince Carter. I would buy a ticket and go boo the Jersey retirement. That is also inevitable. That will happen at the ACC or Scotiabank, whatever. Well, if you had broken a TV by spraying water at it when Vince missed that three-point shot. By the way, we're 2019 NBA champs. I'm just going to throw that out there. But if you broke the TV, I would ask you, Elvis, not to throw that television in the garbage.

The chemicals inside that TV end up in our landfill. It's bad for everybody. But you can go. This is important. So memorize this and write it down. Bookmark it. RecycleMyElectronics.ca. Go there.

You put in your address in North Oshawa and it says, oh, three blocks from you, we have an EPRA accredited depot. You can drop off that TV. You drop it off. They recycle it properly. Okay? Safely. Good for everybody. RecycleMyElectronics.ca.

You got it, buddy? I got it. Watch it. I'm ready. Buddy, you ready for your penultimate jam? No, it's my turn. Okay. Yeah.

It's my turn. My penultimate jam. It's not Casino-rama. Casino Regina. It is Casino Regina. I know, because only the opera house is in there. That's fine. That's a fact check right there.

Okay. That's fine That's a fact check right there Okay Do you know this song, Elvis? No. What if I told you this is technically a Nirvana song? Really? It's the B-side to the heart-shaped box single. Oh, wow. And this is, I guess this is the only Nirvana song

that doesn't have Kurt Cobain on primary lead vocals. Do you know who's doing the lead vocals on this song? This would be Dave Grohl. This is Dave Grohl. So Dave Grohl recorded Marigold, the name of the song,

while with Nirvana. Came out in, again, 1993. It was the B-side to Heart Shaped Box. He also put out a live... That means vagina. Yes. Yes, that's right. He also put out a live version that you could find on Skin and Bones with Foo Fighters.

Okay. Which means this is literally the only song released by both Nirvana and Foo Fighters. Good fun fact. That is a fun fact here. Okay. Just in case anyone's curious, for the Trans-Canada Highwaymen show in Peterborough, there are like maybe 10 or 12 tickets left. They'll be gone by the end of this recording

now that you put my... Can you be clear though? We talked about it during this song, but can you just be clear? There is no Casino Rama. It's Casino Regina. Yeah. I hope Elvis knows what he's talking about. I was literally, you saw, I was looking at the webpage. Casino Regina, which is very

different from Casino Rama. Yeah, but when you want to see Rama, it looks like Rama. Right, okay. So Marigold, yeah, I think that... That's a weird one. That's like... See, that's a... It's fine.

It's legit. But that's the deep cut shit that you're going to get when you open it up to the nerd. But it is a good song. Yeah. Like, I like the song, because it doesn't need to be a hit. You just have to like the fucking song is but it is a it's a good song yeah like i like the song which is because i don't it doesn't need to be a hit you just have to like the correct correct

it's a good song released as a nirvana song even though dave girl is doing all like he's playing well it was a b-side to the heart-shaped box it doesn't appear in utero it's yeah it doesn't appear on in utero though this song the marigold never appeared i think it appears on that um with the the lights out or whatever like their their uh box set or whatever but did not appear on any of their studio box sets yeah well that's not that long ago so i think i think there was a box set for shakespeare my butt called shakespeare my box that came out like i'd say in the last five years so box sets is still around but this is the, what, Dave Grohl got credit in that song for playing the drums and singing lead vocals,

but he didn't get credit for the guitar or backing vocals. Marigold, a song I enjoy from Nirvana that's not sung by their typical lead singer, one Kurt Cobain. Good one. Thanks, man. All right, at least that one will qualify because I feel like we had a couple in a row

that were debatable. But now we're back on track. I'm curious to hear you talk about this one. I'm a little worried. I don't even remember what it is. Well, I'm going to put Robert Lawson on speakerphone for this one. I'm a little concerned.

But you want to get to this? Let's do it. Oh, I think I remember this. Yes. Yeah. This song shouts out the movie it was in, which I find interesting. It was in a movie? Yeah, well, they sing

about it. It'll come. Oh, I got the wrong fader. They can handle this. You gotta do much better if you're gonna dance with me tonight You gotta work your jet-lag if you're gonna dance with me tonight Read my list carefully if you like what you see Move, groove, you can hang with me By the looks I got you shook up and scared of me Go, go, you see, well, it's time for me to go I don't think you're ready for this, Janet I don't think you're ready for this, Janet

I don't think you're ready for this My body's too good and this shit's for your back I got Robert Lawson on speakerphone. Robert, are you there? I'm there, Mike. All right, Elvis, talk to me. How the hell are you going to tell us this song fits the theme? I got to hear it. The primary singer on this is Kelly Rowland, not Beyonce. Beyonce is not the lead.

