Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Morning Jams #TOAST44: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1751

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

In this 1751st episode of Toronto Mike'd, and 44th episode of Toast, Mike is joined by Rob Preuss, Bob Willette and a very special surprise guest as they kick out morning jams. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Ridley Funeral Home, Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball, the Waterfront BIA, Blue Sky Agency and RecycleMyElectronics.ca. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at [e-mail].

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of toast. It's Bob Willett in the basement. Yep. And live from New York, it's Rob Proust. Nice. Yo, yo, yo. He's from... Howdy, howdy. He's from New York, so now he's got an attitude now. Rob Prude... That's right. First time ever. Is this, speaking of first time, is this the first toast where you're not in the basement with Bob and I? Do you know? Do you want to hear a fun fact that I just realized?

Yeah. I think the very first episode of toast that I did with you guys was a Zoom. you're right the first actually leah told me that i think the first two and literally yeah the first couple were uh zoomed and one of them was like two days before my dad died this is what i remember my fun fact we did sad jams and i was and my dad was in bed done you know how appropriate right because that's a sad time in your life exactly yep so so i think we've done two and that was uh the beginning of twenty twenty three so it's been over two years and remind the listenership why you couldn't make the trek to South Atobico for this very important episode of Toast. Because I've started this new Broadway production, Mamma Mia has come back to Broadway.

So I'm playing in the band again. And we really just opened up, opening the night was just over a week ago. And there's sort of like musicians union rules as far as like when you can take shows off. And you have to have a, let a certain number of shows go by before you can just piece out. And literally the first day was yesterday, was Sunday. So starting this week, I can start having people come into cover for me so I can take shows off and make my monthly track, which I'm going to do. But it just overlap bad enough that I almost thought I could make it happen, but it's not going to be until September. See you in September, Rob Pruss.

That's right. Next week. I guess that's a good enough excuse. You know, he's on Broadway literally. I guess that's a good enough reason. Yeah, so congrats, Rob. Yeah. This is a good reason.

And you love that musical. it's pretty good you know i have a pretty good pretty pretty i mean i have a long history with it i mean starting with the first north american production which was in toronto you know 25 freaking years ago and then i did the show in toronto for a year and then came to broadway so it was really funny when we had our first public performance uh at the end of july well it was actually early august earlier this month we had our first public performance and they started counting the number they're continuing the counting of the number they're continuing the counting of the number is from when we closed on Broadway 10 years ago.

So for that first performance, they said, this is performance number 5,788 or whatever. And I thought, man, me and the percussionist, Dave, we both played 5,787 as well 10 years ago. Wow. On the continuing tradition. Amazing.

Okay, so anytime we hear a beep, it's probably some AI thing trying to get in, yeah, still. So I'm going to, should I just let in Bob's note taker? I don't understand it. why it's on there. Let me admit Bob's note taker and then I can always boot it.

The robot's going to answer. I actually, you know, I didn't plan this. I don't know what this is. This is actually Bob Willett's AI tool. I don't understand why I'm in there, though. I didn't respond to anything. Well, let me see what happens. Bob's note taker is requesting to record this meeting.

Wow. You know what? This is my worry, right? Rob and Bob like that. Well, it's asking at least. So at least it's, that's right. You know, how many times are we being listened to and we're not, and nobody's asked us. I declined the request to record.

And then it's, I heard that noise of like, exiting zoom. So hopefully that AI doesn't come back. So Rob, we're going to get back to you for an update, but I actually have special loggers from Great Lakes Brewery for Bob Willett who... Amazing. And I need

it because I just hoofed it here. I'm parched as they say. Okay, so crack went open on the mic. Yes, this is the brood for you beer, New England pale ale. So it's going to have a bit more... It's an ale, not a logger. Oh, it's an ale. My apology. You know what? I thought it was a logger. No, no, that's okay. Okay, okay.

There we go. And do you know why you have a brood for you fest can? Well, as a matter of fact, I do because I just saw a bunch of them in the radio station the other day. And I hate to break it to you. I had one already. You know what? I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that.

So. Yeah, they're advertising. They've come on board. Great Lakes come on board at Indy88. I think maybe for the first time. Yeah. Absolutely. I think it's the first radio ad of any sort that GLB is done.

So they, you know, they dip their toe. always in the broadcasting pawn by being sponsors of Toronto Mike for like a decade. And now they're ready to be on terrestrial radio, Indy 88, where Bob Willett works. Everybody should listen to Indy 88. And they are promoting their second annual brood for you

fest. And it's happening, is it August 30th? It's this weekend, yeah. And this is a big thing. There's going to be great music and there's different Ontario breweries, like I mentioned live music and you get like a special glass, but you can get your tickets. So go to the great

Lake's website and get yourself a ticket or two for the second annual brood for you beer fest. And if you're in Liberty Village, you could probably just stop by the radio station. There's some tickets at the front door actually, I think. Well, you know what? Wow. Okay. I'm pretty sure. There were the other day. They might have been taken

already, but they are there. Okay, I'm going to crack a beer and join you. Yeah, please do. Also, because I record the, I produced the brute, what's it called, between two fermenters. I learned from Troy, they brewed their last batch of Sunnyside Session IPA for the season so the last batch is done

they won't make that again until the spring so I got one. And that's your favorite, right? That's my favorite summer brew here. So cheers to you. I've got a beer to crack. Hey, I've got a beer to crack to you guys. Okay. What are you cracking over there?

Are you allowed to say? Yeah. You can say. What are you doing? It's a German beer. I got a German beer in tribute to my dad. It's a Spotten from Munich. Hockerspour?

No, it's called Spotten. Spatin. S-P-A-T-E-N. Oh, nice. I just saw Rob Proust's background. It's Ontario Place in its glory days. That's right. In the glory days. Oh, nice.

Crack it open on the mic, Rob. I already did. It was a... It's a bottle. Problem with Zoom, right? Yeah. That's all right. We'll figure it out.

We'll get our rhythm. We'll get our rhythm. If I get to beer number two, I'll crack that open on the mic. There you go. Okay, so I'm going to introduce the topic off the top with a song that's going to tie into a question I have for Bob Willett from Indy, And again, because you're joining via Zoom, Rob,

you're coming through the same channel as the music. So I just have to remind myself, if I fade down the music on the board, I'm actually fading down the legend that is Rob Pruse. So I just have to remember to use the software to fade down. Not a big deal. But I wanted to start with this song. You could have done that another way.

What other way do you want to do it? No, it's too late now. All your dreams are made When you change to the mirror and you raise a blade Today's the day that all the world will see Another sunny afternoon Walking to the sound of my favorite tune Tomorrow never knows what it doesn't know too soon

Need a little time to wake up Need a little time to wake up, wake up, wake up Need a little time to wake up Need a little time to rest your mind You know you shut So I guess you might as well What's the story? Morning Glory

Wow Oh man So two reasons One is we're kicking out morning jams Rob Prue's picked this theme These are songs that are kind of like Good Morning songs We'll explain why we chose the songs we chose

But I'm also kicking out this song because Bob Willett, you saw Oasis this week. I did. Last year when they opened, remember I lost a bet because I said they weren't. I knew you were going to go there right away. Well, that wasn't even going to get there, actually. I said there was no chance of them getting back together that year, and they announced that they were.

I was between jobs last year from February to November. I mean, I was dabbling a little bit here and there with the poker thing. But they announced the tickets, and I was like, I kind of have to go. This is one of my favorite, both my wife, Laura, and I love. of Oasis. We've seen them. I saw them in 98 at Maple Leaf Gardens on the Be Here Now tour and a bunch of others. I was at the show on the island when Noel got knocked over. I was at that show. So I'm a fan to say the least. So I went to pocket $360 a ticket for... That's a lot of money. That was a lot of money. And for 51st row of right next to the stage, though. So I was

actually quite happy with this. Things are good in the Willett household. No, it was an The kids didn't eat that week. Yeah. Well, bologna sandwiches are tasty as far as I'm tasty. Mordadella is just Italian bologna. So, yeah. So, yeah, I did go. It was phenomenal.

It was, it actually lived up to all the hype that it could have been. It was an amazing show. The Rogers Stadium does have issues, obviously. But I actually, I think they've been so built up. It wasn't anywhere near as bad as I thought it was going to be. Hey, Bob. Yes. This is Rob on the Zoom.

Yes, thank you, Rob. Please, Rob, we have a caller on the Zoom. Go ahead. How do you put your fandom for Oasis in relation or proximity to your fandom for Pearl Jam, let's say? Well, okay, so Pearl Jam is its own echelon, right? Like, they're the gold standard. And then below that, there's the tragically hip, Oasis, the killers. And you know what?

Maybe even, it's as good. current bands, maybe even the glorious sons. I love, I was just listening to those guys. Oh, wow. I love those guys. So of contemporary bands, that's kind of my Trinity would be the tragically hip Oasis and the Killers. I can listen to everything by those bands.

Well, good for you to have seen them then, because like when you can see one of your top bands like that, it's always the most exciting thing. Oh, it was so great, and the audience was into it, and the sky opened up, the skies opened up with rain at the absolute right time. It almost made the show, I was saying this to land out yesterday on the year. It almost like brought the show

closer together. It was, it was, it was, you couldn't, you couldn't script it. And, uh, Liam and Noel were in fine form. Noel's, Noel's, uh, voice was amazing. He was doing all the high, high, high, uh, harmonies and playing the guitar like a machine. Like, it was just great. It was amazing. Why was Oasis's morning glory Hansen? Like, why did none of us pick it as a morning jam? Well, Bob, did you consider it? Uh, you know what? I, I, I, I, I, I, actually didn't. I didn't consider it because I don't think of it as a morning jam. It doesn't, it's not something, I don't listen to it. A flower jam? No, I, well, I, I don't think it's a, a song that evokes the feeling of morning. And, um, and I think all three of my songs will evoke

the feeling of at least some point in the morning. I'll say that. Okay. Now, I do have a specific question for you, Rob, an update that you shared, uh, on WhatsApp. But first, I got to do this really quickly. I've got to take off my headphones and just put my ear to the camera. So Morgan, who's watching. Oh, yes. Because, hold on, so let me do this. And then. I still can't put my glasses.

I'm sweating so much. Bob just ran here from a Mimico Go station. I think you, did you just do the wrong ear to the camera? Or I'm, that's me on Zoom. Well, you have a different camera. Yeah, you have a different one. I'm like, why are you showing your left? Why are you showing that you're with the headphones?

So let me explain for the listeners of the podcast. They're like, Mike, what are you doing? Okay. So my youngest daughter. made me a custom earring for toast. And I didn't know what it was going to be, but she makes it and then it gets baked and then she puts on the backing,

that part that goes in the hole. And whatever that's called, the back. And it's like, it's a hanging slice of toast with jam on it. Like there's actually jam. I might take a picture and put it on social media later. But thank you, Morgan, for the toast earring. And I think I have to wear this now every episode of toast.

And I was telling Bob before we press record. So I've had this hole in my left ear since I was 15 years old. but it has been a very long time, maybe 20 years or so, before anything really has been in my ear. Like, the hole's still there. But unlike Bob, who wears earrings, I don't think I'm as cool enough to pull it off.

So I don't ever put anything in the ear. But Bob looks good in his earrings. Like, maybe I'm inspired now to wear earrings. Because you're good in your earrings. Oh, thank you. Thank you. I actually, my right one is kind of closed up right now. I actually have to get, I have an epic birthday this year,

next year coming up. So I'll get the ear. I lost your sound for one second, and I'm not sure what the hell. Are we still lost? Okay, Rob, what did you do? Did you touch something? I don't know what I did,

but now I'm listening to you through my speaker. Do I still sound like sort of the same? You sound the same? Yeah. Okay. Now I'm fucking leaving this thing because I touch something. I can hear you,

but it's coming through my Mac now. I'm like, I don't care. But as long as you can hear me and I sound like. Just, you know, in Zoom, you can change the speaker. Yeah. I know you can change everything in Zoom. But somehow I just clicked around and it did something weird.

Well, why did you click around? I didn't mean to. I don't know. Who told you to use the bomb? You know why? It's like Bob's AI trying to join the... That's weird. That was weird.

Ignore all bells. But I want to ask you, Rob. May I interrupt to ask you about you finishing Mad Men? Yes. Okay. Yes, you did. Can you elaborate maybe? I loved it.

