Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - New Year Jams: Toronto Mike'd #780

Episode Date: December 31, 2020

This 42nd Pandemic Friday, Mike kicks out New Year jams with Cam Gordon and Stu Stone.

Happy New Year, Happy New Year, may we all have a vision now as in, of a world where every neighbor is a friend. It's time now for Pandemic Fridays, starring Toronto Mike, Stu Stone, and Cam Gordon. Welcome to episode 780 of Toronto Mic'd, a weekly podcast about anything and everything. Proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, a fiercely independent craft brewery who believes in supporting communities, good times and brewing amazing beer. CDN Technologies, your outsourced IT department. Palma Pasta, enjoy the taste of fresh homemade Italian pasta and entrees from Palma Pasta in Mississauga and Oakville. StickerU.com, create custom stickers, labels, tattoos, and decals for your home and your business.

stickers, labels, tattoos, and decals for your home and your business. Sammy Cohn Real Estate. For a complimentary evaluation of your home, contact Sammy Cohn. Sammy at SammyCohn.com. And Ridley Funeral Home. Pillars of the community since 1921. I'm Mike. From TorontoMike.com and joining me for this 42nd

Pandemic Friday. It's our New Year's Eve spectacular. Here's Stu Stone. Yes. Hello. And Cam Gordon. Hi Mike. Happy New Year Mike. Happy

New Year Stu and Happy New Year. Happy New Year, Mike. Happy New Year, Stu. And happy New Year. Happy New Year. And honestly, happy New Year to all those people who made Mike's top 10 episodes of the year list of which Stu and I are not in it. Weird, because I feel like we did 90% of the episodes

this year. And I guess the 10 episodes that weren't us, i guess yeah like let's just get right into this mike you know just just for the listeners who might not have seen this mike mike mike boone toronto mike boone uh published some content yesterday on his blog top 10 kind of a top 10 list of his top 10 most important or favorite I guess favorite episodes you know some fine talent in there whether it's sort of the Ben Rayner stuff or Brother Bill

Sass Jordan yeah I assume that's Brother Bill Alan Cross was not there which in fairness like did give us a lot of material this year and has been a running gag but yeah and he's noticed

it seems to me like Cam and I are usually this year and it's been a running gag. But yeah, no Seuss Stone. No Seuss Stone. It seems to me like Cam and I are usually we're used to it. We're used to getting snubbed. We did win the Snubby Awards this year. We swept. We're not a part of the best of episode that

that son of a bitch Al put together. Yeah, we're not a true kick out the jams. Yeah yeah we are not part of uh toronto mike's favorite 10 episodes of the year uh you know we what are we doing this for we don't get paid for this we'll remind you i haven't got a fucking lasagna in like months there's some real talk for you that's true every time you've asked for lasagna, you've got a lasagna, right? I ate them. They were great. Okay.

If I may, if I may, I did put together, I'm going to read the title. So on Toronto Mike.com. This is like the Rod Phillips coming off the airplane moment. No one feels worse about this than I do. I think that's the, I think MF tweeted that quote from Rod Phillips. Who's doing your PR? By the way, shout out to MF, who's having quite the moment. This is the most famous she's ever been, is this moment right now. Is that fair to say?

I don't know if I'd say that, but she had a big day yesterday. Did she break the story? Or she just attacked the story? She's covering it closely. Yeah, like it was 10-10 actually broke it, but a lot of the forensics that you saw, I broke it but a lot of the forensics um you saw i'll just

say a lot of forensics with some of the piecing together all the little clues of all this digital content like what's her mood like cam i mean she's right beside you probably like is she just beaming that she's kicking ass and taking names what's it like to live with a famous person i mean she's pretty you know she's she's rich i. I mean, she cares about her job. So this is kind of just her gig. She's kind of tired, to be honest. Sort of like when I cover an interview. But she's also quite disappointed

that Cam was not mentioned in your top 10 episodes, I think. We'll get back to that. But is it fair to say MF feels right now the way I feel when Anne Romer announces a retirement? Like this is her thing. She's covering it closely.

Everybody's interested. Okay, so back to my top 10 list. It's called 10 episodes from 2020. You should revisit and then in parentheses or listen to for the first time. I just assume everybody's listening to the Pandemic Fridays, but I didn't want, like, if you overlooked Aaron Davis or Jamie Campbell or Sass Jordan or Stephen Page, I wanted to just put a spotlight on those episodes because, I mean, let's face it, like, most FOTMs

are all over the Pandemic Friday episodes. Yeah, well, as we saw from the award-winning holiday episode that was cast of thousands, that was a lot of fun. I'm glad you brought that up because I do want to thank all the FOTMs who joined that Zoom last week. It was pretty awesome

to hear from some people we've never heard from before and to, as Mark Weisblatt said yesterday when he was in my backyard. Crazy. He's a crazy guy. For Homage 2020. He mentioned, it was exciting, In my backyard. Crazy. He's a crazy guy.

For Homage 2020. He mentioned, it was exciting. Somebody said they were searching for information on Muffy Mouse from today's special. I had an interview with Nina Keogh. They were hooked and now they're an FOTM who loves the Pandemic Fridays. Thank you to everybody who showed up

on the holiday episode, which was a week ago. This is now new year's Eve. We're going to kick out. Think about that, Mike. Think about that. Okay.

The discovery of your show all stemmed from somebody looking up an interview on Muffy mouse. You know, that's gotta be like a pretty rare search in 2020. And it's pretty amazing that it landed them right here. On Toronto Mike Show where Cam and Stu get no recognition. Just think about it this way, Stu.

There's probably at least somebody who watched Faking a Murderer because they did a Google search for Muffy Mouse earlier this year. That's very possible that one person watched Faking a Murderer who was also looking for Muffy Mouse. That explains the one viewer we had this month.

So shout out to Muffy Mouse. If anyone's looking up Sam Crenshaw, hopefully they also went on Faking a Murder. In the opening credits. Which has been labeled the film of the year by FOTM Steph. Oh, no, it was Becky. Wasn't it Becky? Oh, Becky.

It was Becky. I think it was Becky. You're right. It was Becky. Not to be confused with Aunt Becky who I saw just got out of prison. Who just got out of the slammer. And there was a Becky who coached the Spurs. I think the coach of the Spurs had two

technical fouls and a Becky took over. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah. And also there's a Becky. Oh my God, look at, oh my God, Becky, look at her butt. It's so big from Sir Mix-a-Lots video. Shout out to FOTM Dale, who was on that Zoom call last week. He's watching us live on Periscope, not Periscope.

Where are we? Facebook. He's on Facebook. Dale knows. He says Pandemic Fridays are in his top 10. I think we take up his entire top 10 is Pandemic Friday episodes and he's a good guy. Biggest West

Coast fan. And that's why you're not eligible for these lists because you would consume the entire list. Lame. Lame, Mike. Mike, is your New Year's resolution to acknowledge Cam and I a little bit more in 2021?

Every week. I don't, you know, 42 times I've acknowledged you in 2020 to be. Level 42. Level 42. Here's a jam. I want to hear Stu and Cam, but I want to hear Stu off the top. Is this where we get banned from Facebook? Probably.

But we were only banned last week in the USA. We actually survived in Canada, but all our American fans were heartbroken. Okay, break and break and... Let me bring it down. But Stu Stone, there was a loss in the celebrity world yesterday that you have a connection to. Would you like to share with us?

Sure, I do actually. And I want to make sure that the world knows about the, obviously people of a certain age probably grew up watching the film Break-In or Break-Into Electric Boogaloo. You know, it's been documented on Pandemic Fridays in the past of, you know, I even took breakancing lessons with the computer man himself. Yes. Wow.

You know, breakdancing was the thing for a certain period. We didn't have electronics to keep our attention. We took cardboard boxes from our parents' big box purchases from the Brick or Leons and turned them into dance floors on the street to copy our hero Ozone from the film Breaking, the great Shabba Doo, Adolfo Quinonez. Shabba Doo was the human dancing machine. Nobody had ever seen moves like that. Even Michael Jackson

himself was inspired by this revolution that Shabba Doo was at the forefront of. And I know Cam was a big breakdancer too. He was quite the pop in locker. I'll bet. Absolutely. I used to do Fridays at Thornhill Square.

Yeah. Throw some cardboard down. Cam, didn't Scott Turner reveal on Toronto Mic that he was really big on a huge breakdancing? Maybe it was in Brampton, but there was a huge breakdancing. Yes. Did you remember this? And that was quite the revelation. Were you one of the attendees of that huge breakdancing? No, no.

But kidding aside, the Thornhill community center did have some, I feel like there's even in the flyer vault, they have some old posters of some of the break dancing stuff that went on at the Thornhill community center back in kind of the mid eighties. So like, this is kidding aside, like it, it was a thing up there.

I believe it was a thing. It was a cultural, cultural phenomenon. And it's because of these movies that, you know, kids in the suburbs started figuring out what was going on. And anyway, fast forward about 25, 30 years, we did a film called Kicking It Old School, which was a sort of a forgotten gem of a comedy, depending on who you ask, which features, you know, Jamie Kennedy playing a kid who wakes up after being in a coma for 20 years to realize that it is no longer 86, but 1986, but he wants to get his old breakdancing crew back together for one last jam. And it features Bobby Lee and Michael Rosenbaum, a whole host of others. But Jamie Kennedy plays a breakdancer uh shabba do was uh worked on

the film he was the choreographer who sort of taught jamie what moves to do so uh you can only imagine how funny that was behind the scenes wow uh and you know shabba do ended up uh joining us on our show blowing up as well so i got to spend a lot of time with Shabba Doo, and it's a shame that we won't be doing that anymore because he's passed away at the age of 65. One of the last deaths of 2020. What a year it's been. Also, Marianne from Gilligan's Island. Right.

Same day. So, yeah, hopefully that'll be it. I mean, 2020 has probably taken more people than any other year in recent memory, both famous and not famous. So, 2021, let's try to cut that number down. So, yeah, rest in peace, Shabba Doo. Stu, did I hear you right? Were you in that movie with Jamie Kennedy? I was in the movie, yes.

But I was also one of the producers of the film. Harv Glazer, a Toronto resident, my co-director from Jack of All Trades, directed Kicking It Old School as well. Wow. I heard Beck mention that was her favorite movie of 2006. She mentioned. Well, you know, she's got good taste.

Okay, we're sorry to lose Shabba Doo. You know, great loss. 65, that happens coincidentally. That's the exact age that our friend Hebsey Man, Mark Hebsey, is going to turn 65 tomorrow.

Oh, happy birthday, Hebsey. Absolutely. Earlier, in fact, Hebsey. Absolutely. Earlier, in fact, just before this Zoom, I was live the first episode of Hebsey on Sports in quite some time because he took a little hiatus to recharge his batteries and we made our comeback this morning. So, 65

years young, Mark Hebsey, much love here from the Pandemic Friday crew. Did you play him the tribute? Oh, that's actually, I hope he's not watching live. That's for a surprise thing tomorrow.

Oh, my bad. That tribute happened after I stopped recording last week. He's not watching. Don't worry. He's got better things to do. One more thing, just before we move on from last week's holiday special with the FOTMs crashing the Zoom, which was awesome, one of the most dramatic parts of that,

which I want to revisit here quickly, was the absence of Stu at the beginning. I don't know about you, Cam, but there was a legitimate, like, where's Stu? He's not answering his phone. He's not answering his DM. He's not on the Zoom. Where is Stu Stone?

And quite legitimately, because of the FOTMs, we proceeded. If they weren't there, we would just wait for Stu. Where the hell's Stu? But we went live because of the FOTMs that were there.

And it was time sensitive. I had Christmas Eve stuff I had to get to with the kids and stuff. And then we found out, like, I don't know, early in the episode, Stu arrived. He had a power outage.

But that was really a real moment of where's our friend Stu Stone? Yeah, no, that was scary. Followed up by a real disappointment. I mean, I felt very scared afterwards, knowing that I had just missed, by a

mere few seconds, an interaction with Barb. Paluskiewicz. Barb Paluskiewicz which barb paluskiewicz and you like you just like crossed disappeared as i appeared so i i missed out on that and uh you know 2021 one of my resolutions is to you know interact with barb uh other than when i phone her when you yeah well straight up somebody on that an fotmM on that very Zoom call reached out to Barb after that episode and engaged Barb and got a copy of Barb's book, which I have hanging beside me here.

If you're watching the live stream, it's called IT Scams. It's a great book. Lots of great tips in there. Is that her on the cover there? That's her on the cover. Yeah. That's her. Wow.

So you can see how easily she became Elvira. She's like a real marketing powerhouse. I sort of like how she gets herself out there and just very present. She's here to help. She's like Silverman. Watch it, buddy. So let's say this clearly. I think it was Kevin in Alberta, but if you do want to just like i thought i think it was kevin in alberta

but if you if you are interested in barb's book you can write her an email it's barb at cdn technologies.com like that way you don't have to spell pelusco which so barb at cdn technologies.com send her a note say you love hearing her on toronto mic hearing about her and you'd love a copy of the book and she'll send you one. And thank you Barb for your support in 2020. You know, if Barb and I got married it would be a lot easier to spell her last name.

Barb Stone. Yeah. I'm not trying to manifest anything. I'm just throwing out the equation. Well, you could do a lot worse. Barb's a wonderful, she's smart, she's beautiful. She could do a lot better.

