Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Jason Agnew Returns: Toronto Mike'd #337

Episode Date: May 22, 2018

Mike chats with Jason Agnew about what happened at LAW, his new Sunday night wrestling show and all the ads he's appearing on before they kick out the jams.

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I'm Mike from torontomike.com, and joining me, making his triumphant return, is Angry Agnew. You know, that moniker wasn't spread last time I was doing the show. I was quite happy and quite pleasant, but it seems like that character has just been blown up with the new show. And of all the things I show up here, and you prompt me to start this show with the one line that of all of my work,

I've been in this industry for like 20 years now. And now all of a sudden I'm the donut guy. You are in my living room every night. Yeah. Because I watch a lot of NHL playoffs. And this was the campaign. It's unbelievable. And like at the beginning, I would sometimes remark when you'd come on, I'd go, oh, that's Jason Agnew.

And I might say a little Jason Agnew story. But the kids are so sick of that now, I can't even do it anymore. You're literally, that Tim Hortons ad featuring you is aired. I mean, you must be rich. I saw you pull up in the Rolls Royce. Yes, that's it. That's it, the Rolls Royce, just rolling down Lakeshore here and onto 8th Street in the Rolls-Royce. Actually, you know what the thing is? I've done a bunch of spots here and there, right? But this one was really neat. When I saw the script, not that I had anything to do with the singing and the dancing in it, but I'm just Guy standing there. And it's just cool. It's a musical. I got to be a part of a musical. for those of you that are wondering yes indeed they

sent us all the way to columbia to to do this spot well that's amazing because you could have done it by the humber river maybe like i people have said that i think it's all about the authenticity and they actually wanted to go and go into the growers right because if it leaks out if it leaks out oh they say it's columbia but or whatever like they're doing it in like um milton or something. Like that would be a big controversy. Yeah, it was really neat though. It was obviously the biggest budget spot

that I've ever got to do and been a part of. And I just got to stand there for all the day shooting. And then at the end, I got to say that donut line. So it's cool. I got to do no work and then get the punchline. So for a comic, it's cool. Can you share with us, because I mean because I've never been in an ad. Most of the listeners have never been in an ad.

If they need a new Trivago guy, I'm ready to go. You don't have to give the numbers, but how does the compensation work? For a national ad, like a Tim Hortons ad that airs multiple times every single night during Hockey Night in Canada, what the heck does that pay? Well, it's kind of interesting for me even because I'm still a non-union performer. And this was obviously a union spot.

And it's my first union commercial that just happened to be Tim Horton's biggest campaign ever. So it was just a stroke of luck. They were clearly just going for whatever look that I have. Everyman. Yeah. I play a great Everyman. I play a great suburban dad in Everyman, which I'm definitely not the suburban dad, but I guess I'm the Everyman. So it's all through

Actra and you get a percentage of, i don't know whenever it airs so it's it was actually rather confusing to me because i'm used to just going and you get your day rate and then you get your buyout and then boom you're you're done but this is going to be like there's going to be some uh like checks are going to be coming in the mail until they stop running this thing right like a residual thing and it could come back as well i'm sure there's people out there because you've had so many people on this podcast and so many industry people listen that are part of ACTRA. Maybe they'll let me know how much I'm supposed to

get so I know I'm not getting ripped off. It's going to be exciting when you get that, I don't know, I don't know if it'll be direct, maybe it's direct deposit now, I don't know, but when you get that letter in the mail and it's like, you open it up like, I always picture like when Jerry Seinfeld was getting those residual checks. Oh, I don't think was is in that statement

there. I think that's pretty much still happening for good old Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry and I, yeah, it's pretty much the same level, Mike. No, the character. The character did something. I hope I'm getting my story right. He did something that aired somewhere, and he got small residual checks or whatever, and he got cramped hand from signing these things.

This is not the real life Jerry Seinfeld. This is the character jerry seinfeld oh right so it's uh like you know his character was also named jerry seinfeld but anyway i digress so i want to tell everybody um about your first episode because they might want to go back and hear like they want to hear about splat a lot and all that good stuff so in convention years i'm sure people still want to talk about that. So go to episode 69. Was that on purpose, 69? You called me.

Was it on purpose? You tell me. Those are early days because you didn't even... This is your first time in the basement. Yeah. Oh, and I didn't tell you. I told you about the low ceiling,

but I forgot to tell you the mics. You're used to mics where you can like, whatever, go like this. No, no, no, right up close. You got to be right. Yeah, you sound great, Laird. That sounds great. So in this 69th episode mike talks with jason agnew about being the game show guru the law live audio wrestling we'll talk more about that remember that we'll talk about

that soon sunday morning trivia on news talk 10 10 the conventioneers which which i loved and splat a lot oh splat Lot, and the new Tiny Talent Time. How about that? What the hell happened to Tiny Talent Time? Let's not dismiss that yet. Is it still going to heartbeat? You know, there's things. Not when I can't.

That'll be when I return. Every time you come on, it's coming. There you go. But did it air a season? Okay, so Tiny Talent Time did it air a season? Okay, so Tiny Talent Time, there was a season of 12 episodes that aired. I guess that was about three years ago I must have been here. And then after that, a couple years later, we did three Christmas specials as well.

Sorry, holiday specials. Is that what I'm supposed to say now? Three holiday specials of Tiny Talent Time. And yeah, who knows what's happening in Hamilton? It just keeps seem to be sucking me in, the Steel City. Okay, that's exciting that there's a pause. Oh yeah, well, yeah, you're right, because we'll talk about something happening on TSN Radio. We'll talk about that soon.

CHCH sounds like they might bring back Tiny Talent Time. Who's your co-host on that show again? Jacqueline Colville. And she's a weather person? Or am I confusing her with somebody else? She was on CH. While in the lovely CH removal of peoples, she was one of the removals

and then returned to do the holiday episodes. She was in the room that Mark Hebbshire was supposed to be in. He went to the wrong one, right? Right. He's coming over later today, actually. Oh, is he? Okay.

We now record a, he has a sports podcast we record from here. Yeah. Called Hebsey on Sports. So he's dropping by this afternoon. But yeah, he went to the wrong room. Yep. Heard that story. That's funny.

CHCH. Okay. That's exciting news about Tiny Talent Time. There's lots of fans. Hold on. I want to play something while I talk to you about your jams. Just a second here. Oh, I thought about putting this one in. This one? I thought about it. Wow. But he is one of the biggest

disappointments of my career, actually. And I couldn't bear to have this be played on the episode that I was going to be on. So thank you for bringing back these painful, painful memories. Yeah, so Hulk Hogan was promoting a book, and I guess about 2009 or so, and I had actually lined him up to come in live for Byte TV for a live talk show that I used to do there called The Surf. And everyone was blown away by the fact that I was able to get Hogan in live

for an hour special on live television. Yeah, that's amazing. It was going to be amazing. He and Jimmy Hart was going to join Hogan in live for an hour special on live television. Yeah, that's amazing. It was going to be amazing. He and Jimmy Hart was going to join him. It was great. We transformed the whole station for the week leading up to it, in particular that day. We rebranded the whole station to look like the Hulkamania font.

We changed bite from blue to red. We changed everything about what was going on to look like Hogan. And then I got a call at about, the show was going to air live at 10, at about 6 o'clock, saying Hogan's sick. Oh my God.

He can't make it. Sorry, brother, I got a cold. Yeah, it wasn't even him. It was this horrible, horrible PR person. And then I said, hey, can you at least send Jimmy? And then I got Jimmy on the phone, and Jimmy refused to come too. So Hulk Hogan.

With Jimmy Hart, Mouth of the South, Eat Your Heart Out, Rick Springfield, which I played, I think the previous episode with Terry Hart. I played Jimmy Hart to promote your appearance. Love that jam. He wouldn't even come on the Byte TV. Jimmy Hart. No. I think I. He wouldn't even come on the Byte TV. No. Jimmy Hart. No.

I think I could get Jimmy Hart in my basement. If you offer Jimmy Hart a plate of nachos and a salad, he'll show up in your basement. What was his excuse? He just didn't want to come. It was horrible. I later did get Jimmy in studio, but Hogan never showed up. So instead, I had to do an hour live. I had The Trues booked on the show. The Trues played

a couple tracks, and then I just sat and talked with callers that were also disappointed that Hogan didn't show. Was that the birth of Angry Agnew? No, Angry Agnew was already well in place for having to watch tons of wrestling, but this was the birth of sad, depressed Agnew, as I thought I had a

whole bunch of viewers and I was going to pop ratings, and then it was a real sad disappointment I bet you he would have called you brother many many times yeah listen I had ready for Hogan that night I was going to give him a guitar because there's a story that he was supposed to be the original bassist in Metallica so I had a guitar

I had a bass ready for him to show me how he could play the week before this he had done a report on TMZ that his wife because he was in the midst of the divorce. Yeah, this Bubba the Love Sponge thing. Or no. No, it was before that.

It wasn't the racist one. It was not when he was banging Bubba's wife. It was when he was getting divorced from his own wife after the Hogan Knows Best series. And he had said to TMZ, yeah, the wife has taken everything in my house, even my toilet seat. So I had a wooden toilet seat. I went and bought it. I had it engraved Hulkamania runs wild here on the top of it,

and I was going to hand it to him as a gift to hope to get coverage on TMZ. This was going to be the perfect hour. This would have been the best hour of Byte TV. Honestly, it would have been the highest rating ever on Byte TV, and I put all my efforts into this for about two weeks leading up to it, and what a huge disappointment I actually took I never take days off but I took two days off after that just kind of sat at home in the dark nice Jesse oh we're

going to eat your heart out Rick you're just going to play the whole album here that happens to be the timeline the whole wrestling album that. Hold on. Hold on. That's right. Eat your heart out, Rick Springfield, by the mouth of the South Jimmy Hart. You know what? This is my time, okay? Because you're still in it, of course. Yes. But this,

and I had it on cassette, but it was the wrestling album. Yeah. Honestly. I have it on my base. I have it on LP. I have the MP3s now. I lost the physical.

God, I wish I had it. But I was, I mean, there's my Andre the Giant mug right there. This was my time. I loved this album so much. I lost the physical cup. I wish I had it. There's my Andre the Giant mug right there. This was my time. I loved this album so much. I'm going to just play a little bit while we warm up here. Oh, what a great jam this is. The late great.

He got hit by a car, right? He was in a car accident. Yeah, this is Sylvester Ritter, better known as the Junkyard Dog. And I believe the funny thing about this album, and we were going back and forth about it when we were picking jams, is that a lot of these are covers and people don't realize

it. And I believe this one, Grab Them Cakes, is actually a cover. I did not know that. And in particular, do you have the what is it, Forget Everybody? Or what do they use? I didn't load it up, but I play it a lot. For everybody. Right, because it is I don't know if it's good for your brand to say this word. I don't care. It's Fuck Everybody.

