Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Jamie Gutfreund and Roddy Colmer: Toronto Mike'd #747

Episode Date: November 6, 2020

Mike speaks with Jamie Gutfreund and Roddy Colmer from Century Surfers about their new singles, Roddy's work with Jay Brody for Howard Stern, the US election and more.

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and joining me this week are century surfers aka Jamie Goodfriend I knew you were excited to say my last name I've been practicing all summer he put his whole body into that and Roddy

Colmer welcome back guys from the basement to the backyard what's better if you had to pick one nature when was your last appearance do you have an idea

correct me if I'm wrong is this your second appearance this is my third I think because you came in with Jay by the way your buddy Jay who's kicking ass on 102.1 with the B team, they were in this backyard about a month ago back here. I don't know if your ears were burning. I watched.

Did you watch the show? I did. And we talked about this, and we talked about how, Roddy, you're still doing parody songs with Jay for Howard Stern. That's right, yeah. So before we dive into Century Surfer stuff, as a lifelong Stern fan, what is your arrangement there? I need to know the nuts and bolts here.

Well, Jay and I had been doing Dumb Show, our podcast, and SiriusXM Show for a few years and um both huge Stern fans I listen every day so in the dumb show we had a lot of really silly songs like music was a big part of the podcast and the show right and one day we were having a tea in the break room and Jay said why don't we send a song to Howard we have all the Howard Stern emails on the internal server here that we can steal. Right. Yeah. Right. So Sirius XM. Yeah. So we're already in the building, same company, obviously. Um, we made a, I think our first song maybe it was a Bobo song, um, sent it in, not really thinking anything was going to come of it. Um, got some feedback saying, Hey guys, this is good. But I think we sent in like a two minute song and they're like, can you make it 30 seconds?

Right. Sent in a second song. Two days later, we're on the show. Our song is played on the show, which I- That's incredible. Yeah, it was crazy. So that was just like a kick in the ass in a good way to be like, oh my gosh.

It was almost like a drug. I don't think I'd ever seen you so excited before. When I speak, it doesn't get any bigger, right? That's as big as it gets. If you're going to make a parody song. Oh,

for sure. And even just radio in general, that's the top of the mountain. And to be able to be a part after listening every day to hear my voice on the show is weird. Very odd. So, um, we just kept sending songs in every week and it kind of overtook

the dumb show stuff we're like okay let's see where this can go right so it took about a year of sending songs in every single week sometimes three four songs of them being like okay maybe we should start um paying these guys guys or bring them on board officially. Wow. So we got an email from one of the writers, and they were like, okay, we want to work with you. Our COO loves what you're doing, and we all love what you're doing. So they signed us up.

We signed all the NDAs and sent our tax info and all that. So now we're part of the team kind of in a freelance way. So real money comes from them to you? Real money, yeah. Get a check, American dollars. Wow. This is highly impressive. It's kind of like on retainer, I guess you could call us.

Okay. Monthly, just we send in songs every week and they pay us for them. And we're going to start working, I think, more with the writers and stuff to kind of get a little more involved but yeah it almost feels like a bizarro world or something but we did work really hard to to get to this point so you should interview his neighbors to hear the things that he's screaming into a microphone oh yeah that would be an interesting

on that note like if i were a king for a day, I would play one of them right now. So what's the deal? This NDA you speak of, you're not allowed to play these clips on Toronto Mic? Is that what you're saying? Well, it didn't specify. Because then get the fuck out of my backyard.

Come on. Give me that lasagna. Well, they just said we can't play any actual clips from the show anywhere else. That obviously belongs to, everything we do belongs to them forever. I hear you. Which I'm totally cool with. Because they pay for it. Yeah. show anywhere else that's obviously belongs to everything we do belongs to them forever which i'm totally cool with because they pay for it yeah and but i could read you some of the lyrics

or sing sing them to you but it's you can do it live you just can't i get it so it's just uh if it's pure if it's they own it and you can't broadcast it here because that violates some licensing yeah exactly i could send you some clips privately if you want to hear some of the stuff we've done but you know i know, I could be dangerous. Sometimes they slip into it. I've got to be careful. Don't play it in front of your kids, though. Keep the kids out of the room.

Well, half the kids I can play it in front of, I think. Yeah, you've got an older son because you look pretty young still, too. And, like, I saw your kid looks like he's, like, 20 or something. Did this guy have a kid when he was 12? Well, he's almost 19. No, I was 27, which isn't that young really, right? I think that's not that young. But he's turning 19 in January, and he's going to Laurier University.

And yeah, he's all intense, except for the money department where he still needs help to finance all this stuff. He's totally independent. Like he's just a man living on his own. It's really kind of cool. And he's really – like I will say this. like every parent like says their kids are great i think mostly but like if he wasn't my son uh i would be like i would like this guy like he's you know what i mean that makes sense like if he wasn't if he didn't come from me uh i would be like proud to

say like this is a good citizen of the world i think that his parents did a good job that's the best thing you could say about your kid. You know what I mean? Like, Hey, if I wasn't this kid's parent, I still would probably hang out with them. You know what I mean?

Yeah. I would still think he's a great compliment. A cool cat. Okay. Speaking of cool cats, so Roddy, we'll get back to you, but I really needed that update because,

um, I was almost a little disappointed when, when I learned that you weren't allowed to, I wasn't allowed to play these clips. I was like, well, you probably, I don't know if you'd even want to play them on here. We just finished

October. Are you allowed to say anything on here? Can we swear and stuff? There's no CRTC or anything. October was Cocktober. You can say Cocktober on my show. So me and Jay just went into penis song mode and we released

a tsunami. You think I'm above playing the cock song on this program? Well, I didn't know. I just wanted to make sure. I want to respect whatever boundaries you have here. Look, this isn't CP24 here, okay? We can talk about Cocktober.

Okay, yeah. So Cocktober that we, like I said, produced a tsunami of penis songs that I would love to be able to play for you, but you got to tune in to Howard to hear this gold that we're producing. Well, I'm proud of you guys, and I'm proud to call you FOTMs. You know how you said,

when you heard your voice on Howard Stern's show, you want to shout from the rafters? I'm saying I know a guy whose voice is on Howard Stern's show. I'm yelling it out from the top. I go on the top of my roof. And a guy who visited me three times now was on the Howard Stern I go on the top of my roof. A guy who visited me three times now was on the Howard Stern show. That's how proud I am.

Keep up the good work. Jamie, how the hell are you doing? I'm good. Do you want to move that back? You look so chill. I don't want to make you sit upright or whatever. You've got to be on that mic. How are things going? Obviously, we're here to talk about Century Surfers and catch up,

but how things are good at CP24? I always see on the air you do a great job. Thank you very much. No, things have been good. Obviously, it's a little different, but no, I think we've been doing a good job. If only there were some news to talk about. There's nothing going on in the world.

Is there anything? Slow news time. Really, there's nothing going on. You just talk about the weather all day. On that note, we'd be remiss. We're here live. It's Friday at 12.53 p.m.