So there you go, yin and yang. I think you're a catch, Stu. Thanks, Ben. From this perspective, I think if there's anyone out there who's interested in learning more about Stu Stone, you can also reach out to Stu. Well, you know, now that you've been uh uh taken care of downstairs snip snipped now that you've been uh fixed so to speak mike right you know i take those compliments and you know we might we

might be able to do something about it okay we got to get to these these new year jams how are your balls by the way it's been a few weeks removed since they were removed uh i think it's two weeks today i yeah two weeks today because uh yes so is everything back to normal uh yes so i will say the first week was rough like the first four days really painful then the next few days very tender still like very tender but i'm now as i speak to you two weeks after like 14 days after the procedure uh it's back to normal. Back to normal. Yeah, you've done some emptying out, I guess? Yeah, you have to do that to make sure everything...

Because your first curiosity is like, does everything work like before? You asked this question last week. And so absolutely, that was successful. And are you just... So I was going to say, Kim, do you turn her book the other way so she's not looking at you when that's going on? He's got the wire box set. He's a big bunk fetish.

You know that scene with McNulty and Bunk where they just swear. That's all they do. I think they go, fuck. What a pair. Oh my god. I miss it. Yeah, honestly. What a pair is right. I was watching a kind of a neat little movie with Steve Carell and his ex-wife was played by Amy Ryan and Amy Ryan, of course, ends up...

I don't know. No spoilers, but Amy Ryan's in The Wire. We'll just say that. Oh, like season two, she was the cop, right? Yes. That's correct. That's correct. Yeah. But every time I watch shows of Monica, it's my job to say, oh, it's Brother Mouzon from The Wire.

Or, oh, look, that's like my official job in this relationship. You know what one I discovered in, we'll get to these jams in a second, but, uh, the Nicholas Cage film, eight millimeter. Do you remember this? It was about like snub films. Yes. I think you talked about it. Didn't you?

We talked about this movie once before. I feel like we did. And maybe even that's this fun fact, but the game, did you say it's about, did you say it's about snub films? Well, no,

that's, that's this Facebook live stream. It's about people getting snub films? Well, no, that's this Facebook live stream. It's about people getting snubbed. But no, the GIMP S&M guy at the end is Frank Sabatka. Oh, my God. Yeah. He's in a lot. He pops up in a lot of stuff because I saw him in True Blood.

He's in a bunch of cool stuff. But one of the more recent, I saw that in, I don't know if you saw this movie. It's the last movie of his life. Hold on here. What am I saying? Ma Rainey's Big Black Bottom. It's on Netflix. It's excellent.

The guy who plays Black Panther, it's his final performance. Bozeman? Chad Bozeman. Anyway, Brother Mouzon is in this. So just shout out to him. That's a long way to go.

I got to say, that's one of the characters I wasn't crazy about he seemed just oh yeah you know he's probably my least favorite character in the whole show because he seems very one-dimensional you know like yes yeah you know nation of islam brother mizuna like it's just yeah and he's got that one standoff with with omar which is pretty cool but you know yeah well there's the one line he's like holding the guts like i will unleash this gun and it will go into your heart you will be dead dead. It's just like no one talks

like that. Come on. And I think that Omar says something like, I got one in the chamber in case you're pondering. Something like that. Oh, indeed. Yeah, yeah. Yes. Right, right. Indeed. But okay, we're too much wire talk. I could do that forever. I do want to shout out a couple more quick sponsors before we get to

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watching those reruns in syndication. I don't know about you guys, but I was always a Marianne fan. Ginger was a... I was a Marianne guy. Just like I was a Betty over Veronica guy. Were you also a Betty over Wilma type of guy? Yes.

I was, actually, now that you mention it. But I'm speaking of Ridley Funeral Home. Were you a Maria over Susan kind of guy? Yes, I was, actually, now that you mention it. But I'm speaking of Ridley Funeral Home. Were you a Maria over Susan kind of guy? Oh, yeah, you're doing a Sesame Street thing there, right? Or were you more of an Olivia guy? I was not attracted. I was too young, I guess. Were you more of a Linda guy?

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Chrissy was really dumb, but she was hot. Terry was smart. She was the nurse. I would say I probably speaking to you as a 40-something-year-old man right now, I'm a Terry guy. But I think I was a Chrissy guy when I was younger. What about you? I guess the last question would be, were you a Mary-Kate or an Ashley

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If you're going to want to use hand sanitizer, you'll end up at Ridley Funeral Home. So definitely stay safe out there. Very, very true. Very true. I should also mention Brody Lee, the professional wrestler who passed away over the last seven days. Thank you.

Tell me about this because I did see the news on Twitter, but I didn't recognize the name. But please speak to this. It sounds terrible. Yeah, for the last, well, maybe for some fans out there might know him for his work in the last decade with WWE under the name Luke Harper. He was part of the Wyatt family,

which is sort of a rough and tumble group of guys. He's most recently been performing with AEW Wrestling. And tragically, at 41 uh he passed away last weekend and they did a beautiful tribute show for him uh this week on uh it aired in canada on tsn and if you haven't checked it out and you want to check it out i would go out of your way to check it out because it was just fantastic and stew i assume it sounds like he was sort of away for a couple months and no one knew. He wasn't in the cast of characters when you were down doing...

Actually, the day that I went to shoot there was the day that he went home because he had COVID symptoms, but it turned out he didn't actually have COVID. It was a much more serious thing. Oh, wow. Brutal. Pretty terrible. But it seemed like one of those guys,

I feel like we see this in the wrestling business sort of was this badass like psychopath in the ring and then you know off camera and you know was just like family man like lovable like Stu kind of because Stu's a bit like that like on the show he's a bit intimidating

exactly pretty much I just want to shout out Sammy Cohen again even though he's had his fair share of shout outs because he's watching live on Facebook and he says boys Sammy's the man there you go

now do you want to say anything Cam before we kick out your first jam the topic this week is I think we could call these New Year's jams or year jams or calendar jams uh how would you say so um yeah sort of like new year's jams with a bit of you know final thoughts about 2020 i feel like we've done sort of versions of like the kind of fuck 2020 uh shtick so yeah more songs about kind of turning the page, turning the calendar. Shout out to Bob Seger.

And Metallica. Someone gave me, oh, Brother Bill. We mention him a lot, but he does listen to every Pandemic Friday. He loves it. He gave me some heat. Oh, that's one of you guys, right? As long as it's not me, I don't care if I hear myself. But basically,

the heat I got was for picking such a terrible, terrible Metallica song, Hero of the Day. And I had to explain to Brother Bill that it's not the song. It's because the song was the montage for Wendell Clarke. And I think I sold him on it. I think I've turned him on my side. Okay, very good. Well done.

What are you guys doing tonight to celebrate uh low-key man nathan phillips square or with ronnie hawkins oh and his fur jacket and is gourd gonna be there gourd martineau that would be fantastic uh no low-key man uh doing nothing what are you guys doing what are you and mf gonna do for midnight tonight we're gonna make a charcuterie tray which will be very nice and just have a quiet evening in. What about you, Stu? Do you got any hot New Year's Zoom plans? I guess I was

planning on being the charcuterie board. It started like when you see a sushi, a human sushi. Yeah, like when people are eating sushi off of a person. I would essentially go over to Cam's place in Plank

and they would put some meats and cheeses. Do you remember a movie with Helen Mirren called The Cook, The Wife, The Thief, and Her Lover? Does this ring a bell at all? Anyway, there's a scene

of what you're describing. Helen Mirren did it. With a cutlery board? Yeah. Are you sure it's not sushi? No, it's not sushi. That's for sure. I thought we had just invented something there.

It's actually a pretty intense scene, actually. And there's a lot of... Eastern European thing. See, I remember I saw it many, many decades ago, but I remember Helen Mirren walks around naked a lot in this movie. So that's sort of the appeal for... What a lovely lady. She's more than just the queen.

That's for sure. Yeah, to get back to my New Year's plans, you know, I might draw a bath. I might make some toast next to the bath. Who knows? Who knows? Maybe us three will all Zoom together at like 11.50 p.m. tonight

and celebrate together. Absolutely. Crack open a great legs beer shout out the great legs beer and if you're listening to this uh on friday happy new year already it's already happened and uh everything's cool that's the first mind blow of the episode right by the way final commentary on mf uh i think her new favorite beer and this is sort of a 2020 development is the haze mama. Every time she has one, she's like, she likes it more and more. And that's

got a lot of alcohol in there too. Tell her to pace herself. It's a good one. In fact, I've told this story many times. When I had my birthday in June, I shared a Haze Mama with MF. Cam, I hope you're not jealous. You were also there.

There's photo evidence of this. Don't tell this government they'll give me a spanking no drinking in the park the thing with that is that if Cam is laying down and you guys stand like a Cam body length apart you're more than 6 feet apart so you're cool

there you go that's all I was let us begin the New Year's Eve spectacular pandemic Friday number 42. This is Cam Gordon's... Wait, not to be confused with the New Year's Eve craptacular put on by Stu Stone and Jamie Kennedy seven years ago today.

So if you want to look up on YouTube, Jamie Kennedy New Year's, have at it and enjoy the clip. That's just something. Please don't play it. I won't play it. But Cam, do you agree with me that every single week, 42 weeks,

we get another nugget about this career of Stu Stone, and every time, my brain explodes. It's unbelievable. Your brain will explode when you watch this clip, so Jamie Kennedy,

New Year's Eve special, you'll want to look that up after Pandemic Fridays. I've actually seen this, and it's a good watch. It's a lot of fun. Is this Cam's first jam? Yes, this is Cam's first jam.

This is a great piece. Cyn-dŵr Cyn-dŵr Cyn-dŵr Come, come, boy It's free And I'm free Oh, I dig it, I dig it Oh, I dig it. I dig it. I think we could. Yeah, I'm sorry.

I was pressing the wrong buttons. But like a cannonball out of the chute. Look at this. Yeah, well, good segue there. Because speaking of cannonballs, this is The Breeders with the song New Year. Wow. First track off Last Splash. This song actually goes right into

Cannonball, so quite a one-two punch to start that album. But it sounds great. I'm listening to it and I'm thinking, yeah, that's the sound I like. It just sounds really good. That album's just fucking great. I don't think we need to go too deep into the Breeders and Pixies

And kind of the Kim Deal universe But a little bit of 101 Because I know some listeners don't know And it's kind of neat to give them a little Rock and roll history here Like tell us please Who are the Breeders? Yeah so the basic timeline from the start

So you have the Pixies They get together in 86 or so, which is, of course, Black Francis, who later became Frank Black. You had Kim Deal on bass. You had Joey Santiago on guitar. And fuck, what's the guy's name? Dave something on drums. You know, Pixies put out two albums. And then somewhere there was like a big overlap between Kim Deal

Breakup doing a side project originally called The Breeders that was originally with Tanya Donnelly from Belly Dave Lovering by the way Dave Lovering that's right I was going to say Dave Lowry but that's the cracker Beethoven guy also

used to play for the Blues wasn't it? Dave Lowry So anyway Breeders originally a Pixies side project but then camper van beethoven guy also for used to play for the blues wasn't it dave lowry um so hey breeders originally a pixie side project but then um when the pixies broke up breeders became a full-time thing this album last splash came in 1993 big hit big uh lalapalooza generation band the breeders played at lala in like 94 i wonder did do you think cannonball did that achieve higher sort of chart status and success than any pixie song yeah for sure like this album was like way bigger chart wise um we should point out frank francis black francis was sort of a control freak like that that was his band and i for example I know he didn't like it. Like, was it Gigantic that is performed?

Is it Kim's song? That's right. Yeah. And that was a big one. And I think he was always irked if she got too much spotlight or credit. Like that was important to him that that was his band. Yeah. Like in the Urban Legend is he broke up the Pixies by sending a fax to all the other members,

which is, you know, a very 1990s thing. He was the Bon Jovi of the Pixies by sending a fax to all the other members um which is you know a very 1990 well he was he was the bon jovi of the pixies maybe yeah and pixies are interesting because i mean they're they're way bigger in 2020 than they ever were in 1991 um just a couple of fun facts here breeders from dayton ohio some famous folks from Dayton. It's quite the list here. I'm going to go through this really quickly because there's a ton of fun names. So rapid fire, we got Nancy Cartwright. Wow, Scientologist. Lisa Simpson.

No, no, no, no. Bart Simpson. Bart Simpson. Bart Simpson. We've got Rob Lowe and his brother Chad. Wow. We have a couple of funny men here. Did I say Lisa Simpson? What a terrible name that was. That's Yardley Smith, Chad. Wow. We have a couple of funny men here. Did I say Lisa Simpson?

What a terrible name that was. That's Yardley Smith, Mr. Stuart Stone. Yeah, that was terrible. Even I knew that. Yeah, no, I knew that too. I screwed that up. Okay, so we got a couple of funny men here. We got Jonathan Winters and Cat Williams.

And Jonathan Winters, who, of course, inspired Robin Williams. A big hero to Robin Williams. There you go. In the sports arena, I mean, we got Mike Schmidt. Wow! Ooh, Schmitty. Great third baseman. We got another one. I think of him

more as a Texas boy, but I guess was born in Dayton. Roger Clemens? Okay, yeah. I think of him as a Texas guy, too. We talked about him in a Hempsey on Sports this morning. And then we got somebody who had sort of a fun NBA bubble moment this year, Kerry Kittles. Now, if Kerry Kittles showed up, I don't know if you remember,

Microsoft had like the Zoom fans along the periphery. Kerry Kittles actually showed up on that randomly. A few more names for you. Do you guys like cat food? I love it, man. Paul Iams. You know, Iams cat food? I've seen it in the aisle.

There you go. He's from Dayton. The Wright Brothers. Wow. Orville and Wilbur. Yeah, we can't fly this year. And then some other musicians. We had Guided by Voices.

