Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Greatest Misses: Toronto Mike'd #900

Episode Date: August 13, 2021

This 74th Pandemic Friday, Mike kicks out the greatest misses of the previous 73 weeks with Cam Gordon and Stu Stone.

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Yo! Anti-Pen Ultimate. The one before Pen Ultimate. That's A-N-T-E Pen Ultimate. Third to last. Anti-Pen Ultimate. I put it in my catapult and catapulted it for an assault of anti-pen ultimate it's time now for pandemic fridays starring toronto mike stew stone and cam gordon Toronto. VK on the beat. Check. I'm in Toronto where you wanna get the city love. I'm from Toronto where you wanna get the city love. I'm a Toronto Mike, wanna get the city love. My city love me back for my city love. Welcome to episode 900 of Toronto Mike, a weekly podcast about anything and everything.

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and joining me this week for our 74th and anti-penultimate Pandemic Friday is Stu Stone and Cam Gordon. Hello. Hello, Michael. Mike, is that a Twitter t-shirt? I forget. No, this is actually Moose Grumpy gave this to me at a TMLX event, TMLX6. And it is actually a Brittle Star shirt.

Oh, very cool. I kind of like that design. Well, Brittle Star got this idea for me. I started saying peace and love. And next thing you know, there's this. You started peace and love? You were the first to do that? Stu, welcome back.

I need to know right off the top. How was the last episode of Pandemic Friday? It was alright. It was a banger. It was 66% vaccinated. Let me see. There's three of us.

Yes, 66.6. Do we know? He's half vaccinated. Does that get you? 75.5%. So five is six. What is that? Like 83.333. Cam, for the record, when you learn, because I didn't know until he said it, I was surprised. I was taken aback.

But you were sitting beside him. Were you concerned at all when he revealed he was only one vaccination shot? I think in the moment, it's a bit, you know, there's a bit of a, ugh. But, I mean, what are you gonna do i mean you're but it wasn't when you did the math in your head i'm sure you were doing math and you realize oh this is still like a really uh like like this is still a very low risk well much like yourself if we're outside that be conscious of it right we're not and you're fully vaxxed it's tough i mean let's live your life let's life. Let's not leave. Let's not discount.

I'm opening this. Okay. Crack open that Great Lakes beer. Which one is it? Then we're going to get right back to Stew Stone. It's a burst. Oh, I love burst. On the mic though. I mean, this guy's terrible at this.

I know. This is the greatest mess right here. That was 20 centimeters below the microphone. You could do a montage of him blowing that. So I'm going to crack it open. Then I want to find out something from Stew that I've been waiting on, and then we'll talk about last week. Hold on. Gentlemen, Anti-Penultimate.

That's the third last episode of Pandemic Friday. By your choice, yes. Is it by my choice? Yes. I feel like we had consensus on this. What do you say, Ken? I'm down. I think it's time. It's time. So 66% of the people here are calling for an end of...

How was the big American premiere of Faking a Murderer? Before we get to that, you implied in the show last week, when you were talking to the lovable Ben and Cam, that I am the reason why these shows run long you're like

oh there's no who said what give us specifics what did I say oh there's no Stu this week so maybe we'll actually do a show like

did I say that something like that I'm paraphrasing but you definitely implied I don't remember thinking that you implied

that I'm I'll have to go back and review the tapes I'm the reason these things go long okay and they went very long last week And you did offer, as we've discussed a few times already, some commentary

on the latest 1236 visit Your current thoughts on this brand Pandemic Fridays? Oh, did he? I didn't hear that Oh, like 10 minutes He's exhausted It's time for it to go

Wow, really? Mark Weisblatt had some thoughts. The hate listening came up. No, I'm not hate listening. I enjoy your appearance. I enjoy your visits. It was paraphrasing. For the record, look, I enjoy your visits.

I guess not. No, I do enjoy it. Sounds like you don't. Every single week for 74 weeks in a row, the prep, getting the secret guests, getting all the stuff lined up, thinking about it. Every bike ride,

I'm thinking about songs I should pick, whatever. Every Thursday night. Aren't you going to miss that? Every Thursday night. And these episodes are two and a half hours. They don't have to be.

Well. It's because of you. Well, remember we used to kick off five jams each? Yeah, that's right. This episode, which I should set the stage really quickly here.

There's no prep from you and Cam you and Cam did nothing this week but I took it all on my broad shoulders this is called Greatest Misses but I think when I say Greatest Misses people think I'm referring to songs that should have been kicked out

like songs that were Hanson but these are actually missteps that's next week to Hanson the best of Hanson songs that were Hanson these are missteps and as we next week to Hanson. The best of Hanson. Songs that were Hanson. These are missteps. And as we get into it and I start playing, everything will become

very, very obvious. Along the way, 74 weeks, we made a few missteps, each of us. And I've queued up songs to discuss these, you know,

mistakes, greatest misses, if you will. Your opinion. But I do believe that it's all coming together nicely. Like today's the third, last episode. But it doesn't have to nicely. Like today is the third last episode.

But it doesn't have to be. Well, do you think we should do this every week for the rest of COVID-19's life? I mean, you got something good here, Mike. And you're going to miss us when we're gone. That may be true. In September, I may be calling you up. Lightning rarely is able to be captured in a bottle. And we've captured it.

We've captured the minds, the attentions, the hearts, the souls of the Toronto Mike universe. The wallets. In some cases. I made the mistake. I went into live.torontomike.com. And, of course, people there don't want this to end. But thank you for opening the door here. Well, I just think you're maybe jealous that Cam and I are really great.

And we're taking some shine or something. Cam, did you ever think of that? It's crossed my mind. How was the movie premiere? I'll tell you what. It was monetization. Okay, before, because I do want to hear that. It's terrible. It's non-existent. The monetization. Yeah.

We're not doing this for the money, obviously. We're doing it for the love of the game. And I think the original idea was to help people get through this pandemic. Which we've done. It was a therapeutic. That's right. We're done. But we've also put ourselves through hell to do this show as well. We sat through not one, but two, but maybe three rainstorms.

We're going to talk about it. Okay. So in total, there will be 76 weeks. I never got a week off. Each of you took a few weeks off here and there. By weeks. A couple of weeks. I never got a week off. Each of you took a few weeks off here and there. By weeks. A couple of weeks. I know that I have been here for all

76 weeks. I would hope you would be here. I just want to tell people before they tune out that the finale, the Pandemic Friday finale, which is going to be our 76th, is going to be in public. It's going to be at Great Lakes Brewery. This is confirmed. It's on the patio of Great Lakes Brewery.

And if we need more room, there's a whole lawn. I don't know if I should even show up. No, because honestly, you can't end Pandemic Friday unless I'm there, right? Watch me. I think there would be an uproar.

Settle down, Pierre. I might have to start up the FOSSDS. Oh, jeez. Oh, just do it in Bob's basement, okay? You've been threatening to do that for the last several weeks. I bet Whitener will open up his studio. So many things. I just realized so much ground to cover.

So let me finish this. The premiere was good. So let me finish this. TML X8, 6 to 9 p.m., August 27. That's an early start. When do we hit the airwaves? At 7? No, I'm thinking I press record at

6.30. There's a half an hour to get settled. Really? That's it? And then we'll have two and a half hours. Because there's an open mic. Do they have to get rid of us? Is there a hard out? The drinks have to stop being poured for 9pm. But that's when Kareem comes into play. Then we head over to Adamson's.

The pod doc is going to be there. Mike Hart. Dr. Mike Hart's going to be there. I think he's always packing. So let doc is going to be there. Mike Hart. Dr. Mike Hart's going to be there. Tell him to bring some. Mouth is out. I think he's always packing. So let me just get this out. Everyone's invited. Palma Pasta says, hey, Mike. Do you want to do a show with me, Tim?

Do you want to do a show with me and you? The Tim and Stu show. Hey, Mike. You've got FOTMs collecting at Great Lakes on August 27th. We want to feed everybody. Palma Pasta is going to feed everybody. He's a good man. Great Lakes is like, we don't just want to host, Mike. We want to feed everybody. Paul Mapost is going to feed everybody. He's a good man. Great Lakes is like, we don't just want to host Mike.

We want to give everybody their first pour. The first pour of Fresh Craft Beer. It's on GLB. They're paying for it. And it's going to be amazing and I just want as many FOTMs as possible to show up. Stu, how was LA and how was the movie premiere of Faking a Murderer?

It was really one of the top nights ever. I got to be honest. Love it. Without hyping it up and over-hyping it up, it exceeded my expectations by infinity. That's impossible. Because it was a scary situation going into there because there's all this COVID happening,

and I thought, well, people aren't going to come, and it's going to be terrible, and that wasn't the case at all. The place was an outdoor venue. There was about 200 seats. It's like they basically took this old sort of parking lot from a nightclub and they put AstroTurf down. They got a big screen, like a drive-in screen,

but these very comfortable, like if you were at some really ritzy hotel and you were sitting on the beach. Like a balmy beach club. Like a balmy, yeah. Like when Saved by the Bell went to Hawaii? Like when Saved by the Bell, I would say more when they worked for the summer job at the club.

Oh, Leon Karosi. Yeah, Mr. Karosi's place. Yeah. But that's what I'm thinking of too, isn't it? No, you're thinking of Hawaii. That was when Zach and Kelly didn't get married Or no Screech's dad was getting Or Lisa's dad was getting married

What's that guy's name? Karosi? The daughter is the Scientologist from King of Queens Well she used to be She ran away See she Yeah I'm thinking of that So maybe it wasn't Hawaii

But that's what I'm thinking of Yeah what's her name? Yeah she's Her She's just known as the Scientologist from King of Queens I also remember Zach got buff. Remember? Yeah, he was on the juice.

Anyway, back to the topic on hand here. Back to the subject of the matter. So we get there, and it's very nice. The setup is so cool, and everybody gets these headphones that you can wear, and it's got Dolby Surround in there, and the atmosphere is really great. There's a taco truck. There's a booze truck. There's great. There's a taco truck. There's a booze truck. There's popcorn.

There's a red carpet. Wow. A bunch of my friends showed up. Some unexpected friends showed up. Anybody famous? There were some famous people there. Name drop. I don't really feel like name dropping,

but I will say that there were... Cole Cabana? No, he lives in Chicago. But there was a lot of my friends were there i did talk to bob and he uh he has the movie he was on tour but he did send me beautiful a really nice message when the movie came out which i was very like bob's the best like that's what i was thinking when i read it i can actually read you that he was like i'm so proud of you he was no that's uh and you still couldn't get him on a Toronto mic. No. Uh, but anyway, so

the movie plays. And so while everybody's watching the movie, um, I'm Stan, I, I stood at the back of the, uh, venue and I didn't wear the headphones because I just wanted to like, watch the audience watch. And you've seen this movie. I've seen it a few times, right? Uh, let me rewind. I got to LA a few times, right? Let me rewind. I got to LA on the first day and I had forgotten to pack like a nice outfit to wear to the premiere. Oh, shit. So I was like, okay, I'm going to run to the mall. So I go to the mall thinking I'll just go into like an H&M or something and just like, you know, buy something off the rack.

Right. Because people who are of my size have the advantage. We have disadvantages in life. Like we can't ride roller coasters. We can't reach the peanut butter. But when it comes to shopping for a suit off the rack, it's like we're the same size as the mannequin. Right. So I go in to buy a pair of slacks and like this purple kind of cool sweatshirt,

or not a sweatshirt, a sweater, like a thin sweater. Shake your neck. You can't try on things because the fitting room is closed because of COVID. So I think you know where this is going. So I go to my sister and Adam Rodness, my brother-in-law and Dina, they were there too. So I went to their hotel room to sort of shower up and get ready to go. And I go to put on my slacks and I'm like, oh, these are cool.

Maybe I'll wear them to, I was thinking, thinking maybe I'll wear them to pandemic Friday finale. Cause these are really nice. Would you? I might. Wow. Uh, so then I go to put on this, I go to put on this purple thing and it's literally made,

it's tailor made for Cam Gordon. It goes down to my knees. Oh shit. The sleeves are so fucking long. I actually brought, I thought, I think I brought, yeah, I think I brought the shirt to give to you. Okay. Oh, shit. The sleeves are so fucking long. I actually brought... Can I have it? Yeah, I think I brought the shirt to give to you. Okay.

We should do like a Cinderella. Yes. So I'm screwed, right? So my sister's like, well, I got this T-shirt that you could borrow. And I'm like, what? And so she pulls out this T-shirt. And I'm like, we had to leave. And I just threw on her T-shirt.

Right. Now, I'm wearing my sister's T-shirt. Nobody called me on it. It's like a plunging necklace. Did it have a big V-neck thing? No, but it just... Like a sequence? It was pretty well-fitted.

Like, you know, tummy and everything. Sure. And I had a little jacket. It got kind of chilly. But, all right. So, that's that story. I'm watching the movie. It's getting all the laughs that it's supposed to.