So the Roddy Roddy Piper track on this is actually a cover, and he has it as For Everybody, and it's actually, yeah, Fuck Everybody is the original song. Which I've heard on YouTube, and it's great. I didn't know. Everyone knows Tootie Foodie, of course, is a remake. Yeah, Mean Gene.

Land of a Thousand Dancers, that's, of course, a remake. Yep. Don't Go Messing with a Country Boy, is that a remake? No, that's an original. It's funny you bring that up because Hillbilly Jim went into the WWE Hall of Fame this year and had one of the worst speeches ever. This guy, there was nothing about Hillbilly Jim that was good except his theme music. He was a terrible wrestler.

He high-fived children. He danced around. And then when the bell rang, just atrocious. I think his finishing move was a bear hug. That's right. Horrendous. But this song is tremendous. I even loved this as a kid.

Little, little boy, baby, cutting my teeth. And I always thought it was Bigelow Tree when he said that. And I was like, why is Bam Bam Bigelow involved in this song? I'm glad to hear this is an original. I did not. That's great. And what about that? The Georgie Animal Steel.

The music with the dawn of music, whatever. Captain. Oh, Captain Lua Band. That's an original too, right? Yeah, I think that's an original. I'm a man of a thousand places. You and I are going places. A thousand faces.

You and I are going places. I want to be your shining light. Captain Lu. Captain Lu. I think so. Good to hear, man. I had no idea. I honestly, once in a while I revisit this album,

and I still like it because it's all that nostalgia that flows back. I remember being like a kid watching WWF, as it was at the time. And, yeah, I just loved it. But unlike you, at some point I outgrow wrestling like most people, but you are like the voice. You're like an authority. I outgrew it as well. The funny thing is, I outgrew it when I was in high

school. I didn't watch The Lean Years, and for those of you that don't know what that is, that's how I refer to it on the show. It's kind of like the Kevin Nash when he was Diesel and Scott Hall's Razor Ramon. Those years, I ducked out, and then I got into university, and then all of a sudden, it was Stone Cold and The Rock, and I dipped back in, and that's

when I sent an email to Jeff Merrick in 1999 saying, Hey, I'm at Ryerson for Radio and Television Arts, and you've got this show on the fan. I think I could make it sound better and cut your interviews and stuff. And Jeff brought me in as an intern, and that was 1999. So we're almost 20 years beyond me working in the world of professional wrestling radio remember that show The Law live audio wrestling I have a question about Law

before I even get to it hold on I like these little interstitial things hold on here well I'll tell you what Vince it doesn't matter if I got the message it's dead Brutus Beefcake get a message well I don't know about that I don't know if it's important that anybody got a message. After all, you've got to take into consideration our next artist and our next song, Vince.

Boy, I'll say, you got the message all the way from Moscow. Well, yes. Oh, yes. Can you trust the man who was on a first-name basis with Mikhail Gorbachev? Give me a break, Jesse. Let me tell you this. It's Nikolai Volkov doing Cara Mia. Oh, you know what, I should just...

Karamiya. Yeah, which was a nice rendition. Yeah. Yeah, and I always remember he did, before he'd wrestle, he did the Russian National Anthem or the USSR National Anthem. And then you'd hear that at Olympics or something.

And it would be similar, but I think his version was like uh not jazzier but a little sped up and more like well he was from he was from baltimore mike i believe wait a minute nikolai volkov was from baltimore i don't remember his real name but yeah he was an american guy who just got that character so shiki was uh he's a real deal right uh costro davari something like he's from ir. But he's from Iran. Yeah, he's from over there. He runs around in Toronto all the time, though,

because his cousins are the Megan Boys, who are the kings of bar mitzvah up in Thornhill. Get out of here. Yeah, they're like DJs and the kings of bar mitzvah and parties, and they used to run a wrestling organization. Because the Iron Sheik, I believe, is of Muslim faith. And you're saying his family members are bar mitzvah people. So this is beautiful to hear this.

Breaking kayfabe. This is beautiful. Oh, geez. And that's a Russian... Russian, that's a wrestling term. Yeah, it's a wrestling term for when you stay in character. So I'm breaking it now on the show. Okay, do it.

I need to tell people also, I need to remind people how we know the show. Okay, do it. Well, I'm also... I need to tell people also, I need to remind people how we know each other, like outside of your... Okay, go for it. Let's talk about the hockey pool. Okay, yeah, because I'm in the midst of it. It's the playoffs. I just did some auditing last night.

Golden Knights. Yeah, that's right. Okay, so you went to Bishop Allen Academy for high school. In your class was my youngest brother, Steve, and you were friends with Steve in high school. Correct. And then part of, you know, you're friends and you started a hockey playoff pool

where everyone drafts in a snake draft. Everybody picks 10 players and then a point is a point is a point and that's it. And Steve and you and a bunch of Bishop Allen people would do this, but I got invited. I remember taking the Royal York bus and I was in university at people would do this. But I got invited. I remember taking the Royal York bus. And I was in university at the time because I'm older than you guys.

And I came to the high school in order to draft. And I started drafting with you. And I drafted every year because I loved it. And then at some point when you became a big-time mucky-muck and you were hanging out with Roger Lajoie and Storm and Norman Rumack and all these bigwigs. Who else was in that Fan 590 posse? The Fan 590 nighttime posse? Sure, yeah.

Was Jim Richards there? No, Jim was already gone at that point. So now I hang out with Jim Richards here and there when I get to show up in the daytime in News Talk. I got to cover for Jim this past Christmas. It was amazing. Ben Dixon should give you your own... Well, I have a show.

The reason I'm not talking about the show... Ben Dixon, he needs a show. Something in, I don't know, weekends, in the mornings, he'd be good at something. I'm purposely not talking about that show because one of my sponsors recorded a question for you, and I listened to it. I always listen to it before i air it to make sure i don't like step on his lines okay so it's going to introduce that so i'm purposely avoiding that show but yes you have a show on 10

10 yes and richards was no original uh co-host with norm rumak of like the late night stuff on the fan 590 that is correct like for such a short period of time. I know, but Richard's room mag is like epic, I think. It's epic, except it really only happened for a very small amount of time. And if you know Jim, I mean, he's not the biggest sports guy in the world. And that's such a weird pairing now,

if you think about those two gentlemen. No, but he got very angry at me once. Why's that? Because he misinterpreted something I tweeted about Howard Berger. Okay. Now, everybody knows Howard's been on this show two and a half hours. Maybe, yeah, two and a half hours Berger did talking about stuff.

I'm very friendly with Berger. I root for the guy. I like the guy. And I tweeted something about something he wrote. Where he wrote on his Berger Bites blog, he wrote something about, I want to get it right, something about how the Leafs were going to trade austin matthews he has an inside source at mlse that says because we play better without matthews and his trade value will never be higher the leafs are shopping matthews around now of course everyone who reads this knows that's nonsense like you know but burger presents it

like it wasn't april fools i should point that out he presents it as his mlse insider says they're shopping matthews and i might have tweeted something about how like that's sort of like i don't get it like i think at the end of it he wrote something to say haha fooled you like you idiots thought that was true like come on what are you but meanwhile like i don't know i didn't understand the the the gag because sorry for trusting something you wrote like uh i didn't like he didn't present it as satire. He presented it straight up. And I didn't trust it, but I thought it was silly to kind of make fun of us

if we did believe it, because now why would we read your blog and believe anything if you're just going to make fun of us for believing it? So something like that. And Berger, like, not Berger. Richards? Richards, like, just went off on me for, like, kicking a man when he's down or something,

and I wasn't doing that at all. So anyway, that's my, uh, my Jim Richards story there, but otherwise we're, I quite liked the guy. I think he's a very good talk show host and,

uh, and, uh, I've met him on several occasions. I dig the guy, but anyway, he had a, he had a burger beef with me.

We could start, what is it? K-Fab? What's it called? Could we have some kind of a, I saw your, uh, your ad, you did a barbecue ad where you did like an eyebrow thing. Yeah called? Burger. Burger. Burger. Burger. I saw your ad. You did a barbecue ad where you did like an eyebrow thing.

Yeah, that one's airing now. Yeah. That was, I improvised a people's eyebrow and it's made it into the spot. Okay, what's the people's eyebrow? It's what The Rock used to do with the cocking the eyebrow. He still does it. So he called it the people's eyebrows. So I just did that at some point during the day when they had me, when they put

the camera in my face and said, hey, just move your face around like you're confident. And I did the People's Eyebrow and it made the spot. I was very excited about that. Yeah, so apparently if you use the Weather Network app or I think it airs before, like, I've had people say Sportsnet Highlight Packs if you're looking them up online, you'll see a Clubhouse

Spice commercial that's this guy playing Average Suburban Dad. So we got the Tim Hortons commercial. up online you'll see a clubhouse spice commercial that's this guy playing average suburban dad so we got the tim hortons commercial you're doing that one now i have to ask you about something else because i have a you're going to share a fun fact about this it's going to blow people's minds prior to this tim hortons ad i was seeing you frequently i don't see you anymore on this one i guess it's not on right now but it was on all the time. It was a Swiss Chalet commercial. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you were the dad. I guess a suburban dad. That's what I am.

And in this ad, you have a wife in this ad, a lovely young woman. Did you ever see this woman again after you recorded this ad? Or was this, you just saw her on the set? Are you leading me somewhere with this? I heard something. Yeah. So as I like to say say i'm dating my wife um she's tremendous amazing uh fantastic we met on set of all things we actually met in the fitting because when you do a commercial you go in for a

fitting first and you just try on a whole bunch of different outfits and they awkwardly take pictures of you and then uh they figure out what they want you to wear so uh i get cast for this commercial i'm standing in the fitting in the midst of having my shirt off, standing there in the dressing room. She walks in and I'm like, oh, hi, I'm your husband. And I shake her hand with no top on. But then when we actually, because that just lasted like half an hour doing the fitting.

Then a couple of, fast forward a couple of days later, we're doing the spot. Turns out she was a producer on the Maryland Dentist Show and like e-talk and we just sit there. when you're on and it was an soc meaning we don't talk in the actual ad so we have nothing to say no lines to remember we're just sitting there with this kind of fake chicken how many kids did you have in the ad two children in the ad and not in real life um so yeah i don't think so oh i don't know so uh so yeah we we really hit it off and ever since then we have been uh dating that was like uh seven months ago that's amazing like so you're yeah your wife in

the swish alley ad uh is now your girlfriend yeah she's my swish lady that's amazing yeah i'm uh happy for you thank you it's it's good yeah i mean whatever the yeah and you got residual checks still no that's a non-union spot. So that was a festive special spot. It's very much done. I'm a Tim Hortons guy now. I'm not allowed to audition for any other chain for a year. Oh, right.