We have Tommy James of Tommy James and the Shondells of Money Money. Of course. Crimson and Clover. And then last but not least, and here's the wrestling tie-in, we got Rick Derringer of Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo. That duet he did with the late Mean Gene that we lost this year.

And final thoughts on Kim Deal. In 2021, she'll be turning 60. Wow. 60 years old. So this year, John Gallagher turned 60. Did either of you two see the photo I tweeted of John Gallagher and Mean Gene Okerlund together? They look like twins with those same mustaches,

same height, same everything. I did see that. I almost did a sort of crop of that. I was going to throw Ravishing Rick Rude in there and Tom Selleck because it's all peas in the pod. Right. Absolutely. They all look like French Canadians in Florida on March break. That's what I described that look.

But I hope that's not offensive to any French Canadians because I noticed the Irishman from Quebec is on the Facebook live. Mr. Shanahan here. Darren Shanahan. So shout out to all the French Canadians listening. Now, great start. Stu, I know you like to do a preface before we kick out your first jam. What would you like to say?

This next song has sort of a European type of flavor to it. shout out to Job from Arrested Development ¶¶ All right, Stu, I'll bring it down so we can hear from you. You're the man. The Final Countdown, Europe. This is a song called The Final Countdown by Swedish rock band Europe. Pronounced Europe.

Interestingly enough, this song has become a New Year's Eve sort of staple due to the fact that it involves a final countdown. The song being called the final countdown, an unmistakable riff at the top of the song.

No matter who you are, no matter where you, where you're from, no matter what you did, as long as you love me, you will know, you will know that song because you'll, you'll, you hear the riff and you know the song. You know, we should probably do a kick out the jams in 2021 based around jams that have riffs that you are very memorable. Like, you know, this or Van Halen jump. You know, there's songs that smoke on the water instantly, you know, riff riffy jams. This is one of them.

You know, I have some fun facts about the band Europe, if you were curious to learn. Of course. First of all, this song, The Final Countdown, didn't show up until their third studio album. So just so people who think, you know, music is just an overnight success thing, these guys were plugging away. It took them three albums to land on

their biggest hit song, The Final Countdown. Don't give up, kids. Exactly. The song was based on a keyboard riff made by Joey Tempest that he was working on in the early 80s with lyrics inspired by David Bowie's Space Oddity. Originally, this song was just made to be a concert opener

and turned out to be the first single and title track from, as I said, the band's third studio album. Stu, I know you're in the middle of your list, but is there a second hit from this band? Because I can only think of this one song from Europe. Not that I'm aware of. I feel like I get them in Whitesnake mixed up. I was going to say, is this Love?

No, because David Cleverdale, there was multiple hits from white snake and that speaking by the way they come out that band comes out of deep purple and i did just mention smoke on the water is a great riff jam sorry white snake did yeah white snake because david cleverdale i think he was with uh deep purple now i have to confirm all these facts. Is he on Coverdale page? No, I'm not. Now, Stu, you're still with us, Stu? Yeah. Okay.

Trying to rattle off these fun facts. I know, I know. I just want to let you know that Lieve Femke is on the live Facebook stream, and she actually left it to watch what she calls the epic fail of New Year's Eve. I told you. It was insane.

And that's what you did with Jamie Kennedy. I will watch it later. We can talk about that next week. Let's hear more of your fun facts. Yeah. Back to Europe. Pronounced Europe. The song, it reached number one in 25 countries.

Except for the United States. They don't get it. Where it peaked at number eight. The final countdown, Blender calls it the 27th worst song ever. And VH1 calls it number 16 on the list of most awesomely bad songs ever. A guilty pleasure. But it's also ranked at number 66 on the same channel's best hard rock songs of all time. So people can't really make up their mind how they feel about the final countdown.

Professional wrestler Daniel Bryan went back when he was known as Bryan Danielson. The American Dragon used to come out to this song. This was his entrance back in the indie days. But let's just talk about New Year's Eve 1991. Europe kicked off a tour with a New Year's Eve show at the Tokyo Dome. New Year's Eve 91 in the Tokyo Dome, a place where historically for the last, I want to say, 20 years, they've been doing professional wrestling shows at the Tokyo Dome on New Year's Eve.

So this predates that, Cam. Fun fact, I've actually been to the Tokyo Dome. Wow. I'm good. Were you there on New Year's Eve 91? No, I was there. And you know what? It sort of makes the Rogers Center look state-of-the-art.

I was a little underwhelmed by the Tokyo Dome. Wow, that's saying something. It's older than the Sky Dome. Yeah, I think it's like mid-80s. I mean, it was fine. So it's like the Pontiac Silver Dome. Yeah. You know who actually pitched when I was there?

Scott Richmond. Yeah, of course. From Vancouver? That's right. Yeah, former Jays hurler. He was actually pitching that day for the Swallows or whoever it was. The Giants. Can I tell you about this show, New Year's Eve 91?

Yeah. The show was called Final Countdown 91, which was headlined by Europe featuring support from Tesla Thunder and Metallica wait what's the second band? Thunder? I don't know them

1991 was Metallica the headliner? no Europe was the headliner that's fucked up yeah because they already had one Justice for All was already out wow Headliner. That's fucked up. Yeah, because they already had one. Justice for All was already out.

Right, right, right. Wow. I don't know Thunder, though. I don't know if you guys know Thunder. I don't know Thunder either, but I do know Europe, The Final Countdown. Hell of a jam. And New Year's Eve song. How come you didn't drop the fun fact that it is Job's music from Arrested Development?

You're not familiar with Arrested Development. I haven't watched that show, a Job's music from Arrested Development. You're not familiar with Arrested Development. I haven't watched that show, so that's why. It's very good. Cam, have you seen Arrested Development? I know the band Arrested Development. Tennessee, Mr. Wendell. Okay, name a third. Oh, there's a third. Everyday

People. Everyday People. We were just talking about... Right, there's three. How dare you try to discount Mr. Wendell. No, there's a big three. I forgot about Mr. Wendell. Three people. We were just talking about... Right, there's three. How dare you try to discount... No, there's a big three. I forgot about Mr. Wendell. Also, a bigger hit than any of those songs we were just talking about. Well, I was trying to get people to talk to me last night by DM about

Dionne Farris, I Know. Oh, yeah. Which was a massive hit. Former member of Arrested Development. Is that true? I didn't know that. Yes. Yes. Wow, I did not know that yes yes wow i did not know that there you go what you do yeah you know there's too much going on for us to engage with that one because just too much happening at once i think you gotta pick your spots there you gotta pick your spots but that's a that's a fun fact that i did not know there you go i just blew

stew's stew's mind court cameron's. Not the first time Cam's blown me. My mind. His mind. My mind. Hey guys, I didn't want this episode to end without at least one FOTM jam, so I'm going to kick out an FOTM jam, and I think that'll be it for FOTM jams, but here, let's get

my first one out of the way here. Wow, I have not heard this song in a hundred years. I'll bring it down so we can talk about it. I've been heard it in like five years. In five long years. Okay, shout out to FOTM, Colin James. This was his first big hit. I remember hearing it on Q107.

Five long years. We're looking at like 1988. It earned him a Juno Award. Colin James won Most Promising Artist at the Junos. Here's a fun fact. It has this Glass Tiger sort of vibe to it. Well, it definitely is of its time. Like it's got that

I think of bands like Frozen Ghost or What was Frozen Ghost's hit again? Hopper in Paradise was one of their hits. They did a few. They were like Sheriff. Yes.

Arnie Lanny? Lane? Lane? Lane? Lanny, I want to say. Leaping Arnie Lanny. Gotta love Colin James though. I thought this was interesting. We've talked in the past about how Stu Stone and Jamie Kennedy

sold is it 300,000 units? That's what they say Okay so you've been told that that album that you and Jamie Kennedy put out this is the one with Rolling with Saget on it? It would be the one with Circle Circle Dot Dot I Got My Cootie Shot and Rolling with Saget

Yes. Okay, so that's 300,000 units. Now, Colin James' most successful album ever was this debut, which includes this great jam, Five Long Years. And in total, this album has sold 276,000 units. 276,000 units. Now, um, just so you're aware,

Jamie Kennedy in our album that we put out was considered a massive disappointment by her record label. Uh, those, those figures. So it just goes to show you if we had only been a Canadian act, right? If you don't, yes.

Right. You needed to lean more on these stew stone can corn. Uh, you're right. Uh, so, but I think it's worth just banging home and i have a lot of canadian famous musicians on toronto mic then we often talk about their attempts to break into the states bare naked ladies did it they had a number one hit

in the states but most of them like sloan and uh skydiggers etc did not uh have such uh such luck and we have the famous story from Kim Mitchell where he was having some success with Go For Soda and the label chose to prefer their other song. They were pushing Twisted Sisters' We're Not Gonna Take It. And that decision the label

made to promote We're Not Gonna Take It over Go For Soda kind of ends Kim Mitchell's hope of success in the united states but all this is now you see why like why because d snyder man think about it he had the wig he had the look the music video they had the drum fill there to open that memorable oh yeah it's tough to compete that's a monster hit and a great go ahead well i was gonna say they had a second run taking on Tipper Gore.

Yeah. He was there with, like, Frank Zappa and John Denver, I think. It was kind of... Of all people. You know, a very strange trio. But was Colin... I remember listening to that episode. So Colin James was, like,

he was discovered by Stevie Ray Vaughan or something? Yes, absolutely. Stevie Ray Vaughan, huge part of the discovery of Colin James. Yes. At, like, I don't know, an Alberta fair or something absolutely stevie rayvon huge part of the uh the discovery of colin james yes at like i don't know an alberta fair or something i don't know but in fact yeah we talked about that stevie rayvon of course uh passed away i think it was 80 i want to say the summer of 89 because i was working at the cne when i got word that the plane had gone down speaking of planes going down because you just mentioned john denver uh another guy we sadly lost to an aviation accident but yeah colin owes a lot to uh stevie ray vaughan

that's for sure well this is also one of those albums and and the next jam we're gonna hear also falls into this category of an act where their first album is arguably the biggest album and like they're so young and then they just you know spend decades kind of you know touring off that and certainly Colin James has done other stuff and had some other singles that were pretty big too but I still you know I assume this is his biggest album ever

yeah oh yes that's that's his best selling album the most hits his follow up had some commercial success not as much as the first album. And then everything after that, you can see like a substantial... Is this a New Year's jam because it says the word years in the title?

Is that... Right. Right. And hopefully it's not the length of this pandemic five long years. Well, I think we've had a good intro from Cam where he kind of alluded to this song being from their first album

and their biggest hit. So let's play this song and talk about it. Wow. Is this Yacht Rock? No. It could be played on board the boat. Sure. It's not dog rock, that's for sure.

Yeah. It's awesome. I find this song so depressing. It's simply ravishing. Holding back the years Thinking of the fear I've had so long When somebody hears That means Stu likes it. Listen to the fear that's gone

Strangled by the wishes of fate Can we get the chorus going? Come on. Okay, okay, okay. When the arms are made Don't worry, Stu. It's coming. Get on. Okay, okay, okay. Don't worry, Steve. It's coming. Oh, I can feel it coming.

I want to sing along. Oh, it's a fake out. It's one of those songs. We got a little fake string. Call for it later, Cam, and I'll bring her back up if we need that part. But tell us about holding back the years. Simply Red. Absolutely. So I feel like, Cam, and I'll bring her back up if we need that part. But tell us about holding back the years, Simply Red.

So I feel like, yeah, this is, I imagine this is the first time we've talked about Simply Red on Pandemic Fridays. We didn't play If You Don't Know Me by now on our songs. We didn't know what covers. I think that's generally known as being a cover. Is it? I don't know. Fair enough. Is it?

No, I think that would have been an appropriate selection. I think most people would be surprised to know that was a uh cover yeah um well anyway the name of this song holding back the years this is from their debut album picture book from 1985 uh monster hit this song was a number one hit. I feel like this song hung around for a lot more years than 1985. It was still relevant in like 88, 89. And definitely was for years a staple of CHFI and sort of easy listening. 102.1.

You know what it reminds me of? That Foreigner Jam in the mid-80s that hung around. I Wanna Know What Love Is? Chum FM just played the mess. It reminds me of that foreigner jam in the mid 80s that hung around and was like i want to know what love is yeah like chum fm just played the mess i mean yes it reminds me of that vibe no i'm just saying i want to know what love is um anyway the simply read this was actually not their only number one hit in the u.s the aforementioned cover if you don't know me by now was also went to number one in 1989 right um so this song also went to number two in the uk and canada number six um great song i mean simply read it was came roaring out of the gates

with this album big hit across the atlantic then they had their second album which i i don't have the name in front of me but i remember just had like had Mick Hucknall, who had literally red hair, kind of the wavy hair. Did it have that Money Too Tight Dimension? Do you remember this jam at all, Money Too Tight Dimension? Maybe that was... Like on the second album you're saying? Yeah, maybe that was the first album.

Well, the first album, the other big single, I believe, was called Do the Right Thing. Ah, oh, I gotta do the right thing. And that was used by Spike Lee as the theme for Do the Right Thing. No, it was not. That's not true. I've never seen that. I'm joking.