It's getting screams. It's getting howls. People are loving it. We did this thing at the end where we came up and did like a q a a couple questions in we surprised the audience tony nappa who plays david stoner uh he's there so he does a thing everybody's scared then we give out some rolling papers and it's going really well and all of a sudden this guy like they're like okay that wraps up the q a like don't forget the tacos are available and there's this guy coming up with his hand up and I'm like, it looks like you got one more

question. I didn't know who it was, right? The guy comes up to the stage, takes the microphone from the Q&A host, takes off his mask, and it's Jamie Kennedy. Wow! That's big. It was a nice surprise. Sorry, he was wearing a mask? Well, he was wearing a COVID mask, like a mask. Oh, I see. And I didn't recognize him

because I haven't seen him in a while. He's got a big beard and long hair now. Oh my, that's like a reuniting. Yeah, it was wearing a COVID mask, like a mask. Oh, I see. And I didn't recognize him because I haven't seen him in a while. He's got a big beard and long hair now. Oh, my. That's like a reuniting. Yeah, it was great. Is it the Stone? I didn't recognize him. So he came up and he made this whole speech.

He was blown away. He loved it. He just couldn't get over how much he loved it. And it was really beautiful words that he said. And it turned out just to be a great night. Afterwards, everybody received the film well. Now it's out in the States. Now it's out in the States. A great 200 people showed up for this beautiful venue

outdoors and it worked out well. Now, what are your thoughts about going to Kingston? Well, I don't know because as of right now, Sloan has sold more records than I've sold Faking a Murder downloads at the moment. Based on Jay's appearance. No shame in that.

By the way, I was quite jealous that you guys got to spend so much time with him. He's the best. But I appreciate that Cam, not Mike, that Cam made sure to tell him how much I love him. Totally. That was very sweet of you. Big fan. I didn't realize that was my job.

Had all the CDs. So, yeah, I want to just, before we just pedal on to Kingston and where we're at with that, I genuinely want to thank the FOSSs that are listening to the show. So, Cambrio. Cambrio, but there's others who have been retweeting and tweeting and liking. It's real good for the optics to see some action like that. And I see them.

They're out there. Did you see my subtweet? I said you were great. Yes. And I out there. Did you see my subtweet? Did you see all of Cam's tweets? None. There is no Cam. I even noticed that. I have my own stuff to promote. Cam did comment on my Aunt Sandy's 95th birthday, which also happened in the last seven minutes.

The Sandy's a legend. She's a legend. I do appreciate that, and it doesn't go unseen. Also, it's a good look because the companies that work with us are like, oh, wow, there's lots of social media buzz. That's why you need to come to TMLX8 because these FOSSs will be there, and they want to get a selfie with you and support you. I don't know if I can support that.

I think I would be doing them a disservice by showing up and ending the show that they love. Everybody loves it. If you're watching this right now, push one. You know what you're doing? You're painting me as a bad guy here. Push one in the chat room if you think that this show

is great and shouldn't go and it should not end. Push one. Push two if you're 1236. Okay, so now... Kareem says press one. He knows what's up. He might be making a special.

He's wondering what's up. We've got a one already. 100% of the votes are in. YYZ Gord. Okay, well, you monitor that. Meanwhile... There's another one coming in. They're flying in.

I got a question for Cam Gordon. I don't want to end the show, guys. It's these two. What's your question, Mike? Was there a font change in the Twitter universe this week? There was. We have a new font called Chirp. Because I noticed it immediately, and now I'm trying to adapt to the font change in the Twitter universe this week? There was. We have a new font called Chirp. Because I noticed it immediately and I've been, you know, now

I'm trying to adapt to the font change. We announced it at Twitter Design. So yeah, we did like a rebrand earlier this year announcing some changes that people were going to see in the coming months. And yeah, one of them was a new font. And, you know, like everything else on Twitter

you got kind of the peanut gallery, you know, RIP Twitter, this sucks, this, that, and the other thing. Well, people don't like change. Yeah. You know that. Yeah, but it is what it is. I don't know, Mike,

do you have any thoughts on it? Does it sort of change anything? No, it's not offensive. It's, I had, you know, it was one of those things where it's different, so it takes a little while to get used to it. And I was just curious, like, if I, you know, at first you're like, am of those things where it's different. So you have, it takes a little while to get used to it. And I was just curious, like, uh,

if I, you know, at first you're like, am I imagining things? What's different here? And then you realize, Oh, the fonts changed.

Yeah. Just freshening things up. And, uh, yeah, I, I don't know why it's now, but in my six years at Twitter,

it seems like we put more emphasis in terms of how we communicate things, um, of a more aesthetic nature like this. Like we did like PR around this topic, for example, where I don't feel like we did anything around sort of the core design very much in years past. So good on you for noticing. I noticed it right away. Now I need to ask Stu to revisit something he skirted a moment ago.

Is there any possibility you're the new morning show host in Kingston? Like, is that completely done or is it still on the table? Have you talked to Bob since our last... I haven't spoken to Bob. Okay, it's not happening. I'm going to tell you how the business world works. He's moved on. He's interviewing others. He's going to hire someone else. He hasn't told me that he's done that. Do you know this for a fact? I know Bob.

That's just Mike being his typical heel self. Should Bob sit on his butt? That's not an answer. Should Bob Lillette just sit on his butt and just wait until you decide months later? Hold on. Hold on. Hold on a second here. How do you know that I didn't already sign and me and him are making it a big surprise?

How do you know? Well, now would be a good time to hold on to this for a big announcement. Why do I need to tell you what I'm doing with my life? It's working the gimmick. So I'll just tell you this. I owe you nothing, Mike, except for gratitude. I don't want to bullshit you.

You owe me fucking pasta. What? You owe me pasta and beer. Ricotta cheese. Ricotta cheese. And I'll say this. Bob's basement. That's my boy.

That's your boy. And we... I only did 74 fucking weeks, but I'm nothing. I didn't say you're nothing. I'm yesterday's news. I'm garbage. Because Bob's Basement, he's the man now. Wow, how does that feel?

How does that feel, Mike? I'm verified. Because that's how I feel when you tell me that you're tired and it needs to end. Life sucks. I said I'm exhausted. I'm exhausted. What else did he say? He said, I can't do this anymore.

I'm exhausted. You did say he's exhausted. I'm only human. I got four kids. I got a business I'm exhausted. What else did he say? He said, I can't do this anymore. I'm exhausted. You did say he's exhausted. I'm only human. I got four kids. I got a business I'm running. Whose fault is that? It's my fault. You got clients.

You got... I got clients. I got four kids. I simply think it's time for Pandemic Fridays. And make me the villain. I don't care. Whatever. Like, what are you going to do?

Let me check... Kingston is not dead. Okay? So Ridley Funeral Home, save the check. Kingston is not dead. Okay. So Ridley Funeral Home. But have you considered? Save the plus. Save those last rights. Yes. Have you considered reaching out to Bob Ouellette to tell him you're still very much interested in that opportunity? Well, I'll tell you something that's really interesting and truthful. Truthful. Oh, good. I only want honesty. Yeah. Real talk. I did receive a call, Mike. From Bob.

From a gentleman who told me That he is about to commission a film fund In Kingston, Ontario That is going to support the local film industry In Kingston And they're looking for producers Or content people to come and shoot things there I will tell you this

If it could line up properly Kingston makes perfect sense In a world where I could go there, do the morning radio show, and shoot television or movie programming while I'm there, that would be a perfect scenario. And that's what I told Bob from the beginning. What if, as we speak, Bob is sending an offer to someone else? Well, then that's fine. I respect that.

You're going to miss it. I'm not going to miss it because that person is eventually going to flame out, and I'll become available, and Bob will just want me back. That's the best I respect that. You're going to miss it. I'm not going to miss it because that person is eventually going to flame out and I'll become available and Bob will just want me back. That's the best. The radio. So Monica should just hold on because Stu's coming. Well, maybe Monica. How do you know Monica's going to last?

Maybe they're going to just keep Bruce and get rid of Bob. Or maybe Q will come calling for Monica. Okay. I'm almost amused by something. I don't want to reveal this yet until later in the program just in case something happens here. So I'm going to start here. until later in the program, just in case something happens here. So, I'm going to start here. There's so much going on here. Kingstone in Kingston.

I love that. I know what this is. The significance of this song. Oh, this is the first song like we ever played. Yeah. This is how it all began. And it's funny, because today is episode 900 it all began episode 600 300 fucking episodes 600 was our first pandemic friday the friday that was the third sorry the

20th of march 2020 wow and we were kicking out forgotten jams last day of winter is that oh yeah I never considered that. What a fucked up time. Like, it really was. And Cam went first, as he always does, actually. Probably the best song he ever led with. Greatest Miss is the rest of the way. It is possible.

Now, let's see, Cam. Can you name this song with the proper title? Go. Well, the name of this song is Standing Outside a Broken Telephone Booth with Money in My Hand? With coins in my hand? Not coins.

Money in my hand? The exact title, I think you nailed it, is Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand. Money Man by the Primitive Radio Gods, a one-man band out of, I have no clue where they're from. So we're not, this is not a misstep.

This is not a miss. I just wanted to open with the first jam we kicked out and just thought it was interesting the symmetry there that episode 600 was our first go. And here we are in the anti-penultimate episode and it's episode 900. That is oddly satisfying. I thought so too. And it's a great forgotten jam.

So I think maybe Stu's right was this a big shiny tune like I feel like this might have been on one of those compilations shout out to Mark Teo this is like a pleasant song

absolutely was Mark Teo the first guest we had as like a surprise guest you know what I think so I think so we were outside here

we were in the backyard and we did the big shiny episode we should DM him he should come to TMLX8 yeah well let's let's get on it he can sell copies of his book which I borrowed in the backyard and we did the big shiny episode. We should DM him. He should come to... TMLX8? Yeah. He can sell copies of his book.

Which I borrowed from the library. I don't know if that's a dick move or not. I did too. Libraries lending stuff out during COVID. Ballsy. Yeah, they're doing it now. Yeah, absolutely. I just read the new Facebook book. And how was it? I don't know if I learned anything new but I did learn the term that this guy here

is not the first person to coin the term FOSS. Because I sent you that little screen cap, Friends of Sheryl Sandberg, known internally at Facebook. Now, FOTM apparently used to be Flavor of the Month until I took it over. Still is. Until I took it over.

So, okay, let's start with the missteps here. And let's start with a misstep by our very own Stu Stone. Who I know people think, oh. I'm going to get comfortable here. Wait, can you put like a disclaimer here? Warning. The following missteps were selected by Mike. Oh, yeah.

Because Cam and I might have different opinions on some of. Cam and Stu have no idea what I'm going to play. There's no idea here. So, I believe that Cam and I might have thought of other missteps. This is my misstep. Oh, okay. Yeah, this is a misstep. Yes, this is a misstep.

Long intro. The great Leonard Cohen. All right. Yeah, very good. I didn't actually kick this jam out, The great Leonard Cohen. All right. Yeah. Very good. I didn't actually kick this jam out, but I definitely kicked this fact out. Woke up this. Does that not sound like Leonard Cohen?

God, like the streets of Montreal just pour out of this. But listen to the vocals. It's very Leonard-esque. I don't think many people thought this was Leonard Cohen. How did I find it on YouTube listed as Leonard Cohen? You think I uploaded it? Got myself a gun. Fun fact, Nas remixed this song.

Do you remember that Nas song? No. Got Yourself a Gun? What's the band? remix this song and did a you remember that Nas song no got yourself a gun who's what's the band like A3 A3

like Alabama 3 are you gonna watch that Sopranos yeah I will I'll watch it I'll watch it that's the guy

from The Deuce but it's also oh The Deuce I'm sure we'll hear from them in these missteps no cause those weren't missteps

when Mike played like three songs from the same show within five jams Oh, The Deuce. I'm sure we'll hear from them in these missteps. No, because those weren't missteps, actually. There'll be something else in that episode. Three songs from the same show within five jams. Mike, getting back to the Sopranos prequel, are you going to see this because you're excited about it? First of all, is it airing on HBO? Yeah. I don't really know anything about it.

The overwhelming majority of programs I watch on HBO, I leave saying to myself, that was good. Yeah. Yeah. I don't really know anything about it. The overwhelming majority of programs I watch on HBO I leave saying to myself that was good. Yeah. Yeah. I'm watching this

mini series now called White Lotus okay. Yeah. And I'm enjoying this fucking thing and I'm like oh it's like their

batting average is very high. Tony Gwynn. Is this like Steven Zahn? Yeah. Steve Zahn's in there. I think MF's watching

that. I'm watching. So Monica and I watch it and we're I think we have I think there's two episodes left to sign for us. But honestly, I'm thoroughly enjoying this miniseries. It's another hit for HBO. Quality control is high over there.

Yes. Seriously. Yeah. The night of. Why wouldn't I try it? That one's the best. Yes, I loved it. It was fantastic.