Beautiful day, by the way. We're in the backyard. It's blue skies, and I'm in a t-shirt, and it feels good back here. On that note, I'm going to crack open. I know that, Roddy,

you're not an IPA guy, but we've got some Great Lakes lager you've got the blonde lager, the pumpkin ale the Canuck Pale Ale, you guys are taking that Great Lakes beer home with you enjoy responsibly I'm going to crack an IPA open now I'm going to crack open a burst

so let's do that on the mic here oh yeah should start a song like that yeah do it up, do it up do it up oh it tastes so good what a great day the election okay I'm curious about A and I think you have to as a news person

Jamie but I want to are you following closely the results what are your thoughts on where we're at at this minute are you up to date on everything yeah well I don't want to say too much, obviously, given my position. You're not going to call it officially here? No, I'm not saying anything like that. It's always interesting to watch the polls and see what the polls say.

And then all of a sudden on election day, it's a completely different story. I think that's a story in itself. But listen, it's an important election, and I'm keeping a close watch, and I will report the facts. Okay, so the facts are, and then I want to hear your perspective on this, Roddy. You can be less careful because you're not a news person.

You can be less careful. But as we speak, Pennsylvania looks like it's now Biden's. Georgia looks like it's now Biden's. Arizona actually looks like it's Biden's. Nevada looks like it's now Biden's. Georgia looks like it's now Biden's. Arizona actually looks like it's Biden's. Nevada looks like it's Biden's. When all is said and done and the dust settles and all the lawsuits are done and the recounts are done, the electoral college victory

for Biden should be larger than the electoral college victory for Trump over Hillary in 2016. That's some facts and some numbers. And it's pretty cool to kind of witness this play out in real time. Like this is kind of a historic moment. And I'm always on the, you know, on the CP24 website, of course, but I also pop over to the New York Times just to see what they're doing and check their map and check out,

you know, what new batches of votes have come in from the Vegas area or from, you know, outside of Atlanta or near Philadelphia. It's just kind of amazing, I think. What do you think, Roddy, about this moment in time? It's interesting to see some of the states flipping, like a state like Georgia, which I think has been mostly Republican, and Arizona also.

But, man, it's crazy how close it is. And you mentioned the dust settling, and I don't think the dust is going to settle for a long time. Just because it is so close, there's going to be talk of whatever fraud and whatever kind of Yeah, but they're going to need some evidence at some point. At some point you have to produce some evidence. The commentary is going to be there, and that weird energy is going to need some evidence at some point. I know, but you know the commentary is going to be there and that weird energy is going to be there.

And because it's so close, it just shows how sort of divided the country is almost down the middle. And I don't think whoever wins, I don't think it's going to fix that. It's actually shown that there's kind of polar opposite ends of thinking in that country right now so i don't know how long what's going to make that change or or if hopefully biden if if he wins we'll we'll get it a little bit more peaceful there and get things a little less crazy but um yeah we'll see i i hope he wins i i don't think the country could take four more years of trump so

i think either way, um, the people are going to have a hard time accepting whoever won, whether it's Joe or Donald. It's, it's, it's a very divided country right now. Yeah. When I say hard to accept,

like, uh, you know, obviously you gotta accept who, who the winner is, but you know, there's such a, there's been such a revolt over the last,

you know, four to eight years and how many people are coming out with demonstrations and marches. So you're seeing a different United States, and we're watching it unfold from up here. And also I think one thing the pandemic has done, it's really highlighted the differences between us and them, even more so. Beyond the guns. Beyond the guns. Beyond the guns, beyond health care and stuff like that.

Just overall, just character as patriots and whatnot. No, absolutely. So here it is in real time. And I know Biden's going to speak in primetime tonight. That's a pretty fresh update. And I suspect, I mean, I don't know what the plans are of course that uh you know ctv and uh cp24 and all the other other big news outlets we have in this country but i suspect one of the big ones i don't know be it uh associated press or cnn or you know i suspect

it's getting cold before we go to bed tonight this is my this is my feeling as i watch these numbers roll in like i think someone bigs and cull it soon. It'll be interesting. Very interesting times. Interesting times for you two. When you were on the first time, we had the one song here. Let me play it

because I still dig the jam. It's great here. Let me play a little The Storm while we talk about Century Surfers and we'll get to some newer stuff.

Can't believe that you had to leave Just turned around and you were gone and we'll get to some newer stuff. not made to understand love and water you apart yeah if you don't protect your heart I count the roses but you count it thorns I open windows but you close the door I cut the ocean

But you brought the storm I bought the ocean You sold me the storm Now let me be clear for anyone watching on Periscope or listening to the podcast. Let me be clear. The vocals you're hearing there,

those tremendous vocals, they belong to Roddy Comer. Thank you very much. Wow. And this guitar. Yeah, man. Who knew it? We thought you were just

a good-looking news guy. Mm-hmm. You can shred. Nobody knew. But this, I mean, here we are. I don't know how many times you guys have heard this storm by now, but you must be still proud that you guys you guys created this absolutely and you know what the

fact that we keep on uh we've recorded a bunch of songs right now and we love everything we try and aim to make the next one better than the last right we've always kind of keep on saying how proud we are of this song and the fact that this was the first song that we introduced everybody to what we're doing. And it really kind of sums up what we tell people is we're, we're, we're in a nineties inspired kind of throwback sound with a little bit of a modern twist.

You can hear, and later in this program, we're going to play a, each of you submitted a song that has inspired you. And we're going to kick those out and talk about like influences, but like you hear, I hear like a little, there's a bit of stone temple pilots in there or there's some some sound garden

if you will like it just definitely that that great 90s music i love that is influenced this and still sounds good so fill us in on what what's happened since you had you had the one song as i remember you had one song i think when you first, this one, which was a hell of a beginner. But tell me, walk us through, give us up to date. And then I have these songs, so just if you want to hear something else, just shout it out and we'll play it and talk about it. But give us an update on where Century Surfers has come from, those heady early days.

Well, after this one, we followed up with a song called Stars which was how would you describe it it was a little more like grimy I guess a little yeah does it sound like this yeah this is exactly what it sounded like wow okay let's hear a bit of it and then we'll talk about it

yeah Goodbye, then. Yeah. We all hide what's inside to provide. Don't collide with your pride. That'll be your downfall. Angels full of scars. Darkness full of stars. This is who we are. Angels full of scars, darkness full of stars. This is who we are.

This is who we are. Radio-friendly singles, by the way. So who plays these songs in Canada? Like, where do you get some rock play? We've had some play in Calgary, Victoria, Toronto. Where specifically in Toronto? Like 102.1? Yeah, well, Alan just played our new single.

Alan Cross. Alan Cross. The Alan Cross. The very Alan Cross. The ongoing history of new Cross. Alan Cross. The Alan Cross. The very Alan Cross. The ongoing history of new music, Alan Cross. The voice of a legend. Yeah, he played our new single a couple nights ago, which was pretty great.

