Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - In-Universe Jams: Toronto Mike'd #763

Episode Date: December 4, 2020

This 38th Pandemic Friday, Mike kicks out in-universe jams with Cam Gordon and Stu Stone. These are songs the exist in the universe of a television show or movie....

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Well, you know, Michael, I've always been a big supporter of your podcast. But imagine my surprise, my confusion, my shock when I hear your nutsack co-host shit-talking me on Pandemic Friday. Well, I've got something to say to Dr. Tweet and his sidekick, Mini-Mensch. That's right, I'm talking to you, Pete and Repeat. I'm talking to Stu, Mr. Jack of all trades and master of none. Mr. Faking a murder, more like faking a good movie. I'm talking to Cam, Mr. Obscure Music Picks. Your picks are so obscure, even
Starting point is 00:00:29 the artist's mothers have never heard of them. Oh, and by the way, if you're such a big shot at work, how come you can't even unblock yourself on your own site? The gauntlet has been thrown down, the bell has sounded, and the challenge has been accepted. At TMLX7, two and a half men will go in
Starting point is 00:00:45 but only one will come out victorious and if you think it's going to be you think again stew the fosses will be carrying you out not to victorious chance but to mournful dirges and cam mf will need to come and pick up the pieces because at tmlx7 three things things are going to happen. I hit you, you hit the ground, and the ambulance hits 80. I'll see you two at TMLX7 if you have the guts. And if it's at Palma Pasta, I'm going to Palma Posterize both of you. Oh, yeah. It's time now for Pandemic Fridays. Starring Toronto Mike, Stu Stone, and Cam Gordon.
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Starting point is 00:02:49 I'm Mike from TorontoMike.com and joining me this week for the 38th Pandemic Friday is Stu Stone and Cam. Gordon. Where do we go from here between the cold open and that bombshell of
Starting point is 00:03:05 a new sponsor? You know what that tells me? Neither of you listened to my Eric M episode. Oh, okay. Which was excellent. I can't believe it. Sammy reaching into his pocket. Good for him.
Starting point is 00:03:22 Good for you, Sammy. Dinner's on you when this pandemic's over, Sammy. Obviously, business is doing well. Well, let's say he's trying to drum up some business. I like it. Because he drums. I get it. He's like the drummer for the Watchmen, Sammy.
Starting point is 00:03:34 I think that's who that is. Listen, if there's one positive we can take out of 2020, it's this sponsorship. That's huge. Sammy, welcome to the Pandemic Friday sponsorship family. Now, what's your reaction to the cold open? Unbelievable. I don't know who that was, but it was brilliant. It was beautiful.
Starting point is 00:03:51 Do you have any guesses? I would have to say that it's probably that son of a bitch who does the best of Toronto Mike episodes that glaringly left Cam and I on the cutting room floor. He seemed to know a lot of kind of the inside scoop. Last week, he heard you guys call him out because you were not chosen for the best of Volume 3. Damn right.
Starting point is 00:04:13 Not just the best of Volume 3. We've never been on any best of, and Cam and I have been on this program many times. Yeah. So he wanted to retort. Like, this is a direct response to you calling out Al Grego last week. I thought that was good. Clearly.
Starting point is 00:04:28 Although it seemed like it was, like, 90% Hulk Hogan and, like, 10% Andrew Yang. Almost. Like a bit of the Yang gang. If Cam and I ever open up a mattress shop, a discount furniture shop, a carpet store, or any sort of a business, a local business when this pandemic is over and we need a pitch man for our local television commercials. And if Ed the Sock is not available, we will give you a call, sir, because that was fantastic. Ed the Sock will definitely be available.
Starting point is 00:04:59 He might be. I added him on LinkedIn, so we'll see what happens. Steven Kersner. Absolutely. Our former boss. That's right. Yeah. Also Mike Wilner's former boss. That's right. Yeah. Also Mike Wilner's former boss.
Starting point is 00:05:07 I need responses on the Mike Wilner firing. Terrible. I don't know what happened. Because he's in a movie you directed. Yeah, well, he's also my friend. It's terrible. It's a terrible decision. I don't know what is behind it.
Starting point is 00:05:18 I haven't had a chance to speak to Mike about it. Obviously, I'm giving him his space, but I will eventually be like a nosy Jew, and I will hit him up and ask him what's going on, but, you know, I think it's terrible. It's a big loss. This is somebody who is very passionate about not only Toronto Blue Jays baseball, but Toronto as a city, Canada as a country, a very proud Canadian who usually, I'd say he's batting, you know, if not a thousand, pretty damn close to a thousand when he's, you know, picking and choosing battles online. You know, I think it's terrible. He was, you know, one of the great calls of the last, you know, 30 years of Toronto Blue Jays baseball is Jose Bautista's bat toss home run.
Starting point is 00:06:07 Right. And I feel like wilner was called that game like he was at that game yeah yeah yeah no he was uh he was working with howard i know howard made that call but he was that yeah he was my point is is he was like in the booth he was there he was part of that franchise making history uh not just that there's so many classic wilner calls. And not just that, even on the Blue Jays talk, there's so many classic Wilner calls. So I think it's a loss. I hope that he you know, somebody scoops him up because
Starting point is 00:06:33 he's a talent. He's a passionate guy and he's, anybody would be lucky to have a Mike Wilner on their roster. And seems to be like one of the good guys too. I've never heard like a disparaging word about him. He's a man. Good guy. Very solid guy. Dependable. He was at TMLX 5 at Palma Pasta
Starting point is 00:06:49 and TMLX 4 at Great Lakes Brewery. But he's just a good dude. Yeah, he's a good dude. And he's entertaining on the radio too. Even when the callers called and used to give him shit. That was the reason to listen to the show to hear Wilner dress down idiot callers. So, you know, I was already a fan.
Starting point is 00:07:07 So I hope that, I know, not I hope, I know that he'll end up doing something else and he'll continue his career. So hopefully they paid him well on his way out the door. I was going to say, Mike, and we've talked about this before, you have this unique position, something unfortunate like this happens and you're almost sort of a fulcrum. You know, I don't know if he'll ever get down here to the backyard and make him sit in
Starting point is 00:07:30 the snow and kind of like, you know, spill the tea. He knows it's open to him. But it's, it's a very unique role that you occupy within the media landscape. And it just seems to, you know,
Starting point is 00:07:42 kind of get, get broader and broader every year. The fact that you can just, you know, that anecdote is thanking Peter Gross for giving his first job in radio and stuff. I mean, it's all these little nuggets that would just be lost to history. And then, you know, something really kind of unfortunate happens, like a fella loses his job. And then, you know, you're sort of right there as part of, like, the ecosystem for whatever's next for him. To me, you think of the Toronto Blue Jays and you think of Wilner. So, you know, and I know that the Blue Jays acknowledge that
Starting point is 00:08:12 on their social media. They posted about Wilner, and a lot of people came out and posted about Wilner. So I know he felt a lot of love, and he should just continue to feel love and know that we here at Pandemic Fridays definitely are Wilner guys, and we'll be looking forward to following his career to whatever happens next. You should get him to do a podcast with you.
Starting point is 00:08:33 You got to give him a little time and space. No, no, I'm not even talking about as a guest. I'm just saying like, you know, Wilner on sports. I don't want to be like those ambulance chaser lawyers or whatever. Celio and Barnes. Right, right. Barnes died. It's just Celino now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Celino or whatever. Celio and Barnes. Right, right. Barnes died.
Starting point is 00:08:46 It's just Salino now. I saw that. Yeah, Salino. It's just Salino now. That's right. We covered that on a 1236 episode. Diamond and diamond. Nothing sharper than a diamond.
Starting point is 00:08:54 That's right. You guys want to make a comment on the passing of Pat Patterson? Sure. Go ahead, Cam. Yeah, I mean, a legend, like a fascinating story. Because he's from, what, Montreal? Yeah, he's from Quebec, for sure. And I believe his story, I don't know if he's one of the first openly gay wrestlers,
Starting point is 00:09:15 but I don't know. I think it was very later he formally came out, but also everyone already knew it and didn't really care, which you would think is the antithesis of something like pro wrestling what most people think about it but you know he's the first intercontinental champion i was seeing some of the tweets like he had fought sergeant slaughter and like the steel cage or the boot camp match and ken kenny patera one of stew's all-time favorites um and then you know for later generations was just like vince mcmahon stooge and and involved in like some of the funniest things during like kind of the the rock and stone
Starting point is 00:09:49 called t-voss it would always be getting the shit kicked out of him with uh who's it was briscoe yeah gerald gerald briscoe yeah um sorry if you know doing vince mcmahon's dirty work when vince was kind of evil um also i think he was the guy who invented the Royal Rumble. Yes, true. Like, all this stuff is incredible. So, yeah, big loss. But, I mean, much like Mike Wilner, had a great run. Stu, thoughts on Pat Patterson?
Starting point is 00:10:19 I think Cam covered it. You know, he overcame a lot of uh a lot of uh stuff so you got to respect that you know this is a guy who didn't barely spoke english who became a big star in america uh in a sport that not only requires or a form of entertainment that not only requires athleticism but the ability to have verbiage and not only did he overcome it he became a color commentator at one point so uh you know he's a legendary karaoke singer behind the scenes, Frank Sinatra. But, yeah, listen, a great mind for the business, as they say. And the business of professional wrestling has definitely lost one of their pillars of creativity.
Starting point is 00:10:59 Stu, did he go, because he was a bit before our time, like before kind of the rock and wrestling era. Did he ever leave WWF or he went right into like backstage stuff? Yeah. go because he was a bit before our time like before kind of the rock and wrestling year did he did he ever leave wwf or he went right into like backstage it was just yeah okay yeah amazing now cam you know do you know the name gary dunford i i i knew i knew of him when i saw him surface on that that tweet this this week yeah on his blog i'm like okay that okay, that guy. And then I clicked on Encounter Rise by, I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, this guy. So he would be the guy for The Sun who would cover things like radio and television.
Starting point is 00:11:32 I only know Frank Ziccarelli from The Sun. Okay, yeah. He wrote about wrestling. Okay, so. Sorry, go ahead. My family was a star family. So like a lot of these Sun names, I only learned when the internet showed up
Starting point is 00:11:43 and I could read them online. But Gary Dunford is a, he listens to Toronto Mic and he was, he made a, he wrote a blog entry about the TV theme song. Oh, great.
Starting point is 00:11:53 And he said, Dumpf wrote about us? Yeah, Dumpf wrote about us. He's a bit of a legend. Like I'm trying to get him on Toronto Mic. He's a big deal. Definitely, yes.
Starting point is 00:12:00 But he said, the two so-called musical experts didn't pick the theme song for Manix. For Manix, right. Which I had never heard of Manix. It was on the short list. It's on the tip of my tongue. I guess we should tell him we were born in the 70s.
Starting point is 00:12:12 It's okay, though. Manix is a great song. Do you know it? I do now. Okay. I didn't know much about Manix at all. Legendary show if you're of a certain, you know, people of a certain age. Is it really?
Starting point is 00:12:24 That was a big show Manix People born in the 60s would know Manix For sure It was a huge show See normally I had Hebsey's ear once a week To say hey Hebsey you know Manix And he would go oh yeah
Starting point is 00:12:39 And he'd tell me a whole story about Manix But we're on hiatus Back in those days Mike there was only like 3 channels So if you had a show on TV, everybody fucking saw it. Welcome Back, Cotter used to get 30 million viewers an episode. No, I know this. I know this. Next you'll tell me about the MASH
Starting point is 00:12:53 farewell, but I have to say when I was growing up... The farewell of MASH. The Paris gop had 27 people in it. I was going to say the Roots finale. That was a big deal. That was a big fucking deal. Now, I don't know about you guys, but when I was growing up, we had 13 stations. This was my number when I was going to say the Roots finale. Now, that was a big deal. That was a big fucking deal. Now, I don't know about you guys, but when I was growing up, we had 13 stations. Like, this was my number when I was very young. 13.
Starting point is 00:13:09 I remember 12 and 13 were French. Let's see if we can name the stations. Okay, one doesn't count. There was nothing on one. Channel 2 is TVO. TVO. Okay, let me do this. Okay, we'll do it together.
Starting point is 00:13:17 3 is Global. Global's got it. Okay, 4 is CFMT. Wait, wait, 4? I thought it's like you're watching 47 cable 4. Yeah, it's CFMT. But I feel like it used to be Like 16 for a while
Starting point is 00:13:27 CKVR The new VR, yes You're watching 47 cable 4 No, it's CFMT CKVR I believe it was both CKVR was channel 12 at one point And Classicom cable
Starting point is 00:13:42 That's number 10 I don't know what... I'm just telling you... Channel 5 CBLT. Should get Carmen Salerno back. Cable 4, as we'll call it, when I was growing up with CFMT.
Starting point is 00:13:52 And that's when you had Designing Woman and Murphy Brown. Yes. You're watching 47 Cable 4. Yeah, 47 Cable 4. CFMT. I'm telling you.
Starting point is 00:14:01 Google it later. You're probably right. Then 5 is CBC. No, 6... CBLT. 5? right Then five is CBC No six CBLT Five No wait a minute Six is CBLT Five was like
Starting point is 00:14:10 What's coming up next Scrolling Yes Yeah Whatever Right Six is CBC Yeah
Starting point is 00:14:16 Seven is City TV Everywhere Eight is CFTO Yeah CFTO Nine Hold on Buffalo ABC
Starting point is 00:14:23 Buffalo Right I was going to say Like the Christian channel. No, it wasn't. Now it is, but before that it wasn't. Eyewitness News. Right.
Starting point is 00:14:28 You're right. You're right. It was one of the big networks. Was it Vision? Ten was Rogers Cable 10. Yes. Where you could see Mike Willner and Stu Stone and Cam Gordon. Correct.
Starting point is 00:14:35 The Wine Line, Chalk Talk. And Ed DeSoc. Okay. Ed DeSoc. Eleven was CHCH. Yeah, of course. And then, as I recall, 12 and 13 were French. 12 was New VR. and 13 were French. 12 was new VR.
Starting point is 00:14:45 Then 13 was French. And if you put the dial all the way up to 29, you got WUTV. That came later. There's different phases in my life. Oh, no. That was channel 20 for a while. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:14:57 Because I used to watch Benny. His wrestling was on on Sunday. I watched 28. I watched Benny Hill on that stage. Yes. Benny Hill, classic. This should be the episode. CBLT was channel 5. I was right. I was just going to that stage. Yes, Benny Hill classic. That should be the episode. CBLT was channel 5. I was right.
Starting point is 00:15:08 I was just going to say that French channel would have exposed games on. We were arguing channel 4. 5 was CBS according to some people here. But we're arguing 4. I say it's CFMT. Steph has it all backwards. What did she say 4 was? She said CKVR was channel 3. Where was she raised? Maybe it wasn't Toronto.
Starting point is 00:15:23 13 was CKCO from Kitchener. That could be right. Yeah, so what's the topic today? Okay, so let's talk about this topic, and then I'm going to give a shout-out to some... That was a good warm-up. It's a good warm-up. Here, this is the best way.
Starting point is 00:15:34 Let me play a little song from a show we all watched at lunchtime called The Flintstones. Which was on CBC Channel 6. And a one and a two. There's a place where I can go And that's where I want to be. I'm saying goodbye to you good people. For I found a place for me.
Starting point is 00:15:53 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gonna go way out. Way out. That's where the fun is. Way out. Way out. That's where the sun is. Way out. Way out. That's where the sun is. Way out. Way out.
Starting point is 00:16:07 Where I want to be. Cause that's the place for me. Doesn't really hold up. The hook still holds up though. You know what's funny? I had it in my memory bank as different. This is how I remember that song. We are the way out.
Starting point is 00:16:25 Way out. That's where the fun is. Way out. Yeah, I don't, that verse, I misremembered how that song went. I think they were on the show more than once, though. Okay, but the way outs are a band that live in the universe of the Flintstones. Yes. And that song exists in the universe of the Flintstones.
Starting point is 00:16:39 That's like their Beatles or whatever, the way outs. So that would be an example of a song that exists in the universe of a television show or movie. Correct. And we're all going to, each of us are going to kick out five such jams tonight. Fake songs by fake bands, essentially. Well, no. Within. The Way Outs are a great example.
Starting point is 00:16:58 Yeah, I think that's fair. Because that's, on the Flintstones, within the Flintstones show, there was a band that had a song. Right. Now, who are the Gruesoms? That's a different band. But that was also a Flintstones show, there was a band that had a song. Right. Now, who are the Gruesomes? That's a different band. But that was also a Flintstones band. Yeah, the Flintstones had a lot of musical episodes. There was also Pebbles and Bam Bam
Starting point is 00:17:12 did Let the Sunshine In. They had a big hit. Because there was also the Montreal Garage rock band, the Gruesomes. But that song, Let the Sunshine In, existed in our universe before it exists. But they made it a hit. Oh, I don't know about that.
Starting point is 00:17:26 That was a big hit for me. But that was a hit. Not a hit. Sold a lot of vitamins. Well, yes. There wasn't a Betty vitamin until fairly recently. Purple is a good vitamin. Because Betty resembled Wilma too much, I think.
Starting point is 00:17:41 Cam's more of an orange vitamin's more of a, an orange. Or the car, because the car was a vitamin. Oh, yeah. Mel Blanc, who does the voice of Barney Rubble. Watch me trick Fred
Starting point is 00:17:55 out of his fruity pebble. Whoa. Pretty good. Not bad. Pretty good. But there's like some seasons of earlier Flintstones where he's completely
Starting point is 00:18:01 different Barney voice. Do you know what I'm talking about? There was two different Barneys. No, of course. He's more like, hey, Fred, how you doing there, Fred? No, Fred had completely different Barney voice. Do you know what I'm talking about? There was two different Barneys. No, of course. He's more like, hey, Fred, how you doing there, Fred? No, Fred had a different voice, too. I remember two Fred voices.