Why wouldn't I check out a Sopranos prequel on HBO? So this is a show or like a special? A miniseries, you think? I think it's a limited series, but it's like... Young Tony? It's James Gandolfini's son playing him. Yeah, his real life son. That's kind of cool.

Who looks a lot like him and sounds like him. And of course I'll give that a go. It might suck, but I'll definitely give it a shot. When did Sopranos end? It was like 2000... Like 20 years ago. 10, probably? No, I guess no more, like 2005?

I think around 2005, but we have to Google this one. By the way, there's a line for TMLX. There's going to be two lines, betting lines. There's a line, three lines actually. If you show up. There's a line on the total amount of people that will attend, which hasn't been set yet. There's a line on what time I will arrive.

Right? You can take the over or the under on when I'll arrive, Mike. You can hear me? Yeah. I know. I was just checking. So the time I'm going to arrive. Okay.

So it's a six to nine. You're going to show up at 613. Okay. Well, that line hasn't been set yet, so you could speculate. There's also a prop bet. Will I show up at all? You'll show up. You'll show up. And of course, there will be a line for free pasta that Mike

Willner will definitely be in. He'll be going back for seconds. Willner loves him some free palma pasta. He does. Bodog is on this right now. Mike, this is a semi-serious question. I mean,

this event is still two weeks away. Have you thought about vaccine passports? You must be vaccinated to attend. It feels like every day, you know, whether it's U of T or Billy Talent concerts or the city of San Francisco. Great question. I've thought long and hard on this.

If it was an indoor event, I would absolutely ask that all attendees be fully vaccinated or I wouldn't be comfortable being in the event. An outdoor event, I'm okay. Sorry, VP of Sales says Leonard Cohen's son is doing the theme song. Before I move on to the next,

bottom line is I'm not going to ask that you be fully vaccinated to attend TMLX8. But it would be suggested. That's ideal that everyone gets vaccinated. Why don't you set up a vaccination tent there and just jab everybody? Just to bang this home, if you will, Stu Stone, in a very early episode of Pandemic Friday,

thought Leonard Cohen was the voice behind the Sopranos theme song, Woke Up This Morning. And that is not true. That was a great misstep by Stu. It's been a running bit ever since. Interesting. It's a pile on already. Mike opens the show with me and one of my...

Unless these are in chronological order. No, it is completely kind of random, but everybody will be represented. Here's a misstep by yours truly. It's called like funny fuck-ups. Oh, where were you when I needed... Speaking of The Wire. Oh, the Irish band here.

Hold your fire. Hold your fire. Let's get a brew. I love this song. And if anyone who's watched The Wire probably loves it too. It's fucking amazing. R.E.P. Jimmy McNulty.

Well, fake R.E.P. It was fake. He was completely alive. That was a good scene. It was a good fake out. And Lester Freeman, play this damn song. I'm getting kind of emotional sitting here listening to this.

I will miss you guys. The Cadillacs stood by the house And the Yanks they were within And the Tinkerboys they hissed advice But were with a hen Then we turned and shook as we had a look in the room where the dead man lay So Big Jim Dwyer made his last trip to the shores where his father's lying But 15 minutes later we had our first taste of whiskey There was uncles giving lectures on ancient Irish history

The men all started telling jokes and the women they got frisky By five o'clock in the evening every bastard there was pesky Pretty well gone away There's nothing left to say It's kind of a nice farewell song for us too here. But this, of course, this is a jam I kicked out when we were kicking out Irish music. Irish music.

Because the Pogues, I erroneously considered a good Dublin band. Of course, I was very wrong. I feel like this is a reoccurring thing every year around St. Patrick's Day on Twitter. I feel like this year, is Hugh Burrell? He's been here, right? Yeah, yeah, he's an FOT. Yeah, he tweeted something

about it this past spring. Did he call them an Irish band? Or he was calling out somebody. But you can see the mistake, right? We hear the Celtic sound and the Irish themes. The Celtic sound? Yeah, the Boston Celtic. It's not the Celtic sound? I think both are okay, because there's a whole basketball team that's called the Celtics.

I think both are okay. That might have been a misstep. No. Jodakai. You better be playing some Jodakai tonight. Jodakai, sure. So meta. How many missteps are you going to play?

Is there like 20? We're going to go until you guys get tired. We're going to be here all night. I got a bunch here. I just want to say that this is a London, England band. This is a British band. Yeah, I guess based in London, although I feel like some of the players were from

Dublin. You guys beat me up pretty good for this, so I feel like there better not be any blood. No Dublin blood better be in this fucking band. To get back to Wire, Lester Freeman, was he the guy who did the little furniture?

Yes. He was bored at the beginning because to get back to a wire Lester Freeman did he was he the guy who did the little furniture yes like he did that to sort of like meditate yeah well he was bored at the beginning because he had they put him off in this section

to punish him to punish him yeah yeah yeah and he would do that and then of course he was good homicide police under you know

he fucked with the wrong person I feel like one of the closing montages of one of the seasons was them tearing down that office like that big map. There's a discussion going on at live.torontomic.com

about Celtic versus Celtic, but I'm sure it's Celtic, except Celtic is the basketball team. They got someone, the Schroeder, Dwight Schroeder. Oh, that Dwight Schroeder is from The Office. Who's the Schroeder? Dennis. Dennis Schroeder. Who said no

to an $80 million contract with the Lakers then ended up signing a one-year $5 million deal. That's hilarious. Breaking news coming out of CP24. I'm sure this is old news, but they've just broken it now. Britney Spears' father has stepped down and Britney is now free.

So all the scammers and con men that want to take Britney's money, she's now in control of it, and you can go and get it. Britney is now housed. Is this a missteps, and then there's a few jams I've got along the way, which are kind of like markers. Memorable moments.

Memorable moments, kind of sprinkled in, because then I got a misstep. It was more than sprinkled. Cam Gordon. So it wasn't that long ago. Like we don't have to think back to last summer or anything like that. But it was only a few weeks ago. But I listened back to this audio.

Did either of you ever decide to hear how it sounded? Yeah, it was crazy. Yeah. I got naked. Oh, my God. Yeah, we saw his like penis and stuff. I saw sausage. Yeah.

Kosher sausage. Yeah, well, me too, buddy. Nice. I'm a 1970s male born in Toronto. Got that old slice. Even the Catholics were doing it back then. Hey, you know, they know. They know.

Cam, what about you? You cut? Let's see. Last I checked. I don't think he is. It grows back, though. Yeah. That's what he told me when I saw it.

He's like, oh, it grew back. I enjoy getting cut so much when I was days old. I did it think he is. It grows back, though. Yeah. That's what he told me when I saw it. He's like, oh, it grew back. I enjoy getting cut so much when I was days old. I did it again last December. Yeah. How about adult circumcision? Hey! Hello. Kareem is in the hizzle.

Okay, so you listen back, and then you heard that moment when the reins just open up. That was fucking crazy. High drama. I'll never hear this song the same way again. No. I definitely can picture it right now. I was sitting in this seat. I was looking out this way.

Kareem wasn't there. He was inside and dry. Smart. He was smart. It was pouring rain like the worst storm I think I've ever seen. Yeah. Absolutely. And the equipment started getting rained on.

And Cam was watching my laptop. It was so cool. I thought you were going to get electrocuted. I got absolutely soaked. Yeah. I went inside it and we recorded it and I was in my laptop. I thought you were going to get electrocuted. I got absolutely soaked. I went inside it and we recorded it and I was in a towel. All of my clothes were in Mike's dryer. Yeah, Monica handed us each a brown

stained towel. It wasn't stained, was it? They seem like the towel if you have a dog. I like them in the backseat. Dog towels. We don't have a dog. Clean the dog's paws. Or if you've ever stayed in a seedy hotel or motel, a crunchy towel, we'll just say.

That's what he handed us, a nice crunchy towel. Oh, poor Monica. Okay. But what a moment. And it created some compelling audio. Even Wise Blot, when he was here, said that it was exciting to listen to that moment. That's the one he liked because it almost ended us. He thought we'd all die.

Yeah, then he'd be able to talk about us in some sort of tribute. He probably doesn't want me to die, just you guys, probably. I hope that's not true. God forbid, I'm going to knock wood. And it was still live streaming that whole time, the video, right? I didn't realize that when I shut down this board, which is what was kind of... Anyway, then it just started using the default microphone for the laptop, and it was picking up everything we said.

And then you have that, like, did we say anything that maybe shouldn't have been heard? Oh, right. We did. We did. You know what, Mike? You never need to watch your mouth. I don't have to watch it because I am Mr. Real Talk and I just say it. I say it like it is.

And I want to say, you talk about all these great misses or you want to call me some sort of a wild card. Oh, yeah. It feels like a photo. I need that photo again. That's a great photo. We went through some pretty... That's like dramatic. That's card. Oh, yeah. It feels like a photo. I need that photo again. That's a great photo. We went through some pretty... That's like dramatic.

That's crazy. We went through some pretty crazy shit during the... It wasn't just a pandemic, Mike. Maybe we should save this for the TMLX8. Oh, save it. Yeah, save it. Save it. Okay.

We're about to kick out a Cam Gordon misstep, but it's coming very, very soon here. Actually, let's play it right now. Yeah. Spring Jam? Oh, right. Or Fall Jam. Fall Jam. Right. Even though they say California Dreaming on a Winter's Day.

It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. Good song. Beautiful song. It's Peter Gross' Winter's Day. Peter Gross'

favorite song of all time. If I was in L.A., if I was in L.A., California, California dreams. Also, my favorite topic that we ever did

that ended up becoming a mind blow was like the covers we didn't know were covers. That was my favorite episode we did. And, you know, I tended to sort of play songs after that that were covers that weren't covers. That was a good topic. This was one of them. This song was... Yeah, it's a cover. Yeah.

But they wrote it, but it's a cover. Yeah. It's kind of a tricky gray area. So, sorry, one more time. Fall songs? Okay, so this was autumn songs. I like the word autumn. It's pretentious.

All the leaves are brown. And then he says, on a winter's day. The song's about taking a walk on a winter's day. Well, the leaves are damp. He's in the West Coast. He's L.A. stew. He's L.A. stew. When do the leaves fall, though?

They don't fall. They barely fall. They're on the ground. They barely fall. So, I felt it was a misstep. Big flute solo. I're on the ground. They barely fall. So, I felt it was a misstep. Big flute solo. I thought it was a misstep because I thought the song was clearly

a winter jam. Listen, he's going to go for it right here. Ready? This is a flute. Yeah. Is that a recorder? That's a flute. And that's like flute being played in a rock and roll way. It's pretty cool. Is this Denny Doherty? That's a flute. And that's like flute being played in like a rock and roll way. It's pretty cool.

Is this Denny Doherty? Is he? Yeah. And he lived around here, I think. It's the friendly giant. Mike, did you ever meet my former Twitter colleague who's now with TikTok, Lindsay Lynch? I don't remember meeting anyone named Lindsay Lynch. Because she went to high school with Denny Doherty's grandson or granddaughter or something.

I remember when she told me this, I was like, like I knew he was from, I think from like Kingston area. Or is that, that's the Loving Spoonful guy. That's Loving, that's, or yeah, there's a, but also the member of Mamas and Papas did live here. That's right. Actually, I think he was from the East Coast originally. Anyway, it doesn't matter. He's Canadian. Yeah, when she said he went to school with Danny Doherty's grandkid,

I was like, ah. I heard Michelle Phillips on the podcast that belongs to Gilbert Gottfried. Really? And she was talking about kind of the formation because she was dating Phillips and the lecherous Papa John, Papa John, John, and then how they,

they, they needed a falsetto. And there's a whole story of how everything kind of, what a beauty too. Have we said hi to people at live. Toronto, Mike.com. There's really no sense in even having a live stream on,

like, look at it. Well, be Shelly. What do you mean? There's no sense. You can't see us. Yeah,

but they can hear us. Pitch black. Be Shelly. Hello to you. Ian service just cracked open a burst from Great Lakes Beer. Thank you, Great Lakes, for your support. I'm enjoying my sunny side IPA. The Brother is here.

Oh, wow. Really? Yeah. From the West Coast? No, this is the other brother. It's always been confusing. I know. Moose Grumpy is here.

Hello, Moose Grumpy. Let me see here. I got Berainer at a good line last week. I'm not taking advice from a moose or something. Okay. So Moose Grumpy, since you actually were watching the live stream when the rains came down

and we thought we were off and we weren't, did we say anything controversial? Could you please report back if we said anything controversial? I know. I'm just curious because Moose Grumpy was listening. So let's find out here. I just want to say hi to a few more people before we proceed yyz gourd uh hold on beck lad oh lady chat lady chat uh five dollars i didn't see five five dollars nothing was said of controversial.

So there you go. When we're alone and we don't think we can be heard, we're just as proper and lovable. We didn't say anything controversial. Now here's another misstep by the great Stu Stone. Are you guys ready? I disagree with it already. This is not a misstep.

