Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Jennifer Foster: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1912

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

On this 1912th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with musician Jennifer Foster about her upbringing on a New Brunswick farm and how that experience shaped her music, including her new release Powerline.Toronto Mike'd, an award-winning podcast, is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball, Ridley Funeral Home, Nick Ainis, and RecycleMyElectronics.ca.If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at [e-mail]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Joining me today, making her Toronto Mike debut. It is Jennifer Foster. Hello, Jennifer. Hello, Mike. So, small world story off the top, okay? So you arrived for your 2 p.m. session, your 2 p.m. session. Yes.

Your 2 p.m. Toronto mic debut. And I had a recording that went a little like, went a little long. It went into overtime. It was an episode of Great Lakes Breweries podcast between two fermenters. And that's hosted by Troy Birch. I, by the way, have some fresh craft beer for you, Jennifer. Oh, wow.

Thank you. From the aforementioned Great Lakes Brewery. Beautiful. You can bring that home with you. So the guest that Troy was speaking to. for like the two hours before your episode was a chap named Andrew Oland. He's the president and CEO of Moosehead Breweries. Yeah, big New Brunswick.

We know. We know the Owlands. We know Moosehead. Okay. Because the Moosehead is a huge deal. It's based in St. John, New Brunswick. Yeah, where I was born. Where you were born.

So here's where the small world part comes in because the guys are like, what's going on here? So I heard a couple of things, but one is you were raised on a farm in New Brunswick. Is that right? Yeah. I was raised on a, what one would call maybe a hobby farm. So it wasn't that my family, you know, made a living off this farm. Wait, does that mean that when you have pet pigs instead of like meals?

Well, you know, the sad thing is that, yeah, they were pets and we ate them. I know. It was traumatic. I'm sorry. Now, we talked about the Simpsons before I press record. Remember he had that pet lobster that he loved and he ate the lobster, but he cried as he ate it? Yeah, it was like that, actually. Yeah, well, no, we only had one time, yeah, we had two pigs and my dad said,

now children do not name the pigs. Right. And, of course, we did name them. And I took one, and I named one and my brother named the other. And he named his Myrtle and I named mine, Patricia. Oh. And, yeah. So Myrtle went on to have piglets and things.

And Patricia, one day, I walked in the kitchen. And my mother had Patricia's head in the sink. And she was, like, had a knife. And she was like, she was going to make something called head cheese. I'm sorry, I'm grossing everybody. No, you're not grossing anyone out. But what you're doing is, like, how old are you? Eastern European thing.

And my mother thought, I'm going to, you know, follow in the footsteps of my mother and make this. And it turned out it was a disaster. But it was pretty traumatic to see her. Wait, so not only did she murder Patricia, but it wasn't even tasty? Oh, no. It didn't get to that point. Yeah, it was boiling gray. That sounds horrific for you.

It was pretty horrific. Remind me, maybe you said the answer, and I was so distracted by the gory details of Patricia's death. How old approximately were you when this happened? I'm going to say 12. See, this explains everything, Jennifer. It does. It says a lot. Like, that's essentially like if you had a pet dog or something,

and then somebody came in and just sort of skinned it. Yeah, well, life on the farm, life, death. It's a hobby farm. Yeah, we didn't personally slaughter these animals, but they did go somewhere and then came back in a different format, let's just say. And where was this hobby farm located in proximity to the headquarters of Moosehead? About a 20-minute drive down the highway, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, in the cannabis cases.

Yeah, we near, yeah, St. John, Rosset, Hampton. I was near Hampton. So I'm witnessing this when you met Andrew Oland. I heard a couple of things. One is I heard Hampton. Yeah. No wonder there were pigs, Hampton, right? Okay, you're going to expect that kind of humor here today.

Jennifer Foster. If you had thought of that, you could have really impressed the president and CEO of Moosehead Breweries. But here's the fun fact that I picked up that I thought was like, oh, what a small world we live in. You, was it your first date, but you dated a Oland? He was my first boyfriend. I was a late bloomer. I didn't actually get a boyfriend until I was a little, yeah, I was in my 30s. No, I was in high school. He was my first boyfriend. Yeah, we, we were in love. His name was Tim Oland. Yeah.

But what are the odds that, like, you'd come over for your Toronto Mike debut. The guy, first of all, he's, I think he's the great, great, great grandson of the woman who started Moosehead back in 1867. Right. We're going way back of Moosehead. And the fact that, oh, yeah, you know, my first boyfriend was in Oland. Like, what a small world we live in, Jennifer Foster. It's a small, teeny world. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. And I was thinking about Tim today for some reason because I was thinking about music and I was thinking about, I mean, because I knew I was coming to see you and I was just thinking about, oh yeah, like how I kind of got into certain bands and stuff. And Tim was really into 60s and 70s. And he introduced me to Neil Young. Not that I hadn't heard of Neil Young, but I, like he was so into it. And so I, and he, you know, he taught me how to play like needle in the damage done on guitar and stuff like that. So this is part of your musician or. origin story. It is. I'm blowing up. I mean, I need to shut this down. Like sometimes these small world connections and these bizarre coincidences that you just happen to be thinking of Tim Holland, your first boyfriend. And, you know, we joked about you being in your 30s, but I don't know, were you like 19? Yeah, I was 16. Okay. Well, because you said a late bloomer, but 16 is not that

late. Well, I just thought because a lot of people get boyfriends in like junior high, but I didn't get one until high school. Okay, well, 16 is not that. You can stop calling yourself a late bloomer. Okay, when you said it up like that, I started thinking like 20 or 21 or something like that. Okay, so come on now, Jennifer Foster. So at 16 years old, you're dating in Nolan, and he's introducing you to some cool singer-songwriter music like Neil Young. And this is influencing you.

So at that point, were you interested in musicianship? I was, although I never, yeah, I had a guitar. I had a ukulele because I had learned to play music on the ukulele because Melanie Dones' dad. Of course. Yes, Chalmers Don't. His program came to my school when I was in grade five. So I started learning music on yuk, reading and all that jazz. So I graduated from Yuc to guitar.

Not that you have to do that. But the Melanie Dones' dad introducing you to music on the ukulele, every Maritimer musician who comes over has that story. Yeah, because, yeah. It's, it was a big deal. And like Melody, you now live here. Mm-hmm. I know. The maritime brain drain.

Ever since Sloan came here. Yeah. Well, I wonder if we all came up together. And Brad from Pursuit, Brad Barker came up. Of course. Of course. So your happiness. Also, these are all FOTMs.