Starting point is 00:18:10 Yeah. Because it was sort of modeled on the Honeymooners, was it not? Big time. So, like, the early seasons would be almost kind of a dead ringer. It's like, what if Jackie Gleason was back in the Jurassic era? And the neighbor couple were like Betty and Wilma. Not Wilma. Betty and Barney and Betty.
Starting point is 00:18:30 I'm sorry. Bam, bam. Holy smokes. Okay. Not to be confused with Bigelow. Okay. So here's what we're going to do. You heard the exciting news.
Starting point is 00:18:39 Here, let me do a jam for this. This is kind of exciting. It's a good topic. Let me do a jam for this. This is kind of exciting. It's a good topic. Is this another example? Oh, I know.
Starting point is 00:18:52 No, no. I'm going somewhere here. Come on. I just want to like... Now, you haven't heard Erica M on Toronto Mic'd, and you really should hear it. She was great. It was a great convo. Well, this is some Watchmen,
Starting point is 00:19:04 and I'm playing the watchmen because we're a new sponsor so let's just officially welcome him uh he signed on for december love it so he's here all month and we're happy to have him and he's the drummer for the watchmen great band that we talk about all the time on this show he's a friend like he worked a few cam yes so he's a friend of cam's personally. Yeah, he's awesome. I'm trying to remember. Yeah, he co-hosts your podcast with you. That's right, yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:29 When Stu Stone was on the Completely Ignored podcast, which you can find by going to completelyignored.com. Stu Stone, again, we hung out in the phone booth at Twitter Canada. I did it as well. You've been to the phone booth. I kicked out some Shakespeare in my butt. Exactly. Follow the money on this stuff.
Starting point is 00:19:44 Right. So he's a drummer for The Watchmen, and he's got a cool website called Drumming Up Results. Oh. So everybody should go to Drumming Up Results because he's got this cool deal where he'll throw in a free drum lesson in exchange for any real estate inquiry. You can contact Sammy and talk to him about real estate, and he'll give you a free drum lesson. Wow.
Starting point is 00:20:07 You can't beat that. That's unbelievable. My brother-in-law is actually an aspiring drummer, and he just sold his house. Boy, we dropped the ball there. You need to go back in time. He dropped the ball. DrummingUpResults.com. Welcome aboard, Sammy.
Starting point is 00:20:19 Again, it's Sammy at SammyCohn.com. And Cohn, it's not like David Cohn. It's K-O-H-N. That's pretty good. When Mel died, did you audition to try to take over? Listen, I'm a professional cartoon voiceover artist. I could do all of them. No, I know.
Starting point is 00:20:39 I could do Barney, no problem. I could do Fred. I'm always impressed by your mad skills. Great Lakes beer. Did you crack one open? What did you crack open? I did. I have the burst going on here.
Starting point is 00:20:51 I'm going to do it too. It's delicious. Ice cold. Beyond ice cold. There you go. Nice stuff. Wow. Is this where you're going to tell us the Hayden news?
Starting point is 00:21:00 Yeah, in a moment. All right. Thank you, Great Lakes. I'm going to record live. They're doing a food drive. Love it. I'm'm going to record live they're doing a food drive love it I'm doing a food drive Cam's doing a food drive
Starting point is 00:21:08 Toronto Miracle absolutely yes we have till midnight tonight to register your intent to donate non-perishable food items I would donate this
Starting point is 00:21:15 poma pasta do you live in Toronto you live in a ok well if you live in a home there's a whole grey area of condos and apartments I don't fully understand yeah
Starting point is 00:21:22 they have a workaround on their website I was looking at it last night. But if you do have, if you're so blessed you have a home or you rent a home in this city of Toronto, right now go to, this has got to happen before midnight tonight, so hopefully you're watching me live. I'm serious. TorontoMiracle.org
Starting point is 00:21:37 slash donate and just fill in the form to say that you're leaving non-perishable food items at your door. I will say this. I learned this last night because we actually had my team leader organize a call. That was very helpful. Nice. In theory, it sounds like even if you don't officially register,
Starting point is 00:21:54 but Saturday morning into the early afternoon, if you do leave some food on your front porch with a blue ribbon, you know, like tie a yellow ribbon, except it's blue. Right. It's not about the war. It does have to be on the old oak tree. It can be anywhere. Quite likely someone who's picking up food in your neighborhood might see that and grab it
Starting point is 00:22:16 as well. Just if you don't, if you had a good chance. Blue ribbon's key with a shitload of food. And also Great Lakes is working with the Daily Bread Food Bank, and I'm going to record with them. Neil Hetherington and... Oh, wow. Yeah, this is happening in two Saturdays.
Starting point is 00:22:31 So that's happening at Great Lakes. They have a big fire pit. We're going to do it outside. So shout out to Great Lakes. Thanks for the beer. Palma Pasta. Anthony was here last Saturday. We had a go at it.
Starting point is 00:22:40 Go listen to that episode. So thank you, AnthonyPalmaPasta.com, to support the great sponsors. By the way, I'll say, you can tell Neil he's excellent on Twitter. I see his tweets all the time. Coming from you, that's high praise from Cesar. He does a good job.
Starting point is 00:22:53 I will. I'll tell him that. Barb Paluskiewicz, she's at CDN Technologies. They're there if you have any computer or network issues or questions. They're your outsourced IT department. Contact Barb. It's Barb at CDNntechnologies.com. Thank you, stickeru.com.
Starting point is 00:23:08 That partnership has been amazing. If you want any stickers, decals, tattoos, et cetera, go to stickeru.com. Did you have a question, Stuart? Nope, no questions over here. So I'm, okay, I've never done this before. Shortly after I finished the episode of Erica M. So I wrap up with Erica.
Starting point is 00:23:28 Yes. And then I put that online because what I do is I put them online like 10, 15 minutes after we stop. Yeah, we know. Yeah, always. Except I recorded that afternoon with the boys from USS, Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker. Does anyone in this present company know who that band is? We heard a track by them last week. Oh, point sniper hyperbole i played last week so i'm recording but there's an embargo on this like the pr person's like please don't release this audio
Starting point is 00:23:55 until january 8th so i've got an episode sitting in the hard drive my goodness i could die before who's their pr person can you her name name's Tiffany. Is she with someone? I don't know at this moment. I'd have to get back to you on that. I'm just curious. Is this like rocket promotions? But we're having a great chat because I hit it off with Ash. He's been over here before. We just hit it off and we're talking about
Starting point is 00:24:17 that new music search CD from 1993 which we both loved and of course the conversation turns to head and we're talking about what's his name? Noel Mintz? Noah. which we both loved. And of course the conversation turns to head and we're talking about, uh, what's his name? Noel Mintz? Noah.
Starting point is 00:24:27 Noah. Noah. Pardon me. Brother of Billy. So Noah Mintz, we're talking about him and then we're talking about Hayden. Okay. Sure.
Starting point is 00:24:35 And we're talking about how, like, I guess at the Casby awards, which I was at this Casby awards, he invited Noah Mintz. This is a, the guys from USS had Noah Mintz playing guitar or something as they performed. And it was pretty cool.
Starting point is 00:24:46 And they were talking about how, I don't know, we were talking about Hayden and how much we love that song, Take. Because I know Stu, when you were on the first time, we ended up singing Take together. I think we did.
Starting point is 00:24:56 Well, I ended up singing Take with Ash the other day. So you'll get to hear this on January 8th. But then Ash draws, he goes, you want to hear an amazing fact. And I look, this is Zoom, and I'm looking at Ash through Zoom. I'm like, do you think I want to, of course I want to hear a fucking amazing fact. And he drops
Starting point is 00:25:12 a fact on me that I think will blow your mind. Now, Stu took a guess at this in a private DM in which he guessed I was going to tell him that Noah Mintz played with Hayden or something like that. I think that's on public record. I've seen that too.
Starting point is 00:25:27 There was the Thornley band. Probably wrote with him too maybe. I know now Noah Mintz is sort of, I think he mixes in Masters records. Maybe. Oh, yeah. He's like a big deal. He actually makes records. Like if you're a band and you want to actually have a record pressed,
Starting point is 00:25:43 like he has a company that does that. He's a big fucking deal like in behind the scenes. Okay, so here's what I was told. And again, this is Ashley Boo Schultz talking to me who says he's a personal friend of Noah. This better be good, Mike. This is quite the buildup. Hayden was so shy and so scared when he was recording the track
Starting point is 00:26:02 that would be submitted for that new music search that Head eventually won, right? Head won that thing. Yeah, because they won the money. Right. He says, that's not Hayden singing on take. What? He says to me, this is according to Ash,
Starting point is 00:26:14 he says he heard it from Noah. That song take that's in the new music search compilation we love. Okay, I want to hear about that in a minute. He says, the voice on that track belongs to Noah Mintz, not Hayden. I then played it right away, and I'm listening, and it is different than the Hayden we hear on
Starting point is 00:26:32 Everything I Long For and stuff like that. He might have uncovered this. This is a huge, am I wrong? Is this an amazing fact? Do you have that song? Can you play it for us? Take? Yeah, I'll put it on right fucking now. I got it for you. Hold on.
Starting point is 00:26:46 Hayden told him this or Noah told him this? Noah told him this. Wow. Whoa. So keep, yeah. So, and I didn't have it. So when I was talking to, again, you can't hear this till, I feel bad because you can't hear it for a long time.
Starting point is 00:26:59 This is like a Jeff Jarrett, the roadie scenario, if you're familiar with that storyline. Here we go. So Ashley took out his guitar and started playing this, and we sang this thing from our memory banks. Wait, so this is not Hayden singing? That's what I've heard. Okay, okay.
Starting point is 00:27:17 Take me home Take me with you Take me home Take a part of me Take all of me Come with me Get away from me There's two voices out here.
Starting point is 00:27:42 I was going to say they like mixing. Disagree with me. Come with me. Get away from me. Sounds like Hayden to me. I was going to say, it sounds like Noah. I never
Starting point is 00:27:57 had the CD. I think it's inconclusive, but I think now that we have this kernel of something, we should do a documentary about this. This could be your wind of change, you know, a six part podcast. It could be like, it could be Noah doing a Hayden impression.
Starting point is 00:28:12 Cause it still has that Hayden. Well, that's it. The story I got was that, I love it when the woman is, her name's Lorraine. The story I got from Ash, which you,
Starting point is 00:28:22 I can share with you privately, but, uh, was that, uh, Hayden was so scared and stage fright-y scared, Noah sang it. Anyway, this is the story I got. That could be Noah. I could totally see it. All these years
Starting point is 00:28:36 we loved the song, right? For decades. And it's amazing to consider that's not Hayden singing it. Well, it's also that this is like a legendary CD in Toronto indie rock circles. Absolutely. Maybe Matt can write a book on this. Are you going to tweet this out?
Starting point is 00:28:51 Mark Teo you mean. Mark Teo. Right, Mark Teo. Is he still on with us? Yeah, Mark, you there? Okay, so we got to get moving here because last episode was so long and we can't go that long again So we've established the premise
Starting point is 00:29:07 Songs that exist in the universe of a TV show Oh by the way I thought I saw Moose Grumpy At a curbside pickup Outside a Indigo When I was going to a curbside What's she reading? She's picking up the Mark Teo book
Starting point is 00:29:23 Well I have it inside. I'm reading it now. I love it. James is in here. That son of a bitch. James Edgar. His fat fingers screwed up one time. James is cool.
Starting point is 00:29:34 McGregowski's in here. We had like 78 people. Wow. Okay. Well, there's lots more. Okay. So I want to get rocking. Do you have anything to say before I kick out your first jam, Cam Gordon?
Starting point is 00:29:42 I'll say this. I'm going to blow some minds tonight. I dug up some really interesting stuff. There's so much stuff. There's a wealth of material, so if we don't cover it all, this is the type of episode that could have a sequel. Not necessarily next week. Totally agree. But there's so much stuff. And also, I feel like... So much virus.
Starting point is 00:29:58 There could be great debates about what does it mean to be a song that exists in the universe? I think there's a lot of debate here. It's a meta episode. Mike, you know this too. One of my picks, again, I'm going to keep an eye on Mr. Buddy here under the...
Starting point is 00:30:13 Is there any heat coming out of my heater? People want to know. Is there any heat coming out of that thing? It's alright. I think we can survive at this temperature. Maybe put it under your cover and it'll be trapping the heat. It might be flammable. Do you have a propane sponsor? Because once this runs out,
Starting point is 00:30:28 do you have a backup? Yeah. I feel like it's an episode of King of the Hill, right? Do you have a backup propane canister? I have three canisters, yeah. Okay, that should last us a few episodes. 20 bucks at Canadian Tire.
Starting point is 00:30:36 I feel like Stu bought this blanket at like a gas station, like Uxbridge. Just like, you know, sometimes they have all the blankets. A little spark and it just goes. Yeah, like it's highly flammable. I cut at farmer's market
Starting point is 00:30:45 okay quick story when I was putting together the jams just speak to how much controversy there could be about what is a song in universe I really enjoyed the song
Starting point is 00:30:54 I remember from my youth from Jem you remember Jem and the Holodroms of course truly outrageous I remember yeah we are the misfits
Starting point is 00:30:59 our songs are better we are the misfits so I'm thinking oh I really like that song and then I realized that's the theme song that's the theme song that's the theme song that's not a song
Starting point is 00:31:07 so I disqualified it yeah of course but it'll be interesting you know it'd be a good if there's any controversy before you play his jam I just want to point out one thing
Starting point is 00:31:15 this was the first time Mike 38 weeks we've done this 38 weeks yeah usually I'm a match and I'm happy to if Cam has selected
Starting point is 00:31:24 a song that I've picked I give Cam the to if Cam has selected a song that I've picked I give Cam the song if you've selected a song I select the song this week my number one pick which is a bit of a spoiler I guess for Cam
Starting point is 00:31:32 but I know that he had also picked it but I said this week I said you know what F that tell Cam to pick another song and I even suggested another song for him
Starting point is 00:31:41 I wonder let's just see if he got that you know what I'm good with that because that song, I want to hear this man's thoughts on it because it's a big jam. This is Cam's first pick? Number one.
Starting point is 00:31:55 Oh, wow. I have a photo in my car right now that would blow your mind. Can I run and get it? I'm going to go run and get it. Okay. Just know it's a short song. I'll show it to you after.
Starting point is 00:32:09 I don't know what your photo is, but it might relate to a mind blow I'm going to share here. I am a computer man. I can do anything you can. Has this song been played on Pandemic Fridays before? I played a lot.
Starting point is 00:32:25 I played it with Retro Ontario a couple of times. It's a gimme. I'm a big fan. These are big kids, right? Fuck yeah, it's a big fan. I'm the answer just for you. I am the computer man. I feel like kids did school dances today.
Starting point is 00:32:44 Totally. Like the little wave If you were a child in the 80s Living in this neck of the woods You knew I am the computer man Okay so absolutely So yes that is I am the computer man The computer man Not these days we're going to work from home
Starting point is 00:33:01 I'm the computer man By computer man of, from the Canadian. Is his name Colin something? I'll get to that in a second. You guys are going to have to give me some space because I got a pile of stuff here. Six feet away, everybody. Six feet away, please. I'll eat a coffee crisp.
Starting point is 00:33:19 You know what? I'm just going to go right into it. This was during Stu's California years. He might not remember this, but Mike, I think you'll know what this is. Like, you know, all the famous Toronto Street people. You got Ben Kerr. Oh, yes. Ben Kerr for Bear.
Starting point is 00:33:34 You got Craig, the guy who wrote the books. Wise Blot tweets about the Peace Lady. Yes, he educated me on that one. Peace Lady. Yeah. The Rubber Boots man is now rubber boots the guy zanta lives in my hood zanta let's go blue jays the drummer all the guys all the all the great charlotte sticker lady james b not not famous enough the silver elvis okay this is this
Starting point is 00:34:00 young and dundas where the silver elvis would Bring it down. Bring it down. Yes. He's scaring me. The Silver Elvis. Same guy as Computer Man. Holy shit. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. I know. I had the same reaction.
Starting point is 00:34:14 I saw this. That's as big as Noah Mintz singing Take for him. Okay, so let's... You got to let me go with this for a bit. Holy fuck. This has been written about. Mike has... Do you need a moment, Mike? Should we get Monica Holy fuck. This has been written about. Mike has... Do you need a moment, Mike?
Starting point is 00:34:25 Should we get Monica out here? This has been written about by Toronto.com in the Varsity, the school newspaper for the... This is insanity. This is huge. I had no fucking idea. This I saw and I'm like...
Starting point is 00:34:39 That's... You're coming out of the gate hot. This is un-Cam-like. I almost had to tweet about this. I will tweet tomorrow. That's why I felt when Ash told me that fun fact about no one. So this guy's name is Peter Jarvis. Peter.
Starting point is 00:34:54 Peter Jarvis. So let's do... I need my son after him. I know. Let's do the whole IMDB even though he's not on here. VidKids ran 1985-1987. Kids TV program. We'll get to Peter in a second.
Starting point is 00:35:07 VidKids actually had a lot of good talent on it, including... My sister Carrie. Wow. Beyond Carrie Stone. Wow. Katie Lang was on there. Whoa.