All right. This is not a misstep. This misstep is a misstep. Raging to fame. This is not a misstep all right you'll have an opportunity to respond crunch And the time flies by like a vulture in the sky. Suddenly he breaks into song. Oh, he is a banger, though. Yeah. I'm waiting by the phone, waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone. I picture myself singing along in Canada's Wonderland, waiting for the spin doctors to come on. Why am I playing this song?

It's a great song. Somebody to shove. Cam, I have a question for you. Sure. Where do you go to get most of your information when you're, and you could say this off mic if you don't want to reveal your source, but where do you, or just tap twice if it's what I think it is, where do you go to get most of your information?

A lot comes from Wikipedia. Okay. So I just am curious, okay, because this miss, this miss, calling this a miss is a miss. Well, remember, I came up with these jams. I think it's a miss. I'm sorry, you don't have to agree. To be clear, what is the miss here? Okay, so we did a grunge episode.

I know what it is. This was played during a grunge episode. And Mike's saying this is not grunge. We were kicking out our favorite grunge songs, and Stu Stone kicked out this jam. Soul by Soul Asylum. Somebody to Shove by Soul Asylum. Great jam

It's a great jam I do not consider This grunge Okay So Cam Back to my point Yeah Where do you go

To get most of your Reliable information For The internet Okay Is there a site Specifically You know

I'll swing by Wikipedia.com Does this site Look like The page you would Have gone to I know that site. So read me.

Do me a favor. Read. What does it say on the top of the entry here? What does that say? Soul Asylum. Okay. Soul Asylum. Then what does it say right here?

Genres. And what does it say right there? Grunge. Oh, really? Well, there's four, actually. There's alternative. But does it say grunge? That's what I'm asking.

You can't think for yourself. It says grunge. I'm telling you. I'm telling you. What happened to independent thought in this country? Fuck you, man. This is not a miss. Group thing.

This is not a miss. And Cam, how dare you judge 2 Stone? Show me where it doesn't say grunge. You also had this song on your list. Yeah, I think there's... What, he did? He did? VP of sales says that he did.

Cam had this on his list? That's just coming up now? I think I said it on the episode. Oh. We did a Twitter poll, did we not? We both picked this song for grunge and you're going to turn heel on me?

No, I agree. It's grunge. Ladies and gentlemen, this is our final episode of Pandemic Crime. Mike's exhausted. Mike. I'm going to eat all the palm of pasta. Wait a second, Cam. So you agree that this is gr final episode of Pandemic Prime. Mike's exhausted. Mike. I'm going to eat all the pomegranate pasta.

Wait a second, Cam. So you agree that this is grunge? Yes. Well, then what are we talking about here? There's more people. You guys can share this misstep. I'm open to this song being grunge. More people think that that song is grunge

than were vaccinated on your show last week. Well, I feel like we also heard like a Dinosaur Junior. Like Dinosaur Junior is definitely not grunge. I disagree with that too. Okay, so here's the poll so this was from the poll oh my god what's the date today uh this is the

12th of August okay this was almost one year ago this is from August the 22nd 2020 yeah this is a tweet from at cam underscore gore and twitter poll was somebody to shove by solace alum a hashtag grunge song? 35% thumbs up, 65% thumbs down, 57 votes overall.

Small sample size. Here's some thoughts. But I won that, right? Sammy Cone, professional musician. Who was on Toronto Mike this week. He was. He said in a word, no. No, because he's right.

He's a musician. Jerry the Garbage Man did a... Jerry the Garbage Man. He did a gif of... Jerry, yeah, but he wasn't... He was out of context. He knows his shit too, that Jerry the Garbage Man. And last but not least, Michael, don't call me Jim

Lang, said, this is a very long tweet, Cam. I've done the math. If you could apply a mathematical formula every 90s, alt-rock and grunge song, then apply two standard TV... This is so nerdy. I've done the math. If you could apply a mathematical formula to every 90s alt-rock and grunge song, then apply two standard deviations. This is so nerdy. I love this. Two standard deviations.

Somebody to shove is both the mean and the median. It's the very definition of an average song. Wow. That's inconclusive. It's above average song. Whose musical taste do you trust the most? Cam Gordon's or who are those other guys? I'm siding with Jerry the Garbage Man.

Jerry the Garbage Man over Cam Gordon. Sammy Cohn from The Watchmen. Sammy Cohn. Hey, how many? Oh, I shouldn't say that because Stu has performed in a very large audience. What does Sammy know? They're playing tonight. Like Danny and the other guy.

Oh, Serlin. I do love Serlin Graves. I love the guy, but he's wrong about this one. I think the greatest misstep ever didn't even come from us, so I hope that you acknowledge the biggest misstep that none of us did. What is that? You know what it is. You should know what it is.

Don't play dumb. Yeah. Okay, we'll come back to that, because I would like to play another great misstep by yours truly. I misstepped the most. That is a grunge song. I misstepped the most in the 73 weeks of pandemic Friday leading up to this episode.

We all have. It's a lot of episodes. Well, Mike, the biggest misstep you made in the history of this show is ending this show. Oh. But I digress. Oh. I got to see if I remember this is like the boy bands one i know this is your real joke another banger this is definitely not a boy band song

performed a rock song performed at the aforementioned Woodstock 99. Yes. Correct. Weirdly. Is there a special guest coming on tonight? I'll speak to that in a moment. Sounds like a candle box. Yeah.

Better than a candle box. Ooh. This sounds like an alternative radio song written by like a program or like AI or something. Oh, algorithm. Algorithm, yeah. Exactly. I was talking to somebody whose wife just took a job working for Spin Master

and then I was saying, you know, Paw Patrol is their big product and they were talking and I was talking about another show that I'm glad my kids have moved from Paw Patrol

to Teen Titans and he goes, oh yeah, because humans write Teen Titans. He says, Paw Patrol is written by an algorithm. I don't know if you know this.

I did PR for one year for Spin Master. I didn't know that. How'd that go? It was really interesting. That company is, I'll just say they're wild. But yeah, maybe that wouldn't surprise me, what you just suggested. But they own a lot of shit now, you know? They own Gund and they own

Spirogram and they bought all these old toy IPs. Incredible success story. Okay, let me own up to my misstep here. I might have made a mistake with this song. Okay, let's see what you did there.

The mistake I made was I thought it would be edgy and cool punk yeah just kind of punk if i played cereal joe's mistake because they were young boys and i tried to convince you guys it was a boy band for the boy bands episode the boy bands episodes there was a lot of new kids on the block there was uh in sync there was a lot of 98 Degrees might have been played. I can't remember. No Hanson. Well, we'll get to that. I think Hanson was played, actually. I think I

played it. No. Family Benz. No. We'll get to that. After this song, actually, just so we can get that going. Yeah, there's Kareem is indulging next door. Shout out to Dr. Mike Hart, the pot dog very great so i uh thought it was kind of cool and i thought you guys might i could convince you

and then i kind of knew when i was doing it that i was a fraud didn't feel good it just felt like a mistake it felt like a mistake okay so i'm here to tell you that it was a misstep. Of course, Serial Joe is not a boy band. I never really thought it was. Oh, okay. I thought it would be good to have that. We've got the receipts to show that you did think so. Now, Mike, am I wrong? I feel like we also heard this song on the

Big Shiny Tunes episode. Yes. VP of Sales just reminded me that this is the third episode of Pandemic Friday that we played Serial Joe's Mistake. If there's ever been more reason to end this. However, VP of Sales is also pointing out it's the third time that Mike has played this song. Well, obviously I like it. There's no hiding that fact.

I'm a fan of that song. Here's another song I like. Of course. I like this song too. With that smell in the air, this jam in the headphones, is there a better place to be than right here, right now? This is a beautiful night. New Toronto. This was played.

But this was, this band is... Are you on this live? Well, VP of Sales is doing real-time checks here, so he'll check. But here's where it was not played.

It was not played on the boy band's episode. It was not played on the... I think that's where the term Hanson got made. No, family band. Oh, there was a few weeks the... I think that's where the term Hanson got made. No, family band. Oh, there was a few weeks in a row where the topics could have been Hanson.

Like they're very obvious ones. Oh, we did Teens and Tots. Yeah. Teens and Tots. That's when I played Serial Joe, by the way. Tots and Teens. Tots and Teens. So there was Tots and Teens.

There was family band and boy band. Like there were all these opportunities to play Hanson and we never played Hanson. Therefore, we coined to play Hanson and we never played Hanson. Therefore, we coined the phrase Hanson for when a song that should be played.

Yeah, and it was played by me on the boy band episode because I put an end to it. I felt so terrible for them. Was it one of your four or was it like a mind blow? I think it was number two

or number one. It felt a bit like when The Undertaker finally lost at WrestleMania. It was played on the boy band episode, Stu's right. But it was not played on a bunch of other times. It was Hanson for almost a year. And it was kind of neat that we coined this phrase

and we all knew what it meant when a song got Hanson. It was kind of one of the fun threads that weaved in and out of the 40, sorry, the 73 weeks of Pandemic Friday we had leading up to this one. Who somebody recently played? Mike is just making new missteps on this show, Sorry, the 73 weeks of Pandemic Friday we had leading up to this one. Who? Somebody recently played. Mike is just making new missteps on this show, saying that Soul Asylum isn't grunge. Who said that? Who said that? I'm saying that.

That was DJ Lethal. No. That was a misstep because we came this close to DJ Lethal being on the show. Mike, who played a song by the Hanson Brothers? Was that Brother Bill? Oh, probably. That was a Brother Bill episode Brothers? Was that Brother Bill? Oh, probably. That was a Brother Bill episode. They were like no means no guys doing like hockey songs.

It was. Like alter ego. It was Brother Bill. Hey, let's take a moment. So while Mbop plays in the background, let's just thank some of the people who have been a part of this along the way. People are asking for lights, Mike. I can run and grab it during one of the future jams if you want here. But I just want to say

hello to a couple of people who used to be on the Zoom with us. Do you remember when Lieve Fumka would be on the Zoom with us? I also actually can tell a story that the first time we went on Zoom together, Cam and I didn't know that Lieve Fumka was going to be on it.

It took like three or four weeks. And quite literally, she DM'd me and said, hey, can I go on the Zoom? And I said, I just said yes because Cam and I were both like, whoa, who's this? I say yes to everything that I just wanted leave a funko to be happy. Sure, and it turned out to be great

because she always voted for me. We banned her as a judge. She sort of helped start this new Winst streak that never ended. But you know who else used to join us on the Zooms? Of course, Tim. Oh, Tim, right. A.K.A. Ian Service.

Yeah, he's the best. And for the record, for people listening at home and think that Mike told these guys to get off the damn Zoom, I actually never did kick anyone off these Zooms. They just stopped showing up to the Zooms, and then we moved it to the backyard, and there was no Zoom. Well, Leaf Gay Famca is the only uh fotm who stopped me in public she came up to me at the shopper at the um law laws at uh maple leaf gardens wow i was shopping with my daughter and tap on the shoulder

wow it's like and one was there you can't no i think i think it was just her i feel like this is before pandemic fridays because i feel like in the COVID age, just an early encounter like that, everyone would be like ripping the walls. Like you wouldn't do that. Right. You're right. You're right. I am excited to know that. It turned out to be great because we're now Cam and myself and Juan and

Leva Famke are like the best of friends. And Tim and I we're like the best of friends. Yeah. We're actually all going to the Caribbean this winter we just I'm just not invited yeah that would make me sad

I will feel like Stu felt when he heard that Jay Ferguson was on the show last week or how I felt when you guys did like six different like five hour deep dives

on topics without me those were good ones those were well received those episodes they're gonna win me a Pulitzer now so thank you to those great FOTMs who were a part of the show in a different way.

But also, Sammy Cohn, who stepped in one time. More than one time. Yeah, maybe multiple times. But then Brother Bill became the go-to fill-in. And Brother Bill hit it out of the park. And I mean, Ben Rayner only got the call because Brother Bill actually has to work for a living now, so his time is not available.

But these are all, like, FOTMs who stepped up. Yeah, they were great. I loved doing the episode with Brother Bill, and I loved when we had the episode with Sammy. And I wasn't here last week with Ben, but I thought it was a decent episode, even though I won. And I thought also the special guests that we had were all

really fantastic too. There was ones that stuck around, even the ones that just popped in. Do you remember the people who stepped around? I do. I remember the first guy who I'm hoping that you're going to acknowledge him. I'm not going to name him by name, but the biggest misstep in the history of the

Toronto Mike Show is probably the first guy that stuck around that was invited to sort of sit in. Oh, yeah, yeah, save that one. So Mark Tao. That one, that person you're referring to is in L.A. right now. Yeah, I spoke to him. And there's a 50-50 chance I'll hear a bell ring and that person will be in the Zoom. Oh, good. He might be at a Jays game, though.

Oh, wow. So hang in there and then i have a story to tell you about someone else who was supposed to ring at uh i'm looking at the clock now 8 30 which was 40 minutes ago and didn't and i think it's amusing that basically i am charlie brown and that person is lucy holding a football for me because i uh i said greatest missus so i reached out to Garvia Bailey and I said, Garvia, you're the only guest you didn't show.