I'll just throw that out there. So I wanted to say quickly, we're all over the place off the top. We'll get you back to Tim Oland. I want all the details on Tim Olin for the next 90 minutes. but I want to say hello to Cameron Carpenter. How do you know Cam? I met Cam because I was in pursuit for a period of time back in the day. And I put out my second record and I was looking for someone to help me kind of promote it and stuff.

And Mo knew Cam, Mo and Cam had a... Mo Berg. Yeah, Moberg. So he's a Justin. Not a Maritimer. Not a Maritimer. No. He's from Edmonton, as I recall.

Yeah. And so Cam and I worked together way back when, and then we hadn't really seen each other for many, many moons until somehow, I don't even know how it happened. We just reconnected recently, and he wanted to help me promote this record. Well, that man is tireless. He's everywhere, working hard, and at a couple of different events, I bumped into him, and he would sing your praises.

He would just talk about this, Jennifer Foster, and he says, you need to talk to Jennifer Foster. And I'm like, fine. So long as she dated in Olin, she can come over and bump into Andrew Olin, the president and CEO of Moosehead Breweries, and will make it happen. And that's happening right now.

It happened perfectly. Perfectly as designed. By the way, just to put a, like a, wrap up this, a bow on this Moosehead story, if you want to hear this very interesting conversation between Andrew Olland and Troy Birch, it's going to be an episode of, of between two fermenters, which will drop maybe two weeks and one day from today.

Because we got another episode. We'll drop tomorrow with the guys from true history. And then two weeks and a day from today will drop this episode with the Moosehead episode. So you can look for that in your podcast feed. And this hobby farm, just a couple of quick questions. How long do you live in New Brunswick for? Hmm. We moved.

Oh, well, I was born. St. John. So until I went to after university, I moved up there. That's a trick question, Jennifer. I know. I had to think. Where did you go to university? Mount Allison University. Because you're still in the maritime. Yeah. Shout out to Michael Grange.

Oh, yeah. Well, we were there together. Okay, so Michael Grange. We were in the same class. Okay. Do you hear me? I know. I'm processing this in real time because today is the anniversary of the return of Michael Grange where he kicks out the jams and I posted it on

Instagram today, which we now follow each other on Instagram. Today, you'll see a picture of Michael Grange and I on this day in whatever it was, 2024, whatever the hell it was. And I remember his debuts really vividly, Michael Grange, I'm talking about, because he was a blue head, which means when a very young up-and-coming band from Toronto named Blue Rodeo would go out east, he and a bunch of his buds from, what's it called, Mount Allison? Yes, yes, yes, I know this, I know this, would be, they would call themselves the Blue

heads and they would sort of follow Blue Rodeo on this tour like they were the Grateful dead or something. Right, right, right. Yeah. You're blowing my mind today. That's so many coincidences. I know. Okay.

Yeah. And when you said Mount Allison, I just thought of Michael Grange in the Bluehead story. Yeah. Cool. Okay. And I'm sure there'll be more blue rodeo conversation to come and we'll get back to Pursuit Happiness and more there. Okay.

So after you graduate from university, do you come to Toronto? I do. Yeah. Why? Uh, I, okay, growing up in New Brunswick, I didn't really, I didn't know anybody who was a performer or a actor or singer, songwriter, a musician, like, I didn't, so it wasn't really within like, oh, this is a real possibility that, that I could pursue such a thing. But I thought, I'll just, I just wanted to, you know, get out of dodge and just get somewhere new. And, uh, I had some relatives up here. So I came up and I, oh, well, Melanie Done. And her cousin Margaret, who was also a dear friend of mine, they had just moved. And Melanie said, hey, come up, live with us. Like, let's, you know, and so the rest is history.

We kind of, yeah, Melanie was on the forefront of, she was, she was into acting at the time and then music, et cetera. And an incredibly nice person. Yeah. Are there any jerks coming out of the Maritimes? Be honest. Like a low percentage, right? Probably low. Like in Toronto.

Pretty down to earth. Your first week in Toronto, did you meet more assholes than you had met in your previous decades in the maritime? Definitely. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. On the live stream, Mike, what's it called? Live.

Toronto Mike.com. Cam Carpenter is there, okay? So he's watching your every move here. He's a big fan of yours. But he points out that you guys might have been reacquainted via fellow FOTM. That means friend of Toronto Mike. Fellow FOTM James Clark. Oh, yes.

Absolutely. That's how we reconnected. You're going to be fact-checked in real time. Yes. Don't screw up. Okay. And James lives in Mimico. Yeah, I know.

And you could throw a rock from here and hit his apartment. Yeah. James and I did something at the Elmo together. And we were, yeah, chatting about my record. And then somehow he and Cam were talking about it. And yeah. And I did something at the Elmo a couple of weeks ago. Yes, you did.

It's a true story. I know. I listened to it. Okay. All 90 minutes? No. Okay, well, get out of my basement. I did a little needle drop.

It was great. You popped in and said, what's the vibe of this guy? And that's a great question, though, because when Cam's hyping you up with every time I bump into him, and he's everywhere. Like, I don't go to that many things. But if I go to something, I'm probably going to bump into Camp Carpenter.

Yeah, he's amazing. Yeah. Tireless, like I said, tireless, unless it's $65 for the ticket, and then you won't find Cam Carpenter there. I'm just throwing that out there. You won't find me there either. No, you weren't there either.

It's a pricing ticket there. Absolutely. But when Cam says to you, hey, you should come on this guy's podcast in South Atopico, do you have to do a little research before you say yes? Like, do you want to say like, what's, what's Cam getting me into here? Some guy's basement in South of the Topicokego? Like, did you have to go? I trust Cam, but I did, you know, of course I heard about you through other friends and people.

Enough about Moberg. Yeah. Yeah. Mo is a sweetheart, too. Not from the Maritimes, though. No. He's a sweetheart. Absolutely.

Yeah. Okay, so you're here in Toronto. Yeah. After graduating from Mount Grange, as I now call it. And what's next? Like, I'm just trying to get a vibe. I got a bunch of the new music, but I know this is the power line. I got into, I mean, do you really want the whole story?

Yeah, we'll give it to me. Okay. Well, I, well, I joined Melanie's band first. So I was, I was working, I was singing with Melanie and in her band and sang on the first couple of her records. I think, did I sing on Harvest Train? Definitely. Oh, just say you did. No one's going to check it out.