Starting point is 00:35:17 Prairie Oyster. Yes, of course. FOTM Murray McLaughlin. Whoa. Just quick, quick thing. He did the music for a movie by Donald Shabib called... Donald Shabib? How do you say his name?
Starting point is 00:35:29 Shabib? Shabib. My apologies. He lives in this hood, too. He's going to come by. He's like 82 years old. You know who his son is. I'm happy that we corrected that before he came.
Starting point is 00:35:36 His son's a Noah, too, right? Of course. Of course, yeah. He's a Drake producer. Sure. All quick to say, Murray McLaughlin did the music when he was very young and up and coming
Starting point is 00:35:43 just signing on with True North for this movie called, what the fuck is the movie called? Anyway, I'll come back to the movie. You keep going and I'll find out what that movie's called. I was going to say, well, one other band
Starting point is 00:35:53 that has like a weird Canadian tie-in, I think through a guy named Ralph Alfonso. Do you know who that is? He used to manage the Diodes and some other punk bands. Oh, I'm tired of growing up tired. I don't know him though. Yeah, runs Bongo Beat Records.
Starting point is 00:36:04 Anyway, another artist he has an affiliation with, Katrina and the Waves. Oh my I'm tired of growing up tired. I don't know him, though. Yeah, runs Bongo Beat Records. Anyway, another artist he has an affiliation with, Katrina and the Waves. Oh, my God. Was on VidKids, Walking on Sunshine. Did we kick that out on the Summer Jams? We should have. I think we did. Blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:36:16 Yeah, so Peter Jarvis, like Silver Elvis, like that, that's still like, I'm just, I cannot believe it. So this guy, Peter Jarvis, he was a native of Grimsby, Ontario. He was actually a freestyle Canadian disco dancing champion. Wow. He has quite the resume in the 1970s.
Starting point is 00:36:34 I think he went from like freestyle disco dancing to the computer man to Silver Elvis. That song has been in my head for decades. Quick, the movie I'm trying to remember is called Rip Off. And it is the movie that he did after Down the Road sorry going down the road oh yeah yeah yeah so rip off of course we i have interviews with him donald shabib and a star of rip off peter gross oh wow not fucking with anyone here please these mind blows i just think we need to do a little like
Starting point is 00:37:01 warning to listeners yeah if your brain is fragile brain is fragile, it could go off anymore. This is a lot. This is almost like one track. Anyway, a bit more about Peter Jarvis. After he did The Commuter Man, went on to the... Commuter Man. Commuter Man. I like that for a TTC ad.
Starting point is 00:37:19 Sure. I am the commuter. It's like a romantic traffic type thing. After Commuter Man, went on to the Canadian version of Sesame Street as a mime. Actually, I remember that mime. Yeah. And then later was on... Hell of a mime.
Starting point is 00:37:33 Later was on Goosebumps, the TV show, not the... The YTV show? Travis Scott song. I may have been in that episode with him. I was going to say, which I thought Stu was on. That would be a mind-blowing. And then he was also in... He did a movie for Cirque du Soleil
Starting point is 00:37:46 that was directed by Norman Jewison. Wow. And he was also, I remember this movie called, a movie Bogus with Whoopi Goldberg and Gerard Depardieu. I kind of have fan memories of this. And Haley Joel Osment, I See Dead People. Yeah, of course. And from Forrest Gump.
Starting point is 00:38:00 Yeah. And his Silver Elvis character is performed everywhere from New Zealand, Ireland, Hawaii, and Independence Day in Kiev, in the Ukraine. Wow. So from, like, Computer Man to Silver Elvis.
Starting point is 00:38:13 Yeah, you blew my mind with that one. That's a good one. That's a good one. I know there was, like, another... What's his name? Peter Jarvis. Can I tell you about my photograph? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:24 My sister Carrie and myself, the year was 1983, 84, 85, maybe even 86. One of those years. Somewhere in the five year. Probably somewhere in that five year stretch. My sister Carrie and I took break dancing classes. And our teacher was the fucking computer man. Oh my God. Whoa. And I happen to have photographs that I get in my car right now
Starting point is 00:38:49 of him teaching me breakdancing. Do you realize? That's going to have to be in the photo. That blew my mind that you brought him up. That's why I was like, can I go to the car? What are the odds you would bring up this guy, the computer man? I just happen to have the photographs in my car right now. He taught this guy breakdancing lessons in the 80s.
Starting point is 00:39:04 Yes. Kill the mics. This is like when you find out Brian Master was the DJ at his bar mitzvah. But what are the, I literally like just found these photographs and they're in my car right now. What are the chances of you? This is fucking cosmic. That's why I was going to run to the car and get the pictures.
Starting point is 00:39:19 Yeah. And then we would have lost his brain. Disco dancing, break dancing, computer men, Silver Elvis, Gerard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment. Should we shut it down? Like, just shut it down. Yeah, I'm good to go. We can just go home.
Starting point is 00:39:31 And that. Everything is rosy and gray. Anyway, but I have a second song to play with this. This is going to be pale by comparison, but it's kind of just a good curiosity. Yeah, and this is. I would do an episode about this album. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:46 I'm fascinated by this album. Is this another Computer Man song? No, well, this is Neil Young Transformer Man. Which was the big song off that album, I think, because he did that in the Unplugged, too. Yeah, exactly. From the Trans... Anyway, it's when I heard this song well after the Computer Man showed up, I'm like, wow, that's
Starting point is 00:40:01 not dissimilar. So can we vote? Because I don't think this had any effect on that. No, I don't think so. I'm like wow that's not dissimilar so can we vote because i don't i don't think this had any effect on that no i know i don't think so i'm just saying it's like when we were in grade school part of the curriculum like the teacher had this like fucking like dolphin puppet they put on a record and like do like the puppet yes you know i'm talking yes yes the computer man also was part of it like they, they'd put the record on the computer man. Is that why it's so, like, ingrained in my psyche? And then, like, at the school assembly, like, the grade ones or the senior kindergartners did, like, the computer man dance.
Starting point is 00:40:33 It was like a discipline thing? Yes. Yeah, we had a big computer moment in the early committee. You know that puppet I'm talking about, right? Icon computers? Did you ever use an icon? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Ulysses?
Starting point is 00:40:41 Yeah, yeah. A cross-country Canada? I think they're for i con i still remember the picture and it was a guy the thinking man yeah i think therefore i con huge and that's about 86 87 or something because i was just like with the pet i remember we were using pets oh yeah and the thing like weighed like 80 pounds like it was just like immense okay so this album's called trans and it was like the uh i mean the the company that signed neil young i forget which label it was hated this album it was geffen
Starting point is 00:41:10 yeah they sued him yeah no this was during his difficult phase well it was post-harvest because yeah well yeah for making a non-non-commercial music and basically an album that didn't sound like neil young they said there There's a lot of strange computer... What's that called? The vocoder? Vocoder, yeah. There's a video... Did you hear this?
Starting point is 00:41:30 Did you hear this? Which is not a fun fact, but it's an interesting fact. And this is really wild. Okay, so Neil has two children who suffer from cerebral palsy. Yes. Two different mothers. This is not a disease that is genetically passed down. They say the odds on having
Starting point is 00:41:45 two kids with CP off the charts, just astronomical. Better odds of having a photograph of the computer man in your car after like a 45 year old. But that's what we're talking about. Yeah, like three people in their 40s talk about TV shows. Neil, at some point fairly recently, Neil opened
Starting point is 00:42:01 up about the fact that he was using these this vocoder and the different stuff that you hear in this song and on this album, Trans. He was using that stuff to help his son communicate with him. So it was all like stuff he had bought, all this stuff to communicate with his child. And he was incorporating it into this new album, Trans. Yeah, like the book, Shaky, sort of the exhaustive autobiography of Neil Young goes into this. That's not the Jim Hunt book sort of the exhaust exhaustive uh autobiography of neil young goes into this details yeah jim hunt book bernard shaky right that was his uh handle when he would uh record that's right yeah but yeah it's quite the story because i think in response to trans he put
Starting point is 00:42:38 out the album everybody's rocking yes which is rockabilly yeah which is almost like yeah you want rock and music i'll give you rock and music. At this point, he's already done On the Beach or whatever that one is. You're right. He's decided he doesn't give a fuck about commercial success. It's all post-Harvest because Harvest was a smash. Can you guys name the only number one in the solo career of Neil Young? Like Harvest Moon? No.
Starting point is 00:43:02 Traveling Wilburys? He wasn't in the Traveling Wilburys. Or Heart of Gold. Yesys. Or Heart of Gold. Yes, it's Heart of Gold. Heart of Gold. It's the only number one billboard song in the solo career of Neil Young. Okay, good stuff, good start.
Starting point is 00:43:12 I figured how we got to like Neil Young from that. Bit of a stretch, but we'll take it. Whatever it takes. Okay, Stu, you want to say anything before I kick out your first jam? Sure. The guy who basically kicked off Pandemic, the Pandemic,
Starting point is 00:43:23 is responsible for this song so i figured might not start out my pandemic friday list of songs from movies or television show universes uh this is a pretty big hit within the universe that it is from uh so much so i think we heard the song like 50 times within the 90 minutes uh 90 minute runtime of the film that it's from. And yeah, like I said, the executive producer of the pandemic also did this movie. Thank you. do breaking my heart into a million pieces like you always do and you don't mean to be cruel you never even knew about the heartache i've been going through
Starting point is 00:44:24 I've been going through Well, I try and try to forget you, girl But it's just so hard to do Every time you do that thing you do So, yes, Tom Hanks, the first celebrity with COVID. Oh, is that where you were going with that? I thought you were going with Adam Schlesinger. No, that's more grim. Because he died with COVID. Oh, is that where you were going with that? Yeah. I thought you were going with Adam Schlesinger. No, I was...
Starting point is 00:44:47 Because he died of COVID. That's more grim. That's where I thought you were going. That's just Rudy Goberis. I was talking about Tom Hanks, who was the first guy that, you know, sort of kicked off the COVID virus. Yeah, the first most famous...
Starting point is 00:44:59 Yes, okay, okay, okay. So that's when you do, of course, starring, written, and directed by Tom Hanks. So he did the Stu Stone faking a murder wearing all the hats. Of course, this movie was much more successful. This was his directorial debut, which is kind of interesting. Has he directed a movie since then? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:45:20 When did this come out? In like 94? 96. We should shout out Adam Schlesinger because this is his song. I haven't gotten there yet. I'm sorry. Way to bury the lead. The opposite of burying the lead.
Starting point is 00:45:31 Yeah, it is. When you bring it up front. Okay, go ahead. Either way, tomato matter. That thing you do. Deja Vu. I feel like we've done this before. The song was performed by Jimmy Mattingly, Leonard Lenny Hayes,
Starting point is 00:45:46 and Guy Shades Patterson, the guys who make up the Oneeders, the Wonders. Son of Pat Patterson. And of course, in the movie, the song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. In reality, though,
Starting point is 00:46:02 the song made it all the way up to number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100. Was nominated for though, the song made it all the way up to number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100. Was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. The Wonders. That thing you do,
Starting point is 00:46:13 a movie that's on all the time. Seems like it's constantly on the television. You know, when this topic was, when we came up with this topic,
Starting point is 00:46:20 this was actually the first song I thought of. Yeah, me too. It's so big in the universe. Let's face it, if this song isn't decent, that movie can't work. It really needs that song. It has to sound like it could have been a hit. Was this a famous...
Starting point is 00:46:33 Was this a really popular movie? Not like Saving Private Ryan. It was a mainstream... Yeah, it was a mainstream big movie. For some reason, this movie is a complete blind spot. By the way, I've never seen it. It's pretty good. Fountains of Wayne
Starting point is 00:46:47 bass player Adam Schlesinger wrote the song. And I know you opened with that. Well, he died of COVID. He died of an early casualty. Yeah, and he's in his 40s too. Very sad. Scary.
Starting point is 00:47:04 Of course, they had other hits. Fountains of Wayne, I think Stacy's Mom is their jam. Well, he wrote That Thing You Do, so good for him. And there you go. There's my first song. That's a great choice. What was that movie? That Thing You Do,
Starting point is 00:47:20 it's called. It's about the early Beatles around the same time. Oh, Stuart Sutcliffe playing Stu Sutcliffe. I feel like that was similar. You know all the Stu's, right? Stu Sutcliffe. That guy is starring in that as John Lennon.
Starting point is 00:47:35 I feel like that had like an indie rock all-star band playing. Like Jay Maskis was in it and Greg Dooley. You're talking about something else. I know, but that's what Pandemic that's the duly you're talking about something else i know but that's what pandemic that's you're talking about uh the one with matt dylan singles no because matt dylan's in singles let me see what he's talking about i'm gonna try to find all right why don't you look that up and i'm gonna kick out my first jam because it's short because it's from a tv show you ready yes Yes. All about. Put on your jelly bracelets and your cool graffiti coat At the mall, having fun is what it's all about
Starting point is 00:48:28 I haven't done my homework yet And you know how my parents get But I don't care, cause all my friends are gonna be there Everybody come and play No idea what this is. Okay, here are the Brian Mulroney and Wayne Gretzky references here because this song, clearly you don't know this song, but this song was referenced in the show How I Met Your Mother. So the character, Robin Scherbatsky,
Starting point is 00:49:20 had a secret past of being a teenage Canadian pop star. Think like Alanis. Okay. Before she was Alanis Morissette there. So basically they wrote this character. Her name on stage was Robin Sparkles. And that's why the Abut pronunciation, because she's secretly Canadian.
Starting point is 00:49:38 And this is her Canadian teen hit. That's really funny. And this was all kind of inspired because they saw, you know, Matt LeBlanc had that cameo in the Atlantis video for Walk Away, and the creators decided that they would kind of bum that idea. I'm sorry, what TV show?
Starting point is 00:49:53 Oh, How I Met Your Mother. Which was a pretty big mainstream sitcom. But it was not on your radars at all, I can tell. Don't watch. It's okay. You don't watch these mainstream sitcoms. So it mentions a lot of Canadian cultural figures.
Starting point is 00:50:09 I mentioned, like it talks about Canada Day. It mentions Brian Mulroney. Of course, there's a reference to Wayne Gretzky in this song.
Starting point is 00:50:17 And yeah. Who wrote the actual music for this? Do you have that? Like this sounds like this was probably a real musician. Yeah, it was written by,
Starting point is 00:50:24 well, it was written by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays. Carter. I don't know what else is on their CVs. CB4. CB4. That would have been a good pick. Better than this. No, this is a good pick.
Starting point is 00:50:36 Straight out of Locash. Check the receipts, Stu Stone. I bet you this is a big hit. Two people. A big hit with the ladies. Andy Pandy likes it. Robin Sparkles and Moose Crump knew what it was. Yeah, I was going to say, for anyone watching, is this a known song?
Starting point is 00:50:50 Yeah, there's a couple of... That show was popular. It was popular. Very popular. It was popular. We just listened to fucking vid kids. It has Barney... What's his name in it?
Starting point is 00:50:59 Doogie Howser. Yeah, Neil Patrick Harris. Bob Saget. Oh, shit. Okay, yes. This was a big song. Sorry, Bob Saget is the narrator. What's the show with the kid? The two dads and the kid?
Starting point is 00:51:09 Two and a Half Men. Two and a Half Men. That's what I was thinking. It was a big deal. It's not Friends, but it's a next tier if you will, of success. A lot of people will know that. Round one victory for Stu Stone. All because you don't know it doesn't mean it's not a good pick. Good pick, Mike. Thank you. Stu up 1-0. Give the people what they want.
Starting point is 00:51:26 I think I won that round. Okay, let's hear. Oh, I'm just going to stare at Stu as I play this one. Okay, so this has like the two people talking because this is a little quiz for Stu. Yeah, you have to focus on this. This whole clip is a minute 49. Okay. So, yeah, Stu, you have to tell us, listen to it, don't talk over it, and then tell us what they're talking about.
Starting point is 00:51:44 Okay, here we go. Ready? It's a pop quiz. Wait, I'm playing... There's a YouTube clip I'm supposed to play first? Yeah, there's the two... There's the two fellas talking. Play that first.
Starting point is 00:51:57 Stu's going to guess what are they talking about. No, I think that's another... I don't think that's your second jam. Oh, really? I think that's your third jam. So I'll play this, I think, because I got your second jam. Oh, really? I think that's your third jam. I think it's your third jam. So I'll play this, I think, because I got your new order, and this is new order. I'm going to play this as I think it's December 2.
Starting point is 00:52:11 Okay, you ready? Here we go. Very good. Doris, you wanted to see me? Joey. My DM's coming out of order. I've heard from Derek. He's all right.
Starting point is 00:52:27 Really? You know where he is, don't you? No, I don't. Please, Joey. He's my only grandchild. I'm worried sick about him. Please? Please?
Starting point is 00:52:46 Yeah. That was a very sad version I think I know where he is heartbreaking episode listen this is the song thank you thank you very much thank you
Starting point is 00:53:01 thank you very much hey what are you doing in here put that down sorry I was just looking at it how'd you get in here you thank you very much what are you doing in here put that down sorry i was just looking at it how'd you get in here you think you could just come in off the street and goof around i didn't break anything get out of here this isn't a place for kids take it easy josh this is my kid serious yeah
Starting point is 00:53:18 sorry i thought you were just some punk off the street But don't touch the equipment, okay? I wouldn't break anything I play bass Oh yeah? Yeah, I've played for over a year Over a year? Oh, well You're a real pro then
Starting point is 00:53:37 And bring her down Bring her down, Mike That's what you needed to play me? So the name of that song. The fuck? You shush. The name of that song. Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 00:53:51 What the hell was that? Shut the fuck up. Is that like a Degrassi, just like a scene from a random episode? Where Joey Jeremiah's like touching the gear? It was wheels. That was wheels? The name of that song is Bass Jam. The name of the band is Bass Jam. The name of the band is
Starting point is 00:54:06 Mike and the Rippers. Just work with me here. Now, technically what you heard was someone messing about on stage with Mike and the Rippers gear. Andy Pandy says this is the episode where Wheels runs away to Port Hope to meet his birth dad. Big fucking episode.