So, okay. Because I had a lucrative offer from Coffee Time I was going to let you know about. But forget it. I'll give it to somebody else. You know what? I'm looking for sponsors for Sunday night's main event. Oh, wait. We're going to get to that.

Throw it my way. Oh, am I jumping? We're building up here. We're building up here. Sorry. I had a lunch recently with a former Toronto radio personality. And at some point during the lunch, he revealed he was friendly with you. And then I gave him the hockey pool.

Oh, yeah. I never finished the hockey pool story, did I? So to finish that up, you got involved with the Mucky Mucks at Fan 590, like Roger Lejoie and Norm Rumack, and you stopped hosting this annual hockey pool. Like, you just stopped doing it. I don't think we got a formal, like, guys, I'm stepping... It wasn't like you wrote some nice letter about, hey, guys, it's been great, but I got other things going on.

I'm afraid I don't have time for this anymore. You just stopped doing it. Okay. I really stopped following hockey at that point i know but you owe the uh every year we'd gather you owed us something like i think it also corresponded with with leaving high school too didn't it and i went on oh maybe you know like i didn't see any of those guys anymore okay but you know somehow it's still without you it kept going is my point so the the jumps kept coming uh alex coming. Alexi is still in this pool.

Mofo is still in this pool. Of course, Steve, my brother Ryan, I'm in this pool. This pool continues to this day. I picked up the reins after you dropped it. I took over. It's still going on. I don't know what this is, 20-something years later. We're actively engaged in this pool.

Alexi's looking like he's going to win. Steve's in second.'s going to win. Yeah. Steve's in second. I'm just disappointed I've never been invited back. You don't watch hockey. I could just come in and make random picks.

This year, I would have gotten with all Knights. Is that true? No, absolutely not. That Knights story is ridiculous. It's amazing.

Okay, I don't follow soccer, but people tell me, I think it's Leicester City. There's a soccer team called people tell me, I think it's Leicester City. There's a soccer team called, I hope I got that right. Is it Leicester? Maybe it is. I have no idea.

I just read it. I think it's spelled kind of funny. Leicester City. Yeah, it looks like Leicester, but it's Leicester. You're right. Okay, I never hear it said because I don't watch this stuff.

But people say that's the greatest upset in the history of sports, they say. Like it was, I don't know what they said. It was 500,000 to one odds or something ridiculous. If that's true, I got to trust them on this one. This is number two. Well, there's a few tickets out there that apparently Vegas sold. And I don't mean Vegas for the team.

I mean, in Vegas that were sold like 300 or 400 to one. And people have dropped three or four hundred to one. 500 to one. 500 to one. Really? Yeah. That's insanity. I mean, but what would you expect? Look at the track record of NHL expansion and how long it takes any of those teams to

even make the playoffs. Never mind actually. I have one. I did look into this recently. Did you? Yeah. You're right. If you, you have to exclude post expansion, like in 68 plus, they made a division that

was only expansion teams. When? When they did the 68 expansion? Right. So like the Pittsburgh, St. Louis expansion? Philadelphia. I think St. Louis for sure because St. Louis goes to the finals. St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia.

Yeah. Okay. So they're all in the same division. Okay. And the way it worked is the winner of that division was going to play the winner of the original sixth division or whatever you call it. Oh, it's insanity.

Yes, and I know. I don't know what... I think the logic was give these new fans, give them playoff success right off the bat. It's forced playoff success. So somebody in that division had to go to the Stanley Cup Finals. It ended up being St. Louis. I think they did it maybe two or three years in a row.

They've never won a cup, though. Never won a cup. They got swept in the finals by Montreal, 4-0. But they did go to the finals because someone had to go to the finals, and they were all expansion teams. So if you remove that, which you should, the best I could think of was the Florida Panthers in year

three went to the finals. And then they got beat up in the finals. I don't know, New Jersey or something. But they did go to the finals in year three. But that's the best I can come up with. This is unprecedented. This is amazing. Well, it's insane. And then just imagine the expectations that the Seattle franchise is going to have in a couple

years. I think every GM watched what happened here, and I think everybody will play it differently next time. In regards to who they protect or who is selected. A lot of times, there were examples of great Vegas Golden Knights. I always forget to say Golden. Great Vegas

Golden Knights that were traded, given to Vegas in order for Vegas to take somebody. So they kind of said, hey, if you're going to take, for example, we want you to take, the Penguins are like, we want you to take Marc-Andre Fleury. Please take Marc-Andre Fleury to ensure you take Marc-Andre

Fleury. Here's a couple of draft picks and a player or whatever. There was a lot of examples of this. Florida, I think, said take... I can't ever say his name right. Marsh is so... He's a great player. He's like, if you want to take this guy, you've got to take this guy. There's a whole bunch of stuff that make GMs look

stupid in retrospect. Really interesting players were just given away to Vegas. I think they'll be careful of Seattle. I think it'll be much tougher for Seattle. Regardless, really interesting players were just given away to Vegas. I think they'll be careful of Seattle. I think it'll be much tougher for Seattle. And regardless, there's no chance Seattle can do this.

This is a freaky thing that's happened. All these cast-offs have come together to be wicked awesome and go to the finals. It's unbelievable. Wicked awesome.

Wow. You like that? That's a nice Boston reference there, isn't it? Like a New Kids reference and they make fun of it on SNL all the time?

I do the Donnie Wahlberg rap from Game, the fun of it on snl i do i do the donnie walberg rap from game the game remix but i'm not gonna do right now but uh the guy i met for lunch who was in radio and says he's buddies with you tell me if he's lying to me chris mavridis oh jeez is this the name you know okay let for any uh for any um industry people listening yeah i know mavridis please don't align me with him, okay? He's a controversial figure. Is he? Tell me, because he's not in the business.

So he's not in Toronto Radio anymore. But Evelyn Macko was just over, and she talked about working with him at 640. Okay. What did she have to say? She said they were the last two standing, and she had positive things to say about him. He's very innovative. I think he's actually both a help and hindered my career because he's also, the funny thing is about Mavridis

is he's a tremendous shooter, videographer, like a cinematographer. The guy works well beyond the level that he's working at. He's incredible at shooting things. He's a genius. But I kind of think he's, this is totally going to get back to him. Oh, he listens to this podcast.

Yeah, he's like that super smart kid, the gifted child in grade two, where he's just bored of whatever's happening in class. And I think that's the way Mavridis is in the industry. But then he also, like that child, he acts out sometimes. No, I'm just sort of catching up. the industry but then he also like that child he acts out sometimes no i can't i kind of say i'm just sort of catching up but i know so he was like a news broadcaster uh did you 640 at 640 mojo i met him at mojo in the in the glory days of ripken johnny b h and f were on there i was

doing stuff with derringer as well scruff was there i love that time period as my favorite time period in radio it was mojo Radio when it was the wall of men for chorus, stuff that just can't fly these days. Right. It was so, so fun. There was a certain energy to it. They were put in an AM station first. It was really, really cool and really fun to work in. And that's

where I met Mavridis. He worked with me a bit on Bang TV in 2001, I guess, when I was hosting that on Global. And I'd done some stuff for a show I did on Speed Channel called Tuna Transformation as well. He's just a tremendous shooter. He brings so much to it. But he's always right.

And he left the industry. It sounds like you might be on to something. Maybe he got bored. Because I'm told by... I don't remember his career. I don't remember it well, anyways. He's great. People tell me he was really good.

He's really good. He could have been something big in this market. Yeah. But he walked away. He went to New York. Yeah. I guess he's...

Haven't you had him? No. Oh, man. I'll get him. I'll get him. I had lunch with him. I had lunch with him at the Dundas Street Grill.

Oh, yeah. Dundas and Kipling. It's called the Kip I remember I had lunch with them at the Dundas Street Grill. Oh, yeah, yeah. Dundas and Kipling. It's called the Kip District now. They're trying to make it like the new Liberty Village. Oh, that's horrendous. Okay. And apparently,

because I talked to you because you're like an Etobicoke guy. Yeah, Etobicoke guy. My home and native land. Right. That awful, like, where the Westwood Theater was, that whole, like,

they're going gonna blow it up it sounds awful blow it up and do a proper like intersection oh because right now it's some weird

basket weave yeah it's very complicated right there yeah well try biking it it's ridiculous it's kind of scary I'm not gonna try

biking it in the mic no thank you while you were at Bishop Allen I was at Power which was right there kind of too but yeah

so we went to Thunder Street Girl so Chris Mavridis I'll say hi for you. But he sounds like... So, he helped you more than hindered you? Oh, well, it's debatable. Depends where I am. Got you into some trouble?

Yeah, definitely got me into some trouble. Might have helped me get fired from a place. But, you know, whatever. And which place was that? I'm trying to track all your firings. That was Millennium Media. I keep tracking my firings. Because I'm about to get to one.

Millennium Media. What other firing? That's the only time I've been in a firing. I don't know what happened. You track of my firings. I'm about to get to one. Millennium Media. What other firing? That's the only time I've been on a firing. I don't know what happened. You're going to tell us. Last time you were here, you were on live audio wrestling.

Oh, yeah. This isn't a firing. Okay. Well, I need to know. The law, we call it. Live audio wrestling. Hold on. I've got to play a little song

in the background just before we leave. Before we kick out the jams together here. What happened at live audio wrestling with regards to Angry Agnew? Well, that was just kind of the persona that people started calling me on the show. But Live Audio Wrestling was owned by the Fight Network.

The original owners, Jeff Merrick and Chris Carter, sold it to the Fight Network upon the Fight Network's launch in 2005. and Chris Carter sold it to the Fight Network upon the Fight Network's launch in 2005. And it was held by the Fight Network. We kind of operated like an island and covered the world of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts. And the group went from myself and Dan Levransky to also include John Pollock and Wei Ting. And they then decided to buy the Fight Network that is decided to buy well it's now anthem sports they decided to buy impact wrestling which is an actually company that was formerly known as tna wrestling i heard of that yeah and they um decided to remove the radio division so after 20 years of this show airing on Sunday nights and being a real staple

of not only Toronto Radio, but we'd have calls from literally all over the world. We had a huge following. It's gone and done. Just one phone call on a Monday morning saying thanks for the

17 years of being here. Wow. Please submit your final invoice. Bye-bye. So you took over for Merrick on this show. Yeah, myself and Dan Levransky took over in tandem. And then when we moved over to TSN Radio,

probably about when it launched, I took over as the lead host then. I was doing a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff. I took over as the lead, because Mouth is better as the Ventura to my McMahon. He's more of the character. And I'm also a professional host. That's what I do.