The only, and she felt so bad, terrible. I said, look. So she no-showed again. Come on, at 8 o'clock today, can you come in again and we'll just the greatest misstep that you'd ever showed and explain why you didn't show

and everything will be well in the world. And she no-showed again. Perfect. But she committed, I can't believe twice she did this to me. Because she completely said yes for sure, Mike. And she's a very responsible human being. I guess not.

How do you forget that twice? She's working the gimmick. Also, before we forget, also Rod Black, too. Oh, my God. That was a real treat. Mike Richards was the first. He was great. Oh, Mike Richards. Mike Richards, yes.

Rod Black, unbelievable. Maybe a highlight of the whole. Oh, Mike Richards. Mike Richards, yes. Rod Black, unbelievable. Maybe a highlight of the whole. Oh, dropping imitations. And then Jay Ferguson's the third. All three of them stuck around for the whole show. Beauties. Three for three. And also Mark Hebzer.

Did he stick around? Yeah. Okay, well, Hebzer's the best. Yeah, he did a bunch. Oh, didn't Biff? Biff Naked did not stick around. She did not stick around. She couldn't get out of there fast enough.

And shout out to Dana Levinson. Yeah. Shout out. I want to shout out Lauren Honickman. I got that idea when Bingo Bob, I invited him on because. Did you know Bob Basement? Yeah.

Bingo Bob. Bob Willett. I knew he was as big a fan of digital underground as I was. And Shock G died. So I asked him to come on and talk about Shock G off the top. And that's when I said, hey, why don't we do this every week? But I won and talk about Shock G off the top. And that's when I said, hey, why don't we do this every week, but I won't tell the guys who's showing up. And that's when we started.

It was awesome. Who's going to be on that Zoom? Bob stuck around. Pete Fowler, he might have stuck around, but you guys knew he was going to be there. But yeah, there's a lot of great guests. Humble Howard, as we recall. Needs no introduction. Farley Flex.

Huge. Can get it because he's going to be at TMLX8. He's booking me for the show on Saturday. Oh, so that's Perry Lefkoe. Sorry, Humble's

going to be at TMLX? Yeah, he will but Perry Lefkoe is the guy who's going to. So Perry Lefkoe has a show of Jim Taddy on TSN radio. Which I will be on this Saturday.

And Stu was just booked. Make sure you mention the fucking pandemic. Hey, I'm listening to that fucking show and if you don't promote TMLX8. Why would I want to promote

something that's ending? You're dead to me. Why would I promote something that's ending? It's going to be ending sooner than you anticipated, brother. No Palma for you, buddy.

I'm used to that. So can I change the channel a bit and get serious for a moment here? Sure. So we just talked about all these people that have been a part

of the program and there's somebody, believe it or not, and it's kind of tough to even talk about it now. I think we're six months out now. But lest we forget, throughout the pandemic Fridays,

we lost an FOTM. This one is No Laughing Matter. They let me know you were gone Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song I just can't remember who to send it to I've seen fire to I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days

that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again Wow.

Just a reminder that it's not all good because we're going to wrap up Pandemic Friday in a few weeks. And Sheila Kanissa, which will not be at TMLX8. Huge fan of Pandemic Friday. Well, let's be serious for a minute. We don't need to be bullshitting here. Sheila was a huge fan. She did not like Pandemic Fridays, but she loved Toronto Mike. Makes me like

her more. Yeah, she has good taste. But it was strange to have the TMLX7 in the park when she wasn't there because she was always there. She was at TMLX6. And of course we lost Sheila. Had a very sudden heart attack and died very young, early 50s. So I just want to say, you know, Sheila left behind her husband

and a ton of friends. And as you pointed out, Cam, so much Twitter, so many Twitter supporters and followers and people who look forward to her daily tweets. Yeah, I remember seeing at one point, it's like, holy shit, this FOTM that I'm not really that familiar with when probably the first time I won the show

has a shitload of followers. And after unfortunate passing, it was interesting to see some of the Twitter tributes, some, you know, a lot of journalists and political folks, and a real, I don't want to say an activist voice, but a very active voice in a lot of civic matters and whatnot. Speaking of voice, I've noticed her sultry voice when she was doing the reads for that woman.

She worked for a real estate agent. Was it Barb Paluskwitch? No. That's IT. Good guess. It was like something Gielish or something like that. Pam Gielish. I forget what the name was, but she was...

Joanne Gielish. Gielish. And she was doing the voiceovers for Joanne Gielish, and it was just the best. Hot butter. It was like literally... It was so good. Like her delivery was so earnest

and I wasn't being sarcastic. I loved those reads. This guy knows. And, you know, it just sounded to me like she had a potential to have another career there. We would play,

yeah, we'd play her voice on every episode in that month. I think that was November 29, 2020, sorry, during the pandemic, of course. So in key FOTM, meaning that she was always there,

always supportive. She hate-listened. She probably didn't even hate-listen, because for some reason, I don't have, I don't know, but she loved Toronto Mic'd. She didn't care for Pandemic Fridays. It's not for everybody. This is an acquired taste. Those who love it, love it a lot. But Sheila didn't love it a lot. But we loved

Sheila, and we miss her. Of course we did. And I can't believe she's gone that's terrible quite honest with you guys like that makes me sad that was legit shocking yeah like it really was 50s early 50s people don't just drop dead and also like it it's one of the billion things that sucks about covid but your first thought is oh shit covid you know it goes there no it's not that but unfortunately people die for all sorts thought is, oh shit, COVID. You know, it goes there. No, it's not that. But unfortunately, people die for all sorts

of different reasons. So RIP Sheila. Well, I talked to... It's beyond fucked up. It's interesting because I talked to Joanne Glutish to find out what happened, obviously,

and I found out what happened. And then I got the nicest note from Sheila's husband. Yeah, because he listened to us. Sheila's husband liked our show more than Sheila did, I think, the Pandemic Fridays. But again, rest in peace, Sheila.

We'll be thinking about you and we'll shout you out at TMLX8. Pour one out for Sheila. One free pour. Absolutely. Let's do another misstep. Actually, I'm going to save this stewstone misstep here. And I'm going to go to a misstep by yours truly. By the way, Mike, good work on this.

I'm enjoying this episode. I like the range of topics here. This is where Mike thought this was a sports song. Not necessarily a misstep, but I want to talk about it. Ladies and gentlemen, coming to the ring area

from Mimico, Ontario. New channel. He's ripping up the real estate scene. The man they call Mimico Mike Majewski. Bangkok, Oriental City, but the city don't know what the city is got the creme de la creme

Is that the actual intro to that song? That's it, yeah. Wow. Murray Head. Sure. And you might know him from a many

a Broadway show. But this song is about chess and I kicked it out because we were kicking out sports jams. Another famous Twitter poll

that we're going to do up here. Okay, call it up because I don't out sports jams. Another famous Twitter poll. And again, okay, call it up because I don't necessarily believe in my heart of hearts this was a misstep the way I think Serial Joe was clearly a misstep, that Serial Joe's not a boy band. I would say

chess, you can make a compelling argument that chess is a sport. And since this song is about I think it's an argument that could be made that chess is a sport so I'm not necessarily lying on my falling on my sword here and saying I fucked up I'm just saying I get

your argument and why you might consider this a misstep it's not a sports song no okay so neither of you are I'll say that Soul Asylum Somebody Shove is much more of a grunge song than this is a sports song. That's a pull to be had. What's more true?

That Somebody to Shove is a grunge song or One Night in Bangkok is a... Is that the good stuff? I don't partake, so I just know it all smells good to me. You know, 76 weeks, you'd think he'd come over here and bring something for us. So Mike, this was very early. to me. You know, 76 weeks, you'd think he'd come over here and bring something for us. So, Mike, this was very early. This was from April 26, 2020. This is a good poll because this was part of the debate about this.

Right. Blah, blah, blah. A few links. Which one of these is more of a sport, chess or pro wrestling? Okay, for sure it's chess. For sure. That was a poll. 37%? Yeah. Oh, you know what? Because Stu polluted. That was a poll. Chess, 37%. What?

Yeah. Oh, you know what? Because Stu polluted the process by sending it to wrestling people. 63%. That's really ridiculous. Now, there was an interesting reply from Dave Summer, who used to be the head of digital for none other than the prime minister, Justin Trudeau. Snap election.

Now works for Facebook in DC. So Dave Summer says the one where people leave a match on stretchers, if they're not careful and are retired, 35 foot blown. That's athleticism. That's athleticism. He's talking about pro wrestling. I think I said something.

Stu. So again, went to Wikipedia, according to of all places, chess.com. You are. How can I put this in term? You'll love. Oh, checkmate. How can I put this in term you'll love?

Oh, checkmate. So very witty. That's not Wikipedia. That's chess.com. Oh, that's chess.com. So what does it say? If I may. Is chess a sport?

No, chess is not a sport. That's from chess.com. Yeah, which then references dictionary.com. Yeah, but you just admitted that chess.com means shit. Okay, Mike, so... I didn't. I said chess.com is where do you... I think Bob Ouellette runs it from his basement. Where do you go to get chess info? Chess admitted that chess.com means shit. Okay, Mike. I didn't. I said chess.com. I think Bob Ouellette runs it from his basement. Where do you go to get chess info?

Chess.com. Yeah, so Mike, you reference chess on Wikipedia. You have some highlights. It's a mental sport, baby. Some fucking bullshit here. Like, I don't even know what this is in the fine print. Chess could be argued to be a sport. Yeah.

I mean, this was like pro wrestling. It's not a sport. It's athleticism. You have to be a sport. Yeah. I mean, this was like pro wrestling. It's not a sport. It's athleticism. You have to be athletic. It's the greatest sport in the world. I hate your guts. Yeah. Stu tweeted a photo of Triple H here.

Yeah. Dave Summer came back into the conversation. ESPN doesn't talk about hockey either. So there's your conundrum. Wow. I think Stu was saying because ESPN covers WWE. They don't have a chess section. Yeah, I think that was your

point. Good point, Stu. Okay, but I'm here to... I'm just being reminded of all the wins that I have. I'm playing this fucking jam because I admit it might have been a misstep. I'm not 100% sure it's a sport. I think not 100% sure it's a sport.

I think it could be argued it's a sport. It's definitely more of a sport than WWE wrestling. Should Ric Flair respond to that? Yeah. I understand that. We've been too gentle on Cam Gordon. Can we hit him in the gonads? Are you ready?

Are you ready for the fucking misstep of the whole series? I hope that it's a nice slow jam. It's slow. There we go. Can we hit him in the gonads? Are you ready? Are you ready? Ready for the fucking misstep of the whole series? I hope that it's a nice slow jam. It's slow. There we go. Plunder Funnets. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Thank you very much.

Thank you. That was awful. Hey, what are you doing in here? Songs from a show. That's what Cam played. Bass jam. It was more like in universe jam. Oh, is this in universe jam?

So if you played The Wonders and you'd say, oh, look, that thing you do. Which I did. Which is a good one. That's a good one. That's a good one. Dude, that's not a misstep. Jake and the Jack and the Rippers. Okay, tell us.

This was Mike and the Rippers. Mike and the Rippers. Bass jam. That's Wheels Real Dad. Wheels Real Dad. Shout out to Andy. Andy Panty. Okay, so Julian Lennon, right? Yeah, that's Wheels' real dad. Wheels' real dad. Shout out to Andy. Andy Panty. Yeah, okay, so Julian Lennon, right?

Yeah, that's John Lennon's son. John Lennon. You know, both had both made their own music, right? Okay. Jack and the Rippers. Jack's son. Who is that? It's Mike and the Rippers. Mike and the Rippers. Jesse and the Rippers. Not Jack the Ripper.

Anyway, Mike, who's Mike's son? It was Wheels. the Rippers. Mike and the Rippers. Jesse and the Rippers. Not Jack the Ripper. Anyway, Mike, who's Mike's son? It was Wheels. Derek Wheelers. Right. Both make music. Here's an example. This, so Julian Lennon, much too late for goodbyes. Derek Wheels, Wheeler.

Stop the press. Space Jam. YYZ Gord is saying that there's some validation of Mike's chess point. I think YYZ agrees with me that chess is a fucking sport. Don't be ashamed of that, Mike. But again, like, okay, Wheel of Fortune, is that a sport?

No. I guess, you know, if you want to rely on resources, chess.com, no good. But www.arisf.sport forward slash fed dash 11 dash, you know, I guess that's the way to go, right? I'm just, I think I met him at, well, I met him at TMLX7 and YYZGord seems to be a bright.

Who was the guy that said that they didn't like me at? Oh, yeah. Who was that? Joe Louis. Joe Louis. He's coming out at number eight. By the way, quite the pitching matchup tonight. We got Shohei Ochani versus Berrios.