Yeah, yeah. I think I did. Anyway, and then I, yeah, so, and I knew Brad Barker. Another sweetheart. Another sweetheart. And because he had, he was one of the Maritimers that came up. And then Pursuit was looking for a singer. so they auditioned and I got in.

So I was with Pursuit for a short time. And we did some really fun touring and... I'm an adult now. Yeah, totally. You know, I still love that. That's like the first, well, that's the first pursuit happening song I ever heard, maybe 87 or something when that single came out. I loved it right away.

Something about sometimes my back hurts and sometimes my head hurts and I guess that it won't be long. This whole vibe, love, and I loved it when, you tune into much music. And there's Mo just going at it. I think that was Queen and Spadina, a parking lot at Queen and Spadina, where the MEC is now located.

Yes, right. And where is the historical plaque? I don't know. Do you know people? Maybe. Do you have Olivia Chow on Speed Dial? Olivia Chow was at Dufferin Grove. I should have, the other day, I should have, yeah.

Okay, well, next time you bump into Olivia, please tell her, we need a plaque at Queen's. Bean and Spadina to say, this is where they filmed, I'm an adult now. Yeah, yeah, okay, we'll do. Okay. So, why did you leave Pursuit Happiness? You know, I've been asking myself that question ever since. No, I was, no, it was, I, it was the best time.

I loved it so much. Did Universal Honey make an offer that you couldn't make things? Yeah, yeah. I was, I don't know, I think I was busy with work and I, I, I, was, at that, around that time that I knew I wanted to make my own record and I was doing some writing. And I actually, before, so Mo did end up working on my first record. But before he did, Paul Myers, gravelberries. Yeah, yeah.

Paul Myers produced the first four songs on my first record. So I think I met Paul through Blair, Pacum. Oh, you know what? Do you know Blair's here every quarter? four times a year that man is in this basement for a rewinder. And do you know, this is the mind blow, I think, of the century that, and maybe you know this, I don't know how much homework you did. But when I headlined at the Elma Combo a couple weeks ago, Blair opened for you.

Blair opened for me. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know that. Because Blair Packham would also connect you to somebody like Michael Philip Voyevoda. Yes. But, you know, it was Paul who did because Paul got my, my, my, Michael, I mean, to mix those songs, those first four songs.

Would you get mad if he called him Mike? No, in fact, I think his friends, like, growing up called him Mike. And then the rest of us... He lives in a Tobico. Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

So, Michael, then he became Michael Philip Voivoda. Right, because, you know, I think that's because of Gordon, the bare naked ladies or something. Yeah, yeah, no. Very impressive. So, where was I? Well, we're kind of connecting a bunch of dots here. So you're connecting with Paul Myers. Paul, who was the first person I ever played a song for.

So when I think about that, I'm like, wow, I had been writing so many songs. And I guess I was just, oh, I don't know if they're any good. And then, yeah, I played some for Paul. And it's sort of a big moment when you're scared to play them for anybody because you think, oh, I don't know. And he was like, oh, these are great. And so it really means a lot to me. He holds a, yeah, a very special place in my heart, that guy.

When he travels, because recently, I guess him and his wife went to Asia, something. Blair went to California to house tit, house sit. House tit. House tit. It's a type of bird. Okay. Okay. Got it. Nice tits. It's like they're birds. See, that's the joke. Okay. So, so they're really tight, Blair Packham and Paul Myers. So Paul Myers, and when Paul Myers listens to your music and says, Jennifer, this stuff's pretty damn good. How does it feel? Like, does it legitimize you? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. That's absolutely. I'm taking notes. I want to be bilingual one day.

Okay. I'm going to make my pledges to make more trips to Montreal. That's my pledge. Okay. I'm going to hold you to that. Yeah. Yeah. No.

It was great. And I love, like, talking to Paul's, yeah. He's an inspiration to talk to. He's just, yeah. Have you ever talked to Mike Myers? Yes, I have. Yeah. In fact, Michael and I were in New York one time,

and we just ran into Mike on the street. Oh, Paul? Michael Voivoda? Yeah, Michael Philip. Okay, okay. And we ran into Mike, and then we went to his penthouse and had an evening and went out and all that jazz. So, yeah, it was very random, but it was, yeah, super fun. What's going on in that penthouse that Mike Myers is living in?

I don't know, but he had a lot of, I was just very impressed by, he had, um, um, um, oh, he had things signed on the wall by the Beatles and like, or George Harrison. George Harrison signed. Oh, he's a big, uh, his parents are from Liverpool. They're big English heads or whatever And Brit heads. And I feel like he would be really into the Beatles. Yeah. And then there's Austin Powers.

It's like it would be, yeah. It's all coming together. It's all coming together. Yeah. So, and then, yeah, so Mo produced the rest of that first record. And that was my first album. Okay. Yeah.

So, okay. So Moberg, who does produce a lot of great music? He does. Continues to do so. Okay. And that's album number one. Yeah, that was called Speedy Head. And I was trying to remember, why did I call it Speedy Head?

And I remembered today why I called it Speedyhead. Well, it's, I'm quoting, there was an REM song called, I think it's called Find the River or something. Maybe it's down there, find the river. And, hey, no, little Speedy Head, the speed meter says you have to go to task in the the city. Anyway, I really related to this, like, leaving the country going to the city. And so it just seemed to speak to me. Yeah, because you were raised on a hobby farm. And I was raised on a river.

Yeah, on a hobby farm. You ate Patricia. No, you didn't eat. Sorry, I didn't get that far. See, this story, if it was like, oh, that was the best pulled pork sandwich. Why did we have to open with that anecdote? I'm sorry. It's actually a moose head's fault that we opened with that anecdote probably. But I would say if that, if this story ends with, oh, it was the greatest pulled pork sandwich I ever had, then it's like, okay, I get it. But it's just tragic to me that it's like, oh, I'm going to try something where I, there's a head in a sink and

you do this and it didn't work out. We didn't even get to eat it. That to me is just the, just the most traumatic story for a 12 year old girl. Yeah, I mean, we did end up, yeah. You don't want to think about it anymore. Yeah, let's move on. Okay, okay, so you, you put out this first album. Yeah. Okay. Keep walking. I'm enjoying this. Okay. Just hearing you tell me your life tale and then we'll get to the new album. Okay. And then, um, and then, um, and then, um, um, I ended up, so I've done some acting over the years. I am an actor. I have been an actor.