And he's more of the analyst. So we did that for years. And it was just my Sunday night routine. It's like I always felt like I should be doing something on Sunday nights. It's great because WWE does their pay-per-views on Sunday nights. And we would come on right after the pay-per-view and be just like a Leafs talk or a Jays talk, when instead it was, you know, pay-per-view talk. And we just kept on going and doing it,

and it was great until they decided to pull the funding. Did I? Okay, so when you said the Fight Network bought it from Merrick and Merrick's partner, I don't know if I knew, did Merrick own that show? Yeah. So Merrick... Launched it on Virtually Canadian in 1997.

Do you remember the terms of the sale? Did Merrick make some good coin out of that? I have no idea. I wasn't involved in that. I was never an owner of it. Now, okay, that's unfortunate that the live audio wrestling made this decision, but like out of the ashes of this

sadness and anger, did anything arise? Any phoenixes rise? After much discussion, and I think five months off, I have now started a new program called Sunday Night's Main Event, a parody Saturday Night's Main Event. It is Sunday nights,

and we've always been on Sunday nights, so I'm now doing that on TSN 1150. So this is the former CKOC, one of the oldest radio stations in Canada. It's over in Hamilton. So I'm doing it there on Sunday nights at 11 p.m. and continuing on, you know, chatting, chatting, wrestling with all those people that have followed me along. Is this also a podcast? Yeah.

Yeah. Sunday nights main event dot com is where you can find the podcast. a podcast? Yeah, yeah. SundayNightsMainEvent.com is where you can find the podcast. So we do it live so I can do the calls aspect because that's always my specialty in taking people's calls and it's where I got the angry Agnew persona of just being

very Macau-ing with callers and just going, you're an idiot and hanging up on them. So that continues on on Sunday nights on TSN 1150. And honestly, I have worked for, with this particular, well, with wrestling radio, so the law included. It's been the Fan 590, 640, 1010, 1050, a serious satellite radio. There has never been a more supportive program director than what's happening with me right now at TSN 1150.

Mike Neighbors just gets stuff done. In week two, he had the studio modified for me so I could control the phones. Just a second phone system. You should have one, but nonetheless, he had it done for me and has been so supportive and positive. I'm the only live show on the weekend there, but he has been amazing. I really can only live show on the weekend there, but he has been

amazing. I really can't say, he's such a character, I can't say enough good things about this guy. It's amazing. You go one kind of step outside of Toronto and it just kind of felt like a different feel for wrestling radio because you can do so much in the world of wrestling

into mainstream media. Honestly, a lot of the time it just doesn't count. These are your favorite parts, huh? Yeah. downstairs to do a single right now. As a matter of fact, I can't believe this. He's down in Studio C getting ready to do... What is this? Grab Them Cakes?

G-R-A-B-T-H-E-M-C-A-K-E-S. Ow! Nice! Agnew, I'm so happy that you got... And you own this show, so you can sell this to the Fight Network at some point. I highly doubt that we will be... I mean, we have a phrase in wrestling that is never say never. So that

I will say that, but I also doubt that that will transpire. You know, I heard that phrase transcends wrestling. It's used in other places as well. Really? No, just in wrestling for me. Everything relates to wrestling for me. And you're

looking for sponsors? Do you want to put a call out there? But don't cannibalize my sponsors. No, no, no. I would never do that. I do a lot of wrestling talk on this show. There could be some conflict of interest. Oh, man. No, I just did everything I do, which is mid-80s wrestling. Okay, great. So yeah, I kind of expand

beyond that. Yeah, I mean, I own the show, and I'm doing it on Sunday nights at TSN 1150. The wrestling audience is rabid, and for sure, looking for sponsors. There, I'll just throw it out there. People know where to find me, sundaynightsmainevent.com. Cool, that's all.

I won't get into your time. This is not an infomercial, Mike. It's not an infomercial. We're going to kick out the jams. That's awesome. So good on that. Now, I'm going to tell everybody something, and I'll let you listen in as well,

but I have a Patreon, so you go to patreon.com slash Toronto Mike you become a Patreon and I'm going to do something I've never done this before we'll see how it goes but I wish I wrote down the date but later this month like later late month maybe it'll be May 30th or something like that I'm going to share this via

email with all the Patreons but all Patreons will get a link it'll be like at 8 p.m. on this Wednesday night or something. There's a link to a live call I'm going to do. So I'm going to do, sort of like you on your Sunday night show, I'm going to talk

about some recent guests and some upcoming guests. And I will, anybody who has this link will be able to call in. This is kind of this new app technology I'm going to beta test. So somebody kind of a, kind of this new app technology. I'm going to beta test. So somebody can come in, they can ask a question,

maybe comment on a recent guest, a request, a future guest, just kind of say hi, whatever. We're going to try this live thing for an hour, 8 PM later this month. So if you are a patron,

you'll get the email, the link and the instructions, but it's not too late to get on that mailing list. So go to patreon.com slash Toronto Mike, give what you wish, and you will get this email with the link. You can be a part of this experience. We'll see how that goes.

And more exciting news, Great Lakes Brewery is going to host a Toronto Mike listener party on another time. I should have wrote down the date. I think it's July 19. Man, you've got to prep this, Mike. Come on. July 19. It's a Thursday night, that down the date. I think it's July 19. Man, you've got to prep this, Mike. Come on.

July 19. It's a Thursday night, that's for sure. I think it's July 19. So from 6 to 9 p.m. on the patio at Great Lakes Beer. This one, you don't have to be a patron. You just have to be like an adult, I guess, of drinking age. You're older. And it's going to be a hell of fun.

And I promise at least one, I'm trying to get some Toronto Mike musical guests to come and perform on the patio. But it'll be fun. I know some guests will show up. I don't know if I can get Agnew. He's lived so close. I don't know if you have any excuse. Oh, man, it's so far.

But Hebbshire and some other people are definitely showing up. So that'll be July 19th. So more on that. Merrick. We talked a lot about Merrick. Yeah. Did you know he used to work at Great Lakes Brewery? No. Swear to you. I did not know that. Merrick. We talked a lot about Merrick. Did you know he used to work at Great Lakes Brewery? No.

I did not know that. I knew that he has this famous story that I'm sure he's told you about burying Harold Ballard. Or digging Harold Ballard's grave. And that story comes up. I just had Gord Stelic on this show. That story comes up a lot on this show. I always think, the regulars must be bored. But then I think, screw them. This needs to be told again.

Yes, that story's often told. But yeah, he worked around that same think the regulars must be bored but then i think screw them this needs to be told again yes that story is often told but yeah he worked at around that same time he worked he was at humberside he went to humberside and he was buddies with i think mike lackey who is the he still works at great lakes brewery and he was doing some work in the summer for great lakes there's six pack in front of you yes take it home with you and enjoy. All right. Share with your girlfriend, wife, Swiss LA gal. I shall.

You don't have to. No, I'm going to drink it all myself. You look angry. No, I'm not angry. You don't want to share? Where's the over my dad bod? There's no way

I randomly picked six. No, I love the over my... I just love the fact that I feel like the guy with my dad bod that gets me into commercials, the over my dad bod is my new favorite. You don't actually have the dad bod.

You're very trim. The dad bod needs more belly. I don't know. I'm a skinny fat guy. I like to call myself. I'm a skinny fat guy. Once you get this cardigan off, no, no, no. It's there, Mike.

It's there. The Over My Dad Bod, I mean, it's a smooth drinking beer. And I love the art on the front of it. And they've just put out glasses at Great Lakes. Oh, you saw those? Yeah, I saw the glasses. We were there. I know.

There's a photo I tweeted. We can't even keep this. The public knows. That was a coincidence, by the way. I had no idea you were coming there. But yeah, I saw those glasses. They're available for Father's Day, of course. So people can buy them for their dads for Father's Day.

Where is that place? Buy the Costco on Queen Elizabeth Boulevard. You really got to work on your sponsor promotion. I'm there a lot. I couldn't remember the number. It's 60? It's probably on the case here. All right.

Is it here? 30. 30 Queen Elizabeth Boulevard in Tobacco, Ontario. If you want to give them a call for more directions, 416-255-4510. There you go. Info at GreatLakesbeer.com. Tell them thanks for sponsoring Toronto Mike. Give them a big kiss for me.

They're good people. And come on July 19th. So I don't, I'm not all alone. That's the saddest thing ever. The band's playing. I'm sitting on the patio drinking a beer all by myself on July 19th. Won't somebody come and say hi? So come on July 19th.

I promised you a question from Brian from propertyinthesix.com. So let's get to that because it leads to something. So here we go. Propertyinthesix.com Hi, Jason. Brian Gerstein here, sales representative with PSR Brokerage and proud sponsor of Toronto Might. I have been harping on now being the best time historically to move up, and that is not by accident. Toronto Real Estate Board Statistics 816-873-0292 so I can crunch the numbers for you.

Jason, I really enjoy your Sunday morning trivia show. And by the way, you have the most pleasant voice on radio. With your mountain of questions on a weekly basis you have to come up with, where do you get them all from? Oh, wow. That's the nice, I've never heard that about the voice comment before. He said that to me, this is straight up, Brian doesn't bullshit. That's what I like about him. He's a straight shooter. He said that sincerely. He listens to a lot of 1010 and 590.

And your voice is his favorite of all of them. Strange. Something pleasant and nice about it. I find it's a little high. When I get excited, it even gets higher. Mine gets really high. Yeah, yeah. When you get excited, it even gets higher. Mine gets really high. Yeah, yeah. When you get excited, the voice gets high. So the question was, where do I come up with the content? Right.

A lot of the time, it's based on the prizes. Let's just say, for instance, I have Grease tickets. I'll do a whole bunch of Grease questions. I've got tickets to go see Paul Anka coming up. I'll do a whole bunch of Anka trivia, which is always fun. Do you got any Anka trivia for me? Yeah, well, of course, he's known to have written My Way for Frank Sinatra, right? He wrote, what

Donny Osmond hit did he write? Oh, I was hoping you'd go with that Tonight Show theme. Yes, he wrote the Tonight Show theme. He wrote Puppy Love. What Tom Jones song did he write? What's New Pussycat? That's correct. Yeah, he wrote that. He also wrote a Buddy Holly song as well.