Wow. The new J. Okay. Well, let's get this done and we can watch that game. Okay. Anyway, that's a good song. That was a good pick. So I'm just going to say, just for the record, what's the misstep?

Okay, that was Wheels picking up the bass guitar and pounding on it for a few seconds. In the Degrassi universe. You think that's a jam, an in-universe jam. Like, that's not even a song. I guess that-universe jam. That's not even a song. I guess that's the misstep. It's not even a song. He's jamming, man. What do you think, Stu?

It's just disrespectful for him to come to the table with that. Like a mockery of us? I would say that it's almost as annoying as you picking three songs from The Deuce on the same episode. Two songs from The Deuce. But I will say that, Cam, that is a fucking disgrace.

Disgrace. Fied World Chess Federation is listed on the IOC list of recognized sports federations. And so is the World Wrestling Federation. No, it's not.

Yes, it is. It's not. Yes, it is. That's bullshit. No, it isn't. It's not true. Can I make one point of walking this back a bit?

I put out a lot of Twitter polls, as we've said. I'm not sure as someone who works for Twitter, I would feel comfortable. You know, I'd like to post a lot of little clips of YouTube videos and stuff. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable working for this company, tweeting that video and saying, is this a song?

I feel like my professional credibility might take a hit. So you're basically admitting to the misstep. I'm not admitting anything. I'm just saying. Hey, I want to admit this. This is a hot topic. I want to admit that Mike Majeski is your man. He just renewed for three months, Mike Majeski. I just shouted him out. Wait, wait, wait. Mike

and the Rippers. Mike and the Rippers. Mike Majeski, who ripping it up. And don't call Michael Landsberg Mike, because Mike is the guy who fixes his car, as it up. And don't call Michael Lansberg Mike, because Mike is the guy who fixes his car, as I recall. So, shout out, go to realestatelove.ca, reach out to Mike Majeski. If you're looking to buy and sell in the next six months, he'll take care of you.

He's a good man. Much love to you, Mike Majeski. He's the man. And is he going to be at the... He's ripping up the Mimico real estate scene. He better be there. He can walk there. Is he ripping it up?

YYZ Gord, who, by the way, is my new favorite FOTM. Another misstep by Mike, calling it YYZ. And I'm the one that corrected him and said that it's YYZ. And now his name is actually spelt YYZ. If Cam can verify that. He is saying he doesn't think that chess is a sport. No, he says, to be honest, I doesn't think that chess is a sport No, he says to be honest I really don't think chess is a sport

But stumbled onto this unfortunate fact The fact being that the World Chess Federation Is listed on the IOC list of recognized sports federations That to me is case closed We're done If that's the nugget that you want to lean on To justify playing Hold on

Is darts a sport? Hold on. Darts is just as much a sport as chess. Sure. Yeah, I agree. Darts is a sport. Fine. I'll say chess is a sport.

But the fact is that you had an opportunity to play some legitimate sports jams and you decided to be a dick and play Murray Head one night in Bangkok and pass it off as a sports jam. That's atrocious. That's atrocious. I think that's almost as bad as Cam playing that noodling from Degrassi.

Let me say this. This is an aside. Did we ever do a ballads episode? We never did. I think we did love songs maybe. We did some similar things. Okay, ballroom dancing, right? Yeah. I feel like it was an Olympic sport. Olympic sport. I think a lot of people Can't poo pooed it

But like how is it Different than Skating Figure skating Figure skating Same thing Because people think It can't be a sport

If judges have to determine Artistic merit And stuff like that But we've been living Of that forever Fucking dressage Or like gymnastics Like all sorts of stuff

Or just even like The equestrian Or whatever they do Isn't that what's called dressage Okay maybe Shout out to Ian Miller And Big Ben Only rich people Yeah Big Ben And Ian Miller Did you hear about Or just even like the equestrian or whatever they do. Isn't that what's called dressage? Okay, maybe. Shout out to Ian Miller and Big Ben. Only rich people. Yeah, Big Ben and Ian Miller were there.

Did you hear about Bruce Springsteen's daughter? Yeah, she won like a medal. Yeah, that's amazing. That is amazing. Oh my God, so much ground to cover. I'm saving one for a special, but I want to just play this and then talk about this here. Hmm.

I don't think this Oh I think I know This is a great song But I think this is This is our lady piece Yeah I get where you're going here But I will listen to this

I do like this The world to some way It's good Good drummer We didn't kick this out But it's a great drummer But I have two ways I'm going with this

Hey Hey I'm going with it. Tiger. Hey. Ordinary. Hey. Ordinary name. But ordinary is just not good enough today. Now. Oh. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. I'm thinking Sounds good in the headphones.

Yeah, it's a good song. Shout out to Rain Mena, who's in L.A. with Chantel Kriviacic. I saw Strombo. I saw that, too. They had a little encounter on the roadside strombo's an LA boy there now much like Stu

was last week I actually listened to the beta kit podcast because Rain Mado was on talking about his new interest in Bitcoin

cryptocurrencies yeah it was kind of interesting I'm not sure he knows what he's talking about oat bran dropping fun fact that the

kid in this video is the serial Joe lead singer. That's right. That is a fun fact. It all comes full circle here on Pandemic Friday. So why am I playing Our Lady Peace? I think you're playing it because Jeremy Taggart got in an early fight with me about whether a song was a sample. He was saying Salt-N-Pepa, What a Man, What a Man.

I was saying, he was saying that's not a sample. That's correct. There was a feud. Don't forget, in the early days of Pandemic Friday. And En Vogue actually commented and said it was a sample. Yeah, and did they say that, Cam? I remember they liked it. Yeah, I think they said it was a sample.

And I remember Spinderella was in on that too. To remind people, maybe there's some late joiners on Pandemic Friday who haven't gone back, but there was an early feud. It was kind of one of the threads of the early episodes of Pandemic Friday. Stu versus Jeremy Taggart.

F-O-T-M, Jeremy Taggart. He was really insulting me on Twitter. It was quite something. He was like, what the fuck do you know? It was quite something. He's like, I've only released like 100 albums. He wasn't playing around, for sure. he's a bit of a cranky pants like but then on vogue who sings the song what a man chimed in and took my side the same way that when soul asylum called me and

said that they're grunge uh perner right david perner is that his name okay wash your hair oh so mike uh your your wife the lovely miss monica was part of this too because it says monday morning poll to settle a debate with toronto mike stewstone and miss monica reena reena uh miss monica reena reena is this salt and pepper jam a cover or a sample it's a cover or a sample. It's okay. You want to hear this tune? I'm sort of digging it. By the way, next week,

which will be our penultimate episode of Pandemic Friday, do you know that is the big milestone birthday next week for the Great Monarch Arena? Yeah. A milestone birthday. She's turning 50. I'm going to tell her you said that. Anyway, En Vogue confirmed it's a sample with a winky face. And that got 30 likes.

That's enough for me. Tagger didn't like that. Tagger didn't like that. That sort of just confirmed that the winning streak I was already on at that point. It just became heightened at that point. Only Cambrio thought you won those episodes. Hey, just one more reason I played Our Lady Peace. It's a twofer, okay?

So there was all that, the Taggart feud with Stu, and it was kind of cool. But then very recently, Stu Stone's buddy was called because we were having a discussion. Who has more Billboard Hot 100? Who has more Billboard Hot 100 number one hits? I said it was probably Bieber. You said it was Drake. We called up the expert. By the way, they're tied now.

Yeah, they're tied. I know. That's what we discovered. It just happened. In the last seven days, it just happened. Who got it? Because that would be the one to put them in. I think it was tied when we had that chat.

Drake came back and took the tie. Okay. Okay. Well, it's close. Bottom line is your buddy on the phone said, Our Lady Peace. DJ Lethal is in the chat room chatting with your FOTMs now.

Shout out to DJ Lethal. Big fan. I just watched that documentary, that Woodstock 99 documentary. But, like, we got Envo, we got the guy from Our Lady Peace, we got DJ Lethal. This is fucking great.

Like, seriously. It's so much fun. Sadly, everything ends, though. Everything comes to an end. It's got to end. Everything comes to an end. It's the right decision. I know, it's so much fun everything ends though everything comes to an end it's got to end everything comes to an end it's the right decision I know it's tough to

but yeah I just thought it was funny that when Stu called this guy Bieber or Drake he said Our Lady Peace like he was thinking that's Eli the Creep he was wrong

but he was way wrong but he thought we were talking about the Canadian charts it's still a bad guess even the hip would be way ahead of Our Lady Peace no I disagree with that I think Our Lady Peace

probably has more number ones no? I don't think so that would be that's an Our Lady Peace. No, I disagree with that. I think Our Lady Peace probably has more number ones, no? I don't think so. That's an interesting... You'd have to talk about what chart are you talking about? Are you talking about Canadian rock charts? No, like the Canadian mainstream rock. Yeah, I say... Or not rock, like the mainstream top 40.

Top 40 Canadian. I bet Our Lady Peace has more top 10 hits than the Tragically Hip. Okay, we'll have to settle that one. I say Hip has more, but Head by a Century, lots more. We'll see. You're right. We'll find out. Okay, so that's Our Lady P.

Shout out to Jeremy Taggart. He gave us some great moments earlier. He says he hasn't seen the Woodstock doc yet, but he had a good time. That's what he remembers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was just a whole idea. I'm sure he did. That was the best.

Was Fred, because the guys who ran the show, the founders. I don't think he came here to talk about that. I know. I'm talking he did. That was the best. Was Fred, because the guys who ran the show, I don't think he came here to talk about that. I know, I'm talking about it. Yeah, I'm just saying, we have a great guest here. I can't hear him anyways. What do you want to do? We can't hear him.

I think we move on. Have him call you. But I think it's whether Fred incited the violence or not. Did he stoke the flames or not? He didn't. That was the question of the documentary. Okay, so I'm going to now play a misstep by Stu Stone. You ready, Stu?

Sure. Big fucking misstep by you. I can't wait to play it. All right. This was a good one. So this was the song that I played That was I forget what the topic was But it was like something like

This was like I remember the topic Songs about but it was something like, this was like, songs about other artists. Songs that name check other artists in a title. So I said that this song is like the police, like, you know, Sting. And not to be confused with Stinger! I'm talking about Sting, Stuart Copeland, and Andy.

Steve Borden. Gordon Sumner. And that's what it was. And now that many, many, many, many weeks have passed, will you admit that it is mildly, mildly offensive to suggest this is about the band? Yeah. I mean, this was more of a joke, obviously, than anything.

This was me being funny, but obviously... Like Serial Joe funny? No, because that wasn't funny, and this was. Like Bass Jam funny? By the way, any chance that you can have KRS-One played on your show, you should embrace it. It's not like, you know... Even if he doesn't fit

the topic. That's ridiculous. No, we have themes. The theme was songs that name-check other names of artists. Is The Police the name of a band? Yes or no? Yes. Does the song go whoop whoop?

That's the sound of the police. He's talking about that song. A do do do. A da da da. A whoop whoop whoop. Whoop whoop whoop. Okay. He cracked.

He cracked. Luger! What a misstep. What a glorious, humongous misstep by Stu Stone. Like, at least... At least whether you like it or not, Wheels, Bass Jam... This is a better song. It fits the category.

This does not fit the category. It does. No, it does not. Stu, come on. I owned up to the fact that Serial Joe's not a boy band. I owned up to the fact that I was trying to be clever. Why the fuck is KRS-One so pissed off at the band The Police? It's like he's yelling here.

Was he one of the nine people at the Horseshoe Tavern when Gordon Sunder played in his underwear? Famously. Famously before Roxanne broke. Was that you? I wish. I was a bit young. I wasn't there.

Come on, Micah. I'm never at these shows you hear about where it's like, oh, whenever you hear about, oh, we saw Nirvana with 80 people before when Bleach was just released and nobody cared to be there. I'm never one of the guys who has those stories. Okay. Have you ever seen somebody who went on to be really famous in a small venue like that?

Good question. Lethal says that the Boogie Down Productions first album is in his top five best hip-hop albums ever. I have nothing but fucking time for Boogie Down Productions, man. The stuff they did with Mishy Mee. He also wants to know why we're all in the dark here.

I didn't bring the lights out, Mr. Lethal. We should get him on Zoom. Well, do you want to send the link to him? Would he do it? I don't know. I can DM you the link right now. If he wants to get on Zoom, he's more than welcome. Give him the Gertie Garfield Bailey spot.

Yeah, I kipped it open for Gertie. Just say a quick hello to him, maybe. Well, I'm going to give him the option. He doesn't have to, but... Otherwise, he could just... You guys should go... I know he's working on new music. Just say, lean back if we get him on.