We will play the new single shortly. Yeah, as you can tell by even the first two, we sort of have a bit of a template of sort of like groove-oriented verse into like opening up into a bigger sort of chorus. Okay, but Rod, you've been in other bands, Rebel Emergency, et cetera. Like how does this compare?

Like how does it compare, your Century Surfer stuff? Yeah, it's a little different. My last band before this, Most Non-Heineous, was kind of similar to this, a little more like electro, sort of nine-inch nails-y, but still very melodic. Does that project still exist like do you just have multiple no my the guy who did did that with passed away oh i'm sorry yeah

what was his name matt von wagner oh i did super talented guy yeah he was awesome yeah oh shit um so it doesn't sound very good jamie no i mean it's that you didn't know i didn't know i didn't know glad i know now but yeah that might still be going now if that didn't happen but um yeah i guess uh that opened the door to they're amazing by the way checking out um i think like all my writing whether it's rebel or my solo stuff or most non-hannis or this right I always, I'm like a sucker for melody. I want it to be melodic, and I think that is a common theme throughout everything. Well, that's what I mean by radio-friendly.

I don't mean that as an insult. I mean it's melodic. It's catchy. You know, one of the cool things, I think, about the 90s in general, I think everyone was just a fan of music in general wasn't just rock there was awesome hip-hop there was pop there was dance there was r&b and it it had kind of that universal appeal and that's what we're trying to do with this make even though it is a rock sound

we want to make it palatable to an audience that likes pop that likes rock okay speaking of toronto stations we talked about you know alan cross playing your new jam a couple at night i got this it's a big deal uh have you any had any success getting any airplay on indie 88 not yet i think maybe this new one will have a shot are you too rock for them like i'm just thinking i'm just thinking of the stations like they're very similar but there are slight variations like indy's more a a little like, I don't know what you call it, Indy style, like a little, I know Indy is in the name too, but for a different reason.

But Edge has a bit more edge to it maybe? Yeah, we could probably fit more into the Edge than, or Y108, which is out of Hamilton, but you can still get here. Of course, of course. Because, yeah, I think we fall into more of what's called active rock rather than alt rock. But we try to add elements that sort of make the possibility of crossing over to other types of stations like X-92 in Calgary or Indy 88 or The Zone in Victoria, which are all really great stations. Sirius?

Yeah, Sirius XM, The Verge. But mostly we're not trying to force anything. We just want to make good songs that we like and that hopefully other people like. And I'm going to guess, I mean, here we are talking in the middle of a global pandemic. I don't know if you've heard about that,ie but there's this covet 19 it really sucks and it's really destroyed uh one of my favorite things to do is just go see live music like and i just can imagine are you guys like are you aching to get back out there and play live because these sounds these songs sound like they slay live like They just sound like they're made for the live show.

I am. I mean, prior to this, I was playing in a cover band. I still am for the last 10 years. And we played a lot of great big shows. And the fact that we were just getting going, I was looking forward to taking all these songs on to the stage. You could have played here in my backyard right now. You could have done that.

You know, Ron Hawkins played back here. Oh, that's cool. Rompin' Ronnie? Well, hold on. Not Rompin' Ronnie. Not Rompin' Ronnie. He did not come back here, but lowest of the lows, Ron Hawkins.

There's two of them. Good songwriter. What was I going to say? Yeah, I think, in a way, this has given us a chance to sort of concentrate on writing because if you asked us to play a show two or three months ago, we didn't really have enough songs to do so, right? You'd have to throw some covers in there.

Yeah. By the time this thing slows down or things open up a bit, we'll probably have ten songs done and then be able to go and play a full set. I've kind of been, I felt good about having this time to be creative and really focus on writing and doing other things. So has it been a prolific, whatever it's been, eight months now or whatever,

has it been a good period for you creatively? Yeah, for sure. With this and with the Stern stuff and my solo, I've been working on some solo stuff. It never makes up the two. You don't ever do cock songs. Well, I'll slip a cock into the lyrics once in a while. I'm glad you finished that sentence.

But that usually doesn't make the final cut. Because Jamie's got to rap. He doesn't want the cock songs. Yeah. I notice a lot of nature, right? Like the storm, stars. There's a lot of nature going on there. There was a theme a lot of like nature, right? Like the storm, stars, there's a lot of like nature going on there. There was a theme there for the first couple and I'm like, should I keep going with this? What was after stars?

After stars. Oh, the wave. Right. Yeah. I think I, yeah. The first three, it was kind of, yeah, very nature oriented. The storm, stars, the wave, the wave. And these are all like, again, so, so again, so again, so The Storm is the first single.

We played that when you were last here. The Stars we just played. Then The Wave. And what happens after The Wave? That was Broken Puppets. Broken Puppets. Which actually was the first song we ever wrote together. Okay, let's hear a bit of that one.

They come blazing out Like a second sun And they fizzle out Just another one, broken puppets all Easy come and easy go Who's got integrity? It's few and far between Just trying to fit in with the magazines

Kill the puppeteers Easy come and easy go And all the tragedies To keep us entertained And desensitized Numbed and dumbed to pain Bring out another one Easy come and easy go There's more to life than look at me

Slow down, the world's been slower You're riding life like a roller coaster Upside down and inside out We can make the world spin slower You're riding life like a locomotive Who's your producer? It's a friend of mine. His name is Dusty Chesterfield. I remember now. Dusty fucking Chesterfield. That name is, of course, I remember now.

I remember now. Yeah, so he's actually best friends with my cousin. I've known him, you know, since we were kids. He played in other bands growing up that we used to play shows with. And when Roddy and I were talking about getting in to record The Storm, I reached out to Dusty. I kind of let him know what we're up to, and he was super pumped to get on board.

And he's, you know, pretty much our unofficial third member, basically. Yeah, he's our drummer, bass player, and producer. And that's on his birth certificate, right? Dusty Chester. It's like Dusty Bottoms from Three Amigos, which is one of my favorite movies of all time. When I was young, I loved Three Amigos

and then about five years ago I thought I'd revisit it with my oldest because I had these great memories. I was disappointed. As a 40-year-old watching it, I was like, oh, something changed since I was a teenager and then turned 40. It just wasn't as funny.

I still love it. When was the last time you saw it, Jamie? You know what? I probably saw it within the last three or four years. Oh, okay. Well, then you're, okay, okay. Well, you're only like 25 years old. Exactly. Okay, Broken P, okay, okay. Well, you're only like 25 years old. Exactly.

Okay, broken puppets, man. Yeah, I mean, I'm telling you, they're all really hooky, and they all sound big. Like Dusty Chesterfield knows what he's doing, right? I like this guy. I've got to get him on Toronto Mike. He keeps saying no. I keep asking him.

But honestly, tremendous. So we had the storm, stars, the wave. I feel this is the ongoing history of century surfers. Eat your heart out, Alan Cross. Broken Puppets. What's after Broken Puppets? The new one.