So, yeah, he's just a crazy, crazy songwriter. He's just counting his money at home in Ottawa. He's still touring. He's still touring. He's going to be up at Casino Rama this year performing a lot of Sinatra songs and doing some of his own as well. I've seen him.

He is so energetic still to this day. Well, he did Hey Hey Paula, right? That was Hey Hey Paula. I think that's... That's not an Anka song. No? Who's that? Is that Neil Sadaka? Is it?

I don't know. I think that's an Anka song. Anka's like Lonely Boy, Put Your Head on My Shoulder. Hey Hey Paula. The song about the memories that Kodak bought. While one of our jams is kicking,

I'm going to Google this because I need closure on this. I feel like that's an Anka song. Also, Nikolai Volkov, Yugoslavia is where he was born, but he does live in Maryland, so that's where I came up with that. Still, Yugoslavia, that was never part of USSR, was it? No, it was not. Now Yugoslavia also doesn't exist anymore.

No, because now it's Slovakia. Slovenia. Slovenia. Yeah, Slovakia is Czech Republic and such. Right. Okay, geography lessons! It's all changed since I was in high school. All those countries are changed.

That's funny. All right, thank you, Brian. By the way, before I forget, you have a pint glass in front of you. I do. That's a gift from Brian. He loves your voice so much, he gave you a pint glass. That's very nice. Do you think he looks like...

Who do you think he looks like? If you flip it, is there a picture on the other side? There's a picture on both sides, and it's the same picture. It's the same picture. Does he look like... Because I've had a few guests remark that he looked like... Fillion. Nathan Fillion.

Okay, he'll take that, because that's better than what Brian Williams said, which was... What did Brian Williams say? Donald Trump. Oh, I'm not picking that up at all. No, I got the Bill Pullman vibe. Oh, okay. I can see that. But I like your name. Philean is a good one.

He should be in ads. Let's get him. He is in ads. He's in his own ads. That's what I'm holding right now, Mike. Yeah. He should be in the sequel to that Tim Hortons ad where you're wondering how to make that Let me figure out how the donuts are made.

I want that next check too. where you're wondering how to make that. Let me figure out how the donuts are made. I want that next check, too. And if you know, if they're ever looking for, like, a white-haired-looking, nice, blue-eyed guy, and he's not the Trivago guy, let me know. I'm going to... Non-union, I guess.

I don't know how those work. They just put you in the union for that ad? I happened to audition and was lucky. I'm going to miss playing this song, because I think I only get to play it for another week or so. But this is for Camp Tournesol. If you have a child between the ages of 4 and 14, so maybe your children from the Swiss Chalet ad are between 4 and 14. Does that sound about right?

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So go to campt.ca, pick the French camp for your child. Hurry up. We're in late March. Sorry, it was March. What day is this? I have screwed up every day on this podcast. It's not March. It's May.

I'm not doing well. I'm screwed up every day on this podcast. It's not March. It's May. Not doing well. I'm just... Your voice is so pleasant, I can't even focus. It is a late May and you need to get your kid in the French camp. So when you do sign up for a French camp with Camp Tournesol, use the promo code Mike.

M-I-K-E. Oh, Nana Mascuri, I'm going to miss you. I might have to play you anyway. I don't know. Even without Camp Tournes Oh Nana I'm going to miss you I might have to play you anyway I don't know Even without Camp Ternusol I might have to play you Mike I have news Is it breaking?

Tell me I'm excited What is it? Hey Paula Yeah We were both wrong It's not Pal and Paula I knew it wasn't Paula I thought it was Neil Sedaka

No it's by Paul and Paula That is the name of the group Ray Hildebrand and Jill Jackson. What female name is in a song that I've confused because Paul Anka had a hit with a female... Donna. No, not Donna. That's Richie Valens, right?

It is Diana. Diana, that's it. That's right. That's it. That's why I got screwed up. It's like when people confuse Alice in Chains with Jane's Addiction. You know that happens because it's a girl's name and they

screw that up all the time. We should cut this all out. It's terrible. I need people to know the truth. This is real talk, Jason. Real talk. Speaking of real talk, okay, this is for PayTM Canada. The PayTM Canada app is the only one in Canada that gives

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they'll give you $10. This is $10 that you can use towards any bill payment. It's amazing. I did it. I urge everyone to do it because it's just money sitting there that you should collect. Use the promo code Toronto Mike. Any Pink Floyd on your jam list?

There is not any Pink Floyd. No, I have given away tickets to go see Roger Waters on Sunday Morning Trivia, though, just last year when he was in Toronto. That was fun. Do you want to come on once a week, Toronto Mike, just to give me trivia questions? Absolutely not. I mean, unless the segment

is sponsored and that sponsorship money goes to me. We'll work something out. Okay, great. What, huh? Jason Agnew, are you ready to kick out the jams? Yeah, let's do it.

I got long sideburns and my hair's slicking back I'm coming to your town in my pink Cadillac I'm just a honky tonk man He's a honky tonk man I'm just a honky tonk man He's a honky tonk man I'm just a honky tonk man I'm cool, I'm cocky, I'm bad I pick a mean guitar

The honky tonk Man theme. This is called Cool Cocky Bad. I felt, I didn't realize that you were going to play the entire wrestling album when I stepped into your basement. So I felt pressure. But this is not on that album. No, no, it's, um. No, it's not.

Then it's on Piledriver. So it's on the follow-up album. Yeah, so I had to pull one of these out because you tweeted out that I was on this and some of my listeners that are your listeners were like, okay, I'm looking forward to Agnew's wrestling cut. So here we go. A guy

that I loved when I was growing up, the Honky Tonk Man. And this was his theme. And this was in the era where wrestlers sang their own theme songs like this and the Million Dollar Man sang his own theme song. That was fantastic. He just kind of talked. But Honky Tonk Man, who did not play guitar

but got to carry one as an Elvis impersonator for his entire career in the WWF. Piledriver never showed up in my collection. Oh no? No. Which is, I don't know which is i don't know why i guess well you were out of it by then maybe but it wasn't it seemed more serious than the

wrestling album which was more it was about the same i mean it didn't you know what if your favorite part is the interplay between the songs then it didn't have that on it so maybe that's where you know you you were not into it because of that and me me and Gene, he's still with us, right? He's still alive. We just did an ad with Kevin Hart, I think. I forget what it was for, but yeah, Gene is still with us and still doing his thing. Pretty good for a 106-year-old. Yeah. Oh, but since it's, and no spoiler,

but there's not a lot more wrestling songs coming, but you always say, don't you dare miss it. Yes, I do. Tell us who that is. I remember, but tell the audience who that's in. I use that as my catchphrase. lot more wrestling songs coming but you always say uh don't you dare miss it yes i do tell us who that is i remember but tell the audience who that's in i use that as my catchphrase uh to end every show that i do and that's not just limited to the wrestling show i use it on sunday morning trivia i used it back on brain battle and pop q and any other game shows that i've done i tried to write it in to splattle out as much as possible uh And it is a phrase that I used to hear on Saturday afternoons from one Billy Red Lions, who had done Das' own, Hamilton, Ontario's own.

And he was the guy who would run down the cards. He did some play-by-play. He used to be a wrestler as well. But he would, for my childhood, he ran down the cards on like, you know, cavalcade on Channel 11 on chch so it was really a huge kick for me to be saying don't you dare miss it to end tiny talent time on chch i remember him well i was watching maple leaf wrestling that's right maple leaf wrestling cavalcade and all that yep and now for a change of pace your second jam. at this yellow haired girl Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with a black

haired man going to dance, you know she dances while his father plays guitar, she's suddenly beautiful and we all want something beautiful man I wish I was beautiful

so come dance the silence down through the morning Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la Yeah Uh-huh, yeah Cut up Maria Show me some of them Spanish dancers And pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones

Believe in me Help me believe in anything Cause I wanna be someone who believes Yeah Mr. Joel and me Tell each other fairy tales And Mr. Good Look for Women She's looking at you

Oh no, no, she's looking at me Smiling in the bright lights Coming through in stereo When everybody loved you You could never be lonely Counting crows, Mr. Jones. Yeah, this came out in, I think, 93, I believe, and went crazy.

It was a huge hit for them. And the album it was off, August and Everything After, is one of my favorite albums. To me, it's one of those playthrough albums where I'll just hit it and play it and kind of get a little depressed in the middle of it as well because it's really sad.

Yeah, like Round Here and stuff. Round Here is super sad. Reigning of Baltimore, really sad. But the key to this, and we'll probably hear it at the end if we keep playing the track all the way through, it has my favorite line of all music ever. At the end of it, he says,

when I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me. I love it. And that's how you feel when you watch Splat a lot. I suppose so, yeah. Was it YTV? It was, yeah, YTV, yeah. Let me know when that line comes,

and I'll make sure you don't hear it. Yeah, it's way in there. It's fine. This was a massive album, though. It was huge. It's great. And then never really repeated after that for these guys. They're still touring.

I know they've done a whole bunch of tours with Matchbox 20, but never really repeated the success of this album. But it's one that I'll still pop in. I'll pop in the CD into my car and listen to it because I still have a CD player in my car. The CD player, fun fact, in my car

has not worked since 1999, I want to say. Wow. Isn't that amazing? More amazing that you still have that car from 1999.

It's fallen apart before my eyes, but that's another story. This, Adam Duritz, we played this song recently. Somebody chose this as their favorite song of all time recently, and I can't remember who it was.

I'm getting old. But we remarked on all the babes that Adam Duritz dated. Courtney Cox. And Jennifer Aniston. Yeah, yeah, yeah, both. He didn't go to Phoebe, though. Maybe he did. It would be like the trifecta.

That's right, all of the friends. But he punched way above his weight, right? Because he looks like he hasn't showered in a while yeah he does okay here it comes There you go. It's like he was predicting YouTube. He's just taking on Andy Warhol here. Everyone's 15 minutes of fame. It's a fun jam, you know? It's all about superficial happiness,

so it's actually really depressing if you think about it. Yeah. It's a super depressing song. know? It's all about superficial happiness, so it's actually really depressing, if you think about it. Yeah, it's a super depressing song. That whole album is super depressing. Just wait. Just wait till my number one. You want to talk about super depressing. I take a happy band,

and I pick their most depressing song. So it'll be less angry and more sad. Sad, sad agony. Jam kicking today. All right, let's kick out another jam. And during the few moments that we have left, we want to talk right down to us in a language that everybody here can easily understand. Look in my eyes

What do you see? The cultural personality I know your anger I know your anger I know your dreams I've been everything you wanna be Oh, I'm a cult of personality This is Living Color, a cult of personality. Yeah, and that really had no influence on my pick whatsoever.