Okay, that sounded like horse shit. And it was. So yeah, anyway, this band sort of from North American audiences kind of disappeared in the early nineties, but one of these bands that continues to tour stadiums, I think to this day in the UK and parts of Europe, but, you know, are kind of faded from the public consciousness for the last three decades now, but it's just like an all time massive band from manchester uk um mick hucknall again their singer is part of and i i've always thought this story was bullshit but let's just go with it anyway okay uh june 1976 uh the sex pistols one of their early gigs at the lester free trade hall in manchester have you ever heard this which apparently was the real galvanizing force for a whole generation of manchester bands allegedly in the audience not only was mick hucknall from simply red there also were members of joy division uh the fall and a very young morrissey wow apparently there did that actually happen? Who the fuck knows? I would be skeptical, but that's what the legend said.

Mick Hucknall originally, like a lot of kind of UK musicians, was originally in a punk band called the Frantic Elevators. No idea if they ever put anything out. But yeah, to my earlier point, the last song that they had charting in North America was a song called stars which i only vaguely remember and that came out in 1991 yeah so here's a band that two number one u.s hits in the 80s and then has really faded even though they're still like wildly popular

um in the uk and i'm sure mick hackmill and friends are doing very well a lot of royalties because you still sort of hear these songs to this day. They're kind of around. Well, generally, I think if you think of a band like, uh, aha.

Yes. Like they, they're, you know, prolific in Europe and many hits, but here, you know, you ask the average Joe to name two aha songs and they actually can't do it.

They can only tell you one. Yeah. Well, it's interesting sometimes when you see these events like the not Band-Aid, the big sort of benefit shows. Oh, like Live 8? Yeah, Live 8 and this sort of thing. And you'll see AHA is

playing in Germany and everyone's losing their shit. Those are sort of good reminders that, oh yeah, some of these bands we think of as one yeah like the beautiful south or something like that is uh huge yeah like they're playing like arenas you know over there um yeah i feel like aha played one of the remember when they're that manchester shooting of course with ariana grande show you're not shooting don't you mean it was in a bombing at the Ariana Grande? That's right. Yeah, bombing.

I feel like they had some benefit shows after that. I feel like AHA played one of the massive ones after that. Not bad. They're a big fucking deal in Europe. Yeah. Anyway, Simply Red, holding back the years, has the word year in the title. So, Stu, you just pissed all over me for choosing Five Nought Long Years because it has the word year in it. Cam just did the same thing.

I mean, you both... This is why Cam Brio says every single week that Stu wins these Pandemic Fridays because I do. I do win. You guys are a little on the nose. All I do is win. Oh, by the way, that was another

interesting moment for me because Cam Brio would not show his win. Oh, by the way, that was another kind of interesting moment for me because Cambrio would not show his face. So we had on like a Mexican wrestling mask, and he was hiding his face at the same time as we could not find Stu Stone. And there was a real moment there where I wondered if this was the long con. That would have been awesome. Is Stu Stone Cambrio? That would have been amazing.

It would be all be. I actually have, when I grabbed the gift from last week, I actually have a clip of Stew and Cambrio talking to each other. I'll surface it. I need to do a big purge. Was it the machine? When Andre the Giant was banned

from WWF, the machines would show up. One of the few shows I attended was at Hulkamania, the main event or whatever they called it. The machines were wrestling and we all knew that was Andre in a mask. I think Bobby

was like a six-man tag and I always like when Bobby Heenan would wrestle because he'd still wear the same top but he'd just be wearing underwear. He's like 60 years old. but he's like a bumping machine he'd get like flung over the top turnbuckle and uh what a day that was at the old scene leva famka says that cambrio is a high school teacher so that's why he's uh keeping his identity how does he know that that's some inside info reading the plot from adam sandler's

film by the way, that's right. I get it now. Could you confirm something? One of the other machines, not the giant machine, was Demolition Axe. Am I wrong? That's correct. Wow. There you go.

Okay. Come for the beats, but stay for the wrestling inside info. I'm eager to kick out Stu's second jam, but Stu, would you like to set this up? Well, you know, this sort of describes this last month for sure. This song describes this last month, I guess. Yeah, I'll just leave it at that. And also express sort of, Well, just have a listen. A long December

And there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last And we can only hope, right? I can't remember The last thing that you said as you were leaving All the days go by so fast Confession, I really like this song. But it's one more day out in the canyon

And it's one more night in Hollywood If you think that I could be forgiven I wish you would Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Yeah Sort of a signature kind of thing for him. Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na's articles about this. Oh, I didn't know that. That's pretty wild if that's true.

I think that's true. I could be wrong. And he dated Jennifer Aniston, right? That wasn't on The Onion? No, I think it was. The Beaverton exclusive here. He dated Jennifer Aniston, right? And Winona Ryder.

I mean, this guy, his laundry list is quite impressive. The song is called Long December, which is also MF's nickname for cams. Oh! The song is called Long... Careful. She's a respected journalist. The song is called Long December by the Counting Crows.

You know what? This is something that you're going to find a lot on my countdown this week. But, you know, this song was pretty popular. And in the United States, it peaked at number five on the U.S. Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. It did not do so well on the mainstream charts. But how about this? In Canada, it went to number one on the top singles chart.

Yeah, we liked more rock as opposed to R&B that was really big. I feel like... This was a massive hit in Canada. And I think that's why we all love it. Because we're Canadian and we remember when this song was being played all the time. This is August and everything after, right? This is the big album with Mr. Jones on it, right? I think this is the next one.

Yeah, this is the next one. Okay, okay. Okay, thank you for clarifying because we've merged it all. But I will talk about that August and Everything After album right now. Their breakthrough hit was, of course, called Mr. Jones, which, fun fact, if you were wondering, before they were the Counting Grows, they were called the Himalayans.

And Mr. Jones refers to Marty Jones, the Himalayans bassist and Duritz's childhood friend. Wow. And also references Kenny Dale Johnson, the drummer of Silvertone, Chris Isaacs' band. So Mr. Jones is not about... Wicked game. No, it's not about Wicked Game.

It's not about Marilyn Monroe and JFK or anything kind of, you know, the conspiracies that were floating around back in the day. Bob Dylan. It's about Marty Jones and Kenny Dale Johnson. So there you go. The song name checks Bob Dylan. Yes, it does.

Mr. Jones, that album sold more than seven million copies in the uh u.s wow they received two grammy awards uh they also had the hit round here okay around here i have to just let uh mark weisblatt from 1236 knows that if he he can he can uh fact check in real time on the facebook page because I think he's taken objection to a fact you just shared. But I'm just letting him know. Put it in the chat and I will let Stu know. I'm seeing now he says my Billboard chart illiteracy. Well, you know what, Mark?

I'm getting my information from the same source Cam gets his information about songs. And if they don't list Billboard chart, they only list what they list. So I can only get information that's given to me. I don't. Okay. Let me read Mark's note here. By the way, Mark, can you fact check? I feel like Mark would know this.

Is his, are the dreadlocks a wig? Okay. Find out, Mark, if the dreadlocks are a wig. And I'm going to read. He says, in the 90s, the big record labels stopped releasing a lot of standalone singles. Yeah, this is true. So that basically meant they were ineligible for the Billboard Hot 100. Does that mean that I was wrong about what I said?

No, you're not wrong, but you're inferring that it just wasn't popular in the US, but in fact, it was ineligible. It wasn't played on the Hot 100 radio. No, it was on the radio. It was all over the radio, but it wasn't. It was on the rock radio stations, but it wasn't on No, it was on the radio. It was all over the radio, but it wasn't... Well, it was on the rock radio stations, but it wasn't on KCFM.

I think it crossed over. I think what the point Mark's making, which I think is a good one, is that it was ineligible for Billboard Hot 100, so it didn't matter if it was the most played song of the week. It wasn't going to rank. Well, then I guess it's a little misleading, the entry that I'm getting my information from.

Thank God for Mark Weisblatt. I think Weisblatt and I both listen to the same Slate podcast where the guy, whose name always eludes me, but he's very good. He's really a student of the charts and he's been very clear that a lot of those 90s rock songs, like

MC Hammer's You Can't Touch This, I believe, is a great example of a song that was clearly the biggest song in the nation, but was ineligible for Billboard Hot 100 because they did not release it as a single. You had to buy the album and spend the 20 bucks to get that damn song, which was like a decision the labels made

to take more of our money. And I'm looking now, Adam Duritz, oh, I can't click it. You gotta put it, so, leave a, don't link, I'm not going to click. You got to like put out there. Is it real here or not? That's what we need to know. I feel like it probably was real.

And then maybe at a certain point it wasn't. But he got a wig. Like I feel like this is probably We'll get to the bottom of this. Maybe MF should stop worrying about Rod and the PC government and the pandemic. And maybe she should focus on what matters. We don't have much time the rest of this year.

We've got to get on this. I can actually tell you guys that Mark Wiseblood is correct as usual. I just looked into it and he is correct. And that's why he's the man and I'm just his son. Okay. And breaking news, that is apparently Adam Duritz's real hair. That's what I would think. Okay, we gotta start. Guys, we're gonna lose

our reputation as... What were we called? A Music Insiders? Is that what we were called by Dunford? We still are. Like a madcap cape, like romp. I think we were romp. Long December is a guilty pleasure of mine i there's a great video

to it too and i just really it's like one of those sad songs that i can really like get into even though i don't think it's a cool song we call it i would consider that a guilty pleasure at least i did at the time maybe now there are no guilty pleasures i think i told mark weisblatt yesterday there's no more guilt with guilty pleasures like you just like what you like and it's all cool. But back in the 90s, you had to be careful when you were like telling your cool friends you liked a Counting Crows song. I'm just letting you know. They sort of had one foot on alt-rock radio and one in adult contempo. Right. They were like Soul Asylum.

They were trying to... Yes, very, very much. Stu, by the way, did you catch our high school friend, frenemy, Jonathan Lyon Schwartz, wrote a very thoughtful Facebook post about the end of this year and quoted this song. Oh, he did? Yes, he did. Huh.

Wow. So there you go. And it's a good choice for this episode. Thank you for kicking it out. Final word here from Mark Weisblatt is that he says, Stu, you're doing fine until you insist that something wasn't popular when it was. So your facts about this chart are accurate. It's when you say it wasn't popular in the U.S.

Of course, that was very popular in the U.S. Right. Yes. And that's my bad. If you do it again, I'm going to kick you out of the Zoom. No, I would say that one of my New Year's resolutions is to do better when it comes to dismissing popularity of songs on the other side of the zoo. No, no. I would say that one of my New Year's resolutions is to do better when it comes to dismissing popularity of songs on the other side of the border. Happy New Year,

Mark Weisblatt. I do love you, man. I'm a huge fan. Shout out to Mark Weisblatt who braved the elements and sat in my backyard for 2.5 hours yesterday and notice we're not doing that today because we are. No, because Mark is a martyr. He did it so we wouldn't have to.

And here is Toronto Mike's second jam. I'm in the sky tonight There I can keep by your side Watching the wide world I'm riding high now I'll be coming on next year. Okay. I could have kicked this out.

I think I might have been able to. No, I already knew it because I own the CD. But this song is by Foo Fighters. It's called Next Year. And I think it's appropriate for this episode next year because this is New Year's Eve, everybody. Happy New Year's Eve. But. Happy New Year's Eve. But I used to watch this show. Let me tell you a quick little story.

So come with me here. But there was this show called Ed. Does anyone on the Zoom remember a show called Ed? Was that a guy like he worked in a store? No, he was like a, I think he was a teacher, I think. What am I thinking of? There's someone who worked at like Best Buy and that was a TV show.

Oh, you're thinking of... Yeah, you're thinking of another guy's name. No, Chad? No, what the hell was that guy's name? Chuck. Chuck. Okay. Chuck, go ahead.

So here's my loose claim to fame. This is not exciting at all, except my very good friend, who I also called... I called him MoFofo his initials were also mf and i always called him mofo and i played he was a the pitcher for raging storm and he's a good friend he once slept in the bed that belonged to tom cavanaugh because when he was going to uh he was going to africa for some uh uh to give back and help builds I can't remember the charity exactly, but he stayed at the parents of Tom Cavanaugh in Ottawa,

and he slept in Tom Cavanaugh's old bed. And Tom Cavanaugh is a Canadian actor who would star in this NBC show called Ed. And the theme song, and I watched this too, it actually had Julie Bowen in it, who was also in Happy, no, yeah, Happy Madison, Julie Bowen, it who was also in Happy, no, yeah, Happy Madison, Julie Bowen

and she's famous for Modern Family but Ed, where am I going with this? The opening theme to Ed was a great Foo Fighters jam that I quite liked called Next Year.

You're hearing it now and I hope you enjoy it. How's that? It was on There's Nothing Left to Lose. That's the Foo Fighters album that included this song next year. What a stale pick.

Is that right? Is this a stale pick? Cam, do you agree? Pretty stale. Pretty stale. A great band, though. I mean, just with so many songs out there, you go with the theme song from a show you once watched called Ed.

Yeah, it was more than just the theme song, because previous to being the theme song for a show I watched, which didn't last very long, by the way, but shout out to Tom Cavanaugh from Ottawa. But the album, it was on There Is Nothing Left To Lose. It was a bonafide single from the Foo Fighters. This is the real deal, guys. From 2000. It came out in December 2000.

So it came out just in time to be a New Year's Eve jam heading into the year 2001. I wonder if Mark Weisbach can do a little fact check on the popularity of this song. Okay, breaking news. Moose Grumpy says that Adam Duritz also says he used extensions

for his dreads. So the answer is kind of in between. It's inconclusive, but it's possible that some of that hair did not belong to him. Okay, that's fair. I think that's important. Okay, next year by Foo Fighters, a great jam for this new year. And Cam, can I kick into your third jam here? Yeah, absolutely. jam for this new year. And, uh, Cam,

can I kick into your third jam here? Yeah, absolutely. When the bells all ring and the horns all blow and the couples we know are fondly kissing, will I be with you Or will I be among the missing Maybe it's much

too early in the game Oh but I thought I'd ask you just the same What are you doing Oh, but I thought I'd ask you just the same. What are you doing New Year's? New Year's Eve.