Okay, we're going to put a pin in this. Let me, let me let Broken Puppets wind down here and then I'm going to give you guys some gifts here. But anything you want to add about Broken Puppets, please. not, well, it's... This was kind of the song...

Well, the fact that it's the first one that we recorded together was kind of like, after we finished recording this song with another producer, that was the moment where I know, at least personally, I stopped, listened to this, I'm like, hmm, there's something there. And it kind of just motivated to just keep writing and see if we can do that again and get it even better.

And then that's what kickstarted it. You did what I did with my son where I said, even if he wasn't my son, I'd like this guy. And you're like, even if I wasn't the guitarist in this band I'm in, I like this song. I try and look at our own stuff as un you know, as unbiased as possible. Obviously, we think our stuff is awesome. But I think we both kind of keep our stuff in, you know,

we keep ourself in check, which, you know. Like Roddy will be straight up. No, he's like, no, I don't like that at all, Jay. Do better. Well, I think that's important to be like really just open. When he's sending me guitar ideas, like if i'm not inspired by something i'm not i don't like fake that i think it's good or that i like it and it might be who you're fooling yeah yeah and it's not good or bad like it's just maybe i just need to be inspired by

something to write to it so if i don't feel that i'm not going to waste my time on it and i think that comes with age and experience you're just like like, ah, I don't want to tell this guy that I like it if I don't like it. But most of the time he's sending me stuff I like, so luckily I don't have that problem very often. Not that it's a problem. It's just an open communication of being creative with someone. Before I give you guys some more gifts, Roddy, before I forget, Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker are hanging it up.

I know, yeah, it's sad. Do you have any insight? Like is it just they're yeah, it's sad. Do you have any insight? Like, is it just they're going to do other things? Or do you have any insight? Do you talk to the human kebab on a regular basis? I talk to both of them, but I think they just felt like it's the time. It just feels like the time to kind of stop. There's a lot of disappointed loyalists.

Yeah, well, hey, you want to go out with people disappointed. You don't want to go out with people being like, oh, okay, I don't care. You want people to care when you go out. But they had a great run. I think they're both really amazingly talented. And in Canadian rock, they've probably been one of the most successful bands

in the last 15 years. Yeah, Hyperbole, Sniper Hyperbole, Hollow Point Sniper Hyperbole. That's a great title. like one of the most successful bands in the last 15 years. Yeah. Hyperbole, Sniper Hyperbole, Hollow Point Sniper Hyperbole. That's a great title. You guys are doing the wave this time. Hollow Point Sniper Hyperbole.

That's a title. Oh yeah, they have a bunch of weird titles. Oh, I saw you. I saw you at the 10 year anniversary event. I saw you at that event. Well,

you know what? We started together on playing small shows. My band, Rebel Emergency and USS. We toured with them a bit, playing to five people. They still had that same energy that they carried through their whole career, which really endeared them to fans.

But at the start, I was like, who are these guys? Jay's doing cartwheels and handstands he's a bit like a Flavor Flav kind of hype guy

right totally but also a really great talented musician oh sure and he like I actually wrote some songs with him

for Most Non-Heine some of the beats were from Jay and I wrote Ash was a songwriter on a few of those tracks

and I recorded with Ash a couple duets and writing with, Ash was a songwriter on a few of those tracks. And I recorded with Ash a couple duets and writing with him, I was like, whoa, man, this guy's good. I mean, he's been in the basement. And just the way his brain, the frenetic kind of way his brain works. He's on another world. He doesn't really belong on earth in a cool way.

When you talk to him, you're like, okay. But it's always a cool way when you talk to him you're like okay but it's always interesting I have to talk to their PR person Tiffany who's a sweetheart eventually when they're ready to do press they're going to come back on Toronto Mike which is going to be great actually Human Kebab's never been on Toronto Mike

so he'll be making his debut but Ash did come over and I do remember leaving that convo you kind of start to get into that rhythm of the way his brain synapses fire and the way he speaks. And it's almost like almost slightly addictive where you kind of want to have more combos with the guy. Cause you start,

I start to mimic his style and it feels good. Well, you know what? I've, I've had some long talks with him and whenever I get a chance to talk to him on the phone, I know it's like, I got to settle in for like an hour and a half.

And I need to be like really concentrated. I need to be ready to listen and respond in like a thoughtful way because he'll take you on a ride, which I really enjoy about him. And it comes out in his music too. If you read his lyrics, it's like, okay, this guy is like saying something interesting and cool

and using words. Well, the name of the band is Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker, which Ben Rayner has been back here a few times actually. He's my most frequent

backyard guest other than the Pandemic Friday guys. He hated that name. Yeah. He wrote a whole article. He wrote a whole article about how ridiculous,

what a terrible name Ubiquitous Syner energy seeker is. So, but even that title, and we talked about hollow point sniper, sniper hyperbole, which was just a smash, like a 102.1 smash.

I mean, that was the song that hooked me. It was like, sure. What is this? Yeah. They had their own sound and they, they really kind of carried it and it evolved a little bit,

but they, they really stayed true to, to their, their sound the whole time, which was really cool. So yeah, we're going to miss a new music from USS. evolved a little bit but they they really stayed true to to their their sound the whole time which was really cool so yeah we're gonna miss uh new music from uss uh i just wish they could go out after one more tour like they're really good live and i just wish we could we could get them like i don't know when that happens and i know you don't know when that happens i think it's gonna be sad

just at the end of this you know when things start get back to normal, who knows when that will be, how many bands are actually going to be up and running? And how many venues are left? Well, that's another thing. We're going to be playing in my backyard. That'll come back. We'll get a show back here. Honestly, I do these events,

and I don't know if I've ever said this before, but TMLX events. And honestly, you guys should play a TMLX event. Lois did a low-plating event. We got the Royal the royal pains which are a great cover band they're fantastic they play but it would be great to have uh you guys play an event that's whenever this is safe to do yeah well you know what i think there's going to be i know it's your non-committal over there like sign the contract there's going to be people adapting to like i i was running this show um with my buddy ben nudes

in toronto unplugged north for like four years at the rivoli and we're trying to move it into the alma combo actually hopefully that'll happen but we were talking yesterday actually about doing some when maybe next spring doing some pop-up shows so you like have um like a mobile stage kind of thing you can go to a city. There's like food trucks. You mean like an outdoor thing? Yeah. Right. And you just do pop-up shows

and like maybe pick four cities from Thursday to Sunday and you go show up and there's awesome bands and awesome food and beer and you find a cool outdoor space. And it's just like finding cool ways to bring music to people like for the next year or two or whatever it is. But it'll find its way.

Well, we just got to get through this thing we have in Canada called the winter. We just got to get through this. And I mean, today's a bad day. You know, today's beautiful. Maybe winter will be like this.