She wrote the song. Kelly Rowland is the primary singer. I know Beyonce's voice very well. Let me listen closely. I don't know. Not only does, not only does Kelly Rowland sing the majority of the lead vocals on the track with her leading both verses, Noel's leading the choruses. You're hearing the choruses.

Kelly Rowland's leading the verses. Michelle Williams is leading the bridge. So Michelle actually has an even greater part of this. I'm not an expert on Destiny's Child and I'm not calling you out on this. I always thought of this as all three of them singing. I never thought there was a lead singer in Destiny's Child.

No, it was definitely Beyonce. Well, she was the... Beyonce followed by Kelly. Diana Ross. Right. Yeah, she sang the majority of the songs. For sure. I don't know. This one, it's a bit hazy because you have members that are used to being out front with the vocals, right?

Like, it's sort of like Spice Girls. No. Destiny Strong wasn't Spice Girls in that sense. I get what you're trying to say, but no. Beyonce is definitely more of a lead singer for... It was her, that's why she left. Okay, so Kelly Rowland, no, she didn't,

that was always, she was always going to Diana Ross because she was the star of this fucking thing. So, okay, so, and this is from, am I right? Is this from Charlie's Angels

or is that another song? Like, Charlie, can you handle this? Yeah, that's... I feel like there might be a verse where they talk about... Okay, so you handle this? Yeah, that's... I feel like there might be a verse where they talk about... Okay, so you're telling me it's Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams and typical lead singer is Beyonce Knowles.

Correct. Okay. There you go. Okay. All right. All right. I'm not going to allow it. I'm in the festivus spirit.

You're not going to allow it. I had to pick this one because it's so ridiculous. But it is, my opinion is that it fits the bill because Beyonce was definitely the star of that show and she sang most of the songs. Definitely the star of that show. Absolutely.

Okay. Biggest thing since... It's kind of like... Diana Ross and the Supremes. Or the Justin Timberlake band. Yeah. Because those other guys didn't really sing very much of anything at all.

And that's why they're kind of fucked because they can't do their tours because they don't have Justin. He's so happy that they're so happy that he let them come back for Trolls.

Did you know that? I did not know that. And they have a single out. They're back. I didn't know this. Yeah, yeah. He came back. Timberlake's had

some bad press lately because of the Britney book. Oh, yeah. That's right. Yes. She talked ill of... And he had those Raymond Noodle hair,

that Raymond Noodle hairstyle, as I recall. Ray Romano? You know what? There was a show that got canceled after one season. Martin Scorsese, I think, helped direct the premiere, but it was called Vinyl. Did you ever watch Vinyl? I know, but I heard about it.

I liked it. I wanted it to be good. I never saw it. But here's the thing. I never really cared too much for Ray Romano because i didn't care too much for everybody loves raymond although compared to a show like home improvement uh everybody loves raymond might as well have been fucking seinfeld like this is just you know that was a terrible show home improvement but okay so ray romano's in this vinyl and he's fucking good like ray romano did a great job i thought

it was on hbo right hbo yeah mick jagger's kids in this thing i was's fucking good. Like Ray Romano did a great job. It was on HBO, right? Mick Jagger's kids in this thing. I had high hopes for that. Are you excited for the new season of Curb? Well, yeah, the last season. Of course, I watch all Curb. I'm a big Curb guy. I know people who love Curb and they stopped

three or four seasons ago. No, I kept up with it. I kept up with it. I like my Larry David. And what was the show I skipped on HBO because it didn't look good and then it turns out I think I was right. But the one with The Weeknd,

there was The Idol. There was a big HBO show called, because I watch a lot of these big premium HBO shows or whatever, but it was called The Idol and it starred The Weeknd and it didn't smell good to me, so I skipped it and I think I might have

made the right choice. I've never heard of it. Okay, there you go. Are you ready for my final jam that's sung by somebody who's not the typical lead singer of the band? You ready? Go. Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true. It's a Christmas song, actually.

Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil. Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet. I almost picked this one. All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world.

I fucking love this song. It's good. So there was only one thing that I could do was ding-a-ding-dang my dang-a-long-a-ling-long. Such a great song. I'm out. It's fucking great, actually. It's really good. I remember listening to this a lot when I was...