Oh my God. It was ridiculous. So, I mean, I looked back and we started watching in April. So it's been from April until just like a week and a half. ago. And so it was pretty consistently, but I mean, to make our way through seven seasons was just amazing. I can't believe. Like, and then actually when we got to the very end, the next day I put on season one episode one once again. Just to watch it again. Smoke, it's in your eyes. That's a great episode. Yeah. Just to have a look at the arc where it began and how it got to the end. And it's

so cool to see in that first episode how they started setting up some of the character things happening, you know? So I know you know, but oh my God, for me, it was like just magical. Do you believe that, So Matthew Viner says he knew from the very beginning that Don Draper would be responsible for that, probably the most famous commercial of all time. And we kicked that out a couple of episodes ago. Yeah, we did. Do you think he did actually when he started the show? And seven seasons later, he was going to wrap it up that way?

Maybe he didn't know he was going to go seven seasons, but maybe he had in the beginning when he had like a flash vision for the show. Maybe he saw that as like the end results. And then maybe as it kept going on, he's like, oh my God, we can keep extending it and extending it, even though he knew in the end that was going to be the final moment. More pertinent to the toastheads out there, when we kicked out, I'd like to teach the world to sing, and then I played all those songs related to it. Did we at all spoil anything? Like, did you clue in what might be happening? Because we did allude to the fact that if you finished

Madman, you'd understand, but we- Not at all for me. Definitely not. In fact, Leia, I remember she was mad. She's like, oh my God, I can't believe they did that. And I had no idea what she was talking about. She's a lot smarter than you are. She's a lot smarter. And she'd seen the whole, series as well. Oh, she, okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah. She'd already seen the whole thing anyway. So she knew what you were talking about.

And for me, and so even when I said to her, I don't know what you're talking about, I don't know anything. So it was fun. Okay. I'm going to ask you about an artist, both of you actually. I want to hear what you think of a particular artist, but should I do it right now? Or I was going to go first, let me tell a story, actually. So I'm going to tell you a very quick story, but this took place at the Neil Young concert.

So Neil Young played the Budweiser stage, although he called it the freshwater stage, which I think is a much better name for it. He doesn't use the B word. We shouldn't use the B word either, okay? We're the Great Lakes stage, okay? So I'm at, and I'm there, I went solo. I just got one ticket in the lawn. On the upper all lawns.

That's right, yeah, right. So I'm on the lawns, I'm solo, but then quickly I see a couple of FOTMs. I see Langer, who's been at every single TMLX event. Hey, Langer, how's it going? And then I see the VP of Sales, okay? And at some point when the concert starts, because I chatted up some people like Colleen Rush,

home and some different people. Carol Pope. Oh, Rob, I dropped your name to Carol Pope. Did you know who I was? I don't know. She just sort of pretended maybe, like, you know, but she was with Kevin Hearn. Oh, nice.

I think I know him too. Yeah, well, yeah, he's on right now I'm bare naked ladies. That's right. So, okay, so the concert's going to start. So I'm now in the back center of the lawns with VP and Langer. But I find out on WhatsApp that Canada,

Kev and Andrew Ward are nearby. So I literally leave this group of us and I go find them and I bring them over. So now we're all there. Andrew Ward has some... He has some cannabis. Yes. And he says, anybody want one?

A joint. And, of course, Canada Keb would probably have been smoking the whole day. He had one. Andrew Ward had one. I believe Tyler had one. One, like as in their own individuals? Yeah, I think so. Oh, wow.

And Langer took one. And I actually took a pass, not because I have anything against weed, except I had this IPA and I had this NACA and I had this natural high going with Neil and I had the bike and I don't know, I just didn't need it. Like I was already like flying high. Okay, I was running high anyway.

I didn't need it. So I'm fine. No, thank you very much, Andrew Ward. But then shortly thereafter, Langer leaves the group. And then I hear VP behind me, I hear him say something like Langer's down or something like that. Oh, yes. And I look over my shoulder and Langer's on the ground.

And paramedics are at his side. Like paramedics are on. So VP bolts over to make sure Langer's okay Because this love between VP and Langer, it can't be I'm going to talk about this with FOTM cast But it's a true love like he was right by Langer's side Because Langer was their solo too And VP's at his side

I go over to make sure everything's okay But it's oh you know what's going on He's partying hard He just needs a moment, have some water, the pyramids So now I go back to the concert And then I'm keeping an eye on it And then I can see Langer standing gets up I'm like oh good Langer's feeling better

He's coming back to Neil Young and then I watch Langer go down again. Oh, knock down twice and one. Down, like down goes Langer. Second, I could see the legs buckle and he goes down. I'm like, oh, my God. Like, you know, Langer's a pretty fit guy.

Goes to a lot of shows, but whatever was in that weed, like whatever that... Three knockdowns and one in one round you're out. You know, that took him down, man. And he was down again. And now the paramedics are helping him to this paramedic tent.

Wow. And, you know, there's a bunch of oldies at a Neil Young show. So Langer's like one of the younger guys. at the show, I'd say, but they have him in the tent. VP goes with Langer to be by his side at the tent, okay?

I'm like, okay, so somebody's there with him. You know, we'll keep going here. You know, I think I said a couple of times to Canada, Kevin Wardle, like, hey, we should go check on Langer, like no FOTM left behind, and they're like, three more songs, three more songs. So we're hanging around there. At some point, we finally find out where this tent is and we go check in

on Langer. He's got like a, they're checking his blood pressure, they have that thing on his finger, the paramedic says his vitals look fine but he's not going back to this Neil Young show we walk him to the gate so he can get on his go and then take an Uber home and then pick up his car the next day Langer partied himself so hard he basically partied himself out of this Neil Young show

but I want to give some props to the great VP of Sales who was by Langer's side the whole time That's great Isn't that a beautiful story Rob Bruce? I don't know where Rob is. He's gone. How long has he been gone for? I don't know. No, he missed the best. He's missing a great show.

Rob, we didn't hear you. You're muted. And I can see the red morrick against your microphone. Are you, Rob, have you used to. Hey, listen. Listen, I'm turning 60 next month. Give me a brain. Did you mute yourself and then just forget to unmute yourself? I don't think I did. I don't think I muted it on purpose. Okay, okay. You meet you. I don't know what's worse. Okay. Well, if you muted yourself and forgot or you, you muted yourself and didn't know you did. No, I didn't mute myself. It's doing all these weird automatic things. Like the way it switched my headphones at one point and then that's why I'm listening on the speakers. But yeah, I just noticed that mute, but I didn't do it. It's like, I get worried, you know, I'm not looking at you because I'm doing a lot of other stuff. But if I don't hear you, I don't know, you know, if you leave.

I know, that's like, but we've got to get to these jams. But I want to ask you guys about an artist, okay? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, too, girl, she's been living in her old time. Okay, I'll do this all a favor and fade this one down early. You picked one of his worst songs. Yeah, I picked my, I picked my, least favorite Billy Joel song. I mean, Christy Brinkley is the only reason why that song's okay.

Have you, I've either of you two gentlemen seen the Billy Joel documentary on, it's on HBO in the state, it's on Crave here. Yep, I have seen part one and part two. Yep, me too. Yeah, so, so we've all seen this doc. We'll start with you, Rob. What is your personal take on Billy Joel?

Are you a big fan? Did you own any Billy Joel albums? Like, what's your history of Billy Joel? I have a long history with Billy Joel, starting from when I was like 11 years old when he was on the radio. you know, when I was a kid, when just the way you are was still, like, to me, a really cool song. Like, it's become a schmalti wedding song. It's a great song. It's still a great song. You know, but, but like I remember when it was like a magical sound that to hear the electric

piano and there was nothing like it. And when I was in my band Black Diamond when I was 11, my friend Jim Witter from Hamilton was a huge Billy Joel fan. And I was a huge Elton John fan. And so our world sort of coexisted. And Jim basically taught himself to play piano because he loved Billy Joel so much. So I was always a Billy Joel fan by association with my friend Jim and hearing Billy on the radio. But in the 90s, when Elton and Billy toured together,

I was at like their third show in Buffalo and then I saw them in Detroit and I saw them in like Montreal. I saw them a bunch of times. And my favorite Billy Joel album is the last album he released as a pop album, River of Dreams from 93. Really?

I've seen him over the years and I love that last statement about River of Dreams. What did you say about River of Dreams? your favorite album of his? That's my favorite album. It's like David Alter saying discotheque is his favorite. You too.

I know. I know Billy Joel has tons of good albums and things. I love his early stuff, but the album that I return to. Imagine that being your favorite Billy Joel. I cannot imagine that being my favorite. Hey, now.

Come on now. For me, there's just something. We only heard it a hundred times. Yeah, a month. Yeah, yeah. It's true. For me,

the timing of it is just because of that time in my life. Right. And with Billy, like listening to it and seeing him live and all that stuff, It sort of coincided. So watching these two parts, I thought the first part was really in depth, like almost too much. And I thought, man, how are they going to do a part two? Never too much.

Never too much. And then they got to the part two, and it was even better than part one. What do you think of Billy Joel, Mr. Willett? I'm a huge fan. My dad always loved pop music. So we had pop music in the house all the time. And I still have an original 45 of it's still rock and roll to me. And the sleeve actually has a picture of Billy with like an old-time.

mic on it and uh like looking like uh somebody from you know frankie valley in the four seasons and so that came at what 79 80 um yeah 81 so when i was in grade eight which would have been 1988 or 89 i got 89 my friends and i wrote a sketch based on it's still rock and roll to me because we were such big nerds and uh and we use that as the as the themes i love billy joel i I've seen him once, and I love the documentary. I watch a music documentary about people I don't care about if it's done well. Me too, me too. This one, it's done very well.

And Billy is a complicated person, and he was very open. So Billy Joel, not an FOTM, but he came on some other guy's radio show, and I'm just going to play a minute or so of Billy Joel here. When you write songs, you hear music first, not the lyrics. I hear the music first. The only time that changed was on one song, we didn't start the fire. That's right. And you hate that song.

I don't hate the song. I think it's probably the worst musical thing I've ever written. Because you didn't write the music first. Yeah, but also you listen. I mean, try to find the melody. So you broke your winning way of... I mean, the song was a huge hit, but you broke your way of performing. You hear the music first, and then you try to find the lyrics.

And this time you did it the opposite. Now you hate the song. I wrote the words, I hate the song. I just don't think it's very good musical. I don't think it's much of a melody. You perform that in concerts, though, right?

Yeah, we do it live. Yeah. Is it difficult to remember the words? Yes. I think it's tremendously difficult. As long as I can pick up the first word of this, of whatever verse is coming up,

Perry Truman's our state, Red China, Johnny Ray. South Pacific, Walter Winter, Joe, Joe McCrally, Rick, Nixon, Studio de Baker, Television, North Korea,

South Korea, Mal and then what? And I'm looking at the audience, hoping to see some, somebody mouthing. Joseph Stalin, and if somebody's gotten the wrong words, I'm screwed. So there, I thought that was an interesting clip. And I wondered what you thought of that, Mr. Proust, because you're such a gifted penis.

I love it. I think Billy's, over the years, he's one of the most interesting guys when he does long interviews like that. Like, I remember that interview that he did with Howard. And he's just, when he tells stories, he gives master classes, I think Columbia University as well. He released one, like an hour-long talk on a CD once, too. And he talked about his, his love of classical music and how you can, like, isolate, separate the

lyrics from the melodies. And all of his songs do that. And I think it's funny when he talks about this one song, because it's true. But he, and I think even in the documentary, he does a little bit of that where he plays his melodies and he shows. If you remove the, the lyric and the pop sensibility, it could be classical music. That's what a beautiful melody and a beautiful song is. If you have a serious XM subscription, they have a Billy Joel channel every now and then. It pops up. and he is in between songs introducing them and just doing that with the piano. It's cool.

It's amazing. It's like it's he really gives you the idea. He makes no, no secret about, I really wanted to do this. I wanted to make this song. And then I came out and I was inspired by that. And it's,

um, it's so a lot of that stuff that he talked about in the, in the documentary, I'd already heard him tell those stories. Me too. That's right. I thought the same thing. Right.

Yeah. But it still was a great documentary. I feel like I should have said at the end of my Langer story that he's doing fine. Oh yeah. By the way. Like, Langer's still with us. No shout out to Ridley funeral home required, okay? That night when he got home, we were messaging on WhatsApp, making sure he was cool.

And we will chat a little more about this on FOTM cast because VP was there. VP says good peeps, the Budweiser stage EMS crew. So that's very nice. And then Canada Kev, whose first concert, no, his first arena show was at Maple Leaf Gardens in 82 for Billy Joel. Nice, wow. Midtown Gord, by the way, on the live stream says he's got 50. 52nd Street on vinyl. Yep, me too.