And there was a period of time, a couple years where I went down to L.A. for pilot season. And during one of those, and I was couch surfing and like staying in all these, like, different neighborhoods in L.A. And it was amazing. It was just this magical time. And connecting with other Canadians down there and some fun Americans, too. And I ended up meeting this songwriter.

I was staying downtown L.A. one of these big loft buildings. Downtown L.A. is pretty, well, let's just say it's, I don't know how it is now, but it's a little edgy. And staying in this loft building with these other artists and interesting characters. And so I met this guy named David Garza, who's a singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas,

and a producer. And anyway, I just fell in love with his music, and I just like, oh, you can teach me so much. So he said, well, let's make a record, together. So when you come back next time. So I came back to Toronto. I wrote a whole bunch of stuff. And then I went back and we ended up, he was a bit of a, hmm, I don't know. Here's a story. So here are all my lyrics that I wrote. And we were just in this loft that I was staying. And he opens up the 12-story window and throws them out the window. Like all these papers fluttering down.

Like we will start again. Like it has to be. be from in the moment, you know, it was one of these things. And I was a little traumatized by that. So it was, but... Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, but this is... Were these saved somewhere on a computer? Well, hmm.

Like, is this the only copy of those lyrics? Because I think that's actually criminal. I think it is too. That's worse than having your beloved pet pig slaughtered for sport. I know. It's a good thing I saw my therapist this morning. But that's trauma number two. I'm keeping a scorch tab over here.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, um... Yeah, it was a bit much. And so I ended up starting from scratch in the moment in that time. And I wrote seven tunes and we recorded them. So that became the album called Fit for Mars. And I came back to Toronto and I hadn't quite, we didn't quite get the vocals. And so I called up Blair Packham. And Blair said, I said, what do I do? And he said, well, I'll set you up with a digital performer, which was the, you know, the software at the time. I recorded the vocals in my cousin's basement, and I was like, okay, I got to get someone to mix it. And I ran into, I didn't know who, I ran into Mia Sheard on the street. Mia was married to Michael Philip for a lot of years, and she was an amazing songwriter herself, great, great singer.

And I said, oh, yeah, I just finished recording this record. I'm trying to find someone to mix it. She said, oh, well, here's Michael's number. You should call Michael up, which, I mean, I knew Michael from, you know, mixing a little bit of heat. But if I may, if people should go find his episode of trauma, because he has been involved, produced, or mixed it. He's been involved in so many essential CanCon albums. He has. No, he's a legend.

He's an incredible talent, I mean. And so, yeah. So I got in touch with Michael. He mixed that record. And then we started dating. And we ended up partners for a long period of time. So I thought it was kind of funny that Mia literally gave me his, like she had, they had just split up and then she gave me his number.

Like this is a tag team wrestling match. It's your turn, Jennifer. Did you take someone else in? No, I didn't. I didn't actually. Or Michael. No, no, he's, yeah. So that's that story.

You know, I didn't know that story. I just think that already I feel like you're connecting a lot of dots. These names come up all the time And we're always trying Like I feel like there's like a virtual like Whiteboard here You know when the wire And all the pieces matter

And everything like that How many years are you with That's pretty pretentious to say Michael Philip Voivoda if I may Yeah I think it was nine That's a long time Yeah

Why did it come to an end? Oh goodness me I don't remember I you know, why do things go into a nunn? You could just say none of your fucking business. None of your fucking business.

You can say that because that's a personal question. But we made an incredible record together called Songs from the Alien Beacon and he got a Juno nomination for his work as a producer on that record. Producer of the Year nom. Who won that Juno? Do you remember? I think it was a Michael Bublay person.

Fuck that guy. Only Michaels can be nominated for that award. True. But that is half of the Canadian men. Yeah, it is. It covers a lot of ground. Yeah, in the club. Yeah.

I am in the club. I'm a Michael as well. That is, I'm telling you. What's your middle name? None of your fucking business. Okay. I'll tell you later. Top secret.

Okay, so. It's not Philip. I'm sorry it didn't work out for you and Michael Philip Boya Voto, but I do want to know, did you ever go on the back of his motorcycle? I did. Yes, I did. Yeah. Okay.

Willingly or just? Um, I, I did. I was. I was a team player for a bit on that, but it wasn't my, yeah, he loves his motorcycle. Yeah, well, he's motorcycled here. Yeah. Oh, did he?

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I believe you. Yeah, I wouldn't lie about something like that. Shocking as it sounds. Okay, so that's two albums in the can now. That's three. That's three.

Are you paying attention? Hello. Can we go back to the acting for a moment before? Because I do want to spend some time on the new album. Yes. Powerline. Yeah. And I have some music I will even play.

and I want to find out there's some other FOTMs that are involved in this new music as well. But when you say acting, you were on Schitt's Creek. I was on Schitt's Creek. Now, that was less of an acting role. I actually, well, it was a singing role because I was one of the Jazzigals. So the Jazzagels appeared in a couple episodes every season. So I think we were in five seasons because we started in season two. And Moira, Catherine O'Harris,

character was one of the jazz of gals. And so we would be in these different situations that were sort of the backdrop for whatever was going on, whatever hilarity was ensuing with her character. But it was really fun.

It was so nice. Every season we would learn a song. And of course, and even the first season we were on, we had a whole song and dance thing, which it ended up being edited down to like two seconds. But But, you know, that's showbiz.

But, yeah, it was, it was really great. Beautiful people. So nice. Yeah. Well, beautiful people because they're Canadian. Yeah. But also because they're nice. Because, you know, you work on a lot of sets and not everybody's beautiful.

So it comes from the top down. So Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, they just, so, yeah. They set the tone. So, they set the tone and it comes down from there. So, so. Okay, so two questions. One is how excited were you to find out you landed this gig as a jazz gal, knowing that Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara were starring in this show?

I was so excited because I was such a huge fan of all the best in show and waiting for Guffman and all those productions. The Christopher Guest movies. All the Christopher Guest movies. I was, in fact, before they made a mighty wind, I had a friend who, an LA actor who was getting the breakdowns and he sent me, he would send me breakdowns in Toronto

and I saw that they were doing an odd, they were auditioning parts for that. And so I created, I created a character and I, I put myself on tape as this character, like speak, as though I were auditioning for the band, right? And I sent it to my agent and I said, please send it down. And of course, I don't even know if they sent it.