Who knows? Yeah. Maybe it'll be just like this. We'll cross our fingers there. But, but when this, when we come out of our, you know,

when we thaw in the, whatever that is, March or April or May or whatever, I think now we will have seen it. Like we'll have seen it coming. Like it kind of happened in March and it was like everything got caught by surprise and maybe you were flat footed for a bit while you adapted and pivoted. But we know now like we can kind of anticipate the spring. And I think that's a great idea, these pop-up. I mean, I had a tmlx event in

september in a park at marie curtis park we go in a big circle six feet apart in a big circle and we sneakily drink great lakes beer like this is like you know we check in and we you know you can do things safely outdoors like we're doing right now but okay i said i had gifts for you so i gave you the beer already but uh you have a palma Pasta lasagna, one each. Delicious. Arrived this morning. I had to put in the special emergency order. I said, look, I got Jamie and I got Roddy and I need some lasagna.

Thank you very much. Palmapasta.com. People should support them because it's a family-run, independent. Simply delicious. Simply delicious. So have you had, did you get a lasagna last time you were here? Yeah. Was it good?

It was good, yeah. I took it to my parents place and we had a big uh lasagna at dinner and it was it was beautiful peter gross says it's the best lasagna he's ever had that's a fact hey peter knows what he's talking about that guy loves his fucking lasagna jamie uh you enjoyed your lasagna uh you got you each have one there there should be uh toronto mike stickers in front of you sticker you made those for you and i know i i don't know if i did i not you know that's embarrassing they're downstairs on the table i forgot to bring them up but i'll give them to you before you go you got some you know you i know you want your toronto mike stickers thank you sticker you.com that's where you go to you guys could i think uh they printed up a bunch of century surfer stickers last summer because i remember biking to uh young dundas square because this is a true

story i can finally tell it now that you're back i'm watching cp24 in my living room with monica my wife and i have in my possession i've already got this bag of century surfer stickers and i know i have to get them to jam, but logistically, how do I get this to Jamie? We're watching. There's a... Don't tell me. Don't tell me. Now you can tell. There was some festival going on there. Do you remember what it was?

Some food. Some food was... Was it the poutine? Poutine. Eating contest contest it was the poutine yeah you know yes because when i this is funny too for insiders and fotms so i i said to my wife i said oh jamie's doing live hits from uh young dundas square i jump on my bicycle and i just bike to young dundas square and i i can see you between hits or whatever and i'm like jamie i got your stickers and i just handed them over to you.

It was awesome. And it worked out great. And then I look on the stage and guess who I see on the fucking stage? Dean Blundell is on the stage. And I just said, okay, that was all meant to be. So shout out to him. It is an uncomfortable thing to watch, especially from where I was, because I was reporting on the event, you know,

people going for world records of how much poutine they can eat in a matter of a couple minutes and it looked painful it looked completely painful there were people heaving I remember but you got your stickers were they quality stickers?

they were good stickers? I think Jamie's been placing them around the city he goes on these long walks and just pops them on benches I send him these pictures And were they quality stickers? They were good stickers? I think Jamie's been placing them around the city. He goes on these long walks and just pops them on benches. I send him these pictures of the evidence. So if you're around the harbourfront and you see a bunch of Cedric's surfers. Oh, I do bike that area a lot. I'm going to keep my eyes open for that. A lot of park benches.

Sticker you. Not bad. It's a quality sticker. It's going to last a long time. So I also want to welcome the newest sponsor of toronto mic joanne glutish she's a lifetime member of royal lepage's chairman's club and that goes that's the top one percent of royal lepage for canada so i highly recommend joanne glutish uh we heard from sheila fotm sheila i played a clip from her on the leonard

cohen episode which is earlier this week. I did not have Leonard Cohen in the backyard. Apparently he's passed away. It wasn't impossible, but we did have the expert in the talk about him. And also we played it during the Pandemic Friday, which was last night with Stu Stone and Cam Gordon. So that was

fantastic. Jamie, my condolences on the passing of your grandfather. Thanks, Mike. We talked about him last time you were on. Legend. Survivor, and he was 106, is that right? Yep. Honestly, I'll take that. Give me that.

I mean, as you said, he had his wits about him. He was sharp as a tack to the very end. He was awesome. He was super sharp. He had a great sense of humor. He was sharp as a tack to the very end. He was awesome. He was super sharp. He had a great sense of humor. Just, you know, he was five foot nothing, but he had the soul of a guy who was like six foot five and 250. Just awesome.

No, it was a tough moment, but yeah. Well, at least you can say he didn't die young. No, he had a full life. Really, let's not get selfish here. He's 106 years old. Like, what do you want? 120? Is that the goal?

You know, I'll give you a little sense of him. There were times, like, near the end where I'd go visit him, and, you know, I'm an emotional suck, and I'd, you know, time start, you know, crying or getting teary-eyed, and he'd literally give me a smack and say,

toughen up. I'm like, what's with this guy? He'd give me a smack on the shoulder. He's like telling me to toughen up. Yeah, but he was a champ, that's for sure. So Jamie and everyone listening, I want to let you know about this year's Holiday and Hope Candlelight Service of Remembrance.

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The phone number is 416-259-3705. Or you can write contactus at ridleyfuneralhome.com. If anyone has a computer network they're responsible for, you should outsource your IT to CDN Technologies. Contact Barb. She's your outsourced IT department. Barb Paluskiewicz can be reached at 905-542-9759, or you can write her barb at cdntechnologies.com. Okay, let's talk about Personal Assassin. Maybe we'll play it first. Okay, so I'm heading over to SoundCloud here. Let me hear a bit of Personal Assassin, and then I want to talk about it.

I think I found my new solution to this depression I put it in a can and shoot it right into the sun Hope through a telescope I see them watching as it burns It's hard to be alive Sometimes it's something that I've learned Learned from you I'm my own personal assassin Killing satisfaction

One day at a time. I'm breaking laws of attraction. Life's real reactions to my mind. Been selling myself out or short without a second thought. Who wrote the lyrics? He writes all the lyrics. Okay, cool. This is the jam that Alan Cross played on 102.1 the other day? Yeah, that's right.

Wow, that's big leagues too. Your comedy gets on Howard Stern. There's nothing bigger. Is there anything bigger in Canada than getting your New Rock single on 102.1? Well, he had a cool intro too, which he

basically talked about. I came across this band. It's wrong. Did Jay Brody slip and say, hey, Alan, you got to do this? Did this happen organically?

I haven't called him that favor yet. I reached out to him. No. I reached out to him. Does Alan Cross know who Jay Brody is? That's my other question. I think now he would, for sure. I would hope so. So what was Alan's story?

He stumbled upon it? Well, I reached out to him a year ago when we put out the storm. And we kind of connected on a few emails. He was traveling and just kind of didn't get through. You know, you should have contacted me. Alan's an FOTM. He's going to be in this backyard in a couple of weeks. And I just booked him on Humble and Fred.