And Rob Delmondo, so I married an axe murderer. There's Piper Down. We have Piper Down. I guess that's when I was talking about Langer being down. Canada Kev says that VP is the wing beneath Langer's wings. One toke over the line. That's the line I was actually reaching for my head

and I couldn't come up with here. And VP points out with Mad Men that, and I knew this, and I forgot I knew this, but they filmed the pilot, which is called When Smoke is In Your Eyes, for Mad Men a year before they shot the rest of the, the season. And I think the same is true for the Sopranos. Like, I think they shot

the Sopranos pilot, the first episode and then, like, a year later you know, we, you know, filmed season one. I think the same thing happened with your wire. Like, because the pilot is so horrible for the wire. Well, you know who directed the pilot? No, I don't actually. Clark Johnson,

a brother of Molly Johnson. Oh, is that who did him? Oh, wow. So when she says, in that infamous clip, when she says, my brother wasn't just in the wire because he was all over season five. Oh, that's right. He created the wire. What she means is he directed the pilot, which Bob Willett doesn't love.

I've never been able to watch the show because of it. Well, that's wild. Okay. Well, you know, to each is own. I know. I have a madman, a fun thing I've been watching since we finished watching the series. And I was looking for more stuff because I figured when this show ended in 2015 or whatever,

I still hadn't started watching, but I figured that it was in the culture so much. There's a really neat four-part series from the Smithsonian Channel, which I think I've found on, either on Netflix or on Hulu, it's called The Real Mad Men of Advertising. And it's narrated by John Slattery. And it goes through,

there was an exhibit in the museum of the moving image in Queens, which is like all film and television stuff. They had an exhibit, which of course I missed because I didn't care about Mad Men at the time. They had sets and costumes and scripts and stuff. So this series goes through the 50s, 60, 70s, and 80s and talks about how advertising developed based on like what Mad Men was doing. And it's so cool.

Very cool. Can I give you a fun fact? So Bob and I have both produced the Humble and Friend Show in different incarnations. Humble Howard's oldest daughter adopted John Slattery's dog. Well, no way. There's your fun fact. Since you mentioned John Slattery. And wasn't she in, she was in New York on Madison Avenue as an advertising exec. Well, yeah, she does work for a New York advertising agency there. And this dog has made her a lot of money. Like they gave it an Instagram page and this dog put out its own book. Yep. Like this is a true story here. Okay.

Wow. So I'm going to hit some quickly some points because Leslie made a comment that's going to tie into something I'm just going to share right now. But she says she was at the dome, Skydome,

for Billy Joel and Elton John together. I was too. Okay, so hold that thought, okay? Because I'm going to play a morning song I wanted to kick out, but this guy's fucking anti-Semitic and I hate anyone who wants to

make any money off a swastika or anything, any hate if it's racism, misogyny, homophobia, any phobia of any kind, and anti-Semitism, fuck that, okay? So fuck, yay. But this song, prior to me realizing that he aligned himself with Nazis,

I thought was one of the best-produced hip-hop songs of all time, and it was such a great morning song to me. So I'm not kicking it out as one of my jams, but I just want to play it, because then I want to play the sample and talk to you too about it. But this song,

Oh. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Wake up, Mr. West, Mr. Wast, Mr. Fress, Mr. By herself, he's so impressed. I mean, damn, did you even see the test? You got D's, motherfucka, D's, Rosie Perez, and yes, barely passed.

Any and every class, looking at every ad, cheated on every test, I guess. This is my dissertation, homie, this shit is basic. Welcome to graduation. Good morning. know you're not a hip-hop head, but can you name that sample that Kanye uses in Good Morning? I'm guessing that it's, um, based on what the vocal that they overdubbed on it, it's an Elton John song and it's a butterfly as a free to fly. Someone saved my life tonight. Yeah. Wow.

I'm not fooling around. No, good for you. That's amazing. Eh. Oh. Mm-hmm. Good morning. Good morning.

Eh. What you think I rap for, to push a fucking rap for? That good morning by Kanye, by the way, has a lot of great pop culture shoutouts I quite like. Spike Lee joints. you anymore We've all gone crazy lately My friends out there Rolling round the basement floor

Ooh Someone saved my life tonight Sugar Bay Didn't you did? You nearly had me roped in time All the bowed in the tide Whispered in my ear You're a butterfly

And butterflies are free to fly Fly away Highway Can I? That's great. You can I? That's great. Yeah, you can talk over it. Okay. Am I hearing, like, just a tweak with the production, it's Beach Boys Pet Sounds? Oh, of course. Yeah. Like, it's just, like, it's so close to Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. Yeah, the harmonies. Yeah. So good. Elton was a huge fan of the Beach Boys. And you know, on his song,

God only knows where I'd be with that. Yeah, I just, as soon as I hear, like, listening, I don't think I've ever listened to the song in headphones before like that. Oh, yeah. Well, that's so, so, so, so I want I want to hear from Rob Proust, pianist, extraordinaire, Billy Joel, or Elton John? Oh, always Elton John. I mean, I love Billy Joel, but Elton John has been my jam since I was like seven years old, six years old, probably since I started listening to the radio, and he was just there. So, like, I was just going to say, like, on his song, Don't Let the Sun go down on me, he had Carl Wilson singing the background vocals with Tony Teneal from the captain. And he's the guy who sings God Only Knows. Exactly.

So when you listen, if you go back and you listen to Don't Let the Sun. go down. I didn't know that. Yeah. And you hear the background vocals. It sounds like the Beach Boys because it is a Beach Boys. It's actually Carl and Bruce Johnson, who was also in the Beach Boys. Yeah, sure. He said, yeah, of course. Hold on, hold on. Someone saved my

tonight. Sugar Bay. So mad props of this song, which really makes Good Morning and sing, and I'm not kicking out Good Morning because Ye's a Nazi. But, geez, what a great morning song it was back in the day here. Okay, so we're going to cook with gas here because I want

to just share a little story where I'm, it's very short story, don't worry, but I'm listening to CBC Radio 1 maybe Q. And they're talking to a musician who goes by the name Kentucky. Okay? And Kentucky had a very interesting story about overcoming addiction, and I was really into

the story. I like the long form combos, as you know. So Kentucky, I believe, a Canadian artist, I don't know why he's named Kentucky, but that's okay. And they play like one of his songs and it's a great song and I'm enjoying it. But I'm going to play this song and then Bob Willett is going to tell me what song, this song

reminds him of, okay? I've never heard this. This is Kentucky's, yeah, nothing gets rehearsed on this program. Kentucky's, no more tomorrows as I heard it on CBC Radio One. In my life, I've held a bottle. In my life I've run away.

In my life no more tomorrow In my life, I'm here to stay It's all this time that you walk with me now Take your time, Bobby I don't think that I need to say You walk with me When I was hollow And that's why

I am singing Here today Tip of your tongue Yeah In my life I'd held a bottle Okay So you want me to help you or It's so funny because

You live this life Because you bought an old house On the Danforth Yeah Well, that's, yes, it's funny. I knew it was Canadian. Broke into your apartment. Yeah.

It's the same song. This is where we used to live. That's great. It's the same song, right? It's exactly the same song. A bit more of this and we'll go back to that and then we'll put it to bed. I was like, it's, I, it's funny because you guys, uh, you guys. are talking about God only knows and pet sounds.

And Stephen Page has Brian Wilson. That's right. Did anybody go see the TransCanada Highwaymen at the Banshell? I wanted to, but it was on the air. Monica's birthday, and I took her out to dinner. Oh, cool. I was on the air. I really would have liked to him. So I'll bring down Berniclaez to ask you, when I was at Neil Young and Langer was going down,

you were across the lakeshore. Yeah, I was at the Bandshell introducing FOTM, Chantel Kraviasik. I saw the photo. Yeah, and introducing stars. Amy Milan and Torque. Okay. We did not rehearse this.

Okay. Can I just play something I recorded today? Yes. I recorded it. Okay. So this is this morning here. Rob, listen closely. When there's nothing left to burn, you listen to Toronto Mike.

Nice. Okay. So I can't believe you said Torque. Okay. Because, Rob, are you familiar with when there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire. Do you know that? Nope. That's okay. Bob does. Yeah. It's the 20th anniversary of Set Yourself on Fire by Stars.

Okay. Yeah. And go ahead. Okay. And that was said, I guess it's about 20 years ago now, but it was said by Douglas Campbell. Oh, wow. Douglas Campbell, great actor of no variety whose son, Tork, Torquil Campbell, is the co-lead singer of Stars with Amy Milan. Both are FOTMs. So TORC had his dad do that line. Today on, I produce a show for Joel Greenberg called Life in Stages.

And we had on Benedict Campbell. You had Tork's son on, right? No. No, no, sorry. Torque's brother. That's what I, yeah. So this is Torque's, that clip, I'll just do it quick. When there's nothing left to burn,

you listen to Toronto Mike. So that's Benedict Campbell sitting here, me asking him to do that line because he's imitated. his father, Douglas. That's amazing. Because Douglas has a bit more British going on in his accent

because he lived in a room. But Benedict has a hell of a voice. You got, for an hour, I'm listening. I'm like, he could read the phone book. This sounds amazing. But it's, that's, so that ties into Bob who was introducing stars and Chantelle Creveajic

at the C&E grandstand while Langer was on the ground. That's amazing. But now that you know the old apartment, by Bear Naked Ladies. I don't know if you're familiar Rob Bruce

with Bear Naked Ladies The Old Apartment. I heard of them. Okay. But now just again, let's just do the first 10 seconds. In my life I've held a bottle.

This is where we used to live. In my life I've run away. This is where we used to live. Broken dust. Broken, yeah. I'm here to stay. That's great. Well, yeah.

Broke into the old apartment. Doing your own mashup right there. It's exactly the same. So I'm in the shower. I'm listening to this. No video exists of this. But I was listening to this song, and I'm like, oh, I know this song.

It's called The Old Apartment by Bar-Naked Ladies. Everything is inspired by and related. And it's like, there's only so much out there. You know, you can't get a, That's the whole thing with, I mean, I was going to say the whole thing with got to get enough and blurred lines. Oh, that's a vibe. That's a vibe, exactly. This is not a vibe, though.

This is a melody. Unbelievable. So, Kentucky, if you're out there, I do like your song, No More Tomorrow's, and I love your story. But I can't be the only one who hears this song and thinks it's a remake of the old apartment by Bar-Naked Ladies, a great Toronto jam. Amazing. Tis the season, you were at the C&E, and I just wanted to play this. It's a great tradition. It's the X.

Well, let's go to the X. Oh, baby. Let's go to the X. Oh, baby. So much at the X. Oh, baby. Let's go to the X. So much to see more, the whole family at the X.

Let's go to the X. Oh, baby. Let's go to the X. So much at the X. Oh, baby. Let's go to the X. So I can't think of the C&E without hearing that, that ad, early 80s.

Can I ask you guys X questions? Sure. I worked there for three years, by the way. That's amazing. Oh, and Bob, you worked there last summer briefly. Well, actually, I quit before it started. I was at the C&E casino, but I was like, get the hell out of here. It's funny because, like, go ahead.

When I think of X stuff, it makes me think of school, like the end of school. We get our yellow report cards. And there was always like a little flyer from Concord. and it was like, here's a coupon, and here's what's coming to the grandstand this summer. And it was so freaking exciting. And like, I always think, like, what was your earliest? How old were you like the first time you went to the X? Oh, go ahead.

Oh, I mean, I was young. Yeah. I went with my mom. My mom and her mother, my, um, both loved the exhibition. They would go every year several times. And they would take me. I've been going since I was, I actually, I totally lifted an old bit from SNL for my radio show. Um, after Jack Hand, they did, uh, deep thoughts with Jack Handy. They did fuzzy memories with

Jack Handy. So I did fuzzy Toronto memories. Um, and I, I, I, I created a whole little video on it's on my Facebook, um, and on, I, which is Facebook.com slash bingo bob, or the real Bob willet on Instagram. It's on both of them. And it's like a little video at one of my first memories is, uh, winning, uh, a roach clip on. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's a whole thing. Shout out to Canada. Kemp. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was a roach clip, you know, those ones with like, it's like a leather string with feathers and, and, and, and winning that and going, I, and pinning it to my shirt because I thought it was cool. And the guy's like, no, man, that's for a, I'm seven. Jesus. Wow. Wow. I love the CNE. And I wrote the flyer. Did you ride the flyer? Yes. Yeah, of course. I think, I think we all, yeah. I think most of us, Torontoians, even the Burlingtoners. It was 20 down in 92. It's not right. So, yep. I worked 89, 90 and 91 were the three.

summers, I worked at the C&E. And then they were so sad you left. They tore the flyer down. But then when I left, it was a long time before I went back. Like, I just had so much. It was 20 days each. Oh. So, but, and then I took, obviously, I had kids and had to take them and everything.

And, uh, yeah, so I'm going to play a song. We're going to get to these morning jams. Okay. We're going to get them in a moment. I'm vamping for a reason. It'll make sense in a minute. But I, uh, I have a nine-year-old daughter. I know Bob's daughters are older.