This is like from when Harry met Sally. Okay, this is going to be a pop quiz for Stu Stone. Who are we listening to? I don't know. I'm trying to listen hard to it so pop quiz for Stu Stone. Who are we listening to? I don't know. I'm trying to listen hard to it because I can make a guess. Okay, I'll turn it up for a few seconds and let you have another shot at this. It's 8, 12 o'clock that night. Welcoming in the new year. New year's eve.

What are you doing? I don't know. Here's a clue. This is a band I think you love. I agree. I think you love this band. This is a band I think you've seen live. Quite possibly multiple occasions.

Although, much like myself, clearly that's not a voice you recognize. No. Yeah, I don't know. I'm stumped. Chicago. Oh, that's, oh, okay. That makes sense. Now I do recognize his voice. That's the singer, I think he's from Canada, this guy.

Is he Jason Randolph Sheff? I think so. Jason Sheff? So he's, uh... Is he Jason Randolph Sheff? I think so. Jason Sheff? So he's, yeah, I guess he was here sort of in the mid-'80s iteration. I guess co-vocalist because they always would sort of mix things up. Is this guy Canadian, Jason Sheff?

I think so. If I'm not mistaken, I know somebody who took over for Peter Cetero is Canadian. No, I think he's American. It says an American basis. Right. So maybe I'm thinking of a different iteration. But I definitely recognize this guy's voice now that you mention it. Okay.

So this is from 2011. From Chicago 33 colon Oh Christmas 3. It's a Christmas jam as well. You said 2003? No, sorry, 2011. Are you playing Chicago songs from 2011?

Correct. I guess you'd call this a standard. What are you doing New Year's Eve is the name of this song. Do you guys know this song? Yeah, you know what? It sounds like it's from When Harry Met Sally. Yeah, it's quite an old song.

It was written in 1947. There's a version I have in my playlist that I play at this time of year all the time, and I considered it until I saw you were kicking out this jam, but an Ella Fitzgerald version that I quite like. Yeah, here's a list of some of the folks who have covered this in addition to Chicago. considered it till I saw you were kicking out this jam, but an Ella Fitzgerald version that I quite like. Yeah. She was, here's a list of some of the folks who have covered this in addition to Chicago.

So we got Lena Horne. We got Barbara Streisand. We've got Bette Midler. We've got Harry Connick Jr. Maybe that's Harry Met Sally. We have Seth MacFarlane, who's like family guy. Yeah.

Not, we got Donny Osmond. We got Casey Musgraves. They're more contemporary. We got Azalealea banks which is kind of interesting uh we've got the carpenters and we have cannazone although i don't know if technically he's canadian uh rupes wainwright i i guess do we consider him i think i consider him canadian martha martha's son right uh the the uh the wife of a great Canadian yacht rocker is on that list of people who have covered this song as well. Who's that?

Well, let's see. Stu, who's the most famous Canadian yacht rocker you can think of? Gino Vanelli. Oh, I thought you might go with David Foster. Oh, Fosty, of course, yes. David Foster is married to Catherine McPhee Catherine McPhee, right Can I just, I'm sorry about this, Cam

I truly am Mark Weisblot's comment about how I insist that something wasn't popular when it was Is the rules different in Canada? Because how is it that the Counting Crows song was only on the hot modern rock charts I have an answer

It was on the number one on the main chart. So is it different in Canada? Any song can be on the chart in Canada and only in the States is that rule? Can he explain that one to me? Yeah, through the years, they changed the rules, right? So today, streaming helps you get to... You can get to number one on streaming alone today. But of course, that's something that got introduced fairly recently.

But there was a time where it had to be one on streaming alone today. But of course, that's something that got introduced fairly recently. But there was a time where it had to be a combination of radio play. And they had a rule for this is the American US Billboard Hot 100, which is like the definitive. That's the one where Barenaked Ladies were number one for a week of one week. Like that's kind of the go to. Andy Kim has a number one song because Sugar Sugar was number one on that same chart. So that Billboard Hot 100, they had a rule for a long time until they got rid of it that the song had to be issued as a single that you could buy in a store. Yeah, but in Canada they didn't have that rule, you're saying?

Right, that's exactly right. Yeah, so this is a specific rule. Is that exactly right or are you just speculating on that? No, I mean, I listened to this podcast from the guy. Yeah, this is a specific Billboard Hot 100 rule that they changed at some point. By the way, Mark Weisblatt, maybe he'll chime in as he yeah this is a specific billboard hot 100 rule that they changed at some point by the way mark weisblatt maybe he'll chime in as he hears this part they have a bit of a delay on uh on facebook but neil donnell is the toronto guy who uh joined chicago in 2018 to sing oh that would be amazing oh but it's spelled differently, I think. It's D-O-N. Anyway, getting back to the Chicago Christmas album from 2011.

Some interesting guest stars on that album included Steve Cropper. Do we know Steve Cropper from Booker T and the MGs? Oh, Green Onions will get you banned from Facebook, so I won't even play a second of that. We won't go there. Steve Cropper played a little guitar. We had Dolly Parton. Oh, I just watched the documentary on her the other day.

Lending her vocals to Wonderful Christmas Time. She also lent her a wallet to the vaccine. Right. She sure did. Right. And a band I know we've talked about on Pandemic Fridays, guested on this album, America. Oh, that's a sound alike.

I don't think we played it, but we talked about doing sound alike. Mistaken identity champs. Everyone thinks that's Neil Young. I feel like they came up when we were talking about Adam Schlesinger, Fountains of Wayne. Possibly. I feel like he did some stuff with America. Anyway,

Jerry and Dewey from America lent their vocals, some ukulele parts. Jerry and Dewey? To a song vocals some ukulele parts. To a song called I See Three Ships, which I don't even know what that is. I guess that's a Christmas song? I think that's on the Barenaked Ladies Christmas

album, too. That's a staple as well. I think they're also nephews of Donald Duck, if I'm not mistaken. There you go. Anyway, Chicago arguably the band that has shapeshifted the most in popular music. I don't know. I mean, it's sort of just a brand.

Like just all these people pass through the Chicago brand. What about Doobie Brothers? They did a shapeshift too. I feel like Chicago's more. Like unrecognizable. Like different iterations. Stuart, this is accurate, right? You're the Chicago guy. Well, they have the original brass,

a couple of guys from the horn section are the only guys still playing with Chicago now. But, you know, I kind of like the fact that they were able to pull that off because that means we'll be able to enjoy the music of Chicago for years to come. Oh, they'll outlive, like the band Chicago will outlive all of us easily.

You know, much like when we were kids, the Four Tops and the Temptations were on tour. Or another Canadian example, if you will, is the Guess Who? Like, who are they to be doing anything anymore without Cummings and Bachman? Yeah, I forget, you know, in one of your favorite episodes of the year, Mike,

unlike all these horseshit episodes we're doing. Did Sass talk about, because that's her husband, right? Yeah, it's her husband. Yeah, lead singer of the guest. I forget, because I did listen. Did you guys get into that? I don't think we got into it too much. Oh, by the way, breaking news.

Mike is correct. Billboard Hot 100 represented a biblical method of sales plus airplay, which they stubbornly stuck to. In the Canadian radio charts, you didn't have those technicalities, those prerequisites. Well, there you go. Now it is so.

Wait, I just want to say that first three words again. You should just be the fact checker for Pandemic Fridays. That would be like a great add-on. Well, you know, the difference, when we were on Periscope, I never saw the comments in real time, but on Facebook, I've set it up where it's a much better interface. No offense to Twitter, but that was a garbage interface

on Periscope. The Facebook, even though we will be banned from it for playing music, which is why Ian Service is going to develop something for us, but it is a much better interface for seeing real-time comments. Tomato, tomato. Facebook, Facebook. Oh, stop it.

Don't make me hang up. Chicago, what are you doing New Year's Eve? And all of us, and hopefully everyone in this fucking country around the world are going to be staying home tonight. That's what we're doing. Except for Rod Phillips. Back-to-back stale songs. Okay, well, let's kick things up a notch with your third jam.

I want to dedicate my jam to Cam Gordon that's coming up here. Cam, I want you to really turn it up. Crank it up. Party now. Crank it up. This is a New Year's jam that's dedicated to you, my friend. guitar solo Get the reed.

guitar solo Has a crunching show Has the sweet breeze blow Has a kindness call Oh, kindness comes. Oh, still lingers on. I drink myself a new round of tea. Sitting alone in New York City and I don't know what. Oh, a little bit of a fake out there. By the way, her songs.

Yeah. He's coming back for round two. Yeah, talk. You picked, now you did a Counting Crows song and a Collective Soul song. I feel like you're... Yeah, this is very edgy. Yeah, I mean, I really thought, you know,

Collective Soul doesn't get enough play around here. Round here. Collective Soul. This is a song called The World I Know by a band called Collective Soul, who were kicked out last week during Christmas jams,

even though the song wasn't a Christmas jam. I just connected those dots. And that's why I decided to play them again this week, because I don't think that Collective Soul got enough love last week. So you're basically having fun at Cam's expense because this is not a New Year's song, right? Well, it says the word new in it several times.

They say New York. They say new kind of city or whatever they say. This is Stu's heel turn. You rod in human beings. This is a real privilege to have a podcast we've cultivated over 42 weeks. Listeners, this is so petty and petulant. This isn't Tom Petty. This is Collective Soul.

Okay, that was good. And the song is actually quite fitting, you know, because the world that we know of 2020, you know, the calendar's going to change over, and hopefully there'll be some changes. This is bullshit, Stu. If you have a problem with my friend Cam Gordon, we talk about it man to man to man.

You don't come and disgrace my show like this. In fact, shout out to Wiseblot. The world I know peaked at number 19 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart but was number one in Canada. We like our rock.

I am serious though and Weisblot will have my back on this. U.S. did prefer for a variety of reasons R&B as a genre where Canada

was really you know us hosers were really rock centric here. This song was number one in Canada. It was the band's highest charting single there. I mean, it was a big hit. It has nothing to do with like New Year's Eve.

You know, I've got a bit of a mind blow for you, Cam, while we're here. Collective Soul, not only do they have a song called The World I Know which we're listening to right now, they also had a hit called December, which you played. But maybe a lot of people don't know. Collective Soul is a lot more than just that.

Let's get this mind blowout here. They also have this song. I don't think there's a single mind being blown right now. Which is called Shine. And now you disgraced my podcast. I've worked eight years on this, and now you're disgracing it by a mine blow that blows no mines. It blows mines because Cam's pick last week blew so hard

that I really needed to pile on him. I can't let the people forget. I can't let 2020 end without Cam paying the price for such a horrible pick last week. Shine. This is another song from this band called Collectible that Cam introduced us to last week. Shut your mouth. Let's try to salvage this a bit.

Shine. Let's give a shout out to our new friend, a new FOTM, Mark Teo. His book, Shine. The history of shiny. I was going to say shiny happy people big shiny toons I thought you were going to shout out someone else who had dreadlocks when maybe he

shouldn't have dreadlocks Who's that? Somebody from the Cantner, Josh Who's the Doughboys guy? Oh, John Kastner Right, because Shine is a very good Doughboy song. I thought you were going to say Tom Wilson.

I don't think he ever had dreadlocks. No, no. I don't think so. Sorry to interrupt there. But while I'm interrupting, let me just say, leave a thump go of the shot at Stu, and that's why you don't make Al's list. No, I don't think that's why.

I think it's because Al's a jabroni make Al's list. No, I don't think that's why. I think it's because Al's a jabroni. That's why. Stu's just like napalming this whole thing. More for the heel, Stu Stone from Wise Blot. Stu is killing me again by being nearly correct. Collect a Soul were definitely more popular in Canada. Thank God I'm only nearly killing him, because who would be there to talk about his death at the next 1236 episode

if I did kill him? So thank God for that. I only nearly killed him. Maybe I'd have to bring in Ed Conroy for that special episode, because who else would be there to do it? I will say that Shine is a great tune by Collective Soul. It's a fine song. It peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100

and, at the risk of being wrong again, was very popular in Canada. Yeah, no, Collective Soul was more popular in Canada than the USA. That's a fact. Yeah. They played at Woodstock 94. You remember that?

Oh, that's the good one, before Limp Bizkit caused the riots. Big pay-per-view numbers. Ratings off the charts. Oh, Green Day had a great performance. Coming out party for Green Day. Yeah, when I come around. I remember that video.

Look, I like this song. Shine, this is the first big... I don't know when Jel showed up. When did Jel... Where is Jel? Shine is first, right? Before Jel. Am I right?

Look, if I hadn't have played the song, would you be talking about Collective Soul right now? No. Should we be talking? Okay, it's not a New Year's. I'm shutting her down. I thought it was appropriate to play them last week during Christmas jams. Okay, I could have played this

during last week's episode, Christmas. You know what, guys? Go ahead. Is he there? No. Cam has left the building out of protest. Is that right? We should play him out with some collective soul.

Okay, he is gone. He's left. Should I proceed? Okay. Let me kick out this jam and then hopefully he rejoins. I'll get a little ding when he does. Here's my third jam. No,

it sounds like it, right? Yeah. I'm more in for like the first second. I was up all night Socializing Trying to keep the late depression From crystallizing Now the sun is lurking just behind the Scarborough horizon

Canadian Jam? Definitely Canadian. Here, I'll bring it down, we'll talk about it. The coldest night of the year It's a song I quite like. I'm surprised you can't name that voice. I know who it is. Well, let's work with Stu here. Stu. Is that Gino Vannoli?