Starting point is 00:54:22 More on that in a second. So again, name of the band, Mike and the Rippers. Mike Nelson is the front man of the Rippers, also the dad of Wheels, also known as Griff. No, no, no. He was only Griff in the kids of Degrassi, but he's Derek. Correct. Yeah, Derek. Derek Wheels Wheeler.
Starting point is 00:54:41 I have to impress Andy with my mom. That's right. So Andy Pindy was correct. This is from the episode of Degrassi Junior High called Taking Off. It's a two-part episode. Oh, two-parter. Yeah, where Wheels gets a big fight with his grandparents. Right.
Starting point is 00:54:56 You know, his parents had died in a drunk driving accident. That's a key part of this story, yeah. Huge. He's like, fuck you, Grandpa. Fuck you, Grandpa. I'm out of here. He hitchhikes his way to Port Hope where his dad's playing rock. Unfortunately, spoiler alert, he gets kind of like molested on the way.
Starting point is 00:55:13 Oh, that's not good. Yeah. He gets molested by a hitchhiker? Yeah. No, he was a hitchhiker. And some guy like picked him up and then kind of put the moves on him. Oh, boy. Tried to throw a rock at him like it was a big scene.
Starting point is 00:55:25 This scene that we heard was at a fake bar, so this is good, fake universe, called Memories. Wait, is that the song? Again, Bass Jam by Mike and the Drifters. What? Mike and the Rippers. Mike and the Rippers. Sorry, spoiler on something else.
Starting point is 00:55:45 So the backstory is Mike. What was the song? Shut the fuck up. I'm done. Oh, you're done? I'm not. I need to finish these fun facts. What will Dump say about this?
Starting point is 00:55:59 Help me impress. Trying to figure out what the song, where the song was. You heard that, like, that was the song? It was a short song. So anyway, um, so anyway, Mike Nelson gave away Derek. He was like a teen dad. He says, no, I can't do this. Went to form a band.
Starting point is 00:56:17 Don't worry. So he's playing a week at a bar called memories in Port Hope, Ontario. Wheels somehow gets a flyer. I think it's like dad wrote a letter again, hitchhories in Port Hope, Ontario. Wheels somehow gets a flyer. I think it's like dad wrote a letter. Again, hitchhikes to Port Hope which is only like an hour from here. It's not that far. Yeah, it's not that far. Nevertheless.
Starting point is 00:56:32 Enough time to get molested. Kind of ambushes his dad. The bass player says, what the fuck are you doing? Yeah, I can't remember this episode. Wheels feels very dejected because his biological father, Mike Nelson, isn't that excited to see him. And the new girlfriend um wheels feels very dejected because his biological father mike nelson isn't that excited to see him
Starting point is 00:56:46 and the the new girlfriend is pregnant with mike he's pregnant like mike was like having sex with like and she's like we can't afford to feed ourselves
Starting point is 00:56:53 let alone another like a teenage boy can you get to the fucking point here she it's very sad she's like we can't take care of wheels absolutely
Starting point is 00:57:00 and wheels is all dejected he's like no one wants me my parents like it is it is it's sad bless the grandma who asked jo Joey where the hell he was.
Starting point is 00:57:07 And the grandma is the hero of this episode. So anyway, you know, Port Hope, some famous people came from Port Hope. Were you looking at me because you knew that I would explode at this. I told him I warned him. I DM him and said, Stu's going to lose his shit. Wait, is that that's the pick? That's the pic. There's not a follow-up?
Starting point is 00:57:26 This is actually him giving fun facts on that song? It was a bass jam. It's a song. I'm shutting this down. Okay, what would... That noise we heard, that great groove that we heard. Hold on. Is that not music?
Starting point is 00:57:47 There's got to be a punchline here. Was he, like, just banging on, like, the side of the road? No, he was playing musical instruments. That's not a song. There it is. Listen. That's a song? Thank you.
Starting point is 00:58:02 Thank you very much. Have you guys ever heard, like, Primus? Like, that's, like, half the Primus songs like right there. Going down to South Park. Yes, exactly. Thank you. Anyway, famous residents of Port Hope where that song was recorded in a fictitious universe. I'll give you two names.
Starting point is 00:58:17 Here's one, Paul Quantrill. That's a big fucking. Great metal reliever. Call Mike Wilner. Here's another one. Farley fucking mow it. I thought you were going to say Farley Flex. Farley mow it.
Starting point is 00:58:30 I know. I read... And the wolves. What's that book about the wolves? Never Cry Wolf. Never Cry Wolf. It was a good movie too. Also, his wife wrote a great book.
Starting point is 00:58:39 I forget her name, but Girl From Away. Right. It's a formative book. Oh, man. Anyway, a few more fun facts about wheels. I might have to side with Stu on this one. How is that a fucking song? He was fucking playing a bass guitar.
Starting point is 00:58:52 He was on stage. He said, thank you. You guys shit on me for picking Hero of the Day from fucking Metallica. This is absolutely ridiculous. This is a fucking travesty, Kim. Anyway, I'm not... That is not a song! But go ahead. It's very musical.
Starting point is 00:59:10 He was on stage. He was playing an instrument. It was a concert. But it was more like jazz. I think it was improvised. It was sort of like a Thelonious Monk type thing. Anyway... Should we move? No, we shouldn't move on, actually. You're gonna let me talk. Farley fucking Moet.
Starting point is 00:59:25 That's amazing. Thank you. That's amazing. Thank you, Cam. Anyway. White Fang? Is that White Fang? Yes.
Starting point is 00:59:31 No, that's a Kirkland thing. Paul Quantrill. Paul Quantrill. Yeah. Anyway, on Twitter, Wheels is dad. Okay. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:40 That's right. I know where you're going with this. Huge. Okay. We already have one drummer from a great Canadian band we've talked about today. Yeah. I think this is known. Who runs that Huge. Okay, we already have one drummer from a great Canadian band we've talked about today.
Starting point is 00:59:46 Yeah, I think this is known. Who runs that account? None other than this guy's fucking arch nemesis, Jeremy Taggart. Drummer of Our Lady Peas. Former drummer. Does this Twitter account in the voice of Wheels' dad, that man that we just heard laughing at his son horribly? Right, Wheels' dad. Yeah, I hated it.
Starting point is 01:00:01 When he joins in, his buddy makes the joke about I guess you're a real pro and Mike laughs at his son my heart breaks my heart breaks for wheels honestly like it's shitty
Starting point is 01:00:11 but maybe it's because I know what happens to wheel character is there like a full version of that song that we're gonna hear now
Starting point is 01:00:15 there's not even a full version of the zit remedy is there like some sort of like mind blow that's gonna come in here that's gonna save
Starting point is 01:00:20 this segment I got two more mind blows out of that okay I'll be quick here because I know we got to run along. Oh, my God. It's going to be longer than Mark Teo's episode.
Starting point is 01:00:28 Okay. Quite often on. How did you allow him to even pick that? Oh, I'm not here to judge. Shush. I'm not like leave a fumka. Okay, I don't judge. Okay, both of you.
Starting point is 01:00:37 What a joke. Both of you, enough. Enough. Where's he in service when we need him? What a joke. Okay. Couple. One more fun fact about the Wheels Is Dad Twitter
Starting point is 01:00:45 account. Quite often mentions Nags Head North. A place Stu and I spent some time in the parking lot because there's a Swiss Chalet. One thing, Stu, you might remember this. We once found like an old TV and we dropped it. Like a big tube TV. Oh, like on the SCTV opening. That ties into
Starting point is 01:01:01 something I'm going to do later. That sounded like I kid you not, a fucking atom bomb going off. Wow. Yeah, that made... That ties into something I'm going to do later. That sounded like, I kid you not, a fucking atom bomb going off. Wow. Yeah, that made a loud noise. This is a long way to go to tell that story. And you know who played
Starting point is 01:01:12 at Nags Head North regularly? Kim Mitchell. FOTM Rusty. Oh, not Kim Mitchell. Yes. And, okay, one final fun fact about this episode,
Starting point is 01:01:21 because there has to be like some WWE content, even though we talked about Pat Patterson. In the same episode, Taking Off, there's a scene Wheels is watching WWF Wrestling. Coco. Coco Beware. That's right. With his grandfather.
Starting point is 01:01:34 They actually have some footage of Coco Beware, the birdman of the WWF. I remember. He's pinning some jabroni. He's doing his little flapping thing. And they have these fake announcers. It's probably like Kid Hood or something. It's like, oh, beat him with the airplane spin. Totally not the airplane spin.
Starting point is 01:01:50 I would love to know if they paid for that footage. Love it. Okay, that's a long way to go for some mediocre fun facts. Okay, Stu. Base jam, Mike and the Rippers. I love it. Mike and the Drifters. I love the passion.
Starting point is 01:02:01 The Drifters. Oh my God. Stu, you ready to? No, no. no, no. No, no. Let's let the UFO champs describe. I got to get this off my chest. Never cry, Wolf.
Starting point is 01:02:12 I got to get this off my chest. 38 weeks of Pandemic Friday, and that has to be the worst pick I've ever heard. It's not a great song. In my life. This takes Mike and his Wendell Clark pick out of the doghouse. Almost. Almost. Hero of the day. You're my hero of the day. Almost. Kim, there's a wealth of songs from television shows and movies. And Kim went with, like, what
Starting point is 01:02:43 was that? How was that a song? If I came to the table with that, you two would burn this fucking house down. He's right. He's right. Cam, you should apologize to the listeners. It's a short little song. It's a bass jam.
Starting point is 01:03:03 What a joke. What the fuck's the problem? Set up your second jam, Stu. I mean, listen, if you want to know how to win in a category like this, you just play songs like this. I thought love was only true in fairytales And for someone else but not for me Our love was out to get me That's the way it seemed Disappointment haunted all my dreams
Starting point is 01:03:43 Then I saw her face Now I'm a believer Now her trace Of doubt in my mind I've been alone I'm a believer I couldn't leave her if I tried Mickey, Mike, Peter, Davey I'm a believer, I couldn't leave her if I tried.
Starting point is 01:04:11 Mickey, Mike, Peter, Davey, The Monkees. Popular television program and musical band. A fictitious band that became sort of a real band. Pretty exciting stuff here. This song is called I'm a Believer. Not to be confused with another one of their hit songs, Daydream Believer. This song is written by Neil Diamond. Lead vocals by Mickey Dolenz.
Starting point is 01:04:46 I can't believe Cam played like some riff from a scene in Degrassi where a guy's just like noodling on the bass in like a daydream moment. It's a bass head. Now for the record, Stu, this was first released as a monkey song, right?
Starting point is 01:04:56 This is not a Neil Diamond cover. This was written for the monkeys. Right. That's a key point. This song hit the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart Wow December 31st, 1966
Starting point is 01:05:09 So going into 1967 New Year's Eve What a night for the monkeys Right, right It remained the number one song for seven weeks Becoming the last number one hit Of 1966 And the biggest selling record All of 1967.
Starting point is 01:05:26 Wow. It's pretty good. And eventually released by Neil Diamond because I've heard his version. But amazing. Smash Mouth, of course. I had this on the Shrek soundtrack at my kids' lesson. This is one of fewer than 40 all-time singles to have sold more than 10 million physical copies.
Starting point is 01:05:48 That's pretty cool. Wow. Song reached number one in many countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Ireland. How about that, the Monkees? So this guy auditioned for the Monkees. That's how they got this show together, basically. I want to say, and I could be wrong here, but Davy Jones, he was sort of the big star.
Starting point is 01:06:12 He was already sort of a famous actor at the time and singer. And this was announced as like, oh, there's this new show coming out starring Davy Jones called The Monkees. And it was sort of the guys that put the show together had seen the Beatles, like Beatlemania and Hard Day's Night and all this stuff, and sort of came up with this sort of sitcom, musical sitcom television program.
Starting point is 01:06:38 And it was a big hit, obviously. The Monkees. Was it Davy Jones who passed away like semi-recently? Yeah, he's dead. He is dead. And he had like a weird Toronto thing at the end on the park or something. Oh, did he? I just remember 1236.
Starting point is 01:06:54 Here's what I do remember. Oh, he would know. But I do remember that he's the reason David Bowie is a David Bowie. That's right. Because he's a David Jones. Also a David Jones. Right. How about the fact also that like the monkeys,
Starting point is 01:07:06 which everybody knows the show and the songs and all that stuff, very sort of My Pet Monster-ish kind of fun fact here. Okay, I'm ready. The show is only on for two years. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:15 They just remounted. Yeah. I remember just the same episodes over and over and over and over and over and over again. And Cam,
Starting point is 01:07:22 I still can't believe that you picked that song. It's going to take a while for Stu to accept that. You got mad at me for playing a KRS-One tribute to Sting in The Police. Yeah, I was mad at that too, because that's offensive to me. But this is the...
Starting point is 01:07:35 That's problematic. And what Cam did is not offensive? It's subjective. It's stupid, but it's not offensive. Like, it's a different category. I don't know. It's a different type of music. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:45 You know, different strokes or different folks. Much music. I think we're talking like late 80s but at some point they started running all these monkeys
Starting point is 01:07:52 and that's when it had its like resurgence because I watched it like every day on Much Music. Wasn't there like a new monkey show? Yeah,
Starting point is 01:07:59 there was a new monkeys and they had all that new stuff. There's a new Leave it to Beaver. I remember watching a new Leave it to Beaver. By the way, we've got some comments from the... Okay, only read the positive ones.
Starting point is 01:08:11 That's my new rule. I made it up last week. Mike from the Monkees' mother invented whiteout. Yeah, liquid paper. Is that known? That's well-known fact, yes. And some people love Davy Jones, but Andy Panty was more of a Mickey fan
Starting point is 01:08:25 yeah Mike the Greg man he was a Peter Tork guy okay who's the one at the Toque was that Tork
Starting point is 01:08:31 shout out to Monica who's watching is she in there she's drawing a bath she got her wine her bath she was a big fan also
Starting point is 01:08:41 I was surprised to learn she remembered and loved the Computer Man song. Monica did. Yeah, Monica. Okay. So I guess it made its way to Edmonton.
Starting point is 01:08:49 What did she not? Oh, she didn't know Leigh-Anne. There's a lot. Oh, yeah. She didn't know Leigh-Anne. She had never heard of Leigh-Anne. Did everyone here listen to Leigh-Anne episode of Toronto Bags? Not yet.
Starting point is 01:08:57 You're behind. I don't think I've listened to any of the episodes this week. Okay. Well, the Erica M one would have revealed the Sammy Cone connection. So I know you didn't listen to that one. Yeah. Okay. I like that song by the Monkees. It exists in the Monkees universe.
Starting point is 01:09:08 Can I kick out my jam now? Please do. My struggle was which song do I choose from this show? There are many great songs that exist in the universe of this show that I love very much, but I chose this one. Troy, Mac Parker. Ever hear of Planet of the Apes? The movie or the planet?
Starting point is 01:09:28 The brand new multi-million dollar musical And you are starring as the human It's the part I was born to play, baby Help, the human's about to escape. Get your paws off me, you dirty ape. He can talk. He can talk, he can talk, he can talk, he can talk, he can talk, he can talk. I can sing.
Starting point is 01:10:04 Oh, help me, Dr. Zaius. Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius Oh, Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius What's wrong with me? I think you're crazy On a second opinion
Starting point is 01:10:21 You're all so lazy Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius. Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius. Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius. Oh, Dr. Zaius. Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius. Can I play the piano anymore? Of course you can.
Starting point is 01:10:36 Well, I couldn't before. So cover songs are okay? Is that in the rules? A parody. There's more to it than just the Rock Me Amadeus cover. It's a parody, of course,
Starting point is 01:10:49 of Falco. Sure. We have kicked that out. We have. Rock Me Amadeus. There's other parts to this song, if I let it go.
Starting point is 01:10:56 I could almost listen to the whole thing here. Anyway, it's a great jam from the episode of The Simpsons called A Fish Called Selma. It was in season 7. I own the first 10 seasons on DVD.
Starting point is 01:11:09 So like I'm well versed in the first 10 seasons. Well, it's the only way to hear to watch Stark Raving Dad. So you don't get that on the Disney. So this would be like 96? Yeah, 96 or 96. Yeah, it would be 96, I i think so this of course is the great canadian the legend
Starting point is 01:11:29 uh we lost him far too soon phil hartman he's from branford i didn't know that from branford ontario loved him just like uh the great one so he in fact i think sometimes i think phil is the great one we should just call him the great one so So Phil Hartman, I think of this as his definitive episode. It was the first time we got a full feature devoted to Troy McClure, one of Phil's iconic characters. So here's a fun fact. By the way, the musical that they're performing here
Starting point is 01:11:57 is called Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off. That's the name of the musical. And we mentioned the Rock Me Amadeus Connection, of course, because the composer of this song, Alf Clausen, here's a fun fact, and then we'll move on to another great Cam Gordon jam.
Starting point is 01:12:13 Oh, boy. I have a feeling it's not going to be good. No, well, Simpsons composer Alf Clausen, he was a music copyist on the original film of Planet of the Apes. Oh, wow. Which was that like Richard Burden was in it or something?