How old are your daughters? 10 and 15. Oh, 10. Yeah. So, okay. So I'm going to play the song that has been the most played song in my house since the last episode of Toast, okay? And then I'll tell you what's going on. It's Korean.

Given the throne, I didn't know how to believe. I was the queen that I'm meant to be. I live too large, try to play both sides, but I couldn't find my own place. Carly pad, let's child, because I got too wild, but now that's how I'm getting paid. Could that tree on stage. I'm done hiding, now I'm shining like I'm born. So this is golden Are we came so far now

I'll believe We're going up It's our moment You know together we're going Gonna be gonna be golden Oh So this is golden By the band Huntrix

And if you have ever seen K-pop demon hunters You know this song And you know Huntricks And my Not only my 9 year old my 11-year-old son as well. All over this damn movie, it's a Netflix movie,

but I can't tell you how often they've watched it and how they know every word to every song in this damn thing. Are you familiar with this K-pop explosion, K-pop Demon Hunters, Rob Pruse? I am familiar with it because we have vocal students that come to us, these kids, and we started hearing about it from the kids who wanted to sing songs from it,

and I was like, what the hell are you talking about? So you've heard soda pop a few times. Yeah. So I've played this song, on Golden and when we were doing a summer camp with some kids and we played this game called sit and sing where kids will like try to play a song, sing a bit of a song

or I'll play a bit of a song and they'll guess it and as soon as I played the intro for Golden, the kids went crazy. Yeah, so just nuts and Bob, what about your household so they're aware of it? No, no, no, they're aware of it, they've watched it but my 15 year old is all about Broadway musicals like and

and not even, and ones that haven't even been made yet. There's a thing called Epic. I was actually talking to Leah about it the other uh yeah uh last time she was here it's a musical that's been it's kind of like it's already only time she was here it's already been done like it's they've recorded this whole thing and it's a it's a huge musical theater thing so my my oldest is only only all about musical theater and this she likes it but it's not like part of her world and the the 10 year old i got to give this kid credit jennavue is got i'm trying to find the music she listens to she's got her own Spotify account and um she likes some really really interesting

alt singer songwriter stuff these young women who are like like this one girl's coming and playing in uh in Toronto uh at the Velvet Underground on October 22nd and and I'd never heard of her but her it's amazing she's got this like so the K-pop thing she's a little she's just yeah she's a little too cool for it I believe it you're cool she's cool she's cool I'll make, your wife is cool, a bunch of cool people. So I went, and again, I can see on the live. Dotronomike.com, the Toronto mic there is not me. That is Morgan.

I see that. Morgan, it's me too. It's two O's and two. Okay, I'm here to correct all of Morgan. And by the way, shout out to the great rapper decisive, who's on the live stream, Derek Christoph. So hello to Derek. He says, uh, demon hunters is on nonstop here.

Jeremy Hopkins says, my kids have been rocking the song heard as well. Levei Fumpka knew that was Demon Hunters. She's all into it. I want to just say that we went to the movie theater, the actual theater on the weekend for a sing-along. It's huge. And I went and I had actually never, you know, watched the whole thing. It's just always on in the background or whatever. And I thought it was, A, a great movie.

But B, when you've got a whole full theater of kids singing, the belting at the top of their lungs. No, it's okay. You don't have to say sorry, Morgan. I'm just here to be the good dad to tell you how to spell. Because school's back next Tuesday. One week to go, Morgan. Brace yourself. Love you.

I love my earring, too. Shout out to this. Okay. So basically, this is an amazing place to be when the whole room is singing at the top of their lungs to every song because they put all the words of the songs on the screen.

Not that they needed that, of course, but I needed that. Hey, you want to break in with Moosecrupi's breaking news on the news? Yeah, go outside. So Rob Pruse, what is the breaking news at this hour? Travis and Taylor are getting married.

Travis Kelsey from the Kansas City Chiefs and Taylor Swift getting married. So you hear that, Morgan? Your T-swivel is getting hitched. That's exciting news. That's amazing. Thank you to Moose Grumpy. I want to thank a couple of sponsors,

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from the legend that is Rob Proust that he listens to Life's Undertaking. So that's amazing, Ron. Yeah, it's a very, it's a very calming, inspiring show. I don't know. Every time you have a new episode, I just look forward to it. You know, I adopt the persona of my guests. So I get up for these episodes and then I'm all chill with Brad Jones. That's true.

That's a good sign of a good host. Yeah. So this coming weekend is the final weekend of the summer, which means Canada's longest running air show is back. I know this is like some people don't like it. I understand. And there's some PTSD and there's some bad stuff with it. But you can witness three days of a breathtaking aerial show over Lake Ontario from the Canadian enforces snowbirds and the F-35 demo team.

And this is happening on the waterfront. One of the many things happening on the waterfront. So, shout out to the waterfront, BIA. You know, there's lots going on beyond that. There's Sugar Beach, of course. You can go to the GLB Brew Pub. That's where TMLX20 is happening, and that's happening on September 25th.

So I want to play just before I get to the morning jam. Just real quick. This is neither here nor there, but keep it going. So we all heard Golden by Hunter. right? Yeah. And that's like, I don't know a lot

about K-pop. I know the big hits by BTS or whatever, but I don't know a lot about K-pop. But it has come to my attention that that Huntrix Golden song sounds a lot like another K-pop song.

So I'm just going to play a little bit and I don't even how to say this name. Bob just gave me, what's that called, the raspberry? No, it's like two K-pop songs sound alike. Do we really need to cover this? Well, it's very interesting.

I find it interesting. So this band is called Ive, I think. I, or maybe it's called I-V-E. I don't know how to say it. I-V-E is how you say the band name and the song is called I-Am and just a little bit of this this The same way I'm on my way

I'm on my way I'll be I'll be every dream's come true The same every day there's a view Mommel go

somewhere somewhere view I'll be far away That's my life The same song So I'm just, you know, here to say that, how do I say this? Kentucky's No More Tomorrow is to Bear Naked Ladies, the old apartment,

as Huntrix's as gold and is to IVE's I am. If you are a K-pop fan right near my house, there's a K-pop store called Light Up K. And then I can't, what's K-pop band was? No, Black Pink's J-pop, right? No, that's K-pop. So when Black Pink was in town, this place was lit, man. There was so many lined up around the corner. It's on Cedarvale Avenue at Danforth and Woodbine.

This, it's a, I don't, I've never been in it, but it's a, it's a, it's a K-pop store and it's crazy, the passion that K-pop fans have. Amazing. So, yeah, Mike, you took an hour to get to these fucking jams. I actually, I had, that might be a record. I know, because on purpose, uh, I was trying to orchestrate something. So I had trying to make something, some magic happen on toast here. But, you know, you, you set up all these dominoes and it's like a Rube Goldberg. machine, sometimes one piece

fails and then the whole thing falls down or whatever here. So, even this here is a vamp. So even this, with that music in the background, is me trying to buy a few seconds because I was going to do something exciting, but I think instead... What were you going to try? What are you going to do? You got to tell us.

No, because it might still happen. I don't want to spoil anything. It might still happen. But what I will do is let Rob introduce his first morning jam, and then we'll just proceed with the toast and see if my plans come to... He's got a guest or something. I don't know.

Maybe it's decisive. Who knows? It's decisive. Indecisiveness. I love that. Shout out to D. My first song. You kill this song in the background, please?

Oh my God. Sorry, I don't like it on. You don't like him? It's just like the high pitch voice. It's like right into my own pitch of voice. Isn't that funny? Oh my God.

It's taking us away from the idea of morning. It reminds me a bit of K-pop. And again, I'm new to K-pop. So, second hour starting? Cheers. So here we are entering the second. The second hour with morning. And now we may begin, the morning jams.

So any words before your first jam, Rob Pruse? Yes. What I will say is that I had many songs to choose from. Like, like, and even though this first song that came into my head for the topic got the Vammuz because it even didn't make the cut by the end. And literally yesterday I was listening to playlists and breaking it down and trying to narrow it down. And then this song came out of nowhere and I had to put it to the top of the list. So it's a, it's an artist.

I don't even really know much beyond this one song, except that the title was sort of similar to one of my other jams. So I would say just kick it and listen to it. And then we'll talk about it. It's an alarm. Good morning. Welcome to the world. Sunshine. You can't stay in bed forever.

Remember the deal. Bed is for sleeping and masturbating. You've had about as much as a human body can take of either of those things. So, we are getting out of bed today, man. And brace yourself because I'm like 90% certain you forgot to set the heat and to come on this morning. So this is not going to be pleasant for either of us. Okay. Five, four, three, two.

Not fucking around. Get out of bed. Come on. Have a shower immediately. I know you think you're fine and you smell okay. You're not. don't and as soon as you get into the shower you're not going to want to get out of it again and this is what we do we get clean we get our body feeling better and then we put some clean

clothes on some fucking Jesus Christ if you need to do a smell check they're not clean that's it you know what I'm adding laundry to today's list everybody has times they just want to stay asleep forever it's normal sometimes it lasts for days weeks months even years. Maybe you've been broken up with. Maybe you hate your job, you know? Maybe there isn't a reason. Maybe just fuck everything because fuck everything.

But here's the thing. No one ever got happier. Sitting around waiting to get happier. So stop making excuses and start making yourself some fucking breakfast. How is it almost 3pm? Come on. Good morning, welcome to the world sunshine.

This is how we get better. Every day we wake up and we get out of bed and we get dressed and we clean up last night's mess and we keep doing these things not because they're guaranteed to make us feel good but because failing to do them guaranteed to make us feel bad. And listen, I know, okay, I know it feels like I've just got you lugging heavy rocks around all for no reason with no reward but please trust me I can see what you're not able to see

yet this is not just a pile of stones okay we are building a castle together and we're going to build it brick by heavy fucking brick and I'm going to be here with you every moment talking you through it

all you need to do is look at the ground in front of you and put one foot in front of the other and one day soon I think I hope you are going to look up and you are going to see what we've been working on this whole time

you are going to see how far you've come rather than how far there is left to go and eventually you won't meet me around so much anymore so much anymore so One foot in front of the other

Pick up the rock We are getting out a bed today Good morning, sunshine. That's what I say to Rob Pruss every morning. Rob, what are you listening to there? This is an artist from Scotland called The Narcissist Cookbook. It's brand new to me. So Narcissist Cookbook is led by Matt Johnson,

and Matt goes by They, Them, and they, have been around for like many years unbeknownst to me but now that I'm in this world I'm like I need to hear everything and I found a live video of like a crazy audience singing along with this song like singing every word and it sort of reminded me of a little bit like Ed Shearin and a little bit like the sensibility is a little bit like barnicet ladies too where there's like some humor to it as well it sounds like the streets or something right yeah totally totally going on for sure yeah yeah and so so it's a little bit like like they call it post punk and like spoken word all this stuff mixed together you know busking and playing in bars and doing solo shows and

um they just did a tour in america and and i don't know if they came to canada as well they did like two two months ago with somebody called there was another solo person was it kentucky no it wasn't kentucky um was it anyway this this song just came from me out of nowhere and i'm like excited to dig more into this world because I love shit like this. I find it super inspiring. They played the supermarket in a place I was DJing last summer quite a bit. That was on June 22nd they played. I looked it up.

No way. Yep. That's amazing. So I just love like, so I found this on Spotify by just like like looking for common named songs, you know, to see if there's any interesting versions or whatever. I'm so glad I clicked on it because I just love it. I like the way you approach this is sometimes you get the topic and you kind of go search where all I do is search my brain.

Well, my brain was already filled with morning jam. This was his idea. So, Rob, we're going to switch things up. That's a roaring start. So typically, I close. So it would be, you know, you, Bob, to me. I'm actually going to kick out my first jam right now. Is that okay with you, Rob, Bruce?

You know, why am I mixing it up? Let's find out. But I was thinking, what are morning songs that I love? And lately I've spent a lot of time with 12 inches of snow, okay? And this song, this hook, I fucking love it, okay? So I'm going to play some of this and then we're going to talk about it

and then I might hit you of a remix, okay? Here is Lonely Monday Morning by Snow. Lonely, lonely Monday morning in form a dipone at the sea that you're putting a all right,

all right, yeah, lonely, lonely, lonely Monday morning in form a dead upon the other sea All right, all right It's me um please don't you know come Now they blow down me door Rainier car fortune to my window They'm gonna put me in on the back

the car at the station From that man to raise me destination But the destination in the region A day's attention With them whip down my pants Look up my bantama When I can't take it to the pressure man I can take the bina

So babel la-bola b'am My miss they release the chain Lonely, Lonely Monday morning And I did I have no phone for me. Bob, well, what do you think of lonely Monday morning? Oh, I mean, 12 inches of snow, man. It was everywhere.