No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm a little surprised because you're a friend of the True North Records, right? Bernie Finkelstein? I mean... No? I get what you're implying there, but yes.

All right, Cam, let's let him off the hook. What are we listening to here? This is, uh, Bruce, uh,

Bruce Cockburn. Bruce Cockburn. Cockburn. Yeah. I also struggled with that thinking, why isn't it Cockburn? It is Cockburn apparently. Yes.

That, that, that would, this actually, a Bruce Cockburn song would have been good for you. That was the vasectomy. Is it really Coburn? Yeah, it's Coburn.

It's not Cockburn. But it's spelled Cockburn? Yeah. Huh. Yeah, all the Cockburns are Coburns, apparently. I don't know why. It's a British thing, I think. It's like all the wieners are whiners.

That's right. That's right. And this is Coldest Night of the Year. That's the name of the song. Yeah, and this is like a really... It's a great song. It's a great song, and it references... Here, let me pull up the lyrics here real quick. It's really local.

Like, I like the Toronto-ness of this jam. Hold on here. Let me call up one of the exciting lyric sites we have here there we go we'll go to this one stand by this is riveting i know hold on here so we uh this now the sun is lurking just behind the scarborough horizon so shout out to scarborough and then in a later verse he says i took I took in Yonge Street at a glance, heard the punkers playing, watched the bikers dance, everybody wishing they could go to the south of France. So it's a nice, it's a local jam. It's called Travelogue of Toronto.

Yeah. And Bruce Colburn, of course, which is the Shabib's, uh, Donald Shabib's, uh, followup to going down the road, which is a Canadian classic. And Murray McLaughlin,

who is an FOTM, he does the music for ripoff, but the music for going down the road, which of course was a much bigger success commercially and critically, and did not star Peter Gross was Bruce Coburn. Here's, here's a question. This is sort of a gen and this

is like let's bring this back to like seer do you guys like it when like 30 years after the fact there's sequels or like reboots or follow-ups they never they never uh they're never good but uh you know you still watch them just because you want that nostalgia hit, that dopamine hit of nostalgia. Yeah, I just find it sort of mildly depressing. It's like, do we not have any better ideas? I get there's a market for this sort of stuff, but I don't know.

Like just, you know, the Saved by the Bell reboot, and it's like, who's this for? I guess it's for the parents. I think it's fun to see your old favorite show. It's fun to see your old favorite show. It's fun. It's debatably fun, but isn't it more about how they've done some market research and the penny pinchers have decided to build up the brand equity,

to get the awareness of the brand. There's so much marketing dollars that gets spent on that, but if you just repurpose some IP, some intellectual property, that already exists in the universe, that saves you x dollars of marketing off the top because most of us know saved by the bell already yeah i think that's it i mean stew probably knows a lot more about sort of the ins and outs of this sort of thing than i do but yeah anyway like just like did we need like a going down the road sequel i guess i mean i guess did we need a chicago christmas album in 2018 i guess we did because you played it so it just goes to

show you that you know sometimes it is worth it hey show no producer note for if wiseblood's still listening uh i did invite elliot lefkoe who's a pretty well-known concert promoter guy, music industry guy. I did invite him on Toronto Mic'd, and he just politely declined the invitation. So just on the record for Mark, that Elliot Lefkoe does not want to appear on Toronto Mic'd, and he just wrote me a nice little Facebook note.

Can you read the note to us? Yeah, sure. Okay. Can you just forward it to us, maybe? So I did it on my normal nice intro. By the way, his brother's been on the show. His brother is Perry Lefkoe. But hi, Mike.

Did you mention that in your email? Yeah, at the end I wrote, yeah, I did. And I'm not sure that worked in my favor. That might have been the thing that screwed it up for you. But I did tell Elliot that he could do it via Zoom. He didn't have to come to the backyard. But he said, hi, Mike. I appreciate the invite, but I can't do it.

Thanks, Elliot. He can't do it, he says. Is he in Los Angeles? He's normally in LA, but I believe he is here now riding out the pandemic here, much like Carla Collins, who's normally in California, and is riding out the pandemic here. Yeah, because he worked for Ticketmaster at some point. Yeah, I think he's still there.

I think, I think he's still there. But okay, so that's some behind the scenes stuff there. Fourth jam, before I kick out this fourth jam for Cam Gordon, looking forward to hearing this jam. Thank you to StickerU.com

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So big ups to stickeru.com. You ready for your fourth jam, Cam? Yeah, absolutely. I never had a good place Only money to buy I drive my car But I haven't got a car to drive Drives me crazy Never had a holiday

And I drive a car to sun New times are right They're never gonna come Oh, no, this time's bad And it'll make you want to cry Don't be sad We'll get by Baby, baby, don't look back. Fine young cannibals don't look back.

don't look back fine young cannibals don't look back so this was a uh pretty big hit for the band from their uh massive album the raw and the cooked did you guys own that album i feel like i owned it of course yeah that was a big win it had good good times not good time uh good good thing good thing right thing and of course uh she drives me crazy was that. So a real juggernaut album from back in the day. Big album. And if I'm remembering correctly, he was best known. I remember that band before that album was the Johnny, We're Worried, Won't You Come On Home. Johnny Hates Jazz? We Miss You.

Shattered Dreams, which is also Gold Dust is fishing off me. Was it not? Like a groin shot. So don't look back. Is that because it's the end of the year? Don't look back. Just look forward. 2021. You know, some of the lips, oh no, the times are bad.

Gonna make you want to cry. Don't. We'll get by. It seems like Collective Soul-esque in its selection, but go ahead. Yeah, that's why I chose it, for sure. Way better than Collective Soul-esque in its selection, but go ahead. Yeah, that's why I chose it, for sure. Way better than Collective Soul. Way better. Thank you, Michael Boone.

So this song, a... Are you saying Fine Young Cannibals are better than Collective Soul? Is that what you're saying, Mike? Or is it a choice? The choice is better. And debatably, I think maybe Fine Young Cannibals are better as well. Wow. They're a little different.

Objectively, chart-wise. And that Johnny song is good, man. I can't hit that note. What's his name? Rowan? What's his name? Rowan Gift. I can't hit the note. Rowan High in a step to the end.

Okay. Mute. Mute him. Mike, do it. I wouldn't dare. Kick out some gel. I want some gel. I like gel. Okay. Bunch gel. Okay. Bunch of fun facts. Fine young cannibals here. This song, Don't Look Back,

went to top 10 hit in Canada. I don't know. You better make sure when you're saying that, Wise Blot doesn't hear you. I can hear Roger Ashby kicking and telling us right now it was number whatever

on the Chum FM 30. Yeah. So it went to number 10 in Canada, number 11 in the U S um, the two previous singles were both number one hits in the U S the aforementioned. She drives me crazy and a good thing. Um,

interestingly, she drives me crazy was also number one on the billboard dance chart. Wow. I don't really think I did. Have you guys ever danced that song? I am. I'm still dancing to it. dance chart wow i don't really think i did have you guys ever danced that song i am i think that maybe they use that song for the opening theme of the chum fm 30 does it yeah yes i think you're right like yeah yeah yeah yes exactly i i also feel like who's the guy who played organ at uh maple leaf gardens jimmy i don't remember there was like

an organ version of that they would play at maple leaf oh i think you're absolutely right and i also think this guy roland who's got that great voice there uh i believe uh i remember he was an actor as well like is there a bag bag dad cafe does that ring a bell if anyone bag dad cafe yeah i feel like i saw that on city tv late great movies or something I think he did some Shakespeare like stage Shakespeare's sister? That's part of the equation here Anyway, Fine and Campbell's

I think everyone sort of knows this the two other members, Andy Cox and David Steele were originally in the beat or known here as the English beat of Mirror in the Bathroom and Shaking Crawl and all that tears of a clown. I didn't know that.

Yeah. Wow. So I've already counted down sort of the geographical count. I'm going to do it again. Fanny and Campbell's are from Birmingham in the UK. And you look at all the other artists from Birmingham. Alabama or the UK?

UK. Can you let me finish, please? So I know what most people think. Please continue, Cam. Are you done interrupting? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Other artists from Birmingham in the UK, which is also home of the Fine Young Cannibals.

It's a long list, so get comfortable. We got UB40. We got Duran Duran. We got Judas Priest. also home of the fine young cannibals it's a long list so get comfortable we got ub40 we got duran duran we got judas priest we got yellow the electric light orchestra we have the yellow well how did you describe them yellow see yeah oh yellow i thought yellow i thought you said yellow oh i feel like those guys were German or something We got the Moody Blues We got Dexy's Midnight Runners We got the Spencer Davis group

In Traffic We've got the Streets We've got a band we've counted down before Musical Youth Pasaduchy of course And last but not least we have The Killjoys Wow Not those kill joys not the mike trouble cock um uh trouble co trouble coke i'm trying to remember the movie i saw roland gift

in so i don't mean to be distracted sammy and rosie was the name of the movie okay dominic and eugene yeah my mom loves dominic and eugene uh who was that was that um ray liotta and who else was in that i can't remember but ray liotta's in that for sure okay a couple more fun facts i don't think i realized this the fine and campbell's broke up in 92 i was kind of wondering why they never really had any other hits i i don't think I fully realized they were gone as of 1992, which is on the heels of this massive album. Money changes everything, as they say. And that's why, you know, once we start monetizing this show,

it's going to be screwy. Yeah, for fans only or whatever. Money changed everything. That was Cyndi Lauper, right? Yes. Okay, two more fun facts um have you have you guys ever heard fine young cannibals their cover of suspicious minds yes yes they sung yeah i got lots of things who who sings backup vocals on that oh priscilla you will not care about this but mike you might like this no it's No, it's Jimmy Soberville, a Bronski beat, small town boy.

Yeah. I was actually going to shout out Bronski beat, I swear to God, because It sounds like Johnny. I always thought that there was a Bronski beat, Fine Young Cannibals, sort of, you know, they were sort of like tag team partners. Connective to, yeah. So there you go.

They were to some degree. And when Colleen Rusholm kicked out the jams That's a jam she kicked out That's a real kick out the jams not what we're doing now Yeah of course It's a true kick out the jam And final thought on Rolling GIF Much like Kim Deal

He'll turn 60 next year Wow May we all get there at some point That's fantastic Anyway final thought i love that song i wish we would hear it more i feel it's not a song that surfaces much wait bronski no don't look back by the fine young can okay so i wish we'd hear more bronski i think that's a great jam like uh of its era but it's when i hear it now it's it holds up and it's it's got some

substance to it in the uh the theme of what it's speaking remember his other band the communards no i have no memory of like they they did a cover of uh don't leave me this way like that disco song speaking of disco i think it's time you know this is new year's eve i'm doing the intro for stewie you can do your real intro in a moment but i think it's new year's eve it's time for us to dance stew do you want to say anything else before i kick out your fourth if you want to take yourself back to uh the, you know, we have a lot of fears right now in 2020 and going into 2021. We have unknowns. We don't know what's going to happen. Or will there be vaccines that will cure us from this show? We don't know.

We think that it's all looking pretty good. But back in 1999, if you recall, there was this Y2K scare that was perpetuated by Cam and people like him, where, you know, at midnight, the computers were going to stop working. Electricity was going to stop. Banks were going to freeze. were going to stop working. Electricity was going to stop. Banks were going to freeze. And the world was just going to stop because of some computer program that the computers were not programmed to switch the calendar over to zero, zero, and everything would just malfunction. The Y2K virus that nothing really came of it, did it?

How scared were you guys? Because I was so scared that at that exact moment, New Year's Eve 1999, I was at the Air Canada Center watching the Tragically Hip on stage. Like I must not have given a shit about Y2K. I'm out there at a concert. Yeah, I, where people actually, I do remember some people

were like stockpiling food. Oh yes, that happened for sure. I was at the Madison pub, which is far less interesting. I mean, I think like we were all sort of like at 12 o'clock, sort of like,

even if we don't admit it, we were like, was something going to happen and then nothing happened. Nothing happened. Maybe because we put forward efforts to prevent that from happening. Maybe that's why nothing happened. But you want to kick out that jam that reminds you of the evening? Yeah, I mean, like, because when it turned, when it hit New Year's Eve, it was 2000

party over. It's, uh, we're out of time, or however it goes. So let's just play this New Year's staple right now. Don't worry. I won't hurt you. Here's Andre the Giant. I only want you to have

some fun. I was dreaming when I wrote this Forgive me if it goes astray But when I woke up this morning Girl, this morning was judgment day The sky was all purple There were people running everywhere Trying to run from my destruction There you go. So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999 There you go.

Now, if you can imagine in December of 1982, when this song was peaking at its original peak on the chart. Yes. How far away 1999 would have seemed. And just to put that into perspective, from the year 2000 to now is actually longer of a period of time. Wow. From 1982 to 1999 by several years. So time flies, guys.

It really does. I mean, we've already surpassed Back to the Future 2 year. We've already surpassed 2010 Space Odyssey. Yeah, the year we made contact. You know. Now you're bumming me out, Stu. Basically, we're marching uncontrollably and ever forward to our eventual stay at Ridley Funeral Home. Prince 1999.

Prince Rogers Nelson. He was a record producer, a dancer, and actor. Widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of his generation. I'll co-sign that. Easily one of the best live performers I've ever seen. He's a multi-instrumentalist who was considered a guitar virtuoso.