Starting point is 01:12:28 No, it was, who's the NRA guy? Oh, shit. Charlton Heston. Yeah, Charlton Heston. That's right. He was one of the greats. One of those greats. Right.
Starting point is 01:12:36 Cold dead hands. So I had, you know, if you're wondering what came in second, I like the Laura Lynn. Hi, what's her name again? Somebody help me out here. I like the Laura Lynn. What's her name again? Somebody help me out here. It is the Your Wife Don't Understand You But I Do by Laura Lynn or whatever the hell the country music singer.
Starting point is 01:12:51 Or Loretta Lynn? No, no, no. It was a character played by Beverly D'Angelo, who you might know best from the family, the Criswold family vacation movie. She has ties to Toronto too somewhere. Like she worked at Zanzibar or something. Like when it was not a... No, you're right.
Starting point is 01:13:09 I heard this story. She was there for Godspell maybe in like the late 70s. Yeah, something like that. Which is where a lot of SCTV people came from. And this will all get readdressed at the end of this episode because I'm going to talk about it.
Starting point is 01:13:21 Because when you smashed that TV and it was like an atom bomb, that was like my brain blew up like an atom bomb, my brain blew up like an atom bomb because that's the SCTV opening. You just mentioned the whole Godspell scene there that spawns SCTV. I'll blow those minds later.
Starting point is 01:13:35 By the way, when is 1236 coming over? Sunday. Awesome. Is he going to show up this time? Can you leave your blue jay blanket behind? I want to give it to Mark Weisblatt when he gets here. No. I think we lost Stu
Starting point is 01:13:47 if you're Mike and the Rippers. Everything's terrible. Yeah, like he's not like this. Is it Rippers or Drifters? Because you said both.
Starting point is 01:13:53 It's Drifters. It's not Rippers, even though you multiple times you called it the Rippers. Okay, that's another. That's a teaser. That's a teaser.
Starting point is 01:14:01 Right. I got you. I got you because someone stole that from me. Talking to you on the dollars is sabotage. Okay, so Cam Gordon, what's your third jam? Well, let's...
Starting point is 01:14:08 Wait, is that the song that he used as a replacement for the other song? The bass... No, this was... That was one of his original... I was being petulant. Okay. I just wanted to like... That bass thing though was one of his original picks.
Starting point is 01:14:19 That bass song. So Cam, this is the one you were... The music that work. Cam, Cameron. I called it composition music that, that work. Cam, Cameron. I called it composition. He's had enough. He's out.
Starting point is 01:14:28 Cameron, this is the song you were teasing last time. So tease it now. I'm going to play that YouTube clip and he's going to guess, Stu's going to guess
Starting point is 01:14:35 who, what movie we're talking about. Let's, let's bring it back, Stu. Okay. You're going to hear a
Starting point is 01:14:40 couple of famous movie critics. Okay. They're going to be talking about a film. Yes. Just listen to it. And then at the end of the clip, Mike, you know, you have to like to be talking about a film. Just listen to it and then at the end of the clip, Mike, you know you have to
Starting point is 01:14:47 stop it at a certain point. Okay, just wink at me when I have to stop. Listen to about 45 minutes. Boy, are we apart on this one. I did not laugh once. I thought this movie was awful, dreadful, terrible, stupid, idiotic, unfunny,
Starting point is 01:15:04 labored, forced, painful, bad. What happened to your sense of humor? I've got my sense of humor. That was what my sense of humor was starving for a laugh. Oh, no, Roger, first of all, the drag stuff was funny. So what? So what? If it's funny.
Starting point is 01:15:22 Why is it funny? Why is it funny that they're in drag? It's not funny that they're in drag. I've knocked pictures where people have been in drag when they're not funny. I'm saying obviously they're laughing. You didn't get the stuff about the drug. Oh, I caught on. I caught on.
Starting point is 01:15:35 What happened, Roger? We're different universes here. We can't talk about it. Can't talk about it. Okay. So that's, of course, the late Roger Ebert and the late Gene Siskel having a little disagreement, as they often did, about a film. It sounded like Siskel thought it was very funny.
Starting point is 01:15:52 He enjoyed the drug stuff, amongst other things. Wait a minute. You're the Siskel, and then Stu's the Ebert. Something like that. Stu's much skinnier than Ebert. So you're not really an Ebert. Ebert's talking about something he thought sucked, basically. My question for Stu, what do you think they're talking about?
Starting point is 01:16:08 A movie. Which movie? You're not going to play this game because you're so upset? I don't know. Thanks for everything, Julie Newmar. Birdcage. He's thinking of drag movies. Doubtfire.
Starting point is 01:16:22 Tootsie. Pretty good. Police Academy. White Chicks. Bosom Buddies. Bosom Buddies, sure. There was a lot of men dressing up as women. We used to laugh at that, and then we realized this is transphobic.
Starting point is 01:16:38 Avenger the Nerds. Yeah, there's some of that. Ken would really win me over if that was the song. You clap your hands, everybody. If that's what he's about to play, I'll forgive him for his lies, but he's not going to do that. Play the bass jam again. Hold that.
Starting point is 01:16:54 Oh, I started playing. Is it okay? I want to talk about drugs. Heroin! No, not heroin. Speed! No, not speed. Speaking of Phil Hartman. Hashish! No, not speed. Speaking of Phil Hartman.
Starting point is 01:17:05 Hashish! No, not even hashish. Horse tranquilizers! No, not horse tranquilizers. I just heard about this new drug that makes you happy. I just want to say... Fuck happy! want to say, fuck happy. Yeah, just speak at baseline. Speak of bass lines. Some days it's dark Some days I work
Starting point is 01:18:15 I work alone I walk alone Okay, I think we can talk over it um name of this song is some days it's dark by the band death lurks aka the odds featuring fotm craig northey um this is from the movie Kids in the Hall Brain Candy, which Roger Ebert apparently was not a fan of, it sounds like. I picked this song partially because of the FOTM connection. I also think this is sort of in the category of fake songs. It's actually kind of good. Two FOTM connections.
Starting point is 01:19:00 Oh, Kevin whatever. Kevin MacDonald. Kevin MacDonald. And Craig Northey, who's now doing a project with Brent Butt, who was just booked today for his Toronto Mike debut. There you go. And I feel like he did the theme song. Yeah, he did the theme song for Corner Guy.
Starting point is 01:19:12 They worked together a lot. Yeah, I actually don't have a lot of fun facts about this song. I think I sort of used them all up on my first two tracks. He's a rest. Yeah, a fun fact about where this scene in the movie, this song was also depicted in the movie, was shot was that it was the old Limelight Club. If you ever went there,
Starting point is 01:19:29 it was near Crocodile Rock on Adelaide Street in downtown Toronto near University. Kind of had a wraparound balcony that sort of reminded me of like, remember those ACDC videos where like- Yeah, yeah. Thunderstruck. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:19:41 Sort of had a bit of that vibe. This song was also- If I may, this is an inspired choice. Like I think of had a bit of that vibe. This song was also... If I may, this is an inspired choice. Like, I think this is a good choice, because you're right, it's a good song. Yeah. It exists in the universe of Brain Candy, which is a bit of a cult.
Starting point is 01:19:54 I'd say that's a cult movie, and that, you know, those of us who like it and saw it like it a lot. Yeah. But it didn't have commercial success. No, and we talk a lot about CanCon. It's kind of... I think it's interesting.
Starting point is 01:20:04 I think the odds is like, okay, let's playCon. It's kind of, I think it's interesting the odds, like, okay, let's play heavy. Craig Northy also, I think, did a lot of the incidental music for the film.
Starting point is 01:20:11 Because remember, the kids in the hall appear in heterosexual male. That's right. Yeah, definitely. They had a relationship back and forth. Absolutely.
Starting point is 01:20:18 Deep ties. Also on the soundtrack of Kids on the All Brain, a lot of my favorite indie bands were on there. You had some Pavement, you had Yola Tango, you had Stereolab, Liz Fair, Guided by Voices, and
Starting point is 01:20:31 an artist I think came up because I lost $200 in a mosh pit to this artist once, Matthew Sweet. I'm glad you have $200 on you at the Matthew Sweet show. That's a lot of money. It was a lot of money back then. You probably have $200 in now. Well, that was at the another roadside attraction that we've
Starting point is 01:20:47 talked about. You know what? They played Girlfriend all the time. I'm struggling, though, to remember a second Matthew Sweet. Sick of myself. I've been waiting. We had a few jams. Also on that soundtrack was the tragically hip song
Starting point is 01:21:03 Butts Wiggling. Yeah, Butts Wiggling, sure. Yeah, it was on the soundtrack there. Which I think is on fully, okay, anyway, I can't remember. I think it's on fully, completely, but maybe it was on Day for Night, maybe. Yeah, so anyway, Death Lurks. And of course,
Starting point is 01:21:15 one of the kids in the hall starred in a successful sitcom with Phil Hartman. That's right, Dave Foley, yes. And also a great listen a podcast him on i think the mark maron podcast where he talks about his uh his divorce to tabitha south southie it cost him a lot of money right yeah it was a little pricey that one yeah that that was that's probably like 10 years ago like that podcast was a real okay real eye-opener though i mean i did a predate the real talk on Toronto Mic?
Starting point is 01:21:45 Or was it inspired by that? Around the same time. Maybe it was your Raimi the Minx episode was running simultaneously. You had Raimi the Minx on? Yeah. You know Raimi? I do.
Starting point is 01:21:56 You're a friend of Raimi. F-O-R. Internet friend. Yeah, I mean, she came over. And one of the first people I wanted to have on because she was one of the OG bloggers. I think all her friends are internet friend. Yeah, I mean, she came over and I, one of the first people I wanted to have on because she was one of the OG bloggers. I think all her friends
Starting point is 01:22:07 are internet friends. Like that was, she was like kind of the original blog, like blog star of Toronto. You remember how there was Jenny Cam? You remember Jenny?
Starting point is 01:22:13 No. Who had Jenny Cam? This is way back in the early days. She had a webcam on her 24-7 in her apartment. This was in Toronto?
Starting point is 01:22:18 No, California. Okay. Like there was this whole thing that spilled out of Jenny Cam and I feel like Ramey was one of those like, She was sort of in the wake of that. So I started TorontoMike.com blogging in 2002.
Starting point is 01:22:28 And Rami was ahead of me. Like she had already started. She was like an early influence. What is she doing? She's younger than me. She's like a social media person. Well, I know. I think she's friends with Casey Stewart.
Starting point is 01:22:39 Yes. Oh, for sure. I've seen them together. They're friends. Kind of friendly with like she's been. Like influencer. And I think she works with a social media company or something. Yeah, and Lauren's with...
Starting point is 01:22:48 But, you know, yeah. I would have Raimi back. I thought... That was an early episode. And it's funny, when I had USS on, we talked about the fact that Ash appeared for episode 95. So it's like these double-digit guests. And I think Raimi's a double-digit guest.
Starting point is 01:23:03 Do you know Zach Bussey? Yeah, I was on his podcast. Okay, yeah. And you know, okay yeah co-hosted by meg button do you know that name at all from like the local circles so wow meg button and zach bussey had me on their podcast i don't know i think the podcast is like gone now but i was a guest i went to like dufferin queen those were good times sprouter you're right oh yeah i was i had my had my ear to this. We should do a whole thing on this era. There was actually Stu is going to like... There's a very good article about the early
Starting point is 01:23:31 days of Beta Kid. You know the website that you cover, the Canadian startups? It's just quite interesting because it feels like a million years ago. It wasn't that long ago, but everything seemed very simple. No, I know. And it's like, yeah, you still say... I still... Not anymore because of COVID, but I to go get invited to events and stuff and i would kind of see these people daryl etherington and uh all sorts of yeah those are fun times shout out to
Starting point is 01:23:53 mike eddinger and i think it's his wife who's uh so is um is uh uh me social media influencer of notes sorry who ed tinger am i saying oh jennifer jennifer is mike's wife i think social yeah yes no she's been to twitter canada too there you go well mike is one of the few people along with james edgar and a couple others who's been to all six tmlx events like there's only a handful that's been all six so because that number six got rid of a lot of people you know because it's in a park during a pandemic okay we're stew's falling asleep. No, I'm not. I'm awake. He's still pissed at your second choice. I don't know how we're going to come back.
Starting point is 01:24:30 Let's hear this. He's going to bring us back. I mentioned earlier I had a lot of DVDs, and that's the only way to see Stark Raving Mad, which actually has a really good... Stark Raving Dad. Sorry, Stark Raving Dad, which has a very good song in it
Starting point is 01:24:42 that lives in that universe written by a problematic Michael Jackson. But your turn, Stu. Go ahead. It's like the extended Club mix The link you gave me Stuart Do you know the song Kim? He will
Starting point is 01:25:21 I think I will He watched enough much music They played it a lot Yeah Yeah of course. I know this. It's funkier there. It doesn't really hold up, though, does it? It's a little slower than I remember.
Starting point is 01:25:40 You need the visuals, maybe. Best scores, robbing banana trees all over the floor. I'm the kid that made the thing with C&R. Last name Simpson, first name Bart. I'm here today to introduce the next phase. The next step in the big Bart craze. I got a dance real easy to do. I learned it with no rhythm and so can you. Ooh, so move your body if you got the notion. Front to back in a rock-like motion.
Starting point is 01:26:23 Now that you got it, if you think you can, do it to the music, that's the Bartman. Everybody, if you can, do the Bartman. Shake your body, turn it out, if you can. Shake it out, man. To the side, if you can, can. Bartman. Everybody in the house, do the Bartman. Everybody, if you can, do the Bartman. Shake your body, turn it out, if you can, can.
Starting point is 01:26:40 Whoa, mama. To the side, if you can, can. Everybody in the house, do the Bartman. It wasn't long ago, just a couple of weeks. I got in trouble. He's regretting his own choice. Oh, this is a good song. He remembered it so fondly from like 1992. Do the Bartman. Not to be confused with the Two Live Crew song, Do the Bart.
Starting point is 01:26:58 Yeah, it's a different song. Different song, different everything about that. Not to be confused with Do the Urkel. I don't remember Do the Urkel. It's a competing song. There's also Do the Sprain be confused with Do the Urkel. I don't remember Do the Urkel. Which is a competing song. There's also Do the Sprain. Oh, Do the Evolution.
Starting point is 01:27:09 Oh, yeah. Do the Sprain. Do the Sprain. It was like a dance craze. There's also Do the Wolf and Teen Wolf. We did the Wolf. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 01:27:16 Lots of doing of dances. Yeah, do the Sprain. Was that Saved by the Bell? Yes. Yeah. Lisa Broke Her Leg. Totally remembering that. Casey starring Casey Kasem
Starting point is 01:27:23 was on that one. This one is Do the Bartman Performed by Nancy Cartwright The voice of Bartholomew J. Simpson I'm trying to hear The background vocals
Starting point is 01:27:35 Because Did you find the mic That was in there? Yeah Michael Jackson Apparently wrote the song And sang backups No Yeah that's the mind blow here.
Starting point is 01:27:46 I think that's Noah Mintz in the background. Yeah, Matt Groening went in a 1998 World Animation Celebration Convention in Pasadena, California. He made the admission that Do the Bartman was actually co-written and co-produced by Michael Jackson. But he could not receive credit for it because he was under contract to Epic Records. And was this ever confirmed by Michael Jackson? Michael Jackson was a fan of The Simpsons, especially Bart, and he had called the producers one night offering to write Bart a number one single and do a guest spot on the show, which is how Do The Bartman came about.
Starting point is 01:28:22 I'm Alan Cross. Jackson eventually guest starred in the episode Stark Raving Dad under the pseudonym John J. Smith. He also wrote the song Happy Birthday Lisa for the episode Stark Raving Dad, which was later included on the Songs in the Key of Springfield album, which this song has also come from. Now, there's some dispute.
Starting point is 01:28:45 A gentleman by the name of Brian Loren has stated that Jackson had provided the background vocals for Do The Bartman, but Brian Loren says that he's the one that wrote the song. Jackson was only just there to sing vocals. Now, here's a big shocker. Kind of timely With the news that has come out today But Brian Lauren
Starting point is 01:29:08 Was actually Brianna Lauren Brianna Lauren Hudson All I can imagine is that Was having trouble selling songs So lost the yana and just became Brian Lauren And then all of a sudden found success
Starting point is 01:29:23 There's probably a documentary there somewhere But apparently Do The Bartman is One of many songs That Brianna Hudson Contributed to including Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston Songs the other theory is That that's actually just Michael Jackson
Starting point is 01:29:39 Doing like an Eddie Kaufman sort of fake name I don't hear Michael Jackson's voice when I'm listening to this, but... I guess you can kind of hear it. I think I can hear a bit of it. Yeah, the harmonies have a Michael Jackson kind of... It's not quite, uh... I get the feeling somebody's watching me. So is this like urban legend, really?
Starting point is 01:30:03 No, it's actually... This is like actual... Matt Groening said it, so I don't think it's... And of course, in Stark Raving, that's been confirmed. Yes. Although the singing was by a guy named Kip Lennon. Right. But the vocals of the guy who Homer thought was Michael Jackson...
Starting point is 01:30:16 When was this? This is like in... 95 maybe? 95 or something? It's like post black and white. I think that Lisa, It's Your Birthday is probably the better song of the two. Now that I'm listening back to Do The Bartman but I just remember
Starting point is 01:30:29 Do The Bartman being this culturally significant song because as much as Lisa It's Your Birthday we all love that song. Do The Bartman was a massive music video and record and everybody had it. But can I ask you about, this is where it gets controversial This was on the show. It was part of the show because you had to watch the episode.