They probably didn't. But I was following their every move waiting for my moment to be in one of these movies and well I was in shits creek you're in shits creek which is uh because I'm going to ask you in a moment another shits creek question but I will tell you perhaps the role you were gunning for in a mighty wind perhaps it went to fellow Canuck Linda cash who knows who knows maybe okay maybe yeah how is it from your perspective knowing you're on these five seasons or whatever as a jazz gal in shits creek but then because I took a couple of runs at

wonderful show and couldn't get out of season one okay so i'm just gonna put it out so i never got to the jazz a gal so i'm just pretending like i know what i'm talking about but i took a note on jazz a gal i even put jazz a gal just say it like that i'm giving nose to myself i don't want to sound like an idiot but they sweep at the emmy awards like so what are you thinking when this happens you're like oh my god it's not just this cult favorite canadian thing like oh my god even those damn americans are the fact this is some good shit. Everyone accepts it except Toronto Mike in South Cotabical. This is some good shit, Chits Creek.

You know, it's hard to get your head around. I sort of just, to me, what Chits Creek is is my experience on Chitts Creek and being, oh, here we're on set. And here we are in the motel room. And it's, you know, I don't, it's hard to kind of like, yeah, I don't know. Well said. Was it badly said? It was badly said. It was pretty weak.

I'll fix it in post. Okay. Can you? Yeah. Do it again. AI AI. AI. There's an episode of Toronto Mike coming up with Jeremy Hopkins where he's just going to go off on not the AI that might fix a bit of tuning here and there, but the AI that has created the sloap that pretends to be something real. Like you'll see a picture.

I don't know if you ever pop onto Facebook. Do you ever go on Facebook? Sure. Okay. Well, stop doing that. Just kidding. So when you go on Facebook and you didn't, you're not following this page. You never ever consented to be, to receive.

things from this page. But you'll see a big image will be in your face. This happened to me. And it'll be a bunch of like, hip, they look like the almond brothers or something, but a bunch of like hippies

are hanging around and it'll be like, oh, here's a picture of Yorkville in 1961 or something, right? But it's AI slop. It's completely like, so many mistakes. It's obviously not real.

It's total fake. But it's presented as an actual photo of Yorkville. And my concern is you and I, we're both in our early 40s, so I'm not just kidding. So we're not worried about us. We know it's fake.

Get out of here of this bullshit, this AI slop. But I'm telling you, young people are going to see that image and think it's real. And like, oh, this was Yorkville in the 19, early 1960. And who's behind, like, why? What is, this is what I don't understand. It's like, why? Stay tuned. Okay.

It'll be the next Jeremy Hopkins episode of Toronto Mike. So you're taking notes, Jennifer? I want you to be tuning in for this episode where we go off on the, well, Jeremy's going to do the heavy lifting, but I'm there for color. Okay. He's the straight man. I have to be I have to bring the funny

okay so that's happening soon here so congrats on being a part of an Emmy winning show how many people can say that

I don't know exactly 1,623 people but you're one of them we jazz a gal okay so congrats that's pretty cool

is there anything else acting wise you want to shout out no just you're on Schitt's Creek that's enough Mike I was in an Emmy

award winning show What have you done lately? Yeah, that's good. Okay, because you were, and when you were hanging out, could you, what are you going to say there? No, nothing. Okay, when you're in L.A., it sounds like Melrose Place, the way you're talking about it.

You know what I mean? Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah, a little bit. So you're at Melrose Place there? Yeah. No, yes, no. Well, not real, you know, I don't know. I've never been, but it's, I only get my...

You've never been to L.A.? No, but I get stories from another Canadian who went down there for acting purposes. His name is Stu Stone. And he'll tell me story. about, oh, Dean McDermott's over there. And you know what I mean? Like these Toronto people who go to L.A. to become stars, is there anybody you want to name check from your L.A. years?

Maybe a Canadian that was there to make it big. And who did make it big? Well, either or. Like, maybe somebody who made it big and maybe somebody who came home with their tail between their legs and said, fine, I'll be a Canadian star. Geez. No, I mean, I ended up hanging out with writers and musicians for some reason. I didn't really meet that many actors when I was down there. It's funny. Yeah. Okay. The writers are the best. They're the funniest people. They're clever. They're funny. Okay. Yeah. So you're Jennifer Foster. Were you hanging out with David Foster when you were in L.A.?

He's my dad. I know his famous hobby farm roots. Yeah. Everybody knows about David Foster and his hobby farm in New Brunswick. Yeah. D drank a lot of moose head in his day. Yes, yes. Everybody knows that.

Okay. So now I'm thinking it's time for me to give you a couple more gifts. And then I'd like to play a song, which is essentially your gift to me. I would like to play a song from your new album, Powerline. How does that sound here? That sounds great. And then I will ask you about more effort. because I took a list of people you've collaborated with that I've actually had on this program.

And it's got more names than just Moberg and Michael Philipoyovoda and Brad Barker and all these guys. Okay. So I have in my freezer upstairs, Jennifer Foster, it is a frozen lasagna from Palma pasta. Oh, my goodness. Thank you. Yeah. Well, okay, it's in the freezer, but you haven't said. It's going to be going home with you today.

Oh, yes. Yay. Imagine I just, that's a new thing I'm going to do in. front of my, I'm going to tell you it's in my freezer, but you don't get to fucking have it. That's for me and my family. I don't want to assume. I'm a polite maritimer over here. There's also a bag of frozen peas.

Say it. You're giving it to me. I know a guy who cooks carrots and peas in the same pot. Okay. You can use that next time you're doing. Blair does that. Not that particular joke. Now he will when he hears this.

But like Blair is very good at that between song banter. But I can tell from this half an hour we've spent together. I think you would be very good at that banter between songs when you're performing. Oh, it depends. Well, I'm going to be the judge of that. I'll be the judge of that. So you're getting that lasagna from Palma Pasta, but also I'd like to invite you. I'd like to invite, and this is in the price range that Cam Carpenter can appreciate.

It's free. Okay? That's his favorite price point. And you and him and Blair Packham and anyone else who is listening is invited to TML. X-22. That is the 22nd Toronto-Miked listener experience at Great Lakes Brewery here in Southern Etobico on, ready for this, June 25th, 2026. That is a Thursday. We're going to be there from six to nine. Not only is your first Great Lakes beer on the house, but Palm pasta is sending over delicious, fresh Italian food to feed everybody. Wow, that's amazing.

So come hungry, darling. Okay. Ridley Funeral Home have sent over a measuring tape for you. Thank you. I need a list of all the things you will be measuring with your new Ridley Funeralal measuring. I'll get it. I'll get a list. And just text me in real time. Okay. I was at the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball game on Sunday.