Flamboyant and androgynous at times. A wide vocal range which included a far-reaching falsetto high-pitched screams uh prince uh is the man and a hell of a basketball player excuse me a hell of a basketball player for a little guy uh this song you know i i wonder what wise blot's gonna say about this but this song is really an anomaly in that it's like charted and left the charts so many times, almost a record amount of times, I would dare say. that like the record label really knew that they had something in Prince and didn't give up on him because he had a lot of songs that came out and fizzled and then were re-released again. And then were given to the Pointer Sisters and Chaka Khan.

His songs were just kept being repurposed until it hit. Like they just kept on giving it a go because they knew they had something with this guy. And of course, it paid off monumentally uh with the purple rain but you know we can't discount 1999 little red corvette both huge hits uh prior to uh purple rain and this is uh a staple of new year's eve uh the song was uh originally peaked at number 44 on the chart then was re-released and then went to number 12. Then in 1985, it was re-released again and peaked at number two. I mean, this song just kept getting re-released.

Obviously, in 1999, it re-entered the chart again. When Prince passed away, again. The song itself has sold 727,000 copies as of 2016, so it's probably surpassed the million sales mark by this, because that was four years ago already. Some music critics suggested Phil Collins' 1985 song, Su Sudio, sounds very similar to 1999. Phil Collins confirmed this claim

and remembers listening to 1999quently while he was on tour With Genesis I'm at La Crosse Technical production by Rob Johnston And there you go I mean Prince 1999 Is there a more There is one more song that I'm going to kick out

That is more of a New Year's song than this But this is a pretty New Year's song, you know, to make up for Cam's collective soul decisions of last week and Mike's Metallica decisions of weeks prior. This is the quintessential New Year's jam for a New Year's countdown. There isn't a New Year's party without this song. In fact, Cam and MF are probably going to dance to this song later tonight. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Could happen. Yeah, is there a better example of a New Year's Eve jam than Prince's 1999, dare I say? It's a staple, for sure. I can't argue with that. I take issue with some of your Collective Soul commentary,

but that's okay. We've established that. But otherwise, I think you nailed it. I never thought of the Susu Studio thing. Me neither. Which is very true. Neither did I, but I guess Phil Collins confirmed it, so it's got to be true.

There you go. Should we kick out at some point jams that have multiple release lives? I'm thinking of a bunch off the top of my head. Nine lives, you can call it. Oh, God, yeah. Cat jams. Like, I know I don't want to spoil it, but there is one jam that I think would have probably the record

for most times re-entering the chart, which I think would be the Mariah Carey Christmas song. Like, I feel like... Oh, we'll get to that. You're kicking that out next, aren't you? All right, good choice. Some Prince. You can't go wrong with Prince.

Now, I'm going to kick out my penultimate jam. I love this song. And then I'll tell the story after I fade it down because it's a fun story of how I kind of fell in love with this song. But here we go. Here we go. The warmth of your love's like the warmth from the sun And this will be our year, took a long time to come Don't let go of my hand now, the darkness is gone

This will be our year, took a long time to come and i won't forget the way you helped me up when i was done and i won't forget the way you said dad i love you you gave me faith you go oh now we're there and we've only just begun this will be our year Took a long time to come Okay, Mike, fade this sucker down. So, do you two gents... Oh, you're no longer on Facebook. You got kicked off of Facebook, Mike.

Do you think zombies did it? Do you think the song did it? We're going to have to fix that. I don't think Facebook likes me playing these songs. So if you're listening to the... did it we're gonna have to fix that i don't think facebook likes me playing these songs so if you're listening to the it's not gonna work out on that that's okay well you know i can always power through it's a podcast only in my mind still so let's get the podcast down and then i'll figure all that out later although i think we're gonna need ian service to develop something for us pirates out here so this jam is by the zombies either of you guys know this song,

This Will Be Our Year. I am very familiar with this. I almost chose it myself. This is fantastic. It's a great song and I feel it's underappreciated. I didn't know much about this jam and then I started this series several years ago. I started Kick Out The Jams, episodes

of Toronto Mic'd and a couple of people Aaron Braunstetter who works in sports media and who else I guess it was him actually I want to give him full credit here Aaron kicks out this song this will be our year and I'm like what is that

like why don't I know this song and it's one of my favorite songs now I don't know why and it doesn't even have a wiki page unto itself. I feel like we've talked about it on Pandemic Fridays before. Did we? I don't know. We should talk about it more often because it's perfect for this episode.

This will be our year. This will be our year. It's a great song. I think it's underappreciated. By the way, I'm just going to say that only Stu has left the facebook feed if i'm just looking over my right shoulder camera you you can still hear me right um yeah yeah i can still hear you i i close my facebook window stew's too i bet stew's in the washroom okay but again let's just there's actually a great cover of this song by a band we talked about earlier, The Beautiful South. Oh, yeah.

That do have a male-female vocal version of this that's really, really quite lovely, too. But yeah, I love this song. Zombie's very underappreciated amongst all those British Invasion fans, even though they were quite popular in their own right, too. You're right. They have some jams, people know. But this will be our year. Everybody can make that their jam for 2021. This will be our year.

God willing. God willing. Yes. All praise is due to the Lord and Savior. Yes. Now, let's... Here's a question. Here's a question for you, Mike.

Yeah, go ahead. I feel like i posed this before uh but let's do an updated version when do you think you toronto mike will have a covid vaccine assuming that you're gonna take it if it's available i would take it i would push i think i said this on my show but i will push old ladies out of the way to get that vaccination yeah i i i don't know if you saw this like in florida it's actually i don't know if it's the entire state but it's first come first serve that's amazing i saw video but you have to be over a certain age at this point so i just saw these

like centers where you can get it just all these older folks in florida there's a lot you know with lawn chairs and they're camping out it's like you, you know, Springsteen tickets. I'll say this. I had, I had, I'm one of the few people maybe, cause I've heard people didn't have as good experience I had, but I had a very positive experience getting my flu shot this year in that I literally went to the Toronto website. Toronto had a clinic. It was at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. I put in the time. I think I chose a 2 PM on a tuesday or something i literally brought my bike inside at like five minutes early i went through this very safe procedure got the shot in the arm and then biked home and it was like slick as anything i was really impressed i

know we might not have had the supply we needed so some people got left out but if you jumped i mean i hope that we have pretty much the same, like, I mean, when they open it up to healthy 40-somethings like myself. Yeah, so what would be your guess, Mike? Okay,

my guess is, August. You think in August you'll have a COVID vaccine? I think I'm going to get a COVID vaccine in August. What about you? What do you think?

What's your guess? I feel like it's going to be later. I feel like there'll be blips in the supply you know you can't go wrong uh betting against this government in their rollout strategy yeah i'd say maybe october maybe in time for my birthday well that means i think what happens is when the third of us the third of us assuming we all want to get it and i think stew wants to get it as well i think stew's back he can answer that question but when the third of us that makes sense gets the shot

then the next pandemic friday is maybe that's the uh we wrap up this limited series with like a big blowout and i have this idea for it like where it's like almost like greatest hits and misses like a retrospective of the whatever the 70 years whatever it ends up being, the 70 Pandemic Friday episodes, and we get to revisit, for example, we can revisit Hero of the Day, and we can revisit December. Well, that's what I was expecting there to be, a Best of Pandemic Fridays episode.

Yeah, that should be the final episode, I think. I think he's putting that together, Al. Well, he's going to come produce that. Hopefully, we all get our shots before it gets cold out and we can do it in the backyard. Although if we have our shots, maybe we're even allowed to do it inside. Who knows what the rules will be. Okay, Stutes. Does the world not come back together prior to that?

Or what do you think? I don't think so. Is there a chance that the virus sort of goes away magically like Donnie predicted? I don't think so. I think we're... And I don't see you on Facebook, by the way. I just want you to know, I do see you on Facebook.

Weird, because I'm on your page right now and all I see is the Hebsey episode. You might want to refresh your page. I don't have such power, but I'm watching the live. I'm literally watching us live on this other laptop and I can see Cam drinking some water right now.

Weird. Maybe I'll write a quick hi. I think it's gone. Anyway, it's a podcast too. So as long as I've got that recorded. Oh shit, I didn't press record. Oh my God. I did. Okay. So let's kick out the final jam for

our very own Cam Gordon. Are you ready, Cam? Say... Yes, let's kick out the final jam for our very own Cam Gordon. Are you ready, Cam? Say, uh... Yes, let's do it. Say something so I know you're ready. Yeah, sorry. I was thinking that was my song because I'm such a fan of it. Oh, here we go. Fuck.

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go So make the best of this test and don't ask why It's not a question but a lesson learned in time It's something unpredictable But in the end is right I hope you had the time of your life Good riddance, Cam. Good riddance, Cam. Good riddance to 2020.

Green Day. Well, technically, let me backtrack a bit. Good riddance in brackets, time of your life is the name of the song. The name of the band is Green Day. This is from October 1977, the second single from their... 1977? 1997. This is from 1997?

Yes. Wow, it feels like it's not... Wow, I'm kind of surprised by that. You know, we heard it on the Seinfeld finale, the montage, Best Of, or whatever they had before they aired that final episode. This was the song from that, as I recall. It also just was like a classic kind of song

for about five years. Graduations had a lot to do with that. I was going to say, talk about a song that has had many lives. I mean, yeah, this song has become synonymous with graduations, final dances, just, you know, the final song you'd play at a pub

night. I know when I was at McMaster, there was certainly a stretch of time. This would be kind of the stairway to heaven. I remember. Also closing time. I went to game four of the World Series, Yankees against the Padres, which was like Tony Gwynn's last shot at a championship. And the Yankees swept. But when the Yankees won the world series it was in

san diego they played green day time of your life like was like the song that was like sort of recap the padres almost win yeah i feel like the big moment of that series was a tino martinez grand slam off a very old mark langston yeah yeah sad yeah and that was that was the yankees like first world. Oh no, they won 96. Did they not? They won a lot of championships.

Yeah. So this is like the second of four. So speaking of sad though, just let me give an update to the podcast listenership who wonder why we're not on Facebook anymore. I just, I have the, I was right. You're right.

But I, it was, it was working for me because I guess as admin, I can still see it, but it wasn't able to be viewed by anyone. So I'm not sure what song triggered it. And again, this is something we'll have to figure out for a longer term solution. But it might have been that zombie song.

But a song we played triggered the ban in 249 countries. So I don't know which countries are exempt from that ban, but Canada and U.S. are on the list of 249 countries that cannot see our video on Facebook right now. So podcast only. There is a solution to this. There's other streaming platforms that you could use and direct people to maybe your website to stream it.

Like you hosted on TorontoMic.com. That's what Ian's service is actually working on, a solution of that nature. Attaboy, Tim. Attaboy, Clarence, which reminds me of your next jam. Attaboy, Clarence. If that reference

is lost on you, it'll explain it later. No clue. I'll explain it later. This tune, I would have almost thought this was a bigger hit in the the u.s only went be careful be careful well i mean this is confusing because in the u.s it went to number 13 on the billboard hot 100 went to number 11 on the adult top 40. Wow. Went to number four on the adult alternative charts. Wow. Now, the adult alternative charts,

I did a bit of a deep dive because I'm like, what the fuck is that even? Who do you think is the artist who has the most number one adult alternative hits of all time? Sarah McLachlan. Good guess. No. Collective Soul. No. Also a good guess.

Red Hot Chili Peppers. Also a good guess. No. It's U2. I was going to guess U2. Yeah. So in order, it's U2, Dave Matthews Band, Coldplay, Jack Johnson, and then a three-way tie in the fifth spot between Sheryl Crow,

Accountant Crows, and R.E.M. I don't think Sheryl Crow belongs in any alternative category. I mean, does Jack Johnson... Yeah, Jack Johnson as well, I would say. So, interesting.

So anyway, Green Day, but this was even number one on that chart. Again, I feel like this song is sort of, you know, its long-term presence in the culture greatly outweighs its chart performance. That's a great song. I love it. I never get tired of hearing it. Do you have a mind blow?

Yeah, play it. I will remember you Sarah McLachlan Will you remember me Sarah McLachlan. We've come a long way from where we began Oh, I'll tell you all about it when I see you again When I see you again Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go Wow. So, Cam, what is this? This is like a greatest hits of farewell songs.

Yeah, so this is an outfit. Yeah, it's an outfit called Anth what are these guys called anthem lights which is kind of like a vocal group um has all these medleys of all these different songs they release an annual graduation medley so clearly going for kind of the high school crowd this one came out in 2018 if you look at sort of the YouTube video of this, a lot of emotional comments about school shootings that year and just kind of shootings. If you think of like 2018, which I can't even keep track. I feel like 2018 was like the really bad year

with lots of shootings in the US. I mean, it's all sort of blurry at this point, but a lot of comments on that. Anyway, you hear a little Sarah McLachlan, in the US. I mean, it's all sort of blurry at this point. But a lot of comments on that. Anyway, you hear a little Sarah McLachlan, I Will Remember You. You hear a little I Have Had the Time of My Life.

I have a little, what's that, Charlie Puth? Was that kind of that song we heard? Oh, right. From Fast and the Furious, right? Yeah, exactly. And as well, you hear a dusting of Good Riddance, Time of Your Life.

This song actually ends with a bit of Green Day. So why don't we turn it back up and we'll just let it fade out. And I'm going to mute my mic as we hear this. We almost hit the post on that. We're a little bit off. But anyway, I wouldn't say that's a mind blow but again this song just this song will outlive us all

Good Riddance and Good Riddance is fucking here Good Riddance to 2020 now Stu Stone I made the reference earlier I said attaboy Clarence and I could tell you two didn't know what the hell I was talking about but did you want to introduce this final jam I did but at first I just wanted to talk if that's alright you two didn't know what the hell I was talking about, but did you want to introduce this final jam?