Starting point is 01:30:45 I thought that animation was for the video. Like, I don't remember this song being in the show. Okay, well, listen, Cam played a bass rip, so you can give me problems for playing do the bar man. See, the least it's your birthday is in the show. Sure. Okay. He helps part.
Starting point is 01:31:00 Fine, Mike. Fine. Okay. Okay. I'm just asking the question. It's fine. Ask away, Mike. Because this is more like. You dare question. I haven't yet to hear you question Cam, but go Fine. Okay. I'm just asking the question. No, it's fine. Ask away, Mike. Because this is more like...
Starting point is 01:31:05 You dare question... I haven't yet to hear you question Cam, but go ahead. No. I think Cam's choice at the base... Okay, you're right. I should have picked Lisa, It's Your Birthday. You're right. It should have been Lisa, It's Your Birthday.
Starting point is 01:31:18 My bad. I didn't say that. No, it should have been. I feel like this song was a number one hit on Much Music. Yeah, it was a big hit on Much Music. High rotation. Eric M. threw it many times. I'm trying to think.
Starting point is 01:31:28 Well, actually, we shouldn't in case any of these songs came up. A CD and cassette tape soundtrack was released on April 11, 1995 and contained songs used throughout the series. So here's where Mike can kiss my ass. Just give me the episode. Give me the name of the episode that featured Do The Barman. Excuse me. You gave Cam time to tell his stupid wheel story.
Starting point is 01:31:49 The only exciting part about the story was the maybe possible molestation that happened on our hitchhiking. And Coco Bewer. I want to talk about, according to Simpsons Wiki, not Wikipedia, Simpsons Wiki. Yeah, I'm here. I hear you. I'm listening. A CD and cassette tape soundtrack was released that contained songs used throughout the series.
Starting point is 01:32:09 I know. The track, no. I'm actually reading from the wrong. That's the other one. Songs in the Key of Springfield. Yes. I know. So let's move on.
Starting point is 01:32:18 That's where mine's from, by the way. Fell apart. Okay, just trust me. You will not be able to name the episode that features Do The Bartman because it did not exist. Okay, so there you go. My bad. My bad. Okay, so you screwed up. will not be able to name the episode that features Do The Bartman because it did not exist. Okay, so there you go. My bad.
Starting point is 01:32:26 My bad. Okay, so you screwed up. None of us are infallible. So I think this round is going to be- I still won the round. I haven't even finished the round yet. Well, we know. Give me a song.
Starting point is 01:32:34 Unless it's the theme from Mannix, don't even bother. Little Zeppelin for you. This is like cold water. What are they called? Freshwater? Stillwater. Stillwater. Stillwater. Oh, oh, oh
Starting point is 01:33:10 Fever dog Fever dog? Yeah, the song's called Fever Dog Fever dog Yeah, the song's called Fever Dog, yeah. I'll kill you how I don't listen no more I feel like this movie comes up a lot on Pandemic Friday because maybe it's because it's one of my favorite movies, but this is called, the movie is called Almost Famous.
Starting point is 01:33:46 Came out in 2000. This is written and directed by Cameron Crowe, who at some point wrote for Rolling Stone magazine. Anyway, you might remember it's about a band that's kind of like
Starting point is 01:34:00 a Led Zeppelin style band that young journalist patrick fugit i don't remember the character's name but the actor patrick fugit follows the band you know meets uh kate hudson etc billy crudup is in the band fictitious rock band still water and he writes about it i guess he's playing like a young cameron crowe who was the other it was jason lee yeah jason lee is in there too that's right that's right that's right have you seen He writes about it. I guess he's playing like a young Cameron Crowe. Who was he? It was Jason Lee. Yeah, Jason Lee is in there too. That's right.
Starting point is 01:34:27 That's right. That's right. Have you seen this movie recently? I'm just curious if it holds up because this is probably like 20 years old now, this movie? 20 years old, exactly. And I've seen it like in the last 10 years and I still loved it. So I think we kicked out Tiny Dancer as a song we liked better after we heard it in a movie. Yes. I think I did that. And I love this fucking movie. I think it's out Tiny Dancer as a song we liked better after we heard it in a movie. Yes.
Starting point is 01:34:45 I think I did that. And I love this fucking movie. I think it's a great movie. And this is a song that exists in the universe of the song. So much like The Wonders. The Oneeders. Yeah. Mike Drifters.
Starting point is 01:34:59 Mike and the Drifters. I feel, feel, feel, feel, feel. A great example we didn't kick out because it's been played so much on Pandemic Fridays recently is Zit Remedies. Everybody Wants Something. That would be a great example we didn't kick out because it's been played so much on pandemic fridays recently is uh zit remedies everybody wants something that would be a great example absolutely i was just singing the boogie night song when uh remember we went in the studio and recorded a song so do either of you guys have any uh thoughts on almost famous like is this off your radar cam is this yeah no i i've definitely seen it and enjoyed it i i think i only saw it once um yeah i know it just it seems like it's one of the films from that era that really sticks with
Starting point is 01:35:37 i guess guys like us good soundtrack yeah no it's... You know what? I think Guys Like Us, I think we love the idea of writing for Rolling Stone magazine about music. Sure. Like this whole pre-internet idea. Music experts? Yes, as Dumpf would call you guys. Music experts.
Starting point is 01:35:55 Who wrote... Is that an actual band? That seems like, oh, they brought in the Black Crows to play that music. Oh, no. I don't have that. I don't think that's a real band.
Starting point is 01:36:03 It just seems like a real song. Yeah, no. And I think they did a good job on the song. Well, like Bill Simmons is very fond of saying this. The problem with sports movies is it's hard to get actors
Starting point is 01:36:15 who can actually look like athletes. So it's like, oh, you're Kevin Costner. Like they'd say, that's why Kevin Costner did that. It must be. Okay, I'm going to say it's red. It looks like it's hot. But they're saying that's why Kevin Costner did that. It must be still. Okay, I'm going to say it's red. It looks like it's hot. But they're saying that's why Kevin Costner did so many sports movies
Starting point is 01:36:28 because he could actually play golf. He could actually play baseball and actually sort of look like. Yeah, Tim Cup. Yeah, versus like other people. They just look ridiculous. And it's sort of similar with music. Well, it's like Cuba Gooding Jr. doesn't look like an NFL player. Correct, yeah.
Starting point is 01:36:42 That's a good example. That's a good example. And he also played OJ. I don't know if you saw that, but he played OJ Simpson. I've heard that's good. Yeah, it was good. That's really good.
Starting point is 01:36:52 Is that like David Schwimmer's in it? Yeah. He plays Robert Kardashian. Juice. Yeah, absolutely. So Fever Dog from Stillwater, that's in Almost Famous, and that's a great song.
Starting point is 01:37:02 I think Stu's pick was great too. Is it off? Feels like it's off. I think Stu's pick was great, too. Is it off? Feels like it's off. I think you're out of gas. What did you do to that? Okay, well, we got to... Here, do you want to introduce your fourth jam, Cam? What'd you do to my heater, baby?
Starting point is 01:37:15 Big it on the table, and we can try to ignite it again. I can't imagine that the canister only survived one night. Just one night. Maybe you kind of jostled with it there. Why don't we give it a soundtrack as we get this fired up? Okay. This song is really short.
Starting point is 01:37:32 I'm kind of scared of this thing. Here, you want me to play your fourth jam, Cam? Here we go. I'm going to keep an eye on the little buddy. How'd you do? We came in second. Oh, that's terrific. What'd you get?
Starting point is 01:37:41 Treated badly. Oh, awesome. They told us to get out of the way when they took the winner's picture with Anita Bryant. Oh, for those old judges, no. I'd love to hear your song. Oh, forget it, Blanche. Please.
Starting point is 01:37:53 Oh, no, the whole experience was too painful. Please. We just want to put it out of our minds. Please. Hit it, Rose. I have to say what I feel Miami has so much appeal a great place to get a seafood meal Miami, Miami, you've got style. Blue sky, sunshine, white sand by the mile. When you live in this town, each day is sublime.
Starting point is 01:38:42 The coldest of winters are warm and divine. Miami, Miami. You've got style. Blue skies, sunshine. It's a fucking song. This is a song. All within reach. Dance the samba till morning. It's in those pipes.
Starting point is 01:39:01 Great spokesperson for shoppers, drug market. The best. The best. She's Drug Mart. The best. The best. She's in a Star Wars holiday movie as well. The TV one that George Lucas wants burned. You know this one, right? The holiday special?
Starting point is 01:39:17 Stu knows. She's in that. Big finish here. You've got time. Atta girl. Miami. By the Golden Girls. On lead vocals, that was of course The Incomparable, the legend Bea Arthur.
Starting point is 01:39:42 Beatrice. So that was from the episode of Golden Girls that appeared Legend, Bea Arthur. Beatrice. Beatrice Arthur. So that was from the episode of Golden Girls that appeared in the second season in 1986 called A Big Daddy's Little Lady. A bit of a Canadian connection to this episode. While we get these fun facts, I want to hear the Canadian connection. Is there anything happening in that periscope or did they go to bed? Just continue. I hate it when
Starting point is 01:40:05 Stu gets in these moods. I was going to say, much like Mr. Heater, it's sort of on fumes over there, but we'll power through. Question. Was this one of his original picks? He had to replace something. So is this... You'll never know. You'll never know. He wants to keep you guessing.
Starting point is 01:40:20 What's this Canadian connection? I'm dying to know. This episode directed by David Steinberg. Wait, don't tell me. I can't remember why. I think he did like Laugh-In. Okay. Oh, I can see him hosting a show. Yeah, from Winnipeg.
Starting point is 01:40:35 And I can see like the SCTV people and David Letterman on the panel. Like David Letterman, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short. Like I can see them all sitting there on the David Steinberg show. Did lots of stuff in the 70s, 80s.Hara, Martin Short. I can see them all sitting there on the David Steinberg show. Did lots of stuff in the 70s, 80s. Joe Flaherty. Out of Winnipeg,
Starting point is 01:40:49 originally, David Steinberg. Yes, okay. Wow. What a fucking amazing... I love these fun facts. There you go. So this episode, again, Big Daddy's Little Lady. I mean, one of the things you often hear talked about Golden Girls, which have been off the air for a long time, is they weren't really that old. Oh my God, almost as old as them.
Starting point is 01:41:05 So the plot of this episode was actually Blanche. Right. You know, kind of the slightly promiscuous one. Her dad, again, these are like retired ladies living in Florida. Her dad was getting married to a younger lady, and she was concerned. She was, you know, kind of the Southern belle, called him Big Daddy,
Starting point is 01:41:24 and she was concerned getting married to this you know, kind of the Southern belle, called him Big Daddy, and she was concerned getting married to this younger lady. That's the premise. So a couple of, this is actually not fun. Big Daddy originally was played by a gentleman named Murray Hamilton, who actually died. Don't worry. There's your Ridley Funeral Home segue. There you go.
Starting point is 01:41:42 So there's the tie-in. Put on your toque. Replaced by someone named David Wayne. Now, Murray Hamilton was quite a big character actor in his time. Appeared in such films as The Hustler, The Graduate, and Jaws. Okay. So you're with me? I'm with you.
Starting point is 01:41:59 And then let me know when you're done this side, because I do want to say something about Ridley Funeral Home. I'm almost done here. So the younger woman that Big Daddy was looking to connect with was an actress named Sondra Curry, whose sister was actually Sherry Curry of The Runaways. Oh, with Joan Jett. Sherry Bomb.
Starting point is 01:42:17 Exactly, with Joan Jett. And I think Lita Ford. That's right, yeah. Who I always think of when I think of... Lita Ford's in The Runaways? I believe she was in The Runaways. And I always think of Alita Ford when I think of my new best friend, Lee Aaron. I feel like she was kind of like our Alita Ford or whatever.
Starting point is 01:42:31 Perfect. Perfect analogy, Mike. Thank you. This song was actually just written by the writers on the show. I was trying to find who wrote the song. It sounds like it was just the writers. Yeah, I feel like it was pretty simple. Like maybe Stu and I could have cooked that up in 10 minutes.
Starting point is 01:42:46 Yeah, and a small continuity error on this I found in IMDb. It's really Miami, Ohio. No, it's more minor than that. More minor than the
Starting point is 01:42:56 bass lick? It's actually more major than that. If you actually watch this clip on YouTube, if you look very closely, you can actually see the boom mic.
Starting point is 01:43:06 Oh. Maybe it was made in SD and maybe they had an HD version. Sometimes that gets us. With that much rattan furniture. Oh, my goodness. Miami. And I'm sure you were there, Cam, when they had the unsuccessful spinoff, Golden Palace.
Starting point is 01:43:21 Because Bea Arthur is the only one who didn't want to go. So the rest of the gals did Golden Palace. I've got to watch that. And again, we only have one golden girl left. That's right. Betty White, who I think is pushing 100. I could be wrong about that. I would say 98, 99.
Starting point is 01:43:36 I hope she's doing well. Who was the first to pass away? Estelle Getty had a disease of some sorts in her 50s. Because she was plain older with a wig and stuff. I think Estelle Getty had a disease of some sorts in her like fifties. Cause she was playing older with a wig and stuff. I think Estelle Getty was, might've been the youngest in real life, but I believe she's the first to go. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:43:52 And I, I know I brought this up before on Toronto, Mike, but like, you know, I think we all have our, our concert regrets, you know,
Starting point is 01:43:58 concerts like, Oh, you had a chance to see the golden girls at the forum. Well, no, but B Arthur did. I think it was at like the Winter Garden Theater one night only. Bea Arthur live on stage with light piano accompaniment,
Starting point is 01:44:09 just telling stories, singing songs, probably not dissimilar from Miami. She'd be good at that. Yeah, that would have been amazing. You had a chance to go. Well, it happened, and I contemplated going to it, and now I wish I had because I think it would be amazing. Wow, okay, Bea Arthur.
Starting point is 01:44:24 The grand old theater, the grand old lady. I mean because I think it would be amazing. Wow. Okay. B. Arthur. Grand old theater. Grand old lady. I mean, that would have been a legend. I wish we had all known each other and had gone together to see B. Arthur. I think that would have been fantastic. She was the best. I'm sorry for the loss of 75% of our golden girls. At least we have tracks like Miami. Great song.
Starting point is 01:44:39 Miami, good song. Ridley Funeral Home, by the way, they're at 3080 Lakeshore. That's at 14th Street. So Lakeshore and 14th. I actually do have a date with Brad Jones, who's the funeral director there. A walk and talk.
Starting point is 01:44:52 A walk and talk from six feet apart. On Monday night, we have a couple of things to chat about. He's a tremendous FOTM. And at Ridley Funeral Home, you guys know you can pay tribute without paying a fortune. Go to RidleyFuneralHome.com
Starting point is 01:45:05 to learn more. My! Oh, it's Stu's jam. I almost stole his spot. Stu, do you have anything you want to say or do you want me to kick this jam out? Kick this jam out. But let's go back to that California garage where it all began.
Starting point is 01:45:22 Through it all Hang in time We'll stay side by side where it all began. You guys are going to be friends friends forever We'll see after this episode That's why he chose this song Yeah, yeah, friends Forever Always be friends We'll be friends
Starting point is 01:46:00 Forever That's not Zach fucking Morris singing that song. I'm not sure this is any of them. It's none of them. It's none of them. Wow. What a farce. All right, that was the best song you ever wrote, Zach.
Starting point is 01:46:17 Zach wrote that song? Okay, Zach apparently wrote the song, but that wasn't his voice. But Talk to Us, that's a great choice. Well, that's Friends Forever by Zach Attack of course from Saved by the Bell television series
Starting point is 01:46:30 Brandon Tartikoff idea absolutely Peter Engel oh not Brandon he must have greenlit it though August 20th 1989 the show debuted ran until 1993
Starting point is 01:46:41 only four seasons wait a minute of Saved by the Bell of course there was Saved by the Bell the new class and then there was. Wait a minute. Of course, there was Saved by the Bell, the new class, and then there was Saved by the Bell, the college years. There was Good Morning, Miss Bliss. But the actual Saved by the Bell that we all watched was 89 to 93. That would have been
Starting point is 01:46:55 accurate for their high school. You know, they weren't in high school for more than four years or five years. But they folded in syndication, which is how we all watch this probably. They folded that Miss Bliss show into it. So it was just kind of folded in. Just aired forever on TBS. Even though they're in a different city.
Starting point is 01:47:09 They're not in California. Is that right? Yeah. Really? So they're in Cleveland or something. Oh, really? Miss Bliss? I don't remember.
Starting point is 01:47:15 Who is what? Hayley Mills. Yes, Hayley Mills from the Swap. Parent Trap. Parent Trap. The Disney channel had Good Morning Miss Bliss. Wow. And then they turned it into this.
Starting point is 01:47:26 So they take characters that are like, they took the principal and they took a couple of guys. Oh, no. Miss Bliss is essentially the Degrassi Junior High and Saved by the Bell is the High because they were in Junior. But different states. Well, they moved. But Belding went with them. I guess Belding went with them too. Was it Belding, Lisa Turtle, Screech?
Starting point is 01:47:41 And Zach. And Max or something. Yeah, that's right. The restaurant like teleported. No, there was like a kid. Yeah, there was a kid and Max or something. Yeah, that's right. The restaurant like teleported. I don't know. There was like a kid. Yeah, there was a kid named Max. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:47:49 Is he from Newsies or something? Could be Max Casella. I love the Zach attack. Saved by the Bell covered drug use driving under the influence homelessness remarriage
Starting point is 01:47:59 death women's rights environmental issues the series starred Mark Paul Gosselaar Dusty Diamond. Uh-oh. Lark Voorhees.