Yeah, 91 or whatever, yeah. This is from Psalm 69, which had New World Order on it and a whole bunch of great shit that we used to love. So, okay, so ministry. Typical front man, Al Jorgensen, okay, it's like his band or whatever, but this

song, Jesus Built My Hot Rod, which was the first single from this album, Psalm 69, The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs, I wanna love you, is actually

sung by you ready? Hit me. Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers. Love it. Fucking love it. Yeah, and it might be

my favorite ministry song. They've got a few good gems, but fucking love Jesus Build My Hot Rod. I think it's like a great Christmas song too. What say you? Sure.

I remember listening to this in my closet at home. When you were in the closet? Yeah. When did you come out of the closet? As soon as the song was over. I probably listened to a bunch of songs in the closet. But it was good. This is a really good song.

Honestly, this was, I thought it would be funnier to play Beautylicious. Yeah, I laughed really loud inside, guys. Okay, so. But I have a little bit of like a bonus jam since we're talking butthole surfers. But I will. I have two other ones on my list. Did I send them to you as well or no? No, you can tell me now.

Oh, I can't remember now. Okay, well, then why bring it up? Why the fuck are you bringing it up? Because I thought I sent you two other ones. No, you didn't send me anything else here. Yeah, I had two other ones. I can't remember. May I ask, are there believers in the house?

In the Elvis house. What does that mean? Believers. Like fat guy, red suit. Oh, yeah, yeah. Big beard like yours. Yeah. Two out of the three.

Two out of the three. Yeah. I would have guessed one out of three. Okay. Two out of three. Big time. So this is a big fucking weekend. Yeah, yeah.

Well, part of the reason why I couldn't do this live was I have my son's hockey game in the morning, but then we're supposed to go to Santa's cottage. Where is Santa? Is that in the Corpus? And that's like you basically, it's like getting concert tickets. You have to buy tickets to go see this thing in July when it first opens. And you go and visit Santa. What a racket, eh? Look at all the industry built around the fat guy in a suit.

It's very Christian-like. You know, Coca-Cola invented the modern... Jesus was a capitalist, I think. Well, we learned about it in this song. I think this song is about Jesus building his hot rod. That's right. All right, we're going to let Gibby Haynes take us home, and then I'm going to hit you with the bonus jam.

Here we go. Jesus built my car. It's a love affair. Mainly Jesus and my hot rod. Yeah, fuck it. Mm. Thank you. of disease. Mikey had a facial scar and Bobby was a racist. They were all in love with dying. They were doing it in Texas. Tommy played piano like a kid out in the rain. Then he lost his leg in Dallas. He was dancing with the train. They were all in love with dying. They were drinking from a fountain that was pouring like an avalanche coming down the

mountain. I don't mind the sun sometimes. The images it shows. I can taste you on my I'd say by far other people's eyes. I'd say by far the biggest single in the career of the butthole surfers is Gibby Haynes and the song is Pepper. It's a bonus jam. And ironically, he has one of the biggest ministry songs too. Yep. There you go. Gibby Haynes.

Shout out to Gibby Haynes. Is he dead? No. He's still with us. Oh, he's 66 years old. He's a good Texas guy there, Gibby Haynes. Still with us. Nancy Wilson is 69 years old.

I forgot to mention that. Hey, now. Yep. Good age. All right. There's your bonus jam. Here's how we're going to wrap up this. You got two bonus jams. I, you know, I'm the boss around here. You could have sent me a bonus jam. Can I

say something about this song? Well, that's why I'm playing it. Yeah. I don't know if it's just this year or just I've started to notice it, but I am going to submit that this is the Stairway to Heaven of Christmas songs. You don't hear a lot of Stairway to Heaven covers.

I'm seeing... Even though you shouted one out in this episode. I'm hearing... Yeah, it was a live performance in front of the fucking band. I'm just saying. You don't hear a lot, but you did talk about one today.

I'm just saying. You don't hear a lot, but you did talk about one today. I'm hearing Last Christmas by every single fucking person out there on the radio and it's driving me bonkers. You can't do this song. Do you listen to radio? Where are you hearing this? Serious.

Yeah, serious. There's a Holly station. The Holly station that my kids want to listen to when I'm driving them to hockey and stuff. So they play all these fucking Christmas carols. It's my worst nightmare because I hate fucking Christmas and I'm surrounded by Christmas carols. And there's so many different people who do Last Christmas. It's fucking brutal. Maybe it's in a good key.

No, they're all bad. I think Ariana Grande does one. Guys, stop. This is it. And there's like, guys, stop. This is it. It's not. It's over. Christmas songs are over. There's nothing else.