It is at Christy Pitts. Have you ever been to a Leafs baseball game at Christy Pets? I certainly have. Okay. I love it. Yeah, it's great. It's the best thing to do in the summers. Head over there.

And how much were your tickets? $0. Isn't that amazing? Yeah. Like the best value in the city. And it was such a beautiful Sunday. I was there. The Leaves won.

Oh, amazing. We haven't actually won since opening day. And it was entertaining and good vibes, good people. Everybody should check it out. Yeah. Also, Jennifer, this is very important. Do you have old electronics, old cables, old devices? Maybe they're in a drawer or a closet.

I'll bet you got a whole damn room full of this shit. I do, Mike. And I don't know what to do with them. Go. to Recycle My Electronics.C.A. Now I know why you were an actress. That was very good. Like, I believed every bit of that. Go to Recyclemyelectronics.ca. And put in your postal code and find it where you can drop that off to be properly recycled. Got it? Got it. Okay. Last but not least, Nick Iini's, we recorded a new episode of Mike and Nick just this past Friday.

He stepped up to help fuel the real talk. And I want to thank him for doing that. That's amazing. He's helping to make these conversations happen. Thank you to Nick Aeney's and the Good People at Fusion Corp. You ready to hear a little music? Okay. Here we go. The walk up in the walk in the walk in the woods. You wouldn't felt you out by your wood.

A song's so amazing. You named the whole album after it. Yeah. Title track. Title track. What can you tell me about both? Well, maybe talk about the song. the album like yeah i love it yeah power line uh the song uh is a song uh is a song well up behind our house

okay i'll just say that the album is inspired a lot by a bunch yeah the the farm that i grew up on but a sort of sort of a time in place the time was when my parents had to move from there so i was sort of processing a whole lot of things and my dad was sick and all sorts of stuff. So power line, we had a power line running up. We were in a valley on a river and we lived in a little farmhouse and when things got a little tense or, you know, we just needed your space, take off up into the woods up towards the power lines like, oh, I'm going up to the power line. So that was, yeah, that's basically the vignette here.

in this story. So, and the album itself, yeah, there's just a bunch of, the songs are all kind of related around, uh,

leaving the place, um, some songs about my dad. And, uh, he had, he was developing dementia. And so,

you know, we had to move from there. And, uh, just, uh, yeah, that's basically it.

I'm going to read a quote, I'm going to read a quote about this new album. Powerline, and you're going to tell me what FOTM you think said these words. You ready? And I won't do it in this individual's voice. Jennifer Foster's new album, Powerline, is a wonderful collection of songs, no shortage of sweet melodies or intimate lyrics, and all sung in a voice that is lovely and unpretentious.

Name that FOTM. Oh, I believe that. was Mr. Ron Sexsmith. Wow. Ron Sexsmith, that's a big deal. Yeah, yeah. They love him in England. They do.

They do. And they love him here too. And I love him. But they love him more in England. Have you noticed that? Like, he's beloved because he's tremendously talented. But I feel like we don't appreciate him the way they appreciate him in Europe. Do they appreciate anybody the way they do in Europe?

Like anybody who's got, you know, fights? I don't know. Okay, yes, fine. But we can talk about a bunch of people. Like, I don't, England hasn't even heard Blair Packham yet. And if they did. And if they did, they'd be playing jitters 24-7. They'd be like the Beatles.

Oh, yeah. But Ron Sex-Smith is an extremely talented singer-songwriter. I love this guy. Yeah, me too. Yeah. Okay, well, let's fight over him. Okay. And he said such nice things about you.

Have you collaborated ever with Ron Sex-Smith? I have. I've written, we've co-written, I think, three tunes together, and one of them ended up on this record. Yeah. I'm just setting you up here. Yeah, you're a leading questions, Your Honor. Okay, there's another FOTAM I'm going to ask you about now.

Okay. But I don't have a lovely quote from her because her Wi-Fi was wonky. That's the true story. Because this person was in Manhattan and I was chatting up this person and she lost her internet connection and we had to reconnect. Anyway, we got it done. But did you ever collaborate with Carol Pope? Oh, my goodness.

Yes. Wow. Carol is so cool. Okay. this is when I was making the record that I made with Michael Phillip. And I had this track that we had recorded and I just couldn't kind of get my head around. I was like, I don't know. I tried sort of my attempt at lyrics and I just wasn't, it wasn't quite hitting what I wanted to go for.

And I was reading the Globe and Mail and Carol had written a piece in there. And I don't remember, I should have, maybe I did cut it out. But something around what she was expressing in that piece was like, yeah, like this is the song, is like something like in this vibe of what she sang. And so those are back in the days of like MySpace. And I basically reached out to her as a nobody and said, hey, I was wondering if I have the track, would you like to collaborate on lyrics maybe? And I sent it to her and she goes, I love it.

Yes, let's do it. And so we were collaborating together on the lyrics. And yeah, she's very cool. Living Legend, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I just, did you see her at the dock? I did not. It's so good, yeah.

I know, you know what? I absolutely will see that. Yeah, I've heard great. It's fairly fresh, right? It is, yeah, I saw it at hot docks, but yeah, it's probably, I don't know where you can sit now. I'm going to see that for sure, but the last time I laid eyes on Carol Pope was at a Neal Young concert. It's all going back to your roots there. Yeah.

But she was with. This is the person she was literally with at this concert. when I went up and said hi. Fellow FOTM Kevin Hearn. Oh, yeah, Kevin. Okay. Yeah. Talk to me.

You know, speak of, well, Kevin Hearn, who was in look people. Yeah. And he was in real statics, right? Yeah. And he's there now. Yeah. That's right. But, of course, he's a bear naked lady.

And he's a, and he had his own, you know, Finn Buckle, his own band. And he's put out, yeah, his, I love his songwriting. He's an incredible songwriter. And I, I, I, I, I, I, he said. sang on one of his records and played live with him. And yeah, he's love him. Kevin Hearn, absolutely. So have you ever collaborated with Kevin Hearn?

Just in that way. Well, that's a way. You worked with him. Okay. So yeah, it was just funny to me that you got this Carol Pope connection, this Kevin Hearn connection, and they were together at the Neil Young concert. Yeah. Okay.