I could not name you another Living Color song. Most people can't. Yeah, this hit I have picked simply because it's CM Punk's theme song from WWE. And I kind of adopted this song as well to be played as the intro for all of my Two Strikes comedy shows. Because it's the mean comedy show in the city. I like to describe it as where whose line is it anyway meets fear factor. We have

six comics that start, they do your fun whose line is it anyway style scenes and then the audience gets to pick negatively who they don't like by going, eh. And once they get two strikes, they're eliminated and the last two players, I take 50 mousetraps. I spread them all over the stage. The last two performers have to take off their shoes and are blindfolded. And they play one scene on top of the 50 mousetraps. Yeah.

That sounds dangerous. Exactly. So this is the theme that I use to start that show. And then Mark Andrada at Comedy Bar, who's the tech there, who's incredible. Every time I pop out to do a show, he plays this as my entrance music. So it's now become my entrance music as well. And hey, CM Punk's really not doing anything at the moment. Not at least till maybe October. Actually, that's not true.

He's fighting in UFC now. So he's fighting in June in UFC again. Is there a lot of crossover like that? Like where a wrestler goes to UFC? Not a whole lot. I mean, you look at your well, Ronda Rousey's made her way back from UFC to WWE and is a giant star and one of the reasons why their stock

price is soaring. Brock Lesnar has gone back and forth and has really played the game well to use it as leverage. CM Punk just got frustrated with wrestling and moved on over. He's a terrible fighter though. And then you have your guys like Jack Swagger, Bobby Lashley, and back in the day, your Ken Shamrocks of the world. Of course.

There's someone that you remember. He was in the WWE whatever? Yeah. He was UFC first, though, in the era of Shamrock and Dan Severin. Dan Severin also made the crossover as well. And then Shamrock did some wrestling in the Attitude era and then flipped back over and was fighting in strike force as like a 50 year old man who's punch drunk fascinating and this jam

you're right uh this was like a big much music hit like this was uh i want to say 1990 but it felt like it was around then or whatever but uh big hit big jam and then living color uh yeah i never i don't remember another single out of them. This is from the album Vivid, but I didn't buy Vivid because I didn't want to buy an album for one single. They were expensive back then. We couldn't steal it. If you steal it, you had to do the old-fashioned real stealing,

like stick it in your jacket and walk out of A&A or whatever. Oh, nice A&A. You went with a big record yeah oh nice A&A you went beyond the Sams and you went to A&A you went right next door that's right

that was a good time in Toronto like I used to go down there I bought all my music at like Young and Dundas area

and then HMV and I have memories and I have this argument with Mark Weisblot from 1236 I have memories of a crossover

where HMV opens at 333 Young, but the ANA had not yet closed. It bled into each other for, I don't know, a couple of months or a few months. I have memories of this. And he says I'm wrong. I remember P8As, and I used to go up and hit HMV and then also Sam. Well, Sam's for sure, yeah.

And at a point, remember when Tower Records decided to come in and take over, and that failed miserably? Right. So that happened because Tower had the corner of Queen and Young, right on the corner there. Yeah, is that like a gap now, or some of our roots, or a gap? I don't know.

Yes, that corner by the Eden Center there. This song just keeps going. I'm sorry. It's almost done. I should have picked a quicker track. No, no, no, please. It's only like five and a half minutes. I'm sorry. It's almost done. I should have picked a quicker track. No, no, no. Please. It's only like five and a half minutes.

I should have given you an edit. Do people come on here and pick like, you know, a Guns N' Roses, like November Rain? Are you kidding me? My buddy Elvis, every song was like 10 minutes long. Epic jams. He had Stairway to Heaven in there. You name an epic song and it was in there. No, trust me.

And this couple of people keep kicking out. Steve Simmons and some other people kick out the same Dylan track, Desolation Row or something, and it's like 14 minutes or something. Yeah, you see, I'm all about, I try to pick these songs kind of like I pick karaoke songs where I'm going to pick stuff that you know and along with that stuff that is succinct. And you don't just have to, well, at a karaoke bar, you got to sit there and watch people sing terribly. Well, let's hear this one.

It's a shorter jam. Let me hear the story of this sucker. Oh, yeah. Hey Jack I know what you're thinking That now's as good as any juice I drink Hey Scotty, what's it gonna be? Gin and timing sounds mighty, mighty good to me

Man, I know I've gotta go, it's the same thing every time But I don't think another drink's gonna make me lose my mind So I think about my next drink And it's you and me and the bottle makes three tonight Big Bad Voodoo Daddy You and Me and the Bottle Makes Three Yeah, this was off the Swingers soundtrack. So Jon Favreau wrote this movie called Swingers, 1996.

It's what launched Vince Vaughn's career. And I saw this movie, heard this music, and then went on this completely insane binge of, and this was the neo-swing revival that happened in the late 90s. This, the Cherry Pomodadis, the Johnny Favorite Swing Orchestra from out east. Right. Brian Setzer Orchestra. Yeah, Brian Setzer dipped in from Rockabilly and went in to do big band stuff as well.

I dipped into this so huge. I mean, I was wearing the wallet chain and I was wearing all, you know, short sleeve button-up shirts with martini glasses on it. And when I started with the law, actually, this was all I was listening to. So old episodes of the law would have Big Bad Voodoo Daddy all over it and this whole cocktail culture. I still love these guys. I've seen these guys in concert about six or seven times.

And one time I saw them at Lee's Palace in 1999 and Jon Favreau was in town filming the Rocky Marciano movie and all of a sudden he went over and asked a lady to dance and the whole floor, you know how Lee's Palace has the submerged dance floor?

Yeah. The whole floor opened up and it was like watching swingers in front of my eyes, that final dance scene of Favreau and this girl dancing away, it was the coolest thing

as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy played. I loved Swingers. That was great. And they played NHL, was it 94? Yeah, they did. They're going to bust Gretzky's head. Right, right, right.

Make him bleed. That's right. The movie is my favorite of all time to this day. It is like, you know, the guy movie for me of like all of university. I just was,

I never did the whole Year of Money. I hated the overuse of that. Kind of like, yeah, baby, with Austin Powers. But just was oh i never did the whole uh year of money i hated the overuse of that kind of like yeah baby with austin powers but i just like i like the whole vibe in the movie of just dudes hanging out and i uh distinctly remember this revival the swinger revival because you had like the mike flower pop mike flower pops yeah they did the wonderwall cover right the wonderwall cover yeah and you had they had another guy uh dick cheese was doing like richard cheese yeah richard cheese did they like baby got back but he did lots like i collected all this stuff yeah come up yeah he has tons out there there's a whole bunch of bands like

the new morty show alien fashion show um i mean as i mentioned i love the johnny favorite swing orchestra uh that were from out east i I think they were Nova Scotia. They were absolutely excellent. They got some radio play with a song called Root Beer and Licorice as well. And then the band members left and Johnny Favre did it on his own. Not so much. James B. Yeah, James B.

Royal Jelly Orchestra. I got his stuff. He's still on the jazz station this evening. He was like, because Ralph Ben-Murray was just here and he's on jazz all the time. He used to be the morning show guy there. But in his band,

when he had the Friday night with Ralph Ben-Murray, James B. was his band leader. James B. was there. And along with that, Kevin Hearn from the Barenaked Ladies was a part of that as well. But it was called the Look People at the time. Yes, you're right.

Yes, the Look People. That's right. There you go. Look at you, man. Look at you. All right, let's kick out another jam. Oh my God. Crash through the lobby Don't know where to go We'll be right back. to be Hey, baby, I'm the life of the party, life of the party, yeah. Hey, baby, I'm the life of the party, life of the party, life of the party. That's Planet Smashers, Life of the Party.

Yeah, Montreal band, part of Stomp Records. And I saw these guys. Funny thing was, I put them back to back because they opened for the Johnny Favorite Swing Orchestra in 1999 at the Horseshoe Tavern. Wow. And I was more into this band than I was into Johnny Favorite. I went out immediately the next day, went on Queen Street somewhere to one of those CD shops, bought this, not this album, yeah, this album and all of their back catalog.

And then when I started producing a show called Bang TV on Global, I found out that they were coming into town and requested an interview with them. And I remember getting there and Matt Collier, who's the lead guy in the Planet Smashers, it was at Lee's Palace, but it was upstairs at the Dance Cave. And he walked up and we're setting up our lights and he's like, hey, are you Jason? I'm like, yeah. And he's like, so, yeah, I'm Matt. I'm like, hi, man. Nice to meet you. He's like, did you want to talk to us? I'm like, yeah, yeah. And he's like, so yeah, I'm Matt. I'm like, hi, man. Nice to meet you.

He's like, did you want to talk to us? I'm like, yeah. Oh. And he was just blown away. And he's like, your show's on global television, like the one that goes across the country. I'm like, yeah. I want to talk to you guys.

I love you guys. He's like, cool. All right, we can do this then. It just seemed like he'd never, no one had ever paid attention. I went out of my way to find this guy. They are the nicest guys. After the interview, they said,

do you need music for your show? I'm like, yeah, it's skateboarding, snowboarding. They're like, you can use our entire catalog. Just give us a credit at the end of the show. I've had a great relationship with Stop Record since then. Matt and Mike McGee, we played all their videos on Byte Television when it launched as well.

That video for This Life of the Party, a super orgy porno party. One was called Along With It. Surfing in Tofino became my theme for the surf. These guys are awesome. Montreal, for some reason, loves Sky, and it will never die there. I love these guys.

They're one of my favorite bands. Probably my, I don't know about favorite Canadian band, but it's that one that has a really special place for me. Yeah, I got to plead. I didn't know the Planet Smashers until I listened to this cut when you sent me the list. And yeah, that's got that great ska vibe. But I don't know musically, I'm not an expert,

but there's a similarity between the swing sound and the ska sound. It's almost like you just change one instrument and there you go. The ska sounds a little bit more punchier, at least that version of Ska is. And I like the really punchy jump blue stuff on the swing side as well, which is what Big Bad is, rather than the jazzy side of things.

But Planet Smashers are great. They're just really, really good dudes. And as Dickie Barrett from the Mighty Mighty Boston said, they love their beer. In the States, we call those type of people alcoholics. Well, here we go. That's a good segue. Let's hear your next jam.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. When something stands for nothing A detached memory This one's about everything you don't think about until you sleep And this one's for nothing And this one's for fun This one's for nothing. And this one's for fun.