It was great. I mean, you grew up in Toronto. Everybody, you knew it. You knew somebody who knew them. I knew the store. You knew everything. Yeah, it was great. Rob Pruse, what do you think of,

you got an ear for melody? What do you think of that hook, lonely Monday morning? I love it. I love it. It reminds me of, it's just got a, very familiar feel to it, but that's probably just why I love it, because I just remember this when it was first out, too, like

listening to all those songs. It's cool. M.C. Sean with the production on that. Well, let's get some more information on Lonely Monday morning from 12 inches of snow joining Toast, a big surprise to my co-host, didn't tell a soul. We have on the line

right now. Snow, the snowman. How you doing, Snow? What? Doing guys. Everything good? It's good. Hey, Snowman. How's everything? It's really good. Really good now.

You just brought the show to a new level. Only Monday morning on a Tuesday. That's right. That's right. That's right. Let's figure this one out. Hey, you know what? We break the rules here, right?

I should have introduced this man as the man band from every bay in the country. The bay? Yeah. So, Darren O'Brien, Snow, what can you tell us about lonely Monday morning? Do you remember what you wrote it about where that hook came from? Yeah, well, it's a remix of Informer. Yes, same lyrics. The lyrics in the verses are the same because I got arrested on a Thursday and I wrote Informer

and then on a Monday that denied me bail. So I was like, oh, lonely, lonely, lonely Monday morning. Oh, wow. There you go. That's so cool. Yeah, they denied me the bail. and so I was lonely that I didn't have no company.

I didn't have nobody. Wow. It was a lonely time. So that's where that song came from. And the producer who did the remix and stuff is who you'll hear. I love the remix.

Well, you know what? So don't even tell us about the remix yet because I'm going to play it in a moment here, like in moments here. But so the lyrics, other than that hook, Lonely, lonely, lonely, which I, by the way, find myself just singing it rand.

My nine-year-old knows it by heart. She breaks into it, too. So the chorus that's around that amazing hook, those are exactly the lyrics from Informer, right? The verses. The verses, yes. Yeah, you're the musician. You're right.

Okay. So where did the hook come from? Like that, where did the melody come from? I don't know. Like, just what? Like, inspiration tapped you on the shoulder? God, yeah. God gave it to me.

That's so, that, see, they call me. MC Shannon and all them guys, like Commissioner Gordon and all Cool and Dre and all that just they call me the melody man because I just come up with melody melody melodies you know so they just I don't know that I'm just they just melodies come to me not all good but some you know what I said well they took your melody MC Shan took your melody and uh for the remix there's a sample with the headhunters featuring the Pointer Sisters and God made me funky in it uh which is amazing when you you know you can learn all this now because you can just Google the stuff but when you hear it you're

like, oh, that's, I see it. But so you come with the, you come with the song, you know, the melody there, and then you go to your, uh, your producer and they, and then they, they help, they build the beats around it, right? Uh, yeah. Well, that time there, I had, I wrote the song in, uh, 1989 in former. That's right. When I got charged with the two or ten murders, but I got there, he's got all that kind

of stuff. So I wrote it. And then when I met MC Shan in New York City on the street, and in Queens on the street corner, that's when I sang it to him. I was like, infarming. He's like, you know, let's go to my house. Cool. Not for that.

Was that a random meeting? Random meeting. Like, he came down to buy some weed, and I was down there hanging with the Jamaicans. And they were like, yo, Shane, you got to hear this white kid. Shane was like, oh, here we go. Wow. On the steps. And Shan is like, hey, Shan was like, you know, like, I love Shan.

He produced Rock Kim. Yeah, he's around since, like, 83 or something. Yeah, he's like, I think he was the first hip-hop artist. get signed through a major, through a major, yeah. So, and he was supposed to be the fresh prince of Bel Air. Oh, wow. Oh, really? Is that right?

Yeah, he gave up the job because blah, blah, blah. They were, yeah, he gave up the job to Will. So, yeah. And everybody, like, you know what I mean? He talks about it a lot, but, yeah, so that's how we did it. I was just sing, and then Shan would do the beat. And sometimes Shan would play a beat, and Shan would look at me, and if I don't come up with a melody, like, quick,

he'll change the beat. He'll be like, oh, no, it won't next beat. Not feeling it. Can I kick some of this remix version and then get some details on this? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

We're lonely, lonely Monday morning, and I didn't ask them company. Yeah, you're on bunging are all right. All right, yeah. I miss the peace, I remember coming, and I did blow down me door. When they got caught through my window. They me put me in a little back they come at the station. From that point, I'm going to reach my destination. But the destination to me reaching out the east of tension.

Wait, I'm with my plants, love on my bottom. Can't dig the picture. My can't take the pain. Bola, bubble. Come my, me, sir, release the train. Snowly, Lonely, lonely Monday morning And I didn't ask me Snowman, who exactly did this remix?

Snowman, who exactly did this remix? say that again he's probably one of the greatest DJs and the greatest producers like of all this time is okay you said DJ Clark Kent is that what I'm hearing yeah he produced he he he's the one who found Jay Z like Jay Z out of the hood told him no don't be the hood no more he introduced Jay Z to Biggie Smalls you know like he's like and what I loved about him because when I was small growing up in my neighborhood 15, 16 years old, we had turntables that you couldn't buy in Canada. We had to go to Florida to buy it.

1,200 techniques, 1,200s. 1s and 2s. Right? So what he would do, he would have a place in New York. He's from New York, right? But he would have a place from Brooklyn. He has a place, and he passed away now, God rest of the soul. But he had a place where he would teach kids how to, you know, DJ Scratch and, you know, DJ, Scratch

and do all that stuff. And in his house, he had three floors. So you remember the game of death, the Bruce Lee? Yes. He had to fight the better guy, each floor. He had to go to each floor to fight the better guy. Sure. This is what DJ Clarkett would do.

He would start you on floor one and then you go to floor two. And then you go to floor three. And then when you made it to floor three, then you do all that. But that's Clarkton. That's who did that. remix. I was in we were in the studio at the same time doing that remix. Now what I

would I be right in saying that that's definitely got more of a harder dance hall vibe that remix? Like it's hip hop. Yeah. I know it's hip hop. I just find I feel like it's got like a... Like dance hall? Yeah, I don't know. I feel like yeah. That's if you listen

to it to sample, he sampled because I was there in the studio when he was doing it, making the record. Yeah. He sampled, check the rhyme, y'all. Check the tribe called Quest? Yeah. Nice. Yes, I hear that now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's in the beginning of the song. That's right, that's right. Pieces from that song, Check the Rime. So that's where that song comes from Lonely Monday Morning. And who loves that song? Nicky Jams. I don't know if you know what.

He's a regga tone. Yes, yes, of course. He wants to do that song over. Like Daddy Yankee did Informer He wants to do lonely Monday morning Like he loves it Well it's a gift that keeps on giving Right Snowman

Yeah right As long as he pays for it right Like you get those resids But As long as it sounds good That's good That's good Yeah yeah yeah

You got paid Appropriately for Concoma I got paid What I was supposed to get paid There you go That's fair That's a fair statement Because I saw you in

I could Like I could like what happened was it almost all got messed up because i knew daddy yankees camp right i knew his people but mc shan they asked me they wanted 50% of the publishing so i was like i'll give you 80% whatever it is you know what i mean like geez it's daddy yankee doing a song over what am i going to lose right i'm like yeah so we agreed to it but shan and his his his publishing company said no they want more like 80% or whatever yeah so we're not doing it so they didn't they didn't do the they didn't do the record they weren't going to do the record and i asked them i'm saying they're like

no we're going to pass on it and i'm like why you're going to pass he says because shan's wanted too much money too much too much publishing and i'm like yo that's not mc shan because shan's like me shan's not a money hungry uh greedy he's not like this i phone chan i'm like shan you hear about the daddy Yankee song he's like no and I'm like you're publishing company he's like what he's like he phoned him back up and they're like okay we'll do it we're on so that's how that went so

what's your dog's name I can't tell you we're not allowed to tell our dog's name is that like is a dog in witness protection or yeah yeah no but where we train we can't tell people our dog's name so nobody knows like if I walk on the street

nobody knows my dog's name We don't give my dog treat because he's real protection like he's like killer like these guys like these are the top dogs in the world

this breed and bloodline now fool with that plus and I only talk in German to him right

was it as German Shepherd no a Belgian Malinuan a Beldauga cool Rob Proust is of German descent yeah I won't say a word

I'm not saying anything to your dog keep it quiet yeah who we that So Snowman, I know I talked to Paul And I know you're going to be visiting me again For another, like a sequel episode

You were great in your Toronto debut And Robbie Patterson You met Robbie at the game Yes Robbie He got mad to me Because I told him Oh yeah, I'll bring you next time I go to Mike

I'll bring you He's like all right And he heard that I was on your show or something again He was like you went without me Oh yeah and without you Don't worry Robbie I got you No there's a seat for Robbie But am I going to

see you at Christy Pitts tonight for the Leafs game? I'm going to see. I'm going to see how it is. I'm going to feel it out and see and figure it out. Yeah. We can win this series with a W tonight. Yeah? Well, listen, things have gone much better since you became an official ambassador for Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball. See that? Romantic.

All right, man. This was amazing. Thank you for coming on, man. That's awesome. Yeah, thank you, Snow. Yeah. Love it. Wait, are you doing romantic traffic there? I love that. Thank you.

I love that video. And you're the one that stood out in that video with the, you just standing there with the hair, eh? With the hair, which is gone. And the red jacket. No, the hair's still there. Man, I let it come. So you can, sorry. Go ahead.

That song came out. I'll be looking for my friends on the subway. I'm like, you know. They didn't show nobody I knew. Oh, that's so funny. It was all random people, too, which is so hilarious. Yeah, that's why I was looking. random people except for your

you're a mid crew right right and so I'm like yo and then it passed the deal went through and I didn't see none of my people oh too bad wait till the daddy Yankee remake of romantic traffic you know they could because that's a big song yep there you go

so Snow you're welcome to hang out like we're just going to kick out jams and talk it's up to you I feel bad with my jams now they're so nerdy compared to you guys got my memo right you can only kick out a jam if these songs songwriter comes on the show. I could do that, but I need some arrangement.

I need some time. Okay, so we're going to let Bob Willack kick out another jam. Snow, it's up to you if you hang or not. We love having you here. You know this. And hopefully I'll see it tonight at Christy Pitt. I got to walk him. There you go.

Don't name him, though. No. Thanks for this, buddy. This was awesome. I'll see you soon, buddy. Thank you, guys. Thanks, though. Love and respect.

Always. See you, man. Bye, Snowman. Bye. That was very nice. I tried to do that a couple times with people. I never quite worked out. I was going to have Stephen Page try to come on.

And I had a couple other ones that just didn't quite work out. But I've had that thought on many an occasion to have somebody like do that. Good job. Thank you very much. You know why? Because I was trying to open with that. But he was late. And then I saw I had text from him and he didn't have the link.

And it was a whole rigmarole here. So Bob, we're going to cook of gas now. Yeah, let's go. What's your, well, anything to say? about your first jam before we kick it out? No, I just want to say that, like, all my three jams are all, um, uh, vibe related to a time of the morning, like morning times. Okay.

I wasn't started yet I didn't even think you were listening I wasn't ready at all to say anything about anything interesting it's the thing you have you just don't know that you do it you wait around in a conversation while I get in and start stumbling through it I was so distracted then I didn't have it straight in my head. I didn't have my face on yet or the roll or the feet of where I was going with it all. I was suffering more than I let on the tropic morning news.

There's nothing stopping me now from saying all the painful parts I've left got to my feet. Talk to us, Bobby. All right. This is the most high-energy national song ever. This is the national. David Letterman once described, he loves the national, and he described the national

as your most depressed friend's favorite band. And I'm not a huge national fan. I've come to them a little late, but I just did come into my algorithm. This is from the, it was the first track off their last album, the first two pages of Frank. Lincolnstein. Actually, Lana just interviewed Matt Berenger. It's not Beringer. It's a Beringer.

Berninger, right. Yeah, she just, she just interviewed him. Lana didn't need it. She just, at a record store. And he's actually got a pretty good sense of humor for a guy who sings just such, such depressing music. But this is called, Sad Dad Dad Music. Yeah, exactly. Tropic Morning News is the name of this song. And it's actually written, him and his wife wrote the lyrics together. And it's what they used to call uh scrolling doom scrolling in the yeah while they're in bed to get like in the morning they would like they'd call oh are you looking at all you know the

tropic morning news and they called it uh yeah so it's his wife karen besser uh came up with the lyrics which i think it's great and i and this i had this on a playlist already for like a sunday morning chill playlist so that that that kind of came to uh came to mind and i i just i i really like it it's a super it was a number one song on the billboard adult alternative air play chart back in 23. It's great song. So I saw this band live with the VP of Sales at Budweiser stage.