One more name, unless you want to sprinkle more names, but there's another name because it feels. like such a small world because periodically I am invited to Blair Packham's house for a party, okay? You with me here? Okay. I'm with you. Okay. Usually it says birthday, but not necessarily only so. And then

once in a while I actually go. And I bike over to East York and I hang out with Blair Packam. I like him very much. And sometimes a singer-songwriter herself who's been in the basement for an episode of Toronto Mike will bust

my chops for an hour or so. Like just relentlessly so. Like relentlessly. And I like it. Like I'm not going to lie. I look forward to it. I say I'm thinking to myself, bust harder. Come on.

Is that all you got? Come on. And she's pretty good. She'll go hard. Yeah. But I am speaking of Lori Cullen. Yes. Yes.

How do you know Lori? Oh my goodness. Lori's one of my besties. Wow. She is the best. And she, I met Lori way back. saw her play, excuse me, at Say What, actually.

And I think it was right around the time that she and Kurt were getting together. It was like way back then. I was with Michael. Kurt Swinghammer. Kurt Swinghammer. Thank you. Is Sam the Record Man Prince? Oh, yeah.

Right here it is. Yeah. And I was just like, whoa. Just blown away by her performance. And I just thought, wow. And I went up to her after. I was like, yeah, I don't know. Like if you want to be my friend, no.

If you want, you know, someone to sing some beejies or something sometime. I just remember feeling like, wow, I have a connection with this person. Like, I want to spend time with her. Anyway, and then we ended up becoming friends. And... Your friends of Lori Cohen. Yeah, I know. I'm just jealous.

I know. She's an incredible talent and incredible human being and funny as hell. Very funny. Yeah. And I didn't know you were that close. I knew that you had collaborated in some regard, but your besties. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

And I sang on her... record and we co-i did a little co-writing with her on her last record I think yeah in 2026 when you put out our new album like power line yeah what is that what exactly does it mean when you drop a single like this is a serious question like because you know in the old days you drop a single and someone would push it to radio yeah or even in the streaming days that I don't know there'd be a whatever you whatever you whatever if you're drake and you drop a single and then streaming goes nuts or whatever. Okay, fine. But when you drop a single, like, what does that mean in 2026? Well, I think it means that you're trying to, uh, you get it to the rate. Is it a PR mechanism? Like it's just an excuse

to make noise. But I mean, I'm no expert. Honestly, I mean, that's a cam question, I think. Cam, where the hell are you, buddy? I got to ask you some questions about drop singles. I'm sure it is just you need to raise awareness that there's new music to consume by, uh, by, by, uh, by, What's your name again, Jennifer? Yeah. So you want to focus track because you don't want to just like, you know,

barf out your whole record to the world and nobody knows what to listen to and just like, oh, in this world of like short attention spans, like, oh, here, here's the thing, I'm going to tell you, listen to this one. So Powerline was the first single released. It is the title track from Powerline. Now, if you're cool, because I've got a note,

and of course it came from Camp Carpenter, but this note says, yeah, the third single from Powerline is being released. released Friday, June 5th, okay? Yes. And it did work because I was like, oh, that's exciting. You know what I mean?

But of course, power lines available now. It is. It's not like indie 88 is going to be spinning it or something. They should, but are they? They should. Yeah, they should. Okay. Well, it's a chance to send your one sheet out to everybody.

Yeah, it raise awareness. Yeah, really. Okay. So may I play this hot new single that was only released on Friday? Yes, you may. The other voice I hear there. Me, myself, and I. Is that right?

You're tricking me over here. You sound like a duet. I know. Harmony or something with yourself. Multi-tracking. Watch out. Butch Vig. Here we go.

Okay. So tell me a little bit about this new single, Feel What I Feel. Feel what I feel. I was feeling a little frustrated. I think this is, I mean, okay. I'm going to go out on a lot.

a limb here and say, you know, maybe in some families, perhaps when, you know, there's something difficult going on, it's hard to express what's happening, and maybe it's not really spoken about as much as openly as it should. And, um, I mean, to be honest, it was when my dad started developed dementia, um, I, I just, I just wanted us to like, just talk about this. Like, just, I just want to, like, oh, it's so hard. Like, can't we just, you know, we did, but not, I mean, it was more like, oh, this shaky ground is moving, this new reality. It was just sort of trying to cope with it in a sense. And feeling, yeah, maybe a general as an overarching theme of my life, like this sense of self-expression and wanting to be heard, basically, because, yeah, it's not always been easy.

So, yeah. Okay. This is a very therapeutic practice. would I would guess. Yes, it is. Like, you know, you would go to, like, a therapist and be like, and they'd be like, oh, you should journal this or you should, you know, even if you just journal it and have somebody in L.A.

Yes. Davit. What was his name? Deveed. Dave. Okay, David. Okay. Throw it out the window or whatever.

But, you know, putting this into your art must be a therapeutic practice. Yeah. Well, for me, it's the point, really. I mean, I sit with my guitar or sit at the piano and I'm just, like, like, you know, what I'm just trying to make sense of something I'm going through. And I would guess, now, you can tell me, Mike, that's ridiculous. But I would think the more chaotic this world becomes, and it feels palpable to me that it's becoming more chaotic.

I would think that would be good for your art. Like, I think the more, the greater the shitstorm, the better, the... More fodder. Yeah, right? Yeah, you're trying to process more stuff. Yeah, for sure. The world's on fire, Jennifer. It is.

It is. I agree. I can't add to that. I can't, I agree. Okay. And this is your fourth album. So, uh, congrats on it. It's very good.

I hope people seek out Jennifer Foster's new album, Powerline. Where, what's next for you? I'm just curious. Like, um, you, have you, are you still acting? Are you already working on writing, uh, because the world's on fire? So you already writing down songs to deal with everything? I do have a lot of music that's been written that, yeah, I want to, I want to, yeah, start writing new stuff.

I've got a lot that I definitely want to put out another record, but not, you know, I'm not thinking about that yet, but I want to just, I'm booking dates for the fall and beyond to play, you know, play live shows and, and, like that. Is there a place on the World Wide Web we could go to find out where we could catch Jennifer Foster live? Live? Like performing, you know, is that a trick question? You know what I mean?

No, yes. I want to see you perform. Yeah, you know what? Well, I've got, my website is, uh, Jennifer foster.net. I don't have anything current. Okay, Jennifer Foster. Oh, okay. We won't be yourself.

But there will be soon. Yeah. I mean, I've got. Okay, but I just wondered if you had a website you wanted to promote. Absolutely. That's it. Jennifer Foster.net. Dot net.