Starting point is 01:48:07 Problematic. Denise Haskins. Oh. Tiffany Amber Thiessen. Whoa. Elizabeth Berkley. Wow. And Mario Lopez.
Starting point is 01:48:18 Who still looks the same age. Targeted at kids and teens, Save of the Bell. It was a real game changer because Saturday mornings were mostly cartoons until wrestling came on at noon. Saved by the Bell changed that by coming in at 11 a.m. and NBC would wear these live-action children's sitcoms. Saved by the Bell ended up spawning into Hangtime and maybe a couple others. City Guys. Sure, City Guys.
Starting point is 01:48:42 The Guys Next Door. Wow. Now this song was on a CD and cassette tape soundtrack that was released that contained songs used throughout the series. That song is a great example, friends forever, of a song that exists in the universe of a song. That's a great choice. There's 12 songs on this album, and I don't know.
Starting point is 01:48:59 I've got to get my hands on this album, but I hope that some of these songs might just be clever titles for songs that go or or or you know, maybe those are... It's like generic riffs.
Starting point is 01:49:17 Say by the bell, don't leave with your love. Now go for it, I know. That's Hot Sunday. Put your mind to it. Go for it. You gotta break a sweat Rock and roll You ain't seen nothing yet Love Me Now I Don't Know Make My Day
Starting point is 01:49:32 Friends Forever I Just Played Did We Ever Have a Chance Deep Within My Heart Surfer Dude Gone Hawaiian School Song That was a real song I forget how it goes
Starting point is 01:49:41 But they like all sing it In like the last episode Really? Yep Oh Wow And then the Saved by the Bell Theme song performed by Michael Damien I forget how it goes, but they all sing it in the last episode. Really? Yeah. Oh, wow. And then the Saved by the Bell theme song performed by Michael Damien. Oh, rock on, rock on.
Starting point is 01:49:51 He did that cover. So that's pretty cool. He's a soap opera actor. Absolutely. Of course, Saved by the Bell has been rebooted again as a contemporary series on Peacock. I haven't seen it yet. Has it come out yet?
Starting point is 01:50:02 It's already come out. I just saw it was coming soon. And apparently Friends Forever got a remix as well, on Peacock. I haven't seen it yet. Has it come out yet? It's already come out. I just saw it was coming soon. Apparently, Friends Forever got a remix as well, and that's part of the new show. And the Saved by the Bell theme song, not Michael Damien, but Lil Yachty
Starting point is 01:50:17 performs the Saved by the Bell theme song on the new series. So there you go. Saved by the Bell, Friends Forever, Zack Attack. I was going to say a cover that was in the show that I don't know if it would have qualified, but Slater.
Starting point is 01:50:29 How am I supposed to live without you? Yeah, Slater. And they're dressed like she's with Jesse dressed as I think Cleopatra. Yeah, a really like emotional version
Starting point is 01:50:37 of how am I supposed to live without you My 16-year-old daughter knows very well the scene where Jessica is on the speed or whatever when she's studying. I'm so excited. Time, time.
Starting point is 01:50:48 There's never any time because that's totally like a viral clip that gets shared amongst the TV. I'm so excited. We'll just live forever. Right. Also, there's some good YouTube compilations. No, but you're talking about when Kelly cheats on Zach with Jeff, the new owner of the Macs. Wow. And then they're having their breakup speech outside.
Starting point is 01:51:07 And then inside, that's where Mario Lopez and Jesse Spano are singing. That's right. Yeah, they weren't breakups. How am I supposed to live without you? It was a big moment. That's a big show. Zach and Kelly break up for good. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:51:20 I'm so glad you kicked out some Zach attack there. When I had Pat Mastroianni on, I actually told him I thought Zit Remedy better than Zach Attack. And he had a good laugh at that. Yeah, he knows you're wrong. My two cents. No, I'm kidding. Congrats to you, hard hitting. Hard hitting.
Starting point is 01:51:35 I'm still reeling from those clips. Especially the one Cam played earlier. What an asshole Mike was to reels. Yeah, no, I'd like, kidding us, like regardless of what we think of the song, let's make no mistake, that was a song. it's tragic
Starting point is 01:51:50 not only what happens to wheels, the character, in the arc of this show, it's tragic. No. But think about the actor. I was going to say,
Starting point is 01:51:56 you talk about life imitating art. Like, you know, what would have wheels in the show his life become? Like, you know, dead in his early 40s
Starting point is 01:52:03 in Hamilton and like, was dead for like... Five years. Yeah. Before it was public. It was kind of a household name and yet no one...
Starting point is 01:52:11 Like it's... Yeah, he was in my household every week. Okay, guys. Brutal. Brutal. I'm kicking out my fourth jam. You ready?
Starting point is 01:52:17 I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed.
Starting point is 01:52:18 I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed.
Starting point is 01:52:23 I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. I'm bummed. Out of our shells Out of our shells We're coming Out of our shells When there's music inside of you You know that someday it's got to come through That's why we're here and we're telling you true
Starting point is 01:52:55 We're coming out of ourselves, yeah You hear the rhythm and you're moving your feet Ain't nothing like a song with a beat 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
Starting point is 01:53:23 We're coming 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
Starting point is 01:53:41 We just kept practicing We stayed underground Donatello on keyboards. Leonardo on bass guitar. Michelangelo on guitar doing the lead vocals. And Raphael on drums and percussion. Saxophone. Okay, gentlemen, do any of you know this jam?
Starting point is 01:54:03 Coming out of our shells? No. It's a good jam, right? That's a great song. I know. I'm choosing it because... Those are turtles singing. Fucking turtles singing.
Starting point is 01:54:13 There's a great story around it, and then you can tell me it's disqualified, but I'll tell you the story anyway. It's okay. In 1990, there was a live musical tour that occurred, and it was sponsored by Pizza Hut, and it was broadcast on pay-per-view, and there was a VHS recording of the broadcast that was available, and there was a soundtrack,
Starting point is 01:54:37 and this was one of the many great Turtles jams on the soundtrack. Hold on. You are really something else. You know that? Sleaze bucket. You are You are really something else. You know that? Sleaze bucket. You are a real piece of shit. You know that, Mike? You just gave me shit for playing Do the Bartman,
Starting point is 01:54:51 and you're playing a song that's from a Pizza Hut tour that you have to have a VHS tape. That has nothing to do with the show or the movie Ninja Turtles. This is a bullshit pick, but go ahead. This song exists. This song exists. I... This song exists... I'm going to let him finish. Let me finish, and then you can give it to me.
Starting point is 01:55:08 This song exists in the universe of the turtles. It just exists in their live musical tour. Oh, and Do The Bartman exists in the fucking Simpsons musical universe, and it just exists in their own musical... No, it exists in HMV and Sound The Record, man. You're fucking nuts. You're talking about Ninja Turtles on ice? What's that got to do with a TV or movie?
Starting point is 01:55:28 They weren't on ice. They weren't on ice. You could get these soundtracks for $3.99 from Pizza Hut. What has that got to do with TV or movies? And sorry, so this was a live. This was never played on television. At least the Bartman was on TV. A live pay-per-view experience.
Starting point is 01:55:44 It was multiple things. It was a tour. It was on TV. A live pay-per-view experience. It was multiple things. It was a tour. It was a soundtrack that people, we all bought at Pizza Hut. A big deal. We used to buy that.
Starting point is 01:55:51 So it's a tour. It's a soundtrack. And it was a VHS. So many good shows there are that have songs in them. So this would be
Starting point is 01:56:02 at like O'Keefe Center or something? Yes. It would be at like fucking like the Richmond Hill. Yes, that's great. this would be at like O'Keeffe Center or something? Yes. It would be at the O'Keeffe Center. Yes, that's great. It would be at the Young People's Theater. The Rose, whatever theater, Rose Crown in like Brampton. This is a joke.
Starting point is 01:56:17 Yeah. The Flato Markham Theater up in, beside Unionville High School. But what a wonderful song. Yeah, again, same question. Like, who did that? Like, that's got to be, like, White Lion or something. Please don't play it again. No, just a couple of chords.
Starting point is 01:56:35 Just doesn't it sound a bit like, yeah, like. It's a bit of wind and change, too. More than words or like a little. Right in the ear. This is a travesty. You have some nerve, Mike. It's 1990. Yeah, like Mr. Big.
Starting point is 01:56:44 You just gave me trouble for picking a song. and then you turn around and pick a song from a VHS. It's the most obscure. You're talking to the guy who picked the song from the YouTube video. This makes Cam's pick look like fucking, I forgive you, Cam. Thank you. Because at least your song, even though it wasn't a song, was on a television program. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:57:03 And on television. Mike, here's the question. Mike is from a fucking pizza hut. Are you ready for a VHS cassette from Peter? Wait, wait, wait. Don't you dare. Don't you dare. So, wait, you know this because you had,
Starting point is 01:57:14 how do you even know this song? Because he went to pizza hut and bought the VHS. You had some fucking deep dish? Like, what are you doing? No, no, no. I actually heard a podcast about this album. And I would, you know, in this podcast. So it's not even something you remember from your own childhood? No, I don't. I don't remember podcast about this album. So it's not even something you remember from your own childhood?
Starting point is 01:57:27 No, I don't remember from my own childhood. Is that problematic? Does it matter how you discover songs? No, I didn't actually buy the album. You owe me an apology. You do? Because you tried to discredit my pick and then you turn around and pick
Starting point is 01:57:44 we're talking about songs that exist on a television show or movie. Because you tried to discredit my pick, and then you turn around and pick. We're talking about songs that exist on a television show or movie. We even played The Way Out to start out the show. And then you play a song from a Pizza Hut VHS tape that if you ordered a kid's meal, you could buy this VHS tape that you didn't even buy or own or remember. I don't know. Did you ever go? Did you see that live show?
Starting point is 01:58:06 Did you go to the live show? No. You're a bit old. I never got the pleasure to go see. Come on. I'm tagging you in here. It's not great. Mike, it's not a great look.
Starting point is 01:58:15 It's not a great look. 30 years ago, that great tour went around. It's a fine song. It's a fine song. Out of our shells. The album, by the way, is called Out of Their Shells. But the song is called Out of Our Shells. That's a crazy fucking pick. Lovely song. That's a fine song. Out of our shells. The album, by the way, is called Out of Their Shells. But the song is called Out of Our Shells. That's a crazy fucking pick.
Starting point is 01:58:27 Lovely song. That's a crazy pick. Cam, do you want to say anything or can I kick out your final jam? By the way, the Periscope completely agrees with me. Completely agrees with me. Consider them all blocked. I'll do it later. Are you ready for your...
Starting point is 01:58:38 Let's do the victory lap here. Final round. It seems like only yesterday we started. Oh, there's the school song. There you go. But soon we'll put away our books and pens. We'll go on with our lives once we have parted. But how can we say farewell to our friends?
Starting point is 01:59:02 TV stars, like, sing so well on the show. The double days, the parties, and the games. It's, like how TV stars sing so well on the show. It's like flawless. Flawless execution. It doesn't even sound like they're talking. It's like there's no effort to make this sound offensive. Sing your own damn songs. Zach and Slater coming in. What's Stu typing there?
Starting point is 01:59:24 Can you look over his shoulder? It sounds a bit like Flaming Moes. Let's all go to Flaming Moes. You could have picked Flaming Moes, by the way. I already did a Simpsons song. How many fucking Simpsons songs do you want me to pick? I just... Yeah, Greg Gorgowski's not feeling it, Mike.
Starting point is 01:59:44 Ask Gorgowski if it's a good fucking jam. He's like the nicest guy in the world, but he's like your piece of trash. He's had it with me. Piece of trash. Say it ain't so, Gragowski. School song by the Bayside High School Students Choir. Songs two of two, let's all see them from Saved by the Bell.
Starting point is 02:00:08 Stu actually mentioned, it sounds like it was on the same CD. That's from an episode of Saved by the Bell that aired in November. Good acting on Cam's part because when I mentioned the song earlier, he acted like he didn't know it. Exactly.
Starting point is 02:00:20 That was very strong. Who would have thought he'd be the better actor? Well, he's not. Let's not go that far. Yeah. So unfortunately, I was going to drop a bomb about my Michael Damien, but Stu beat me to the punch, but I'll let him have it. I recommended, I tried to give you Tommy Page, Stephanie.
Starting point is 02:00:38 I gave him that message. I gave him the message. You didn't go there. I got it. Yeah. I appreciate the effort. Tommy Page. So this show, where was it?
Starting point is 02:00:48 T for T, T for Two, you could have done that. So this show, the premise of this particular episode was songwriting competition, end of school year. This was during the Tory arc. Oh, yes, because they had a problem with- Oh, Tiffany Amartya left the show. She went to 90210. Wasn't it the other- No, because they had a problem with... Oh, Tiffany and Mathias left the show. She went to 90210. Wasn't it the other thing? No, because they came back.
Starting point is 02:01:08 I thought it was like a contract dispute. I thought it was a contract dispute with Jessica Spano. No, Jessie was on it. No, they were both gone. They were both gone. Yeah, it's sort of like in Dukes of Hazzard when Roy and Vance came. Wait, so Jessie and Kelly left, I think,
Starting point is 02:01:23 for like a few episodes and then came back. I remember the Tori era well and ironically it was the Terry era on Three's Company similar when Chrissy Snow anyway the actor who played Tori was someone named Leanne Creel
Starting point is 02:01:39 and it was sort of interesting if you see what else did she see she basically stopped acting she was like a motorcycle she was kind of like Joe from see what else did she see. She basically stopped acting in 2000. She was like a motorcycle. She was kind of like Joe from Facts of Life. A little bit, yeah. Kind of like, you know, tough gal. Or Pinky Descenderos from Happy Days.
Starting point is 02:01:53 Yes, yeah. Kind of like the bad girl, but sort of a silly. Tomboy-ish, yeah. She wore that Kirk Cameron colored leather jacket. You know, that like brownish leather jacket. I like the Joe reference there from Facts of Life, yeah. So she was in the movie The Cell. She sure was.
Starting point is 02:02:08 The Cell with Jennifer Lopez and Vince Vaughn, I think. No, not Vince Vaughn. D'Onofrio. Was it Vince? Okay. D'Onofrio, yeah. Well, she was in that and then kind of stopped acting and only has one other credit in IMDb,
Starting point is 02:02:20 which is an episode of Ned and Stacey. I remember Ned and Stacey. In 2017. I guess they did a reboot of that show? No, I think. Did they? I don't think so. It was with Thomas Hayden Church.
Starting point is 02:02:33 Yeah. It looked like it came back. He did Wings, right? Didn't he do Wings? Yeah. What's that movie, Sideways? Yeah, Sideways with Paul Giamatti. Serial Killing 101 with Stu Stone.
Starting point is 02:02:43 Also, Lisa Lowe in that film as well, by the way. There you go. I had a big crush on Lisa Lowe. You could have played the song from Singles. I could have played. You know what I could have played? Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. You remember this song from Cheers?
Starting point is 02:02:56 Woody wrote the song for Kelly. Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. Sure, sure, sure. Anyway, Tori was also in Beverly Hills 90210. Right with the Ninja Turtles Pizza Hut VHS. It's a great fucking song. It's more than his fucking Mike and the Rippers there. I don't know.
Starting point is 02:03:10 At least his song was on a television show. First of all, it's Mike and the Drifters. I thought you said it was the Rippers. Second of all, do you know where else Tori acted? Beverly Hills 90210. We've talked about it a lot. Also, the TV show.
Starting point is 02:03:24 I don't know if this has ever come up. Parker Lewis Candle. I watched it. She was on 90210. We've talked about it a lot. Also, the TV show, I don't know if this has ever come up. Parker Lewis Candle. She was on 90210 also. There was a guy in that show called Kubiak who had a big giant lunch bag and he went on to become this guy in ER. I don't know if this is a big giant. I loved Parker Lewis Candle.
Starting point is 02:03:39 I wanted to buy shirts because he was just a Ferris Bueller ripoff. But I liked Parker Lewis. Some of Zach, frankly. Think about it. Okay. wanted to buy shirts like because he was just a ferris bueller ripoff yeah but i like well so was zach frankly is he okay think about it um okay a continuity error in this episode too so there's a scene it's again it's a competition write the school song da da da there's one where like zach sabotages the school song competition by detuning the piano and Slater and Tory are trying to use it like, oh, this piece of shit doesn't work.
Starting point is 02:04:08 And then seconds later, Screech and Zack go to use it. Works totally fine. I don't know what that's about. Michael Damien saying it. I feel like I've mentioned this if I haven't. I actually saw Screech do stand-up comedy live at Dave & Buster's.
Starting point is 02:04:23 Oh, wow. Which one? The 400 and 7? The 400 by Ikea there. I tried to find evidence of the show, and I don't know if he performed twice. Is he in jail right now? I feel like he lost all his money. I feel like he's in jail right now. Yeah. He's got some challenges.
Starting point is 02:04:39 No relation to Mike Diamond, right? He tried to open his barbecue spot. But Choochie's okay with it. Yeah. Anyway, I did find, I was trying to find, I was trying to find like a review of this show that was in March 2014.
Starting point is 02:04:52 I couldn't, but I did find a Groupon. Okay. And I was trying to wonder, do people still use Groupon? But that's an aside. Even with the Groupon, two tickets a show back in 2014,
Starting point is 02:05:02 $54. Wow. That's a lot of money, right? For Dustin Diamond? Add fucking David Buster's. Was he funny? No, he was kind of like an asshole. Like his big joke was like... Oh, that's shocking. He goes like, this was his big joke. He's like, what is this?