I did, but at first I just wanted to talk if that's all right. I know we've been on the air for quite some time. It actually might be 2021 already. That's how long this episode has gone. What a year guys at the beginning of, at the beginning of, I guess a year ago today,

which would have been new year's Eve going into 2020, you know, there was no Pandemic Friday. There was no pandemic. Cam and I were merely just guests being ignored by the Toronto Mic Universe Best of Collections. Who knew that 2020 would bring me and one of my oldest childhood friends, Cam, so much closer together while the rest of us were so socially distanced apart. Cam and I were managed to rekindle the flame of our friendship as if no time had passed at all. And it's been such a great year with you, Mike, and Cam each and every week doing this, despite the fact that we are in a pandemic and people have been dying and getting sick. And there's been a dumpster fire of the year going on politically and otherwise. We've managed to get together every week for some laughs and some distraction. And it's been very, very, hopefully helpful to the listeners, but it's been helpful for me too.

I look forward to, you know, the week flies by and all of a sudden we're doing another one of these. So I want to just point that out. It's been a very tough year for me, myself, you know, and a lot of others, you know, people who lost their jobs, people who lost loved ones. You can count me on that list. People who, you know, had big plans. 2020, this is my year. It wasn't. had big plans. 2020, this is my year. It wasn't. And I hope, like the rest of everybody else, that we have a fresh start. A clean slate in 2021 does bring much better news and much better vibes, so to speak, for everybody. Not just me and Cam and you, Mike, but for everybody. Not just me and Cam and you, Mike, but for everybody. You know, 2021 hopefully won't just be a bridge to 2022 that sort of has a mix of pandemic and fun.

I hope we just get rid of this shit once and for all. Also, there's new political leaders south of the border. So that's kind of exciting for some people. And, yeah, I mean, listen, I have just as much uncertainty going into the next year as, as any other years past. And it's we've all been beaten up and battered so badly over the last 12 months that, you know, we're still fighting, we're still standing. And if you're listening to this, you're listening to the sound of my voice right now,

consider yourself one of the lucky ones who is still in the fight. So keep up the good fight. And that is my positive message to all of the listeners of 2021. Yes, it's fun and games. It's fun to pick on Mike for his awful picks. It's fun to pick on Cam. But at the end of the day, I love these guys. They're great friends. And we love doing this show. And this next song I'm about to kick out, it's sort of an emotional song because, you know, I always thought that the lyrics to this song were just, I never knew there was actual lyrics to this song. And there is lyrics to this song. And there's also a Canadian sort of content, Ken Conn sort of mind blow to do with this song.

song. But I want to kick out my last song and dedicate it to Cam and Mike and to all the listeners and wishing you guys a happy and healthy new year. May 2021 be filled with fun as opposed to what we just went through. So go ahead, Mike, and spin my last new year's song. © BF-WATCH TV 2021 Kind of a sad song for me because for several reasons, I'm welling up a little bit here. I got to be honest. You know, you hear this song and you know, another year has passed first of all. So there's a bit of like a aging sort of thing that sort of connects when I hear this song. And also Mike, I don't, I can honestly say, I don't think that I've ever kissed somebody on New Year's Eve in my life. So maybe that'll happen next year but it it's definitely not happening this year so cam and mike can see yourselves lucky that uh you guys are going to be celebrating tonight uh locking lips with a loved one uh and hopefully playing this song

uh which is uh we're listening to guy lombardo now here's an interesting fact uh i'm sure you know this already mike but guy lombardo and his band was called are you ready for this guy lombardo and his royal canadians wow i didn't know that guy lombardo from london ontario canada uh his version of this song Auld Lang Syne Auld Lang Syne yeah yeah his version is the one that we know obviously this song has been around for

much longer than that but in 1939 he performed this song with his Royal Canadians on New Year's Eve and for decades it has been played every year. The popular version of this song is the one we're listening to right now. It's been played in Times Square every New Year's Eve,

immediately following the dropping of the ball. This song plays, which is a Canadian song. So how about that? Wow. I did mention When Harry Met Sally. That song sort of reminds me of New Year's Eve. And this song is definitely in it. You know, in Europe and in other places around the world that aren't North America, this song is a lot more common to be heard year round. They play it at funerals. They played a jamborees. Anytime something's ending,

you know, graduations, you know, I may have said funerals already. They play it at funerals. They play it at jamborees. Anytime something's ending, you know, at graduations, you know, I may have said funerals already. They play this song is sort of like a good, you know, it's sort of like an end. This is the end kind of song. But we here in North America, we play this song to commemorate the end of the year and New Year's Eve specifically there are lyrics to this song now i've never known them because i always just was you know may old acquaintance be forgot like that part of the lyrics here shall i say them to you oh yeah go ahead by the way sorry just before you do when when you do that i thought you were going to play off-springs. Yeah. Gotta keep them separated. Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought

to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot and all lang syne? Very good. For all lang sy very good can I say for all lang sign my dear for all lang sign we'll take a cup of kindness yet for all lang

sign and surely you'll buy your pint cup and surely I'll buy mine and we'll take a cup of kindness yet for all lang sign it goes on and on but it sounds like it's a song about drinking and you know drinking and saying goodbye to

just the past, I guess. No, great selection. It's the perfect New Year's song, to be honest. And I will just, because a lot of listeners did know what I meant when I said attaboy, Clarence. So let me just I take it neither of you two gents have seen It's a Wonderful Life.

Haven't gotten around to it. Okay, so my family will tell you that I watch it every year. In fact, even now, I think every single year I openly weep while watching It's a Wonderful Life. And that song triggers it, actually. It's very emotional for me because, well, I won't spoil anything. You gotta... Well, isn't it the same plot as Scrooge and everything else? Not quite. No, Scrooge is more

like Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. And this one's more of what would the world be like if George Bailey never existed? So you know what the world's like with George Bailey. Now, what's the world like if he never... I've seen the movie as a youngster. I just don't remember the Attaboy Clarence.

Yeah, the Attaboy Clarence. So the final scene, they're all at the Bailey household there. And they're all... That song. They're all singing that song. And Auld Lang Syne. And the kid says... The bell rings.

And the kid says, every time a a bell rings an angel gets his wings and then George Bailey says, attaboy Clarence and gives that big wink but you gotta see It's a Wonderful Life. I could cry right now on this episode

of Pandemic Friday just describing It's a Wonderful Life. Not, very few movies make me cry but there's a short list and that's on the list.

It makes me cry every time. Yeah, I mean, the song makes me cry so, there you go. We both have different reasons but, It makes me cry every time. Yeah, I mean, the song makes me cry. So there you go. We both have different reasons. What makes Cam cry?

That's what I want to know. Well, you know, I know what makes Cam cry. Yeah, only Stu Stone knows that. But thank you both for sharing that. And yeah, I echo the thoughts. Truth be told, I probably saw you guys more than i saw anybody aside from mf and my daughter this year right um because i didn't really see many folks like a lot of people so uh to be able to spend that time together is the real uh was a real treat for sure someone do the math what's 42 times 2.5 somebody do that that. That should be easy, man. I like you doing that math.

Let me give you a couple more fun facts about Guy Lombardo, this Canadian violinist. 105 hours we spent together in 2020. What if I, we were talking about record sales, right? And successful records. We talked about Cannon Crowe sold like, you know, 7 million records and, talk you know all these sales what if i told you this guy guy lombardo has sold between 100 and 300 million records

that sounds impossible that sounds like bing crosby white christmas type uh lombardo is so revered that he was featured on a postage stamp issued on December 17th, 1989 as part of Canada Post's Millennium Collection. Wow. Kyle Lombardo has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has a star on the Canada Walk of Fame. Wow. He was inducted into the Music Hall of Fame

and the home where he grew up in London, Ontario, still standing at 202 Simcoe Street. There is a plaque that has been moved to the exterior wall of the Labatt Retail Store at Richmond and Horton in London at the store's entranceway. You might want to check that out. There is a Lombardo Museum that you can go visit in London, There is a Lombardo Museum that you can go visit in London, Ontario. And in 2019, the New York Times listed Guy Lombardo among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire. I wonder if those stats you're saying are true. He must easily be the best-selling Canadian musical artist.

Gotta be, right? I mean, period. Never mind Canadian. Well, except I feel like we would have known that. I don't want to doubt anything said on that. These are enormous figures. I just need some time to do a little digging here. Because I do know his claim to fame might be that he was name-checked in Nirvana's

Smells Like Teen Spirit. What? Where? Guy Lombardo! No. Never mind. I'd say enjoy the chicken. See you next year.

What's up, everybody? I do have a mind blow. I do have a mind blow. Save me from myself. I'll save you because everything has to get ruined. Even outline sing. Oh, yes. Here we go.

It can get ruined. Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? I shouldn't say ruined because this is actually quite nice. Could be worse. You're listening to Mariah Carey in her version of the song. Did we ever look up, I know it's Latin,

but what exactly is Auld Lang Syne? Did we Google that yet? Does anyone know? It sounds German. Okay. Why do I think everything I think is Latin when I don't know? Okay. I'm going to find out what the hell that means right now.

It was actually the name of a poem. Oh, it's a Scots lang. Oh, yeah. Robert Burns. Robbie Burns. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Do you guys know there's a Robbie Burns statue in Toronto?

You know where Allen Gardens is? Yes, of course. Yeah, it's in that park. Oh. That's when they eat the pig stomach stuff. By the way, Mike, the actual interpretation, Auld Lang Syne, actually means for the sake of old times. Ah, there you go.

But is it Latin? Like, is that Latin? Listen to how awful this is now. Turn this up. All right. I take back everything I said the intro was quite nice but boy oh boy it's like the Vega boys here

it's pretty fucking awful let me save it all with my final jam thank you Stu by the way that speech was wonderful I don't even want to unfortunately I had to make one too many of those speeches in 2020 due to all the chaos in the world but hopefully this will be one of the last ones I have to do here is a New Year's jam to close on 2020 due to all the chaos in the world, but hopefully this will be one of the last ones I have to do.

Here is a new year's jam to close on. The remix. The Remix. Okay, of course, everybody knows. You weren't kicked off of Facebook already. You are now. No, I know. I don't even think it's got a... I think it was that Zombies Jam, actually. But I'll find out later what kicked us off Facebook.

Fuck Facebook. Damn Twitter for cancelling Periscope and ruining. We've got to figure this out. Shout out to Ian Service. And shout out to you too, fellow Irishmen. You, Cam, and myself? Thank you. It's about time you shouted us out.

New Year's Day, by the way, is about the Polish Solidarity Movement. I'll bet you didn't know what New Year's Day was about. Yeah, it's about the Polish Solidarity Movement. I'll bet you didn't know what New Year's Day was about. Yeah, it's about the Polish Solidarity Movement. I actually did know what it's about because this was one of my original picks, Mike. Oh, okay. Well, do you still have your fun facts? You always do a better job than I do. Okay.

I erased them and replaced them with Prince's 1999. You got to undo, undo, undo. Okay. I do have a fun mind blow. So let's listen to this for a few seconds as if you don't know the song, but it might be the first big hit from this band. And this is on the album War, which of course comes out in 1983.

So I'll bring her down because here's a fun fact. It's a good song. It's a great song. I'm now playing a song called fade to gray cam are you familiar with this uh i want to say visage yeah sure is this canadian i feel like this might be canadian no they're're British. Are they? Okay. But yeah, this is like a retro night closet for sure. So we'll get a taste of this and then I'll tell you why it's a mind blow. So Fade to Grey, this jam, is kind of the origin of the bass line

that Adam Clayton plays in New Year's Day by U2. So the bass line that Adam Clayton plays in New Year's Day is, according to Adam Clayton, it is him essentially, he's trying to figure out the chords to this song, Fade to Grey. So it's a sound check. He's just trying to figure out the chords to the song he's digging, Fade to Grey, and out comes the bass line for New Year's Day. So I don't know, Stu, are you familiar?

What were you going to say, Stu? No, I, yeah. It's so tough to be a baby. Okay, there's another. We'll put that on the greatest hits. How old is this song, like Fade to Gray? I always figured this would have been, like, sort of mid-80s, but I guess it sounds like it's probably older than that.

1980. 1980? Okay. 1980. So this song, yeah, this song is 40 years old. I would say that the U2 song's probably the better of the two. The bigger hit, that's for sure here, but... I feel like I get this and Trans X living on

video mixed up which Trans X is a Toronto fan alright we forgive you Cam and guys this is our 42nd hook up in 2020 before you just interrupt here because I like to do that

I do want to wish you guys a happy new year but there's two things that need to be said, Mike. Okay, what? And that! Did you see Sammy Cohen had some fun with us on Twitter with the and that? And that! And that gives me a T-shirt idea for 2021.

Some more swag, some more product. Hey, guys, honestly, 42 times we hooked up for these, these pandemic Friday episodes. I loved every single one. Can't wait to get you guys back in the backyard. There's always a little different energy back there. Fuck Facebook.

I'll figure out that, but shit, that sucks. And I can't wait to see you guys next week when it's 2021. Yeah. Thanks for having us. Happy new year. Insane. Happy new Year, Insane.

Happy New Year, everybody. Yes. HNY. And that brings us to the end of our 780th show. You can follow me on Twitter. I'm at Toronto Mike. Stu Stone is at Stu Stone. Cam Gordon is Cam

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