I've never seen them. Well, here's the thing. And the crowd loved it. Okay, it's a full stage. Everybody loved it. I can't, I don't get, I don't quite, uh, it doesn't work on me. Like, it never took. I find it kind of boring.

I could see it live being boring for sure. I mean, a lot of sad divorced dads crying at once. It's quite a sight to behold. It's like seeing that a hunt tricks or whatever at the theater. You know what's, but. You know what's interesting about the band is that they have that Taylor Swift connection where the kids love something about the music that they make and then their collaborations with Taylor Swift are like, are like huge for her career, right? So something about the marriage and the mix between the two of them really works. She's getting married.

Yes, there you go. Exactly. Yeah, I feel like these guys aren't emo, right? They're post emo, right? I think they're actually a little like I think they're too legit to be emo if that makes sense. Like the real singer-songwriter, they're real songwriters. But yeah,

I can understand why they'd be boring live. I could totally see that. And the one I always critically acclaimed, The Boxer was the big critically acclaimed album, right? Yeah, yeah. And I tried, I took so many runs at the boxer because everybody I trusted said, oh,

this is an album to listen to, but I just didn't take. It's a background album. I find their music in general. Like, it is a Sunday morning. I'm going to get up and, you know,

make breakfast and have that on in the background. Like, it's not a, well you know it's yes this is a feature about jams but it's not that kind of jam and what's what i think is weird about their music and and the 21st century music is that uh the reason for a lot of popularity of artists like this is that music has become a lot of a background situation for people and we know what it feels like to to like put on headphones or sit in front of speakers and really listen to music but for a lot of kids today and when

i say kids i mean anybody younger than me and younger than you guys the music has a different meaning to them. And stuff like this is nice to just put on when you're doing something else. And that's great. Well, that's interesting. That's an interesting statement because I also, I find I don't trust people who just, who don't like music. You don't trust all the younger generations. Well, they, no, they like, yeah, here's the thing. They like music, but they don't have favorite bands. They don't have their, they're not passionate about anything. And that's all, like, so I find it interesting that, that you're saying the younger people don't, they're using music almost as a, and not an instrument,

It's like a, it's your fridge. It's just there. And like what's, what's a cool 30 seconds of a song I can use for my Instagram story? Yeah. And what's going to make me cool? What's trending?

Yeah. And which is fine in one way. But like for me, I love hearing a clip of music and then going, what the hell is this? And then sort of digging into it. But that's our generation. I think some people like that exist.

I think so too. I think so too. Yeah. They're out there. Now it is remarkable, not remarkable, but it's interesting how popular the national is that they can sell out, you know,

the Budweiser stage. When they have no. hits. No radio hit, but what's a hit? I mean, there's no radio hits. Like, there's no, there's no name a hit from that band. No, but there's this, no, there's no hits. You don't need hits anymore.

Right. This is what I'm saying. There's an artist, uh, Lao, Laufi, her name is. Laevee. Yeah, Levee, thank you, sorry. We gave away a bunch of tickets for her. She's selling out, she sold two nights at the, uh, Scotia Bank, Icelandic jazz singer, never been on the, nobody, maybe CBC would play a song here and there.

Or, no, this is the new world. This is the new world. I see it down the street from us, Forest Hill State. is a fantastic venue and fans come and play there like two nights there's a there was a guy played on the weekend and I'm like who the hell is this guy never heard his name before I Google them and he's done some he's like a songwriter or a producer and he's in a world like like a world that doesn't it's there's no such thing as mainstream anymore so did you change anything like get closer to the mic or started yelling at the mic I'm just curious if you changed

anything Rob Proust know why what sounds worse oh that's better now I don't know it's just you were a little bit you're a little bit yelly there oh really and that's coming from me That's my head. That's my, that's my mic. But Rob, I want to hear your words before your second morning jam. My second one, there's really nothing to say other than my, I was following sort of a trend in my morning jams, and this is one of them. And I had to kick out a lot of songs to make this short list. So I kept this one in because it's one of my favorites. Is that a xylophone?

Uh, I think so, with Lockets Bill. The earth says hello You twinkle above us We twinkle to though Good morning, star shine You lead us along My love and me as we sing Our early morning singing song

Gritty, gloop, gloopy, Bibby, la la la, la, la, la, lo, lo. Saba, sippy, suba, obi, obi, oba, naba lily, lo, no. That's gibberish. Ron Bruce, tell me about good morning, starshine. Yep. You all know this song, of course. I don't know this song.

What? I don't think so. Tell me why I should know this song. So I can see how stupid I am. This song is from the musical hair, which... You don't know the song. You don't know the song. Okay.

I only know long, beautiful hair or whatever to be. This was a radio hit in 19, summer of 69. In the summer of 69. First, this guy, his name is Oliver. He's an American singer. And the song is from Hair the Musical. And I knew this song literally when I was four years old because Bob sang it on Sesame Street as well. Oh, I knew Bob.

I knew Bob on Sesame Street. Bob McGrath sang the song, and there's a beautiful clip on YouTube of him singing it with some Muppets from the very first season. I could see that. Yeah, it was the first, I mean, Sesame Street began that November, 69. And that's one of my earliest memories of, like,

sitting down in front of the TV to watch it. So this song has been in my life, like from one of my earliest musical memories. You guys, you two are a little bit of, in my opinion, a little bit of, like, theater snobs in that you cannot believe somebody hasn't, seen hair. Oh, no, no, I've never, I've never seen hair live, but this is, this was a radio hit.

Yeah. All right. Well, maybe we need to start playing it on Indy 88, because I haven't, I don't recognize it. Sure, if you want to go, um, create a time machine, too. Sure, that'd be great. That's right. I did notice a Broadway quality to the, uh, because I noticed it in your first song, too, even though it was a Scottish guy, but it had a bit of like a Broadway call.

At the very beginning, I thought this is a musical song. I did. Isn't that funny? Musical song? And it was, it was the sound of the song. production, I think, in that song, Narcissist's Cookbook, right? There's something about the compression of the voice that's, like, just really in your face. It sounds like it could be for a show.

I never thought of that. Yeah, oh, no, big time. Yeah, like, it's from rent or something. Right. There's a certain cadence to all those things. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he, they, is a storyteller, and it makes you just want to listen to the lyrics and the story.

And, I mean, that's definitely a theatrical quality for sure, which I love. Well, I love these jams here. I'm just popping into the live stream here because we are cooking with gas. The National Good Buddies with FOTM Hayden who I literally chatted with yesterday. He wanted me to know he misses seeing my handsome face at High Park

because my kid's no longer in House League. He's in this development league or whatever. So we don't play games like every week at High Park like we did last summer. So he misses me and Hayden, if you're listening, I also miss you. And I wanted you to be on stage when I saw the National

at the Freshwater stage. So shout out to VP, shout out to the national. Let me see here. I'm going to see lettuce tomorrow night. Anyone heard of them? So have you heard of lettuce? Nope.

I mean, in a salad, yeah. There you go. So Canada cat's going to see so there's a lot of bands we don't know anymore. And of course, Moose Grumpy, again, like you two, letting me know, I should know good morning starry. Because it's well-known, Mike. Not well-known to me, Moose Grumpy. Okay, that is my.

truth. That is my truth. And then there's some chat about the gibberish lyrics in that particular. And then Moose says when you guys post going to different concerts around Toronto, I often have no idea who you are talking about. Well, I stick to the big names. The Who, Neil Young, bare naked ladies, okay? No obscure bands in my That's right. That's funny. None of these little

shows for you. My most obscure band is Rusty. Okay, there you go. That's pretty obscure. Apparently this song was kicked out by you, Rob Pruse, when we kicked out gibberish jams. Oh, you've already done it. Uh-oh. You know what? That's a violation.

What is a violation? What's the punishment? Does we lose a turn in picking the theme? There needs to be a real punishment. That's going to take like three months for the punitive. That's true. That's true. Well, we'll consider the punishment.

Proz, we expect better from you. I'm really sorry. But I'm happy to know that the statistics are being kept. Yeah. And here's the thing. And you don't remember it from then. No, Mike doesn't even remember it. To me, maybe that's it.

Maybe I, maybe I, I've heard it a million times. Some songs just don't hook in and resonate. They're just like background noise or whatever. That's right. So I may know that song and I'm, I don't know. I wasn't watching Sesame Street in 1969.

That's for sure. But if it appeared on an album or something with Bob singing it, I had a lot of Sesame Street material. So who knows? Okay. This is like a preview of my, one of my things. Oh, cool. Oh my God.

It's all connects here. Well, yeah, but I, you're not next anymore. You're going number two, right? You're next. I'm going next. I called an audible on the line of scrimmage. Because that dog needed to be walked, and that dog shall remain nameless. Omaha, 22. Omaha! I repeat. I repeat. The dog shall remain

nameless. That's interesting. Yeah, it's well to be discussed. Okay, here we go. Yeah. It's the same thing back in the cold People know people come and go It boars me Same thing seems like a trap in the world Where the server face of sight Time waits on no man

So when people fall like me Every day It's Saturday night But I can't wait For Sunday morning Sunday morning All right, I'm going to start by saying I have taken several runs

I'm getting chaos on Toronto Mike Because I'm a big fan And he feels accessible to me But I've struck out every time That's strange to me He's a very Sorry, this is your time But he is a, he's a very eccentric fellow.

I've met him on a couple occasions. And he marches to the beat of his own drum. He doesn't care about anything. He just does what he wants. He doesn't want to come in the basement and chat me up. And I was there at the history with the OVO where he came out and did stuff. Because he had a beef with Drake. And Drake invited him to that, and I was there for that.

It was crazy. Right, right. So if you don't know this song, Bob, are you familiar with this song? song by chaos. No, but I feel like I might have heard it, but I really like it. Yeah. If you've been in Canada and listened to the radio in the 2000s, yeah, you know this. I've definitely heard it on the radio.

So, this album is called Atlantis Hymns for Disco. Yeah. Okay. This is the second single from that album. It went to number five on the Much Music countdown. I did see it quite a bit on Much Music. He even performed it on The Late Show with Mr. David Letterman. And this is like early 2007.

He did that. Quick code. He hasn't been on Toronto, Mike, to talk about it. But he did write at some point. He said, Sunday morning was always about church and food and family. Then I moved down to Toronto. And Sunday morning became about Advil gel caps. This song is about an individual who realizes how sacred Sunday morning used to be.

And he can't wait until Sunday morning is something that helps him out instead of a day of rest. My parents have been married for over 4. years, and I will eventually become like them and have my, and have 10 kids and do my own thing. But until then, every day is Saturday night. So that is a chaos talk. Kevin Brereton is his real name. Yep. That's cool. And I did, I'm trying to remember now, but I have, oh, I know, I just did an episode, like, I had a cancellation and I had this thought banging around my head, like songs that mention the name Toronto, but not songs that talk about the six or T-DOT or 416

or talk about buying a house on the Danforth or having a kiss on Bathurst. Like there's a lot of Toronto jams but I wanted songs that said the word Toronto and there is a chaos song that drop and it's from Atlanta's Hymns for Disco so I did kind of drop that into that episode which I dropped earlier this week

but I'm going to play something this is going to make me tear up I think I'm even thinking about it makes me tear up but I mentioned this song came out in 2006 and I guess when my y'alleled Sorry, my oldest daughter was three years old. This became her favorite song. I played it a lot, so maybe I had some influence there.

But this is actually a recording I took, and it sounds like it's going to sound like potato quality here. But I took a little video of my daughter, Michelle, singing this. It's Saturday night, I can't someday morning. At a day night, I can't someday morning. So that's little Michelle, who's like three years old and then morning. So that's little Michelle, who is, I guess she was born in 2004, so I guess she's like three years old probably there, singing Sunday morning.

And at the time, I did get a note from somebody who was touring with chaos because I put it on YouTube and then it actually, I don't know, I've had good traction with SEO or whatever, but a lot of eyeballs on that little video of Michelle singing Sunday morning. and I was told by somebody who email me to say that Chaos had watched it and thought it was very cute. And I remember sharing that with Michelle like 20 years ago or something like that. Man, oh man, the days are long, but the years are short, eh? Holy moly. Write that down. I have, somewhere in the cloud, I have a video on my phone from my short time as the music director at Virgin Radio.

In the music director, so the Chm FM music director's office was much bigger than the Virgin office. so Chaos came in and performed for a bunch of us like at 9 in the morning and very much out of the same page as Hugh Dillon from the Headstones at the Christmas show for the Humble and Fred show. Chaos would not perform for us until we got him a beer. In the office.