Mike's going to... Carol Pope in his cargo shorts there. Why? He says that we should hug it out because we're so close to each other in the dark. Well, we're fully back. DJ Cuddles. So,

yeah, he can't go on to him. He's driving. He's listening to us in the car though. That's impressive. Well, he should hear about his buddy Stu Stone's missteps. I saw Limp Bizkit just postpone their tour. Yeah, they're going to wait for COVID to be over and they'll come back. Fred Durst's new

dad rock. Yeah, they look good. He Durst's new dad rock. They look good. He's got the Jeff Woods look on there. That's right. Oh, another guy who came on. Oh, shit. I forgot about LBGTQ2S. Putting the B. He was putting the B back in LGBTQ.

Shout out to Jeff Woods. What a voice. A lot of great guests we had. Find them on OnlyFans. And Garvey is not one. I don't know how that happened twice that really not on only for some reason all right so where am i going here uh i'm going to play a song that was a misstep by yours truly you ready yes Oh, of course.

It's like songs from movies. This has to be the biggest fucking disgrace. This is like bad memories. The pandemic's been bad enough, Mike. Cam, I definitely think that this is worse than anything you could have possibly done. Mike, you are a real piece of shit for this one. And I think it was me calling you a piece of shit is what got Sheila to not like the show. Yeah, maybe this was the song.

She heard me call you a piece of shit and then she was like, I don't like this show. I think you're right. I would say I hate Stu's pick of Sound of the Police. This is worse. This is worse. This is worse. Well, give it a moment and I'll explain myself. There's nothing to explain. I do kind of like this song.

First of all, YYZ Gord, I did own it. I said I was just joking around. Jokeroo. Is this a cover? No. You're thinking of Turn the Page. Yeah, which Bob Seger. Right.

Well, they did a few. They did Whiskey in the Jar. Hollywood Nights. If I may. Yeah, fucking right. Now, let me explain myself. This is going to be interesting. The theme this week was jams we loved more after we saw them on the screen.

I don't think that was the topic. Try again. Retrofit. Try again. It might have been on TV. First of all, Mike. I might have said TV. That was probably, Mike,

that's probably the low point of your career with that episode. I'll tell you why. Because you picked the topic of that episode and proceeded to play two songs from The Deuce and this. Yes. Which is a wonderful clip.

That is quite the week for me. Which is the subject was songs you heard on TV shows or movies. and proceeded to play two songs from The Deuce and this, which is a Wendell Clark, which is the subject with songs you heard on TV shows or movies, right? And that I liked more after hearing them on that. And Mike played this song because he had seen it in a YouTube video tributing Wendell Clark body checks. Can we get a ruling on when I fucking played this? Because Ian remembers it as sports jam. It definitely was not on sports jams.

Ian is wrong, wrong, wrong. Does Paul Burford know about this? I feel like he'd redact his big number comment. Big number wouldn't do this, Mike. You're better than this. For those who don't know, there is an epic montage of Wendell Clark fights called All Heart. I've seen it. Sent to this song, okay?

VP of sales, where are you when I need you? He says it was during Screen Discover Jams. Oh, wait, think about that. But it was specifically TV. No, bullshit. It was called Screen Discover Jams. Cam, pull up the DM where he told us movies and TV. It's months ago.

I can't do that. I watched this YouTube video and it made me love this mediocre Metallica song. This song, I started loving because every time I hear the song... This is a pretty good song and you're fucking up.

Why is he saying that I'm doubling down on my KRS-One? Mike is quadrupling down on this And this is why Pandemic Friday is ending. If this is the reason why it's ending, then let it end, baby. Two more to go.

Burn it to the ground. Actually, it's pretty bad. I like the opening part. I didn't care too much for it until I saw All Heart, the Wendell Clark tribute video. So who's he fighting? Is it like just all the greats? It's everybody.

Bob fucking Probert. Everybody. Tony Twist. It's big hits by him. I mean, it's just the best. And then I introduced my oldest to it when he was a little guy. And this is back before. I feel like things change. I feel like I can't glorify hockey fights with jarvis yeah but because james

is 19 now it was okay back when he was a kid like we were still fucking okay of hockey fights i feel like it's become uh taboo yeah like once we learn more about cte that's what killed it sylvan lefave he did he would do like bone. Sylvain Lefebvre is the guy who put down Brown. Down goes Brown. That was Lefebvre. And that was Gord Stelic calling that with Joe Bowen. I remember Brian McCabe was famous. Oh, yeah.

My brother, Ryan, still rocks the... Yeah, he had the can opener. Double cheek hit. He was in consideration. There were discussions he might be on the Olympic team, Team Canada team that year. McCabe. Yeah, he was like...

That's how good he was. He was a big fucking... Mike, this is the worst. You could talk about... You could change the subject, talk about Sylvain Lefebvre or whatever the fuck you're trying to do here, but you need to own up

that that was the biggest misstep in the history of this show. Hey, can I ask you a question? That's the number one. Did I just play that fucking song? Okay, but I want you to say... What's the topic tonight? I want you to say it's the biggest.

What's the topic tonight? I want you to admit it, Mike. The biggest is the offensive sound of the police. What is the topic tonight? That's a pull. What about Bass Jam? That'd be a good pull. Yeah, I guess that's a pull. Those are arguably our three worst picks.

Drumming on the fucking bass guitar for a few seconds. That's bullshit. I'm not putting this in public. Why don't we just take a live poll right now? Okay. People who are. Was he on? Did he make that 06?

I remember he was in talks. Maybe he was an alternate or something. I don't remember him dressing for the 06 Olympics. People who are. I feel like he was on. Yeah, I think he was. You guys should do a deep dive on this another day. Okay.

Let's talk about this. Actually. You want to do three hours on it? He got traded. Do you remember who the Leafs traded for him? I feel like it was Alexei Karpatsa. I feel like

I'm about to have a cam outburst. Was it not Yushkevich? Karpatsa? I think it was Karpatsa. He was a Russian. Hebsi on sports tomorrow. Listen.

I got to talk to Hebsi. He broke this Big Buck Martinez story and it was quite the week. That got some traction. I saw Stoughton was on that. And I got a lot of hate mail about it. People are calling me a troll. I saw Stoughton was on that. I got a lot of hate mail about it.

People are calling me a troll. I'm not going to let you successfully try to change the topic, Mike. Are you guys ready? Don't play another song yet. Please. Please. Please.

If you're listening to the show right now, live on live.torontomike.com forward slash stewstonewins. No, don't do the forward slash. Is your mom watching? She might be. Can you please just type in either Mike, Cam, or Stew which person played, had the

biggest misstep of these three songs. Mike playing Metallica. First initial. Playing Hero of the Day. Actually, the biggest misstep is still yet to be played. I'm talking about the three of us because the biggest misstep we didn't do. One vote for Stu. One vote for Stu for playing thing.

One vote for Mike. Come on. He puts Mike in there. Cam not getting it. My mom is watching. The brother says Stu. Brother says Stu. Mike.

Joker Ruru says Mike. YYZ says Mike. VPSL is correct. He says Cam. Oh, Joker Ruru says sorry, but too late, buddy. I'm eating your palma pasta. So Mike is winning right now. Mike is winning.

Let's move on. I have a few more. The Bass Jams is not a song. Mike, we got more votes. They're flying. Back. Back. Come on.

It's election night. Back. Come on. That hurts me. It hurts my feelings. Okay. So I want to just say this is important. Okay, guys.

Boots Crumpy. my feelings. Okay. So I want to just say this is important. Okay, guys? Boots Crumpy. She knows. Okay. Well, don't read that one out loud. Don't read that. Okay. Most people are hearing this. You played in all six games.

Why do I think it was an alternate if you've been in all six games? She's going to take a sticker from StickerU and put it over your fucking mouth. Shout out to StickerU.com. They're going to be giving something away to people who come to TMLX8. Really? I just talked to them yesterday. Do you know what it is? Love it.

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Learn more at RidleyFuneralHome.com. I just checked the Zoom. This person's not there. I'm going to play what I think might be the biggest misstep in Pandemic Friday history. It's not the one Mo'm going to play what I think might be the biggest misstep in Pandemic Friday history. It's not the one Moose Grumpy is anticipating. It's a

different one. It was not kicked out by Cam. It was not kicked out by Stu. It was kicked out by somebody who's in LA right now and was going to try to join and talk about it, but he is at the Blue Jay game. What is it going to be?

The greatest song in the history of music. He's at the Blue Jay game? Ladies and gentlemen. Wow. Good for him. Kingston, wake up. We're going to play the greatest song in the history of music and come back.

Monica's going to tell us what's in her cereal bowl. Traffic on the 10s. Coming up, wallflowers. Goo Goo Dolls. But first, a little disco tech. It's awful. It's a terrible song. How is this his greatest song?

What a fucking guy. David Alter, who's a nice man. We all agree? Yeah, and covering Major League Baseball now. I think he's there for pleasure. Really? Okay. I think he just covers hockey. I feel like he's there for pleasure. Really? Okay. I think he just

covers hockey. Yeah. I feel like he's there for pleasure, but you worked with him, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. He's a nice man. He's been on Toronto Mike. He's an FOT. How old is he? He's younger than me. I could take him or leave him.

Maybe late 30s? Yeah, that sounds about right. So, because he was with the National Post. This all started because I said

all FOTMs in the universe, record yourself talking about your favorite song of all time. I'm going to put together this series called FOTM KOTJ. I get a David Alter message from him about how Disco Tech by U2 is his favorite song of all time. At first I thought, oh, it's a joke. And then I remembered Alter's not that kind of guy. Like this is very serious. He's being very earnest here. So I invited him on

Pandemic Friday to discuss further and I think I was harsh to the I think I was pretty tough on him I think I was hard on him I literally fucking gave it to him hard like I think I think I called him a loser no I don't know what I said to him but I think

I know they say that your jams are your jams and I thoroughly believe that but I think I know they say that your jams are your jams and I thoroughly believe that, but I think I slipped when we were playing discotheque and he was telling us it's the best song of all time. Yeah, because he said the best song, not even the best, just the best song that was ever written. And he truly meant it.

No, he means it. He's also like a wrestling guy, but this was not a work. Not a work at all. No, he was being very serious. I do admire that he would take this provocative stance, but it was not a work. Not a work at all. He was being very serious. I do admire that he would take this provocative stance, but it's like, what the fuck? I mean, I think that I don't know whether I was more uncomfortable with

him playing this as the greatest song of all time or more uncomfortable with Dana Levinson playing Erotica as her favorite song. Erotica. Erotica by Madonna. Written by Lenny Kravitz. And remember...

That's Justify My Love written by Lenny Kravitz. Oh, right. Right. My bad. My bad. Right. And Monica did show up also in the sex episode to kick out Color Me Bad. That was eye-opening.

Turn up this YouTube song for a second. Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, come to the stage. Put some greenery on the scenery. Is there a reasonable human alive who thinks this is the best U2 song of all time? It's not even the best U2 song. Is it in the top 50 U2 songs? Yes.

Oh. I think we said at the time, this to me is barely a song. It's probably in their top 20 songs no yeah because i can't think i can't i couldn't even name 20 songs so they would eventually end up there oh lethal still around yeah he says no sound i'm out so we lost him damn anyway it's all right how is he watching if he's driving he's a dangerous man he might be in an uber he's listening maybe he's in an uber you can't zoom in. Anyway,

another missed connection. When was that? Do you remember when that happened? When we had an altar on? Weren't we going to do stripper jams? Yeah, but it was somebody of the three of us vetoed it. Didn't Cam veto it? He plays it safe with these guys.

I wanted suicide jams. I wish that I had a story about Cam going to strip clubs, but I don't. Oh, stop. Stop it. Remember I wanted to do guilty play. No, songs that we like, but we know we're not supposed to like, like a Bill Cosby song or something. Problematic Jams. Problematic Jams.

I was keen on that, and that got vetoed. David Alter wrote on Twitter, which is a great platform. One of my very, very good friends works there. Who? Cam Gordon. Jennifer Hall. Anyway, he wrote on the Twitter machine that he was going to Los Angeles. I said, DM me if you want a hookup on the brisket.

I got the brisket hookup, right? And he did hit me up. I got the brisket hookup, right? And he did hit me up. And I hooked him up with Eli the Creep, the guy who says that Our Lady Peace has the most number one songs. So hopefully Eli and David Alter are going to get together and go for some brisket. Is that true?

They're going to have a little hangover. That's what he said. And Lethal wrote, if Stu's mom wasn't on here, he would have Stu stories. We don't want those. Definitely don't do that, Lee. So sorry, Trudy's in the chat room too. Well, she lurks. Yeah, she doesn't know how to sign up. So she just texts me.

Ian's got to give her a call. I can call her if you want. I'm going to call her real quick because she is texting me. Is 1236 in there? Sometimes he pops in. Is he single? Mark?

Yeah. Or Ian? Mark. Yes. Maybe we should fix him up with Stu's mom. Imagine Mark Weisbach becomes his father. Like all going to the wedding and stuff. Can you imagine?

That's like in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. He does qualify. Here's my mom on FaceTime. Yeah. Hi. She is watching the show, listening to the show. Every week. She watches every week.