There's this and that fucking Mariah Carey song. I like the Pogues Christmas Fairytale of New York. I like it quite a bit. Just fuck Christmas. Hey Ref is here too. Hello to Hey Ref. Maybe he'll referee your kid's hockey game. Who knows? He's a referee.

Shout out to hey ref. Why would you remake this song? It makes no fucking sense. You know why. It's brutal. To get airplay. So dumb. At this time of year, everybody's desperate to play the Christmas songs.

And if you make a Christmas song that gets airplay, there's money in your bank. It's the best. This song is the best. Never let your children control the car's stereo while you drive. That's a pro tip from Canada Kev. So there you go. Father of the Year a pro tip from Canada Kev. So there you go, LBC. Father of the Year Award also goes to Canada Kev, apparently. Congratulations, Canada Kev.

I want to say Merry Christmas to Pete Fowler. Pete Fowler, not only a good FOTM, but Pete Fowler sent me a Christmas card. Do you get any Christmas cards? Three or four of them? Yeah, I got three or four of them, too. But it's funny, because I got oneler sent me a Christmas card. Do you get any Christmas cards? Three or four of them. Yeah, I got three or four of them too. But it's funny because I got one yesterday from Mike Epple. Oh, yeah. So here's the funny.

Durham's own. I don't get like, yeah, I don't get like Christmas cards from like, I don't know, like family or like friends from way back or whatever. Like my Christmas cards, I almost want to shout them out. Rod Black sent me a Christmas card. Oh, good for him. Rod Black, Mike Epple and Pete Fowler and of course the great Brian Gerstein

gave me a Christmas card as well but Pete Fowler I'm shouting him out because he sent me a t-shirt which I'm wearing right now so I'll wear it for the photo and he's like heavily involved with this community radio station C K W R.

So, uh, maybe the spirit of radio lives in community radio. That's almost WKRP. Okay. Well, there you go. Almost WKRP.

Right. I can't read up. You're just missing one letter. Maybe that's on purpose. Swap out the C for the P letter maybe that's on purpose the c for the p maybe that's on purpose do you know that two quick things uh george michael died on christmas day yeah i cried we talked about this yeah so that's why i was kind of hoping we wrap up with i don't think there's any celebrity deaths recently that have made me cry what about robbie robertson nope what about uh gordon lightfoot nope you know you know what those what about the drummer from cry. What about Robbie Robertson? Nope. What about Gordon Lightfoot? Nope.

You know what? What about the drummer from Foo Fighters? Or was that last year? I don't know. That was sad. But with Gordon Lightfoot, you knew he was coming, right? He's an old man. You don't cry over old people dying. I don't know. Right, so Prince and... Prince, I cried.

Prince and George Michael. But we knew Gord Downie was coming. We still cried. Well, yeah, that was just sad. You know, Oh, you know what I've come across on YouTube,

which I'm sure everyone else has already seen a hundred times, but I don't, I'm not really big into it. Uh, that makes me sad and happy at the same time is there's this thing on YouTube where people like listen to music for the first time and their reaction videos and stuff. Right. And I found a whole bunch of them of Americans basically hearing the tragically music for the first time and their reaction videos and stuff.

Right. And I found a whole bunch of them of Americans basically hearing the tragically hip for the first time. And, uh, like hands down, everyone is super positive and they love the music. And it makes me sad because it makes me sad and happy at the same time that people are discovering a band like the tragically hip that has brought so much joy to my life for the very first time and that makes me sad because there's so many things that they missed but then it makes me happy that they're discovering one of the best bands ever um fotm jd literally had a podcast with that premise like he found an american that had never heard the tragically hip and i think they just went through the Tragically Hip catalog together. So if you like the premise,

I personally, nothing to do with JD and his wonderful podcast, but I don't like the videos of people hearing or I don't know, I just don't care, I guess. I only care about how I responded to a song the first time. This Joe Blow in Kentucky

or whatever listening to Gino Vanelli for the first time, I could give a song the first time. This Joe Blow in Kentucky or whatever, listening to Gino Vanelli for the first time, I could give a fuck. Oh, yeah. That was a good episode. So in the live chat, we were discussing the most dynamic duo to appear, and it might be Stephen Page and Chris Murphy, and I think you might be right.

But in terms of artist, 1236 thinks that Gino Vanelli was by far the biggest artist to visit the basement well isn't that the is that the only guest you've had to not had to but you chose to record a recap episode of oh yeah we remember i came here and we did a whole recap that has to be the biggest one because there was no no Molly Johnson recap episode. No, no, no. Although there probably should have been. I came and sat here in the fucking basement for like an hour and a half to talk about Gino Vanelli.