In the office. And then when he did, he ended up covering radio head and he was amazing. And it was awesome. I have like, he was great. But he literally,

we needed to go and find a beer. in the building somewhere at 9.30 in the morning. Wow. That's wild. I've heard that Hugh Dillon story from Humble and Fred. You know, beer, right? I thought it was weed. Was it a beer?

The Hugh Dillon story? I always heard a beer, but maybe it was weed. I don't know. I was on the other side. I was on the other side of the stage. It was 98 and it was, I was sitting next to Howard. I was the on-site producer going back to the radio station. So I kind of had headphones on the whole time.

Okay. Well, so that song's called Sunday morning. Yes, and this song. But I'm going to set you up. I'm not going to spoil yours. But I've always. I've always. I often thought in my head about the Sunday morning trifectic

because there were three songs that I loved that were called. There were probably more than three songs, actually, that I think about it. But these were the three I love these three songs. And that was the one I chose to kick out. But I do want to pay respect for a moment to this song. I'm surprised not Maroon 5 Sunday morning. I got Hansen, huh? Speaking to Kevin Hearn.

It's just a restless fear. It all comes back to Kevin. And I'll bring it down. So I'm just going to shout out the Velvet Underground because their Sunday morning is a fucking great song. Yeah. It's just the wasted years. And I'll bring it down so Bob can introduce his second jam. My second jam is called Sunday morning. Oh, what a wild coincidence. This is the other song in the trifecta. Let's hear it.

Spoiler alert. There we go. Fucking great song, by the way. Awesome. It makes me want a spaghetti dinner or something. Sappy pathetic little me That was the girl I used to be You had me on my knee

Wow So good I'd trade you places any day I never thought you could be that way So good Yes You look like me on Sunday You're gonna get a bomb fucker

You came up with the breeze on Sunday morning. I sure ain't changing just a day. Without any morning. I thought I knew you. Whoa. I thought I knew you. Oh. I thought I knew you.

Well, yeah. No, dude. No doubt from Tragic Kingdom Sunday morning. first came to my head right away we used to play so I used to produce the live to airs from Club 102 with Martin Streak and DJ Dwight

at the time and often at the Phoenix after midnight going toward like 1.30 in the morning we would play Sunday morning and it always yeah and I've actually I've kind of

it's been really neat being at Indy88 because this is in our gold rotation and I've been told to you know kind of be myself and so I get on the air and I'm like, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce. Like, I'm like, let's go. Like, this is a great energetic song.

Yes, it's not a first thing wake up in the morning jam, but it could be to get you going. This is the- It's a morning jam. So what's interesting, this was the fifth single off of- Can I guess? Can I do this? I'm going to try to do this.

Yeah, go for it. I'm just a girl, and I might get the wrong order. Yeah. Spider-webs. I'm just a girl. I'm just a girl, Spider-Webbs. Okay, give me a second. The slow one with the Apple and the video.

Don't speak. Don't speak, right? Don't speak. So those are the three big for singles. There's one between those three and this one? Yes. Okay, give me a second. Yeah, it was, it was on Edge 102 for sure.

Okay, help me out. Excuse me, Mr. Of course. Yes, big time song. So it's interesting about this. So check this song out. Great album. So do you remember the documentary with Tony I,

with Jimmy Iveen and Dr. Dre. Yes. And so there's no doubt is featured quite a bit in that because this is their third album. And Jimmy believed in this band. They believed in Gwen Stefani. And it took a long, they were one of these like three year,

10 year overnight successes. They worked their asses off. What's interesting, this song is written by Gwen Stefani, Eric Stefani and Tony Cannell, but produced it. And I should have had a mind blow ready for this. I'm sorry.

Matthew Wilder. Oh, yes. Really? Break my stride. Oh my God. No, but I'm going to break my stride. Yeah. I forgot that he was working with them. Yeah.

So for me, this is probably my favorite, no doubt song. I love this song. You know what? It might be, I think it might be my favorite, no doubt song.

Yeah, it's so good. No arguments. You know, her brother wrote, no, animated for the Simpsons. I did not know that.

And he was in the band too, and he left the band. I think he might have left either before this broke because of course Traged Kingdom makes his band He left in 95

This whole album is my favorite Yeah Oh yeah Tragic Kingdom is by far their best album It's a playthru It's great All the thing

You mentioned Five big singles Right All good Oh 97 right I mean That's the year I started dating my wife

And like What a crazy year For music You'd probably play this Picking her up After grade nine You were That's right

That's right This is one of the few shows I've only been to The most Inphitheater Two times in my whole life What? How's that possible?

Well, because I moved to New York in 2001. Right, I guess so, yeah. So in the summer of 2000, 25 years ago, the two concerts that I saw, I saw no doubt in June, and then like a month later, or maybe even the same month, I saw Brian Wilson play there. And those were the only two times I've been there. You know, I just saw a biopic about Brian Wilson, where Paul Dano plays the 60s Brian Wilson. Oh, yeah. And John Cusack plays the 80s Brian Wilson. Oh, I heard about this.

And Paul Giamati plays Dr. Landy, and it was fucking great. It's such a cool film. I watched it this past weekend. I loved it. It's like 10 years old or something. This was actually not, Sunday morning was not released as a commercial single

in the United States. However, it was in Canada. Well, the video got high rotation on much music. It was, they made that spaghetti meal

at the picnic table. It was, made it all the way to number 33 on RPM, but I mean, it did way higher than that. Listen, us all rockers, Bob,

this was a big fucking smash. Huge. Loved it. Yeah. Yeah. I should have had something by Matthew Wald already, but.

Well, I can only name one, song. Is there something else? Did he have a big career? I only know Break My Stride. Matthew Wilder had a couple of things, actually. You know what else he did? He went on to write in musical theater. And like for

was it Disney films or something? Like, oh yeah, he wrote the film Moulon. There you go. That's a big one. That's like Monica's favorite cartoon. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, he was yeah, he did the singing voice for the character Ling. Yeah. Wow. There you go. I don't know if you could do that today. Isn't Matthew

Wilder a white guy? He is a white guy. No longer cool. All right, this is an awesome episode, and we have one song each to go. Rob Pruse, any words before you are? And I'm going to dedicate this song to my youngest daughter. I knew you were going to. I was going to mention it, and I'm glad you mentioned it

because I would have done the same dedication. All my daughters get shuddered out today. This is the daughter who made the earring for me. Thank you for the toastie. That's right. You ready or do you want to say something? You could just hit it. No, it's a beautiful song.

I'm afraid of it. I won't know it, and it'll look stupid again. I haven't known any of your jams yet. When morning comes to Morgan Town, the merchants roll their on east down, the milk trucks make their morning rounds in Morning Morgan Town. We'll rise up early with the sun to ride the bus

While everyone is yawning And the day is young In morning, Morgantown Morning Morgan Town Morning Morgan Town Buy your dreams a dollar down Morning in any town

Morning's just the same we'll find a table in the shade and sip our tea and their morning. Morning Morgantown. Talk to us Rob Pruse. I love the piano. I love how the guitar and the piano sort of meld together on this song. And this is one of my favorite songs from Joni Mitchell. One of my favorite albums, it's Ladies of the Canyon, which this was the first song on the album.

It came out in 1970. this is all, you know, this is old stuff, but like Joni hitting her, speaking of Matthew Wilder, she was making her stride, hitting her stride. Nobody's going to break her stride. Nope, nobody did break her stride. No, and I think it's just a beautiful song. No, Joni Mitchell, what can you say? What a living legend. I saw Neil Young and I was thinking, okay, we have a few living legends. It's going to be tragic if they ever leave us. Shout out to Really

funeral home. Joni's on that list. Yeah, but that's so cool that you got to see Neil too, though. Not my first time, but it was. My first time seeing Neil Outdoors. Nice. I have a Neil, a weed story, quick one. Yeah. So I go see Neil Young at ACC with, it's that Welcome to Green Lane. Oh, was this, uh, Los Lobos opening?

Yes. I was there. Yeah. And so he had actors acting it out. Remember, he did the whole album. It was like a, it was a concept album, the welcome to, there was like, Randy Backman there? I don't know. I don't know.

I don't smoke a lot of weed. But I did, my buddy. brought a joint and we go and then in front of us actually I just started working at Mix 999 I think and is Eileen who used to be on the Humble and Fred show. Her name is Eileen Ogden Ross. Yes, but she was so she's a row in front of us. I hardly know her. She's with her first husband at the time and I'm there with with my buddy Jerry and and I'm like and we start smoking a joint and then afterwards I was like oh god what if she tells the people at standard radio that I smoked a joint illegally inside

That's funny Those days are long gone And all I remember Is watching that Like because it was not a good show Until he came out Like that album was not good See I no longer think we were at the same show

No no no You never see the one where he acted Did the gloss Lobos I don't know No I just agreed with you for the hell of it I don't think the same show Anyways I watched Mine was earlier

I watched Yeah I watched There's actors Like he's singing on stage And actors are mouthing the words Yeah And when you're stoned and in the 300 level

completely on the opposite side of the place it was the weirdest thing ever it felt like the longest and shortest concert I've ever been to but I didn't pass out I think you didn't go down I think that Eileen is doing work with your former workplace She's writing for Durham She's writing for Durham Radio

Because she lives in Oshawa She used to live near me in Mimaco Yep she's one of the good ones She went to the dirty show she's very funny She's very funny she was doing improv and stuff as well so maybe some stand Well, we're friends on Facebook. She's a...

Can I show her? I just say, I don't even know if she knows this story, but I was like, in my head, I'm like, oh my God, there's one of my, my new coworkers. Quick stories. I was at the park with the two youngest yesterday where they were playing the swings or something. And I can hear a woman having a very loud conversation.

And it's, and I'm very interested in the convo because she's spilling a lot of tea in this phone call. I'm not trying to eavesdrop, but it's like she's out loud in this park and I'm just sitting on the bench listening. And she says this, ready? I dated an actor I paid $500 a week for his acting lessons

and he got on saving private Ryan and the Green Mile and became a very famous actor he's not famous anymore and then she kind of she's going off to a friend or whatever talking about

how she dated this actor who got on those big movies and that she paid for this actor's again this old allegedly because I just heard her side but it was quite like quite the T to hear and I was listening and I knew

right away who she was talking about. Do you want to know who she was talking about? Sure. Barry Pepper. Oh, yeah, Barry Pepper. Whose career was destroyed by that Scientology movie directed by an FOTM, Battlefield Earth

of John Travolta. That was directed by an FOTM? Yeah. The guy who made the R2 designed R2D2 in the Millennian Falcon and the lightsaber for George Lucas when Star Wars was being made. Wow. And that was, that movie was like universally panned.

Yeah, it's a, it's made by El Ron Hubbard. What's his name, El Ron Hubbard? That's it. The Scientology guy, and it's apparently a terrible, I haven't seen it, but it's a terrible movie, apparently. But Barry Pepper was in it, and I think that was the movie that killed his... Canadian, right? He's Canadian, yeah. And this woman talked about dating him in the 90s, and then he became very famous.

Random overheard. Yeah, and she paid for his acting. And she said $500 a week she paid for his acting lessons. And then he became very famous, but she seemed kind of bitter and upset, but said, He did tell her friend, he's not famous anymore. Wow. There's some berry pepper for you. It's great.

I know. And yeah, the director of Battlefield Earth was in the backyard during COVID for a very long chat. And he was amazing. And he still lives in Mimico. Oh, I remember listening to that. It was Roger Christian. It was Roger Christian. Good for you, Rob Pruse.

Wow. You know what? I give you permission to listen to FOTM cast because I feel like you can speak the language. I listen to everyone. Believe me, I'm in the world. okay here in the world okay

so morning Morgan Town yeah good choice love Johnny Mitchell yeah I got one more jam to go normally I close

these shows but Bob's closing this fucking show that's snow's fault oh Leslie was here to like two and then she left to work

and then she came back and she said what did I miss nothing nothing Leslie you don't listen back you didn't miss anything okay

so this is a song I think about because of the opening lyric I think of it as a morning song and I have a little tour we're going to take together

you're ready for my morning jam? Do it. Hit it. Oh. While my money's all gone, I got a damnation, I could still get high. I can play the guitar like a motherfucking riot. Life is so love the one you got, because you might get run over, or you might get shot.

Never start, no static, I just did it off. my chest. Never had to battle with my bulletproof best. Take a small example take a little bit from me. Take all your money, give it off. To charity. Love is what I got is within my reach and the soft lifestyles just straight from long beach. It all comes back to you

and find to get what you deserve. Try and test that. You're bound to get served. Love's what I got. Don't start or I got. You feel it when the desk gets hot. Love is what I got. I said remember that love it. Look.