Starting point is 02:05:17 Flying asshole. I'm like, what are you talking about? That's an Andy Dick joke, I think. Yeah, like I don't know what that... But there was a lot of just like, oh, Slater's fuck Slater and screw Zack. That is very crude. That is good. I didn't know he was doing that.
Starting point is 02:05:33 That's good. He's like, fuck Slater. Zack was in a show I enjoyed called John from Cincinnati. Yeah, actually, sorry, you know what? Okay, yeah. And Luke Perry was in it too. Final thought about seeing Screech Dive, but actually I didn't see him at Dave and Buster's
Starting point is 02:05:45 It was actually at Yuck Yuck's downtown The one downtown Very close to Limelight where they filmed Death Lurks some days in Star Trek Steve is on the Periscope here Asking who's funnier Screech or Skippy Skippy Handleman
Starting point is 02:06:01 Wait Skippy Skippy from Family Ties yeah I suppose you could also throw like Paul Pfeiffer into the mix oh yes I see what you're
Starting point is 02:06:11 doing there Wonder Years that was an urban legend that he was Marilyn Manson because I heard it differently
Starting point is 02:06:17 I heard Mr. Belvedere Rob Stone or whatever from No Relations my uncle anyway we have another song. Oh, yeah, there's a bonus. Yeah, this is short.
Starting point is 02:06:27 Our next song is Bayside My Home by Screech Powers. I can relax. He'll sink himself. Oh, give me a school with a big swimming pool And a library crammed full of rocks Where seldom is heard a complaint from a nerd When the chess team has plenty of rocks Oh, oh, matter school This team has plenty of rocks.
Starting point is 02:07:08 Home, home, matter school. Where the Swiss steak makes everyone drool. Why is this funny? This is painful. Can be awfully nice. Old Bayside, I think you're a jewel. That got like an applause break. That got an applause break.
Starting point is 02:07:36 Like imagine like probably all three of us were like sitting at home watching this drivel. It's not fucking funny. It's just fucking stupid. Anyway, no wonder that song didn't win like the song competition. Like that was a piece of shit. Also, not an original song. Screech sung himself. He sung himself. He did sing himself. Screech, screech win the song competition. That was a piece of shit. Also, non-original song. Screech sung himself. He sung himself.
Starting point is 02:07:48 He did sing himself. Screech, Screech, Screech. That was awful. Fuck Screech. Ladies and gentlemen, the number one song that has ever been a part of a television show universe. This is arguable. I guess you have to be of a certain age. Of course it's arguable. Or a certain generation.
Starting point is 02:08:02 But this was my number one pick. And I'm wondering, I know Cam selected it as well, so I'm wondering which one of Cam's picks was a replacement. Only I know the truth there. But, you know, there's no better song
Starting point is 02:08:14 for this category in my view and apparently Cam's view as well. So both of us selected this song. So I give Cam credit. Mike went with the Ninja Turtles
Starting point is 02:08:23 VHS cassette song from their tour. Which Cam himself said was a great song. Not the point. It has nothing to do with the show Ninja Turtles or the movie Ninja Turtles. It's like some sideways live action play that you can go see at the O'Keefe Center. I'm trying to think what the equivalent. It would be your Disney on'm trying to think what the equivalent, like, it would be, yeah, your Disney on ice.
Starting point is 02:08:46 Disney on ice. Let's get in there. The Ice Capades. Or what's that song, like, the Rockettes, like, da, da, da, or no, that starts right in the middle. It starts, you know, whatever the Rockettes theme. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da,
Starting point is 02:09:00 Yeah. Do you want me to kick out this jam, Stu? Ladies and gentlemen, coming in at number one. This one goes out to all the lovebirds out there and all the FOSS. Come on, Cam, sing along. That's a good song. That's really him singing too. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds like him. He's a pretty great all-around entertainer.
Starting point is 02:10:03 He can do a lot of things. Look at his range. I hear background music. I'm just so happy loving you. What a song. Jesse and the Rippers and their smash hit, Forever, featuring Nikki and Alex.
Starting point is 02:10:30 Is that their kids? I actually The baby's in the video. Oh yeah, and his wife's in jail. Right, she's in jail. From the show Full House. She's from Back to the Beach too. That's right. This was their one hit.
Starting point is 02:10:42 He sang it at their wedding. He did a music video. It's funny because Jesse and the Rippers was like this heavy hitting rock band. Yet this was like their single. Like he played this at the Smash Club. It's very like Bon Jovi. Like Bon Jovi kind of. It's their ballad, you know.
Starting point is 02:10:59 It is common for the hard rock acts. This is their home sweet home. Of course, Jeff Franklin created the hard rock acts. This is their home sweet home. Of course, Jeff Franklin created the full house phenomenon. Danny Tanner, Jesse Katsopoulos, Joey Gladstone. Accordion break?
Starting point is 02:11:21 It's a beautiful accordion break. Well, he's the Greek heritage, right? Yeah, catopolis, yes. John Stamos, of course, is actually singing here along with members of the Beach Boys, Mike Love, R.O. Wilson, and Bruce Johnson. Oh, wow. You can hear that harmony back there.
Starting point is 02:11:38 On their way to trumpet. Of course, John Stamos really parlayed this Beach Boys fandom that he has. You know, his character on the show was a huge Elvis fan, but in reality, he was a big Beach Boys mark. And, you know, the Full House cast went to Hawaii and went on stage and did Kokomo with the Beach Boys, if you recall. Oh, I know he's in the video.
Starting point is 02:11:57 I've seen that Kokomo video. John Stamos actually toured as a drummer, a sort of side attraction drummer with the Beach Boys for several years or tours after. He probably took a lesson from Sammy Cohen, probably. I've shared this. I saw them live at Yankee Stadium
Starting point is 02:12:12 after a Yankees game. Oh, after a game. Okay. Yeah. No. Like, wouldn't Michelle go like, Kokomo, dude. Like, that was like
Starting point is 02:12:20 a big fucking joke. Milly Evanewi. Of course, this isn't much of a mind blow, but let's play it anyway. Maybe some people didn't realize it. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, so what year was this song recorded? This song came out in 1996.
Starting point is 02:12:38 After the Full House. Just making sure. Of course, I'm lying about that. The song came out in 1970. Okay, because we'll have to talk about that in a moment. You have no leg to stand on. We'll have to fucking talk about that. This was a hit on the show, Full House, that Jesse and the Rippers, doesn't have to
Starting point is 02:12:56 be an original song, that's their hit song that's from the show, and it was on many episodes, and many storylines, and it was never in a Pizza Hut fucking VHS. Do hear me fucking out here. I don't care. Mute your mic.
Starting point is 02:13:08 Mute your mic. This is my mind blow. This song existed. And who cares? Who cares? Who cares? It wasn't broken. Inside the Full House universe.
Starting point is 02:13:15 It existed in the real world, Cam. So what? So what? That's bullshit. So what? Cam picked it too. So what? So what?
Starting point is 02:13:21 There's a reason I let it go. No, you let it go because I asked for it. I was hoping you wouldn't notice, but... Ineligible. Your cover's blown. Song by the American rock band The Beach Boys from their 1970 album Sunflower, written by Dennis Wilson, not Brian. This is a Dennis Wilson song.
Starting point is 02:13:35 He's the guy who died. Yeah, he was the one who drowned, right? That's right, yeah. Dennis sang lead vocals on this song. His brother Brian declared, forever has to be the most harmonically beautiful thing I've ever heard in rock and roll.
Starting point is 02:13:49 Of all the songs that the Beach Boys have done, think about their beautiful harmonies. This is the song that Brian Wilson says is the most beautiful. That exists only in the TV universe. If I just may, it's ineligible because the song exists like Let the Sunshine In.
Starting point is 02:14:05 Just like Let the Sunshine In. Whatever you want. Just like Let the Sunshine In. You picked a song that wasn't even on a TV show, but okay. Well, mine's more. No, no. At least mine was invented for the universe. Jesse and the Rippers adopted this song and made it their own. Made it a cover of the song.
Starting point is 02:14:17 And I didn't even know it was a cover when I watched it. Did you? No. Neither did I. But had you known it was a cover, you would not have played it tonight. Doesn't matter. Well, here's the thing. Well, then throw this whole episode. Don't even post this episode? No. Neither did I. But had you known it was a cover, you would not have played it tonight. Doesn't matter. Well, here's the thing. Well, then throw this whole episode.
Starting point is 02:14:27 Don't even post this episode. No. You have two boners. Cam's got a boner. That is a great pick. I got a possible boner myself. I'm five for five. That is a great pick.
Starting point is 02:14:36 I'm like Tony Gwynn. Great pick. Oh, I loved Tony Gwynn. Great pick. That was sad. Kirby pocket name. Great pick. Both gone.
Starting point is 02:14:42 I know. Great pick. This is similar to Out of Our Shells. Great song, but ineligible. Ineligible. Great song, though. I'm going to redeem everything. You guys are each taking a mulligan on that, and that's fine.
Starting point is 02:14:54 I can't accept this. I didn't know it was a cover of the Beach Boys song. You didn't know? I didn't know the song. You didn't even know. What is the song? If I didn't blow your mind this week, you wouldn't have disqualified this song. I don't know the Chessy and the Rippers song or the Beach Boys song. Well, that's on you. What does Richard Southern say? What's the song? If I didn't blow your mind this week, you wouldn't have disqualified this song. I don't know the Jesse and the Rippers song or the Beach Boys song.
Starting point is 02:15:06 Well, that's on you. What does Richard Southern say? Everybody. What's everyone saying? They're saying Stu's right. Stu's right. Stu's the man. Stu is always right.
Starting point is 02:15:13 You know, I save those receipts. Save them. Let me check them out. I'm going to write Mike is an asshole just so you can see. Are you ready to hear my final jam? Mike is an asshole. Oh, he's actually doing it. Oh, he hit send.
Starting point is 02:15:21 I just hit send. So the receipts are there. I'm blocking Stu Stone. Absolutely. You can report that tweet. I'm going to report that tweet. I know somebody doing it. Oh, he hit send. I just hit send, so the receipts are there. I'm blocking Stu Stone. Absolutely. You can report that tweet. I'm going to report that tweet. I know somebody at Twitter. Are you ready?
Starting point is 02:15:29 Shout out to John Stamos, by the way, and the Beach Boys. Okay, and John Stamos is another man I understand is aging wonderfully. He's much like Mario Lopez. He still looks like he's 30 years old. Him and Aunt Becky were not a couple in real life. No. No, no, no. But boy, it was believable.
Starting point is 02:15:47 Have mercy. Have mercy. Have mercy. Not the hair. Wow. You know what song you could have played? Like that Lady Gaga Bradley Cooper song I thought about it Yeah
Starting point is 02:16:15 I can say that too Oh when the veil of dreams has lifted And the fairy tales have all been told There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow More precious than a pot of gold
Starting point is 02:16:39 In tales of age and old Here I'll come back at the end because there's a, I'll come back at the end because there's a moment with the final kiss at the end of the rainbow. But this is from the movie A Mighty Wind. Do any of you two gentlemen know of the Christopher Guest movies
Starting point is 02:16:58 like Waiting for Guffman? Yes, Moose Grumpy loves this movie. A Mighty Wind is a wonderful movie. Yeah, I know of it. I'm not a big satire guy. Well, this was the big song because the two characters, well, there's so many great characters in these Christopher Guest movies, but Mitch and Mickey.
Starting point is 02:17:16 Mitch is played by Eugene Levy, and Mickey is Catherine O'Hara. Super CanCon. And a super duo. They have, obviously, Schitt's Creek. Right. super can con and a super duo they've uh you know obviously schitt's creek right so they now are being suddenly uh i saw like memes on twitter about like oh my god uh mora from schitt's creek is the mom in home alone yeah that's been like trending for like two or three weeks like it's and then the other one is like oh my god she's also the mom from Beetlejuice. And like people, and meanwhile, us Toronto people who are tapped in will tell you like,
Starting point is 02:17:50 we go way further back than that. It's also just like Wikipedia, Wikipedia, IMD, like this is not new information. I don't know. No, I know.
Starting point is 02:17:57 But I think a lot of the youngsters had no idea, like connecting these dots or whatever. I mean, both like amazing careers. So this, uh, this is like a fictional folk duo, Mitch and Mickey, that had released seven albums, and then they had a big breakup. And then this movie, the movie A Mighty Wind,
Starting point is 02:18:12 is essentially like a documentary. You watch them get back together for this PBS reunion special, and this is them performing there. Hold on. You do need a video. Would they kiss? Because he had an emotional breakdown and then there was this moment. Would they kiss?
Starting point is 02:18:40 Anyway, beautiful song. It won the Oscar for best song actually that year. That sounds like that's a good one. It won the Oscar for best song, actually, that year. That sounds like that's maybe them actually singing. Yeah, I'm 100% sure it's them singing. By fine choice. Fine choice. Great movie, great song, but more importantly... Could have picked that Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga song.
Starting point is 02:18:58 No, I had to go with the Turtles. I had to go with the Turtles. It was out of our shows. There was a gal that came down here tonight, and we're so proud she did, and it was out of our shows. There was a gal that came down here tonight and we're so proud she did and it was somewhat of a surprise. So this put me down
Starting point is 02:19:08 the rabbit hole of Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara and revisiting many of their fantastic SCTV skits. We talked about, I don't know,
Starting point is 02:19:18 what was it, Nags Head North where you threw the TV? I don't remember when you threw the TV. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I won't play well I'll put it in the background
Starting point is 02:19:26 there's a Christopher Guest movie that's great this is a stupid question Catherine O'Hara is on SCTV yeah oh my god that is a stupid question get the fuck out of my back here have you never seen SCTV I'm sorry like I'm aware okay so your core guys
Starting point is 02:19:42 if you will Andrea Martin who's an American but comes up here Catherine O'Hara. Okay, so your core guys, if you will. Andrea Martin. Yes. Who's an American, but comes up here. Catherine O'Hara, who's Canadian. Dave Thomas. Looks good kill. Rick Moranis. Joe Flaherty.
Starting point is 02:19:52 John Candy. Joe Flaherty. Martin Short. Eugene Levy. Martin Short. No. No. Not Dan Aykroyd.
Starting point is 02:19:58 He's winking at me. Dan Aykroyd is not an SCTV guy. No, not Mike Myers. Although Mike Myers starts... Rick Moranis, yes. Yes, Moranis. Yes, yes. Mike Myers starts... Rick Moranis, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Mike Myers starts with Christopher Ward on City Limits.
Starting point is 02:20:09 FOTM Christopher. Yes, and then I got referenced in the Eric M episode. I feel like I've asked before, Paul Myers has been... And the sock. We had like a communication breakdown, me and him,
Starting point is 02:20:19 and I blame, I don't blame, but it was partly Tyler Campbell's fault. Tyler, I hope you're't listen to this part. I don't need that anymore. Did he pick out of our shelves too? No. Okay, so there's a long yakking here, but at some point Lola Hetherington actually sings here. And I was just, this is just to get me to talk about old SCTV stuff.
Starting point is 02:20:39 Because Mary Margaret O'Hara was on SCTV with her sister too. Like this, the... That's right. They're like sisters or something? Yes, they are absolutely sisters. But she was like sort of in a backup musical number or something? Maybe. If you say so. I do know that a lot of people find that a fun fact
Starting point is 02:20:55 to learn that they're sisters. Yeah. Also designed the sign for the Rivoli. Wait, his sister's who now? Mary Martin O'Hara. You might have to tell them who that is. It's too late. So here's a little Lola, which is Catherine O'Hara. You might have to tell them who that is. It's too late. So here's a little Lola, which is Catherine O'Hara back on SCTV.
Starting point is 02:21:09 Please phone in and help, won't you? Because SCTV is really, really going through some problems. Leo, you can start now. You know, ladies and gentlemen, I used to consider performing a kind of therapy. You know, I thought it was some kind of release, but it never was because I used to give everything I had to you. I used to pour it out and give it all to you and sure you were satiated but I was left empty with nothing and thanks to therapy I've learned to to do something for myself and tonight I'm going to do
Starting point is 02:21:38 something for myself I'm gonna sing it the way I feel it I'm gonna get it out for you and mostly for me. It's a man's world. It's a man's world. I'm sorry. I'm just enjoying the... Sure. Enjoying the Catherine O'Hara.
Starting point is 02:21:59 Have a moment. From SCTV. Come in! Guys, I don't know. We had some controversy tonight, but it was a lot of fun. I feel like we have some mending fences to do before the end of the 2020 wraps. Next week, maybe we'll do songs about friendship and getting back
Starting point is 02:22:14 together. There's breakup songs, maybe getting back together songs. Friends forever. Songs about coming together again. I would do that. I think it's needed. I want to shout out Robin Sparkles. Let's Go to the Mall was a great,
Starting point is 02:22:26 great selection. Of course, Fever Dog. Sammy Cohn. Sammy Cohn. Yeah, absolutely. What was the website?
Starting point is 02:22:32 I should have taken a note on that, but... Drumming Up Business. Drumming Up Business or find just Sammy at SammyCohn.com. Anyway,
Starting point is 02:22:39 guys, thanks for this. I hope you didn't freeze. It's cold, but we can do this again next week. Not too bad. Okay,
Starting point is 02:22:44 it's 10 o'clock p.m. in real time. That means you have two hours to register your intent to leave some non-perishable food items at your doorstep Saturday by 10 a.m. Cam's volunteered with his family. Blue ribbon, like that's key. People seem confused about that. I think it's nice to have,
Starting point is 02:23:02 but I think if you just have a box of canned goods on your doorstep, it's going to get picked up here. And that brings us to the end of our 763rd show.
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