Is your mom upset that it's ending in two weeks? I think she is. She doesn't want it to end. She likes it when... And more importantly, is your mom coming to TMLX? I don't think she is. Why not? Why?

She's golfing that day. Home with Anne-Marie? Yes. Thornhill Ladies Golf Club. So did you hear... What do you think of these missteps on the show so far? So did you hear, what do you think of these missteps on the show so far? So far, I think everybody's doing a legitimate,

Mike has legitimate reasons to be playing them. Okay. Because I've listened to them. As far as topics are concerned, but you guys have valid arguments of why they shouldn't be. Your fans are voting, so you get some honest feedback. And other than that, I think it's a great show. I love this episode.

Can you ask your mom if she thinks chess is a sport? Is chess a sport? No, but I think checkers is. Oh, wow. Fire. That's a point of view. And also, hot or not, Cam Gordon. I love Cam. Oh, wow. Fire. That's a point of view. And also, hot or not, Cam Gordon. I love Cam. Oh, wow.

She's a big Cam fan. Yes. Trudy and I go way back. She not only says she loves Cam, but she always reminds me, if Cam doesn't want the lasagna, you could get the extra one. No, I always take the lasagna. I've said I eat on the way home. Now I'm going to play a song that's not a misstep.

I'm going to let it go back to listening. Okay, yes. Thank you, Trudy. Thank you for joining us. This is not a misstep, this song, and I think it's a time to play it, like a penultimate song on this episode, if you will. I just wanted to play this.

Oh, yeah, not a miss. How is this a miss? Because it was only kicked out twice by Stu, which means we only got the I made out with Rosanna Arquette story twice. I forgot about that. So I talk often about, you know, Dan Gallagher walks by and says,

nice sprinkler. And Cam will say, oh, Elvis Stoico's returning a VCR. I think I've only told that story once. No, both times. How can you kick out this jam and not tell a story? Well, you probably reminded me the second time.

There's no shame. If I had that story, I'd tell it every fucking week. Listen, everybody knows this is the best Pandemic Friday episode we did. Yacht Rock? Yeah. Stephanie Wilkinson loved it. So did somebody else. There's people coming off in the chat right now.

That was the signature episode. Why didn't we ever do a sequel? Because you're a jerk. Oh. Well, we did boat jams, songs about boats. Yeah, we did do boat jams. Almost the same thing. Yeah.

Same thing. What a jam. I just wanted to kick out a Toto song because any opportunities Stu had to kick out Toto, he did. And I can promise you this, Mike. I will dig deep into my... What a jam. Listen to the bass,

the drums. The drums. Yeah, you play this on girl jams and Yod Rock. I would say Doc Rock, that's what Cam called it. I will say that I will promise you guys next week when we're

kicking out the Hanson Jam songs that should have been played or are just songs we love, I'll find a Toto song to put in there. How come Africa was never kicked out

on Pandemic Fridays? I don't know. Maybe that would be a geography episode. Kind of sucks. Definitely doesn't suck. Conti, Eurasia. Yeah, it's okay.

That's one of those songs I feel like I never need to hear it again. That's crazy. Never need to hear it. That's controversial. See, I feel the way Ian served is I felt like we drained the swamp on Yacht Rock. Because all the, like, I didn't feel there was a lot of good stuff left. You're wrong.

It's the best musicianship, the best studio musicians. The last sort of before it went all digital. It's like true fucking mastercrafted music. I feel like it's six artists. Did you read this comment from your buddy DJ Lethal? He listens to Yacht Rock. He knows. He knows.

That's all he listens to in his 66 Caddy convertible. Which he does have. It's red. Cherry red. in his 66 Caddy convertible. Which he does have. It's red. Cherry red.

And also, YYZ is also saying enough Yacht Rock. It's been done to death. So even though we only did one episode, that's death. That's enough. This is a great song, though.

I love this song, too. You know what? I guess it's a song that it's a finely crafted song. And I understand why Stu adores it, but I would never ever go out of my way

to intentionally play this song. Yeah. I could see. Like, would you, is there ever a moment, Cam, in your life where you're going to

actually say, I want to hear Roseanne? I would. Right now? No, I'm asking Cam. I know you would. No, probably not. Like, if you hear it

in the wild, you're like, oh, that's a good song, but would you ever, would you ever make it play for yourself? Yeah, I don't know if I'd go out of my way to see it. Here's the great Steve Lukather. Here he is.

Isn't that techno? He's just going crazy. Wow, I love this song. Wow. What a jam. What was the other Toto song you played the other week? Georgie Porgy? No, but something else. 99? No.

Or Hold the Line? Yes, Hold the Line you played. Yes, yes, yes. What were you going to say, Cam? Was it in our DM thread or was it on the podcast where we talked about that big aborted festival that was going to happen in Toronto 12 years ago where they only had two feature acts signed up?

They said, this is going to be the Woodstock of Toronto and the two acts they had were Chubby Checker and a superstar all-star band led by Steve Luthaker. Am I imagining this? Was this with somebody else? That can't be a fever dream. It's too good to be a fever dream. I feel like it was in the DM thread.

Like I found an article on the Toronto as I circled it. I'm like, oh my God, look. It must have been the DM thread. It's a reference like Stu's heard of the band. So gentlemen, this is, we're nearing the end of our anti-penultimate episode of Pandemic Friday. We should let the listenership know that don't come back on Thursday for the penultimate episode because we're actually going to record it Tuesday evening. Time to be determined? Yeah, let's talk.

Like, I don't have the same, like, I do it 8 o'clock Thursday because I go to soccer and then I rush back. My preference would be to do it earlier just because I'm going out of town. Okay, so we'll have to make some noise on Twitter as to what time and we'll put it in the secret FOTM DM group. We'll tell them, of course.

But Tuesday evening is when the penultimate episode records. Basically, it's the Beast of the Reest, which is a fancy way of saying best of the rest. Our favorite songs of all time that have not been kicked out yet on Pandemic Friday. Like this is going to be great. Bring the fun facts.

And then again, final reminder for this episode anyways, is that we're going to be live recording the finale, the ultimate episode of Pandemic Friday that is going to feed us, and your first pour of Fresh Craft beer is on the house. It's going to be amazing. I would love to see everybody there. Kids eat free. Kids do eat free, but don't drink free. I'm debating whether I'm going to be there or not, but I will say that either way, I hope everybody has a great time.

We're talking Aqualung. Okay, so, guys, we've been doing a little bit of like, you know, I can't wait till this is over because I am exhausted. That's not bullshit. What's that got to do with us? You still have time for other guests? No, it's all of the above.

I do need like, I need to recharge my battery at some point. Kids are going back to school. It's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot. It's been, you know, there's no rest for the wicked

when you run your own company. And Mike, you'll know where to find us. So I guess what I'm saying here is, can we think about what Pandemic Friday has meant to each of us? I want you to think about that. And the listeners, too. During this final jam, this final misstep, if you will, I want us to listen to the words and capture the mood and really think about what the last 74 weeks have meant and what pandemic friday uh what it means to the listenership to the fotms and to stew stone cam gordon and toronto mike respectively are you guys ready it's got a little homework

assignment listen closely it's only about it's only a couple of minutes but i want you to listen no chatter please contemplate everything out of our shells This is pretty awful. I forgot about this. I do kind of like this song. Silence, please. Silence, please. Is this supposed to be like Leonardo singing? Stuart, please, listen. We're coming out up from under the street Lord, we're ready to rock

There will be no retreat We're coming out of our shells Out of our shells We're coming out of our shells We're coming out of our shells Once we got started We knew that we scored Learning the music

And finding the chords We just kept practicing We stayed underground Singing in the sewer Is a wonderful sound It's a wonderful sound We're coming out of

our shells Lord, we're coming out of our shells We're coming out of our shells Cause when there's music inside of you You know that one day it's got to come through

That's why we're here and we're telling you true We're coming out of our shells Lord, we're coming out of our shells Yeah, we're coming out of our shells Lord, we're coming out of ourselves. Lord, we're coming out of ourselves. I was going to do the lighter gif. Stu. Yikes, Mike.

Cam. Just when I thought that. It's a great song. In many ways, over the last 74 weeks, we have come out of our shells. It's fucking deep. Are you talking about like when you got a vasectomy? That happened during PF. That's a scrotum though.

That's flesh, not shell. Yeah, that was the, they did something to my balls. That was during Pandemic Fridays that that happened. Yeah, I know. We they did something to my balls. That's what, that was during Pandemic Fridays that that happened. Yeah, no, we did vasectomy jams,

remember? And that's when we played Papa Roach. That's right. Cut my life into pieces. But when I heard that song,

when I was setting up this episode, I knew I needed, I knew it was a significant misstep in that this episode wouldn't be complete without coming out

of our shells by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Mike, another, that same episode. So that has without coming out of our shelves. What was this again? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Mike, that same episode. So that has to be the worst, like I said, the worst night. That and the Metallica thing. That Metallica and the tune from The Deuce. No, I think that might have been In-Universe jams, like the In-Universe. Whatever the case may be, this is a VHS cassette that came with a Pizza Hut order.

It was a cassette, not a VHS. A cassette that you had to buy if you ordered the kids combo at Pizza Hut. And Mike remembers the Coming Out of Our Shells song. And that song, I know you, I heard you rumbling. It was an awful song. Daddy Rumble. In my, where is he? In my headphones, when I listened to that in this night sky with my,

I'm going to be honest, two guys, I know you guys have been friends since high school. I just joined this little posse. I consider you both two of my closest friends now. Really? How many hours have I spent with you guys through this pandemic? And I'm listening to that song in the headphones here under the night sky. You can see the stars up there.

It's beautiful. There's a little bit of a burning smell in the air here. I don't know if it's a forest fire or what. Humidity. Right. It hits differently. Like, that is a beautiful song. Who wrote that?

Like, do we know? I know it's like Ninja Turtle. Those fun facts were dropped in a previous episode of Pandemic Friday. Okay. But remind us, who was it? I don't have those notes at my disposal right now. It was dropped by fucking Pizza Hut, and you had to, like, order the kids combo and dine in at the fucking all-you-can-eat salad bar.

Didn't they do it like turtles on ice too like they played out of our shells give me a break will you stop when you heard that song in the headphones tonight it sounded like shit no really what did you think cam i think it's a great i like genuinely sincerely think it's a great can I send you a song that I think would be better? Is it a misstep from Pandemic Friday? Could be. I'll do anything for you, Stu. I was about to play us off.

Get this done in a reasonable hour. Leave a Fumka's asleep before these Pandemic Fridays start. You slept next to Carlos or Juan. He just takes a Spanish name. Come on. He's's gonna hear this story I hope he does I love him

I love him as much as she does Juan's got a Toronto Mike shirt It's orange And yeah It looks good on him He's in good shape Not ashamed to admit that I respect the male body

I do too I saw a lot of your body When that storm hit Yeah Are you sending me something? I am And how are you sending it? DM? Sure Because I was about to play Lowest of the Low

Not yet Stop the music What was your favorite episode? I guess Stop the music! Stop the rock and roll! Because I really liked the wrestling jams Wrestling jams was a lot of fun Oh yeah, Jason Agnew

Yeah, Jason Agnew, we almost forgot the great Jason Agnew. I had two people who were going to zoom in today, and if you count DJ Lethal, it was three, and nobody showed up in my face. So let me play this jam for you, Stu. This is I wanted to end after out of our shows. And this is basically what Mike

has failed to do to Cam and I for canceling or putting an end to Pandemic Fridays. He refuses to apologize. So this would be a good song to have Mike. Because it's so hard for him to say he's sorry. This is more Yacht Rock. This is, well, you know, Steve Lukather does play on the track.

Of course. I dedicate this to all the FOTMs who have converted and become FOSSs. Save some of this gold for TMLX8. This is about you, Mike. This is you wanting to get away. Just listen to the words. I mean, it's so perfect. 1236 says,

this is a very emotional episode. Oh, he's in there. Steve says, Steve says, ta-ta for now. Jokeroru says, and that! Yeah, that fits.

This is from me to you, Mike. I'm trying to stay. You want to go. After all that we've been through, Mike. I will make it up to you. I promise to. And after all that's been said and done You're just a part of me again

Wow. Heartfelt. Two more episodes to go. Two more. Where does the time go? Our 75th Pandemic Friday will We'll record Tuesday evening. Join us at live.torontomic.com. And that.

And that. And that. And that. And that. Will be the last time I say it on a Thursday. And that. And that brings us to the end of our 900th show. Congratulations on that. Well, at least 74 of them belong to you guys.

I think Cam and I have been on more Toronto Mike shows than anybody else. But not according to your best of. Easily. Shout out to Al Grego, who will be at TMLX8. He's going to help me with the audio. He's bringing the speakers.

Don't forget the speakers, Al. And that's... You can follow me on Twitter. I's bringing the speakers. Love it. Don't forget the speakers, Al. And that's You can follow me on Twitter. I'm at Toronto Mike. Cam is at Cam underscore Gordon. Stu is at Stu Stone. Sad face.

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