And this one's about rock and roll and comic books and bubblegum. The headstones when something stands for nothing. Yeah, I think it might be a little bit cruel to use alcoholic as the segue over to the song. Hugh had his problems, but it's funny because the story that I have about these guys is... I saw Hugh Dillon in Dance Me Outside and then watched him in Hardcore Logo, and Hardcore Logo is one of my favorite films ever. I'm with you, man. I love it. So, again, when I was working on Bang TV in the early 2000s, I went out of my way to try to get Hugh Dillon on the show, I'm with was in rehab. He showed up as though the night

before wasn't a good night, perhaps a bit of a relapse. But he still did the interview with me, with himself and one of the other band members. And I remember asking him a question about performing with Swamp Baby. And Swamp Baby was the band that he performed with on the Hardcore Logo soundtrack. And he just looked at me like, what? Like, how did you know that? Like, what? Why?

What? And then I asked him another question about these covers that he does live. He covers ABBA's S.O.S. live. So the interview stopped. He immediately apologized to me and said, I'm not in good shape right now uh you are clearly a fan you did your research i want to do this show again and i'm like okay yeah sure thanks no problem the interview was fine it was good enough sure a week later i was walking down queen street and someone is yelling at me jason jason i'm like that's hugh dylan this is so strange right

he just happened to be getting out of a car with the comedian Darren Frost, and he's like, I was serious. I want to do your show again. And at that point, my co-host was on a leave, and I'm like, well, you can co-host with me. And he's like, absolutely, let's do it. And since then, he's always taken time out when I've had new projects, like when I was doing the late shift on Newstalk.

He stopped in and did an interview with me and has always been really, really great. And there's that saying, you never want to meet your heroes, right? And I had actually heard some stories about Hugh when he was not in his good times about like, oh, you got to watch this guy. Like maybe you don't want to meet him.

He's always been really great to me. He's been a standup guy and he's always been around, kind of always an email or a phone call away when I've been doing stuff. Okay, now earlier this episode, you shared a story about Hulk Hogan was all set to come in and he got sick, but you were all set for the Hulk Hogan hour.

So I had a similar experience with Hugh Dillon. Really? So Hugh Dillon was booked and he was coming in and I loaded up my sound clips. I did my research. I do my homework just like you. We do our homework. I'm all set. And his PR person wrote me i actually

screencapped it and tweeted it i was so pissed at this email but it was basically came across like we got better things to do sorry it was like a last second drop out and i i didn't i never talked to hugh directly but so everybody i know who knows hugh tells me he was a great guy and i loved hearing that story that you told about hugh so i've never dealt with hugh directly but his pr person was a bit of a dink and i got uh i never got my hugh dylan interview my first it's funny you say that because i skipped the first part of that story when i hooked when i set up that original interview i bumped into hugh dylan all my stories go back to lease palace at least palace and he was there watching a band called Showcore that I was covering from like, oh, that's like late 90s, early 2000s. And I asked one of his PR people if I could do just him talking

about Showcore. And she's like, well, just go ask him. And I did. And he did the clip and he loved this band. He loved the band Showcore and he was taking them on tour. And then he pulls me aside after this one 30 second clip is all I need. And's like hey what's your show i'm just like oh i do the show on global bank tv and he's like why haven't i been on it if you're a fan because i said i don't want to be a nerd i just want to let you know i really loved you and the hardcore logo and i'm a big fan of the headstones as well i got a bunch of your albums and i was ready to walk away and he's like why haven't been on your show and i'm like well you i've written your record company several times and they haven't

responded. He's like, who? I'm like, I'm going to say her name. She's probably not in the industry. I'm like, Celestine, because I just remember him going fucking Celestine! Just screaming it and going, here's my email address, here's my phone number, I'm getting on your show. I want to directly correspond with, I'm also a

big time fan of the Headstones. Legit, from day one. And I love the hardcore logo. I love it. So I feel if I could directly connect via email or any channel, if I could connect directly

with Hugh Dillon and just tell my brief story about being ready to drop out last second, because I don't put it on him. It's the PR lady or whatever. I feel like maybe he'd come on and do the show.

You had just a few weeks ago, you had Biff naked on, right? Yeah, Biff naked. Just hanging out in this chair? In that chair. You're sitting, your bum is touching where Biff naked's bum is touching. She was my first ever interview on Bang TV.

Get out of here. She was so sweet. She was great. I remember I showed up, the second time I interviewed her, I showed up, we were wearing the same shoes. Just these shasha shoes with flames on the top. Oh, wow.

Yeah, yeah, she's great. I mean, she's a Mimico girl. It's crazy. I did not know that. It's a recent Yeah, yeah. She's great. I mean, she's a Mimico girl. It's crazy. I did not know that. It's a recent development. Wow. She's been 30 years in Vancouver. Yep, yep.

I got nothing, but I mean, I feel like I'm overglowing. I've just had a great experience with Biff, and she'll come back whenever. I need Hugh Dillon on the show. Yeah, you should. Well, you have a very...

Well, you're the buddy. You're Hugh's buddy. Send him a note and just say, hey, can I give this guy your email address and see what happens all right would you do that i will let yeah because i'm recording this you know okay i know i know i know nothing's cut out of this podcast i've never edited i almost never almost never edited a word let's kick out another jam Teksting av Nicolai Winther I am thinking it's a sign But the freckles in our eyes are mirror images, and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned.

I have to speculate that God himself could make us into corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from the grave. True, it may seem like a stretch, but it's thoughts like this that catch my troubled head When you're away, when I am missing you to death When you are out there on the road For several weeks of shows And when you scan the radio I hope this song will guide you They won't see us waiting for such great heights.

Come down now. They'll say, everything's perfect from far away. Come down now. But they'll stay. Such great heights. Postal service. Yeah, I didn't realize when I put this list together

that everything was going to revolve around one building in Toronto. But this just reminds me of going to the dance cave and a whole bunch of fun and drunken Friday and Saturday nights, more so in my youth. But that place still exists, and it hasn't changed at all. And it's just a come-as-you-are type place. And yeah, they played this song all the time when I used to go there. And it was also covered for the Garden State soundtrack as well by Iron & Wine,

which is a much slower version. But that soundtrack, although it didn't make any of my cuts here, is one of my favorite soundtracks ever. So this is just a great tune. And do you process this in stereo, Mike? Because this needs to be a stereo track. Of course. Yeah, yeah.

I was going to say, like, put it on the headphones and listen to this jam. I love it bouncing back. It just feels good, you know? Yeah, it's like if you listen to The Beatles with headphones on, or if you listen to Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Call, put your headphones on. Also, what did I just read? With Terry Hart again, I played Corey Hurt's Sunglasses at Night. Honestly, did you just torture Terry Hart when she was in here?

Pretty much. You know what? Did you open with Bret Hart's WWF theme? Shit, I should have done that. Because, you know, you're episode 337 but i can only remember the last episode which was terry hart that's where i'm at now oh yeah terry hart was just here but yeah so i played i opened with sunglasses at night and it's that the opening bounces it's great in the headphones too and i'm like yeah that's fucking great this is good too

fun jam. Okay, I'm hoping my next one doesn't involve Lee's Palace. It's quite the icon of Toronto and it's still standing. I have mentioned the Horseshoe at least once though. The Horseshoe, I recently recorded a special episode in which we just talked about the Horseshoe Tavern. It was the 70th anniversary of the Horseshoe Tavern. And I had the guest who wrote a book. We talked about

what he considered the 10 biggest shows in horseshoe history. It was a very fine episode if you're interested. But I haven't done a Lee's Palace episode. Didn't they recently

clean up that art, that distinctive artwork, of course, on the outside of Lee's Palace. Didn't it come down to be cleaned or something recently?

Some people were afraid it was going to be gone for good, but then it resurfaced. There's a burrito place in the front of Lee's Palace now. I think people in that neighborhood are just concerned about anything coming down and not going back up because of Honest Ed's. However, the Honest Ed's sign is going to be preserved, right? It's going to go on the back of the Ed Mirvish Theater

on the Victoria Street side, which is an idea I had immediately. I'm on my demo reel which is like a jason agnew.com on my my talk demo reel immediately it's i still keep this clip i went on sunday morning trivia and i talked about how you can't if you're gonna get rid of that sign you gotta put it somewhere it's a part of toronto and i said just put it on one of the theaters because there's a room for Tacky in Toronto. And sure enough, bam, there it is. There's been a great controversy, though, that people are not happy with the preservation

of the Sam the Record Man sign at Ryerson. Well, it's finally back up. It's back, but people wanted it affixed to the side of something, but instead it's on top, which means they had to make it... Let's just take what we can get. Yeah. Let's just take what we can get at this point, okay? Are there any signs missing?

The 1050 Chum sign in that building, that's somewhere, right? That's at... Yes, that is at... It's at Richmond and Girard. It's on the Newstalk 1010 building now. It's funny because 1050

doesn't broadcast out of there. But that's 299 Queen, right? Is it 299 Queen? Okay, so it's on the back. It's actually 260 Richmond. Right. So it's on the side because...

Okay, so when... Because we used to broadcast out of there with Live Audio Wrestling doing when TSN 1050 first started and it switched over from the oldie station. Of course. But the way that Bell Media moved things around is now TSN 1050 broadcasts out of their agent court facility, 9 Channel 9 Court, because I think it was easier to move guests around and get better guests. And along with that, they're doing the TV side of things as well, and some of the TSN affiliates.

So the 10.50 sign is down there at the corner of Girard and Richmond, but 10.50 does not broadcast out of there. Newstalk, 10.10 does. So does 99.9, and so does 104.5. Gotcha. I just recently met someone at the Starbucks across from 299 Queen, and then as I was unlocking

my bike to go home, Mad Dog walked out of the streetcar. Yeah, I know. He was going to do a show with Ryan Doyle. He was recently on this show with Ryan Doyle. They were on in the last month, I want to say. Yeah, he's a good guy. Let's kick out. This jam's fun.

Let's play it. Yeah. I was holding red jeans. Skin was showing hot night. Wind was blowing. When you think you're going, baby. Hey, I just met you. And this is crazy. But here's my number. So call me, maybe. It's hard to look right at you, baby.

But here's my number. So call me, maybe. Hey, I just met you. And this is crazy. But here's my number, so call me maybe. Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy. But here's my number, so call me maybe. And all the other boys try to chase me. But here's my number, so call me maybe. Carly Rae Jepsen, Call Me Maybe. A.K.A. the greatest pop song of all time.

Bar none. I unapologetically believe that. Can I just say, what about Since You've Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson? No. No. No, it doesn't compare. No. Also, this is a Canadian Idol competitor.