So then you, yeah. Like totally out of sequence. But we were talking about duos. Right, yes. Gino, even though he came with his brother, he wasn't on the mic. So I think you're 100%. Because I asked you this. Although, okay.

So VP of Sales wants to point out that I had a back-to-back. Oh, no. It was the same time. That's right. Here's a competing dynamic duo. Not quite as big. I don't think as a Steven, uh,

page and, uh, Chris Murphy, but on the mic at the same time, I had Sam Roberts and Amy Milan from stars. So not as big. I mean, great.

I know. Not as big as, not as big as Chris. Well, Steven page, uh, co-wrote a number one billboard, like number one US billboard Hot 100 song. And he also sings a song for a television sitcom.

He does Big Bang Theory, right? I don't know how much he wrote, though, because I feel like Ed Robertson wrote that. Didn't Ed write that in a shower or something? I don't know. I don't think Stephen Page had a lot to do with that song. No. We did recap another episode just this last week.

And I need to make sure we shout out Robert Lawson, who came over last week, to fact check the Randy Backman episode. So technically, there's been two recap episodes. Elvis, any final thoughts this was another fun Festivus episode with you you know I love doing this every year we try to do it on December 23rd sometimes life gets in the way

and we have to do it on December 22nd like today but always a pleasure to see you in that beautiful beard much love to your family and don't leave without your palm-aposta lasagna. Happy Festivus, everyone. Bring out your polls. Tell everyone why they've disappointed you this past year.

You have no grievances this year. Good luck in your feats of strength, everyone. What do you think of Bon Jovi's cover of Fairytale of New York? Haven't heard it. Won't hear it. And that. Merry Christmas, everybody. Even the non-Christians.

Only, actually, I'm only saying Merry Christmas to the non-Christians. Only to the non-Christians. And that brings us to the end of our 1,397th show.

It's so Bush League that you still remember them all. You know, my brother Steve said that, but before I sign off, I should point out my brother Ryan's birthday is today. Oh, happy birthday, Ryan. I have to do math now. What are you, 1976? I'm 76.

So is he. Oh, look at that. So how old are you? 47. Ryan is 47 years old, look at that. So how old are you? 47. Ryan is 47 years old today. Happy birthday, Ryan. Happy birthday. I don't think Ryan listens.

He's a lot like you, actually. I don't do well up to 76. Does Steve still listen to everything? Yeah, I think so. I'm going to see him on Christmas Day and I'll ask him. Remember he used to make fun of me for crying a lot? Yeah, he thinks you had emotional issues. Yeah.

But you do. I do. So he's right. Tremendous emotional issues. You have your own Dr. Melfi, right? Like, you get to talk to Melfi. Dr. Melfi? Melfi? You don't know? You didn't watch The Sopranos? You didn't watch The Sopranos? I

watched every episode. Okay, well, Dr. Melfi. I'm just letting that sit there. I have no comment. Melfi? Melfi? Yeah. M-E-L-F-I. Alright. You can follow me on Twitter and BlueSky. I'm at TorontoMike, but you can't follow I have no comment. Melfi? Melfi? Yeah. M-E-L-F-I. All right. You can follow me on Twitter and Blue Sky. I'm at Toronto Mike, but you can't follow Elvis on these places.

You have to go to LinkedIn and find him, and then you'd have to know his real name, and we didn't dox in this episode. You actually mentioned Blue Sky, huh? Yeah, because I'm preparing for Elon to say it's a dollar a year to be on Twitter, and then I can leave it and go to Blue Sky. Gotcha. I have both going right now. Okay. I'm just waiting for more people on Blue Sky, because all the people are be on Twitter and then I can leave it and go to Blue Sky. Gotcha. I have both going right now. Okay. I'm just waiting for more people on Blue Sky because all the people are still on Twitter. And Twitter,

that day that Otani was not on the plane, Twitter was so amazing I actually remembered how much I enjoyed that social media app. So I'm kind of into it again. But I digress. Much love to all who made this possible. is great lakes brewery i'll be

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records next week. See you all then. I better not name And I've seen the sun go down on Chaclacour But I like it much better going down on you Yeah, you know that's true Because everything is coming up Rosy and green Yeah, the wind is cold But the smell of snow

Warms us today And your smile is fine And it's just like mine And it won't go away Cause everything is Rosie now Everything is Rosie Yeah, everything is

Rosie and Gray Yeah, everything is rosy and gray