And I could have made this magic happen. You got to remember, you have friends in high places. Okay, take advantage. Please continue. No, he will. I sent him an email recently. And he got back and Seemed receptive to the tune And he's like yeah I'm going to play this on Wednesday

So super appreciative of that Did he shout out Dusty Chesterfield? We haven't told him about Dusty yet Well honestly another one They're all infectious grooves if you will And they all sound fantastic So how many songs in total Have been produced

and mastered for consumption? We're almost done number six, and then I think we have two more that I'm just trying to get the words right on that will be done in the next couple months. So, yeah, I think by February, March, April, we'll have like 10 songs done. Is that an EP or is that an LP right? 10 is enough for

an actual album right? No EP nonsense here. Oh is this because I think SoundCloud autoplay is here. Wow is that us? Is it Christmas time? Might be the worst holiday song of all time is that one but I thought maybe that was Fairy Tale of New York for a moment

actually which is actually a pretty cool jam as far as holiday songs are concerned okay so you're gonna the goal is to have an album do you have a name for the album yet no i haven't thought haven't thought about that yet but that'll i think that'll just come come to us one day when we're kind of focused on it and i guess i'm guessing that as soon as it like every every other musician who uh you you guys are aching like I mentioned earlier you're aching to play live so we're just waiting for I guess we're waiting to find out what we all need to find out when we find it out how's that can I say that on CP24 we're talking to a guy vaccination today about going to play in Sweden next uh September because he runs a festival there and I guess he likes our stuff.

So he's like, hey, you should look into like getting your plane tickets and stuff because that would be kind of cool. Well, that first of all, it'd be really fucking cool. But who knows if you could do that? Like I couldn't.

Yeah, you'd hope by next September we have a vaccine and at least things are a little more sort of normal in some way. So what's it like? So you're a musician full time. Like you're Roddy I'm talking to. I know people can't see who I'm looking at here.

Roddy, you're a musician guy. Like this is your life. Yeah, for the most part. Do you have a day job? No, I do this and obviously the Stern stuff. And then I do custom songs. I have a website, songsforyou.ca. So say it's your wife's birthday.

But you're paying your bills being a musician. Yeah. Oh, I do like write commercials. I used to work for Pizza Pizza, but now started doing stuff for Pizza Yolo. Doing some good pizza there. Pat Finelli's over there now. Is he? Yeah.

I wondered where he went. Yeah, he resurfaced in the pizza world. Okay. Yeah, I just find ways of trying to make money creatively, like whatever. Amazing, because poor Jamie here has to hold down this day job as a news anchor guy. So if you go off to Sweden to do some things, he's got to like take vacation days or something. That's correct. I have to submit for that.

No, we need like a news event to happen in Sweden days or something. That's correct. I have to submit for that. No, we need like a news event to happen in Sweden that you can also go and cover. True, yeah. Swedish, he's processing that. The women's volleyball team or something. But that's amazing.

Like imagine that. That sounds amazing. Okay. So, is there any other century Surfer updates for everybody before we talk about some of the songs that influenced you? And actually, and then I do have a deeper topic I want to bring up with Jamie in a moment here,

but is Century Surfer, so essentially you're just seeking more, I guess, more exposure, more airplay, get the word out. I think, you know, one of the things about the pandemic is that, you know, the fact that we don't have a of the things about the pandemic is that the fact that we don't have a band right now that's ready to take the stage. We're

able to focus on the record, but by the time everything starts to open up, I think we're going to be ready to hit the ground running with the full record. We'll have enough songs for a great stage show. So that's been the focus and also to hopefully, you know,

get some strategic partners on board and to help, you know, elevate this act. Just building the library, building the story, getting like the common sort of thread and like the vibe of our band, the artwork, our sound, everything like that. That all has to be sort of a tight package, if you will. For the next couple of singles,

would you consider guest vocalists? That's always a move where you bring in some... I'm open to anything if that works, you know what I mean? Someone like Ash, if he was like, hey, can I come and sing on a tune? Like, of course. But I don't know, we have our little factory right now and the songs have been

coming out good and we kind of just rolling along on them with the uh with the tunes so amazing okay uh let me go deep here before i bring in the uh the jams that have influenced you guys which will be fun to kick out here uh i follow jamie good friend you say it now good friend okay i'm doing too much right i'm too into it well there was a lot of there was out here. I follow Jamie Goodfriend. You say it now. Goodfriend. I'm doing too much, right? I'm too into it. Well, there was a lot of, there was some ribcage in there. There was a lot of esophagus there. It comes

from within here. So, Jamie G, as I like to call him, I follow you on social media, so I'm always interested in the things that you're interested in. I want to ask you just quickly about um food benders okay because because i know well you're you're the one who's writing the social media you know they're public right these social media posts like you're literally well there's there there's a i think a an update recently that the city of

toronto is is basically uh holding them uh, holding them, you know, taking them to court, I think is a, is a recent update. So it's a, it's before the courts. It's before the courts. So just for those who don't know, uh, it sounds like this Toronto company, uh, was promoting like antisemitism. Yeah. In a nutshell okay okay i just just uh i hate to see uh public displays of any anti-semitism or racism like especially i don't want to see it anywhere but especially not in my city like get that out of here that garbage out of here and it and again i i was reading into it and it sounds like uh uh if you believe israel has a right to exist uh they don't want you to be a customer which is pretty fucking anti-semitic like that's pretty awful yeah i

could tell you don't want to talk about you're drifting away from the microphone i mean it's it's it's you know i i gotta be careful obviously he's gonna be the neighbors back well you put it on social media well i i I, that's true. Um, and you know, I, I, you know, part of the reason why,

what, what with posting something like that is rather than, you know, I get, you know, engaging in the, in the back and forth that you see in the comments. I,

I, I wanted to kind of kickstart a conversation at a time when there was a lot of, you know, focus on racism and racism right across the board. Doesn't matter who it's targeting is, you know, across the board, doesn't matter who it's targeting, is unacceptable. And the fact that there's just such high rates of anti-Semitism,

when it comes to hate crime statistics right across the country, here we have a local establishment that's openly... It's essentially no Jews allowed, essentially. You know, essentially, exactly Amongst vile hatred towards police The Prime Minister and a lot of other stuff

But yeah Okay, I'm glad it's before the courts Because there should be some consequences Well, you have to have some sort of standards When you're operating a business in a free country You can't discriminate anyone based off of Their race, their religion, sex, sexual orientation.

How handsome they are. You can't say no ugly people. Exactly. Whatever. I just think that's something important. I just want to shine a light on it because that's unacceptable. We've got to come down on that bullshit. I'm a happy atheist over here, but don't give me this no Jews allowed bullshit.