As opposed to your American Idol winner there. Although my song might have been written by Avril Lavigne. I have to Google that one later. Maybe. So Carly Rae Jepsen, I got, this song became a running joke on Sunday Morning Trivia and it got so, so popular. And I legit, I still bop around to

this song. I know it's incredibly overplayed, but I love it. I'm not tired of it to this very day. And there was one Sunday Morning Trivia show when it was three hours long and going in and going out of every break, not only did I play this song, I played a different version of this song, whether it be a remix, a cover,

because the internet was just littered with it. And I played 28 versions of Call Me Maybe as bumper music within three hours of Sunday morning trivia. And then I had people write in and go like, okay, Agnew, you're kind of drooling over Carly Rae Jepsen. It's a little bit creepy. Yeah, she's not that young. No, she's

not that young. They play her young, but she was like mid-20s or something. She was mid-20s when she broke through, so that's got to put her in her early 30s now, maybe? Yeah, this is not a kid. This is an adult. So it wasn't that creepy for the record listeners.

And I love this song. And there's also a really cool remix of this song. If you look it up, it's a Call Me Maybe. Oh, I was going to say, what's the song? Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. It's a Semi-Charmed Life. So Semi-Charmed Life and Call Me Maybe, it has the same pattern of song.

And maybe if you're a real karaoke guru, you can pick Semi-Charmed Life and sing Carly Rae Jepsen over top of it. And maybe, just maybe, I've been known to do that in a bar or two in Toronto. Perhaps. Greatest pop song ever. It's hard to argue with that angry Agnew.

Oh, it's hard to be angry and listen to that song. No, it's such a happy song. It's a pretty great track. Yeah, I went from super sadness with the Counting Crows off the top to the most happiest song possible with that one. Now let's take us way back. Let's listen to an old time jam right here. You're just too good to be true

Can't take my eyes off of you You'd be like heaven to touch I want to hold you so much At long last love has arrived And I thank God I'm alive you're just too good to be true can't take my eyes

off of you pardon the way that Frankie Valli can't take my eyes off of you. Yeah, this is actually a song that I have on here because my mom loves Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons so much. She has legitimately

and without exaggeration seen Jersey Boys 60, 60 times. I thought you were going to say, I was going to, my mind was blown.

At first, I thought you were going to say six and then I thought, oh, 16. That's ridiculous. 60? 60 times.

Yeah, 60. It was just a thing for her and her friend. Instead of like going to the movies, they would go pick up cheap tickets and go see this over and over when it was running up in North York.

Of course, yeah. We together, my mom and I, have seen Frankie Valli live. He's still touring, I think, about five or six times. And for her 60th birthday, which would have been a couple years ago, her and I flew to New York in the morning. We went to see Jersey Boys because it's still

playing in New York. We went out for dinner and then flew back that night. And it was just a whirlwind. I surprised her with it. A whirlwind to her one day. And it was Canada Day because her birthday's on Canada Day. So that was happy 60th to my mom. Just a whirlwind one day to New York and back. Look at this. You're a good son.

That's a beautiful story. And the fun fact I must share with everybody is that your mom lives on the same street as my brother. That's true. It's true. Single mom. You gotta be good to your moms. For sure. For sure. Joe Pesci was... I've never seen Jersey Boys. Do you know that? I mean, I legitimately like it as well.

I mean, I'll make fun of some of the old stuff. I still hear Barry Manilow and I'm like, oh, I grew up with that. Now it's become kind of like nostalgia to me, and I'll kind of sing along with it. But I legit like Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and it's incredible that Frankie now in his mid-80s is still touring. He's supported by the new Four Seasons that are behind him, but he can still hit that falsetto craziness that he used to do.

And, you know, when you go see a lot of the older guys, whether it be, Paul Anka's actually pretty great. He doesn't hit the high notes like he used to, but he's a great performer. But I've heard of the Inglebert Humperdings of the world, Tom Jones of the world. The voice goes at a certain point. In the rock world, Axl Rose,

just not the same as what he used to be. I saw him last October. You're exactly right. Yeah. So, but Frankie, although his movements might not be there as far as the voice goes, it's pretty crazy that he's still able

to do it. And I, again, seen him five, six times now. Casinorama, Casino Niagara, or Fallsview, that is. Yep.

And it's a great jam anyway. I mean, it's been covered to heck and gone. It's just a staple, I'd say. This is a standard. I love it. It is my favorite track out of all theirs

because it also has such a different pace and different points of the song. So it's great. Are we on number one now, Mike? This is number one. This goes to number one, and it's a deep cut. I mean, a deep cut

from what was my favorite band. Don't call me a zero. I'm gonna be a hero. Like Phil Esposito or the Kennedys. I'll be incorporated. And I'll be imitated. And overrated. But that doesn't bother me. All the jaws will drop.

And all the jaws will drop and all the girls will scream and there will be commotion when i show up on the scene all that you will see is a celebrity all that you will see is a celebrity Bare Naked Ladies. Celebrity. Yeah, so it's, I love the Bare Naked Ladies, and I was going to play them earlier and play like Brian Wilson, which was one of my favorite cuts, but I'm just like, ah, everyone knows that song. This is a deep cut off their Everything to Everyone album,

and it's Stephen Page, even though they're known as the novelty and fun band, if you listen to some of the tracks off Gordon, but maybe... Good Boy and stuff like that. Yeah, Good Boy is heavy. And if you listen to their second album, Maybe You Should Drive, a lot of it is about Stephen Page dealing with his alcoholism

at the time. A lot of meaningful lyrics, and there are a lot of sad, depressing lyrics that are disguised in happy songs. This one, of course, it's called Celebrity. It's about being celebrity. It's about the cult and culture of celebrity, and it seems to be, you know, the guys, in particular, Stephen Page, dealing with that.

And I'm such a fan of these guys. I actually went on the Bare Naked Ladies Ships and Dip Cruise a few years ago. How was it? Because I hear about this. What's it like? Did you mingle with these guys? Yeah, they're great. I mean, the funny thing is, they're all great. The one that is a little bit more reclusive at the time was Stephen Page,

where he greeted everyone getting on the boat, and then I really didn't see Stephen for the rest of the tour, except when he was performing. But at the time I was there, I believe i actually saw the very final performance of the five guys together get out of here it was at three in the morning they were playing 70s covers in the bar of the ship and they did something with the equipment at about 3 30 in the morning they blew out the fuse and had to stop playing and it was

our last night on the cruise and a week week after the cruise, Splitsville. You probably did. You probably did. Until this Junos performance. That was probably the last time they were all together. That's amazing. Yeah. So it was really cool.

And the guys totally do interact. I mean, in particular, Ed and Tyler. Well, Tyler's out there in the comedy scene as well. I feel, you know, Tyler's the one in that. I mean, I feel like Tyler might come in my basement. Yeah. He seems to be really accessible. I'm sure he would. I'm sure he would. Ed is just, he was just a genuinely nice guy. Obviously, Kevin, very much more the, you know, the musician. And Jim,

it was out there as well. Like, everyone was out there. We took the bare naked lady picture, or the bare naked picture. Have you heard about this? No. Okay, so on their cruise, what they used to do, and I can't remember how long ago they stopped doing the cruise, but everyone who was interested would wear a robe out to the main deck of the cruise, and nothing underneath the robe, and there was a photographer

who would stand on a very high deck, and at the count of three, you all dropped your robe, the photographer took a picture, and everyone's naked on the cruise. And you got this picture that you could buy of everyone being naked. So it's the naked picture on the Bare Naked Ladies Ships and Dip Cruise. It was fun. Listen, on that cruise I was on, Sarah McLachlan, Sloan, Great Big Sea.

What year are we talking? That's massive. Maybe about 2008. I'm surprised. Sarah's on that cruise. That's big time. She had already broke with the States. Oh, yeah, yeah. Sarah's on that cruise. That's big time. She had already broke with the States. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Noah's well into breaking. She was just there playing in the pool, hanging out with her kids. That's amazing. So can I ask, is this a super expensive ticket? I mean, it was pretty pricey. The funny thing was,

I showed up on the cruise and also there was Sean Cullen, Pat Thornton, they were doing a show. And there were some comics that were on the show that were like the second city cast was the the tour co was there and um they had the week off because they were just on they but they would regularly perform on the boat and they were like agnew hey hey what are you doing here i'm like oh i'm okay you're famous oh and you mentioned sloan was on this thing yeah? Yeah, yeah. That's amazing. Great Big C?

Did I hear that? Yeah, everyone I think was happy to be on the cruise except Sloan. Oh, really? Chris Murphy went out on stage. Well, he's the guy I know because he's been over. Chris Murphy? Yeah, he's been in the tour. He went out on stage,

and the people that are there are big-time Barenaked Ladies fans, obviously, and Sloan performed. I went to see Sloan. I was like, this is cool. You can go see any of these bands at any time you want. They're performing all the time. For a Canadian music fan, it was really, really incredible. But I guess the fans weren't singing along with the songs that normally Sloan

fans sing along with. And he got visibly mad on stage. Now I'm picturing the Venn diagram of Sloan. I would think there'd be a lot of overlap, but maybe that was just me and you. But Sloan and Barenaked Ladies, especially, well, of course, Barenaked Ladies have a lot of American fans, I'm guessing. Yeah, they would because of the stunt album, right? And the old apartment, the Jason Priestley link, and all of that. This is post one week, right?

Oh, yeah, it's post one week. That would be it, I think. That's the moment when it becomes like a, yeah. And where Sloan, it's just Canadian fans. A lot more Canadian. That might be it too. The Americans are like, who's this band? It was fun. It was definitely a fun time. It was just so weird

seeing all these industry people and I was there as a fan. Sean Cullen, he's doing something, but I think he's a very funny guy. Like Sean Cullen, I always thought he's, not that he's not big, he's Canadian famous. Have you had him yet? No. Oh, he's got he's got some great stories.

I went to Montreal and back with him doing a show and he's got some fun stories for you. Industry stuff for you for sure. He's like a thinking man. I always think he's just kind of a rather smart and I like his delivery. I do a big Sean Cullen. I'll connect you. I'll connect you. Connect.

But first Hugh Dillon, then Sean. Oh, yeah. OK. Don't forget Hugh Dillon. OK. Yeah. That's what I'm here for I just think I'm the

intermediate for you Mike do you want to say anything to Steve my brother he's listening right now anything hi Steve I'll see you

oh I don't know if we were allowed to say the name oh we're not allowed to say no I don't know edit it no you don't do that right I don't know

I don't edit it we'll see let's see if he gets mad I'll edit it what's a long street there's lots of people there. That's right. People already forgot

what he said. This is the Streisand effect. I should have just gone by it. His favorite player is Gretzky, right? Yeah. Get out of here. And that brings us

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