Okay. And I felt like, because I, uh, right off the bat, and I could see why you and Lori Cohen are buddies. Like you, you have senses of humor, sharp senses of humor. And I, I liked your vibe from the, uh, the get-go, but there was always a sense of like, you were a bit, like, not guarded, but I don't know. Did you think I was going to have a pie behind my back and I was going to throw a pie in your face? When, when I sat down, I was just, no, the whole time. Like, uh, this whole time?

Yeah, like, like, like, I felt like you were always. just ready for me to like pounce with something sneaky or something. Don't worry. You're uptight. What do you do for fun besides sing and write song? What do I do for fun? I, um, oh, I like to, um, salsa dance. Whoa, okay.

I like to, um, go to the park. I like to, um, hang out with Lori Cullen. I like to. Do you bike with Lori Cullen? Because she biked here. You know, uh, I don't. because I don't have a bike anymore because I got a really bad concussion and I'm afraid to ride a bike again. I mean, I will. I'll get back to it.

So let me ask you, you had a crash? No, well, it wasn't on my bike. I was actually skating, but there's something about falling off of anything that I'm a little bit, yeah, nervous Nelly. Yeah, yeah, you know, but as a woman who was raised on a hobby farm, you know that if you fall off the horse, you got to get back on the horse. I know, and I have fallen off the horse. And if you wear a helmet, and I know the speed Lori was biking at, if you go that, you go that, that speed, which is approximately 12 kilometers an hour, you're not going to have a problem because you're going to catch yourself before you hit. How do you know how fast she bikes? Did you watch her go down

the street? I was six blocks behind her, her whole way home. I said, where does Lori Kurt live? I said, I got to know what's going on over here. So yeah, I observe things. Jennifer, I'm always, I'm always observing. Are you going to watch me walk up the street and see how fast I go? And you're going to tell your next, Jennifer walks at two kilometers per hour. Yeah, you know, you're a slow, Jennifer's a slow walker, But that's okay. You've got to take time to smell the daisy. Yeah, it's a beautiful neighborhood. So here's my closing query here.

When you're alone. I'm going to sing downtown by Petula Clark, okay? When you're alone. Sing it. And life is giving you something you can always go downtown. Or as groundskeeper Willie would say, Don't tune. Petula Clark.

Did he sing that? He didn't. You did. He goes down, tune, he said that. I remember that episode here. But what music do you consume when you're alone? Maybe you're going for a walk or something, and you just want to hear your jams.

What are you listening to? What are your jams? My jams. Don't tell me it's listening to Lori Cullen 24-7. Who could handle that much Lori Cullen? I'm listening. Blake Mills, Ways Blood, Andy Schoff

Any artists that The listenership have heard of? I'm dumb. I don't know. I don't know what's going on. I know the artist I listen to and I know a lot of the artists My kids are listening to.

She was here two weeks ago. Perfect. So how do you know you listen to Charlotte? Beautiful. Yeah. She has a new record out as you know. Yeah, I do know that. And she was at the garrison

for the Booky tribute. Oh. I think they had an event at the Garrison tribute to Bucky. Madison Cunningham? Do you know her? No, but that sounds as fake as Jennifer. Jennifer Foster. Jennifer Foster here.

Oh, my goodness. Yeah, name check a couple of artists I should be aware of that can be found in the 416. Because you're here, like, you know, and you mentioned Charlotte Cornfield. And these artists, these tremendous artists, Lori Cullen, they walk amongst us. They do, absolutely. They should get more recognition. I mean, I try, as you know, because I've had you and Lori. and Charlotte.

I try to shine a light on these fantastic musicians that walk amongst us, but this is your chance on the way out to shout out a couple that maybe I don't know, because I'm not cool. Okay, there's someone who doesn't live in. She was from the area. She's in France now, Selena Martin. She's got a great record called, well, all her records are great. But she left us.

She did. But do you know Selena? No, I don't know. I know Samantha Martin. Oh, well, she's about as far from Samantha Martin as you can get. In all the best ways. Okay, name check one more here. You've done great, by the way.

I'm sorry for busting your chops about the pie. Okay. I'm nervous now. How was this? Should I record it? Super fun. Yes. Are you going to edit it now?

No. Oh, dear. Never. But I want to say, I dig your sense of humor and I love your music. And I'm glad Cam Carpenter played matchmaker and put us together. The matchmaker that he is. That's what he does. He's like the wizard behind the curtain.

He's making things. things happen. Yeah, Cam's a good guy, you know. And Cam, make it point to be at TMLX-22 because no ticket required. Just show up, you know, you get some pasta. You can say hi and you get a beer. Nice. You're nice.

You're nice. And I love this moose head connection. Yeah, man. I hope your mom didn't cut any heads off any moose in New Brunswick. I don't think she did. On your hobby farm. Thank you so much. This has been really fun.

Now, you forgot to tell you, that book on the history of Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball, that is also yours, Jennifer Foster. I love it. It's a hard coffee edition, very special. Thank you. You want me to sign it for you? Yes, please. Are you on the team? Oh, I wish.

I wish I could play with the Butler Brothers from East York, both on the coaching staff. Wow. Yeah. And that brings us to the end of our 1,912th show. So if you're looking, Jennifer, to get a tattoo to commemorate this event, 1912. Got it. That's the year the Titanic sank. And this episode sank like the Titanic.

Go to TorontoMike.com for all your Toronto Mike needs. And yeah, seriously, come out. Free pasta, free beer. No ticket required. I don't make a penny on this event. I just want to get free food and drink for my friends. So come to TMLX22 on June 25th from 6 to 9th. PM at Great Lakes Brewery at 30, Queen Elizabeth Boulevard.

And much love to all who made this possible. That is Great Lakes Brewery. This is your beer, Jennifer. Thank you. Palma Pasta. I really do have a lasagna for you. Yay. Don't leave without it.

Toronto Maple Leaf Baseball, that is an empty box. Don't take that. That is for show case purposes only. Toronto Maple Leaf Baseball. They're at Christy Pitts. Nick Ionis. recycle myelectronics.ca and of course, Ridley Funeral Home. You know who's on, Heather Rankin is the next guest on the Life's Undertaking of Ridley Funeral Home.

Heather Rankin, have you met any Rankins? No, I haven't. I know who they are, though. Well, you better know who they are. If you're Canadian, you got to know who they are. They're an East Coast. They're in East Coast Band, right? So we'll see you all tomorrow.

I got to go to my calendar real quick, okay, before I run out of music. Let's do this very fast. My next guest on Toronto Mike is David Ryder, not David Foster. David Ryder from the Toronto Star. He's here at 2.30 tomorrow. See you all. Then.