It's what I got I remember that Love is what I got Sublime Nice What I got Rob do you know The song

No but I love it And also there's a little Melody in there That's Where were you through the 90s I was immersed in musical theater And Jeff Buckley Buckley and Elton John and Billy Joel

There you go But I do hear a little melody in there That's a little bit inspired By the Beatles lady Come on Rob Don't take away from me Save it to the end when you find it I missed it. Oh, okay, sorry.

But, okay, so this is the self-titled third album. I think most of us alt rock guys had it. I don't know. I had it on CD. A couple of fun facts here. So they got that love is what I got, right? Love. And I'm like, I thought that was just something that maybe like Bradley or somebody in Sublime

wrote or something. So there's a few mind blows along the way. Here's the first one. I'll bring down Sublime and play this song. Dedicated in this to snow. Oh, that's all. Oh, that's all. All right.

Writing credit, I hope. But yeah, yes. So this is absolutely, so this song I didn't know about, but this song is called Loving. And it's by a reggae artist called Half Pint. And he did get a co-writing credit on what I got. That's really cool.

So I didn't know. Like I literally had no idea. But yeah, so that hook was taken straight from half pint here. Rob, you've already alluded to something. Yeah. Which I'm going to kind of bang home here because the melody and the pacing of what I got, a song I quite quite like, obviously, I'm kicking out. I like it very much.

It's identical to a bigger jam, and you named it, rudely stealing my thunder. But let me just play a little bit of that song. Maybe Bob and I will sing over it Can you just turn me down a little bit actually Yeah, it's really love Thank you Thank you

Good How you managed to make ends me Who finds the money When you pay the wrong Have to find a reason Why my money's all gone There you go I never heard

I know of them like to know No writing credit though There's no letting in a certain cell. Okay, so, Lady Madonna, the pacing and the melody basically fits right in with what I got. But okay, so here's something that happened to me recently at Budweiser's stage. Speaking of the stage, I was, Monica bought us tickets to see Berenaked Ladies. Hello to Kevin Hearn once again, the fourth mention, I think. So I'm at the stage watching Barankeed Ladies with Monica, and they had a couple of opening bands.

One was Fastball. That's right. who have two big radio hits? One big hit and one. I say two. There were two songs. Only one is survived on the radio. Nobody plays anything but the way.

But what's the other one? Exactly. Exactly. Except if I sing it to you, you're going to change your mind. No, no, but it's not. Nobody plays it. It doesn't test well. I'm telling you, nobody plays it.

All right, but I've got to shut it out now. You can shout it out all you want. Out of my head. Was it out of my head? Was it out of my mind? How did I've ever been so blind? Okay, so the way is the big one. And then out of my head is another minor.

hit. My apologies to the radio programmers. Okay. So... Then, the other band. The other band is playing their big hit, and I'm there. And this guy, Mark McGrath, you might have heard of him. He's kicking out his big hit. And I'm hearing it with Monica, and I start

singing Sublime's What I Got. Like, because I realize it's the same fucking song, okay? So here is that song. I do love that fly. I love that fly So I'm there again I haven't heard

flying a long time But I heard it a lot When it was a big hit But Is this the version With or without Super Cat It's got Super Cat in there He was not at the Budweiser stage

There's no one doing his part either No It really needs Supercat Early in the morning Rise into the street Anyways you start hearing it I'll be up that cigarette Totally mixed that up

Yeah Okay So I start singing it I'm like wow This is the same And I said to Monica I actually said to where I said I just realized, like I just had this epiphany

in my 51st year I said Sugar Ray's Fly is the same as Sublime's what I got Sublime comes first, then fly And then no joke Did he tag it on? He starts singing what I got in the middle of fly So he's completely aware He sort of leans in and then I did find this on YouTube

I love it when artists do that Yeah, he totally leaned in on it and he sang it So just a little bit of this The bass line's so similar. Early in the morning, rising to a street. Did you make this? I found this on YouTube. You could have found something better.

You could have told me I would have mixed it better than this. Oh, I'm sorry I didn't assign you this task. Anyways, you have to take my word for it. If you listen to Fly, you can sing what I got in the middle of it. And, of course, the hook and sublime's what I got is that loving from half pint. And it's all Lady Madonna anyways. There's nothing new under the sun. Bob Willett will take us home.

All right. The A4 mentioned Bob from Sesame Street is going to take us home. What? So why don't you stay right down on the floor where you are, and we'll do this one, okay? Any relation to Mark McGrath? That's true. Rain whistle blowing Makes a sleepy noise

Underneath their blankets Go all the girls and boys Rock and roll and riding Out along the bay All bound for morning town Many miles away Cookies at the engine Maria rings the bell

Big bird swings the lantern To show that all is well Rock and rolling riding Out along the bay All bound for morning town Many miles away All right Maybe it is raining

Where our train will ride But all the little travelers I'm digging Morning Town Ride Okay, talk to us, buddies Morning Town Ride So there is an album The vinyl album You said you had a lot of Sesame Street vinyl albums

This one is called Sing Along It's Sesame Street Sing Along And it's originally from 1982 And it is All these great songs It's the whole cast And all the

It starts off with a sketch There was one thing I wanted I brought this up for a reason And I do have a It's more bonus feature More than a mind blow It's We bought

When my first daughter was born in Ten We went There's a place on Mount Pleasant Called Mabel's Fables Oh yeah The best children's And they're moving by the way

Just down the street Mabel's Fables And they had a CD collection Of three different Sesame Street albums And this was one of them and to this day, my 15 and 10 year old, if we're on a long road trip,

want to hear it because it's legitimately funny. This is the bonus. It's the opening, which is, yeah, I used to. Oh, no, that's not it. Stop that one, yeah, yeah. Hey, Bert, can you pay this to stop Bernie and Byrne? I refuse to stop Bernie and Byrne. Okay. Yeah, I know, so I want the bonus?

I want the bonus in a second. But so the whole Bob thing I found interesting. So when I was in high school, Somebody gave me a cassette of a stand-up comedy. Remember, like, so this is just post, um, Andrew Dice Clay. So I get like this random recorded cassette of a guy doing limericks and doing like the, I, I, I, I don't that. No, not that.

No, but it's like the waltz me around by my willy is the thing, right? It's like, aye, I, aye, aye, I. Your father refills cream donuts. So sing me another verse worse than the other verse and waltz me around by my willy. And I was like, and I was like, I'll give you one quickly. There once was a man named Paul who had a hexagonal shaped ball the square of his weight

plus his pecker times eight is his phone number, give him a call. So I get this and I'm told it was Bob McGrath. Oh my God. And I have searched high and low. It was not Bob McGrath.

It was not Bob McGrath at all. No, and I thought it would have, how great would it have been? Like Bob Saga when you hear he works blue. Yeah, but it was probably a guy named John Volby,

by the way, which was a kind of, like really dirty comic funny low brow guy anyways wow those these those limericks were in my head and i thought it was funny that bob did this um the this sing-along songs is like it's like a long sketch it's basically both sides of the album and it's hilarious because it starts off with ernie uh interrupting bert in his bath and just you just got to hear the opening it's actually i legitimately think it's one of the funniest things okay here we go Yankee doodle went to town

Arriving on his pony Oh, I love taking my bath Peace and quiet All alone Then called it macaroni Oh, two, three Hi buddy, Bert Oh, hi Ernie, will you close the door,

Ernie, there's a draft Well, just a second, Bert Earnie, what do you do? You can't push the piano through the bathroom door Why, sure I can, Bert. Watch. See? Erne.

I love the way he says, Ernie. What are you doing with a piano in the bathroom? Well, Bert, I heard you singing in the tubby there. And so I thought I would just come in and sing along. I don't want you to sing along. The whole thing has that vibe. It's really funny. Can I shout out my favorite Sesame Street cassette Street cassettes, which I spent.

years hunting down and I found a vinyl coffee and digitized it because I wanted it so badly. Camping in Canada. I don't know. It came out like 81 or something, but really? Camping in Canada is a, I know every word to this day. If I hear it, I know every word. So every song and it's fantastic. There's so many good Sesame Street albums out

there. So, yeah, morning town train, morning train. Yeah, here you go. Love it. Morning to. Oh, my baby takes the morning train, didn't make it. No. No. There's a lot of great morning jam. You know what? You kicked out a morning jam when you kicked out the jam. with me, Bob Willett. Oh, I'm sure I did. What did I do?

Sunday morning coming down. Oh, yes, yes, yes. I'm surprised that song was... I'm not allowed to redo songs. And apparently, according to the conversation, Rob Proust did not. I was going to mention that, too. Okay, well, let's get that on the record

before I hit the X-Trobe. Yeah, that was a... It's weird to end with Bob, but... It's good to end with Sesame Street, though. We used to end with stew. I remember, I never got to close out toast. Who's this person you're talking of? Yeah, who? What?

So, let's get this right. So when Tyler... What's the next thing? Yeah, I'm going to announce that for sure. When VP of Sales said that Pruse had already kicked out the jam, it was actually a song that Canada Kev mentioned in the comments. So what was the name of that song? Oh, yeah. It's called Prison Calling Encinanchusel.

Okay, so that song was actually kicked out by Rob Pruse on gibberish jams. You did not violate any rules, and Rob, we will not be punishing you any further. There you go. Thank you. You've been punished enough, is what I'm telling you here. Yes, I'm punished by being on Zoom and not with you guys. Yeah, we miss you. So on I know, will you be back here next week?

Absolutely. September, we're going to find a date in September and I will be there. So you know there's a TMLX event on September 25 Thursday night at GLB Boo Pub. Any chance you can tie it to that? Probably not. Thursday's probably hard. If Thursday's hard, my next visits are probably going to be earlier in the week. So hopefully we'll find a schedule that'll work for you guys too.

but yeah, I'm hoping it'll be like the earlier part of a week. Well, we miss you, but this was better than nothing. Better than nothing. I thought it was pretty good. And were you surprised when a man with a number one Billboard Hot 100 hit for seven weeks in a row showed up on your Zoom? Oh, that guy who was with that dog. Yeah, he was cool.

Oh, it was actually my A.A.I. And the AI, too. That's why when Bob's A.I. showed up, I thought it was him. Oh, next time, you know what, we should play my AI song. I sent you, uh, Rob. Maybe we don't play any AI songs. No, no, with my lyrics. No, I wrote it.

All right. Well, if you wrote it, we'll play it here. But, okay, so I'm now going to announce the topic for next month because that's my call. And I was thinking about it. And I had a few different ideas. But is it Saw Exploder? That's the podcast, right? Song Exploder.

And they did that episode on Iris by Goo Goo Goo Dolls. Google Dolls. And apparently it's really helped boost Iris. like it's made some kind of a streaming comeback because of this episode and I did listen and I thought it was a great like an entertaining episode where I learned a lot about Iris.

What was interesting to me though is that the word Iris does not appear in that song like the title was Iris. There's no Iris in the lyrics. And then I thought, what if we kicked out our favorite songs where the title of the song does not appear anywhere in the song

I got one already. So, but the key here, Rob, and this is where I need to be very strict with you. Don't just Google it. You can't Google it and just pick out, discover new songs. These have to be your favorite, like, already, at this moment, these are already- Fine. Because, like, just, you know, the spirit of the show is that you kick out, oh, that Elton John song. But he likes to discover new music and share it, too.

Discovered at your own fucking time, Rob, Bruce. So you're going to. But I saved you from boring 70s morning jams. I don't. I'd rather hear boring 70s jams that were, like, in your heart. Well, they are in my heart. Then a song where, oh, yeah, I was Googling this topic. I chose for toast, and I discovered this new song.

You know what I mean? I appreciate that. Okay. So basically bring to this your three favorite songs. Okay. But the title can't appear in the song. I may have kicked this song out before, though. Not on a toast, though, but not on a toast.

Okay, well, then you can kick it again. Is that okay? That's okay. We'll call it the Iris episode. Okay. Yes. Okay. They're from Buffalo.

You know this. Yep. Goo Goo dolls. Google dolls. And there's strings on Iris. And I give up forever. It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?

Irv Weinstein. Commander Tom. Is it Weinstein or Weinstein? I think it's Weinstein. We both are the opposite. Frankenstein. Oh, there you go. Well, I hope all is well.

Can I ask you just quickly? How do you get into? I'm running out of ramp here. No, no. No, I'll just, how do you get into the theater? Like, how do you, do you take public transit? I take the subway. Oh, yeah, subway is easy.

E or the F takes me right to Broadway. Because when I come to say at your house and then go to see shows, I need to know how. Yeah, yeah, you could do that when the Democrats are back in power. I can't wait that. Yeah, that'll be in 20 something. And that brings us to the end of our 1,750 first show. Go to Toronto Mike.com for all your Toronto Mike needs. Much love to all who made this possible.

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