Like, I'll be the first guy on the streets marching in protest. That's bullshit. So, okay. I'm going to kick out a jam that, and I actually can no longer remember which one of you picked which jam. So I'm just going to kick this out, and then one of you will tell me why you chose that jam. You ready? Well, she's walking

Through the clouds with a circus mind that's funny. Butterflies and zebras and broodies and fairy tales. That's all she ever thinks of. Riding with the wind. That's all she ever thinks of. I'm going to guess the guitarist here picked Jimi Hendrix. Am I right? No. Wrong. But the funny thing is that when we were talking about this last night I was thinking about that song

But Stevie Ray Vaughan's version And Little Wing When he sent that to me I was like Whoa I was thinking of that song And by the way it's one of the most brilliant songs That doesn't have a chorus If you think about it

Right And it really does tell you what influenced yellow lead better. Cause when you're in the beginning of this song, you're like, Oh yeah. Yellow lead better ripping off some Jimmy here. Jimmy is the first thing when you walk into my place, I have this beautiful frame picture of Jimmy that was given to me by the

photographer who took it, who has one of the largest collections of Jimi Hendrix photographs and a great buddy of mine named Robert Knight. And yeah, he gave me that. And right next to it is one of Stevie Ray's. So those are the first two things you see when you come into my place. But you did not pick this jam.

I did not. This one belongs to Roddy Comer. Roddy Comer, tell us about the influence of Jimi Hendrix on your musical career. Yeah, well, I think when I was little, like in kind of my formative years of starting to get into music, before I got into the grunge stuff, like Pearl Jam and Soundgarden and all that,

when I was a late teenager, my older brother had a really cool record collection of Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, The Who, and some soul stuff like Otis Redding and Motown. But I remember putting on Hendrix, are you experience and access and just replaying those so many times and just cranking it like on my parents, record players loud as they could go manic depression and all those songs. It's like

oh my gosh this is crazy and then little wing i just remember hearing it and being like is can you write a prettier song like this like does it exist i don't know i don't know if you could and i don't know if anyone has um since there and just the sort of the way that he floats above the guitar or maybe the guitar floats beneath the lyrics. It's just so interesting. And it's kind of it sounds simple, but it's it's really kind of intricate and interesting and colorful and weird. So, yeah, Jimmy, I that them and Pearl Jam, him and Pearl Jam. I probably would. Those are the two bands and the Beatles that I would just read everything I could

but I wanted to know everything about them and, yeah. You have a good taste in music and I'm a, I mean,

I love Jimi Hendrix too. I went through a phase where that album, Are You Experienced, I just had, that was like a loan on my Sony Walkman for a long time.

You know what, there's some, there's some songs on there that no one talks about like Remember and I Don't Live Today and even the title track and a couple

other ones that are just like these awesome songs that you never really hear anyone One of the interesting things is because I'm always interested in like charts and like what Billboard Hot 100 what charts on Billboard Hot 100 what hits number one, what's top 30 and all that stuff and the lack of

if you define hits by the Billboard Hot 100 Jimi Hendrix is completely void like all these iconic songs when you think of Jimi Hendrix none of them were hits

by that definition but it's just it tells you how little it actually means to have a Billboard Hot 100 He was far out for mainstream radio back then

Yeah, unless he was covering Dylan I guess but like Purple Haze, for example, these are iconic classic rock songs. I like to imagine being in 1966, listening to the radio and first time hearing Purple Haze. Being like, whoa, is this an alien?

What is going on? And he was opening for the Monkees and stuff like that. He toured with the Monkees and was like, oh my goodness, he must have blown these. And all this work that we are now like, you know, worshipping and enjoying.

And he's dead by 27. At 27 he's dead. Like such a short. So many artists. Me and Jamie actually we got, when I was on Todd's show, Eddie Kramer. Todd who? Eddie Kramer came in who produced or mixed

engineered those records so we got to talk to him and ask him some questions about Jimmy and he worked with Zeppelin he mixed or produced All You Need Is Love and all this and I'm just like oh my gosh I'm talking to this guy who was there he was there

soon all those people will be gone who were around Jimmy so to be able to ask him questions and stuff was pretty awesome. That is awesome. Do you have any insight into why there is no Todd Shapiro show anymore? I don't know. I kind of stopped following him after Jay and I left. And I think the show kind of just fizzled out.

Like there was definitely an energy that it had when we were on it, not saying that it was because of us, but there was a good sort of thing going on that we had. And then after that stopped, I feel like the show kind of took a turn. And, yeah, I didn't really listen to it after that. But anyways. By process of elimination, I now know this is Jamie's jam. See how smart I am?

You think it's just a pretty phase over here? Sure. Okay. And we just talked about this is a band I think all three of us love, so this will be fun. Let's kick it out. Woo! I love that intro. So, she said, have I got a little story for you What you thought was your daddy was nothing but a lie Why are we sitting home alone at 813? Nothing to hide While we're sitting

Home alone Day 13 Your real daddy was dying Sorry you didn't see him But I'm glad we talked Oh, I Oh, I'm still alive Oh, I'm still alive

Oh, I'm still alive Talk to me, Jamie. Yeah, I mean, we all just channel our inner Eddie Vedder, and we all... I love it. Wow. Pearl Jam's 10, man. Well, I mean, speaking of albums I worshipped, man.

Pearl Jam's 10. I thought about the question that you sent me. You know, what song inspired you as a musician? I could go through a bunch of different things. And there's this one, I thought about it for a few reasons. Number one, I'll never forget being up at camp and being 12 years old. And we had these dance parties on like Saturday night. And sometimes the DJs would bring these huge screens

and they'd play the music video. And I'll never forget being 12 and seeing this song, the video on this huge system and being like, you know, something, you know, sonically shifted in my brain at that moment. And I came back from camp and I remember doing my chores earning my you know earning 20 bucks to go to the store and I went and bought that record that's like the first record I bought and then when I was 16 this was and I went to go take my first guitar lesson the first piece of music he's like well what do you want to learn what do you want to do

and I remember bringing in this song I'm like i want to learn how to do that solo stuff in the middle and when you think about like the kind of songs that we write that have a that are riff oriented that open up and blossom into these choruses this is kind of like the like the template of kind of what we kind of do almost in a way and so this is a special song for me special band yeah i could have picked this too. I probably actually know more about Pearl Jam than I do about anything, any other topic. Like I could talk about them for hours. I'll make the time.

Let's do it. Yeah. He was actually on Howard Stern the other day. I heard. You know what? I've been told I need to listen to this interview. It's a great interview. And actually my song played right before he was on.

I can't remember what it was about. Shut it down right now. You know what Robin said, by the way, after the last song? She's like, yeah, those guys have been on fire. And Howard's like, thanks, pal. I mean, that's huge. No, I mean, I think I was clear earlier. Like, I'm telling everyone I know

that I know a guy who's heard regularly on Howard's turn. Not heard, but like, you know, they got the thumbs up. It goes through people to get that stuff on the list. I can't believe money changes hands. Because I'm sure, Brian, you would do it for free, right? Oh, well, the funny thing is, we never actually would have asked for money. You should pay them.

I was telling him, when are you going to get paid? And he's like, don't worry, I got this. Me and Jay, from the start, we're like, we're not going to ask for anything. We're not going to ask to, can Howard say our names? Can Howard do this? We're not going to ask for money. We're just going to give them quality stuff until it's undeniable that they have to hire us.

This is a story, in my opinion, and I understand Jamie's very careful. He wears two hats and he doesn't like the world to collide, but this should be a segment on CP24. Like the fact that this local duo is producing new stuff for Howard Stern Show. Then we go

to like cut to the B-roll and we can't play any of it. No, no. I think there's maybe one out of the hundred that we've sent in that we could play. I've learned, Mike, not to listen to anything he sends me. I don't listen to anything in public. Right. Lots of... I've opened stuff while at, like,

the salad bar at places, and I burst out into hysterical laughter. Since we all love this song, let's finish big of this song here. So let's just enjoy these last few seconds. When it's live... Ha! Ha!

I think i've seen this band live more often than any other band msg i saw them i got to meet eddie i met eddie mike and stone get out of here yeah i met eddie in buffalo mike and hamilton and stone in toronto when he's here with his sideband uh brad i told the story i was uh i was friendly with eddie's guitar technician for the pro gym so he would leave tickets for me at the will call window okay for for years okay years we called him yoda and uh and i know him because I was friendly with Custom. Does anyone here remember Custom? Hey, mister. You remember Hey, mister?

I'm just going to keep going, but I realize I'm not the singer here. You're the singer. But Hey, mister was a big 102.1 hit in 2002. Anyway, this guy was also Custom's guitar technician, so I got friendly with him. But there was a day where they were playing at Air Canada Center, and was uh given a backstage pass and i and yoda was going to introduce me to eddie because this was a dream of mine and i used to help them out with some things i can't talk about but uh bono showed up from u2 yeah bono and the edge and then they did they did a rocking in

the free world yeah we were all there yes we were all there it was amazing it was amazing and then eddie blew me off uh to go drink wine with bono like literally like i know so my story which is a true story which is that like like like yeah eddie blew me off uh so he could go uh maybe you shouldn't word it like that that was twice okay well this, well, this is not the Howard Stranger. Yeah, I'm going to cut that audio. I did it twice because I knew it was going to be. I can make a song out of that. Eddie, blew me off. A Toronto Mike Perry song.

Eddie blew me off. For Bono here. Actually, I remember being at, this is not one of the Meeting Him songs, but stories, but I was at this party for so many people at um I think it was called Oasis Wayne Gretzky's um rooftop um patio or whatever okay so and I was talking to this girl who worked at Sony and she was drunk and she was like I have Eddie Vedder's phone number

wow and I was like really I'm like can you give it to me so she's like yeah I'll give it to you so I did I thought it was BS right right so she gives me his number and uh which I still have and I I texted him I texted him this long I'm like I'm just gonna text him so I text him this long message just kind of thanking him for the music and just really like sort of complimentary and I sent him one of my songs being like oh you inspired this and uh he never got back to me so I'm like was that number? So then me and Jay on our podcast actually called it. We called it, and I was so nervous that he was going to pick up. But we got the answer machine. I was like, hey, this is Ed.

Wow. It's a real number. Yeah, I still have it. But I've never called him or bothered him again. But I just like looking at it sometimes. Well, now you're blocked. You know that, right? Yeah.

I'm like, I'm going to make this guy change his phone number. But maybe now I can be like, hey, I was on the same Stern show as you. Yeah, now you're blocked. You know that. I'm like, I'm going to make this guy change his phone number. But maybe now I can be like, hey, I was on the same Stern show as you. Yeah, now you got, you know, I was, the voice was, I was heard just before you. Yeah, you were singing about dicks like 10 minutes before. That cock song you really liked, that was me. It was cock this way. It was cock this way. Cock this way.

Writes itself. These things write themselves, man. Yeah, we're not doing anything difficult here. Some pretty good singing there. Jamie, Roddy, honestly, you got to come back in the spring, back to the backyard, and we got to talk about the rest of the songs

you finish and catch up. Man, I love it when you guys drop by. This was amazing. Yeah, thank you very much. And yeah, we got to do this again. And much success. Like, honestly, I'm proud of you guys. Like, yeah, you got some news anchor thing again and much success. Honestly, I'm proud of you guys.

Yeah, you got some news anchor thing on the side. That's interesting too. You're in a lot of living rooms. You're in a lot of coffee shops and pizzerias. When we're walking, every second person's like, hey, that guy. I'll bet. You look even better in person. No, I'll bet.

I'll bet that's true. You guys are doing great work with Century Surfers. And I hope you get great success from it, man. And I hope it's just bigger and better. And I'm so proud of you, Roddy, and what you're doing with Jay. You know, I love Jay. He's the best. Jay's the best.

Good dude. I was talking to him. Like, we were laughing, which we do a lot. We'll, like, call each other and laugh at what we're doing. Just at the situation in general. We're just like at what we're doing um just at the the situation in general we're just like how are what are we doing like how do we get here but yeah you ever have that moment you're like okay so jay who was working construction okay that's what i was just gonna say he's working construction jay you're now the morning show host on 102 you're now the

more you're the morning guy i produce the humble and fred show okay you've got the humble and fred gig like you you're there okay that's that's almost about as good as it gets for rock radio in this city and he's on howard well that's that's the next sentence i'm gonna say yeah it's like a mountain with two you and roddy are on howard stern yeah it's it's kind of crazy like that story alone should should get pressed the fact that he went from, like... Yes, that's the CP24 story! He told me he was cleaning up.

I'm just trying to cause some trouble. This is, like, kind of... I don't know if he'd want me saying this. Of course he does. But he's working construction, and he was, like, foreman at some sites and stuff. And these... I think they were, like...

He said they're Portuguese guys. There's some European guys would actually shit inside because there was nowhere to shit in a couple of sites. So he'd be like cleaning this up or whatever. Yeah, he had a shitty job cleaning up these guys and their shit. In five years to be on the morning show of the biggest... That's a great story. That's in the movie.

He's cleaning up some guy's shit. That's how it starts, man. And five years later, he's shooting the shit on 102.1 The Edge. And on Howard. And he's on Howard Stern with Roddy Comer, who's in a fucking great band, with Jamie Goodfriend. That's the first time you said my name

and you didn't rise out of your chair saying it. I get so excited when I see your name. Oh, man. Okay, awesome. I know I'm deep into this jam here. I gotta say, at Century Surfers, you. I know I'm deep into this jam here. So what do I say? Yeah, go ahead. At Century Surfers, you can check us out. The song's everywhere.

There's a cool lyric video on YouTube. A-B-A-G design made it for us. And yeah, just go check out the song. Google the shit out of Century Surfers and just soak it all in everywhere. Please. And for you guys personally, well, this is coming up next.

I have a little script here. Hold on. And that. I like to go hard on the that. I don't know. I didn't go to school for this. I just naturally think you go. And that brings us to the end of our 747th show.

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